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FOREST AND STREAM. 


A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 


_ Ancuinc, SHootine, THE Kennex, Pracrica, Naturat Hisrory, 
FIsHCULTURE, YACHTING AND CANOEING, 


AND, THE 


INCULCATION IN MEN AND WOMEN OF A HEALTHY INTEREST 
3 IN OUTDOOR RECREATION AND STUDY. 


VOLUME, LVI: ~ 


JANUARY 1902—JUNE, 1902 


; E PUBLISHED BY THE her : ; 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY! | 
| NEW YORK 


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INDEX---VOLUME LVIII 
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EDITORIAL. ¥. ; Page Page. Page. 
Pade. ee Paks BEE Ue eacaht as abr ten «PUNE 281 Gace Vieats.0 bs. Aaa nA: ARAA ase Ran SRoeAE i dimeoucitp ities OUTS aaa noe Hee eee 7, 85, 186 
Agimdsek. Tories bes 21, 101, 141, 201, 221, 261 and Woodcock......+++.+sesseseeeees 181 | Walk Down South..5, 28, 44, 64, 82, 102, 122, 144, | Pot Holes........... ouaeeut PERE Soa rege, ». 507 
eine ee eaeProtechione ates Win i ERE. oe 201 163, 182, 202, 222, 244, 263, 288, 303, 323, 344, 364, | Pumas ............. ah ide, rite $ fe Soaarseec - & 
TOASTS, Eatil SStTtreT OO ya aria eater 21 383, 403, 425, 443, 463, 483, 503 | Rattlers ............ SOSROUADOO A saS 0 gecdagcc deine oe Ce 
Worminineneianitsin Preserve tevereeence™ 441 THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. Wild Horse. ...cssesces birch sae eects ofa appa sesselSe) Rattlesnake s22.sececc ssid eeciete (Re H ean SADC ABS 25- 
Automobiling Lawlessness.....-..2cs000 eam sats 441 | Adirondack Forest Destruction............. 144, 224 NES Cent Aa tere ree eee Seas AALS 4| Rattlesnake Root...-s.eesesseeees seccetecccecnecs OF 
Baird Monument. .cccsccscsecsnrecarescsececcceses 12 Adirondack. BROrestsnceneaes ties tee eae ete ctens 65 Woodcock and Watermelons.........+.++++++++-184 | Rattlesnakes, Florida.....sssssseseseeeeeresees s+. 65 
SWig Rivet, Lhe... ss. ..0rascseccens sen ess .scoese-J41 | Adirondack ‘Guides’ Association......... ben icitols 83 : ee Grouse in Confinement........ Aah masts 186 
Blooming Grove Park Case........ pa ee te 321 | Adirondack Notes.......cccccrececeuceteescteeces 505 oy , Feeieunens! ao TES SrA sereeseeeee nese sess AUS 
Boy at Play.....0. Ros ores Ulicte Re ea coe 1} Adventures in Tropical America..24, 143, 242, 382. NATURAL HISTORY. | Snake, Horned.,......... Bi yoo Pe Me oF 
OLAS PRA ey La ee gn AR EON ort 241 . apa Acadia Outing....ccccetens-ssnelsranseeescess 105, 364| “Patfows’ Sleeping Place. .7 ies. seeesenee ness e208 
Goneyaelislartcletectken aelgcs oclem ean es ttisereierry ste reicreae siete 441 Adirondack als 3 ao telels asec ate epetstege ociaats sok ake Tog | Adirondack HPorests....1...0.snsccss ses Rey RAABAN 205 Squirrel SERE of Mine...... steeerecceccasccens 6 
Wirection! and Wimels.cs seer esse oe hoes tote tees 341 | Appalachian National Park...............-.2..03 444. | Adirondack Panther... 2s. 5. BN: ares Pe ae £165 Stone, Andrew J...ssseeereeseeeeees verteeeee 
WoO SAas SELAP ELLY es eee ces ee 2a seine ne lees 4810 Ast: telannaleeat, Elomesaapmeaesremcces By etelteicl, bd AD al Alla Sicilia Cal: earataeetatersietaietpratetticlsvaie tere ley tict are eral aiiear eines 326 Taste of Fish Affected by Food....... 
DickinoMWAaceSasasme Aen ee ese ARAN MGains= waver Country eer neste anaes ails beeen gdb PATA Als = asic Wei rarer csjaniears rane rae srorel ste lsieisielerar etoile 2 Water Fowl as Life Distributors................326 
ed eralen Gat0 Canis © smsseme ate sisi sere ees erie eee 281] Camp Fire Stories from Canada................ 2, 23 | Animals, SOTTO EGE WV E ats Vatalelelaleiobetetaialalcletslaetatetcte 45 Wild “Animals in the North.........,-464, 485, 507 
Federal Game Duty........-2..eseeeecees ; waerctse S018 FGedarsnoteliebanonisne sane sastiercescet eet ie tne {9F\NritSeatid Milt eit INGStSeueestesdiciusieceesiets seiees seit 445 Wald Bice. 722: 2 veneeeenennsesencraneeneneees DAB 
Beene tira: sel atercee eee ee ee 381 | Charming Man in the Maine Woods...........- Gill pA eaethevaetcdeban oa eres Bette rite iid [oasis teas Sat Sitteeeteseeetetseaens wee BOM 
Florida Green Turtle Eggs.........2c0002-ce0e:: 501} Coon Hunt with Bill—Jones.................... 504 | Baboons in Cape Colony...........- et eeeeeereees 385 Weichert cin ats tracts a a ide oS 507 
Forest Reserves as Game Refuges...........-- 101 | Courtship of Ebenezer Saunders...............+ TRG! AREER og aon Ubon cod saane santo soo 485 Wolf, The. .eescsereeseeeereeceeeennes SORE O Ts b 84 
Morest- Réserve: Billiceas.acnstieeseccererseset ss ASIA Guys Hnmethecg Niches ee eee ene een eT 2, 45 | Bear in the Water......... sige tlie siaiaaiclee tetera ggg | Woodland Tragedy..-.++sess+ss-ssretseeeeeeserers 25 
GO LESHMUR GSERY-CSaiit canine ete nietele nl steer = inierreraicies Bhs) WiDYoretse work (Ostler Ae | asses Oet ities 2.3, S090 TORS || BXEGRES oo Gas Aad oo OAC ISA DA A ee Ree Bam oe 464 Zoological Park........ a te ea bene ewew ne es «208 
Forestry Interests in Congress........... eta 461 | Ethics and the Sportsman............-....-...:: 484 | Beaver in New Jersey........ Benes seen ea ce soncees 66 
Alice mira degen sol ea pieerecdree Sine 61-881, 4010) (Pivel Inch, *Rronites yeveatec-e ao een es eee Fie || leis. Ibavewels ages subcgonn asicasceddocodacessueaobdc 25 ; be 
(Garvey (Collab Siieye zen Sane ao sac asec: SAAR Ree Uneo 61 | Floating on the Missouri. .122, 142, 164, 183, 223, 244, ] Bird Song Studies.......-...0.20.-feceeeeenseres 105 GAME BAG AND GUN. 
Game Foods and Flavors.........:.ssseeeeeseee- 201 268, 284, 322, 348, 363, 402 | Black Snake on the Trail.........s.sssrgeqessees 89 Adirondack Forests....++s++esesee+ teceesceese re el BO 
Game Habits Changing.........+++s:ssesee+e-+++ 161 | Girls in the Woods............2.04+ seccovesseeee e942] Blue ‘Bird Mimic......... Paar sie einteeo rn vaseseee 486 | Alaskan Game Protection.,............+. 222-26, 212 
Gane in Storatereerese dette meses see tense he Ai\ (Good Shot and Bad One:soeker ee. - eee sae 22.) Bobolink’s Song.....-.s.seeeeeseeeeseee 446, 465, 486 | ‘Albino Sprig............. tetas eens sere eeecees + 66 
Ge yictes Atesqovere: degdUln Gaon s irierriginn een AB a5 55050 PPT LAG SUVs here ey $y aoe ABP eS eee oobondst or faeoe 265 | Browsing Habits of Game........-.--..+-.2e50- 165 | Another Day of Tt. .....cceeeeee ete ceesneeesstnne 465 
Hlanmiptom, Gen Wades... -rscsspens ceases seees Blinh|| | Gelemenprercrsy AVeked sity RRA ARM eeQonoogs dood ages TORT Eatittao ge WGoatctancto se ole kirtaie\afeaislare cteteisialaedstae.efeieiaer> ORG | Autincdle Billets 2222... seocueeed se esee Pe Ae t= 366 
Wndian Wernitory Game... scc,e2--cs+---cn-seeer Ou Mebertits ote WVLOx ea, shite ct rein ise en alee ence re 94] Caribou from Alaskas....c..seessessosssersstaeee Meg || Zeveans WUisreal wane SEs BEF L0) a cnt ne aes Saeco 447 
Interstate Association Rules................+--- 141 | Himalayas Snow Line............. 442. 462, 483, 506] Cats and Snakes..........ccscseseeeseseeesenseees 44g | Big Game vs. Birds...,.......+. ceneee se ntenceeee 508- 
et Ce PACES etna apab re hieat c/o onthe pe ere 61.| Hole, The-.....--.-.+.. Nadeteree decor iar Cocskie: {84-| (Gate Wilde Wraitssansv eet es e+ aedemmne nee zass 304] Black Ducks, Pair.....c..csceeseseeeseeees eases 149. 
Aone wlisland eWeerekatkes a sa ease tenet eee Al | Inexpensive @uting,-..--2..s5-2.-.-n-eeseee seus AAMC onumells (Collese sMereStesret sees alneisee ernie aU rie| | Ledbres COnp Evie 1s luttnebitesopnnan ar nne hos Soon eok tsa § 305 
Long Range Rifle Shooting................:2++- JOU| V ikey Sacer ered revs bia ls ocroabadndadane. se sncAcnt 3| Crow Intelligence.... Boone and Crockett Clubs: se. ..s-0s-sese-cresees 88 
Maine Wicenses......::...- EGE eAABAD SADA Santoue 4) In ithe WNorth CGouniity-.: eee esse ees 82, 202, 222 Boston Show........seseeee Cee e cen sesenseceescces 166 
Mountain Sheep and Domestic Sheep........--- 221 | Iowa in a Prairie Schooner. assess sashes ee eeste California Law......:.seecee tees esc essence eee cees 265. 
Natural History Popularization..............---- 381 | Left Leggedness and Toeing in........ ee 322 | California Sale Case.......... NOE Re RPE DOtGouc on 487 
Newfoundland Game Refuge...........--+--+-+- S010) Waite sine che (BoteSte ec sttereeceer cee alc, 245 California Sale Law Upheld...............-...+-. 9 
Wews Yorke Aqianimitt. 2-1 cese2 eee eeeidss 221, 301 | Lodging for the Night......... ae 3 faeeneets 64 Campfire Stories from Canadian Woods..166, 187, 
MevarVonia Storage Waseaas osm seysiesinaesees oe Gls Stef legeoume Gani. yen He see pes eiers BENGE bb oor 62 266. 
New York’ Zoological Society...............++- OPA Mian anid) (BEUte ts <142 lenin telsletsielse ees \ eee Ap ARnn an 25 Canada Special.:.....--.cssseteee eee weeeteen sees 328 
TOA COLia Hiticense: . bebe, Lene eee eRe eeerea a 81 | Maple Sugar in Champlain Valley aeuee ute 304 Canadian Deer Statistics...........+.--.-5 ete: 229, 
Plank, Mee alitonmiae ge por sense aot a2 481 | May Memories of Other Months.............+.. 402 Fod! Killed Canadian Game Country.................. faster 306 
Rolice and. Revolverss-sscnnen---ceacansarsen hse 81 | Metamorphosis of a Trappers........-.-+.++eeee 102 Fraine“THomias W..2...8 Rat as dare ite Ald -add tn 9g4 | Cathsh Lake Trip........-.:--...-.-:- cbtitncans 7 
Post Check Currency....cs.cscceseseeeeeeenteees 341 | Mis. Bob White’s Story....:s@eeere++sss-s01 2-803 | Gadwail, Ways -of........- 66, 104, 124, 146] Chesapeake Bay Dog......+--s11+ sessersseee AIO 
SPotoimac AU ISHGMe resretes snes eee reer ener == 1G | cOld. Tales oy actetecete coe = + tele el: Se Seater 383 | Grouse, RVpIRan. Rs Sater: Poona ee 196, 204 | Currituck Notes.......scseseeerreeseeeeee nocbone WE), 
ARETIC€ ole ct licemas ieee nates ste a ete nem trielnee nee aleioiete DAT Ol dilatires ences...) fuera ebiat eee ee eerie res 9g2| Guam Birds..... KsHEEE is core a RE Se te 405 | Cuvier Club......seereeeeesee pt tte tees eeenes cesses 46 
Richardsan waite NOTH saan nese sees cere Amt | (Oyertendii@, “(OMIRG En cohen ee oo conan cadens 493 | Hawk Killed by Bone. ......cc+eeeene scence eens 196] Deer Hunt............1e sees c neces eee e eee eeee ees 30 
saver. (Palintions, <2). .tons Menu eee ere 4o1| Outing in the Olympics........0...-+-+-.+-++--323| Incidents at the Zoo...-......0s... 2. see eee + + B26 Deer Hunting Experiences.........+.+..+.0s++0: 508 
Sale=Ofe Ganie in. iee Pee aes eae es 121, 161, 301] Outing in the Snow................ssseee renner es 262| Kingfisher on Long Island in January... oh). SYR 96 | Dressel, Cup for.......sseceeeesereceeesessseeeees 251 
Season jatid ats tiieralds:tuss.2.2s-+s;d2ceser eer. PAN Aecelive: oyt WGarst@ri Denyse. «anno. 404 soccer a sate: iuS||IGaloetetoss BYsrel ey) ANA Ge hE eee ot cue erene” 404} Ducking, Pun......s cs. ese eee sees e eee e eee recess 326 
WSeason andathe /Mishswereeen eines assess ae ge eE eee 96 Sea, First Sicht of-22.....4< i aye taata tel oetate ee tery: 462| Mammals Newly Described....%...........-..:- 965 | Duck Roosgting in Big Bay.......+..sessseeeeree 286 
See pest Vesa piintca teat ant ereeremnry eas i ipesed Sree coe oe A fae Sec asain ‘, 2} Mammoth, Siberian Duty on Game Heads.........ssseseeseereeneeese 307 
Sportsman in the White House.............-.. 361: ~Shirt-Tailogram......2.5,54 shaeeeeepe teen ene tess 282 |’ Man and: Brute... sss ¢sepr.feeeenees Eider Ducks on the Great Lakes.......-+-.++.-- 189 
Sportsman’s ‘Show @asting.....5.2.2.22---:+ see 261 | Southern TREES eNO EA eT ee corked CEE. = Oe Fe ees 103} Mink and Snake.......-..0.-se sees eeeegeeseneeee Elk Teeth... ...csccc cece ee eneeeseseeeesseees s.--- 30) 
Sinietires poivasei Rieke ens ne AANA AA SARAMRAR CR AAS AZ ZOO, v. 61| Sportsman’s Correspondence........... B03), Mlogs _Mississippi Rattlesnakd. -.+ ‘ Everyone to IBIS ASS ane aanaccnogaaaaanasant + 309 
S Weald Mbweastl\- Gocepoe poseonaocace aise erent eee 321 | Sportsman’s Vendue : | Mountain Lion and Strychnine.......+sss-0+10- 4g6 | Florida Deer Stalking..... Dewar TEI FES! vee 66 
Storm and the Birds...... Wns. mele 181 Stapen Gut Dita ee eee een eee Ley 444} Musk-ox in Captivity.s...csss0ccseseeeeeese 145, 265 | Fontaine .....essceseeesseeeeeeeereneeeeees . 261, 307 
Sunday Fishermen............... HORS PAAR ARD AGS 4 O8t, | MSecess taal meatier. ast eees be cee elle sete eat 7.482 | Naturalists in the “Arctic.....++-.++++seseeereee 246 | Foreign Game Birds......... taleys + dag epee oem +20 148 
APRA 2.2. open to tee INNGS OPES uch apace acces goeuttbab 341} Tennessee Outing...........-2-++-+-+-00ess 2, 22, 44| Nature at Boston Show........+.++. aeaocoutc ..184 | Forest Reserve as Game. Preserves...... Ree 
AV Re viel pp. Wfolsbet W/o. Goer iia SNe cHoennnee shor nr 161 | Through the Parsonage Window.......,.:-- 262, 302| New York Zoological Society..... stseeereccees 65 | Forest Reserves, Control.........+-++++ vere ee BEB. 
ibreanaihey lia ratsehtrsaas. clone esa a ecn onc nn ee cobeoas TL | tteatabie IDesetysinercrcr atte Aeon nacincananactact levers 148 | Opossum and Chickens......... ABAAAS pie hat 286, 325 | Gadwall Ways...... ta teteercenee eeetelsas soa s epee 
ANGST) SUBMIS anne ote ARE Ae orannee santtoe 22 AZL| TPoter’s Gun...cccccscsere sense scssccereeae Age IC 182} Otter on Long Island........ seeiaars casesseeeees-446 | Game-Bird Importation......... Seve: solemn ee aen ao 
Vacation Outing...... SESS DE CDE eee nee alk || 1G erseiSe a CMI Naish oe Betestecltetgts slate e ma aeS vwaabual| Otters’. Pood. «:,.scgventesseestoegsesreereseaxvs 08 [PGame Seizure Casesereserecrecssicrsssseseerceees 88 


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Gin glax...-. Sarre Etro Buate sb SEPbsoee 45536 tecseee 405 | 
Hunting Experiences..........s0.0-e00s Breeds B20 
- Hunting License- Blackmail.................+-+-- 86 
m 7 Rifles. .124, 147, 149, 168, 206, 250, 266, 288, 
oo 308, 366 
Hunting With Henry Braithwaite...... 85, 107, 126 
iowa Facts and Notions::s.s..ccsecscccsesescues 187 
iene £6 Shee antetts oe seb bver eee na ese sen: 69 
Haetcson! Hole “Country ae. sce ree eeese eae 205, 226 
Kerns se @Uall SeIZunere osha eee ecipeie< aedie bee ert 128 
(Leawsresie + SAWSIRs APL gaat so a snag hack ated aut ORY ho See eee 68 
PGE Lye ys ee Grek fVe ALA Sis 6 at ster beblent.co nb ape eee 126 
Maine License....9, 12, 30, 46, 67, 70, 87, 110, 127, 
147, 168, 188, 211, 229, 249 

Wikring: IN Mri Sirois tver Ober 6 oe odoorsate sat ae 125 
Be iainiies JWOD Sen Gas ee. Mies epecenis 0.0 ca ova ete wpe acersictetste 86 
RVUs Tete Ss oS) ELLER TS tetas chepetetettn ee m wictonctcttee) cel Vcheldetedepercts 88 
|) Massachusetts Deer... s:. 50. ..scciesestsa.e-0l, A10 
MeGSACHUSELES MOLT CI ©. cue een ne OR wee teens 207 
Massachusetts Game Interests.................. 108 
Massachusetts Legislature...........0...4.0222+230T 
igsaiste: ID Riihe es eRe h a oneee aE Sem cre irae 149, 207 
Winchiiedrt I DeEEtELtite «cate cxehle de tle dadislcis ah sie 28 
Michigan Wolves and Deer...........--.-.:0+-- 69 
Michigan Woodcock and Woodduck........... 388 
Mongolian Pheasants in New York............. 210 
IM@OSE Goo sede sgoocos eterno sanot eae 486, 509 
Moose Country, Three Seasons in.......... 346, 385 
Moose That was-not Moose.......-.cssesesseeeee 8 
Mountain SHECU MILLA seen 845 SIE SAL 188 
New Brunswick Guides. ... 2.00.2... esse see esace 69 
Dee) TEM tates Ler iar ae Soe EE Ae ees 69 
New York Forest Preserve.....c..ccseeeveecsets 30 
New York Game Interests.........cseceeeeees 87, 125 
INEM Wiohsen (ez ares Mba SAR oy Sine bP reaneane ne be 110 
INGE We IY OT ee IAW astcpranias ccs, oie wistenn exprevcasbe.sus sus shiverceate 166 
IN| Diordle ROR Iberia BY bbe Gobo races eoacd ome 150 
Mewes, sbatst tO ai eases gery asc einem transects 27 
(espn are Maye LOADED LSSS eee seeecail ae eae aie ae eee 287 
Colzadtelle WCU ee ata gS da ne Bale RMR acer 26 
Heactiie. Aenast) INObESs «+ cise ese, oases eaves as eea ate 306 
NGUEAS ALLS PALL mVALTICLST omega sa.cattc satis Cpe tat 309 
Tro nee TO. PBL Tie eet ns aga SABAGE AC ARE EORER 28 
Wuamt Old Arm aictendsscs ese ee ae te uae 147 
mane of Shooting: Games.......... sess cee eee 9 
Reckless Shooting Damages..............ssseee: 127 
Tilnvlen (SIE Gh 655 cee OnE: Lado eee eee ae aa 29 
SEILE LOAGIE TON OTS TEENS Ona se gn rey aes Se de eS 29 
Shooting .......... J heu 3 JOORRED SEO SEY Ca em +++ 10 
Sag ROSE Uae ec Ee oem 
Shot Obstruction and Waves......... AE! mor 
Suid ge loi fa saaeA eee naepete ere ieee autem nce 166 
Sportsmen’s Show............c0ceeceues 87, 208, 227 
SDs 9S15,c (cy hs be ee ee 67, 169 
Strenuous finan aaee Dien oe artes 187 
Wenderfoor/Oit Wiest... kee FRER AA A 8 
Pei lacotra. 545-4 5b05 aan+ haem SE pe sicees cont 150 
Wild ion Refuges, . seen ie ateeen ander eben sete 109 
Wild Geese on the Arkansas..................-: 168 
DAbGhyes cr” WV Outi o) ae be oer otro hae t ametehgela 169 
Wolves ...... RARRNS eter a eed abe 405 
RAGS: ASS esa anoaDBBados aon altrice ee acerad 12 

SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 

eVAiOs Ca Cham TISITIN Gath ean pe pe cle ee tet nfcidarines 447 
Adirondack Streams Menaced............0-20.005 271 
NPS SS. An nn eo Sa yea ana Pld 289 
UI ALOL ROT ee © NaI evee sil e ye siemaielsi ten ele sieineee elete 13 
American Wimbassador Mly..c...sssseecce sess cs 348 
ENTBISES?) WER Bin ee tee SBN RORS Ween et os SAAD S 368, 488 
AIL Oe MATILECT DALI ONSeg Mens tiep ele ese « oe sick neiole 328 
BAECS TLO Mee a) ick RRR st aang ee eee tres b racateTes ete ats 406 
JSDSA piRoere MYST IDE TE ao oath eee Femi <A 41u 
PEAS Sam VVGEE CIP FACES hes ves ene em nln ajete scapes se» -450 
JERE ele etNy (NG) obuayedam AR RAAB AA Ere ir As eee ee 469 
Black *Bass of the Cottonwood.................. 170 
Onc Stike Wee a ses uel ses 213; 311, 332, 347, 389, 428 
Brown Boy With Pin Hooks... :.........20+.0.2 487 
SeBcounsseeliracte Cini doses indeed dss sates oe eaters 49 
CHASSIS tye geen Senne hae BEG der coe cance cece 330 
Peri (STAMRITL oe, RON OM MIE crOMaE Kenicve oe VO AEN Saver 368 
RBar latin OL Swels uetasi: cease te Seen Sa 171 
Retiairbati tae Wed hes hichich nee as Stes ees pee ~,.190 
Chicago Fly-casting Club............s0eec00s 172, 271 
Istevelandi Basses, . as eesee te) ent we BU 93 
(Ciotall GW VET BPA AL GE REE ls he aan ROA el AR IBLE 31 
Re HElingad Oe PUsiN Mae ee 5555, cows eees ated 488, 490 
Dont’s for Fishermen: .:....,..s2seeseeeessecseas 332 
PET Od Arr EDA week sobs Shs cube eee: 171 
MUNIN HON GALIeE aoe anew eee eter ete eee 
fonidawDurntle Hopes. ecetnh yycgucdccsccss Ses 501, 513 
Hly-casting at New Work.................+.. 172, 252 
Fly-book, Looking Over........... beets saseeeanS 


Fly-casting, San Francisco...172, 191, 213, 252, 271, 
290, 448, 490, 511 
Rralilees eecscuasslete ACROSS OMIM OC ARRAS aA piceeethicc 92 


Grayling, in’) Yukon nats eisa cs scees vecie ats «010 


Gitte: serritl Hs slate, Neeterarete alapallore dela tere giciste ety tetages oe 469 
Hearing of Fishes....., Pith Set EY Shea Apoecrtas ¢ 12 
TBLNaKekoer DES on A eos i a Sa BEBE Bee 406 
Hook Wounds........ Seams trata ts metas 270, 290 
Mchthyolopy., INEWirvsts ptersss4054 soa s oer eta ace 428 
Izaak Walton Association,..........0.0.+-.+++2--300) 
Latchford, President..... Sa SeUbE Hd de ab eRe eae ae >. 152 
NSAITENTEIAtioe Ue eee ele os ccaa eu dle vs sates asessc 152 
Letter from Angling Friend......5......0.:.000+- 450 
Wb Ning® IESE: ARISES Gages Wade deat AREAAR RS A 49, 128 
Massachusetts Fishculture............0eeeeeeeeees 13 
MasSSAGISELtse sLNOUGre wekb lees amaseae Owen heres ete 
Mirahitoanmalnolite sisems sate acces cates Ceedaees 450, 510 
New Brunswick Salmon.......:sc0..ceeseeeeeess 130 
eves Wounds baleda act vk tale: ek aomareansowengeess B00 
New Jersey EBISU atrds Genie. eee cges Soke eee ele 151 
NiaeataeGoliitys ONTOCLSec rr ass copter paeriee nas 129 
INN}Seike UNE sbhehegy yar eA PRI AMAA See ae 291 
North American Association............ 89, 150, 213 
JOP, WC Yon Ook Gees tor alee Cbg POT E Bomeadoas 11 
Oreke Rely UEISUIT Sy 5 ns te al orn sip pt past Meat eriee sae 269 
Ine: “Ttentdlndede dirs eidaguedod cece riser: Seo: 92 
PO Ce MUTI SUGU CULT Ses se aeeemtale hes ¢ om «aston iente bata 251 
IRENA! SAAS IT Poe ss ae cas Baa Horens peed Re be DEES 171 
Random Notes of an Angler,.367, 387, 429, 448, 468 
ESE SOREN, MOTO ROL ang rocat aly POOL ac SO BASE 407 
Salt Water Pina ee. OP ce pak anleae 329, 429, 448 
Salmon, Weadpeens tev cadeecek ieee ooaki eae 130 
Salton jaf Bac GN 6tthi..2.<tdaeteneveewouwesas th 488 
SHlt VV atem Neen oer se sacutades dere taki mee ele 13, 132 
CLS) MILO AE RES aul Fcc i eS WEG, SME Lae Lege ey 95 32 
Dm Veruini Ces Glithy res, wccay edie enrecacs sects ete sla ee eee 152 
iSeeuaniee MOET MS eR Ra a fie pe stacey oe Srnec D ore). 330 
hrads Nashin pan PrerSepdy ire pkettecees mate aiyonie ele oe 191 
Shadsols@ hia URavers ida cone aed 408, 467 
EICLTL "1 eshorigen | MER DRG Ee rae ee ek yee 331 
Steelbead® Gmedvake, Michigan, vs.ssoceses- te hens 430 
Stopveihevaehell! ony Ghaniietes : aoa. sare Teer 367 
DECI EC BB ass Peeincjlgatelcl eenicts ial-Jadg tet ly Oped lea Te 
EStiiidava yShiou vl ucyce eee eee aie eke ete ona 311 
Wa kin car Viotsieehh Gy. ani! fies Ramee eee: es. le eee 466 
Wrote genet Seat sects see t es eee ens Ahoy «007, 387 
WLaxayehe, (Uke C cry neato § hate ea det eee aan AO 13, 71 
rout ateliphersManiwecccroseh set se eek tate. cheese 289 
Hroureand meyelonesscsesddees eas oes oases 268, 350 
RRGNERE Saale Devel ey ar SG IRA OOOOAR BAA AAABAASAS SE 470 
TOUR IRICHILLES Seis se Manley aie eateenieae falc ee + teens 48 
Turkey Fishing...........0.0.. Boe gh WR 129 
Heitoa GA SSOCIALIONS. cies en nee acece oa een natal cae 311 
“Wan WGI) OSes 6 Se a CRG eG BAe Behe 122 
yValeaTeS ARIS 4, e hE acoR otipesaotlicereine nr eee 92 
WER SCELTS Hep Hiynctis titi) On pete. vei. ce «ele daea ee 291 
YACHTING. 
(Hlustrated Articles Marked *.) 

BAD] COee Memene nee ati eres ae fete eect aga aaeas *112 
American VY. €s\ New Glassés.:.::...---..----+ 32 
PArrEm On Ces ies ois 5.6 e¢ seh ers tice ea ees ional Ge erabd: 
Another Race Between Shamrock II. and Co- 

aia Di pale Reeeyage = ce Maks RP RAS en we MANSY 196 
PAUP CIRTSS phe he heen oe ee ne Rinne poe 296 
Beverly Y. C. One-Design 30-Footers.......... 476 


Boston Letter...17, 33, 53, 75, 95, 115, 134, 152, 175, 


196, 238, 254, 272, 294, 313, 336, 351, 374, 392, 434, 
452, 472 
Galypso aide WOGGUA peas meee selene: 4eee4 cise 153 
anridass Gute Racesuk maak nee mien gn yee 513 
@anretliae FAs tins a moar oks eae ER CER ER Ee ee *516 
(CReTO loc ew tse ae Le tn Da Ncle Ray eee ales a score *50 
liica ae Ne Clits stave eile eee ees ee een 136 
@lassitication sof Machtsesteasernsacn aes ve seek 272 
Cruising Schooner Marjorie...................---272 
Cruises: 
A Month’s Cruise—Mauine.......,.336, 355, 377, 393 
(Gnuiser ciethe. untae a) eo meee: ho eae ee 135 
From Grayesend Bay to Lake Champlain... 54 
Slopnifen: sShuczeereten Ten aah esi Oe hoa e Shears de 113 
Delights of Houseboatines..e-.0:+¢.-5¢-0.<0--- *395 


Designing Competition..13, 32, 49, 72, 98, 112, 132, 
152, 174, 192, *213, *232, *253, *273, *292, *312, *333 

Designing Competition for the Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Y. C...253, 271, 291, 312, 332, 351, 371, 


390, 412, 486, *451, “471, *492 

Design for a Cruising VYawl .........c.ec-es-- *72 
Destenietor 2s Salling Dmetiyy cass es cess ecee oe #354 
Eighteen Foot Waterline Racing Sloop........ *174 
STV GIN TOTAg etes oc: 5 see Mau gets tetcmaes eit} *]4 
English Letter.58, 93, 136, 176, 234, 256, 314, 336, 376, 
418, 451, 496 

Fiity-foot Cruising Schooner................ *14, *34 
For Cruising Yachtsmen..351, 371, 389, 412, 432, 450, 
470, 491, 514 

German Emperor’s New Schooner............. *194 


German Emperor’s Yacht Meteor Launched...178 
Handling of Algonquin in the Seawanhaka 
CTEeTepE SS peLTIMNEE SSO) wre pselt re feleiel jie ulus Selene epseintes 196 


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Houseboat on the Nile.......e.eeeee- be ce geist 54 
Erouséboat, Whim: Wheamdy sien ass sesicpale otis s #374 
How to Build a Launch from a Set of Plans, 
#371, *890, *414, *432, *455, *475, *514 
Pelfaini yids Serge Race ee Somer ale wom Nec die awe ey se sre 437 
CHEN VGETE. Va Wak eb Lay begets atrcemree wit db dn elefe ule in «. 913s 54 
IP 34 oor Oa eA” ADEA OG UDO OO hiner *516 
Marguerite and Chanticleer Launched.......... 312 
Marine’ Exhibits at the Sportsmen’s Show....216 
INEASSASOIUS geen intyts mista sense y Oeiewce hoe ae nue peeled 437 
DGS UTeMIeN te EOL ee ook sacle oe we od ead hs tee 236 
Meteor Leaves for Southampton............... *295 
WigyXopeas). TENN obs tne O-8F irre GEOR cnn nes Gee 276 
Navahoe Purchased by a German Yachtsman..153 
OTE Oizie® e een ee eet merase te uthe Pahsqeetore OP vleloLeg 476 
New Home for the Manhasset Bay Y. C..*96, 471 
New Rules to Govern Centerboards....,.,..83, 535 
NLT Hae ELGUSENOAL da cst neee a siiielemies ot eee en © ASG. 
Obituary: 
deyeresleil, i Nevxocekoytes, Sy. 7 Aes ot ain osc poet oot ee Gece: 36 
STOO Cae ATE Pee aeate sate Roe Stace. nctae os 316 
Widperr FO MASee cece ete oe basses cts te vassal 
IDSWOGLUY, BMOSGD] stot bsatven talpntees ciaclle as a-saers een 76 
STE OMVLLIALINORO Le AAS hese ee he RM se out 4 essere 54 
Garis Goikel) Kes asics a5 Aken ee Onn Sects oe nee 97 
NEEyroWwitz, (Oscar Woaeess ss bes avec ee ees tess sae 55 
W@dtite, glohir sam SGhaickets t svest.s te aetdey 76 
Townsend, William Raymond..............--. 153 
PRISCHemEr et, Mem ee Tee ania ny eatery swt Teese bores #372 
Racings and) Grursing YachtSi... 4.0.5 oye ve eee 49 
Retin ORT eS heli. sce ea daeeeesec sees oe Ge. Ate 
Records of the Y- R. A. of Gravesend Bay....236 
Remarks on the New Rating Rule............ *193 
RMLGG Ss ATLL TILES ees tte ater ete a ene at tales 97 
eye afedleleecbatah s Citak aber NEI Ih AG SAR eee eA AR 155 
Seawanhaka Cup News.76, 136, 153, 177, 256, 315, 376 
SEAS a rateuys Ar Lott OS CUR ed tart ree th toh pop, *415 
Sir Thomas Lipton’s Present to the Colum- 
DEL Avs. (OS aa ood nat ance enuadanoocosstbe 215 
SS Henan dOalise sae tebe hawsimw 5 se tens ste eacwes seta te 316 
SKINTADO US diss ashe dela sees Goes aaeee eae elasy *494 
Skipper Hansents’ Past Times... ...-scecees- eos 36 
Potedadm 45 tht bik CR ee ee eee re, ee *53 
SP CCUMED Ta ES OLS SERIE sha Ne eVeen e etara, costa con's teiecedatioaaa crete 376 
MIRE I ears etie ena secialac Soa citavecipeass 416 6 5. os a Ee 82 see 351 
Thalassa’s Measurement Rule.................--- 192 
Theory of Measurement Rules.............. 36, 192 
“Mauiinngreie Orestes NG sora Hop oha Cet Eee Gero *133 
Two New Yacht es Associations.....,...-. 72 
Western Yachis......9 , 113, 196, 236, 373, 494, 517 
West Wind, eee ceeragh este ny Wives ea Te #355 
Nitti hastiies Nita cas tae athe leery eels seca 3 
Work tin \them YY ardsacatswattiiese ae ceca dane slecage 
Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound.........,..235, 271 
Yacht Racing in the Open Classes in British 
Watterson er ocice, Ce Leen een. Ls 334 
Yachting in the Mid Pacific.........2:2..s.5e00e *412 
rR MUS -of thesGteat Males... soutaeworincesseDia 
Sarees rAmeot sGrayresenclmbenyaedouneennasaiseees 256 
CLUBS AND RACES 
PNTITEUICAiiMEs (nde hve ate Nee Rep eer 4 ee ee ot 97, 456 
Ardsley Casino Yachting Department.......... 36 
BETTE) COmMeEREE Pile cactane Cate eet erence ae a 153, 454, 516 
EXCL Att Com Gl LV pete SE lt eel seine cddcp cece ce sou cues car 496 
Balto cee Re sehen eae etl eat ob oe BAe See Ry hat 53 
B Gervais ere -Myete foe iretstatens Saiaso.6 bere Asc. ae ena ore 493 
IS GSLOT gS Ine eee tet Re eet Sen et ee 474, 492 
BoStous Bay eV Re Ama entree omen chert. Shes 474 
Jekyealeee ctor, «ans AR Aaa en sas SMP e SE ocel hewe-e. 178, 455 
Brooklyi sessccerss pete. aenpersnce tate epee 153, 454 
(Cayart alee eet on ye ce kos Dh ad th ata eee pet, re 76 
CHINEGYENGE Gna aan RRB Be Oh Uree Oar aaa Bitte 137 
Golinipide meh GSO Re eee et. - ab ae eae te eee 495 
Gohinbia@hicarO-neneagees et aes 55, 217, 474, 494 
Calumibiam New s Workers soc +o es cteetsre sens ; vase Ths 216 
Corinthian, Philadelphia...... 72, 415, 436, 474, 494 
TESTES CON Shp Ahad dnl ia heh tet on WP el ay An a 196 
RETGITCE STEIN et, cata, ao PRE ERS DAN aft Aafaty One SPP 154 
comotrteesi@cs IN she ne toad AAA eLUN AtereD OEE ELS: 514 
ETI EO LEC Od GC Sta ei een ON A Nope eee eters bE rae ele 116 
PATIO nove con cesets ah sca eaeen de bay anda aiede eae s 458 
Inbar ecane! CERN eneeeos a Renee aed ooB RRA ReE 315 
JELCRED ONO Gis ted ieee 6S) br IAS pea TA 154, 414 
EW ESWrerssachiSecese scale ce «+ semtickosie clean . 454, 494 
Ibivdbee. Pale ycloteyedoe Geev.4 RAR AAA CAROLS SAR, 18, 97, 455 
SRarniai Cas Bayan Ave ine. fit. cess naga 390 
IVeSSrsi NO vot Arey PUL ets Cow his en ore eae weep pe nT 97 
ESers1eb CGm meet atl ot ttlecaies oe ida oe cn los 76, 491 
TEES RSA ped PAN YIU eit Aa eee 36 
HS AROnGRCILE shasta ey eee ne ae eleletteaitie tals sceslah naire 376 
HnTeKEENOCKER eee Tat ila denis cl ahieicetin cleat ane = 474 
SaTeSTON: passes els eens on attache: aieels hin ciate 4 Me eee 315 
Wear chia ont ty sem: scank pe abtyoneel: nitty on ten naan Stites 515 
WicThAsse te rs nyi tes wel tamisieh eridia cw oe ore 256, 390, 486 
Marine and Field................. eee los 76, 455, 494 
Massissippi Valleyn ccsecccsacceddeendcastaces ween ee 20D | 
Ai kayeateeWabe. \AAAAARA ANSE ® Peden ees naae anus 18 
New Amsterdam ........... HOE begs neste 137 


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RA Rueiciieay 41 eer a cat 117, 436, 491°. 
New York,...117, 137, 154, 213, 276, 413, 456, 496, 516 
Ocean FER AD RONDE SS ns nT oe is Ta 
Gotan tc) Seat a ee BS Ny LORS Sete 413 
PASSA GRTVEL soa naecniels iar sle farsa teil Ween o seis 153 
GENIE on a mh te ee ats ee ester ag eeetele ep oiae's © eh 

_ Panataquit-Corinthian pes. BAR re SO eel. 
etrad crcl lio hit ae eee ene eee aE orate etacetinacin ae see See 153 
AGysyeiititaiels cape haere sao ict rot pairs eh coe OO ik oo 214 
NO WBUIR ON ate oe ipeipone gon aoo0> ors Ss Shere 491 
RIVE STC Cred bea aattnata vane ate hate ieee tee herman ree 136 
Ritrcide: alilcinidte wees daea est treepetrn le) ase each eo 196 
Ion deilltsia) Uneyig aaerest Geko be bd bcot motes ote 5.196 
Seiria ered CTS GO eset rtnsA es sis sips eee nns seize mete re 196 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian,.......97, 295, 454, 474, 517 
pilelter USland... ve seepage euaes pp nett ee ee 474, 494 
S\ojiidal Safeminolslw yes wider si arpa boode 454, 496 
OUCHEDID, 2 Lois oe. heat Seis Sie er peuba a ekicte sie ae 315 
Southern Gulf Coast Y. A...,...... hon Acooupubent 376 
PSLATELOU v sgpsbee den alt coeveiu ace cee ye Fm Pire peee ane cree BE 137 
Sita be hie Slats = .lenls bark Reais ie deiatescte ects Pee 154 
SUUYVESAINE 6 0 orb cpa cts ocet ssi one ea eta ree 137 
WSUS OOS SIDES Romi oacLagrksoe EOCAUCS Hos - ob Lgtune 55 
WRTTERCO PME ak esos terse aktatidat yee a eae t 76, 490 
WUGUISEO Ti, taneeme nes sett cate bes sess iitin isin tect are 494 
SVAGHPSINCT Se nteck ne Oo podem g PARR: Sac Meee ae ed dod 18 
NEUE Qrovlintdibeies soe ode RUtEC Oot er ODEC Rn OeE amt ee: 154 
Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay..,...436, 453, 473, 516 

STEAM YACHTS 
CAEN ROBES Cr Lee Opener Lh obec comic err ad: 476 
Mica k, 7 Rees ee sp Et 415 
ATWINAG se eny segue haa kee ee Sete See #354 
PIL GLIAM oh, a eSened Ee svn wn Revert SS prtte et seeeee eee ee ances 413 
NZL CCE atae vse 336.8 tech beene teeter eeeececesdarseees *352 
FCT Gort trat-L- le da 41 Faha Se EIS oc, Ae ae 314 
att lies: A de hcice. Jena ses pe oe ee ease ae 456 
RUG LCI te Patere ates Seca y hea ah ate a eae eae 276 
AO CPL OIS 9 Wats) o-< a sctStare hod ee oh pet a ot EEL ER Oe 517 
IGF APRPO CEB e Be ncoean a Pe AAAS OR Ar yee? A ame 922096 
TSALOGTH Dare syemewtes Acanceaire dats See Eta beaaTe a eae 216 
WSIS Leek td oe eke le Ra beware ee acnendscee 216 
RadFemMenotipsscvas dees wanes Cur tues paclecteneeiene 476 
at ace BaTs eee aa etecthaee ts oc: Raa Pen eather 453 
Dwinesctew. Wachto/aidasess states. ceesencenne *94 
Two Large Steam Yachts Launched............ 153 
MSC erAB oat AL sume sa pteictPadtas: kart sa MMd fot eee eee 355 
VIPUL SNS tei Reeth pete Cute e Sal nt, cee Elda 476 
CANOEING. 
Birch Bark Canoe Building.......0.....0.0.. 36, 55 
Down the Danube in a Canadian Canoé...77, i17, 
; . 137, -178 
Reds Wrap ora dts cance oceck. Swe ee Eee eee nee 
TRAPSHOOTING. 

‘Allentown, Trap atesc.. Ammo DCE Mee BOO OAKES bos Se 260 
caslal Guster ROabene CL CIEV OL eos tees cece saree yee = ap eyarets ne 320 
Avimale Ciieliye [Os aratee cepa nee see aeeh ctyaelnt 239 
Pap Slergeayeygy WESTIN A We SAR eae Neda 22 hee peree 280 
escuidire ck aiiie Gib ent eee eee PS nee ae 457 


Arkansas Championship. .120, 200, 240, 279, 317, 360, 


418 
Aschenbroedel Gun Club..........317, 357, 378, 420 
Athletic Club of Philadelphia..... Poccius eo peminses 416 
Audubon aie Shibesseeseee eae 78, 239, 339, 418 
Backward, sicuokines fie hiccihicduss ore ok ceecies 478 
Rieburd Greg Grittres Clty barcenses cate cereal ane rine oe 240 
Bhieshivent Rar kecDra nes sadia hi seeron ces seee he 


Boston Gun Club..40, 80, 100, 119, 140. 158, 178, 200, 
219, 260, 280, 300, 320, 378, 400, 497 


Birch Brook Gun Club........ 157, 179, 400, 460, 519 
Brandone Gant Ghiibe, gosc a2. cent Peer ea eaet mee S00 
Bitstolee Gites hither eee itrtt eine cue aaa tae 320 
Boiling Springs Gun Club........ 119, 339, 417) 459 
Boston Athletic Association............ 98, 119, 157 
Boston Shooting Association............ 58, 60, 218 
Brooklyn Gun Club,...19, 39, 120, 156, 179, 199, 220, 
240, 259, 296, 317, 339, 357, 380, 417, 457, 478, 518 
Cape beet bach Wae eats «eRe cee 0 ee On abe, Soe oF seeanee © 
Gareless: Wuoadinen yr.ni ven sane knee eee 119 
Carlstadt Gun Club...... 19; 38, 58, 99, 180, 320; 459 
@akchpoole teins Clibocegessesetseten ieee 58, 79, 157% 
Champbechns Cons: Werntalljajaadidas asdaaaac came vee 47 
Champlany \Gunl Club fers seers ee 457, 478 
Chattanoor ay ebrap, | ©lilaseemcasseetns oatgenemesocl 
Chesapeake Gun Club....199, 219, 279, 296, 317, 259 
Chicago Gun Club..............319, 339, 358, 379, 400 
@holkse: Wores=eGylinderse sae sons olesinne shee heme os 59 
Cincinnati Gun. Club. .19, 79, 100, 140, 158, 219, 239, 
260, 300, 317, 360, 380, 420, 460, 478, 518 
Ciivaanke Grime s@livapimesie teas teysin ae kee teks Sra 380 
Clearview Gun Club................58, 320, 380, 435 
Gleveland Gun Club Go... -.isviectetewes 320, 380 
Grawiorte Gi eGlID. shacyacs oss Cauteen ee ne tee Ce 40 
Golise Garr Olas pela sss eens oe 319, 380, 418, 460, 520 
Concord Gane Clit. oy an sl. elena «.s....460, 518 


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Crescent Athletic Club.......... 39, 79, 99, 199, 220 
Cripple Creek Gun Club...............: 439, 458, 498 
Dean Richmond Drophy...)......-.-..00- ali, 309 
WenyerstPrap me Club ssessaece scene iene secre! 219 
Dewar “Prophy.c.ssedes avi cs ted ere ceeeecsset ess 320 
Dexter Bark, Sicap ates: tec.sseeeeeeetat esse 99 
Wixies GiunsGlibees ess ase: cescteeee Anebhogacn 478 
Wannion VASsociations.. 5.2424 22sec. e ss seen see 320 
Dover Sportsmen’s Association....... 339, 460, 520 
Duluth Central Gun Club............2-00cecese0: 158 
Dupont, Eugene, Death of........scececscseceeee 119 
DMripont, (Parke Wrap vests tens. s «sis eole eeminsenen eels 497 
Hastroide Gun sGlubves.de tess neces sees cesers 19, 220 
BAI GCAsC phe conse Soles bebe ce ehetet te Pee ees 79 
Emerald Gun Club............. 99, 179, 259, 439, 518 
Enterprise CaiIClib:.).cer Dee eee eee eee 416 
Bites Grrr “C1 D sic ss ot Soret iene sie arene eee eee 518 
IDS erable (rhe (Oe ose s os soo one ong ore 520 
Prag eerationm SpECleses. casera, oie ne ce eee 158 
Pairviews Gui Clubs .secaer acto sais 417, 438 
Fitchburg Rifle and Gun Club......... 339, 417, 457 
Mlorists 4Gin  Chitiyeesaipecee ees cate seek tea ae 498 
Wliorida 2G e Clube. one or oade ine: eee tons 220 
Morester, Gunes Clab cups. cse ses ae 19, 58 
Rranktore: Gite Chipsets see ence ee eee 58, 99 
Ratltone Gui Glitches stele sk oetece ote 259, 417 
Garden City Gun Club............ 120, 219, 317, 400 
Garfield Gun Club..19, 38; 78, 120, 158, 200, 239, 240, 
300, 379, 400, 418, 439, 458, 498, 519 

Gaillard Sporting. Clibtcnscsce sceeas eccen Srrabeetaee 257 
Gallatin Gun Club..........cceceeeeeeee eee 379, 520 
PALMER Ear trvae SU ayes cot olnaieieateste ae tees eee DS 
GAL PL Ens (Live SBS in ds) la, ie cay lactaetorieleietel-lociocisatr 297 
Cap te sPropiaimmens soo sleecag sain ea ee noes 158 
Gaels He Tareet_ Committeeasnes.aceserercicsceee 218 
Grand American Handicap..140, 200, 218, 239, 240, 
379 

(Creziere lia) Bei re UH Sao ESE ots cre ern pee 1195-457 
Guelph Trap and Game Club...............-.++- 220 
Gun Barrels, Length of...........+00: Sree nee 360 
MESES BES LATS LITER 3 te Ate tere taiere Severe et e'atole Aanta or ses DOS 
Hartley, Marcellus, Death of..........c0.- nee yf 
Hamilton Gun Club............ 20, 40, 100, 180, 218 
everest Glitbias nse Aneel: sacle eels 20, 478 
Hazard TrophyeJancstts cesbea dotscaetce hae 58, 219 
LSS Gates Garis Clusty ect oes eee eee 79, 417, 459 
Herron yea “Gin Clip aloo A eeeateccscce teens 38 
PER Shi vg leOpy i Veatas's odef icles aars Seis lea iecice te cletrarece bla 60 
Hudson Gun Club....78, 99, 140, 199, 339, 380, 518 
Huntsville Gun Club...............00- 259, 478, 519 
Intercity Shooting Pard:..c2.0..3. 0.000000 #40 
Tnternationalesbroph yates stas tend elrenatemett ee 259. 
Aer state GEAUK Ss s o-. reesei’ oleloy a2 40, 58, 79, 156, 158 
Utdeal s(t (Clitbes i eoks. ch Sree lsclestnels 38, 58, 218 
Interstate Programme (Targets)................ 279 
Jackson Park Gun Club............ 220, 357, 459, 478 
Jeannette Gun Club....78, 140, 240, 259, 339, 417, 518 
Keystone Shooting League........ 40, 360, 417, 439 


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KEGKO Vers AM AtEUti sais acs cu's sctels tie sie 5 Sinha e fess peasas 519 | Schenectady Gun Club.............--.- 199, 460, 519 
Legislation, Pigeon Shooting.................-..140 | Sheepshead Bay Rod and Gun.............. 39, 719 
Behreh. Rod: and’ Gun Glib... 4. 0. sees esdees 40) CATT GS HOOLETS / UA DEOAGS< 5 atale. tarts soft ite ALP ete 158 
ewiston Gin: (Clute..c. «0. acess cieissieeeetieaees 478) Shooting, American. .....:oc:tsssseseeesss Bere eee 120 
Wimiteds Gun Clibss.cesers weeeesnen ad EL ea aeeite Lag Single sbrreeers. acess ig ahs Sees 2-201, 417 
SOS MART veces cues cure ccc aaron ieeee eae sete teeeeeeee 138 | Sistersville Gun Club...................- 40, 260, 418 
Maple City Gun Club...-......-sssssssseeenseces 458 | Smithtown Gun Club. .20, 58, 100, 120, 156, 220, 279 
Marshall’s Alleged Statement...........e.csceeecs 497 | South End Gun Club........... Boeke sAdtioces Semiecare: 
Metropolitan Gun Club..........ccsesecesenseess Absa USt. eELubente Critul@litba. cet san netoani aires v.00 0 DLO 
Mitly ale Guns Chibsseresmiansstaeaa ste Geren seen BTML sis Ione MME oreinnnodaonbseatoetbaSGhnes 100, 317 
Mishires.and® Riess. want... oetentomnie sitions: 56} St. Paul Rod and Gun_Club............0css0008 498 
Mississippi Valley Notes....19, 38, 56, 79, 100, 140, | Sweepstake, 50 Birds.............2...200cseseeees 497 
aby Pm ARE) Pau beryl) Saishirest Meybber TOM tsyes Or 4. ae pon nae agar ondctodnos 497 
Mississippi-Louisiana League........cessseeeeee> 317 | Titusville Gun Club........... a ara aN ea sats aearoie 478 
Missouri Shooting Association.......csceesssees: 257 | Trapshooting, New Hampshire..............+5 460 
Mit ksrseo! (GanwOhibas ate = pau nist ere eee ee er S19; ) Grophy “Contests: scams cengeen se cascode teers iests 317 
Nappanee ‘Gin ‘Clitbarscn.ws. sce scie 5 eecieooeameen 339°] Trenton Shooting Association............see0++ 219 
New England Interstate Team........ 1205 178,805) Aeroisdorh Medalsisav.cic esac aan eee tee 200, 317 
Newton pe Gittn! tC ltrb tap merceryacrenrcts cu yee Pan pee tee OSE Vabertowal) Galt Mlb eaenresnimeeine ceeeereite 358, 519 
New Utrecht Gun Club....38, 99, 120, 189, 156, , Watson’s Park, Trap at.......... 38, 78, 180, 280, 300 
179, 339, 357 | Westchester T. S. A. League....158, 179, 200, 260 
Non paner eGrurire Cltps. ts eal aeons tees 19, 100, 180 | Westmount’ Gun Club..:..........000s-.---- 296, 359 
North Branch Gun Club.......... 5 Bia patste assistants ep 319" Westwood eGrintenClitinc es stemer eee mete cence 357, 438 
NortheRiver Gina Ola a) on sec solemn res trite 119 280 Wiest. = Vase Os= SiasAtes eaten eee eee Sem ars eee 
Northport (Gun iGiibhe ees rer eae eee 259 | Whitfield, James, Death of:............-..c0000- 300 
New York German Gun Club..56, 79, 220, 259, 380,) Winchester Gun Club..120, 200, 239, 280, 300, 357, 
458, 518 | 397, 438, 477, 520 
New York State Association.............. 240, 257! Wollaston Trap....,..... 820, 357, 380, 397, 417, 440 
ING War Viork \ShOO tea. sated teats tine ee rene ne 296, 357 | Woodlake Gun Club..........s.-.20, 38, 60, 80, 100 
OuNiCityAGun Clubes.sccesecaree nes PAS 320. |e Oiails.y Hlaghi temo teyd.telaiatter tert teen aerate ee ae 478 
Olean Gre C@lubissaerees shear cie mene etre ce al) Narre R ill Meebo Ni coe A aaarenaraeones 38, 78, 320, 478 
Ornaha. iG! sO lites «saeco ent taPeartar ee 195.60 |e Zanesvalle p Gin p@litb snes eetteniatacteeeaieren eee +020 
Oluzhagebland: cap sens cca ece saa ataetaen atl ie 158 
Oradelle Gun dOltib.. .seescecde eee see ae 320, 457 SAIS BUS) 
Oceanic Rod and.Gun Club....39, 79; 139, 156, 199, | Aumbler vs. Highland). 2... 2.1. stcesesesscsersleeee 79 
240, 317, 320; 357 | Banks vs, Stevens.;:..-;..+2<asscesepes sles aca 47 
Ossining Gun Club..19, 40, 60, 79, 100, 120, 140, 157, | Betti vs. Carpon.............ccecescecececececees 160 
200, 219, 260, 280, 296, 317, 358, 380, 417, 478, 399,|} Birch Brook vs. Harvard...........-.ssseseeues 320 
AAO ATS 198M tt davis Eat 11S aise wepieeote masini sissies ate erre ee eerie 438 
Parkers sGharles, sWeat hi Olstscss sev. ass apaaee 1195 1397 eGarlstadters. Palcviewrac.-\d-ce nee eererrasi es aies 220 
Rawirrets | Grane s@litp smeprstas lteter leats seis BSH Ali D200 MOO Alien VSaum Exton alter ers sitio esters sthseeteletsleicteiet ste tie gaa 99 
eterse Cartinacen©O.erLopliycstesaaeste sien aceite Saye 1Be (Co (eittioehennzoves Sp pnonos Senos. Soon dopeOCneGnh 157 
ickawayaskod sand. Gurr es Oli) sar cesses! a eustcaies Ska BL TOtt: ey.See ELeTKeS.rcapterclstejeiarsccsiaisjeetoseeetaterentecaltte state 260 
Ra Peomm@asesscivee sats isearae Aza be 358. 6879) 4000|) Hateview, wvssCarlstadtuns see 1 cdeceeeceen ie se eet 157 
Pleasant Hill Gun Club.... CEES HAE ne Ree ARO MLLODIStsevSS eELIUItOp se aeae sincere cae seer ieae sale ee as 478 
Powder Makers, Guns..........se0e Ratoni 198, 238} Gilbert vs. Elliott vs. Crosby.........ssssssesees 280 
Rahway, Gin |Clibleceeascis cae eer oe 220 SAD oa eG lLOVereeyS: MOTO WILOM crssleeinetemsnseetclsiecsie ste 120 
Raleigh Gun Club..357, 380, 3997 420, 438, 460, 518 | Hainhorst and Loeble vs. Pape and Sanders. .478 
“Reading, Trap Around.................- 58s 1300) 4osme lanyard avis, SBir Che LOO Ks etsciosialctsterslolsisieiclaisietsiols 357 
Richmond Gun Club..19, 38, 60, 157, 179, 220, 259,| Kansas City vs. Omaha..........ccc.seesseceeeee 158 
929, w4l7al peter collegiate: OH OO teste ce itera dierects inate siete ctelsieiain 380 
Rattersville: ESHOOtMM Oi. ae soe restanie os es tee tials QA TAMBGRUp I! SLS|Ls ga is,ctats cle tote nts etelere sieccisrscotetstajersieras slajsistovetas 320 
Riverside (Grr “Gla. apss erste cisteetcte-carsmicle as GO|) Miltopeveny Ws APPS onsen ant doommesonanhobocada 99 
Lvojorror IKoro%e! (Gibhel KOMP AA» eananecooddoon antic untae 100| North River vs. Edgewater..........-ccseeeeees 480 
Rockland Military Academy Club..317, 357, 400, 488 | Ossining vs. Schenectady PINs eis ciclo chisel 418 
aides. interstate sac ae sched orrieereruaeretnrctonets eet 197'| Racine vs. Milwaukee? .s20.2 002. cs sccncacsceres 100 
Sere ® (Carb Oks Ae conto enagonondadonoonanduneghc 519} Richmond vs. Aquehonga......:.scsssceceeeeeecs 418 
Serereant: Sy Steric niotis a seareistelsyetcisie nevelete ne stais siete 28 Rockland Mil. Academy vs. Spring Valley....478 


Page. 

Schenectady vs. Ossining... ......--20rs=- esse 340 
Singer vs. Lambert......... Sera ceeete Bee obec Oe 
Team Match Proposed......... GaGb5cr Sodoson cece 
Wells vs. Rispi vs. Leach......... aphancos oo 00 438 
W. Va. State Championship........... Baonenc- 16 
White vs. Kennedy.....0.;21s.s0ctesrsoccccsceaeadd 

“TOURNAMENTS. 

Altoona Rod and Gun Club........ceese000000+480 
PNOMALELII estes sotluhs oatkinbes OOK OLS Sanace 0002S 
INAS TANG ae cacvhico acneuoude ntnen Con ounotoc? SOCOM, 
Ashland Gin. Clibessrusy. cs apnea asaaeoneess - 498 
Auburn, Mile «.scaiateis arsths a stare a) 025) 8 apetotaseinysitve tet ae 004 DE 
PARTI hash t INE ON Sate Sere, ter as ate 08 cmon ara ere antics eee Totatoe 2202418 
Boston’ Gun Clits cae: sg steccctas scents 22> 440 
ISHS MABVOE PS an sssosonnaMAnapePEDAcar Ago apgneneccs . 99 
Boston Shooting Association........ subergeseiers oeedOd 
Capron Gin «Chat tas tee Aocenotn aontkeos «+ -498 
Chattanooga, “singers ssa aemiian cea ee eee 2» 420 
GIATENCE "Mi:s Acoae os cules tones es een aaye eile eleeeeee 519 
ColtGunwGlubm. sn.cn. state eaters te auf ntaes 280 
Gressonm Gun Clb dat tae Seguocbduuney coanee 260 
ripples Creelkens canes ctydeicieitace Reacanoganoctte «2-498 
Dubuque: Seals. asec ene ost he LR) 
Etre DO Ge mois aero, rate se sien Ohana wis late cate ra dee money 
Glen Rock Gun Club.......... PRE ce tare) 
GeSAW SE oe Gare ets) orate mcs tare uniacteae ee oes 
Jaizhooathgoya, (Great (OD ee onesnsenncon Nose eats ..80, 119 
Haverhill ‘Gin Gluzbys satranaetestentsteisreerce eee D009 
Ilinois: State ‘Shooty... sas epaesesen SEOBH 2. 418 
International Trophy............ Races soseee O40 
Imterstatesiat Gharlestomen assesses aces saesteme tate 440 
T20W ald DLAUC oye:ccisforsis oie ie o-otetitsio sae ehonoe se eae ts 
Kansas City Midwinter.............- se eeeeerees 20 
Kansas Statepeeeaiii cise cjesccn sacs teases oasis oss 018 
ebigh Rod and! Gun’ (@lubssn..ssasea ee Rey) 
Wsimsited “Guys @litber seacye teats ates tate eee 259 
Maryland County Shoot..........«essses avis 179, 459 
WSR SES hy ou Siekeeen Sosobont! natnonosson CENIeySO 2 340 
Mississippi and Louisiana Trap League........400 
| Nebraska .......... ajatens's ia fastens sea poysiarststLiio: eres at erees 358 
New Jersey State........... dale stacslevel sveretstebaretere veee 0409 
New Work. State. tcdac.ch... es periment 420, 499 
OTL Citys cose ote clerels lec viola steels tact Ota meee 519 
(Oheslskt ARR Dp An RABOEREL CONDE Abo DOM ARG MS eo04 SeetS 
Penn Gun Club........ dha Sissi gle retelaoes rere ees a0002 458 
Ben nsylyanias “State. cieaiste tet pose roeaeetnes ee eet 419 
Pulaskt (Gun, Clube vacawematetst ss soeteisictee 222080 
Soo) City; (Gans @ iti bases eaternternla ences eee +2 498 
Southern UInterstate. .22., ewe sos IQEC AR tnt Or 518 
Sf. TOSepIs :. 2,-2.5 sate a at eRe ete Leste Fie aattarates +2 000 
Trapshooters’ Ibeague, Indies. s.crse+ see monet 520 
Wetate AOU eS O TO ened tte oUpbUC on acmooe ormdoEDooc 138 
DWialOp nalaalns tele eisitls sata a ties athens ate? CORPO 158 
West Branch Gun Club........... Pope soos nED ate 457 
Westchester | Coumtyer eee cite sue tapers 80, 457 
Wiel Var Ss SHeASSOciatloiieniree so anteaters 340 
Wolstencroft’s ..... se alerese aun geal egate laggards eee nese 480 


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_ ———s«sTHE BOY AT PLAY. 


Wuue the formative stages of a man’s character are 
mostly in the years from early boyhood to the transitional 


period when the boy becomes the man, there are still many 


important stages in his mature years thereafter. The 
emergement from boyhood to manhood profoundly affects 
the man’s being, yet it does not make a line of separation 
between the two stages of life. 

The man is merely an older boy, with much the same 
character, mannerisms, likes and dislikes observable in his 
boyhood. His fondness for sport, both as boy and man, 
are likely to undergo no change at all; however much man 
and boy may vary concerning other traits, in this respect 
they are as one. 

It is commonly believed by the general public that the 
years of boyhood are years of playfulness, much of which 
is frivolous, and all of which is unmeaning; and on the 
other hand, that the years of manhood should be devoted 
to stern effort devoid of all playfulness. 

Nevertheless there are certain classes, having a true 
education of life and the best way to live it, who know 
that play is essential to the best development of children, 
both mentally and physically, and also that all work and 
no play checks the further development of the man, and 
hardens and narrows his character, if it does not per- 
manently sour it. 

The play so essential to the development of the boy is 
equally essential to the recreation, diversion and change 
of thought to the man. It has its use throughout life. 
Of course, the man may take his diversions with more 
sedateness, more skill, and with more thought of cause 
and effect, yet in the matter of beneficence to mind and 
body, the play of man and boy are as one. 

Man and boy are organisms of superabundant energy. 
The boy is filled with unbounded curiosity and experi- 
mental activity. If he is checked in one line of effort he 
forthwith breaks out in some other line. If checked com- 
pletely, he frets, becomes ill-tempered, his energies have 
no vent, and his deyelopment then is at a standstill, Ac- 
cordingly as his energies are given play in a wholesome or 
unwholesome environment, he may become a model man 
or of the class colloqaially called tough. If entirely 
checked in all his natural impulses to action through his 
boyhood, he may mature into a nonentity. 


But, with mature years, the need of play does not end. 
The old boy needs his hours of relaxation and diversion 
quite as much in a way as does the young boy. In par- 
ticular is this true of the man who belongs to the class 
which suffers most in the struggle, the brain workers. 
The mind, when at work, draws on the powers of the 
whole body for its support, and, for its best working, the 
ancients many centuries ago knew as we know, that a 
sound mind needed a sound body. The latter is not the 
product of hours, days, months, years incessantly devoted 
to work at the desk. It, on the contrary, is the result of 
varied contemplation of pleasing thought, of the exer- 
cise of all its parts in proper changes from gay to seri- 
ous, with proper physical culture therewith. To devote 
its action to one line of thought, no more conduces to its 


general soundness than the constant use of one hand con- 


duces to the general development of the body. 
activity is essential to either. 
.recreative, 


Varied 
Of this some must be 


For the training of mind and body, as it concerns the 
individual and his own best interests, and as it concerns 
the interests of society of which he is a member, there 
is no better field of activity for boy or man than the 
sports of field and stream. Im these sports there are 
situations which contribute to the development and exer- 
cise of physical courage; self- -Felianog, endurance, patience 


and inventive power in surmounting obstacles are in 
constant requisition. 

To the boy the energies thus applied afford a useful 
schooling in qualities essential in later serious life. He 
by success acquires confidence in himself and in turn is 
not timorous in assuming the initiative. He learns to 
think and to act for himself. 

To the man who shoots or fishes, or who, better yet, 
does both, there comes by such recreation a rest of mind 
and upbuilding of body. 

Who has not remarked the bright eye, the ruddy color, 
the assured carriage and vigorous stride of him who has 
had an outing devoted to. fin or feather, and noted the 
health and energy thus displayed in contrast to the hum- 
drum, listless manner of action exhibited before the 
outing. 

The old boy needs his playground quite as much as does 
the young boy. He needs it for his amusement and for his 
best well being. More playgrounds for the old boys mean 
fewer sanitariums and still fewer inmates; fewer doc- 
tors and still fewer patients; fewer dyspeptic minds and 
still fewer dyspectic stomachs; and healthier and happier 


men, women and children. Cherish and maintain the play- 


ground for the old and young. 


THE TRAMP AND THE REMEDY FOR HIM. 


THERE is in this country an army of tramps, estimated 
to be 45,000 strong. It is disseminated over the land, and 
lives on the community. It contributes nothing to the 
work and wealth of the land. 

Podgers had a theory that the tramp, individually and 
collectively, might be conyerted into a highly useful ele- 
ment of society if he were put to work at building roads. 
In a paper read before the Massachusetts Association of 
Relief Officers, Prof. Francis G: Peabody, of Cambridge, 
has advanced a like recommendation, Taking as a motto 
the principle ennumerated long ago by the novelist Field- 
ing, “The ‘only remedy for idleness is work,’ Prof. Pea- 
body finds the solution of the tramp problem to consist 
in the provision of work for the tramp, and urges that in 
America we should adopt the system of tramp colonies 
which prevails in Germany, Holland and Belgium. In 
these countries the tramp is subject to arrest and con- 
viction, but is treated not as a criminal but as a ward. 


There are tramp colonies, established at a distance from’ 


cities, where work of various kinds is provided, and to 
one of these colonies the convicted tramp is sent. Here he 
is given something to do, and is paid something for his 
work. But he is not confined; he may run away if 
he will, but if he runs away:and takes to tramp’s life 
again,~he is promptly arrested and sent back to the 
colony. In short, the tramp is provided with work, and 
is not permitted to live without work. 


The system is one which we would do well to adopt in 
this country. As Prof. Peabody points out, the work 
provided should be of such a character that it would not 
come into Competition with labor, and there are numerous 
enterprises which might be set on foot without involving 
any competition. For Massachusetts Prof. Peabody sug- 
gests the digging of the long-projected Cape Cod canal, 
and the replanting of waste lands with trees. “Forestra- 
tion,’ he truly says, “is a.kind of industry which cannot 
bring any profit for a whole generation, but which may 
be not only commercially profitable, but of immense ser- 
vice to the future welfare of the State. I have looked at 
those barren districts on the elbow of Cape Cod, where 
for ten or fifteen miles there is hardly .a house and hardly 
a tree—a region once covered with a superb forest—and 
I have sometimes pictured these wards of the State as 
reforestrating this region. It is an occupation which 
could not bring suspicien_to the most-zealous trade union- 
ist, but might be the physical redemption of the State, 
and the physical and moral redemption of many a man.” 

As for road building, the field of useful labor is with- 
out limit. The increase in land values brought by good 
roads in any State in the Union could be estimated only 
in hundreds of thousands of dollars, and this could be 
produced at comparatively slight expense, were the tramps 
put to work; indeed, the cost of tramp labor on road 
building would be less than the community now expends in 
maintaining the tramps in idleness. Then there is the 
great irrigation work to be done in the arid West; the 
_ assy ill do that, fam Hf only be by eet toe, 


Director B. E. Fernow, of the New York State College 
of Forestry, has issued a reply to the charge that the 
Adirondack tract under its control was being improperly 
managed. The territory given to Cornell by the State 
was a tract which had been dentided of its valuable trees 
by the lumbermen, and the problem thus presented was 
to make provision for the reproduction of thé valuable 
species. The college, says Mr. Fernow, is doing what 
it is set to do. It is harvesting from an area from which 
the valuable part has been already removed, the old, de- 
crepit hardwood crop which is rotting and becoming less 
and less valuable, and is replacing it by a young, vigorous 
crop of better composition. It is doing this by trying to 
make the old crop pay for the new; that is, carrying on 
the experiment like a business venture. 

& 

That Maine propositigg of taxing visiting sportsmen is 
not a new one. It ian Weohchied two or three years ago, 
and among the most powerful protests against it we pub- 
lished at that time was one from a Massachusetts corre- 
spondent, who was deeply stirred at the thought that he, 
who had been a Maine boy, should be required to pay 
for the privilege of revisiting his native State on a hunting 
expedition. This is a phase of the question which has 
wide application, for there is a multitude of the sons of 
Maine scattered over the Union who go in the autumn to 
breathe its air again and immerse themselves in its mighty 
woods. And it is not to be wondered at, but is oné of 
the most ‘natural of consequences, that they should feel 
affronted at and resent the alien stamp which would be 
put upon them by the imposition of a non-resident tax. 


Something of the same feeling is shown by most men, 
even though they be not returning natives of the State, 
when they are obliged to pay a non-resident hunting tax 
in any one of the States which now exact licenses. They 
feel that thus to be discriminated against is to be treated 
as foreigners, not as fellow citizens of a common country, 
and in so far as this feeling is engendered the non-resident 
taxing system is in spirit un-American and undesirable. 


What are the ethics of a case like this? A hunter went 
down to Maine to get the head of a moose to adorn his 
den. As is the custom and the rule with tenderfeet who 
visit Maine, he put himself under the guidance and con- 
trol of a registered guide at $3 a day and found. In due 
course the guide showed him the moose with the antlers. 
The aim, as the hunter believed, was true; and the 
bullet, as he was convinced, went hame; but the moose 
disappeared. The hunter wanted to follow in the direc- 
tion the game -had gone, believing that shortly they would 
come upon the dead moose; but the guide poohpoohed the 
suggestion, and dissuaded from further pursuit. The - 
hunter returned to his home. -The mail the next day 
brought word from the guide that he had found the killed 
moose, whose chase they had abandoned, and that he 
had secured the head, and would sell it to the hunter 
for $25. The affair has the look of sharp practice on the 
guide’s part. While in a court of law the hunter could 
not make good his claim to the head, inasmuch as he had 
not actually reduced it to possession, yet having been 
found by his own guide, who should have found it at the 
time, it was justly his and should have been restored to 
him without the $25 demand. 


& 


As was pointed out the other day, the Forest any 
STREAM gives more than twice as much reading ina year 
as the largest of the four-dollar magazines. And it does 
this at a trifling cost of less than eight cents per week. 
In no other way may one secure for himself so much of 
the best outdoor literature at such slight expense. 

eS 


Major Holman F. Day tells us that the story of the 
Maine woods, which he relates to-day, is an entirely. cor- 
rect and veracious statement of the events as they oe- 
curred; and it is because of this quality of truthfulness 
that the story has interest and value. 


& 
A general invitation is extended to attend the meeting 
of the North American Fish and Game Protective Aeco- 


ciation at Burlington, Vt., Jan. 22, The President i is Jno, 
W. Titcomb, of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Hie 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Jan. 4, 1902. | 


Che Sportsman Caniist. 
a 


A Cry in the Night. 


A Story of the Maine Woods, 


I PLACE this on record as the most remarkable story that 
has ever come out of the Maine hunting woods—and I 
know considerable about the stories of the Maine woods. 
Tf it were not vouched for so eminently I would not tell 
it, It would be too much for credulity and wouldn’t be 
worth the telling. I believe it, for I know the men.who 
tell it to me, even though they cannot explain it. They 
believe it and do not try to explain it, for they feel they 


ied 


cannot. Here it is. If the thing seems too much to 
believe, then don’t believe it. But the facts are facts just 
the same. 


On the north side of Boarstone Mountain, in the town 
of Elltotsville, in Piscataquis county, Maine, lives Trust- 
rum H. Brown, who calls himself “The Mediator.” He 
entertains the harmless vagary that he is the mediator 
between man and God. For some fifteen yéars since his 
retirement to the wilderness of northern Maine he has 
been writing what he calls a new Bible, and he has a 
mass of manuscript piled a foot high. By the way. I have 
examined The Mediator’s manuscript considerably, and 
it is far from being balderdash. Much of his writing in- 
dicates real thought and considerable ability. The Medi- 
ator is in no sense of the word a crazy man despite his 
hallucination on the subject of religion. 

Brown has a bit of a farm and raises potatoes and 
vegetables enough to last him through the wirter. He 
traps a little and hunts a bit arg never goes hunery. 

Early in December, just after the first snow of the sea- 
son, he discovered one morning the fresh tracks of a 
moose near his house. By the manner in which the crea- 
ture’s great feet had splayed into the snow, Brown saw 
that the moose was a big one. In his capacity of mediator 
he asserts that there are ten thousand spirits about him 
all the time. He alleges that he asked one of these 
spirits to tell him how big the moose was, and that the 
spirit skipped along ahead and then came back and _ren- 
dered him the information that the moose was none 
other than the Ambajejus Giant that had defied the rifles 
of the hunters for years. The spirit further declared, so 
Brown avers, that the moose didn’t haye much of a start. 

_So The Mediator tiéd on his snowshoes, grabbed his 
tifle and a bit of a snack, and started away on the lope 
into’ the forest. That was early in the morning. Well, 
The Mediator scuffed along till noon without coming up 
with the moose. But the tracks still continued fresh, and 
his spirit guide, so he says, kept breathing into his ear 
that the animal was almost in reach. He ate his lunch 
of cold venison as he walked, for in a stern chase of a 
moose no time is to be wasted. His keen woodman’s eye 
noted that the clouds hung low and were massing darker 
atid darker. Had he not been so confident that the moose 
was just ahead of him and would “yard” at the coming of 
nightfall, he would have abandoned the chase. 
hope toled him on. : 

At 4 o'clock it was dusk, and still the splay tracks were 
stretching on ahead of him. Then he could see them no 
longer, and regretfully he brought to in a ravine and 
abandoned the chase for the night. 

He had not reckoned on the long pursuit, and therefore 
he had not provided himself in the usual cautious man- 
ner. Above all, he had not brought his woods axe. 

Only‘a man accustomed to the woods realizes how seri- 
ous an omission this is. The Mediator was able to collect 
some dry kye or limbs that had dropped from the trees 
and he hewed off some low branches with his hunting 
knife. He kindled a bit of a fire at the foot of a tree. 
He did not dare to go to sleep, for the cold was raw and 
piercing. So he, stood and turned himself before the 
fire like an animated spit, moving constantly to keep 
awake, 

In the morning there was nothing left of his provender 
except one flat-chested biscuit. Had he not been unduly 
fired with zeal to catch that moose he would have retraced 
his steps. But he’ felt: that probably the animal had 
yarded a little way ahead and so on he went. He did 
come across the trampled place where the moose had spent 
the night, and with its great teeth had ripped off the twigs 
and bark. By the mighty reach The Mediator saw that 
the animal was a monster, and on he drove eagerly in a 
skurry of snow from his broad shoes. Still those mon- 
stnuis splotches in the snow kept trailing away ahead of 
im. : 

Then some unkind weather sprite joggled the clouds 
overheads The stiow commenced to come in the fine, driv- 
ing flakes that indicate a protracted storm. Then, and 
not till then, did the reckless hunter turn about. But 
before an hour had passed the snow, driving faster and 
faster, covered his tracks. Night came on again. Once 


more he lighted his fire, and, dizzy for want of sleep, stag- — 


gered about it, struggling to keep awake. The Mediator 
4s nearly’ seventy years old, but his lithe little form is 
inured to hardship by many years of woods life. A less 
experienced man or one with less vitality must have suc- 
cumbed. 

The snow came down damp and heavy, and the sag- 
ging boughs above kept dropping clumps down on to his 
shoulders and into his neck. 


At the first lightening that showed that morning was. 


approaching, he ate the last crumbs of his biscuit and 
started away. But the snow drove hard in his face. He 
was weak with hunger and sick for sleep. His limbs were 
stiff and his whole body ready to sink with fatigue, Ac- 
customed though he was to the woods, it is not surprising 
that in a few hours he knew that he had lost his way. 
But still he kept on, hoping that he might come across 
some trail or water course, his chief hope of rescue, some 
logging camp. 

The snow ceased in the afternoon, but a sharp and 
driving wind succeeded. It flung the drying snow and 
‘shrieked with it through the trees and clearings. The fine 
particles cut his face like the dust of a sand storm. Few 
men have made a fiercer struggle for life than he. It is 

probable that partial delirium overtook him, for he in- 


But his © 


sists that he could not only hear his spirit guides, but could 
see them as they flocked about him and beckoned him on. 

At dusk he was in a country wholly unknown. There 
were mountains off to the right, but he did not recognize 
the peaks nor the surroundings. About an hour after the 
dark came down, with the wind still driving the snow 
into his eyes, he came out into a section that he recog- 
nized at last. It was “The Gulf.” This is a cafion about 
three miles long, through which the west branch of 
Pleasant River rages. The walls are precipices. But 
along the north side skirts a wood road leading to camps 
miles above, and into this road The Mediator staggered. 

Now, he was desperately weak. But he knew that if he 
could round the foot of the cafion and scramble for three 
miles up the side of the first Chairback he would come 
to Long Pond, where there were camps. 

_it was now a race for life. He stood his dear old 
rifle against a tree and hung his cartridge belt on a limb. 
Then he cinched the belt around his thin waist and started. 
He was in a half-stupor when he came down to the frozen 
ford at the foot of the cafion. He crossed, and striking 
the corduroy road that leads up the first Chairback he 
plowed on, He fell a dozen times, but he had sense 
enough leféto struggle up and dig to his task again, 

When he made Long Pond his strength was nearly 
gone, But he knew that across the pond lay Hall & 
Davis’ sporting camp, three miles away. The wind was 
still driving the snow, and he miscalculated his route 
across. When he came to shore he peered in all direc- 


_ tions and listened. There was no glimmer of light. any- 


where, and no sound indicating that any camp was near. 
His knees were doubling under him by this time. His 
strength was gone; his eyes would not stay open, and he 
gave up. He stumbled and crawled up on the shore and 
fell across a log. His tongtte was swollen in his mouth 
and his throat was dry. He says that he tried to shout 
but he could utter no sound but a gurgling whisper. Then 
he became tnconscious, 
aR 


Now comes the strange part of the story. 

There was at the Hall & Davis camps at that time a 
hunting party from the town of Dexter, Among them 
were N. E. Meigs, the leading clothier of the place, and 
Walter Abbott, one of the proprietors of the large Abbott 
woolen mill. Mr, Meigs had been out that day with the 
party, and in trying to cross the pond had frozen both 
his ears, so bitter was the cold. He would have perished 
had not his guide beaten him to make him walk. He had 
desired to lie down and go to sleep on the snow, and had 
beeged the others to go away and leave him. ° 

On this evening he was lying in his bunk wondering 
whether or not he was going to be able to save his ears. 
They were wrapped up and were aching fearfully, and 
Mr. Meigs wasn’t taking the most intense interest in any 
outside matters. The others were playing pitch-pede 
before the fire. : 

Suddenly Mr. Meigs raised himself on his elbow and 
cried, “I hear some one shouting for help.” 

The others stopped their play and listened. Beyond 
the moaning of the wind in the chimney and the sough 
of the big trees outside there was no sound. dey 

“Folks with frozen ears can hear ’most anything,” re- 
marked one of his comrades, 5, om 

“But I certainly heard some one shout,” persisted 
Meigs. i 

“Do you believe for a moment,” said his friend, “that 
a man with his ears done up like a pound of pickled tripe 
could hear a sound that we didn’t?” 

The clothing man admitted that it didn’t seem very 
probable, but still he persisted in his opinion strenuously. 
At last one of the guides went to the door and shouted 
into the night. There was no response, | 

“Tt couldn’t have been,” he said, returning. ore 

“T don’t want to be stubborn in this matter,” said, Mr: 
Meigs, “but I do think that we ought to make some 
investigation, I can’t go to sleep with the notion that 
some poor cuss is out there in the cold. _ somehow or 
other I can’t reason myself out of the notion that there 
is something the matter outside, and I wish you would 
look it up. I’d go myself ifit were not for my ears. | 

After poking some fun at the persistent man arguing 
from his nest in the bunk, two of the guides put on their 

uter clothing and went out. \ 
. S40 3% oaavee it may be that some one has dropped into 
the water hole down here a piece,” said one of them, “but 
as that’s more than a mile away it don't. stand to reason 
that you could have heard any shouting with your ears 
one up in that manner. 
S In the course of fifteen minutes one of the men came 
running back, and those in the camp heard him pulling 
the moose sled out of the lean-to. - 

“There is something the matter-after all down at the 
water hole,” he cried. to those within. Ed was ahead 
and he hollered back to me to bring the moose sled. 

And in a little while they came tugging into the pees 
stiff figure that the guides, as soon as the man was in t : 
lamplight, recognized as Mediator Trustrum H. Brown, o 

liotsville. 
ee they thought he was dead. But they bricoenee 
him and set him bodily into a tub of ice-cold water. ey 
rubbed him with snow and after some work he commence 
to revive. Then they poured whisky and brandy mee 
his throat, and at midnight he was sitting up and telling 

is story. B, Pi 
ipa ae was all right and lively once more, and it 
may be stated here es am on the subject of recoveries, 

. Meigs saved his ears. : 
tow The Med'ator swears that the sound he earete 
when he sank down on the log was only a woes a 
a shout as loud as a foghorn would scarcely ave ss 
heard a mile away by the men inside. a. log camp heavily 

with snow. m2 7 } 
ae, the sound should have been heard by a man with 
his ears frozen and wrapped in bandages is more curious 
still. But for that I have authority that cannot be dis- 
puted. Both sides have told 


me their stories. 
They do not try to explain it—neither wil} I. - 


But. as I remarked, in the first place, I set this down. 


sries Of endur- 
not only as one of the most, remarkable stories 0 
ance that the Maine woods have ever reported, but as a 


is almost uncanny. . 
mystery that 1s almost y. Horman F. Day. 


A Tennessee Outing.—I. 


THE snapping of the wood fire was the pleasant sound 
that recalled me from dreamland next morning. The 

octor was already up and had about completed his 
morning toilet. : 

“Five thirty,” said he, when he saw me stirring, “heavy 
frost and clear as a bell.” 

The favorable and welcome weather report set me to 
moving in earnest, and the early breakfast announcement 
found me ready, 

_ The oatmeal, with real, rich cream—the kind that tastes 
right, as well as looks right; the town article generally 
doing only the latter—had about determined me to repeat 
the dose and skip down the bill of fare to coffee when 
the culinary goddess entered with a largé dish of country 
sausage, friend brown. 

- Bless my life! what an aroma pervaded the atmosphere 
as soon as it passed the threshold, : 

No disturbing doubt as to the pedigree of that sausage. 
Simmering, bubbling, sputtering in the rich, brown gravy, 
every cake a beautiful rich brown and the size of an 
honest man’s dollar, it was a sight to cause One to forget 
both moderation and caution, and eat to repletion, though 
the morrow brought a sad reckoning. I was well on the 
way with my second sausage—that might or might not. 
lead to repentance (for my department of the interior 
tather lords it at home)—when Uncle Bill, the colored 
man of all work, put his head im at the door and briefly 
announced : 

“Hen hawk out heah gittin a chicken, Doctor.” The 
Doctor passed this report on to me for action, accom- 
panied with an appealing look. 

Telling Uncle Bill to wait a moment, I secured my 
gun and accompanied him out to the chicken yard, where 
the chickens were protesting vigorously, but where I did 
not expect to find the hawk still lingering, As we passed 
from behind the house and came in view of the rear 
fence, there sat the hawk, a long, slender, piratical 
looking rascal; apparently enjoying the confusion and ex- 
citement he was causing among the chickens, that were 
running about seeking shelter in the yard. It was rather 
a long shot, but as I knew he would dart down and keep 
the fence between us, as he flew off, I did not try te 
approach any nearer. He pitched from the fence when 
I fired, and believing him safely disposed of, I returned 
to the house, leaving Uncle Bill to investigate and report. 
I had just resumed my interrupted breakfast when the 
girl, coming in with hot rolls, announced “De hawk ain” 
dead, an’ Uncle Bill got de gun an’ goin aftah him 
agin.” The fact that Uncle Bill had my gun, my new 
gun that I would hardly let a friend handle with ungloved 
hands, and probably had never heard of a “hammerless,” 
caused me to hurry out again, and in the lot near the 
hen house I found the privileged character in question 
turning the gun over and over looking for the hammers. 
“Here, give it to me, Uncle Bill,” I said. 

“How you goin’ shoot it,” he inquired, rather suspi- 
ciously, as though he suspected some trick. Not caring 
to enlighten him on that point, I inquired for the hawk. 

“Dah he, sah; rite oveh dah settin’ on de groun’.” 

And looking in the direction indicated I saw the hawk 
sitting erect and defiant, but evidently wounded, _ 

Throwing the gun in position for ready wing shooting, 
I walked toward the bird. i 

“Dat neah ‘nough, sah,” said my sable assistant. “Yo" 
kin git him from dah.” Then, as I approached nearer, 
he called excitedly; “He goin’ fly, sah. He sho’ goin’ 
fly. Shoot, sah, shoot!” : , 

Then he did fly, and waiting until the wings were 
spread full, and the distance right, I cut him down, and 
fully completed the job of making him a good hawk. 

Wing shooting was rather a novelty to Uncle Bill, and 
the easy shot was, in his eyes, a great feat, 

“Hi, dat good, sah!” he shouted, “Dat is de way to 
do um. I’d sho’ give fifty cents if I could do dat way 
once,” 

Being out for recreation, and not business, I let this 
opportunity to turn an honest penny slip by, and re- 
turned to the house, when, without further interruption, 
I finished my breakfast. The air was still and cold, but 
the sun shone warm; and by the time we got well out 
in the bird cover most of the, frost was melted, leaving 
a dampness in the ground that was excellent to retain 


scent. 

Old Jack felt too good to stay on the ground, and went 
to work at a pace that no other dog could have kept for 
more than a half hour. , 

We found our first covey on the side of a steep ridge, 
and got one and mussed up the feathers of another bird 
on the flush. ; 

The wounded bird was the first bird shot, and seemed 
to be coming down all right, so I attended to another 
with the second barrel, only to see the first bird ~e- 
covered sufficiently to fly out-of sight over the next ridge. 

I hate to see a bird going bravely on that 1 have tried 
my best to stop and have help fill the lean and hungry 
look of my game pocket; but with a keener and more 
lasting regret do I see one going off in a wounded or 
maimed condition; and hence it is my invariable rule 
to keép shooting at the first bird shot at until both har- 
rels are fired, unless the first be sufficient. Retrieving 
my dead bird, I crossed over the next ridge in the line 
of flight taken by my wounded bird, and was fortunate 
enough to. locate it. The dog poinied, just over the 
ridge, and going to him and following his line of vision, 
T saw the bird in the weeds about three feet from the end 
of his nose. There was a thicket near. and when I 
flushed the bird it flew toward that. in an uncertain, 
fluttering way, owing to being badly wing-tipped, and as 
it was shoot quick or see it go into the thicket, I did the 
former, but attempted a bit of fine work by holding high, 
endeavoring to get the bird with the outside edge of the 
charge only, so as not to shoot it up badly. ; 

I drew the bit of fine work too fine, and the bird went 
into the thicket untouched by that shot. and after crawl- 
ing and scrambling through brush and briers for filteen 
minntes longer, alter a bird that I had two fair shots 
at, I had the. eae of seeing’ it run into a brush 

- pile and caught by the dog: 
3 Benuuisesto the open we got among the scattered 
birds and put up four, killing all but three of them, _ 

Jack got on his dignity again and began to look in- 


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different. I tried to explain to him that my shells 
‘surely must be open to grave suspicion; and that once 
my gun had caught, failing to reach position; and that 
one was a turning shot, and that my foot really did slip 
‘as I swung to it, but all this was but talk, and it was 
birds that the arbitrary fellow demanded. 

__ I devoutly hoped that the next one would be easy, su 
that I might, at least, win back my dog's good will, how- 
ever [ might continue to regard myself, but it was not. 

Tt was an old veteran, and he lay right under the dog’s 
nose until I had walked around them twice, and then 
flushed behind me and taking the wied swung off on a 
curve like a rocket. 

Being a bit rattled by the run of hard luck, I pulled 
past him, when I turned, but quickly recovering held 
fairly, with a six-inch lead, determined to get him or 
exhaust the battery, and at the crack of the gun had the 
pleasure of seeing him take a header for terra firma, and 
iwo minutes thereafter Jack and I had again resumed our 
peaceful and friendly relations. 

The cover was heavy, and the birds lay close; and an- 
other dog would not have found many of them, but the 
dog-put up four more birds with promptness, which 
were put down with dispatch—all but the last—and he 
lit running, after getting the entire broadside, and was 
trailed a full fifty yards before finally consenting to join 
his companions in the game pocket. : 

Going over the ground. once more to be sure that 
none had been overlooked, and finding nothing, we 
sought the nearest fence to do a bit of resting. The 
valley in which I was located, like many of those in East 
Tennessee, was not unlike the. bed of some vast river. 

Narrow and bounded on each side by hills—“knobs,” 
as they are locally known—sometimes running a straight. 
course for miles, and again winding in and out among 
the hills, it was both fertile and beautiful, From my seat, 
the fence being on a slight elevation, I’ could see for 
several miles straight down the valley, over cultivated 
fields, with an occasional house, barn and outbuildings, 
‘all quite substantial and in good repair. 

It was a rural picture of great beauty, and also of 
erandeur, as the hills framed it in on all sides; while 
over their tops towered the great mountain peaks, now 
blue in the morning sunlight. 

This picture, with yariation of detail, is seen again and 
again in this section; the valleys always fertile, the moun- 
ains always grand. 

“Smiling valleys’ is good poetic description, and ap- 
plies to some lands, but in this picturesque country they 
augh outright. Don’t condemn this as a bit of en- 
thusiastic word-painting of a sportsman intoxicated by 
a too deep indulgence in ozone—straight; or the preju- 
diced statement of a native booming his own section; it 
is neither the one nor the other, but is only a just tribute 
o a beautiful country, and falls far short of doing it 
justice. 

The traveler through this section can verify the fact 
and never leave the railroad, or get out of a parlor car. 

The great southern railway system, from Chattanooga 
to Bristol, nearly 250 miles, runs through a valley of 
great fertility and beauty, and affords a fine view of some 
of the grandest mountains east of the Rockies. But 
what has all this to do with bird hunting, says the man 
who always asks first, “How many did you get?” Well, 
very little, to such an one, but 


“To him who in the love of nature holds 
Communion with her visible forms,’ 


it has its place; and that place is the inner chamber of 
his heart, from the open door of which issues forth his 
truest thoughts and his noblest deeds. The man whose 
ole object in hunting is the game, should never get 
past the huckster’s stall. He can never accomplish 
enough to offset his sins of omission. i. 

_ When well rested, I dropped off the fence and made 
for a stubble field half mile away. No need to tarry by 
the way, as Jack had hunted out all the intervening ter- 
itory while I loafed and viewed the beauty of the goodly 
land. 

We found fur en route, and the good old dog almost 
broke his neck trying to keep his eyes on me and the 
apidly receding rabbit at one and the same time. 

I made no effort to prevent its safe retreat, as there 
was no One near by to bestow it on, and although the 
tabbits in this section are about the size of other rabbits, 
when killed, my experience had led me to think that half 
hour in my game pocket over the hills made them large 
as sheep. 

We crossed the upper and were working back through 
ithe lower end of the field when we again found birds. 

It was a small covey, but the birds were large and 
strong flyers, and Jack and I both shook out a reef when 
wo of them consented to stop at the call of my right 
and left. The survivors went into a field of corn, yet 
ngathered, and it looked as if the shooting would be a 
bit rough, if we found them at all, but fresh from our 
ecent success we bravely sallied forth. 

At the fence surrounding the field I found a small 
darkey, who seemed to be waiting for me. 

He promptly responded to my look of inquiry: “TI is 
Jeff, suh. Une’ Bill say yo’ wan’ a boy to tote yo’ rab- 
bits, an’ I cum to’ see if I will do.” 

I told Jeff that he probably would answer when I got. 
any rabbits to “tote,” and he dell in line, in the rear, and 
we moved on. : | 

The first bird was a single, which flew straight away, 
but at tremendous speed. He showed a bit mussed after 
the first, and fell dead to the second barrel at a distance 
that. would have been out of bounds in a match. 

Then an easy was missed, with both barrels: two more 
going off before I could reload. Then another single 

as found that was kind enough to fly straight, and not 
too fast, and then we could find no more of them. 

My department of the interier then admonishing me 
that at was near the noon hour, I concluded te refrain 
from further slaughter of game and viewing of scenery 
ntil after dinner, : - 
It was spare rib and back bone for dinner, and had 
not intimated that sausage was the very acme of good 
living, I would gladly try to tell how delicious they 
ere. Suffice it to say that the dinner engendered in my 
mind the wish that all of the hog not sausage could be 
back bone and spare rib. * 
The boy Jeff joined us at the kitchen, as we started 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


out after dinner, and we were soon back in the open 
working out a bit of sedge grass that promised well for 
fur. 
One rabbit was jumped as we worked up a dry branch, 
but he was on the side with the boy and offered. no 
chance for a shot, 

The old dog rustled another out of a thicket, a little 
further on, and 4s he dashed across a bit of open in the 
urass, he gave me a remote possibility which I improved, 
and then Jeff looked like he thought we were accom- 
plishing something. 

We hunted on then for quite a while without finding 
game. Clouds had begun to gather, and the short day 
bid fair to be made more short by the obscuring of the 
sun, and yet we had not found a bird. A little longer 
we worked with no change of luck, and then, concluding 
to give it up, started back toward the house. 

Passing through a field of very thick, high corn, I 
saw Jack roading some distance ahead, and working up 
to him found he was following two fine birds that had 
become separated from the covey, and were leading him 
a long distance, refusing persistently to lie. Getting 
them in line, I fired, killing them both, on the ground, 

Yes, on the ground, Potted them—nothing less. I 
did it because I feared I would not get a shot, and I 
wanted the birds. 

A few years ago a little woman made me a promise 
which, through good and evil report, through dark and 
bright days, she has kept as the martyrs of old kept the 
faith, 

I had promised to send her some birds the next morn- 
ing and needed those two to fill the quota, hence the 
necessity. To shoot a quail on the ground I deem a dis- 
grace to any sportsman. I blush for the deed but glory 
in the motive, and will do it again under like tircum- 
stances. 

One more rabbit was all we could add to our bag. I 
did not shoot him sitting. 

The Doctor was waiting by the genial log heap to 
welcome me as, tired and hungry, I reached home. 

Lewis Hopkins. 


| Sea Rack. 


In Two Parts.—Part Two. 


WE pass Cape Despair on our way to the turning point, 
Grande Riviere, and grope inward toward that harbor- 
age in the dark of the evening. Arizona and I occupy 


’ our favorite seat behind the smokestack; all the other 


Passengers are forward, singing. Then something hap- 
pens. We feel the after part of the ship lift slightly; 
there follows a grinding sound, the vessel lurches over 
to the starboard, and the engines stop. A woman 
screams. 

“Now, what does that mean?” Arizona asks quietly. 

“I fancy we are on a reef,” I answer. “You're not 
frightened, are your” . 

“Not a bit. I made up my mind: when we left Mon- 
treal that we should be drowned.” 

“Well, we’re not going to be drowned this time, for 
the shore is not half a mile from us, and we have the 
life-boats.” , 

“I saw you put your finger through the bottom of one 
of them the other day. You know they’re no good.” 

’ “We have a wooden hull under us: we can’t sink.” 

The steerage passengers come tumbling up, all talking 
at once, and evidently frightened and bewildered. We 
get up and go forward to where the cabin passengers 
stand. One woman is clinging to her husband’s arm and 
crying, “No, no, dear; stay by me!” 

“Ah’m to get ma cot (anglice coat), Ah’m tellin’ you! 
Ah’m cold!” ! | 

“No, no!” she rejoins; “you'll not be needin’ your cot. 
Stay by me!” 
aa sits down and hugs himself, his wife clinging to 
aim. 

“Sing!” a man says to his wife. 

“I couldn't!” she gasps. “I’m terribly frightened.” 
“Sing!” he says, sternly. 

She lifts a tremulous, uncertain voice, and begins 
bravely, “A Life on the Ocean Wave,” everybody joining 
in. At the end of the first stanza she is crying, and can 
sing no more, but.the other voices carry the song along. 
Then a woman’s voice, with a trace of tears in it, begins 
“Captain, Captain, Stop the Ship, I Want to Get Out 
and Walk!” That makes everybody laugh. 
the two cabin-boys, who have excellent voices, start up 
a song among the steerage passengers aft. All in all, 
it is a company of men and women to be proud of. The 
panic was only momentary; coolness and cheerfulness 
came quickly on its heels. It is so dark that we can 
see nothing but the lines of the ship itself. When the 
engines start up—we cannot tell whether they are work- 
ing forward or backward—the ship swings slowly round 
and round on her heel. The engines stop again, and 
again the ship lists over to the starboard. The reef still 
holds her fast. It takes perhaps half an hour to work her 
free—and when she is free and the anchor plunges down 
and we know we are to lie where we are for the night, 
oh, what a sensation of relief comes over us! It has 
been an exceedingly bad quarter of an hour for every 
soul on the ship, the captain included, as it seems by 
later talks, We are rolling heayily in the gulf swell as 
we turn in for the night. Everyone goes to. bed, all 
save two, it seems, who pace the deck the night through, 
too agitated for sleep. 


Next morning we go into Grande Riviere and lie up 
at the wharf, all the passengers going ashore for a ram- 
ble over the beach. From Mal Baie on, the day follow- 
ing, we have a heavy sea, and the now empty ship rolls 
and: pitches so furiously that we cannot even sit fast, 
but have te-cling to the benches for. support. We are 
bringing back some oil, but’not enough to steady us. 
Aside from the captain, two mates and two engineers, 


we have only two seamen—both the stokers haviag de- 


serted the ship. It looks like blowing big guns, and un- 
fortunately we are on a lea shore—the wickedest shore, 
too, that fancy might conceive. We long ardently for the 
quiet and the shelter of Gaspé Basin—but that is yet a 
Jong way off. We stop for an hour at St. Pierre in the 


Presently» 


3 


shelter of a-reef with a lighthouse on it, and then on 
again, St. Pierre and Mal Baie,/it séems, are French 
Protestant settlements. A girl who eoimes on board at 
St. Pierre gives us some interesting information, ‘The 
fishing all alone this coast is done under contract to 
the “merchants,” These are mainly I'renchmen from the 
Island of Jersey who own the little warehouses and most 
of the fleets. The fishermen are paid for their catch so 
much the draught—a draught being 214 pounds—and 
they in turn pay the merchants rental for boats and 
tackle. Pay takes: the form of orders on the stores— 
Which, of course, means robbery. Yet, the people are 
happy and contented, and in some degree prosperous. 
Sun-dried, or salted, fish is sold by the merchants at so 
much the quintal, ‘ 

It is an, evidence of how the ship pitches, even in the 
shelter, that a passenger who comes aboard at St. Pierre, 
is taken violently ill within ten minutes. We reach 
Gaspé Basin before midnight, aud remain there until 
the dawn. Our cook deserts us here, the grounding of 
the ship on the reef having probably unnerved him; and 
one of the cabin-boys is put into the galley in his place. 
The young man who has been our “chambermaid” so 
far, is pressed into service as a stoker, the two engi- 
neers finding it impossible to carry on the work without 
help. The remaining cabin-boy, consequently, has to 
perform the double duty of waiting on table and caring 
for the staterooms. Beatty, the steward, comes out: 
strongly, and the passengers suffer nothing in the matter 
of their material wants. 

All the passengers who came aboard at Gaspé are 
seasick, We of the older order feel consequently a 
proud complacency in our séa-legs and our great appe- 
tites. Tumbling seas, great headlands, balmy air, is the 
order of the day. It is the most leisurely ship and ship’s 
company imaginable. The captain will spend fifteen min- 
utes in towing some fisherman to a point where he can 
reach his home against the wind. We stopped for an 
hour to-day while Gordon and Duncan mended the 
winch. The handling of cargo is amusing: there isn’t 
the slightest hurry about it: time is of no consequence, 
Nobody in this country seems fo be in a hurry. . 


Sunday morning, and how-the wind blows! The ship 
labors and’ plunges, making perhaps five miles an hour. 
Mountains, crags, shaggy spruce and gray rock!—that 
is the coast. Then comes a gorge, probably marking a 
river-course, with shoulders of great hills shutting in 
the vista from the seaward—and at the foot on a little 
flat space a few white cottages with the surf leaping high 
before them. A passenger desires to land. The whistle 
blows, the engines stop, the ship beats round into the 
trough of the sea, and a speck of a boat puts off through 
the surf and struggles outward to us, shoving up the 
spritsail when clear of the white leap of the water. 
When it reaches the ship, the men are wet from head to 
foot. They lay hold of the rope which runs lengthwise 
of the ship, a line is flumg to them, down come the sprits, 
a ladder is lowered, the passenger clambers down, his 
trunk is tumbled alter him, unintelliglble adieux are 
shouted, and the engines start up again, the ship edging: 
gingerly away from a long reef which shows its teeth 
close by. At one ‘place the villagers ask the captain to 
be pleased to wait until after mass before taking their 
shipment; at another, to be good enough to attend until 
the tide shall come in and float the boats off. To neither 
of which polite requests does he accede. He, at least, 
has some remote notion that time is worth something. _ 

We discover a notable example of a Frenchman with - 
legs full of words. Two boats lie off the shore waiting 
for us, each with two barrels of oil to deliver. The cap-_ 
tain does not stop beside them, but, probably for sufh- 
cient reason, runs a little beyond. As they come toward 
us, the men laboring at the sweeps, one of them begins 
to scream abuse at-the captain. The more he screams 
and the longer he toils at his sweep, the angrier he be- 
comes; and by the time he reaches us he is beside himself 
with fury. It seems to be a very insanity of rage that 
possesses him. Never for more than a moment does the 
flow of voluble and limitless invective pause. If he should 
fall in a fit, we would not be surprised. He is the 
angriest man I ever beheld. An Anglo-Saxon chokes and 
stutters when he is angry. Language cannot express his 
feelings; they require action. The Gaul is different. The 
captain stands by the wheelhouse quite unmoved. He 
gives a quiet order to his men on the main deck. the 
result of which is that the two barrels in the quiet boat 
are taken on board, while those of the stormy boat are 
refused. When the angry man understands what has 
happened—a boat-hook carrying home the information— 
then, oh, then we hear invective to marvel at! When he 
pauses for a moment for want of breath, the captain 
shouts “‘Bow-wow!” and again, “Bow-wow!”—which 
only adds fresh fuel to the Frenchman’s wrath. Even 
after his voice will no longer carry across the distance 
which separates us, we can see that he is still screaming, 

Another day’s run and Arizona and I decide upon mak-. 
ing a jyenture landward—to wit, to lie at Sous-le-cap 
and be picked up by the Petrel on her next homeward 
trip. As we near this point, the north shore comes into 
view, a faint blue line in the far distance. The sea has 
gone down, ‘the stin is warm, the air still, and we sit on 
the hurricane deck without overcoats or wraps. I tell 
Arizona to listen to what the engines are saying to each 
other in the new quiet. One says, “Shove-her-along, 
shove-her-along;” and the other replies, “Doing-it, 
doing-it.” Arizona says that is nonsense: but she listens, 
nevertheless, and aiter a time says she can hear the 
words quite plainly. 

“Which shows,” I remark, 
such as sail the sea.” 

“You mean that I’m not telling the truth?” she asks 
indignantly. | : 

“By no means: merely that one of the engines isn’t 
—and_that the other is backing him up.’ 

It is night when we reach Sous-le-cap. -That is not the 
name of the place, but, for reasons which seem sufficient, 
I use it in preference to the.other. There is a letter on 
board addressed to Donald MclIvor; Sous-le-cap; and as 
we can get no information on the ship, we decide to fede) 
straight to thise individual and ask him where we may 
obtain accommodations. : 


“the utter mendacity of 


“He'll speak with a horrible Scotch accent that you 
could crack nuts with,” Arizona says; “but at least it 
will be English, of a sort.” 

It is a well-to-do place, apparently, with a good whari 
and a string of houses fringing the base ot the cliffs, 
The yillage proper, we are told, is on the other side of 
the cliffs, perhaps a mile away. There is actually a 
caléche in waiting when we step off the ship; and this 
we engage at once. Mustering my best imitation of 
French, I desire to be driven to the house of Mr, Donald 
Mclyor; and five minutes later, Arizona and I are clutch- 
ing each other as the caléche climbs the hill, fearing that 
at any moment both driver and horse may roll backward 
upon us. 
The descent on the other side sems like a sheer {fall 
through space, punctuated by bumps that send us clear 
of the seat. 

“Ball-and-cup!”’ I gasp. 

“Battledore and what’s-his-name!” she answers. 

“Ts it dangerous?” I cry to the driver. 

“Je m’en réponds!” he replies serenely. 

The night is dark as pitch, there is never a lamp to 
light the road, and the beast of a French pony goes down 
the hill at breakneck speed. But we get to the bottom 
at last, celebrating that fact by a bump which knocks the 
breath out of us and leaves us quite speechless for a 
moment. 

“Put up the umbrella,” Arizona says, “It’s raining.” 

“No,” I reply, “I think that is mud. Thunder of 
heaven (to the driver), look out for the mud!” 

“It is nothing, monsieur,” he says, and lays the whip 
over his pony. 

Another five minutes of bumping, swaying, and mud- 
pyrotechnics, and we are at our destination. I jump 
out and open a gate leading to a little cottage lying close 
to the water of a bay. In answer to my knock, a sub- 
'stantial matron opens the door, 

“Does Mr. McIvor live here?’ I ask. 

She says something in French, and calls to someone 
in the kitchen. ~A short.and burly man of middle age, 
in his shirt-sleeves, thereupoi appears. 

“T want to see Mr. Donald Melvor,” I say. 

“T am Donald MclIvor,” he replies in French. 

“Don't you*speak English?” = 

“Unhappily, nota word. What would monsieur wish?” 

I tell him I want board and lodging, and ask him if he 
will be good enough to direct me where to go. 
to the stout matron, his wife, who at once informs me 
that she can proyide for us, In fiye minutes Arizona and 
J are installed, having speedily come to terms with 
madame. ‘The house is a wonder of cleanness and order 
—floors coyered with strips of rag-carpet and walls 
adorned with pictures of saints. 

In the morning we are awakened by the trumpet-blast 
of a cow in the roadway. We get a vista of old trees and 
greensward through the open window, and the air is fresh 
and sweet. After breakfast our caleche driver of the 
night before appears. Monsieur and madame might like 
a drive: he knows places of ravishment—ah, heaven, yes! 

“How long a drive?” 

“All day long, if monsieur wishes. Madame Mclvor 
could put up a nice lunch in a basket.” 

“What is your name?” 

“Dugald McPherson.” 

“Do you speak English?” 

“Ah, unhappily, no!” But then monsieur speaks the 
French so perfectly!” 

I retire to the kitchen and consult the mistress. In ten 
minutes Arizona and I are in the caléche with provisions 
enough under the seat for a party of six. It is a wonder- 
ful drive, Great hills, mighty mountains, stretches of 
valley dotted by quiet homesteads. Every farmhouse has 
its garden of old-fashioned Howers—peony, dahlia, lark- 
spur, hollyhock, poppy, sunflower, sweetpea, nasturtium, 
geranium, mignonette—and the roadway is lined with 
color; pigeonberry, bluebell; columbine, blueberry, mus- 
tard, wild sweetpea, marguerite, buttercup, everlasting, 
Canada thistle, blooms of purple, of yellow, of red, of 
blue. Quaint farmhouses, some of them thatched, 
everyone with its out-of-doors oven of stone and clay, 
and everyone with a dog on the doorstep, little and fat 
and of no possible breed, either too lazy or too polite 
to bark. We catch a glimpse of an interior here and there, 
one big room taking up the whole of the ground plan. 
with two huge four-poster bedsteads, a stove almost as 
huge, spinning-wheels and cloth-looms. 


The road we follow is something to make one’s hair 
rise—straight up a mountain and straight down again, 
with scarce a point of vantage to hold by and take breath. 
The little Canadian pony, sure-footed as a goat, picks his 
way down slowly and surely, looking a little bunch of 
chestnut beneath us. When he is well down, with only 
a hundred yards or so of hill left, he lifts his pretty little 
head, straightens his strong little back, and is off like a 
stone from a catapault. It is a veritable flight, exhilarat- 
ing, alarming, something to be boasted about and avoided 
in time to come. Two minutes later we are at the foot 
of another huge hill; the driver and I jump out, Arizona 
crotiches at the bottom of the caléche, the pony humps 
his back and puts his head down, and the climb begins. 
It is almost sickening to look back and think what might 
happen if the pony balked under his task. But he never 
flinches for a moment. He is all courage and strength 
and kindness. Half way up, the driver halts him and 
we stand on the forward spokes of the wheels to hold 
the caléche. When at last we reach the top, horse and 
men are sorely blown, and Arizona is laughing. Then 
I pick a great handful of blueberries and hold them under 
the little animal’s pendulous lips, and stand talking to 
him while he gratefully slobbers them. Occasionally he 
makes a lower sweep with his under lip and embraces 
a finger of two—but he never bites. At the next summit 
he looks round for his English friend who speaks such 
droll French and provides such delectable druit—and I 
am there, ready for him. ~ 

Everything is made on a grand scale. Nature is in a 
heroic mood here—nothing in little, everything huge. 
Beetling crags, mountains running away into dim blue 
lines, ridge above ridge; great wide valleys, so wide that 
at last the eye will no longer focus anything before the 
lift of the next mountain begins. And oh, the wonderful 
stillness of the forest! No birds, nothing but the low, 


But it is nothing to that which is to come. . 


He turns ~ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


intense hum of insect life and the Occasional chatter of 
an indignant squirrel. Spruce, juniper, birch; rocks and 
moss and fern—and a big, palpitating stillness! 

Home again to the sweet-smelling, quiet house! How 
these French Canadians love flowers! Flowers every- 
where, within and without, making a glory of color and 
smell. And the manners of the people! Nothing in our 
experience is quite so soothing and caressing as their way 
with us. They are amiable over faulty arti@les, muddled 
genders and moods and tenses grown worse confounded. 
It is always, “Monsieur speaks maryelously’’—which 
might be construed into a biting sarcasm if the dear, 
primitive, simple souls were not too kind and innocent 
tor sarcasm. the household library consists. of La 
Sainte-Catherine, Saint-Antoine de Padoue, and two. or 
three Government books on agriculture and unclaimed 
bank balances—not an. extensive list nor a wildly ex- 
hilarating one. 

“You pay compliments like a Frenchwoman,” [ say to 
Mrs. McIvor. 

“I am not a Frenchwoman,’ 
am a Canadian.” 

Donald MclIvor's notions of materia medica are novel 
and interesting. For asthma, cut a lengthwise slit in 
the skin of the upper arm and slip in a green pea. After 
the wound is healed and the pea safely embedded in the 
tissues, exemption from asthma for the rest of one’s days 
follows. For rheumatism, a mixture of good whisky 
and soap—but whether to be taken internally or other- 
wise, I fail to clearly understand. Ice to the head in 
sickness produces a rush of blood, and always results 
fatally. Donald has buried three wives by that misad- 
yenture, and js im a position to speak with authority. 
Mustard to the feet, on the other hand, equalizes the 
flow of blood, and generally saves the patient. 

It is delicious to wake and listen to the quiet. At the 
foot of the garden is a stretch of twenty miles of salt 
water, sending up a gentle murmur like the distant rustle 
of silk. A cow trumpets in the faraway, and the crows 
over in the cottonwoods hold early mass. Faint odors 
float in from the garden. There is just enough of chill 
in the air to make one appreciate good, thick blankets. 
Clear, bright sunshine announces the advent of another 
perfect day. 


, 


she responds quickly; “‘I 


After breakfast we are off ior a walk down the road. 
How courteous the people are! Not servile at all, but 
just innately polite. The men, slouching along, pipe in 
mouth, step aside to let us pass. e ery bon jour to 
a boy and he plucks off his cap and makes us a handsome 
bow. They are, for the most part, swarthy-skinned and 
good-looking people, notably clean. A literal people, 
as we have discovered—so matter-of-fact that it is danger- 
ous to yenture a joke with them. One of them was tell- 
ing me of a wonderful catch of cod, and I smiled and said 
if any other than he had told me, I might have been skep- 
tical, for fishermen were proverbial liars. The poor man 
Was qttite overborne by the imputation. He protested, 
he smote his breast, he called the saints to witness. His 
earnest gravity made me grave, as his urgency made mé 
ashamed. I felt my levity to have been misplaced. It 
was like being rebuked by a child. 

Now, here is the history, in little, of Sous-le-cap. A 
Highland regiment was disbanded here a hundred and 
fifty years ago, and the colonel was given all the land 
from a certain river to the sea—a huge tract—and was 
known thereafter as the Seigneur. His followers married 
French Canadian women and settled down as his tenants, 
paying hiin twenty cents an arpent per annum as rent. 


-Under the old English principle of primogeniture and 


entail, this great tract descended through many genera- 
tions without being parcelled; and most of it is still so 
held by the present day Seigneur. And the old rental 
of twenty cents the arpent—certainly not an exorbitant 
price for such fat land—surviyes as well. Yet, human 
nature being what it is, there are not wanting those who 
ery the Seigneur a greedy rackrent. One woman whis- 
pers to me that he is known as Mange-le-monde, having 
fully earned that title by a lifetime of rapacity. He will 
have his twenty cents! Think of it! ' 

The tide is out, and Arizona and I are standing on 
the beach looking up at the crags. While we are still 
looking, we discover that the tide has turned and 
hemmed us in on both sides—so swift and stealthy is the 
sea. It is coming in like a millrace now, eating up the 
beach in huge mouthfuls, as a hungry boy eats a coolkcy. 
For twenty feet above+us, the rocks are covered with 
slime, marking the height of the tide, 

“We'll have to climb the rocks,” Arizona says, quite 
calmly, ‘‘and they look slippery.” 

We hurry along the beach to where a jagged point of 
rock comes down into the sea. It is covered with 
bushy, slimy seaweed and a peculiar submarine plant 
which looks like the claws of a hen’s foot, each claw full 
of water—certainly the maximum of-“‘slitheriness.”’ 

“Tt’s sheer cliff beyond this,’ I say, “a hundred feet 
high, and a cat couldn’t climb it.” 


“Well,” she responds, “we've just got to climb it.” 

She puts her foot into the slither and goes through it 
without a slip; but I, being of clumsier build and any- 
thing but sure-footed, come presently down on all-fours, 
and perform the rest of the transit much as a seal or a 
loén might—utterly without dignity. Then we come to 
a perpendicular wall of rock. Arizona finds a crevice 
to put a toe into and a shrub to hold by, and the next 
thing I know she is ten feet above me, lying on a ledge 
of rock and laughing. JI scramble after as best I can, 
using what strength I have in lieu of the agility I lack. 
Tn a few minutes we have got beyond the slither. but are 
still in a position much better fitted for a goat than man. 
The tide has completely covered our spur of rock and is 
mounting rapidly—but we are heyond its reach. We 
cling to jagged rocks and bits of bush, moving an inch 
or two at a time, and going higher and higher. At last 
we come to a foot-wide ledge slanting gradually upward, 
and upon this move in easier posture; but it is terrifying 
to look down and realize what one false step might mean. 
After a time we come to a little level space ‘upon which 
Arizona throws herself. 

“T feel seasick,” she. says. 


[JAN. 4, 1902, 


* 


“You are a wonder of courage,” I answer. “TI was 
half afraid the whole time. 

“And I was wholly afraid. I fancied you slipping over 
every minute and being dashed to death on the rocks.” 

‘We reach the summit at last, and lie there in the quiet 
which comes after danger. From out a clump of scrub, 
two keen eyes regard us—the eyes of a hawk. 

One day Arizona says, “I want to get good and lost. 
Let's strike into the forest anywhere and see what hap- 
pens to us.” 


We follow a deep-rutted wagon trail leading upward to 
the woodland, and when we reach the outskitts, sit in the 
shade to rest. A charrette, drawn by an ancient horse 
and directed by a small boy, presently coming up with 
us, Arizona climbs in and I take tp the march by the 
roadside. The boy is going to where some woodcutters 
are at work, perhaps a mile up the mountain. When he 
reaches his destination, we leave him and, following a 
path, continue up the mountain. When we are far from 
the woodcutters, the path dwindles into nothingness; and 
we have to prospect for another. That found, we follow 
it blindly, sometimes having to creep on hands and 
knees to get through. It is a-dark and inexpressibly silent 
forest—a forest without end, seemingly. Where the trail 
ends, we grope for another. After a time, we have com- 
pletely lost our bearings, with nothing but the slope of 
the mountain to guide us. Once, when Arizona is far 
ahead of me, I having stopped to fill and light my pipe, 
I catch the faint sound of another footfall, and shout to 
her to stand where she is and wait. Just as I catch up 
with her, a big man with an axe in his hands comes 
through the bush to where she is standing. “Gracious!” 
she says afcerward, “I was terrified when I saw that 
man!” He is a good-looking, gentle-faced fellow, who 
touches his cap to us and answers all my stumbling ques- 
tions obligingly. But he does not throw much light on 
the vital question of where we are. We leave him and go 
on, following a path which runs snakewise, to end after 
a furlong or so in nothingness, like all the othérs. These 
innumerable, criss-cross forest paths suggest just one 
thing—the runways of animals. A path made by the foot 
of man would inevitably lead somewhere: these lead no- 
where. The forest is netted with them. They are like 
the mesh of aspider’s web—bar the regularity. 

“Observe,” I say to Arizona, “that we have seen no ani- 
mals; and yet these paths are not of man’s making, Do 
you suppose for a moment that no animals have seen 
ust We are watched by a dozen sharp eyes this very 
instant—eyes that hate us and fear us.” 

“Don't be horrid!” Arizona says. “Think how we are 
to get out. We are completely lost.” 

“Good and lost, you mean.” 

“It doesn’t seem so much of a joke, now. What are 
we to do? If we could see the sun, I believe we'd find 
it setting. It’s only twilight in here and we can’t see 
five yards in any direction. I’d hate to have to spend the 
night in this dreadful place. There isn’t even a bird to 
be friendly with—nothing but nasty eyes looking at us 
that we can’t see.” : 

“If we follow only paths leading downward, we are 
bound to get out,’ I say comfortingly. “Come along.” 

Another prospecting search and we find adownwardtrail. - 
Following that for perhaps half a mile, we discover that 
it is again taking us upward. We abandon it at once, 
and grope for another. Little by little we work’ down- 
ward, constantly at fault, but never abandoning the gen- 
eral plan. At last we strike upon a wagon trail which 
ultimately carries us clear of the forest and sets us upon 
our homeward way. I-look at my watch. We have been 
good-and lost for something oyer three hours. 

There is so much to interest and delight us in quaint 
Sous-le-cap that time slips by unnoticed, and the Petrel 
comes in sight on another homeward voyage all too soon. 
We know half the people of the village—the dear, simple 
French folk with the Scottish names—and it is like part- 
ing with litelong friends to leave them. But, alas, our 
holiday is ended! The Petrel carries us. laboring sorely 
with the river current, to Montreal. From that we strike 
into Vermont, and so homeward to New Yorl:, the heat 
intensifying with every mile. We feel as though we were 
creeping into a furnace, and when the Grand Central 
Station is reached, that the furnace door has slammed shut 
upon us. WILLIAM Epwarp AITKEN. 


A Winter Picnic. 


A friend from Princeton, this State, just called and 
described a picnic he and his wife enjoyed yesterday on 
the banks of a frozen lake. 

“We had the surrey hitched up, put in a small camping 
kit, took with us some provisions, put in a long, wide 
strip of canvas, a pair of heavy blankets for ‘the horses, 
and stuffing a handline and hooks into my pocket, we 
were off for Spectacle Lake. 

“Tt was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed the ride over 
the hard, smooth roads immensely. Arrived at the lake 
the horses were unhitched and snugly blanketed and led 
into a prottcting growth of jack pine. 

"The canvas was tied around the three sides of the 
surrey, leaving the opening to face the fire I was to build 
from convenient logs on the edge of the lake. 

“The fire started slowly, but when the logs caught 
fairly the glow from same extended to the canyas covered 
surrey, making it as warm as one’s sitting room at home. 

“T built a small cooking fire, cut through the ice and 
dipped out enough water to fill the coffee-pot. I turned 
the making of the coffee over to my wife, and baiting my 
hook with some salt pork I sallied out upon the ice, and 
in a few moments had a hole cut and my bait im Strike 
number one and strike number two resulted in sufficient 
bass for our dinner. I scaled and prepared them on the 
spot, and soon had them frving in the skillet with some 
salt pork. aaa 

“Adjourning to the surrey, we enjoyed our fried bass 
and hot coffee, with further trimmings brought from 
home, and were as happy and comfortable as if the birds 
were singing and the water rippling upon the beach— 
with the thermometer 75 degrees in the shade, 

“And if next Sunday is bright and clear we will try it 
again.” 


again,” _ CHARLES CRISTADORO. 


| 


| Jan. 4, 1962,] 


Rab. 


“T am a son of Mars, ; 

Who have fought in many wars; 

And I show my cuts and sears 

- Wherever I come, 

This here was for a wench, 

And this was in a trench, 

While welcoming the French 
To the sound of the drum.” 


- 


—Burns, 


In the garden, under the hollyhocks, lies the mortal 
part of a noble fellow and gentleman; I say mortal part 
advisedly, for I am persuaded he had another part which 
Somewhere still lives. He was a Scotchman, of the clan 
Collie, and he carried in his small body the heart of 


‘Bruce—the heart of Bruce, of which we read: 


“But thicker, thicker grew the swarm, 

DS And sharper shot the rain; 

And the horses reared amid the press, 
But they would not charge again. 


“Then in the stirrups up he stood, 
So lion-like and bold, 

And held the precious heart aloft 
All in its case of gold. 


‘He flung it from him far ahead, 
And never spake he more, 

But—‘Pass thee first, thou dauntless heart, 
As thou wert wont of yore.*” 


: He came to us a six weeks’ old puppy, white and 
Heecy as the lambs he was designed by nature to protect. 
rom the first discipline sat ill upon him, It was hard 
for him to “mind.” Even when years and experience hid 
aught him the comfort and wisdom of compliance and 
the general futility of resistance, he obeyed—when he had 
ito—with protesting shakes of his head and squirmings 
of his body, eloquent of his aversion to authority, It was 
hard for his proud and stubborn spirit to do even what 
e wanted to, provided he was bidden to it. 

He had his “ways.” He would. never eat from a 
strangers hand, nor away from home, nor, if he could 
help it, anything but meat. He wanted that cooked and 
cut fine, and he invariably left the last-piece on the 
plate. He was given to taking solitary strolls, calling on 
children with whom he had a playing acquaintance within 
‘radius of a half-mile from home, but for the most part 
ursuing his way with dignity and with no object appar- 
ent to the rest of us. If by chance he met any of his 
olks on these occasions he recognized them by a slight 
rooping of the ears and a faint smile, but at once re- 
sumed. the stern austerity of mien which he carried at 
such times and went on, paying no further attention to 
them. We never knew on what high design his soul 
Was bent.. Sometimes he would disappear for several 
days, and would give no explanation of his absence on 
his return, He never explained nor asked permission. 
He did what seemed best to him and let it go at that. 
[After a while we ceased to expect an explanation. Some- 
fimes, after these absences, friends would tell of visits 
paid by him during them, but he never told. Once he 
came home with a bullet hole through his leg, and held 
ip the leg to be bathed and dressed. We always thought 
he got this wound during one of his frequent courtships, 
for he was an ardent and persistent wooer, and fre- 
quently received unmistakable tokens of disapproval 
from the families of his inamoratas. 

He did not care much for bones, but génerally carried 
lem. a quarter of a mile away, to his private burial 
ground, down by the bridge over the mill ditch. We 
never knew that he afterward exhumed and utilized them. 
Ii not, there must have been a canine Klondike there 
or several years. He always walked when performing 
his rite, as burial processions should, slowly and sol- 
lemnly, and ii detected and called to, returned and de- 
posited the bone in the yard and thenceforth ignored it. 
If anything could have endeared him to the family 
imore than his general virtues and conduct did, it was 
his objections to my violin playing. As was character- 
stic, he met trouble more than hali way, came and lay 
Hdown by the music stand, squinted, wrinkled his face, 


intolerable, went out in the yard, to remain till the dread- 
jul noises were over. Chords seemed to annoy him most. 
e enjoyed a high reputation as a musical critic with 
he rest of the family. 
Generally he was serious minded, but’a spirit of droll- 
sometimes possessed him when, if he thought he was 
plone, he gave way to strange, whimsical antics, more 
kitten than dog-like, and emitted odd little sounds, in- 
Wvented to express his mood. His eyes were all black, 
ithout visible pupils, sober and softly luminous, except 
nexcitement. His coat was creamy white, except on the 
Wback and tail, where it shaded into seal brown. A 
reature of protider and more. gallant bearing never trod. 
Like Spartacus, for twelve long years he faced every 
orm of man or beast his experience could furnish, and 
never yet turned tail except to the pig. Pigs are scarce 
where he lived, and he flushed his first pig in the swamp 
grass. She was a sow with a litter of little pigs, and we 
considered it no shame that he bolted out of the swamp 
ith every bristle as erect as the sow’s own. Once in 
Bhe open, where he could inspect the new, uncanny, 
moisome beast, his self-possession promptly returned. 
We never heard of his hurting a cat, but he despised 
ind laved to tree them. One evening in the dusk I saw 
3 kitten in the road in front of me, and spoke kindly to 
{, advancing with intent to pet it. Fortunately he came 
p, the kitten vanished in the grass and away they went 
in wild flight and pursuit toward the lake. When he 
came home a half hour afterward it was instantly ap- 
sarent that he had overtaken the kitten and that it had 


ot very well skin him nor bury him. Besides I owed 
aim_a large debt of gratitude. So we took him out to 
the barn, soaped and scrubbed him, put cologne on’ him 
Jind did all we could to forget about it, with slowly in- 
#reasing success as time wore cn. ‘But eighteen months 
Afterward, whenever he had a warm bath, the faint, sweet 
Yagrance. of the skunk exhaled anew. My Welsh neigh- 
bor was not so fortinate’as 1. He petted his skunk, and 


shuddered, groaned, whined, and when it became wholly, - 


arned out to be an undomiesticated polecat. We could © 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


had to attend the Eisteddfodd in his old clothes, his 
wife haying buried the others in the garden, 

The great storm of 1806, that swept from British 
Columbia to the Carribbean Sea, came up, and for the 
share of our household blew down a chimney. His 
mistress was alone in the house, with no help within 
call, While the storm bellowed outside, the fames burst 
out and the smoke rolled through the house he stayed 
right beside her, looking up in her face with love and 
sympathy, encouraging her with his courage, his “daunt- 
less heart” unmoyed by the fire, so terrible to beasts. 
When the danger was over shc wet his coat with her 
tears, and often afterward declared that but for him she 
would have given up the effort to save the house. 

Our affairs were his affairs, aur friends his friends, our 
enemies his also. When we were sad he was sorry, and 
when we were glad his spirits rose too. Whatever we did 
he stood beside, and his eager little soul shared in it. 
And now he lies asleep under the hollyhocks we had to 
plant over again because in his dissatisfaction he ex- 
humed them when they ‘were planted first. 

Dear, proud, stubborn, whimsical, provoking little 
friend! Is that the last of him? When the light died out 
of his beautiful eyes, was the brave and tender soul ex- 
tinguished too? When his loying, faithful heart stopped 
beating, did the life and spirit go out like the candle 
in the wind? 

The liar, the hypocrite, the traitor, the false friend, the 
coward, the sneak, the selfish, the cruel, the ungrateful, 
the malicious, the mean, the ignoble, the idle, the petty, 
the sordid, the nasty, the worthless—all the vile of 
human kind, shall they have life immortal? But my 
loyal little lion-heart, who lived his life nobly, simply and 
naturally, who never had a mean thought nor did a 
vile thing, who was in all ways a credit to the Hand that 
made him—was his short life the end of him? 

Epwin WHITEHEAD, 


A Walk Down South.—xX. 


In one book and another one reads about Bedford, Pa. 
Ags Raystown it was noted for Indian scares and mas- 
sacres; during the whisky rebellion Bedford was promi- 
nent; later bandits, counterfeiters, the Underground Rail- 
road and John Brown’s Raid contributed to its court and 
other records. But not until I was in the place did I 
realize that my route led into stich a nest of the remark- 
able. I was hunting for a story about certain negroes 
before the war—not the least exciting sport. I found 
traces of it inside of five minutes after I entered the 
place. My pack came off and the search for history 
began. One trail took me to Judge Longnecker, and a 
right, happy lead this was, for both the Judge and his 
son came as near being old friends and acquaintances as 
could well be, for persons I never met before. They 
have the Forest aANp STREAM regtilarly. 

Old newspaper files was one branch that had to be 
searched. It was curious to read under the head of “A 
Sad Accident,” “A Melancholy Tragedy,” etc., how in the 
1820's, 730’s and ’40’s, this and that man shot his dearest 


friend mistaking him for a deer or bear; how the did-not- _ 


know-it-was-loaded contingent blew the heads off sisters 
and parents, and how the careless man sent himself out 
of the world cleaning loaded weapons. It was plain to see 
that the breechloader hasn’t all the blame attached to it 
for foolishness. 

Being papers published far back in the woods, there 
were items in which wild beasts played an important part. 
“The editor” ate pieces of bear and deer venison killed by 
esteemed fellow townsmen. Of women who slew bears, 
catamounts and wildcats with axes in the hen coops there 
were a plenty. The ’coon hunters then, as now, made 
strange discoveries—skeletons in trees, dens of counter- 
feiters, and (in some remote State), pots of gold and 
precious stones. Fa 

Of snake stories there were many. One monster rep- 
tile was the “largest that ever crossed the pike,” judging 
by the trail he left, at least in printer’s ink. Also the 
wicked glitter of snakes’ eyes had its attractions and 
fascinations then, as now; birds fell helpless before it, 
squirrels behaved in agitated fashion finder its influence, 
and men, even editors, were strangely moved by the “aw- 


- ful electricity.” 


Bedford has not got over its sporting days yet. Two 
masked robbers boarded a railroad train near there a 
while ago, and tried to rob the paymaster, The paymaster 
shot one of them dead; the other escaped. The dead man 
was a negro resident of the town. When the negro’s 
father heard of it, he said: 

“That yer learned Bill a good lesson.” 

The hunt for the other robber was an exciting one. A 
man was captured at last and put on trial in the Novem- 
ber term of the U. S. Court at Bedford. The trial was 
the chief topic of conversation during my stay at Bed- 
ford. I saw later by the paper that the man was con- 
victed and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment. 

*Coon hunting is Bedford’s favorite sport. One story 
JT heard seemed unusual. A party of eight hunters and 
several dogs went out on Will’s Mountain last (1900) fall. 
They carried bottles of whisky, considering that a neces- 
sity. They were joined by a man whose bottle was larger 
than theirs, and who drank more in proportion, Early in 
the night this man became well nigh helpless, A long 
rope which had served as a dog chain was tied around 


his neck and the others in the party took turns in leading ~ 


him. They started game, and all hands ran down the 
mountain in pursuit. The incline was steep. Suddenly 
one man shot out into space with a yell of, horror. Then 
there was a loud splash below somewhere. The others, 
unable to stop, followed after. The one who was towing 
the ninth man succeeded in stopping at the brink, but he 
was pushed over the edge by the lunger in the rear. That 
was only a brook. All got out safely, then went back in 
to find a missing bottle. Then everybody gave chase 
again, but to find the ‘coon was difficult, especially with 
one man so helpless that he had to be carried at the last. 
They came to a deep mill pond, and there they gave out. 
They could carry the man no further. To leave him 
where he was would bé almost murder, for he would 
probably wander down grade into the water and drown- 
A consultation was held, Many expedients were pro- 
posed. Then one suggested a scheme. It was acted: 
upon. The rope that was fast to the man’s neck was 


himself after hours 


of work and much loud language. This is a favorite 


story ape! the seen hunters. 
eer are hunted over setters, which point t 
Bedford shooters. In practically no athe: Rea taeee 
Be legally killed in Pennsylyania. The still-huntér must 
The a es Bet his Pace in the Tegions through 
Enis SE eae ery tew deer are in the immediate 
Sn a morning, Noy. 
sear or data, I left my pack in the village: - 
ved bay my camera and some extra films, oF ine eet 
ay ceene The difference between walking unladen 
wae Saye a was vast. In the first hour I made five 
road, a flock of what I took to be turt 5 
tree, and that the hi I 
ceedinely beautiful, 
1s not possible to describe the variou: S 
oe roads I followed. Literally at every vaten the ire 
changes—and oftener. One’s mood has much to do with 
it. The brightest, balmiest sun will not enlighten a dull 
mind or fill hungry stomach, nor does a driving mist 
decrease the pleasure of my tramping if only there is no 
wore I find that I worry most when I am. hungriest, but 
such worries usually prove to be imaginary when analyzed 
_The most striking feature of the Pennsylvania I saw 
was the long ridges. They reach away for mile after mile 
and engross Ones attention almost from morning. till 
night, Everything else has to give way to them. It is 
with difficulty that one glances to the teflections in 
streams, to the individual trees, or to details of any sort 
from the great masses which lead the gaze-up and on to 
the blue and misty distances. I have found myself off 
the roadway more than once simply because I saw nothing 
else but the long, brown mountains, The temptation to 
climb them and follow along the backbone is always 
present. Where the road does not give a view of one of 
these ridges, it is like discovering the loss of a compass 
back in unknown woods. With such constant guides as 
the Bald Eagle Ridge and Wills Mountain to keep me 
right, the occasional necessity of looking at a signboard 
pak mh of a ad makes a chuckle come. The sign- 
Seems so sma insignifi ; 
eae ass rn hoe insignificant when compared 
went from Bedford to Cessna over the same 
came im on. At Cessna I saw the old woman ree aad 
I was big enough to work, and saw her husband, who did 
not nod to me till he looked back into the kitchen, like a 
boy about to do some forbidden thing. I turned to the 
left at the tree-sheltered, frame schoolhouse. and walked 
rapidly along a valley side hill road toward Fishertown. 
A man that I overtook was a hog-sticker on his way to a 
farm, where he had some large shoats to kill, For killing 
and cutting up a pig he received 50 cents, and in the 
course of a day he killed from five to seven animals. He 
Was 4 soft-yoiced man, who looked far away when he 
spoke. He reminded me of a butcher up in the Adiron- 
dacks, who said he felt ashamed every time he killed a 
lamb, but took comfort from the numbers of tough old 
bulls he’d slaughtered. 
The little brook near which the road tan, was ice-scaled 
at every dead water, and the distant hilltops showed a cov- 
ering of snow. The report of a gun told of a hunter 


abroad. It Was ten miles to Fishertown and five miles 
to Pleasantville. A couple®of miles short of the - 
latter place I ate dinner in a big brick farm- 


house, and then went up on a ridge, according to direc- 
tions, to follow a stony woods road for a mile to save a 
mile walk around the foot of the elevation. 

At Pleasantville Morris Walker, whose father, Old 
Benny Walker, kept a station on the Underground Rail- 
toad before the Civil War, remembered a couple of stories 
of the sort I was after, and said it was no use to go over 
the Alleghany range to Somerset county, as I wanted to 
do, if 1t was worth while, 

Walker said that turkey hunting would be good as soon 
as the snow drove them off the mountains, but as yet 
the birds had not put in an appearance. The film of snow 
a few days before had not showed the track of one of 


Ce near Pleasantville, so far as the hunters could 
nd. 


I returned to Fishertown and stopped at Azariah Black- 
burne’s house for the night. He is an old Quaker with a 
wonderful memory as to dates and events. On my way 
through in the morning I had seen him. When I returned 
at night he had several tales to tell of events in the 1840's 
which he had recalled. 

On the following morning I started for Bedford, but 
Squire Penrose, at the cross roads a few rods on my 
way, said I ought to see two men at Schellsburg, ten 
miles off my road. I went to Schellsburg, seeing a fine 
farm country with too many brick houses on the way. 
Neither of the men I wanted to see was in town, but 
by chance I was able to go through five years of a news- 
paper file beginning in 1819, so the extra walk was not 
wasted effort. Incidentally, I heard of three other pedes- 


. trians—two men and a woman—who had wagered that 


they could walk from some New England town to San 
Francisco and pay nothing for their keep. They were 
“dressed spick and span,” the woman who kept the inn 
at Schellsburg said, and carried canes. She suspected 
that the one in dresses was a man, so garbed that sym- 
pathy might be excited toward them. They got nothing 
there—and said it was the first place they had been treated 
thus and so. One of the county commissioners at Bedford 
gave them a great “send-off” I learned later. The long 
pikes and fine roads of southern Pennsylvania are favor- 
ite thoroughfates of pedestrians, But those who ride 
bicycles enjoy life better in that region. 

At 3 P. M. I left Schellsburg for Bedford, nine miles 
away, along a macadamized road. The views were the 
finest I have seen anywhere since I started, on a similar 
length of road. I stopped on every elevation to look back 
at the snow-covered Alleghanies, and to look along every 
line of the compass. In no direction was there anything 
to give one a setise of disappointment, Even the tele- 
graph and telephone lines in sight did not seem to mar 
the beauty, why, some one else will have to figure out, un- 


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less their hill-climbing feats made the poles serve as 
measuring rods by which the vastness. of the country could 
be scaled, 

The pike led through gaps, over ridges, along side- 
hills, sometimes close to woods of pine and oak, but ustu- 
ally far from! them. I stopped at one place to take a 
photograph—it was an odd streak of luck, for that pic- 
ture, I learned later, was from Tull’s Hill, at the foot of 
which a family of ten or eleyen persons were massacred in 
1778 by the Indians. 

had gone only four or five miles when a man in a 
carriage came along, and for the first time since I started 
from Northwood was I reluctant to take a ride. It was a 
fine walking day, and if I had followed my feelings I 
would have walked clear into Bedford. It seemed best, 
however, to make haste, so I rode, 

My route from Bedford south was down the road to 
the Bedford Springs, the summer resort. The old mill 
where John Brown held his meeting before starting south 
to disaster at Harper’s Ferry was the first place of in- 
terest to me. The location, at the bottom of a wooded 
yalley beside a rippling stream, was fit for historic asso- 
ciations. The long hillside hotel a few rods further on 
was not obtrusive. Only one person was there. He 
was the caretaker. I asked him if the mill I had seen 
was the one where John Brown had been. He said he 
didn’t know, but nothing of that sort had occurred in his 
time. It seemed that old John Brown and James 
Buchanan, the most notable visitors at Bedford Springs, 
must have lived in vain if they depended on summer re- 
sorts to preserve the memory of their deeds. 

The road forked at the upper end of the hotel grotinds 
and I turned to the left there, and for miles went up 
Shover’s Valley. This was once a runway of escaped 
slaves. They came to “Virginia,” a freed slave settlement 
up on the side of Evitt’s Mountain, then over to Fisher- 
town, the Quaker settlement, and on to Old Benny 
Walker's. In the valley many slaves were recaptured 
and carried back, shackled in wagons. The stories of 
those days may still be heard from the old gray-bearded 
men, but the younger generations know little of them— 
“St was before their time,’ and usually they don’t care 
what happened then, 

Many of the freed negroes have moved away. More 
than 350 are buried on Eviti’s Mountain in two ceme- 
teries. But their old log cabins, put up without a plumb 
line, and merely guided by a sense of the square, still 
stand, some with white occupants, some vacant. At one 
of the former there was a man stretching a raccoon’s skin 
on a board, He said he “treed it the night before.” 

Apple growers are covering the farms there with 
orchards which give the valley a wilder appearance than 
its reality warrants. Some of the farms are posted against 
trespassers of the hunter sort. At intervals along the 
road there are openings through which one sees the 
valley, beautiful as nature and suggestive of its romantic 
history—suggestive of the old-time fugitives from in- 
justice—and, from justice as well, for counterfeiters, 
highwaymen and horse thieves once dwelt there at inter- 
vals during their extraordinary careers. 

At 3 P. M. 1 was past the head of Shover’s Run, The 
road ran up grade a little steeper than heretofore. Sud- 
denly, as I walked into a patch of woods, the grade 
turned. The next instant I sat down on a log. I was at 
the top of another divide. Behind me was the Juniata 
and Susquehanna watershed; before me was the Potomac. 
The thought made me breathe as fast as if I had been run- 
ning a race—and the sensation was very much as if I 
had won it. Nevertheless, as I went on for a mile 
further, the down grade was not so steep as that my spirit 
followed. The change was due to the reaction, I suppose. 

Five miles further on Ipcame to Centerville, and re- 
mained there all night. Some bad men lived there once, 
but “they are dead now; let by-gones be forgotten,” as I 
was told, I left there on the following day, wondering 
how much of local history has been written here and there 
on the same principle. 

The weather had been’ growing colder, and as I started 
away from Centerville, gray clouds were driving over 
from the northeast, Occasionally a dash of sleéty rain 
fell, but it was not at all a hard day to travel, the roads be- 
ing hard. At 10 o'clock it began to snow quite hard, By 
noon 1 was wet from the hips down, while the ground was 
covered and white. I stopped at a farmhouse about noon. 
It proved to be the post office of Hale. _A marriage near 
by was the leading topic of conversation. A girl had 
advertised for a lover, got one and agreed to marry him 
before she saw him. Three days after he appeared she 
wedded him. That was something for the region to 
remember and to discuss. } 

When I started on again the snow was still falling, but I 
enjoyed the experience in spite of the physical discomfort 
due to wet and wind, comparing myself somewhat con- 
ceitedly to the wandering winds and the driven clouds. 

At 1:35 o'clock P. M. I crosed the Maryland-Pennsyl- 
vania line. Somehow the notion had taken root in my 
mind that Maryland would be warm and balmy when I 
got to it. As a matter of fact, there was an inch and a 
half of snow on the ground, and whenever I stopped to 
rest I shivered with theswind—blown cold in less than a 
minute, In this fashion did dreams of Dixie’s Land fail in 
the realization. I stopped about two miles from Cumber- 
land under a ledge of rocks beside the toad, buried my 
~ feet in the dry leaves there and wrote in my notebook : 

“T am far from home. Wet, cold, with catarrh coming 
on. Stiff-fingered. A northeast rain and snowstorm. 
walk with rubber blanket over my head—keeps me partly 
dry at least. I am pretty tired and a bit homesick,” With 
such feelings as these words indicate I entered the South- 
ern States. RAYMOND S. SPEARS. 


New Jersey Export Fines. 


Two New Jersey sportsmen, August Reinhold and 
Joseph G, Walling, of Keyport, went shooting on Christ- 
mas, and bagged fourteen quail and three rabbits. On Fri- 
day of last week they set out for New York with the game 
to present to friends in! the city, Game Warden C. M. 
Hawkins arrested them as they were boarding the ferry 
boat, and before a Jersey City justice of the peace pre- 
ferred against them a charge of violating the non-export 
law. They were fined $20 each. 


All communications~intended for Forest anp Stzeam should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
wot to any individual connected with the paper. 


Blatuyal BGistory. 


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A Squirrel Friend of Mine. 


Traps and gtins, swords, sticks, darts and rocks, 
things innumerable, are employed in the hunting, bring- 
ing down and catching of game, big and little, but the 
average hunter does not go after squirrels with nothing 
but his rapid feet to pursue and his bare hands to 
secure them. 

In the spring of '99, while driving in Kansas with my 
husband, we had reached a stretch of prairie road, skirted 
on either side by rows of cottonwoods, planted in early 
days, for the Kansas upland is by nature unwooded. As 
we drove on, a little fox squirrel darted across the road. 

“Hold the horses,” said my husband, “that is a 
young fellow, I can catch him.” j 

And he did. He got the little frightened creature 
cornered in a pile of leaves, down branches and other 
rubbish, and soon brought him to the carriage. He gave 
him to me, with instructions to cuddle him in my lap 
under the robe, and assured me that he would soon 
grow quiet. 

After a few moments of nervous energy, expended in 
trying to get away, he went to sleep and did not awake 
until we reached home. He was so young that it re- 
quired but a few days of petting and feeding to make 
a bold, saucy chap-of him. He was not only one of the 
family, but the one of the family. We gave him the 
ten-roomed house for a cage, and he proceeded to keep 
up a game of hide and seek with us. He slept in the 
falds of the portieres, rolled himself up in towels, aprons 
er any scattered garment that he happened to find. At 
night we placed him in a box, but he never took kindly 
ta it, trying always to hide away. One night we hunted 
him unsuccessfully, nor did we see more of him until 
breakfast, when, hearing the clatter of dishes, he bounded 
down the front stairs and up in some one’s lap, for his 
share of food. The next night we watched him go to the 
sewing room upstairs, and followed him. For some 
time we could not find him. Then he was “brought 
to earth’ in a box of silk and velvet pieces, snugly 
rolled up in a round ball, with one wicked little black 
eye turned up to us. The next night we found him in 
a hanging bag of scrap pieces. Each night we found 
him in a new hiding place, for he never slept in one of 
his retreats after he had been discovered in it. 

In the summer, when we went to New England, we 
took Bunny with us, and he became a traveler, both 
by land and sea, for he went from Boston to Portland, 
Me., by boat. 

There is no space to tell of Bunny’s constantly chang- 
ing saucy capers and adventures, but one noticeably 
funny incident happened before he himself became one 
of the chief factors in the squirrel hunt. He was very 
fond of cocoanut taffy, and one day, while he was feast- 
ing on it, he was given a little sliver of tobacco. He 
was in a large bird cage at the time. He ate the tobacco, 
and inside of five minutes his eyes grew glazed and he 
slowly crept to a bed of grass that he had made and 
stretched himself out at full length on his stomach, the 
most forlorn, abject looking little wretch one ever saw. 
He was sick for seyeral hours, and he would never again 
touch taffy, which he evidently thought was the cause 
of his sorrow. 

It was on our return to the West that Bunny made 
his record in the capture of a squirrel, We were in the 
park in Atchison, and I had been left to guard the squir- 
rel, while the rest of the party wandered about. He was 
in a covered lunch basket. Hearing a singing noise, un- 
like anything I had ever heard, I looked up and saw 
what I supposed to be Bunny dancing about on a bench 
near by. I sprang to the lunch basket, to find my squir- 
rel safe, and then noticed that the stranger on the 
bench, though a fox squirrel, was much larger than mine, 
I walled a few feet from the basket, which the strange 
squirrel soon approached and smelled. I went to it, 
when he scampered down the hill and disappeared around 
the foot of a hickory, I took Bunny out of the basket, 
walked up to the tree, and stood peering about. Soon 
the singing noise that I had heard before again at- 
tracted my attention, and I looked up to see the squir- 
rel coming slowly down the tree. With fast-beating 
heart and the fierce expectant joy of the huntsman, I 
held Bunny close to the tree for a decoy. Would the 
other one be decoyed? Yes. Slowly he descended, came 
close to Bunny and they smelled and rubbed noses with 
a curiosity and satisfaction so absorbing that I cautiously 
raised my right hand and grabbed the stranger, not by 
the back of the neck, but around the back and stomach. 
Undoubtedly he was surprised, but no more so than I 
was, when he immediately turned and buried his cruel 
little white fangs in my forefinger to the bone. I held 
to him, screaming for my party to come, 

With a squirrel in each hand and an imprisoned finger 
T could do nothing alone, but with help he was. placed in 
the lunch basket, while one of us carried Bunny, who 
we were afraid to leave with the wild one, who was old, 
large-sized and fat. We took him home with us, but 
as he cut the fringe off of a new couch and whipped the 
little squirrel inside of ten minutes alter we had turned 
him loose, we gave him his freedom. 

In the fall Bunny got in the habit of standing on 
his hind feet, and with his front feet against the screen, 
of looking wistfully out of doors for many minutes at a 
time. We loved'!him, but we could not see him pining 
for freedom, so we opened the door and let him out. He 
played in.the trees for hours, but finally came back, to 
be let into the house. After this.he went out every day 
for a play in the frees. , 

As the fall days advanced, he developed a trait that 
showed the inborn instinct, for it was not taught him 
by any squirrel mother. We noticed, one day, after giv- 


‘ing him a nut, that, after pretending to gnaw it a while, 


he watched his opportunity, and sneaked off, soon re- 
turning for another nut. He did the same with apples, 
corn and other food. Upon investigation we found the 
folds of a tent that had been laid in a back room, full 
of corn, nuts, pieces of apples, cracker, cake, etc.; and 
we found similar things in all kinds of out of the way 


places. A prune that was given him was slightly nibbled 


and hidden in the stocking basket. 


~ 


Though he was born in the spring and had no squirrel- 
mother-love-instruction on the subject of winter, his ani- 
mal instinct told him of the approach of cold weather, 
and he was preparing for it. : 

One day he was in my up-stairs bed room with me, 
and was playing on the sill of an open window, when he 
jumped to the roof of a bay window, from thence to the 
small limb of a tree, near by, down the tree and to the 
ground. He did not return, as was his wont, although 
we searched out of doors and called. When the children 
retired for the night, Bunny was in their bed, under the 
covers, peacefully sleeping. He had, doubtless, run up 
the tree, leaped to the roof, into the window, across my 
room, the hall, and the children’s room, and had put 
himself to bed. We had him for more than a year. 
Then, in one, of his out of door rambles, he wandered, 
too far away and never returned. 

The true sportsman, although he loves to shoot, must, 
of necessity, love nature, and understand the habits of 
the game he seeks. 

Though something of a shot myself, and fairly well ac- 
quainted with the birds, cotton-tails, Jack rabbits, occa- 
sional praririe chickens and quail of our Kansas prairies, 
I was little familiar with the shy and timid squirrel of the 
West; and I was delighted to study the specimen we had. 
He was as cunning and playful as a kitten, as mis- 
chieyous as a monkey, and as interesting as any of our 
denizens of wood or plain. 

ADELAIDE SCHMIDT WAYLAND. 

Kansas, 


Tz Pumas. 


_ AMONG a number of interesting papers recently pub- 
lished in the Proceedings of the Wactinetoa ‘Agito: of 
Be tess by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, is one on the pumas 
whith has especial interest for all hunters and naturalists 
as being the most recent and fullest contribution to our 
knowledge of these great cats, which, as the country be- 
comes more and more full of people, are gradually dis- 
appearing before the advancing waves of civilization. 

he pumas, or cougars—as is well known—form a 
strongly marked group readily distinguished from the 
other cats by their large size, slender build, Jong tail, un- 
marked body and the relatively small head. They are con- 
fined to America, where they range from Southern Pata- 
gonia northward over nearly the whole of South and Cen- 
tral America, Mexico and the United States, reaching 
their northern limit in southern Canada—in Ontario on 
the east and British Columbia on the west. During the 
last hundred years the range of these animals in the 
United States has become greatly restricted, and they 
have been exterminated over large areas. With the 
possible exception of the Green Mountains of Vermont, 
they are not now known to inhabit New England, though 
formerly occurring in several of the States there. A 
few are probably still found in New York, and they 
occur in Florida and in the lowlands of Louisiana and in 
the mountains of the West. - : 

The puma is an animal of many names, of which puma, 
cougar, panther, painter and mountain lion are some of 
the best known. Mention of them occurs in all early 
works on exploration and natural history, and in 
1771 Linneus named the Brazilian species Felis concolor, 
This has been the term commonly used for all pumas of 
whatever region up to withim a few years, but in 1800 
Mr.. Chas. B,- Cory recognized the Florida puma as. a 
distinct species, and in 1897 Dr. Merriam himself de- 
scribed two new forms from the West, one from the 
northern Rocky Mountains, and the other from the north- 
west coast region. Still later, it came to be believed that 
there were other forms of cougar which had never beem 
described. 

When recently, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President 
of the United States, presented to the U. S. Biological 
Survey the Series of twelve skulls of the Rocky Mountain 
cougar or mountain lion, taken from animals killed _by 
him in January and February of the present year, Dr. 
Merriam was led to compare these skulls with others from 
different localities, and gradually to a study of such 
specimens from various parts of North and South Amer- 
ica’ as could easily be brought together. The present 
paper is the result of this study. 

The skulls collected by the President form a series of 
unusual value, not only because each is accompanied by 
precise notes of the color, measurement and weight 
of the animal from which it was taken, but also because 
the examination of so large a series from a single locality 
shows the nature of the differences resulting from sex and 
age, effables the student to judge as to the kind. and 
quantity of individual variations, and sets a standard 
for comparison with other members of the group, thus 
furnishing a means of estimating the probable value of 
particular cranial or dental pecularities. observed in single 
skulls from remote regions, A discussion of the varia- 
tions presented by the Roosevelt series. of skulls shows 
surprisingly little individual variation with the sexes. 
In the cats it is generally the case that the male is 
the larger and more highly developed. This is true of 
the pumas, and Dr. Merriam declares that in these animals 
the male alone attains a complete specific differentiation. 
By this is meant that the distinctive characters of the 
skull of the various forms of the puma are fully de- 
veloped only in the males; the skulls of females of 
different forms resemble each other so closely that they 


are distinguished with difficulty. . 


Among the peculiarly noticeable characters of the skulls 
in the several members of the puma group is the degree 
of elevation and depression of the face and frontal region. 
The extremes of such differences are shown by the 
Patagonian puma of the Southern Andes, and the puma 
found in the Puget Sound region. In the South American 
species the skull is long and low, and the face slopes 
strongly backward, while in the northwest coast form the 
face rises abruptly, the frontal region is highly éleyated 
and swollen, giving to the animal a face very different in 
appearance from its South American relatives. Again, 


jn the Western form—from the Rocky Mountains and the 


Pacific coast—the skulls are massive, with heavy under 
jaws, and contrast strongly with the same parts in the 
Brazilian puma, while the animal of the Andes has huge 
teeth, strikingly different from those of the Central Amer- 
ican region. 


Most of the cougars present two color phases, and 


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these color phases seem to have no relation to season or 
to age. One of these is usually redder than the other, 
though the difference is not always easy to define. Mr. 
John Fannin, Curator of the Provincial Museum of Vic- 
toria, declares that on Vancouver Island the brown color 
is the common one and the red is rather rare. On the 
ainland of British Columbia the red is more common. 
In the case of the Rocky Mountain species—which Dr. 
Merriam has named horse killer (hippolestes)—Mr. 
, Roosevelt describes the colors of the cougar as red and 
blue, and of those which he killed, six animals were red 
and six were blue. 

Dr. Merriam in the paper in question enumerates and 
describes eleven species and sub-species of cougar, which 
the calls? +. 

AprronpACcK Coucar, PANTHER (Felis couguar, Kerr). 
The material for the study of this form is very limited, 
since the animals inhabiting Pennsylvania, New York, 
New England and the higher Alleghanies have almost 
altogether disappeared from the face of the earth. One, 
killed in 1881, was shot in Barnard, Vt., and is now in the 
“State collection at Montpelier. 
Fiorma Coucar (Felis coryi, Bangs). 
This is the Florida form characterized among other 
things by a rich, rusty, reddish color and large size. 
Rocky Mountain Coucar, Mountain Lion (Felis hip- 
| polestes, Merriam). 
' This is the form commonly found in the Rocky 
“Mountains of the West. Its skulls are larger and more 
“massive than those of other members of the group, except 
‘the Pacific coast form, and the sagittal crest, or bony 


the skull, is enormously developed. One of the males be- 
longing to President Roosevelt’s series is a giant, and 
has the largest skull of any puma Dr. Merriam has ever 
seen. In the flesh this animal measured 8 feet in total 
length, and weighed 227 pounds. 

Paciric Coucar (Felis hippolestes olympus). 

This is the cougar found in the coast region of British 
Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California. Like 
many birds and mammals of coasts, it is darker than its 
near relative which occupies the Rocky Mountains, The 
skull is large and massive and the frontal bone much 
swollen. 

Mexican Coucar (Felis hippolestes aztecus, Merriam). 


This is.a large and powerful beast, yet deicdedly smaller 
than the Rocky Mountain form, and now first described. 
Tt is very much paler than the red Florida cougar. It 
is found from Arizona south through Mexico. 

BrazitiaAn Puma (Felis concolor, Linn.). 


| Dr. Merriam’s description is based on two skulls, which 
‘on the whole are lighter and smoother than those of any 
‘of the North American forms. 

Norre ANDEAN Puma (Felis bangst Merriam). 

Ts similar to the Brazilian form in the skull characters, 
but with some color differences. 

Centra American Puma (Felis bangsi constaricensis, 
Merriam). 

This is a new sub-species based on two skins from Costa 
Rica, presented by the World’s Fair Costa Rica Commis- 
sion in 1893. The Central American puma, while gen- 
erally similar to F. bangsi, is very much darker and red- 
der, particularly on the belly, which is red like the sides 
with only a narrow white line down the middle. 


ANDEAN Puma (Felis puma, Molina). 

This form has the skull and teeth large and massive, and 
is grayish in color, instead of being fulvous. It inhabits 
the high mountains, 

Sourh ANDEAN PUMA ae puma patagonica, Mer- 

riam). 

- This is another large form, gray in color, with large 
and massive skull and teeth. As its skull is described, one 
would imagine it to be low and long rather than high and 
‘round. It comes from the base of the Andes. 


Santa Cruz Coast Puma (Felis puma pearsoni, 
Thomas). 


This puma is described as being clay color, as having a 
short tail, and the back of the ears and the toes very pale. 
It comes from the coast region of Patagonia. _ 

It will surprise many people, who have not given atten- 
tion to the subject, to learn of the existence of so many 
forms of puma on the American continent. Yet, as we all 
know that animals vary with the conditions of their 
lives, it was to be expected that different regions of the 
two Americas should have developed forms of cougars 
which differ widely one from another. 

Yet opportunities seldom occur to compare members of 
a single group from regions as far apart as Canada and 
Patagonia and the Atlantic and Pacific. 


Christmas Trees. 


Barre, Vt., Dec. 22—Editor Forest and Stream: In 
the last issue of Forest AND STREAM mention was made of 
the destruction wrought by the Christmas tree indtstry 
upon our forests. While every effort should be put forth 

O preserve our infant forests, there is, however, another 
‘side to the Christmas tree traffic, as observed by me in’ this 
State. The trees which are harvested would in no way 
help to benefit the coming generation in way of building 
material. The pasture land that is now used for grazing 
is fast growing up to scrub or dwarf spruce, which would 
in ordinary events be cut and burned to keep it for 
pasturage. Many owners of forest land have at least the 
protection of the young growth, and in cutting simply 
weed out, giving space for the more vigorous growth 
or those remaining. 


here are thousands of little ones who are not privileged 
to play beneath the growing branches and breathe in the 
perfumes of the forest air. There are, too, older mem- 


Teens; 


1 be psn grcs| at eae (= = <a 


‘ridge, running lengthwise along the top of the back of © 


' The children of this age should reap some of its fruits.’ 


The Porcupine’s Quills. 


Montreat, Que.—Editor Forest and Stream: Though 
the birth of the Forest AND STREAM was not many decades 
ago, and it has not yet arrived at the period of being eyen 
middle-aged, it is in some respects a mature giant. In 
its columns many old-time beliefs have been thrashed out, 
in many were found only chaff, while in a few were found 
well-developed grain, well worth the threshing. It has 
cleared up the mystery about the panther’s scream, and 
has decided that the panther does scream—that is, those 
east of the Rockies can do so, though their hearers’ hair 
cannot rise nor their blood curdle. ; 

It has taught us that the silver gray or black fox are 
mostly of the masculine gender, if a few are of the 
opposite sex they are always sterile. ° 

The “hoop snake” has been declared a “myth,” and 
the snake with a stinger or horny spur in his tail——. 
Well, some years ago we expected to have thrown some 
light on this subject, and have sent a specimen of such 
a tail to the natural history editor of the Forest AND 
STREAM, but our darky stable boy found the specimen in 
the buggy and threw the “no account snake’s tail” out for 
the ducks to gobble down. -The Rev. Horace Jones, one of 
our readers, can youch for this, as he was present at that 
time, as we cannot show the tail, we make no public 
claim that it had either stinger or thorn, though we 
privately know that it had some such a thing, and that 
it used its tail “mighty queer.” At the time that we killed 
it we were both sober, and not given to optical illusions, 
though the writer once in the winter saw a black and tan 
hound running that neither gave tongue nor left a track 
in the deep newly fallen snow. 

Let us have more light on the following question: Can 
the common, every-day hedgehog “throw his quills’? 
If so, How does it do it? and How far can it throw them? 
We here make a claim that they can do this, and throw a 
shower of a dozen or more at the same time. To back: 
us up in this statement, we can quote as authority a well- 
known United States fishery official, a gentleman who is 
a close observer of what he sees in the woods, as well as 
on the streams, and is one not given to making rash 
assertions, quiet, unassuming and a most dangerous op- 
ponent at a game of chess. Regarding this quill-throwing, 
in one instance the animal was clinging to the body of a 
tree some seven or eight feet from the ground, and it 
discharged its darts fully fifteen feet from the tree by 
giving a muscular “whack” with its tail against the tree. 
Who else has observed this fact? STANSTEAD. ” 

[The myth that the porcupine can discharge its quills 
to a distance is one of very great antiquity, and, like many 
myths. it has at its foundation a grain of truth. The 
porcupine’s defensive armature lies in the quills scattered 
over its body, and above all, thickly implanted in its tail. 
When threatened by enemies, it uses the tail as a weapon, 
thrashing and jerking it about from side to side. to the 
great danger of any living creature that may be within 
reach of it. Now the quills of a porcupine are so 
loosely inserted in the skin that they become detached 
very easily, They are sharp-pointed and barbed, and’ so 
stick into anything that they may be roughly brought in 
contact with. Any one who has ever poked a porcupine 
with a stick will remember that in a very short time many 
quills were found with their points buried in the stick. 
The violent thrashings and blows given by the tail of 
the porcupine which is defending itself, loosen many of 
these quills, which often are thrown short distances, but 
never more than a few inches, since the quills are far too 
light in weight to carry any distance. The fact is that 
quills may be—and often are—shaken-from the tail of a 
porcupine and fall near it, Stanstead in the last sentence 
or two of his letter explains precisely the way in which 
these quills are loosened and then fall to the ground. It 
is interesting to notice that the thrashing of the porcu- 
pine’s tail against wood, or the grotind or leaves, is accom- 
panied by considerable noise, and that the quills rattle 
against each other. It has been suggested that this sounds 
like a challenge and that it is also a warning.] 


A Maine Fox Farm. 


Boston, Dec. 28.—The ravages of the great freshet 
were many in the hunting and fishing regions of Maine. 
Deer were seen swimming for their lives at several points 
along the overflown intervales and marshes on both the 
Kennebec and Androscoggin. At Moluncus they evi- 
dently attempted to cross the stream above the dam, where 
it had been solid ice for two or three weeks before, They 
broke in, and guides and lumbermen say that they fared 
hard in the icy water. 

Elijah Norton, of Dover, Piscataquis.county, Me., has a 


novel farm at that town, only a few minutes’ walk from _ 


the village. He raises nothing on it but foxes. It is a 
rocky, hillside pasture and piece of woodland, surrounded 
by a high wire fence. The fence, or a continuation of 
it, is stink into the earth four or five feet, to prevent 
the foxes burrowing out. In this direction it has proved 
a sticcess, for in the three or four years the farm has 
been run, not a fox is known to have escaped. Mr. Nor- 
ton has silver grays, Alaskan blues and a few of the 
common red foxes in the inclosure. He raises these ani- 
mals for profit, and so far the fox business has been a 
success, although the original Alaska blues and silver 
grays cost a good deal of money. He has about fifty 
animals in all now, the different breeds being kept in 
separate inclosures. They have become quite tame. and 
will come at the whistle of their owner, to be fed. Some 
very high prices have been received by Mr. Norton for 
fox pelts, especially the silver grays, single skins counting 
well up into the hundreds of dollars, 

SPECIAL, 


A Strong Calf. 


New Yor, Dec. 26.—Editor Forest and Stream: Dur- 
ing a recent visit to the Southern Cheyennes in Oklahoma 
Territory I was told by an old Indian, Wolf Chief by 
name, of an odd incident of buffalo hunting in the old 
days, which seems worth repeating. 

In 1868, while running buffalo on Crooked Creek, a 
tributary of the Citamaron River from the north, the 
Cheyennes killed a very large cow. They skinned ‘her, 
and after. the hide had been-taken off opened the carcase. 


Jt contained @ very large calf, and those who were 


rn 


butchering dragged the sack containing it off to one side 
and left it there. 

When they had finished cutting up the meat, some one 
noticed that the sack moved, and cutting it open found 
that it contained a big living calf, which at once began 
to breathe. 

Wolf Chief’s son worked over the calf, rubbing it dry 
and taking off the false hoofs, and before they got through 
with their work and were ready to move away the calf 
stood up and raised its tail over its back. This showed the 
strength and spirit of the cali. 

Nothing like this was ever 


seen by the Cheyennes 
before. G. B. G. 


Gane Bag and Gun, 
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Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forrest AND STREAM. 


A Hunting Trip to Catfish Lake. 


FRANK TWeeEp is an enthusiastic hunter and fisher- 
man, is a good farmer, provides well for his family, and 
in fact, possesses all the qualities necessary to make a 
man a good neighbor and a good citizen. His house is 
everybody’s home. 

Tt was Christmas week, and Frank had his full share of 
visitors from town and county, mostly relatives. As soon 
as he could excuse himself he came over to my house and 
invited me to go with him on a camp hunt, saying that 
he would be Bone about a week, and that he had invited 
Mike Man, Dan Parker and Paul Monro to go with us. 
These boys were our relatives, and clerks in grocery 
stores in the town of Kinston when not in school, 

“T want to start this afternoon,” he said, “for I never 
was so tited of fools and ‘pop crackers’ and ‘squealin’ 
horns’ and drunken hypocrites in my life. I want to 
get where truth is—in the woods.” I left the preacher 
at my house, and he was complaining of indigestion: 
when I left. I encouraged him to stay till we returned, 
which he promised he would do, as a kindness to me. 
But I do not think he wanted me to leave, at least he 
did nat encourage me any to go. 

“What did he say?” I asked. 

“Why, he asked me if it would not make us all sick 
camping in the woods? I told him there was not half 
as much danger in getting sick from camping as there 
was from eating so much rich food.” 

“How did he reply to that?” 

“Oh, he said, ‘Don’t you think it cruel to kill the 
pretty deer?’ I told him it was no more cruel to kill 
deer to eat than it was to wring a chicken’s head off, and 
that was done every Sunday morning before church, and 
nothing said about it. He changed the subject a little 
then by telling me that, ‘he had read in some State paper 
that it cost more to keep the dogs of the State than all 
the preachers were paid. My wife (who had all the 
while been listening) then asked, “What answer did you 
make?’ Why, I told him we must keeps hounds or the 
foxes and minks would destroy all the poultry. And 
quoted these lines from Scott to help me out: 


*“*The slow hound wakes the fox’s lair, 


The greyhound presses on the hare. 
+ * * * * 


Man only mars kind nature’s plan, 


+ 


And turns the fierce pursuit on man.’ ” 


He asked ho more questions then, but told me he was 
very fond of venison, and especially the liver, and if we 
killed a deer to be sure to bring the liver with us. I 
assured him that he should have the liver, and he might 
leok for us in a week or sooner.” 

Catfish Lake, for which we were bound, is very se- 
cluded. The state owns it and 100,000 acres that adjoin it, 
so that no one could prevent us hunting on it. The lake 
is about ten miles from any railroad, and three miles 
from any dirt road, with only a very dim path (over 
tussocks and briers) leading to it. Consequently, there 
is not much hunting done around it, and there is plenty 
of game, which was my main reason for going there. We 
concluded to take only four hounds, the oldest and best 
trained—Roosevelt, Major, Hot Stuff and Potlicker. In 
about two hours we were in a covered farm wagon be- 
hind two lively mules, with Roosevelt chained to the 
wagon and the other dogs running loose, heading for 
Catfish Lake. : 

It was about dark when we arrived in Kinston. We 
found Dan, Mike and Paul ready and waiting for us. 
They had prepared enough cakes and canned food to 
last their healthy young appetites at least two weeks. 
Boys at their age haye good appetites. I was once a 
boy, and know. 

We were soon on the road again, and when we were 
out of town we stopped to eat supper and feed the mules. 
(Teams ought to be fed at their regular time if you ex- 
pect them to hold out on the road.) We soon had a 
bright fire of dry brush, and when the coffee had boiled 
we began eating a supper that surpassed anything wé 
had seen during Christmas. Try it, you dyspeptics, and 
get well and live. 

When we started on, Tweed thought it best to fasten 
the other dogs. as they would probably tun off after 
something, and we would lose much time in getting them 
back again. However, he concluded not to tie Hot 
Stuff, but would let him go loose, and he said that he 
would take the lantern and walk ahead of the wagon 
and hunt some. 

“What do you expect to catch, Uncle Frank?” asked 
Mike. 

“Well, I don’t know; a coon, possum or a polecat. 
J want to walk some, anyway, if Mr. Mewboorne will 
drive the mules. You youngsters can come with me.” 

I understood Frank. It was more to amuse the boys 
than anything else. I well knew. that his possum hunt- 
ing days (as well as mine) were past, That is sport 
only for boys. J can never forget the hunts with the old 
slave negroes on my father’s farm when I was a boy. 
The very thought of those happy days thrills my soul 
with joy. I know I enjoyed them as much as Lipton 
does his yacht Shamrock. - 

“How are they blotted from the things that he.” 


Frank and the boys had not gone more than a mile bes 


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S 


icre I heard the old dogs “callin’ to de tree.” as the 
fegroes used to say. He was barking to a tree in the 
field’ near the road. 

“Come here,” said Frank. “Now look right over my 
shoulder., Don't you see his eyes?” 

“Lord, yes!” said Mike. 

“Let me climb the tree and shake him out, and let’s 
have a fight.” 

I hallooed to them to shoot it and let’s be moving, as 
we had no time to lose; beside, the tired dogs were 
howling and trying to break loose to get to the fun. 

“Let me shoot,” they all said at once. 

‘Fire away,” said Frank. 

And they did, and out dropped two large coons; one 
they killed; the other ran off, and Tweed and the boys 
Gwho had forgotten to shoot it) were running with all 
their might after it. The dog soon had it. 

“Hang them on the outside of the wagon,” I told 
them, “and let’s be going.” Which they quickly did, and 
were soon inside the wagon and were sound asleep, leav- 
ing Tweed and myself to drive. 

The next morning at 9 o'clock found us at Jim 
Benders’, our stopping placé. He gaye us a cordial 
greeting, and asked us to put our mules in his stables. 
We unloaded the wagon, putting the things in his barn, 
except those we intended to fake with us to the lake. 

“Those are very fine hounds,” he said. “I would like 


very much to have them, but I can’t keep them through’ 


the summer season. As soon as a dog learns to run 


deer here he goes into the lake and a ’gator is sure to ~ 


catch him,” 

The boys were busily engaged preparing the things 
we were to take with us, arranging them so that they 
might be easily carried, folded in the tent fly, and 
swung on a pole. 

“Mr. Benders, we must have a cook. Where is Bill 
Burnett?” 

“Bill? Why, yes, he is about the yard somewhere.” 

He called for him, and the brother in black soon 
made his appearance. He came up wiping his greasy 
mouth and said, “Why, ain’t dot Mr. Mewboorne? I’m 
glad to see you: ain’t seed you now gwine on three years. 
Chrismas gip, Mr. Mewboorne, whar you bin all dis 
time?” = 

I told him I had been home at work, but had come 
down to hunt, and wanted him to go with us to the Jake 
and cook for us. 

Then we set out. It was hard work. Light things be- 
come heayy when they have to be carried a great dis- 
tance on the shoulders. But the old adage, “There is 
no excellence without labor,” will apply to hunting and 
fishing as well as to anything else. _ 

The boys, for a wonder, had not said one word about 
being hungry, and walked down to the lake shore with 
Tweed, who presently returned and remarked that he 
did not expect to find so large a lake as that. He 
thought that it was so beautiful that it was a misfortune 
that it was in the wild woods, where no one but hunters 
could see it. 

There were perch in the lake, and while Bill and 
inyseli were putting up the tent, the boys caught thirty- 
one, weighing about 50 pounds. Frank told Bill to begin 
supper, and to clean about fifteen fish, for he was fish 
hungry. 

While we were preparing supper the boys came in 
and reported that they had found a boat, Bill explained 
that some gentlemen from the North had come last win- 
ter to fish and hunt deer, and hired some oné to bring 
it in with an ox and cart, They did-not hunt any; they 
could get no hounds, he said; ’gators eat all the good 
hounds every summer. “Mr. Mewboorne,” he said, “if 
you been down here den wid dem nice dogs dey gin you 
fifty dollar piece fur "em. Dey no mo’ care for money 

-dan fur pine straw.” 

As soon as we were through breakfast the next morn- 
ing, we lost no time in getting ready for the hunt: This 
part of it was left entirely to me; not that I was any better 
deer hunter than Tweed, but I knew these woods better, 
for he had never been here before. 

Now, to kill deer successfully—and I am only speaking 
oi eastern Carolina hunting—you must have what we call 
“standers,” for the deer, as soon as he is jumped, starts 
instantly for a lake, river or even the ocean (if near it). 
as that is his only means of protection from the dogs. I 
have tun many a deer into the ocean suri, and hidden 
behind the sandbanks and shot it when it came out. 

My first work was 'to show two of the boys where to 
stand. I directed Dan to a large oak near the lake on 
an open glade, 300 yards east-of the camp, and told him 
ii he saw the deer in the distance, to be perfectly still 
to prevent the deér frem seeing or smelling him. That 
was all the instruction he needed. I then gave Paul 
pretty much the same instruction, sending him on the 
lake west of the camp to a small beech tree near a ravine, 
about a quarter of a mile, 

{ was to handle the degs and do the driving. It is 
against the rules of deer hunting to have more than one 
man in the drive, because that is not treating the stand- 
ers iairly, and Tweed knew it; but he moved that the 
rules be suspended, as deer were more plentiful than 
they were where we usually hunted. To this the boys 
acreed, and Tweed and Mike went with me. 

We left the camp, leading the dogs till we came to the 
“heech ridge,” about three-quarters of a mile, and turned 
them loose. We had not gone far after leaving the small 
path before Tweed called my attention to an old rotten 
log that was torn all to pieces, and asked me what did it. 
I told him it was a bear, and that they did it to get bugs 
and worms to eat. 

Presently Mike found a dead sapling, and wanted to 
know what did it. Tweed told him that it was a “deer 
scrape.’ “And what’s that?” said Mike. Tweed then 
explained how the bucks (in the month of October) 
would rub the velvet and skin off their antlers. 

While we were explaining to Mike about how the 
bucks shed their horns every year in the month of 
February (for he had never seen a deer of any kind in 
his life), the dogs began trailing a cold scent. Sud- 
denly we heard Roosevelt where the scent was fresher, 
and when Tweed heard him in the lead his face bright- 
ened up, and he said, “Listen to Roosevelt; that deer 
will be up in a minute.” 

And he wae right, for in a moment the dogs were all 
cunning. I sent Tweed and Mike to my left, so they 


- said, “Bully for you! 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


‘would not intercept Dan and Mike. Soon the dogs 


separated, and I knew that there were more deer than one. 


before them: 

I then listened for guns, and soon heard Dan shoot 
twice. Roosevelt had turned in the direction of Tweed 
and Mike, who was nearly in sight of me. 

Presently I heard Mike shoot and squall at the top of 
his voice, “Run here! I’ve got him!” Tweed told him to 
hush. In about five minutes I heard Tweed shoot, and 
the dog stop running about where’I heard Mike. 

I was not long in getting to them, as the woods were 
thin, being anxious to see what they had both killed. 
Tweed had shot at a skulking deer and missed. Mike 
had killed a fine “peghorn’”’ buck and was sitting astride 
of it when I arrived, and patting Roosevelt on the head 
and saying, “Oh, you good dog; you brought him right 
straight to me, didn’t you, Colonel?” 

“Up with him! Let’s be going,” said Tweed. 
anxious to see what Dan shot.’ 

When we arrived at the camp, Dan, who had become 
tired waiting for us, had called the negro and they had 
brought the one that he had killed (a fine fellow, too). 
I don't think I ever saw finer antlers; there were five pegs 
on each beam. 

It has been said—and believed by many—that they 
have a peg for each year, but that is not true, for I 
ae one with beams 13 inches long and not a peg on 
either, 

I asked Bill if he had heard Paul shoot. 
boss; but I hear him holler plenty. 
den.” 

We did not understand it, and Mike, Dan and myself 
went to see, leaving Tweed and Bill to dress the deer 
while we were gone. We found Paul in a pretty bad 
plight; his face and hat were covered with mud, his 
hunting coat torn badly. 

“Why didn’t you come to me?” said he, 
hollered myself hoarse.” 

“Why, what’s the matter?” 

“Let me tell you: I saw something swimming from 


“liehion 


“No, sir; 
Dat him holler jess 


“T have 


the other side of the lake; and it was coming directly 


to where I was standing. I just hid myself behind this 
old tree that you see there that has fallen into the lake 
and waited for it to come on the land, thinking all the 
time that it was a big otter, so that I might shoot it. 
And it swam right into the thickest part of that old tree- 
top and stopped and hid, and to my astonishment it 
was a big buck.” 

“Why didn’t you shoot him?” ' 

“Let me tell you: -I wanted to take him. alive, and 


I ran down to.the boat without letting him see me and. 


got that small rope and made a noose and walked out 
on the log and put it on his horns; then made this end 
fast to this small tree. I then began to pull the rope. 
I says, ‘Old fellow, come out of there.” And he came, 
lunging and jumping. I thought he would break the 
rope, and I caught him by the hind legs. He kicked me 
about ten feet and jumped on me, hung his foot in my 
pocket, tore my coat, and bruised me up pretty badly. 
Next time I shall shoot him. I did not know the things 
were so strong and mean.” 

“Where is he now? Which way did he go?” 

“There he is in those briers, a sullen old rascal.” 

One of the dogs had missed us and taken our tracks 
and was, barking at my heels. The deer became fright- 
ened at the dog’s voice, and made a desperate struggle 
for his freedom, broke the rope, and was gone in a 
moment, and the dog aiter him. 

We ran for the boat, for I believed he would soon be 
in the lake again; and I was not mistaken, for in he 
plunged, but it was too far to shoot, and I had to leave 
him for the others. When we got him to camn, Tweed 
Three bucks hanging up at once. 
That is enough. We have had sport enough for one 
hunt, and to kill another deer would be murder.” 

“Let's get out of here. How is it to be done, Bill?” 

“Ise bin lookin’ fur Mr. Benders. Soon as you 
gemmens git frew dinner 1 go git old buck ox and cart. 
I car’ these things out here. Dese woods dry now.” 

While we were eating dinner, we heard some one 
“haw” and “gee,” and saw Benders with his ox and cart. 

We began packing up, and in a few hours were out 
on the main road near the Benders’ home. We drove 
into the grove where we had left the wagon, and ina short 
while were ready to move in the direction of Kinston, 
with three fine deer and two coons hung to the rear of 
the wagon, and the liver for the parson. f : 

“Come again,” said Benders, as we were leaying. “and 
I will go with you. Write me when you will come, so 
that I may be ready.” 

We thanked him, and I blew my horn for the hounds 
that were standing at the kitchen door. We were soon 
moving homeward, with the boys singing, 


“A -hunter’s life is a life for me.” 


“Won’t we astonish\the Kinston folks when we drive 
in!” said Mike, - ; f 

“So we will; I am astonished myself, for it is not often 
we haye such sticcess.” 

“Tt will prove to them,” said Tweed, “that all hunters 
and fishermen are not liars.” 

“T wish we had brought some of those large perch,” 
said Dan. : ’ 

“T put ten large ones in an old sack,” said Mike. 

All right. We will wash them off nicely before we 
get to Kinston, and hang them out so that they may be 
seen. One of you boys drive. The mules know the road. 
V'll get back there and take a nap.” 

Leyr A. Mewzoorne. 


tae Decoy for Wolves. 


Catumet, Mich., Dec. 20—A L’Anse correspondent 
of the Mining Gazette tells that \Wendelin Krisch, the 
trapper from Nestoria, was in the Baraga county seat 
the other day with two more wolf scalps to get the bounty. 
When asked how he got so many wolves lately, he said 
that he caught a large wolf a short time ago in a ttap 
and kept her alive, as she was not hurt. He chains her 
up a short distance from his cabin and her howls bring 


. the other wolves:from miles around, and he quietly sits in 


his shanty and-shoots them. He says that he has found 
the hides and bones of several deer that the Pieters 


killed lately near his place, 


A Moose Steak that ‘wasn’t Moos 


__ Wan. 4, 1902) 


ies | 

WHEN Bassford was a boy he lived in Maine. In thos! 
days the season for moose was a long, open one, and ii 
the village butcher shop moose steaks were as cheap a 
beef, From eating moose Bassford*advanced into hunt 
ing moose, and fhe juicy steaks cooked. over the camp 
fire in thé wildernéss are things not smothered in hi! 
memory, 

. In the ’50’s Bassford struck out for the West, lande 
in the village of St. Paul and might be virtually said ti 
have built up the city, for being an architect, and a goo 
one, it came to pass that our best buildings were’ & a 
designed by him. = : 

Next to successfully competing for a structure, Bassfor¢ 
loved best to work some joke upon his fellow man. Quick 
witted and with a ready tongue and a’ fund of humo 
simply immeasurable, he has turned the laugh on so man» 
that few are there of his acquaintances in town-but wha’ 
have “something coming” to Bassford. 

A few days ago I dropped into Bassford’s office. “Jus! 
the man I want to see. You come home with me to-nigh! 
and you have dinner with me. Clark has just sent mi 
that parcel right out there on the window sill keeping 
fresh and cool, and guess what is in it. Moose steak, 
I won't ever trust it to the cook, but I will take itin hane 
myself and I’ll do the broiling, I'll just light*wp tha 
gas range, ‘fire’ the cook for the time being and VII broil 
that steak as I used to back in old Maine State forty-odi! 
years ago. We'll haye a regular hunter’s supper—broiled 
moose and baked potatoes. You can’t buy game in thi 
market, and it is some time since I have had any, and | 
am just longing for a taste of that wild browse flayo 
that the moose has. Now say you will come.” Thy 
temptation was great, but I had to forego it because of ; 
previous engagement. ; 

I met Bassford the next day, and-he had a dejectec 
look upon his face which instantly gave place to a_broac 
grin, followed by an exclamation, “The boys did up. the 
old man in great shape this time. I set my mouth for tha 
steak. I-took it home and I broiled it to a turn. set i 
swimming in the choicest 4o-cent’ butter, and retiring 
from the office of chef I took my seat at the head of tha 
table. All being served, I helped myself. Upon taking 
my first mouthful one of my boys) said, ‘Pa, don’t yo 
taste that nice, wild browse flavor? Isn’t it delightful 2! 
‘Browse nothing,’ said I, ‘this is just plain, ordinary, pack 
ing-house steer; no moose about it, And,” he went on 
“that’s the way the boys. worked me and did so to the 
queen’s taste. But that is not all, they sent up a gooc 
section of a fat hog, nicely trimmed up, to Kennedy anc 
marked it a black bear roast, with their compliments, anc 
Kennedy never got onto it. How many others they di¢ 
up I do not know, but I'll admit that they got good and 
square with me this time and no mistake,” ; . 

CHARLES CRISTADORO. © 


The Tenderfoot Out West. | 


Harry M. was making money, and making it fast, too, 
but he was. doing it at a cost of nefve tissue I could fell 
by the drawn look, the sharp, metallic tone of voice; 
and the mouth shut tight as a box trap. I made it mj 
way to see him often at lunch, and he knew what TV was! 
after, well enough, but I lay low and waited my time 
One day he dropped his papers and blurted ont: “I 
am off with you this fall; 1 can“t stand this any longer. 
I’m going.’ There’s my hand; now get in the game.” 
He is great on handshaking; if he promised me his hea 
and shook on it I’d expect to get the head. 55 

Well, I landed him in South Dakota, two days before 
the law was off, and put him in the hands of my guide, 
whom I call ‘““Peck’s Bad Boy.” The guide kept him 
from “burning” while I got ready to do as he said, i. e.,} 
“Get in the game.” He was a genuine Tenderfoot ou 4 
here on the grass and stubble. Back East he goes out 
nights alone. The morning of the first of September 
we were up betimes; yes, he was up several minutes be 
fore old betimes got the sleepy seeds out of his peepers,| 
and went charging down stairs after hot coffee, and was) 
using “landwidge” that smelt like the old sulphur! 
matches they had when I was a boy. Once fairly out- 
doors where he could look “good,” he swelled up an 
poured forth such a pean of pratse of it all; why, he 
fairly bubbled with joy at being alive, and his eyes shone 
like “a fiter’s muster morning.” Then the dogs pointed, 
and he tore over the side of the wagon with “Let me at. 
‘em! Tl lop ’em!” 

Peck and I sprinted, and caught him in the nick of) 
time; he fired at the rising birds and claimed he shot. 
‘emaall, “There, got one, got two, got three!” he yelled, 
and-then Peck collapsed, and between time asked what} 
brand of repeater he was using now. At which he 
blushed like a girl, and he will see the back of his neck, 
at the same time he sees forty years again. 

There were some ducks in the slews, and he pestered 
Peck and me until we took him to-one. though we were, 
getting chickens right, left, and stra ght away. Now. a: 
duck raised in South Dakota is always in a hurry; he’ 
never lingers nor loiters on even a short journey, but 
bats the air solar-plexus blows, and fades away faster. 
than a ghost. We put him in a good place and turned 
them down on him. He burned a lot of ammunition, 
but he had another guess coming on a duck. He is apt 
to jig back hard to get what he wants, and by and by 
he “let-’er-rip,”, two black powder shells at once. His 
head flew back, one leg up in the air, and when he got. 
into line, all in one piece like, he remarked to me: “T 
guess I ain't over much on ducks; but say, I’m dead 
medicine on a shikepoke.” After which I went over and | 
comforted him, and taught him all that holding ahead 
two, four and six feet was tommyrot and worse:. The 
man who holds, ahead stops his game; and if you think, 


you can de that and hit a South Dakota duck going down 


wind you have another guess.coming. I have.seen as 
many try as the next man, and I never saw a gocd shot 
on the hold-ahead-plan yet, not one, and I haye con-_ 
verted a few into. the: swing-with-pull-and-swing-all-the- 
time plan. I may shoot ahead, can’t say; but I can hit 
a duck any place three out of five times, and there are 
just -a few -in the “deestrict’” that cannot. He listened 


‘patiently and soon after began to.crack over some, and” 
at the last-got tis: pair, ‘at which he. fairly beamed, and 


JAN. 4, 1002.] - 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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it’s my belief the biggest sort of a rise On grain never 
warmed the cockles of his heart so much as did that. 
He got sort o’ bigoty, and Joe and I proceeded to trim 
him. We put it to him hard to shinny on h's own side. 
That is, if you are on the left side, shoot on that side 
only, not cross to center or right. When he did net do 
it, we swore point-blank that he had never touched a 
feather, no matter what. He got hostile after a while, 
and we put him out alone and he had that over-anxious 
feeling and missed clean. Then I gave him his “Need- 
ins,” as Peck called it, and he did the best work I ever 
saw a green hand do. To use his own words, he got into 
the game. ; 

We had all sorts of weather, but by the use of our 
heads, backed by a long experience of my own, we did 
a lot of shooting and had a royal old time. Eyen then, 
when the outing as a whole was the best of all the many 
we have had by sea and land, North, South, East and 
West, the words of the old mossback farmer were at 
times spoken, as they alone seettied to be appropriate; 


_ which words were: - ‘Wall, they is naow an’ ergin days 


when pork won’t bile; thet is, “twori't du its hainstim er 
ez pooty ez ‘twill t other days.” : 

We had one little bit of a time with a teal duck that 
will go to prove ihe hang-on of Dakota fowl. Harry 
shot a teal on the pass that came down on to ground 
with a bump and a bounce; the dog got it, and I gave 
its neck a twist or two and threw it down in the pilé. 
About half an hotir after it fluttered out of the pile and 
took wing, the dog and.I after it hot foot. I cotld not 
shoot for the dog, and that duck got into the lake, a good 
hundred yards away. 

We kept the trail hot every day when it did not rain 
alter sport of some sort, and while we did not slaughter 
nor go in to break any records, each day was. as Harry 
said, “worth the price of admission,” and when the 
good-by time came, each had a complexion not found 
in driig stores. 

Appetite and digestion such as they alone have who 
see the stars fade before the sun, who follow afield with 
dog, gun and boon companions until daylight fades into 
a purple afterglow and the perfect day ends with the 
pipe, song and story, and we hear these last words 
spoken—‘Good night.” Pink EDGE. 


P. S—After this game was over I got into another one 
with a lady and a minister in the same game. “But 
that’s another story.” 


California Anti-Sale Law Upheld. 


FOLLOWING is the text of a decision recently given 
in a California case where the point at issue was the 
validity of the law forbidding trafic in game: 

In the Superior Court of the City and County of San 
Francisco, State of California. 

The Hon. Carroll Cook, Judge. 

In the matter of S. Kenneke, on Habeas Corpus. 


Dec'sion. 


The issues presented in this case are few—in fact, but 
one. That it, the val'dity of Section 626k of the Penal 
Code. as amended by the Act of the Legislature approved 
March 28. 1901. (Statutes 1901, page 820.) 

The question is presented to this court upon a writ 
of habeas corpus, a complaint having been filed against 
the prisoner charging him with a violation of such sec- 
tion, and a warrant issued thereon. The prisoner has 
sued out this writ of habeas corpus, claiming that said 
Section 626k, upon which the complaint is based, is void, 
because unconstitutional. 

The section in question reads as follows: 

“Eyery person who buys, sells. offers, or exposes for 
sale, barter or trade, any quail, partridge, pheasant, 
grouse, sage-hen, ibis, or plover, or any deer meat. 
whether taken or killed in the State of California, or 
shipped into the State from any other State, Territory, 
or foreign country, is gtilty of a misdemeanor.” 

It is contended by petitioner that the Legislature in 
passing said section of the Code has discriminated 
against a certain class in the community. It is claimed 
to be class legislation and that it affords privileges to 
one class of the community, namely, to those who can 
hunt for themselves or hire some one to hunt for them 
as against another class who have not the time or the 
means of indulging in such pastime or of employing 
others to procure game for them. , 

Respondent cites several cases from the Eastern States 
wherein similar laws have been sustained, but if a de- 
cision of this question rested solely upon the cases so 
cited, I hardly feel that 1 would be justified in accepting 
them as authority. The identical question here pre- 
sented has. however, been passed upon by our own 
Supreme Court, and a statute. almost identical in 
language has been held by the Supreme Court of this 
State to be valid and within the power of the Legislature 
to enact. Until, therefore. the last mentioned decision 
shall have been overruled by our Supreme Court, it is 
my duty, as well as that of all Superior Courts of this 
State, to follow, as the law of the State. that decision, 
irrespective of any opinion I myseli might have as to the 
validity of this statute. 

The case to which I refer, is the case of Ex parte 
Maier, 103 California, pp. 479, 483. The statute, the 
validity of which was called in question in that case, was 
Section 626 of the Penal Code as it was amended in 1893. 
The case was decided by the Supreme Court in August, 
1894; that Section reads: 

“Every person in the State of California who shall at 
any time sell, or offer for sale, the hide or meat of any 
deer, elk, antelope, or mountain sheep, shall be guilty of 
a misdemeanor.” : 

The learned Justice who wrote the opinion in that case, 
after devoting some space to a construction of the s.atute 
and decided that it meant not only game killed within 
the State of California but also that which had been 
‘killed elsewhere and brought into the State. proceeds to 
discuss the qnestion of its validity, and in that portion 
of the decision uses the following language: 

“Nor do we think that in giving the act this effect 
it contravenes the constitution of this State as being in 
excess of the police power-of the State. The wild game 
within the State: belongs, to: the people in their collective 
sovereign capacity; it is not the subject of private owner- 


side of the mountain. 


ship, except in so far as they may elect to make it so; 
and they may, if they see fit, absolutely prohibit the 
taking of it, or any traffic or commerce in it, if deemed 
necessary for its protection or-preservation, or the public 
good. * * * 

While it is true thatthe power to regulate is not the 
power to destroy, in its absolute sense, it is, neverthe- 
less, true that the right to regulate frequently and as a 
necessary sequence carries with it the right to so control 
and limit the use or enjoyment of private property as to 
amount to its destruction.” 

In coming to the conclusion which our Supreme Court 
did in that case it quotes with approval from the decision 
in the case of Wynehamer vs. The People, 13 New York, 
378. the following language: 

“The protection and preservation of game has been 
secured by law in all civilized countries, and may be 
justified on many grounds, one of which is for purposes 
of food. The measures best adapted to this end are for 
the Legislature to determine, and courts cannot review 
its discretion.” 

As I before stated, in the Maier case, our Supreme 
Court has held valid a statute almost identical in words 
with the one here in question, and as that decision must 
be accepted, atid is the law of this State until overruled 
by the Supreme Court itself, there is nothing for this 
court to do but to follow it, and so following it the statute 
here in question must be declared to be valid. 

For these reasons the writ herein is dismissed, and the 
prisoner remanded. CARROLL Cook, Judge. 


A Curious Shot. 


In 1873 Troop F. of the Fourth Cavalry, which I at 
that time belonged to, was stationed at the head of the 
Sabonal River, in southwestern Texas. There are a 
great many mountains here about the head of the river, 
and these mountains were full of deer then. I was 
quartermaster-sergeant of our troop, and often had as 
many as five or six deer hung up around my kitchen: 
We shot then in sight of camp more than once. 

One afternoon in December the captain had us out 
giving the horses exercise, and while we were riding up 
a little valley about a mile from camp, three deer were 
seen grazing about 200 yards further up the valley. 

The deer saw us at about the same time we saw them, 
and taking the alarm, ran into a lot of bushes that were 
growing just at the foot of the mountain on the right. 
The captain halted us and told some of us try a shot at 
those deer. I and a trttmpeter, who were riding just be- 
hind him, got off our horses to try this shot, and moving 
to the front, we began to load. 

Our arms at that time were Sharps’ carbine and Colt’s 
army pistol, both of them .45 caliber; but as the pistol 
cartridge was a little smaller than the carbine cartridge 
it could not be fired out of the carbine except the way I 
fired mine this time. 

I catried my cartridges. both carbine and pistol, in a 
small leather pouch, and being in a hurry now to Joad, I 


got hold of a pistol cartridge’ and- did not notice it 


until I had it shoved into the gun; then, not wanting to 
waste any time in taking it out, I next got a carbine car- 
tridge, and pushing it in, forced the pistol cartridge 
forward out of the way, then closed my lever. IT knew 
that there would be no danger in firing the gun as long 
as both these cartridges touched each other. We were 
ready to fire now. and the captain told me to fire first; 
so kneeling on one knee, I took aim at the only part 
of any of the deer that I could see, a patch about as 
large as my hand, that showed through the bushes; I 
took it to be the shoulders of a deer that was lying down, 
but could not tell much about it; the bushes were thick 
there, and none of them were in leaf yet. 

I fired. and two deer ran out and began to climb the 
The trumpeter fired at them, but 
missed both of them. As we had seen three deer go in 
there, mine must be there yet; so the captain sent the 
trumpeter and a man up to get that one. The deer was 
brought in soon after, and I examined it now to see 
where I had shot it, and found that T had hit it just be- 
hind the right shoulder, and that the ball had not gone 
clear through. One of our packers who did our butch- 
ering for me opened the deer. and I started to look ior 
the ball, but found the pistol cartridge instead. It was 
this that had killed him; the carbine ball had not hit 
hit him at all. The cartridge was in about the same 
shape now that it had been in when I put it in the gun, 
the only mark on it being a bruise on the point of the 
ball where it had struck a bone. 

I was anxious now to find out why this cartridge had 
not exploded; it must have been struck right on the 
primer by the carbine ball when it was being driven out 
of the gun, and the only reason that I could think of to 
account for its not exploding was that the cartridge 
must be defective, though I had never seen any of them 
misfire. I determined to find out. so putting it in my 
pistol I took it down on the river bank, and taking aim 
at a tree. fired, and found the cartridge to be all right; 
there was nothing defective about it, and cutting the 
ball out of the tree, I kept it as a memento for years 
aiterward, and was sorry now that I had not kept the 
cartridge. I told this story to an old hunter once, only 
to be told that I had better keep that tale to give to some 
tenderioot; he had done too much shooting himself to 
swallow it. But I have given it here exactly as it took 
place. 2 CasIA BLANCo. 


ErtE, Pa. 


Wild Celery. 


New York, Dec. 11.—Wild celery does not produce 
seed, but must be propagated by roots or cuttings. It 
grows abundantly on the Chesapeake Bay, and our sug- 
gestion to parties interested would be to get some one in 


that neighborhood to collect some roots for at, - 


Georgia Quail. 
Horer Lituis, Tallapoosa, Ga., Dec. 16,—Chas. Sawyer, 
of Bostan, just-returned from a day's hunting with twen- 
_ty-seven quail and two ttrkeys. Mrs. Sawyer got eleven 
Ms pail. She had never fired a gun till last month: ~ How is 
that: 


The¥Range-of Shooting Game. 


Morcantown, W. Va., Dec. 25—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Naturally it gives us a satisfaction to read from 
the pen of one whose experiences and opinions harmonize 
with our own, especially in discussing disputed points. 

Mr. Hardy’s recent article in Forest AND STREAM. 
“Moose Hunting and Small Bores.” is packed full of 
sound sense and sensible theories, which gives it a place 
along with other of Mr. Hardy’s writings in the pages of 
my highly prized scrapbook. 

What deserves special mention in this article is that 
referring to the over-estimation of distances at which 
game is killed. Certainly no point in the narration of 
hunting experiences is so exaggerated as that of the dis- 
tances shot. So common is it that we scarcely think of 
commenting when we read of some one killing game 
three, four or even five or six hundred yards; and many 
people with whom I have talked, and who have killed a 
considerable amotint of game. scarcely ever mention any 
shot as being less than 200 yards, and anywhere from 
that up as high as their conscience will allow. Ordi- 
narily I haye a rule of my own of dividing distances thus 
given by about two, and then sometimes it is too high, as 
T have reason to know. I fully believe that three-fourths 
of the deer I have killed have been shot at less than 
50 yards, 

Certainly much of the exaggeration of distances is due 
to a lack of judgment in estimating distance. 

It is human nature to try to reflect credit upon our- 
selves, for any achievements of our own. but just why 
the idea prevails that the longer distance at which game 
is killed, the more credit is due the skooter, is where 
I get lost. The true and original type of the American 
hunter is the Indian. Perhaps no race of people has ever 
existed which is their equal in woodcrait. From our 
first knowledge of them their whole time and ambition 
was devoted to the study of wild animals, from the 
standpoint of how they could most successfully capture 
them, upon which depended the existence of their tribes. 
Since an Indian then in his native state is the superior of 
all other people in hunting and woodcraft, he might be 
termed the ideal hunter, from whom we all could profit- 
ably take lessons. Who ever heard of an Indian boasting 
of a long shot? 

‘The Indian’s standard of a good hunter is not how far 
he can kill his game, but how close he can get to it. and 
when I read an account of a hunt where big game was 
killed at a short distance, I think, ‘““That must have been a 
good, stealthy hunter to get so close.” Tf the standard for 
good hunting was “How close can I get to my game?” 
rather than ““How far can I shoot it?’’ much less wounded 
game would be left in the woods to die. 

In speaking of Indians hunting, one of their singular 
customs has come under my observation of which I have 
neyer heard any one speak, and many may not know. 

Some of the very best hunters among the Sioux Indians 
carry with them two small sticks about four feet long to 
use as a rest when shooting. They usually carry them 
in the same hand in which they carry their-gtn, and with 
wonderful quickness when they go to shoot they cross 
them a few inches from the end, lay the gun in the 
crotch thus formed, grasping the sticks with the hand 
where they cross, and resting the lower end on the ground, 
thus forming a sort of tripod, on which to rest their 
gun. It is amusing to watch the actions of expert Indian 
hunters as compared with white hunters. 

If, while going through the woods, they suddenly come 
upon and startle any big game, and it gets out of their 
sight before they get a shot, instead of standing and 
looking regretfully after it as most of us would do, they 
dash off after it on a fast run, and generally manage to get 
a shot before it gets out of reach. 

EMERSON CARNEY. 


The Proposed Maine License. 


THE annual meeting of the Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and 
Game Association takes place Jan. 7, when it is under- 
stood-that the principal subject of discussion will be that 
of requiring all non-resident sportsmen, who hunt in 
Maine, to pay for a license to do so. The feature will be 
advocated by several noted game protectors, their argu- 
ment being that the money is needed for the better pro- 
tection of game and the propagation of fish. It will also 
be opposed by men of influence in Maine legislative 
affairs: possibly encouraged by the railroads and trans- 
portation people, as well as hotel and camp keepers, their 
argument being that a license fee will tend to keep hunters 
out of Maine. They will argue that hunting and fishing 
in that State already costs more than in Canada, where 
guides and board are much cheaper than in Maine. Those 
most interested will do well to remember that the Maine 
Sportsmen’s Fish and Game Association, although con- 
taining many leading fish and game protectors, as well as 
lovers of the rod and gun, and being an influential so- 
ciety as well, does not always carry every measure 
through the Legislature that it advocates. It eats a 
good dinner once a year at least, and talks a goad deai, 
but does not carry through all the nonsense it proposes. 
Then again the Maine Legislature does not meet for a 
year, and matters and relations frequently change in less 
than a year, even in a State as full of laws as Maine. 

The further restriction of the quantity of fish one may 
take in that State wil! also be a topic of discussion. A 
movement of that sort is needed very much, and will meet 
with the support of all reasonable lovers of the rod and 
reel. SPECIAL. 


Long Island Ducks. 


Tue season has been a remarkable one for Long Island 
ducks. The fowl have been present in greater supply and 
for a longer period than has been known in any season in 
recent years. Practically every one who has been ducking 
on Long Island waters this season has got a good bag of 
birds, and the rule has applied to the whole length of the 
shore line. 


Decks at Orinoco. 


A New York party returning from Doxey’s, at Orinoco, 
N. CG, report having had excellent duck shooting at that 
point. 'The fowl have been abundant this year all along 
the Carolina coast. 


10 


Shooting. 
Fram the Nineteenth Century, 


SOME little time ago I yentured to dilate on the joys 
of fly-fishing, and now would fain attempt to appreciate 
the pleasures of shooting. 

But my pzan must be in somewhat a lower key. 
Shooting and fishing have each their own peculiar 
charms; and fortunately it is not often that the two 
compete. But no shooting can, in my opinion, vie in in- 
terest or in skill with a really good day’s dry fly-fishing, 
or compare in excitement or emotion with a day’s sal- 
mon fishing, in which salmon are hooked, played, lost 
and landed—days the anticipation of which causes one 


“To go to bed and weep for downright sorrow 
To think the night must pass before the morrow.’ 


The fisherman is born, not made; few persistently fish 
unless they are keen. But among those who shoot every 
grade exists between real keenness and intense boredom. 
I have heard of one eminent statesman who, noblesse 
oblige, annually rearing his proper quota of pheasants 
and shooting his three heavy covert days, was on one 
occasion overheard near the end of the second day fer- 
vently thanking heaven that two days out of the three 
at least were over! On the other hand, it is related of 
another premier, Lord Derby, that having on. one oc- 
casion gone down to Heron Court to shoot a wild swan, 
he was followed by a peremptory summons to town to 
deal with urgent dispatches relating to European con- 
vulsions. He, however, entirely declined to budge until 
he had shot his swan, a feat fhat was not accomplished 
until the third day. 

Fish swim afid feed in the same way that they did three 
or four hundred years ago; are caug#t to a large extent 
in the same way that they were half a century or more 
ago—the “dry fly” for certain trout, and some improve- 
ments in rod and tackle being the only innovations. But 
“shooting” as a science is scarcely more than a hundred 
years old. And during those hundred years the method 
of shooting, the weapon and its adjuncts, the system of 
cultivation, nay, even some habits of the game, have all 
radically altered. Thus the sport of shooting has no 
classic that can compare with that of fishing. Walton’s 
masterpiece, published in 1653, remained a text book for 
three hundred years, and will be delightful reading for 
all time. Its nearest compeer is perhaps Col. Hawker’s 
book “On Shooting,’ which came out in 1816. Brought 
up to date from time to time, this book was used and 
was useful as a text book for some forty years; but is 
now entirely superseded, and probably seldom’ read. 
And while much as regards fishing can still be usefully 
learned from Davey, Scrope and others of fifty or sixty 
years ago, for shooting we must go to the newest text 
book, to the Badminton Library, to the “Fur and 
Feather” series, to Payne-Gallwey’s “Letters,” or to the 
innumerable sporting books of the present day. These 
last have, however, one persistent fault, somewhat dis- 
couraging to a novice, namely, that the vicissitudes of 
sport are too* much ignored, blank days are non-existent. 
The author or the pupil under the eye of the master 
always (in print) gets his right and left and the difficult 
bird back; rises and lands his salmon and trout, many 
and large. And if the sportsman is after big game— 
Selous, and the author of “Short Stalks’ excepted— 
when the crack of the rifle is heard the beast (like Fenni- 
more Cooper’s Indian) invariably falls dead at his feet. 

Out of some fifty pages of the “Gentleman’s Recrea- 
tion,” published in 17ro, descriptive of “fowling,” only 
four are devoted to the use of “the birding or fowling 
piece.” This weapon, though manifestly far less effective 
than the calls, nets, springs, strings and snares which are 
elaborately described, is recommended as probably more 
effectual than “lime rods and intoxicating baits for 
taking of fowl.’ “In using this weapon you should,” 
says the author, rather shoot “not. at a single fowl, if 
you can compass more within your level; and if on a tree, 
hedge or the ground, seek the convenientest shelter you 
can of hedge, bank, tree or the like, to be absconded 
from the fowls seeing you, which is very offensive to 
them; and being within shot and a fair mark lose no 
time, but let fly.” 

Hawker’s book and diary of a hundred years later give 
a very interesting description of the style of shooting in 
vogue during his earlier years, and the difficulties under 
which it was conducted. 

“Oct. 1, 1817, Had again to contend with many strong parties 
in the lawless part of Wherwell Wood and manceuvred so that 
I beat them all put together with only one brace of pointers. 


Considering the very bad breed of pheasants, this was one of 
the best days I ever enjoyed; bagged eleven pheasants, three 


artridges, and one hare. : 

4 “Oct. 6, 1817. Two partridges and four snipes. Tried the effect 
of the detonating gun at birds which ‘duck the flash,’ and found 
it to answer admirably by killing dabchicks swimming at a con- 


siderable distance. , i gt 

“Oct. 7, 1819. Heard a cock pheasant, which now-a-days is like 
a wild beast on my property, and in half an hour came home 
with two fine old cock pheasants, I having found another with 
the one reported, and bagged them both.” 


Most of the shooting questions that troubled our 
forefathers have long ago been solved. For instance, as 
late as in his edition of 1844 the Colonel discusses at con- 
siderable length and with his wonted profusion of italics 
the question of whether or no “you should when a covey 
gets up, after firing the first barrel take down the gun 
-and present it afresh.’ He recommends “another way 
as more expeditious; it is never to take the gun from the 
shoulder, till both barrels are fired, and thus the first as 
well as the second bird may be suffered to fly to a proper 
distance.” He also argues that it is more expeditious 
and really safer to advance on a point with the gun 
cocked rather than as the “‘old school” advocated, “never 
allowing the gun to be cocked till after the bird has 
risen!” 

yatiter what a marvelous change has occurred in the 
development of the sporting gun in little more than half 
a century. First, the flint fowling piece gave place to 
the “detonator,” that to the percussion gun, which in its 
turn was superseded by the breechloader. And here the 
snap has taken the place of the lever action, the hammer 
gun has given place to the hammerless gun; the pin-fire 
cartridge has disappeared; black powder has been en- 
tirely ousted by the numberless “nitros,” Yet it is evi- 
dent that with their flint guns built by Manton, the 


“king of gunmakers,” their moleskin or cord trousers, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


their blue or green coats, their stiff hats, their stocks 
and their shoes, their shot belts and their powder flasks, 
our ancestors enjoyed their limited sport as much as does 
the modern sportsman with his modified choke-bore 
hammerless ejector, his loader and his shooting stool, 
his knickerbockers, waterproof boots and tweed cap, his 
smokeless powder and his hecatombs of slain. 
But still, in all this, as in everything else, 


“The good of ancient days let others prate, 
TZ think it lucky I was born so late.” 


Heavy bags, formerly a rarity, are now a commonplace. 
White, of Selborne, a hundred years ago, considered it 
reprehensible and unreasonable that parties of sportsmen 
should kill “twenty and sometimes thirty brace of par- 
tridges in a day.” The largest bag that Hawker, in 1814, 
had ever seen bagged by one gun was twenty-three brace, 
working four relays of dogs. From such maximum 
totals as these, and proportionate ones for grouse, driv- 
ing and preservation have developed the astonishing 
bags of 400 brace and more of partridges and 1,000 brace 
of grouse in a day, while pheasants have been multiplied 
a hundredfold, 

Large bags and heavy days are pleasant—very pleasant, 
I freely confess, but the fashion of “big days’ has no 
doubt to a certain extent spoiled the taste for small days. 
All-the same, I am not sure whether some of one’s pleas- 
antest recolleetions are not connected rather with such 
days, in which companionship was not lost in a crowd, 
and in which the gratification derived froneach individ- 
ual shot was not instantaneously obscured by another. 
One special day, though long past, I still remember. 
An exquisite December day; a pleasant companion. A 
dozen driven partridges well killed, half that number of 
lovely cock pheasants, a rabbit and two woodcocks was 
ali we shot. Curiously enough, I had seen both wood- 
cocks running toward me, an unusual sight, and shot 
them as they turned back over the wood. -..* 

On the other hand, it is, I admit, pleasant to remem- 
ber a brief—all too brief—succession of “tights and 
lefts’; or (to be marked with a white mark) the five 
grouse that with two guns were got out of a straggling 
pack, firing as fast as one could aim. Indeed, it is not 
the heavy bags so much as the really difficult and sport- 
ing shots that give the pleasure. Thus boisterous 
weather, though it reduces the bag, will, if fine, probably 
add to the day’s satisfaction. Wind in moderation is 
always an advantage out shooting; rain is always an 
abomination, especially to those of us who are unfor- 
tunate enough to have to shoot in spectacles. 

There are of course beastly days out shooting as well 
as delightful days. Fortunately, however, both fishing 
and shooting, one is disposed, I think, to recall the 
agreeable, to let the disagreeable fade from the memory. 
To forget the day when the rain poured, the chill wind 
blew, the birds went wrong, the beaters were possessed, 
and when one shot vilely; and to remember the lovely 
day, the masterly management, the obliging birds, the 
straight shooting. 

The grouse (wrongly, as Yarrell says, called “Scoti- 
cus’; it should be “Britannicus”) is, as we know, found 
nowhere in the world except in the British Isles—thrice 
fortunate isles. The “nut-brown” partridge is a delight- 
ful bird—well groomed, natty, cheery, with a cheery call, 
sporting, intelligent and spirited. It is indigenous to 
Great Britain, and is found also in other parts of Europe. 
The more gaudy Frenchman was first brought over at 
the time of Charles Il.—perhaps one of the many Stuart 
intrigues with France. But it was not introduced in any 
profusion until near the end of the eighteenth century. 
Handsome is as handsome does, and it was-soon found 
in those days when partridges sat to dogs that the pro- 
pensity to run on the part of the Frenchman was bad 
for the dog, bad for the temper and bad for the score. 
And even now, in these days of driving, he is a poor 
creature compared to the English bird. 

The pheasant, if not exactly indigenous, is certainly 
effectually naturalized; and though originally from the 
Caucasus, may, after a thousand or so years. of ac- 
climatization, be looked upon as truly British. Tradi- 
tion has it that the pheasant was brought into Europe by 
the Argonauts! It was probably introduced into Eng- 
land by the Romans. It certainly preceded the Normans. 
“Pesant hen and pesant cock” appeared in King Harold’s 
bill of fare. Thomas A’Beckett is popularly supposed 
to have dined off a pheasant the day he was murdered. 
In the time of Edward I. the price of a pheasant was 4d., 
while woodcock (it makes one’s mouth water) were but 
three farthings a pair. Two hundred years later pheas- 
ants had risen to 12d, a piece and woodcock to 1d.,, 
while snipe could still be had at 3d. a dozen, As long 
ago as the time of Henry VIII. the pheasant, as it still 
does, apparently led to a “tip,” though on a somewhat 
lower scale than now. “Rewardes for bryngyng of 
p’sents” appears in L’Estrange’s “Household Book”: 
“T?’'m to Mr. Ashley svnt for bryngyng of a fesaunt 
cocke and iiij. woodcocks ye XVIIJth daye of Octobre, 
in reward iiijd.” aa 

Personally, I should put grouse driving at the head 
—and well ahead—of the forms of shooting with which 
I am here dealing. ‘The water fowl are the subtlest of 
birds, and have the greatest regard to their own safety;” 
and so a wild duck is perhaps the most sporting bird 
that flies; and the sudden drop of its long neck as it falls 
headlong from a great height sends a glow of satisfac- 
tion through the shooter. But then, alas! how seldom 
does a day at duck come in one’s way. Woodcock 
shooting, as such, I have never experienced. But the 
occasional woodcock, 

ae when first he comes, 
From his long journey o’er the unfriendly main,” 


adds a distinct fillip to a covert day. Snipe, with their 
zigzag flight—“when I shot zig they flew zag, and when 
I shot zag they flew zig’—are good fun; but, though I 
don’t exactly know why, they are not quite such fun as 
they ought to be. And, after all, in England snipe sel- 
dom or never constitute a whole day’s shooting. _ 
Why is grouse driving so enchanting? Nerve, judg- 
ment, skill, observation, decision, are essential requisites 


to sticcess; and if there be a proper response, a call on 


any of these reserve forces has its distinct satisfaction. 
Keenness and desire have ngt yet been blunted; good 


(shooting) reslutions have been accumulating, The 


Waste of 


dreary London payetient and the exhatisted Lotdon 
atmosphere have at last been left behirid. The geritle - 
exercise refreshes the body; the lovely, fat-stretching, — 
bracing, limpid surroundings soothe the brain and ‘est 


There you stand, waiting for the birds to eoitie. At 
first somewhat careless and castial, the while giins ate 
loaded, cartridges and paraphernalia conveniently dis-— 
posed, sods altered, foothold trodden level and specula- | 
tion indulged in with your loader as to the likelihood of 
the particular butt being a lucky one. Far away on-the | 
distant Hill a tiny white speck or two mark the line of. 
beaters; but all is as yet still and motionles. Suddenly 
a shot from a neighboring butt at a bird or a covey 
prematurely flushed by a flanker, puts every sense and 
nerve on the alert. 


_ the eye. 


“But see out ‘sportsitian’ when the steaiii 18 of, 
And languid Johnny glows to glorious John.’ 


_Soon some moving black dots are distingtitshable 
circling round in the distanee ot a flash of wings is 
caught as birds top a itiound and disappear into the hol- 
low. The heart beats tapidly, the gun is gtas ed mote 
tightly, the foothold is imade tiore settife. “Will they 
cotne to tHie—yes—no—iio—yes—and ino” again, ds they 
curve up to the right and stream over a neighboring 
butt some way off. A grouse drops, and the-quick eye 
takes in the fall of the bird an appreciable time before the 
slower sound of the shot reaches the duller ear. 

And now it is “yes,” and the fresh pack comes well _ 
over the butt, high and fast. A rapid and proper selec-_ 
tion is made, the aim is straight and trite—pleastite and 
satisfaction reign supreme. Or it tay be—darktiess 
and despair—that, flustered and indecisive, too soph of 
too late, the shots ate taken, and‘the birds pass un- 
scathed; or, worse still, one is seen to be wounded, but 
not unto death. ’ 

And so on through successive drives, each one differ- 
ing from the last; each one (let us hope) with its satis- 
faction; each one (we may fear) with its disappoitt= 
ments. Yet we console ourselves by knowing that a 
fast-driven grouse is not af easy bird to kill: and that 
if it were always satisfaction and tiever disappointment, 
both shooting and fishing would lose much of their 
charm. After each drive comes the “pick up”—not the 
most attractive part of the day, Then comes luncheon, 
by no means the worst part of the day; and the little 
strip of paper is brought in on which is penciled by 
the keeper “Killed 179 grouse.” 

Partridge driving, too, is very delightful, but never- 
theless it is tamer, roots instead of heather; more 
cramped, a scrubby hedge instead of a well built butt: 
less exciting, for the birds come swishing over you un- 
announced, and there is little of that preliminary view of 
the rapidly approaching bird, which adds so appreciably 
to the charms of grouse driving. On the other hand, 
while the grouse goes faster, he swerves less, and -the 
partridge, as a rule, gives you a greater variety of shots. 
Further, it is less easy to judge where he will come; 
and when he does come, you have less time to make up 
your mind where you will take him, All this, and the 
fact that you are hampered with hedges, lanes, beaters 
and other guns, makes the average driven partridge, to 
my mind (though contrary to the prevailing idea), a 
more difficult bird to kill than the average driven grouse. 
In broken country, and in a high wind, it is another 
matter. 

Walking grouse is also most excellent sport with the 
scatter gun and spike-tailed dog, which latter, as the 
arm chair student observed, has “been taught to indicate 
the near presence of game by pointing at it with his tail.” 
It is, to my mind, the most sociable form of shooting; 
there is plenty of time for rational conversation. It is, 
too, a fascinating sight to watch the dogs, especially if 
two are working together, ranging and quartering, or 
drawing up to running grouse, which, with heads down 
and bent backs, are rapidly but invisibly creeping be- 
fore them through the heather. Equally pretty is it to 
see the veteran drawing up to the doubtful point of the 
younger and less trustworthy dog; when, half hoping, 
half afraid, his tail instinctively stiffens, though the tip 
still dubiously vibrates. Then comes the definite point, 
the heart-beating pause, broken by the whirr of wings. 
Unless, however, the birds are very wild or the day 
stormy, the grouse rising to a point is, compared to the 
driven grouse, easy to kill. 

The distant view, the gorgeous heather bloom enchant 
the eye. It is a varied scene—the picturesque little cat- 
tle, the active mountain sheep swinging their undocked 
tails; the blue hare lolloping along till out of shot, and 
then sitting up to observe the proceedings. The wheat- 
ear adds its splash of white, the mountain lark rises 


_abruptly from the heather and drops as abruptly further 


on, the hawk hovers and swings away, the peewit settles 
not far off and rises hastily out of shot, a flash of black 
and white, the wily curlew, utters its half indignant, half 
complaining, penetrating call. “But, Lord!” as Pepys 
would say, it is hard work sometimes on a hot day early 
in August, when still out of condition; and an occasional 


. pause “to admire the view” is by no means unacceptable, 


Then there is the Covert day; and a revolution has 
taken place in the method of shooting the pheasant. In 
early days the pheasant was shot in the tree. “You must 
be provided,” says one authority, “with a good spaniel 
that will range well about, and when he hath pearched 
the pheasant, to bay soundly, which will cause them to 
keep the pearch the better; then hearing whereabouts he 
is, make up to him as privately as possible, and having 
espied him (being at a reasonable distance) make your 
shot; and for your dog’s encourageient, let him bring it 
you, and make much of him.” Later, the pheasant was 
simply walked up in line.in the woods or flushed with 
a dog out of the hedgerows and thickets. Hard work 
it was, too, with very little result; for instance, we read, 
“Breakfasted by candlelight, walked hard all day in a 
deluge of rain, bagged three ‘cock pheasants; gloriously 
out-maneuvered all other shooters, came home very 
satisfied and dined off one of the birds.” 

This is all: very well, yet a pheagant is surely but a 


‘miserable beast’ when he flusters up dn front of you in 


the covert, and who, if you'needs must sheot, falls-before 
he has got under weigh, inert, a mass of feathers-—utter 


good material, Little better is he when he 


) 


sntaks oitt at the side of the coveit and flies flopping | 


wit te of Wings, low dcross the plow— 
often missed for all that! But what 4 glotisus bird he 
is when he rises gradually above the trees, and Cities 


high, fast, motionless and straight over the forward guns - 


and falls crumpled up; dead as a stone. And what a 
spttting bird he is when, standing back, but little more 
than a glimpSe of Hit 1§ taught as he passes swiftly over 

- the interval’ between the trees. ~ > 
Pheasant shooting, as now practiced, is no doubt, froii 
ege to larder, a somewhat artificial sport,.and is much 
dependent for its pleasure and success on fine weather 
and some wind, Moreover, it requires no little care and 
management on the part of the master and keeper so to 


* arrange the beats as to coax and coerce the covert-loving © 


pheasant into obeying the directions conveyed to it up 
tb the very iflofient it exchanges its legs fot its wings. 
But lovely Woods, atittitnnal tints, and atituttinal fresh- 
fess, glinting sun and evet-vafying shades, 
as ‘Where the ififant frost has troddeii 
With his imorning-wingéd fett; 
Whose bright print is gleaming yet,” 


- good companionship and fast-flying birds, make a com- 
bination singularly attractive. 

Of cottse, ih its eaflier days, like everything else, the 
miscalled “battue’ came in fot its share of ridicule and 
condemnation. But the ignorant objeétio# t6 thie system 
has gradually diminished, and it has come to be fecog- 
nized that the sport is one involving-to a high degree 
both generalship and marksmanship, Indeed, a totally 
different view of game-preserving prevails to that which 
existed when “man-traps -and spring guns’ were legal, 
when imén ould be sent to Botany Bay for poaching, 
and when either to bty of to sell g@attie was a penal 
offense. It is now recognized a8 4-haririless atiusettient 
that gives pleastife in various ways to large niiinbers of 
-petsons; and-which adds appreciably and gives variety to 
the food supply of the countfy, The “village constable. 
the village shoemaker, the village baker.” no longer— 
as in the days of Sydney Smith’s philippics—poach or 
desite to poach, though often enough, as beaters or 

_ spectators, they enjoy the spoit: The individual poacher 
has practically teased ta exist. The poaching gang— 
promoted and paid by some Fagin 6f a gaitie dealer— 
may still remain; but such enterprise neither desefves 
nor receives any public sympathy, And I am convinced 
of this (I speak merély as a sportsman), that the “Hares 
and Rabbits Act of 1880,” anathematized as it was at the 
time, has tended, whatever its intention, to the salvation 
of shooting at a minimum of loss to the sport; the last 
yore and aggravating cause of hostility has disap- 
peared. 

In what does the pleasure of shooting consist? Not 
it the. danger—though that is considerable sometimes. 
Nor much in the anticipation of the unknown—number 

_and size—which is a large part of the attractiveness of 
fishing. Nor, as in fishing, on the individual contest 
between the intelligence of the man and the sagacity of 
the creature. Not does the pleasure of a particular 
day depend entirely on the personal skill evoked—on 
how one shoots, though this undoubtedly constitutes 
a large element in the satisfaction, or the reverse. The 
pleasure must be largely due to the irresistible attrac- 
tions of sport—the aboriginal killing instinct, as White, 
of Selborne, has it. To this must be added the outdoor 
exercise, the varied surroundings, the sociability of the 
sport.* 

I doubt whether the art of shooting can be learned at 
all from text-books. “Shoot well ahead,” you are told, 
an obvious truism. But how much? There’s the rub. 
Our mentofs talk vaguely or dogmatically of an allow- 
ance of feet and of inches at varying distances of yards. 
One old author, writing sixty years ago, lays it down 
that for a certain side shot at 30 yards you should, with 
a common (detonating) gun aim 4 inches ahead; with a 
percussion gun, 2 inches! And similar, though not 
equally precise, instructions are profusely showered on 
the beginner. Quite useless, for you do not carry a 
measuring tape in your pocket. 

“Tm thinking you borrowed a good bit off that bird” 
—i, ¢., shot well ahead—is a cheering criticism to re- 
ceive. To kill of two fast birds not the one aimed at 
but the one behind is a shock, but a useful lesson. The 
“converse does not often happen to one, though I have 
heard it related of one of our first-rate shots who had 

~ been killing fast “Englishmen” in magnificent style in 
a high wind, that he missed successively three or four 
“Frenchmen” that followed—they -were too slow, he shot 
ahead. On the other hand, I remember once being con- 
sulted out grouse driving by a man who could not under- 
stand why he always missed his birds. He gravely as- 
sured me that he had come to the conclusion that he was 
shooting too much ahead of them. That fault, at least, I 
was able confidently to assure him was not his nor any 
one else’s failing. 

Tt is very difficult to explain, I think, how one does 
shoot, for at least I speak for myself, I do not know 
exactly how I do shoot, or, speaking generally, why I 
kill or why I miss. As far as I can judge, except where 
the bird is coming Straight at me, or is dropping abruptly 
“away from me—in both of which cases, I think, there is 
a certain amount of deliberate aiming—I do not con- 
sciously aim; that is. I see nothing but the bird, and do 
riot see the gun or the rib of the gun atall. The eyes, fixed 
on the bird alone, direct the brain how to instruct the 
hand, and will brook no intervention. Thus it comes 


_about that. occasionally the eye, intent on the rapidly ~ 


moving bird, does not notice some intérvening object— 
a rock, a tree,a branch—and the trigger being pulled 
‘at the moment, the shot is lodged, not in the bird, but 
in the intercepting object. This seemingly dangerous 
absorption applies alone, however, I think, to unexpected 
inanimate objects. Experieice and memory are, or 
should be, sufficiently\ strong saieguards to prevent the 


- **January B80, 1818, TI had some’ very fair game shooting in 
Norfolk, though with parties (as is the unpleasant custom of this 
county and Suffolk), f kept no account of what I killed, which 
I seldom do on such days. Though 1 have never yet been beat 
by anyone in any country that I haye ever seen, still, this style 
bf shooting leads to a jealousy that [ detest; and as I consider 
‘fiore than two guns a party for fun and sogiety, and not a party 
for sport, I reckon all the game shot as much a general concer 
{ fox when killed by a pack of hounds, though ¢ertainly 


Kivied tap-more than anyone else:"--Hawker'y Diary, 


ain. = a  * 2 — A 


FOREST AND STREAM. - 


gun “following toind,” ot the ttigger from being pulled 
at a risky mioment. Indeed, it is wonderful how quick 
and tinerring is the obsetvation of the brdin ott shoot- 
ing, It_if marvelous, for mstance, how the eye, now 
busy with another.bird, notes the fall of the first. Yet 
sometimes hand and eye dre not gitite in accord. A bird 
at which one is aiming may Be Seef to feceive its death- 
blow from another gun, or again, ofié tiiay apprehend 
that the aim is not true; and yet in neither case is the 


‘braii always able to instruct the hand sufficiently quickly 


to prevent the pill of the trigger. 

Less than a hundred years ago, it was said of Norfolk 
—even then with a sporting repiitation—that it contained 
but two good shots. Naturally the imperfections of the 
weapon rendered accurate shooting a matter of the very 
highest skill and calculation? and would probably have 
itiade the killing of the “driven” bird of the present day 
almost an impossibilty. “As far as I can learn at Man- 
ton’s and Egg’s,” boasts Hawker in 1815, “my having 
this wild season bagged fourteen double shots succes- 
sivély (walking), is the best shooting that has been 
accottiplished in England.’ “The art 6f shooting,” he 
says, howevef, ina later edition, “has. of late been so 
much improved that, althoti¢h but little more than half a 
century ago, one who shot flying was viewed with wonder, 
we now frequently meet with schoolboys Who ¢an bring 
down their game with the greatest dexterity.” ; 

Even within my own- observation—now extending 
over Hiore years than I care to remember—accuracy of 
shooting lias ¥efy tiiueh improved. A “gun” who a few 
years ago would have ben considered a fine shot would 
now be but one of the ruck. Bad shots there still are; 
some so shockingly bad that they would be eticouraged 
with the remark, “You're not exactly hitting ‘em, but 
you're frightening ’em-more nor you were.” But such 
ate a diminishing quantity, and one has not so often to 
wonder “what on earth becomes of the shot.” The fact 
is that tiore-c¢ate is taken in the. fit of the gun and the 
gun itselfis handier and shoots better. Then the modern 
explosive catfies the shot tore quickly up to the object 
than ever did the old black aR thus simplifying the 
aim, while the smoke no longer obsetires the vision. 
The ordinary man gets, moreover, itiore shooting than 
he tised to; and all these causes combined enable him 
to make better practice, though the bird itself has, in 
most €ases, been made a more difficult object to hit. 

What actually constitutes a “fine shot”? The propor- 
tion between cartridges and game killed is but one of 
the elements—any decent shot who counts his cartridges 
and therefore picks his shots will probably do as well. 
It is much more than that. Such a one appears to have 
an intuitive knowledge of the sport. He is always on 
the alert; never flustered nor over-prepared; always 
cool and collected. He knows where the birds are most 
likely to come; he obviously judges his distances rightly 
and takes his birds exactly at the most killing moment. 
He never “‘dandles” his gun, as does the poking shot, but 
handles it gracefully and swings free and loose. He fires 
rapidly, yet with judgment. He kills his birds clean and 
dead. He marks his birds accurately, and often those 
oi his neighbor. Nay, he actually understands when the 
guns draw ior places how to move up one or even two 
places, aiter each drive, without getting himself befogged 
in an arithmetical puzzle. He seems to vary but little 
one day compared with another, or ‘one part of the day 
compared to another part—and, to be free of that dis- 
heartening dry rot- that sometimes overtakes and de- 
presses One. It is a real pleasure to see him shoot and 
to shoot with him. 

.There is much legitimate and laudable’ ambition in 
shooting as in other sports—to like to do well, to like to 
do better than another, to wish even to excel. Unfor- 
tunately, in shooting, perhaps more than in any other 
sport, rivalry often leads to jealousy, selfishness and 
want of consideration.* ‘Fo “wipe the eye” of your 
neighbor—in earlier days less elegantly if more ex- 
pressively described as “wiping the nose’’—unless in the 
case of a bird coming directly from him to you, is best 
not done. To take otker people’s birds—unless done 
accidentally, and followed by a suitable apology—is a 
pernicious and temper-destroying habit. Fo kill birds 
(either inside the covert or elsewhere) which if left will 
obviously make a more sporting shot for another gun, 
may be within the letter, but is outside the spirit of the 
sportsman convention. And let us hope that, whatever 
may be your sins, at least the damning cry of “Let ’em 
rise!” will never be directed at you. 

There is (to paraphrase the saying) a great deal of 
human nature in the sporting man. He is a wise man 
who knows his own birds; both to kill and pick up. He 
is a sensible man who is generous rather in leaying than 
in taking a bird. He is a companionable man who is 
content with the place assigned him, and who does not 
persistently suffer irom “cursed bad luck” with the birds. 
If the sportsman be all this, he will also certainly be a 
safe shot, for he has observed much and learned much. 

And, speaking of danger, it is a matter of wonder that 
far more accidents do not occur out shooting. It has 
been calculated that in the British Isles some 300,000 per- 
sons (of whom a quarter of a million take out either 
“same” or “shooting” licenses) shoot. more or less in 
the course of the year; and it has been estimated that no 
less than fifty to sixty millions of cartridges are annually 
fired. Yet the accidents are few and far between. We 
have all- had escapes; others perhaps may have had 
escapes from us. I have myself seen one fatal accident; I 
was nearby when another one occurred; the two within 
four days of one another. But the actual accidents, 
great or small, that have come within Gne’s own obser- 
vation or knowledge are, I think, extraordinarily and 
providentially few. 

And yet we have, on the one hand, our dangerous and 
our careless shots among wus; and. on the other, we have 
the loitering beater and the ignorant “stop,” who so 
often manage to occur in the unexpected spot. “He 
shot round me,’ was the graphie description given me 
of a reckless shot—“he shot round me, he shot above 
me, he shot below me, he shot_at me; I was, as I may 


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niyisinge, L°stauld have heen gack score this 


-three” hundred and seyenty years 


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say, like the Burning Bush, ‘in the midst of fire, yet mot 
consumed.’” Lord Cardigan, of Balaclava fame, was 
once heard abusing his keeper for extravagance in using 
iien ifstead of beys for “stops.” “Beg pardon, my 
lord,” was the matter-of-fact reply, “but your Lordship 
will remeber that last year you shot down all the boys.” 

The biggest authenticated bag secured at one shot of 
which 1 have ever heard, consisted of one rabbit (the 
cause of the shot), one beater, one onlooker (a French 
cook), a boy and a dog. I once shot nine snipe at a shot 
—but this was in South America—they were on the 
ground, and they were shot for the pot. I have read of 
a sportsman (tot Baron Munchausen) who shot a bum- 
blebee and a butterfly, right and left; and indeed some- 
times a large bumblebee does, for an instantaneous sec- 
ond, look uncommonly like a distant advancing grouse; 
just as, when on the alert for partridges, the fieldfares, 
breasting the hedge, often cause a nervous twitch of the 
gun. 

Curious circumstances sometimes occur out shooting. 
A friend walking in line down a turnip field, saw a 
startled hare running fast and straight toward him up a 
furrow. He stood still, waiting for her to turn, but the 
hare, with its peculiar vision, did not see him and ran 
her head plump against his shin, killing herself and very 
seriously bruising his leg. We have all seen a hen 
pice (never a cock) frightened and confused, kill 

1etseli against a tree; and two flustered partridges out of 
a covey often bang blindly against one another, to the 
destructiofi of one or both. I once saw two trott do 
much the same thing. They darted simultaneously at 
my dry fly from opposite sides, knocked blindly against 
one another, and darted back each its own way, fright- 
efied and perhaps hurt. The same day I walked into a 
brood of half-grown pheasants. Up they got all round 
te, and the old mother hen, blundering along in a ter- 
rible fluster, knocked against one of the chicks and 
broke its wing. 

I do not want to dwell on the dark side—and unfor- 
tunately there is a dark side to shooting. The sport may 
be “fun,” but it has also its element of cruelty. A well- 
killed bird, it is true, suffers no pain; it has lived its little 
life, and its death is sudden and painless—a death to be 
envied. But the poor wounded bird—it is saddening to 
see, and horrible to think of. 

Tt may be fairly said that the better the shot the less 
the cruelty; the worse the shot the greater the cruelty; 
and, humanly speaking, no one ought to shoot until he - 
can shoot well. The good shot—unless wickedly tempted 
by his proficiency to fire very long shots—kills far more 
often than he wounds; the bird flies into the center of 
the charge. The bad shot, on the other hand, wounds as 
often as, perhaps more often than, he kills, for he catches 
the bird with the outside pellets, he hits it behind and 
below, and not in a vital spot. Moreover, he is more 
iikely to misjudge distances, cr on the off-chance of 
killing, to indulge in that gratuitous form of ecruelfy— 
the long shot. This comparison holds true, I verily be- 

- lieve, except when birds are coming at a terrific rate 
down wind; then, while the bad shot does not tottch a 
feather, the good shot wounds a larger proportion than 
usual. 

But though there be some cruelty in connection with 
sport, it tends rather to preservation than to destruction. 
The wild beasts of Africa—it is good news—are being 
brought under judicious and sportsmanlike regulations. 
And, thank heaven! however futile may have been the 
crusade directed against the thoughtlessness of feminine 
fashion, public interest has been awakened, and healthy 
public opinion has been directed toward the preservation 
oi’ our rarer birds; and the wanton slaughter of the 
migrants and even of the hawks, the owls and the jays 
is becoming less gratuitous and less possible. 

Though no doubt the aim and end of shooting is to 
kill, the sportsman ought not only to be a *‘shot,” but 
an observer as well, a bit of a naturalist, a loyer of birds. 
“What does the pony boy think about all day,” asked a 
friend of mine of his keeper, struck with the figure mo- 
tionless for hours, and wondering how the livelong day 
was_passed. “Thinking aboot?” in a tone of surprise, 
“aweel he’s just thinking how best to lead his pony.” 
But, while shooting, one can be thinking about some- 
thing else besides how best to shoot—and will shoot 
with the greater skill and the greater pleasure from the 
powers of alertness and observation thus engendered. 

And what interesting touches. of nature come under 
observation. The wonderful instinct of seli-preservation 
given to birds is seen to advantage. One notes the imi- 
tative coloring; the power of creeping invisibly and 
hiding unseen, where apparently nothing could be con- 
cealed, and any movement would betray. I once saw a 
striking instance of the power of concealment in a 
wounded bird. Shooting in Uruguay, I shot a duck, 
which fell wounded into some shallow reed-girt water. 
I had no dog, and diligent search failed to find the bird. 
Suddenly, by mere chance, my eye caught sight of the 
beak, the color of the reed, laid flat up against a reed 
stalk, exposed only as iar as the nostrils, the whole of 
the rest of the bird being kept sunk under water. Then 
nothing is more graceful to watch than the flight, the 
soaring, the hovering and the swoop of one of the hawk 
tribe. I was told by a friend who witnessed the incident 
—and I would have given much to have been there—of 
an eagle which was seen bearing aloft a leveret. On-a 
sudden, startled by the noise of a shot, it dropped the 
quarry, but before the leveret reached the ground, the 
eagle, swooping down like lightning, recovered its prey 
in midair. 

Then the behavior of the game birds themselves; the 
varying calls and flights of the larger birds; the twitter 
of the smaller birds, their original and delightful little 
ways, give much to notice and to enjoy. The migrants, 
some coming, more going, induce speculation on the 
mysteries of migration, and on the fabulous rapidity of 
flight. 

But an end of this. Old Burton, in his “Anatomy of 
Melancholy,” truly remarks that, though sport may, on 
eccasion help to “ease one of a grievous melancholy,” 

“yet that “some dote too much alter it; they can do 
nothing else, discourse of nought else.’ So it was 
ago—it stands true 


SYDNEY BUNTON, 


M31 aie 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Jan. 4, 1902, 


Calendar Time. 


Tuis is the season when catalogues—many of them 
beautiful and artistic and all of them useful—are issued in 
great numbers. 

One of the most beautiful of those which have re- 
cently come to us, is that sent out by Messrs. E. I. Du 
Pont De Nemours & Co., of Wilmington, Del., which is 
commemorative of the hundredth anniversary of the 
founding of their business. The calendar itself, with its 
adornment of life-sized cock quail and woodcock, is 
beautiful, and not less interesting is the commemorative 
historical insert which represents the century, divided 
into four periods. These periods are illustrated by 
Perry’s victory on Lake Erie, and by representations of 
the civilization period, the industrial period, and the 
period of to-day. Messrs. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. 
will, whilethe edition lasts,send these calendars to sports- 
men who may apply for them, but will show preference 
to those applications in which postage to the amount of 
three cents is inclosed. 


The Marlin Fire Arms Co. have issued a desk calendar, 
small and convenient, which is offered to any reader of 
Forrest AND STREAM who will send the Marlin Co., of 
New Haven, Conn., one cent to pay postage. The 
calendar is adorned with pictures of many wild creatures, 
and is very attractive and useful. 


The Peters Cartridge Co., of Cincinnati, O,, has issued 
a sportsman’s calendar for 1902. It is adorned with 
various shooting scenes. The most striking part of the 
calendar is a series of circles made up of the heads of 
Peters rim and central-fire metallic cartridges, and heads 
of Peters shotgun shells. Between the outer circles and 
the next are excellent pictures of feathered game; be- 
tween two other circles are the heads of furred game, 
consisting of caribou, cotigar, moose, elk, deer, bear, 
antelope, and lynx. The center piece is the head of a 
bighorn, or mountain sheep. The heads of the cart- 
ridges are in gold. The calendar is handsome. It is the 
purpose of the Peters Cartridge Co. to distribute this 
calendar to the trade, whence it may be obtained by 
sportsmen. Those unable to secure it in this way may 
obtain one by inclosing six cents for postage. to the 
Peters Cartridge Co., Cincinnati, or to the eastern office, 
80 Chambers stteet, New York. 


Wyoming Elk. 


WE are permitted to print the following extract from 
a private letter: ‘‘When I got over on Wind River, just 
after I left my friends, two men had recently been tried 
before Justice Green on complaint made by Chas. Yarnell 
for killing elk for their ivories. They found three large 
pairs on them, and in one-place Mr. Yarnell found seven 
bull elk that they had killed, and from which they had 
taken nothing but the ivories. I think they were hunt- 
ing in the section where I was, as I found one five-point 
bull killed not long before, and only the ivories taken- 
Well, the justice fined them and they left the country. 
So you see the game wardens were not very plentiful on 
the Gros Ventre and Black Rock, where I hear they 
killed these elk, and also on the Park timber reserve. If 
a man is a game warden he has got to ride and keep track 
of such men.” i 

This is undoubtedly the case recently referred to by 
Mr. W. Worrell Wagner, and, of course, it 1s quite un- 
certain how much of this elk killing for their tusks is 
going on all the time. It seems clear enough that the 
work of game protection in Wyoming is inefficiently 
done, and it is certainly an economic mistake for the resi- 
dents of that State to permit violations of the law such as 
are continually being practiced. An income-producing 
piece of the State’s property is being taken by individuals 
instead of being preserved for the benefit of the State at 
large, an operation analogous to the pilfering of the State 
treasurer by a thief. 


Game at the Boston Show. 


Boston, Dec; 21—More than 150 game animals, in- 
cluding deer from Germany and Africa, and several score 
game birds, among which are partridge from Armenia and 
Bulgaria, black game from Scotland, have already been 
received here for the third biennial exhibition of the 
Massachusetts Sportsmen’s Association, which opens for 
a three weeks’ run in Mechanics’ Building on Washing- 
ton’s Birthday. ; 

It is the intention of the directors to make the coming 
show broader in scope and more abundant in features 
than anything of the kind ever attempted in this coun- 
try. Heretofore only the game of America was exhibited, 
but this time, ufless well-devised plans miscarry, there 
will be a large collection of foreign game birds of the 
kind that promise well for reproduction in this country. 

In order that the aquatic sports may be better con- 
ducted, the entire floor space usually given up to the 
exercise ring at horse shows, will be occupied by the 
artificial lake. The directors of the Association are Paul 
Butler, Eben D. Jordan, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Col. But- 
ler Ames, Capt. S. D, Parker, John E. Thayer, Francis B. 
Crowninshield, Col. Percy Parker, Thomas W. Lawson, 
John T. Burnett, Samuel J. Elder, John C, Watson, E. J. 
Wardwell, Francis Skinner, Jr., Edward Read and C. W. 
Dimick. aie f 

Headquarters of the Association is at 216 Washington 
street. ‘The manager is Mr, Charles W. Dimick. 


Maine Non-Resident Tax. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

What’s the matter down in Maine? Are they really 
so poor? They do not seem able to pay for their own 
game wardens, and are thinking of seeking aid from 
others who are fortunate enough to go within their 
sacred forests. Commissioner Carleton thinks that the 
fishermen and hunters going to Maine spend $3,000,000 
in the State every year, and Congressman Powers places 
it at $6,000,000. It is estimated that for each deer killed 
it costs the sportsmen $200, and $500 for every moose. 
The number of deer killed is variously estimated at from 
twelve to thirty thousand this year. And still they are 


not satisfied. In fact, they are talking of jewing us down 
te the tune of $10 license for every sportsman that enters 
their precious wilds. I am a landowner in the State, and 
have a camp on one of the lakes. I pay my taxes and 
camp license, but would rather sell out than seek the aid 
of brother sportsmen from other States. 


To come directly to the point, it is an outrage, and — 


should not receive the support of any Maine sportsmen. 

The hunters and anglers from outside of the State 
spend about five times as much on their trips into the 
woods as the natives do, and nine-tenths of it is spent 
in the woods. 

The thing for the Maine Legislature to do it to put 
commissioners in who are able to handle the situation. 
The same amount of money and considerably more 
brains would work wonders. Let them not antagonize 
the guides as they do. Rather work in harmony with 
them. It is done in other States, and can be done in 
Maine if they get rid of a figurehead or two. 

PocKWAKAMUS. 


The Elk and the Order of Elks. 


THERE was published im our issue of Dec. 14 an article 
relating to the destruction of Wyoming elk for their teeth, 
to be used by the members of the Order of Elks. Mr. 
Wm. B. Mershon, of Saginaw, Mich., sent this article’to 
Geo. A. Reynolds, the grand secretary of the order, and 
has received in reply a letter in which Secretary Reynolds 
says: “Upon my return home I find yours of the 16th, 
inclosing a clipping regarding the wanton destruction 
of the noble animal from which the fraternity which I 
represent takes its name. I sincerely thank you for your 
interest in this matter and for your information will say 
that two years ago our lodge at Cripple Creek, Colo., took 
up this matter vigorously and caused widespread publica- 
tion of their findings through the daily papers of the 
Western States, and also issued a circular to the several 
lodges of our fraternity, many of whom indorsed their 
action. The Grand Lodge of our order at the last ses- 
sion, held at Milwaukee, Wis.. in July, toot, also passed 
a resolution condemning the wholesale destruction of the 
elk, and our Western brothers said that they would take 
the matter up through the legislators of the several West- 
ern States and endeavor to have laws enacted for their 
protection.” 


Massachusetts December Snipe. 


Mitton, Mass., Dec. 26—On Dec. 17 I killed two Eng- 
lish snipe near Milton, Mass, The marsh was entirely 
frozen up, with the exception of a small creek of running 


water. Is it not rather late for these birds? 
A. W. MERRIAM. 


Sea and Biver Sishing. 
pie te 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest AND STREAM. 


J. S. Van Cleef —A Tribute. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I never met Mr. Van Cleef, but felt acquainted with him 
through your columns. Every writer puts his own per- 
sonality into his writings, and so before his readers. 
Whether intentionally or not makes no difference, the law 
holds. And often what one reads (or may read) between 
the lines is more important than the lines themselves. It 
is rightly claimed that the Scriptures contain “revelation 
by character in action.” It is just as true that character 
in action constitutes a man’s revelation of himself, and 
nowhere does the real self come out more clearly than in 
travel and in the scenes and experiences of camp life. So, 
when these are truly described there is a revelation. 

Who, for example, could read Mr. Van Cleef’s descrip- 
tion of the Beaverkill in early days and the careful 
Sunday observance of those anglers who then frequented 
it and not feel the moral uplift of contact with those 
noble men? And here is just the point of greatest signifi- 
cance, the element of chief value, in Mr. Yan Cleef’s cor- 
respondence in your paper. His writings were wholly 
fine and reverent in tone. Such also were the characters 
with whom he loved to associate. They constituted good 
company, to which he introduced us, and I have been 
thinking that any sportsman—no matter how successful 
with rod and gun—who fails to grow thus fine and reverent 
in character, has missed the main benefit of life in the 
woods—is, indeed, by so much as he lacks in this regard 
not “‘a true sportsman.”’ Is not the real standard of “true 
sportsmanship” right here rather than in the method of 
taking game? 

I have often noted in your columns a strain from other 
writers similar to that from Mr. Van Cleef. This it is that 
makes Forest AND STREAM welcome in so many homes. 
May that note always be prominent in the paper, and may 
it never lack correspondents who shall always write their 
woodland melodies in that key! We want to be worthy 
successors of Robinson and Van Cleef. It is incumbent on 
tis never to write a line which passing across another 
mind will leave a stain. The characterization of Van 
Cleef may serve as a standard—wholly fine and reverent. 

JUVENAL. 


Brooxktyn, Dec. 80. 


The Hearing of Fishes. 


THERE are three phases of sense in fish particularly 
interesting to the angler. Their exquisite powers of hear- 
ing, seeing and their subtle, abnormal sensitiveness to 
atmospheric influence. With all our experience and study 
it is doubtful if we have arrived at anything like a full 
estimate of the acute sensitiveness with which fish are 
endowed. I devote this article to hearing. By hearing 
I must obviously be understood to mean their power of 
appreciating the vibration caused by sound, the conductor 
being either solid, aerial, or liquid. A day dawned some 
years ago when I said in my heart, “What an utter fool 
I have been all these-years in not believing that fish could 
hear us calking.” It was a few days after Marconi suc- 


ceeded with his first wireless message, and when the 

-rays were booming. Those facts were a revelation to 
me, opening tip channels of fact and theory with regard 
to many things beside my favorite pastime, which 
seemed to make my understanding stagger. But the sub- 
ject in hand is its relation to sound penetrating water. 
What did the working of those astoundingly delicate in- 
struments prove to us? Two things. That vibration is the 
one means of communicating impressions, and that 
neither selid nor liquid is any obstacle to its passage, 
although they may more or less retard it. The influence 
of vibration penetrates indefinitely. There is no extraga- 
gance in asserting that scarcely a limit can be set to 
which sound as well as light may not travel to a recep- 
tive faculty sufficiently adapted and sensitive to receive 
the impression. It all depends upon how far the condi- 
tions may or may not be favorable for its transmission. 
In man it detonates the ear drum, and in that way when 
we are under water we discover little intelligible meaning 
from sounds. But the same vibrations are undoubtedly 
received by the exquisitely sensitive hearing intelligence 
of fish—if I may use the term—in a different and far 
more impressive way. By intelligence I mean an instinct- 
ive recognition by their bodies of some disturbance, just 
as Man recognizes a passing breath of air. It takes the 
form of feeling. I came to the conclusion that I would 
make a few. experiments. Space for the relation of them 
at any length 1s out of the question. But here are one 
or two facts. A friend entered into it with me, and 
we bethought ourselves of certain well-known trout in 
our preserye which were “always there.” Then we placed 
thatched hurdles a day or two beforehand, so that the 
fish might get accustomed to them in such a way that 
we could approach close to their haunts without being 
seen and watch the unsuspecting trout through a small 
hole cut in the straw, When one was not at home, the 
other generally was. My friend undertook the row- 
making, I the observation, 


From the sound of a gunshot 500 yards away, which 
made our trout distinctly start, to the breaking of a twig 
three yards from the fish, which did the same, we tried 
all kinds of sounds, shrill and dull, and at varying dis- 
tances, and the sum of our experiments convinced us of 
this—That our sensitively organized friends felt the dis- 
placements of molecules through ether, which we call 
sound, and the further vibrating disturbance through 
what we call water—which I verily believe conducts sen- 
sation to the fish as readily as glass permits the penetra- 
tion of light to this paper—in proportion to the distances 
and the character of the sound, but that they did hear, 
ot feel rather, and with incredible quickness, too, was 
conclusively demonstrated. What they heard and were 
not alarmed at I cannot tell, but when they were alarmed 
it was evident enough by the same kind of start they 
give when their chief enemy suddenly neeps over the 
bank. In only two cases could I discover actual fright, 
the fright that sends them down—a gunshot behind the 
hurdle, and a heayy stamp of the foot near by. It is 
noteworthy that the shrill sounds seemed to startle them 
most. For instance, a policeman’s whistle at ten yards 
sent one out into the stream as if looking about for some 
source of danger, whereas a shout at the same distance 
caused no detected movement, Their way of shifting a 
little further from the bank when they have an inkling 
of danger is a very pretty side movement, well-known, 
no doubt. It seems for the purpose of watching the bank 
at a better angle, The common manner of showing their 
alarm was by a sudden quiver, sometimes followed by a 
sinking down an inch of two, as much as to say, “What's 
up?” JI very much doubt if I ever crept up to my peep- 
hole without being detected, and yet I was careful, for, if 
yOu notice, a trout once on the qui vive gives no sign of 
alarm at a second movement or noise. Once prepared 
he is immovable till he suddenly darts off. You may 
throw your greatcoat at him, and he either braves it 
stolidly or bolts clean away. Five minutes’ perfec still- 
ness and they settled back to confidence, and then were 
again easily startled. I fancy the laws of refraction had 
something to do with it, and that even from the sky they 
sometimes perceived my movements, I had often sus- 
pected this before. Another conclusion: I believe they 
heard much they appeared not to. A sudden smack of 
the hands together, and there was a decided quiver, but 
a bird rattle, began very softly, and gradually brought 
up to its very loudest, and no notice seemed to be taken. 
But doubtless, like ourselves, however loud the noise, 
the gradient robs it of its startle. However fanciful it may 
sound, of this I am thoroughly convinced, that water is 
such an immediate transmitter of vibration to fish that 
they recognize sound from the air nearly as quickly as 
man. It is no argument to say we do not when in it. 
We have no need, Fish have. And because they have 
they are providentially endowed with supersensitiveness 
to that particular neryous influence among others. Man 
is absolutely obtuse in many of his senses compared to 
the lower animals. What is the range of man’s eye, for 
instance, compared with that of the vulture? The fright- 
ened whale that kept spouting frantically puzzled Captain 
FPreslow, but it didn’t his Eskimos, who put the end 
of an oar to his ear till he heard what the whale heard, 
the propeller of a steamship. An hour after a thin, black 
streak from the steamship funnel appeared on the hori- 
zon, and accounted for the whale’s uneasiness, If forty 
miles are nothing to a whale, why sit in your boat talk- 
ing and laughing, upsetting your bottles and your brains, 
and fancy your fish forty yards away don’t hear all of it! 
Neither is it any argument to say if they heard they 
wouldn’t feed. That they feed while listening to your 
yarns only proves that they are hungry, and take risks, 
just as a bird will pick up your crumbs knowing you 
would catch him if you could. 

I will hardly go so far as a friend of mine. A fellow- 
lover of quiet was one day fishing with me a favorite spot 
from a boat for pike. I had just said: “Now I believe 
we shall hit ’em.” “Let's be off,” he said 
“Why?” I questioned. ‘‘Why!'because you mustn’t give 
your thoughts tongue like that. So-and-so and so-and- 
so have been here so often, and chattered so much, that 
every fish in the place ‘knows the English language.” 

I claim no authority to inform. I simply draw deduc- 
tions from certain reasonings and inferences from my’ 
own experience, and state them, more with the: opject of 
suggesting than the desire of instructing —J. Berryman. 
in London Field, 4 


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suddenly. _ 


Jan. 4, 1902.] 


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An Alligator on ‘Change. 


THerE are bulls and bears in every board of trade, but 
the New Orleans board is, perhaps, the only institution 
of its kind in the world in which a full-grown alligator 
has entree to the trading floor. Marc Antony has been a 
sort of honorary member of the New Orleans Board of 
Trade for fourteen years. He was a tiny chap, a mere 
baby, when he came into the possession of Henry H. 
Smith, secretary of the board. He was only eight inches 
long then, and was turned loose in the secretary’s office 
and given the run of the building, where he spent most 
of his time dozing in cosy corners, whence he would 
frequently dart out and scare some nervous visitor to the 
verge of delirium. : 

His environment seemed to agree with him, and he 
grew like a country boy, until he is now over six feet long, 
and as grave and sedate as any member of the board. As 
Marc was born in captivity and never knew the joys of 
freedom, or of association with his kind in the boundless 
bayous and lagoons, he has few of the traits of the alli- 
gator in its native state. His countenance has acquired 
a grave cast, like that of a grain speculator on the wrong 
side of the market. ; 

As Marc grew large he was placed in a cemented and 
inclosed area in the rear of the secretary’s offijce, but 
as the door was frequently left open he would get lone- 
some and a yearning to mingle in the excitement on the 
trading floor would come to him, and he would crawl into 
the room, Even now, if the door is not kept closed, he 
will wander into the big chamber and appear to be look- 
ing at the market quotations on the blackboards. After a 
while, apparently satisfied with the condition of the 
markets, he will go back to his legitimate apartment and 
‘attempt to turn on the water faucet with his tail. 

Some time ago there was a negro porter employed at the 
building who was very proud of the alligator, and was 
always anxious to put Marc through his paces for the 
edification of visitors, especially those from the North, 
where alligators are seldom seen. One warm day last 
summer two men from Boston drifted breezily into the 
Board of Trade. The porter saw an opportunity to ex- 
hibit his pet to an appreciative audience, and with all 
the dignity he could assume ushered the visitors back 
where Mare was dozing in the sun. After admiring the 
alligator’s classic, satirian beauty, one of the men noticed 
there was no water for him to get into and remarked to 
the porter: . 

“T had an impression, you know, that alligators are 
amphibious.” 

““Amfibulous,” said the negro, “w’y, boss, dat ’gator’s 
as amfibulous as he kin be. He'd eat a man in a minnit.” 

Back in the alligator’s private apartments there is a 
water pipe. When the water is turned on he will lie with 
every indication of being at peace with all the world. 

- But unless the aperture of the drain pipe is closed the 
water runs off as rapidly as it falls. Marc learned long 
ago that to retain water enough in the gutter to get any 
sort of satisfactory bath this drain pipe must be closed. 
He eyidently reasoned the matter out, and now when the 
water is turned on he closes the drain pipe with his tail 
and keeps the water in the gutter until he has taken his 
bath. If the water is not turned on when he thinks it 
should be, he tried to climb up to the faucet to turn it on. 

He hibernates in the winter, and as soon as the northern 
winds begin to chill the air he crawls under the building 
and is seen no more until the balmy air of the Southern 
sptingtime lures him from his retreat. While he is doing 
the hermit act he neither eats nor drinks. But with the 
warm, lazy days of spring he emerges from his hermitage 
and takes up the old routine of life where he had left off 
months. before. What the bluebird is to the Northern 
farmer, Marc Antony is to the members of the Board of 
Trade. When he appears in the spring they know’ that 
they may pawn their overcoats with perfect safety, for 
winter is gone—New Orleans Times-Democrat. 


The Salt Water League Bills. 


THe League of Salt Water Fishermen of New York 
will have introduced in Albany this winter two amend- 
ments of the fish laws, as follows: 


Section 69. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, 
corporation or corporations, to erect or to maintain any pound 
net or pound nets in any of the tide waters within the jurisdic- 
tion of this State, including the waters of the Atlantic Ocean 
within three nautical miles of the coast line of this State, the 
leader of which shall begin at a point less than one thousand feet 
from the shore at low water mark; said leader shall not have a 
mesh in size less than five and a half inches and the pocket of said 
pound net shall haye a mesh not less than. three inches. 

Section 70. All persons and corporations owning, leasing or 
controlling any pound nets shall raise the pockets thereof on 
Saturday before the hour of noon, weather permitting, and said 
pockets shall remain so raised as to render them incapable of 
ee any fish until the hour of midnight between Sunday and 

onday. 

Section 67. No person or persons, corporation or corporations, 
shall willfully take with purse or shirred nets in the manner in 

~which meénhaden are taken, any porgies, bluefish, weakfish, or any 

other kind of food fish in any of the tidewaters within the juris- 
diction of this State, including the waters of the Atlantic Ocean 
within three nautical miles of the coast line of this State, either 
on his or their own account and benefit or on account or the 
benefit of his or their employer or employers; provided that 
nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the taking of 
such food fish as may be useful for food fe the men employed 
in the operation of such purse or shirred nets. 

Section 68. No person or persons, corporation or corporations, 
shall either on his or their own account and benefit or the account 
and benefit of his or their employer or employers render for oil 
or convert into any kind of fertilizing material any food fish so 
unlawfully taken. 


Cousin Trout (Leucisci pulchelli). 


Do you know the “Chivin” which is mentioned by 
Thoreau in his ““Maine. Woods” (1857) as associated with 
the brook trout of the upper west branch of the Penob- 

scot? On page 53 of his book he speaks of a “shoal of 
white chivin Chaiciscs pulchelli), silvery roaches, cousin 
trout, or what not.” They had several local names, it 
seems. In another place he says: “Anon their cousins, 
the true trout, took their turn, and alternately the speckled 
trout and the silvery roaches swallowed the bait as fast 
as thrown in.” He instances individuals of both kinds 
which weighed 3 pounds. In the course of his narrativ 
pe peak: of having met with various species of leucisci. 
_ Will_you tell me if these fish, so seldom referred to and 
so little known, are not a sitb-species of Coregonus? I 
am not ‘familiar ‘with them, but assume that they have the 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


adipose dorsal fin, which would relate them to the trout. 
Or, are they cyprinoids, of the yariety known in Con- 
necticut streams as dace? The nomenclature of that 
early period cannot always be depended upon to identify 
specimens, As they grow heavy and take bait, it 1s well 
enough for anglers to become.acquainted with them. and L 
hope you will look up recent ichthyology and establish 
their status. CHUCK-A-LUCK, 


Che Kennel. 
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Fixtures. 


BENCH SHOWS. 
Feb. 46.—Providence, R. 1.—Rhode Island Kennel Club's annual 
show. George D. Miller, Sec’y, 
FIELD TRIALS. 


an. 20.—Grand Junction, Tenn —United States 
Club’s thirteenth annual trials. W. B. Stafford, Sec’y. é 

Feb, 10.—Grand Junction, Tenn.—Continental Field Trial Club's 
Theo, Sturges, Sec’y. “ 


Field Trial 


trials, 


Self-Hunting Delights. 


Cotony, Okla,, Nov. 29.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
A little incident of the prairie seen here recently seems 
worth telling of. A few days ago I was driving up the 
valley of Cobb Creek and saw a big red setter dog 
come over the hill and range the ground before him, and 
a little after a black setter came along the hillside below 
him. Both were hunting, and I expected to see a gunner 
following, but instead of this there came in sight a_big 
black pup, which was working busily in the grass. In a 
short time it was apparent that the dogs were self-hunting. 

After they had worked along for some little distance 
the red dog in the grass began to make game, while the 


black dog was ranging through a cornfield in the stream. . 


bottom, and mtich nearer the road. The pup was potter- 
ing along after the red dog. Suddenly the red dog made 
game violently, then pointed and an instant later started a 
rabbit, which he chased down toward the road—and the 
black dog—while the pup raced after, yelling with ex- 
citement. The black dog at once saw what was going on 
and raced across, endeavoring to cut the rabbit off, but as 
he could not see it on account of the corn stalks, he missed 
it—only by a little, however. 

The rabbit, going at good speed, dodged along under a 
wire fence, which somewhat delayed the dogs, and crossed 
the road behind my wagon full thirty yards ahead of 
them. It disappeared in a thick patch of timber, with 
the dogs in hot pursuit, and the pup uttering despairing 
yells a long way in the rear. a 

While it lasted it was quite an exciting race. ; 

KANSAS FARMER. 


Dogs and Property. 


Tue following, taken from the Atlanta Constitution, 
sums up the result of a suit at Jackson, Miss., for the 
yalue of a dog as follows: 

The second case on record in the Supreme Court of 
Mississippi wherein the railroad company is sued for the 
value of a dog was reversed and remanded yesterday, and 
the owner of the canine failed to get damages. The case 
was that of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad vs. W. R. Holli- 
day, and in his opinion Justice Calhoun stated that a dog 
has no right to block a highway of commerce when it 
has an opportunity to get out of the way. The evidence 
showed that the canine in question had strayed away 
from home, met a train: going in the same direction, took 
possession of the middle of the track and held it for a 
distance of about 500 yards in advance of the locomotive, 
being finally run down and killed. It was further shown 
that the engineer did not know the dog was on the track. 

In a previous decision the Supreme Court made the 
celebrated ruling that “dogs are property,” but Justice 
Calhoun now rules that there can be no presumption of 
value, and that the overwhelming majority of canines have 
no pecuniary worth, especially when they stray about. 


Brunswick Fur Club: 


Tue Brunswick Fur Club will hold its thirteenth annual 
winter hunt at Barre, Mass., Jan. 6-11, 1902. 

The club will make its headquarters at Hotel Barre, 
where the rates will be $1.50 and $2.00 per day, the latter 
price being charged for single rooms. The hounds will 
be comfortably kenneled close by the hotel, and fed at the 
expense of the club. :. 

The annual meeting of the club for the election of 
officers and the transaction of other business, will be held 
on Wednesday evening, Jan. 8. 

The week will be passed in fox hunting, and every lover 
of the chase will be heartily welcomed. All who come are 
urged to bring their hounds and aid in making this hunt 
one of the best ever held in New England. 


BrapForD S. Turpin, Secretary. 
Roxsoury, Mass. 


All communications intended for Forrest anp STREAM should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co,, and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


: & 
DON’T SHOOT 
Until you see your game, and 
see that it is game and 
: not a man. — 


OOGHOOCOOOOOOD 


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Machting. 
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Designing Competition. 


In view of the continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
columns of Forest anp Stream. In America the yacht- 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and such a com- 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu- 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months. 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers. Three prizes will be giyen for the best de- 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: 

I. A pole mast sloop, 

IT. 25ft. load waterline : 
II. Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 
IV. At least 50 per cent. of ballast outside on keel. 
VY. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 

All abnormal features must be studiotusly avoided in 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plans 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea in 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished to 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or 
three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 

ype. 


DRAWINGS REQUIRED, 


I, Sheer plan, scale tin, = 1ft.—showing center of 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. 

II. Half breadth, scale tin, = rft. 

Ill. Body plan, scale rin = rift. 

IV. Cabin plan, scale tin. = rft. 

V. Sail plan, Yin. = 1ft., showing center of effort. 
‘The sails. should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 

A table of offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume. only and no indication must be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, the 
designer should inclose his own mame and address, to- 
gether with his nom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publish'ng 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later than 
Feb. 28, 1902. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 

The Forest AND STREAM reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. 

The prizes ‘offered are as follows: 1st prize, $25.00; 
2d prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. 

Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane’s professional 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, and 
every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness. 


With the Night Coast Patrol. 


The life station at North Scituate Beach, says the Bos- 
ton Transcript, nestles snugly behind the breakwater 
and a re-enforcing ridge of beach stones which the tide 
has thrown up. Yet in the sixty-mile gale from the east 
it shuddered and seemed to crouch to earth as if fearing 
the awful uproar of the sea. The Thor-hammer blows 
of the breakers thundered almost on its walls, and the 
spoondrift, torn in driving sheets of spray from the wave 
crests, spun itself into wool that fled shuddering inland 
and beat with imploring touch on the windows, as if 
seeking shelter. Foam-frothed green waves rolled high 
over the breakwater and gullied the ground to right and 
leit of the station with cumbrous foam, but Capt. Brown, 
60 years old, straight and strong, gray haired but keen 
eyed, faced the tempest without and watched the mist- 
blotted sea for what he hoped not to find, a vessel in 
distress. 

He welcomed me, storm-driven and drenched, as he 
might have a shipwrecked mariner. ‘Most craft have 
had warning of the gale and run for shelter,” he said. 
“You're the only wreck we’ve had so far. Come in. The 
boys are at supper.” 

Sturdy, square-shouldered, heavy-limbed men are these 
of the life-saving service. Picked for strength and cour- 
age, subjected each year, before going to their station. 
to a searching physical examination, they come to their 
work fit in every sense of the word. He who works well 
eats well. The Government “finds” the coast guard in 
shelter, fuel, light, raiment and appliances for their 
work, but they have to provide their own food, and right ~ 
well do they do it. A royal dinner I shared with the six 
surimen, a jovial crew. Two were just in from the beach 
patrol to the north and south, two more to go out after 
supper for a six-mile struggle with the surf and the roar— 
ing gale, while the other two went in their places at 8 
and 12 and 4 the next morning. Yet little recked 
they of danger and discomfort past or.to come. Before 
them was the table, loaded with steaming viands, and 
they made the most of it. 

After dinner, Dick and I, rubber-booted, clad in oil- 
skins and sou’westers, stepped from the station door 
into the pulse of the gale, Dick to make the usual sunset 
patrol trip north to the box at the Glades Point, I to 
go with him as-far.as I could. It was already dusk, and 
the mist of the storm shut off all but a brief view of the 
sea. It was time for low tide, but the great shoulders of 
the hurricane pressed the water high upon ‘the beach, 
and toppling combers rode over the sea wall and with 
the foam sent sand and salt spray singing inland and 
cutting our faces. We struggled northward, a little back 
from the crest of the beach where the high-running surf 
made travel difficult as well as dangerous. Rows of beach 
cottages gave us partial shelter, and we paused behind 


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the Mitchell house-at the end of the row where there is 
a break in the sea wall allowing entrance to the beach 
with carriages in fair weather. Now there was no beach, 
but a swirling, thundering mass of foam, extending fo 
the mists which shut off the horizon an eighth of a mile 
out. A group of bath-houses nestled here far above the 
ordinary water-mark. Already the foam of the breaker 
switled around them, but, large and strongly built, they 
stood firm. 

“Guess they’ll ride it out,” I shouted in the ear of my 
companion. But he shook his head. 

“Summer people haven’t any idea of what it is like 
down here in the winter,” he said; “them’s Miss Tridner’s 
bath houses, and North’s and Sumner’s. They built ’em 
big and strong and put.’em way back, but it ain’t no use, 
The next high tide will get °em any way with this gale on, 
‘-but it looks as if they wern’t going to wait for that.” 
A. sweep of his arm showed me a great can buoy torn 
{from its mooring on some shoal, riding in from the sea. 
Eight feet by four, built of heayy-riveted boiler iron, with 
a 500-pound shot hung to its foot and dragging a chain 
of 10-inch links, it bobbed and danced like a cork in the 
foam. Then a mighty roller caught it and sent it hand- 
springing up the beach. Its dragging chain swung like 
a whip and ripped the foundation posts from beneath the 
bath houses with a single blow. The receding surge of 
the great roller lifted them and they- sailed majestically 
out to meet the next great wave, exploded under its 
Aine rush, and were flung in shattered fragments-at our 
eet. 


A mile further on the Glades’ rocks shoulder back the 
sea and rise twenty to fifty feet above its level. On the 
summit of these the gale hooted and roared to the diapa- 
son of the surf that made the solid ledges tremble 
and sent the white water whirling around where we stood 
leaning desperately against the tempest. Dick grasped 
my arm here and pointed seaward. I looked, expecting 
to see the form of-a vessel in the gloom, but it was bet- 
ter than that. A slant of wind seemed to have lifted the 
smothering mists far out, - 

There may have been a brief break in the western 
clouds, for a glow of sunset light shone through and 
lighted up a-scene of tumultuous glory. At our feet lay 
the inner Osher rocks, beyond them the outer Oshers, 
then Chest ledge, the Willies, and Minot’s beyond all, 
with the lighthottise looming gray in the gloom. From 
our feet to the light, three miles away, the foam 
spread a writhing, surging surface that showed no 
sign of dark water, no color but white. Now and again 
the white tumult leaped about Minot’s light as a dog 
jumps about his master, clear to the lantern and sent 
masses of white spray wreathing the tip of the dome 
above, 105 feet above tide water. What of the light- 
keepers in this quivering tower? With the storm shak- 
ing their home like a reed in the wind, with the granite 
beneath them fairly leaping under the blind crash of seas, 
could men still pursue the even round of routine duty? 

A white flash shot from the tower and winked a wide 

white wink at me, then with its eye glowing dull red 
meantime Minot’s flashed an answer in its number, one, 
four, three. Twice I got the signel, then mists shut down 
again for the night, a gust smote us with spray, and we 
took refuge behind the summit to leeward for a brief 
space. 
Here I left Dick to go the balance of his way over the 
storm-beaten ledges to the key post a mile beyond at 
the tip of the Glades, crawling in spots on hands and 
knees, peering and listening ever seaward, watching with 
devout care that no ship might be in peril, and he passed 
by the coast guard, while I fought my way back to the 
station alone. It is only thus that one realizes the ter- 
rors that beset the patrolman’s path. 

Big Jack Murphy, the No, 1 patrolman who has been 
with Capt. Brown since the station was established fifteen 
years ago, was the man to take me with him on the 8 to 
12 watch to Scituate harbor, the worst beat on the 
Atlantic coast. It lies most of the way along a pebbly 
ridge thrown high by the suri, with low, flooded marshes 
between it and the highland a quarter-mile inland. The 
patrolman must make his way along this ridge. On the 
sea side the surf jumps at him. If he turns shoreward 
drowning awaits him on the marsh. Jack took his patent 
torch in his inside pocket, his lantern in his hand, his 
watch swung over his shoulder by a strap, and we sallied 
forth. There was a half mile of beach cottages set on 
the pebbly ridge. The rising waves hammered at their 
piazzas; from house to house we dodged and then made 
the open ridge beyond which whirling streamers of kelp 
tangled our feet. Every now and then the lantern went 
out and Jack lighted it again with much care. There were 
times when we had to go without its light and did not 
do badly, for though the clouds were dense there was a 
full moon behind them. Jack watched the sea with care 
and Scanned the surf continually. Jt was enough for me 
to do to watch Jack and keep the path that he found safe. 
A wild and eerie place was that ridge; ghosts seemed to 
spring up from fhe sea and flutter across to drown in the 
marsh; once things blew by me in the gale, brushing my 
shoulder with goblin-like cries, and I clutched the big 
sutfman’s atm, but he leaned his face to my ear and 
yelled in it the single word, “Brant,” and-I knew. A 
half-mile further and a single cottage stood alone. No 
words can picture the desolation of this cottage in that 
winter gale. The road that led to it across the marsh 
was a fathom deep under water. The wind sobbed and 
screamed about its eaves and the surf sent tons of pebbles 
slamming against its front and rending its walls. Behind 
it we rested a bit. 

“Unless we get a slant of wind by midnight,” shouted 
Jack to me, “this house will go. So will those others up 
the beach. They can’t stand this hammering. You want 
to watch out sharp on this next half mile. It’s the stony 
path, and it’s no good place to be in daylight, let alone 
a night like this.” ‘ 

The stony path is strewn with boulders the size of a 
cask. It lies low and is swept by the sea, while the 
flooded marsh waits behind it to drown you. It was a 
case of scramble, wade and dodge here. Scramble over 


the boulders, wade the smaller waves, dodge the big ones; : 


and in the middle of it the patrolman stopped short, 
“What in God’s name ate you stopping here for?” 1 

tried to yell to him, but the wind stgpped my pouth like 
, a Ss i . 

: P He red seaward intently, thep- drew his torch from 

‘pearath bis gilskins. struck the handle sharply, and held 


‘gave a great start at sight of this great object. 


FOREST AND STREAM.: 


[JAN. 4, 1902. 


ENDYMION. ; 
Photo by James Burton, New York. : 


it up. A red flame sprang from it, burned in spite of wind 
and deluge of rain, and lighted up a little space with its 
glare. I did not know what Jack saw, but what I saw 
was a most enormous white wave rolling majestically 
landward straight for us. High over its fellows it reared, 
and it bore on its front a dark line. Jack saw it soon 
after I did, and holding his torch high with one hand 
he seized me by the collar with the other and dragged me 
back far enough, but none too far, for the great wave 
surged nearly to our waists as it frothed by, and only 
by bracing against the boulders could we prevent going 
back into the undertow. Then I saw what the dark line 
in front of the wave had been, for it struck the highest 
boulder on the stony patch with a ranting crash and 
rolled over into the marsh a floating log riven from stem 
to stern’ by its impact with the beach. 

When the stony path was trodden and we had reached 
shelter again, Jack spoke, “I think it was a fisherman, 
bound in,” he said. “They don’t show very good lights, 
but whatever it was she was_too hear shore. She tacked 
out all rieht when I showed the flare. The log? Oh, 
they come once in a while that way. You can’t loole ont 
for them very well. We wouldn’t have seen it at all if 
the flare hadn’t been burning. If they miss us it is all 
right, we’ve nothing to say. Jf they hit us we can’t say 
anything. Come on.” — : 

We reached Scituate harbor after a while, passed the 
wrecked pilot boat Columbia, thrown high upon a beach 
cottage three years before that very night with all on 
board drowned, and dodged through the surf to the dis- 
used lighthouse at the foot of the breakwater. Here 
Jack watched the sea long and earnestly. “Since the big 
storm three years ago,” he said, “the Fourth Cliff men 
can’t get up here. The sea washed out the beach sa 
they can’t get north of their station. It isn’t our beat, 
but I always watch here as long as I can for fear some- 
thing might go in just below the harbor and I’d miss it.” 

Nothing could show the simple, earnest faithfulness 
of the life-saving service men better than this. This was 
not in his district, No watch was required of him be- 
low the harbor. Yet he put in what time he could spare 
here in the tempest and desolation lest some ship be in 
distress and escape his vigilance. 

While we watched, the suri cast something up at our 
feet, then snatched it away and played with it, iS 

€ 
watched it in the dim light narrowly, then with a sudden 
agile rush into the breakers, a gripping of his feet on the 
beach against a whelming swell, and a surge back to 
safety again, brought it in. Then he laid it at my feet, 
lifted up his head and swore. The thing was limp and 
draggled. It had legs and arms and hair. [Gut it was 
only the simulacrum of 4 man, an image that the sea had 
deftly rolled of seaweed, a kelp kelpie, cunningly fashioned 
to tempt the surfiroan within reach of the surf. 

“That sort of thing makes you mad,” said Jack. “You 
can’t pass it, for it might be a man. You would hate to 
find it one, yet when you take chances on your life to 
bring it in and find it’s only a bunch of seaweed, it makes 
you swear because it isn’t.. Come on, we'll be late back 
at the station.” 

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Endymion. 


Te splendid -photograph of Endymion that appears in 
this issue was taken as she came up Lower New York Bay 
on the day of the sccond race between Shamrock Il, and 
@olumbia. She was greatly admired by the thousands 
af spectators on the excursion boats that were going down 
to the race as she swept along sith all her light canyas 
drawing. This famous schooner now has a world-wide 


yeputation as a oruiser, and hor record time from Sandy 


(heey 


Hook to the Needles was thirteen days fifteen hours and 
forty mintites. A complete description, together with 
her cabin and sail plans, appeared in our issue of March 
9, 1900. F 


50-Foot Cruising Schooner. 


THE extreme type of lightly built racing yacht has 
caused considerable reaction in the designing and build- 
ing of yachts during the past few years, and yachtsmen 
ate to-day looking for more wholesome and substantial 
craft in which to do their racing and cruising. The ac- 
companying plans of a Soft. over all cruising schooner are 
of a very interesting little craft. She was designed by 
Mr. Charles G. Davis, of Bayonne City, N, J., for Mr. D. 
McLewis. 

The design shows a boat of great power and stability, 
but still she should be driven at good speed by the small 
sail plan. The schooner rig was chosen for its,handiness 
and snugness in bad weather. The fore topmast has been 
dispensed with—a yery sensible move. 

Every pound of ballast will be stowed inside undet the 
floor. This is done as the designer has found that inside 
ballast is more beneficial in wide, shallow boats, and gives 
the advantage of being able to remove it when laying up 
for the winter or jettison in case of getting aground, 

The owner had the interior laid out to meet his own 
views. There is 5ft. 8in. headroom under carlins. Mr. 
McLewis, the owner, having critised for several consecu- 
tive years on the Gulf of Mexico, and knowing full well. 
the peculiarities of that sheet of water, where the neigh- 
boring rivers are shallow and the seas off shore are short 
and steep, the boat’s draft-was limited to 2ft. 6in., and 
she was given considerable freeboard. It was yery essen- 
tial that the boat should be able to claw to windward in 
good shape to make her of material use in navigating the 
narrow channels of the rivers, where only short tacks 
could be made, Her centerboard has been arranged by 
her designer to lower 2ft. at the forward end, as well as 
dropping at the after end like the ordinary board. 

The yacht is now being built by the Tampa Steam 
_ Ways, of Tampa, Pla, and every effort is being made to 
complete her in time for her owner to get some winter 
sailing, Her dimensions are as follows: 


Length— 
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Sar We Lech hrtda tea anton Pek ced Ba » 33ft. oin. 
Overhang— 
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Breadth— 
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Freeboard to Top of Rail— 4 
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The plans and the Specifications which follow are so 
complete that little description is: necessary, and when 
-the boat is finished she will be a very solidly built and 
perfectly fitted little ship. The sail and spar plans, as 
well as a detail of the centerboard, will follow in the next 
issue, - 


Hull Construction. 


Keel—to be a clear, sound timber of maderia 8 x 16in. 
moulded as shown on plans with rabbet cut in it for gar- 
boards and dovetail notches mortised into it far heels of 


frames and floors at least H4im, deep, To po srasaled 


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to stem and riveted with “in. galvanized iron bolts 
clinched on rings. Aft to have deadwood bolted down on 
top of it with 7in. galvanized iron through bolts. A 
slot for centerboard 4in. wide the length shown on plans 
tobe cut through keel. 

Stem—to be of maderia sided 6in., moulded as per 
plan, and fitted to keel with a lock scarph. Frames to be 
boxed in and rabbet cut for garboard. Face of stem 
outside of rabbet to be pointed off-on angle of planking 
to within 1oin. of deck, where it is to be left square for 
gammon iton to rivet.to. 

Deadwood—of maderia sided 10in. and tapered same 
as keel. To haye-:rabbet and mortises cut to’ receive the 
heels of frames same as keel. Sided toin. and moulded 
6in, of maderia. 

Stern Timber—to be securely bolted down on top of 
deadwood with the same bolts that go through keel and 
sent to be rabbeted for plank and mortises cut for 

rames, r ; i 


Stern Post—of maderia sided 4in,, moulded as per 
plan. Hollowed on after end to receive the rudder post 
to be Jet through keel where rudder port is to be cut. Se- 
cured to deadwood and keel with 34in. ‘galvanized iron 
drift bolts. 

Rudder Port—to be built of 2in. yellow pine, riveted to 
stern post and a false post aft of it that is mortised into 
stern timber. All seams caulked, payed and puttied. 

Centerboard Case—to be built as per plans. Posts to 
be of 4in. maderia, both set vertical and doweled to keel 
with maderia dowels. Trunk logs 3in. thick and 12in. in 
depth, ‘bolted to keel and posts with 34in. galvanized iron 
rod clinched on galvanized iron rings. A strip of canton 
flannel payed with white lead to be laid between keel and 
trunk logs and up each side of the posts. Sides of case 
to be built up with 2in. yellow pine, doweled together 


of 30” Schooner Yacht 
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Yacht Designer = Bayonne Veh 
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DECK PLAN: 


Design 


with 34in. galvanized iron. , 
Stop Waters—of white pine, to be bored for and driven 
in through all seams that cross the garboard seams, and 
wherever else is necessary to insure a tight seam. 
Transom—to be of 2in. yellow pine, backed inside with 
maderia. Moulded as per plan with edges rabbeted to re- 
ceive plank so no ends show on face of transom. To 
be secured to stern timber by a natural crook knee of 
maderia and riveted with 34in. galvanized iron rod: 
Plugs—All fastenings that show on the outside of hull 
to be countersunk at least %in., and plugs of maderia or 
‘yellow pine, as the case may be, dipped in paint and 
tapped in. In all varnished work plugs to be dipped in 
glue.. 


1901. 


| Frames—to be sawed out of selected grain maderia 3 x 
3in., spaced 16in. apart on centers. Properly beveled and 
riveted together if gotten out in parts. Bevels changed 
between frames Nos. 19 and 20, an intermediate frame 
between frames Nos. 10 and 13, and another between 
frames Nos. 22 and 23 for chain plates to rivet to. Heels 
to be cut dovetailed. 

Floors—to be riveted to the after side of frames Nos. 
1 to 19, and forward side of Nos. 20 to 27. To act as a 
key to lock the dovetailed heel of the frames into the dove- 
tailed mortises, cut in the keel as indicated at frames Nos. 
24 and 25. Mortises cut in 14in. deep. Size 3 x 2in. 
sided, maderia. 

Clamp—of yellow pine 1%4in. sided by 6in. moulded, to 
be sprung in against inside heads of timbers level with 
line of topstrake. Nailed to frames at upper edge and 
secured along lower edge by 54in. rivets or galvanized iron 
carriage bolts and nuts with heads let in flush on outer 
face of frames, and going through frame clamp and shelf, 
Clamp to be worked in one length if possible. 

Shelf—of yellow pine 2in. sided, 3in. moulded, worke 
in one length and riveted to lower edge of clamp so as to 
form a ledge for deck beams to land on. 

Breast Hook and Quarter Knees—of maderia, to-be 
fitted as shown on plans and securely riveted with 54in. 
galvanized iron rod. 

Bilge Clamp—of yellow pine 2 x 5m. in one length, 
riveted to each frame with in. galvanized iron rod. 

Deck Frame—as per plan, beams to be of yellow pine, 
planed smooth for painting, 21%4in. moulded by 2in. sided, 
cut with a crown of 34in. to the foot. Extra heavy 
beams worked at aft end of cockpit, where there is a 
3in. one. ‘Aft end of cabin a 4%4in. beam. Forward end 
of cabin a 3in. one, and just forward of this a gin. one, at 
aft side of mast pardner with a 3in, beam at forward side. 

Sill—Heavy fore and aft sill pieces 3 x 4in, let into 
heavy beams at each end of cabin and cockpit, and toe 
nailed to same. Ends of short carlins all dovetailed into 
sills, and outer ends of all carlins and beams spiked to 
shelf with 3gin. galvanized iron. Sill to be drawn in and 
held with tie rods of 54in. galvanized iron, as shown, 
riveted on rings through shelf and clamp before planking 
is put on, — 

Hanging Knees—to be worked. in and riveted ‘to -for- 
ward beam at fore mast, heavy beams at forward and aft 
ends of cabin and cockpit. __ 

Breast Knees—also worked in as shown on plan at 
heavy beams and securely riveted with in. galvanized 
iron. All knees to be natural crook. 

Deck Circles—to be cut out of 1%4in: yellow pine and 
bolted in. ; 

Mast Partners—to be riveted in between beams as 
shown at masts. — . 

Filling Pieces—as indicated on plans, to be worked in 
between beams under seam, where deck plank will meet 
pardner planks. Where travelers go through deck,. at 
davits and at bitts. ae 

Planking—Face of frames to be first faired up so there 
be absolutely no shims required to pad them out to the 
plank. Plank to be .worked in narrow strakes and hol- 
lowed on the inside to fit frames aft in overhang. To 
be worked without butts, in single lengths, with a good 
caulking seam. All fastenings to be of galvanized iron 
bored for before driving in. Heads countersunk and 
holes plugged. Planking to be of clear-grained, long- 
leafed yellow pine. All loose knots reamed out and holes 

_ plugged. é 
Covering Board—of yellow pine, in one length, 5in. 
4 wide, 134in. thick, steamed at bow end and bent to shape 
of edge of boat. | 
Pardner Planks—of yellow pine, 1%4in. thick, to be 
fitted. in center of fore,and aft decks, galvanized, nailed 
—— to beams and filling pieces with holes plugged. 


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oa ’ ; halle sweep of the side, with edge grain up. Nailed to beams 


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with 2%4in. galvanized iron nails, heads sunk ™4in. and 
holes plugged. 

Caulking—seams of planking to be caulked with cot- 
ton, well rolled, deck with several threads of cotton -wick- 
ing twisted, then seams paid with white lead well rubbed 
in and puttied. 


Linbers—A_ half-round limber to be gouged out of 
each. frame and floor just clear of the keel or deadwood, 
and a corresponding quarter-round plowed out of gar- 
board so the two leave a good open limber hole for bilge 
water to drain to pumps. 

Rail Stanchions—to. be of maderia, 2% x 2in., let 
through covering board alongside every other frame and 
riveted to same. To vary in height fore and aft as rail 
tapers toward the stern. 

Rail—to be of maderia 4 x 1in., half-round on each 
edge, let over the heads of stanchions. 

Bulwark—to be of 34in. yellow pine, nailed ~ to 
stanchions, with scuppers %4in. high left under same aft. 

Frame of Cabin House—to be of 2%4in. yellow pine well 
bolted together, with lodge and hanging knees as indi- 
cated. Companionway framed in after end and frames for 
cabin windows where shown. 

Cabin Beams—of yellow pine, 2% x 2in,, cut with a 
crown of 34 to Iin., chamfered on lower edges and spaced 4 
as shown on plans. 

Large Cabin Beams—4 x qin. and 3 x 3in. at main 
mast, etc., as shown on plans. Kneed with breast and 
hanging knees of maderia. 
cael and slide hatch to be provided for as per 
plan. 


Cabin Top—to be laid of matched (tongue and groove) eS SS SE Ee 
white pine jin. thick, with tongue and groove worked E 
close to underside. Nailed into beams with flathead nails. 

Heads countersunk and puttied. Top planed off and 
painted lead color, then covered with canvas No. 10 0z., 
sized. and painted two coats of color, 

Skylight—to be maderia 4 x 4ft. inside. Top movable, 
so skylight may be set to open either way. To have 
four glass lights '4in: thick in each side, protected by a 
brass rod grating over same. Fitted with quadrants for 
holding lids up. ' 

Side Lights—Six brass side lights in cabin to be fitted 
three on each side, as shown. Size of opening in lights 
to be 4 x 7in. 

Companion Slide—of maderia- to be fitted and made 
periectly watertight. 

Bitts—of maderia 2 x 5in., to go through deck and be 
kneed to keel. To be set gin. apart at deck, where they 
go through a maderia filling piece between deck beams. late 

Cabin Sides—to be of 34in. white pine boards bent 
around on the outside and stayed up on the inside with 
sin. cypress staving. B 

Mouldings—A 1%in. yellow pine half-round moulding 
to be nailed around edge of house over end of canvas, and 
a quarter-round where cabin side joins decks. 

Centerboard—to be 3in. thick, of the shape. shown on 

plan. Top and bottom boards of same to be of maderia, 
balance of yellow pine, riveted together every 18in. with 
yin. galvanized iron rods. To be scored on bottom 
edge, and forward and aft edges to take rin. round iron 
rod, which is spiked on every gin. with 34 x gin. spikes. 
This rod to have an eye welded into forward end for 
hoisting board. Straps as shown on plan, after one for 
hoist, forward one to slide up and down behind a slide, 
screwed and riveted to hanger as shown on plan. Hanger 
makes it possible to remove centerboard when afloat by 
removing three bolts and lifting hanger off of the per- 
manent bolt shown at forward lower end of case, then 
dropping whole out of the case. Edges of board to 
be beveled off to thickness of iron rod tin. Board care- 
fully planed off, sandpapered and painted before being 
shipped. 

Cockpit Floor—of 1% x 14in. white pine, same as 
the deck, laid on beams 2% x 2in., with slant of 134in. 
ait, so water will drain to two 1)4in. lead pipe scuppers cut 
through aft end of cockpit and flanged over on outside of 
plank under overhang. ; 

Coaming—to be built up the same as cabin side, with 
%4in. white pine bent around outside and 34in. cypress i. 
Saae inside, capped with an oval-shaped cypress cap 3 
rail, 

Seats—in cockpit to be built in 16in. wide of cypress. 

Fore Hatch—z2oin. square, to be framed and built 
where shown on plans, of maderia, fitted with all neces- 
sary hooks, hasps, etc. 

Finish of Hull—Planking to be caulked, planed off, 

sandpapered; seams payed and puttied. Above waterline 
to be painted a prime coat of lead and two coats of 
white. Below water no prime coat of lead, but three 
coats of best copper paint. Bulwarks to be painted 
white,.three coats inside and out. Rail and stanchions 
three coats of varnish. Decks to be caulked, planed, 
sandpapered, payed and puttied, then given three coats 
of wood color paint. Cabin sides and mouldings white. 
Cabin top same as deck. Cockpit decks painted same as 
main deck. Inside staving of cockpit and seats var- 
nished, also aft end of cabin house and hatches and sky- 
lights. Inside of hull carefully cleaned of all chips and 
sawdust, given one coat of lead. 

Interior Arrangement—to be as laid out on plan, of 
cypress, finished in hard oil. Floors of tin. yellow pine, 
as shown, with all hatches necessary to get at plumbing 
and storing of ballast. Main saloon, lavatory and _state- 
room to be square-raised panels, using dark cypress for 
the stiles and rails, and light for the panels. Galley and: 
forecastle to be finished in cypress staving 2%in. wide, 
chamfered edge. 

Forecastle to have transoms,; with lockers under, as 
shown-on plan; an ice box, double thickness, ground 
cork lined, and zinc sheathed inside; fitted with drain to 
bilge, racks, etc., and a dish locker.. Then a zinc-lined 
store compartment, with two-hole _Primus cook stove, 

a galyanized iron sink, with lead pipe drain leading out 
through planking, well flanged and tacked outside, and 
a pipe and faucet for running water from two heavy tin- 
lined copper water tanks placed in bow forward of bitts 
as large as can be got in there, connected to each other 
and to pipe with valve, leading aft also, to filling plug 
in deck, 

Centerboard Case—to be paneled to match bulkheads, 
etc. 

Stateroom—to be arranged as per plan. Large double 
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large, full-length clothes closet, with door 16in, wide 
built in at aft end, fitted with shelves and hooks. 

Lavatory—with floor raised 4in., fitted with closets 
under deck, having shelves for linen, etc. Folding lava-_ 
tory connected to tanks in bow. to pump fresh. water, 
and w.c. and lavatory both discharging outboard. Closet 
to have proper sea cocks for shutting off water. 

Saloon—to have transoms, as shown; tops of same just 
level with waterline. Face paneled, tops pine, with 
hatches cut, 

Hardware—to be approved by owner. All knobs 
locks, strike plates, hinges, hooks, etc., to be heavy cast 
brass; hinges loose pin brass. All.polished, with proper 
rubber buttons for doors to strike on where they come 
against bulkheads. Heavy strap hinges and catches for 
ice box. . f 

Plumbing—to be of best quality heavy lead.pipe; drain 
cocks fitted in both elbows of water pipe, as indicated on 
plans, and connections made with unions, to be readily 
removed, :' 

Pumps—Two 3in. (inside) copper bilge pumps to set 
flush in deck, connected to bilge, as shown, with two 
14in. lead pipes wiped on to pumps, with screens. over 
ends in bilges. ; ‘ 

Rudder—to be the shape and size shown, with 4in. 
diameter maderiarudder postboltedto a yellow pine blade, 
made up as shown, tapered from 4in. to 2in. at aft edge. 
Bolts to be 34in. galvanized iron (four in number) to go 
through all parts and riveted at ends. A bent maderia 
edge piece to cover the end wood. A brass pin Lin. 
diameter to be driven into lower end of rudder post 
and set into a socket of brass on end of keel. 

Steering Gear—to be of the Gardner patent, securely 
bolted on a bed of maderia; to be 17in. x 20in., with 24in. 
galvanized iron wheel with mahogany spokes. , 

Windlass—to be a galvanized iron, Gipsy style, size D 
(6in. length of head, 5in. diameter of head outside end), 
bolted to bitts at heel of bowsprit. Maderia heavers to 
be supplied. ‘ 

Anchors and Cables—Builder to furnish two galvanized 
iron anchors; one 35lbs. and one 8olbs., fitted with three- 
strand manila cables; one 3in. circumference, 50 fathoms 
long, one 4%4in. circumference, 75 fathoms long. 

Travelers—of 144in. hard brass, to go through deck 
beams and set up on under side with nuts and washers, 

Davits—Two pairs of galvanized iron davits, fitted as 
indicated on plans, of pattern apptoved by owner, 
whether folding or plain. 


Our Boston Letter. - 


Boston, Dec. 30.—Most important of this week’s yacht- 
ing news in the East comes the confirmation of the dis- 
solving of the Burgess Y. C., of Marblehead, and the 
absorbing of its membership by the Boston Y. C. Friday 
evening there was a well-attended meeting of the Burgess 
Y. C., at which it was unanimously voted to accept the 
invitation of the Boston Y. C. to join in its membership: 
As it was expected that all of the members of the Burgess 
Y. C. could not attend the meeting, cards were previously 
sent to each member so that the general opinion might 
be obtained. The result was only what was expected, 
and now that the matter is settled, there seems to be 
general satisfaction among the members of. both clubs. 
While it may be deplored that such a monument to the 
memory of the great designer, as an active racing club, 
should pass out of existence, it is admitted that the ad- 
vantages gained by the co-operation of the membership of 
both clubs will be many, and that the racing classes of 
Marblehead will be made larger, instead of smaller, as 
would have been the case if these two clubs had entered 
into active competition. It is expected that work will 
soon commence on the new station of the Boston Y. C. 
at Marblehead. Some difficulty was experienced in getting 
a permit, for the officials of that historic town are as staid 
as the village itself, and it is not often that they will 
countenance improvements which are to be made by non- 
residents. But their objections have been overcome, and: 
it is now expected that the new station will be ready for 
occupancy in June. 

The annual meeting of the Corinthian Y. C. will be held 
at the Parker House, Wednesday evening, Jan. 8, when 
the following officers will be balloted for for the ensuing 
year; Com., John O. Shaw, Jr.; Vice-Com., D. C, Perci- 
val, Jr.; Rear-Com., Butler Ames; Sec’y, Everett Paine; 
Treas., J. B.~ Rhodes; Meas., Parker H. Kemble; Execu- 
tive Committee, Frank E. Peabody and W. H. Rothwell; 
Regatta Committee, George W. Mansfield, W. W. Keith, 
D. H. Follett, Frank Brewster and George H. Mayo; 
Membership Committee, Percival W. Pope, Frederick 
Estabrook, Herbert S. Goodwin and Charles D: Wain- 
wright; House Committee (two years), William G. Far- 
tell. All of these officers will be re-elected, with the 
exception of Measurer Parker H. Kemble, who will take 
the place of Charles B. Stebbins. Annual elections will 
come thick and fast for the next two weeks, the following 
being the dates of annual meetings of some of the clubs 
around Boston: South Boston Y. C., Wednesday, Jan. 
1; Boston Y. C., Wednesday, Jan. 8; Hull-Massachusetts 
Y. C., Saturday, Jan. tr; Winthrop Y. C., Tuesday, Jan. 
21; Quincy Y. C., Saturday. Feb. 1; Eastern Y. C., 
Wednesday, Feb. 12. The clubs in Dorchester Bay not 
mentioned will probably all have their elections in Janu- 
ary or early in February. 

Secretary A. T. Bliss has just published in pamphlet 
form the records of the yachts of the Yacht Racing Asso- 
ciation of Massachusetts, including the records of each 
race and the table of percentages. As this is the first time 
that the corrected list of percentages has been given, I 
have sent it in full, for the readers of Forrest AND STREAM 
interested in Massachusetts Bay racing, so that it may be 
preserved for record. Following is Sec’y Bliss’ list : 


Class C—25ft. Open Yachts, 
Starts. Ists. 2ds. acs 15% Bi. Tetal. Average. 
4 ae » 465 “fi 


pehhordise sees. 6 3 2 ei 77 1-2 
HLOSEESS frac ce sy 3 Dee ie. re Y 1 200 67 1-7 
Inistienm ens cee 4 1 Uy a 18 185 -46 1-4 
Romance ........ i al 2 2 7 2 300 42 6-7 
Widgeon ........ 2 1 1 ae a 100 28 4-7 
M@heodoral yrs ves. 4 ie 3 ae 140 27 1-2 
Garnieeintt i23.722 2 i ¥. i at 80 22 6-7 
ACME ciscsscsees e: Bs il “2 hee 35 -10 
Class D—25ft. Cabin Yachts. 

SCalynsode ccs ash 2 3 1,380 12 12-19 
Taba AS ARABSABN ES 19 He it 3 2 1,290 -67 17-19 
Chewink ........ 9 4 4 500 .00 3-4 
Early Dawn..... 20 3 4 4 Bi ots 885 41 3-4 
Arevto siserreeee 4 1 1 1 1 200 +20 


A Starts, Ists. 2ds. 8ds, 15% Bl. Total. Average. 
Marion .,....... id 1 a 3 S 110 ell 
Pineal! Ve s5sst cena 2 ar 1 1 se A 100 -10 
Little Peter,.... 5 ale 1 3 1 80 .08 
Watpone users sea 4 A 1 2 1 65 06 1-2 
Cyrilay is. easy 2 ‘- zy a 2 a 30 03 
; Class S—21ft. Cabin Yachts. 
*Mildred IT-.,., 14 7 4 ‘lL 1 1 - 1,010 12 1-7 
Opitsah IIT.,,.. 16 5 2 6 2 1 870 -b4 3-8 
Tabasco DIT prcssg 8 2 J 4 2 i. 490 -50 3-19 
Privateer ....:0.: 3 4 2 ih 6 ns 655 -50 5-15 
LALA secs Atees vi 3 1 1 2 430 45 5-19 
Boelche ereenenpe 19 es ve 5 6 1 720 .87 17-19 
Harriet ...., ewes 4 1 2 1 ‘ : 265 27. 17-19 
Coquette ..... re ff <e fr 2 4 1 180 13 13-19 
Preyja ...... wtese 16 he 1 4 1 95 
Larpom We. o.2 28 2 we ts a 2 ~ 30 .02 3-19 
Class L—21ft. Open Yachts. 
Flostess ...s2-..5 Le a GELS ene 100 100 
Circe Ee ae etl ik be oe eS oe 100 100 
ER skahiak cculine 1 1 oe wt *, = 100 100 
Tacoma ......-. - 2 Le Whe ~ rr 135 -67 1-2 
Cleopatra Siyieses 2 ’ ne <n 130 -65 
Problem: siieece L a0 ae Be 1 is 15 15 
Class K—21ft. Knockabouts. 
Sintram .-..45% mane ae ne Ad an 200 100 
Runaway Girl.... 3 ae 2 1 46 165 «pd 
Pompelia ....... 4 1 1 1 il 215 -53 3-4 
dol? Marcas: SOL ed 4 iL Pe 1 2 As 165 41 1-4 
Abi tghuc foro Saas <5 45 1 oe 7S op i 65 ood 1-2 
Ihacelizest® Sa Sak See 2 - 1 1 ae 50 625 
Seapegoat ...... 1 < c. + 1 a 15 -07 1-2 
Uhenesay eoreess 1 he ee ae 1 ¥e 15 07 1-2 
Class T—18it. Open Yachts. 
*Dantasy ««s1se-. 5 vee he BS se or 500 100 
Plunger ..... shecsmey aia 2 1 “4 as sy 265 -88 1-3 
}Dauntless ...... 3 2 1 a ne — 265 -88 1-3 
Circe we wale a Ys 1 is “Se S. -$ 165 66 
GbSter Sven ces 5 1 1 2 ; 1 235 47 
CLOT! sss cays Saeki Ae fae 1 1 1 al 115 .28 3-4 
Cathryn ....bhe0. 1 oa it “ys . 65 26 
Pioneer ....... pee = te 1 1 1 50 16 2-3 
Class [—i8ft. Knockabouts. 
*Malillian ..... «. 10 7 oe 2 1 : 785 -78 1-2 
Aspinquid ....... 13 5 3 2 1 2 780 -60 
Bacchante .,.,.. 12 2 4 2 3 iL 576 47 11-12 
Comforter .....05 8 2 1 2 2 1 335 41 7-8 
Wha dir eye cies soot 6 i 3 il: 1 1 246 37 4-6 
AMANO nese wteae 7 + 2 1 4 2 225 32 1-7 
BODiG i. esae tae 2 1 NE ne aie . 165 25 6-18 
Witttwake ...... a8 i 1 2 a . 135 20 10-13 
SUSAN! ii aeceaeee v HI a 1 45 135 -20 10-13 
Trouble ...:..%.. 3 1 ~= 2 Ja 130 20 
Nethla’ ..5,..... A! 1 ae 2 “ 95 «14 §-13 
seb St. e eta ae 45 . 3 wt 1 2 nf 80 12 5-13 
Mustang -.....- we 1 BS 1 t 80 12 5-13 
Helene, II..,.... 4 ep oe 40 Bi 1 45 -06 12-13 
ois Ota. s 3 24 a0 45 3 : 45 06 12-13 
Dazalet) ae . ss 2 3 ate 45 -06 12-13 
Lobster II....... 3 7 = 3 F 45 -06 12-13 
RarbaTrd hei. clee 3 a bi 44 3 e 45 -06 12-18 
Class X—J5it. Open Yachts, 
*VItESSE s..n.cees 7 6 1 ee AS ¢ 665 -95 
MOSS 5 deb see ons eo 1 6 ve E he 490 «70 
Dorothea .. ee 1 1 = : 165 -47 1-7 
Melodie ......... 1 1 “cd 1 5 x 35 «10 
USHECR Wen See a af ad if i ae xs 35 -10 
Knt-Elp-It ...... 4 Chg ee — ey ee, 2 10 
Only One....... 1 E 15 15 04 3-7 


*Championship winners. {Measured out of class, 


Another new one for the Y. R. A. restricted 21ft. class 
has just been ordered from Crowninshield by Livingston 
Davis, of the Corinthian and Manchester yacht clubs. 
She will be 8ft. 2in. beam and will carry 760 sq. ft. of 
sail, and her minimum allowance of ballast will be 2,308lbs. 
The 21-footer designed by Small Bros., and now being 
built by Pendleton, of Wiscasset, Me., is not for W. F. 
Bache, as was previously announced, but is for Charles 
W. Chapin, of the Boston Y. C. It is understood that 
Mr. Bache favors the 2tft. class, but will not build for 
it while he still owns the H. O. 25-footer Hanley. 

At Lawley’s the to4ft. steam yacht is in frame. The 
Dayis 30ft. yawl is half planked. The lead keel has 
been run for the Adams 21-footer, and the keel box is 
ready for running the lead for Arnold Lawson’s 46ft. 
schooner. Some changes are to be made on the con- 
struction plan of this boat. She is to have double planking 
‘of mahogany on her topsides. The Lippitt bronze 60- 
rater has been laid dawn, as has been a cruising 35-footer, 
designed by Tams, Lemoine & Crane, for H. A. Morse. 

Fenton, of Manchester, has finished the 21-footer de- 
signed by Burgess for Sumner H. Foster. He has the 
Adriance 21-footer, designed by Burgess, about half 


planked, and has started the 21-footer of the same de- - 


sign for IT. K. Lothrop, Jr. He has two 25-footers of 
Crowninshield design started. 

’ Small Bros. have sold the 21-footer Circe IJ., owned by 
Mr, F.'L, Pigeon. She’ was originally built as a Quincy 
cuip challenger, but in 1900 her ends were pulled up and 
she sailed in the z8ft. class. This year she entered the 
same class, but her ends settled and she was measured 
out of the class. Joun B. KILieen. 


Yacht Club Notes. 


An interesting little pamphlet has been received at this 
office, which contains the official reports and summary of 
prize winners of the Yacht Racing Association of Massa- 
chusetts and rulings of the Executive Committee for the 
season of 1901. The matter was compiled by the secretary 
of the Association, Mr. A. T. Bliss. 
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The Morrisania Y. C. held its annual meeting on Mon- 
day, Dec. 23, andi elected the officers and committees for 
the year 1902. There were two tickets in the field, and the 
independent one was successful with the exception of the 

: Commodore, to which office J. Harry Curtis was elected 
by the regulars. George J. Stelz was elected Vice-Com- 

modore, Frank Ruehe, Rear-Commodore; George T. 

‘Charleston, Treasurer; T. Frank Dooley, Financial Secre- 
tary; Arthur W. Haire, Recording and Corresponding 

Secretary; J. Shroeder, Measurer; Ernest Kiel, Steward, 

and C. S. Staudenbaur, Sergeant-at-Arms. 

Board of Directors—George. J. Oakes, two years; 
George Ollweiler, two years; H. Hassell, O, Craighead, 
W. Hansen. 

House Committee—Charles Loock, E. Hose, A. Butler, 
L. Jackson, G. T. Charleton, Robert Nafis. 

Regatta Committee—H. J. Bartro, Louis Englert, Fred- 
erick Kaiser, G. Grasseley, V. E. Bauer. 

Membership Committee—W. Horlocker, F. Foth, S. 
Rosenteld. 

Auditing Committee—A. Morstadt, E. Ruehe, George 
Stelz. 

‘Mooring Committee—J. Deckert, C. Staudenbaur. 

Press Committee—J. Schappert, E. Delevante, A. Pat- 
terson. 

Library Committee—L. Fried, A. A. Crosbie, W. L. 
Coultas. , : 

Nominating. Committee—A. White, John Schmitt, F. 
J. Oakes, ° 


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‘R. H, McFarland and Dr. O. F. Coe. 


and beautifying the house and grounds. 


FOREST AND STREAM. — 


One of the brightest publications that has come to our 
notice in some time is the new Australian yachting paper. 
It is called White Wings, and is devoted to aquatic sports 
im general, and yachting in particular, 


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As was stated in these columns a few weeks ago, the 
Yachtsmen’s Club has been reorganized and the annual 
dues have been reduced ta six dollars, This puts the 
club within reach of all yachtsmen, and as much benefit 
is to be derived by belonging to it, the institution should 
have the hearty support of all those interested in yachting 
in the vicinity of New York. The following circular has 
been received from Mr. Edward MacLellan, 90 Water 
street, New York city: 

Ata general meeting of the club, held on Noy. 20, it was 
decided by a vote of more than fifty of the members that. 
on account of the club quarters haying been dispensed 
with, the dues should be reduced to six dollars annually, 
to commence with Jan. 1, 1902. 

Under the reorganization, the only expense entailed will 
be the rental of a lecture room for the night of each “talk,” 
printing, and the petty expenses of secretary and treas- 
urer, . The rearrangement of dues has been based on a 
series of six lectures, one in each month from December 
to May inclusive, beginning with that of Mr. William 
Gardner, on Monday, Dec. 30, at the Hotel Manhattan, 
his subject being “Cruising and Racing Yachts.’ This 
will be followed by talks on Sails, Yacht Design and Con- 
struction, Marine Engineering, Nautical Instruments and 
their Uses and other subjects of equal interest, each by an 
expert. Detailed notices will be mailed members in good 
season, covering fully the matters to be talked upon. 

The reduced dues should result in our doubling our 
membership this winter, and it is hoped that each present 
member will propose one or more new ones. The series of 
talks arranged for will be worth double the amount of our 
dues, for the reason that, being to an extent of a technical 
character, and by men thoroughly conversant with their 
various subjects, the knowledge so gained, cannot easily 
be had in any other way. ee 


The Pavonia Y. C. held its annual meeting on Tuesday, 
Dec. 24, and the following officers and committees were 
elected: Com., Stephen A. Cooper, yawl Proteus; Vice- 
Com., Charles F, Lyne, steamer Lancet; Fleet Capt., John 
Wright, sloop Naomi; Meas., A. P. Curtis; Fleet Surg., 
Dr. W. J. Parker; Fin. Sec’y, William F. Tobin; Cor. 
Sec’y, F. L. Haeuptner; Treas.,, L. Mittelsdorff; House 
Committee, A. F, Roe, William Willis, Dr. L. H. Russ, 
D, A. Woodruff, and Charles A. Wake; Trustees, G. Van 
Horn, D. Allen, George W. James, Dr, O. F. Coe and 
Charles Steurer; Anchorage Committee, G. Van Horn, 
The new 6c0oft, 
dock and landing, stages, as well as the new marine rail- 
way, have been completed. 

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For some years past the property which the Indian 
Harbor Y. C. occupied has been owned by Mr. Charles 
T. Willis, and the club rented it from him. The mem- 
bers have now decided to buy the property and buildings. 
The price to be paid is just under $75,000. In addition 
to this amount, $15,000 are to be expended in improving 
A first mortgage 
of $50,000, and a second mortgage of $40,000 are to be 
placed upon the property to cover the amounts expended. 
The amount of the second mortgage has already been 
subscribed by the members. The first mortgage is held 
by Mr. Willis. The club house is located at Rocky Neck 
Point, Greenwich, Conn., and is one of the most beautiful 
locations on the Sound. The club now owns about three 
acres of land, a club house, carriage house and-two' cot- 
tages. It also acquires a dock built by the town at an 
expense of $6,000 before it was ascertained that the 
town had no title to it. 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


Mr. Charles G. Davis, of Bayonne City, N. J., has got- 
ten out plans for an auxiliary cruising schooner for Mr. 
F, W. McCullough, of Norfolk, Va. The boat is intended 
for the hardest kind of off-shore cruising, and will be 
very substantially put together. There is full headroom 


under a flush deck, and the accommodation will consist — 


of stateroom, bath room, engine room, galley and fore- 
castle, in addition to a large saloon. The boat will be 
equipped with a 16-horse-power Globe gas engine. She is 
61ft. 5in. over all, 46ft. 3in. waterline; 15ft. beam and 7it. 
6in, draft. The displacement figures out at 90,944lbs., and 
there are 1,852 sq. ft. of canvas in the lower sails. 


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Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane have sold for Rear- 
Com. C. F. L. Robinson, N, Y, Y. C., the English cutter 


Hester to Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge.. Mr. Robinsen took 
Mr. Dodge’s 46ft, cutter Wasp in part payment for 


Hester. 
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The house-boat George D. Purdy, owned by Mr. 
Thomas A. McIntyre, of New York, was burned off his 


‘winter home in Onslow county, N. C. The boat was 


valued at $27,000, and she was insured for $5,000. 
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The house-boat Thetis, which is laid up at Tebo’s Basin, 
South Brooklyn, caught fire on Dec. 25 and was damaged 
to the extent of $2,000. Thetis is owned by Mr. Hiram W. 
Sibley, of Rochester, N. Y, The fire was caused by an 
overheated stove. , 

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Word received from Beaufort, N. C., states that the 
6oft. gasoline Jaunch Ouananiche, owned by Mr. William 
D. Edison, went ashore on Cedar Island and was aban- 
doned. Mr. Edison, his wife and several friends were on. 
their way to Florida by the inside route.” The first open 
water was met with after leaving Beaufort, and it was then 
that the trouble began. More or less difficulty had been 
experienced with the boat from the moment she leit New 
York, and the above mishap was the climax of a series of 
accidents, No lives. wete Jost, and it is not known 
whether the boat can be saved. 

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At Gil Smith’s yard, Patchogue, L. I., there are sev- 

eral boats now being built’ Among them is a catboat for 


[JAN. 4, 1902. 


Mr. John Masury, of New York. She is 1oft. on the 
waterline. A member of the Pentaquit Corinthian Y, C. 
is having a racing catboat built. Her dimensions ate 
36ft. over all, 23ft. waterline and oft, 6in. breadth. Mr. 
Smith is building a cutter from designs made by Messrs. 
Gardner & Cox.for Mr. Hollister, a member of the 
Shelter Island Y. C. This boat will be 44ft. over all, 25ft, 
waterline, oft. breadth and 6ft. draft. This craft will be 
the second cutter built by Mr, Smith. for, although he 
has been building boats for years, his work has been 
confined to centerboard boats, owing to local conditions, 
The first keel boat he built was th e2sft. cutter Nerwasi, 
owned by Mr. A. H. W. Johnson. ; ; 


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_ Mr. Vaughan D. Bacon, of Barnstable, Mass., is work- 
ing on. the designs for a number of new boats that will 
be built during the winter, Among the ordets is a 
cruising yawl for use on Batnegat Bay. This boat will 
be 32ft. 6in. over all, arft, waterline, oft. 6in.-breadth and 
aft. draft. Also a fast cruising launch for a San Francisco 
yachtsman, _ This boat is intended for outside work, and is 
of the service boat type. She will be strongly built and 
will have a 20-horse-power gasoline engine. Her dimen- 
sions are: 46ft. over all, 4oft. waterline, 8ft. breadth and 
3ft. 6in. draft. Mr. Bacon has also an order for a cruis— 


ing keel yawl 5oft. over all, 35ft. waterline, 13ft. breadth 
and 7ft. draft. 


Hifle Range and Gallery. 
== $= 
Iroquois Rifle Club. 


Tue New Year’s Day shoot and opening shoot of its new galler 
Tange, given by the Iroquois Rifle Club, 1710 Jane sttees Bish 
burg, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1902, has the following programme: 

Continuous Prize Match—Open to all. Conditions: Off-hand 
on the German ring target, having a 2in. bull and 44in. rings. 
Distance 75ft. Any .22cal. rifle. Entrance per target of 3 shots 
each, 36 cents, or 3 targets for $1, Re-entries unlimited. The best 
three targets of éach shooter will count for prizes, of which only 
one is obtainable by any one competitor. In case Of ties, the next 
best single target will count for place. , 
First prize, $10; second, $7; third, $6; fourth, $5; fifth, $4; sixth, 
$3; seventh, $3; eighth, $2; ninth, $2; tenth, $2; eleventh, $2: 
twelfth, $1; thirteenth, $1; fourteenth, $1; hiiteenth, $1. 3 , 

Sighting shots will be permitted. Rifles and ammunition can be 
procured at the gallery. Five shooting ranges will be in operation, 
and a cordial invitation is extended to all members of the rifle 
shooting draternity .to eee Yate in the initial shoot inaugurating 
the public opening of the finest and best equipped indoor rifle 
range in the United States. Shooting from 10 A, M. to 10 730 P, M. 
The shooting committee is as follows: O. L, Hertig, A. J. Hueb- 
ner, A, F. Hofmeister, 


Cincinnati Rifle Assoctation. 


CINCINNATI, O,—The following scores were made in regular 
competition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at 
Four-Mile House, Reading Road, Dec. 22. Conditions: 200yds., 
off-hand, at the standard target. Strickmeier was declared cham- 
pion for the day with the good score of 89. Weather, cold and 


cloudy. Thermometer, 20. Wind, 2 to 4 o'clock, strong and 
gusty: 
Siniciemierers. mee yaly veer oe ee 89 85 82 81 80 910 8 6 6—39 
hiideleig feet, o aa ed eee 87 86 84 83 80 $10 8 9 7-42 
EDEN Cit Nae deed apa ly aicinloeie nee 84 84 82 $2 81 { 8 & & {28 
Koherts<) wscssieeiateerss hier 83 82767575 10 6 9 5 838 
Odell Aiea 84 72 71 70 69 9°65 7 T 6-34 
oN S14 GSE E donemittrerh Metsem enn ta reat 82 82.80 80 80 $10 8 7 6—39 
Speth . meter Te EY ied 1G? eepre seg a3 
Lux . «sey. 17 76 69 69 69 & 8 7 9 .6—2: 
Greats PEE st oreeeh ons oo» U4 74 73 71 70 $95 8 5 6—32 
epi ..... sense 76 64 63 5S 55 347 9 720 
SAigtiimi area sae wey c we co 70 65 64 62 .. ero ot 


Grapshooting. 
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[Fixtures. 


pete 1.—Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club’s New Wear’s 
shoot. 

Jan. 1.—Towanda, Pa.—New Year’s tournament of the ‘Towanda 
Gun Club. Live birds and targets. W. F, Dittrich, Sec’y. 

Jan. 1.—Sistersville, W. Va.—Sistersville Gun Club’s shoot, Ed. 
O. Bower, Sec’y. 

Jan. 1—Ossining, N. Y.—New Year’s Day Live-Bird Handicap 
shoot of the Ossining Gun Club. C. G. Blandford, Capt. 

Jan. 14-17.—Hamilton, Ont,—Twelfth annual tournament of the 
Hamilton Gun Club. W. M. Clendening, Sec’y. 

Jan, 20-25,—Brenham, Tex.—Brenham Gun Club’s tournament. 

March 31-April 5.—Blue Riyer Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grandl 
American Handicap at live birds. Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L, I—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. 

May 13-16.—Oil City, Pa.—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F.S. Bates, Cor, See’y. 

May 30-31.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club. O. E. Fouts, Sec’y, 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 

eague, under the auspices of the Cleyeland Gun Co. 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N. Y.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
ae New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 

ame, 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League's annual 
tournament, 

Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, eyery Satur- 
day afternoon. 

Chicago, I1].—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK, 


Interstate Park, Queens, L. 1.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on, 
L. I. R. R. Trains direet to grounds. Completely appo nted 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or piivute 
practice. Café and hotel accommodations, 


DRIVERS AND. TWISTERS. 


The calendar for 1902 of the Peters Cartridge Company, of Cin- 
cinnati, -Is particularly well composed, and artistically portrayed. 


_ The different cartridges of the firm, for rifle, pistol and shotgun, 


are shown in head-end views, and form concentric circles, and be- 

tween the circles so formed are excellent portraits of wildfowl, 

game birds and heads of big game, The title, “‘Ahead of All,” 

is suggestive of the multitude of cartridge heads and game heads 

displayed. The general effect is very pleasing. Send ‘six cents for 

postage to the Peters Cartridge Company, or to their Eastern ” 
manager, Mr. 7. H, Keller, 80 Chambers street, New York, if you 

desire one, 

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On. Thursday, Jan. 16, 1902, there will be a live-bird shoot at 
Interstate Park, the main event being 20. birds, entrance $10, trophy 
solid gold watch and chain, for which there will be deducted from 
the purse, $50. Balance of the entrance money to be divided 40, 
30, 20, 10 per cent, Handicap distances, 25 to d2yds., high guns, 


“Fi 4, Soa 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Mr, J. L. Head, ofPetu, “tnd, weil’ know in active trapshooting 
circlés as a successful promoter of shotgun competition in its mast 

ortsmanlike features, ‘has resigned an important position with the 
Wab Sh Railroad Company, to take a position with the U. M. C. 
: jany, Commencing Jan. J. His territory will be Ie era aia 
sicrthern Ohio and Indiana, Mr. Head is himself a trapshooter o 
rare skill) but in addition thereto he has a thorough knowledge 
of the sport in all its details. He has for some years past been 
tle leadire spirit jn promoting an important annual tournament in 
Peru, w s been conspicuous by its success and good fellow- 
Ship. He acted ds a member of the Handicap Committe of the 
jast G. A: H. at liye birds, and won the respect of all his associ- 
ates “by his ‘thorough knowledge and fairness, Popular, active 
and up to date, his success in his new position is a foregone 
conclasion, » 


Under date of Dec. 28 we have received from the famous sports- 
man; Mr. John M. Lily, of Indianapolis, Ind., the following inter- 
esting, Communication: “‘Will you indly mention in FOREST AND 
StreAmthat'\I have instituted a gallery of the Immortals, in which 
i desire to place photographs of all of the gentlemen interested in 
the:-sport..of shooting with a shotgun. I earnestly request all 
svch fo forward to me their photos, cabinet size, with autograph 
signature and address, to my office, Rooms 42 and 43, When 
Building, Indianapolis. I wish one and all the greetings of this 


merry season.” » 


_ My. W. Fred Quimby, now of St. Louis, Mo,, arrived in New 
York early iast week, visiting this hamlet to spend the holidays 
‘with his Farnily. He was the embodiment of good health and 
Spirits, His ‘dwellvin the West seems to have agreed with him 
‘greatly. He how wears, with a glow of just pride, a pair of beauti- 
ful cuff buttons, in each of which is set a solitaire diamond of 
tare, lively light. These were a Christmas present irom his long- 
time friend, Capt. W. Money. Artistic and valuable as they 
are, Mr. Quimby avers that he prizes them highly, but prizes 
much more highly the friendship which they indicate. 


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The Christmas Day shoot of the Haverhill (Mass.) Gun Club 
was a pronounced success, as the report of it, published this 
‘week in our columns, will show. There was a programme in 
which the element of handicap by distance was conspicuous, and 
jn establishing a reasonable equity there is no better system 
kmowz, & 


».A return match between Omaha and Kansas City is contem- 
iplated, to take place next February, In the recent contest at 
Kansas City, ten men on a side, 25 live birds per man, Omaha 
‘won by a score of 227 to 217. Omaha has won four of the five 
trapshooting contests which it has engaged in with Kansas City 
in the past. » 


- Mr;.C. W, Budd, of Des Moimes, Ta., has set a pace with the 
shotgun which larided him a winner in the contest for the Hazard 
Powder Live Bird Trophy, put in competition for the first time at 
the Kansas City Midwinter tournament. He and Mr, F, Parmelee 
killed 25 straight, and Mr. Budd won in the shoot-off, 


The contemplated contests between teams of New York, Phila- 
delphia and Baltimore are not progressing expeditiously in the pre- 
liminary arrangements, the place of holding the first contest being 
difficult to agree upon. ® 


Mr. R. O: Heikes, whose fame has reached every corner of 
civilization where the shotgun is known, has almost entirely re 
covered from his recent severe attack of throat trouble, and is 
convalescing rapidly. e 


A match shot .at Watson’s Park, Burnside Crossing, Chicago, 
Dec. 27, between Messrs. Oswald Von Lengerke and S. Blake, 
b0 birds per man, resulted in a tie on 45. 


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In the cup match of the Cincinnati Gun Club, held on Dec. 27, 
the winners and their scores were as follows: Trimble 25, Phil 24, 
Hicks 24, Young 24, Werk 24, Spencer 24, 


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(ae ee yes how: a =] p 
_ fhe New Year’s shoot for a gold watch at Interstate Park, has 
excited a great deal of interest. e€ watch is donated, the entrance 
being the price of the targets, $2. . 
Be 


The next shoot of the Richmond Gun Club will be held on New 
Year's Day, at Silver Lake, Staten Island. All are welcome to 
attend it. 

BeRnNaRD WATERS, 


Omaha Gun Club. 


~ Omawa, Neb., Dec. 25.—The birds at the shoot of the Omaha 
Gun Club to-day were exceptionally fast and strong. Some of the 
following scores’ were remarkably good, considering the difficult 


“conditions. The scores follow: 

rucker, 30...,ecsessseeseees Rees Soy ne $e 110012201*22121212120102—18 
Fogg, 30...20....ee es Mpeosi ele Vidarenes 22210222021 122919Y2911191 92 
“Keeline, 30..........+. ae Ft ESC UN 000112100200001000000*010— 7 
armelet, Bleis.dc cave vorsceksesacsesecsens 122229%211119112120122991—23 
mead RWS le cash ho csersceeesedecacas 2%2929002*2299999099990% 19 
spiereshelm, BO. ocevae Stones Seesascthides 2111211129111022211911121—24 
Hafer, 30...... he eee ek er 2011221*00202122212912202—19 


McFarlane, 80...0..:cevccesscessaeny se s0s0D2*111111112101W 


BC EENIN EY POU curiae osha beets wade fyisewrnc ess: 0020200200022022221 201000—12 
BRADIME Bey dace Sess aoettve ders cnc te encted: 1202211 221092222220211122 21 
SHUGEGL B). Sine aa ee ee eee Pekin ce ckee 222222222222000222*202222—20 
Beamapensl versenssseseos ene Vo ees st 22101220112211iw 
Trippen, 30........... pot tty ace ened e 111110002w 

Dee. 27.—Team_ race, 


for birds; Lewis and Townsend vs. 


SY 4729277) VA br 


- Parmelee and Schroeder: 
Lewis, ;30 
Townsend, 30... 
Parmeleé; 32.... 
Schroeder, 30...... 


BBAS pUSEeet Ooo ee OE HEH HS eee 


Catchpole Gun Club. 


Wo tcorr, N._Y., Dec. 25—The Christmas Day shoot of the 
Catchpole Gun Club resulted as follows: 


Wadsworth .....0csesee0-s wes ev eee A111911191111111111111010—23 
4099991711111 95 
1999199991191 111131094 79 
091041 101311 1111110101011—19 
445911119101101113111011122 
Ae 4401141111 1011000171111 2061 
Burke ...... totes SABRE ond 58 hey W7110171171011791911 Ss 24 
Van Volkenburg ........s00005 eevee 2-4011101110100110111101101—17 
1110010000110011011000001—11—28 
Sage secepeerseneseeecensesceee sense .0010110011000011111001010—12 
1100110110001111101110601—15 27 
Van Vleck .....0cecceseeseseee------ 001001310011100011011111115 
0011111001 — 6-21 
Terenas Me A =A see .- +e e101 
E. A. Wavsworts, Sec’y. 


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Ossining Gun Club. 


_ OSSINING, N. ¥., Dec. 28.—The following scores were made at 


‘ 


Piawiher os hcl aaias Sec aticinicn serecn emacs 


‘the regular Saturday clay-bird shoot of the Ossining Gun Club, 
Dec. 28. Events Nos. 6 and 7 were for the prize; 
Events: ; hy pre eRE ot Haga wal 47 
_ ‘Targets: 10 10 10°10 10 15 15 
i T Washburn........ Pettsewgesevecrsssack » © 8 9 H FT 12 44 
ee, CopBlordiord sony. sakes skeen teusens ieee! old, SiO. @ Te ow all ce Lt 
PEW Biss es. Seeces sen cechtoseeeenusebnee 4a Te 6. 6) a ls 
* 4 AlOWs an seh ea enee sss ca ceadeli sees 2 : : S as we 
Bhar ies eee, BIE oer TE ae 
(Bo dale ye eba- se aesascece eee eee STE ok St ie 
gta Gail “pater sireets tecasanressachateagts Z ui 32 «2 +e ye ee 
~B Ga Te eater T Tee CTech eae eee ieee ee a~ be- ure ie 
W Fiz er BAe er eee eee eee tices 7 he AN 4 ey - * 
~Dr now POC CR Hee hoe eee re eee Oe res Ee ehh See ee 2 4 YY ” = . 


. “CGB, 


Forestee Gun Club, 


Newark, N. J., Dec. 25.—Forester Gun Club’s biggest shoot this 
year was held to-day. A drizzling rain kept the shooters busy 
trying to keep it off the top of their gun barrels. Very hazy 
light. 
eT he live birds were very fast, and kept the man at the score 
guessing where they came from or where they were going to 
fiead for “when he called pull. Good warm club house. ood 
wholesome lunch at noon, The shooting continued until dark. 
Thirteen shooters entered the handicap at 7 live birds, and fifteen 
faced the target traps, and every shooter acknowledged a good 


time, The scores; 

Events: tS) sere Ge A 8. 
Targets: 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 
Beaches te sccs= Meats ye eit ede: 
Hayes .. Bb a2) bP S Bk 7 
James 4410 4 4 6 4 6 
LAGI) adseve Bi oS) lanl OO! is, OB 
Pyare 13h 8 16 7 

eming... esd 

D Reming.) gence 1b) POLO Ge 9 7” “BF 8g 
Lasdhed hee eee ery lg Te SEL gy Ss Seats 
ACO LS Eis Naaci ed sad eetnasae es cad clean ee yes Steed tt 2 Ge ie a ad) 
Tarlton, tees: a a: 
Ce oimaphi re tsae GP Gels: eS AN a OT G6 
Tvins Sisecss2-52~ . aoe Gu EN ae eo Ee are 
WDISHTOW sha.as. fete uae Clore pe nrbey vale bara, Mert ely ieee” oe Ey 
LOGUE OOS peri seisetsate fees crs nctine oy ryt 6 8) 6 6. 
AEODEILE. <5) vet anes 123 see aaa are crwile fe Tike mit Vii 


Poultry was won by Disbrow, Hayes, Bradly and Bloodgood. 
The live-bird scores follow. Sweepstakes, optional entrance, 7 


birds: 
Weller, 28......... estes Q010210—3 Foster, 27..,-..-c..s.0-- 0*000*1—1 
Winans, 28.,...-... vey 11102216 Kugler, 27....-..-.005 . .0012201—4 
D Fleming, 27..........0101122 5 Colquit, 29.............. 0220222—5 
C Smith, Basse. ewe 1202102—5 -Felger, 27..4.0.0--5 oye 2021012—5 
J Fleming, 29........ 1200210—4 James, 27.,,..,.-..00005 2100221—5 
TODTIPE, oer ed bab to 02221128 Beach, 27..0.0....6- va 2201 200—4 
Hayes. 2902 cieesssisaas. 2200211—5 
Three birds, 28yds. rise, one money: 
IBIERIaS Mepeeoe Sears Sa Segeela—s SCOUT Shavers cree nyeerle 222—3 
BAG tne hetep pease aees P10—B— TrGbrige fvsssssucacswacets 112—8 
(elie mate Ae eemienas 8 ete 210—2 Weller .........- aah ate kes, 212-3 
TAC Va | auteaaieeslcee aerate O2w 


East Side Gun Club. 


Newark, N. J., Dec. 25.—The Christmas Day shoot of the East 
Side Gun Club was devoted to live-bird competition. Nos, 1 and 
2 were at 7 live birds each, handicaps, No. 3 was the club shoot 
at 10 live birds, in which Messrs, Piercy and Schorty were high 
scores, with 9. The scores: 


Geoffroy, S0.c.cssecseeerses Meee cy Ay are 11022114 22021126 
Piercy, 30...ccccecees Seen SRA ven 2122211—7 1121112—7 
Hassinger, 29....0..sssessssncaccssccoscacseoelOlli2—5 2121122—7 
Schorty, '80.....ssccsceececaccscseccecess. 4 O222121—6 2991299 7 
Knevels, 90....-.- eLegeNCECe Tet eeeeveevees 0 2222202—6 2129212—7 
Hawes Sit .cts. cascades peeweveveenses esL100101—4 0111001—4 
Bille, Dene pens acetate ae hehe Te pa ca ‘ 2220201—5 
Club shoot, 10 birds, handicap: 
Geoffroy, 29....+-.«.0122012122-8 Fischer, 27,...0+.. »-2200012222—7 
Piercy, 20...0.. 2.2042 21999011*1—9 Perry, 27....<-2+++-.1240111110—8 
Hassinger, 29........1112210022—8 Colquitt, 29.. oo sDDOD22 FFF 7 
Schorty, 29 «oe LL21229102—9 jones, Ly eee + «00120011226 
Knevels, 29.. - «1210222202—8 eithauser, 27 -1101120120—7 
Hawes, 27.... --0*10012000—3 Reibold, 27... +» 2e22002122—8 
Koegel, 29...........1102011222-8 Perment, 29.........2190120002—6 


WESTERN TRAPS. 


Nonpareil Gun Club, 


Burnside Crossing, Ill., Dec. 28—At Watson’s Park to-day the 
Nonpareil Gun Club held a quarterly club shoot. G. Roll had 
two straights and won first. Graham won second, and Amberg 
third of the quarterly. prizes. In the moneys the winners of 
first, second and third were Alabaster, Roll and Amberg in the 
order named, 


Ties on 15, miss-and-out, for first, second and third moneys: 
Roll ........+..22111222221229129* Alabaster ...... 122211112121111222 
Amberg ........ 222222220 


Ties for first, second and third quarterly prizes: 
salempie cies s 6b s-eiminsia PATH CTE hats eeatelsteleetais oe -2o2222220) 
J R Graham........ E S Graham.-......... 222222223 
pe 27.—Fifty-bird match, H. S. Blake vs. O Von Lengerke, for 
asic ae 
O Von Lengerke.........0255 0500 00e 2308222229929 299929990 9) 
222200020070 9299 9.9992 95 45 
FL S Blakes... ccs ceecsen secon ence eee «2Z222"22209999999999 9429192 
2022222002122222222099222- 99 45 


RAVELRIGG. 
Garfield Gun Club. 


Chicago, Dec. 21.—The appended scores were made on our 

grounds to-day on the occasion of the sixth shoot of first series. 
"Dr, Meek won Class A‘trophy on a score of 1t out of 12. A. 

Marshall won Class B trophy on’8. C. H. Kehl captured Class C 
trophy on 5. 

The day was a bad one for pigeon shooting, being just above 
zero, and a sharp wind blowing across the traps. ‘The birds were 
hummers, and almost every bird, the moment of being released, 
started promptly for Milwaukee, and at a gait which would dis- 
count all schedules, and for aught we know, many of them kept 
up the gait until they got there. 

The attendance was not up to our usual standard, but was 
good, considering the extreme cold: 


No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. 
Dr Shaw ..<.ccecsenececee ee u202222202*22— 9 102*106—3 222722 —5 
GC Ae Keblecieccce eceresossss 21 O101002*0— 5 202110—4 01*002—2 
Dr Meek .......0ss0cesvere> 2d 12*11222111 «119119 6 alae stare 
ily \W. eBlatons scaers asseesoees s OLI*II022%— 6 021200—3 100110—3 
EH atone ovnaecelcre cc's sean er eneUSIO TU rye) Ads. ene 
A Marshall 1.25.27... sevsce Oriingtoa0— 18 sake. 101022—4 
Dye eheis eee pref Pe hs ee eet a ee 
McDonald..-..scsscsuce- OT0012"0112 55 iw ss sy 122*11—4 
Tee NiiieWSanrteene acer ceebOlemmee TO oe || Sateee 
Ross...... rp sccternl O0O02010I"11— 56 Sixt 122010—4 
CES PROSS sere ce ioeee panics seh ees ee Sos 0100*1—2 


_ Dec. 25.—The appended scores were made on our grounds to- 
day on the occasion of our annual Christmas pigeon (turkey) 
shoot. Notwithstanding the gloomy, threatening and chilly 
weather, nineteen members came out to participate in the fes- 
tivities of the occasion, and seven members each carried home a 
fine turkey, seven events being shot off—six of 5 birds each and 
one of 10 birds. The pigeons were in the main a fast lot, with 
an occasional sitter and semi-occasionally a genuine screamer. 
About 400 birds were used, and all went merrily as Marriage bells: 


- No. 1, No. 2.. No. 3. 
© P Richards... ....ccccessese- 2101I22171— 9 Sta: aie 
Wat enlace metas sotce else cts ver OZ2TTI2*O0— 6 nee kee 
A McGowan ....,... eererevevcedsLQOIQI222— 8 aeeec aninns 
Hassacle "yn. Rn eee edecelerdiZ— 9 | lee 
M B Richards... ....teceesses- 2 1200-— 5 wk as eae 
Barnard aacssseres ensues dd «a5 ~ 110I*11*22— 7 202103 29191 5 
Dr Meek «..c..+0.006 seserrerserstQIIZITI—A0 eee, ke ‘ 
Keb casicctes = eees cree srenessseseens saendvecd 212*0—3- 0*100—1 
eee WeelSaton see cucessssinneoes sees tesitcecnne : 001-2 = 211024 
INitsly ES Se hapeweiuser ners sodadee spon coco 121414 9914702 
TROWEYs a ceanteadsacmecusisceeras teeernntewes Wil—5ti‘iat. 

No, 4. No.5 No. 6. No. 7 
@ P Richards...:.-.-..-..;2101I2—4 ies, ross) eee 
A MeGowan..........00..-00102-2 et: axe «i 
Wishatk L6siii ess. slec. 2 eele00= 3" SONP2I—4 es one 
Barnard ...cacceouccees SeOIQ2E-8 HOA=5 19999—5 
Dr Meek ......2...-,202--021—=4 115 12*21=4 = 001113 
Kehl srretcscrpovcccsctosss cll gy o*ll0—2 02100—2 1100*—3 


° 


T W Eaton....eccuscceues I—6 111215 2110114 1911-2 
Nisly clocssesssnescsesss so0¥2o—a W2—-5  Y{OI*I—-B 1011-6 
yonke wotne gee hee bay ke nimi 01122—4 1°022—3 202214 ness 

Onishany Sakea\ennceceses 110013 102203 3= OUN2—-B casas 
Gardied iiiieininesvstealastollo—4. Gseky D7 Pein aerate 
Drinkwater, Vistsedeie.s)- + 222215 21000—2  01000—1 Sees 
Sinan Maye iyensidy wae esseee ys 12211—5 2221-5 OMU-—3 .....9 
TLOWTV"| (vsnieeees Brey sGe sees lol22—4 =60212*—3 »=— 2011 —4 na es 
ers eae PERE E obss CisIOo 2013 neues “nt 
CATON ners bois fetter aes 22101—4 jaan ce oan 
Wats! sei exes Cenk ppeestenarekliei—4 angie d ita atin’ 
Kehl ...-......1*021—3 01011—8 Jones. .j...00¢ee yes 12111—5 
T W H#Haton....*2102—3 21101—4 onmighan -eee, see 1111°—4 
Nusly sesureer »-21212—5 002123 


Dr. J. W. Mzex, Sec’y, 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


Tae St, Louis shooting fraternity celebrates New Year’s Day 
this week with an, open live-bird programme at Dupont Park, The 
event of the day is a 25-bird sweep, with a long list of entries, and 
all extra time will be filled in with shorter events. 

Alf. Gardner, manager, has just issued a snug little pamphlet 
programme, announcing the “Sunny South Shooting Tounnament,” 
at Bernham, Texas, the week of Jan. 20 to 25 inclusive. Three 
days are devoted to live birds and three to targets, the former 
being arranged under the high gun plan of division of TONERS, 
and the latter on the Rose system, at the ratios of 5, 3, 2,1. The 
events are well chosen and supplemented by liberal added money, 
aggregating ir all over $800, The whole programme and prospectus 
has a promising, prosperous, sportsmanlike appearance, and one 
can readily believe from it, as Mr. Gardner assures the reader, 
that this will be a big and happy meeting of the devotees of trap- 
shooting in the South and West. 

The Jerseyville, Ill, Gun Club celebrated the advent of the 
new year with an open target and pigeon shoot., 

Mayor A Young, of Alton, inaugurated during” Holiday 
week a novel method of supplying meat in abundance for the 
city’s poor during this festival season. He issued a proclamation 
calling for volunteers to go on the 27th to a place in bece pit 
county, where rabbits abound, all to chase cottontails as a ¢haritable 
enterprise. The C, P, & St, L, Railroad peoplé furnished trans- 
portation to the gunners. The response to the call was generous 
as to numbers, and wagon loads of bunnies were the fesult of the 
day’s work. The farmers in the locality selected for the hunt en- 
tered heartily into the spirit of the thing, and facilitated the hunt in 
every way possible. The subsequent ieast was onc of the hap- 
piest that the poor in this bailiwick haye ever bien offered, 

President J. R., B. Van Cleave will call the directors of the 
Illinois Gun Club together early in the new year, te arrange for 
the next annual meeting and tournament, to be eld@_at Spring- 


field in May. RALLMORE. 
ON LONG ISLAND, 


Sere 


Brooklyn Gun Club. 


Brooklyn, L. L., Dec. 28—There was a good attendscct at the 
grounds of the Brooklyn Gun Club to-day. The main €) 9) woe a 
handicap at 50 targets for a cup. Two tied on a maxiniit) sonore 
of 50, Messrs. McKane and Caunitz. In the shoot-off the Ini me= 
won. 

Wright, 12,.,.... hd a aR yk-¥ ETNE Ply ra 1117110111001101111101100 —98 
0017 11.1111001110111110111 15-29 
McKane, 10......... Sane tee a aann teen 0011111111010112011111011—1) 
: 4199110019111111111111111— $e 
Catrmitze losecc..neeebede datetidde panes 111110001110101100111110—A7 

r 9111011100111111101011010—18 50 

Ridet. Iti. sas cee een nee van an wa his hea sc 0101011111111101111101011—19 
1100011000010011111011000—12—47) 

Super, D0. ccesccscace ara arala'steleratel oid oe o =» -0111991111101101011111101—20 
1101011110110110110011000-—15—45 

Welles, 4........-. veveaeeeseseenes sae 10011919 11010111111111 101— 
4911111001110111111101001—19—-44_ 

Shoot-off, 25 targets: ; 

MckKaniess bade taser kag pevecosesyesse002119910110111001111011111—95 , 
Gaunitz Res soe05. ie eee ven se cseee we o 0 A101100010111001011000010—2 

Sweepstakes; 

SUPCD sessasrerneccsecsnn 1iidG 20) Wright wosecc<sscosssecsg hdl .L 
McKane ..... San ate care Le PE 15a yy UWortis |S. deckaspoeuee ones) Dede. 
Katnitz: so: tet oe 11.16... Welles .isiscyccencceeece oe 18 39 
Rider! Uegusuercuss: ec dese la. ta ae 


No. 1 was at 10 singles and 5 pairs; No, 2 was at 15 singles and 
5 pairs; No. 3 was a match at 25 pairs, 


Cincinnati Gun Club, 


Cincrnnaty, O., Dec. 27.—The trophy shoot of the Cincinnati 
Gun Club, held to-day, was conspicuous by excellent competition. 
Of the twenty-four contestants, one made a straight score, and 
five more killed 24 out of 25, as follows: Trimble 25, and Phil, 
Hicks, Young, Werk and Spencer 24 each. The birds were first- 
class. The weather was cloudy; no wind. A silver cup and $40 
went to the winner, There were six high guns, one for every 
four entries. 

The conditions were 15 pigeons, $15 entrance, handicap. The 
scores: 


Du_ Bray, 31...... Mpateie teas ete jaadanse ys 222222022222*229999990919- 23 
Phil, | AES dees Dilstatea mamas stile cia dedee hee 22112222222220222221 2122234 
Morris, 31....... So acsesasseseseseserscass ooo 10229229012229925i01212—91 
Mackie, 29....5.5. Tek een fee et ohh es 222222292222 *222292292200—22 
Osterteldw asin. kelegagaseses o44 Eee tas clare 001*0112121210"1112212221-15 
ATrYS Aer aes cae to aveecG secant Jatez ap ae *02221*222222222010212022 19 
Gambell, 29....... Og COOGEE npariion ork: 2221212222220021201100121—21 
Farmer Jones, 29...:...c:s0,008. vae+eea+-0012002020202020w 
RinGadsiw ale, ecwetade dey ad de veaceisianebees 222220222 *222229%99 299999 — OF 
Schuler, 290... Fa cniees stein oye cit, (Stee aes 211*10*201120121222111221—90 
SWNeichd CISD RASS re ur nee Faerie re ns 212222222002210220201222*—19 
Hicks, 29....... chsar goa ect tee nate 2222222*22122112291129991——94 
Alkire, 32....; inentru fc ahee Sebecae Lees 1121222211221 222021112110—23 
Robertson, 30....... Pedeetab cecal sectors 222.22220222*2222999999099__ 99 
“hrimIplew OU sss es eee es fae ese beer ays ws e DONALD OD IIIIII9 9999992999 OF 
VIO TITY Meche vae sve we a dee eee tore fre dln oa oes AB 2222222012221222990901999 94 
Ahlers, 30.....:.20:---.5 Pialiopanee Se-str Sart 100222121222112221220229% 97 
dS ets rere eh So py ety ee Sen ee a 2002101121211210221211122—a7 
Werk, 28........ Senna a's’ Ao deach sor 2221)221221221212999099995 94. 
ATCT Mays | oevceng es SLE Ee Ase Eare Areca! 2110211222201122120212001—20 
Ward) Sterile sscc cies notaeens vole seas San 2222022211011221200222112—9) 
Spencer, 30... .0.25: Lakai Relea bent ores 202 2222222299922229999999-_D4 
Kohler 2 (isch ey er ep eee ioe seis 0*101121112122909112211102—18 
EXC ye DON ene gs tren AO SESE EAES Raat nets 3 022121211**12112219199112 99 
Event No, 1 was for practice, at 25 pigeons: 
DTP REAVINOls « axoeoasete kits seo eh bey eea te ee 22222221 291292921992021 29-94 
SISTER Letg', MAL MCPT SD gto Meh Aa pee oN ETF 2221212222221111 2201929") 94 
Gambell, Pelee ken noimornee varia ereter eal chetietae 212110111222112*1 22291999 99 
Water iS) -matde naraavtanGitistenarert ete oh ere 22222222121 2021292191112 93 
Gl ex 5-25 pipe cecorv 0's Lins peep ahow eee c 2221121112110112212012111—92 
ROP ertSQTH Ua eMtl eres seeh desde uel ee 22.22222122222911291202290—93 
CH pmeAGn gD UaseEE Loy aeons: eed eee pcs 2211122122129729911291 119-93 
Jays SE Cele do lac ardatert cas tesa be teeter odie 2121211012121*02222999999_ 99 
Ahlers, 30....... PSHE. tee cc ne Myra BF 222110*202121421222110111—21 
Event No. 2, 15 birds, two high men out: 
Gambell, BD cette cece see seetee sees atede oven ees en «1221229991999999 15 
Schuler, ) Rasta Ese dia ciebaiale|=-s:pivees se ot LBeal hited 221122211112129 15 
MIGHT IS tied areca sere ee ee Oe My ROL Noy 212021222229912 14 
ETc NEZO Way cee eee rn tereae cea ae ne cy ee 22012111111111*—13 
AU ers sare ante saAt Fare atesapint ae ie geet tes se eae 12222020*122022—17 
Tere GeniGies: GS. ose a deaih os ek ot Aes araeeleieletste ota 201211010121291 12 


*Shot for practice only, 
Match race: 
Gambell, 29....-,...222221212—10 Morris, 81..........22129#9099— 8 


Richmond Gun Club, 


Sinver Lake, Staten Island'—The Christmas Da ‘shoot of t 
Richmond Gun -Club was devoted to both targets Jad live inde 
The next shoot of the club will be held on New Year’s Day, to 
which all are welcome. The scores: 2 


Events: * 123465 67 8 9101112 18.14 15 16 17 
Targets: ._. 10 15 10 15 10 i6 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15.25 
G Bechtel . SO aec tis, 38 9 610 710 810 5 9 6 9 810 6 915 
F Schoverling...... 411 7101012 811 412 6 9 810 6 918 
A A Duke..... Too Uy Ee ease 812 7 9 611-5 i0 811i 12 
FG Crystal... 83588596959 4 7 254 4 412 

Fifteen live birds, 28yds. all, 30yds. boundary: : 
A  SCHOVEF]ING.. 420s seereseesasecncecesesecnnss s o202222099999999.19 
Geo Bechtel.......... se pesscceresseveccsrccesdsas ene al 2000012002012— 8 


EF WwW RP PSPURRSrsarcer succes tescerycs is egy ae ete 000220123 Ad 
. CHOVERLING, CY 


20 


FOREST AND STREAM 


[JAN. 4 1992. 


a 


Kansas City Mid-Winter Shoot. 


Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 19.—This is the opening day of the mid- 
Sa tournament held at Bob Elliott’s Blue River Shooting 

ark, : 

Forty-two shooters took part in the contests to-day. The pro- 
"gramme was the Dickey Bird target shoot, ten 1b-target events, 
entrance $1.50, no charge for targets, and $5 added to each event. 
The targets were thrown from the magazine trap, . 

The weather was quite cold, and the shooting very difficult. 

The handicaps were from 16 to 20yds., and the 18.and 20yd. men’s 
scores were quite low. But seven events’ were shot to-day, and 
the programme will be finished on Saturday, 

Dr. Lewis, of Norborne, Mo., a i6yd.. man, was high with .96 
out of a possible 105; Hodges second with 95; Roger third with 
$4, and Linderman fourth with 90. 

The Kansas City Gun Club held its monthly live-bird shoot to- 
day, only four members taking part, owing to the cold weather~ 
F, W. Cottrell was high man with 21 out of a possible 25, 

To-morrow morning at 10 o’clock the inaugural contest for the 
Hazard powder championship trophy will commence. Mr. Ben 
Norton, their genial representative, will take entries for this con- 
test this evening at the Midland Hotel, and the indications are 
that thirty-five entries will be the limit, owing to the cold 


weather. he scores: 
Shot 

Events, 12345 6 7 8 910 at. Broke. ‘Av, 
CEOBDY Sasktel « 91213 12151214111413 150 125 833 
Gilbert ....se.e.e0s 9 12 12 14 10 12 13 12 13 15 150 122 -813 
Marshall ........... ~WMWIZ1WWN1I31L14 «150 116 733 
HUMP bee janet Atte th Sao, 105 75 -T14 
Burnsides ......... V1 1114-9912 1515 1211-13 150 123 820 
Gottlieb ........... 61110101110 .. Eis 90 58 645 
AD cluvraceteseccaet. 9 13 13 10 13 15 14 — 105 84 800 
OBrien sivaceae.” ii 14 12 13 12:12 15 14 10 10 150 123 ~820 
Linderman ........ 13 11:13 15 11:15 12 12 14 «13 150 129 860 
ROPES Shcasek ess se Wi4H4MWUBbiBbB...., 105 94 895 
Bray ...: mt WES Par Ls Ket FO ak: Ga 105 85 .810 
J A R Elliott. “Jay aby ag A A Hd 60 49 817 
Norton .,.... , 9 12511 Saaelets eas tho.) 07 -713 
Calhoun . 9121110121210131313 150 115 TAT 
Scott . 111218 181212101312 1385 108 .800 
Fimim: Jee ke ss 1 16 J0 aT As. ait te 90 71 -789 
Cunningham .,.... 11101012 9.. 14 90 66 133 
Campbell? .......... Sa la Tee PR Oe 75 By -84l) 
Murphy °.........5+ 10 42-12 be’, Slane 90 61 677 
Scranton ......--.. 3° OF eT Bah ule 90 60 67 
T Cockrepfl -7...... gE ee hse aot ene 30 19 630 
HB lsewisi<dddcres ae 13 15 1513121513151514 150 139 921 
Be) Ee oe gb Ribak ahs ees eee 60 50 -80a 
BGar tats esse fess a Oe eens a Ape 30 10 a8 
Poland: VM ests SESE Pare 60 28 -467 
rei ser Soa rere SPC BS ney he’) a 60 36 -600 
Holmes ....5.++.- i S12 A eae ae ie 6 Ob 82 781 
Hodges ....... a yells Mes GIS IAS... Ls ose 105 95 -905 
Townsend ....... « 10 814121212 ..121412 138) 106 785 
McDonald ......... hn Pn 33 i i 105 82 =. 781 
SRO APs ARR es LVAD ple 2575. fe ASAT. 105 84 800 
Tay EM Otte vaesiesctatelse TEST Sip apa ae gan ee Pe 75 66 880 
ATE kh Seces cece 12-17:13-15 9... ..1213840 120 95. «192 
Parimmelee .......... S ZETA Masih cass sls Nee) oes 60 48 -800 
Berkey 55 cae ceriesees ab in Bg i Pee as Pe b2) 97 809 
SAI sikte. ssuetanses es AS ATT Sets eee ts oe 75 56 TAT 
BAAICTHAT. eee e cos Pe BSNOD Teac ts teas ewe 45 21 467 
GprdRue essence, ne JOM RIDES oe ose es 60 45 750 
Rrekmers, deseo tee eb pe awa Cpa b eae es 45 34 156 
Millett - . 13141412 ..141310 105 90 857 
+. os 144132 .. 14 13.13 75 66 880 
be 2 VA ea ee aan k 30 21 -700 
4 aati shot ch tet ct eee ee Oe ee welouia ke 45 38 844 
PL Priap reed pe iat hak 45 38 844 
Meet feta fess ee 15 8 app 
1 Set a BNR) 43 40 889 
oe dey aie aaloeeante 45 38 844 
hte loner aa .- 12 13 11 45 36 800 
eps Sombie rats 45 39 867 
ee tie Te Eee 15 12 -800 


Second Day, Dec. 20. 


The Hazard trophy contest started promptly on time with 
thirty-three entries. The shooting was from one set of five Ful- 
ford traps. The birds were a good lot. A very bad light pre- 
vailed owing to the ground being covered” with snow and a bright 
sun shining in the shooters’ eyes. r 

At the end of the fifth round nineteen men were straight. At 
the end of the tenth round ,but ten men had a straight score. 
When 15 birds had been shot at only six men had scored them 
all. At the twentieth round but four men—F. N. Cockrell, Budd, 
Cunningham and Parmelee—had straight scores. Cockrell lost 
his twenty-first bird and Cunningham his twenty-second. Budd 
and Parmelee were shooting in good form, and went out with a 
straight 25 each, and received $73.25 each. Crosby, Linderman and 
Cunningham received $52.25 each for killing 24. 

Nine killed 23 and drew $33.35 each. Seven scored 22 and got 
$10.45 each. 

Budd and Parmelee will shoot off for the trophy to-morrow at 
11 o’clock: 

The Hazard cup scores follow: 


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Baker, 28 « « »1221212212220*22*22121222—23 
Scranton, 28 , - -2222221012011221*22122* —19 

. » -1211222*10021222222* —16 


Murphy, . « . 222*02222220221 2229221222 23 
Jenete ts VAP ea hy RE eee ret oe 222221 2121122221 229221222 25 
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Gilbert, 32........0+ CAI AGS rt pte 2222220222222022222212102—22 
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Bramhall, 30..... aA sdte use aD SA Sdoeisagon 222222*20220222222202) —18 
LRT TEL PAN S5 448 he Ate SBOE HED E eS 2202222021222"22* —13 
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Eperl's bas li ais ster sis p15 Aa eee ABMS BE -1222227022022222222222222 22, 
MPO eo eee be ca ete Sons 12100022212220 —16 
SEGVEMS ede ptece dear cet etnneeeaseceser «. . .2122*221223229*2211122222 93 
el arlome cence aniea sdercee sips een oer hee ree 12222021211221112*1111122 23 
CAME WIR, 28 ieee ete ore een ae et Reeeaane 22222*222012*21220222* —18 
Smead, 29....-... pe ek Pee Seana 20*222122*2*221122** —l7 
Se StH one center rere taad dinner nee 22*01212200 —8s 
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Referee, Ben Norton; scorer, John Quistgaard. 
Shoot-off for championship trophy, at 5 birds: 


Budd ..... ee adele deseieee 2212 Parmelee .......+.+ wvecevesalo*w 
; Thitd Day, Dec, 21. 


The weather this morning was much warmer and but little snow 
was left on the ground. Budd and Parmelee were called to shoot 
off tie for Hazard trophy at 5 birds. Budd won the toss and went 
to the score first and scored his 5 straight. Parmelee scored the 
first three, but lost his fourth dead out of bounds, and did not 
shoot at-his fifth. Budd was congratulated on his win, and Mr. 
Ben Norton, the courteous representative of the, Hazard Powder 
Company, in a neat speech, presented the cup to Mr. Budd. In 
reply Mr. Budd said the sportsmen should feel grateful to the 
Hazard Powder Company for their generosity in putting in com- 
petition such a nice-trophy, and thanked his many friends for con- 
gratulations received on his winning it. Mr. Norton then invited 
the sportsmen to partake of what President Whitfield called fizz. 
When the glasses were al] filled Mr. Budd proposed the success 
of the Hazard Powder Company and their genial and courteous 
representative, Mr. Ben Norton. As a manager and a referee Mr. 
orton is a success, and he was rN complimented on the 
success of the initial contest for the zard championship trophy 
“Budd shot a Parker gun, U. M. OC, shells and Schultze 
Parmelée shot a Parker gun, U, M. C, shells ard Laflin 
powder. , 


‘ Team Shoot—Omaha vs. Kansge City. 
At U1 o'clock the teqm shoot was called, The gondition were 


owder. 


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ten men on each\team, 25 birds to each man, Interstate Associa- 
tion rules. One man from each team was called to the score 
and finished his score, making as well as a team shoot an in- 
dividual match, which made the match very interesting, C. W 
Budd. was chosen as reteree, . -- 

Mr. C. Cockrell for the Kansas City team and Mr. Hardin of 
the Omaha team were first to the score. Both killed straight 
until the fourteenth round, when Mr. Hardin lost a good driver. 
Each lost his twenty-second bird, and finished, Cockrell 24, 
Hardin 23, Kansas City one to the good. 

The second team up were Montmorency, Omaha, and F. N. 
Cockrell, Kansas City. Montmorency lost his fifth and sixteenth, 
and scored 48, Cockrell lost his eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, 
nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-second and twenty-fifth, and went 
out with 17. Omaha was now five to the good. 

The next team up was Little Kansas City, and Burke, Omaha. 
Little lost his fourth, eleventh, twelfth and fourteenth; total killed 
21. Burke lost his fourth and twenty-first, and scored 23. Omaha 
seven in, the lead. 

Lewis, Omaha, and Hermann, Kansas City, came next. Lewis 
lost his seventh, eighteenth, twenty-first and twenty-second, and 
went out with 21. Herman lost his third and twenty-first, and 
finished with 28; Omaha 5 to the good. 

Next came J. A. R. Elliott, Kansas City, and Townsend, for 
Omaha. Elliott lost his eleventh, and Townsend his twenty-second, 
and both went out with 24, Townsend is the midget of the Omaha 
team, and surprised the talent by shooting a tie with Elliott. 

Fogg, of Omaha, and Allen for Kansas City came next. Fogg 
lost his fourteenth dead out and scored 24. Allen lost his fourth, 
eleventh, eighteenth and- twenty-fourth, scoring 21. Omaha now 
leads by eight birds. : 

Beard, of Omaha, and Berkey for Kansas City made a good 
husky team. Beard scoréd 23 to Berkey’s 21, and increased 
Omaha’s lead to 10, 

Smead for Omaha and Gottlieb for Kansas City came next. 
Smead killed 20 and Gottlieb 28, a gain of three for Kansas City, 
and reducing Omaha’s lead to seven. 

Bramhall for Kansas City and Parmelee for Omaha came next. 
Both were shooting in good form, and a close match was looked 
for. Bramhall got 21, while Parmelee scored 23, and Omaha was 
now nine in the lead. 

The last team up was Bray for Omaha and Dave Elliott for 
Kansas City. While Kansas City had no chance to win at this 
stage of the match, Dave Elliott’s friends hoped to see him win, 
while Bray’s friends were anxious to see him make a good finish. 
When the smoke cleared away Bray had 23 to his credit and 
Elliott 22, leaving Omaha a winner by ten birds. 

Another team match is talked of at Omaha in February be- 
tween Kansas City and Omaha. 


Omaha, 
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Kansas City. 
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Guns, shells and powder used by contestants in Omaha vs. 
Kansas City team shoot: f 

Omaha Team—W. Hardin used a Greener gun, U. M. C. shells 
and L. & R. powder; Montmorency, Parker gun, U. M. C. shells 
and Schultze powder; Burke, Lefever gun,-U. M. C. shells, and 
Schultze and L. & R. powder; Lewis, Parker gun, U. M. C. 
shells and Schultze powder; Townsend, Parker gun, U. M. C. shells 
and Schultze powder; Fogg, Smith gun, U. M. C. shells, Schultze 
Bowes: B. 27, Smith gun, U. M. C. shelis, Schultze powder; 

mead, Parker gun, U. M. C. shells, Schultze powder; Parmelee, 
Parker gun, U. M. C. shells, L. & R. powder; Bray, Smith gun 
U. M. C, shells, Schultze powder. 

Kansas City Team.—C, Cockrell used Greener gun, U. M. C. 
shells, Dupont powder; F. N. Cockrell, Winchester gun, U, M. 
C. and Winchester shells, Ballistite powder; Little, Winchester 
gun, U. M. C. shells, Ballistite powder; Hermann, Smith gun, 
U, M. C. shells, Hazard powder; J, A. R. Elliott, Winchester gun, 
Winchéster shells, Hazard powder; Allen, Parker gun, U. M. C. 
shells, E, C. powder; Berkey, Winchester gun, U, M. C. shells, 


L, & R. powder; Gottlieb, Smith gun, U. M. C, shells, Hazard ~ 


powder; Bramhall, Remington gun, Winchester shells, Hazard 
DO peELS D. Elliott,’ Winchester gun, Winchester shells, Hazard 
powder. 

There have been five contests between Omaha and Kansas City. 
The first four have been at 50 birds to the man, or 500 to each 
team, The last one was cut down to 26 birds to’ each contestant, 
or 250. to each team. Omaha has won four out of the five con- 
tests. 

The Kansas City team gave a smoker to the Omaha team and 
their friends at Cook Hermann’s place on Saturday night, Any 


one who has been fortunate enough to enjoy Kansas City hos- — 


pitality knows this means a good time. The Hon. Tom A. 
Marshall acted as toastmaster. Mr. Parmelee, Mr. Norton and 
others gaye a good talk on matters pertaining to sportsmen in 
general, while Mr. Marshall related a few incidents that happened 
while abroad with his American team, i 
Kansas City is very enthusiastic over the coming Grand 
American Handicap, and we can assure those in attendance a 
cordial reception. Bob Elliott will have his grounds in fine order, 
and nothing will be left undone that will contribute to the pleasure 
and comfort of the visiting sportsmen. HAWKEYE. 


The Hamilton Gun Club. 


Hamitton, Canada, Dec. 25.—A team from the Hamilton Gun 
Club visited Toronto on Saturday, Dec. 21, and were defeated by 
one point in a friendly match with the Stanley Gun Club, whose 
inany kindnesses to our members are fully appreciated, and the 
Hamilton Gun Club is looking forward to a very pleasant time 
on New Yeat’s Day, when the Stanley Club will visit us and 


shoot a return match under the same conditions as those under - 


which the shooting was-done in Toronto. : The teams were: 
Stanley Gun Club—Forman, G. Magill, Fleming, 
Hulme, Townson, Friend, Piercall, Day, Buchanan. 
Hamilton Gun Club.—Dr. Wilson, C. Brigger, T. Upton, M. 
Fletcher, Bowron, Cline, Hunter, J. Crooks, Dr. Hunt, H. Graham, 
Event No. 1, 10 live birds: 
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*12210111— 8 Hunter 
1002010000— 3 J Crooks - .1012102012— 7 
. 122102*212— 8 Friend 1100011201— § 
.. -2210100211— 7 Piercall 1111112001— 8 
121102211J— 9 Dr Hunt. 0001111221— 7 
ina eats 1112122012 9 Day . .-- -0000200100— 2 
«eee 1101010112— 7 Graham vevevees OLIIINIOOI— 7 
Bee instt ses 1011010221— 7 Buchanan .........2221212212 10 


Event No. 2, 25 targets, magautrap: Wilson 16, Forman 12, 
Brigger 16, Magill 12, Upton 15, Fleming 15, Fletcher 11, Shep- 
pard 14, Bowron 18, Hulme 15, Cline 17, Townson 17, Hunter 11, 
Friend 15, Crooks 13, Piercall 17, Hunt 16, Day 17, Graham 9, 
Buchanan 18> : a . : 

Totals—Hamilton Gun Club shot at 100 live birds and killed 74; 
shot at 250 targets and broke 142, J | 

Stanley Gun Club shot at 100 live birds and killed 65; shot 250 
targets and broke 152. . . 

The outlook for a very large attendance of shooters at our 
annual tournament, eae 1417 is more promising than in any 
previous year. Mr. R. Wilson, representing the Dominion Car- 
tridge Company, of Montreal, called last week. He has just re- 
turned from innipege and -advises us that several members of 
the Winnipes Club will be here. While in the West he also met 
some members of the Calgary Gun Club, whom he thinks will 
probably come East this season. 

We believe that the Canadian 
able winter rates at present, and as many shooters 
Winnipeg are in the habit of visiting their old homes and friends 
in the t during the winter months we expect that western 
Canada will be yepresented by a very strong salabaaline Ir 
aie, a eit 2 i- , Bap iF. 


Sheppard, 


Pacific Railway offer very favor: . 
from west of , 


Haverhill Gun Club. 


Havernitr, Mass,, Dec. 27—Qur Christmas shoot was very 
much of a success; 2 great deal more so than we had reason to 
expect, considering the weather. It commenced snowing about 8 
o'clock in the morning and kept at it until nearly noon, -after 
which it was dark and the light very bad for good shooting. 
Everything was wet, and our traps neyer worked worse or broke 
so many targets. Nevertheless our friends came and stayed with 
us as long as they could see to shoot, and they may rest as- 
sured that we appreciate their kindness. With all our troubles, 
not a “kick was heard,” whatever they may have thought. The 
“friendly scrap,” the team shoot,| was all that could be asked, the 


Boston Shooting Association winning with 216 ont of a possible » 
250, The Individual Handicap strung the shooters out from 16 
to 2ayds. Dickey and Griggs divided first and second money; 


Langley, Carlisle and Webster divided third. 


Among our out-oftown visitors were Mr. and Mrs. W. K. . 
Park, of Philadelphia; Messrs. Langley and Carlisle, of Exeter, - 
N. H., and Mr. Rice, of Leominster; Moss, Dickey, Wadsworth 


and Kirkwood, of Boston; Howe and Allison, of Hingham; a 
whole lot of them from Amesbury and Lynn, including Lambert, 
but he don’t count. We would be pleased to have them all 
come and see us under better weather conditions. I think we 
cae make a better showing, certainly no worse. The summary 
Ollows: , ¢ 


Events: 123 46 678 910 Shot 
Targets: 15 20 15 20 20 10 20 20 10 25 at. Broke. Av. 
Da staenge 78 Ape 919141918 91717 6 22 175 150 +857 
Lambert, 22.:,..... 131714 2017 81615 522 175 147 .840 
PGi 201 ascent 11 18 141618 91611 5 21 lth «6 189s: = 794 
Plopese ln Wee ase 1118151616 71814 622 175 143 -817 
Ansan! 2aae ts eee 1217131718 91014 620 175 136 «TT 
George, i23...vcc.2.! 1419151920 81216.... 140 123 .878 
Muller, -18.......,.. 1416131616 51512 417 175 128 -T3L 
Spoftord, 16........ 8171216138 51314 317 175 i118 674 
Lockwood, 21...... 1319121617 81211 622 175 136 SCH e 
Lovering, 21....... 1317131818 516138 419 175 136 eit tine 
Tomer! (225 eieeceie 1418131917 51312 4.. 150 115 166 
Goole TG ce beatues 912101112 41412 5.. 150 89 -593. 
Elst tees ooh ciel Hii 17 71312 6.. 150 106 «=~ 706’ 
Langley, 16.,...... 915 71616 81416 8.. 150 109 126 
Carlisle olen. ena 1414141518 101517 6.. 150 18  . 82 | 
Vier Ste trl ern oasis ATSLISSI2 TG AT eects, wb ea, EAU 8 ~~. . 840 
Raplt erties deca 1213121618 8... 1... 100 79 790 | 
Werlhianits tein sees ens Bs Se Eee se 100 84 -840 
Munroe ..... Sittee, lcd 1ST ee be bt os oe 54.360 
Hubbard, 16....... /1422 71711 61114 4.. 150 96 -640 
Hrank; 21 Rain dsc td LOee LAR Th Pe Wee 100 85 850 
) eiverciiny -ccoeneeerre 1314 Tae OB oe eee 100 76 <760 
_ Straw, 162... pee CSN, Deel ue wt nic) fete 100 69 -690, 
Yelmah, 16.... + B10 S82 ee ey LOD 44 440” 
1 Es he ~ AIT IZ 17-1 «9 s. af" 4 100 86 860 | 
Capt Allen, 18 - -- 16111515 71414 617 160 115 Ayot 
Follansbee, 16......... 8 61313 8 814 7. 135 77 -510 
Merritt, 16......... .. iim ota frye Cae 85 60 =. 705 
Grip Sam upeeet veces Ure eee 13 71616 8.. 80 60 86.750 
Shtobt,, olurasnaw ate > ou tena Oe Or mole epee 50 By emer 6 
Tngham, 16-aitssave ve Sw apy on lala 4 50 sl = .620 
Bdmonds,, Ola tgede av tatu soos TORE or no” Bf 
Brows; Hiei sscacce ewes: a0 TEE cee, 40 li «275 
WVEDStEr, SUBS ister ee ol goa sek eerie. Sa Oar he 50 37—s«S 74D 
Brooks, 18.05 Wueses Oe ripe cal ise bipiai scons eet le 20 12 =O 


Events 1, 3, 5 
§ and 9, reverse, 

Fiye-man team shoot, 50 targets per man: 

Boston SHOSHag Association—Dickey 46, Puck 44, Allison 44, 
P. H. 43, Howe 39; total 216. ! 

Boston Gun Club—Mrs. Park 41, Mr. Park 42, Williams 44, 
Munroe 23, Hebbard 34; total 184. | j 

Amesbury Sportsman’s Club—Allen 37, Lovering 41, Follansbee | 
34, Lockwood 41, Hatch 40; total 193. 

Birch Brook Gun Ciub—Frank 29, Everett 38, Straw 40, Yelmah 
19, Lambert 45; total 181, {2% X 

Haverhill Gun Club—George 47, Miller 37, Spofford 84, Tozier — 
41, Merritt 34; total 193, 


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SECRETARY. 


Smithtown Gen Club, 4 


SsarHtown, L. I., Dec. 24.—Followin 
the turkey shoot held on grounds of 


are the scores made at » 
mithtown Gun Club on 


Dec. 3. Event No. 7 was for Ithaca gun and was won by H. J. 
Smith, of Northport, The last part of this event was shot by 
moonlight. 


Some of the boys complained of not -feeling very well after 
the shoot, which fact; I suppose, accounts for some of the low 
Scores: ° 


Events 1234567 8 
Targets 5 56 5 5 5 51515 Broke. 

Crozier Ds his voee SL PR pees 18 

Fialecimiith ort ewsaycyteret tes, Peete ee ; <4 ££ 1 2 Bay & 
Nevyitts. 9-9-5 2ss5netee 3 perprert ic cetera ther gh eh Pa! 14 
Tyler ‘.... 5 56 45 4 410 5 42, 
Hegerman P21 2 3 Or oa. 11 
Call ieavers 5468223656 32 
Wightman I) dy 40st Sol “Gat 20 
Scudder 2G ARTS eae ose 18 
Satterly .. 43 2 a ee ees 17 
Oliria 4444344... 27 
Ketcham Ce: a es ey 18 
Mokit! appl fin beree 1. Oe ae 16 
Fae SRatnGaaaesadessds ser aes Setobiro 4S Be es Bis Rt oe, 12 
ELAVES udcunrae sadaet restive Me rrertect in epee Bt Peale ai 22 
Downer ..... FE ae Sela atereicies Pee LP a, 32 2° 2 ods. 10 
C SMW vce ccceeesscnencnsrsss er ss ee mo O Len 6 
Elazand se seLeeeeeeeee Be Sei Prael Nt Rares eed re irs Maer err, 1 
PO PAITIATI NN. lafatictelalatals obeletaleciei ee ae ttgcse Os oma BMS S8hosioe 1 
AOE ae Rae ir nee wiWtaleieintettnen OD aaa Oca eL OMe Ea} 
Hasey. 


Woodlake Gun Club. 


Woop Lake, Neb., Dec, 24.—Twelve inches of snow, the there 
mometer hovering about the zero mark, and a strong northwest 
wind will stop some people, but not the average Wood Lakian. 

Fiye of the faithful therefore hied themselves to the traps and 
proceeded to fight it out for two beautiiul medals recently put in) 
circulation. Sas } rt 

Chrysler, the hero of last. week’s contest, took an inglorious 
slide to-day and not only had to relinquish the Class A medal 
but made the low score for the day. . oe 

Aside from the score of W. A. Leach, who is not eligible for 
the club medals, being a visitor, the shooting was not up to 
standard, but the conditions were certainly anything but propitious, 
and there is no doubt but that in fair weather the scores will be 
vastly improved. 

Regular shoot each Tuesday at 1 P. M. : 

Follawing are the scores, 25 targets each: W. A. Leach 23, Le 
Roy Leach 14, John Day 18, Chas, De 10, W. UL. Chrysler 9. 

Te Roy Leach wins Class A medal. John Day wins Class B 
W. A. Leach was not eligible for medal. 

W. A. Leacs, 


medal. 


PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 


Mr. Chas, Lancaster, the well-known gun maker of New Bond 
street, London, England, has recently had the honor of submit- 
tinng to King Edward, to the Duke of Connaught, and to Ear) 
Roberts a Lee-Enfield Service rifle, with the Harris feed, and also” 
Sir Charles Ross straight-pull rifle. More recently he showed a’ 
Ross straight-pull tifle and a Harris rifle magazine to the Prince 
of Wales.—Adv. a, 


Spratts Patent (America), Limited, of Newark, N. Je have issued 
a 96-page booklet, entitled “Spratts’ Dog Culture,” with a cha) 
ter on cais, canine and feline diseases and their cure, with hints 
to dog owners on the management of dogs for the show bench 
for household pets. The products of the company are also 5 
forth therein. It will be sent on application to Spratts Patent. 
Adv, . a Gs 


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VOL. LVIII.—No. 2. 
1 No, 846 Broapway, New Yorx, 


BONDING GAME IN STORAGE. 


Tue only recommendation relating to game in Governor 
Odell’s message is one which urges the provision of larger 
opportunities for the dealers in game. The Governor 
Says: 


The seizure of a large amount of game in cold storage during the 
past summer, and the possible conflict of our laws with those gov- 
erning commerce between the States, brings up the question 
whether, while aiming to preserve our game, we should not also 
protect the- innocent purchaser thereof. The provision against 
possession of game by an individual or a corporation after the 
closed season begins is proper. 

But it seems that if a system of honding for such game as may re- 
main in possession of a dealer at the close of the open season were 
proyided for that we should do more for its protection than by 
any attempt to ferret out and destroy it under conditions that are 
at least questionable. 

I would recommend that authority be given the Forest, Fish 
and Game Commission to thus bond dealers and warehousemen, 
lt would protect those who are 
honest and who do not desire the destruction of their property, and 
it would bring about voluntary recognition of our laws. The 
penalties against killing out of season could then be more strictly 
enforced. There would be no claim made that the supply came 
from outside, because no one would care to run the risk of 
seizure and the expenses incident fo the trial in attempting to 
establish this fact, and the duties of game protectors would thus 
become simpler and the laws easier of enforcement. 


As for the Governor’s suggestion that the New York 


_ law restricting the sale of game and forbidding posses- 


sion of it in the close season may be in conflict with 
the laws governing commerce between the States, it needs 
only to be said that the point has repeatedly been passed 
lipon by the courts in a number of States, and the con- 
stitutionality of the State law has been upheld. In the 
special circumstances which prompted Governor Odell’s 
stiggestion, the seizure of an enormous quantity of game 
in this city, the fact was established by the express tags 
attached to the articles that a large proportion of the 
seized game had. come into the New York market from 
States whence its export was forbidden by the local State 
law. Now the Supreme Court of the United States, in the 
Geer vs. Connecticut case, has declared that when a State 
forbids the taking of its game foy export, such game can 
never become an article of interstate commerce. Thou- 
sands of the birds seized in New York having been ex- 
ported unlawifully, fell within the category of the game 
defined by the Supreme Court as that which could not be- 
come a lawful article of interstate commerce, nor subject 
to the control of the interstate commerce law. We need 
not worry ourselves therefore with any apprehension that 


the New York law which forbids game dealers to have in- 


cold storage barrels and crates of quail exported from 
Indiana in defiance of the Indiana law conflicts with the 
interstate commerce act. : 

The real and only interstate factor here involved is 
that of interstate comity. The fact is, and it must be 
reckoned with in discussing this subject, that because of 
the almost universal existence of the non-export game 
prohibitions, it is impossible for the marketmen of New 
York to have any Considerable amount of game in their 
possession which they have come by lawfully, and the 
question for us to decide is whether the New York 
market, under cover of the further protection which 
would be afforded by this bonding system advocated by 
Governor Odell, shall become in larger degree than before 
the receiving market for contraband goods. The prac- 
tical working of thé bonding system would presumably be 
that which is suggested by President Bootman of the 
Arctic Freezer Company, in the interview quoted else- 
where. Under cover of a small lot of bonded game, the 
dealer would sell with greater freedom in close season. 
But even were this not to result, and were all the game 
on hand at the close of the open season to be put into 
bond and kept for another year, the system would not 
be wise. The present law which forbids the possession 
of game in close season has this purpose, that the dealer 
shall confine his supply to what can be disposed of in the 
open season. If at the end of the period for selling he 
finds himself loaded up with an over supply, that is 
simply a result-of his own bad.judgment. No law com- 
pels any game dealer to lay in’a larger supply than he 
can dispose of in the permitted period. If any change 
-is made in the New York law, let it be for the further 
restriction of game selling, not in encouragement of the 
trafiic,. i 

With a population of 76,000,000, and constantly growing 
Jarger, and with narrowing game fields, we have adopted 


the principle in this country that the wild game is no 
longer to be considered a commercial commodity. This 
principle has been incorporated into the laws of most of 
the States. What we need, therefore, in. discussing 
any change of the situation in New York, is to follow 
in the general line of legislation adopted by the country at 
large, and to make it more difficult instead of more easy to 
deal in game. 


ANIMALS AND SUICIDE. 


THE daily press, contributing constantly to the general 
sum of human information, is nevertheless not free from 
a proneness to foster the marvelous, or at least give cur- 
rency to it when it can be so circtumstantially set forth as 
to have a reasonable chance for public belief. This is 
particularly true of the recountals of happenings which 
are not stisceptible of proof, or of such matters as are out- 
side the bounds of common knowledge. Thus the sensa- 


tional and periodic appearance of the sea serpent holds a 


place in the view and wonderment of the people, for a 
longer or shorter time, accordingly as the public will give 
credence or wonderment. Cardiff giants, by virtue of 
pen and ink, become exemplars of real giants. A dog in 
a fit, running blindly and senselessly about, becomes in the 
press report a mad demon running amuck and doing all 
the malicious damage within his powers. Given a certain 
lot of circumstances, if of a novel kind, the average re- 
porter is not backward in appending to them his own 
sensational conclusions, if by so doing he can add to their 
interest and to the consequent sales of his news matter. 
If he has a mental reservation or disbelief in his own 
story, the public is none the wiser concerning it if he does 
not inform them of it. The list of fakes and myths might 
be extended ad infinitum, but we will consider in particu- 
lar only one which seems to be growing in favor as a news 
subject, and which seems, by its steady growth, to be 
accepted as a standard theme. This is the alleged suicide 
of animals. This story is a fair example: 

Anton Wolsieffer to-day brought to town a rather unusual and 
very curious freak. In the top of a cottonwood tree on his place 
hung an oriole’s nest, and the other day Mr. Wolsieffer noticed 
the body of a male oriole suspended at the side of the nest. He 
made an investigation, and found the lifeless and weather-beaten 
corpse of the oriole hanging by a piece of string. From ap- 
pearances, the. bird had become entangled in the string—a part of 
his nest—and, failing to break his bands, after a hard struggle, had 


died, The string holding the bird is looped around the neck, 
and it looks very much like a clear case of suicide. 


When one pauses for a moment to weigh this mentally, 
the absurdity, not to say silliness, of the conclusion is 
self-evident. The writer-assumes as proven that the bird 
had a knowledge of life and death, that it had a knowledge 
of the means by which death could be produced, and that 
by a premeditated act it ended its own life. The reason- 
able probability that the bird accidentally became en 
tangled and was strangled by the piece of string is en- 
tirely ignored, for the reason that the story of a little bird 
killed by accident would “excite no interest, while . the 
story of a bird suicide would be quite the reverse. This 
story of the little bird in itself is of no special importance 
if it was the only story of the kind, but is one of many 
concerning the deaths of dogs, horses and other animals 
domestic and wild. The favorite manner of suicide in 


dogs, as the story goes, is by drowning. The dog is 


perforce melancholy for a day or two, then when taking 
his bath he plunges his head under water, drowns him- 
self, and the world is no more to him. The fact that 
dogs have apoplexy, heart failure and other diseases, and 
are sttbject to sudden death as are all other animal organ- 
isms, is not taken into account in the story of the stticide, 
nor is the further fact considered that a dog does not 
know of death, nor how to produce death; nor even if the 
dog did know this, could the observer know of what the 
dog was thinking or purposing in this respect. The 
horse, in the suicide story, generally dashes out his brains 
against the wall or jumps off the dock. But the horse, 
too, is subject to brain disorders. That he could de- 
liberately, from premeditation, commit suicide is not 
reasonable, nor is it reasonable that the average man could 


possibly know a horse’s premeditation in such. an event 


even if the horse had any. : 
- It is much better to deal with dogs. and horses and other 
animals as they really are. They are quite marvelous 


enough as created without attaching to them any artificial 


marvels of the imagination, 


preceanrss vr? 


The plea which Mr. Dall de Weese makes for a game 
code for Alaska should have the immediate attention of 
Congress. Outside of Alaska the game conditions pre- 
vailing in the Territory are not generally known. The 
popular belief is that the country is so rough and the 
game is so protected by natural barriers, that the species 
are in no immediate danger of extermination, The actual 
state of affairs is on the contrary this, that with the 
tremendous influx of population into the Territory and 
the unrestricted slaughter of game animals for food pur- 
poses, the supply has been diminished at an- alarming 
rate. Mr. De Weese is well qualified to state the facts 
and sound the note of warning. He himself has seen the 
old conditions and the change to the new. As a practical 
sportsman in the field he has studied the situation, and 
he writes as one who has been deeply stirred by the in- 
considerate and often tsseless and wanton killing of 
species whose stock at best is scanty. As he pictures the 
game situation in Alaska to-day, it is clear that some 
remedial legislation should be provided without delay. 
Whether or not the specific recommendation which Mr. 
De Weese makes shall be assented to, there can°be no 
question of the importance of doing something and doing 
it now. The very fact that these Alaskan game fields are 
so remote from Washington and so are likely to be over- 
looked by Congress, should stir the friends of game pro- 
tection to immediate action. 

td 

There is a better way of administering the Adirondack 
and Catskill forests owned by the State than preserving 
them forever untouched by the axe. They should be ex- 
ploited according to the established principles of practical 
forestry, as commonly pursued in European countries. 
Professor Fernow’s definition of forestry as tree farming 
puts the case in -a word. New York should farm its 
forests. We believe that the intelligent public sentiment 
is with Governor Odell in his forestry preserve recom- 
mendations, It would be a tremendous mistake to restore 
the conditions which existed before, and which prompted 
the adoption of the clause in the constitution declaring 
that the forest should never be cut; but popular informa- 
tion and appreciation have grown so rapidly. since then 
that the people would sanction a wisely framed system of 
administration. for the public forests. There shou'd be 
available and discoverable in the great State of New York 
a forestry administrative force equipped with the scientific 
knowledge, the business ability and the integrity and 
conscience to convert the public lands into a revenue- 


yielding resource. 
z 


’ Tt is one of the well-pronounced qualities of angling that 


‘it is in a peculiar degree the delight at once of youth and 


of old age. The born angler—for our Walton tells us 
that a true angler. is born, not made—may for a period in 
his life forego the rod; but there is certain to come in later 
years a time when he takes it up again, and you will often 
find him a gray-haired veteran on the very streams he 
frequented in his youth, He may not find them all his 
fond fancy has painted them as seen through the vista of 
the vanished years. The fish may be not so numerous nor 
so large nor so active as his memory of the old days would 
demand, but the pursuit has in it the same recompense as 
before, and the old angler is no whit behind the youngster 
in his capacity of enjoyment of the sport. What else is 
is there in all the realm of outdoor sports which has this 
lasting quality which belongs to fishing? 
® 


The Maine game warden who engineered the-prosecu- 
tion of a partridge snarer to the imposition of a fine of 
$700 now has a companion in an Illinois warden who has 
arrested a woman for the possession of a pet. fawn given 
to her last June as a wedding present. Such antics as 
these have only one effect, which is to foster a feeling 
against the game laws. They work just as would the 
actual imposition of a “penalty of $500 or a year in 
prison” which the New York street car signs declare to 
be the punishment for the offense of spitting on the floor 
of a car. The Maine justice, of course, dismissed the 
grouse killer; but the hnois justice gave the womam the 
option of killing her pet or sending it out of the State. — 


It is intimated that the New York Forest, Fish and 


Game Commission’s forthcoming report will contain 4 


recommendation of: the adoption of a non-resident Ticeneg 


for. shooting game, i eT A 


22 


The Sportsman Courist, 


a : 1 s 
A Tennessee Outing.—IIl. 

I BORROWED the Doctor’s almandc, next morning, to 

get right on the day and date. 
hen off on a hunting trip, day and night are about 

the only periods of time that I keep the run of until I 

nue up a week and pause to “rémember the Sabbath 

ay. , 

It was Saturday and the rain had set in. 

_ After breakfast I hunted up the boys’ den and select- 

ing one of Henty’s books settled down to be a boy again 

till the rain ceased. 

The hero was just breaking home ties preparatory to 
going forth to carve out for himself a name and fortune, 
when the Doctor came in, opening wide the door for 
Uncle Bill, who followed with a load of straw. 

“I am going to burn out our chimney,” he explained. 
“Have had the straw ready for some time waiting for a 
rain. 

Ever ready for a novel experience, I laid aside my. 
book and prepared to enjoy this new game. 

Uncle Bill carried his load of straw to the big fire- 
place, where the fire had burned low, and pushing it well 
in, began to work it as far up the chimney as he could 
with a stick. My expectations were not great, and for a 
few moments it looked as though the affair was to be very 
tame, but such was not the case. After the straw became 
well ignited, there commenced a roating which rapidly 
increased in volume until it sounded like distant thun- 
der and shook the windows like a mighty wind, and then 
“the deluge.” 

For the next half hour Uncle Bill, the Doctor and I— 
together with a neighbor hastily summoned and sent to 
the second floor—had a veritable “hot corner” on 
chimneys. 

The fire poured down in great coals that broke and 
scattered out over the carpet, getting the lead on us and 
burning holes in spite of our best efforts. Uncle Bill 
and I with brooms, and the Doctor with a bucket of 
water, 

Finally, when we were all about exhausted, and hot 
as harvest hands, the roaring ceased and the falling debris 
came in smaller lots, and at longer intervals. 

I had begun to wonder how often the pleasant practice 
of burning out chimneys was indulged in well regulated 
households, and how I could arrange to absent myself 
from any future participation therein, when the Doctor 
returned from a trip to. the yard, where he had gone for 
a survey of the roof, and thanked me heartily and sin- 
cerely for my valuable assistance in helping save the 
house. He then assured me, as did Uncle Bill, that I 
had ‘seen a remarkable and unusual chimney burning, 
such as neither of them, in all their experience, had ever 
seen.. The chimney had not been thoroughly cleansed by 
former burnings for two or three years, and had become 
very foul, and, becoming well ignited, had burned with 
unprecedented and unexpected fury. 

On examination we found that the intense heat had 
burned loose the cement lining, which, to the amount of 
several wheelbarrow loads had fallen in the fireplace; 
while the roof was covered with soot and cinders. 

“Had that chimney caught fire before this rain, you 
would have to worry with the problem of which you 
would prefer to sleep in, the barn or smoke house,” said 
the Doctor. 

When Uncle Bill had cleared away the debris, and our 
good fire was going again, the Doctor commended me 

on the coolness shown during the exciting incident, but 

I could claim no great amount of credit, as I did not 
know anything very much out of the usual was happen- 
ing until after it was all over. I was like the old lady 
from the country, who, on her-first ride on the railroad, 
was on a train that left the rails and brought up suddenly 
in a ditch. 

' Disengaging herself from the mass of more or less in- 
jured humanity in the forward end of the car, where she 
had been thrown by the shock, she limped back down the’ 
aisle peering under seats, occasionally identifying and 

_ pulling out one of her several articles of baggage. A 
rescuer approached and asked her if she was hurt. 

'. “Hurt?” said she, in a surprised tone. “No, I guess 

Tiain’t hurt none, but I can’t-find my box of lunch no 

where.” 

“You should not mind the loss of your lunch, madam, 
but should be giving thanks for your wonderful escape 
pic injury in the awful accident we have had,’ was the 
reply. 

. » Accident! Accident, you say? Well, now, I did think 
the pesky thing stopped awful suddent, but I ’sposed 

that was the usual way.” ; 

‘The*rain continued to fall all day Saturday, and it was 
Monday before I resumed hunting again. 

The rain had not affected the cover to the extent I 
had hoped, but conditions were somewhat improved, 
especially as to the weed pollen which had caused the 
dogimuch discomfort in the first dry days. The morning 
hunt was. greatly enjoyed, and the bag fairly good, al- 
though we only worked out two coveys. 

At noon the young Doctor, who had taken my friend’s 
practice off his hands, and who had been anxious to go 
out with me, but heretofore prevented by his professional 
engagements, announced that he had arranged for the 
afternoon off and would join me, if agreeable. 

Assured of the latter fact, we got away in good time; 
the Doctor armed with the only weapon he-could find— 
a, t2-gauge hammer gun, with one barrel out of commis- 
sion, and a pocket full of shells loaded with No. 4 shot 
and black powder. 

“My role is large and audience appreciative,” said he. 
“T have not fired a gun for years, and never killed a bird 
on the wing in my life.” ; 

After getting well under way, I watched the Doctor 
from the tail of my eye for some time, with the usual 
suspicion that the veteran accords the tyro, and was 
pleased to see that he handled his gun with care. 


..-We crossed the meadow where the-larks were, on the - 


way to our hunting grounds, and I suggested.to him that 
he try a shot, if it offered, as practice. 
_ Several flushed wild, but finally one lay until the Doc- 
“tor approached’ quite near, and gave hima fair ‘shot.  « 
He did not make a kill; but-the business-like way in 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


which he conducted the effort augured well for his ulti- 
Mate success as a wing shot, is he persevered. 

We found our first birds in the corn jungle that had 
worried me so in my éarlier outitig. | 
They flushed rather wild and scattered out well as they 
rose. 

I selected my birds, killed the first, but saw no result 
from my second—quite a long shot. I had heard the 
toar of the Doctor’s duck load, but was rather surprised 
at his quiet announcement that he had killed a bird. 

My bird (I thought) that he shot in the direction of and 
saw fall-and thinks he killed. We moved up on our 
game, and as I approached Jack, who was with the bird 
I had seen fall, the Doctor turned off to the left, saying 
that his bird was ‘over there. I then changed my mind 
and jumped to the conclusion that I had killed my second 
bird, after all, and it was that bird, instead of the first 
one, that the Doctor had thought he killed. But without 
hesitating he passed by the line of my second shot, walled 
on a short distance and picked up his bird, 

And right heartily’ did I commend him, and gladly 
did I. note the fact that by no possible chance could 
either shot fired by me have killed that bird, for being a 
fellow the most generous, self-sacrificing, honorable, 
high-toned sportsman that ever went gunning, and-even 
s0 much as a fairly good shot, he catinot without certain 
mental reservations believe that a beginner has, by any 
chance, killed a bird that falls anywhere near in line of 


. his own shot. 


We followed the covey, but could only find two or three 
birds, I getting another and the Doctor cutting down a 
row of corn with his ounce and one half of 4’s sent 
a little low after a fast flying brown beauty. 

We routed a rabbit out of a bit of very thin weeds, in 
the next field, giving me a fair shot. As Jeff was ambling 
along in our’rear, taking very little interest in the pro- 
ceedings up to this time, I concluded to try to awaken 
his interest, so opened fire on “Bre’r rabbit.” 

The first shot went wide, but the second bowled it over. 

“Why did you not kill it the first shot?” said my friend. 

“Didn’t shoot where it was,” said I, somewhat em- 
barrassed by the question, and yet flattered that the Doc- 
tor thought me skillful enough to always shoot where 
I wanted to. 

I have used a gun for many years, but have never ar- 
tived at that point of perfection where I could not miss 
a fair average of shots. 

Others have done so, and I have met then a few 
times, but sad to relate always on their off days, when 
they were the victims of some awful “if” or unforeseen 
“Dut.” : 

I had rather have my bird tied down at twenty steps 
than to know that so sure as I shot at it, I should cer- 
tainly Icill. 

The very soul of all sport is the uncertainty attending 
it, and by that token many of us can count our sporting 
privileges incorporeal hereditaments, for it is not alone 
the biggest fish that get away. 

Shortly after the rabbit episode our dog found a fine 
covey of big, strong flying birds in an open bit of stubble. 

They lay well, and seemed determined to Jet us walk 
right over them, but finally boiled out of the ground at 
our very feet with a most disconcerting roar. My com- 
panion presented arms and threatened them seriously, but 
failing to get on a bird to his entire satisfaction did not 
fire. I weeded ont my full allowance, a couple. 

The survivors scattered along a branch at the lower 
end of the field, where we followed them, expecting soie 
good shooting at single birds, but on reaching the place 
where they had gone we found it a very deep gulley, with 
almost precipitous banks covered with brush and briers. 

Only one bird did we succeed in routing out, and he 
broke cover on the Doctor’s side, and saved his wish- 
Eone by a very speedy retreat. 

Concluding to try further on, we made for some prom- 
ising looking cover in sight on the next farm. 

“Dey won’ let yo’ hunt ovah dah, sth,” said Jeff, as 
we started to climb the fence. : 

My companion did not hesitate, but droppifig over the 
fence called back: ‘Come on, it’s all right.” 

I had some misgivings, but: presuming that the Doc- 
tor knew better than the boy, followed on. | 

At the far end of the field we came to a thicket where 
a man was doing some clearing, and calling the Doctor’s 
attention to him, requested that he make the proceedings 
regular by getting permission for us to hunt. : 

He proved to be the owner of the land, who evidently 
did not recognize my companion when he first called to 
him, asking if he had any objections to our hunting on 
his farm. But when he supplemented his request with the 
information that he was.“the Doctor,” the old fellow 
promptly and cordially granted it. : 

What a fine thing it is, I thought, to be held in such 
high esteem by our fellowmen as this young man; who 
has but to mention his name to a churlish neighbor to be 
accorded privileges denied to all others. Proof positive 
of what a life of self-sacrifice and devotion to our kind 
may achieve. But just here the Doctor broke in cn my 
reverie with this practical explanation: ‘ ’ 

“That old rascal owes me a bill for professional services 
that is getting pretty well frayed around the edges, and 
knows better than to refuse me permission to hunt on his 
land.” My further:moralizing was along the line of how 
little we really know of the motives controlling others 
acts. 

Some pretty stiff hills loomed up on the route we were 
traveling, and as our tramp had been quite extended, my 
choice was the low lands, but a passing native assured 


“us that a covey of birds used on the steepest hill con- 


fronting us, and at it we went. "We toiled to the apex, 
and though we found-no birds were fully rewarded by the 
grand view it afforded of the surrounding country. 
Down in the valley on the other side was the cabin home 
of Jeff's mammy, and-as-we approached it, our young 
retainer was minded'of a message he bore: - 

“My mammy say she wan’ yo’ to come see huh, Doc- 
tah—pleas,’ suh—she feelin’ bad.” , 

I expressed my entire willingness to sit on the fence 
and rest while the Doctor made his call; so assuring me 
that it would be: brief, he went on to the cabin. 

‘Which way you-alls goin’ now; suh?’” said the boy, 
who showed unmistakable signs of fatigue. _ 

I indicated another steep hill, beyond which I knew 
lay good covers: ‘He said nothing for ‘seyeral minutes, 
but seemed to be thinking deeply, hose, . 


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' Jack rounded them up, and when we found him, in the 


- aman to accompany him. 


--sdense growth: of evergreens, like an officer appareled in 


[Jan. 11, 1902, 


oy 


Finally, as one who has solved a difficult problem, h 
leoked up and said: re 4 
“I get to go now, suh. I don’ promis’ mammy dai 
I’d com’ back an’ he’p hur wid de washin’, (The sun was 
not more than a half hour high.) Assuring him that ]| 
thought we could get along without him for the shor) 
time left us to hunt, I gave him the rabbit and a bit o 
silver, and bid him go. The Doctor returning soon there 
aiter, we resumed our hunt, and succeeded in finding one 
more coyey of birds. \ 
Down in a deep ravine between two steep hills, old) 
high weeds, was down on a beautiful point. 
Side by side, the Doctor on my left, we moved down! 
on them, and, flushing, they flew straight up the hill in 
front of us. pes 
The Doctor (coolly, as if killing with a gun was the 
method he had practiced all his life, and with the skill) 
of an expert) selected a bird at the extreme left of the 
covey and bowled it over with his one barrel, while Jj 
again drew a pair. 
The sun was dropping behind the mountain, and wel 
concluded that we had better strike for a “light in the 
window” that was’ dimly seen down the valley, so did not 

follow the birds. 
We had enjoyed the day, but, tired and hungry, felt} 
that now the best part of it was to come—supper. 
LEwis HOPKINS. | 


A Good Shot—And Baa One. 
I 


= 

THE saw mill whistle blew for quarter time. The ma- 
chinery stopped, and Jim stepped off the carriage. He 
strolled over to the long, narrow window that extends 
laterally, one sash high and a half-dozen in width, along; 
the side of the mill’s upper story. The window wa } 
open; he placed his back against the sill and stretched) 
out his arms, on either side, along it, to rest—while the! 
machinery rested—during the changing of saws. 


IT. 


Down below, a man suddenly dashed into the engine: 
room, rudely jostled the Boss in his haste. 

“What's the matter?” growled the Boss. 

“Man fainted,’ and the hasty one proceeded to fill a 
pail at the cold water faucet. 

“Huh!” with a downward inflection, the shadow of a 
growl still lingered in the voice of the Boss. “Le’s go 
see!” This to a bystander with whom he had been con- 


versing. Sit 


The man at the window had collapsed. He lay in a 
heap upon the floor. Around him stood the Boss, the 
bystander, the man with a pail and the rest. 

“Lay him out straight,’ said the Boss. 
The Boss looked closely at his face. 

“That's no faint—he’s dead,” said the Boss; “that’s 
heart disease; go for the doctor!” 

The “hand” addressed went—the doctor came. | 

“Tt’s apoplexy,” said the doctor. “All the symptoms: 
are present except frothing at the mouth. In death by 
apoplexy there’s generally frothing.” 


IV. 


They carried him into the mill boarding house. He 
was an unmarried man, thank God, they said; but where 
he lived or whete he came from they did not know. ; 
Driftwood, he—just a piece of human driftwood! Any-) 
way, they would give him a decent burial; they all 
“chipped in.” : ; 

They would remove his clothing and perform for him) 
his last ablution. That was the decent thing to do, they 
had heard. They loosened the rough woolen shirt, they | 
raised his head and slipped the garment off—and then: 
he who stood behind, supporting the recumbent form, | 
cried out, and his cry voiced surprise, terror, anger. 
“Took here !—blood !—he’s been shot!” 

“Yes, blood !—shot!—call the doctor!” 

The doctor recovered the bullet: it was a .44-40. 


V. 


Whence came the bullet?—that was the question all 
asked, but none could answer. At the moment the un- 
fortunate man had been stricken there was no rioise about | 
the mill—yet no one had heard the report of the rifle; 
the bullet must have come from a long way. off. ; 

“The bullet has taken a downward course into the man’s | 
body,” said the doctor. 

“What slant?” asked the Boss. ‘ . 

“About so,” and the doctor indicated the angle with his | 
lancet. . 

“Ump! She flew pretty high,” the Boss declared. - a 

“Ves it described not quite a half-circle in its flight. 

The Boss was evidently thinking. He asked: “Which - 
way did that bullet go after it hit—right or left? f 

“Tts course is from right to left.” 

“How much?” = ; F 

“About so,” said the doctor, ‘again illustrating with | 
lancet. : ’ ' 

“Well, lay the poor devil out.” There was no growl } 
in the voice now. His eye—the Boss was never known to 
weep—his eye was kindly and mellow, though. 


VI. 


The mill was rattling and roaring again; the great 
circular tearing and snarling; the mill had lost no time 
because a man had died—not all the hands had dropped 
their work to clear preven ay of sales driftwood— 
enough only to dispose of him decently. _- Bs ys 

The Boas ae back to the mill. The “boys” in- 
stinctively shuddered as they saw him go up to the win- 
dow and stand in the very spot where Jim had fallen. He | 
stretched his arms along the sill; he slouched, just_as | 
Jim had, except that he faced out. He looked up; he | 
looked to one side; he seemed to be measuring something | 

ith his eye. ; : 
wih ie Te line with that lone birch,” he muttered, as 
he took a compass from his pocket and carefully noted | 
the ‘course. Then he went down and out, motioning to 


It was done. 


Fichty rods northwest of ‘the mill ran the precipitous | 
yeaa bluff seventy feet high, on the edge of which | 
stood the lone birch—a big, white tree standing before a | 


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out in the field toward the Potomac. 


Piet II, ‘t902,] 


silver at the head of a regiment of green-coats. The 
Boss and his companion made their way to this tree, and 
looked back at the mill, and glanced at their compass 
and nodded. Then the Boss led the way at a swinging, 
measured stride, running by compass; he was pacing. 

The top of the bluff extended for a mile or two in a 
wooded table land. Suddenly the Boss halted and looked 
around about him. “Ought to be ’bout here, I guess.” he 
said. “Stand here, Jake, while I take a circle.” Then 
he began to walk around Jake in ever-widening circles. 
Half an hour later he hallooed. Jake moved forward in 
almost a direct line, perhaps two hundred yards, and 
there stood the Boss with a dead crow in his hand. He 
pointed to its head; the upper half had been carried away. 
““A mighty good shot,” said the Boss, “and a mighty bad 
one.” , 

A few yards further on they found an empty brass shell 
shining among the dead leaves.. The Boss looked up and 
pointed, ‘““That’s where this black fellow sat—on that 
dead branch—and here’s where the man stood who shot 
him—and the poor devil down in the boarding house.” 

E. H. Horcuxiss. 


A Walk Down South.—XI. 


It was raining when I came down the road past a 
side hill lime kiln over the brink into Cumberland, Md. 
Beyond the city I could see a bluff dimly, though it was 
not far away. The city is upward of three miles long and 
only a few rods wide. The stone pavements, the close-set 
building and other “citified” things made me feel uncom- 
fortable. I did not feel any better when the head waiter 
of the hotel sneaked over to the head clerk to see if I 
was to be served with a meal there. But I wax “squared 
by the clerk, and ate a hearty supper in spite of the fact 
that I was ill dressed. I had come in wet to the skin, and 
had to change the bicycle suit for long trousers, which, 
with a flannel shirt, did not conform well to existing con- 
ditions thereabouts. 

Cumberland is on the dividing line between the North 
and the South. I presume that it has the characteristics 
of both sections. Leastwise, I saw considerable that was 
novel to me, and heard more. For the first time I heard 
the pure Southern dialect. It was exceedingly sweet and 
musical to my ears, The rising inflection was very pro- 
nounced—far more so than in central and southern Penn- 
sylvania. The snatches of conyersation that I overheard 
when a Northern and a Southern commercial traveler ex- 
changed experiences were most interesting. The mere 
tones of the voices were something of a revelation to me. 

I had-glimpses of a new type of man at Cumberland, 
too. I have seen men who suggested a shotgun, others 
like old flintlock rifles, one or two that seemed like a 
Gatling gun. I now saw a man who seemed to be a knife 
personified. His eyes were deep set and black, his com- 
plexion dark, his hair black, his movements alert, grace- 
ful as the wind. He was sheathed in the gentlest be- 
havior and most cultivated manner I have ever seen, and 
yet I could not think of comparing him to anything but a 
lean blade with a black elitter along the edge. Perhaps I 
have described a stage villain, but I didn’t mean to, The 
men of this type haye none of the brute in them. In- 
deed, their appearances come nearer to suggesting sensi- 
tive honor and courageous dash than any other sort, to 


-my mind. Sixty miles further south, at Moorefield, W. 


Va,, I saw one of these knife-like men speak to a light- 
haired, no-account of the same age—say twenty-eight or 
so. The no-account fairly shivered, and though I did 
not hear what was said, the tone of voice on one side was 
keen, on the other a whine. One good quality the knife- 
like ones seemed to lack conspicuously, that was the 
endurance. 

O. C. McKay, of Cedarville, Va., was at the hotel in 
Cumberland, and he told me about the country toward 
which I was headed. I wanted to go south along the 
western side of the Alleghanies. He said that there 
were twenty-two inches of snow in Pocahontas county, 
W. Va., through which I could not wade. He said, how- 
ever, that along the east side of the ridge I might get 
through. Then he laid my route for me up the South 
Branch and south fork of the South Branch of the 
Potomac River through the county seats of Hampshire, 
Hardy, Grant and Pendleton counties, West Virginia, He 
warned me that while the eastern slope was several de- 
grees warmer than the western, I would climb up all the 
way to Highland county, Virginia, and, of course, go 
into a colder climate every perpendicular yard I ascended. 
It helped me much. 

“Het’s a pretty jubeous look around,” an old darky said 
-the other day—so I thought, when I came out of Cum- 
berland on -Monday morning, Nov. 24. ‘The day was 
blustering, and gray clouds swept overhead. Under the 
pack it was not very cold, but to stop and rest for long 
meant a shiver if I sat down, 
trolley car that took me to South Cumberland was the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which teaches only to Cum- 
berland, however. 
went up half a mile to an open lock,~but the first boatman 
wouldn't take me down, so I started on the towpath, hav- 
ing lost a couple of hours. I met a boy peddler a mile 
below the bridge coming up. He had gone down more 


than two hours before, but was on his way back to take to 


the public road. He had been ordered off the towpath 
four or five miles below, and as a result lost several hours 
and covered a dozen useless miles. His yoice broke 
when he told about it. His pack was heavier 
than mine, and he was twenty pounds lighter than I at 
least. He said “they wouldn’t Tet him cross at the 
locks,” nor follow the path further for fear of his scaring 
the mules. He kept on back, and I kept on ahead, for I 
wanted to see the kind of a man who would make a 
boy walk twelve miles heavy laden for nothing. 


Two miles below I saw a man lying beside the towpath. - 


His legs and arms were drawn up, his head curled into 
the grass and a double-barreled shotgun was beside him 
on the ground. I thought it was a tragedy, and rolled 
him over to see where the shot entered, but saw no bload. 
I threw open the gun then and found that it was not 
loaded. To make sure, I took a smell of the fellow’s 
breath. I left him then. I got dinner at a farmhouse 
A farmer owned a 
mile or so of the Potomac bottom there. Two daughters 
and a son have divided the land, and Farmer Crites, a 


-us to or not.’ 


Eighty rods from the~ 


T wanted a ride on a canal boat, so I 


FOREST AND STREAM 3 


mountaineer from Highland county, Va., married one of 
the girls, put up a house on his wife’s portion and is 
adding wealth to the capital. -He talked West Virginia 
mountaineer English, to which I listened for the first time. 
I carried a “right smaht load.” The weather was bad. 
“Yes, indeed. This yere land is good, it’s so.” : 

Down the towpath a way a canal boat was tied to 
the bank. : 

“How ah. yo’?” said the captain. “Takin’ a leetle 
wahlk? Huh! Well, seh, hit’s right smaht of a ways 
down to Green Spring. You'll find cleveh peepel that- 
away; yass, seh. One time me an’ two otheh fellehs went 
up theh Shenandoah Valley buyin’ mewls. We stopped 
at an old fahmer’s house, an’ asked could we all stay 
fur theh night. He said as he wasn’t prepehed to ac- 
commodate travelahs. Well, we said we would sleep on 
theh flooh. We hed ouh blankets. No, sah, he said he 
was afraid of bugs. That made we all pretty mad, and 
ene of ouh pahty was a man who didn’t cyah for anything 
at all. He said, ‘We haven’t any moh bugs than you 
hey, and we ah goin’ to stay yere whetheh you want 
The old fahmer went into the house and 
come out again to say he’d be ready to keep us in a little. 
I saw some boys going across the fields on horseback 
pretty fast, but didn’ think nothing of it. Pretty soon 
‘bout fifteen or twenty fahmers come along the road, all 
ahmed with Winchestahs and shotguns. Hit looked 
kinda jubeous, hit’s so. But I knowed one of the pahties 
theh, and we fixed it up all right. Then that yere fahmer 


‘tried to sell we uns a team of old mewls, hit’s so.” 


Tt was eight miles from the bridge to the first lock 
(No. 75). I sat down on the porch of the tender’s house 
beside the path, using my pack for a seat. The wind 
was blowing colder, and flakes of snow came out of the 
north in stinging fashion from time to time. In five min- 
utes I was getting ready to shiver. Then a woman came 
out of the house. She jumped when I spoke, but pointed 
across the lock to the tender’s shanty, where her husband 
could be found. I found the tender not the ugly man I 
had expected from the peddler’s story. The peddler had 
not come so far down as that. Undoubtedly some merci- 
less joker had turned him back. 

The tender was Stephen Harper. He said I could stay 
at his house as long as I liked. So I put my pack indoors 
and then sat down to enjoy the hot, soft-coal stove fire. 
Supper that night consisted of beans, ham, bread and 
peach, cherry or cream butter, and oatmeal and milk for 
dessert, It was delicious and ample. 

After supper I went out to watch a canal boat go 
through the lock. The wind was stone cold, with a charge 
of sleet now and then. The boat ran into the lock, steered 
by a gaunt woman, around whose head was wrapped a 
woolen shawl. Her cotton skirt flapped like a flag in 
the wind. She held the tiller with one hand and put the 
other into the flames from a soft-coal brazier—a six-quart 
iron flower pot on three legs. The flare from this fire 
cast shadows in all directions, while sparks flew for yards 
down wind in a dusky cloud of smoke. Out of the galley 
window. amidships stuck a sunbonneted head for a -mo- 
ment, lighted by a dim lamp and the red heat of a stove. 
I had a glimpse of tin cups, and caught the odor of 
coffee. Meantime the stern gate closed and the boat 
began to settle in the lock. Two boys, the oldest not 
seventeen, stood waiting, bent by the cold and blowing on 
mittenless hawk-talon fingers. In five minutes the 
swing gates opened. “Hike! Hike!” yelled the boys, and 
the three invisible mules down the path, hitched tandem, 
hauled the rope taut and the boat moved slowly on, guided 
by the black, gaunt witch at the tiller, who swayed now to 
port and now to starboard, enveloped in smoke, sparks 
and flame. For a few moments instinct said she was in 
h.t element. I entered the watch shanty, 

“A woman astern!” snorted the old tender. “It’s 
a nice night for a woman to be out there.” 

He had been a boatman for twenty years, and he knew 
sat ae figure I saw was a woman shivering in the bitter 
wind, 

We sat in the shanty for a while, waiting till some 
oysters in their shells laid around the rim of the stove 
cooked. They opened in a few minutes, and then we 
snatched them one by one from the rail and ate them as 
they sizzled. I’d never eaten roasted oysters before. My 
supper had been a large one, but I ate a couple dozen of 
fine large Chesapeake Bay oysters and regretted that I 
could not eat more. The shellfish are brought up on the 
canal boats in tubs of salt water. They were unexpected 
and exceedingly good. 

“There used to be lots of ducks killed along the canal,” 
Harper said, “but they aren’t so plenty as they were once. 
Years ago a deer was run into the canal by dogs down 
below here. It was just ahead of my boat, and I shot at 
it with a navy revolver, but couldn’t get it. After a while 
it found a place to climb out and started up the moun- 
tain, and then a man there shot it with a rifle. Nearly 
all the boats have a gtin or two on board,” 

In a cage bird in the dining room was a handsome fellow 
—a Kentucky cardinal, I think it was. Right after New 
Year’s ‘it begins to whistle, and after a while when the 
migrants arrive, rescuers of the same species come to the 
cage and “fight” the prisoner. Of a canary in the same 
house I heard a similar touching story. Every spring 
thistle birds bring straw and twigs to the cage with which 
the captive builds a nest. 

On the following morning I boarded one of Captain J. 
G. Lynn’s nine prop-and-cross-tie boats bound for’ Old 
Town, Md. Old Town is one of the places where Brad- 
dock’s army stopped to camp when on its way to defeat 
near Pittsburg (Fort Duquesne). Across the river is 
Green Spring, reached from Old Town by a rope ferry or 
a rowboat, according to the load. 

Captain Lynn belonged to the Confederate army, and 
his company took Crook and Kelly out of Maryland. He 
ranged all through the Alleghanies from the Potomac 
southward, and knows the region all through. He fought 
over many of the ridges, hunted men and was hunted 
where a great deal of game has been killed since then. He 
approved of my route. 

Riding on this canal boat was a novelty. Several years 
ago I rode fourteen miles up the Honesdale, Pennsyl- 
vania, Canal, but that was a different region. The Dela- 
ware River was rugged and beautiful; save for Indian 
traditions that portion of the stream which I saw, was 
tame in history. On the Potomac every hill, every val- 
ley, and many of the houses stood for a legend—on one 


- superior material. 


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a hunter had heard a lost runaway darky’s prayer for a 
guide, from another scouts had spied on opposing armies; 
old earth works might still be seen. The region seemed 
to glide by—trees, cornfields, rock ledges, hills, valleys 
and mountains all slipped past. There was no tremor 
of a steam engine, nor creaking of blocks. Neither were 
there wayes or noisy winds, It was traveling of the sort 
that makes one listen for the clock and strain to catch the 
sound of a creaking tiller. I was tempted to go on to the 
Chesapeake Bay, But at Old Town I crossed the Potomae 
in a rowboat, and after a dinnet went to the’ railroad 
station. 

I went to the railroad station because L felt the need of 
haste. A snowstorm might delay me for days if it came 
at the wrong time. While I w@ed for a train to take me 
to Romney, eighteen miles up the South Branch, I saw 
three hunters cross the railroad track behind some little 
painted shanties. They fired at and killed three rabbits 
the dogs routed in a few minutes there. Then they came 
to the store. On their backs were three or four rabbits 
apiece. JI was told, however, that Romney was nearer 
the game country, and that one could get hotel accom- 
modations at “reasonable” rates—say a dollar a day. 

Twilight came early and lasted long. The mountains 
cast shadows across the valleys long before it becomes 
dark. I rode through the gathering gloom up a valley, 
getting glimpses of the real South—the South that one 
sees in picture books, Log houses and brick mansions, 
wide fields in which corn stood shocked. Once I saw 
Topsy and a white girl standing side by side. 

It was almost dark when I entered a hotel at Romney. 
The first thing I saw was a muzzleloading Colt’s revolver 
on the window sill—loaded. I thought I was getting into 
a “rough” country then. Raymonp §. SPEARS. 


Camp-Fire Stories from Canadian 


Woods.—V. 


The Counterfeiter’s Cave. 
(Continued frome the issue af May 11, 1901.) 


WHEN old John Meyers died, leaving as a legacy his 
history of the treasure cave, some few of those tésiding 
in the neighborhood where old John lived, after search- 
ing in vain and failing to find the cave, conceived the 
idea “ not only manufacturing the silyer but coining it 
as well. 

During their researches a veritable cave was discovered 
situated at the head of Long Lake and about four miles 
easterly from the foot of the Great Massinau. This cave 
was secretly known to only a few, was found by the 
merest accident, the entrance to it was naturally so well 
concealed that scores might pass within a few feet of 
its mouth without discovering it. Here some of the 
more daring spirits formed the plan and carried on the 
operations of counterfeiting silver money for several 
years. 

The cave was supposed to contain considerable anti- 
mony, as specimens of this mineral were there afterward 
discovered; galena and silver existed in this and the ad- 
joining townships, though not discovered until recent 
years. The presence of these minerals was presumed to 
have been known to those daring “courriers du bois.” 
Counterfeiting at that time was a hanging crime. 

Yearly or half yearly expeditions under the guise of 
hunting, fishing, or trapping were made to this cave 
to replenish their exhausted exchequer, the parties taking 
every precaution to conceal their intentions and disguise 
the object of their undertaking. 

For how many years this counterfeiting was carried 
on, how much money was coined, or who all were en- 
gaged in the transactions will never be known. 

Whether from exhausting the supply of antimony, or 
whether their coins were too easily detected, it seems the 
enterprise did not pay. Operations were abandoned, the 
entrance to the cave was closed up, the secret was buried, 
and probably would never have become known to the 
public but for a circumstance and an enterprise many 
years after which cost some of the partits dear. 

In the year 1865 two partners, “Oram and Howie,” 
had established a paper manufactory on the river Trent 
aa the neighborhood where some of these parties 
ived. 

About this time the idea of counterfeiting was revived 
among a few of the old parties from the successful opera- 
tions of a gang in the western part of the Province and 
the neighboring States, with whom they had placed them- 
z.ives in communication. 

Howie being a genial off-hand sort of a fellow, two of 
the parties approached him with a suggestion that if 
they could show him a silver mine ‘which, with a little 
capital to develop it, would make them all rich, would 
he invest in it? Howie replied that he had not.a great 
deal of capital, but if they showed him a good thing he 
would find funds to develop it. 

They took him to a lonely spot away in the northern 
part of the county, and, like Satan of old, who took 
another upon a high mountain to show him his pos- 
sessions (while the poor devil hadn’t a foot of land‘of his 
own to give), they likewise had no mine to disclose. 
But they then and there acquainted him with their 
scheme for coining money. They assured Howie that 
they could turn out $500 to $1,000 per day, but they re- 
quired a little capital to complete the plant with new 
and improved machinery, and some business man to dis- 
tribute the money. They showed him some United States 
half dollar pieces, but they were badly made afd of so 
brittle material as to be easily broken.- They, however, 
showed some twenty-five cent pieces better made and of 
Howie concluded there was’ more 
money to be made by betraying the parties than by join- 
ing their enterprise. He accordingly communicated with 
the Government and a detective was sent to his assist- 
ance. Aided by this detective, whom he introdueed as a 
Mr. Stratton from New York, and-one who was willing. 
to enter into their plans, a scheme was laid to entrap the 
counterfeiters which was well planned and. successfully 
carried out. Four of. the parties—two Quackenbush 
brothers, Stickles and Potter—were sent to the peniten- 
tiary for various terms of years, there to ruminate over 
the uncertainty and slipperiness of things mundane, and 


to moralize on the divine dictum that “the way of the 
transgessor is hard.” 

The Long Lake cave remained a secret until a few 
years ago, For years after the Quackenbushes were sent 
to the penitentiary, and during the period of the gold ex- 
citement in the latter part of the sixties, mo suspicion of 
this cave was entertained, although a syndicate purchased 
the “big rock’ and adjoining territory. 

Prospecting was carried on and search was again in- 
stituted for the mythical ‘Meyer's Cave,” but without 
practical results. During the past few years prospecting 
has been pursued for asbestos, galena, silver and mica. 
Some mica mines have been opened at the head of the 
lake and carried on with sucess. These things caused 
a stit in mining circles and once more the Meyer's cave 
illusion was reyived. Some conjectured that it was lo- 
cated further to the west, and either on Loon or Part- 
ridge Lake. Others considered Long Lake or Marble 
Lake the favored locality, while a retired druggist, who 
possessed means as well as faith, and had obtained an 
authentic copy of old Meyer’s instructions, began opera- 
tions at the “big tock’ 

It so happened about this time a resident of the town 
of Peterborough became acquainted with a man in Michi- 
gan who had been one of the original parties carrying on 
coining operations in the Long Lake cave years ago. 
This person had left Canada years before the Howie- 
Quackenbush affair took place, but, on account of the 
notoriety which some of his old comrades had obtained, 
he gave this country a wide berth, lest his name might 
become mixed up in their confidential disclosures to the 
detectives, or referred to in their transactions. 

From this person was obtained a description of the 
cave, with directions where to find it. He also mentioned 
one Jesse Ireland, if alive, somewhere in Ontario, who 
could assist him. The lot was located and secured, and 
a company formed to carry on mining. Prospecting 
went on briskly and a search instituted for the where- 
abouts of Ireland. Considerable blasting was done on 
both sides of the river, test pits were sunk at different 
places, but the stubborn rock refused to give up its 
secret, and no cave was discovered. However, just as 
work was about to be abandoned, Ireland was located, as 
a hotel keeper, at the town of Port Perry. 

It appears that Ireland, when a lad of about twelve 
years of age, had been taken by the parties in the 
capacity of cook on one of their excursions to the cave. 
They secured his silence, but managed to keep him in 
ignorance of the real object of their visit, or of the 
serious conseqtiences which might result from their acts. 

For a consideration Ireland was induced to assist the 
miners in finding the cave. 

Following the directions already received, he carefully 
examined the locality where prospecting had been carried 
on. Yeats had elapsed since he had been there; then 
he was a lad, but now an old man. The virgin forest 
had been cut away, frequent brush fires had swept over 
the land, new growth of timber had sprung up, and the 
face of the country was changed. He was puzzled as to 
the exact locality, Having returned by the circtitous 
route before mentioned, he said that he must find the old 
trail to satisfy himself before proceeding further with 
his search. “That the old trail followed up the river 
through Marble Lake to the Massinau, thence through 
that lake and up the river at its head, where it turned 
off to Mink Lake. That, at the south of that lake, and 
alongside of a stream were two large rocks, upon one of 
which would be found certain marks. If his supposition 
proyed to be correct, then he was on the right spot, for 
the old tree with marks upon it pointing to the mouth 
of the cave could nowhere be found.” es 

Old lumbermen who had shantied in the vicinity and 
cut timber around Mink Lake, and who were thoroughly 
familiar with that locality, told him the country had been 
cut over, burnt over, and no such rocks as he described 
were in existence. He, however, persisted, and following 
up the trail as mapped out by himself, on the south side 
of Mink Lake, some twenty miles from the supposed 
locality of the cave, he found the two rocks, and upon 
scraping the moss from one of them, there were revealed 
the marks sought for. Being thus assured he returned 
to resume the search. 

The entrance to the cave which had been used by the 
counterfeiters was very small, admitting only one person 
ata time. It had been, when abandoned by them, care- 
fully covered up with stone and other debris and thor- 
oughly concealed, and when Ireland came to look for 
it, it was overgrown with underbrush. 

Taking a crowbar and sounding at the bottom of one 
of the test pits, Ireland struck several heavy blows; at 
length the crowbar went through, showing that had the 
prospectors gone only four inches or so further they 
would not have required his services. The opening was 
easily found and the debris removed. Ireland remem- 
bered that on his former visit the cave had been damp 
and the air very bad, causing every one of the party to 
be laid up with sickness upon their return home. Birch 
bark and other inflammable material were ignited and 
thrown in; after this the discoverers descended. Here 
was found unmistakable evidence of an occupation long 
ago; the initials of some of the old habitues were found 
cut in the rock and implements coated with rust. lay scat- 
tered about. But the dies and other counterfeiting im- 
plements had been left in a corner of the cave, over which 
4 portion of the roof had become detached and had fallen, 
burying them beneath tons of rock. 

“Mining operations were therefore prosecuted with 
more vigor but with indifferent results. One result of 
finding the counterfeiters’ cave was to stimulate pros- 
pecting throughout this vast region between the settled 
townships and the ‘great corundum belt. Some good 
mines have been opened, but the country has been as yet 
merely scratched over. Rich leads of gold, silver, galena, 
antimony and mica, etc., awalt the prospector and the 
enterprising capitalist. The lakes and streams. abound 
with different kinds of trout, while bear, beaver, mink, 
otter, martin and deer roam through the forests. Part- 
ridge are plentiful, and no portion of Ontario affords 
finer scenery, greater facilities, or easier access to the 
sportsman, to the artist, or to the prospector. 

“It now remains to determine, if possible,- upon what 
basis the story of “Meyer's Cave’ rests. 

The writer has it from grandchildren of old John 
Meyers now grown gray, and they positively affirm that 
the old man made two trips to the treasure cave; that on 


the fifst occasion ‘he brought specimens of native silver 
tom which their grandmother had made up rings 
and other articles; that they had seen these articles in 
their young days; that the old man died firmly believing 
such a cave as he described did really exist; that the In- 
dians had taken him into the cave; that he had seen it, 
and had brought away specimens of silver and that, had 
his canoe not capsized, causing the loss of his effects 
along with the silver, substantial evidence of its exist- 
ence would have survived his decease. It is certain that 
he related his story with an earnestness which carried 
conviction to others. Like the lost mines of California 
and Arizona, there must be a grain of truth out of which 
to manufacture even a fable. Jt is possible that caves 
exist in the rocks and mountains which surround the 
Massinau. May it not be possible that the Indians fur- 
nished the specimens and the crude old hunter was taken 
to some cave now filled up or concealed by falling rocle 
ESE Sal as to the nature of the substance which he 
saws 

I leave this subject for the curious to conjecture and 
for the enthusiast to continue his search. 


Such is the history of “Meyer’s Cave’ up to the | 


present. More money has been wasted, more time lost, 
more discussion, theory, conjecture over this “will 0’ the 


wisp’ than has been expended upon all other illusions | 


which may have cropped up since the settlement of these 
midland counties of Ontario. E. B. FrRALECK. 


The Hermit of Moxie. 


_ THE death of the hermit of Moxie tract, a section of 
timberland and lake in the northern part of Somerset 
county, Maine, has been reported by the tote team driver 
of Lane & Murphy’s crew, whose logging operation is 
a few miles above. 

The hermit of Moxie has for many years “enjoyed” a 
rather peculiar reputation in Maine. In the first place 
he has been the most persistent poacher in that section, 
but the character of the man and of his poaching has been 
such that the. authorities have not been anxious to stiv 
him up. Secondly, the hermit has won more consider- 
able notoriety as the proud possessor of several hundred 
cats. It has been stated by some lumbermen that at 
times he had about him nearly five hundred of the felines. 
But as no one to my knowledge ever had the opportunity 
or the patience to count the grimalkins, I will not vouch 
as to the number. But the man who found him dead 
states that there were nearly two hundred cats on the 
premises when the recent gruesome discovery was made. 

The hermit of Moxie had vowed himself to the self-set 
task of keeping those cats in meat. Therefore he was a 
poacher. When the cats were hungry he killed a deer. 
Even if the hermit had been arrested he would have been 
a burden on the State in the insane asylum. And the 
cats would have become wandering nuisances in the 
woods. 

The discovery of the hermit’s death was made in the 
following manner: The tote team driver, on account of 
a “riffle” in the ice of Moxie Lake, found it necessary 
to make a detour of a mile or so out of the “bushed” 
road across the ice. 

In making the circuit of the dangerous place he passed 
near the island on which the hermit has lived for many 
years. A dog accompanied the team. Suddenly the 
canine sniffed in the direction of the island and set off 
full tilt across the snow on a'trip of investigation. He 
approached the island, so the driver noticed, in a zig-zag 
course, occasionally snuffing at tracks in the snow and 
then lunging ahead with a short yelp: The driver knew 
all about the hermit and his cats, and understanding that 
the dog had winded the colony kept on without thinking 
especially of the matter. The dog disappeared among the 
trees surrounding the little cabin of the lone resident. 
In two minutes there was a mingled sound of yelping and 
caterwauling that made the teamster’s blood run cold. 
Out of the woods on to the level surface of the lake came 
rushing the dog. He was leaping, twisting and rolling. 
On him stuck cats of all kinds. More were following, 
looking for a chance to dig in a clip. As soon as he had 
torn loose from one bunch another group was ready for 
the attack. Now, the driver liked his dog, and he didn’t 
want to see him made into ribbons or Hamburg steak. 
So he halted his team, seized his whip and started for the 
battlefield. The dog kept on coming and met him half 
way with a-dozen of the persistent cats hanging to him, 
The man-drove into the ball of dog, snow and cats and 
by vigorously lashing all concerned managed to disen- 
tangle his pup and to send the cats scurrying back to the 
camp. : 

The dog was badly damaged. One of his ears was 
nearly clawed off and blood was oozing from his nose and 
back. He licked the wounds that he could reach and 
ki-yied in a melancholy manner. The driver decided to 
walk up to the cabin and remonstrate with the hermit. 

Furthermore, the driver thought it rather strange that 
the hermit badn’t appeated at sound of the conflict. 
When the dog noticed the direction in which the driver 
was going he sneaked back to the»sled. He had investi- 
cated cats/all he cared: for that day. 

About the cabin the man found cats strolling and 
“meraouwing” dismally. The animals seemed to be in 
distress. Cats receded from behind trees as he ap- 
proached: Many of them scratched hastily up the clawed 
corner posts of the camp and perched on the roof, growl- 
ing and spitting at him. Occasionally slashing with his 
whip to: intimidate such of the creatures as made a far- 
off stand and humped their backs at him, the driver ap- 
proached the camp and knocked on the little door, There 
was no answer from within. The doar was pierced by a 
small hole, evidently designed for a latchstring. but the 
string had been pulled in. Therefore the bar within could 
not be raised. . 

After some effort the new arrival was able to peer in 
at the dingy, cracked glass as his eyes became accustomed 
to the inner darkness. All about in'the room the eyes of 
cats, green and amber with reflected light, glared at him. 
Many of them were wailing pitifully. Others growled and 
spat. ‘They were of all shapes, colors and varieties. The 
hermit himself lay in his bunk, his face toward the light, 
and after a minute of scrutiny, followed by repeated 
pounding on the glass’ of the window, the driver decided 
thet the old man was dead. Several of the cats were 


(Jaw. ti, 1902. 


perched on the body intently surveying the stranger, and, 
as the man continued to pound, more of the animals 
hopped up, as to a refuge from threatened danger, _ 

The driver decided not to brave the possible dangers 
of entering, and posted back to his team. When he ar- 
rived at the camp he reported the matter, and after tea 
that night a number of the crew took lanterns and went 
down to the hermit’s cabin. In the night the scene in 
and about the place was doubly grisly, cats scampering 
here and there with shrill or hoarse waulings, and the 
glow of their eyes appearing from behind every tree. 

The old man was indeed dead, and had evidently been 
dead for some days. Food piled beside him on his chair 
—or rather bones and the remnants of food—indicated 
that probably he had been confined to his bunk by ill- 
ness for some days before his decease. 

While the-men were in the camp one of them set his 
lantern on the stove. It was decided that the cabin 
should be cleared of the cats, their entrance hole stapped 
up and the matter reported to the authorities. But while 
the men were shooing the cats out, one of the stampeding 
creatures leaped over the stove, knocked off the lantern 
and the spreading, blazing oil ignited the browse of the 
hermit’s bunk. The men tried to put the fire out with 
snow, but the blaze drove them out and the camp was 
destroyed, together with the body of its inmate, The 
cats fled into the woods and climbed the trees, shrieking 
like demons. A few of the animals were burned in the 
fire that destroyed the old cabin, but the most of them 
are at large in the woods there at the present time, at 
least such as are able to survive. 

It is stated by those who have called in times past at 
the hermit’s cabin that he was a French Canadian who 
tramped through from the Megantic region many years 
ago and built a cabin on Moxie. He brought several 
cats with him, and during all the years he has lived there 
has devoted himself to the task of rearing and feeding 
the animals. 

Many of the cats have wandered away into the woods 
and have scattered all over northern Somerset. Loggers 
in northern Penobscot have seen cats around the camps 
that were undoubtedly estrays from the hermit’s colony. 
Some of the animals are not larger than the common 
house tabbies. Others are much larger and can almost be 
called wildecats. Northern Maine woodsmen and hunters 
assert that any domestic cat taken into the forest will in 
a short time develop wildness and will commence to shun 
the fireside and the ordinary comforts that felines enjoy. 
The common cats cross readily with the “black cats’ of 
the woods and with the coon and eyen with others of the 
smaller follk of the forest. Therefore some of the types 
that are met with in the woods of Maine would puzzle the 
naturalist. 

Cooks in the logging camps say that nearly: every 
morning they find cats on the rooi of the camps, nestled 
around the funnel for warmth. Sometimes after the men 
are gone into the woods the cats can be cajoled into the 
dingle—or camp shed—by scraps of food. But the ani- 
mals are always on the alert, and will suffer no one to 
approach, 

One cook tells me that nearly a dozen of the cats made 
their home on the roof of the camp and in the edge of 
the clearing all winter last season. There was an open 
place at the brook near by where he got the water for 
the camp. He relates that several of the cats developed 
great dexterity in fishing. A cat would squat for a long 
time at the edge of the ice, perfectly motionless, staring 
into the water. All at once she would make a dab and 
out she would hook a fish, flapping on the ice. 

Others of the cats catch squirrels and rabbits, and in 
fact most of them, descended from the domestic tabby of 
indolent, luxurious manners though they may be, show 
that they are perfectly well able to take care of themselves 
in the woods when it comes to a fight for subsistence. 
Once in a while one is captured, and the fur is found to 
be much closer than the covering of the ordinary cat. 

In this connection it may be stated that a trapper near 
Nahmakanta Lake captured several fisher cats and mated 
them with the halfwild cats of the woods. He succeeded 
in raising some half-breeds that produced a good quality 
of pelt and has carried on this unique industry for some 
time. He makes money enough for his simple wants— 
mostly tobacco and pork and beans. As there are also 
one or two goat farms in operation in northern Maine, 
it is consoling to think that when the paper mills have 
cleaned off all the spruce and hemlock there will still be 
opportunity for further industry on the much hacked 
acres. Horman F.' Day. 


Adventures in Tropical America. 


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VIIL—A. Dangerous Road, 


WHILE traveling among the interior mountains of Cen- 
tral America exploring for mines, and’ in some haste to 
reach a district where’ some good finds were being re- 
ported, I camie to a place where all the road had been 
washed away by unusual rains, and my omly way to go on 
was over a little used trail, well known to be rough and 
dangerous. I preferred this, however, to turning back, 
and gave little heed to tales of accidents and death told by 
my guides. 

At first the way was only rough, not dangerous, but 
presently we came to a steep mountain side, where a 
fall would mean destruction. A little further on the trail 
became so steep that I determined to walk down and 
drive the mule ahead of me; but she would not go, and I 
had to mount and ride before she would undertake it 
This was rather a novel ride; the mule could not take a 
step it was so slippery, she simply set her feet and slid 
from one bend in the trail to the next, and then turned 
carefully, and slid on down; it was coasting on mule 
back, interesting, but rather hard on the mule, and when 
we reached better ground she was so frightened that to 
manage her was difficult. Further on the trail became 
soft, a sticky ted clay, im which the mules sank almost 
to their knees as they struggled on down the mountain. 
The trail was yery imperfect, only a narrow strip trod- 
den out by passing animals, and the first thing I knew my 
mule was standing on a small log’that had been placed 
to mend about 12 to 15 feet of the track where it had 
broken away. Here two or three animals had been killed, 


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j the mule was hesitating while the log moved uncer- 
ily. To turn back or dismount was impossible; there 
$s nothing to do but force the animal on over and take 
Chances, so drawing the reitis tight and throwing my 
out of the stirrups, that I might have a better chance 
Wwe fell, I forcéd the mule across, though it was a 
id deal like riding on a tight rope. 
y good fortune I got over safely, and when the 
ened peon—my guide—found his voice, he said, “T 
uld have told you to dismount before you reached it, - 
if you can ride like that you had better keep your 
dle, it will be safer for you and for the mule, too.’ 
e struggled on down, but the dangers were not over. . 
turn where the trail was very steep, I could see the 
made in the tall grass where two ‘mules had gone 
‘down to. destruction, Just at this point my mule 
ined to lose control of herself and began to slip to- 
§d this fatal spot, and there seemed no way to check. 
; she tried to pull back, but the soft mud afforded no 
thold, and we were just slipping over when she braced 
foreteet, and then managed to turn herself, hesitated 
veen falling and going on for an instant, and-then we 
ed on down for the next turn. : 
9 it went, and all the while there was a heavy strain on 
crupper of my saddle; finally, at a critical moment, it 
cé, the saddle slipped forward. and I found myself 
Bing over space with nothing but a mule’s neck be- 
wn me and destruction. My first feeling was to jump 
Wtry to catch the tall grass as I fell; then I shotited-to 
ipeon, who, just a few feet from me, was frightened 
uselessness, and he simply stood and looked. I kept 
Ping on the reins to make the mule keep her head up; 
was slipping, and I could feel the bank giving way 
e trampled on it to get a foothold. Far below me I 
d see a river rushing along, and it seemed only a 
er of an instant, but here the path was very narrow, 
I found that by reaching back over my head with 
hand I could grasp the roots of the grass above 
Band so soon as the mule was relieved of my weight | 
egained the path, and we were both safe. 
‘Pe peon repaired the crupper and I rode on down, but 
Fi I got to the bottom of that mountain the strain and 
it had been so great I was absolutely played out, and 
o rest for an hour before I could sit on my saddle 
Francis C. NicHOLAs. 


Man and Brute. 


if truth is that our ideas of and relations with the 
) animals are based upon egotism and stupid seli- 
sit. For instance, we are fond of referring to some 
Wir meanest actions as “brutal” when, as a matter of 
the brutes are never guilty of anything like them. 
daily press seldom fails to recount some “brutal” 
fi violence, committed by some male ruffian against 
iman. But no male brute ever offers violence of any 
to the female of his own kind. Only man is low 
ioh and vile enough for that. The man who slugs 
frobs a woman, the wile-beater, the violator of 
len, the child-abuser, those who assail the old, the 
¥, the helpless of their kind—these are not “brutes,” 
ire their actions “brutal’’ They are solely and es- 
ally and characteristically human. Moreover, it is 
we who go out of our way to assail without cause 
res of other kinds than ourselves, who destroy for 
rt,’ who vivisect, who abuse in all the innumerable 
‘helplessness is victimized by wanton power. Ex- 
Bn obedience to the laws of seli-preservation and selt- 
Wetuation, the brutes let each other alone, to live 
y and unmolested lives, Most of therh would ask 
etter fate at the hands of men. 
olution works down as well as up, The hog in his 
alty can learn from us. The man who is called a 
y dog” as a rule is complimented far beyond his 
ts. What could be more absurd than “puppy” or 
ent puppy’ as terms of reproach? There is not in 
orld a gentler or more lovable little creature than a 
y. When we speak of “leading a dog’s life” or say 
as treated like a dog,’ whose is the blame and the 
ie that a dog should ever be so treated as to make that 
‘Jnent a synonym tor insolence, contempt and abuse? 
idy else treats dogs that way except ourselves. Upon 
does the cruel treatment of any animal, however 
hificant, reflect? Upon the animal or upon us who 
fe it? When it comes to being an “ass” it is well 
m that the ass is the superior of the horse in intelli- 
&, while in docility and affection he compares favor- 
vith any animal, ; 
course, stich uses of the words come down to us 
Ba time when the real nature and importance of the 
@ animals were little understood or considered. But 
® still suryives in the hearts of a vast majority of 
Be a feeling of contempt for these creatures from 
l we can all learn valuable lessons in character and 
ict, and, most of all, those who despise them most. 
ects seriously on our fairness and intelligence that 
é modern days we still regard as “brutal,” actions 
Bspicable that man alone is capable of them. It is 
the headline writers on the daily press expunged 
ords “brute” and “brutal” from their vocabularies 
ley are ready to use the words with propriety and 
stency. Jt is a valuable lesson for us to consider 
Mindeniable facts, to regard with humility the dumb 
es who understand us better than we do them, and 
Pmit with shame our stupid cruelty and cowardice 
ising their helplessness. 


EpWIn WHITEHEAD. 


Wet Days in North Carolina. 


«KORY, N. C., Dec. 29 —No, it does not rain in North 
a all the time, for it has snowed some, One day 
> weeks fit to hunt, Rain, snow, sleet, gob o' mud 
ut heel. Wuh! I am going down the pike before 
veb-footed, Pink EpcE, 


Southern Shooting Grounds. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Slatiyal History, 
Rattlers. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I read with interest what Camerambler said regarding 
Florida rattlers. I was somewhat surprised, however, to 
read his statement that the rattler killed by him, which, he 
said, was fully six feet long, was considered a large one of 
its kind, Although I have never visited Florida, my im- 
pression is that the rattlers there are often much larger 
than the one mentionéd by your correspondent. In this I 
may, of course, be mistaken, but I have in my collection 
the skin of a Florida rattler which now measures 58 inches 
in length and 734 inches in width, I have had it a long 
time, and apparently it has shrunk a good deal since it 
was taken from the snake, and was cut off some distance 
from the head and the rattles. In tanning a large portion 
of the belly was cut off, but judging from the present 
form, I should say the skin was originally 16 or more 
inches in width. The dark stripe on the back measures 
5 inches, and the largest diamond a trifle over 3 inches in 
width, The broadest scales on the skin are a little over 
%4 inch wide, and those on the back average 3% of an inch 
in length. The smallest diamond on the neck is over 1%4 
inches in breadth, and the smallest one on the tail that. is 
plainly marked is fully as wide. There are thirteen rattles 
and a button, the total length being 234 inches and the 
width 54 of an inch. This snake was killed several years 
ago by George A. Irwin, of Jacksonville, Fla., near Lake 
Pithlachoco, with a .25-caliber rifle. He sent it to me 
merely as a specimen of the Florida rattler, without com- 
ment as to its comparative size. It would seem, there- 
fore, that it was merely a snake my friend happened to 
see and kill, and was not selected on account of its size. 

While I was in the Southwest several years ago, I killed 
scores of the rattlers commonly found there, and col- 
lected, if I remember correctly, over 100 sets of rattles, the 
largest number of rattles taken from any one snake being 
about twenty, although I do not remember killing any 
rattler that was longer than 30 inches or thereabouts. 
The average number of rattles was, I think, about ten, and 
one little snake that I caught in the sagatone grass was 
less than 3 inches long, and had a well-defined button as a 
starter. In that country I often heard doubt expressed 
that the rattles indicated a snake’s age. 

It is always the biggest fish that gets away, and soit 
seems with the largest snake I ever had the opportunity 
of seeing. A friend of mine, a soldier, was cutting grass 
in a mountain meadow one day when a large rattler was 
stirred up alongside the horses. Apparently it rattled 
and was looking for something to strike at when the sickle 
came along on its errand of destruction, and by the time 
the indolent snake was ready to strike the knife caught 
it and it was cut into a score of pieces. The rattles were 
cut up along with the snake, but the pieces were after- 
ward ptt together and the rattles,estimated to number 
from twenty-four to twenty-eight, although they were so 
badly mutilated that the estimate might have been wide 
either way. The people in that country were fond of 
telling tenderfeet stories about the distances rattlesnakes 
could jump, and, in order to prove the truth or fallacy of 
these statements, I often experimented with good-sized 
rattlers, standing at a safe distance and prodding them 
with the butt of a rifle or a lone stick. I never saw a 
single individual that would move toward me any further 
than about one-third of its length, and that in striking. 
When very angry through being teased, one would some- 
times strike with such force as to lose its balance and 
fall headlong, as it were, Further than this I never suc- 
ceeded in inducing one to advance toward me; on the 
contrary, after much bluster and considerable coiling and 
striking, they would invariably try to run away. There 
the cowboys and others entertained considerable con- 
tempt for the rattler, and I do not recollect that antidotes 
for their bites were kept on hand, unless it might have 
been some very bad brands of sutler whisky. 

Perry D, FRAZER. 


A Woodland Tragedy. 


NOTHING is more interesting to a lover of out-door 
lite than the self-written histories of wild animals that 
may be read in their footprints on the snow in the win- 
ter time. By following these tracks one can gain a 
clearer insight into the lives of these seldom seen deni- 
zens of the forest, than can be had in any other way 
short of actual observation. ; 

The fox and the skunk respectively are the greatest 
nocturnal wanderers. Often I have followed the track 
of the latter, an interesting and much maligned animal, 
and I have come to the conclusion that many of his 
journeys have been taken merely for exercise, for I have 
frequently seen where he had left his den and traveled 
for some distance without apparent object and then re- 
turned to his hole. 

My interest in a skunk’s track has waned since the day 
I trailed one into a hollow rotten log which caved in as 
I stepped upon it, letting me down upon the skunk, who 
was still inside. He resented my sudden appearance in 
his characteristic manner, and I made a hasty exit from 
the scene. It was quite impossible for me to be self- 
conceited for several days thereafter. 

But a fox track! I am afraid to say-how many miles 
I have wandered while following these, to me, most 
fascinating footprints. 

Here he dug a hole into this rotten log in search of 
grubs; here he dashed up and down this old fence in a 
vain effort to capture a red squirrel whose footprints: 
we cat see on the rails, and who finally found a safe 
refuge in this hollow log; and further on we find where 
Reynard made a detour into a cornfield where he bur- 
rowed into a shock in search of field mice. 

One incident showing how foxes hunt in couples was 
so interesting to me that I venture to set it down. 

I was out rabbit hunting one wintér afternoon with a 
beagle, but, though the dog soon started the game. I 
found I was not to secure a shot, as the little animal 
wisely kept within the confines of an impenetrable thicket; 
and after a long wait I decided that if I was to dine off 


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“Brer Rabbit” 
of the. family, 

Half a mile away I knew where one had his burrow 
at the: foot of a large maple. He had been waxing fat 
all winter on our sweet corm, and in imagination I saw 
him on the platter roasted to a rich brown, and I licked 
my hips in anticipation, 

Herein, however, I was doomed to disappointment, for 
On peering around a clump of evergreens near the hole 

saw that a more expert hunter had been there before 
me. J walked up to the burrow and spent some time 
examining the tracks around it, and this is the result of 
my obseryation, 

The previous night two foxes had come along the lower 
log road which left the forest at a point near the bur- 
row. They had been travcling in single file fox-fashion, 
number two stepping into the footprints of number one. 
When they had reached a point a few rads from the hole 
they either Saw or scented the rabbit, for both had 
dropped flat in the snow and crawled forward a few yards 
to the shelter of a hillock, where they evidently laid 
their plans for the capture of bunny, who was out in the 
cornfield eating what proyed to be his last meal. 

From the hillock one fox had crept forward, pushing 
the light snow up in front of him, so that he must have 
been completely hidden from view. In this manner he 
made his way onward till within ten feet of the hole 
when he made a couple of bounds that had brought him 
on top of it. 

In the meantime the second fox had made a long cir- 
cuit over the hill and crept down upon the intended 
victim, from whom he was hidden by a rail fence. When 
opposite bunny, and about twenty yards away, Reynard 
had stepped through the fence and bounded toward his 

‘prey, whom he eyidently expected to come upon 
we cor bbit,” h 

_ prer Rabbit,” however, was not to be cau ht napping; 
with a rush and a double he had evaded his co ant ater 
off in the direction of his burrow, the hungry fox close 
behind; and down across the field they had sped, cover- 
ing eight or ten feet at every leap. 
ee ee ‘ ae he to know that in fleeing to 

irrow, which had alw c : 
nas er etre ays proved a safe refuge, he 
own to the fence, through it, into the w 
to within ten feet of the burrow, and the TaBRIS teane 
went no further; the waiting fox had sprung out to meet 
him, There was a trampled spot in the snow, 4 hittle 
bunch of gray fur, and a single drop of blood, — 

That was all. Yet.a whole woodland tragedy was writ- 

ten in these footprints in the forest. 3 


Cartos S. Heap. 


I would have to hunt up another member 


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Two Bitd Incidents. 


ater Forest ved Stream: 
lave two bird incidents to relate that in- 
terest to the readers of Forest AND Sree nt The fae 
One.is confirmatory of the experience of one of your 
contributors who some time ago related a similar observa- 
tion, attesting the proclivity of partridges to conceal - 
themselves with a covering of leaves when being pursed 

My own experience in this line is as follows: In No- 
vember last, being on a partridge (quail) hunt, with my 
son: and Mr. Grantley Harper, of Vicksburg, a single 
bird was flushed and shot by myself, Though badly 
wounded it flew several hundred feet and alighted within 
the banks of a ravine. When we approached the place 
old Jack, the setter, was at a dead point on the slope of 
the bank some Six Or eight feet below the top, where 
were some scattering bushes and cane. Mr. Harper ap- 
proached the dog from below, and scrutinizing the 
ground very closely announced that he saw the bird, but 
that only its eye had caught his vision, as two dead oak 
leaves had been carefully arranged by the bird to cover 
it completely from head to tail. Furthermore, the leaves 
on the ground were not so plenty as to adinit the suigges- 
tion that the covering of the bird by them was accidental 
but it was evidently done with design. ) 

Mr. Harper advanced his hand cautiously and seized 
the bird, which was probably too badly hurt to fly again. 

Incident No. 2 is this: On the day after Christmas, 
last week, my son and I were driving across country 
south of Vicksburg, in a buggy, on our way to our hunt- 
ing grounds, when he called my attention to a blaelc- 
bird that appeared to have a white tail, which showed up 
very conspicuously when the bird was flying, and looked 
as if there was a lock of cotton attached to jt. My son 
got out of the buggy to shoot the bird and inspect it 
and not having his shells unpacked took one from the 
pocket of my shooting coat, supposed to be loaded with 
No. 8 shot: 

He flushed the bird among the cotton stalks and 
brought it down with a long shot, >. 

As he apporached me with it, he expressed surprise 
that the breast of the bird should have been torn off by 
such small shot at such a distance—about fifty yards, 
Upon investigation it was disclosed that he had fired a 
shell loaded with buckshot that I had taken along for a 
chance shot at wild geese, 

The bird (a crow blackbird) had four pure white 
feathers in a group, about the middle of its tail. 

P. S—We brought back thirty-eight partridges and 
three doves. COAHOMA. 
CLARKESDALE, Miss,, Jan. 1. 


The Rattlesnake Weed, 


Bioominepate, N. Y., Dec, 27.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I notice in your issue of the 21st an article 
relative to antidotes for the bites of venomous snakes 
and thinking that perhaps some information I have might 
prove of interest to some of your readers, I am prompted 
to send the following: In the vicinity of Lake George 
and thereabouts grows a weed which, if used in time. is a 
sure cure for the bite of a rattlesnake, and possibly other 
reptiles. I Tegret to say I do not know its correct 
name, but the’ local inhabitants have always called it the 
“rattlesnake weed,” and few garrets you will find that 
do not contain it. It is also excellent for curing colds 
and the like. It somewhat resembles the milkweed in 
growth and general looks. 

After the patient has been bitten, as soon as possible 


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the stalk of the weed should be pounded or mashed and 
steeped in cold water, and the patient should drink the 
tea thus produced. The weed should be bound tightly 
to the wound. A profuse perspiration should follow this 
treatment, and very shortly the swelling in the part 
affected should gradually subside, and ultimately the 
patient should entirely recover. I do not write the fore- 
going from heresay, but my father years ago employed a 
farmhand at Lake George, who was bitten three different 
times, and once so long was the treatment deferred that 
the skin had parted over the wound from extreme swell- 
oe erie each of the three times the man was thoroughly 
cured. 

It, has always seemed strange to me that this weed has 
not come before the notice of the profession, but appar- 
ently it has not. It is certainly far ahead of whisky and 
well worth investigating. I trust this may prove of some 
use to some of your readers, who may be in a position 
to look the matter up and eventually see just how much 
virtue the weed may contain. 

J. THomson GALE. 


Animals and Men. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

A discussion, maintained under the above title, between 
your able contributors, Mr. Christy and Coahoma, has 
been of interest to me, for I have given the subject some 
thought, as will appear by a reference to recent articles in 
your columns. With. Coahoma’s intelligent handling of 
Mr; Christy’s extended argument, I find myself in entire 
accord. J recognized but little of the so-called “talk- 
ability’-in animals, and what exists partakes largely of 
the character of gesture, or forms of bodily movement. I, 
however, feel impelled to go beyond Coahoma, and per- 
haps along a divergent path, for he gives no consideration 
to a species of intercommunication that I think is com- 
mon to both animals and men. That animals project, to 
some extent, by a mysterious faculty, their states of con- 
sciousness upon one another, have muuch reason 
to believe; and, also,. that the ‘same faculty exists 
exceptionally in human beings under the name of thought 
transference. Granting its existence, we should infer 
its more active development in creatures having no other 
means of interlocution, for the acquirement of the power 
of speech: would tend to the supercession of the obscurer 
faculty. Usually thought transference in our species is 
associated with an unwonted stimulation of the in- 
dividual consciousness, arid. so does it also seem to be 
with animals. For instance, it is an established fact that 
when one of a large and“widely scattered school of whales 
is struck, every leviathan within sight from the vessel’s 
masthead appeats to become at once sensible of the mis- 
fortune of its companion. The stampeding of a heard of 
wild cattle or horses, the apparent instantaneous diffusion 
throughout the entire mass of a sense of danger pos- 
sessed by a single individual, is not unlikely, often- 
times, due to the operation of the same faculty. So, too, 
when a dog is thrashed by a larger canine, and goes to a 
friendly quadruped of the victor’s size, and the two there-; 
upon set off and amply avenge the chastisement, Hera 
no theory other than clairvoyance that will satisfactorily’ 
account for the evident impartment to the larger dog of 
the wrongs of the smaller., All illustrations of the as- 
sumed existence of the faculty naturally admit of another 
explanation; thus the stricken whale may emit a sound 
that is inaudible to his human enemy, but which may be 
readily transmitted through the water to his distant com- 
panions. It is known, however, that the whale’s sense of 
hearing is far from being acute, and, therefore, the theory 
of submarine communication by sound is unsatisfactory. 
Similarly the apparent simultaneous movement of a school 
of fish, all rising together to feed, or changing their 
course in exact harmony when in rapid motion, may be by 
virtue of a similar power of mutual introspection. | 

It is often remarked of an intelligent dog that it has a 
species of divination, of intuitive apprehension of its 
master’s wish or command before it is fully spoken ; 
this and other like instances of acute anticipatory per- 
ception may not depend upon the understanding of the in- 
complete sentence, or of the lip movement or gesture, but 
of a reading of the thought that is seeking expression. 
This assumption should not seem improbable, a thought 
is as much the result of mechanical force as is sound, and 
the latter has been audibly whispered across the Atlantic 
without wires. i : 

Although the theory of a direct transfer of ideas or 
states of consciousness from one brain to another lacks 
scientific demonstration, I am led to entertain it because 
it affords an explanation of animal phenomena otherwise 
inscrutable. The extended and devious migrations of 
fish fry must seemingly be influenced by a perception of 
remote objects that is akin to that involved in thought 
transference. Of these migratory phenomena I have given 
some account, and if they can be intelligently accounted 


for upon some other theory I should be glad to accept it. 
GOURAUD. 


A January Kingfisher on Long Island. 


New York, Jan. 6.—Editor Forest and Stream: While 
skating at Oakland Lake, Bayside, Long Island, yester- 
day, I was considerably astonished at hearing the un- 
mistakable “rattle’ of a kingfisher, and a moment later 
saw the bird fly out of one of the large trees on the 

rder of the pond. 
ord eehied fad to realize that a kingfisher could find 
sufficient food at this time of the year, when the ponds 
are so generally ice-locked, but he looked to be in good 
condition and apparently as much at home as though it 


were slimmer and not Jan. 5, 1902. 
: Rost. B, LAWRENCE, 


Musk Ox in Chicago. 


we musk ox captured as a calf last March east of the 
Meee River By Capt. Bodfish, of the whaler Beluga, 
has been received by Mr. C. E. Periolat, of Chicago. On 
the way to Chicago the musk ox was taken to Topeka, 
Kan., where Buffalo Jones pronounced its identity; and 
it was given the name of Olive Jones, in honor of his 
daughter, Speaking of the designation of musk ox, Mr. 
Jones said: “I desire to file my protest against such a 
game of this grand animal, and I defy the keenest nostrils 


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of human beings to detect the least suspicion of musk 
about the animal. I have killed them of all ages and 
sex, and have subsisted entirely for weeks at a time on 
the flesh of the musk ox, but have never discovered musk 
or any unpleasant odor about them. Whenever I hear- 
the name ‘musk ox’ it reminds me of the George R. Peck’s 
version of the naming of Garden City, Kan. He said 
It was named ‘Garden’ because there was no garden, and 
City’ because there was no city. So it is with this mis- 
nomer. It was called ‘musk’ because of no musk, and 
‘ox’ because there were never any such oxen.” 


Gane Zag and Gun, 
pia or 


Proprietors of shootin Cae will find it i 
them in Forest anp aS esrb tay le te adv estes 


Protect Alaskan Game. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

THIS is a subject that appeals to every “true blue 
sportsman,’ every lover of animal life and all those who 
throughout our entire country see beauty in nature, em- 
bracing forests, plains and mountains. For while the 
woods, plains and mountains are naturally beautiful, we 
all agree that they are much more grand and life-like 
when the wild animals and birds are present. There are 
now several organizations doing good work toward the 
preservation of wild animal and bird life; there is much 
uetAst us to do; to resolve is to act, so let us be up and 
at it. 

For twenty-seven years of my life I have taken my fall 
outing, embracing. the greater part of North America. 
{ have made trips in recent years to various parts of our 
mountains, where I hunted eighteen to twenty years ago, 
and it is appalling to note how rapidly the wild animals 
are, disappearing. While I am but forty-three years of 
age I have seen in this short period the extermination 
of our buffalo.. At the time of my first trip west, there 
were millions. The antelope at that time were thous- 
ands; they are now reduced to dozens, here and there. 
There. were also elk yet upon the plains, now there are 
none. . There were bison in our mountains within twenty- 
five miles of the place in which I am writing. I doubt 
if there are twenty wild bison now in the United States. 
I have seen thousands of deer in Montana, Wyoming, 
Idaho, Utah, Mexico and Colorado, where these numbers 
are now, comparatively, reduced to one, three, five and 
twenties. The “highorn” mountain sheep that were 
ace in hundreds are now reduced in like ratio with the 
rest. 

When I was hunting in New Brunswick in 1896, I was 
told by good authority that these conditions were not 
quite so bad there, and that the enforcement of their laws 
was the safeguard there as well as in Maine. 

My observations during my four seasons’ hunting in 
Alaska, in the light of past experience, foreshadows that 
without stringent laws and their rigid enforcement the 
big game of Alaska is doomed to as rapid an extermina- 
tion as took place upon the plains and mountains of 
Colorado, I will narrate one instance from my diary: 
When in the Kenai Mountains, Alaska, on the 23d day 
of August, 1897, Mr. Berg and myself, while sitting to- 
gether on a mountain side, with the aid of a field glass 
counted 500 wild white sheep (Ovis dalli), all within a 
radius of six to eight miles, ten here, six there, then 
twenty to thirty in another locality. Can a true hunter 
or a lover of nature imagine a more beautiful sight? 
Look! here and there were grand old towering moun- 
tains, all snow-capped, some furrowed with gaping 
canyons, some separated by a mighty glacier, others with 
a gradual slope, carpeted with nutritious grass, upon 
which these beautiful denizens of the snowy mountains 
of the north loitered about in groups, either feeding or 
resting. I was in these same mountains again in 1808, and 
my wife accompanied me there again in 1899. I wanted 
her to see what had at that time never before been 
woman’s pleasure to see. I was in these same mountains 
again this season, 1901, and there is no question about the 
Ovis dali decreasing in numbers; it is perceptible. If 
mineral should be discovered in these mountains, and 
with no laws to protect this animal, they would be ex- 
terminated in a very short time. ‘In 1899, when passing 
through a section where a so-called sportsman had been 
hunting, I found four carcasses lying on one small hill; 
nothing having been touched, the- heads of horns being 
too small and the work of skinning and preserving too 
great. 

In 1899 myself, wife and party killed but four sheep, 
two killed by her. We could have killed a hundred. This 
season (1901) we killed but one, as we needed it for 
meat, also one bull caribou, 

The natives are very destructive of sheep. I have seen 
them in parties of their own shoot a sheep and if it ran 
off wounded or fell over a low cliff, they never went after 
it—‘too much work—shoot more,” When in my party 
I never allow a native to carry a gun. The conditions I 
have mentioned regarding sheep extermination will like- 
wise apply to moose and caribou. 

Now, then, dear reader, if all I have said about this 
transformation of game from plenty to almost. extinction 
is sO perceptible in one man‘s short life, we all can see its 
finish in a very few years, unless we act quick, while there 
is yet time. 

Alaska is a new country, and a good portion of it is 
uninhabitable for man, and in this respect it is thus more 
suitable for game and there is less excuse for its being 
slaughtered on account of the country not being desirable 
for the use of home-seekers. 
although it is true, that where the climatic conditions are 
favorable for the advancement of civilization and the tiller 
of the soil, just so sure is the doom of the game in that 
land; remote and inaccessible localities and game pre- 
serves that extend to winter feeding grounds excepted. 

It is not necessary that big game be slaughtered to 
furnish the “meat-stuff’ in Alaska, for where a man can 
go, a pack train can go along; then it is made possible 
for the wagons, then railroads. Neither is it necessary 
that game be slaughtered for the native food supply, yet 
let them kill what they will actually use, and if our Gov- 
ernment would thoroughly ins‘ruct the missionaries and 
priests of Alaska to intercede with the natives on behalf 
of the game, much good could be done. Teach them the 


I am sorry to say it, 


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: > [fax. 22, 1902. 
wrong in killing the female and the young of any and a 
animals. I have talked this with natives in my camm 
and noticed that it was hard for them to conceive it; y¢ 
constant teaching will have its effect.. I believe tha 
some such laws as I hereafter mention would be effectivg 
in Alaska, if enforced. e 

My twenty-seven years of experience in hunting hay 
convinced me that the “market meat hunter” is the mom 
destructive to big game. Where mining localities are rey 
mote from railroads or steamship transportation, “med 
stuff’ is correspondingly expensive, hence if gam 
abounds the meat hunter finds a profitable business, ang 
is always on hand. Make a law and enforce it whereby 
it is a penal offense, coupled with a fine of one hundre 
dollars, for each offense where a party or parties offe 
for sale or barter the flesh of any game animal or bird a 
any spot or place in Alaskan territory. The same law t 
apply to any and every company or individual attempti 
to ship or transport game flesh of any kind out of th 
territory. Make a non-resident license law requirin 
every sportsman going to hunt and hunting in Alask 
to pay fifty dollars for that privilege, and that this sur 
allows him to take out of the territory only one specime| 
of each species killed by him, the same law to provide } 
license fee of $100 which would give the sportsman € 
hunter taking out the license the right to kill and trang 
port two specimens of each species of animal ‘killed bi 
him, and that he is not allowed to take out more than tha 
quota. The money thus paid to the district game com 
missioners, who may be the nearest postmaster, wher 
the hunting is done; and this money to be used first fq 
the prosecution of a person or persons violating this lay 
and any surplus that might accumulate in one year ove 
$300 to go to the native school fund of the district. | 

Make a law that gives an open season only on gam 
from August 15 to November 1, with a fine of one hur 
dred dollars for its violation. This law should apply t 
natives also, as well as non-residents, except where th 
animal is shot absolutely for immediate food necessity. | 

Make a law that prohibits sportsmen or other persor 
from employing-natives or other men to kill big gam 
animals or birds, for in so doing most of the meat j 
wasted and the heads shipped out and sold. 

Make a law prohibiting the killing of the big brow 
bear (Ursus middendorfi) on Kadiak Island for a perio 
of five years. This will in no way be an injustice to tk 
natives, as this island now contains so few of the beat 
that hunting them is no longer profitable, and neither 4 
the natives depend on this for support. 

Negotiations should be commenced with Great Britaj 
to implore them to pass some such laws to coincide wit 
ours that would govern that part of the Yuk>-~ territos 
in British Columbia that joins Alaska. 

I know full well what objections will be made to sue 
laws by fur traders, hide and head hunters, but is it righ 
that the grand old bull moose or bull caribou or the grey 
old ram “Ovis Dalli” be shot down by a native paid fr 
so doing by a so-called sportsman, and only the hea 
taken from the carcass and that shipped out and sol¢ 
I say, is it right that this should be permitted for tt 
gain of a few individuals at the expense of all the bi 
game of that country, as well as of the lovers of natui 
and the true blue sportsmen not yet born, to all of who 
we are responsible? 

Let us all act now and use our influence to have sem 
measures appertaining thereto properly brought befo) 
the coming session of Congress, with an earnest appe} 
for their enactment. 

I have talked several times with the Governor | 
Alaska, Hon. J. G. Brady, regarding this subject, and } 
urged me to formulate some practical measures and } 
would give it his support. Dati DE WEESE. 


Canyon City, Colo. 


Outing of the Ozark Club. 


Mempuis, Tenn., Dec. 1.—Editor Forest and Strea 
Frost, the advance guard of Father Winter, he 
arrived, mantling the earth with its blanket of gray, sem 
ing the squirrel racing to its den with choice nuts fe 
winter store; sending the sap down to the roots of tk 
trees, and turning the dark forest into a kaleidoscope 
yellow, bronze and gold. The hunting instinct had be 
gradually but surely rising, until Nov. 11 I threw dow 
books, pens, papers, all the infernal tools of toil, a 
swore I would be free once more. ; 

The members of the Ozark Lake Hunting and Fish 
ing Club had gathered from afar at Memphis, Tenn., 1 
go on the annual deer hunt. The preserve of this ely 
is famous for its successful outings, and hence the lo 
sportsmen are always interested in the outcome of t 
annual deer hunt. The names of members who booke 
for this year’s hunt were as follows: ; 

From Nashville—Governor Benton McMillin, D 
Duncan Eve, Dr. J. Y. Crawford and Dr. W. W. Core. 

From Memphis—A. B. Wingfield, A. H. Murray, Pag 
M, Patterson, Albert Swind, and Philip Fransioli. 

From Union City, Tenn.—John H. McDowell, Fulte 
Haward, J. S. Glover, D. A. Edwards and Har. 
Edwards. 

From Rives, Tenn—Bob Wade, Frank Caldwell, Jo 
Shores, Oscar Clemmons, R. J. Barnett and John More 

From Newberne, Tenn.—W. J. Flatt and Ed. Brady. 

From Rosedale, Miss.—O. Y. McGuire. Last, but I 
no means least, Judge M. D, Smallman, of McMinnvill 
Tenn., the Socrates and Diogenes of the party. TE 
day before the party met in Memphis, Judge Smallmz 
telegraphed Goy. Benton McMillin “that he was sic 
‘and asked that someone be appointed to sit on tH 
McMinnville bench,” as circuit court was in sessio 
The good natured Governor appointed an unsuspectin 
“Solomon” to go and relieve Judge Smallman, and ot 
Judge, with his hand on his stomach and many groai 
and protestations of pain, excused himself to his coj 
stituents and to the poor cusses he was trying, ar 
jumped on the first train headed toward Memphis. T 
Governor met the Judge in the corridor of the hotel ar 
remarked “that he was the pertest looking sick man } 
ever saw.” The Judge smiled one of his winnir 
‘smiles and winked and said nothing. | 

Supplies all bought, the party and saddle horses we: 
on board the steamer Kate Adams at 5 P. M., bour 
down the river to the preserve. ‘ a 

About half way, at Sunflower Landing, we picked 1 
F, G. Bobo, R. E. Bobo, Jr., Frank Harris and M 


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Jan. 11, 1902.] 
Vy i 
§Blackwood, who had their horses and the famous pack of 
ounds belonging to R. E. Bobo, of Bobo, Miss. Mr. 
obo has the reputation of being the best bear hunter 
the State of Mississippi, and keeps the only pack 
| bear hounds in this country. His sons and son-in-law, 
Mr. Blackwood, accompanied us, and all are expert hun- 
mers of both bear and deer. We arrived at the club house, 
which is on the bank of the river in Arkansas, at the 
y@mouth of the Arkansas River, at2 P. M., Novi2. . 
ig, All the boys were as lively as crickets, and such yell- 
wing, joking and laughing from old settled, dignified men 
igyou never heard. To see governors, judges, chancellors 
Ot Universities, eminent physicians and attorneys, and men 
all callings laughing and playing like school boys, 
ad mingling with each other in unrestrained social en- 
yment was extremely pleasant; for it showed that each 
eterior contained a watm heart and joyous soul, ready 
) £O out taward its fellow beings and commune with 
iem in untrammeled social intercourse. 
wm At a meeting held that night, Captain John H. Mc- 
aWowell was unanimously chosen captain and director of 
ithe hint. 
ia Nov. 


13 dawned bright and cold—ideal hunting 
waweather, All were in the saddle early and the men were 
masoon om their proper stands. F. G, Bobo, R. E, Bobo, 
T., Harris and Blackwood did the driving with about 
wenty of their hands. The drivers had not gone a quar- 
er mile from the club house when the dogs jumped a 
Wlarge doe. R. E. Bobo, Jr., and Harris both got snap 
Wastiots, but did no harm, The doe ran through D, A, Ed- 
wawards stand and he fired at her three times, but did not 
a@stop her, She continued on her way and was killed by 


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THE OZARK CLUB HOUSE, 


Mr. Albert Swind about two miles from where she had 
started, Mr, Swind had gone down the river hunting 
geese, and heard the dogs coming and ran in ahead oi 
the pack and killed the deer with No. 5 duck shot. 

The dogs soon had two more deer on the run. One, 
a large buck, swam the lake a mile wide and escaped. 
The other, a yearling buck, almost ran over Capt. John 
H. MeDowell and was killed. Capt. McDowell now 
| started with the drivers, and soon the dogs treed some- 
thing in a brush pile. When we reached them we found 
it was a coon. Capt. McDowell dismounted and shot 
the coon to get the dogs away, but in doing so he laid 
himself liable to Judge Smallman’s court, as it was against 
the rules to shoot small game when deer hunting. We 
now started to camp, and on the way an otter ran within 
thirty yards of Mr. Blackwood, and went into the lake 
before he could shoot it. When we reached the club 
house we found that Oscar Clemmons and Frank Cald- 
well had brought in ten mallard ducks, which they had 
killed on the lake. Two deer, ten ducks and quite a num- 
ber of quail made up the first day’s bag. 

We found that Uncle Joe Jones and his son, Luther, 
had arrived during the afternoon, bringing their fine. 
pack of dogs with them. They’ live about twenty-five 
miles from the club house, and own a number of fine 
dogs, and also keep some of the club dogs; for we do not 
allow a dog to be kept on the preserve. We now had 
quite a number of skillful hunters in camp, and plenty of 

sood hands. | : 
|_ That night we had lots of fun at Capt. John H. Mc- 
_Dowell’s trial for killing that coon. As soon as the busi- 
‘ness meeting was over and the day’s record written up, 
Judge Smallman appointed big Frank Caldwell, who is 
Six feet two inches tall and weighs 250 pounds, as sheriff. 
He is the exact counterpart of Polyphemus the Cyclops, 
excepting that Polyphemus had one eye in the middle 
of his forehead, and Frank has two natural eyes and good. 
ones. Anyway, he is fierce looking, and it takes that to 
be a good sheriff. 

Capt, John H. McDowell was arrested, charged with 
the crime of killing a coon in front of Mr. Bobo’s dogs, 
which was very injurious to the mental, moral and phys- 
ical qualities of the hounds. Now, anyone who has hunted. 
knows that the moral character of a hound is one of his 
Main attributes, and to sully his character in such a 


Manner is a crime indeed. Anyway, the court thought. 


so, and what the court thought had to go. Dr. Duncan 
Eve, Dr. J. Y. Crawford, Dr. W. W. Core, John Mores 
and W. J. Flatt were appointed jurors. 

Capt. McDowell made a noble defense of his case, and 
brought in such unimpeachable testimony as Uncle Joe 
Jones to prove that he had not injured Mr. Bobo’s dogs 
by killing the coon. He even proved that the character 
oi Mr, Bobo’s “Black Gyp Venus was no good anyway.” 
However, with the able prosecution of Attorney-General 
A. H, Murray and the copious suggestions of the court, 
a very damaging case was brought against him. The 
court instructed the jury to bring in a verdict of suilty. 
They, however, could not agree and were ordered back 
with the injunction “to agree in five minutes or go to 
jail.” Now, as the jail is one. of the dog pens, and a 
Juror is lighle to have to be disinfected when he comes 


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out, the threat was sufficient to bring them to terms, and 
they brought in a verdict of “guilty, with recommenda- 
tion to the mercy of the court.” The court announced 
that it possessed no such qualification, and proceeded to 
sentence the prisoner, The sentence was “all cost,” 
which the court assured the prisoner would break his 
back, and the very worst punishment that could be in- 
ficted on a hunter. However, as Capt. John H. Mc- 
peneey is strictly temperance the sentence did not hurt 

im, 

Noy, 14 dawned bright and clear. Frost enveloped 
the earth like a mantle of snow. The twigs snapped 
under foot with a gingery twing, the geese honked as 
they flew from river to lake, and all nature smiled upon 
as ardent a lot of hunters as ever emulated the example 
of the Goddess Diana. 

All were on stands early, waiting in expectancy for 
the cry of the hounds, and did not wait long, Old Rock, 
belonging to Uncle Joe Jones, opened on trail before he 
was out of sight of camp. Then the combined packs of 
Uncle Joe, Bobo and Geo. Lacey broke into full cry. 
The deer was up and running for its life. It jumped up 
so close to the line of standers that all heard the music. 
And music it was. All the Euterpean strains of enchanted 
music, melodies irom throats of songsters like Calvé, 
paar and Sembrich, sounded harsh when compared to 
this. 


Oh, if I could drag some of you hide-bound business 


men into the forest, atid let you hear such melodies as 
these, the scales would drop from your eyes, the marrow 
would warm in your bones, the young blood would go 
coursing throtigh your veins again, and you would go 


the 
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back tweny-five years and be young again. There would 


e no more Ponce de Leon’s seeking the “fountain of 
youth.” You would all be young. Uncle Joe Jones is 
seventy years old, and he rides his horse in the chase 
like a man of thirty. 

The deer passed near Mr, Fulton Howard, who fired 
at it, but failed to stop it. It then ran so near the club 
house that one of the colored servants named Bob Ed- 
wards grabbed up a rifle and killed it. It was a magnifi- 
cent buck, and weighed over 200 pounds. Page M. 
Patterson got the horns, which had eight points and a 
very wide spread. ; ; 

We soon had another deer on the run, which proved 
to be a large doe. She ran through D. A. Edwards’ 
stand and he killed her. ! 

. E. Bobo, Jr, and A. H. Murray killed a goose 
each, and a number of ducks and quail were killed by 
members during the day. . 

Noy. 15 dawned beautiful and clear, frosty and calm. 
“Eolus had his winds confined to his zgean caverns, and 
Solaris smiled upon us. In fifteen minutes after the start 
the faithful hounds of Jones, Bobo and Lacey jumped 
a large doe. She ran near Goy. McMillin, but not suffi- 
ciently near to shoot. He turned her to Dr. J. Y. Craw- 
ford and he fired both barrels. Then stich yells of tri- 
umph you never heard. The whole crowd knew what 
had happened. Gov, McMillin and Capt. John H. Mc- 
Dowell rushed to his assistance, as they were afraid he 
would hurt himself. Gov. McMillin said he was afraid 
to approach at first, With arms waving and body ges- 
ticulating he was brandishing his bloody hunting knife 
aloft, and crying at the top of his voice: “I got him! I 
got him!” 
doe. The proudest man in the State of Arkansas at that 
moment was Dr. J. Y. Crawford. The hounds were now 
taken to the north end of preserye and soon had a large 
buck on the jump. After some chasing, which afforded 
great pleasure to the listeners, he was finally killed by 
the combined efforts of F. G. and R. E. Bobo, Jr., Frank 
Harris and Mr. Blackwood. He was a big fellow and 
had eight prongs on his horns. 

The hunt continued, and you know in deer hunting the 
unexpected always happens. The dogs soon jumped an- 
other deer and ran him across the Arkansas River, 
clear out of hearing, All standers were patiently waiting 
and Dr. Duncan Eve was sitting on a log musing, with 
his gun on the ground near him. He was thinking of 
those virile students at Vanderbilt University, who were 


all rejoicing because he was deer hunting down in Arkan- 


sas. When lo! a monarch of the forest with a “chair 
on his head” walked calmly out within twenty steps of 
our sedate chancellor. The buck looked at the Doctor 
and the Doctor at the buck. The Doctor thought that 
Orpheus was near with his lyre and that the sweet strains 
had “caused the beasts of the forest to forget they were 
wild, and the streams to cease to flow.” The buck took 
a different view of it, and with one bound sprang into 
the bushes and was gone. 

The Doctor managed to fire- both barrels of his shot- 
gun and cut a sapling in twain fifteen feet from the 
ground, He explained this high shot by saying “that he 
had undey-shot the deer as it jiimped twenty feet high 


_ making arrangements to buy 10,000 acres more. 


It proved to be a. she, however, a big, fat. 


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when it realized its position,” We had lots of fun at the 
Doctor’s expense. 

Some of the boys brought in geese and more ducks 
and quail, 

Next day Philip Fransioli and Uncle Joe Jones each 
killed a deer. 

Mr. J. M, Avent, of Hickory Valley, Tenn., had come 
down on the last trip of the steamer with his horses and 
with fifteen fine hounds. Mr. Avent has the reputation 
of having the fastest fox pack in the State. 

Our luck continued to be as good as could be desired. 
We had three or four chases every day and seldom failed 
to kill a deer. We started five deer the last day we 
hunted in less than one mile of the club house. We had 
been gone about eight days and all declared the hunt a 
grand sticcess; as we had killed twelve deer, twenty geese 
and many ducks and quail, Our culinary department had 
been under the able supervision of Mr. Philip Fransioli, 
who is a hotel keeper of many years’ experience, and the 
club was unanimous in extending him a vote of thanks 
for his able service. 

Our club owns in its own right 5,000 acres; and we are 
We are 
in the center of an uninhabited wilderness, sixty miles 
long by twenty wide. The lands are all wild and valuable 
only for the timber on them. We own the exclusive 
hunting privilege on a large section of country, in the 
center of which is a lake seven miles long by one mile 
wide, with smaller lakes here and there. We have made 
arrangements to sow the small lakes with yonkapins and 
wild rice, and the open places with wheat and peas, So 
we shall soon have the finest place for wildfowl as well 


AFTER THE HUNT. 7 4 


Gov. McMillin ig on the right of the picture, we 


as for large game. Deer, turkeys, and quail are very 
plentiful, with some bear on the north end of the preserve. 
Geese fly over by the thousands, and also ducks, and 
when our lakes are sown down with their natural food, 
our club will excel for fowl the famous Wapanocki Club 
nedr Memphis. 

Our members are limited to sixty. We now have fifty 
enrolled on our books, We have ten more shares, one 
share to the man, to sell to the right parties. All money 
paid for stock goes to the purchase of land and hunting 
privileges. We require reference from those desiring to 
buy stock, as we are compelled to have a majority vote. 
of members to elect a member. We do not run on long 
lineage ancestry, but must know that a man is a gentle- 
man, because this is a club composed exclusively of that 
sott of people. If you desire any information I will send 
you a copy of constitution and by-laws and treat you as 
courteously as you could wish, We are not begging for 
members, as the man who gets into this club will make 
handsomely on his investment, as well as break into the 
finest hunting club in the South. 

The otiting terminated and all took the steamer for 
Memphis, scattering to their homes from this point. We 
brought six large deer back with us, having consumed six 
at the club house, All departed for their homes declar- 
ing the hunt a grand success, and swearing by all that is 
sacred to meet again. if possible, next year, 

Thus terminated the second hunt of the Ozark Lake 
Hunting and Fishing Club, and all were benefited and 
more strongly cemented in the eternal bonds of “Fidus 
Achates,”’ A. B. WINGFIELD, Sect’y. 


California Quail for Stocking. 


San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 16.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Owing to the fact that there are many requests 
made by people living in various parts of the Eastern 
States for California quail, to be used for purposes of 
propagation, and these requests or inquiries are seldom, 
made to the State Board of. Fish Commissioners, who 
have the sole authority to grant requests, or issue permits 
of this character, may we request that you give the matter 
publicity through the columns of your paper. We do 
not mean by this to invite applications, but to call the 
attention of those who desire California quail, that they 
make their applications to this Board, where they will be 
given careful consideration. 

CALIFORNIA FisH CoMMISSION. 

Cas, A, VocELsaAne, Chief Deputy. 


| An lowa Prairie Chicken Case. 


Aucona, Ia., Jan. 2—Editor Forest and Stream: On 
Aug. 31, 1901, ex-Judges Hubbard and Trimball, of this 
State, were catight by our game warden, Riley, with three 
prairie chickens. They had just come into Ledyard in 
the north part of this county from a morning’s shoot. 
They contested the case in the justice court. The justice 
fined them, and they appealed to the District Court, but 
did not let the case come to trial. It has cost them 
ahout $150, Joun G. Suirz, 


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On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 5, I boarded the 3:34 

train at East New York bound for East Quogue, where 
I had secured the services of Mr. Harry Coster as guide 
for a couple of days’ quail shooting; as I had never shot 
at quail before, my feelings were rather unsettled at the 
prospect im: view, 
_ After-a journey of about three hours I finally arrived 
just as the family were at their evening meal. I found 
Mr, Coster to be a young man of twenty years, very 
sociable and withal a good sportsman. ; 

e were out by 8 o'clock Friday morning ,and started 
to drive to Good Ground, as Mr. Coster knew of some 
nice coveys there. About 200 yards from the house we 
passed over a bridge, and there in the creek sat a broad- 
bill. He took flight and pitched about 200 yards down 
stream. I alighted from the wagon, slipped in some-No. 
4’s and started off to stalk him. Three medium sized 
-peperidge trees aided me in getting within about 55 yards 
of him; I then stepped into the open and had just taken 
two paces when he jumped, only to drop back an instant 
ane at the discharge of my rifle barrel. A good omen, 

truly. ' 

Arriving at Good Ground, we hunted several likely 
places without success, The guide returned for the rig 
while the dog, Sport (a liver-colored pointer eight years 
old and weighing about 70 pounds), and I continued 
along the edge of the woods, Mr. Coster, by a short cut, 
got ahead of us about 25 yards, when, whir! up rose a 
bevy of probably fifteen just at the edge of the woods, I 
thought at first that they were robins, but upon hearing 
Mr. Coster’s exclamation, immediately realized my mis- 
take, and managed to cripple one which had curved from 
the woods when he flushed, and was on the point of 
disappearing over the tree tops: He toppled over and we 
hastened in to secure him, Sport pointed, and the bird 
Started to run. We started to purstie him, 
capture him without firing, when, presto! he took flight 
and escaped, followed by a charge of No. 71%4’s from 
my gun. We did not succeed in finding him’ again, so 
started further in the woods to look up the rest.. We 
had just’ started when a partridge jumped from under a 
pine, and was away like a flash, followed by an ineffectual 
shot from each gun. We hunted that woods about two 
-hours, and’ Mr. Coster killed one quail, although we each 
had three’ shots. 

We then drove about a half-mile further, and tying the 
horse, started across a pasture to the woods. Passing 
through some scrub-pines into a stubble, I flushed a pair 
almost under my feet. I killed my bird, which quartered 
to the left, but Mr. Coster missed his, a right quarterer. 
He marked it down, but we failed to locate it. You can 
imagine my feelings when I gathered in my first quail, a 
fine cock weighing 714 ounces. As it was then after 1 
o’clock, we started home for dinner. 

After dinner we walked north about a half-mile, and a 
large covey fiushed wild about 150 yards away in the 
center of a wheat stubble. We followed them into the 


woods, and had about seven shots, each without -résult | 


excepting a handful of feathers, which I knocked from 


one of the lively fellows as he passed between two pines.. . 


The woods were exceedingly dense, which made only 
quick snap-shooting possible. 

Just about dusk I succeeded in killing a single bird, 
making our total three quail for the day. 

With an earlier start on Saturdav we went north, and 
after a half-mile walk along the road turned to the right 
along a creek, hoping’ for a shot at a black duck. We 
then hunted a wide territory without finding a bird, came 


back to the road, crossed over and hunted over a couple of 


miles with the same result. Things looked decidedly 
gloomy as we catne back to the road. Walk- 
ing along the road we again came to the creek, 
and there, right in the highway, found fresh tracks 
in the snow, Putting the dog to work, he took us into 
the tow ground by the creek, then lost the trail and 
wandered aimlessly about, the guide going one way and 
T another. The guide finally flushed them and killed with 
his first gun, but waited too long for the second, although 
he centered his bird. Sport then pointed a single bird, 
which flushed before I came up, and Mr. Coster wing 
broke it. It fell among a lot of thorns in a marshy 
place, and we were unable to find it. 

We then followed the rest of the covey across the 
road into the woods, and althouzh we put up two, were 
unable to secure a shot on account of density of the 
thickets. We recrossed the road and started toward a 
clump of large pines, where a covey lived, as the guide 
put it. Sure enough, after hunting half-way around it 
Sport came to a dead stop at the foot of a tall pine. We 
waited a full minute enjoying the point, and the antics 
of old Sport, whose fore feet were on lower ground than 
his tail end. and caused him to change his position, but 
without breaking his point. I then stepped forward. when, 
with a rush and a roar, up jumped a covey of eight or 
nine. I had a good chance for a double, but only killed 
with the left. Mr. Coster only secured one shot, but 
killed his bird. I marked down a pair of birds in an 
adjoining field, and started to find them, One jumped 
from under my feet and whirled back for the woods. I 
missed with the right, but with the report of the left he 
caine down like a rag, while a bunch of feathers floated 
away to leeward. 

We failed to find the other, and started to look up one 
which Mr: Coster had marked down in a meadow. He 
flushed him, missed with his right, and shot his left just 
as I dropped the quail in the woods. 

We discovered a large opossttm in the woods, which 
weighed about 12 pounds, and killed’ it, then left the rest 
of the quail for “seed” and went to dinner. 

After dinner we went north again, and I missed one 
which I did not see rise, but just chanced to see as it was 
disappearing. After some time Sport again pointed in the 
wheat stubble where the covey had flushed the night be- 
fore, and Mr. Coster killed the bird. 

We then went down by the creek, hoping to find the 
suryivors of the morning passing over the creek. We 
found two single birds among some dense scrub pines, but 
did not get a shot. It was now rapidly growing dark, and 
we turned toward home. Shortly after Sport, “made 
game” at the base of a short, wide-spreading pine, but 
before he located them for a point f _ We 
each secured a single shot and bagged our bird, making a 
total of eight for the day and eleven for two days, which 


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they flushed. “We- 


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is considered a fair bag for this part of the country, al- 
though more birds are often killed in two days’ shooting. 
Of these birds I killed six for a total of twenty shots. 
With this result on my first trip as a novice I am quite 
well content. 

This is a good quail country, with lots of birds, as their 
tracks in the snow attested, but we did not seem to be 
very fortunate in locating them. 

I have only words of praise for old Sport, who, in 
spite of his weight and years and sore toes, did slow but 
positive work, for he rarely made a false point and never 
flushed once. I cheerfully recommend Mr. Harry Coster 
as a young man who will do his best to secure game for 
his patrons. 


The weights of six of these quail were: One 7, 
ounces, one 7 ounces, both males, and four females, 614 
ounces each, 


W. H. Emmons. 


Hunting Deer in Upper Michigan. 


Hartrorp, Mich.—On Noy. 6 Stephen Stowe, of Hart- 
ford, with Dr. Bope and Fred Kelly, of Lawrence, left 
Hartford via the Pere Marquette Railway at 1:45 P. M. 
for Baraga county to hunt deer. They arrived at Nestoria 
the next day; the trainmen got orders to let them off at 
Tioga, four miles from Nestoria, so the train stopped 
at Tioga, where the only thing to designate a station was a 
cedar post with a board nailed upon it with “Tioga” 
painted upon it in large letters. They soon had their tent 
up within fifty yards of the railroad: the tent was a Io x 
12 with 3-foot side wall. There was about 6 inches of 
snow upon the ground. They put up their stove and got 
nicely settled by dark. The next morning bright and 
early they were out for deer; but after hunting all day 
day they concluded that the day’s sport consisted in get- 
ting very tired. They had a good bed, for they had 
found a small stack of marsh hay and had appropriated 
enough to make them comfortable. Here Dr. Bope had 
his first mishap while cutting out some of the hay from 
the stack with a hatchet—he cut a 4-inch gash in his new 
tubber boot. 
the entire time, and at one time a fairly good “plunge 
bath.” The Doctor was fated to have trouble. The next 
morning while splitting kindling for a fire, a stick flew up 
and took a piece of skin about the size of a quarter off his 
nose. 

The second day Kelly shot a fine buck within twenty- 
five rods of the tent, it being his first deer. Bope heard 
him shoot, and ran up, wanting to stick the deer with his 
fine new hunting knife, which he had bought in Chicago 
on the Way to the north. Kelly let him try his new 
knife. 
blood,” and the professional man gave it up. The two 
started to find Stowe. the experienced hunter of the party, 
and they thought he could bleed the deer. They took his 
track at a lively trot and soon came up to Stowe and told 
him their trouble. He told them the deer had probably 
bled internally, and so it proved. The bal! had gone 
through its lungs and all the blood was inside. They 
soon had him hung up and they were off again, but got no 
more deer that day, and although hungry for venison, 
Kelly did not want to cut into so fine a specimen, but 
wanted to take it home. Stowe said,.“Never mind, T’ll 
Ill one to eat.” 

The next morning very early they were off, and hunted 
until about 2 o’clock, and Stowe had got back to within 
eighty or a hundred rods of the tent when he saw and 
killed a nice fat fawn. But he was too tired to drag it in 
to camp. He went-on to the camp, where he found Kelly 
and Bope, who had been in long enough to be rested. and 
told them that if they would go and get it they would 
haye some yenison for supper. They soon had it at the 
tent. and a portion of it cooking. It was very fat, and 
the fumes of roasting venison soon delighted the camp 

“with its appetizing odor. 

Saturday brought a couple of land-lookers, here called 
“cruisers.” They put up their tent close by ours, and 
we all went out Sundav morning. Kelly and Stowe got in 
about dark, but no Bope put in an appearance. The 
critisers came over and said they had heard a gun and two 
sharp whistles. Kelly went out, took a short look for 
Bope, and fired his gun, but heard nothing. We made 
up otir minds he was surely lost, so we all went outside 
and fired several shots, and after a short time we heard 
a shot in reply, but we could not agree in the direction 
from which it came. Kelly went down the railroad in 
one direction, and the rest of us went the oppopsite way. 
We had planned signals with otir whistles so we could 
communicate and blew our whistles, but got no response. 
Then we took our Jantern and compass. and with Stowe 
leading in the direction from which he thought the sound 
of the shot came, we entered a large cedar swamp, and on 
a small island we found Bope corralled. He had at- 
tempted to get out of the swamp. but had only made a 
circuit of the island. He had tried to start a fire, but his 
matches were wet, and he had shot away all of his 
cartridges but one, which he had kept for case of need. 
About 8 o’clock we got him back to camp. He said he had 
often been glad to see folks, but he had never before 
seen friends who looked quite so good to him as did 
Stowe and Kelly that night. | we. 

Monday we got otir second fawn, which Stowe, stand- 
ing on the railroad, shot at six times to kill with a . 45-90. 
He counted the rails, and it was sixty-seven lengths of 
T rails from where he stood to the place where the deer 
was when he hit it, which would be about 350 yards. 

Wednesday we killed two fine bucks with very nice 
heads. Thursday another fawn was added to our string, 
All these deer were killed within a radius of two miles. 
taking the camp for the center. The next day we visited 
a beaver dam, where all the work was fresh. We found 


where they had cut down popples 6 inches in diameter and 


then cut them off in sticks of about 4 feet in length and 
dragged them through the snow to the creek, making a 
track in the snow that looked like the track made by 
dragging a-deer through the snow. We brought some of 
the sticks Home with tis, and also some of the chips which 
were made in the citting, showing that the beaver exer- 
cises: the same judgment that a human does in chopping, 
cutting in from both ways and then taking the chip out 
with. his: teeth,, pea a aida ; 
-. On Monday we got two more deer in a rolling, burned 
“district which we were crossing, and when we were not 
on the lookout for deer. Stowe said he was walking along 


He enjoyed at least one wet foot during- 


After two or three attempts’ they failed to “draw ~ 


close views of bear, panther and other “varmints.” “Ho 


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hastily to get across, when he was startled by the st 
of a deer close by him, Turning in the direction of 
sound, he saw a large doe’s head. She was looking 

im from over a log and had no doubt scented him. | 
had only the head and the upper part of the neck fa 
mark, the rest of the body being hidden by the log. } 
fell dead, and as she fell a large buck rose up out; 
bed near her and stood looking in wonder at his fal 
mate, with his side toward Stowe. We send you | 
bullet, which was found in the hide on the further side 
this fine fellow when he was dressed; you can jw 
something of the force of the shot by the condition of. 
bullet. And now having killed our eight deer, we m: 
up our minds we would go home.-- i 

To show how the railways wait upon the hunters 
northern Michigan, we call attention to the fact that 
day of our stay the section men carried our mail to 3 
from the post office for us. The agent at Nestoria 1 
asked to have the 3:40 freight stop and take on 
venison, with merely a request that we be on hand 
help load it. They notified us that the passenger tra 
which came through an hour later, would stop for us. — 
sent our deer home via the Duluth & South Shore « 
Michigan Central, while we returned by Chicago. 

Mr. Stowe is the champion deer hunter of this ce 
munity, and has for several seasons hunted in the Up 
Peninsula. He has never hunted with a guide... He s) 
he would as soon hire a man to guide him in cou ti 
and where to find one’s sweetheart as to help him fini 
deer and tell him how to kill it. He uses a .45-90 Wi 
chester, and has never lost a'deer that he has hit with 
yet. He says there were very few hunters in the wo 
this fall, not nearly so many as last year, and thas 
mile from the railroads you will find no hunter’s trac 
He says he thinks the deer are increasing in number. 

SULLIVAN Cook 


The Pioneer Club Hunt. 


THE gteat annual hunt of the father of all of the m| 
western clubs came off on time, with everything pro 
tious. The weather concurred with the spitits of — 
hunters, for the sun came out from the mists of the ea 
morning and shone with that richness which is only s« 
in southern Kansas and in Italy. ; 

This was on November 19, last, and ready were _ 
hunters with their favorite rifles and ammuinition to ¢ 
to the loads of good things, tents, bedding and trail 
dogs which were already placed in the special of the 
K. & T. R. R., for their use and comfort. | 

These supplies deserve more than passing notice, | 
they were not of the ordinary variety or material—th 
was absolutely nothing too good for so good a. 
of fellows. ; 

The cook stove, a good baker, and the Sibley heat 
for tents, were easily painted red by the pine knots 
the mountains. 

The cooks were the equals of the implements and st 
plies, as proved by the pastry that followed the hot b 
cuits, hoe cake, turkey cooked in ’steen ways, and {f 
famous-venison loaf—any wildness of the game was tam 
by the bastings and the other fine arts of the ch 
Preparations were none too great, for the whole Ind} 
Territory was to be captured with twenty guns. P 

The chief beginning, however, was made at Joplin, MI 
where the best Elk lodge rooms in the country were eas. 
dislodged and forced to treat and retreat. 

The “House of Lords” was also vanquished in 
single file front face attack, but the Woman’s Exchan 
at meal time stood the strain of the knife-and-fork bat 

Arkansas was unmolested through respect for its rep} 
tation and the ammunition was economized for the § 
mishing in the Cosharties and Kimichi Mountains. 

Camp located, a busy time ensued in filling ticl 
erecting log bedsteads and stocking the commissary té 
from the contents of the wagons which had shaken the 
for thirty miles or more over rough mountain roads. 

It was soon fotind, however, that the countty furnish 
ticks which filled themselvcs, also furnished gamy bron 
turkey and the wily deer, which continually restocked t| 
emptying larder. 

The roll-call of the club showed that the followi 
members had found their way to the secluded can 
selected by Guides Reed and Henry—the Choctaw. 
friendly Indian, viz.: Captain Joé Hotchkiss, Hons, 
O. Brown and C. K. Leinbach, Sheriff-Bennett, Doct! 
Maser, Messrs. Don Venable, Reilley, Lonekes, Hi 
Miexell, Charley Workman, Roundtree, Steele, Rhod# 
Copeland, Smith, Alexander Schreck, the writer here 
and the (should-have-been-first-named) caterers, Wi 
Main and Phil. Conrad. These latter were the thrice 
diy attractions eagerly hunted for and always equal 
the occasion. No people ever lived better in camp thy 
those of this worthy club, and none ever regretted havi 
been “‘too late for the wagon” more than did Cols. E 
wards, Rasbach and Greene, who did not arrive till t) 
club broke camp, which occtitred earlier than intende! 
for the true sportsman’ reason that game enough hg 
been killed. i 

The score stood, seyen deer and Seventy-eight w 
turkeys, beside wildcat, wolf, etc., all well tamed by tl 
trusty rifles of the sturdy huntsmen. ol : 

Some incidents of the hunt were visits of curious Cho 
taws and of members of other camps, who were alway 
well treated, except with what the former especially mo 
wanted and called “lemon,” but wanted it from a bott 
of reddish hue. They doubtless referred to the extra 
gotten from traders and which is known itr prohibitic 
States as cold tea, Magnolia, and Calamitv Waters, et 

Stories of the finest landscape views; escapes from tq 


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I got him,” “How I missed him,” and “How I didy 
find him,” were numerous and often exciting. _ ! 

This Choctaw country is rough and rigged, traverse 
by the Kimichi and Coshartie Mountains, which are inte? 
sected by rapid streams of the purest water. al 

Abundant grass-and acorns add to make ti a natur! 
home for deer and turkey, and the addition of elk. won 
make it the grandest location for a preserve on the cont] 
nent. This portion, at least, should be ‘set aside, on allo 
‘ment or other disposition of the Choctaw territory 
th: Government, for game alone, -It seems good for th; 
purpose and that only, and even the forests proclaim j 
for the oaks, pine and holly are of little commer | 


JAN, 11,, 1902.] 


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value, and the scattered remnants of the race inhabiting it 
do not thrive as does the game, but are dwindling away, 
and even their songs are sadder than the poem of the 
“Deserted Village’ or the story of the “Last of the 
Mohicans.” - 

The cabins and the clearings are mostly deserted and 
overgrown with weeds, but the American eagle screams 
as loud and is as proud there as on the cliffs of the gold- 
bordered Sierras. 

Let tis preserve this area for posterity to prove that we 
were not fully bent on turning everything into our money 
bags or over to Mammon. 

With the Yellowstone Park in the Far West and the 
Appalachians on the Atlantic border, the great Central 
States are entitled to thi. It would be especially adapted 
to the preservation of the fast-disappearing elk of Amer- 
ica, which J have demonstrated, in a pfeserve here in 
Michigan, to be thrifty, to propagate and stay when not 
too much disflirbed. My herd has increased satisfactorily 
and they are a great attraction to: the people for many 
miles around. JosHua Hitt. 

Pontiac, Mich., Dec, 30. 


In Rhode Island. 

Provivence, R. f., Jan. 7—Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Rhode Island open season for land game birds closed 
Det. 15, atid the open season for rabbits ended Jan, 1, 
thus finishing the eos season as looked upon by sports- 
men generally, although some fox hunting and duck 
shooting will be indulged in throughout the winter by 
those whose tastes ttn in these directions. 

The bird season just ended has been a most favorable 
one for the birds, having been, during the first weeks, so 
extremely dry as to give excellent protection to bitds from 
the pursuit of dogs, the scent being very difficult to pick 
up or follow over ground coveted with loose, dry leaves 
as was tlie case een all woodland duritig the gteater part 
of this year’s ope season. This difficult condition was 
sticceeded by a weelx of extreme cold and snow with a 
surface so slippery as to discourage all but the most 
petseveting htinters. These stages of drought and cold, 
together with a good many days so warm as to be un- 
comfortable in the woods, made up a season of unusually 
light hunting, this being still further accomplished by 
the scarcity of the king of New England game birds, the 
ruffed grouse. These birds were found to be scarce at 
the opening of the season, and no material increase of 
tiumber was discovered as the weeks went on, so that men 
who have in previous years found the pursuit of ‘par- 
tridges temunerative during the hunting season, were 
obliged this year to give up the sport and return to their 
regular work for a day’s pay. 

Quail have been yery plentiful, and a flock of about 
twenty-five birds was seen but a day or two ago, before 
the close of the season, close by the side of one of the 
main thoroughfares leading out of this city, the quail 
being. within the city limits when seen. One sports- 
man, who lives a short distance out, said he knew of 
seven flocks of quail not far from his home, and it will 
need only good winter weather to make large numbers of 
quail a reasonable certainty another year. Heavy snows 
are destructive to quail, far more than the most skillful 
hunters. 

Rabbits have been numerous and the two falls of snow 
within the season made the capture so easy that boys 
living on the outskirts of the city. have been able to get 


seyetal rabbits in a couple of hours upon more than 


oné occasion without any dog. 

Water fowl are very numerous this winter in -Narra- 
gansett Bay and its tributaries, but just now the cold 
weather is sending them nearer the shores for feeding 
grounds. In the waters adjacent to Pappoosesquaw Point 
large flocks of black ducks, white-wing coots, whistlers 
and old squaws can be seen every day, some feeding in 
the tide courses. while other large flocks seem to be 
continually on the wind. White-wing coots at present 
are mote plentiful than black ducks. yet quantities of these 
birds have been shot by gtinners. The gunners have used 
sailboats in getting within range of the ducks, but naphtha 
launches seem to be the best means of getting close to 
the flocks while feeding. W. H. M. 


Some Experiences with Deer. 


Revere, Me.—Editor Forest and Stream: Mr. John 
Brown and son Ernest were in the woods of Maime dur- 
ing the recent heavy snowfall, and found deer hunting 
very laborious’ sport. They remained two weeks, and se- 
cured four bucks that weighed 647 pounds, They hope 
to avoid a recurrence of similar conditions by going 
earlier next season. They do not employ a guide to pilot 
them about, preferring to reply upon a compass. Mr. 
Brown, Sr., is an old hand at hunting, and never hesitates 
to follow a wounded buck or doe, He knows that the 
tiny magnetic needle will guide him safely homeward out 
of the densest of swamps. 

He has some fine heads of caribou from Mt. Katahdin, 
which he secured on former trips. He is a persistent and 
- degged man in the woods, and always likes to start from 
canip before daybreak, while the deer are moving about. 
During the day they are usually hid away behind some 
dense growth of evergreens, and cannot be approached 
by the most sealthy of trailers. They always sleep with 
both eyes wide open. It is very nice, and gives one 
more courage to go deep into the woods with a com- 
panion. But you can get more shots and see more deer 
by playing a lone hard. 

One must not expect to obtain a very close view of a 
wary buck or doe while tramping about in dry leaves, 
snapping twigs and talking to a companion at intervals. 
Put a lunch into your pocket, don’t forget your compass, 
find a-commanding position on a good hardwood ridge, 
there sit ‘down and wait. You then can detect the least 
sound made by anything within good shooting distance. 
Of course one gets chilled by remaining in one position 
a few hours, out by using a small amount of soothing 
syrup you can regain the proper temperature. 

That there are exceptions to almost every rule was 
proven upon our trip last month. We went over the 
hardwood ridge about 3 o'clock one afternoon. We were 


talking’ quite loudly, kicking up dry leaves, breaking 


branches and making other noise, Upon reaching a hich 


knoll, we saw a doe bounding away to the left of us. We 
did not fire’ at her on account’ of the ‘distance. We were 
not expecting any deer in that exact locality, hence our 
lack of caution. 

Upon looking to the right of us, there we saw only 
about twenty yards away, a buck that had remained a 
silent watcher during all of the commotion, He made no 
attempt to get away. It was a sight long to be remem- 
bered. His proudly arched neck and defiant bearing in- 
dicated combativeness to ‘the highest degree. We had 
irivaded the solitude of his forest retreat, and broken up 
the tete-a-tete with his betten half, and he was anxious 
to give battle to the intruders. It seemed like a sacrilege 
to harm him, but he fell with a tiny .30-30 through his 


_brain. And the youth who fired the lucky shot mever had 


had a rifle in his hands previous to that trip. 

Thus one can see how difficult: it is to lay down any 
hard and fast rules in deer shooting. Deer are roaming 
about in all kinds of places, and you never can tell when 
you will blunder on to one. 

I was on the same ridge one day in November, 1900. 
I had been waiting about two hours and was thoroughly 
chilled: I had both hands in my pockets, and the rifle 
butt resting tipon’ my boot. I had turned partly around 
for observation, when upon restming a front position I 
was almost petrified by seeing a magnificent buck stolidly 
gazing at me, and only about twenty feet away. I experi- 
enced all the sensations of the real tenderfoot. My heart 
tried to get out of my mouth, I felt my hair leaving my 
head, and I thought I was goine to choke, The buck 
kept his gaze upon me for all of three minutes. JI was 
shivering all over, and knew, or felt, that if I made an 
attempt to get the rifle up, he would take some violent 
exercise and quickly get beyond my trembling aim. I 
began, to hope that he would turn his. head, and thus 
afford me an opportunity of knocking him out. But he 
failed to meet my requirements: He was apparently satis- 
fied that I could not harm him, for he began to nibble 
very quietly. After he walked about fifty or sixty feet 
from me. feeding all the while, I did manage to get the 
rifle up. but his fine eye detected the movement, and he 
instantly began to bound away, and was thoroughly safe 
from harm in about one minute. I had traveled about 350 
miles to get a shot at a deer; and he had walked right 
119 to me, and “I never touched him.” This was my 
first venture after deer, but I shall always feel childish 
over it. When I got back to the house that evening Al 
lanohed and said, “Why didn’t you up and Iet-him have 
it?” 

On another occasion when out looking for aeer, a doe 
and her two lambs came up to within a few feet of me. 
They stopped short, gazed at me intently for a few min- 
utes and proceeded to feed. J remained as steady as I 
could. although I know I was shaking badly. My rifle I 
had laid down bevond my reach. They made a beautiful 
picture as they stood, the doe in the center. and all three 
with necks craned. and their wondrously beautiful eyes 
gazing wpon the trembling object that wanted to shoot 
but did not have his rifle. IT have always been pleased to 
think that I was not the one to break up such a Joving 
group. 

A rifle report will not cattse a deer to rin. 1 nave seen 
one of our boys fire five times in succession at a buck that 
could not locate us. He remained motionless through 
the fusilade, and jumped only when the sixth shot grazed 
him. It is the moving object that startles them quicker 
than the rifle report. 

While driving along the banks of the East Branch, on 
our way from the depot to the house, we.saw a bucl: and 
doe on the onnosite bank. Billy and Frank jumped from 
the buckboard, hastily slipped in a few-shells, took aim in 
an excited manner and both fired. The deer raised their 
heads for to gaze at us, then proceeded to feed. The 
boys failed to harm them. Billy, in his excitement. had 


put in’ some iminiature cartridges that onlv carried half- 


way. They wanted to remain right there for the rest of 
the day; but Al told them they might sit there for a year 
and not get such a chance again. 

Various times after that dav we took the canoe and 
paddled up river, moving with the dexterity and stealth of 
typical sons of the forest. but were never able to gaze 
upon even a white flag. 

Frank was very enthusiastic in his methods of hunting, 
He did not care how hard he worked, or how many 
miles he traveled. 

He started over the ridge one morning and kept on 
going till he found himself in a cedar swamp about five 
miles from the house. He neither saw nor heard a deer 
during his long trip: He climbed. a lofty spruce tree to 
take observations. Directly ahead,*and about five hun- 
dred yards away. he located a hardwood growth. He 
descended, and worked cautiously toward the ridge. He 
heard some branches snapping, and he began to have hope. 
After a little careful reconnoitering he located a fine 
buck pawing the leaves in his search for the toothsome 
beechnut. Frank whistled low, the buck raised his head, 
only to drep it the next, instant. The deer weighed 173 
pounds dressed, Frank feels proud over the’ fact that he 
raised the buck and left him hanging about four feet clear 
of the ground., He says he could have taised him five 
feet higher just as easily. "He was afraid of foxes 
molesting the carcass during the night. He is not out 
of his teens, and any one who has tried to lift a dead 
buck in the woods will agree that it is no child’s play to 
elevate your deer. 

Four of us went out the next day, and we had a sample 
of toting out deer over a-swamp road that will long 
linger in our memories. Our path for two miles was over 
cedar stumps. windfalls, boulders, rocks, water holes, bog 
holes, tangled tops left by the swampers, and pitch dark- 
ness to cheer us on. After we had done this beautiful 
form of exercise for two houts, we bethought us of a 
torch: We stripped the bark from the white birch trees, 
rolled it into a compact mass and fastened it into a split 
sapling. Qur torch would last about five minutes, when 
we would insert more bark. Thts we battled with difficul- 
ties for four hours in the darkness, until we finally 
reached the main road. We were a jaded quartet upon 
reaching home. But we got the buck out, and Frank, at 
least, was happy. 

Early next morning we started for the bog, five miles 
away. We took possession of a deserted logging, camp. 
and all hands proceeded to put it in shape. A famliy of 
hedgehogs were apparently the last.ones that, occupied the 
place, and had.eatem everything, that had the least taste 


of food or grease on it. A fine spring near at hand was 
discovered, and added much to our pleasure. We soon 
had the bunks piled high with fragrant balsam boughs 
that would lull and soothe the most jaded of mortals. 
We had a stove, but no pipe for it. We soon had a pipe, 
made of large apple cans, which were plentiful outdoors. 
It was not elegant to look at, but it filled the bill. 

It was refreshing to see the boys swing their axes in 
their efforts at felling trees for firewood. We wanted 
heavy logs that wottld last during the night, and we soon 
had a good supply.’ We had snow the first night, and the 
heat from inside melted it as soon as it touched the roof. 
All night long the little streams poured into our bunks 
and kept us dodging about like chipmunks. The dry 
cedar splits of our roof would catch fire every few min- 
utes, and we would take turns in throwing snowballs in 
our efforts to save our home. The fragrance of the 
balsam boughs did not soothe us very much that night. 

Upon going outdoors in the morning we were surprised 
to see all the deer traclks not more than ten feet from the 
camp. We did not think they would appproach so close 
to us while we were making so much noise. After a 
refreshing breakfast of bacon and eggs, with piping hot 
coffee, we felt ready for the chase; singled out some of 
the biggest tracks, and did not go very far before we 
sighted our gate. 

Brown as usual got the first buck. It was not very 
laree, but had a fine head. J contrived in some mys- 
terious way to get a good sized doe, but it was not owing 
to my steady nerve. Dudley followed on the track of a 
large buck, which led him across the bog, and into a 
cedar swamp. He had not gone very far before he 
noticed the tracks of a lucifee following close upon the 
deer trail. He followed cautiously for about half a mile 
through the swamp, then gave it up. He had no desire to 
get too close to an “Injun devil.” When we tumbled into 


our bunks at nightfall we slept as we had not in many a 


year, . f : 
The pure and bracing air of the woods had given us 


voracious apnetites, and our food supply was soon 
diminished. But the folks at the house had not forgotten 
us, and sent in fresh stipplies on the third day. Al and 
Seth had tramped the five miles. each with a sack of good 
things to eat. Al shot a doe while on his way in, and it 
certainly was refreshing to hear him tell of it in his cool 
and matter-of-fact way. i. 

When any of the boys shot a deer, we fledglings felt it 
incumbent upon ts to go into hysterics over the affair, 
hut the genuine son of the forest never becomes en- 
thused. He simply kills his deer and wastes no words 
in describing the event. 

We enjoyed every moment of our two weeks’ stay, and 
were loth to leave. The fragrant air of the pine woods 
is a most wonderful rejuvenator. causing one to move and 
act with renewed vigor and life. One can tramp from 
daylight till dark without a sense of weariness. Drinking 
deep of the sparkling waters from the woodland brooks 
adds in no small measure to one’s health, 


“Only to him whose coat of rags 
Has pressed at night their royal feet, 
Shall come the secrets, strange and sweet, 
Of royal pines and beetling crags. | aie... 


“No greed of gold shall come to him, 
Nor strong desire of earthly praise; 
But he shall Jove the silent ways 
Of forest aisles and arches dim.” 
—Nessmuk, 

One of our most enthusiastic companions was W. Estey, 
of the Art Preservative of Boston. and as he is an old- 
timer at hunting, he had no trouble in securing his legal 
quota of deer. 

We are already making plans for our trip next fall, and 
find fully as much pleasure in anticipation as in the ful- 
fillment. Freauently commning with nature tends to 
elevate the mind, and build up and restore impaired 
vitality, Jay PEE. 


fGame Sale Out’ of Season. 


| ¢ an intervie,, with a New York Times reporter, Pres. 
5. V. Bootman, of the Arctic Freezer Co., said: 

“The Governor’s recommendation would give us pro- 
tection and prevent such seiztires as that to which we 
were subjected last summer. Game comes to us in boxes 
and barrels, and we have no way of knowing that the 
boxes and barrels contain game except by breaking into 
them as the State’s officers did. Under the law as it 
exists our business is liable to be overturned by State 
officers at any time. It is just as unreasonable for them 
to come in here and turn our place upside down looking 
for stolen game as it would be for them to go into a 
furniture store looking for stolen goods, We would wel- 
come a system which would provide for the bonding of 
game, for then we would get our money for storage, and 
not be in danger of being raided and hauled up in court, 
as we are now. 

“But I do not think the establishment of bonded 
warehouses for game would lessen the amount of game 
sold out of season. The people who want game out of 
season and who have the money to-pay for it, will get 
it despite any law that can be framed. It is a singular 
fact that while it is the wealthy class who raise the howl 
about the game beine destroyed, and hunting spoiled, it 
is they also who are indirectly the cause of the game 
laws being violated, because it is only the wealthy class 
that can afford to buy game out of season.” 

“How much game is sold out of season in New York?” 

“Wore than is sold in season. The reason for that is 
that there is a bigger profit in selling it out of season than 
there is in selling it-in season, and therefore the majority 


‘of dealers arrange to hold it until the time when they 


can secure advanced prices. 

“The trouble about the Governor’s plan would be this: 
Men who deal in game would put a small amount only 
of their holdings in bond, and, having made this show 


_ of, apparent good faith, would then proceed to dispose 


of the rest of their same illegally. There is no dificulty 
about getting an abundance of game in a number of 
States during the close season in New York.” 


_ All communications intended for Forzst Anp Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
vot to, any individual connected with the paper. 


NSO" ET os 


The "New 'York" Forest "Preserve" 


S 
onl Governoe Oucu SeMessave. ; 


Unoer Chapter 04 of the Laws of 1901 the ,arious com- 
missions having to do with the Forest, Fish and Game 
Departments were consolidated under one head. I be- 
came convinced after the passage of the appropriation bill 
carrying an item of $250,000 for the purchase of Adiron- 
dack land at the last session of the Legislature that the 
amotnt of money necessary to catry out the scheme of 
ultimate purchase of the entire preserve was of too great 
a magnittide to be hastily sanctioned, 

A bill was passed by the Legislature and approved by 
the Executive in 1803 which provided that agreements 
might be entered into between the State and owners of 
lands in the Adirondacks, limiting the kind and size of 
timber tobe cut, in return for which exemption from the 
State and county taxes upon such lands was given. The 
restriction was that nothing but soft wood above 12 
inches in diameter should be cut. This provision has 
never been accepted by any considerable number of land 
owners. For the purpose of ascertaining the sentiment 
upon the subject communication has been had with the 
owners of the greater part of the land in the Forest Pre- 
serve. J am convinced from stch correspondence that 
if the law were amended to prohibit the operation of acid 
factories and the cutting of timber below 10 inches in 
diameter in return for the assumption by the State of all 
taxes, that the ultimate object aimed at in the preservation 
of the forests could-be accomplished without any great 
expense. Such land now owned by individuals consists 
of about 706,514 acres of forest land, 1,080,204 acres of 
Iumbered land. and 107,767 acres of denuded, burned and 
waste land. This property probably could not be pur- 
chased for less than $5,000,000. Under the provisions of 
the present law, when the State purchases the land it 
asstimes all taxes. In addition to this, under our Con- 
stitution, no public land can be lumbered. If therefore 
all property now owned by individuals and corporations 
were purchased the result would be the destruction of 
the lumber and wood pulp industries, which are among 
the most, valuable we have, 

The work in the Adirondacks should be pursued scien- 
tifically. Mature timber should be cut and denuded 
land, so far as possible, replanted. And if the agreement 
here outlined were entered into with individual owners 
for restriction of lumbering and the replanting of their 
lands, a continuous growth and source of supply would 
result, without fear of condemnation or encroachment. 
There would be no desire to Jumber without thought of 
the future. In addition to this, by the leasing of small 
camp sites a revenue and protection would result, and 
the Adirondacks would soon be converted into a health 
resort and a recreation park for all who might desire to 
enjoy it. Suitable restrictions providing for free ingress 
and exit could be placed in such leases. 


I recommend, first, that the present law be amended so j 


as to permit an agreement with owners to restrict the 
cutting of timber down to ten inches in diameter instead 
of twelve, and that acid factories be prohibited; and 
that a Constitutional amendment receive your sanction 
this year, looking toward the scientific forestry and leasing 
of the State lands. These stiggestions, if adopted, would 


furnish revenue for the building of roads in the forests, - 


and for other items of expenditure made necessary in the 
care of the preserve, and would, I am certain, bring in 
almost all of the private Jands without cost to the State. 


A Deer Pant: 


I wap been hunting and trapping on the border of 
Maine and New Hampshire‘for four weeks and had had 


very good luck trapping, but had not succeeded in get- 


ting a good shot at a deer. 

The most valuable piece of fur I shot was that of a 
Mountain fisher cat. I was deer hunting and was tired 
after a long walk up the steep side of Bear Mountain, 
and sat down to rest. J heard something running 
through the dry leaves, and looking up saw two very 
black animals with short ears and long tails coming to- 
ward me. After coming within a good gun shot one of 
them ran up a tree, and thinking that was my best chance 
I fired. Down he came and began clawing and biting 
everything he could get at. The other one started off 
on the run, and I fired three more shots at.it, but they all 
missed. I then went up to the one I had hit and killed 
it with a revolver. 

Tn all the time I was there I did not carry a shotgun 
into the woods with me, as there was really only one 
animal I was aiter and that was a deer. The day before 
I was to come home I started out to take up my last 


fox traps. The woods were full of partridges and this once | 


I thought I would take a shotgun with me, as I had given 
up all hopes of getting a deer that fall. 

I left home about three o’clock and followed an old 
logging road that ran back on to the mountain. I was 
walking along slowly when I heard a stick break in front 
of me, and looking up saw a large buck deer walking 
right down the road toward me. In an instant I stopped, 
broke down the gun, pulled out the two charges of fine 
shot and put two heavy charges of buckshot in their 
places. The deer came walking along slowly and would 
stop and browse in places where there wete bushes. 
Every mintite I expected he would see me and run. He 
kept coming nearer and nearer, but yet he was too far 
to risk a shot. When he was about seventy-five yards 


away I began to slowly raise the gun, when he turned - 


tight around so his side was toward me and I aimed an 
fired. When the smoke cleared away I saw. him £0 a 
ing through the woods and noticed that one of his hind 
legs was broken, as it only dragged along on the ground 
as he ran. I went to the place where he stood when 
I fired and there I found some blood and it was all along 
his track on the snow. 

After a deer has been severely wounded, if the hunter 


starts immediately to follow it the animal will run as. 


long as it has an ounce of strength, but if not farther 
sc leeace it will only go a short distance and then lie 
own. 

Tt was growing dark fast, as the sun sets behind the 
mountains early in the afternoon, and so after taking up 
my traps I returned home and told the folks I had de- 


gided to stay one more day, as T had wounded g deer 


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and did not want it to die in the woods where nobody 
would get it. 

In the morning I got up early and saw that it was 
snowing very hard. I thought I could not find the deer 
again, as the tracks were all covered up with snow. I 
went out to the place where I had fired at him and started 
in the direction he had gone. 

After going about a quarter of a mile I started him 
and soon came to the place where he had spent the night. 
The snow was all tramped down and covered with 
blood. He only ran a short distance and then began 
to walk, but the underbrush was so thick I could not see 
him. He soon laid down again, but started as 1 came 
up. This time I saw him, but did not get a chance to 
shoot. He would only go a short distance and then lie 
down and rest till he heard me coming, when he would 
start again. After following him this way for perhaps 
three miles the tracks suddenly stopped. They were 
very plain in the snow and came into a little opening, 
where they ended.- Going a little to one side of the trail 
I started back and only had gone a short way when I 
found some tracks going in nearly the opposite direction. 
Going back to where the tracks stopped, I found that 
the deer had walked out into this opening and had then 
made a long jump to one side over some bushes, and 
then started on the run. Deer often double on their 
tracks this way when followed, and sometimes it is almost 
impossible to find the trail again. 

I did not see the buck again until almost dark, and by 
that time we were away up on the side of Mt. Kearsarge. 
I heard a brook in front of me and went toward it to 
get a drink. It flowed through the bottom of a ravine, 
and as J came to the edge of the bank I looked across 
to the other side and saw the deer climbing up the steep, 
rocky slope. I rested the rifle against a tree and aiming 
at his neck about half way between the head and shoul- 
ders pulled the trigger. 

He threw up his head and fell, but the bank was so 
steep that he rolled to the bottom. 

I climbed down over the steep rocks and found him 
lying in the edge of the water. I bled him and began 
to skin him at once, for the sun was already behind the 
mountain and I was a long way from home. 

After removing the hide I cut out the head, and taking 
that in one hand and the rifle in the other, with the skin 
over my shoulder, I started for home, but it was long 
after dark before I came out of the woods on to the 
road, Howarp D. Brooxs, 

’ WeLvesieY Hivts, Mass. 


Maine’s Proposed License. 


Boston, Jan. 6.—Seldom has a mere proposition created 
more interest among Boston hunters and fishermen who 
go to Maine than to require non-residents to pay for a 
license to either hunt or fish in that State, While it is 
remembered that the Maine Legislature does not meet 
till next winter, the fact that the license question is to 
be discussed at the annual meeting of the Maine Fish 
and Game Protective Association this weele has drawn 
out a great deal of criticism of Maine methods, as well 
as a good deal of feeling. The friends of the license 
method must remember that they are to deal with a fea- 
ture that will operate in more ways than one. Said a 
wealthy gentleman yesterday, who annually spends a 
good deal of time in Maine each year with rod and reel: 
“T hope they will make non-resident hunters and fisher- 
men buy a license, and I only wish they could make their 
own citizens pay for hunting and fishing. I shall be 


pleased if they pass a license law for sportsmen who hunt 
-and fish in that State; hope that they will make it high 


enough—$1o0 or more—high enough to keep the ordinary 
duffers out. of that State. I believe that the better class 
of sportsmen will all agree with me and be glad to buy 
licenses. It will do much for the protection of fish and 
game in that it will prevent thousands from going in to 
Maine at all, and there will be morte fish and game left 
fer those who buy licenses.” : 
This gentleman is not alone in his opinion, It is a 
fact that the cost of going into Maine on shooting and 
fishing trips is already great, compared with other out- 
ings, and that a great many are already prevented from 
going there by the cost. Then there are a great many 
who do go with whom the matter hangs in a balance, as 
it were; they go, but add the cost of a license and they 
are forever done going into Maine. The fish and game 
interest of Maine should approach this matter very care- 
fully. If those who will favor the license system at the 
association meet could spend a few hours with me in 
visiting Boston sportsmen, who are merchants, business 
and professional men, their ideas would be 2 good deal 
broadened, and they would see that there is another side 
to the question. They would see that even those who 


-have been in the habit of visiting that State annually for 


hunting or fishing are not obliged to go there, and that 
the matter of being obliged to pay for a license may do 
much toward deciding that they do not go there at all. 
Said a resident of Maine, who is much interested in fish 
and game and its protection, to me a short time ago: 
“Our trouble lies in the inefficiency of our commissioners 
and game wardens. Give us a set of game protectors 
who are willing to be in the woods, instead of around 
the best hotels, smoking the best cigars at the State’s 
expense, and we shall have money enough for fish and 
game protection in the appropriations annually made. 
Tf the desire is to protect big game, make a law prevent- 
ing guides from shooting such game. It is a shameful 
fact that nine-tenths of the game carried out of Maine 
by sportsmen is shot by their guides. Some of the more 
noted of these guides are simply deer slayers for the men 
who employ them. Put sportsmen on to the game they 
actually shoot themselves, and two-thirds of the game 
that would otherwise be killed each fall will be left on the 
hoof. The law now on the statute books is sufficient to 
punish these guides for shooting more than two deer in 
a season, but who enforces it? The commissioners 
know that, the most of the game killed is killed by the 
guides, guides that they have licensed, but no steps are 
Sportsmen cannot be ex- 
pected to go back on the guides, for it is through the 
guides that they are all able to take out their two deer 


‘apiece; to brag about to their friends, and then send to 


the market, Hf the desire is to protect the fish, let the 


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commission look out that the stripping of all the brooks, 
the trout nurseries, of small trout each spring is stopped. 
The commission has of ‘late years closed nfost of the 
Streams flowing into the Rangeleys, Moosehead and other 
waters; closed them by edict only, for nothing is done 
to see that they are not fished; closed them against the 
honest sportsman who will not fish a closed stream; 
closed them for the dishonest guides and residents to 
strip of all the fish at the first opporfunity. Maine does 
not lack in game and fish protective Jaws; she does not 
lack for means with which to enforce the laws, so much 
as she lacks energy, put in the right direction, toward 
enforcement. I am not personally against a license law 
for non-resident sportsmen, for it will stop hunters and 
fishermen from coming into our State, and thus leaye 
more of spoils for our own people; but it is ian Aanerte a 
the 
railroads and other transportation companies do not fight 
a non-resident license law to the bitter end, I shall be 
much mistaken.” SPECIAL. 


Slaughtering Elk for their Teeth. 


In a recent number of Forest AND STREAM appeared an 
atticle descriptive of the methods of the elk tooth hunter. 
What the hide hunter did for the buffalo can be done 
again for the elk by the tooth hunter. 

To think of this already fast-disappearing animal being 
hunted simply fot the two desirable teeth in its upper 
jaw, its body to be left a prey to the coyotes upon the 
plains, is certainly a “sin and a shame.” d 

If there were not a market for the coveted teeth the 
elk tooth hunter might work along the line of wolf skin 
bounties, or some other meritorious occupation might 
be found by him; but as Jone as there is demand for 
elk’s teeth as watch charms, so long will the tooth hunter 
keep at his trade, 

If I understand the situation, the members of the Order 
of Ells, a benevolent and protective. order, purchase these 
teeth when made into watch charms, Now, if this is the 
market, the thing to be done is to bring argumént and 
influence to bear of such a nature as to cause the demand 
to cease, and this being done. there will be just one class 
of elk hunters less in the field, amd one incentive less for 
hunting this game. 

Among the readers of Forest ANp STREAM there miutst 
be some, perhaps many, influential members of the “Order 
of Elks.’ If they would appeal to their brother sports- 
men in the order no dowht steps might be taken to dis- 
courage the use of the elk’s tooth emblem by the order. 
When the demand for these teeth is such as to warrant 
the pursuit of this noble game for the sake of the two 
coveted teeth, and the teeth only, it does seem as if 
some effort at least might be made to remove the incentive 
for such useless slaughter. 

Perhaps if the main lodge of the order, which I under- 
stand is in New York, were approached on the subject 
something might be dane to discourage the use of this elk 
tooth emblem and thus remove at least the market for 
the tnan who kills the elk, and removing the two teeth 
leaves the game to rot or feed the carrion seekers, as the 
case may be. Undoubtedly thousands of men, lovers of 


‘the rod and gun, are members of this organization, and 


an appeal to them may result in some general action by 
the association advising and stiggesting the discontinu- 
ance of the emblem in question being used by the mem- 
bers in future. ps 

I think the article referred to by me noted the fact 
that the two tooth hunters had slaughtered twenty-seven 
(perhaps many more tundiscovered) elk from which 
nothing had been taken but the two teeth in each case. 

When it is illegal for dealers to handle game, the occu- 
pation of the market-hunter ceases, becatse he cannot 
dispose of the result of his labors, and he turns to some- 
thing else for a living. Now, if to-morrow the Order of 
the Elks should bodily and individually discontinue the 
tise of the elk’s tooth as an emblem, the killing of elks 
would not cease, but certainly one cause of incentive for 
their wanton and wasteful destruction would be removed. 

Will not some reader of this appeal who is an Elk take 
up this matter and see what can be done to make the 
hunting of this noble game for their teeth an unremunera- 
tive occupation? CHARLES CRISTADORO. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I noticed in the Forest AND StrEAm for Dec, 14 that Dr. 
Doherty and his hunting companion had registered a 
complaint agaist some pot-hunters whom they had found 
killing all the elk for their teeth. While reading this 
account I kept wondering what these felows wanted with 
a céllection of elk teeth, or why any one else would want 
them bad enough to pay two dollars apiece for them. 
The conclusion told me who needed them. Then I had 
to stop and laugh. 

A few days before this I had seen an account in a local 
paper of some more elk teeth. A member of the society 
of Elks belonging to a lodge in Connellsville, Pa., had 
made the discovery by accident that the elk tooth that he 
had been carrying -around with him as an emblem had 
fever seen an elk, though it had cost him a dollar or two. 
He had let it get too near a fire, and it had gone up in 
smoke—it was only celluloid. His brother members now 
took a look at their elk teeth, only to find that they all 
had come from, the same shop. 

Now, why could not this society, the B. P. O. E., adopt 
that celluloid elk tooth and let the elks take a rest, until 
some one hunts them who will use more of them than two 
teeth? These fellows that the doctor met won’t need 
them then, they can reform now and go wolf hunt- 
ing; that game warden won't say a word to them if he 
eatches them shooting wolves. I know it. A wolf 
hunter is not a member of the best society, even in the 
West, but he doés not trot in the same class with a 
pot-hunter. I was never ashamed to be found with a 
wolf huntér as my companion, JI have hunted a few 
wolves myself. but I would hate to be met in a pot- 
hunter’s company, : Casta BLANco, 

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Long Island Quai Weights. 
Amacawsemt, N. Y., Dec; 26—I killed four quail yester- 
day, two females and two males. Three weighed 8 ounces 
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_ NortH SF oRLY, {Tass., Dec. 30.—The past season has 
been a very favorable one for pond shooting in this 
vicinity. The stand at Wenham was for the first time 
equipped with live geese decoys, and forty-seven geese 
were shot. 

Among the peculiarities of the flight was the first ap- 
pearance of redheads in any numbers. This bird has al- 
ways been rather common on Cape Cod and outlying 

islands. but .on the North Shore I have found it very 
rate, The stand secured twenty-nine this fall, and others 
“were observed. The flight was between Oct. 19 and 25. 

The pintail is another duck which has never been seen 
in numbers as this year. This is also a bird more com- 
mon to the eastward. Nine were sectred and many 
more observed. They appear to be the shyest duck the 
stand gunner has to cope with, often circling about the 
pond for five or ten minutes and paying but little atten- 
tion to the live decoys. We observed one male canvas- 
back: with a bunch of pintail. 

A spoonbill was shot on Oct. 8, this being the first 
one ever taken at the stand. He was with a small bunch 
of black ducks, evidently from the salt meadows. 

Mallards were more numerous than usual, fifteen being 
shot. In former years three or four has been the highest 
ever taken here. 

Fifty-nine ruddy dicks were secured, against only fif- 
deen of Jast year. Black ducks were also more plentiful 
than last year, but bluebills, whistlers and buffleheads were 
searce. 

The best day happened on a big northeaster in No- 
vember, when three gtns bagged twenty-six geese and 
seven ducks. A score of twenty-six ducks was reached on 
two different days in October. 

Can it be possible that a portion of the duck and goose 
flight is passing further to the westward than usual? 
Our notes for the year seemed to indicate some such 
change. 

It would be interesting if other Massachusetts pond 
gunners would teport their luck from year to year. 

J. C, Puircips. 


The Maine Season of 3901. 


Tur annual report of the Maine Commissionet’s ‘of 
Inland Fisheries and Game is in the hands of the Goy- 
ernor. The Auburn station hatched 114,000 brook trout, 
170,000 landlocked salmon and 25,000 other fish last win- 
ter. There are now 300,000 brook trout eggs and 520,000 
landlocked salmon eggs in the hatching troughs of that 
station. Cobbosseecontee station hatched 140,000 brook 
trout and 168,000 landlocked salmon. At that station 
fhere are now 200,000 brook trout eggs and 40,000 land- 
locked salmon eggs in process of hatching, At the Caribou 

- hatchery there were 104,000 brook trout, 1,100 brown 
‘trout, 125.000 landlocked salmon and_ 17,000 whitefish 
hatched. The Sebago station hatched 185,000 brook trout 
“and 118,000 landlocked salmon for the season, 
Under the head of big game, the Commissionets say: 
From the best information we have been able to obtain from the 
annual reports of guides, sporting camp proprietors, transportation 
conipanies and others, 317 moose have keen killed legally and 96 
legally,,making a total of 418 moose killed in the State this year. 
A large majority of those killed illegally were cows and calves. 
_ From the same sources of information we learn that 10,320 deer 
‘have been legally killed this year. We have no reliable data to 
show the number illegally killed. 
There is no indication of caribou returning to the State, 
The number of bears killed by parties guided by registered 
guides is 97. 
_ I also understand that the above estimate and com- 
‘pilation of the number of deer killed does not take into 
account the number of deer killed by residents legally—a 
yast number. It is not an unreasonable estimate to put the 
whole number of deer slain in Maine for the season of 
root, legally and illegally, at 20,000 to 25,000. 
SPECIAL. 


’ 


The Season’s Bag. 


' Gzovyersyitte, N. Y., Dec. 25.—The bird season closed 
with us about Dec, tT on account of the weather. My score 
this year was twenty-nine woodcock and seventeen par- 
tridges. It required some hunting to bag them. On ac- 
count of the heavy crop of beechnuts the partridges were 


scattered, and we had hard work to find them. 


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Sea and River SHishing. 
ie Ere 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest AND STREAM. 


Angling for Cod. 


In New York Fishing Waters at Coney Island and the 
 “Banks’—Methods of Capture. 


One day a passenger on one of the fishing steamers, 
evidently making the trip for the pleasure of the sail, 
asked one of the deck hands how far it was to the land. 
He replied, “Not far.” 

Arriving on the grounds, anchor was heaved, the 
Steamer came to a stand and all commenced to fish ex- 
cepting the foreigner, an Englishman, who, after an hour's 
patient waiting, took himself to the pilot house. 

_ “Say, Cap,” he inquired, “when do we land at the Fish- 
ing Banks?” : 

“We are on them now, sir,” was the reply. 

“Why,’ exclaimed the passenger, “do you call these 
waters Banks? I thought your boat was bound for some 
Tand resort, where I could get off, walk about and rest. 
Instead I find myself out upon the ocean with a lot of 
bloomin’ idiots, all a-fishing, creating a big fuss and 
pee the decks gory with the blood and slime of cod- 

sh. 

_The disappointed traveler was compelled to endure it 
all until late in the afternoon, when anchor was shipped 
‘and the boat headed for home, but to this day he cannot 
ee cecsiann why the ocean should be called the Fishing 
Banks. : 


Phere are others, some fo the manor born, like him, 


: = 


In 1832 Captain Lyman Bebe, of New York, commanding 
the fishing smack Mary, discovered a noted fishing ground 


about twenty miles east from Sandy Hook, This was the - 


“great cholera” year, and the scourge was making such 
progress it became the main topic among men. Naturally 
Captain Bebe decided to call his find the “Cholera Banks,” 
and the name clings to those fishing grounds to this day. 
Another reef of rocks in the sea famous for excellent 


fishing, are known as the Fishing Banks. These grounds ~ 


extend from off the Highlands of Navesink, past Long 
Branch to a point nearly opposite Squam Beach. Both 
of these fishing waters are favorite resorts for a certain 
class who reach them by excursion steamers built for 
the convenience and use of fishermen. 

During the saummer—in fact, during the whole year— 
several steamers daily visit these Fishing Banks, which 
are really numerous submerged, rocky reefs, while above 
and all about them is the ocean. 

Thotisands of fishermen, the German element largely 
predortiinating, are their patrons, and these seldom fail 
of making good catches of sea bass, blackfish, porgies, 
cod and other varieties of deep-sea fish. During the 
fall and late into the winter the principal fish sought by 
these jolly, good-natured citizens, is the cod, which runs 
to good size, often so large as 40 pounds or more, but the 
average fish is about ro pounds weight. 

A good description by a newspaper artist who, visiting 
the Cholera Banks for the first time, says: “Starting so 
early in the morning that my eyes are still heayy with 
unexpended sleep, I soon found myself on the steamer in 
company with a hundred more fellow passengers, some 
of whom are heavy eyed and inclined to grumble about 
the hour of starting, while others are cheerful and full 
of excitement at the prospect of the day’s sport. Down 
the bay, through the Narrows, across the Lower Bay and 
out to sea steams the craft on which we are embarked, 
past the lightship and twenty miles due east from Sandy 
Hook she rtins, and then begins to search for the banks. 
The pilot takes ranges by several of the big hotels along 
the south shore of Long Island, a man in the bow takes 
soundings, and, if the day be clear, the steamer is soon 
brought to an anchor directly above the reef, and a 
hundred eager lines are dropped overboard. Once at 
anchor the fun and trouble begin. It is fun to catch fish, 
but seasickness is among the saddest of human experi- 
ences. Many who have bravely endured the pitching to 
which the steamer has been treated ever since she left 
Sandy Hook succumb at once to the motion that succeeds 
it as soon as she comes to anchor and rises and falls 
with regular, ceaseless monotony on the land swells. 

“Apart from these and ridiculing their wretchedness 
stand the regulars, smoking short pipes, hauling in fish, 
making cruel jokes upon the condition of the novices and 
thoroughly enjoying themselves. They bait their hooks 
with skimmer clams, skillfully toss their leaden sinkers 
far out, let run their line and haul in sea bass, blackfish, 
fluke, cod, weakfish, porgies ot whatever else comes to 
hand. Once in a while a line goes whizzing through 
the water with a wild rush, there is a protracted struggle 
and an ugly ctistomer in the form of a shark, either 
breaks the line and escapes or is hauled on board amid 
much rejoicing.” 

The first catch of the day is'always watched for with 
the greatest interest. Other points to be scored are the 
largest catch of the day in numbers and weight, and the 
heaviest fish. 

On the homeward trip the fish are cleaned, sorted, 
weighed, examined, passed about for inspection and com- 
mented upon. Special lots are put aside for those at 
home and distribution among friends, and often those 
making yery large catches raffle them or present them to 
the steamer’s crew. 

These cod are captured in immense quantities in pounds 
and traps along the coast of Rhode Island and Massa- 
chusetts. Many of its hatints are undisturbed by fisher- 
men, atid its importance as a food fish increases with 


ears. 

In the fall of 1806, for the first time in about twenty 
years, the cod appeared and were taken by angling with 
hooks and line from the Iron Piers at Coney Island, and 


in small boats fishing neat the shore, and in the waters of - 


Gravesend Bay, They returned this fall in greater quan- 
tities, and will continue to return to these waters each 
fall and winter season for perhaps seven years, as is their 
habit in any. given waters they once enter. 

These fish differ from the large cod of the deep sea. 
These of the smaller species are really ‘rock cod, called so 
in this section, while in Southern waters, notably in the 
vicinity of Charleston, S. C., and Pensacola, Fla., they 


‘are known as rocl< blackfish. 


Experienced cod fishermen use a short, heavy, two-piece 


rod, with butt of ash, and lancewood tip, ball-bearing 


wood reel to hold 600 feet of strong, but not necessarily 
thick, linen line. The hooks, Nos. 4, 5,6 and 7 Sproat, or 
Kirby, Limerick, are tied to tarred snells, and the bait 
is “skimmer clams,’ of which cod are especially fond; a 
very heavy sinker is essential. These fish are not, how- 
ever, ovet-particular regarding their diet, almost every- 
thing goes. They have been caught containing silver 
watches, nails and closed pocket knives. Recently in 
the stomach of one was a silver buckle of a lady’s garter. 
The writer caught one which, on opening, had inside a 
portion of a cutlet, the bony part of a chop, and a piece 
of apple pie, which the cod had swallowed as the particles 
fell from the kitchen window of an excursion boat. 
Another curious thing about cod is that when taken 
just before the approach of a storm, they have been found 


to contain big stones, which the fishermen declare they . 


use to anchor themselves during the storm and the sea’s 
swell, which after the storm has spent its fury they eject 
from their stomachs and swim away, happy in the knowl- 
edge of their wisdom. T, BIEDINGER. 


Bass Flies andi Entomology. 


Iw Forest AND STREAM of Sept. 21 last, I referred to a 
new and promising bass fly sent me by Mr.-N. P. Howell, 
of Newark, N. J,., and explained that it had been de- 
signed from insects which appeared in great numbers for 
a few days in June at Belgrade Lakes, Maine, which were 
eagerly devoured by the bass. Having expressed a hope 
that some of these insects would be properly classified 
Mr, Howell, who had specimens still by him, sent them to 
the Smithsonian [pstitution, and has kindly forwarded 


thing of the past as a bass lure. 


dustry; i 


me the reply of the assistant secretary, Mr. Rathbun, 
who says, Ga am informed by Mr. Ashmead, as- 
sistant curator of the Division of Insects, that the speci- 
mens which you transmitted on Sept. 20 have been identi- 
fied by Mr. D. W. Coquillet, Custodian of the Section of 
Diptera, as representing the species Bibio pallipes, Say. 
He states that no figure of this species appears to have 
been published as yet, nor is he aware that anything is 
known regarding the early stages of the fly, although 
other members of the genus have been reported as feed-. 
ing upon the roots of grasses and plants. The specimens 

will be added to the Museum collection in your name,” 
This is simply another instance to be added to the many 
on record in which fresh contributions to our knowledge 
of natural history have resulted from the intelligent ob- 
servations of cultured anglers. Would it not further 
contribute to the important study of fish food, if either 
the New York State Fish Commission or some similar 
body procured specimens of Bibio pallipes, and published 
a figite of them in colors? It would certainly be of 
interest to entomologists and anglers. 
E. T. D. CHAmeers. 


Querssc, Canada, 


San Francisco Striped Bass Club. 


Saw Francisco, Cal.—Editor Forest and Stream: Tues- 
day evening, Dec. 17, 1901, will long be remembered by 
local bass fishermen who met at Good Fellows’ Grotto 
under the auspices of the San Francisco Striped Bass 
Club, to show their appreciation of the genius of Mr, 
Albert W. Wilson, the well-known authority on striped 
bass fishing, for having furnished them with a trolling 
spoon which has proven itself the greatest killer to date, 
and, so far as sportsmen are concerned has relegated the 
sticculent clam to its original use—chowder—as it will 
be seldom used in futtire for bait. 

Mr. Wilson is very expert in the preparation of fishing 
tackle, and has during the past twenty years done much 
for the encouragement and satisfaction of sportsmen; at 
the same time he has been experimenting with all kinds 
of spoons and lures, but not until the present discovery 
was any real success achieved in this line. 

The meeting was called to order by the president of the 
club, Charlie Breidenstein, who appointed Mr. George M. 
Mitchell chairman. Mr. Mitchell, in a few well chosen 
remarks, introduced the orator of the evening, Mr. 
Osmond W. Jackson. whose address was a masterpiece 
of faultless diction. He called attention in detail to the 
patient and persistent efforts of Mr. Wilson in prospect- 


_ ing for bass, meeting with so little success for so many 


years. During all this time scarcely anything was known 
of the habits and haunts so far as this coast was con- 
cerned, He knew the Fish Commission had transplanted 
them to this coast in 1870, but where they had gone or 
the habits they had acquired was to be learned. How he 
visited week after week the various sloughs, rivets, bays 
and straits of the State and after locating this beautiful 
and powerful fish, he was not content until he had dis- 
covered a lure which could be depended upon to bring 
them to gaff, and he labored patiently until he gave to 
the anglers of this coast the spoon which will furnish 
from time/immemorial grand’ sport, at so little expense; 
in fact, it is now called the poor man’s sport, _ 

The. presentation consisted of a “Testimonial and 
Award of Merit,’ accompanied by a purse. The scroll, 
with the fac-simile signatures of the donors, was beauti- 
fully executed, and undoubtedly it will grace the wall of 
the home of the recipient, and be shown with pride to 
his many friends as the token of appreciation of San 
Francisco anglers. 

Mr, Wilson made a happy reply, and even on this occa- 
sion could not refrain from giving the boys a few gra-. 


‘ tuitous pointers which were well received. 


C. B. Holl,wood, James A. Pariser and M. J. Geary 

were very [.licitous in their remarks, the trend of all 
seeming to lcad to the climax of joy in the abolishment 
of the clan as bait. The toast of the evening—the 
health and prosperity of the guest of honor—was 
responded to most heartily, when by one accord the 
whole company rose to their feet and in \this position 
drank to lis health, joining in the chorus “For He’s a 
olly Good Fellow.” 
j Great credit is due Messrs. G. M. Mitchell, Osmond 
W. Jacksun and W. F. Shattuck for their untiring efforts 
in bringing the occasion to such a successful conclusion. 
Mr. G. Lutrell had charge of the decorations, and they 
were most appropriate. An enlarged Wilson spoon was 
stspended from the ceiling with one of McFarland’s 
monstrous bass on the hook. Rods of the most approved 
pattern with the necessary tackle for actua: warfare were 
displayed with spoons attached to bass of goodly propor- 
tions, and the forsaken clam was there, also, in great 
profusion, with humorous epitaphs inscribed by the club 
artist, “Bill”? Ashcroft, showing that now they were a 
‘ James WATT. 


Congress of Fisheries at St. Petersburg. 


Consut GenrraL Hornoway writes from St, Peters- 
burg: The International Congress of Fisheries and Fish. 
Culture, at its last session in Paris in 1900, decided to 
hold the next session at St. Petersburg. The imperial 
Russian Society of Fisheries and Fish Culture has fe- 
ceived imperial sanction and has completed arrangements 
for an exhibition, to commence on January 28, 1902. The 
congress will open on the 22d of February, and both will 
close March 8. ; J 

The exhibition is open to Russians and foreigners. 
Among its objects are to determine the actual condition 
of sea and fresh water fisheries, and of other similar pur- 
suits; to. acquaint producers and consumers. with the 
various products of fisheries, and with methods of prepar- 
ing and preserving the same; to exhibit the gradual de- 
velopment and actual state of artificial fish breeding, as 
well as the various aspects of amateur fishing and 
angling; to promote scientific research in the interests 
of fisheries. i “A 

The congress will discuss questions peftlaiming to the 
present position and needs of fisheries and fish industries 
from scientific, economical, technical, industrial, and 
commercial points of view, and will also consider 
measures for the improvement of these branches, of in- 


W, 8, Hortoway, Consul General, 


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Forestry, Fish and Game at St, Lowis, ' 


Dr. TAREETON H. BEAN, Chief of Department, sends us this — 


classification, as adopted for the World’s Fair at St. Louis in 1903: 


Fortestty—Department K. 


GROUP 112-APPLIANCES AND PROCESSES USED IN 
: FORESTRY. 

Class 653. Collections of seeds. Specimens of indigenous or exotic 
forest products. Collections of plants. 

Class 654. Special implements for gathering, preparing, testing 
and preserving seeds; drying houses. Implements for nurseries. 
Eauipment for tree culture and forest industries. 

Class f5. Processes of culture in nurseries. 
ture and of the management of forests. 

Class 656. Forest topography. Forest botany, 
tribution. Maps and statitiscs. 

Class 657. Forest , works; manipulation of Tumber; 
houses; saw mills, tracks for hauling timber; sanitation. 

Class #58. Terracing, replanting, turfing, ete. Planting to hold 
the surface of dunes. 


GROUP 112—PRODTICTS OF THE CULTIVATION OF 
FORESTS AND OF FOREST INDUSTRIES, 

Class 659. Specimens of forest products; logs, cross and trans- 
verse sections. etc. 

Class 660. Wood for cabinet work: wood for building; wood for 
fuel; woad that has been worked; construction timber; lumber; 
staves. Dye woods, barks, etc. 

Class 661. Cork; textile barks. 
substances, etc. 

Class 662. Products of forest industries; coopers’ stock. basket 
work, grass work. wooden ware, wood wool, corks, kiln-dried 
wood, wood alcohol, charcoal, raw potash, etc. 


GROUP 114—-APPLIANCES FOR GATHERING WILD 
“ CROPS AND PRODUCTS OBTAINED. 

Class 643. Appliances and implements for gathering the products 
of the soil obtained without culture. 

Class #64, Mushrooms. Truffles. Edible wild fruits. 

Class 665, Plants, roots, barks, leaves, fruits obtained without 
cultivation and used by herbalists, in pharmacy, dyeing, manu- 
facturing. manufacture of paper, oils, or for other purposes. 

Class 666, India rubber; gutta percha. Gums and resins. 


Fish and Game—Department M. 


GROUP 120-HUNTING EQUIPMENT. 


Class 720. Arms for trophies; copies of ancient weapons. 
weapons: bows, cross bows, etc. 

Class 721. Sportsmen’s arms and accessories; sportsmen’s am- 
munition. 

Class 722. Hunting equipment; appliances for training dogs. 


GROUP 121—PRODUCTS: OF HUNTING. 

Class 723. Collections of wild animals; menageries, 

‘Class 724. Original drawings of land and amphibious animals and 
birds. Collections of birds and eggs. 

Class 725. Skins and furs in the rough. Skins prepared for the 
furrier. Taxidermist’s work. Undressed feathers and bird skins. 

Class 726, Horn, ivory, bone and tortoise shell. 

Class 727. Musk, castoreum, civet, ete. 


GROUP 122-FISHING EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS. 
Class 728. Aquatic life. Scientific collections and literature. 
Specimens (marine and fresh water) fresh, stuffed or preserved, in 


Processes of cul- 
Geographical dis- 


keepers” 


Tanning; fragrant and resinous 


Missile 


alcohol-or otherwise. Casts, drawings and representations. Aquatic 
birds, mammals, -Aquatic plant life. Fishing grounds. 
Class 729. Floating appliances used in fishing. Nets, tackle, 


boats, devices and implements for sea and fresh water fishing. 
Nets, traps and appliances for fresh-water fishing. Gear of every 
description. : 

Class 730. Anglers’ apparel of every description; 
etc. History and literature of angling. 


GROUP 123—PRODUCTS OF FISHERIES, 
Class 731. Fish curing and canning establishments. Products 
from fish oils, roes, isinglass, whalebone, spermaceti, etc. 
Class 732. Sea and fresh water pearls and pearl shells, mother of 
pearl, manufactured; sponges, corals, tortoise shell, etc. 
Class 733. Appliances for preserving and transportme fish. 
septics for preserving fish. 


GROUP 124—FISHCULTURE. 

Class 734. Marine fishculture; fish, crustacea, mollusks, radiates, 
etc. 

Class 735. Fresh-water fishculture; installation, equipment and 
processes used in pisciculture; fishways; culture of leeches. Mark- 
ing of introduced fish for identification, __ 

Class 726. Aquariums, Culture and breeding grounds. Food for 
fish. 

Class 737. Acclimatization of fish: diseases of fish; chemical in- 
vestigation of waters in their relation to aquatic life. Processes of 
rendering polluted streams innocuous to fish life, 

Class 738. History of fishculture; statistics of the results of fish- 


culture; literature. 
Che Kennel. 
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Fixtures. 


BENCH SHOWS. 
Feb. 4-6.—Providence, R. I—Rhode Island Kennel Club’s annual 
show. George D. Miller, Sec’y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 


Jan. 20.—Grand Junction, Tenn.—United States Field Trial 
Club’s thirteenth annual trials, W. B. Stafford, Sec’y, 

Feb. 10.—Grand Junction, Tenn.—Continental Field Trial Club’s 
trials. Theo, Sturges, Sec’y. 


rods, reels, lines, 


Antt- 


A Precocious Puppy. 


McDonatp, Pa.—I beg leave to challenge the foreign or 
American land with a twentieth century puppy. I ques- 
tion if the past century has seen his equal or will the 
present produce another so phenomenal as Todd Upper- 
leddy at his present age. Todd was whelped July 25, 
rgo1, and from his English breeding, combined with good 
care and free country life, he has grown to be a large, 
_ thrifty pup and a phenomenon. He never hunted with 
a broken dog, but his record the latter part of the hunting 
season will show that he is a natural born shooting dog. His 
first beginning, Nov. 29, was pointing single birds, making 
in all that afternoon nine of the stanchest points no 
yeteran could excel; holding some points from five to 
ten minutes, until I could call the remainder of our hunt- 
ing party there to witness the puppy perform. Then I 
would walk by him, start the bird and kill it.. The pup 
would bring it to me, and none of our party could get it 
from him. 

The following day, Saturday, Nov. 30, the pup pointed 
his first covey, and a more beautiful sight is seldom pic- 
tured than this baby standing there as firm as a rock, 
taking an occasional glance around at me and straining 
every nerve trying to speak. Finally I started them, and 
two singles hit the earth. Thirteen single bird points he 
made in the remainder of the day. I killed fourteen, the 
pup retrieving all. He is improving every day, both in 
range and speed. Please note, however, that I have 
nothing of this kind for sale, nor am I soliciting. 

Austin C. Woosres. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


_Of Interest to. Americans. 
- Tue Sun, under date of Jan. 4, published the followi 
dispatch from London, England: : aaa 
“The American customs officers have earned much 


. notoriety of late by the thoroughness of their methods, 


¢ 


but even tltis, apparently, does not make them proof 
against deception. 

“The Stockkeeper and Fanciers’ Chronicle to-day prints 
disclosures which seem to show that persons connected 
with the English Kennel Club have been actively engaged 
for some. time in defrauding American importers and 
customs officers by giving false pedigrees of dogs. These 
offenses were committed in connection with the certifi- 
cates which are issued exempting dogs with a pedigree 
of three generations from customs duties. 

_ “Heretofore the official certificates issued by the Eng- 
lish Kennel Club have been recognized as reliable. Re- 
cently the desk of one of the employes of the club was 
examined while he was at home on sick leave and several 
fictitious pedigrees were discovered on the regular con- 
sular forms. - Further investigation showed that the 


frauds had been going on for some time, one dealer gain- — 


ing £150 by a single fraudulent transaction of this kind. 

“Mr, Jaquel, Secretary of the English Kennel Club, 
writes to the Stockkeeper that a committee which inves- 
tigated the matter discovered a few instances where false 
pedigrees had been issued, and in consequence thereof 
certain employes of the club had been dismissed.” 


Westminster Kennel Club Judges. 


THE judges for the Westminster Kennel Club’s twenty- 
sixth annual dog show, Madison Square Garden, New 
York, Feb. 19, 20, 21 and 22, 1902, are as follows: 

St. Bernards—Mr. John Keevan, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Great Danes—Mr. J. Blackburn Miller, New York. 

Pointers—Mr. F, J. Lenoir, Greenwood, Mass. 


All Setters, American Fox Hounds and Chesapeake 


Bay Dogs—Mr. Wm. Tallman, Greensboro, N. C. 
Collies—Mr. John Black, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Poodles—Mr. H. K. Bloodgood, New Marlboro, Mass. 
Bull Dogs—Mr. W. C. Codman, Providence, R. I. 
French Bull Dogs—Mr. Francis G. Lloyd, New York. 
Boston Terriers—Mr. R. C. Dean, Charlestown, Mass. 
Beagles—Mr. Geo. B. Post, Jr., New York. 
Darhshunde—Mr. Jos. Graefle, New York. 

Fox Jerriers—Mr. Jas. A. Caldwell, Jr., Penllyn, Pa. 

Irish Terriers—Mr. Singleton Van Schaick, New York. 

Scottish Terriers—Mr.-W. P. Fraser, Toronto, Canada, 

Newfoundlands, Greyhounds, Bull Terriers, Dalmatians, 
Whippets, Skye Terriers, Bedlingtons, Black and Tan, 
Yorkshire, Maltese and Toy Terriers, Pomeranians—Mr. 
F. S. Bellin, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Bloodhounds, Mastiffs, Russian Wolf Hounds, Deer 
Hounds, Griffons, Old English Sheep Dogs, Airedale 
Terriers, Toy Spaniels, Pugs and Miscellaneous—Mr. R. 
F. Mayhew, Clifton, S. L, N. Y. 


Points and Flushes. 


An Associated Press dispatch recounts that “The At- 
lantic City Kennel Club was organized at that city on 
Jan. 3 and plans formed for the holding of an annual ken- 
nel show on Young’s ocean pier. The Marine Building 
will be fitted up for the show, which is planned for the 
week preceding Easter. T. F. Terry, a director of the 
New York Horse Show and an officer of the Philadelphia 
Dog Show Association, is interested in the project.” 


Hotse, Dog and the Man. 


Tur horse and the dog had tamed a man and fastened him to a 


fence; 
Said the horse to the dog, “‘For the life of me, I don’t see a bit 


of sense 

In letting him have the thumbs that 
hands—do you?” 

And the dog looked solerin and shook his head and said, “I’m a 
goat if I do.” 


grow at the side of his 


‘ 
The poor man groaned and fried to get loose, and sadly he begged 
them: “Stay! 


You will rob me of things for which I have use by cutting my 


thumbs away! 

You will spoil my looks, you will cause me pain! And why would 
you treat me_so? 

As I am God made me, and He knows best! 
let me go!” 


Oh, masters, pray, 


The dog laughed out, and the horse replied, “Oh, the cutting 


won't hurt. You see, L 
We'll have a hot iron to clap right on, as you did in your docking 
of me! 


God gave you your thumbs and all, but still the Creator, you 


know, may fail 
To do the artistic thing, as He did in furnishing me with a tail!” 


So they bound the man and cut off his thumbs, and were deaf to 
his pitiful cries, 

And they seared the stumps, and they view their work with happy 
and dazzled eyes; : 

“How trim he appears, 
thumbs are gone, 

For the life of me, I cannot see why the Lord ever put them on.” 


the horse exclaimed, “since his awkward 


“Still, it seems to me,” the dog replied, “that there’s eomceiinies 
else to do; 

His ears look rather too long to me, and how do they look to you?” 

The man cried out: “Oh, spare my ears! God fashioned them as 


you see, 
And if you apply your knife to them you'll surely disfigure me!’ 


“But you didn’t disfigure me, you know,” the dog decisively said, 
“When you bound me fast and trimmed my ears down close to 
the top of my head!” 

So they let him moan and they let him groan while they cropped 
his ears away, 
And they praised his looks when they let him up, and proud in- 

deed were they. 


But that was years and years ago, in an unenlightened age! 
Such things are ended now, you know! We have reached a higher 
stage! ; 
The ears and thumbs God gave to man are his to keep and wear, 
And the cruel horse and dog look on ahd never appear to care. 
—S, —. Kiser in Rider and Driver, 


[JAN. 11, 1902. 


Bachting. 
Designing Competition. 


IN view of the continued and increasing interest i 
yachting, a designing competition will be Opened in t 
columns of Forest ann Stream. In America the yacht 
Ing season 1s comparatively a short one, and such a co: 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu! 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional! 
designers. Three prizes will be given for the best de’ 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: | 

TI. A pole mast sloop. 

II. 25ft. load waterline = J 
ITI. Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 
IV. At least 50 per cent. of ballast outside’on keel, 
V. 5ft. headroom «under cabin carlins. 

All abnormal features must be studiously avoided iy 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plan: 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea i 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make then! 
simple as possible, so as not. to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all. that. we wished te 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two o: 
‘three amateurs could live with comfort for a period 0} 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center’ 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, -as § 
eae more harbors would be accessible to a boat of tha: 


DRAWINGS REQUIRED. ° 


I. Sheer plan, scale tin. 1it.—showing center oj 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. j 
I. Half breadth, scale rin, = rift, 
III. Body plan, seale tin = 1ft, 
IV. Cabin plan, scale tin. = rft. : 
V. Sail Plan, 44in. = rft., showing center of effort 
The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin: 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be catried 
A table of offsets and an outline specification mus 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be mad 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colore¢ 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs mus’ 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must by 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, t 
designer Should inclose his own name and address, to. 
gether with his nom-de-plume. All designs must be re 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Eo nenys S22 Ne Nets City, not later tha 
. 28, 1902. rawings wi age 
shot accompany eae be returned, but Postagt 
e Forest AnD STREAM reserv i isk 
any or ‘tie decone es the right to publist 
€ prizes offered are as follows: 1st prize f 
2d prize, $1 5.00; 3d prize, $10.00.- Mr. Theodore ‘on vod 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plani 
noe mention will also be made of meritorious 
ns. 
_ Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs 
Lemoine & Crane, has kindly consented to iaice BE 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane’s professiona 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, ane 
every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness, 


American Y. C.’s New Classes. 


THE American Y. C. is making a great effort to promote 
small boat racing among its members, and to that en 
two one-design classes have been formed, and better rac. 
ing will be had at this club than has been seen for many 
soeete ae Tapani be held on every Saturday and 

n holidays. The following officia i i 
relating to the new boats: age pes tas eee cia 
Encouraged by the success of the one-design class 
during the last summer, your committee have deemed if 
advisable to put before the members of the club tw 
additional classes, both larger and of greater cost, for the 
ensuing season. 

“Plans and specifications have been obtained from Mr 
B. B. Crowninshield for a 21ft. raceabout, the dimensiond 
and construction of which are to be, briefly, about as 
follows: Length over all, 33ft. 5in.; length on waterline 
aift.; beam, 7ft. 6in.; draft, 5ft. 6in. Estimates have 
been procured from a number of prominent builders, and 
your committee have decided to accept the estimate o 
Messrs. Rice Brothers, of East Boothbay, Me., of $1 oso; 
This estimate includes delivery of the boats at Milton 
Point, Rye, and their acceptance by the designer, on 0: 
before the first day of May, 1902. The builder is called 
upon to insure the boats up to the time of their delivery, 
and a penalty is imposed upon him of $7 a day for every 
day after May f, 1902, if he should fail to deliver them 
on that date. In addition to the above cost, there will be 
a charge of $25 on each boat for the personal supervision 
of Mr. Crowninshield, and there is also a total sum of 
$150 for the design, which latter sum will be divided 
pro rata among the members ordering. The design and 
specifications of this boat are in accordance with the Long 
Island Association rules for the 21ft. raceabout class. _ 

“Already five members have agreed to take one each 
of the 2r1it. class boats, Messrs, T. L. Park, Oliver Harri 
man, Jr., Howard Willets, Stuyvesant Wainwright and 
William H. Browning, - 

“The second design, obtained by your committee, is 
from the Milton Point Ship Yard, and calls for a boat of 
which the dimensions and specifications are, approxi 
mately: 

“Length over all, 25ft.; length of waterline, 18ft.; draft, 
3ft. 3in.; beam, 7ft. 6in.; sail: area, 420 sq. ft. — 

“The builders agree to deliver this boat by May 15 for 
$450, previded orders are placed at once for at least five 
boats. As the Milton Point Ship Yard is located close by 
the club, and naturally much interested in the success of 
the class, your committee believe that the boats will be 
built in the best possible manner, and sold at a price very 
close to the net cost. This boat will be built to sail in the 
18it, class of the Long Island Sound Racing Association 
rules, and will be made of the best materials and copper 
fastened throughout. They are designed with a special 


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view to speed, and will be both non-sinkable and non-cap- 
sizable. 

“The designs and specifications for both of these boats 
are at the office of Mr. Stuyvesant Wainwright, No, 81 
Fulton street, New York city, and members who are in- 
terested are earnestly urged to call as soon as possible 
and inspect them, It is the intention of the club to hold 
races every Saturday and holiday, and also for the small 
class built last summer, Suitable trophies will be given 
for each race and a special prize for the winner of the 
greatest number of points in twelve races. ; 

“We most earnestly ask each member of the club to 
give us his ideas and assistance, and to join with us in 
making next season the commencement of a new era in 
small boat racing. for the American Y. C. Those members 
desiring to order a boat are requested to do so at once.” 


Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, Jan. 6.—With the addition of the new Y. R. A. 
2i-footer, which is being designed by Crowninshield for 
Livingston Davis, of the Corinthian and Manchester yacht 
clubs, there are now fourteen new ones assured for next 
season’s racing. Crowninshield and Burgess have five 

each, Small Bros., have two and Hanley and Fred Lawley 
have one each. It is expected that this class will take 
the place of the raceabout class in Marblehead and 
vicinity. The raceabout class has been gradually thinning 
out, and up to this time it is not known that one new one 
is to be built for Massachusetts waters. Crowninshield 
has orders for seven raceabouts, but all of them are for 

New York parties. It is expected that this class will be 

raced some at Marblehead, but there is no likelihood of 

its being patronized so extensively as in former years. 

The 25-footers, which form the class of the largest 
boats that are raced in the Y. R. A. circuit, will always 
command a certain amount of attention. but there are not 
nearly the new boats ordered for this class that have been 
ordered in the 2rft, class. In all it is expected that five 
25-footers will make their first appearance this season, 
and one of these is now considered doubtful. It was un- 
derstood that D. C. Percival, Jr.. had ordered a 25-footer 
from Herreshoff. This was indeed welcome news, for 
the Massachusetts designers are only too anxious to have 
a try with the Bristol wizard, but from all that could be 
gathered at Bristol last week, there is no M. Y. R. A, 
25-footer in sight there. This is no reason that one will 
not be turned out. and Massachusetts yachtsmen are still 
hoping that she will make her appearance before the open- 
ing of the racing season. 

It is expected that there will be a big fleet in the 18ft. 
knockabout class, although there are not nearly as many 
boats building as were turned out last winter. Q@ne or 
two of last year’s boats have been sold, and have left 
Boston waters, and it may be possible that othersa will 
follow, but there will still be enough left to make up quite 
a respectable class; and it is expected that the racing 
here and in Duxbury Bay between these boats will be 
just as keen as ever. The class should be faster this 
_ year than it was last, bit that will not necessarily follow. 

It was expected last year that the class would be faster 
than it was the year before. The only new boats that 
had been built under the restrictions were those that raced 
in Duxbury Bay, and their construction was rnuch heavier 
than the restrictions called for, and it was thought an 
easy matter to get away with any of the old boats: but 
much to the surprise of many, Malillian cleaned out the 
whole fleet nicely. Malillian was formerly called Spider, 
one of the original Duxbury Bay boats, and had but an 
indifferent record in those waters. She was sailed most 
of the time last season by a clever professional, and this 
may have accounted for her good work. but this year no 
such claim can be made, for the 18ft. knockabout fleet is 
to_be Corinthian. 

_ The annual meeting of the South Boston Y. C. was held 
at the club house last Wednesday evening, when the 
following officers were elected: Com., Simon Goldsmith; 
Vice-Com., Edwin Shuman; Rear-Com., D. N. Palmer; 
Sec’y, W. H. French; Treas., Thomas Christian; Trustees 

for three years, D. F. Carew and W. F, Cogan; Regatta 


_ tender. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


SOLEDAD. 
Built by E. A. Brooks, Guantanamo, Cuba. 


Committee, Franklin O. French, V. B. Johnson, E. J. 
McKee, C. W. Nordwell and F. D. Perkins; House Com- 
mittee, G. P.-Field, Thomas Harrison, W. W. McKee, 
M. J. Lynch and W. J. O’Brien. The treasurer an- 
nounced that the finances of the club were in excellent 
condition, and the secretary announced that the member- 
ship was 347, and that several applications had recently 
been handed in. The new west wing of the club house 
has been practically completed, and will soon be ready 
for occupancy. There will be four new bowling alleys and 
a very roomy billiard room. 

Crowninshield has an order for two raceabouts, one for 
Slocum Howland and the other for Samuel C. Hopkins, 
both of Catskill, N. ¥Y. He also has an order for a four- 
masted coasting schooner, which will be built in Maine. 
She will be of large tonnage, and will be equipped with 
every modern improvement. He also has an order to turn 
out a design for a standard tender, which will embrace 
every possible requirement that is asked of a yacht’s 
Designer Crowninshield has always been an 
ardent racing man, arid it will be regretted that he will 
not get into the game very extensively this season. He 
is now designing an 18-footer for his own use, which 
will be built by Brown. of North Haven, Me. This boat 
will not be built to conform to any particular set of re- 
strictions, but will be used entirely for afternoon sailing, 

Fred Lawley has an order for a 35-footer for W. H. 
Hart, of Philadelphia, and another for an auxiliary 3oft. 
cat for W. S. Hills. In the east shop the 30-footer for 
Bancroft C. Davis is planked, and the 104ft. steam yacht 
is about half planked. Several smaller boats have been 
started. The frames are being turned out for the Lippitt 
60-rater. She will be built in the west shop. 

John Stuart, of Wollaston, is building two 25ft. launches 
to be used on Lake Winnipesaukee. They will be very 
thoroughly built and will have cedar planking, copper 
fastened. They will haye a summer house, curtains 
rolling in the frames to afford protection in heavy 
weather. The interior finish will be white oal and cypress. 
There is also a 26ft.., a 22ft. and a 2rft. launch under 
construction. These will be fitted with mahogany trim- 
mings. He has orders for a number of mahogany and 
cedar power tenders. 

Small Bros. have an order for a Soft. waterline critising 
schooner for C, C. Warren, Commodore of the Sandusky 
Y. C., and President of the Yacht Racing Union of the 
Great Lakes. She will have auxiliary power and will be 
a model cruiser in every detail. Below decks she will 
be very roomy and well cut up. She has moderate over- 
hangs and the design is altogether very pleasing. 

There has been received as yet no challenge for the 
Quincy cup, and it is desired that this trophy should not 
pass into oblivion as a racing fixture. Boats for the un- 
restricted 21ft. class have not been built in recent years 
except to compete for this cup, and there does not seem 
to be any disposition on the part of Massachusetts yachts- 
men to build this winter. It has occurred to me that it 
would not be the most impossible thing-in the world to 
make some arrangement by which the boats that com- 
pete in the trial races to select a challenger for the 
Seawanhaka’s cup can all become challengers for the 
Ouincy cun and race for it after their first races have been 
finished. This might stimulate interest to such an extent 
that one or more boats would be built by Massachusetts 
yachtsmen. Joun B. KIveen. 


Soledad. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

_Inclosed are a few photos of a 25 ft. l.w.l. shallow-draft 
sloop which may be of interest to some of your readers, 
for I have built the boat from one of the designs pub- 
lished in your paper (Feb. 2, 1901), and working to the 
instructions also published in your paper for “Small Yacht 
Construction.” t 

The photographs you will find very bad, as we have no 
decent photographer here, and also the boat had not yet 
been painted above the waterline, which makes her look 
dirty and rough, though really she is very fair and smooth. 

The design was published by you in your isstie of Feb. 
2, 1901, as a 25ft, shallow-draft slocp, designed by Thomas 


. 


Clapham. The only alteration that I made in the design 
was to deepen the draft 8in. more, and getting by this a 
little more headroom in the cabin, which is rather shorter 
than in the original plan, only having two berths and a 
separate galley and lavatory. ; 

Except the planking, which is of spruce, the boat is 
built entirely of a native timber called “majagua,” which 
is quite as strong as oak and no heavier, and if anything 
easier to work and to bend. 

This week I am going down the coast for a few days’ 
crttise, and on my return will try to find time to send you 
a short article with some pictures. We have very rough 
water and heavy storms most of the time around this 
part of the island, and this. together with the fact that 
there are very few Anglo-Saxons here, is responsible for 
the very few yachts to be seen in these waters, 

This is my first attempt at boat building, and it speaks 
well for your designs and instructions, which enable a 
novice to turn out a crait that not only can beat anything 
in these waters, but is also a good sea boat. 

E. A. Brooxs. 


CENTRAL SOLEDAD, Guantanamo, Cuba, Dec. 13. 


New Rules to Govern Centerboards. 


THE new rule recently adopted by the Y. R. A. of Long 
Island Sound and the Seawanhaka Corinthian and Larch- 
mont yacht clubs rather favors a moderate draft cen- 
terboard boat of light power. To provide for this 
the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. has drawn up some 
special rules to cover centerboards. The following circu- 
lar has been.sent out,by Mr. Allen E. Whitman, the Secre- 
tary of the club: 

The attention of yacht owners is particularly solicited 
to the fact that the new rule of measurement, adopted at 
the Jast annual meeting, will be in effect in all the races 
of this club in the coming season, for which entries can- 
not be received until the required measurements have been 
obtained. 

A copy of the new rule contained in the club book of 
1901, and~a statement of the measurements required by 
it is supplied herewith. 

Yachts shall be rated for classification and time allow- 
ance by racing measurement, which shall be determined 
by adding to half the load waterline length, half the 
square root of sail area, and a quantity expressed as L. 
and by dividing the sum of these quantities by 1.1. 

On all yachts launched after July 1, 19001, there shall be 
placed by the owner or his agent, on every vessel to be en- 
tered for racing, marks on each side of her to indicate the 
waterline, and other marks vertical to and 3in. above first 
named marks. These marks shall be placed immediately 
over the largest cross section of the submerged part of 
the yacht. : 

The owner shall furnish to the measurer a certificate of 
the draft to the waterline as above indicated, and shall 
also include a statement of any greater draft, and whether 
the same is at a place or places forward or aft of this 
point. The certificate shall also state the measurement of 
the yacht’s greatest breadth on the load water-plane, and 
the area of the submerged section when measured to the 
marks at the waterline, and also to the marks ain. above 
it. These marks shall be kept on hand at the club house 
and supplied to all who require them;-they shall be small 
disks of non-corrosive metal, each having a hole in the 
center through which it may be secured to the side of the 
vessel by a pin, the center of the latter to indicate the 
point measured to. ; 

In the case of metal hulls a cross such as can be made 
with a cold chisel may be used, the intersection of the lines 
to indicate the point measured to. The measurements 
furnished by the owner to be subject to verification by 
the club’s measurer when called in question by protest, or 
when required by the Race Committee. 

Any yacht launched before July 1, r901, whose meas- 
urements, made under the rule of the previous year, 


brought her Within the limits of a class, shall continue to 


be. eligible to race in such class, although when measured 


under the rule of roor she may exceed the limits of such 


class, or may fall below it, and all such yachts shall he 


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rated for time allowance at their actual measurements. 

Yachts launched after July 1, 1901, shall not. be entitled 
to time allowance except from yachts launched prior to 
that date whose measurements may exceed the class limit. 
Such yachts shall allow time to smaller vessels launched 
before the date named. : 

When the measurer shall have to measure, draw and 
compute, the area of the midship section, or other under- 
body dimensions of a yacht, the charge for the same shall 
be, for a cabin yacht, twelve dollars, and for an open 
yacht six dollars. ; 

It is proposed that all yachts launched after July 1, 
1901, shall be treated as having been built up to the limit 
in each class, and that the new measurements shall apply 
in all racing after Jan. I, 1902. 

It will be seen that some of these measurements can 
only be obtained when the vessel is out of water, and 
that the necessary marking must be done at such a time. 

As much measuring has to be done in preparation for 
the earlier races, it is earnestly requested that where 
the services of the club’s measurer are required, that he 
be given the earliest possible intimation, together with in- 
formation as to where the vessel is laid up or is otherwise 
out of water; this should be done weeks in advance if 
practicable. 

At the next meeting of the club the following rules as 
to centerboards will be proposed: 

Yachts may have the use of centerboards, excepting as 
these are affected by the provisions which follow: 

Centerboards shall not have more weight than is needed 
to insure their sinking into proper position for use, and 
this limit shall be considered as reached when the cen- 
terboard: has a weight 25 per cent. greater than that of 
the water displaced ‘by it. 

Centerboards weighing less than 15olbs, shall be exempt 
from the provisions of this rule. 

Vessels having in use centerboards of the prescribed 
weight at, or prior to, July 1, 1901, shall be exempt from 
the foregoing specified requirements. 

Owners of centerboard yachts shall, when required, 
certify to the measurer that the centerboards used are 
within the limitations stated. 


50-Foot Cruising Schooner. 


In this issue we publish the sail and spar plan, as well 
as a detail of the centerboard of the Soft. cruising 
schooner, the lines, construction and cabin plans of which 
appeared-in our last issue. 

The measurements of the spars are as follows: 


Foremast— 

IBbrom-stemment: MeAVViiae etree elt, ete tees sft. 0 

Menoth above deck: 2. 1c. com sae ose 35it. 4 in. 

Diameter at partners..........--...- - oft. 8 1 
Mainmast— ; ; 

Bron stent at, UWele. wa2s a2 «oss eiiels . 20ft. O in. 

Tsenptir, above deckj cs nist sn is sess te 49ft. 14in. 

Diameter at partners.............+-0% . Off. 9 in. 
Bowsprit— 

Iemeth overtalli csr. sets sisce slote eens - I7ft..9 

Length outside gammon iron.......... 12ft. 9 in. 

Diameter otttside gammon iron..... .-. oft. 6 
Fore Boom— 

IGEN ott erste cto yete tissan sreale erste water tee » 14ft. o 

| Dye Rane) Kel ae 8 Rees Ay eee ee Ee as OES oft. 4 
Fore Gaff— 

reg EHS, 3. ase cee cite Plo eeatas BEG erie 13ft. 6 in. 

DV ATMOLED aos Ain on paste teens Be tors weeee Oft. 3Y%4i 
Main Boom— 

Length ..... ne Sed ies radey = Penta WR 27it. 6 

Diameters ele t: eiteetee estat as NG . oft. 5 
Main Gaff— - ; 

Wenothi asf ssec-sac LA hehe he Meee acer 1sft. 7 in. 

IDV iite (oe aR DD ed a os a eevee Off. 44Zin, 
Staysail Boom— 

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NDiamtet ers <2. Secry: piste apt ausls-3G Plots eel -» Oft. 2%in. 
Areas— 

Meise Sad eee tetanic eae svcecees 646 sq. ft. 

i ope cker08l ent eater roe Menten Otero a . 352 sa. ft. 

Stay Sails cictah 04 ne eisclasceents Leena tate . 140 sq. ft. 

Jao Seba aes sattziertee 5 He atatertle otis aabeleauratars . I8o sq. ft. 


Total area lower sails... cca. oo. « 1,318 sq. ft. 


Spats and Rigging. 


Turnbuckles—to be fitted to bobstay, rin. in diameter, 
and to bowsprit shrouds, %in. diameter, to be of gal- 
vanized steel. - 

_ Standing—to be of the sizes specified on plan.- No 
iron. 

Rigging—Eye-bands to be used for shrouds, but a 


shoulder worked on mastheads with maderia cleats and ~ 


cheek pieces, and upper ends of rigging spliced with 
long eye, parceled, served and covered with pig skin, 
passed around mast and resting on cleats. 

Bobstay, 34in. diameter; bowsprit shrouds, 3gin. di- 
ameter; jib stay, 54in. diameter; headstay 54in. diameter; 
two fore shrouds, “%in: diameter; three main shrouds, 
Zin, diameter; fopmast stay Zin. diameter; foot ropes, 
lyin. diameter; quarter lift strop, main, fore and staysail 
boom strops, %in. diameter; all of galvanized steel wire 
rope. 

Shrouds turned into lignum-vite deadeyes 3in. diame- 
ter; set up with 134in. circumference tarred lanyards. 

Spars—to be of clear, seasoned, straight-grained spruce, 
worked to the lengths and diameters shown on plan, and 
fitted with all necessary eye-bolts, cleats for rigging, 
lacing eyes, saddle, etc. Well sandpapered and given 
three coats of spar varnish. ~ | etd. 

Sails—to be of 100z. duck, double bighted, with hemp 
bolt ropes, galvanized iron thimbles and cringles. Two 
reefs in fore and three in mainsail. All sails to be 
pickled, made mildew proof. : 

Running Rigging—to be of best quality four-strand 
manila bolt rope, of sizes specified on plan. All to be 
spliced, served and rove off by builder. _ 

Peak Halliards (Main)—to, be I%in. circumference; 
eye spliced in end, served, rove through double block at 
masthead, and single block on gaff end; belayed on sad- 
dle at foot of mast. 

Throat Halliards (Main)—to be rin. circumference, 
spliced into iron grommet, shackled to single block at 


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gaff jaws, rove through double block at masthead and 
belayed at saddle. Size, 114in. circumference. 

Topsail Halliards (Main)—to be spliced into 3gin., 
shackled at end, rove through a single block at topmast 
head and belayed on saddle. Size, 144in. circumference. 

Staysail Halliard (Main)—to be spliced into 3gin. 
shackle at end, rove through a single block at forward 
‘side of topmast head and belayed on saddle. Size, 1/4in. 
circumference, 

Quarter Lifts (Main)—to be spliced into thimbles at 
lower ends and shackled to strop under hoom with %in. 
- shackles, rove through blocks each side*cf mast under 
rigging and come down inside of shrouds to within 6ft. 
of deck, where they have another thimble spliced in to 
hook tackles into. Size, 124in. circumference. 

Topsail Sheet (Main)—to be tin. circumference, with 
5-16in, shackle spliced in end, rove through cheek block 
on starboard side of end of main gaff, then through 
block on tail-rope at jaws of gaff and belayed at saddle. 

Staysail Sheet—to be Iin., with sister hook spliced in 
end, rove through block on end of main boom and be- 
layed at cleat on main boom near mast. 

Main Sheet—114in. circumference, to have eye-splice 
in end, served large enough to span main boom, rove 
through double block on main traveler, through block 
(single) on main boom; lead from traveler block and 
ybelayed at large cleats on deck each side of cockpit. 

Reef Tackle—of tin, three-part tackle, hooked into 
eye at end of main boom, into cringle of sail and be- 
layed at cleats just inside main sheet on boom. 

Fore Peak and Throat Halliards—of 14in. circum- 
ference, rove the same as main. 

Fore Sheet—of 114in. circumference, spliced into grom- 
met, shackled to tail of block on traveler, rove through 
double block on boom and single on traveler and belayed 
at cleat on boom near mast. 

“Fere Boom Lift—to be lin. circumference, shackled to 
end of fore boom, rove through tail block on wire pen- 
nant, hung down forward side of mainmast and belayed 
on saddle at foot of mainmast. 

Staysail Halliards—to be 1%4in. circumference, shackled 
to single block at masthead, rove through single block 
with large shackle in head of staysail, through block 
aloft and belayed at saddle on foremast. 

Jib Halliards—1¥%in. circumference, rove the same as 
for staysail. ; 


Jib Downhaul—of tin. circumference, rove through 
single block at end of bowsprit, with sister hooks spliced 
in end and belayed to cleat on heel of bowsprit. 

Staysail Sheet—to be shackled to block on boom, rove 
through single block on traveler, led from block on boom 
to bullseye set in deck at heel of mast, belayed at saddle. 
Size, 114in. circumference. 


Jib Sheets—to be 1}4in. circumference, shackled to eye-_ 


bolt in waterways, rove through a single block on a long 


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pennant from clew of jib, through a bullseye in deck, and 
belayed to cleat on deck. 

Staysail Boom Lift—of tin. circumference, to be rove 
the same as for foreboom. 


Blocks—to be of galvanized iron, patent sheave, with © 


ash shells; of proper sizes to take ropes specified. Such 
blocks as are needed for quarter lift tackles, etc., and not 
shown on the plans are to be furnished by builder. 

Side Ladder—of maderia, with galvanized iron catch 
over rail to be made and furnished complete. 

Boom Crotch—for main boom to be supplied, and all 
necessary ring bolts for securely lashing booms when 
sails are furled. 

Stops and Sail Covers—to be supplied. Stops to be of 
heavy canvas, with rope ends long enough to give two or 
three round turns. Sail covers of waterproof canvas, to 
fit snug over sails when furled, with bags for stowing 
same when unbent. Reef pennants to be furnished. 

Mast Hoops.and Jib Hauls—to be furnished by builder 
and sails bent on to spars. 


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SAIL- PLAN 


Lacing Eyes—of galvanized iron, screwed into top 
of booms and spaced so as to come clear of the grom- 
mets, seized on to the foot of sails. Wire lacing lines 
to be furnished for same. ‘dks 

Beads—to be furnished for jaws of both gaffs. 

Throat and Tacks of Sails—to be shackled on,. not 
seized with galvanized iron shackles. 

Awnings—of white duck, waterproofed; fitted in three 
sections, as follows: From staysail stay to foremast, 
fore to mainmast, and mainmast to taffrail, with all 
necessary spreaders, guys, crowfeet, etc., necessary to 
properly spread awnings. 

Ballast Necessary to Bring Schooner to Her Designed 
Waterline—to be stowed by builder; to be stone. 

Side Light Boards—to be made, varnished and seized 
to fore shrouds. 

Lamps—of swinging brass, style selected by owner, to 
be furnished complete and fitted by builder. One locker 
built in after bulkhead alongside companionway so com- 
pass can be set in it and seen through glass light by 


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man at wheel; lighted by lamp in cabin. 

~ In General—Anything necessary for the completion of 
yacht ready for sailing not herein specified to be in- 
cluded_as part of the contract and be furnished by the 
builder. 


Skipper Hansen’s Fast Time. 


SAILING with the assistance of a terrific gale, Capt. Ole 
Hansen, said to be the most fearless sailor on Lake 


Michigan, brought his schooner, Alice, into the port of ~ 


Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 30, 1901, after having established 
a new record for speed on the Great Lakes. He made a 
run of 140 miles in a few minutes less than nine hours. It 
was a wonderful performance, but to-night the crew of the 
little schooner are exhausted by a nine hours’ fight against 
one of the roughest seas that ever prevailed on the lake. 

In pitch darkness Capt. Hansen found the vessel off 
Point Betsy on the Michigan shore at 2:30 o'clock Friday 
morning, He had agreed to be in Kenosha this morning. 
He realized the danger of the trip, but submitted the mat- 
ter to the five men of the crew, and the two women who 
were with him. The vote was unanimously in favor of 
the trip, and the schooner was turned from the land into 
the storm. 

Great waves were already breaking over her, but the 
cargo of tanbark was safely tied down, Capt. Hansen, 
sending the women to the staterooms beneath decks, took 
his place at the wheel and-ordered the crew to shake out 
all the canvas. The waves washed over the decks, and 
the vessel, rolling in the trough of the sea, seemed in 
immediate danger of going down. Wet to the skin and 
almost frozen, Capt. Hansen kept in his place at the 
wheel and headed the vessel for the Milwaukee Harbor. 
At dawn more than-thirty miles had been covered, and 
the captain was forced to relinquish his hold on the 
wheel. During the remainder of the trip the men took 
his place, and each held the wheel until he was forced 
to leave his place from sheer exhaustion. During the 
morning hours the rolling of the vessel grew so great 
that the furniture and dishes in the cabin were thrown 
from their places, and the deckload was in danger of 
being lost. 

At 11:30 o'clock Capt. Hansen, who had returned to the 

wheel, steered the boat into the shoal water off Mul- 
waukee. The men went below and slept, exhausted by the 
trip. 
One of the men in describing the run said the storm 
was the fiercest that he had seen on the lake. The fastest 
time was made when the wind was at its height. shortly 
after daybreak. In an hour the schooner covered a little 
over twenty-one miles. The two women, who remained 
in their cabin during the night, say they were not at_any 
time in fear of the outcome, feeling certain that Capt. 
Hansen would sail the boat safely into port at Kenosha.— 
Chicago Inter-Ocean, 


The Theory of Measurement Rules. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ' 

Your correspondent, Sextant, is of course right 
in saying that for purely local racing the restricted classes 
give the best sport. But my article was an endeavor to 
propose foundations for an Internatioal Rule of Rating, 
and although Sextant objects to the introduction of 
L. and D. because they are not speed producers, but re- 
sistance reducers, it seems to me that this is a distinction 
without any practical difference. His suggestion that S 
the motor, should only be taxed in the rating of a speed 
formula in sailing yachts is tantamount to rating the 
“speed efficiency of a steam yacht by her handicaped 
horse-power alone; whereas we all know that a rating 
tule for steam yachts should certainly acknowledge the 
weight driven at speed. ' be | 

Lord Rosebery sums up his policy in the one word— 
efficiency. So, in yacht racing, the rating rule should be 
a measure of a yacht’s speed efficiency, and consequently 


must deal with more elements than sail area alone. 
THALASSA, 


Yacht Club Notes. 


On Dec. 30 the Town Board of Hempstead, L. I., at 
their regular meeting, granted _a lease of town land at 
Woodsburgh to the Keystone Y. C, This organization 
will immediately commence worl on its new club house, 
which will be erected on the property. 


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The members of the Ardsley Casino haye decided to 
establish a yachting department to be rum in connection 
with the Country Club. Several members have been 
chosen to look into the matter. The committee 1s com- 
posed of Frank F. Chrystie, chairman ; Edwin Gould, Na- 
thaniel A. Campbell and E, S. Jaffray, secretary. A one- 
design class has been organized and several members have 
agreed to build. The boats will be 26it. 3in. over all, and 
4it. draft, with 1,200lbs.. of outside ballast, making them 
non-capsizable. Races will be held off the club house on 


the Hudson River. 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


Messrs. Gardner & Cox. the naval architects and 
matine brokers, have had Mr, Paul Eve Stevenson, the 
well-known writer of sea stories, compile for them a 
most interesting little book, which is filled -with valu- 
able matter pertaining to yachting and marine matters in 


genial, nee 


The Tebo Yacht Basin Company was recently incor- 


porated at Albany, swith a capital stock of $150,000. The" 


directors of the new company are: James W. Haviland; 
Charles B, Haviland James W. Haviland, Jr., Frederick 
H. Ketchum and Clinton H. Wheeler. 


Ren 


The holiday numbers of the two English yachting pub- 
lications, the Yachtsman and the Yachting World, have 
‘heen received at this office. Both these issues are larger 
‘and better than any previously issued, and deserve more 
than passing notice. The winter number of the Yachts- 


man is made up of 100 pages, filled with thirteen in- 
teresting stories and forty splendid yachting pictures. 
In addition to these, thete are four full-page supplements. 
There is also a design for a 52ft. L. R. racing cutter, de- 
signed by Mr, C. F. Herreshoff. The design gives a 
good idea of the type of Nevada, Mr. Herreshoff’s suc- 
cessful 52-footer of last season. The Christmas and 
Mediterranean number of the Yachting World contains 
many handsome illustrations and numerous stories. There 
is also the design of the steam yacht Titania, 138 tons, 
designed and built by Messrs. Day, Summers & Co., Ltd. 


RR 


Mr. Theodore Berdell, a member of the New York Y. 

C., died at his home in Summit, N. J., on Dec. go last. 

_ Mr. John M. Wilson, also a member of the New York 
Y. C.,, died at Cincinnati, O., on Dec. 30, 


Canoeing. 


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American Canoe Association, 1901-1902. 


Commodore, C. E. Britton, Gananoque, Can. 

Ps A Ca Herb Begg, 24 King street, West Toronto, 
anada. 
Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Thirty-second street anu Avenue A, 


Bayonne, N, J. 
Diviston Officers. . 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., Henry M. Dater, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Rear-Com., H. D. Hewitt, Burlington, N. J. 
Purser, Joseph F. Eastmond, 199 Madison street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
GCENTRAL DIVISION, 
Vice-Com., C. P. Forbush, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Rear-Com., Dr. C. R, Henry, Perry, N. Y. 
Purser, Lyman P. Hubbell, Buffalo, N.Y. 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com,, Louis A. Hall, Newton, Mass. 
Rear-Com., Lamprey, Lawrence, Mass, 
Purser, A. Kimberly, Lawrence Experimental 


Lawrence, Mass. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
eee oe 7 oy pores Nee, eae 
ear-Com., aston Burns, Kingsto tario, Can, 
Purser, R! Norman Brown, ‘Toronto, Can, pa re 
WESTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., Wm. C. Jupp, Detroit, Mich. 
Rear-Com., F. B. Huntington, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Purser, Fred T. Barcroft, 408 Ferguson Building, Detroit, Mich. 


Station, 


Forest AND STREAM is no longer the official organ of the 
American Canoe Association, this organization having 
selected another paper in which to print their official 
notices. This change will not, however, affect the canoe- 
ing department of Forrest AND STREAM, and a certain 
amount of space will be devoted! to the sport, and articles, 
photographs and designs of canoes will be published as 
heretofore. 


‘Birch Bark Canoe Building. 


A WRITER in an article in one of otir magazines in the 
December and January numbers has in his story given 
what he probably thinks a correct description of canoe 
building. His description is as follows: ‘The Indian 
had terminated a long two days’ search by toting from 
the forest a number of strips of white birch in its green 
state; pliable as cotton, thick as leather, and light as air. 
These he had cut into arbitrary patterns known only to 
himself, and was soon séwing as a long, shapeless sort 
of bag or sack to a slender beechwood oval. Later it 
was to become a birch bark canoe, and the beechwood 
oval was to be the gunwale. 

“The loose sack of birch bark sewed to the long beech 
oval was slting between two tripods, Injun Charley 
had fashioned a number of thin, flexible cedar strips of 
certain arbitrary lengths and widths. Beginning with the 
smallest of these, Thorpe and his compamion were catch- 
ing one end tinder the beech oval, bending the strip bow- 
shaped inside the sack and catching the other side of the 
oval, Thus the spring of the bent cedar, pressing against 
the inside of the birch sack, distended it tightly. The 
cut of the sack and the length of the cadar strips gave 
the canoe its graceful shape.” 

Now, while it might be proper to make a canoe in this 
way as an object of worship, as it certainly would not 
be “in the likeness of anything in the heavens above, or 
the earth beneath,” it would not be a success for the 
purposes for which a canoe is usually built. As the 
building of birch bark canoes is fast becoming a lost 
art, and soon there will be no one to tell of how they are 
made, I will give as clear a description as I am able of 
the manner in which the Penobscot Indians used to build 
their canoes. 

Our canoes for up-river use were usually eighteen feet 
long. For salt»water (the term Indians always used 
when speaking of the sea), twenty to twenty-two feet 
long. The Passamaquoddy Indians made larger canoes, 
often twenty-five feet in length, as they used them mostly 
for sea-going. The bark was nearly always in one piece, 
In the many hundreds of canoes I haye seen, I haye 
never seen,one in two pieces, except in one or two in- 
stances. The bark, after being taken off, was rolled up 
tightly with what was the imner side out. The bark 
was usually from four to five feet in width, and a roll of 
good winter bark would weigh from forty to sixty 
pounds, 

When the canoe was to be made, a perfectly level bed 
was made on hard ground of the length the canoe was 
to be; then the bark, after it had beem soaked till it could 
be unrolled, was laid on the bed and heavy stones were 
laid all along the center for nearly the whole length; 
then cuts were made in the bark, beginning about two 
feet from the bow and making a cut from fifteen inches 
to two feet in length about every fifteen inches, A 
twenty-two foot canoe which I have has some fifteen ol 
these cuts on each side. Enough was taken off from the 
sides of these cuts to make the bark the desired shape. 
Then these cuts were sewed up with split spruce roots; 
also a piece of from four to five feet in length and from 
six to ten inches in width was sewed to the top of each 
side in the center, to make the bark wide enough at that 
point. After the sewing was finished, the bark was 
turned up on the sides into nearly the desired shape and 
held in place by stakes driven all along the sides. Then 
the bow, as it was called, was placed inside of the bark 


and a cedar gunwale placed on the outside with the bark 
between them, and they wete tightly sewed together with 
spruce roots passing round the wood and through the 
bark. The sewing was done by taking from five to eight 
turns around the gunwales about eight inches apart for 
the whole length. : 

The bow and all the ribs and lining were always pre- 
pared beforehand. The bow was of two pieces of cedar 
as long as the inside was to be. These pieces were neatly 
square on the sides, usually about two inches in thick- 
ness in the middle and tapering toward the ends; they 
were mortised on inner sides for five thwarts, which were 
also sewed firmly in place beside the mortising. In a 
twenty-two foot canoe the two end thwarts were twenty- 
eightincheslong,two inches wide and one-half inch thick; 
the next two twenty-five inches long and the center one 
thirty-one inches. These last three are two inches wide 
next the gunwale and tapering to 144 in center and are 
one inch in thickness. They are placed 2% feet apart, 
and the end ones are five feet from the extreme 
end of the canoe when the canoe is finished, as the side 
and top gunwales are much longer than the bow which 
holds the thwarts. 

After the side gunwale is on, the top sunwale, which is 
some two inches wide and about two-thirds of an inch 
thick, is pegged to the wood below with long wooden 
pegs. The top gunwale is rounded on the edges and, 
like the side one, is much longer than the inner -bow. 
At each end the four pieces of the two side and two top 
gunwales are'sewed to the bark and to each other by five 
or six turns of spruce root in three places some six inches 
apart, and this bound into one solid piece, and at a point 
where they are separated about six inches a strong stay 
is put in by passing several turns of strong spruce root 
across and around each side and then winding it cross- — 
Wise so as to make a round stay as large as one’s finger. — 
The ends are then cut into the desired shape and sewed 
twice, so that the stitches cross each other. A rib of 
cedar about an inch square at the inner end and tapering 
nearly to a point is bent to fit the curye of each end, and 
fastened inside to support it. 

Next the lining is put in; this consists of very thin 
strips of cedar, each strip a litthke more than half the 
length of the canoe, and shaved thin at the ends, where 
one overlaps the other, so that where they join they will 
lie perfectly smooth. These are placed lengthwise, and 
fitted so nicely as to make a perfectly tight inner lining— 
so tight that not a particle of gravel can work in between 
the bark and lining, 

Then the knees or ribs are put in; these are all bent in 
pairs, each center one having the next smaller bent in- 
side of it and a wide band of cedar bark holds them in 
place, after bending till they are dry. The ribs are 
rounded on their edges and tops slightly from center to 
ends, and. are sloped at the ends to hold when driven 
under the inner bow or gunwale. The end ones are 
driven first, and then the next in order. The driving 
is done with a mallet made specially for this purpose, 
which used to be called a “half moon” mallet. This is a 
piece of wood shaped like half a saticer with a handle on 
the thickest side. This shape enabled them to drive in 
the ribs without scarring the soft wood. 

Lastly, the so-called head boards were placed. These 
were three smooth. pieces of cedar, some eighteen inches 
long by eight inches width, tapering, and rounded at the 
ends, so as to form an elongated oval, and were bent 
and sprtine into each end and solidly fastened into a 
notch in the piece which was bent to support the end; 
before being placed the vacant space in the end behind 
this was tightly filled with cedar shavings, which, while 
very light, gave a good deal of support to the bark and 
kept it from being pressed in and crushed. 

The seams were then pitched, a cloth being put the 
whole length of the sewing at each end to protect the 
sewing, This pitch was made of rosin and oil or grease 
boiled together. That used in cold weather was usually 
made thinner than that for summer use. 

A canoe when finished weighed from 90 to 125 pounds. 
Those of winter bark weighing more than those of sum- 
mer bark—besides the difference in length. Our canoes 
were usually carried by one man, using a “head board” 
and a cedar band across the breast and face—head as 
Thoreau describes- 

The only wood I ever saw used in the construction of 
canoes was cedar, with the exception of the thwarts, 
which were ustially of maple, The roots were dug by the 
squaws. A root as large as one’s finger was cut at the 
large end and pulled out its entire length by cutting any 
side roots; then the bark was removed, and with a knife 
a thin slice was ctit, beginning at the large end and hold- 
ing one part in the teeth and bending it with the hands 
to make it split even, Very few white men could split 
a root evenly till they had been shown how. The root 
after splitting was coiled up and was thoroughly soaked 
before using. f 

An Indian would measure a canoe with a piece of 
basket stuff, making a few notches in it, and go into the 
woods, get out his frame or bow and bend all the knees, and, 
when he made his canoe every part would fit and it would 
be of the exact shape of the one he measured. It seemed 
perfectly marvelous to see how every part would fit, and 
the nice work they could do with only a crooked knife 
to work with. 

The Passamaquoddy Indians fastened the bark to the 
gunwales by nailing instead of sewing. The Tobique 
canoes had the ends cut at an angle to the bottom, in- 
stead of being gracefully curved as ours were. The 
Micmacs built a good sea-going canoe, but not graceful 
in form—looking more like an inverted ox yoke than 
anything else I can compare them to, North of the St. 
Lawrence many of the yoyageurs. canoes were thirty- 
three feet long and were carried by two men on the 
portages. : 

In picturing canoes, unless photographed, artists 
almost invariably make the mistale of putting in a wrong 
number of cross-bars or thwarts. 1 have usually seen 
canoes pictured with four or six ribs. It is very seldom 
that one has the correct number of five. I do not think 
any canoe was ever built with an even number of cross- 
bars. Five is the invariable number of Maine built 
canoes. The artist who illustrated the article from which 
I quoted deserves great credit for making so good a 
drawing when he.was obliged to make his drawing illus-_ 
trate such am incorrect description. I haye purposely — 
omitted describing how the bark was peeled, as it would 
make too long an article, sour Eo 3 hn 


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N, tt, 1902.1] 


Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Columbia Pistol and Rifle’ Club, 


“y Francisco, Dec. 22.—Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club held 
inth annual banquet and prize distribution for 1901, Dec. 22. 
members and friends took part. It was the most enjoyable 
ring yet in our history, and this has been the best\shooting 
We also have a larger membership than ever before, though 
s said that an American club could not exist here, and there 
een much effort put forth to destroy us. Still being on top, 
an wish our enemies as well as our friends a happy New Year. 
e adoption of Walnut Hill’s system of shooting on clean tar- 
at b0yds, has been a great benefit to the club, and our close 
gasurement keeps the shooters busy to beat it, causing rapid 
ovement in the art. Our aim has been to elevate, not de- 
rate, the art of shooting; this, we believe, is American, and 
ll be supported by the lovers of true sport. _ " 
The winners of the year are as follows, shooting being off-hand 
columbia target. The prizes, Columbia medals and bars, being 
m on 10 best scores, re-entry. , 
Jolumbia Gold medal (consisting of winged bullet and Columbia 
Foll, to which the bars are suspended), won with rifle or pistol: 
TH. Pape. F. O. Young, A. B. Dorrell, W. G. Hoftman, G, M. 
J. F. Twist, A. J. Brannagan, F. S. Washburn, G. Mannel; 
x, Mannel, Otto Feudner, H. A, Baker, Ed Hovey and C. 


aiss. : 
ee were won with rifle, experts, 200yds,, by A. H. Pape 27, 34, 
87, 38, 38, 40, 40; 40, 41870, or 3.7in. ring average, gold bar, 
27 being the world’s record. Pape also received a gold 
lumbia button; he also received a beautifully hand-embroidered 
Ww, on which was worked a duplicate of the target and shots 
Mrs. G. Mannel, who presented a similar pillow, but not so 
aluable, to Young when he made the record of 34 last year. 
2s 370 is without doubt the greatest exhibition of fine shoot- 
ever recorded. A, B. Dorrell, 42, 42, 43, 47, 47, 48, 48, 49, 50, 51— 
i pe bar. F. O, Young 47, 49, 49, 50, {0, 51, 51, o1, 51, 52—501, 
ze bar. 
Sharpshooters, rifle: G. M. Barley 55, £7, 60, 60, 60, 62, 62, 64, 
€5—610, silver bar, 
Experts, pistol, 50yds.: F. O. Young 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 36, 36, 

7, 88—351, silver bar; A. J, Brannagan 36, 38, 38, 39, 40, 40, 40, 
) 40, 42—393, silver bar (Brannagan’s scores were shot with a .38 
syolver, and is the best work ever done in the club. He was 
]esented with a Columbia gold button for the best revolver 10- 
fot score, 35, club and coast record. He also won a silver cup 
br best score with revolver. The cup was presented by P, A. 
ecker); Ed Hovey 38, 388, 41, 41, 41, 42, 43, 48, 45, 45—417, bronze 
ar; F. S. Washburn 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 41, 43, 43, 47, 48422, bronze 
r; C. M. Daiss, 39, 39, 40, 43, 46, 47, 48, 47, 49, 51444, bronze bar: 
Pistol, sharpshooters: 
A Becker, revolver.........0-.0.: 88 88 48 49 50 51 51 51 52 58—478 
BGM Ct ees cae sss arias tecbe mob ens s 34 42 47 48 49 51 51 52 53 58-480 
bec Mannel...........- we Gel ace 51 56 57 58 58 60 60 61 61 63—585 


Tannel won bronze bars, 
‘Prize matches, open to all comes, 10 best scores: ‘ 
Rifle, 3. shots, 200yds.: A. H. Pape, 95, $20 prize, presented by 
| Feudner; A. B- Dorrell, 120, $7.40; C. M. Daiss, 144, gold medal, 
vy F. O. Young; G. Mannel, 152, $4.45; W. G. Hotiman, 157, 
minted pillow, by Mrs. E. A. Allen; F. O. Young, 178, Columbia 
Mishion, by Mrs. G.~ Mannel; E. Hovey, 182, $2.95; Capt. F. 
wihnle; C. M, Daiss, 642, $4.80; Dr. J. F. Twist, 712, water-color, 
y G. Mannel, 
Revolver, 10-shot scores: A. J. Brannagan, 420, $12.10; F.. O. 
une, 453, $7.25; W. G. Hoffman, 604, silver cup, by -Capt. F. 
nie, 
Fi22\ rifle, 10-shot scores, 50yds.: A. B. Dorrell, 188, $16.10; Capt. 
-Kuhnile, 194, gold sleeve buttons, by Wm, Glindemann; W. G. 
Hofiman, 219, $9.65; Dr. J. F. Twist, 234, silver purse and chain, 
y C. M. D.; F. O. Young, 287, $6.45; E. Hovey, 267, gold sleeve 
ttons, by A, B. Dorrell; E. A. Allen, 309, Columbia button; 
Bachman, 372, 100 cartridges, by E. Hovey; Mrs. G. Mannel, 
3, gallon whisky, by A. J. Brannagan; Mrs. C. F. Waltham, 386, 
olumbia button, 


Hovey, 476, Columbia button, by C. M. Daiss; F, O. Young, 
, d0lbs. lead, by E. A. Allen; E, A. Allen, 430, two turkeys, by 
mee Dr. J. F. Twist, 400, box of cigars, by Dr. H. W. 
nsaker. 

‘Team match took place on Dec, 15, A. B. Dorrell and W. G, 
Toiiman acting captains, 5 shots with rifle and 5 shots with pistol: 


Capt. Dorrell’s Team. 


Rifle Pistol. 

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REBELOVGY Vesa c case dc ceee ccc 618 7 4 4 66 7 8 LL 62 
Me) Worrellsregscssncsesae 11°75. 6 6 6 8 1 8 6 64 

RCAC Vins ldo s'slete eights c ky Gelb? 3-210 6 5— 69 

Mannel...... ‘ 310 9 713 914 14: 4 11— 96 
BP EGICOIS Nase usmenssee sans 148-9. 514 14 510 9 6 87 
firs Waltham ...és.sss25-- 12 9 9 15 24 911 5 14 14—120 
MDE press pales eset ss sie «2 17 1% 25 2 1714 5 14 14—161—709 

Capt. Hoffman’s Team, 

Young........5 47612 32 145 3 5—50 
M Daiss..... seas) ee eG) 6 5 6 4 3—51 
G Hoffman.. 8.5 7210 10 62 5 2—57 
Dr J F Twist. 1et6) Oe oe9 4 3 5 910-79 
Bele rannacaties. vs .acces-- 18 915 6 6 9 4 4 2 10— 83 
meres Meniriel (i iiccoe decade 9 6 9 24 27 1412 4 3 12120 
PPR Gallet sited ga Aes oho re aa 7 21 12 25 12 314 413 12—123 
MERE ADC! ¢9)ss ein oa : 414 aeato ee > € 27 25 26 25 310 4 14 11—158—716 


Dorrell’s team won by 7 points. 
ief of the Columbias. 
ith a total of 44. 
Dr. Twist presented two medals for military match, which were 
ror by E, Hovey and E. A. Allen. G. Hoadley presented silver 
ip for most 1s with the revolver; it was won by P, A. Becker. 
Fr. O. Young won the all-round diploma, beating record 14 points 
pistol, 31, 32; rifie, 47, 49; revolver, 38, 39; .22 rifle, 17, 17; military, 
8, 66—394, . ‘ 
San Francisco, Dec. 15.—The Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club 
eld its final shoot for the year to-day. Scores, Columbia target, 
i-hand shooting: 
Rifle, 3 shots, 200yds.: A. H. Pape 8, 13; A. B. Dorrell, 9, 23; 
. G, Hoffman 11, 12, 13, 17, 18,18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 19, 21, 21, 22, 99: 
: OS Cae 28; F. O. Young 15, 15, 16, 16, 17, 19; G. Mannel 
> i 7 = 
Rifle, 10 shots: F, O. Young 49, 51, 55, 58; A. B. Dorrell 60: 
. H. Cady 62, 64, 71, 79, 90, 91, 92; C. Bachman 82, 120, 121, 153; 
ex. Pape 91, 92, 94, 129, 158; E. A, Allen 93, 100, 100, 106, 110, 


4, 105, 114. 
Fifty-yard range, 10 shots. C. M. Daiss 39, 47, 56, 56, 


Pape and Young tied for the 
In the shoot-off Pape won by 14 points, 


Pistol: 


Dy > =. . 

. Mannel 84, 95, 102; J. J. Crowley 96; W. F. Browning 99. 

Revolver: A. J. Brannagan 4i, J. R, Trego 56, 64, 73, 76, 78, 78, 

), 80, 85, 71, 87, 97; P. A. Becker 56, 56, 59, 64; C. M. Daiss 53, 63, 

it, Twist 92, 97. 

Twenty-two caliber rifle: A. B. Dorrell 22; E. Hovey 23, 25, 25, 

D, 26, 28, 30, 30; Mrs. G. Mannel 30, 80, 34, 35, 34, 40, 53: Mrs. C. 
Waltham 46, 53, 62; Dr. Twist 31, 36. 

Pistol, 3-shot match: Dr. Twist 14, 16, 16, 17, 19, 19, 20, 23, 24, 


Hoffman shot his new rifle, which he had just received. It is a 
eauty, and he was well pleased with his average shooting and 
-omises to be in it next season. 

This was one of the liveliest shooting days ever experienced in 
te club. Every one was out for a few more points, to win a higher 
ore and place in the prize matches, and some succeeded, while 
ers lost by only one point. 

The annual banquet will be held Dec. 22, when prizes and medals 
all be awarded and winners published, also team shoot. ~ 
Frep. O. Youne, Sec’y. 


Riffe at Shell Mound. 


AN Francisco, Dec. 28.—The attendance of marksmen at Shell 
found range yesterday was unusually large, owing chiefly to its 
sing the last day of the yearly competition for medals and prizes 
moe ot the clubs. Moreover, the day was simply perfect for 
fle work. ~ 

The Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club closed its year’s work 
ith a delightful banquet in Capt. Siebe’s dining hall, = the range. 
hirty-five members and a few guests were present, After the 


; 


Military and repeating rifles, Creedmoor count, 10 best scores: , 


Young 39, 41, 44, 47, 49; Dr. Twist 50, 59, G1, 67;_ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


feast there was a distribution of prizes won during the yeat; to» 
gether with much merrirhent and speechmaking. 

The best prizes were won by sore of the younger marksthen, & 
result not unexpected, as the various open-to-all events were cofl- 
ducted on a handicap basis. This, while hard on the scratch men 
and veterans, mightily stimulates the “colts.” 

The winners of the rifle events in order were A. Gehret, M. F. 
Blasse, C. M. Henderson, A, B. Dorrell and D. B. Faktor. 
‘Winners of pistol contest: J. E. Gorman, and P, A. Becker. 

Winners of revolyer contest: W. F. Blasse and Major Tomp- 


ins. F 
The following are the medal winners for the year in the Red - 


Men Schuetzen Company: 

Champion class, William Dressler; first class, Capt. Henry 
Grieb; second _ class, £ A. Mohr; third class, Herman Schult; 
fourth class, Daniel Tamke; best last shot for the year, Capt. 
Henry Grieb. ’ 

San Francisco Schuetzen Verein, monthly bullseye shoot: A. 
Mocker 128, D. B. Faktor 284, A. Bertelsen 293, A, Schaefer 296, 
QO. Burmeister 327, J. C. Waller 349, J. Gefken 385, William 
Garms 409, J. Peters 442, August Meyer 482, William Goetze 483, 
John Utschig 537, L. N. Ritzau 554, William Ehrenpfort 603, J. de 
Wit 609, August Goetze 635, FP. Wensel 769, R. Stettin 781, August 
Jungblut 788, F. P. Schuster 869. 

The stimulating effect of the great Bundes shoot, held here last 
July, is shown by an unusual number of accessions to the various 
clubs since. ROEEL. 


Cincinnati Rifle Association, 


Cincinnati, O.—The following scores were made in regular 
competition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at 
Four-Mile House, Reading Road, Jan. 5. Conditions, 200yds., off- 
hand, at the standard target. Strickmeier was declared champion 
for the day with the good score of 88. Weather, clear and cold; 
thermometer, 95 degrees; wind, light from 3 to 4 o’clock: 


Sipichktiercteme pameneeatna te ate atk e sth 88 87 83 81 81 8 10 10—28 
TRODETLESEL ce een rat taies toed eraituetelelv als oe lealue 88°82 81 75 73 3 5 6-14 
ay Oe Mere te ee age nie pines a eclelnacittoee 87 84 81 79 78 7 7 Tl 
INESTIEL PEER OSM SOEUR CTE Tse hear enee 86 81 81 81 79 6 6 7-19 
Gindele We iestaleaecoyua eek Ceeta tiles 84.83 82.82 80 10 6 8—24 
AOU oy rites Ap it iy Pane eee acd Weare fide 80 80 738 71 70 7 7 5-19 
(OTE eines CSN Scion eer oco sate tod 76 71 67 66 63 7 7 T21 
ATUL tie et merece ear ee ee een cee 7470 67....- 9 4 7-20 
FENGETDEOCIE. cia ales edie ee aap e sean es 73 73 67 66 65 aes, ee 

Tefisc ade Pe ead snad Lien bd ghar imieneenares 74 73 70 72 72 8 6 721 
PN ine OSAE Bet Cotod se anadude pees ol baaod if 63 60 56 56 6 6 4—16 


LELGiirranereteeertctne ce bane: cE EAs GRAS 7, a8 


At the range of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, Walnut 
Hill, Mass., Dec. 7, Thomas Anderton, the well-known pistol. shot, 
broke the 50-shot pistol record at 50yds. on the standard American 


target. He scored 476 points, which exceeds the former record by 
one point. The old record of 475 points was held by J. E. Gorman, 
of San Francisco, Cal. Mr. Anderton used Peters long rifle car- 
tridges in making this new record. A copy of his target reduced 
from an eight-inch bullseye is shown herewith. 


| Grapshaoting. 
an 


If you want your shoot to be announced here send a 
notice like the following: 


EFixtures, 


Jan, 1417.—Hamilton, Ont.—Twelfth annual tournament of the 
Hamilton Gun Club. W. M. Clendening, Sec’y. 

Jan, 20-25,—Brenham, Tex.—Brenham Gun Club’s tournament. 

Jan. 22-23.—Circleville, O.—The Pickaway Rod and Gun Club’s 
second annual winter tournament; live birds.. G. R. Haswell, 


ec’y, 

March 3l-April 5.—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo,—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds, Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York, 

April 14-16.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F, B, Cunningham, Sec’y. 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L, I.—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. 

BE tem Cty, Eaenanal meeting of the. Pennsylvania 
ate Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil Cit 
Cae Mere a Bate os Boos LP ees 
May 30-31—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the P: t 
Grove Gun Club. O. E, Fouts, Sec’y. one 
June 3-5.—Cleveland, O,—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 

League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N. Y.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 

the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 


ame, 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual 
tournament. 

Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
day afternoon. . 

Chicago, Ill.—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Jan, 16.—Interstate Park, L. I.—Live-bird shoot; main event, 
20 birds, $10 entrance, for a solid gold watch and chain; handicaps 
25 to 32yds. i 

Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
Leis, Re Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Café and hotel accommodations, 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York, : 


87 


Mr. Frahk 1. Butler, siitce retiring froii the Wild West show, 
as beet active in trapshooting in a quiet, unostentatious way, 
On Friday of last week at Interstate Park, he shot a match at 
50 live birds with Mr. A. H. “Hoffman,” of Nutley, N. J, The 
latter is an amateur, and this match was his first attempt at 
pigeon shooting. He scored 34 to Butler's 36. On the day fol- 
lowing, they shot a match at 100 targets, in which “Hoffman” 
scored 76 to Butler’s 71. Mr. Butler has given quite an impetus 
to the sport since settling in his old home in Nutley. A new 
gun club is in process of formation. We are pleased to say that 
his wite (Annie Oakley) is recovering surely from the frightful 
railroad accident which she experienced some weeks ago. She was 
under a doctor’s care till a recent period, as a result of the injuries 
received, 
x 


Arrangements on the New Year's Day shoot at Interstate Park 
were made between Messrs, Frank D. Creamer and W. L. Wood 
on the one side and Messrs, C. A. Lockwood and T. R. Chapman 
on the other, to shoot a team race at 25 live birds or more per 
man at Interstate Park at some date in the near future, or pos- 
sibly some day this week. All are members of the New Utrecht 
Gun Club. This race should be one of great interést; as all the , 
contestants are skillful, high-class amateurs. 


® 


New Year’s Day was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the New 
Utrecht Gun Club, and it celebrated the day in a most pleasant 
and active manner by holding a shoot at Interstate Park, ‘There 
was an excellent attendance of members and their friends. The 
club rooms in the Casino are elegantly furnished, and few clubs 
combine so much in the way of pleasing competition, good at- 
tendance and club domicile. 

R 


The Brooklyn Gun Club, of which Mr. John S$. Wright is the 
manager, will hold their regular motthly cup shoot on Saturday 
of this week. The conditions are 80 singles and 10 pairs, handi- 
cap. The loving cup, the trophy of this contest, has been on ex- 
hibition at 318 Broadway for some days, and it has evoked much 
interest in its beauty, and much desire ior its ownership, 


* 


Mr, C. W. Billings, one of the active and popular shooters of 
New York, left on Monday of this week with his family for 
Florida, to spend the winter and spring months in his home on 
the Indian River. Mr. Billings has im a great measure 
given up shooting at the traps for the greater pleasures of field 
shooting and sport with the rod, 


R 
Although this session of the New York Legislature has hardly 


well begun, the anti-pigeon shooters are already endeavoring to 
induce legislation which will make illegal the shooting of pigéons 
from the traps. Since the world began there seems to be a 
steadily growing class of mote hunters, those who remove motes 
irom their neighbors’ eyes. : 


B 


Mr. E. Detmold, of Von Lengerke & Detmold, 318 Broadway, 
New York, has taken a month off for an outing, which he much 
needs, after a very close attention to business through a long, 
active season. He left Saturday of last week on an ocean voyage 
southward, where the winter is free from the arctic rigors of the 


North, 
J 


The match last Saturday between Messrs. L. W. Colquitt, of 
South Orange, N. J., and E, Geoftrey, of Newark, for $25 a side, 
was won by the latter by a score of 15 to 14. This contest took 
place on the grounds of the East Side Gun Club, Ferry and 
Foundry streets, Newark, Mr. Carl Von Lengerke acted as 
referee. 

tg 


We are informed that the contest between Capt. A. W. Money 
and G, H. Piercy, holder, for the E. C. trophy, emblematic of the 
championship of New Jersey, will take place on Jan, 15, probably 
on the grounds of the Jackson Gun Club, of Paterson. The trolley 
between Paterson and Signac passes close by the club grounds. 


= 


The Ideal Gun Club was recently formed in Michigan, its 
members being of Trenton, Wyandotte and River Rogue. It will 
shoot live birds» Mr. F. J. Linderman is the secretary. It held 
two contests in December for a loving cup, presented by the 
Peters Cartridge Company, of Cincinnati. 


R 


Among the gentlemen famous_in the world of sport there are 
visiting in New York Messrs, J. Hildreth and J. H, Cameron, 
of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company; Mr. J. L. Head, of 


the U. M. C. Company, and Mr. J. S. Fanning, of the Laflin & 
Rand Powder Company. 
x 


On New Year’s Day Mr. S. T. Mallory, of Parkersburg, and 
“Dade,” of Sistersville, W. Va., contested for the target cham- 
pionship of West Virginia. The former won by a score of 87 to 
84 out of a possible 100. Another contest will take place for the 
badge on Jan. 11. ® 


Mr. S. M. Van Allen contemplates giving a live-bird shoot in 
early February at Interstate Park, The prizes will be in cash, and 
will be added outright; that is to say, the added money and the 
entrance fees minus the cost of the birds will all go to the con- 
testants, 

td 


At the New Year’s Day shoot of the Sheepshead Bay, L. I., 
Rod and Gun Club Mr. Ed Voorhies alone killed straight in the 
main event and won first prize. Messrs, A, Linder and J. Tabor 
tied for second; in the shoot-off, miss-and-out, the latter won. 


* 


Mr. F. T. Bedford, Jr., was high man in the contest for the 
New Year’s cup, at the shoot of the Crescent Athletic Club, Bay ~ 
Ridge, L. I., Jan, 1. He scored 48 out of a possible 50, Mr, H. 
B, Vandeveer was close up to the leader, he scoring 47, 


® 


Messrs. Waters and Farraday left New York on Saturday of 
last week on a business trip to Cuba, in the interest of their 
company, the Laflin.& Rand Powder Company. They sailed on 
the Prinzessin Victoria Luise. 


* 


The secretary, Mr. F. 6. Cunningham, of St. Joseph, Mo., in- 
forms us that the next Missouri Amateur Shooting Association’s 
tournament will be held at St. Joseph, Mo., on April 14, 15 and 16, 


R 


On the grounds of the Clearview Gun Club the. home club 
defeated the Highland Gun Club in a nine-man team contest by 
a score of 128 to 116. “3 


Mr. W. L. Colville, of the Dupont Powder Company, has been 
a welcome visitor in New Yorl for seyeral days past, 
BERNARD WATERS, 


Calendars. 


Tue Laflin & Rand Powder Company, 99 Cedar street, New York, 
has issued a calendar for 1902 which is artistic in effect and in- 
teresting in its themes. It is on seven large 8 x 10 cards, on 
which are portrayed the “Santa Maria” (1492), the “Great Harry” 
ay the “Bon Homme Richard” (1779), the “Constitution” 
1812), the “New York’’ (1893), the “Alabama” (900), all sug- 
gestive of battles afloat from the far past to the present, and the 
Rowacs which make battle possible, A copy will be sent by the 

, & R. Company to those who apply for it. 


38. 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


_ The McClusky, Til,, Gun Club gave a local shoot on the Ist 
inst. Unsettled weather and bad country roads were jointly re- 
sponsible for a very small attendance, but a pretty programme of 
eight 10-target sweeps, four matches at 6 pairs, and a 10 and 5- 
sparrow match was pulled off. Riehl won first, Lamb second 
and Schiess third average for the day. 

Nos. 1 to 8 were 10-bird sweeps. Nos. 9 to 12 were at 5 pairs: 


PECL WATS Flymo ete erete ates EA 
Chappel 7 
WBEVN Aare 5555 esd os eee eS 1 
HCHMEPPl: sawp cecueelerueebens 7 7 
Fetherington 


Events: q 


2 Events: 
Sparrows: 10 5 

5 

33 


1 

Sparrows: 10 

Riehl 2.2... RABE a ete, 6 Gill) eae esse neta eae wureion 14 

Fetherington 8 
MCHTIGES taser eee keteleces (Oca 

Bd wards: eines cael ceaner he i 2 


Tom Hall and Guy Burnside locked horns again on the Ist over 
the Illinois Gun Club live-bird trophy. Were this handsome piece 
of silverware subject to retirement, either one of these gentlemen 
should have had it stored away in his collection of mementos long 
ago, but as it is, they manage to have a lot of fun out of it, at the 
frequent meetings of the club, while occasionally both are treated 
to a surprise, There were twenty-six entries; Hall killed 23, while 
Burnside, Smith, Dockson and Davidson each got 22. Burnside 
had previously held the trophy, Hall being the challenger, 

It is yet too early to form any definite conclusion as to the 
probable shooting programme in Illinois and Missouri this year, 
but judging from last year’s work and general conditions, it would 
seem to be safe to predict a livelier season than ever. The intro- 
duction of the handicap idea has done much toward retiring the 
timidity of country shooters about competing against professionals 
and paid representatives, This has unquestionably retarded the 
progress of the shooting game within late years, and the fact that 
it is now being overcome is one of the most encouraging signs of 
the shooting times. 

The new handicap idea suggested by Mr. Leach in the holiday 
number of ForREsT AND STREAM, has at least some merit, but the 
difficulty in the way of its adoption will be in getting gun elub 
secretaries to take up seriously the roundabout method of figuring 
results that it would require. 

The calendar collectors are not pleased with the decision of 
several of the leading gun and ammunition companies to issue 
none this year. 

Mr. Harold B. Money, who has been with the Western Cartridge 
Company for the past year, has taken a three months’ vacation, and 
leaves this week for his home in the East. 5 

Many. of the small country gun clubs in Illinois and Missouri 
are turning their serious attention to sparrow match shooting. 
These little imported pests are getting so numerous and ob- 
noxious that it has been found necessary to wage earnest warfare 
against them, and so they are easy to get, and may be shot without 
scruple. The method of capturing them commonly followed is fo 

ick them up with nets in the gables of barn lofts by the aid of 
anterns at night. 

So long as the hunter finds pleasure in the pursuit of game and 
the gratification of his occasional longing for solitude, the hunting 
lodge rhymster will impose his conceits upon the attention of his 
associates. Here is a crude effort, which, though not in any sense 
a classic, has been framed with no little pride by one of the St. 
Louis clubs who have a nice preserve on the Illinois River: 


hook obs " 


Found at a Hunting Loge. 


© the mad exhilaration | 
And the heart’s glad palpitation 
Of the hunter, when he cometh here to dwell; 
Whete he turns his troubles under, 
Bidding worry go to thunder, 
While he knows within himself that all is well. 


Royal sport, there’s no denying, 
When the furtive duck is flying, 
To stick up your gun and sight it on his breast; 
And when early nuts are falling 
*Tis a pleasure worth recalling 
To deprive the sleek Sciurus of his vest. 


When you hunt the quail be ready, 
Always sure your nerve is steady, 
But beware of shooting fissures in the air; 
An’ you swat the nimble Bunny 
Do not cuss or think it funny, 
If you only find his footprints, minus hair. 


When at eve the chase is over, 
You prepare the simple cover, 
*Tis a thrill the sordid nature never knows, 
To indulge in sundry wishes, 
As you clear the ample dishes, 
That you, aye, might hold this vein of calm repose, 


There is ‘“‘snake-bite’” at the station, 
But beware of its libation, ° 
And when on the train you start the homebound song, 
Don’t repeat that lie, as hoary 
Asc old Ananias’ story. 
it Of the game you killed, but didn’t bring along, 
t KKTLLMORE. 


Shooting at St. Louis. 


Tue final and deciding match for the Dupont trophy, at St, 
Louis, was shot at Dupont Park on Jan. 1. The contests for this 
handsome medal have been spirited throughout the year, and 
added much to the zest of the game in the Mound City. However, 
only three men qualified for the final contest, viz,, Mr. W. D. 
Kenyon, Dr. Gaines and Fred Fink. The birds yesterday were 
an untisually fast selected lot, and the match proved quite a 
pretty race. Fred Fink was not well physically and consequently 
made a poor showing; he fost 5 in the first 12 birds, with one dead 
out, and then withdrew. Kenyon was in fine form, and though he 
allowed 8 to cross the wire, made a nice run. Dr, Gaines also 
shot well, finishing 1 bird behind the victor. The scores are 
appended: , 
Kényon, 28......---5 Eye efece a Stove] fore: 37a, 00s earet ate 21221210211212220221 20222 29 
Dr Gaines, 31.... toes e+ 6202222220222222290222222- 21 
Fink, -28.,...... ee see Reha Sade Seco 212020*10210w 


There was a 25-bird sweep scheduled for the afternoon, but owing 
to the lateness of the hour when the Dupont match was finished, 
this was postponed to,a future date, and a 10-hird sweep was sub- 
stituted, with $5 entrance, high guns to win. Scores in this match 


follow: 

OHvis! snes so 212222222930 Baggerman ........*201212102— 7 
Dr Simms,....-+55+- 221221222 10 Money ...c.escece -ca2ne22020— 8 
Selzer erareavkr resets ¥111212112— 9 


Attendance was cut dewn for the day by the fact that an athletic 
contest was pulled off during the afternoon by one of the local 
pastime clubs, of which a number of the local shooters are mem- 
bers and promoters. i : . 

Managers Mermod and Mason are arranging for a lively two 
months’ work at the park preceding the Grand American Handi- 
cap. The St. Louis shooting fraternity will send a big delegation 
up to that great gathering of the world’s shooters, and will con- 
tribute its full share to making that the greatest meet ever held. 


The Pickaway Rod and Gua Club, 


THE programme of the second annual live-bird tournament of 
the Pickaway Rod and Gun Club, of Circleville, O., announces 
that the dates are Jan. 22 and 23, with other matter as follows: 

We will hold our tournament at live birds on Jan, 22 and 23. 
Last year it was on the 27th, and the main event was at 60 live 
birds, high gun, and was known as the Stanley-Rhodes Handicap. 
We will change it this year, having it on the 23d and making the 
number of birds 25, $15 entrance, birds extra, handicaps 26 to 
32yds. A forfeit of $5 to accompany entrance, which must be made 
on or before Jan. 18, as we must have twenty or more entries 
or the sheot will be declared off, and eyery one entering will be 
notified by wire if shoot is off. With the twenty entries, money 
will be divided to high guns, $99 to the first one, 33, 20, 16, 12, 10 
and 10 per cent. One more money for additional four entries. 


FOREST AND STREAM? 4 


Wednesday, Jan. 22, 9 A. M.—All handicap, First event, mise 
and-out, entrance $2; second event, 5 birds, entrance $2, high guns, 
ohe money for every four entries; third event, 7 birds, entrance 
$3.25, two moneys, 60 and 40 per cent.; fourth event, 10 birds, en- 
trance, $7.50, three moneys, Rose, 5, 3, 2; fifth event, 5 birds, 
entrance $2, high gun, one money for every four entries. Birds 
extra in all events. 

Thursday, Jan. 28, 9 A, M.—Event No. 1, a (warmer) $2 miss: 
and-out, birds included; event No, 2, 25 live birds, $15 entrance, 
birds extra, high guns. ; 

We would like to have you with us, for we will give you a good 
shoot. Warm (no matter how cold), clean club house, close to 
the score. Birds 25 cents. Good birds, good dogs, and we can trap 
birds just as fast as any one. All birds tropped from pit. We 
must hear from you as soon as possible. We are almost sure of 
the twenty entries now, but want to be certain of it, so please be 
prompt. The handicapping will be done as neatly as possible as 
at Grand American. 


WESTERN TRAPS. 
Garfield Gun Club. 


Chicago, Jan, 1.—The appended scores were made on our grounds 
to-day on the occasion of the seventh and last trophy shoot of our 
first series. T, W. Eaton won Class A medal on 11. F. G. Barnard 
wee Class B medal on 8. C. H. Kehl won Class C medal on 7 out 
oO r : 
After the trophy event closed the boys eagaged in a turkey shoot, 
5-bird events, and high guns to draw for the turkey in each case. 
As a result of these contests seyeral members carried home fine 
turkeys. hout twenty shooters participated in the various events, 
and all went off pleasantly. The birds were in the main fast; a 
little slow about taking wing, but hustlers when once started. 
A chilling, rather stiff breeze blew across the-traps, chilling both 
shooters and birds. All things considered, the day and conditions 
of wind and weather were not conducive to good scores, 

The series just finished to-day resulted as follows: Dr. J. W. 
Meek wins Class A trophy, 91.66 per cent.; A. D. Dorman wins 
Class B trophy, 91.66 per cent.; C. J. Wolff wins Class C trophy, 
79.16 per cent, : 

Next series Dr. Meek will shoot under a handicap-of 5 per cent.; 
while Dorman will be raised to Class A and C. J. Wolff to Class B. 

The first shoot of second series will be held on Jan. 18, and 
continue thereafter on first and third Saturdays of each month, 
as heretofore; 


T W Eaton..... A*1111121212 11 Jones ............011102222000— 7 
Kel ® S05 0r couse: cs 220021*0102I— 7 T P Hicks...... 211111102212—10 
Thomas ... . -202121020102— 8 Russell ...... . .2212011*1021— 9 
Barnard --120110127012— 8 C J Wolff. . --010002102w 

Dr Meek , 121*1*112221—10 Dorman ,..,.,....2100102w 

Nusly ...-..-, + -222120021021— 9 Dr Mathews ....221122w 
Cooper Pees 2*1210202021— 8 IL Thomas........ 1222*1112001— 9 


Dr. J. W. MEEK. 
Trap at Watson’s Park. 


Burnside Crossing, Ill., Jan. 1—In a practice event Elwell killed 
24 out of 25, the lost bird being dead out, Four 6-bird sweeps 
also were shot, entrance $2, high gun: 


Barta mains ta Taare § 3.4 Mice ele seeest2l201 = 202007 | 112110 11217 
ump hreve.. is sesinee Desteaieeiten 112120 = 221122 == 02002 211212 
wel. Satinaesesno A Sasherne 122212 = 12001 L0220 eaeew 


Each tie shot off in the sweep following, Barto winning first 
three, and tieing Amberg on the last when it got dark. 


Ideal Gun Club. 


Detroit, Mich., Jan. 4—The shooters of Trenton, Wyandotte 
and River Rogue have organized a live-bird club, calling same 
the Ideal, as a compliment to the Peters Cartridge Company and 
their representative,‘John Parker. The Peters Cartridge Company 
have donated a handsome buek'horn handle loying cup to be con- 
tested for in club shoots, the individual making five highest scores 
out of eight shoots wins cup, John Parker, at 3lyds., has made 
26 straight, but as he does not compete for cup, Mr. P. C. Wood 
is high with 23 kills. ¢ . 

Inclosed find scores of both shoots; first at River Rogue, second 
at Trenton: , 

First shoot, 10 liye birds; held Dec. 16: 


-mons 10, 


BGM eo liyeiemttee eases 2122201122— 9 Lindeman, 28......0112122110— 8 
Sansconci, 28....... 0020010222 5 Amspach, 27....... 1121111011— 9 
Parker, Bove. eass 2222112212—10 WLewis, 3l.....+-.--- 2202221202— 8 
F McCourt, 26....2012102002— 6 Cabana, 28........ .2022220021— 7 
G Baumler, 27.,...2121101120— 8 W A C, BOF See 2200222202— 7 
uf Quandt, 26......1101222111— 9 A Loranger, 27,...0122222202— 8 

ood, 31.........05 0222222122 9 J Loranger, 29 .,,.1212212222—10 


Wood, 81......222022212211222—14 


Marks, 31...... 020201221002022— 9 * abana, 28..200010122001112— 9 
Bboi lt, Biles 010222202211212—12 ewis, 3l...... 200222220122000— 9 
Scotten, 28,...2202202022w - Dalke, 28...,..002002000020202— 6 
W Cicotte, 30..200022222020222 10 Lyman, 30....111012201100111—11 


J Parker, 31...122222222222222 15 
McCourt, 27...211110011100010— 9 
A Loranger, 28.002020220220220— 7 
Linderman, 28.100212212010002— 9 


J Mercier, 30. .220020220110101— 9 
Baumler, 28....100010201011110— 8 
Wein, 28......020200100110111— § 


F, J. Lrxperman, Sec’y. 


Herron Hill 


Gun Club. 


PirrspurG, Pa,, Jan. 4—The postponed shoot of the Herron Hill 


Gun Club was held yesterday. 
postponement. 


grift (Sandy McPherson), was the main prize. 


A handsome gun, donated by Mr. 5 


Flooded grounds occasioned the 


H. Vander- 
The donor com- 


peted, but not for the prize, and he tied with the winner, Jacques, 


both of whom killed 19 out of their 21 birds. 


Jacques missed his 


fifth and eleventh birds, while McPherson missed his twelfth and 


fourteenth birds. 


The other contestants wanted the tie shot off 


in a 10-bird event, but Mr. Vandergrift refused, and the handsome 


gun went to Jacques. 


The scores made were as follows: 


Jacques, 28-. vere. ereeennehae vu aaesaeuesas en «222202222022222929209- 19 
McPherson, 28...-c.s0cc00+ee8 ponte ner «s+ 222222299990202222922-—19 
‘AD EL KG ee DS aliuaeane Sete ee ec vv av 2 22222202220)222220w 
Kelsey alee) boutialniass VV pees Ft pave e 622222220202992220w- 
Rahm, 28...... prep io oe Coenen ASR ES 22202220222020.w 
Burns, 25.....04 PUPIMERBRRR ERE TO oy rot 12220202222229020w 
Deriny, 20s. scdscxcesssees ake ES cece eevee ee -012021122102122212222—18 
Patton, 26...scscseeseeeeeeeve vec een ee ee sean one 220221222029129922011—18 
FV alitibe Tuan ys hte tans banner erat 2229992901220210w 
Smith i ssaes ie saeeeregenense aba ten ie veo e++10222201220w 

Griffin, 26. oe Re = deter Wa ... . -10222002220w 
Andrews, 2 pertreeen sos cos ee 

Mack, 26.5 pls a stesso eae amin) min reer erriyr we 

Cc A May, 30 dergeneusvay see s2022222022220q 

Du Puy, 26... Ares NERS Seal CES . .22000222220w 


Daniels, 25..,..+.sccs00- 


wa seesewsraansessescensOalQoalZ0lZl2220w 


Richmond Gun Club, 
Sinver Lake, §. I., Jan. 1—The New Year’s shoot of the Rich- 


mond Gun Club was at both live birds and targets. 


The next 


shoot of the club will be on’ Jan. 11, Live birds and targets. All 
are welcome. The scores: 

Events: : 123 45 6 7 8 91001 12 
Targets: ; 10 15 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 10 15 25 
(GOB echtelecs saccuccisd eee cereal el en DUNO MBL Sn: Bom eases o cat 
Ui ‘(Keppleriiins eussssreenstuetnses Gold a 9 0% 6 by 6 “& 699 
BCrystal Feqeene. AS SARS ee es ee ceeresee? is Lipectts is Wr Rye Bagi ois 
FN Senet ed Pit bite te con danaeysa ese ite tee all se Tit aa, ee in eA as 
Lewes Wt tee eee ret cate mules mre (O eo OMS a A GMa Remaiet rom ie oF fa 
F Schoverling....:ss0-sseer= Vesela fol 26s0th Biss hb hr dt se 
A VAM DUE inser nero ttaanene seers . b12 611 8 7 7 G6 T 812 22 
Kelly” ifjtisaaa ist ey Por receckterit ici a t-te Jac ee eal he fou ey dey 


Twenty live birds, 28yds., 30yds, 


A Hawes. ..s0sss5e 


Five birds: 
G Bechtel ......:0..5.2+-12022—4 
Hawes, Jroceserogessess 2012-4 


Benonoee Bhoe 


‘A A Schoverling........ 202224 
A. A, ScHOVERLING, Sec’y. 


LIN NEW JERSEY 4 
Trap at Yardville. 


Yardville, N. J., Dec. 28.—The chief center of interest was the 
match between the famous Miles Johnson, a yeteran with the 
shotgun, and Mr. Harry Steward, of Ellisdale. The conditions 
were 25 live birds, $25 a side, Rhode Island rules, 2lyds. rise. 

Steward missed the first two birds, the seventh, hinth, tenth, 
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth. Johnson retained a clean | 
score up to the fifteenth bird. 

After the match was decided there were four sweepstakes for 
cash prizes. All were conducted on the miss-and-out conditions. 
Widman split first money in three of them. <A fairly large crowd | 
of sportsmen was.on hand from Trenton and other nearby points. 
The scores in full follow: / 


__ Johnson-Steward match: 
teward 


Sweepstake, $1 entrance: W. Widman 3, J. Reed 1, L. Emmons 
M, Johnson 1, R. Lamb 3, F. Hendrickson 2, S. G. White 0, 
G. White 0, Widman and Lamb divided first money. 

Sweepstake, $1 entrance: W. Widman 5, J. Reed 4, L. Emmons 
0, M, Johnson 0, R. Lamb 3, FP. Hendrickson 5, S. G. White i, 
L. Emmons 2, M. Johnson 5. Widman, Johnson and Hendtick- | 
son divided first money. f 

evecare $1_entrance: W. Widman 6, J. Reed 5, L. Emmons 
2, R. Lamb 6, F, Hendrickson 4, S, G. White 0. Widman and 
Johnson divided first money, 

Sweepstake, $2 entrance: Lamb 9, Widman 7, Reed 4, Em- | 


South End Gun Club, 


Camden, N. J.—The South End Gun Club’s shoot, which took | 
place at Woodlyn Park on Dec. 25, had scores as follows. There 
also was a shoot for $25 a side. We have just organized: ; 


T Stevenson. ..0*12*2201*22121— 9 R Streblau.....20122021*0202— 9 
EB Smith,.......10221*2*1220%22 10 H Smith.......02201*21020212*— 9° 
Winley......220122102*01221 11 J Robinson... .20211200*200"10— 7 
Greene. ..,.222201*1022*101—10 C Dickson... .222222222221999 15 
Rothwell. . .0212212*1*2*20210 S$ Castell.......202222222022922 13 


Shoot for $25 a side: 
Winley .,,......22202222#2— 8 © Dickson.....,-..22222*2212— 9 
Frank D. Smirx, Sec’y. 


Carlstadt Gon Club, 


Carlstadt, N. J., Dec, 25.—The scores of the Christmas Day — 
shoot of the Carlstadt Gun Club are appended. Events 1, 2 and 
3 were at live birds; 4 and 5 were at targets. The weather was 
unpleasant and unfavorable for good scores: 


5 Events: 1 2 


2, 
5. 


Events: 12 3 4 3.4 6 

Targets: 5 5 5 10 10 Targets: 5 5 5 10 10 
Re Giutchinsom.... 1 ue 66) 6S POST Deakins ate ane co tat ie 
T Gempp...,...... 2 4:2 4 4 Klees. on 
E Hutehinson..... 2.. 3 5 2 M Rasmus =A 
HH Krug swe, .bcs 4 city 6 5 de Pauw ae 
J Hutchinson..... 4.... 8,., W Rasmus =i 
INV ROEMED crags hneeet bce Wagner or 
Bey naos Biecese oa: 3.,-- 9 J Rasmus Be 
FP RASMEBS Teas ne eae 5277 | 


Millvale Gun Club. 


_PirtssurG, Pa., Jan, §.—Herewith find scores of the Millvale ” 
Gun Club’s New Year’s Day shoot. The club will give one- 
day tournaments at live-pigeons, English sparrows and inanimate 
targets in their seasons. Master Charles J, Grall, the winner of the 
Joseph Miller cup, is seventeen years old. He used a Remington 
l2-gauge, 7.10, and Peters cartridges. Geo. Bauerlein’s red. Irish 
setter Jim and Philip Grall’s Gordon setter Tan will do the re- 
trieving for the club, The first event was the Joseph Miller cup, 
10 pigeons, all at 28yds. rise: 


C J Grall........<.100111111— 8 Busler .........-..- 0011110000— 4 
es Cee SOIT wees ete Phare a be ae 4 
AUETICITIN cee reer is _ TY SORE eeepc 1010001010— 4 

PlGraliM a savercres 1010010101— 5 ? | 
Five pigeons, all at 28yds.: 

CHMGiallsacpioea dee iey O111i—4 Bauerlein ......... weve eel0L01~—3 | 

PoGrallss yyaeavas aegetses 1110I—4.__Busler ........ * 

Eligkeyo") heeeicrs tices +++, -10011—8 Kilussman : 
Events; ee Bs tt Events; 4 
Targets 10 10 10 10 Targets: 

HICKEY. iieteceare an woos OF TAO (8 Kliissiman! Scie a. 225 2 

Pi WGralliyeleeaasce: perks ai Teasley Ob ay ese 

Baverleinsigevecqers 8 64. 8) IRnysun essen ene 

Busler ..... Hthecbeces 3° 5a G° 16 e Efotts 6 eae eben eee me 


W. S, MacCricKkary. 


Woodlake Gun Club. 


Woop Lake, Neb., Dec. 31.—A strong southeast wind made the 
targets dip and dive, and soar in such a way fhat it kept the few 
members who brayed the elements to take part in the weekly 
shoot busy to gauge them. : 

When the smoke cleared away it was foimd that high score, 20 
out of 25, was made by W, A. Leach, while his brother, Le Roy, 
was a close second with 19. As the former is not eligible for the 
medal, Le Roy wins Class A medal, and John Day and W. L. | 
Chrysler tied for Class B medal, and as the shells run out these | 
two gentlemen tossed up for the emblem, and Chrysler won. 

Several of the ladies have signified their intention of attending 
the shoot next Tuesda;, at which time a large attendance is 
anticipated. 

Following are the scores, 25 targets: W. A. Leach 20, Le Roy 
Leach 19, John Day 13, W. L. Chrysler 13. W. A. LEAcH. 


The Burden of the Non-Resident, 


As depicted by an tnidentified exchange, to whom we extend ~ 
apologies for not being able to give due credit. 


All communications intended for Forest AND STREAM should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. : 


u 


_ Utrecht Gun Club to-day. 


i er | 


Jan. 11, 1902.] 


ON LONG ISLAND. 


New Utrecht Gun Club. 


Interstate Park, L. I., Dec. 28—A Good attendance and numer- 
ous trophies made active competition at the shoot of the New 
The birds wete a fair Jot, with an 
occasional fast one. A light wind blew from the left to right 
across. the traps. Ex-Sheriff Frank D. Creamer was the only one 
present who shot in the monthly average event, and he won the 
cup. for the month, with the excellent average of 93 1-3 per cent. 
The scores follow: 


Event No, 1, 7 live birds, for a poe 


dre eee eeeseeee 2212120—6 D Creamer, 28....... 1221122—7 
Aone Q8ishaceesses,, olalli—7 ~W L Lossee, 28....... 2311221—T 
Shoot-off, miss-and-out. Capt. Money won a bronze donkey: 
fen Maney Md seneryewetdeld Wi di LLOSSCEs sce reas’ one « 1221* 
F Greatilenee wien one ae werk 


Event No. 2, 7 Wait ey prize, a large bronze dog: 411413996 


® Banks, 29 Lossee, 28 


weceene a. 


Capt Money, 28... -2121212—7  W J Lurgan, 28 2122222—7 
F D Creamer, 28.....) *11122%—5 

__Shoot-off, miss-and-out: 

Capt Money........... 22222111710: W J Lutgan........... 2222222222 


Event No, 8, 7 birds for prizes, The ties in this event were 
shot off in No. 4. EE. Banks won first, a bronze buffalo, and C, A. 


Ramapo and W. J. Lurgan each received a bronze bear, they - 


having tied for second, it being too dark to finish the shoot-off: 
B& Banks, 29.,...,,..-,,1211221 7 W F Sykes, 29....-....220120w 


€apt Money, -28,.......2221111—7 HH Edey, 28..........055 2211212 —7 

F DB Greanicts 28...:...0122112—6 *J Schlieman, 28.......2120202—5 

W L Lossee, 28.......21220w * Colquitt, 28...5...4 2202222—6 

pave Lurgan, 28..... ¥..2222222—-7  *Catttis, 28........ ee pe = Q222222—7 

C A Ramapo, 28........ 1212212—7 Dr Knowlton, 30....... 22w 
*Guests. . 


Event No, 4 was at 10 birds, for eS: Creamer won first 
prize, a pait of bronzes, “Army and Navy.” E. Banks second, a 
bronze bear, W. F, Sykes third, a bronze figure: 


BB, Banks; 29.20c0<4 211222222210 WF Sykes, 29....2122211111—10 
Capt Money, 30,..212222220— 8 H Edey, 28........- 2121110w 
A 5 Greamer, 28. ..2222222222—10- W Colquitt, 28..... 2222222021— 9 
W LL Tossee, 28...:.227210w J Schlieman, 28....0111211102— 8 - 
wi Lurgan, 28....1221222202— 9 Cattus, 28.........- 2222220202— §& 
(ce Ramapo, 28...212212120i— 9 

Shoot-off, miss-and-ott: h. 
Bo Wahkss. PU Ree cess Mame te 220 W F Sykes...... EEO Re ae 
BF D¢Creamer ......2....02.-66222 

Shoat for monthly average, 10 birds: 
F D Creamer, 28.,..111112221i—10 

Five birds; for birds, warm-up: * 
Cc A Rertars, Pm, cae, PEP) i W L Lossee, 28..... woe 222225 
Capt Money, 29.......... 2*011—3 ~ 


Intetstate Park, Jan, 1.—This was the New Utrecht Gun Club’s 
twenty-fifth anniversary, and a number of the members and their 
friends were present on this occasion and shot diligently and 


og, 

There was a strong wind blowing from the left quarter, and this, 
with good birds, made conditions difficult enough to thoroughly 
testthe skill of the contestants. The scores: : 

No. 1, 7 pigeons, for prizes.. Mr. W, L. Lossee was first; Messrs. 
Creamer “and Lurgan second and third: 


W F Sykes, 29......5..22**10—3: G sR Schneider, 28.,..*002w 
a tokaead Jonees ae .. £2022272—5 We ypreen Sh atk wae 2221102—6 
L Lossee, 28.......2222212-7 G Piercy, 29.......2 02*120w 
F D Creamer, 28....... 1222226 . 
No. 2, Miss-and-out, for prizes: 
W_F Sykes, 29.....:....10 (GOH EIETCY) 29 ences ves . 22212122 
15 BY El Oe 22222220 W J Lurgan, 28......... * 
-L. Lossee, 28........ 242% F-D Creamer, 28.......+: * 
No.8, miss-and-out, for prizes: 
iat Packs eO0 soeoe ae caer 12222* W. J Lurgan, 28.......... 11121121 
~W_L Lossee, 28.....<.+-.21* F D Creamer, 28......... 2222222* 


‘Capt Money, 30....1112112122—10 


iG 4h Piercy, 29...... SSA 
No. 4, 15 pigeons, for prize. The ties in this event were shot 
oft a Nos 5. Capt. Money won first, Lossee: second, Capt. Jack 
third: ag 
W Sykes, 29. ..122122*22222022 13 W Lurgan, 28,12*2*120w 
F Creamer, 28.222222222929022—14 


W Lossee, 28. .222122222221221—15 

Capt Jack, 28.122221122221122 15 ‘T Keller, 28...12122*222210222—13 
Capt Money, 30.212122122222121—15 Jack 229) stsss 222222*22202*w 

G Picgey, 29... .222122211222*12 14 C Ramapo, 28.2121121111*2*11—13 
Hendr’ks’n, 28.122122122222021—14 

No, 6, 10 pigeons, for prizes: 

W L Lossee, 28....122#221*w JH Fack, 20. sens - 2222222229 10 
C A Ramapo, 28...2211222222—10 


Geht Jack, 28......2272122202— 8 J Gaughen, 29....22912%2999 9 

G Piercy, 29....1202222221 9 Dr Shepard, 28....2222002999 8 
A Hendrickson, 28.221**002*w B Waters, 29..0... ,2121001221— § 

Lurgan, 28...22222*2291- 9 W EF Sykes, 29..... 202220w 

EF Creamer, 28..2222*12212— 9 T H Keller, 28..... 222222222210 
pect ots miss-and-out. Capt. Money first, Jack second, Ramapo 
third: 

Capt. Money........ 212112112212 Ramapo ............; 22222220 

el etaAGke 2 od 222222229220 


Jan. 4—The regular weekly shoot of the New Utrecht Gun Club 
to-day had sharp wintry weather as a condition and a good lot of 


birds. Five events were shot at 7 and 10 birds: 
No. 1, 7 pigeons, for prize: Lurgan first, Creamer second: 
We Banks; 29 ico van 122227 w W L Lossee, 28....... 212102w 
C A Ramapo, 28......210112w F D Creamer, 28...,,.2112212—7 
W-J—Eurgan, -28....1.7 2222222—T7 ‘ 
Shooet-off, miss-and-out: 
Lurgan ...... Abanes 2222222122222 Creamer ..........05 2222122312220 


~ No, 2, 7 pigeons, for prize. Ramapo won in the second round 
of the shoot-off. Lurgan was second: 


a Raties. 292.) e ene: 11210w W L Lossee, 28...,...2122*w 
A’ Ramapo, 28...,..2222222-7 FH D Creamer, 28...... 211*0w 
W J Lurgan, 28......2212122—7 
No, 3, 10 pigeons, , for monthly average. The tie in this event 
was shot off in: No, 4: 
E. Banks, 29-....... 120120w F D Creamer, 28..22*011021*— 6 
CA Ramapo, 28..,.2121221211 10 Hi Edey, 28......... 122222211210 


W. -  -2222*01201— 7 
* J Schlieman, 28..*02121*102— 6 


*Gnest. 

No. 4, 10 pigeons, for prize: 
He Bariles 29 ae 11122212*w Weedey esa weet 212921122210 
C A Ramapo, 28..1111221122 10 W F Sykes, 29......2%20w 
W J Lurgan, 28...212221*022— 8 T W Morfey, 30...2272229999 10 
W I. Lossee, 28....1222*10201— 7 *J Schlieman, 28..1002**2101— 5 
F D Creamer, 28. 411111212110 

*Guest. 
. _ Ties of No. 3: : 
C€ A Ramapo, 28.,....-. 1110 Ho eEdey; “28eyiaanseces 212122111 
FD ‘Creamer, 28......120 T W Morfey, 30...,,..222229112 

No. 5, 7 pigeons, for prize. In the shoot-off Ramapo and Edey 
divided in the third round: . 
C A Ramapo, 28)..2..-2121212-7 T W Morfey, 30.......2222112-7 
W L Lossee, 28........1211112—-7 W J Lurgan, 28....... 222220w 
HO Bdey, -28s.50- 0.0... 2222112 —7 


Bratcs was. price of targets. The watch was won by Mr. 


Gold Watch Contest. 


Interstate Park, Ly T., Jan) 1—There was a large rallying of 
shooters to Interstate Park to participate in the Gold Watch 
Handicap of the Interstate Park Association. There were thirty- 
three contestants, so many that there was not time to finish at 
100 targets per man, so it was cut down to 75 per man. Tees en- 

. King. 

he interest was keen in this event. “A stiff wind and a eheees 
eold atmosphere added to the difficulties of the competition. The 


scores follow: 


Supety 19. ......00tesc0ss a ees 1101101100101011100110000—13 
0001111011111110001110001—15 
1011110011000101000011111 1442 
Glover, Bis.s.c.sceceeceeek oe eeeseeeg ALITA 11024 
111114101010111110111111121 
1110011011119111111101111 91-66 
Mink, 5,-0.0... peveeneereeeece verses e LOIM1111011111111011111—92 
TA11111117110117111001110—21 
0411110411111110111111111 2965 
ees eueseeneeeeses ves oOL11911191191110011111101—9t 


Hood, 6.....:.-: 1 
1191094940111141011011101—20 


TW 2 tue 


OLIN —24 65. _. Knowlton 


SYKCSE oe bees sess sid 1 F Stephenson,... 0 9 9 
O? Brien so SeHes4 ee ky, a Brigham ...,,... 0 A) 9 
_,Notman ...-. Sere e} My GRA AIGA eae ea, 6 9 
G Stephenson, Jr0 12 12. Chapman ....,...4 5 9 
SAKE Suda te ead ase 8 li Hopkins ..,..... 5 8 
Wandeveer ...... pea te 8 Boucher 5 sop ee 5 q 

: 4 i 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Skelley, 6... ...seeeseecepeseeeeese soso L011010011199111011111000—17 
: - STAR LGR EET SEARLES 
Greiire 0 eieccccccae ceca beeen bee ee *-0100101014.001011010110111—14 


CounitZ, 26..........5 Serres s+ +e ye 6L010100100711000010100110—11 
1111101101100001011010101—15 
100111.011103.0111101111101—18 +44 

iGremusm ate nnhneinasssaeekie tees ¢ +» -1101010111110111010110000—15 

: 1411111111100111101011101—20 
0(10110101001011000110101—12—47 

AVNER s pL Sctarerereratyinietgs es eos Sosoenbe # -01110111.00000001130101110—18 

491111011.011110171001.1.1—21 


0119111111111110101111111—22 56 


RAD OEY ya.) forte saspotcy eter elaytb be bmiecei cmap  LOVIVITTATIIIIA1101111101—22 
1111.010011101010111110111—18 
° 11101111091 0110111 11 911—21—6 1 
rs ooo cee 1110100111001110100101101—15 
01.01991111.01100111111000—18 
1111111.001101111111011011—20 53 
RS any, 2opasdssGaie ss tae Soe SERB ee, 1110911111011001101011110—18 
% 1110111117111100100101110—18 
0170100111011 1011100111 10—16—52 
ESI EL Rh La We tldeaatde teres sc ols erases 0111101100100001110100001—12 
1011101110110111011010101—17 
0110100001100111101110011—14—43 
Whartinty 1220. epee cnen ere ere eerie 010011.01001101100201117.10—14 
0011101111110110161100111—17 
1110111101101100101101101—17—-48 
Hendrickson cde onesies ta preteens 1100010011000000000000010— 6 
0011110000101010001000000— 8 
1000100000600100001001000— 5—19 
Roberts, 23..........: ER” au bone es 1011001001111000110000010—17, 
1100010101010011001000017—11 
0100011001000110010100011—10—32 
Pale SUB DOEO GK Car ntact ie 24 0011001101101010101001010—12 
10000001110000111.10000101—10 
: 0010000000110110100100000— 7—29 
seein tas oinicltiteoi tee eee 14111.10111111011.100111601—19 
1110101170101111011101111—19 
011.0101001411110110011000—14—52 
Carburpiy <8. cjas.sns bet eveeee eee ee es 6 L01101011100111110111911119 
0011101011110111171 10111119 
0111011111111010110100100—16—54 
UNG MES: Mle wae cerca eafiielsetts Sees ee ardiesd}s5)3 01011.00100011110001010011—12 
1100110101010111111101101—17 
0010011011101111111011000—15—44 
ESAT Cs Rp ves ory'y wisi ella eti oe aiaaeia ee 1911101919911117111101011—22 
1001001301101111110111111—18 
0100111001111011110011111—1757 
STS am una dg tisia's|alet Sele oltre eoctatele 1011100001001000110100101—11 
1001110000011110111111100—15 
: 1100001011110110101100011—14—40 
VOT OVS Ba acute cats Beste n eR ate clair espe +» «-A1119.0111010111 111111111122 
1190.110114111111111011128 
910110111101011111111110 18 63 
Sanders, \26s.2. sais sguyes bes ey 9 + + e-1110010011110110010100001—18 
: ‘ 1110110110110001110111100—16 
: 100100001011011.0110101100—12—41 
Dudley, 9.2.26 06ss ces ceeeeece cose os eodtd0I1999111110110111101—22 
1001011101119111191111111—20 
1411119111110. 11110110213 
Reynolds, U6ic..0.tesecesssscs «eee = -0000110110111100000100111—12 
0011111174000001100010100—12 
1110091110010 01091100100—12—36 


L Z Laurence, 6 


Dickson, 


Goetter, 


Schneider, 


WtChoBes raseesedcoaeenettn-kilechls ese 1191711111011111110100101—20 
0011100001011110111100111—15—35 
GAD TeCVLON GN ae sit ctrtoae see tisibieele's eee» + L111101100110001120111111—1§ 
010111911101114119111111122 40 
SME Var PATIENTS 3 coer ctescs rss ane en oLQ11119011111011011111111—20 
0111110111111100011101011—18—38 
Jones ...+.-- A 55n8as {ceeanhhetignadteerds 1010100110010111101100011—14 
1011011111100000001011010—i3—27 
Ni ete ibe Sear eet pe +++» -0000010000101011000101100— 8 


0101100010700000000001111— 9 
1110021110001100001100000—11—28 
A Woods, 26..........:. Peenerses cnana 09000011001.00000110100010— 7 
10101000011.01111001100010—12 
1010111010111110010100100—14—33 
sod dba win FE 4 hal Sin 11111000007101001110111100—14 
1410010011111111110100000—15 
0101111001100000000001000— 8—37 


Fifteen targets: Shorty 9, Wells 9, Dudley 9, Fanning 14 Car- 
laugh 10, Smither 4, Keller, Jr, 10, Super 5, Greiff 7, atts 11, 
Roberts 6, W, H. Day 9, Maynard 7, Mink 12, Skelley li, Glover 
13, Schneider 9, Reeves 12, Doremus 10, Leoble 6, Hanstosd 2, 
Counitz 3, Sneider 7, Dudley 8, Shorty 13. 


SBTaSeS S20 thas sterelarete eters 


Crescent Athietic Club. 


Bay Ridge, L. I., Jan. 1—The New Year began with an active 
day on the grounds of the Crescent Athletic Clib at the target 
traps. From 10 o’clock till dark ihe competition was continuous. 
Following are the scores: : 

New Year’s Day cup, 50 targets, handicap allowances added: 


First 25. Second 25, Grand 
Hdep. Bri. ‘Total. Hdep. Brk. Total. Total. 
F T Bedford, Jr... ado £2 21 25 7 16 23 48; 
18¢ Vandeveer eee 2 925 he “1%, $22 47 
Dr O’Brien... ctw WPA GS Bs (ie a5) WAR 48; 
E B Knowlton. = 38. wo) 25 aedSe eel 46; 
Grant Notman.. 3. 045 201 024 4 17 21 45 
i B Stephenson 1 238 24 1 19. 20 44 
W W Marshall 6 14 20 Ga oie 225 43; 
C A Sykess...... be 14 9 ale Pal 40) 
G Stephenson, Jr. he yee ote 22 38 
LC Hopkins........ 63" 19 6 3 19 38 
H M Brigham........ js. 1 23 23 0) 14 14 37 
CYP McWenmortyias 2 oy 4 14 18 4 14 18 36: 
1L TNE Pilea (rey rch Aaee ayia a IRE ole SW alp  oaho) 36 
CSOtChapmane 1.0, ee 8 Sy Bett. 8 By 133 30 
President’s cup, 50 targets, handicap allowances added: 
irst 25. Second 26, Grandi 
Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Total. Total. 
Bedford ..... Aristocort, babe) Pal | BA oe ere ea 48} 
sjeipeatepek eee iy Prt eror as ets 22 25 4 18 22 47 
F B Stephenson,. ag kel 20 1 3 24 44, 
G Stephenson, Jr. i pak 22 1 vA RSP 44: 
Brigham ,.......... 0 20 20 0 23 23 ot 
Knowlton ......... eee 2 16 18 3 21 24 42: 
Dr Keyes . 2 19 21 2 18 28 41 
Meyer ..... Ry a eps 9i- 19» as 43! 
Vandeveer 5 15 20 by ado iG 36 
W Stake 6 8 i4 fo he 28 37 
Chapman ... 8 6 14 8 12 20 34 
MCE IELMOtt Teese sss ovres ss 4 sh abs A de Li 30) 
Ania: | sAshep aha ean . 6 i iW WwW 
oucher '}53,. Bee SRA Se 3 14 17 Ww 
Extra trophy included in first 25 of President’s cup shoot. 
Shoot-off, 25 targets, handicap allowances added: 
: Handicap. Broke. Total. 
Bedford Cesseevasseeee aswel bhtecielleleee tee 8 20 25) 
IMRoTmpezNT ooondes Bree EOL) nq SAE AS AMA Sn 4 17 21 
Banks trophy, 30 targets, handicsp allowances added: 
‘ , First 25. ! Second 25. Grandl 
Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdcp, Brk. Total. Total. 
G Stephenson, Jr........ 1 14 15 if nite bE 30) 
H B Vandeveer........... ae 0. 3 Sa WL 14 27 
CEARSubes sin unaancsccest 3 ale Ely 3 13. 15 27 
McDermott ....-....+ “et aR ale! pre UN nb 26: 
Ohapmiainwe tine ste ges o nee 4 7 11 4 10 14 2. 
F B Stephenson...... fee 10) Stl, at O- 4, oie Bi 
Brigham ...... dcr ergeicy fe Sees dy Ue Ghee ay 25 
IBEWEGRd parte es eb ute Heats oe x, £4: 12 15 4 5 9 24 
Marshall mete scene Belated 2 ie ol S10 aes 23 
Hopkins ........5 SEPA A 2 6 9 3 10 13 22 
Reksnomltony 2) o3i3..deenss yen ePe SDle abe 2 vf 9 22 
SHARIR Gate nea AREA 3 ih alt) 3 Sa 2b 
aide ree eRe Gee TRS 2 $8) 1) 1 7 8 19 
Boucher .,......- yrs 2 5 7 2 Spa 18 ~ 
Ofbirren es ink. hese bt co OR) lz Ww 
_Palmer trophy, 15 targets, expert traps: handicap allowances 


added: 


Hdep. Bak Boh Hdcep. Brk. Total. 


Singin e eine 8 


yh 


i] Bedford reer eens 3 


_for 1901, distributed as: follows: 


: shirt being the reward of the winner. 


39 


_ Shoot-off, same conditiots: 
Hdep, Brk. Total. . 
Sykes S14 Sa sO Briem «es. taut 


Trophy, 15 targets, handicap allowances added: 


Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdcp. Brk. Total. 
ale a 1 12 


Vandeveer .-..... & 15 5. G Stephenson, Jr, 

Brigham .,,.... ae0, Fit er: Palitie? «+... eat hy Ti 
McDermott -.... 2, th ale Oba Kecuevies dive ates eisle 3 Tee @ 10 
Bedford’ sh-.2.71. 4 9, gS Slopkins, vara eg o 7 10 
IOEITeITE vue sa vptaie Di las Knowlton aeee Bt q 9! 
Marshall ........ 3 Oy AZ Chapman ..,...+. 4 4 & 
T Stephenson....0 12 12 Boucher ..... fr 4 6 


Jan. 4,—The January cup event had ten contestante, and of! 
these, Mr. Ff. T. Bedford, Jr., was high man with a score of 49 out! 
of _a possible 50. The conditions for this trophy were: 

Fifty targets, expert rules;. handicap allowances added: 


First 25. Second 25. Grazid! 

Hdcp. Brk. Total. Hdcp. Brk. Total. Total. - 
F T Bedford, Jr......... ae Oem d se 2d 6 ID © 626, 49! 
Dr J J Keyes........45 Sects me TRE 2 24 (26 45° 
W W = Marshall............ 6) dG. 822 G9 a 525 45 

G G Stephenson, Jr....... i ee 22 1 22 28 45 | 

HB. Vandeveer.......35.5 5 14 19 5 21 25 44 | 
LL M Palmer, Jr........02. BP a 2D 3 18 21 41 
iG Hopkins pererasne 6. ld 20 6 4 20 40 
GeNGtiah freee ens tans SLO Snect A 16 19 39 
JimELe ack Ae Pees Ce ASIN So bowels &@ 13 16 84 
W Montiey....-.-s-s,es00 Lt Ag is i ae els Bs] 


The second event was the team contest for the Sykes cups. 
Messrs. George and Frank Stephenson were high with 49, and 
this was their second victory for the two trophies, Harry Brigham 
and Dr. Keyes were only one target behind at the finish. L. M. 
Palmer, Jr., and W, W. Marshall were only one target- behind the 
second team, ‘The scores in the team shoot for Sykes cups, 25 
targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added, follow: 


F Stephenson...1 3 Vandeveer ..... 21 

G Stephenson,Jr1 25 25—49 WNotman ........ 4 19 23—44 
Brigham .ssss05+ 2 25 Hopkins ........6 17 23 
Keyes i.s....u.. 2 21 23-48 Chapman ....... §& ll 8-2 
IPAlinetar stress ah 3. «20 23 

Marshall ........ 6 18 2447 


The shoot for trophy—25 targets, expert traps, handicap allow. 
ances added—was close, there being five ties. In the shoot-offt 


Grant Notman won. Scores: 
Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Totall. 
Notman <......... 4 19 28 Marshall ..... spalit) ali. | Pek 
(a lithe esl, ase cee 3s 2 23 Vandeveer ........5 16 02 
Bedford .......... & At 323 Brigham oc ceye sees 0 20 . 20: 
F Stephenson..... LZ 22) «623 Chapman ...... +8 8 16: | 
TREY ES or ohihe i =e wicks . 21 23 Mendes .....eese0s & 6 14 | 
G Stephenson, Jr.1 21 22 Jacke parse ce Fonsi, | bh” Stat 
Shoot-off, same conditions: 
Hdcp. Brk. Total Hdep, Brk. Total. 
Notman ...-..s00. Saeecitues e820) F Stephenson..... 1 2 22 
Ralsient ives foes 3 ol 6-24 Iseyesaees ee ee Ww 
Bedford’ ..-....... 6 Ifr ~23 . 
The contest for the Consolation cup—25 targets, handicap allow- 
ances added—was won by Notman after two ties with Hopkins. 
Ve- Hdep. Brk. Total. — Hdcp. Brk. Total. 
INO tirana pes = eases AD AS. 828 Blalken seasqesssn els 6 19 
Hapkins Siaear0 Li 23 IMGHEeYy: tics sacccserce G08 Lis 
Shoot-off, same conditions: ; 
Notnian Wetesnyrede 16 26 Hopkins ......... 6 14 20 
Shoot-off, same conditions: 
ANG Eratiiee aaa ie Ay Die #2 Hopkins ..... aeee6 i 1S 


Match, 10 targets, expert traps: G, Stephenson, 
9, Notman 8, Bedford 7, Hopkins 7, Money 7, F. 
Marshall 6, Mendes 4. 

Match, 25 targets, expert traps: Palmer 17, Money 16, Jack 14, 
Marshall 13. : 

Match, 15 targets, expert traps: G. Stephenson, Jr., 15, Bedford 
15, F. B, Stephenson 14, Marshall 8, Mendes 7. 


Sheepshead Bay Rod and Gun Club. 


Sheepshead Bay, L, I., Jan. 1—The New Vear’s Day shoot of 
the Sheepshead Bay Rod and Gun Club had a 10-bird handicap. 
for the main event, in which there were nineteen entries, The. 
first prize was a loving cup, presented. -by. Mr, Ira McKane;, 
Second prize, a meerschaum pipe, presented by Mr. H, Montanus. 
Mr, Ed Voorhies won first; J. Tabor, second. The scores follow: 


r., 9, Vandeveer 
. Stephenson 7, 


I McKane, 30...... 2222021100— 7 D Bailey, 25........ 1200022102— 6: 
J_J_Pillion, 28..... 2202222122— 9 Ef Montanus, 30....2220222990— 8 
FE Voorhies, 25..... 221212121210 Dr Wood, 27....:,.12201*1110— 7 
G Morris) 27). fsa: 11*2000222— 6 Hi J Barry, 25......1001002102— 6 
G McKane, 27..... 0220"12112— 7 J Lubeke, 25.......2201200200— 5 
A‘Soeller, 23....... 0220202002— 5 Busch, 25......  -1100221010— 6 
D J Heffner, 28....2*12°12202— 7 'T Monihan, 23..,..0000121001— 4 
A Linder; '23-5...-. 2211101022— 8 W. Lundy, 25...... .-2102*120*2— & 
JePabor: 2bes ers 2111220202— 8 Gervert, 25.........0101221110— 7 


M Rauscher, 25....1020120021— 6 
Shoot-off: 
AAA CLM cer wdvaaan toes oee Wi Oma iLL OT pra tecacle a see Nitec: Deegenel) 


The prizes were distributed in the evening at Storm’s Hotel, after 
which the election of officers for the coming year took place and 
resulted as follows: President, John J, Fillion; Secretary, Ira 
MecKane; Treasurer, H. J. Montanus; Captain, Frederick Lundy; 
Official Scorer, Richard Williamson; Steward, Hans Kronika; 
Board of Directors, H. Koch, Charles Kahn, Martin Ratscher, 
Frederick Lundy, Hans Kronika. . 

A collation followed, -at which were presented the yearly prizes 
a 1 Daniel J, Heffner, first prize, a 
silver-mounted pitcher, donated by Dr, Hill; second prize, H. J. 
Montanus, $25, donated by Charles Kahn; third prize, Dr. Wood, 
$15, donated by the club. The club is in a prosperous condition, 
Sale «I members look forward to a fine season of sport during the 
winter, - 


Brooklyn Gun Club. 


, Brooklyn, L. I., Jan. 4.—In the wind and shar cold of last 
Saturday, the particpants in the shoot of the Tasers Gun Ciub 
Bad a good time, though the conditions were difficult for good 
scores: ee 

In the following handicap event, the prize was a pair of live 


ducks. Mr, Marshall was the wi .- Th iti 
singles and 5 pairs. The See ike Seg 
Vici orfe Une ante eee ce eRe” TINT «10 14. 10 10 o1—24 
Bpem esere sense Oe ERE 101160100100111 11 10 10 11 1194 
Rider, Sita tecvores tee tt rw 010011100000010 04 11 00 00 00—16 
Wright, 8. Peet eee 101100001111101 10 11 11 10 00—22 
Gapt Mac, 25. tet sees coc ~.-010100001001100° 01 00 00 00 00—18 
e pueee ae we. 
SStupevere) Hie koe na eae teseseees ss 101000000100001 11 11 11 00 11-— 
Glo Lee A eee ial gid =~» 010111001111111 01 10 11 11 Hoe 


The following event was also a prize shoot, a chamois shooting 
The conditions were 30 


singles and 10 pairs, handicap allowances. The scores: 


id Handicap, Total. H i 
I McKane.,......, 8 40° J S Wright....... barrie te 
JME Stpeneussnnii 12 38 T EL Riders. 12 34 
Events a ’ Events: 12346 
Targets Targets: 10 10 19 10 10 
qaient CoD IVE Gos ene a ee} Sh 208 
poeeh it abe at SH wee ene ween t0) 8 
No. 3 was at 5 pairs. 


Oceanic Rod and Gun Club. 


Rockaway Park, L. I, Jan. 6.—The shooters i i 
had a beautiful day for their shoot, that of the Coon eeads 
Gun Club, No day could be better at this season of the year 
All events were at 25 targets, except the last one, which was at 
15 targets. The next club shoot willbe on Jan, 19. The scores 


follow: 
Events: 1, 253 e456 7, Events: ere at Zt 
‘Targets 25 25 25 25 25 26 15 Targets: 25 25 25 25 z ae 1 
Dudley ..... 20:21 21 22 90 19 ackson - 20 22 23 23 
Klenk ....... 10 9 9.121315 2 Mull...) . 245 8 14 7! 
Anderson ...-12 912 1010., .. Bourke ....... 9 a 
Jones ats VRAIS. olson rieAene ee PAy: ts. 
cott vsvtreee UT 23 es 13.16 +e pe Norris VIVLTS 96 Fe Be ze wa, a 6 


Intercity; Shooting Park. 


MinneArotis, Minn., Dec. 29—The past week has been better 
for live-bird shooting than any since Dec, 1. On Dec. 22 we had 
the deciding contest for the St. Paul Review-cup, which was won 
by J. L. D. Morrison, with a score of 23, made on the hardest birds 
ever trapped on these grounds, 

The H.-C. Hirschy trophy, which was shot for on Dec. 28, was 
won in the shoot-off by C. R. Wilkinson, after he had been tied 
by Mr. Kribs with 24. 

Inclosed please find scores for events in past week. The Hirschy 
trephy will be shot for on these grounds next Saturday, Jan, 4 
atl ie (eM, 

Practice sweep, 25 birds: 


, 


Trap score type—Copyright, 1902, by Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 
; 45118213881314582244154292 


NNAYAA LOAZ SLA LEAR ATAALA 
Famachon .....<... 1120222*22211292111122200 2-21 
on OT ACE ee 
ACA ESLA LEAP AACR OAREH YA LA 
PerryccccsserveceeeetLL1111292292% 0291309 yes 1 1 1—20 
; RAE tee BCR Sah pet ote ean Se a 
RLAEAADRRYLAAAA LARK HAE 
RET GND ry sors wirereiesp a Ubacred, Llwyd oto M0) claps) 29 nm eC OM ed tg == 
Dec. 28.—H. C. Hirschy Blue Ribbon live-bird trophy: 
21125838555451138318322985148 
i PERS QHEAHARHAACLR TACAAH 
Hirschy..seserene-t 2212202121292 99799929 32-99 
4382545452449998122311434295 
. LEA AA LRAAP AA ARCA LASNRLHRAL 
WorrisOm, .s.454+45 +. O22229229212229291999 0 2-2 1 29-93 
8144241412181555515314448 
EL IHAYCOR CYR YR SAG LEAACHA KR. 
SEGRE Pee pe tayolatatattets ote 2 2222112121212220222910221 9—93 
45281156152945499333 421585 
SNE Y YRASAAEEA YS AL HY 
Kribs..ccceeressseeel 22211293202292321939199999 9 04 
85885223283433538455534498 
AAAAPAYYDT LAYER LE LAPS CRC LY 
Wilkinson........... 2201222122731911292129229239929%9 9-94 
The birds were all good fliers, and the above scores are good. 
Shoot-of: r 
14515 63245 
eRACL eT vY 
ISTE See teudtens aie ieee eat eee 9220% £Wilkinson...... vuivbaveyed 2 298 
Wilkinson won the cup. 
Five birds, 26yds., one barrel, gun below elbow, $100: 
Wilkinson .....--cs.e0-08 O1101—3: Morrison .2.............. 41111—5 
SrA Ss pesos soe cnt ae IAS gS Given vetr sn pte 1101 w 
CRU ad eat ete tie be teres *1011—3 ' 
Five birds, 30yds., one barrel, gun below elbow, one money: 
ESE SCH Se eee eet g 1016w Walkinson Go i-ieor ss esas Olliw 
Morrison ......... coeue eed Plt) MEN ees Poe ed ce cete ase Oliiw 
Wards) apatite tc este ene 1i0lw 


Dec. 22.—St. Paul cup: 
Trap sccore type—Copyright, 1902, by Forest and Stream Pub, Co. 


2152551254249182535381412 
ARFARARCACHHAAEART SOO CHAR 
Morrison, 31...,.... 2222*2992202229229122292922 9-93 
8544915415418521448212148 
WI APE ACER RR ARABI HADALAA 
Hirschy, 8l.ceec0000222212202221129211*20022 * 20 
481528824115583212945835331 
RL RARA TER ZA RDADL ERECTA 
Wilkinson, $1......222112*2020201121%*029191 2-19 
5122841881254253531453448 
RAARTOOLVAAR RAZ SASRAR SHCA 
Beye einwmccnes cist 01211211*220022122992012+* 19 
Ten-bird sweepstake: 
Wilkinson ......... 2222229992 10 Hirschy .....-...... 2229209929 — 9 
Morrison ....c2.05 222222122110. Perry issisceeeseees ES 
- DOB. 


Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, Mass., Jan. 1.—The initial performance of the Boston 
Gun Club’s 1902 spring series of prize shoots was held on the club 
grounds, at Wellington to-day, and eighteen shooters gathered 
round the festive boards, making it as auspicious an opening as 
any one could ask for. The club’s new system worked as well as 
could be desired, though a little slow in changing from one sys- 
tem to the other; but as each succeeding shoot will regulate all 
the time losses to a minimum, it won’t be many moons before 
traps and scores are booming, as in former series. 

Visitors graced the platform from all the leading clubs of Bos- 
ton and vicinity, Brockton, Lynn, Fitchburg, Wollaston, Haver- 
hill, Watertown, Middlesex, being the most prominent. Good 
scores were prevented by the high winds and cold weather, pocket 
stoves being a necessity even in a 10-target event. However, the 
scores do not have the appearance of any stoves being used, but 
enthusiasm was there, and that made up for the deficiency in 
scores. The prize events were entered into in the usual manner, 
each shooter putting in his best efforts, though not averse to 
seeing his neighbor getting a fair share of breaks, and the good 
feeling that was exhibited went a long way toward making it the 
successful opening that it was. The honors in the match were 
taken care of by Baker, Spencer and Hawkins, each-breaking 17 
out of the allotted number of targets. Leroy was second with 
16, a first class score from the 2lyd. mark on such a day. Other 
scores were as follows: 


Events OG ie Cg mahi ot al 

Targets 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 15 
iylaaa URE 5 ARES Ee Boe ott ee os if ce Re ie 
Mind. Darin is coe pune saskees husk Asati: Beep Age 
Bieta sel oh, Sock liclnsneh aspen s ede Gas, tba, ee tees, 
BALE 1 Serres su eiaieisa edition ee sy cS eth eb te 
a Sarde Se ne cee ese aes satis lasses foe wT fo in once «5 
Dennison ... 2 eee i eee 8 
Gane, 16... a eee tthe El 2a a Aa 
Redla, 16.. Tee ce Aw eee as 7p eR Sh ay 
Tozier, 16.. Se 5 4 kr oe ae 
Nichols, 14... eee ee ket A Be en 
GapesLGr eats SG" Bia poe <4 
Kirkwood, 18. Go ot" ae 2 see 5 
Retwood, 14.. Se 2? le ee ee be, 
Frost, 16..... as Jo Renta Oe a 
Boral Terrill fhe = asa teinlaleaters Halen Bocst 8 VET ‘ 1 we rears +. 
Amine tke RG se aati es com ee ts A Bo 34. IDO 4 
Spencetragi as sea massea street es ate : el to See shee 
DeFicrnrcleemah rs cet ocscate sett otetel ater neler con) aorta 4 a8 5 6 5 


Events 1, 3, 5, magautrap; 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, Sergeant system. 
Prize match, 25 targets—15 unknown, 10 known—distance handi- 


cap: 
befor, wher Gk seen arsa saan «are 101111110111100 


1001110110—17 
PETC ety Le ceivitey pe brent ae 111011110010111 0011001111—17 
ja Ketaleiahsh sll a as Waa Ie Sey ees 111011100111100 0011011111—17 
(LS oh 7A AE * 98 554.5505 ee eae aan 113100101101101 1010011010—16_ 
Bepcy? 16ers eee nett 011111001101111 010011010015 
Lvorgel, abt Meters cag ee soa 001110000111770 1191001001—13 
Reda ae ee bey n sene c(e tant oe LL eeieneaees 010011010001000 1110110011—12 
LSirl ay terorcie we Serer eee 001000010110001 1001111101—12 
We ATSOLE WLAN eae pte ant eeeerelont oiler etemaars 100100100911010 0007110017 —17 
Woztert) Lop sss re ses Ga ewes ss see 010010001100110 1101010001—11 
(C20 DBR Gate needs ols on Rete a oie 111.000100011010 0001001100—1)) 
este: pe LG Azieaks mctplee eerie eee ee ne 910011100001000 0011060101— 9 
LEE TREE, oa OA AAR i ey foe oe 000000000000000 0110111001— & 
LPG aNE Ep LC Oe SPR A ee te ire ieee 100001000010001 0001000300— 6 
(Grate UN adad Seeader eee cbetiad aces 000100001001000 1000010010— & 

SECRETARY, 


Osstaing Gun Club. 


Osstninc, N. Y., Jan. 1—The New Year’s Day live-bird shoot 
of the Ossining Gun Club was a great success. In the last event 
eight withdrew after entering to enable the rest to finish the 
string: of 10. The birds were a fast lot, with an oceasional sitter, 


which made the game hard. Yonkers was well represented. There - 


were also ‘shooters from New York, Nyack, Mt, Kisco and 


Event No. 1, 7 birds, $5, birds included, handicaps 26 to 32yds.: 


D Brandreth, 28........ 1220001—4 q F Van Saun, 27...... 0002122—4 
D H McAlpin 2d, 26...0110012—4 W Clark, 26............ 00101224 
M H Dyckman, 28.,..- 1220120—5 J Hasbrouck, 28........ 2120202—5 
J M Thompson, 31....1222021—6 T O’Rourke, 28......... 22021216 
C G Blandford, 31....: 2722222—T AN Betti. “BB. eit. 10100224 


T T Washburn, 28..... 00021014 FE Verrian, 28.......... 0122002—4 
Event No, 2, 5 birds, sf bitds extra; all at 30yds.: 


NO OE ores Os ees 0122—4 @Romrkess spec. 10210—3 
CiBaslowate oes 0000I—1_ «J ~Hasbrouck............ 102022-3 
it Washburn, 2 oes tiet 121014 R Potter....... 10022—3 
ey Tarrei tes gtham wei scien 21022=4 E Verrian.... 01202—3 
] MBLGMpPSOns toes vasa 11202—4 J Van Sant.. 01222—4 
IMP Siycleniai:s jie ie hiee 22220—4 R Kromer.............-:. 01000—1 
A pBettit: cca) semantic 00122—3 


Three miss-and-outs were shot. Dykeman, O’Rourke and Clark 
were winners in No. 1; Washburn and Brandreth in No. 2; Bland- 
ford in No, 3. 

Event No. 4, 10 birds, $5, birds extra; handicaps 26 to S2yds. : 

M Dyckman, 28....2120021211I— 8 A Betti, 29......... 211122222210 
C. Blandford, 31...2222222012— 9 D Brandreth, 28....0211112111— 9 
J Thompson, 31....0112111221— 3 J Hasbrouck, 28. ..0112112111— 9 
C Raymond, 30....012100111— § JI Washburn, 28....20221110w 

T ©’Rourke, 29.,..2011211101— 8 E Verrian, 28....... 221200220w 

J Van Saun, 27.....1002002011— 5 

The following also withdrew: C. Barlow, H. Bissing, W. Clark, 
W, Coleman, D. O’Connor, R:-Kromer. 

Jan, 4,—There was a fair attendance at the regular weekly shoot 
of the Ossining Gun Club, Saturday, Jan. 4. C. C. Hubbell, of 
New York City, and D. Brandreth, both shot their initial string 
for the medal: 


Events: APA Toh iP el Deal td Events: D234 by hea 

Targets: 10 10 10 10 15 15 10 Targets: 10 10 10 10 15 15 10 
TT Bisson i. See be ese lo ROMEO erside sdvccuhGe ee omen ins 
Wi Meolemearns hs ef eee eoelO cL) pepe Vr teeeene: NUsnal hanna Sema 
C Hubbell. 1 4 78 6) © Blandtords” 9°59 7 elie. 
DS Brandreth: echieedt sboltal 2" oS Gr Hdoercee te) Peni | en ho! 

Prize events: 4 
Golem e7e. a5 ens ses ae itty) EBvatdt eth el tae. ee ey 15 14 10 
ETUDE ecg isos saee seers 1323 4 blandtord: dhtieeise- ee Wow a 

CC. G. Bi 


Crawford Gun Club. 


Arroona, Pa., Jan. 2—Herewith please find scores made at the 
shoot of the Crawford Gun Club, Dec. 25, 1901: 


Event No. 1, 10 live birds: 


i Big The yaaa gs 22222020022—7 lLingafelter ......... 2*21122200—7 
gS edhe Nays Fela A10110122—T Peters ...........2-. 20011*1010—5 
Event No. 2, same as No. 1: 
Mertisy Fit. Heat as 2212000220—6 Selwitz .........2... 0*02011000—3 
Wiehe hoon nee sa 1111011211—9 Hammaker ..,...... 001*220220—5 
Peters nll NR lee 1111000102—6 Byers .......0....005 0122012010—6 
Lingafelter ......... 12120120218 Murray ............. 2*1021121w 
Event No. 3, 5 live birds: 
bya] tach POPRTAS ARRAARB ASA Dr: OMe eEomiatie wee ore een e ee 000*0—0 
IMU iinaty,, -< 9 38 oats b aaiee aia TAN oe anaes Bey e.ape een 21002—3 
Martin Dist ties ccdgiecta ec 220*1—3 
Event No. 4, 10 live birds: 
Murray ..25..0s8554 1222201110— 8 Homan ....... ~-*0110w 
Lingafelter .:.is... 0101022220— 6 Parker - -0002020220— 4. 
Peters a Wuwcuasesda 0011001212— 6 Byer ... . -20220*0010— 4 
Epright .... . 0100110120— 5 Yon .... ..1*12121212— 9 
122 Se - 121211122110 Magee ..11*20w 2 
Wrght 202. ...201210*010— 5 Harpham .. . .00020~w 
UE Se Ee es He 02202020025 Smith .............. 120201w 


The following scores were made at targets._on our grounds on 
New Year’s Day: 


Fyents: 123 4 5 6 7 Shot 
Targets: 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 at. Broke, 
MeN yt ere tre AE TERRI a eens Sek pe swiagarl) elowele 25 3 
SETESy aa ees & eee be ho nbd esau lee ae 14 12 5a 50 26 
IE RIMIAR ER svat seas ees iesies seiciee ee Gs eae base 15 14 
Airearerr Wi tay ee cee bd kee sesh tie 10 14 Se i! 100 53 
ELrieaincen eet eee pone eenlataee 5121215 7 7 150 58 
WS 23 Cyr ae Rs 1A Se RARER ARAB AME, 14 .,14..121916 125 75 
Lingafelter .....-... ery KARREY Rr ens ees a 25 9 
Weartin: eee teins st Asefialttebstotcteetetes 6. he fete as a4 
BOT ph rent ele ataditive satel rtriste hey ll. sti. ese 22 
EEK ids hedde ures rikinee ete Late ant 5. ert S00 4p 
Ebenarrclsoime eee stslese ye took sk aE LE Ee 8... 510 15 23 
Wihantoi LPC. e roscoe sete ee eee eee mate FN ete ee 5 
be Gea Ae SOE, Nl bet ocd atch rgthcy tet rs es ea Hee es 25 1 
Stigenfelt (20i1. 2: eh Resse ease acs te 25 12 
TAvin cet ot 5at5 5 eae pees ter aitten ae mes 5 eae 25 2 
Niet ee a te eee ptepiee he nib nee a eed eeede see 25 9 
dap Giheel TEA iawn Sadihatehs Jpyag aos Se 4 50 5 
Perens res eid ceensaes hari Sr pyre Sts 0 ls TSP ye 25 13 
Events: 6 7 Events: 6 7 
Targets: 25 25 Targets: 25 25 
SRCACTEATIY «215m matter sates A sent DVVALEGY cae oes ceo sire FAA Nat to 14 
CSB Ett OOF) ale ncltetl ddd ala dae arg Bh Mallory 5, Osc r abn acteeee ee 1 
RGatigans senses setae DNL 4 ebb Serer Sore raised eet Se, 4 


The following scores were made in practice, use of both barrels: 
Walfe, 25 out of 36; Kelly, 10 out of 19; Lingafelter, 4 out of 10; 
Mike, 18 ont of 40; Holsinger, 9 out of 16; Byer, 9 out of 17; 
Wharton, 5 out of 10; Shoenfelt, 8 out of 20; Bastain, 2 out of 15. 

F, C. Wricut, Sec’y. 


Riverside Gun Club, of Topham. 


TorHam, Me,, Dec. 25.—At the club grounds to-day occurred the- 


reorganization of the once famous Riverside Gun Club, of 
Topham. The following officers were unanimously elected: Presi- 
dent, Sumner Strout; Vice-President, A, E. Hall; Secretary, John 
P. Goud; Treasurer, Geo. Rogers; Executive Committee: A. Q. 
Goud, H, O, Smail and Dr. H. O. Curtis. 

The following scores were made by members of the Riverside 
Gun Club out of a possible 25: 


H O Small 
ANAL Maan. cacy donee reer i nieciiieitet ces 0110101111101191111101111—20 


1001701191019 1121 


JA) TBaeetalle i) « « -0111111111101001101011111—19 
Geo Rogers . - + -1111110010111001110111111—19 
JT P Goud.. ..-1110101111100001111111101—-18 
SStroute pe .. + .1001000100011110001111111—14 
ORGS Wa ll Sen . - -0911100110011011001111010—14 


Baar dia tae ete es aed e+eoe«..«0110000111010010000010010— 9 
I Getchell 1011100000000000000010100— 6 

The following squad was here from the Brunswick Gun Club 
and made the following scores out of 25: 


SS Wibitatones ee cer cea eee aie eas 1119110199111919111101010—21 

108 Mi Reid by rlerc=- Paty eter eis etree J 01100001111000013101110111—14 

CO MINASOH. (Uva de ane eae catered case 0010101000111111001100100—12 

yi Varinghieees creer pen arene le Step 1111110001111100101310110—17 

ee Beanies 08 nn ee See SER Okeee Hee 0111111101111011001111111—20 
: Joun P. Goup, Sec’y R. G. C. 


The Hamilton Gun Club. 


Hamizton, Canada, Jan. 6—The new club house of the Hamil- 
ton Gun Club has been completed. A few practice events were 
shot off on New Year's Day, and on Saturday, Jan. 4 the club 
house was formally opened, and an At Home held in honor of our 
many friends in Hamilton. 

A number of the shooters whose names appear upon the score 
cards of these two days had never shot at-targets before. 

The weather was very cold, with a cross wind lifting the targets, 
aud the sun shing brightly “upon newly fallen’ snow made shoot 
ing conditions hard enough to satisfy the most particular of our 
members. : : Peg 

A number of photographs of our club house have been taken, 
and finished proofs will be forwarded to you as quickly as possible. 

Inclosed please find scores of target shooting on Jan. 1 and 4 
over our traps. The scores of Jan. 1 follow: | 


Events: 12345 6 7 £«Events: 1234567 

Targets: 10151015101010 ~Targets: 10 15 10 15 10 10 10 
Fletcher -ii.) eo laaesallile eos awder! Wop. eetibemeas sine) fe ee 
Hunter ..... Sie. pele oe 2.) Gardrergr, G4 eee ese ce 
A Smyth ss Tey Bae BLE MEL ts 6 SAUER eS See 
CGrawtorl «0. Gaara... Dethameea.! 63 Pye Se ee 
Ben Tt skis: RAGN4HE 5 “405% Jones... 2h.) SS ein, PAE 
Graham ...., pe ceases cok DATO Wares at ee Whi SF Ss ae nd 
Upton .-+.:- 8 83 SHO 0. = Waterburys.2 (a0At en, ot 
Dr Wilson.. 714 814 79 9 Cline .t..:: . 811 710., 
CBriggex... 641790 5 7 A Zalmani.. .> Pa i. - 
Dr Hunt..... 40 AR Meee 2. Th BWilson: = 9h sSecdeee a” 
J Bowron... 812.9 &-..... W Powell... 5 5 Te. 2 a3 22 

plone te Neste thes 10 ee oe fe Be 


[Jan. II, 1902. { 


= 
The scores of Jan. 4 follow: J t 
Events: F aliged 5 Events: 1-2) 84 
Targets - Bp 10 10 10 10 Targets: Sp 10 10 10 10° 
J. Crooks...... Oty ae te Bor. a Water but Vie e er eee GS o.oo 
Peclsinteryas alae LO SyaG> “Clive ae rae ee 88 7 6 
itriters.«.ss.eee DI Sis AS CeBriprEne ee oe Tin 0 
Wpton inser sees +» 10 2 8 Dr Wilson ...... seals Ave MEREIO 
M Fletcher........ Diese Bee ae Bene i staram eat eae or IG 
Ben tit Pea SGN SGT S SB riper ee A ee 
A Bateés ee cet ik ee. Wee “Crawtotds weeeeeen oe ot Se 
ree Spbssseazce I GSLs axel Peet eeee ee emen fo, lie He 
1337 ea as Piscine tele ere eA Say Gspiute rotate gyya-ne 624 
Chittordi tensa eee ale PME eS UOT eee cree tebe se Doe 
ASS) esse Re ceg ees A A Rese a BNL Gack oes ee eee bi Ms ee oy 
AL Sinyth) 2 ones eee. D- 1b. 4° 8S°0G. ePalnreciee eee ee Foti ey SA 
Ben Ir. 


Toutnament at Sistersville. 


SISTERSVILLE, W. Va., Jan. 2.—We are glad to be able to report | 
that the New Vear’s Day tournament of the Sistersville Gun Club 
was a complete success in every way. The weather was away above 
the standard, although just a little chilly in the morning, and 
everybody seemed to enjoy himself. Those present were Messrs. 
F. E. Mallory, 5. T. Mallory, J. W. Stewart, John F. Mallory and 
C. L. Slayton, of Parkersburg; P. D. Tangney, Belmont; F, G 
Percival, Squire Cole, W. A. Smith, Theo, Thompson and R. F- 
Hobbs, of St. Marys; A. J. Stancliff, P. Schlicher, Jr., and J. M. 
Speary, of Marietta, O.; Jos. W. Trees, of New Martinsville, and 
Mr. De Weiss, of Chillicothe, O. The local club was represented 
By pis Y. McNaught, H. C. Allen, Dr. Jas. R. Stathers and 
ade. : 
The best shooting in the sweeps was done by Mr, FP. E. Mallory 
of Parkersburg, who scored 178 out of 200, He was followe 
closely by S. T. Mallory, J. F. Mallory, J. Y. McNaught and \ 
Dade. A feature in the afternoon was the race at 100 targets per | 
man for State championship between Mr. S. Mallory, of 
Parkersburg, and Dade, of the local club. The result was a vic- | 
tory for Mr, Mallory, and now he is the happiest man in West 
Virginia. Dade says he can only let the championship badge stay f 
at Parkersburg until Saturday, Jan. 11, so Mr. Mallory will please — 
take notice that there is trouble in store for him in the near fatuavel 
Seve ie to-day’s race, 87 for Mr. Mallory, 84 for Dade, Other 
scores follow: ’ 


Events: 123 46 67 8 9101112 
_Targets: , 15 15 15 20 15 15 15 20 15 15 15 25 Broke. 
i) BY Mialory eye oes 13 12 13 18 15 14 13 2013181519 178 
S. uWalloryarate aecrecun < 1111 9151314131913141219 163 
POW: (WStewant yer cassie os 1110 81512121016 9111112 137 
lie SMLAlIOSVow See eee e see 10 13 13 1714151314 9141291 165 
(Ca AM ES Tay Loreena coves 9 1241413 9 10124341 12 10.17- “129 
PY iarorieye eee titers 11 1213 141012101512101074 148 
Gh lam see Speer oer e neces soe A210 Tad -9 98) Tosa aw 
Weed Smitheeecs ss eceseee 48 99 (6200 11 SIP a Ge eo, 
Aas meniainiclittpeatten pasate 1014141311 7121514121114 4147 
DD AWWieishw econ. tate ees poe Af we 85154 0, JSS Sey ae Eee | 
J Y McNaught........,... 11 12 13 17 10 10 141615101420 162 
iP Scehlicher pJirsasaeee seer 11 11 101610 10151811 9.... cae | 
JieML -Speargest iia tahdesoe 1414 111713 11111513 9... a 
Wadena tian sh oaeaanquteeat 13912\13.20 13911 1415412 1215 7 
EE GAT ere ec e eee 9 9 915 9 8131711 91319 140 | 
Of Ge Wiebes Aiogaiwaheat noah oeel be eee S.130riL-99 19s 2 
Theo. Thompson.......... Piney Ope are ene red oe Ne at) Jee | 
ie Py Dao )aeeee peek i aH wen ae or os G, AGS T1415 ole 
Dro MO Stakhers pssst ge gee oat ote, eae eee) Coe oe 
Lehigh Rod and Gun Club. | 
BetHLEuem, Pa., Jan 2.—The Lehigh Rod and Gun Club, of the | 
Bethlehems, had their New Year’s Day shoot, and with good suc- 
cess. The weather was nice, but cold. There was a hard north- | 
west wind, which made shooting hard. The following are the 
scores: : 
Events: 1 23) 4 6°68 7 8 S30 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 W 10 10 
W. EL Mantes. 00. 00+ cet cs 5) Be -6. (Seite CS Se Toe 
J) (Ee Manrereceeceunuy lt aes 90 26% CS :b a“ Oe Roe Ge a ae 
Gasiramliche ta vuceet sen wee 10° :B +O BU ah -Siaeeeer oe 
Freier at pase. 8. Bo SSS Be hoe ioe) Sco ee 
FLA ea Rata oy Maas 9) (9.5 (Oe che ae ae Oo eee aS 
ca tare bb oe cee ee AR 6. (6. (6 <be @ 6" <2 eee ee 
(Mis romieteysinitelctal teeta losicte ee G6 8 16s ch i -2 ib 3 
Wandea eee. bese ae paste o DY hh if Sein, aA Wie Se eae 
WEFIS TERE ooelaalene oetel cee ote teens CY ie Ee eet eee | 
RICE aie eaipate stagione oysters ne Nh ote re BAe ae | 
Polina sos sca cee scree’ oe Nee ees, Weck ee ee ve tie 
FIRGe yas s toe cok ncabe bse ee ee a ee eee Tee, 
inure ccc cakes SSeS AW gm ee ae ae, | 
in anionch hepato Soaobtde ote BS ats TAO 5 TR OG 
elicits sees tc eee eee sme e fot it ne i el Va al Se = 8. 
Twenty-five targets: Hankey 15, Heiser 13, Fullmer 8, Bouditch 


Keystone Shooting League, 


PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 4—Two main events were shot to-day 
at the shoot of the Keystone Shooting League, held on their 
grounds at Holmesburg Junction, Mr. John Brewer was dis- 
tinguished in the competition by an excellent performance, the — 
killing of all the birds which he shot at, 23 in all. | 


The Keystone challenge cup had three contestants. This is a 
semi-monthly event at 10 birds, at 28yds. rise. The scores follow: — 
Tillinghast ........ 221210121*— 8 C Brown ........ » -2222222122 10 
We Bidd a eas 2222710122— 9 HT W Paneoast..... 120220*121— 7 
PVR Gree Becizbante oor aie 2#20221022-- 7 J Brewer........... 222222222210 
F W Van Loon.,.0222110212— 8 C Geikler ..... ... .0222202222— 8 
Ey Welles hoes 50: 0202222202 7 C Witzgerald....... 12*1002022— 6 
IRY Tia 4s seectasdieted 2212110012— 8 


In the club handicap event there were fourteen contestants. 
conditions were 10 


* - The 
live birds, handicap rise, sweepstakes, $2.50 


entrance. Three tied on straight scores: | 
Tillinghast, 26......2011221220— 8 Pancoast, 27....... 0222011221— § 
Budde 2955...5.- e210 ,1022122222— 9 Brewer, 28-........ 2121222122—10- 
Buzhy. ot vesaeee ove 010*001212— 5 Geikler, 27......... 2222222222 10 
Man door, 23.2.5 *122*22121— 8 Fitzgerald, 28...... 2211121112—10 
Weekes “20s 7 9s secaee 1222202222— 9 Landis, 29......... 2110111122— 9 
RO Mcan eee eae 0202122110— 7 Henderson, 28..... 2222020122— 8 
BOWer, 25 natn anne 1021101010— 6 Jordan, 27......... 1210110211— § 


The solid gold watch and chain, to be shot for at Interstate 
Park, L. I., on Thursday of next week, affords an opportunity to 
have a good time at a very reasonable outlay. The conditions are 
20 live birds, handicaps 25 to 32yds., $10 entrance. From the 
entrance moneys, $50 will be deducted, and the balance will be 
divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. The watch will be an excellent 
timepiece, and worth much more than the amount deducted for it, 


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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1902. 


VOL. LVIII.—No. 3, 
| No, 846 Broapway, New York. 


THE PROPOSED MAINE LICENSE. 


Goop reasons may exist for the imposition of a tax on 
the non-resident sportsmen in Maine, but they are not dis- 
closed in the argument made by the chief advocate of 
the plan at the meeting of the Maine Sportsmen’s Asso- 
ciation in Bangor last week. The thread of reasoning in 
Commissioner Carleton’s tambling address is somewhat 
difficult to follow; there is no presentation of the subject 
leading to the logical conclusion that a non-resident 
_ license would be advantageous; but the grounds upon 
which he urges the imposition of stich a license appear to 
be these: 

First. That the people who come into Maine for their 
vacation yield in the course of a year a revenue of $15,- 
000,000; that this prodigious revenue cannot be main- 
tained unless the game shall be better protected; that the 
Legislature will not make an adequate appropriation, and 
that the only way then to raise the money is to tax the 
visiting sportsmen. 

Second. That the non-resident license system is in 
force in numerous other States, therefore it should be 
adopted by Maine. 

Third. That there is a large amount of illegal game 
killing, and that a license system would provide a warden 
force to suppress it. 

Fourth. That numerous sportsmen now come into the 
State bringing their own supplies, and paying nothing out 
to the Maine people. A license tax would extract at least 
the amount of the license from these visitors for the 
benefit of Maine citizens. 

Fifth. That there are certain non-resident sportsmen 
‘who would like to see a license system enforced because 
it would decrease the number of visiting hunters and 


there would be more game left for weds: who did pay the’ 


license. 

These are the salient points of the argument, which is 
printed in another column; but the chief note of it all is 
money—we want money, we must have money, the visit- 
ing sportsmen have money and must be made to disgorge 
money for us. 

As to the first argument, we have already pointed out 
that if visiting sportsmen and tourists leave $15,000,000 
in Maine in a season, the State can well afford to do its 

own game protection’ without bleeding the visitors. Mr. 
Oak put the case in a nutshell when he said: 

If we must have it, let us take honest means to obtain it, and not 
throttle the innocent sportsman and order him to “stand and: de- 
liver.” Allow me to suggest a course that is legitimate. Let tlose 

so zealous for the proposed law, furnish the proofs, of their asser- 
tion that $15,000,000 is spent here annually by tourists and -sports- 
men, and the same Legislature that has heretofore appropriated 
$25,000 a year for the department, on the strength of the statement, 
accompanied by proofs, that four to five million dollars. are spent 
here annually, will appropriate double or triple that amount. 

The men composing our legislative bodies are inclined to be 
feasonable and fair in all matters, and sufficiently wise to realize 
that-a $75,000 annual expense to maintain a $15,000,000 annual in- 

' ¢ome is a mere bagatelle. 


Even if this estimate of $15,000,000 be an exaggeration 
by MY. Carleton, in order to magnify the importance of 
his office, and if we throw off say $10,000,000 and call the 
revenue $5,000,000, still under these circumstances it would 
be business policy for the Legislature of Maine to appro- 
priate all the funds necessary to secure the most perfect 
attainable protection of the game. It would be money 
well invested. 

Mr. Carleton makes much of the fact that the non- 
resident license system is in force in many other States, 
citing among them Arkansas, Missouri, Delaware and the 

Canadian Provinces; but as to these, either he himself 
has no clear understanding of their bearing on the Maine 
Deiestion: or else he designs by making an impressive 
Beisiceac to gain support for his contention by the sheer 
weight of the list. Of what conceivable value as a guide 
to Maine can be the example of Arkansas, for instance, 
whose non-resident license provision is directed against 
professional hunters who follow hunting as an avocation, 
and is in effect employed chiefly for purposes of black- 
mail by various county authorities? The Maine non-ex- 
port law now covers the market-hunting phase. Or the 
‘Missouri law, which absolutely forbids hunting by non- 
Tesidents? How does that serve as a guide to Maine, 
whose desire is to attract sportsmen? Or the Delaware 
law, which is not a game protective measure, but a 
relic of the petty sectionalism of old times? Or the 
Canadian Provincial laws, which set up barriers against 
Americans as aliens? Is Maine so close to Canada that 


its citizens are emulous of being ranked as Canadians 
when it comes to treating citizens of the United States as 
foreigners? 

In support of his argument that the licenses should be 

imposed to provide a warden force to suppress the large 
amount of illegal killing, Mr. Carleton avers than in 1901 
the number of deer illegally killed was very large, ‘““many 
estimate them among the thousands,” and that there were 
uinety-six moose illegally killed. To end this carnival of 
lawlessness, the Commissioner would tax all visiting 
sportsmen to provide funds for more wardens. If the 
unlawful killing of deer and moose is as free as he has 
pictured, and there reigns in the Maine woods such im- 
smunity as to encourage the poachers to this extent, it is 
manifest that the urgent demands of the hour is not for a 
non-resident license tax, but for a reorganization of the 
Fish and Game Commission. 

A special grievance for which Commissioner Ga Mefon 
thinks the license would be a remedy is the coming into 
the State of sportsmen—Western sportsmen in particular 
—who bring into Maine their own supplies, including 
“potatoes and baked bread, and who leave scarcely a dol- 
lar among our people. Are we any losers thereby?” he 
plaintively asks, and then adds, “If a small license fee— 
say of $20—would keep them away, then in Heaven’s name 
let us have a license fee.” 

Now that is a sentiment of which a public official of 
any State in the Union might well be ashamed. How long 
since has it become a crime for the sportsman to outfit at 
home and pack his provisions into those distant parts 
which he has chosen for his hunting country? Have the 
people of Maine become so greedy and avaricious and 
clutching and grasping that with an income of $15,000,000 
in a year from the visiting sportsmen they begrudge this 
party the paltry price of a few potatoes eaten in camp? 
We do not believe it. We do not believe that Commis- 
stoner Carleton truly represents Maine people when he 
makes them out to be so niggardly as all this. “Are we 
any losers thereby?’ Yes, the people of Maine unques- 
tionably did lose the price of the potatoes, but we trust 
they have not yet altogether become so mercenary toward 
sportsmen as to have lost what is worth more than the 
price of a few potatoes, the spirit of welcome to their 
grand old woods, a welcome even to the sportsman who 
has to economize and plan and contrive to make the 


_ends meet. 


Now there are very many such sportsmen. Visitors to 
the Maine woods are not all of the Ziegler type, who can 
fit out a caravan and retain a retinue of guides, and by 
lavish expenditures buy them and own them body and 
soul, and all the game in sight along with them. There 
is, of course, a multitude of sportsmen who are of the 
class cited by Mr. Carleton as willing to pay a license fee 
to make Maine hunting more exclusive; and such men 
would willingly have a good stiff tax imposed that would 
keep at home the great majority of deer and moose 
hunters. But this is not the class whose wishes and 
tendencies should dominate official actions; nor are they 
the ones whose influence should prevail with a game com: 
mission. The time may come in this country when hunt- 
ing will be exclusively the expensive privilege of the 
rich, but we ought all of us to trust and to labor that that 
day may be yet far distant; and the endeavor and aim of 
those who are charged with the administration of game 
protection should be to postpone such a time as far as 
possible and not to hasten it. 

To the multitude of workers who make up the great 
mass of society, a vacation is an actual necessity; and of 
all vacations the one spent in the woods is the most re- 
freshing and upbuilding. The expenses involved in an 
outing are at the best considerable, and it often means a 
deal of planning and contriving to provide them. The 
actual effect of Commissioner Carleton’s “small license 
fee—say $20,” would in innumerable cases put the project 
‘of a trip to the Maine woods out of the question. The 
system might yield the money which the Commissioner 
appears to think justifies the end, but it certainly would 
be a great hardship on the very people who stand most in 
need of a breath of the Maine woods. 


The North American Fish and Game Protective Asso- 
ciation will convene in Burlington, Vt., on Wednesday 
of next week, Jan. 22, and the Vermont Fish and Game 
League will attend the Association bariguce on Thursday 


evening, Plt Pee 


THE POINT OF VIEW. 


NorHinG shows more clearly how entirely modern views 
of sport are founded on sentiment and custom than the 
widely differing ideas held about it in different parts of 
the world. Even the signification of the word is unfixed. 
Originally it seems to have meant to take pleasure in 
some active way. In America in the early days of the 
last century a sportsman was a professional gambler. 
Then a competition of some kind, especially one on which 
money was staked. Even to-day the New York tough 
speaking of himself as a “dead game sport,” means that 
he gets drunk, gambles, is ready—if necessary from his 
point of view—to commit murder. People who bet on 
horse races, play poker and sometimes drink to excess, are 
apt rather proudly to call themselves “sporty.” 

But in these modern days sport, sportsman and sports- 
manship have a somewhat different meaning from any of 
these, and refer chiefly to outdoor recreations, such as 
shooting, fishing, yachting, mountain climbing and canoe- 
ing, conducted in the best and most approved fashion, and 
after methods which call forth the more manly and 
higher qualities of the men and women who indulge in 
them. h 

With the primitive man, sport, as we use the term, did 
not exist. He killed game or fish in order to stipport 
life. The killing was his business, not his pleasure. It 
was work, not play. If he journeyed from one point to 
another, he wished to cover the ground between them 
as speedily as possible. Sport is an outgrowth of civiliza- 
tion—even of modern civilization—though the lust for 
blood, and the killing merely for the sake of killing, has 
always existed and still exists. 

In this country the sports of the field at first were 
practiced chiefly in the Southern States, partly because the 
settlers there were more pleasure loving than the stern 
Puritans who settled in New England, and partly because 
the mild climate during the season when agricultural 
pursuits could not be carried on fostered the indulgence 
in shooting, fox hunting and fishing. 

On the Continent, in Britain and in the United States, 
how different the definitions of this word. The Belgian 
or the Frenchman shoots larks, and other little birds, and 
proudly terms this “le sport’; the British wildfowler 
shoots at night, and in wild: weather sculls his punt ap 
close to the raft of sleeping ducks, and then turns loose 
his cannon on them and proudly gathers the slain and 
shoots over stich cripples as he can find; the New Eng- 
land fox hunter, lying in wait behind a stone wall or ‘ima 
fence corner, shoots with a shotgun the fox which plays 
before his hounds; the Southern sportsman in headlong 
pursuit follows on horseback the pack that presses closely 
on Reynard’s heels. Are all these forms of recreation 
sport? Is any one of them? This must largely be a 
matter of custom, education, opinion. The Briton’ sneers 
as he speaks of the Frenchman’s game; the American 
thinks the British punt shooter a murderer; contempt too 
deep for words is felt by the Southern fox hunter for him 
of the North. 


A LONG ISLAND DEER PARK. 


SenATOR McKinney has introduced in the Senate of the 
New York Legislature a measure to put into effect a plan 
originally proposed in these columns, the establishment 
of a State game preserve on Long Island. The bill 
provides that the Forest, Fish and Game Commission 
shall acquire for the State a tract of not less than 5,000 
acres in the territory embraced in the towns of Islip, 
Smithtown, Brookhaven, Riverhead and Southampton, and 
shall establish this as a State park for the preservation of 
the forests and the protection and breeding of deer and 
wild game. 

This plan, if put into effect, will araade a refuge for 
the Long Island deer, and will secure the grateful reten- 
tion of a bit of wild life near New York. Mr. McKinney 
should have cordial support. The park is an actual neces- 


’ sity if we are to have any of the wild conditions of Long 


Island preserved. Once secure in this refuge, the deer 
supply will multiply at such a rate as to afford material 
for stocking the hunting grounds of the State, and for 
this reason the text of the bill which provides that “such 
park shall forever be reserved and maintained for the 
free use of all the people, and no game shall be taken 
therein,” might wisely be so amended as to permit the 
taking of live game by the Game Commission for removal 
to the other forest preserves belonging. to the. State, 


42, 


Che Sportsman Tourist. 


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Aunt Hannah at Home. 


AFTER the solemn and depressing air of the black forest 
the light and life of the open hardwood growth seemed 
doubly grateful, though the frost still clung to the leaves 
and made difficult still-hunting in the open beech woods. 
I was not out for meat, however, but rather in search of 
rest by way of a day’s easy-going on the ridge. 

Four days in the “blow-down” after the elusive bull 
moose had about worn out my hot desire for moose 
meat. During those four days we had seen eleven moose, 
counting them regardless of age and sex. Only two of 
these were desirable bulls, but neither of them offered 
anything like a possible shot. Another was a small 
horned three-year-old, which I declined to make my 
choice, preferring to wait fora shot at a big bull. The 
moose we had seen had given us plenty of diversion, and 
what we saw and learned was worth the long hours’ hard 
trailing and the exhaustive labor in the blow-down, the 
cedar swamps and the boggy ash swales, 

Among other things we learned was the call the cow 
moose gives when separated from her calf. Still more 

-interesting was the cry of the youngster when mamma 
had gone away and left him alone confronted by two big 
male humans. 

The latter cry we had practiced, also the mother’s call, 
so that my hunting companion, who can imitate or call 
almost any animal or bird in the North Woods, was 
able on several occasions to so confuse the young moose 
that they would run ditectly from their anxious parent 
and to cause the old moose to give voice to loud and 
solicitous calls, all of which was carefully noted and 
stored away for future use. 

On the ridge the ripened beech nuts were attracting 
such an atray of interesting birds and animals that a day 
among them was better than reading volumes by the best 
fh eee about our feathered and furred neighbors of the 
orest. 

The birds and sniall four-tooted folks seemed grateful 
for the warm sunshine, and there was already considera- 
ble noise and motion in the trees and among the dry 
leaves, where the beechnuts had fallen. I was casting 
about for a comfortable seat where I might sit a few 
hours and watch the gathering oi the harvest. Birch 
buds and beechnuts were plentiful, and just beyond, in 
the edge of the black growth, spruce buds were to be 
gathered. Half a dozen dead snags nearby were crowded 
with sundry succulent worms and toothsome bugs, which 
were an attraction for the hungry woodpecker folk. 

Having found the right spot I was abott to climb up 
to an inviting seat on the leaning fork of a yellow birch, 
when I heard hasty footsteps in the leaves behind me, 
and then the crack of a dry limb, broken, it seemed, be- 
neath the weight of a careless hunter. I turned, and 
there, 60 yards away, just outside the edge of the black 
growth, stood an immense moose. Instinctively the rifle 
was raised, and the white jack sight sought and steadied 
down ‘on the broad foreshoulder of the great animal. 
Firm and easy the rifle covered the game, and the hunt 
was practically finished. I had time to think it over, 
and the train of thought was somewhat like this: “It’s 
too easy; a shame to take such a shot; isn’t it unsports- 
manlike to ‘slam’ him without some warning? But then 
I’ve hunted hard and faithfully for five days, and I’ve re- 
fused to shoot twice because the moose were not up to 
the caliber I needed. Now that the goddess of the hunt 
has sent this noble quarry to me what awful fate might 
be mine if I refused it’ Then I thought how easy it 
would be to “jumper” out a moose from here—not a 
tree to cut nor a yard of woods to be swamped—it was 
like driving him into the camp yard. It was too easy 
indeed. 

All this time—thirty seconds—the moose was standing 
partially concealed by a combination of birch and maple 
trees, browsing on a tall winter beach bush. The height 
of the nose- from the ground made me conclude that it 
must have been the largest moose that ever indiscreetly 
came out of the blow-down to browse in the glare of the 
sun on an open ridge. , 

I waited to see his magnificent antlers. One step 
forward would disclose them, and I was determined to 
feast my eyes on his magnificent proportions before the 
final shot. I was coolly watching him through my Ly- 
man receiver sight, both eyes open and the white bead 
was still resting steadily on the chosen fatal spot. One 
step forward and all would be over, He was moving. 
With sighting eye close to the rifle, a firm grasp and a 
pressure on the trigger steady and cumulative. I waited 
but a second, and then I saw plainly that the head of 
my moose was as hornless as a July jackrabbit. Down 
went rifle, hammer, heart and hopes. I recovered 
quickly. She was a magnificent cow, and here was a 
good opportunity to watch her and, perchance, learn 
something of moose habits. 

As she stepped around briskly, nipping small limbs 
from the winter beach, she took no apparent precautions 
as to noise, nor did she seem to be on the alert, as are the 
deer, caribou and bull moose when feeding. This may 
or may not have been due to the fact that she had been 
on this range and had lived unmolested all her life. 
For hours at a time I have watched caribou on the sum- 
mit of Mt. Katahdin as they pawed away the snow and 
fed on the tender mosses that grow there, and they ap- 
parently relaxed all vigilance while feeding there. In the 
lowlands the caribou have, in most cases, been in a 
hurry to reach some distant point. On only one occa- 
sion have I been able to watch a caribou feeding in the 
lowlands. Some of the cow moose we saw this fall were 
instantly alarmed and ran like frightened rabbits; others 
went away slowly and in a more dignified manner. 

I at once determined to make the most of this op- 
pertunity. A minute later I found that another combina- 
tion of trees screened the cow, and I began the tortuous 
work. of creeping nearer to her. The leaves were still 
crisp and noisy, and under them were twigs and dry 
limbs waiting to cry out a warning. 

Slowly and with infinite care the moccasined foot was 
lowered in the leaves, and if a twig was felt a new place 
had to be tried. Sometimes it took a iull minutes to ga 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


a yard. It took ten minutes to work over to the open 
space, where I expected to see the cow. When that spot 
was gained, no cow was visible. She had apparently 
taken alarm and silently slipped away in the black growth 
near at hand. In my disappointment all vigilance was 
relaxed, and with little hopes of detaining the cow or 
getting another glimpse of her, I gave the call we had 
heard the calves give when seeking their mother. 

This cry resembled no other sound I have heard in the 
woods. It is an explosive, and is somewhat like the bark 
a large dog gives when suddenly alarmed, Written, it 
would be something like “Bonah!” and the calf gives it 
three times in quick succession, and after a brief pause 
adds another more emphatic “‘Bwah!” 

In this bark, however, there is much expression, and 
we could usually detect the fear and anxiety of the calf 
and then note the reassuring or impatient reply of the 
mother. The sounds the cow gave voice to were never 
harsh or unmusical, though in the call to her young 
there was none of the seductive melody heard in her 
long-drawn-out love song early in October, 

As I uttered the last note or bark in my attempt to 
imitate the distressed call of the calf, I saw the cow lying 
in a stall depression net 30 feet away. As she heard 
my cry she paid me the very flattering tribute of merely 
laying back one ear and continuing to chew her cud 
much as a barnyard bossie would do. 

I instantly stood stock still, so did my heart. My stalk 
had been alarmingly successiul, She might have heard 
my heart thump when it again resumed its functions. 


Lying with her back and foreshoulders toward me, she — 


was so foreshortened that I first took her to be a calf or 
a yearling, but the gray along her ridge pole showed her 
tc be a grown-up lady, and not a small one either. A 
small dead juniper tree was directly between ine and 
her eyé 

Standing perfectly still, I watched her for a full min- 
ute, then she moved her head forward a few inches, as if 
to change her range of vision, and her eye was full on 
me. Believing that the slightest movement on my part 
would start her wildly leaping from her bed, I froze in 
my tracks. It seemed a full mimute before she looked 
away, and my desire to rélax was irresistible. I enjoyed 
a brief respite befote the cow again turned her head and 
again looked long and steadily at me. She seemed to 
be wondering how that sttinip came there, and ttying to 
recall whether it had been there when she laid down. 

It was the guess: “Maybe Injun; maybe stump;” and 
her conclusion seemed to ve “Guess stump,” That ended 
her observation for the time, and I slowly and paintully 
worked back a yard and sat down on a small log. 

It is my belief that deer and moose are deficient in the 
discrimination of colors, On several occasions J have 
sat and watched deer, and have had them stare steadily 
at me at short range, and never detect me or realize the 
supposed danger of the proximity of man. On these 
occasions | have worn a mackinaw coat of fearful and 
wonderful pattern and color scheme. The colors are 
chiefly yellow, red, blue and gray, plentifully interspersed 
with fir balsam gum, ashes, clay and other honest stains 
incidental to life near to nature and the earth. True, 
these colors are all of the autumn woods, the sky and the 
trees, but nothing but reckless man could have made 
such a blending of colors or lack of blending colors as 
there is in that mackinaw suit. But that cow moose laid 
there calmly chewing her fine-cut, and surveyed that 
coat, and finally guessed it was a stump. She was not 
exceptionally stupid, for other moose, deer and various 
small animals, and even a few birds, have done the same, 
the animals seeming to rely on motion or scent to tell 
them of danger. 

They all note smoke quickly, and are uniformly 
alarmed at the thinnest puff. I found, however, that 
black mittens were at once looked on with suspicion. 

Just what sort of a stump that moose figured it out to 
be will probably remain a secret locked in her bosom. 
Possibly the cedar chips and spruce spills in my whiskers 
aided the illusion, though it was an unconscious decep- 
tion. 


After being seated, I underwent another brief careless _ 


scrutiny, and stood the ordeal better. Watch in hand, I 
timed the cow’s chews, and noted that she cut her spear- 
head seventy-three chews per minutes. This information 
is given freely to science. Sometime I hope to make 
other observations fot comparison. She may haye been 
nervous, and consequently masticating over-hastily. 

Aunt Hanna lay basking in the warm sunlight only 
a few minutes before she was discovered by the inevita- 
bie red squirred. He was as much exercised oyer his 
discovery as if she was the first cow moose ever seen on 
the range, 

“Hey, fellers!” he screamed, “come and see what's eat- 
in’ all the beechnuts! Br-r-rr-rrrr-chut-chut-chut, quee, 
quee, quee!” and with unparalleled impudence he leaped 
on the juniper tree above the moose’s head and began 
heaping epithets on her. Atintie never noticed him, and 
after a few minutes, he left off and began his labors of 
hiding beechnuts where he would probably never find 
them. 

In a few seconds he worked over where he saw me, 
and he seemed to choke with rage. He started to scream, 
but gulped it down, leaped on a projecting limb and 
pressed his right hand over his heart to stop its thump- 
ing while he listened so intently that he must have heard 
my limited ticket expiring. Then he sat up and pressed 
both hands on his chest and listened again. Satisfied that 
I was making all the noise in the woods, he swelled his 
cheeks in anger, while his eyes flashed vengeance. First 
he patted softly on the limb with his forefeet, then more 
emphatically with his hindfeet, and then did a hornpipe 
with all four feet, all the while chittering and gnashing 
his teeth and making as much noise as a steam sawmill. 

“Flere’s the er-r-reature who stole all the beechnuts 


on the ridge,” he shrieked wildly, “come on, boys, let's” 


skin ‘im and eat 7im alive.” ; / 

That was what he had threatened to do with Auntie, 
and emulating her dignified example, I sat still and let 
the bloodthirsty monster wear out his rage. : 

The cow paid not the slightest attention to all this row, 
but went on in her silent rumination. 

When the red pirate had gone away,a gorby (Canada 
jay), soft of voice and sad-eyed, came down and perched 
near the moose, and after looking us both over, whistled 


) 
[Jan. 18, 1902. 


softly, but gave no word of warning to the moose; m 
sign of encouragement to me. Then hé flew silently 
away toward the black forest. 

Not so with his quarrelsome blue playmate, who flew 
over, wheeled and came down with noisy flutter and 
alighted with ostention about four feet above my eyes. 
Good-by, peaceful scene, was my conclusion. 

The bluejay sat eyeing me sharply for a minute, his 
crest erect and aggressive. Then he sttoothed down his 
wat bonnet and settled his feathers and smiled in a) 
friendly way, as if to say, “Now, old chap, let’s be; 
friends,” \ 

I sat perfectly quiet. This passive attitude he received: 
as aneftrontery. After fidgetitig fora tnoment, he looked’ 
at the moose, then at me. His war bonnet was again’ 
erected, feathers fluffed up, and an air of battle pervaded. 
the scene. ¥ 

“Cheeay! Assassin! Murderer and robber of birds? 
nests. I'll pick you to a ftazzle in two seconds. D’ye 
hear me?” 

This was too inuch. Aunt Hannah stopped chewitig 
her spearhead and looked about inquiringly for a mo- 
ment, then, after a glance at the jay that plainly said, 
“Imbecile bird,” resumed her siesta, 

“T’ll bring my gang, and we'll do you up in two rounds!) 
Cheeay, yeeay!” and over the treetops he fluttered, only) 
te forget us the moment he saw another opportunity for) 
a quarrel. 

After a monotonous period of waiting, I decided to. 
have some action. A mild shuffling in the leaves failed to: 
attract the moose’s attention. Taking a small dry limb, 
I broke it with a sharp snap. The cow’s left ear went 
back, Another break; right ear back; third break, chew-, 
ing ceased. "1 

The cow turned het head toward the black stowth, pit 
both het ears forward and gazed intently ifitto the sloomy 
depths. Presently she resumed her forther attitude and 
ruminations. Two minutes I waited, casting about for 
some method of arousing the moose ftom her reverie 
without alarming her. 

Suddenly she made a gteat leap forward, clearin® 
about ro feet at a bound, and cottiing directly toward me- 
Then I, too, made a great leap, but not forward. Re- 
treating quickly, I found my inclination was to raise the 
hammer of my rifle. The cow stopped within 20 feet of} 
tne and looked me over. At fitst she took me for a’ 
lumber camp hunter, and had visions of her parts deco- 
rating the interior of a lumber camp pork barrel. A 
second glance must have showed her that I lacked that 
sleek, well-groomed appearance that lumber camp hunt- 
ers affect. Then she got angry. The hair on her neck 
bristled and stood on end; so did mine. Her eyes were 
wide and staring; so were mine. Her heart was beating, 
violently; mine too. Her manner plainly said, “Young 
feller, I can kick the wadding out of you, and for two 
bites of moosewood bark I’d do it, too.” 

My outward attitude was, “Old cow, I could throw you 
on your back in two seconds, and if it wasn’t for your 
lacking horns I’d carry you down the bark road on my 
shoulders.” 

Tt was a game of ptire bluff. The moose turned her 
head toward the black growth; I followed her gaze, but 
could see nothing there. She took a quick step toward 
me, and things were looking bad. To have retreated 
further would have been to have left the only good: 
climbing tree I could find, beside it might have meant 
ignominious flight, and possible pursuit, and there was 
real danger in that. 

I decided to open conversation with her to try my 
powers of persuasion. “Where are you going?” I asked } 
in a voice that I did not recognize. Perhaps I would | 
have added, “my pretty maid,” but my throat was too 
dry for further utterance. I wanted to telephone Mie 
Carleton.to come and get his cow before she got into 
trouble. 

The moose stopped at the first word, turned her head | 
disdainfully aside, but watched me narrowly with one red | 
and gleaming eye. She walked slowly away a dozen: 
paces, and my heart came back into my chest with a 
thump. When she stepped on the dry leaves she made | 
scarcely a sound. Her movements were a revelation in 
still-hunting, She stepped over every limb and twig, 
never a sound from her as she moyed quickly but grace- 
fully and silently, away. She stopped and stood for 
scime seconds about 35 yards away, and presented a most | 
magnificent sight. I cannot describe her. Take Carl 
Rungius’ “Alert,” remove antlers and bell, substitute 
light, hardwood growth for the more sombre background, | 
and you have her. Tall of withers, magnificent pro- 
portions, head high in the ait, and power, freedom and 
fearlessness in every curve. Her long back and heayy 
shoulders were sttperbly moulded, her rounded buttocks 
as fair of line as a racing yacht. Built for speed, and 
power, and yet how gracefully and quickly she could 
move, with none of that knock-kneed, wobbly look the 
captive moose all appear to have. She was a thorough- 
bred, and seemed to realize it. I wanted my camera, and 
felt like bending the rifle around a tree. i 

The cow moved away, circling toward the black growth 
noiselessly, never failing to watch me closely, yet there 
was no apparent fear, no precipitate flight. Near the 
edge of the black growth I stopped her with a call. Then- 
I tried a call for the calf, which I hoped to bring out into 
the open growth, but he was too wise and made no re- 


ply. At this call the cow seemed to waver for a moment, 


looking back at me, then she plunged into the gloomy 
woods, and I heard a great crashing as she heedlessly 
forced her way through the forest, breaking great dead 
limbs and snags in her flight. : 

Quarter of a mile away, her trail showed where she 
had been joined by the calf, and together they were 
traveling in a long, swinging trot southward toward the 
safety of the blow-down. : 

At this season (early part of November), the cow 
moose and bulls were not likely to be found together. 
The cows with their calves were ranging in the open, 
while the bulls stayed close to or actually inside the 
blow-down. I saw two bulls together on Noy. 1, and 
found where both of them had been rubbing their horns 
on small fir trees. From a point 3 feet from the ground 
up to a point 8 or 9 feet high all the bark had been 
scraped off the trees. } Mm 

The larger bull had made some deep abrasions in the 


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fir, and some of the scratches on the tree were nearly 
1o feet from the ground, 

A word about the blow-down: A few years ago a 
hurricane swept over that section of Maine designated 
on the map as “2, Range 7.” From a point near the 
east side of the East Branch of the Penobscot River, near 
Deer Island, five miles above’ Grindstone falls, to a 
point five miles directly east the hurricane cut a swath 
trom three-quarters of a mile to a mile and a half wide. 
_ The great destruction wrought by the storm can only 
be realized by viewing the scene. But if you want to see 
it, my advice would be to charter a balloon. The main 
blow-down is fringed on either side by minor blow- 
downs, which are calculated to deceive the unwary 
hunter and lure him on to the greater hardship of the 
main jungle. Trees, large and small, are laid in great 
tangled masses, and interwoven with them are saplings 
and second growth poplars and birches, and an under- 
growth of briers and vines. Here all the game, large 
and small, that inhabit the Maine woods, are to be 
found, but don’t go there hunting for them. 

FRANK BE, WOLFE. 


Game and Hunting in Merry 
England. 


Ir is yet early spring, but here in Taunton Vale, in 
the south of England, the hawthorn hedges, crowned with 
fragrant bloom, are white as banks of snow in sunshine. 
So closely are the branches interwoven that the song 
birds can hardly find a nesting place among them, but 
yet from many a little opening come the twitterings of 
the babes in the nest, while high up in the cloudless sky 
the lark pours out his wondrous melody, and the gold- 
finch is singing blithely among the willows on the banks 
of Tone. The primrose and daisies nestle close against 
the hedge, and’ cover all its base with color, filling the 
air with delicate perfume; and the buttercups are here, 
too, with their gleam. of gold, and on the lower ground 
beside the water the Canterbury bells and the lilies of 
the valley. Here in this opening through the hedge the 
hares and rabbits go in and out irom grain field to 
meadow, and the fox’s cub is now peeping out, but 
seeing me, draws back his pointed nose and runs off 
to his burrow under the hill. Everywhere is melody 
and perfume—the air vibrates with bird songs, and the 
green fields are dotted over with grazing sheep. Down 
yonder by the brook, where the trout are leaping from 
the water after the cloud of many-colored flies that 
hover it, a pathway leads on to the little wayside inn, 
where I haye spent many happy evenings listening to 
the keeper’s tales of midnight adventures with poachers 
on the great preserves. On the stile that crosses the 
hedge, under the shade of the great elms, sit two lovers 
—he is only a shepherd lad and she a dairy maid, but 
both seem quite as happy as any lord and lady in, all 
the realm of merry England; and why should they not 
be? Do wealth and titles bring happiness, or coronets 
heal broken hearts? No, verily; it is youth and [love 
and ruddy health, with all our dreams of future pleasures 
yet before us in their unclouded beauty—they may all 
pass away like the glories of the morning, and disap- 
pointment darken all the years to come, but the shep- 
herd lad on the stile beside his sweetheart is happier 
than a king, There is a loud whirr of wings in the air 


above me; it is only the flight of a golden pheasant from . 


the open fields, where he has been feeding, to the great 
fir woods of the game preserve. But here in this hazel 
thicket is a dead hare, caught in a gin, and yonder, 
under the hedge, among the ferns, I caught a glimpse 
a moment ago of the brown velvet of a game-keeper’s 
sleeve, He is watching for the poacher to come to get 
the hare. I pass on down the hedge, book in hand, and 
he takes no notice; he knows me well, and has told me 
many a story of gipsy poachers, over a bottle of ale, at 
the wayside inn. But yonder comes a great, slouching, 
ragged ruffian, peering uneasily from side te side. He 
cannot see me, for I have stepped behind a gonse bush 
all ablaze with golden bloom. He creeps on slowly 
toward the gin; now he sees the dead hare in the trap 
and seizes it, and the under-keeper, gun in hand, bounds 
from his hiding place, and the culprit, cowed and unre- 
sisting, is led away to stand his trial before the ‘squire 
and then serve out the sentence that is sure to follow in 
the county jail. 
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No other country in the world possesses game birds 
and animals of the chase in such abundance as England. 
Stags, fallow deer, otters, foxes, hares and rabbits abound 
everywhere, and, notwithstanding the fact that they have 
been hunted for a thousand years and more, so carefully 
have they been protected by the sporting gentry that 
their numbers appear to increase rather than to become 
diminished. Fine packs of stag, otter, fox and beagle 
hounds are kept in every county, not to mention harriers, 
pointers, setters, spaniels, greyhounds, and the many 
different breeds of terriers, and other, hunting dogs. 
Legislative protection, together with the systematic and 
scientific methods employed in the rearing and preserva- 
tion of game, have always kept England well supplied 
with game birds and animals of the chase, which the 
aristocratic sportsman loves to shoot in the coverts, er 
follow on spirited hunter over meadow and moorland, 
leaping gates, hedges, dykes and streams with a reckless 
disregard of danger that would amaze the rough riders 
of the West, And the ladies, too, join in the mad race 
with equal zest and courage, and at the inspiring cry 
of “Tally-ho!” or “Hark away!” urge on their hunters 
over every thing that bars the way, and are quite often 
the first in at the death. It takes fifty-two hounds to 
_ make a pack in England. Then, too, the great preserves 
_-are filled with pheasants, grouse and woodcock, upon 
. which the noble sportsmen love to turn their guns 
during the shooting season. The guns are loaded and 
handed to them by the keepers, and are fired so rapidly 
that the preserve is soon filled with dead and dying 
~ “birds. These are all collected by the keepers, and those 
not intended for the master’s table or as presents for his 
friends, are distributed among his tenantry. 

The Ground Game Act provides that the tenant far- 
mer shall be entitled to all the hares and rabbits found 
on the farm; but the landlord generally informs him 


that he must, either let them alone or give up the land. 
The right to carry a gun in England costs a man a half 
pound, and to kill game with it adds four pounds more. 
The game-keepers are true and trusty, and perfectly 
familiar with the haunts and habits of every wild animal 
on the preserves. They know where the she fox has her 
burrow, and the pheasant her nest, and they wage un- 
ceasing war against all crows and magpies, which eat 
the eggs, and weasels, stoats and polecats, which de- 
stroy the young of hares, rabbits and all game birds. 
Owls, too, are fond of all the young things under the 
keeper's care; and he sets steel traps on the tops of poles, 


where these birds of the darkness are almost sure to 


alight, and as the trap is of circular form, and covers 
over the top of the post, it is not noticed, and many 
are taken in this way and nailed up with other depre- 
dators in the keeper's museum. The domestic cat is 
an incorrigible poacher, and is shot by the keepers when- 
ever found trespassing on the preserves. Foxes also 
destroy a great deal of game; but their depredations must 
be endured with patience, as they are far too valuable 
to the gentlemen of the hunt, to be in any way molested, 
and they are indeed always most carefully protected by 
the game-keeper and his assistants. 

If the poultry of the tenant farmer is carried off by 
foxes, it is always paid for by the members, of the hunt. 
The pheasant is the most beautiful and highly prized of 
all the game birds of Great Britain; was originally a 
native of the banks of the River Phasis, in Asia Minor, 
was brought to Europe by the Greeks, and introduced 
into England by the Romans; and though countless gen- 
erations of these splendid birds have been bred in avia- 
ries, they have never been domesticated, and if given 
a chance of liberty gladly fly away to the woods and 
coverts. The hen pheasant is a poor mother, and rarely 
rears a fair-sized brood from the fifteen or eighteen eggs 
she lays in April. These are of a uniform olive-brown 
color, and nearly spherical in shape. Any one finding 
a pheasant’s nest and reporting it to the keeper re- 
ceives from him a shilling; and all the eggs that are 
fcund are hatched under domestic hens of some of the 
smaller breeds; and for this purpose all the broody ones 
that can be had among the neighboring farmers are 
brought up and kept in aviaries, ready to be set on 
pheasants’ eggs. The hens are set in coops in the open 
fields, little walks being always leit between the rows, 
and branches of yew and fir trees spread around them on 
the ground, for the young birds to shelter under. 

These are fed on rabbit meat, boiled with eggs, and 


meal, and when weaned are almost tamed, but soon be- 


come quite wild and fly away to the preseryes and 
coverts. Sometimes pure white pheasants are seen, and 
are remarkably beautiful birds; but no effort has ever 
been made, I believe, to breed them true to color, The 
largest pheasantry in the world is the property of King 


Edward VII. at Sandringham, where from 500 to 600 . 


hens are kept in the most perfect and costly aviaries ever 
built in any country. 

Pheasants roost at night in trees, and crow not unlike 
the ‘young male chicken. They fly with great rapidity, 
but cannot prolong their flight to any great distance; 
and while many may be lost to the lord of the manor 
by flying away to some neighboring preserve, he will 
probably gain as many in return from other owners. The 
gipsies that wander everwhere up and down the green 
secluded lanes of England, are the most inveterate poach- 
ers in the kingdom. They are quite as well skilled in 
woodcraft and forest lore as the most experienced and 
observing keeper, and are successful, bold and cunning. 
They can closely imitate the cry of any animal, and are 
experts in the making of traps and thre*setting of wires; 
they know how to cover a hedgehog over with clay and 
thus escape annoyance from his spines, and then bake 
him in an oven on the hot coals of their camp-fires. 
When out at night on poaching expeditions they are gen- 
erally accompanied: by lurchers—cross-bred dogs re- 


-sembling a mongrel greyhound, having pricked ears, a 


shaggy coat and usually of a yellowish white color. They 
are very fleet and always hunt in silence; they are thor- 
oughly trained, will immediately conceal themselves on 
the approach of a stranger, and are excellent retrievers, 
carrying every hare and rabbit they may catch to their 
master, and laying it down at his feet. Rabbits are 
caught by poachers by spreading nets before their bur- 
rows, then the lurchers are sent out to drive them in; 
many becoming entangled in the meshes of the net are 
taken before they can extricate themselves and escape. 
Hares are frequently captured in the same way, only 
the nets are then stretched before the gates and gaps in 
the hedges, and as a hare will weigh from 10 to 14 
pounds, and is of excellent flavor, it is more sought 
alter by poachers than any other animal on the preserves. 

These trespassers when out on their raids at night keep 
out scouts and sentinels, to watch the keepers, and give 
warning of their approach. The danger signal—always 
agreed upon among themselves before setting out—may 
be the closely imitated ery of some night bird, the bark- 
ing of a fox or the bleating of a lamb, When discov- 
ered by the keepers, and unable to escape by flight, they 
try to conceal themselves behind hedges, at the bottom 
of ditches, or among the thick foliage of some evergreen 
tree. Sometimes, however, desperate battles are fought, 
and they are either killed:or kill the keepers. 
¥ % * * * * * * 

I was sitting in the little parlor of the wayside inn 
one evening, talking to John Hunter, head keeper to 
Lord Talbot, of Castle Tone, County Somerset. “And 
so you are going over seas to teach in America,” he 
said. ‘Well, I am sorry that we are to lose you here. I 
heard his lordship say after he came back from the 
grand tour, ‘That a man may travel far before he sees a 
finer bit of old earth’s crust than Taunton Vale.’ ”’ 

And he was quite right, Hunter,’ I replied. “I do not 
expect to find a finer; but wages are better there than 
here; so I have decided to sail next week and try my 
luck in the Great Republic. But before we part, tell me 
another of your adventures with the poachers.” 

“Well, Master James,” he answered,’ I have told you 
about all, I believe, that would interest you, unless it were 
about how I came to get my wife.” 

“Tell me it, by all means, Hunter,” I exclaimed, eagerly, 
for he was better educated than most of his class in 
England, and told a story well, 


yotir opinions en matters of grave import. 


“T was only an under-keeper then,” he continued, “and 
was shaving a deal of trouble with the poacliers, Many 
soldiers from the Vale had served their time in India, and 
other foreign lands, and came home again—some as noble 
fellows as ever followed the fife and drum to battle, and 
others teckless, idle and dissipated. Some of them 
married, but would not work, and trespassed on my lord’s 
preserves, and kept all us keepers busy every night. One 
we killed, and several were captured, and we were be- 
ginning to hope that the worst of it was over. A poor 
widow, whose husband was killed in the Zulu war, where 
the Prince of France lost his life, was living on the 
estate, and her daughter Mary was a splendid girl, and I 
was in love with her, but she was shy, and I could never 
meet her where we two could be alone together—just 
seemed to always keep out of my way, you see. Well, 
one night I was out on the preserve down by the brook, 
sir, at the eastern border, when I heard a game cock 
crow not far away. You know, I believe, Master James, 
that the male pheasant is a most pugnacious bird, and 
always ready for a battle, night or day; so the poachers 
take a fighting cock with them sometimes, and when he 
crows the pheasant will answer him and fly down from 
his roost, and as he is no match for the cock, armed as he 
always is on these forages with sharp steel gaffs; he is 
soon killed and slipped into the poacher’s bag. Well, I 
had been creeping silently all the time toward the spot, 
and presently I heard the cock crow again. “Curse you,’ 
I was thinking to myself, ‘if I don’t wring your neck 
and march your thieving master off to Castle Tone be- 
fore you are much older my name is not John Hunter. 
Strange it is,’ I mused, that such rubbish come safely 
home from war, while their betters fall in battle” Just 
then, sir, I peeped out through the bushes, which con- 
cealed me, and as the young moon was shining faintly 
through the hazy clouds, and there were a few stars in 
the sky, I could make out objects quite distinctly some 
distance from me, and now what do you suppose I saw?” 

“A worthless soldier home from wars he never fought 
in, John, or a vagabond gipsy poacher,” I answered. 

“No, Master James,” he replied, “it was my sweet- 
heart, Mary, the widow’s daughter, standing there with 
the gamecock on her hand! In a moment I was at her 
side. She did not scream or try to run away; only stood 
there weeping. ‘Now, my lass,’ I said, laughing, ‘you go 
with me either to the parson or the ’squire—make your 
choice.’ But she only wept the more and begged me not 
to tell his lordship; said her mother was very sick and 
could eat nothing in the house, and that she had bor- 
rowed the gamecock, and was trying to get a pheasant 
for her. Well, I took her home, and before we got there 
we were promised to each other, and next morning I 
told his lordship all about it, except that I wanted to 
marry the lass. It was just at the beginning of the 
shooting season, and the castle was filled with guests, and 
my lord was a little flushed with wine. ‘You are an 
honest fellow, Hunter, he said, ‘and ‘tis a d—m shame 
that the poor woman should be sick and in want, for 
ker husband died for old England. Well, we will see 
what can be done,’ and he walked away to join a party 
of noblemen who were going down to the stables to see 
the horses. Well, directly I heard shouts of laughter, 
and the’ master saying, ‘By Jove, Lord George! that’s 
just the thing,’ and then he called me to them. “Hunter,’ 
he said, ‘you will go to the butler, and tell him from 
me to have a hamper filled with food, with half a dozen 
bottles of wine, sent with my compliments, to the widow 
Wilson. Then go there yourself and say that Dr. Will- 
jams will call this evening, and tell that little poacher that 
I mtst see her immediately’ Well, Master James, I 
went away wondering to myself what it all meant. Mary 
was badly frightened when I told her what his lordship’s 
crders were, and began to cry, but her mother com- 
forted her, and bade her go and see what the master’s 
pleastre was. Well, when we came near the castle a 
great group of noblemen came down to meet us and 
escorted us into the great dinine hall. Then his lord- 
ship arose and said, ‘My lords and gentlemen, I want 
Here before 
you is one of my serving maids that was taken on my 
preserve at midnight with a gamecock on her hand try- 
ing to lure my pheasants to their deaths; and here is one 
of my under keepers that has been neglecting his duties, 
and instead_of capttiting poachers, as in honor bound, 
has been guarding thém safely home; and is it for the 
glory of old England that young men and maidens 
should wander together about the fields and forests at the 
solemn midnight hour?’ ‘No! by Jupiter Ammon!” cried 
young Lord George Fenwick, springing to his feet. 
‘Such things are not to be tolerated, unless we want to 
bring the fain fabric of our empire in ruins upon our 
heads. I can see no way out of this sea of trouble ex- 
cept the culprits marry, and I will give £5 to help start 
them housekeeping. What say you all, my lords, and 
gentlemen?’ ‘There is neo other way, Lord George,’ 
they said, ‘and we each give £5 as a‘wedding present.’ 
‘Well, the matter is settled then, and the marriage cere- 
mony will be celebrated in this hall at precisely 8 o'clock,’ 
said Lord Talbot; and so it was, Master James, with 
great festivities.” James M. McCann. 


The Juicy Season. 


De rabbit run 
From the white man gun, 
(Come down on dat trigger!) 
De possum say, 
“T gone terday— ; 
I mus’ hide out f’um dat nigger!” 


Fer hit’s good times now in Georgy, 
In de country en de town; 
*Taters in de ashes, 
En possum bakin’ brown! 


De turkey say: 
“Who come my way, 
En knock at the henhouse do’? 
T mus’ roos’ ez high 
Ez the big blue sky, 
Or de nigger got me sho’!”’ 


Fer hit’s good times now in Georgy, 
In de country en de ‘town; 
Take yo’ place en say yo’ grace, 
Fer de turkey gettin’ brown! 
—Atlanta Constitution, 


’ 
A Tennessee Outing.—IV. 

My appetite had steadily improved with outdoor life, 
and was now only subservient to actual capacity. 

My companion of the afternoon wondered, and yet the 
wonder grew, as I ate one after another bountiful help, 
and finally proceeded to give me full and explicit direc- 
tions for finding him if his services were required during 
the night, But his fears regarding my comfort were 
groundless, for many a night have I suffered more dis- 
comfort from a tea of crackers and milk—“when chained 
to business’ —than I did that night literally stuffed with 
hog and hominy, alter a day afield. 

Apropos of the subject, but—per contra—I recall an 
experience of my friend the Doctor, related that evening 
as we sat around the fire. It was beechwood that night, 
and the fire purred and sang until it reminded me of a 
pack of hounds in the distance, and that reminded the 
Doctor of a fox hunt he had taken part in when a boy, 
that had to do with nearly everything but a fox, and yet 
Was interesting and amusing to others. This is the story, 
as I remember it, and it loses much for want of the earn- 
estness of the narrator to whom the experience yet re- 
mained a very vivid memory, though years had passed 
by since the events occurred. 

“Some young fellows in my neighborhood had arranged 
fora grand fox hunt on Thanksgiving Day, and in order 
to reach the rendezvous on time, it was necessary for 
me to start from home by 3 o'clock, A. M. Excited, and 
busy with my preparations, I ate scarcely any supper the 
night before, and made no preparations for breakfast, or 
a lunch to carry with me. 

We covered much ground, but found no fox to chase, 
and about noon—tiréd, cold, and almost starved, I 
found myself near the little town of Jonesville. Riding 
inta the village I stabled my horse and started for the 
tavern to get dinner, when out of a store, and almost 
into my arms hurried old “Squire West, a warm friend 
of my family and a prominent citizen of the little town. 

* “Why, how-dye, Jim,’ said he, shaking my hand most 
cordially. ‘How are all the folks?’ 

“T returned his salutation and replied to his questions 
briefly as possible, for the tavern bell was ringing for 
dinner, and I was hungry enough to fight a dog for his 
bone, 

““Come on now,’ he then said, ‘I am just starting home 
to dinner, and you must go with me.’ 

“Tle was a good provider, and his wife a famous 
housekeeper, and I would have given my horse for a 
chance at the Thanksgiving dinner he would haye, but 
I recalled the fact that he had four pretty daugh- 
ters, all young atid full of mischief, of whom I stood in 
mortal terror, and after hemming and hawing for a bit, 
I slibly assured him that I would be ever so glad to go, 
but that I had eaten dinner and must soon start for 
home. 

“Then he expressed his regrets and left me, and | 
realized that my chance for a dinner was gone, as he 
would certainly know if I dined at the tavern, and be 
deeply offended. J all but erted. 1 

I had promised to spend the night with some cousins, 
eight or ten miles out in the country; so giving my 
horse a good feed, and devoutly hoping that they would 
have an early supper, I set forth on my long, cold ride. 
Arriving at the house, I found that they were entertaining 
some friends, and the party had just left the dinner table 
as I rode up. 

‘here were several young peaple, and among them, 
to my dismay, I noticed two of my friend "Squire West's 
daugliters, the fear of whom had cost me my dinner at 
Jonesville, 

“ly aunt welcomed me cordially, and insisted on my 


having some dinner; but, added to my embarrassment at, 


receiving the inyitation in the presence of the large 
assembly of gtests, was the thought that the: Misses 


West might tell of my dining there, and cause the. 


hospitable old "Squire to become offended; so, although 
I was positively ravenous, I determined to try to hold 
out until supper. bao 

“My aunt must have thought me unusually appreciative 
of kindness, for there were real tears in my eyes as I 
thanked her, and declined her invitation, on the plea of 
haying dined. 

“Tt was a jolly crowd of young folks, and they made 
the old house ring with their games that afternoon, ‘but 


the only real interest I could feel was in the passing © 


hours. 
“Tt did seem as though the day would never end and 


supper time come. I was savagely hungry, and could 
think of nothing but something to eat. 

“Finally, toward dusk, one of the boys started to the 
barn to look after the feeding of the stock, and, excusing 
myself, | accompanred him, 

“What time do we have stippet, Tom?’ I asked, as 
soon as we got out, hoping that my effort to appear 
unconcerned was a success, 

“Supper,” said he, ‘Oh, we don't have supper at all, 
just two meals a day now is our rule. Hope you are 
not getting hungry, for I saw the cook skin out for 
home right after dinner~and she lives five miles away, 
anil will not give us an early breakfast to-morrow.’ 

“Getting hungry! 

“Suffering Moses! I was hungry enough to eat taw 

dog. 
“T was growing weak with hunger, and could not so 
tnuch as look forward to an early breakfast next morning, 
and it was now too late to start for home, or for any 
friend’s house where they did have supper. 

“T tried to tell my cousin that I was not much hungry 
—which was the truth, for that adjective did not, by any 
means, describe my condition—and leaving him, rather 
uncermoniously, returned to the house, hoping for an 
opportunity of seeing my aunt alone, determined to tell 
her that as I had dined early, a bit of a lunch would be 
acceptable, but she was settled down, apparently for the 
evening, with ber guests, and bashfulness prevented my 
approaching her with a request that I knew would pro- 
voke the young people's mirth. : 

‘Nearly all the guests were to spend the might at the 
house, and have a real, old-fashioned Thanksgiving even- 
ing, so there was nothing for it but to grit my teeth and 
touch it out until next moning. ; ; 

“A+ some time during the horrors of the interminable 
evening aunt raised my hopes by asking, generally; 
‘Don't you all want a bite to eat? We can find something 


FOREST AND STREAM. | 


cold.” I choked off, with a pretended cough, the shout 
of assent that nearly escaped me, and then waited in 
breathless anxiety for the others to answer. After a 
moment’s silence, which I fervently hoped would be taken 
as an indication of the affirmative, a fat litile old lady 
replied: “Why,‘no, indeed! We certainly don’t need 
anything more to eat to-day after we haye all had a big 
Thanksgiving dinner, and so late as we ate, too.’ And 
not a protest was offered against this dictum. — 


“I hope no one noticed the look I cast upon that fat, . 


well fed old lady, as thus she snatched away the last 
chance of succor from me—poor, starving wretch that ] 
was—ior there was foul murder in my breast. I felt 
fully willing and able to kall, cook and eat her on the 


pot. 

“That the evening dragged on, and my pangs of hunger 
steadily increased, is about all I remember, until bed- 
time came, when one of the young ladies brought in a 
plate of cake, small slices, and cut thin. I wolfishly 
watched it go round, and grow less, and was almost be- 
side myself with rage when the fat old party that had 
killed my hopes of a cold lunch, helped herself to two 
slices. Three little, thin sheets was all that reached me, 
and as others remained unseryed—and were watching me 
—one was all I got, 

The restless sleep that visited me that night was 
broken often, and each awakening dragged me away from 
a table groaning with its load of good things to eat. 

“I was one of the first to answer the summons to 
breakfast, and if I live to be a thousand years old, 
will neyer forget the taste of the turkey hash and corn 
batter cakes. You may talk about the rest cure for 
stomach troubles, but my opinion is that such treatment 
is at the expense of the morals, 

“T am fully convinced of a literal dual existence. John 
is two men. John, well fed, is one, and John, hungry, 
the other, 1 

“You well fed, moral John, put yourself in the place 
of the John demoralized by hunger, and your charity 
will extend even to the chicken thief.” 


I had thought that I would not tell about old Jack’s 
fall from grace, but as my last day was one of those off 
days—the kind when a fellow misses the difficult shot, 
and cannot hit the easy ones—and as the dog was really 
lacking in the sympathy that I sorely 
actually seemed to think my wretched shooting inten- 
tional, will just serve him right by telling on him. 

It occurred on the Sabbath following the rainy Satur- 
day that we burned out the chimney, as related here- 
tofore, 

On our arrival we had tound the premises guarded by 
2 shepherd dog, an old, battle-scarred veteran. He 
seemed a dear, good old fellow,.and in youth was prob- 


ably a handsome and useful collie, but age had roughened _ 


his coat, stiffened his joints and dimmed the brightness 
of his eye. He still thought himself some dog, and 
grew quite chesty whenever Jack came near. I have 
always spoken of Jack as essentially gentle, and so he 
was, generally. A cross word to him was what a blow 
was to other dogs, and a real scolding all but broke his 
heart. For seyeral days I watched well to see that the 


rough old shepherd did not act rudely toward my gentle 


dog. <All went well until the memorable Sabbath in 
question. The minister dined with us, and there was 
other company. Jack, wads chained to the handle of a 
small trunk in an alcove of the porch, between the 
sitting and dining rooms. After dinner I brought him 
a plate of table scraps, and found the shepherd lying a 
short distance away on the porch, looking rathér cross. 

Putting the plate down by Jack I ordered Shep away, 
and watched him until he got to the far end of the porch. 
I then went into the sitting room and joined the pleasant 
circle round the fire. Exactly what happened between 
the two dogs in the next few moments history does not 
relate. 

We were all brought up standing by a din that even 
the preacher. styled infernal, Rushing to the door to 
save dear, gentle old Jack irom any rough treatment, 
we found that “gentle” Jack had retired, for the time 
being, and had been succeeded by a fighting dog that was 
simply a holy terror. 

Over and over, like an enraged tom cat, he was going, 
shaking the shepherd like a rat, being fast to his throat. 
Every few seconds his hold would break, but before the 
other dog could gather himself, Jack would spring on 
him and pin him again by the throat. 

From end to end of the porch they fought, Jack forcing 
the fighting and dragging the trunk at the end of his 
chain. He was positively another dog, and looked like 
he had never known a peaceful moment in all his life, 
while his language and howls of rage were shocking. 

It was only after many unsuccessftil efforts that we 
succeeded in getting them separated, and then it was 
accomplished by dragging them forcibly apart, requiring 
the combined strength of as many of us as could get 


hold of each dog. 


Jack had what seemed his favorite hold, on the finish, 
a good throat grip,'and we stretched the shepherd's 
neck until he looked like an embryo giraffe before it 
finally broke loose. ; J 

Both dogs were game, and willing to resume the fight, 
but dear, gentle old Jack (as I had been wont to call 
him) was a taging wild beast. He dragged his trunk 
all over the porch, and out in to the yard, looking for 


_ the enemy, after Shep had been locked in the cellar, and 


kept up his belligerent attitude the remainder of the 
visit, never eating a meal without stopping several times 
to look for, and grow! defiance at. Shep. : 

Speaking of the occurrence to Jack’s master, alter re- 
turning home, he seemed in no wise surprised, and said 
that although so kind and gentle, as a general thing, the 
old dog never refused to fight, when pressed, and had 
whipped every dog in his immediate neighborhood. 

And then—all too soon—came that period known as 
the last day; that day ‘which comes sooner or later to 
round off the various events that go to make up the 
little span of time allotted mortals. Jack and I got out 
early that last morning, for we were to start the return 
trip at noon. - { 

My friend, the Doctor, put in the first hour or two of 
the glorious day with us, but was soon reminded, by 
the ache in his arm, caused by carrying a good condi- 
Hioned rabit that early fella vietim, that he had important 
business at the house. 


needed, and, 


‘mountain range. 


. Lan. 18, 1908, 


There were no features of special interest about our 
last thotning, except the wind up. - . 

We had found few birds, and had missed many of those, 
and it looked as though we would travel with light game 
pockets on the homeward journey. We were working 
out the last bit of cover before laying a straight course 
for ihe house, when I noticed a bad run into a heavy 
patch of briers growing on either side of the fence down 
which I was walking. The dog had made a wide detour 
and was returning to meet me on a course that would 
bring him by the brier thicket. 

Reasonably certain that it was a quail I had seen, [ 
waited to get expert testimony. In a long, swinging gal- 
lop the old dog came on until exactly opposite the place 
where I had seen the bird enter, then, in mid air, he 
stiffened every muscle, lit squarely on all four feet, and 
without taking a step, slid into a beautiful point. Pass- 
ing through a gap in the fence, I investigated the other 
side of the brier thicket, but could find no opening for 
the dog, j 

Shaking a bit of brush on the edge, the birds could be 
heard clucking and rustling about, but none flushed. 
Returning to where the dog stood, I found him steady, 
but rolling his eyes in great excitement, as he peered in 
at the birds. Tossing a stone into the thicket, two birds 
flushed, both of which I killed, Jack helped find them, 
and then returned and resumed his point. Another stone 
brought out a single, which also staid with us. 

Returning from retrieving it, we put up three birds that 
had run out to the edge of the briers, but, trying hard, 
could only get one of them. 

A stone then brought out another single, which was 
killed, and as we rounded the thicket to retrieve it, an- 
other bird flushed, escaping without a scratch, after siy- 
ing, me two fair shots. © 

eturning with my bird, I saw a quail leave the 
thicket and run up a bare patch. Immediately giving 
chase ] had almost overtaken it, when it turned and ran 
into the weeds. Slightly miscalculating, I ran by, and 
the bird flushed behind me. 

The exertion had made me a bit shaky, and the bird was 
well away before I steadied down. It showed a hit the 
first shet, but flew on, and deliberately and carefully 
drawing down with the second barrel, I killed it dead, 
the furthermost shot of the hunt. 

Returning to the briers, which I was about concluding 
the best game preserve ever discovered, I shied in an- 
other stone, when the remainder of the covey—which 
had run out while I was away—flushed behind me. 

Turning quickly I made two very poor shots, killing 
one bird too close and missing another at exactly the 
proper distance to shoot. But I had enough birds, and 
the old brier thicket had certainly proved a novel and 
interesting bit of cover. 

There was barely time for dinner and a few moments 
before the wood fire when I reached the house. Then, 
good-byes! the pleasant and uneventful trip home, and 
the Tennessee Outing was over. Lewis Hopxins. 


A Walk Down South.—XIL. 


Romney is the Court House of Hampshire county, W. 
Va. It stands on a hill; the houses seem low, most of 
them not more than a story and a garret high. It was 
a cold night, the ground was frozen, when I walked up 
and down a couple of streets. In the lee of one corner 
sere two colored men with their coat collars turned up 
and hands in their trousers’ pockets, with the general 
contour of a letter S’as they leaned against the wall af 
a building; that was something like the South of my 
dreams, but the shivering cold was not. J 

By the light from windows I caught glimpses of two 
wv three faces of men hurrying past—it may be a notion, 
hut these and other Southern faces give the impression 
of men accustomed to do their work in their own way, 
and not used to working under foremen and other bosses. 
The cold drove me to the hotel office again. 

The owner of the big horsepistol on the window sill 
told a story of man killing. He was in a restaurant one 
right when a man came to the back door, which was 
always locked, for admittance. He was told to come 
around to the front way. He did, after a while, angry 
with drink. He opened a face to face dispute with the 
proprietor of the place, which culminated in both men 
reaching for the catsup bottle on the counter. The pro- 
prietor was quickest, and the man was felled to the floor. 
He got up, went to the stable, hitched up his horse and 
drove home. There he put up the horse and laid down 
on a lounge. He died in two hours. The restaurant 
keeper was fined $50 for disturbing the peace. 

The same story-teller commented on the law requiring 
a license for non-resident hunters, He said the way the 
law stands is outrageous. “A non-resident has to pay 
$25. whether he hunts two days or six months. That 
isn’t fair to the man who hunts two days. I say let a 
man pay for a week when he hunts a week, and for a 
month when he hunts a month.” 

That seemed to me like a suggestion worth thinking 
about. The export of game met with this man’s un- 
qualified disapproval. In a few years he had seen the 
deer diminished from abundance to scarcity, due entirely 
to meat-hunters, who shipped their game to market. He 
did not think the law was enforced strictly enough in 
regard tc the export and sale of game. ; 

The room to which I was shown at the hotel that night 
displayed a curious collection of pictures on the wails. 
Most of them were clipped from theatrical publications. 
There were a dozen one-drink cocktail bottles, and some 
pint and quart whisky flasks, all empty, roundabout. The 
upper sheet of the bed was of wool; the lower cotton— 
a combination that proved to be common down the east 
slope of the Alleghanies for a hundred miles or more. 

I was worried by the cold weather that prevailed. The 
roads were hard as bricks, and the mountain peaks coy- 
ered with a layer of snow. A man said he left six inches 
of snow in Pendleton and Highland cotmties, and “more 
coming.” 

In the morning I weighed my pack. It tipped exactly 
46 pounds, With the rifle, | was carrying 50 pounds. 
J started up the South Branch of the Potomac soon after _ 
8 o'clock. I. stopped at the west end of town for a 
moment to Jook up the valley and along the blue-black 
‘The water of the stream was light 


greeu, and seemed to be living. It was in marked_con- 
fast to the black streams of the Adirondacks, and the 
yellow of New York and Pennsylvania. 
Here and there, in road side brush, I saw some box 
Peps. ofa size to catch little gray rabbits. The bottoms 
ggested quail and the mountain sides ruffed grouse. 
jut 1 could not stop to look for the birds, It seemed as 
hough I could not go fast enough. Four or five miles 
up (south) I came ito a deep rock-sided gorge, a gap 
worn by a stream through the mountain ridge. My road 
led up this and then into 3 feet of water 20 yards wide 
‘and out on the far side. I remembered some boys 
Skating on a cove or bayou a couple of miles back, 
Jooked at some white icicles bearding the rocks here 
‘ard there, and then hunted a dry crossing up stream, I 
Succeeded in crossing on rocks and a log dry shod a few 
hundred yards up, and came into the main road without 
tositg a dozen rods. 

Seven miles from Romney I came to a regular stop- 
ping place of the Moorfield stage, Moorfield was twenty 
miles away. I decided that | ought to take the stage 
aud get over the divide at’ Monterey as quickly as pos- 
sible. The divide is 3,350 feet above the level of the 
3ea, and catches snow often where a thousand feet lower 
it rains. The stage came along and I boarded it with 
my pack, 

Gibson Parker was the driver, and A. S. Veach the 
passenger. Veach is in the Revenue service. ‘He prom- 
ised me a long ride next day if I'd wait at Moorfield, the 
‘court house of Hardy County. He didn’t stop for me 


when he came past, so I lost four hours for the experi- 
erice, - ; 


Parker was different. He runs a hotel at Romney; 


Stage for his health, thirty miles a day; he does cabinet 
work, and works in iron; he’s a wheelwright and wagon 
worker. These, I think, are the serious occupations of 
his life. We roomed together at the Moorfield Hotel. 
The open fireplace, with a cheerful blaze, was exceed- 
ingly pleasing, was a novelty to me as well. With 
Parker before it, it made an incident I'll not soon for- 
get, He played on a banjo, then sweetly on a guitar; he 
followed these with selections on a violin; then he 
played the guitar and French harp (mouth organ or 
fiarmonica) together. He took a two years’ course in 
4 Chicago theatrical school once, and gave imitations 
of Italian, Chinese, Hebrew, German, etc., talk, Some- 
thing of an athlete, contortionist and boxer beside the 
rest, he stated his preference in literature to be Ruskin’s 
*St. Elmo.’ His studies had taken him through college 
and led him into mesmerism, hypnotism and “especially 


human nature.” He promised to send me an 
interesting page or two from his diary, a prom- 
ise, I hope, he will be able to keep. A tall, 


Slender young man, with dark hair and eyes and 
shapely features, a good dresser—few can hope to he 
jmore popular than he. As mail carrier and stage driver 
it is necessary that he should go armed. He carries 
three fine hammerless revolvers; one a .32 caliber and 
fwo .38 caliber ones. I observed that he handled them 
With experienced care. j 

It was Thanksgiving Day when I got to Moorfield, 
and I ate turkey for supper.’ On the following morn- 
ing, while I was waiting for Veach, I had a chance to 
“watch the streets. A man rode into town on horseback 
with a Winchester across the pommel of his saddle. 
Seyeral well-dressed and comely girls walked past. Two 
cattle drovers made a deal in the hotel office by which 
300 head of two-year-olds changed hands for spot cash. 
A young man walked up a side street and came back 
an hour later decidedly the worse for it—a “speak- 
€asy’s up there,” somebody said. Two old-time darkies 

tood on the road crossing -for a few minutes. talking. 

‘They turned their backs on each other and talked over 
their shoulders, one looking at the sky and the other at 
the ground, perhaps an old slave day habit. One would 
<now that the men are used to riding horseback a good 
deal—their leather booted legs and driving gloves show 
it. WVeach passed without stopping. 

After dinner I started up the road headed for Peters- 
burg, Grant County. About a mile out I got a ride on an 
empty corn wagon. A man on horseback overhauled us, 

d he wanted to see the little rifle; then he wanted to 
borrow it. He told of a man known to the driver. “He 
ried to driye me out,” the equestrian said. “He wanted 
to fight, too, and came at me swinging his fists. But i 
had my Winchester on my shoulder. ‘Stand back, thar ! 
1 said, “I don’t want to fight, covering him. He said 
he wanted to fight fair, jumped up in the air and cracked 
his heels together outside, but I didn’t want to fight, and 
1 didn’t.” : 

Several large birds circling overhead like hawks at- 
tracted my attention, 
‘What are those birds?” I asked the driver. _ ; 
“Turkey buzzards,’ he replied. “Let an animal die 
and you'd see them thick.” 

They were the first buzzards I ever saw. 

After a ride of nearly five miles I went on my way 
afoot again. The road, instead of following the main 
stream, Went up a “branch” or brook and over a divide 
to the river again. In this way fords and washouts are 
avoided. It is the common practice south of the Po- 
temac apparently. I came to the river again at Peters- 
burg Gap—a great river cut through the mountain ridge. 
Rock cliffs are on each side of the stream. A large cave 
is in oe place, where saltpetre was mined during the 
distressing days of the Civil War. On the south side 
(east) are the figures of many animals, which.the native 
can point out—there is a semblance to a fox, a coon, an 
ox, etc., done in red on gray, by nature. It is said In- 
dians also did some painting there once. While I was 
looking for the figures I heard a gun shot across the 
fiver just below the gap. I could see no one that way, 
Vint at Petersburg, a couple of hours later I saw a 20- 
sound wild ~obbler which the shot had killed. It was a 
andsome bird, with feathers that gleamed bronze in the 
amp light. The river in the gap was covered with ice 
an inch or more thick. The reflections on it were very 
harp and vivid—sycamores, oaks and rocks were clear 
ut. A mountain to the east, blue-black, with a back- 
sround of white tracery, was especially clear. It was 
ne of the scenes one remembers for its striking beauty. 
They say at Petersburg that there are lots of bass in 


the oversees four or five farms thereabouts; he drives 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


the river there, big fellows which the old darky down at 
the gap catches, and little ones which some visitors 
catch. Six-pounders have been taken there, and more 
than a hundred fish have been brought in by a few fish- 
ermen in a morning. Artificial flies, minnows and 
worms are used for bait. A commercial traveler said 
“tittle green toads” were uséd sometimes, too. 

The local papers thoughout West Virginia contain 
many hunting items each week. In the Grate ‘County 
Press for Nov. 29 the killing of ‘a dozen or so deer was 
noted. “On last Monday Robert Whiteman killed an- 
other fine deer, making a long-range shot with a Win- 
chester rifle at a distance of 430 yards,” a tolerably long 
shot, hunters will admit. 

Another interesting item was: 


“NOT A VIOLATION,” 


“The prosecuting attorney, by reason of numerous 
inquiries, desires us to say for information to interested 
persons that it is not a violation of the law to kill 
skunks or polecats in Grant county.” 

Another item reads: 

“A €onsiderable excitement was created in South 
Fork, in Pendleton county, first of the week over the 
loss of a horse by one Brady. Later it developed that 
Sam Guthrie had ridden it away some distance, where 
he let it loose to go its way.” A mild way of putting it. 

The same issue states that, “Samuel Guthrie has been 
lodged in jail at Moorfield charged with stealing a val- 
uable rifle from Camden Strawdenman, of Lost River, 

Sam seems to be a bad man. 

A deal of the bottom lands throughout the South 
Potomac Valley is posted, and more is posted every 
week, Notices that certain farms haye been closed to 
trespassers appear in local papers every issue. Game is 
growing so scarce that the people begin to realize the 
necessity of doing something to preserve it. But posting 
does not serve the end desired. I saw a West Virginia 
store with dozens of quail, ruffed grouse and rabbits 
hanging in the back room. The store-keepers’ farms are 
all posted. Eight cents a potind is paid for wild tur- 
key in West Virginia; it brings 12 at Monterey, in Vir- 
ginia, just over the line, 

On the morning of the 30th I sent my pack by stage to 
Brushy Run, fifteen miles away, and followed after on 
foot, carrrying my rifle and camera. I ate dinner eight 
miles away, after a walk up “runs” and along sidehills, 
Over the ridge to the west was a country I would like 
to have seen—the North Fork of the South Branch of 
the Potomac. It’s a wild, “rough” country there, ac- 
cording to all accounts, with lots of game, the home of the 
moonshiners, and noted in the old days for its Indian 
fighters and pioneer life. 

_After dinner I went on neatly to Brushy Run, when 
Adam Ours on a white horse overtook me. Over on 
the North Fork last August a land slip came down the 
mountain and carried away Ours’ house, with him and 
lis family in it. With his wife, two girls and a three 


weeks’ old baby, he sat from 10 o’clock at night until’ 


daylight next morning in the ruins while the rain 
poured down on them all. They did not even catch 
colds. Another slip killed Ours’ sister and destroyed 
his mother’s house. He was tired of riding, and he 
gave me a horseback ride. I mounted awkwardly 
enough, but the riding was a comfortable change for a 
mile, 

At Brushy Run I took my pack and carried it five 
miles further. At Upper Tract, where I hoped to stop, 
there wis no one “prepared to take a traveler in.’ But 
at last I reached Mrs. Mary Ryman’s, at whose gate a 
sign reads: ey eT 

TRAVELERS’ 
REST. 


A hundred yards back in the field I went into a white 
picket fence inclosure, found my way to the house door 
and received a welcome. I had walked twenty mules 
that day, the last five with my pack on my back. I was 
teady to sit down then. 
Raymonp S. SPEARS. | 


0 Pee fel 
The “Mediator’s’” Cry. 

WAVERLY, Mass.—FEditor Forest and Sream: Mr. Hol- 
man F. Day’s story, “A Cry in the Night,” which ap- 
peared in the current number of your valued paper, was 
certainly most interesting and well told. A possible ex- 
planation of the “mystery that is almost uncanny,’ may 
be this: It is. well known that a solid homogeneous 
substance is a much better conductor of sound than the 
alt or any medium in which there are breaks of continu- 
ity or variations in density. | 

Now, Mr. Meigs lay on a bunk, how near the 
ground is not stated, nor are we told whether his head 
Was near the wall or a post in the ground. But if the 
conditions near him were favorable to the transmission 
of sound, it is not difficult to believe that, as the ex- 
hausted “mediator” fell to the frozen ground and cried 
out for help, that excellent conductor of sound trans- 
mitted it to the cabin and to the recumbent Mr. Meigs’ 
eary We all know that sound so faint as to be in- 
audible to one standing, may be heard by one with his 
ear to the ground, 

It is to be noted, too, that the attention of all in 
the camp but that of him who heard the cry for help was 
engaged with their talk and game of ped. It was 
naturally the attention of Mr. Meigs that caught the 
faint shout. 

As in a state of extreme exhaustion, the acuteness of 
the senses fail, it is probable that the mediator suc- 
ceeded in shouting louder than he thought he did. 

The admirably worked up stage setting of ten thou- 
sand spirits, etc., needs no explanation, as they are of 
course nothing but the hallucinations of the deluded old 
mediator arid are practically treated as such by the 
author. 

To me the feature hardest to explain in this ad- 
mirable story is that one of the searchers should go 
straight to the lost man, This is the only point that 
savors of the fortuitous circumstance or coincidence. 

GRAPHO. 


datnyal History. 


Se 
Some Knowing Animals. 


I TAKE my stand beside those who advance the opinion 
that animals do reason. My assertion is not based on 
theory, but on actual demonstration witnessed by myself, - 
and after long consideration, ; 

A little mare of mine knows when it is Sunday as well 
as I do. When there is company to go from the farm to 
the trolley on Sunday, the mare knows it, and acts ac- 
cordingly. ~The reins need not be touched, and no atten- 
tion whatever paid to the mare; still, she takes the nearest 
course to her destination. The proof that she knows it is 
Sunday lies in the fact that she has been driven over the 
main road from which the branch road leads’ to the 
trolley nearly every working day for the last eleven years? 
yet she pays no.attention to the branch road on any other 
day than Sunday. She also knows the Winchester Re- 
peating Arms Company’s whistle, and when I used to 
leave her standing in front of my father’s house, while 
I called a few moments on my drive in from the country, 
mornings, Just as soon as the whistle would blow for 
quarter of seven, Topsy would whinnie loud and long, 
paw impatiently and look for me to come out of the 
house. She was saying as well as she was able: “Come 
there goes the first whistle; come, or you will be late.” « 
The stable where I keep her through the day is in no way 
connected with the Winchester works. Now, why should 
my mare noti¢e one certain factory whistle, and no other, 
and strive to call my attention to it, unless she reasons 
that my actions are in some way controlled by the 
whistle? What influence is it that guides her to the trol- 
ley on Sunday and on no other day, unless she possesses 
the faculty to reason? Topsy is very intelligent in other 
ways, but lack of space forbids mentioning them at this 
ime. 

Recently I have been using a new horse, one strange 
to my drive. The second day I used him it was not 
necessary to guide him to the stable where I keep him; 
and now, after using him a week, on a five-mile drive, 
morning and night, the reins need not be touched within 
half a mile or more of each termination, and the horse 
will go the right toad without guiding and stup’ just 
where it is right to stop. How can this strange horse 
know each end of this new route unless he has reasoned 
it out? If a human being finds his way readily over a 
new road over which he has traveled but once, why 
should we accredit it to reason in him and instinct in a 
dumb animal that does the same thing in the samme 
way? 

In the city of New Haven a newsman, Mr. Hyde, dis- 
tributes his papers with a horse and wagon, He used to 
own an old mare named Kate. While he and his boy dis- 
tributed the papers, old Kate would go intelligently over 
the route without a driver, and having a look of 
responsibility which it was worth going somie distance to 
see. She always kept her own side of the road, and 
turned out of her own accord for teams whose human 
drivers were recklessly disregarding rules which she was 
religiously observing. At certain points old Kate would 
stop, and wait for the distributors to replenish their 
diminished supply of papers, then proceed about her 
business again. At other places it was necessary to turn 
around, and many times have I seen the old mare do the 
trick in the most careful manner, her driver not being in 
sight. Perhaps this was all a matter of instinct; but 
a man could devote a life time trying to convince hun-. 
dreds of old Kate’s acquaintances to that theory, and be 
no nearer the goal at the end than at the beginning, 

Sappho was a woodchuck. She was vainly trying to 
regain the top of ithe bank of a trout stream one fine 
spring afternoon. The task, however, was too great for 
her baby strength, so-I put het-in my creel and took her 
home. She would eat about everything eatable, but -had 
a decided preference for cake batter, When batter was 
being stirred for ‘cake, Sappho would hear the sound, 
come scampering into the house, sit straight up near the 
batter manipulator, and whistle strenuously until fed. 
Sappho also did other things intelligently. She would 
play by the hour with the cats, and it was exceedingly 
amusing and interesting to watch her antics. She was 
very affectionate, and liked to be petted. She disappeared 
one day, and I have reason for suspecting a degenerate 
in human form, who never yet has been accused of 
having the abiltity to reason, of having shot her. I wish 
I knew positively. 

Ben was our faithful, jolly old bull-terrier. 
years he was a member of the family. Perhaps Ben had 
one bad trait: he would “fight at the drop of a hat!” 
This necessitated keeping him on a chain most of the 
time, although I confess deep admiration for his ability 
as a scrapper. I love a fighter that fights fair, and Ben 
was that kind. I never saw him tackle a dog smaller 
than himself, but have seen him Whip canines apparently 
large enough to eat him. 

' hen on the chain Ben had ways of his own of notify= 
ing us of his wants. A steady succession of low barks 
with a short interval between each bark, indicated that 
it was his meal time. A quick, sharp bark, with long in- 
tervals between each bark, accompanied with low whin= 
ing. indicated thirst. Lond, steady barking informed ug 
that someone was coming; and spasinuddic cpoking ba-k- 
jag was his way of letting us know a doz was near. and 
that le was anxious to mix with him. At home ‘we are 
ull of the opinion that if the human members of the 
family can reason, then so could Ben. One sorrowful 
day we buried the faithful old fellow under the apple tree 
where his house used to stand, , 

Beside the few animals mentioned above, memory 
recalls others which I_firmly believe were endowed with 
reason. When a horse intelligently demonstrates by 
independent action the identical thing I wish it to do 
then I believe the horsé must know I want it to do that 
thing. If it is reason that tells me to feed a horse when 
it is hungry, then it is my firm belief that it is also reason 
that tells the horse to convey me to a certain destina- 
tion on a certain day, without being guided by the rein 
If it ig reason that conveys the intelligence through a cer. 
tain sound to me that a certain kind of food is being 


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46 


prepared, and that same sound conveys. the same intelli- 
gence to a woodchuck, then I believe the woodchuck 
can reason as well-as I. If reason informs me of the 
several wants of a dog through several yocal sounds of 
the dog, then I believe the dog reasons that those differ- 


ent sounds will convey a knowledge of his. different wants * 


to me. In my humble opinion the inability of the lower 
animals to use speech (human speech) is no proof that 
they. are devoid of the faculty of reason, more than 
it\is proof that a deaf-and-dumb man is devoid of reason 
because he has not the power of speech, He makes his 
wants understood by signs, as do other dumb animals. 

My respect for the learning of the opposition is deep 
and sincere. I realize that they are far better qualified 
to discourse on this subject than am J. But it seems to 
me that their argument is mostly theoretical; and I have 
seen theory knocked out so many times by practical 
demonstration that my confidence in it has been weak- 
ened. An eminent geologist advanced the opinion that 
the formation in a certain locality should be so and so; 
but,a deeply driven well proved the formation dia- 
metrically opposite to what the geologist had been teach- 
ing -his classes it was. Not long ago many astronomers, 
with world-wide reputations and deep learning, un- 
doubtedly, told us that a comet was heading for the earth, 
and that we would surely pass through the gaseous mass. 
The comet ungraciously proved their theory wrong by 
going off in another direction. Then we were to have a 
wonderful star-shower—another failure of theory. And 
so itis many times. Not that theory is not a good thing, 
biit that practice 1s better, and proves more conclusively. 

On this question of “reason and instinct’ the theorist 
will undoubtedly stand by his guns, and adyance a good 
arzument. And they who are not so learned theoreti- 
cally, but who believe they have seen dumb animals 
practically demonstrate their ability to exercise the 
faculty of reason, will stand by their guns, also. And 
all will be honestly sincere in their argument. 

Hicuwoop, Conn., Jan. 8. WiILtiam H. Avis. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


—————— 


Cuvier Club. 


Av the annual meeting of the Cuvier Club of Cin- 
cinnati, Jan. 4, President Alexander Starbuck was unan- 
imously re-elected president, and begins his seventh term 
in that. office. J. M. Doherty was chosen First Vice- 
President; Henry Hanna, Second Vice-President, and 
P. E. Roach, Third Vice-President. Alexander Star- 
buck, Henry Hanna and E. Roach were elected 
trustees for the years 1902, 1903, and 1904.| In 1901 nearly 
150. new.members were enrolled, The names of Captain 
George N: Stone, A. N. Sackett, William Stacey, E. W. 
Baylis, John C. Yost and James A, Cleayer, members who 
have died within the past year, were ordered entered on 
the memorial page. 

Dr. Boone made an address. He said that the action 
of the Cuvier Club last year in offering prizes for the best 
essays on birds by the students of the public schools had 
inculeated an interest in the study that no other means 
could have, accomplished. 

The report of Charles Dury, showing the additions 
made to the museum and to the library in the:year, was 
read. The report said that there-are so many books now 
in the library that if the contributions in ‘this line con- 
tinue to come in as rapidly as they have been it will be 
hecessary to enlarge the cases. 

President Starbuck’s address was a comprehensive re- 
view of the record of fish and game protection during 
1901, not only in. Ohio, but in the country at large. Of 
the Ohio wardens’ work in particular, he said: 

“Mr. L. H. Reutinger, the capable Secretary and Chief 
Game Warden, in his report states that; notwithstanding 
the adverse laws that prevail, the wardens throughout the 
State succeeded in making 304 arrests, with 243 convic- 
tions, collecting in fines during the year $4,276, as against 
308 arrests and 227 convictions respectively during the 
previous yeat. He further states that from the newly 
constructed ponds at London and Waverly, O., he took 
for planting 300,000 marble cat, 25,000. crappies and!about 
100,000 large and small black bass, very few of them be- 
ing fingerings and most of them the size of the yearlings. 
These fish were planted in 36 counties, the distribution 
covering six weeks’ time and about 4,000 miles of travel. 

“A new fish hatchery has been opened at Sandusky, 
the work being merely for the hatching of herring. 
Further along they expect to hatch all varieties of fish 
they can, the cutput to-be planted in Lake Erie. He 
also reports a great scarcity of game fish in Lake Erie, 
which is accounted for by the fact that-the commercial 
fishermen, in their greed for money, take everything in 
sight, despite the size of the fish, disregarding the law as 
to the taking of undersized ones from this body of water. 
A great number of arrests has been made by the deputy 
wardens for this very thing, but even then it is very diffi- 
cult to stop it. The small fish are sold to the fertilizing 
establishments, while the larger ones are disposed of in 
the markets. We can speak from practical. experience 
about this, for we have fished with rod and reel around 
the picturesque islands of Lake Erie, that cluster about 
Put-in-Bay, for a successive period of twenty-five years. 
About 1884 the fishing became so poor that we sought 
other waters for our sport. During the first decade of 

our angling, and some time after, we caught all the black 

bass we desired, and large ones at that. Now, if an angler 
goes there in pursuit of. the pleasant pastime he will 
realize on about ten or a dozen bass that will not average 
a pound. Cross over to Canadian waters, which are 
infinitely better protected than ours, and you realize a 
very material difference, for you not only get large strings 
of the game fish, but also exceedingly large ones, We 
refer you for additional evidence to the Pelee Club, of 
our city, who now do all their angling there. d 

“Again taking up the thread of the report, the Chief 
Warden fully expatiates relative to the pheasantry at 
London, O., which has been very successfully conducted 
the past year. ‘From 161 female pheasants were col- 
lected 7,075 eggs, making an average of 44 eggs per hen; 
4,500 of this number were hatched at the Dhestanity and 
2,573 were distributed throughout the State to such per- 


oe ao 


FOREST AND STREAM,’ '~ 


sons» whom they had feasoti to believe would take the 
pains \to rear these birds: Out of the 4,500: eggs there 
were hatched 3,182 birds, or 71 per cent. After deducting 
the number of birds that died of natural causes, crippled 
and deformed, killed by hawks and mink while running 
loose in the rearing parks, they succeeded in distributing 
throughout the State 2,239 pheasants. There were pheas- 
ants planted in every county of the State’ 

“We unquestionably want a reorganization of our 
statutes for the protection of fish and game, and we want 
them so that you cannot drive a hay wagon through 
them, as has been the case with the last two codes the 
Legislature has given us. We also want them as simpli- 
fied as possible, so that it will not require a corps of 
attorneys to fathom their meaning. We want the spring 
shooting of ducks emphatically discontinued; we want the 
rabbit law to have the same open season, from November 


10 to December 1, as the other game birds, which should ” 


all be the same limited time, twenty days and no more. 
We want the fifteen days inat are now allowed after the 
close season for killing, in which to sell off the surplus 
game, expunged, as it only encourages cold storage 
houses to sell off their surplus stock of game, which they 
are at all periods prepared to furnish during this allotted 
time. We unquestionably want a dollar license on each 
gun used in the open season, and then the gun there- 
after kept out of the fields and forests during that time. 
As to the fish, they should be protected on their spawning 
beds, and the catch should be limited to eight or ten 
inches. We should also recommend that the Deputy 
Warden be given reasonable salary, and emphatically 
insist on a genere@us appropriation, say $50,000, or more, 
for the Fish and Game Gommission. Then let the con- 
cessions or unities of the game laws be accomplished in 
the Middle States, and it will be some solace for the 
travesty of game laws with which we have had to contend 
the past four or more years. We will here significantly 
add that no protective law is efficacious unless the senti- 
ment of the people is with it, and just because people are 
not born right stringent statutes and stringent enforce- 
ment are necessary, These laws are made for malefactors, 
and yet there are many who proudly strut our payements 
in gorgeous array who come under that particular head. 
They scorn the idea that the law is the security of every 
person that is goverened and that it is really the standard 
and guardian of our liberty, and that he who wiltully 
violates it, and particularly a beneficent law, is unworthy 
of ‘citizenship, be he in purple and fine linen or rags and 
tatters.” 


The Maine Non-Resident Tax. 


Boston, Jan. 13.—The great meeting of the Maine 
Sportsmen’s Fish and Game Association is over, and now 
fishermen and hunters who are not so fortunate as to live 
in Maine can breathe easier for a time; at least till the 
Legislature of that State meets next year. I don’t pre- 
tend to say that the accusation is just or nice, but I have 
heard the meeting termed that of “the Maine big heads” 
several times lately. It is certain that anybody opposing a 
hunter’s license was not wanted at the meeting, though 
former Fish and Game Commissioner Charles E. Oak 
dared to be present and oppose the matter of a license for 
non-resident hunters to have to pay. The terms “our 
fish” and “our game” were used so often in the discus- 
sion by the advocates of a hunter’s license as to become 
rather sickening to the poor outsider from some other 
State, and cause him to ask himself: “Who are these 
gentlemen? What do they own?” 

At the meeting occurred a position unique, to say the 
least. The chairman of the Board of Fish and Game 
Commissioners earnestly advocating a non-resident license 
measure, and a former member of the board flatly oppos- 
ing it. Mr. C. E. Oak, who resigned from the Com- 
mission last year to accept a leading position on the Com- 
mission of Forestry and Timberland Owners, made the 
speech of the meeting in opposition to a license meqsure. 
Mr. Oak is certainly well informed on fish and game mat- 
ters in his native State, and the energy he put forward in 
fish and game protection when he was on the board will 
be remembered. 

The arguments of Commissioner Carleton for the license 
and Mr. Oak in opposition to it follow. SPECIAL, 


Commissioner Carleton’s Speech. 


Commissioner Carleton referred to the pioneers of 


Maine game protection and said: 

“The labors of these early pioneers were successful. 
A code of fish and game laws was enacted now second 
to none in the world, and under it fish and game have 
multiplied. The result has been that tourists, fishermen, 
hunters and recreationists have been flocking to our State 
in ever increasing numbers for twenty-five years or more, 
and now a vast throng visits us annually, attracted pri- 
marily by our unparalleled facilities for fishing and hunt- 
ting. It would be of great importance if we were able 
to count them correctly, so that our people might know 
definitely just how many there are who come to us each 


year. 

“Considerable effort has been made to ascertain definite- 
ly this number, and the figures given run up into the 
hundreds of thousands, and the amount of money left 
with us by.them as fifteen millions of dollars. 

“Now this is‘no fancy sketch or idle tale, my friends, 
but the sober truth. These figures are not guesswork, 
but ate based: upon cold, hard facts, that untiring, im- 
partial investigation has demonstrated; nor are they the 
figures of your Commissioners alone, but of the agents of 
the great transportation lines who know whereof they 
speak; more than 10,000 people are given employment a 
large portion of the time each year at remunerative wages 
in .conseqttence, and many hundreds of thousands of dol- 
lars’ worth of taxable property added to our wealth by 
them, and nothing.taken away but a few fish, a little 
game and restored health and a strong love for our goodly 
commonwealth. 

“This good work cannot go on much longer without 
changed conditions—in other words, our game will not 
hold_out: something more must be done than is being 
done, something. more than it is possible to do under 
present conditions, if you will preserve your game from 
practical extinction. 

“Now I come to the bite of the subject. What is it, you 
ask, that must be done? My reply is, we must have 


more money for warden’ service 
absolutely necessary, 

“Look at the sitwation for a, moment. We have ini 
round numbers 20,00m square miles of woods; the State 
appropriate $25,000; it costs approximately $20,000 tol 
operate our hatcheries and protect the parent fish on the 
spawning beds. It costs $3,000 more for incidental ex- 
penses, expenses of the Commissioners, clerk hire, print- 
ing, stationery, attorneys’ fees, etc., so that you see tol 
guard this vast territory we have about $8,000 for warden! 
service, This is made up from fines and license fees for, 
guides, trappers, camp owners, etc., and hereafter our: 
warden service will be reduced by three wardens, on 
account of the expense of operating the new fish hatchery 
at Moosehead Lake. 
_ “I claim that our garne should be largely self-support- 
ing, in other words, those who hunt our game should! 
pay a license fee large enough to enable us to protect our 
game from illegal slaughter. I do not advocate the rais- 
ing of a larger sum by taxation. 

_I am aware that there has existed, and perhaps still) 
exists, some oppposition to this feature, and doubts are) 
entertained as fo its expediency. 

‘Nearly every State and every country that has any) 
game has passed through the experience that we are! 
now passing through relative to this protection, and the 
consensts of opinion as reflected in their laws, would 
seem to be that the license system has been found on the 
whole to be the fairest and the best. ' 
_ “Tt comes pretty near the truth to say that every State! 
in this country, and all the countries surrounding us, that. 
have any game, exact a license fee to hunt it. ‘ 

“T advocate a license fee to hunt big game in the State) 
of Maine because we need the money and must have it or 
our game will disappear as surely as dead moose and dead 
deer bring forth no increase. 

“We have a record of 317 moose legally killed and of! 
64 moose illegally killed last year. How many there 
were that were illegally killed of which we have no record 
I know not, but half as ‘many more, making a total of 
96 moose illegally killed. A large majority of the moose 
illegally killed were cows and calves, How long, think 
you, our moose will stand this condition of affairs? 

“Let us take warning from the history of the past and! 
secure better protection for our noble game animals while 
we have them yet with us. 

Of deer we have no record of the number illegally 
killed—many estimate them among the thousands, andi 
the best record obtainable is 10,320 were legally take 
last year. One of the leading newspapers in eastern 
Maine, which devotes a great deal of well-directed energy! 
to ascertain the number of deer killed, estimates thaty 
number as high as 25,000, 

“The State was cleaned ot of moose and deer last 
year as never before in our history. Improved firearms, 
improved methods of hunting, trained guides, hunters” 
camps everywhere, all advertising for sportsmen, have 
done the business. 

“How long will your deer hold out at anywhere from) 
10,000 to 25,000 a year? 

“Now, I fancy I hear some one saying, what in the! 
world are your wardens doing—why is not the game bet-! 
ter protected by them? 

“T will tell you what they have been doing: They havel 
killed thirty-four deer dogs; they have instituted eighty) 
prosecutions. They have worked as hard and as faithfully! 
for their small pay of $2 per day, as any class of laborer 
in Maine. 

“T tell you, my friends, the situation demands action—t 
demands money. Let us get it. It is said by good author- 
ity that 75 per cent. of the deer killed during October 
are females, 

“I would prevent the exportation of female deer out) 
of the State at all times. It is sickening to a sportsmam 
to see them shot down—many of them no bigger than a 
little lamb. 

“TI think the moose season should be shortened two} 
weeks and the deer season two weeks. Now, think of 
these facts, my friends, discuss them, talk them over ij 
your places of business so that when the Legislature meets) 
again we may be agreed upon some important features, 

“We thought we were going to have a license fee to 
hunt moose passed at the last session sure enough. The: 
Committee on Fish and Game unanimously reported the) 
bill—all were agreed to it—no one seemed to oppose it 
but on its passage through the Senate a grave and learned! 
Senator arose and offered an amendment—that bald- 
headed men be exempt from the provisions of the bill 
that killed it, 

“Tt is idle, my friends, in these days of somewhat bur- 
densome taxation, to expect any larger appropriation 
from the State than we have been receiving. We must 
have recourse to some other method to raise the neces- 
sary amount of funds. Fear has been expressed that a) 
license fee to hunt—we do not advocate a license fee to 
fish—would operate detrimentally to our interests. 

“Tt is of no avail to lock the stable after the horse ha 
been stolen, A license fee will be of no avail after our, 
game is gone. Suppose it does keep a few away—suppose 
it does keep away those large parties of Western hunters 
who annually visit us in such large numbers, coming over 
a foreign railroad, bringing all their supplies with them 
even to their potatoes and baked bread, and who leave! 
scarcely a dollar among our people. Are we any losers 
thereby? 

“T have taken the pains to gather the statistics, to as- 
certain the number of this class of htinters wha came to 
Maine last year. I find there were several hundred of 
them—about 500—who killed at least a thousand deer and 
an innumerable number of partridges, and they expended) 
practically nothing in our State. I have a letter from a 
gentleman in Toledo, O., saying ‘that three or four hun 
dred from this vicinity have been up in your woods 
shooting, last fall.’ If a small license fee—say of 
would keep them away, then in Heaven’s name let us have 
a license fee. : 

“But, my friends, I assert. without fear of successful 
contradiction, that a license fee would not keep them 
away. They would come just the same. Many of them 
were heard to declare that they could pay all of their 
expenses by selling the game they took home. A friend 
sent me this item, copied from an Ohio paper: ‘Clint 
Slaigle is a true Nimrod. While in the Maine woods a/ 
couple of weeks ago, he bagged six good-sized dee 
two of which he shot were shipped the same morning 


; that is, i. my judgment, 


Si 


I aes 


_ Jan. 18, 1902.] 


ocery, where the lovers of venison could buy it to their 
Heart's content.” : : 
“A license fee to hunt will not keep one single desir- 
le visitor away from Maine. This is my deliberate 
dgment, formed after years of study of the situation. 
_“T have talked with a good many—I have corresponded 
with a good many who have come to Maine to hunt, and 
‘have yet to find any one who objects to it, when 
fhe amount received is used exclusively to protect game. 
_ “Great opportunities are before us. The country at 
large looks to Maine to furnish the hunting ground of 
the nation. 

_ “They are willing to pay well for the privilege. In 
these days of rapid transit those having even moderate: 
means and limited time have learned that they can leave 
the dust and toil of distant cities behind them of a 
morning or an evening, and in twelve, twenty-four or 
thirty-six hours, breathe the sweet breath of the piney 
woods of Maine about them, or look out upon old ocean 
from her rock-bound coast, and looking up through for- 
est trees or ocean mist devoutly thank God they are: 
here, 


Hon, Charles E, Oak, 


Mr. Oak began by stating that having held the two 
offices of Fish and Game Commissioner and Land Agent 
and Forestry Commissioner, he should discuss the ques- 
tion from the point of view of both the sportsman and the 
jand owner. Continuing, he said: 

“First, then, as a sportsman, allow me to repeat that 
I’m strongly opposed to a license Jaw such as proposed, 
and will attempt to answer a few of the arguments urged. 
in its favor, and, at. the same time, call your attention to 
la few facts carefully omitted from the arguments of 
those not agreeing with me. 
_ “For the past stx years I’ve known something of the 
fials, troubles and tribulations of a fish and game com- 
Missioner, and it is far from my desire to do other than 
assist them in every possible way, 

“Knowing the chairman as well as I do—it sometimes 
seeming almost as well as he knows himself—I have no 
hesitation in vouching for his honesty and earnestness of 
purpose in trying to do everything possible for the cause 
in which he is engaged; but will submit that it is beyond 
what we may expect from anything human if, with so. 
many problems involved as are embraced in this depart- 
nent, some mistakes are not made—no matter how con- 
scientiously a man may work. 

“Tn this particular matter, I fear that his zeal for the 
welfare of his department has led him to devote a large: 

ount of energy toward bringing about results which. 
are likely to react, and later prove very troublesome. 

“This idea of licensing sportsmen is not new, but, on 
the other hand, has been ‘threshed out’ at at least three: 
of the annual meetings of this Association. Each time 
it has been voted down quite unanimously, and it seems 
as though the partisans of the cause ought to be willing to- 
abide by the voice of the majority; yet they have come 
back each year with some new argument to add to the old 
Story, and this year have succeeded in converting a 
sufficient number of members by constantly arguing on 
one side of the story, so that I fear for the result. Pos- 
Sibly some of you may have heard them state some real or 
fancied objection, but if so, I’ve failed to hear it. 

“T submit, however, that the methods of taking but: 
one side is not the proper course to pursue in this case, 
because the aims, objects and ambitions of this Associa-. 
tion are, to develop the fish and game interests of the 
State, to be sure, but to do so in such a way as shall 
redound to the benefit of all, and not jeopardize any prop-- 
erty or business interests. 

“When the people advocating this or any other scheme 
are willing to present all the evidence, either for or 
against any proposed interests. and are willing to sub- 
mit the matter to a majority vote of this organization, we 
can expect to arrive at much more correct results and. 
command much greater influence. 

“Among other things, they tell us in the present in- 
stance, that 513 people came from Ohio and Indiana the 
past year, hired as few guides as possible without violat- 
ing the law, brought theit own provisions as well as other 
needful articles with them, and left but a very small 
‘amount of money within our borders proportionate to the 
large amount of game they took home with them. They 
tell us that if we had charged them a license fee of $10: 
each, we would have had $5,000 with which to have em- 
ployed at least five more wardens the past year. They 
migth almost as well have told us that if we had charged 
them $100 each, we would have had $50,000 with which. 
to have employed fifty more wardens the past year. Peo- 
ple practicing the economy that these people have are 
not the ones who have many ten-dollar bills to throw 
away. Evidently, the cost was carefully considered be- 
fore they started, and if the proposed license law had 
been in force this season, probably the most of them 
would have stayed at home or gone elsewhere. This 
would have grieved none of us, of course, as they are 
of no benefit to us; and if any law can be devised that 
will reach such a class of sportsman, as doubtless there 
can be, and not affect the rest, I will heartily join with 
any of you in urging its enactment. I am not arguing for 
this class, please understand; but if we admit the very 
remarkable statement that 250,000 people came to Maine 
for an outing the past season, and are asked to pass a 
law that will punish 249,500 of them for the sake of 
reaching the 500 from the West, surely we should all 
hesitate before doing anything so rash. 

“As a remedy for such evils, I would suggest that if 
our present law ‘lacks teeth’ wherein the non-resident 
must conform to certain regulations, why not change it 
sufficiently fo accomplish the desired result without 
tadically changing the whole system of laws? 

_ “Weare told that the department needs more money, as 
it is impossible to do satisfactory work with so limited 
means. : 

“Right here, gentlemen, is where you will find the 
meat in the cocoanut, They claim the crying need is 
more money, and, regarding it as a ‘cure for all evils," 
‘propose to obtain it by means of the stron 
law, without fully considering whether right or wrong 
or how it will affect other interests.  =«- 

“Individually we are not allowed to assume the role of 
a highwayman, but must give value received.. Should a 
great State be expected to do Tess? In a few rare in- 


from Grindstone, Me., and were consigned to Hamilton’s’ 


arm of the . 


* FOREST AND STREAYM, ' 


sshanes, sportsmen,would-obtain tronliy values warranting 
tthe payment of a license, but I will submit that where 
tone stieceeds to that extent, a thousand have a bark ac- 
ecount materially reduced. 

“The reasons influencing sportsmen to come here are 
“the health and pleasure resulting and not Mmére¢enary 
gain. Health results from drinking pure “water and 
lbreathing pure air, which are God-given, and pleasure as 
ua natural consequence. Fish and game simply furnish 
ithe diversion and the rest follows. > We, as a State, are 
ssinpply thowing out a bait ‘of $25,000’ per year'to’ furtiish 
ithe nomird)«attraction. | 

“The tendeni6ct is attracted in consequence of the halo 
surrounding if—partly real and partly imaginary—cores 
.among and brushes against us, and, if treated fightly 
aand in a suave manner, discovers on his retwrn home 
ithat he has left considerable dross in conséquence of 
“rising to the fly.’ This is what we are fishing for and 
-shonld feel very well satisfied with the result. 

“T will frankly admit that we could ‘“atch more fish’ 
-or ‘be surer of a rise’ if we could meke the bait more 
‘attractive—in other words, if we hadwnore money for the 
‘departiment, because my experienée'lkas demonstrated the 
ihecessity for more means. 

“Tf we must have it, let us t#ke honest means to ob- 
itain it, and not throttle the innocent sportsman and 
‘order him to ‘stand and dekwer” Allow me to Suggést 
;a course that is legitimate. Let those sc»zealous for the 
iproposed law, furnish tthe proofs of their assértion that 
$15,000,000 is spent her annually by tourists’ and sports- 
imen, and the same Legislature that has heretofore ap- 
;propriated $25,000 = year for the department, om the 
:strength of the simtement, accompanied by proofs, that 
ifour to five million dollars are spent/here annually, will 
:appropriate doulble or triple that ‘amount. 

“The men composing our legislative bodies ate ith- 
clined to be reasonable'and fair in all matters, and suffi- 
ciently wise to realize that a $75\o00.4rinual expense to 
iMaintaina, $15,000,000 annual income is a mere bagatelle. 

“Allow me to repeat: Furnish the mecessary statistics 
ito -subsiemtiate the above statentent; and means for the 
(department are assured by State appropriations. But we 
are [told that a careful study of the temper of our legis- 
llativelbody demonstrates tle fact that me more help in the 
way ‘of larger appropriations ‘can be 6xpected. Others 
nave made an equally carelal study, and, as a result, I 
\enture this assertion, viz., ‘that fme mass of the people 
cconsider that $25,000, together with fees collected, taking 
into consideration the mumerows demands upon the State 
itreasury, should be sufficient to run the department satis- 
iiactorily; and the minute a new law, like the one pro- 
qnosed, is enacted, estimated to yield an income of $15,000 
rannually—irom that moment you may safely reckon that 
‘yyaur ‘annual apprepriation will be decreased by a like 
amount, «and you will Ihave no more means to work with 
ithan before. ; 

“With tfhose ‘of you who have carefully observed the 
jprevailmy sentiment at Augusta each legislative season, 
Il meed noterewe this point, for your own good sense will 
itell you it ts true. , 

““Dhe talk that this is about the only State or Province 
tthat thas no such license law simply furnishes an addi- 
ttiomal argument for continuing the system we have been 
‘following for the past few years; because it is generally 
:admitted on all sides that the Maine Department of Fish 
‘and ‘Game is in the best condition and managed the best 
iaf-that of any State or Province in America. : 

““This is a strong assertion, I am well aware; but, to 
corroborate it, I refer you to my former colleague, Mr. 
Stanley, who was with me on one occasion, at least, at 
ia meeting of the North American Fish and Game Asso- 
‘ciation at Montreal. At both of the meetings which I 
Ihave attended, the last having representatives trom at 
lleast ten States, and nearly all the Provinces in Canada, 
it was the unanimous sentiment that they could all be 
benefitted by copying largely from our code of laws and 
system of enforcement. 

“Several representatives of States and Provinces frankly 
stated What they thought their system of licensing was 
wrong, tinless enacted for a special purpose like that in 
the Strte «of Michigan. 

“The commissioner from that State told me personally 
thatithe license law in his State worked admirably for the 
purpose for which it was- intended, which was this: 
Their game, on account of lax laws, much poaching, 
and ‘mumerous hunters, had become largely depleted, 
and they wanted to give it a chance to increase. Various 
expedients were suggested, such as absolute close time, 
a very short open time, and finally a license law, which 
was enacted. 

“As a result, the year following this enactment, they 
had less than one-quarter the number of sportsmen they 
lhad averaged the several years previous. This, he argued, 
would give the game a chance to increase, and after a 
few years it is the intention to abolish the law whenever 
tthe game becomes sufficiently abundant to warrant it. 
‘Their reason for adopting this course, instead of an ab- 
‘solute close time, was that the revenues derived from the 
licenses would make the department self supporting dur- 
ing the period in which the residents of the State re- 
‘ceived but comparatively little benefit from the money 
left by sportsmen. | 


“Still another very serious objection is this. In my 


_ judgment, it would lead to rank dishonesty and extra ex- 


‘pense, which would soon bring the department into grave 
disrepute. If you dottbt it, allow me to call your atten- 
tion to the license regarding September hunting. It was 
openly charged and undoubtedly true that parties would 
secure a single license and then would proceed ta shoot 
as many deer as they saw fit, changing the tag from one 
to the other as the case required. It also led to numerous 
individuals taking the chance of shooting in September 
without a license, through the advice of citizens who 
said that there was not sufficient supervision to make the 
chance of their being caught very great. In arranging 
the system to prevent such evils, we devoted. considerable 
time and thought, as well as expense, but-were unable 
to prevent aij violations, although comparatively few 
licenses wete sold and the agents not numerous, 

- “With a license Tew such as proposed, many agents 
must be appointed, each_of whom will be.savere or legs 
susceptible, to. mercenary influence, ail of whom must be 
paid; and without a much larger warden force to look 
after this breach of the business alone, the law will be 

cal ibly 


of no practical benefit: and possibly an actual expense. 


i “Similar fficers «wr'agetits in districts which T might 
mane, heve frequently been ‘greased’—a term which 
think \you ‘will compréhend; and every act of this kind 
yeéhects'on the department, ‘ho matter if the character of 
ithe ccomimissidimers is generally considered above te- 
proach, To‘illustrate, please irecall the reputation of the 
departinént at the time Mr. ‘Stillwell was a member of 
the yaané, No imoré “honorable men than he and Mr. 
‘Stanley could Ibe found on earth, and yet, owing to the 
system then in ‘vogue, and also to the character of the 
\wardkens then li ‘the service, the whole department was 
considered ‘rotten’ Iby a large majority of the visiting 
public. Fortunately, that sentiment has cotmpletety 
Whanged. The Sommissioners—since I left the ‘bdard— 
iare credited wath working earnestly and ‘hdnestly ‘fdr the 
lbest interests of the State, rather than ‘fdr 'pérsoral “glory, 
and I earnestly hope their zeal ‘will not lead 'thém ito 
‘Braye errors. . ; 
“Tf I were asked to ‘give ‘advice ‘as "to'the ¢rying néeds 
of the @epartment with ‘reference ‘tochanges in laws, I 
should amswer, ‘There are indie.’ My best advice would 
be, Go slow about \meltine any 'radical changes in “any 


Wy. j 45 

“Amother idea lf wish'to! bring to'your attéetitidn is"this: 
Tt wold very -shottly treate a fierce antagonisin' bebweédh 
tthe wild land owners and the fish and patie ihtetest=— 
a condition very "much to be deplored. This would"arise 
tim «onsegWterice Of an incfeased dangér' to ‘Tdrést propetty 
iby ireason’ of dérest| fires. 

“Having ied some little ‘expéHiehte ‘in paying ‘fdr 
iiicénses for &shing and hwtitir, ‘and ‘having talked the 
inidtter ower with very nubrerous sportsmén, 'T find quite 
ta Uuniversal disposition om the part of such 'pédple ‘to 'try 
‘and get their imoney’s worth. Being ‘obligéd 6 \pay 
‘money where ithey think ‘they ought not'to, ff utiable to 
secume trophies’ of the chase’ such as desired, they are 
more or lessitnelined to destroy a certaii amount of prop- 
emty equal, iat least, to the amour of money they have 
left, -—Do inct think that this ‘ta fanciful idea, because 
I kmow «whereof I-speak, as ‘I have heard this sentiment 
expressed iby the peaple themselves who haye béen ob- 
liged ‘to part with ‘their tnoney in this way. 

* We are toldtihat tie visitors in the State ‘are perfectly 
willimg to ihdve sath a law enacted—that they ‘are glad 
to untiribite tto the fund for hiring wardens'to enforce 
omar Tones. ie 

“De mndt the deceived by this statment, ‘Geiflémen, I 
Ihave Thadiseme little experience, you ‘Will "alldw ‘me 'to 
say, ind with the single exception of the case réféfted 
te ‘hy Wirs-Carleton at Mt. Desett, I Have yet'to hedr 
@Ot itive ffiest individual instance whére évén” one" ¢ént ‘Has 
Ihean montributed voluntarily "by ‘the ‘visiting "public to 
urtish and game fund, 'Ttts "théonshihe,’”“geritletten, ¥d 
diream that these people'dre"2ditfg"to“tdine Here astrd 'vol- 
witterily contribute $10'éach, or'inére,,'fdr ‘the benefit of 
tihss fund;.as otherwise we-Should have ‘hibd'abundant*evi- 
dance in a few cases, ‘st least. 

“The real facts are sitiply these: ‘A! few of our’ visiting 
ssportsmen are anxious to Hdve'a license law Such as, pte- 
posed. The most of thetnaveting the idéa, wish to hive 
the license fee very high “and explain their reasons ‘there- 
for im this marner: ‘Dkey -say ‘that ‘with their. méafis, 
they can easily afford ite pay quite liberally, but tHat the 
large mass of tourists who céme'to Mahe have not such 
financial ability; coOnsequéntly, ‘it “will create ‘a large 
game preserve for’ the! benefit" ofa’ moneyed  aristocrae 
and compel ithe clerks, 'tradéswién, and others’ df limited 
means to do weithout=sw¢h‘an outing or ‘go’ elséwheéte. . 

“It's the waasses and iiot the classes! to whotn ‘We should 
tater, ii we wish 'to:Wo the greatest ‘good, becdtse,’ while 
indaviduelby ithey de tot spend 'as'much ‘honey, collect- 
ively they spend'muth more and the benefits reach a much 
lagger mutiberdf people. ie 

“OW course, Wievean' understand ‘how a few of our mem- 
bers, like itive proprietors! df! fashionable resorts, have Te= 
wently ‘been converted ' oh ‘wtcount of the confession’ of 
some of their patroris'that ‘there is a strong undercitrent 
mong “this <class ‘tidt va ‘high license fee would térid 
wreate/u Selettiaristodtacy and bar the magses df 'totirists. 

“Intsyidually, \praprietors. of such résorts ‘would be 
Ibenéittet-and it \is but natural that théy should become 
imbued withthe ideas prevailing anidtz their guests and 
utneonsciously ‘become ‘unmindful ‘of ‘other interests than 
thetrown. ; 

“Wie are Cited *to the fact tit the Provinces of Canada 
exact fe iforthuiiting, ‘and ‘that they still flourish. This 
its ‘true, sgeritlémen, ‘dnd ‘it is also true that they exact 
a lige Cor fishing ‘es ell, and what is the result? |The 
statement ts'iniads, ‘iid I fully believe it, that more people 
come to ithe little State of Maine to fish than go ‘to All 
tthe Provintes of Canada combined, notwithstanding ‘the 
fiact that ‘the tratural conditions in the vatiows ‘Provihices 
are fulby eevial to. those here. 

_ ‘We vail know, whether we admit it or ‘not, thdt 
Ilinense fee such as proposed would 'bar very many people 
from coming here. It has ‘become ‘althost a disease te 
Ihave an annual outing, either for fishing dr hunting. 
Commencing as a mild fever, it developed ‘into a contagion 
that we have been hoping ‘was chronic; \but the passing 
of obnoxious laws is likely to destroy ‘this microbe and 
ithe patient return ‘home Ctired—tever to return. 

_ “Many more. reasons, ‘dfiteh rettearsed, could be offered 
in ‘apposition tothe proposed flaw. I will leave them’ un_ 
repeated, becatise I wish ‘to offer a few ideas in favor of 
the scheme. 

_ “I feel it is e#bowt time for us to consider more care- 
fully the forestry problem and the obligations we’ are 
under to the individual land owners, when considerin 
any ‘proposed change in our game laws; therefore, 
representing tertain small wild land interests, and regard- 
less of fish andi game interests, I’m very strongly inclined 
— with 2 proviso which I will mention later—to work fed 
itt long and diligently: Pat 
_ “ss before stated, the wild lands furnish the grand cap- 
wal upon which you flourish. Without the forests) this 
State would bea very poor one in which to live): The 


blasting storms of winter, with uncoitrollable freshets 


_ Spring and fall, accompanied by) the parching: droughts. of 


summer, would fuin almost every kind of business. of 
whatever name or. nature that at»preseht furnishes -our 
people wah means of'2 livelihood. ae ae 

“The egislature’ meets season after season to pass 
laws; but instead’ of stadying and: législating how best to 
preserve our'forest’area which stands as a safeguard to 
all business, they ponder and scheme-how they can con.) 


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trive some law which will tax them harder and give 
nothing in return, Not satisfied with their success in the 

ast they propase to go even further and tax the wild 
lands even more, in order to lessen the tax burden rest- 
ing on other classes of property which are so dependent 
on a flourishing forest growth, 

‘The feport of the distinguished chairman_ of 
the taxation committee appointed by the State 
Grange at their recent session in this city, voiced this 
sentiment quite emphatically, and this was followed by a 
resolution adopted by that body, indorsing the same idea. 
_._ Did any of you hear that, provided the wild lands 
did pay more tax, they would receive any part of the ben- 
efit resulting therefrom? Not by any means, because it 
is not so intended. 

“The State has given you—and by you I mean the fish 
and gaie interests—from the general fund to which the 
wild lands contribute, $25,000 each year with which to 
plunder their forests, trespass all you will, burn if you 
choose, do almost anything you like, and has given the 
muunificent sum of $400 annually for the purpose of pro- 
tecting forest property against damage by fires that per- 
haps you yourselyes have started, and also for the pur- 
pose of making scientific investigation as to the best 
inethods of preserving our forest growth, so essential to 
the future welfare of the State. 

“Is this right, just or fair? 

“As a land owner, I’ve no particular objection to your 
using my property within reasonable bounds for the pur- 
pose of either fishing or hunting; but I certainly have 
very serious objections to your leasing my land—which 

“as what a hunting license virtually means—to other 
parties, and appropriating the proceeds for your own 
private use. 

“While I’ve not consulted with the numerous wild land 
owners of the State and therefore do not claim to be 
acting as their representative, I’ve no doubt they will 
agree with me fully in the idea that it would be just and 
fair to ask the Legislature to enact a license law similar 
to that proposed, but differing in this respect, viz., that 
every cent of revenue should be devoted to forestry in- 
terests, instead of fish and game interests. 

“This does not appeal to me as asking too much, be- 
cause we are virtually giving value received. In other 
words, we should be leasing the right to hunt and fish, 
carrying with it camping privileges, including necessary 
fuel, on our private property. 

“Under the present system, it is only at great personal 
expense that forest owners can guard against losses by 
fire, to say nothing of any other losses, occasioned by 
the carelessness or indifference or wanton disposition of 
the numerous tourists. 

“With the revenue derived from a license law such as 
I have indicated, embracing a provision that the total re- 
~ceipts shall be used only for the purpose of guarding the 
property against losses by forest fires, and to gather and 
disseminate valuable information relative to forestry prob- 
lems, it seems to me that the idea of selfishness on our 
part should be entirely eliminated, excepting in so far 
as we should be relieved of a portion of the personal 
expense of protecting our property against your depre- 
dations. 

“We frankly admit that we should expect to be re- 
lieved of a part of the fire risk on account of a less num- 
ber of tourists, but please ‘bear in mind that we never 
invited them here. 

“You are the hosts, and as such common courtesy 
would demand that you provide the necessary entertain- 
ment to make their stay pleasant, without demai ding 
that we furnish all the facilities, stand all the risks, and 
‘chip in’ beside, when we are never. benefitted. 

“We could stand this for 2 year or two without a mur- 
mur; but it seems to me that there 1s a disposition mani- 
fest to bear on a little harder than we can stand. All we 
demand is simple justice, but for that we must insist.” 


Rhode Island Fish and Game Interests. 


Proyinence, R. 1., Jan. 11.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
In the General Assembly yesterday a resolution appro- 
priating $1,500 for the payment of bounties for the kill- 
ing of wild foxes was read and passed by the Senate. 

Gov. Charles Dean Kimball, in his message to the 
General Assembly last week, had the following to say 
concerning shell fisheries and inland fisheries: 

“The revenue to the State in rents from the lands 
leased for the raising of oysters is $25,691.25 for the vear. 
During igor there have been leased additional lands to 
the number of 1.858 acres, which the commissioners esti- 
mate will add more than $10,000 to the receipts of the 
current year, 

“The clam beds are an important source of revenie 
to many of the inhabitants of our State. Their depletion 
to any extent is to be seriously deplored. I urge that 
you consider measures for their protection, Attention 
should also be given to the preservation of the scallop 
fisheries. : 

“The valuable work of the Commissioners of Inland 
Fisheries has been continued during the present vear. 
They report that beside attending to the usual work of 
stocking the streams and ponds and protecting the fish, 
they have made a sirenuous effort this year to stop the 
illegal taking of short lobsters and ege lobsters, with a 
very gratifying degree of success. It is definitely known 
that a great many thousand lobsters have been returned 


to the water and given a chance to breed, “You will. 


doubtless be gratified to learn that the authority granted 
the commissioners to wse certain land for experimental 
purposes has resulted in numerous tests of the feasibility 
of practical clam culture that promise to be successful.” 
Ife also said concerning the protection of birds: “The 
commission repert a very general 
efforts on the part of the public, which is a matter for 
gratification. They call attention to a measure adopted 
at the January session, root, that they believe prevents 
the adequate protection of certain birds. They intend to 
bring before you at this season a bill calculated to im- 
prove existing legislation. They feel that extreme 
mieasures will be necessary to protect from extinction our 
rufled grouse, commonly called partridge” 
W. Tf. M. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 
A Wild Turkey Invades Asheville. 


ASHEVILLE, N. C., Jan, 11.—Editor Forest aid Stream; 
We frequently read in Forest ani Stream about quail 
killing themselves by flying against a huwde, and have 
several times during the past few years read of wild geese 
being confused by lights in windows and fires, etc., But I 
have never yet heard of a wild turkey being caught in the 
center of a city, which city incdsures several miles in 
diameter. Here is a note from an Asheville paper of 
Jan..7; which contains an article, the truthfulness of which 
IT can vouch for: 

“Last Thursday night about 10 o'clock, when Street 
Superintendent. Bostic, who lives on Haywood street, 
stepped outside of his house, he heard cries, something 
like those made by a flock of geese over his head, and 
looking up saw a large bird circling round wildly in the 
air, evidently dazzled by the glare of the are light which is 
located at that point. The bird, which proved to be a 
large wild turkey, attempted to alight in an oak tree, but 
crashed through the lines and dashed against the window 
of a room which had a light init. Then it fell to the 
ground and attempted te run, colliding, in its blindness, 


with a stone wall, and Mr. Bostic’s son, Rex, grappled ~ 


with it on the ground. 

“A wild turkey has great strength in its wings, and 
this one might have beaten itself free if Mr. Bostic had 
not come to the rescue, 

“The bird, which was captured without injuring it, was 
a big bronze specimen, weighing 18 pounds. It had 
evidently been disturbed in the mountains and in attempt- 
ting to fly over the city had become confused by the 
lights. Mr. Bostic and. his family dined on wild turkey 
on Sunday, and state that it was fat and tender.” 

It is very seldom that wild turkeys are now seen near 
Asheville, but judging from the number which have been 
seen on the streets this winter, they must be more plenti- 
ful in the mountains than they have been for several years 
past. iG, SPa. 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


Inurnois STATE GAME Commissioner A. J. Loveyoy, 
writing of the condition of the game fields in Illinois, 
Says that so far as reports in his office go to show, the 
law is being closely adhered to through the State gener- 
ally. This applies especially to quail at this particular 
time, as the open season has but recently closed, and the 
report speaks volumes of the work of the. Commissioner 


A NEW JERSEY GROUP. 


-and his wardens, in view of the fact that the late Legisla- 


ture left the quail almost unprotected. By vigorously de- 
claring and following the manifest intention of the law, 
the spirit of true sportsmanship has infused itself into 
practically all men who go afield; the farmers have sec- 
onded this work by declaring unanimously that no birds 
shall be shot after the middle of December, so that, while 
it was freely predicted six nronths ago. that quail would be 
speedily exterminated in this State, the supplpy of birds 
left over is unusually large, and the prospect for the 
coming season very good, However, the fact remains that 
our Illinois law is very faulty in its present shape, and all 
sportsmen will breathe easier when the next Legislature 
convenes and remedies present defects. 

Lovers of duck shooting in the Mississippi Valley, who 
were deprived of their favorite pastime last fall by rea- 
son of the fact that all lakes were dry and the wildfowl 
took another route south, are now afraid that they will 
meet with similar deprivation as to the spring shooting 
season. The birds have already begun moving northward, 
but there is no more water on the feeding grounds than 
during the fall season. and unless there are copious rains 
soon, the birds will hurry through this country, if, indeed, 
they come this way at all. | ed ed 2 


The Long Island Game Season. 


THE upland hunting season on Long Island closed on 
Tuesday last, and hunters report the season a very good 
one. Small game, especially quail and partridge, have 
been plentiful, good bags being made. Woodcock have 
been more abundant than usual, Rabbits. for some rea- 
son, have been tnustially scarce. It is said a disease at- 
tacked them. Fox hunting will be the next sport in 
season, and there is an abundance of them on the island. 
Oposstims seem to have increased largely the last few 
years. The ducking scason was a long one and a success- 
ful ofie, but closed by the freezing of the bay. 


Connecticut Birds. 


Mraxvs, Conn., Jan. 12.—T here “age ‘ots. of birds left 
over, and they aaent to be doing well. Wiifle fox lwa- 
ing yesterday I flushed seven pheasants. T ea mst have 


been recently turned loose. There are lots of foxes tliis 


. have ever seen them. 


- North Carolina Wildfowl. 


Currituck Sounp, N. C.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Our canvasbacks this season are in the finest cond'tion IT 


I weighed a bag of thirty-one 
birds yesterday, which weighed as follows: Two of 4% | 
pounds each, three of 44% pounds each, two of 4 pounds | 
each, seven of 376 pounds each, six of 334 pounds each, | 
eleven of 334 potinds each. I attribute this to the very — 
heavy crop of wild celery in our Sound, which is so abun- — 
dant the game has done very little so far toward destroy- 
ing it. Pent fifteen Canada geese one day last week, | 
which weighed from 914 to 14 pounds each. This is also | 
unusual-=in fact, all our birds seem in perfect condition, | 
“Mr. Curtis, of Boston, a- member of the Swan Island | 
Club, was on our island a few days ago. He said their | 
club had killed three thousand five hundred ducks up to — 
Christmas. All the clubs, or a majority of them, have | 
had the best shooting this season they have had in many | 
years, f 
The swans, for some reason, seetn to be leaving our’ 
Sound. There are not half so many now as there were 
five years ago, IJ do not understand this, as I am quite | 
certain that not one-tenth of the young birds that arrive 
are killed during any one season. I have been told re- 
cently, however, that they are seen in large numbers in 
the large sounds south of here off Kinhekeet, Hatteras — 
and Ocracoke, where they have been seldom seen, except 
in small flocks, This may account for the scarcity here. 
I understand that black brant are more abundant in the — 
Albemarle, Pamlico and Bogue sounds this season than 
eyer. That section of Carolina from Oregon Inlet to 
Beaufort is destined to become a hunter’s parad'se, but 
unfortunately the water is too salty to grow wild celery, 
and the flavor of the game is not good. | 
More Anon, 


A Virginia Quail Point. 


Mr. L. P. Brow, of Lumberton, Va., reports that the 
quail stock this year is a very abundant one. The sea- 
son will extend to Feb, 15. ; , 


100 Sportsmen’s Finds. 


Some of the Queer Discovertes Made by Those Who Are 
Looking for Game or Fish. 


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Three boys of Union township, N. J., while hunting 
recently in the woods, chased a “possum to the Essex 
county line, where it disappeared in a hole leading under 
a pile of stones. While engaged in digging it out they 
came across a wooden box containing mofe than one 
hundred silver spoons, kniyes and forks and four gold 
salt spoons. County Detective Keron, of Elizabeth, 
learned about the discovery and took possession of the 
silverware. Keron believes the silverware was stolen by 
tramps and hidden, awaiting an opportunity to sately dis- 
pose of if. , 


Sea and. River Fishing. 
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Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to adyertise 
them in FOREST AND STREAM. 


Trout Pictuzes, 


Tue one lying on the table is very pretty. It was given 
to me yesterday by a friend, and I’prize it highly, but it 
makes me think of a picture of trout I have in my mnd 
which is indel’ble and can never fade. The -natural is 
always in evidence, when I think of it. Nearly forty 
years ago I went to school—not because I wanted to then, 
but because I was advised by older heads who attended ta 
my welfare, that going to schcol was the proper’ thing 
for me. The school house was of the old New England 
type, situated under the shadow of grand old Mt. Tom, in 
Hampshire county, Massachusetts. I can see It now in- 
side and out—the old wooden benches hacked here and 
there by some boy long before me to see if his knife would 
cut: the old cast-iron box stove about four feet long, and 
the teacher's ruler which was always in evidence on her 
desk, and the next hottest thing to the stove. All I can 
see now. But I am off the subject- 

One afternoon in the month of May I happened to look 
up at the teacher and noticed her look out of the window 
and smile with a gentle blush (it was something unusual 
for me to see a teacher smile). Pretty soon there was a 
knock at the school house decor; the teacher went to the 
door, and I had a glimpse of a fishing rod, a man and 
a strap over his shoulder. The teacher brought him in. 
and, of course, he was invited to look over the daily 
register; but I don’t think he was as much interested in 
it as he was in our pretty and young school teacher, who 
had been out of the High School but a short time. I was 
ina bad fix. I wanted to see if that young man had any 
fish, I was too young then to go fishing alone, but if 
there was a chance to hang around or go with some 
older person and be in their way, 1 was always there, and 
the mere glimpse of a fish pole “in the school house 
settled my studies for that day as far as books were 
concerned. ’ : 

I plucked up courage and tried to catch the teacher's 
eye, but it seemed as if she would-never look my way. but 
I raised my hand and she said, “Well, what do you wish iS 
“May I go out?” said I, and the usual, “Is it necessary? 
came from her lips, and, of course, I said, “Yes'm.” Well, 
T went otit into the “entry,” as we used to call it, and 
there in the corner I saw what I thought was the finest 
little fishing rod in the world, and hung up on a nail 
beside it was the creel. But it was so high that with my 
short Jegs I gould not reach it; so I went to the wood- 
shed and, prowured a block of wood as large as I could 
lift and brought it out and ‘stood on it, and then I lifted 
the cover off the “fish basket,” removed the green grass 
from the top and saw 2 dozen or so of the prettiest trout 


sver gazed upom. I lifted ome out, and it took both of 
@ then ltdle hands tela it, But t was a great de- 
l#gHE to me to see those trout und I remember as if it 


Jan. 18, t902.} 

! J 4 . 

were yesterday those pies. spots on their sides and all 
the other colorings of the most beautiful fish, and_that 
‘picture I think more of to-day than the one in oil, But I 
was caught and severely reprimanded for my inquisitive- 


ness. 
Brown’s Tract Guides. 


Editor Forest and Stream: _ , 
_ The annual meeting of the Brown’s Tract Guides’ As- 
fotiation held in Bootiville, Jati. 9, was largely attended 
whd reat interest was manifested in the proceedings. 
he Association has over 400 members, and is the, strong- 
est organization of its kind that was ever formed. Presi- 
dent Richard Crego presided. Secretary and Treasurer 
A. M. Church submitted his annual report, of which an 
abstract follows; ‘‘The increase in members during the 
es just past Has been 163, ten giudes of active them- 
ers, and ninéty-thtee associate members, making, all 
told, 43% members, and of these seventy-eight are guides 
Or attive members. The total receipts amounted to 

797.25: disbursements, $797.06; balance on hand, $70.29. 

e recovered a penalty in ofte case for shooting trout of 
$25. and the oitily other case we had was that of two 
Canadian Frenchmen—lumbermen—who killed a deer 
Match 6, ro0r, near Beaver River. Information was fur- 
nished by 2 member of the Association, and they were 
taken before Justice J. H. Higby by Special Protector Ira 
Parsons, and fined $50 each, Failing to pay, they were 
sent to the county jail at Herkimer for fifty days each. 
During the latter part of July atid through August we 
had a special representative at White Lake, McKeever and 
tip the railroad as far as Cledrwater. We also had an- 
other at Fourth Lake, and much valuable evidence was 

obtained tn this way. We kept as close watch as possible 
Of all the country between Beaver River and the South 
Branch of Moose River, east to Raquette Lake, and north 
to Independence River. Dogs were found running deer 
about the Brown’s Tract ponds, Eighth Lake and north 
to Shallow, arid several were killed. Two were killed in 
the vicitiity of the toad running from White Lake Corners 
to Woodhtill Reservoir, and one found runn‘ng loose 
about the north shore of Fourth Lake. We found that 
obfe deer had been killed at Lotte Lake and taken to 
White Lake in July. Ofte was killed in July and another 
late in Augiist in Nick’s Lake, and two on Gibb’s Lake. 
We also have evidence in several other cases, one of which 
Was Placed in the hands of State Game Protector Wait, 
Who has not yet reported progress, During this time 
we employed one man for a month, and others as we 
could get them), atid as they were needed, Beside the man 
for a month, we employed gu’des and others in raiding 
the rountry about réo days. 

“The fishing the past season has not been up to the 
Waual standard. There were some good catches made 
eerily in the season, but as a whole the fishing season 
was poor, Yhere were the usttal iumbet of fisherrien who 
caught all they could atid ttiore than they ought. Be- 
eween the bass atid the thintiow traps, the bait fish are 
about eXterinitiated in the Fultoti Chain, and the btioy 
fishitig which we condemined last year will kill itself in 
the fear future. I have so far found but two men who 
report that there are as many deet 1h the woods as_last 
year, and one of these then did not get one at that. I 
find many more htinters this year who are in favor of 
thortening the ope season on deer, and it seems to be 
the geheral opinion of all our people that all hunting of 
tleer in the month of November should be cit out. Fully 
one-half the deer taken were killed during the part of the 
seascn that is in the month of November. On one train 
from the woods ot Noy. 10 were fifty-two carcasses of 
deer. On Nov. 15 the morning train into Utica carried 
thirty-two, and the afternoon train seventy-four. The 

isheries, Game and Forest Commission report 1,286 deer 
being shipped from the woods by express, and estimate 
that 6.000 were killed in the Adirondack wilderness the 
last season fer hunting. Will 6000 fawns pull through 
this winter and be ready to take their places next spring? 
Partridges were more plenty this last season in the 
Adirondacks than for several years past, the season being 
particularly adapted for their breeding. During last win- 


ter’s session of the Legislature your secretary had some — 


correspondence in regard to measures relating to game 
protection. and, in company with another member, visited 
Albany to protest against a bill to allow hounding in two 
‘or three counties. The proposed measure died in the 
‘committee, and a bill extending the anti-hounting law of 
"897 another five vears was passed and received the Gov- 

Wor’s signature. Your committee on game law legisla- 
iion prepared several bills tending to carry out the recom- 
mendations made by you at the last annual meeting. They 
were ‘ntroduced and pushed by Senator Garry A. Wil- 
lard, andl passed the Senate, but through pressure of busi- 
mess and other reasons, failed to get out of the Assembly 
commitee. We lost by resignation last year one mem- 
ber, Benjamin Aborn, of Cleveland, O., and during the 
year four of our best and most influential members have 
died. They were Leander W, Fiske and Robert Perrie, of 
Boonville; Arthur W. Soper, of New York, and Samuel 
W)_ Skinner, of Cincinnati.” 

C. R. Sperry offered the following resolutions, which 
were all adopted except the one pertaining to the shoot- 
ing of does: 

- Whereas, The Brown’s Tract Guides’ Association was organized 
Iby the co-operation of about fifty of the leading guides of that 
tsection for the purpose of protecting the fish and forests of the 
. Adirondacks. (They were encouraged in this undertaking by all 
itrue sportsmen and law-abiding citizens who love the forests and 
‘native habitants of its weods and waters. They were led to this 
taction by practical and personal knowledge of the rapid destruction 


‘of fish ahd game, both in and out of season, in this region, and 
‘fully realizing that some radical measures must be taken to pre- 


vent the wanton destruction of this most noble game and _ sport, 


have banded themselves together to prevent, in as far as lies in 
their powef its rapid and tnlawful destruction by irresponsible 
persons, pot and market hunters); and 

Whereas, It has become self-evident, not only to the guides them- 
selves, but thé casiial observer, that the State game protectors ap- 
pointed and assigned to the Adirondack region for the protection 
of fish and game are entirely inadequate for the purpose, not only 
in poirit Of numbers, but in qualification and fitness for the work, 
by reason of their tanifest upfitnets and training as wdodsmen 
and jack of earnest endeavor to’ perform their whole duty; there- 
forse, be st 5 ee ‘et d ay 4 

Resolyed, That it is the sense of this Association and meeting 
that the State should assume more responsibility for the protec: 
tion of its forests, fish and game, and to that end assign more 
spiptaerars fa the forest preserve, and exercise more catition in 


electing protectors, fitted by training and ambition for the pur- 


ose. 
P Resolved. That this Association condemy buoy or anchor fishing, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


and respectfully réequeat the Legislature to pass a law Spe ti at 
fishing at buoys or anchora in the waters inhabited by trout 
within the forest preserve, 
Resolved, That thié Association recommend that the close seaeon 
for wild deer shall be from Nov. 1 to Aug, $1, both inclusive. 
Whereas, In years past many men have been mistaken for deer 
and shot, and whereas, hunters aid sportsmen in their eager pur- 
pitit of deer, haye not used sufficient caution “to distingulsh the 
difference between deer and men; and whereas, the time has now 
come when radical measures must be taken for the further pro- 
tection of the deet it the forests, which are fast being depleted; 
therefore, be it \ 
Resolved, And this Association most strentiously urge that no 
doe or female deer shall be killed at any time within the forest 
preserve. [This resolution was not adopted.] 
_ Resolved, That this Association condemn the sale of deer, ven 
ison, partridge, woodcock or quail, also brook or lake trout taken 
from the inland waters of the State, except the sale of live fish 
or game for the purpose of stocking or restocking forests or 
waters, 
Resolved, That the close season for black bear shall be from 
May 1 to Sept. 30, both inclusive. 
Resolved, That this Association heartily indorse the candidacy 
of John E. Ball for the appointment of State game protector for 
the Elerkimer district, 
Whereas, the question of lumberin 
preserve is mow being discussed; an 
Whereas, In our pode sent that not only meats the destruction 
of the forests but also the cutting off of the present water supply 
of the State; therefore, be it ; 
Resolved, That this Association most strenuously protests 
against lumbering or cutting the timber on the State lands, 
Richard Crego, 
D. F. Sperty, 
A. M,. Church, 
C. R. Sperry, 
Committee. 


Officers were elected as follows: President, Richard 
Crego; Vice-President, Garry A. Riggs; Secretary and 
Treasurer, A. M. Church. The Executive Committee con- 
sists of D, T, Charbonneau, William Stell, Charles Smith, 
J. E. Ball, Bioh H. Kent, H. D. Grant, Danforth Ains- 
worth, Sr. 

At the conclusion of the business meeting a banquet was 
enjoyed, about 300 guests being present. Hon. H. D. 
Grant acted as toastmaster at the post-prandial session, 
and many interesting speeches were made. 


State lands within the forest 


Urica, N. Y., Jan, 10, 


Calendars, 


Spratts Patent (America) Limited, of Market and 
Congress streets, Newark, N. J., have issued a calendar 
for 1902, which is illustrated in colors with themes con- 
cerning cats, dogs and poultry. Those who desite one 
should apply to Spratts Patent, as per address afore- 
mentioned. 


Hachting. 
+ ee 
Designing Competition. 


In view of the, continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
colunins, of Forest AND STREAM. In America the yacht- 
ing ‘sedson is comparatively a’short one, and such a com- 
petition -as has been determined -upon will serve to stimu- 
late the interest in the subject during. the winter months. 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers: Three prizes will-be given for the best de- 
signs ‘of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: 

T.-A pole mast sloop. 

- II. 25ft. load waterline , 

‘ILI. “Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 

IV. At least so per cent. of ballast outside on keel. 

V. 5ft, headroom under cabin carlins. 

\All abnormal features must. be studiously avoided in 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plans 
should be of the simplest character, It was our idea in 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished to 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or 
three amateurs could live with comfert for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 
{ype. 

DRAWINGS REQUIRED. 

I. Sheer plan, scale tin. = 1it—showing center of 

buoyancy and lateral resistance. 

IL. Half breadth, scale rin. = rift. 

Ill. Body plan, scale tin = rt. — 

IV. Cabin plan, scale rin. = Tft. 

V. Sail plan, %in. = rft., showing center of effort. 
The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 

A table of offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, the 
designer should inclose his-own name and.address, to- 
gether with his nom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not.later than 
Feb. 28, 1902. Alli drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each._ 

The ForEsT AND STREAM reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. ' 

The prizes offered are as follows: Ist prize, $25.00; 
2d prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. ; 

r. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane’s professional 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, and 
every confidence will be put in his ability amd fairness. 


Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane have chartered the 
steam yacht Margarita, owned By Col. A. J. Drexel, to 
Mr. Charles B. Alexander. The yatttt is now in English 
waters, and Mr. Alexander will gb to the Mediterranean 
in her in the early spring. 


Racing and Cruising | Yachts, 


Tue following interesting lecture was delivered by 
Mr, William Gardner, of the firm of Messrs, Gardner & 
Cox, naval architects, New York city, before the Yachts- 
men’s Club, Monday evening, Dec. 30: 


In introducing to you the history of the changes which 
have taken place in racing yachts, it seerns to me unreces-~ 
sary to antedate the period of our first racing of interna- 
tiofial reputation. Our first boat of great importance we 
all know was America, Previous to the construction of 
America our boats were built on what is known as the 
“cod’s head and mackerel-tail” plan. The forms of these 
boats were developed from the forms of fishes, and up to 
that time it had been considered that the form best 
adapted for moying beneath the surface of the water was 
naturally best for inovement on the surface. 

Ametica tepresented a decided departure from pre- 
vious yacht designing in this country, in that she had 
an extremely long bow and short run. ‘This was an 
acknowledgment that surface resistance was totally differ- 
ent from the resistance under water. The idea was not 
new, nor the application new, America’s success was due 
to the fact that in connection with the long bow there 
was a decidedly raking keel, which brought the center 
of Jateral resistance well aft, combined with the center 
of buoyancy, and at the same time the center of area of sail 
was carried further aft to correspond with the buoyancy 
and central lateral plane. This produced as a whole a 
rematkably successful boat. Added to the improvements 
in model were to be found the flat sails, which were prac- 
tically unknown at tliat time. 

The success of America was not due to any single 
novelty, but she was the result of a combination of new 
ideas and carefully thought out principles, all of which 
were symmetrical and produced a perfect conibination. 

At the time of the appearance of America a hoat had 
been already built in England which possessed very ad- 
vanced ideas, This was. Mosquito. She sailed in the 
race against America, but owiitg to her grounding, the 
actual results of her speed compared with America were 
not known. She was considered, however, fully the equal 
of America. Mosquito possessed many of the new fea- 
tures of America, but her sails were not so good, and 
her forefoot was unqttestionably too deep, 

One of the most interesting boats produced at about 
that period was Oncahi. This vessel had a full bilge, an 
extremely hollow garboard and a broad keel. The object 
was to carty the ballast very low, which they certainly 
succeeded in doing. Owing to her lateral plane and large 
displacement, the boat failed to score a brilliant success. 
However, she represented the beginning of the modern 
ballast fin. She was one of the products of the Stevens, 
and was an example showing the advanced ideas the 
Stevens possessed at that time. Maria was another 
product of the Stevens, and possessed many remarkalle 
feaftires. She was altered several times, and while the 
various models of Maria are still in existence, it is at this 
day very difficult to tell which is the original model and 
which the latet substituted models which were used in 
alteration. However, there is among the several models 
one which deserves attention and comment. This boat 
has a waterline of about rroft., with convex waterline 
and convex bow—very similar to Shamrock II. 

The fore end, however, was at least 2ft. bin. wide at 
the forward end on deck, but was circular in form, tm- 
stead of square, as shown on Shamrock JI. ; 

In reaching Maria was certainly a wonderful vessel. 
In going to windward she was not so sucecesstul—die 
probably to her hollow bow. Her sails were the first 
ever made, so far as we know, with the seams running 
in a horizontal direction, and her spars, so far as we 
know, were the first hollow spars ever built. Her mast 
was hollow and was bored. Her boom was, hollow and 
built op. I think she possessed the only thoroughly 
successful hollow wooden boom that has been built over 
ooft. in length, 

After America and her contemporaries Una and Julia, 
the American model changed very decidedly. These boats 
were deep, substantial vessels, with fairly large dis- 
placement, fine ends and perfect balance, Their suc- 
cessors were boats of moderate displacement, great beam, 
faint bilge and large sail. 

In general, we can say that in New York yachting was 


confined to the Lower Bay and Long Island Sound. At 


the sate time large yachts were built of the keel type, 
which boats, however, with the exception of the Sappho, 
possessed no particular characteristics or merit. While 
they went to sea occasionally, they became distinguished 
mainly by the courage and pluck of their owners and sail- 
ing masters, 

One of the most notable improvements in yacht design- 
ing was developed in Kitten, which was a production of 
John Harvey, of Wyyenhoe, England. She was a boat 
with a very shallow forefoot, a straight keel, from the 
stem to the forefoot, and a very marked rake to her stern- 
post—about 50 degrees. She was the first boat to repre- 
ee the low=ballast principle combined with small sur- 
ace. 

Her successor, on a large scale, was Jullanar. This 
boat was a tefinement of Kitten, in that she had a more 
extreme cutaway to the forefoot, a vertical sternpost, 
placed fully 20 per cent. from the after end of the load 
waterline. 

This boat was perfectly balanced, was fast in light 
winds, and is to-day a wonderful performer in rough 
water at sea. 

These two boats, Kitten and Jullanar, were the fore- 
tunners of the modern short keel, which has been car- 
ried to such an extreme at the present time, the length 
of the keel now being determined by the length which 
is necessary for the ballast. 

The first boats after Fannie, Columbia, Magic, etc., 
wotthy of mention ate the Ellsworth boats, Comet, prab- 
ably, while not necessarily the best boat Ellsworth turned 
out,.is certainly the most distingu‘shed. She represented, 
contrary tO previctis practice, a boat af larger displace- 
ment than usttal, small surface and finer ends. While as 
# model she was a remarkable boat, she had the asstst- 
'aneée of Joe Ellsworth, the brother of the designer, who 
was probably the first man in America to make yacht 
racine a science. Combined with unusual skiil in boat 
handling, Joe Ellsworth possessed great knowledge of 
titles, winds, eddies and currents. At times this know!- 
etige was of such value that Comet, although not in a race, 


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was known to sail around the entire fleet, and be at 
anchor with her sails stowed when the first boat came in, 

Following Comet was Fanita, Grayling, Montauk and 
others. Grayling for many years was the queen of: the 
fleet. Montauk had the distinction, until two years ago, of 
holding the record over the New York course. 

Among the smaller boats there was very great rivalry. 
On the Staten Island shore the Seawanhaka Y. C. was de- 
veloping the cutter type—both the English and American 
styles. On the Long Island shore they were developing 
the Ellsworth boats. 

The Ellsworth productions represented boats of con- 
siderable displacement and beam, but moderate drait. 
The boats on the Staten Island Shore—the cutters—were 
generally of narrow beam and large displacement. 

Probably one of the best races ever sailed in-New York 
Bay was the race between Valkyrie—a modified boat de- 
signed by Cary Smith—and Oriva, an English boat of 
moderate beam, 


At the end of the race these boats finished within a few | 


seconds of each other; at no time during the race were 
they separated more than a few lengths. This race sug- 
gested that a combination of beam and draft was con- 
ducive to comfort, room and sea-going qualities, without 
being detrimental to speed. 

The first boat to thoroughly demonstrate the value of 
the keel boat of moderate size, was the Burgess cutter 
Papoose. This boat possessed the beam of the American 
vessel, the draft of the English, with a compromise dis- 
placement between the two. She was never defeated by a 
boat of her own size, or by a centerboard boat, and was 
the forerunner of the modern type of racing vessel. 

After first demonstrating that he could build a center- 
board boat which was faster than any keel boat at that 
time existing, Mr. Burgess, in Papoose, clearly demon- 
strated that he could build a keel boat yet stuperior to his 
own centerboard boat. 

Succeeding Papoose we find a fleet of 40-footers, both 
keel and centerboards, although the greater number of 
them were keel boats. This class of boats probably 
furnished the most brilliant racing this country has ever 
seen. . 


While Papoose was at length defeated, it was never 
done except by larger boats, and while the centerboards 
did magnificent work, it was thoroughly demonstrated 
that the combination, of the English and American ideas 
was stiperior to all previous practice in construction on 
either side of the Atlantic. It is hardly fair to leave this 
class without mentioning Minerva—a creation of Mr. Fife 
—with only 4oft. waterline, she crossed the Atlantic on 
her own bottom safely and made good time coming over. 
Although smaller than the American boats, the perfection 
oi model, canvas and handling, placed her at the front 
of the class. 

While we were developing modified boats on this side, 
the English were developing an extreme type of boat—the 
Tules governing the races giving an advantage to a type of 
excessive length and displacement, combined with very 
narrow beam. : 

Probably the two most notable craft—as well as the two 
latest of this class—were Doris and Olga. While repre- 
senting an entirely different model, their dimensions were 
about the same. They were both wonderful performers, 
as regards speed, but unfortunately never came together, 
due to the sinking of Olga in a collision. 

Olga was a wonderful sea boat, and the personal ex- 
perience of the writer in connection with Olga is such 
as to warrant him in certifying to this statement. She 
was probably the-best example of a good sea boat of the 
narrow type that has been produced. 

Succeeding these boats, the rules were changed in 
Pe ane: and they immediately went to a broader type of 

oat, 

In this country the 46-footers succeeded the 4o-footers. 
In this class appeared Gloriana. She was a radical 
departure from anything ever built in this country, and 
was a production of the Herreshoffs. She possessed ex- 
treme overhangs, full bow and stern, and was designed 
to sail over the water, rather than through it. Iam told 
she was a development from a very careful stidy of 
Minerva—with her good qualities reproduced and her 
bad ones omitted. 

Her success was so great that it at once took the 
Herreshoffs directly into the front rank in the designing 
of modern yachts. 

Contemporaneous with Gloriana was Dora, built by 
Watson, for the owner of Doris. This boat possessed the 
convex waterline, full bow, nearly all the characteristics 
of Gloriana, except that she had a perfect triangular longi- 
tudinal section. So it appepars that in the same year a 
complete change of type was made in England as well as 
in America. ; 

To whom most credit belongs for originality it is diffi- 
cult to determine. 

Succeeding Gloriana the Herreshoffs made another radi- 
cal departure in Dilemma. This boat represented a very 
moderate displacement, full bow and stern, extremely 
long ends, a metal plate descending from the hull, at the 
bottom of which was suspended a bulb of lead. This 
boat was certainly an extreme development of the racing 
machine, for she possessed minimum displacement, with 
maximum sail-carrying power. 

Succeeding Dilemma we find two boats, El Chico and 
Pixey. El Chico was the successor of Dilemma—the 
most extreme of the fin type; Pixey was a boat of very 
much larger displacement, with a very short keel and 
fuller garboard. Her surface was smaller than El Chico's 
and displacement greater. : 

Pixey was a combination of the cruising and racing 
boat, while E] Chico was an extreme racing machine. The 
result of the season’s racing was, that El Chico and 
Pixey came out practically even, El Chico winning the 
last race by an accident to Pixey—Pixey being ahead at 
the time of the accident. El Chico was ‘successful in 
reaching in strong breezes. Pixey was nearly! always 
successful going to windward, and was an easy winner in 
a light wind. This was the first real contest between the 
keel boat of extreme type and the ballast fin. .-) ). " 

Succeeding these two boats-we find Vencedor. and. Syce. 
Vencedor was a ballast fin, similar to El Chicas’ Syce wi 


; i yce was 
a supposed improvement on Pixey. Sy¢e' demonstrated, 


as regards the two, boats, that the-keel boat of her type. 
i fin, +A majority 


was very much supetior to, the ballast fi 
of the most modern boats—the -sticcessful Cup, defenders 
included—have all. peen boats of that type, In- fact, when 

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' variety of models at and above the waterline. 


the rules were changed in England, and it was found 
advisable to increase the area of the midship section, the 
garboards of some of the ballast fins were filled, and, 
strange to say, independent of the reduction in their meas- 
urement, the speed of the boats was increased, due to 
filling the garboards. ; 

The Boston knockabouts are’ probably the best developed 
boats in existence to-day, They have been built under 
specified conditions, and are the result of a gradual im- 
proving development by a number of designers all follow- 


ing up the same conditions. - 
These boats are of the keel type—the ballast fin riot ° 


having been successful. 


The present racing boats are distinguished by full ' 


waterlines, easy garboards, very considerable displace- 


_ment and extremely short keels. In fact, as stated before, 


the length of the keel is probably determined by the 
amount, location and form of the lead. I doubt ii the 
keels will ever be made shorter than they are to-day. 

Among the present racing boats we find a very great 
Some are 
very good sea boats and some are not. The sea-going 
qualities seem to be a matter almost entirely of individual 
design, both in lines and in construction, 

The general feeling is that the present type of boat is 
dangerous, and if the opinions of the owners are to be 
followed, any one who is called upon to judge, would 
certainly have very confused ideas, At any rate, the 
opinion among many is such that it has been considered 
advisable to change the rules in such a way as to dis- 
continue the present type. Several boats have been 
built—both of large and medium sizes—that have shown 
such weakness in their racing that they have been con- 
sidered dangerous. 

To those who are familiar with the principles of naval 
architecture, and the proper construction of boats, it seems 
unfair to condemn a type on the results of the perform- 
ances of these boats; for no matter what bad qualities 
they may possess in form, they certainly were not con- 


structed in accordance with the principles of modern 


naval architecture, and until a boat that has been con- 
structed properly has failed, I do not consider that the 
type should be condemned. 

We have among us a few boats that have been wonder- 


_ fully successful in racitig in England. They have all 


crossed the Atlantic on their own bottoms—some without 
a hitch of any kind. A few years ago these vessels 
would have been consideted extreme racing machines, and 
those who have had the good fortune to be on board of 
them in bad weather, and who are familiar with the boats 
of the older types, can thoroughly appreciate how much 
superior they are, for any purpose, as compared with the 


_ older boats. 


These boats represent modern ideas as regards the con- 
vex bow, the long but rounded stern, and moderate 
surface. They seem to be built to steer with any sail you 
put on them, and they have been known to handle well 
with staysail, jib and jib topsail, and no other sails set. 
This is certainly a guarantee that they will lay to in bad 
weather at sea, 

In this country many condemned the convex bow. This 
judgment has been reached by passing on a few badly 
designed boats; but it is my opinion, that the most perfect 
sea boat in existence to-day is the boat that represents 
nearly all the qualities of the modern racer, not carried to 
an extreme, and those who are fatiliar with the per- 
formance of Defender in a beat to windward at sea, in 
this country, or the performance of Meteor under the 
same conditions in England, I feel will verify my state- 
ment. They are magnificent boats under these or any 
other conditions; they are dry, able and are totally free 
from the pounding qualities that mar other boats. 

Several boats have been designed lately in England of 
the older type, possessing the old clipper bow, but from 
reports I have received none of these boats compare in 
sea-going qualities, speed or handiness with Meteor. And 
from the reports of yachtsmen, whose opinions are worthy 
of consideration, I am told they are years behind the times. 

Tt is true that the full bow, under certain conditions, is 
not good; but when carefully and thoughtfully de- 
signed, you will obtain a steadier, faster and drier boat 
than can possibly be obtained by a return to the clipper 
bow of ancient history, 


Cruising Yachts. 


The general opinion has been that a boat five or six 
years old, or more, is a good cruising yacht; while a 
boat of the present day (whatever the day may be) may 
be a good racer, but is sure to be a poor cruising boat. 

Mr. Smither’s definition of the cruising boat is: A 
boat that is not fast enough to win races. 

In this country we have built a good many famous 
cruising boats, and in their day they certainly were very 
successful. Among them are Intrepid, Iroquois and Yam- 
pa, all of which have covered thousands of miles of open 
water. : ; : 

In England probably the most modern cruising boat is 
Cariad. In form she certainly represents the most modern 
ideas. Although an exceptional sea boat, Cariad has not 
proved herself the superior of the racing boats, either in 
a gale of wifid or in heavy seas. 

In this coufitry we have built a great many small and 


“moderate sized Boats for cruising solely. Their particular 


characteristics have been room; and that room has gen- 
erally been obtained by excessive beam. I saw an ideal 
cruiser last simmer. She was very wide and had a full 
bilge, giving plenty of cabin space, very high sides, short 
ends, short bowsprit, boom slightly over the stern, and 
an extremely high rig. She had a Boston cockpit, by 
which I mean a cockpit, the floor of which is very low 
in the boat. We walked directly from the cockpit into the 
cabin. e back of the cockpit is very high This is 
particularly well adapted for ladies when the boat is at 
anchor. When the boat is sailing, the top of the shoulders 
are at the upper edfé of the cockpit, and unless the seat 
is 24in.. wide, or more, the end of the spine just comes 
into contact with the edge of the seat if one wishes to 
sit upright to ‘windward. E 

~ ‘The unfortiinate’ person whois steering the boat cannot 
see anything, either to’ leeward or to windward, and 
mist halve some one sitting on the top of the cabin house 
on deck to informivhini where’he is gomg. 
“This boat, as said, is Hhe ideal cruiser. IT asked the 


captain. how. she, sailed; he told mig fe was out, once . 
during the previous summer, and’ he ‘tad fe jitended to 


go out again this summer if he had to take a tug to 
bring him back. = 
We have, however, quite a number of boats that have 


been built for cruising, that represent a very wholesome 


boat should be easily 


type. Among them is the yawl Mr. Hyslop built for him- 
self last simmer. This boat represents easy form, moder- 
ate rig, moderate dimensions; and while not possessing 
the accommodations of many of our so-called cruising 
boats, she is thoroughly capable of going anywhere, wind 
or weather, without excessive work, and she does not 
require a large crew. i 

Albicore is another of a similar type, a production of 
William Fife, Jr., which possesses all of the qualities 
of the above-mentioned boat. She is fast, comfortable 
and handy, and is one of the most desirable types of boat 
that has been built. 

For our requirements in this country we need large 
sail plans. It seems to me much better to devote time 
and money to the details of blocks and rigging and 
obtain ease of handling in this way rather than by 
reducing the sails. The best cruiser in the majority of 
cases is the one that makes her day’s run and gets in 
before the wind dies down while the other spends the — 
night on the Sound. 

It is very much easier to adapt a cruising boat to a 
man, than it is to adapt a man to a boat. We have every 
type of yachtsman, from the man at Shelter Island, who 
likes to keep his boat at anchor, so that» he will at all 
times know where she is, to the man that wants the 
fastest boat that can be produced, and who, although 
he never sails a race, wants the best of canvas and rig- 
ging, and who loves sailing out of pure love of the sport 
and whose enjoyment is in seeing his boat moye. 

There is no doubt that it is very beneficial to health to 
get out on the water and spend the night, no matter what 
the boat might be, so long as you can sleep comfortably. 
As one of or progressive producers advertises: Yacht- 
ine makes a man hungry, and after all, that is what it 
is for, 

But there is a much higher aim to those who care to 
seek it. To racé a yacht perfectly is something that no 
one has ever accomplished, and never will. 

You can go through life and continually acquire knowl- 
edge, but you neyer can make a perfect sailor. The man 
who loves yachting for the sport, who loves the art of 
sailing, and who desires to be proficient in it, is the man 
who derives the gréatest benefit, mental and physical. 

At the present time we have a very decided agitation 
ovet measurement rules, and we ate going to legislate. 
We cannot legislate to produce a type of boat that will 
be a sticcess in racing, and at the same time will fill all 
the requirements desired of a cruising boat at the present 
day. The best we can do is to develop a type of boat, that 
while safe. will be conducive to the development of the 
art of sailing, and which will at the same time give the 
designers an opportunity to develop the highest speed 
qualities, so that we will not be forced to devote our 
energies to the creation of a type that will lose for us the 
prestige we now enjoy. 


Cherokee. - 


TuroucH the kindness of the designers, Messrs, Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, we ate able to reproduce in this issue 
the plans of the 35ft. waterline sloop Cherokee, now 
being built by the Geo. Lawley & Son Corp., of South 
Boston, for Mr. H. A. Morss. 

Her dimensions ate as follows: 


Length— i 
Oven all lsh a oe, eee ee s2it. 7in. 
VELA CARA St ath eee ee 3qft. Ir in. 
Overhang— 
Uebcyebdsh Meo one on bere oneor roe 8ft. o in. 
ft ASHE Oe teat ate 9 ns eb ehoe oft. 8i4in. 
Breadth— 
Extreme ....--.- bn Pai DEER tft. oO in, 
UVB Thi ataceltet siecdd ete ese ob Poadakd ue drbists Toit. 11 in, 
Freeboard to Top of Rail— J 
esis Olle de har abet epi earetm che sche Bits aC esitis 
if ERE Ae ew rE oti olaesl cael tae adel 6m ofp Site sweetie 
TeGas tae, PAE eens. 8a Merete ae 3it. o in, 
Draft, extreme ..... ee ee eee Ie Ohi ine COMPLE 
Sail Area— 
Vicars sci ceee eh) eect Susie ate 3 ela eee Boe ele 1,228 sq. ft. 
LAB aon, © ey terysate Pte tine asthe aieval evs .4 a7 OsSes ate 
rei Hlas 2) Ib aes Op Meee eee tener aig) ST Soret cates sq. ft. 
Area lowet sails..........-....0- 1. 1,706 sq. ft. 
TROY visi ill wm Seamet caer bot Pha tty aca ae ar 196 sq. it. 
Tatalvaren pivot ewer reo ee he 1,902 sq. ft. 


In design neither displacement or deadwood has been 
much cut away—in fact, she is 4 more full-bodied boat 
than we have seen for some time. A glance at the mid- 
ship section shows plainly how so much accommodation’ 
is gained on a boat of 35ft. waterline. The section is 
well rounded and of full form; this, together 
with good freeboard, gives a large amount of 
internal room. The main cabin is 7ft. long. There 
is a wide transom on each side, with lockers, under. Be- 
hind the transoms are lockers and shelves. In the for- 
ward end of the cabin on each side are sideboards for. 
silyer, etc. On the starboard side opening from the main 
saloon is the toilet room, fitted with a folding wash basin 
and closet. The owner’s stateroom is just forward of the 
toilet room on the starboard side. This room can be 
reached either from the passageway on the port side or, if 
that is being used as a stateroom, one can go through the 
lavatory. The owner’s room is fitted with a wide berth, 
with drawers under, bureau, folding wash basin, etc. The 
passageway on the port side can be made into a stateroom 
by closing the folding doors at the forward and after end. 
The galley, which is of excellent size, runs the width of 
the boat, and is fitted in addition to a large ice box, with 
the ustial sink, lockers, dish racks, etc. The forecastle is 
unusually large for a boat of this size, and is fitted with 
two pipe berths for the crew, There is a water closet for 
the crew. There is 6ft. 2in. headroom under the carlins 
of the cabin house, whic is roft, long and 5ft. toi. wide. 
The cockpit is watertight, oft. long and 7it. wide. The 
waterway on each side of the cabin house is 3ft. wide. 
The boat is splendidly built, and a good idea of the con- 
struction can be learned from the plans. 

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Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have been reading with much interest the letter you 
published cn the above subject in: your copy of the 21st 
ultimo, signed by Mr. Phillips, who commences by what 
is now becoming the fashionable introduction to such let- 
ters, viz., the assertion that plain yachtsmen care not to 
wrestle with such subjects, but leave rating rules to naval 
afchitects and mathematicians, yet continues in a well- 
argued letter to show that at all events one plain yachts- 
man ‘s very well up in the subject. With your permission 
I will examine his discussion. 

Firstly. he asks how is the factor, displacement, to be 
found. A weighing machine up to ten tons can be pur- 
chased for a small sum. It is handy, and can be hooked 
to the jib of any crane, or if there be no crane, to the 
cross of-an impromptu derrick. Slings round the small 
yacht complete the requisite stores. Two or three men 
could eas‘ly weigh a small yacht in half an hour. There 
is absolutely no difficulty in weighing a small yacht. It 
is quite as simple a job as weighing a lead keel, which is 
insisted upon in the one-design classes, as, for instance, 
when building the 20-tonners in the Clyde O. D. class. 

In the larger classes. if any objection be raised to a 
builder’s certificate of stich displacement obtained fram 
the yacht’s drawings in the usual way by means of the 
planimeter and Simpson’s rule. then we must do with an 
approximation, which is quite correct enough for rating 
rule purposes, and which cannot certainly be objected to in 
the United States, where a similar approximation has 
been permitted for twenty years or so in the finding of 
sail area for rating rule purposes. At the present time the 
English rating rule requires the official measurer to take 
measurements on the yachts external cross section at a 
point 0.6 of the L.W.L. from the front end of it, such that 
any one can, from the published measurements subse- 
quently plot with very fair accuracy the said cross sec- 
tion. G B and D are quite sufficient for this purpose, and 
from the cross secticn thus plotted M the area of im- 
mersed section can at once be found by a planimeter. 
Having found M and knowing L, the approximate dis- 
placement in English tons (of 2,240lbs.) 1s, found by the 
formula M X L + 60. Thus a 30-footer (L:W.L.) hav- 
ing a section M = 16 sq. ft. would be about eight tons 
displacement. i , 

The argument that asking for displatement encroaches 
too much on the secrecy of design, does not therefore 
seem ta be reasonable, hecause the present time the 


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English rule requires that yachts shall be so measured that 
practically the said displacement can at once be found 
from the published measurements, by any expert. Again, 
Mr. Phillips thinks that the displacement could not be 
kept stationary for all races: Quite so. There would 
be no need. I would simply find the yacht’s smallest dis- 
placement and give her a premium on that. Any increase, 
unless permanent, would give her no rating advantage, 
and therefore qua rating need not be considered. If the 
increase were permanent, her master would, of course, 
take good care to have her rating corrected. On the 
other hand, any decrease in displacement by, say, the use 


-of hollow vice solid spars, would, of course, require a 


corrected rating, which her competitors would insist upon, 
just as they would in the event of her taxable sail area 
being increased. i 

Mr. Phillips, on these very insufficient and easy an- 
swered objections. considers that a, displacement rule. 
however excellent in theory, would in practice be “simply 
vile.” 

He then proceeds to argue that the prime function of 
a tating tule-is to measure the size of a yacht. If this 
were really so, surely the most effective rule would be 
that for registered tonnage. and every owner would 
naturally reduce freeboard, and all internal dimensions to 
the utmost in order to rate as low as possible. 

Tf is true that when racing first commenced the aim 


- of the rule for time allowance was to measure size; but 


we have got a little beyond that primitive idea. and now 
eur rating rule for racing is a measure of speed, which is 
quite another affair; We no longer race with cart horses, 
but with thoroughbreds. 

No racing man is likely to disagree with Mr. Phillips’ 
second proposition, that restrictions should not be em- 
bodied in a rating rule. That is my objection to “shape 
rules,” like the present Y. R: A. (British) and German 
rules. 

Mr. Phillips’ third proposition that restrictions swit- 
able to one class or size are unsuitable to another, is com- 
mon sense, but is outside the argument if his second 
proposition be accepted, as above, viz., that restrictions 
and rating rules should have nothing in common. and 
Mr. Phillips’ fourth proposition can be regarded like No, 3. 

The statement then made that a strictly scientific for- 
mula has been deduced by naval architects, that other 
things being equal and length variable, the possibilities 
of speed vary as the square root of the length, is certainly 
not accurate if scientific. The late Mr. Froude proved 
that resistance dite to -water friction varies with the area 


[J4n. 28, 1902. 


and nature of the wetted surface, and with a power of 
the speed less than the square, that it is independent of 
displacement and that it can be readily tabulated. 

The residuary resistance, however, due to wave or 
eddy making cannot be so dealt with, and at present can 
be found only by trial either of a ship at sea or of a model 
im a tank, Evidently, therefore, the total resistance, and 
therefore the speed, cannot be accurately described as 
varying with a particular power of length, and it is also 
impossible to have other things equal when length varies. 
For instance, if beam remained constant, the ratio of L to 
B would not remain the same, L varying; and contrari- 
wise, if the ratio remained unaltered, B would have to 
wary with L. 

But it is not even a fact that increase of L per se neces- 
sarily reduces wave making resistance. The general ten- 
dency is that way, but at and about certain speeds for 
each shape in an increase of length may produce an actual 
increase of resistance. 

The “strictly scientific formula” is, however, sufficiently 
accurate for rule purposes, and for the production of a 
time scale, and it is far wiser to race by such a scale than 
by one which is altered tyrannically by a governing body 
for the purpose of taxing excessively and therefore of dis- 
couraging all yachts exceeding a given rating, which has 
been done by the British Y. R. A. in their time scale above 
80 rating. 


Mr. Phillips’ remarks on the time scale are excellent, 
but he should bear in mind that rating length is not hull 
length, but has nearly 50 per cent. of it indicating a co- 
efficient of power, and consequently the application of the 
“formula” which is strictly scientific only as regards hull 
length, is purely arbitrary. His definition that on a given 
length, sail is a coefficient of power is very neat, and his 
deduction as also that the Seawanhaka rule is conse- 
quently a good measurement rulé; but when he adds 
shortly afterward that this measurement is one of size, I 
for one cannot agree with him, believing it as I do to be 
a measurement of speed and not of size—racing size, 
perhaps, which practically is speed. The Seawanhaka 
tule’s only defect, in my opinion. is the omission to tax 
the third principal speed producer—small displacement. 
The introduction of this additional tax is the thing I 
have been advocating for years. 

As for racing under restricted rules, or in one-desi 
classes, they give excellent sport, but they ingpede evolu- 
tion, and Mr. Phillips’ opposition to restrictions being 
practically introduced by a complicated rating rule, is 
most cordially echoed by ry THALassa. 


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Jan. 18, 1902] 


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Our English Letter. 

Wir the income tax at nearly six per cent., it is not 
surprising that the prospects for next season’s racing 
are somewhat sloomy, The large class which collapsed 
early last season from a variety of causes will receive 
no additions, but Sybarita has been bought by Mr. M. 
B. Kennedy, owner of the handicap-racer Maid Marion, 
from Mr. Whitaker Wright, who has been unfortunate 
in sundry public companies of late, or, perhaps, in whom 
sundry public companies have been unfortunate. This 
asstires the appearance of Sybarita under a new name. 
Kariad, Mr. Kenneth M. Clark, will also be raced, and 
there is a possibility of Bona swellng the list. So far 
this appears to be all that can be hoped for. Sybarita is 
a good light-weather boat, and with her allowance for 
the “inferior” yawl rig’ she is a formiidable craft to tackle. 
Meteor will no doubt also be raced by the German 
Emperor, and will always show up well in a breeze. Fis 
Majesty, however, needs a new boat by this time, and we 
may hear of one next year. It would be extremely in- 
teresting if his next racing craft should come trom 
Herreshoff, There is a very strong desire among yaehts- 
men oyer here to have a big Herreshoff boat at our 
regattas. All recognize that she would be very hard 
to beat, but we want to show that such a yacht would 
not have everything her own way. The report was 
cabled over here a few weeks ago that Mr. Iselin had 
given Herreshoff the order for a new first-class boat for 
Yacing in England. Nothing has been heard of this 
lately, but no better news could be received than a con- 
firmation of the rumor, 

Our 6s5it, class is moribund. Mr. Inglis is anxious to 
sell Nevada, designed for him by Mr. C. F. Herreshoff 
last year, and no new boats are building for the class. 
Nevada was not what can be called a failure, for she won 
nearly half the races she started in, but she is a miscon- 
ception, Her waterline length is very little more than 
that of the 52-footer Magdalen,.the crack of that class. 
She had nothing to sail against except Tutty. the old 
4o-rater, or rather more speed than FEelin. One could 
always tell beforehand which of the two would win. 
In light weather Tutty had no chance at all, and in 
a breeze Nevada’s case was equally hopeless. Conse- 
quently there is no interest in the matches, Nevada is 
interesting because she is Mr. C. F, Herreshoff’s first 
effort. It is not often that a young designer has a boat 
of such size for his first order, but Mr. Herreshoff did 
well, She is quite unsuitable for the class, owing to her 
dimensions, but it would be a very difficult thing to 
beat her with a boat of her own type and size. At times 
she has shown quite wonderful speed. 

As was the case last season, the 52ft. class will redeem 
the year’s racing from stagnation. There are two new 
boats being built, one by Mr. Fife, who designed Mag- 
dalen, and one by Mr, Payne, who designed Gauntlet. 
Gauntlet -was a failure, but only by a very little. She 
was never able to beat Magdalen, but at times she pushed 
her very hard, indeed. Mr. Burton, her owner, always 
sails his own boat, a somewhat enterprising thing nowa- 
days. He sails her quite as well as any “professional,” 
and so could many owners both here and with you if they 
would only. have the courage to endure some defeats in 
the process of learning, The curse of professionalism 
is the worst foe to yacht racing, and is doing much to 
kill class racing over here. 

Mr. Burton’s new boat is being built at Fairlie, for 
he has forsaken Mr. Payne. I shall not be in the least 
surprised if he gets licked again this season, for Mr, 
Payne is designing Mr. Coats’ new boat. When Mr. 
Payne gers beaten in any class he generally manages to 
get his own back very soon, and he-is a remarkably 
talented designer, second only, if that, to Mr. Fife him- 
self. Mr, Watson has come to be neglected in racing 
circles except in the big class, where he has designed 
every boat. In all the other classes Fife was easily his 
superior when the great international designer left off. 
Watson is very busy with huge steam yachts, the latest 
being one of 2,500 tons for one of the Drexel family. 
It is very nice for us to build these magnificent vessels 
for America, but it seems very funny that your builders 
do not get the orders. Probably a few years will see a 
change. Mr. Watson is fashionable and designs superb 
yachts, but we have at least half a dozen steam designers 
equally capable. » 


Before leaving the 52ft. class it may be said that if 
the type remains as it is, there is no better boat in the 
world than our ex 52-footer. They are beamy, of fairly 
moderate draft, quite decent displacement, an! won- 
derfully fast. Of late years there has been a tendency 
to overrate the advantage of small displacement /f + 


speed, and it is funny to observe the surprise evinced at 


the speed of these boats. Mr. C. F. Herreshoff has just 
published a design for the class. She is in many ways 
a remarkable boat, and is obviously the result of consider- 
able thought, showing him to be well qualified to succeed 
on his own merits without imicating the work of others, 
There is very good cabin room in these boats, and they 
are comfortable at sea. . 

There are many ijarge cruising yachts building, and 
all of these show the advances made in yacht designing 
better than any racing yacht. ‘The modern large cruiser 

-is'a superb craft, not always divinely beautiful, but very 
business-like in appearance. The latest development is 
fitting them with electric light plant. Leander, the Hon, 
Rupert Guinness, is being fitted with a small motor to 
generate the light. It is also becoming fashionable to 
use acetylene gas. 

The steam turbine, invented by Mr. Parsons, has now 


been adopied in yachts. Three are now building—one of | 


7oo tons for Sir Christopher Furness, and another for 
Mr. A. L. Barber, of New York. This vessel will have 
engines of 3.500 horse-power, her loadline length being 
253 feet, and molded beam 33ft. gin. Her yacht measure- 
ment will be 1.400 tons. , Colonel McCalmont, who sold 
his first yacht, Giralda, to the Spanish Government to 
make your country uncomfortable a few years ago, is 
having a 170-ton turbine steamer built. She wiil be of 
the torpedo boat type and will'do over 24 knots. The 
turbine has proved a great sticcess on the Clyde passen- 
ger boat King Edward. It saves 25 per cent..in coal 
consumption. Another passenger steamer is being’ built 


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to steam 20 knots economically. 

The motor craze has hit this country, and a tremen- 
dous boom in the industry is impending. The American 
motor is easily supreme, as we have very few English 
éngines that can show their advantages. The foreign 
competition will, however, liven our makers up from 
their usual sleep. One yacht is projected of about 35 
tons. She will be 6oft. on the waterline, 12ft. broad, and 
will be fitted with a 100 British horse-power Daimler 
motor, The company who make this motor here,seem also 
to have had a very good sleep, for they have allowed the 
Panhard motor cars to knock them silly. Yet the work 
put into the two motors is very different, the English 
being infinitely better. The yacht referred to promises 
to’ be very interesting, and I hope to give more details 
later. E. H. Haminton. 


- Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, Jan. 13.—Of greatest importance to yachtsmen 
in Massachusetts, was the action of the Corinthian Y. C., 
of Marblehead, in voting at its annual meeting to amend 
the racing rules by adopting three new classes to be 
known as follows: Restricted 25ft. class, restricted 21it. 
class and 18ft. knockabouts. It was not voted to sub- 
stitute these classes for the classes of.the same length, but 
to add them to the list. The rules which will govern the 
2s5it. restricted class and the 21ft. restricted class will be 
identical with those which govern the 25ft. and 21ft. cabin 
classes of the Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts. 
They are the classes that were originated by the Yacht 
Racing Association, and which have had most to do with 
the present strength of that organization. The 18ft. knock- 
about class will be governed by rtiles ident:cal to those 
of the Eighteen-Foot Knockabout Association. 

. There is a peculiar significance in this action by the 
Corinthian Y. C. The policy of the club has always been 
in opposition to the Yacht Racing Association, and when 
time allowance was abolished by the Association and rules 
framed for the restricted or cabin classes, the two organi- 
zations were further apart than ever. The Corinthian 
Y. C. hung to the measurement rules for time allowance 
ari still maintains them for its regular classes. The 
classes of the Yacht Racing Association and its policy of 
maintatt*ng substantially built and seaworthy boats com- 
menced ti grow more in favor, and as the policy of the 
Association apneared to be for the protection of yachts- 
men building under its rules, the restricted classes com- 
menced to grow. Last year the class of 18ft. knock- 
abouts commenced to show up in large numbers. there 
was a good bunch of réStricted 21-footers and 25-footers. 
The ordering of fourteen new 21-footers to be constructed 
under Y. R, A. restrictions. showed conclusively what 
The restricted classes of the Y. R. A. are 
wanted. 

Now it so happened that many of the owners of the new 
21-footers spend their summer in the waters of Marble- 
head and vicinity, and it commenced to appear perfectly 
clear that if the Corinthian Y. C. wished to compete suc- 
cessfully with the Y. R. A., something must be done, and 
that immed’ately. Owners of the new -yachts who are 
members of the Corinthian Y. C. agitated the matter of 
adopting the Y. R. A. restricted classes, which was prac- 
tically done last Wednesday evening. While the rules 
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the case of the 25-footers, that an effort would be made 
to confine the racing of these classes to Marblehead. I 
have reason to believe that this effort will not be suc- 
cessful. It is not practical and even those who are 
support'ng it would rather obtain the champicnship of 
Massachusetts Bay than of any one club in it. It is not to 
be expected that every one of the yachts in both the 
21ft. and the 25ft. classes will attend every race of the 
Association; it is expensive, and often the yachtsman has 
not the time at his command to go from port to port. But 
the organization which will show at the close of the 
racing season the greatest number of races sailed in these 
classes and the greatest number of entr*es for record, will 
be the Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts. 

At the annual meeting of the Corinthian Y. C. the fol- 
lowing officers were elected: Com., J. O. Shaw, Jr.; Vice- 
Com., D. GC. Percival. Jr.; Rear-Com., Butler Ames; 
Sec’y, Everett Paine; Treas.. J. B. Rhodes; Meas., P. H. 


- Kemble; Executive Committee, F. E. Peabody and W. H. 


Rothwell; Regatta Committee. G. W. Mansfield, W. W. 
Keith, D. H. Follett. Frank Brewster and G. H. Mayo; 
Membership Committee, P. W. Pope. Frederick Esta- 
brook, H. S. Goodwin and C. D. Wainwr’ght; House 
Committee for three years, William G. Farrell. : 

Although the Regatta Committee has been in office less 
than a week, it has already got down to hard work, and 
has announced the following fixtures for the season of 
1902: 

June 17, Tuesday—Club championship. 

July 4, Friday—Club championship, 

July 12. Saturday—Club championship, 

July 10, Saturday—Commodore’s cup. 

July 26. Saturday—Club champ‘cnship. 

July 30. 31 and Aug. 1, Wednesday, Thursday and 
Fridav—Midsummer invitation series. 

Aug. 2, Saturday—Annual open. 

Aug, 16, Saturday—Club championship. 

Aug. 23, Saturday—Club championship. 

The Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. held its annual meeting 
Saturday night, at the town club house on Rowe’s Wharf. 
when the following officers were elected for the year: 
Com.. Edwin P. Boggs; Vice-Com., Edward P.- Boynton: 
Rear-Com., J. L, Sturtevant; Sec’y, William Avery 
Carey; Treas., Dexter M. Smith: Meas., Adrian Wilson; 
Executive Committee. Edw. D. Ver Planck and J. Win- 
throp Dutton; Second Membership Committee, Alfred M. 
Blinn and Charles H. Cross; Regatta Committee, Foster 
Hooper and Chas. C. Clapp, one year, and John Taylor 
Humphrey, Louis M. Clark and Chas. W. Cole, two 
years. Mr. John L. Amory, who has been Treasurer of 
the club for a number of years, has decided that he did 
not want to hold office any longer. He has been one of 
the most earnest workers in the club. and there can be no 
doubt that his services will be missed. Last year beside 
holding the office of Treasurer, he served on the Execit- 
tive Committee. the Membership Comniittee and the Re- 
gatta Committee. To his efforts are due much of the 
success that the club has enjoyed. ¢ 

The bonus received by the South Boston Y. C. for the 
choice of location in the new west wing of thirty-eight 
lockers. was nearly $500, , 

Starling Burgess has an order for an 18ft. knockahout, 
to conform to the rules of the Eighteen-Foot Knockahaut 
Association, for Augustus P. Loring. of Beverly. This 
designer has so many orders on hand that he has found his 
office too small and has engaged larger quarters in the 
same building. When they are fitted up there will really 
be three offices, Joun B, Kieren. 


A special meeting of the Board of Governors of the 
Baltimore Y. C., was held a short time ago. The object 
of the meeting was to increase the capital stock of the 
club from. $15,000 to $30,000, in order to make improve- 
ments on its property on Curtis Bay. 


34 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Pan. 18, ro02. 


From Gravesend Bay to Lake 
Champlain. 


By Way of Rivet and Canal. 


In the hope that an account of a voyage in a small 
boat from Gravesend Bay to Essex, on Lake Champlain, 
would prove interesting to some ForEsT AND STREAM 
readers, I will undertake to relate what I can remember 
of that trip, taken last summer. 

My boat, Ramona, is 35ft. over all, r1ft. beam, 3it. 
draft with hoisted centerboard, and her sail area is 
divided into a mainsail, forestaysail and jib, Her cabin 
furnishes good sleepitig accommodations for four, and a 
roomy forecastle provides comfortably for the crew, one 
man. With a boat of this general description one may 
safely navigate the waters of the Hudson and the lake, 
and extract an amount of enjoyment from it difficult to 
realize unless experienced. 

‘I had written to John Townsend, a sailor as good as 
the best, to meet me at Gravesend on Friday, July 19, 
which he did. Saturday, in the neighborhood of 
New York city, was a still, sunshiny day. After a hearty 
breakfast we got undér way about 8 o’clock, with a light 
but favorable wind. The sail through the Narrows and 
up the Bay was without special interest. Near the Statue 
of Liberty the wind died away completely, and to be brief 
about it, we did not reach Yonkers until 9 P. M., much 
to the disgust of two friends, one of whom I dropped the 
following day at Newburgh, the other accompanying 
me as iar as Whitehall. 

All hands agreed to keep on. As a matter of fact, the 
Hudson below Poughkeepsie can be navigated almost 
as easily at night as in the daytime. ‘The wind was light 
from the south, but the tide was running streng up the 
river, and the Ramona bowled merrily along: Tlie lights 
of the city of Yonkers were soon dropped far astern. In 
a short time the bluff marking the end of the Palisades 
could be plainly made out, then Haverstraw Bay, with 
the lights of Tarrytown on the starboard side and of 
Nyack on the port. 

Harry and Fred by this time were sotnd asleep. 
Townsend and I smoked and talked at intervals, oc- 
casionally relieving one another at the wheel, The night 
stole quickly away, and sunrise found us off Stony 
Point, forty-two miles from New York. As the tide 
was running out and the wind light, there was nothing 
to do but to come to anchor, which we did in the little 
bay formed by Verplanck’s Point on the left of the river. 
Here’ we were out of the way of any passing steamboat, 
and as the anchorage was good, we turned in without the 
slightest anxiety. Before doing so, however, I took a 
good look at the two points, because they were once 
fortified by the Colonists. When my companions re- 
gained consciousness, I know not; they were apparently 
nd tee in a snoring contest when we quietly dropped 
ancnor, 


I awoke about 9 o’clock, and after a plunge over- 
board, sat down alone to breakfast. It seems the boys 
(for boys they were then) had been up for several hours, 
had had their swim, their breakfast and gone ashore to 
get ice easily procurable at many places on the river. 

Sunday was a comfortable day on the water, but I 
have since been told it was a fearfully hot one ashore. 
The tide having commenced to run up the river, we 
got under way about to o'clock, with a gentle breeze 
frem the south, and immediately entered the Highlands, 
the run through which consumed a little less than two 
hours. No one can sail this part of the river in the day- 
time in pleasant weather and be unmoved by the 
grandeur of the scenery, but to enjoy it to its fullest ex- 
tent travel leisurely in a small boat. I would advise, 
however, that the navigation of these twelve miles be 
not attempted except under favorable conditions. There 
is no anchorage, and it is a mean place to be caught in 
a squall. With a south or west wind this dislance can 
soon be covered, and a good boat on a flood tide will 
beat through it quickly. 

The wind was now a wholesail breeze, hut we could 
feel that it was a warm one. We reached’ Newburgh, 
sixty-one miles from New York, about 1 PF. M., where 
my friend Harry reluctantly bade us good by. So far 
we had the river pretty much to otrselves, but now 
we fell in with a smart catboat, which hung on pretty 
well for some time. 

“T do not like the looks of things in the northwest,” 
observed Townsend, “and if I am not greatly mistaken, 
we are going to catch it before night. Thes* hot winds 
are regular weather breeders.” 

The big bridge at Poughkeepsie came in sight. It was 
soon reached, and the question of holding on longer 
became a debatable one. It was finally decided to make 
Rondout if possible, as there is good ancho.age there. 
The wind was now much lighter. As we neared Rond- 
out, and while still in the middle of the stream, it becaire 
very black in the northwest. Townsend weit forwaid 
to get the anchor ready, I took the wheel and Fred 
chose to remain in the companionway. For a momeut 
or two it was still Then we saw the blach streak a 
good distance ahead. At this instant the upper currents 
of air, set in motion by the rapidly moving umn he- 
hind, began their play. As the boat heeled to the in- 
creased pressure, down came the jib and she was jut 
close on the wind. She was now lying well oyer, the 
water not quite up to the cockpit rail. Just as [ thought 
I would have to luff she eased up a little of her own 
accord, and I held her to it, Now Townsend signaled 
me that we had reached good anchorage. Ramwuna went 
up into the wind and down came the staysail. ‘10 far we 
had only encountered the advance guard of the sqniall. 
As soon as she lost headway, overboard went the an- 
chor, down came the mainsail, and all hands srabbing 
the canvas stops, began lashing the sail to the boom. 
It was 5 o’clock and as black as night. We had tied two 
or three stops when the squall struck. The onslaught 


is generally the heaviest part and it was so in this case. 


The rain came with it and beat against our cheeks with 
such force that we thought it hail. Standing in the 
cockpit, with 


the boom.'' She did not drag, and it was soon over. We 
saw the cloud which ocegsioned all th disturbance turn 
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baie poe al 


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the lower half of. my body protected by | 
the cabin house, I felt decidedly inclined to hold on to — 


in its course and go straight down the river, with a lot 
of little black tails dangling below. The behavior of the 
boat under the circumstances brought forth an unqual- 
ified indorsement from my guest, who had kept very still 
through it all. Whatever his feelings were, his conduct 
was perfect. We learned the following day that the wind 
tore up many trees by the roots. Despite that fact, 
Townsend, in true sailorman fashion, spoke lightly of it. 

The tollowing day the wind was light and dead ahead, 
so we only made Catskill by nightfall, a run of about 
thirty miles. That night, because’ of the extreme heat, I 
slept in the cockpit. 

Tuesday the wind freshened a little, still from the 
north. When the day boat overtook us in the late after- 
noon we observed with much concern a huge wave ex- 
tending clear across the river. It apparently was follow- 
ing the steamer with a speed equal to that of the boat 
itself. As she neared us she slowed down. Instantly 
the top of the wave began to break, and in a few seconds 
it had lost its formidable appearance. She had the big 
wave in tow again soon after resuming her usual speed. 

At this juncture a tug, towing a fleet of mud scows, 
came along, and we soon made fast to the last boat. 
There we fotind an auxiliary cat bound for Buffalo. 
Her crew, three Brooklyn gentlemen, greeted us 
cordially, and we exchanged visits. It was late and 
quite dark when we reached West Troy, otherwise we 
might not haye tied up directly beneath the sunrise gun 
of the Watervliet arsenal. Fortunately no damage was 
done when it was fired, but we all had a good laugh. 

There is a large crane a little north of the Congress 
street bridge in Troy, to which both boats proceeded 
Wednesday mofning. ‘ The owners charged me $2.50 to 
unship my mast, and the remainder of the day was taken 
up in dismantling Ramona, preparatory to entering the 
canal. Spars, rigging and small boat were arranged on 
deck, so as not to obstruct the view of the person steer- 
ing. 

While Townsend and Fred worked faithfully on the 
sloop, I proceeded to Albany to meet my wife and Mrs. 
A., whom I had invited to accompany me to Whitehall. 
As my wife brought with her our fox-terrier Prince, the 
little yessel had now a good complement of passengers. 

In order to take a small yacht through the canal it is 
absolutely necessary to obtain a permit from _ the 
State Commissioner of Public Works at Albany, other- 
wise one’s progress will be stopped at the first loek. 
No fee is charged because the canals are free, but you 
must give your name, the name of your boat, her length, 
beam and draft before the permit will be issued. 

We were taken in tow by another tug late Wednesday 
afternoon, locked into the Hudson above the dam at the 
so-called sloop lock, and then taken to Waterford, where 
we entered the Champlain Canal. The tug’s charge for 
this service was $2. Thursday morning we started for 
Whitehall, the northern terminus of the canal. I had 
bargained with one of the stables to tow me through for 
$15, irrespective of the length of time consumed, and 
the driver was promptly on hand. I was sorry to see 
that he had a large draft horse instead of the traditional 
mule. Somehow one expects mules when one goes 
canalling, The horse was hitched to a little two-wheeled 
wagon, to the axle cf which our tow line was fastened. 
This tow line, by the way. was 150ft. long and about 
the diameter of one’s little finger. So the man was to 
ride and not walk along the tow path and swear. An-, 
cther disappoiniment. \Ve had not proceeded far, how- 
ever, before I discovered that the driver resclutely main- 
tained one of the time-honored customs. In going 
around a sharp bend, in consequence of careless steering, 
the boat approached too tiwar the oppusite bank, the 
towline tightened, the little wagon began to slew around, 
and then Drive was heard irom. The presence of the 
ladies had not the slightest influence on his language. 

The weather was now cool, in striking contrast to what 
had prevailed with us for more than a week. With the 
exception of the storm at Rondont, we had no rain on 
the entire trip. In this we were very fortunate, for I 
can readily imagine how much inclement weather would 
have dampened our spitits. As it was, we were an ex- 
ceeditigly happy patty, and I look back to no part of the 
joursiey with greater pleasure than the sixty-eight miles 
between Waterford and Whitehall, 

The canal passes throvigh a rolling, grassy coutitry, 
The scenery is always picturesque, and some olf the 
glimpses of the Upper Hudson truly inspiring. 

We fared well. At every lock butter, milk, eggs and 
fresh vegetables of the best quality were obtainable at 
reasonable prices. These stores make a business of 
supplying the wants of the dwellers on the numerous 
canal boats, who, I imagine, are more critical and ex- 
acting than many of us suspect. 

Perhaps a word or two how we passed through a lock 
may be inte’esting. As you approach it, if it is not 
already occupied, you find the gate inyitingly open. 
Just before entering, I would throw the wheel over so 
as to bring the stern near the bank. Townsend would 
jump off and go up on the bridge. Then I would steer 
straight for the entrance. Once inside the basin, the 
gate is closed. Fred would cast off the towline and 
throw to Townsend a small handline. Drive would 
proceed on his way up the hill until he reached the new 
level. When the forward gate was gtadually opened, the 
water from above would flow into the basin and the boat 
would ascend, Fred and I standing by with fenders, to 
prevent her from chafing. When we reached the new 
level, which we did when the water ceased to flow, the 
forward gate was opened, Townsend gave her headway 
by means of the handline, she swung into the bank, the 
towline was ‘hrown to Fred, who made it fast, Town- 
send got aboard, Drive swore at the horse, and we were 
off again. This maneuver was gone through with at 
each of the twelity locks. 

About & P. M. we reached Schuyleryille, named in 
honor of Philip Schuyler, an American general in the 
revolutionary war. The next day, Friday, after passing 
the ten-mile level and Fort Edward, we began to lock 
down, following precisely the same method. ' Prince got 
plenty of exercise running along the towpath, where’ he 
continually barked,’ first’at the horse and then at Drive, 


-who séeted rather to enjoy it. 


enjoy ‘ 
We reiched Whitehall a little ‘after dark: Immediately 
upon larding, we tan into a policeman, perhaps’ not 
altogether accidentally, He safisied himself’ in regard 


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to our identity, and then accommodatingly escorted the 
whole party to a restaurant, an establishment in which 
by this time we all had a keen interest. 

That night we lay moored in old Champlain, a short 
distance beyond the lock dividing the waters of the 
lake and the canal, 

The following morning, Saturday, all my guests de- 
parted for Essex on the railroad, leaving Townsend: and 
myself to follow with the boat. It took all day to step 
our mast, set up the rigging and bend on the sails.. 
There are two cranes at Whitehall available for this work: 
and the charge at either is but a trifle. 

Sunday morning we got under way. Happily for us 
the wind was from the south. For the first twelve or 
fifteen miles the lake 1s narrow for windward work. 
There is plenty of water, however, in the channel, which 
is marked by little red and black beacons, The wind 
hauled to the north about 1 o'clock, by which time we 
had plenty of room, 

Something more than twenty miles from Whitehall we 
passed Ticonderoga, where still stand some of the walls 
of a fort over whose ramparts the flags of three nations 
successively waved. This spot saw much hard fighting in 
the early history of this country. The natural beauty 
of the scenery challenges the admiration of the traveler 
of to-day, whether he be familiar with or ignorant of 
the important events once here enacted. In this vicinity 
the waters of the lake are a pale yellow, caused by the 
clay battom, but a little further north they become as 
clear as, those of the Horicon itself. 

Crown Point, where the ruins of one of the oldest 
fortresses in North America are still to be seen, was 
reached by stipper time. Townsend for some time had 
been expatiating on the merits of the hotel at this place, 
so that when we dropped anchor I was in a mood to 
verify his statements. We found the host disposed to 
exert himself, with the result that our appetites were 
soon satished. Supper over, we lighted our pipes and 
disctissed for a time with the loungers on the veranda 
the departed vlories of the lake. i was regaled with 
statements concerning the’ palmy days of the ore trade, 
when fifty vessels could be countéd at one time; with an 
account of any ntmber of the old steamboats, includine 
the Franklin and the Champlain, and particularly how the 
latter went on the rocks one moonlight night. 

In due time Port Henry was passed, then Barboutr’s. 
Light, marking the entrance to Westport Bay. The: 
shores are now very bold, From Westport Bay to: 
Whallons Bay the mountains rise abruptly out ol the 
water, the chain ending in a high promontory, upon 
which the Government long ago erected and has since 
maintained a lighthouse. This is known as Split Rock 
(Roche Rendu of the French), and varied are the ac- 
counts of it. This is considered the most beantiful part 
ot the lake by many persons, although there are places 
further north which also have their champions. ; 

In the late afternoon the Ramona rounded the big 
rock which helps to form the split, and sailing westward 
into Whallons Bay, in a few minutes reached her moor- 
ings. As the cable slipped out, her gun barked vigor- 
ously, and our cruise of 300 miles was over. 


William Fite, St. 
Wititam Firs, Sr., the well-known yacht designer and 
builder, died at his home at Fairlie, Scotland, on the Firth 
of Clyde, on Jan. 13, after a short illness. Mr, Fife took 
up yacht building on the Clyde over fifty years ago. He 
was the second of the family who have been engaged in 
yacht building at Fairlie, which is located on the Ayrshire 
coast. For three generations the Fife family have been 
famed for the beauty and speed of their productions, 
William Fife, the first, a millwright by trade, started to 
build yachts in a simall way at Ayrshire. The original 
T‘ife died in the early sixties at eighty-five yeats of age 
and was succeeded by his son, who has just died. During 
his career he turned out many successful yachts, among 
them Latona, Fiona, Stella, Bloodhound and Neptune. 
In addition to the many racing yachts built by him, a 
large number of other craft were constructed at his 
yard, and the business had increased greatly in size. 
After conducting the business with great success for a 
number of years, it was turned over to his son in 1886. 
Kathleen, 

The 33ft. waterline schooner, plans of which appeared 
in our two previous issties, has been named Kathleen. 
The following is an extract from a letter written by the 
owner, Mr, D. McLewis, to the designer, Mr. Charles 
G. Davis: 

“The schooner Kathleen will be finished this week [the 
letter is dated Jan. 7], and a most excellent job was made 
of her by her builders. I expect a party of friends here 
on the toth, when we will start on a cruise from here 
south, taking in Old Tampa Bay, Manitee River, Big 
and Little Sarasota, Lemon Bay, Charlotte Harbor, Pine 
Island Sound, Myacka River, Matlasha Pass, Myers and 
Punta Rassa, so south to Thousand Islands. These 
waters ate inclosed with keys and there ate narrow 
passes connecting with the Gulf of Mexico, affording the 
finest kind of fishing. 

*The inside waters ate smooth and abound in wild- 
fowl, and on the mainland can be found quail, turkey and 
deer in abundance. In fact, as a sportsman’s paradise I 
know of none to eqtial it, The sailing is all done in 
smooth water, only going on the Gulf to get from one 
pass to the other, distances averaging from three to 
seven miles between passes. 

“The winter climate is dry, fog unheard of, seldom 
tainy in winter, and it has always been a wonder to me 
it was not more frequented by yachtsmen.” 


The Hotise-Boat on the Nile. 


Houcuton, Mirrtin & Company, Boston, the publishers 
of “Our House-Boat on the Nile,” have produced in this - 
book one of the most delightful narratives that we have 
read in a long time, and one that will especially interest 


the readers of Forest AND STREAM. 


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~ Mrs. Henry Bacon tells the story of a voyage of sev- | 
-efal weeks on the 


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Nile in a dahabeyah, in the late fall of 
1899 and the early part of s900. The voyage began abouy 


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six miles above Assouan and extended some two hundred 
miles, returning then to the starting point, The whole 
trip was between the first and seéond cataracts. Mrs. 
Bacon describes the difficulties of hiring and fitting the 
boat; the character of the crew; daily life on board; the 
sights along the shores; explorations of old temples; ex- 
cursions into the desert, and the natives as she saw them. 
Mr. Bacon’s illustrations are attractive in subject and 
admirable in treatment, and consist of a most beautiful 
colored frontispiece and twelve full-page half-tone draw- 
ings, and these, with Mrs, Bacon’s description of the 
voyage, make a book of much interest. It is especially 
useful for those who intend to make a similar trip, and 
attractive to those who have already had the memorable 
experience. The book is most tastefully bound in Nile 
green, Crown 8vo., $1.75 net. Houghton, Mifflin & Com- 
pany, Boston and New York, : 


Yacht Club Notes. 


The Entertainment Committee of the New York Y. C. 
have prepared a series of lectures and musicals, the first 
‘of which will be given on Thursday evening, Jan. 16, and 
will be continued throughout the winter. 


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At the annual meting of the Williamsburg Y. C., the 
following officers were elected: Com,, Lawrence W. 
Rice; Vice-Com., John New; Rear-Com., Augustus 
Schwarz; Sec’y, Henry Schneider; Cor: Sec’y, William 
EE. Long; Treas., Adolph Kling;,.Meas., Frederick Eard- 
ley; Steward, Edward Padborg; Sergeant-at-Arms, Jacob 
Flanders; Trustees, Louis Raye, William W. Babington, 
Paul Schmidt, Edward Rae and Charles Larson; Regat- 
ta Committee, Joseph Newburg, Harry Josten and Will- 
jam Snyder; Fleet Capt., G. Stuart Card. 


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The annual meeting and dinner of the American Y. C. 
will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Jan. 21. 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


Messrs. Huntington & Seaman haye made the following 
sales: Yawl Clara H., designed and built by S.C, Wicks 
& Co., 1901, F. L. Haeuptner, of New York city, to E. L. 
Springer, Chicago, Ill; boat has been shipped to Chicago. 
Yawl Yonondio, designed by Chas. G. Davis, built 1899, 
C, J. Bousfield, Bay City, Mich, to Dr. H. A. Mande- 
ville, of New York city; she will be brought east as soon 
as the canals are free of ice. Yawl Addie, W. L. Hop- 
kins and John Carey, to E. Eckart, of New York city. 


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Mr. Oscar W. Meyrowitz, who was killed in the New 
York Central tunnel disaster on Wednesday, Jan. 8, was 
the secretary of the New Rochelle Y. C., and has been 
actively identified with yachting for a number of years 
past. This is the second officer af the New Rochelle Y. C. 
who has died during the past few months, the first being 
the Commodore, Edward Kelley. 


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Mr, James M. Colven and Mr. Frederick W. Bickmann 
have gone into partnership and will carry on a yacht 
brokerage and general marine business in New York city. 
Mr. Colven was formerly the superintendent of the Gas 
Engine and Power Co. and Seabury & Co. at Morris 
Heights, and Mr. Bickmann was connected with that firm’s 
New York office. ; 

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In return for courtesies shown to him by the Columbia 
Y.C., of Chicago, Sir Thomas Lipton has offered a cup 
to be competed for by the 21-footers belonging to the club, 
next summer, The offering of the trophy has created a 
wery general interest, and it will undoubtedly stimulate 
the action of the owners during the coming season. 

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The 25-footer designed by Mr. Henry J. Gielow for Mr. 
Allan Pinkerton, for use on Great South Bay, will be 
built by Mr. Willard F. Downs, of Bay Shore, L. I. The 
yacht will race in the 30ft. class and will meet some craft 
designed by Messrs, Tams, Lemoine & Crane, which will 
also ‘be raced on Great South Bay, The Pinkerton boat 
is 4ift. 6im. over all, 26ft. on the waterline, r1ft. 6in, 
‘breadth and 2it. 6in. draft, The boat is intended for day 
‘sailing and racing, and will have a large cockpit and a 
summer cgbin. The planking will be double and will be 
fastened to the steara=bent frames with brass screws. 


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‘The schooner now building at the Townsend & Downey 
‘yard at Shooter's Island, S. I., is well along, and work 
is being rushed to complete her as soon as possible. It 
is said that the yacht will be launched before March 1, 
and will be christened by Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter 
of the President. The German Emperor will be repre- 
sented at the launching by his brother, Prince Henry of 
Prussia. He will make the return trip in the royal yacht 
Hohenzollern. ye is 


The annual meeting of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Club 
has been postponed from Tuesday, Jan. 14, to Monday, 
Jan. 27, when it will be held at Delmonico’s. 


Canoeing. 
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Bark Canoe \Building. 


New York, Jan. 11.—Editor Forest and Stream: In 
“your issue of Jan. 12 I notice a criticism of my description 
vf canoe building in “The Forest Runner,” now appearing 
in McClure’s Magazine. It is followed by a detailed 
description of the methods employed by the Penobscot 
Indians. : i 

The latter I do not question, for I do not know the 

Penobscot Indians. In that, perhaps, I am a little wiser 
than the writer of the article in question, for he makes 
SHEE ee ctents based on limited knowledge. 

If M. 


were to visit the country lying between Lake 


Superior and the Hudson Bay, he would discover the fol- 
lowing facts: 

1. Canoes of two and even three pieces of bark. 

2. Canoes with three thwarts. 

3. Canoes built exactly in the manner my story de- 
scribes. 

4. Enough canoes in constant use and construction to 
proye to him that my kind of canoe building is far from 
becoming a “lost art.” ; 

Possibly I haye seen as many canoes built in my way 
as M. H. in his, and the result has always been a success. 
My description was necessarily sketchy and incomplete in 
detail, because it occurred’ in a piece of fiction. We 
have to thank M. H. for valuable information as to the 
habits of the Penobscots, but must request him not to 
try at this late day to prescribe for the Ojibways and 
Crees, STEWART Enpwarp WHITE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Your types made me say last week “and taps slightly” 
instead of “and tapers slightly,’ Also he makes me put 
in “three head boards” instead of two. M, H. 


Red Dragon C. C. 


THE annual meeting for election of officers of the Red 
Dragon C. C. was held in the parlors of the Colonnade 
Hotel, Philadelphia, Jan. 3. There was a good at- 
tendance of members, as many matters of importance 
were to be decided. The officers elected were: Com., 
Omar Shallcross; Vice- Com., H. Blumner; Purser, 
Harry C, Davis; Quartermaster, H. Fleischmann; Meas., 
John Hamilton; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Francis O. Gross; 
Cor., Will K. Park, 

The trap shooting contingent of the Red Dragon 
C. C. have started a series of weekly trap shoots, and 
renewed interest is being taken in the sport. The 
traps have been located on the end of the wharf, afford- 
ing a perfect background, although none too easy shoot- 
ing. A regular series of matches with the Philadelphia 
Y. C. gunners will be held at an early date, and are 
being looked forward to with the usual interest. 

W. K, P. 


PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7. 


Rifle Range and Gallery. 
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National Rifle Association. 


Tue following paper by Lieut, A. S. Jones, secretary of the 
National Rifle Association of America, was read before the 
directors of that organization the evening of Jan. 11: . 

You have noticed in the call for this meeting a list of subjects to 
be discussed and acted upon to-night. From among this list, I 
have selected three, which appear to mé to be of paramount im- 
portance, and of which I desire to speak. They are as follows: 

First.—Closer relations between the National Rifle Association 
and the United States Government, and details of the bill to be 
presented to Congress. ‘ 

Second—A line of action looking to enlisting the co-operation 
and support of the national guard organizations throughout the 
country. 

Third.—#stablishing of affiliated branches in different States. 

It is the consensus of opinion among all classes of riflemen, 
whether of the army, national guard, or civilians, that something 
should be done to bring about a condition of affairs wherein rifle 
shooting will once again become a popular pastime of our citizens 
and a more serious duty of our soldiers, both regular and volun- 
teer. The work of the Association should be carried on with the 
idea of impressing our citizens and our lawmakers with the ad- 
vantages resulting from its duties. You read a great deal in the 
papers about rifle shooting not being a popular pastime in this 
country, and no doubt a Jarge number of men regard it as an 
amusement; but it is quite evident to every one new that it should 
be engrained into the public mind; that it must become a neces- 
sary pastime for all classes, not with a view to making war, but 
in order that the country be fully prepared if war should happen 
to break out, . 

There should, as a national duty, be a determination in the 
minds of the American people to uphold their position in the 
world. To this end, the National Rifle Assoemation should be 
thoroughly supported and maintained in all parts; but to make it 
a power for good in this country it has become obvious to all 
those in, close touch with the situation that it must have behind it 
the support of the general Government. i 

Let us study the situation from a foreign point of view, and 
taking Switzerland as-an example, where rifle shooting has been 
carried to the greatest point of perfection, and where it is con- 
Sidered of more importance in the army than any other of its 
branches, see how they have accomplished this object. The Swiss 
rifle clubs have a close connection with the military service of 
the country, and owe their prosperity mainly to such connection. 
They have also the prestiges of ancient tradition, the history of 
some of them going back more than four centuries. Some of them 
are possessed of considerable wealth. 

To fully understand the conditions of rifle shooting, we must 
look into the organization of the army, as they are very closely 
allied. The Swiss army consists of a militia, in which all men are 
hable to serye between the ages of twenty and fifty years. In the 
first year, speaking of the infantry only, each man undergoes a 
recruit’s course of forty-five days, after which he is for twelve years 
a member of the elite, in which he undergoes a training of sixteen 
days for two years. From his thirteenth to his twenty-fifth year 
of service, he is a member of the landwehr, a force of which 30 
per cent. are armed and required to undergo inspection once a 
year. Every member of the elite, the Jandwehr and the armed 
landsturm is obliged annually to perform a rifle practice similar 
to our close firing, consisting of from thirty to forty rounds, which 
he may do in a iecornzed shooting club under strictly regulation 
conditions; having done this, he is exempted from a musketry 
course, lasting three days, which he would otherwise be compelled 
to undergo. 

The Government pays to the clubs the value of, the ammunition 
used in the above regulation practice, and the firers can claim it of 
the club. If a man obtains the requisite score with a small number 
of shots, he can claim a somewhat larger sum than the ammuni- 
tion has cost him. If he has to fire a maximum number of rounds 
(forty), he is slightly the loser. Thus he is induced to do his best. 
The Goyernment supplies the club with ammunition for private 
jpractice at the rate of six centimes per round, the cost price to the 
Goyernment being eight centimes. Every member of the elite, the 
landwehr and of the armed landsturm keeps his rifle at home, sub- 
Ject to inspection, and can use it for practice as much as he pleases, 
Provision is made for the representation of the military authorities 
on the committees of the recognized clubs, and every such club 
must admit an inspecting officer to its range at any time at which 
rifle practice is proceeding, 

A local rifle club can be recognized, if its members are ten 
or more in number, and the regulation musketry practice may be 
fired on its range, if the range fulfills the necessary conditions. 
The members’ subscriptions, so far as I can learn, vary from 
nothing to $1 or $1.50 per annum; in wealthy clubs there may be 
only an entrance subscription, ere there is no regular sub- 
scription, an occasional contribution may be levied to meet ex- 
enses. The club shooting takes place for the most part on Sun- 
ays, and sweepstakes or other matches with small entrance fees are 
commonly arranged, In 1898 there were in Switzerland 3,446 ‘rifle 
clubs, with a2 membership of ' 210,491, of whom 163,409 fired the 
regulation course. The number of clubs and members has risen 
almost continuously since 1874, when the regulations for the annual 
musketry course, in connecticn with the clubs, went into effect. 
The proportion of the citizens of Switzerland who are trained rife- 
men cannot be more forcibly presenied than by stating that the 
population of Switzerland is abour the same as the State of Mas- 
sachusetts, and its area only slightly larger than the State of 


“Maryland. The grent advatitages etijoyed ‘by the Swiss rifle clubs 


appear to be as follows: Ny f ; 

Tirst,—Recognition for the purpose of military regulation rifle 
ractice, t 
MGhicun ds Sunply of Government ammunition below cost price. 

Third.—The possession by the men of the Government rifles im 
their own homes. " : 

- Fourth—The small expense with which ranges can be made and 
worked. ; 

Fifth, —The custom of shooting on Sundays, when men are free 
from work. c Ae 

This the great popularity of rifle shooting, and as a conse 
quence freedom from competition of athletic sports of other kinds. 
Rifle practice in Switzerland is much simplified by the fact that 
ordinary rifle practice is seldom done at a greater range than 400 
meters, and by there being mo insistence on an wunpracticable 
degree of safety. The parish—equivalent to our cotinty—is bound 
by law to provide ground for a range, and sometimes puts up the 
necessary plates, The club then provides the targets and marking. 
Rifle shooting is so popular that owners of land are disinclined to 
raise obstacles, and the question of game gives no trouble, because 
the shooting rights pelea ste to the public are let by auction. 

Next let us look at what England is doing, The National Rifle 
Association of Great Britain, recognizing the value of having 
branch rifle clubs throughout the United Kingdom, last year ap~ 
proached the chancellor of the exchequer and the war office, with 
the object of obtaining such privileges as could be granted, A 
committee of the council was appointed, and_met in conference a 
committee of the war office. he National Rifle Association was 
appointed as a central organization for such clubs, and pro- 
ceeded to draw up regulations for their affiliation. The result has 
so far been very satisfactory. Several new ranges have been and 
are being constructed throughout the country and 200 clubs, with 
a membership of over 17,000, have already afiiliated with the national 
body. The conditions under which the affiliated clubs of the 
National Rifle Association work are as follows: 

First—That they shall not have less than twenty members. 

Second.—That they shall pay an affiliation fee of $2.50 per year to 
the National Rifle Association. 

Third.—The rules and practice regulations of each club must be 
submitted and approyed by the National Rifle Association, (No 
alteration in the aboye can be made without future approval.) 

Fifth.—On all occasions when the ranges are open for use by the 
members there shall be an authorized person in charge of the 
shooting whose duty it shall be to see that the rules and regula- 
tions of the club are properly observed, and it is preferable that 
such person shall be capable of acting as instructor, 

Sixth.—States the rifles and ammunition to be used. 

Seventh.—States the targets to be used. 

Eighth.—_The club rifles and ammunition when not in use must 
be stored in a place provided by the club for that purpose. On 
no account are club rifles or ammunition to remain in the posses- 
sion of individual members. 

The lords commissioners of his majesty’s treasury have sanc- 
tioned the exemption from gun license of each rifle belonging to 
an afhliated club, which is the property of the club and used only 
at rifle ranges. 

It would appear from the above conditions that the Government 
either issues or sells to such rifle clubs the national arm, to re 
main the property of the club only. The Government also issues 
to each club 100 rounds of ammunition per year for each member; 
in an excess thereof, the Government sells ammunition to the 
club at the rate of £4 13s., or about $21.63 per thousand. 

Canada has a national association, called the Dominion Rifle 
Association, Affiliated with it are twenty-six minor associations 
from the different provinces of the dominion. The Government 
of Canada gives an annual grant of $10,000 to the Dominion Rifle 
Association, and a free issue of ammunition for the annual meet- 
ing. There is also a limited issue of ammunition annually made 
to the provincial associations. The Dominion Rifle Association 
is also assisted in its efforts by the banks throughout Canada, 
which make annual contributions to the expenses of the annual 
meeting. 

France has several thousand small rifle clubs throughout the 
republic, which are under the control of the Union of the 
Shooting Societies of France. Since the Spanish-American war, 
Spain has even taken up this subject, and organized a national 
tile association, with affiliated branches throughout the kingdom. 
When -you come to analyze the work done in foreign coun- 
tries that have national rifle associations, you will notice that it is 
along the line of organizing smaller clubs throughout the country 
and having them under the control of the national association; 
and in the light of the results so obtained I would suggest that 
our association pursue the same tactics, and I would recommend 
that we take up the subject at once with the national guard 
authorities of the several States, with a view to having incorporated 
in each, a State rifle association, to be affliated with our Asso- 
ciation. 

I would further recommend that we encourage the organizing 
of rifle clubs within the national guard regiments throughout the 
country by issuing from the National Rifle Association office, 
blank forms of incorporation, copies of by-laws and rules and 
regulations, thereby minimizing the amount of work incidental to 
such organization, This would also keep uniform throdehout the 
country the rules under which the different clubs would operate. 
To do this successfully would require some assistance at least 
from the National Government. If we could induce the War 
Department or pass a bill in Congress authorizing the War De- 
partment to issue the National arm and ammunition to such State 
associations along lines similar to that being done in England, 
I have no doubt many of the States would take it up at once. 
This could be made one of the features of the bill which is now 
being considered by the subcommittee appointed for that purpose, 
My idea is that the War Department be authorized to issue to any 
incorporated State rifle association having twenty-five or more bona 
fide members the National arm at cost, which, I believe, is under 
$15, and to issue to each club ammunition from the Government 
arsenals at cost price in addition to an annual allowance. gratis. 
Further, that all States sending teams to the annual interstate 
meeting be given army transportation for such teams and 10,000 
rounds of ammunition for the team’s practice and use at the 
meeting, 

J am inclined to think that the Chief Executive of the land would 
give us his earnest support in any movement looking to the pop- 
ularizing of rifle shooting once again. I had occasion to address 
him when Governor of the State of New York on this subject, 
and in his reply to me he stated that he was. in entire accord 
with the work we were doing, and he offered to lend us any as- 
sistance in his power. If his term as Governor of this State had 
not expired about that time he would have issued a circular to the 
officers of the national guard urging them to join the National 
Association and give it their support. 

I am also pleased to state that the Secretary of War has lately 
been approached on this subject, and seems favorably inclined to 
back us up in any reasonable demand, Unfortunately, his hands 
are tied to a considerable degree by tradition and law. 

If the above ideas meet with your approval, I would suggest 
that they be brought before the National Guard Association, which 
will soon meet in Washington, with a view to have them indorsed 
also by that Association. This would also bring them to the direct 
attention of the adjutant-generals of the several States. 

Another matter which I wish to bring to your attention is the 
system in vogue in Canada of the banks of the Dominion making 
annual appropriations to the expenses of the National Association. 
TI do not know whether it would be possible to enlist the assist- 
ance of ottr banks, but as in most cases the presidents are men of 
broad and liberal minds, and recognize that the building up of a 
reserve of citizen riflemen throughout the country would be of 
vast benefit and materially add to our defensive strength, they 
may take the matter up and do something for us. It would, how- 
ever, do no harm to make an attempt to ascertain their feelings 
in the matter, I think also that a special effort should be mae 
to enlist the patronage of our wealthy citizens by having them 
become lite members in the Association, In England, Canada 
France and some of the other countries it is looked upon not only 
as a duty but an honor to be a life member of the national rifle 
association of the country, I think if we could once get the 
movement started here it would increase of its own volition. How 
to get it started is the question. 


Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club, 


Young tied on 38 with the pistol for first honors, P, ees 


G. Stephens in the .22cal. rifle match, 


Rifle, 200yds., 10 shots: W. G. Hoffman 47, 47, 48, 51, 52, 56, 57, 
A. B.’ Dorrell 64, 55, 62, 66..70:'G ree et eles 53, 65, 57; 
* a 7 iy ly ; . beh al : i 
Wall 220, ; ‘ % auger 200, 


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Three shots, rifle: ‘F, O. Young 12, 18, 18, 18; G, Mannel 18, 16; 
A. B. Dorrell 15, 17, 17. 

Military and repeating rifle, 10 shots, Creedmoor: P, A. Becker 
47, 43, 48; Dr. J. F. Twist 42, 41, 40. 

‘92cal, rifle, 10 shots, b0yds,: G, Stephens $2, 51, 68; Gimmel 43, 


3. 

Pistol, 10 shots, 50yds,: Ed Hovey 38, 48, 52, 55, 56; F. O. Young 
38, 42, 50, 51, 51; G. M. Barley 41, 52;.C. M. Daiss Bi, 51, 66; Mrs. 
G. Mannel 61, 65, 67, 69, 73, b. ee? ee oe 

On New Years Day Pape, Young and Hoffman went to: the 
range and had a 50-shot match and pool shooting. Pape was 
hich with 250, or a Sin. average. He also had 36 for best 10-shot 
score. 

Hoffman made 89, 42, 46, 47 in 10-shot score with his new Pope- 
Stevens duritig the day, 

Election of officers of Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club for 1902: 
A. J. Brannagan, President; Dr. HM. W. Hunsaker, Vice-President; 
F. O. Young, Secretary; C. M. Daiss, Treasurer; E. A. Allen, 
Shooting Master; W. G. Hoffman, Assistant Shooting Master; 
G. M. Barley, A. H. Cady and E. Hovey Trustees, 

Frep. O, Youns, Sec’y, 


National Rifle Association, 


Av the armory of the Old Guard, Forty-ninth street and Broad- 
way, New York, last Saturday night, the board of directors of the 
National Rifle Association of America held a meeting. It was de- 
cided to send a team next summer to Canada to win back the 
Palma trophy, if it was possible to win it, The last week of 
August, the time in which the Canadian Rifle Association holds its 
meeting, will probably be the time of this International contest. 
Negotiations will begin immediately in respect to the matter, The 
trophy won by the Irish riflemen also came up for consideration, 
but consideration of a contest for it was postponed till some time 
in the future, one international event at a time being sufficient. 

The directors present were Brig.-Gen. George W. Wingate, 
Brig.-Gen, B. W. Spencer, Brig:-Gen. George Hf. Harries, Maj. 
ene E. Bell, Capt. EB. iby Zalinski, Lieut. Reginald H. Sayre, 

ieut. Albert § Zones, Gus Zimmerman, Z. A. Haskell, Dr. W. 
C. Judson and William Hayes. 

Lieut. Jones read a paper in which he discussed various ques- 
tions that bear on the future policy and welfare of the Association. 
These topics were: 

First.—Closer telations between the Association’ and the Goy- 
ernment, and details of the bill to be presented to Congress. ~ 

Second.—Sending of a team to Canada next_summer to compete 
for the Palma trophy. 

Third.—A line of actton looking to enlisting the co-operation and 
support of the national guard organizations throughout the country. 
Fourth—Establshing of affiliated branches in different States. 
Fifth—The best method of promu!gating rifle shooting literature 

and the class of same liable to produce the best results. 

It was decided to leave all the suggestions in the hands of the 
committee on legislation. A new rifle range will be ready at 
Rutherford, N. J., as soon_as the season opens. It will be man- 
aged by the Long Range Rifle Club, which will be affiliated with 
the National Association. The Twenty-third Regiment of Brook- 
lyn, and. Squadron A are affiliated with the Association. - b 


Grapshoating. 
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li you want your shooi to be announced here send a 
notice like the following: 


Fixtures. 


Jan. 20-25—Brenham, Tex.—Brenham Gun Club’s tournament, 

Jan. 22-23.—Circleville, O.—The Pickaway Rod and Gun_ Club's 
evap annual winter tournament; live birds. G, R. Haswell, 

ec’y, 

Jan. 27-Feb. 2.—Waco, Tex.—T, E. Hubby’s six-day shoot. 

Feb. 12—Ossining, N. Y.—Lincoln’s Day clay-bird shoot of the 
Ossining Gun Club. Shooting begins at 11 A. M. C, G. Bland- 
ford, Capt. 

March 31-Apri] 5—Blue River Park, Kansas. City, Mo.—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds. Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 

April 14-16,—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F. B: Cunningham, Sec’y. 

April 22-25—Omaha, Neb,—Nebraska State shoot. H: 5. Mc- 
Dona d, Sec’y. : qj 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L. I1—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. 

May 13-16.—Uil City, Pa:—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F, S. Bates, Cor. Sev’y. 

May 20-22.—Wheeling, W. Va—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia’ State Sportsmen's Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. 

May 30-31—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club. O. E. Fouts, Sec’y. 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournamient of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. 

June 4-6.—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club. 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N. ¥.—Forty-iourth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 
Game. 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual 
tournament. Sy - 

July 16-18.—Titusville, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
tment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T. L. 
Andrews, Sec’y. , 

Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
day aiternoon. ‘ ; 

Axis ihe Tli.—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y, 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Jan, 16.—Interstate Park, L, I,—Live-bird shoot; main event, 
20 birds, $10 entrance, for a solid gold watch and chain; handicaps 
95 to 32yds. . ; 

Feb. 5.—Interstate Park, L. IT—S. M,. Van Allen’s cash prize 
shoot at 20 birds, $10 entrance; handicaps 28 to 3ayds; high guns; 


5 added. : 
Bie ee te Park, Queens, L. I-—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 


L. 1. R. R. Trams direct to grounds, Completely appointed 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Café and hotel accommodations, 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to fiave printed. Ties on all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 


way, New York. 


Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, manager of the Interstate Association, 
sends us the following notice: “Please announce to the readers of 
FOREST AND STREAM that the Interstate Association has made 
arrangements to give a tournament at Memphis, Tenn., June 4, 5 
and 6, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club, and one at 
Titusville, Pa., July 16, 17 and 18, under the auspices of the Titus- 


ville Gun Club.” we 


S. M. Van Allen, of Jamaica, L. I., wwrites us that he will 
melita shoot at Interstate Park on Feb. 5, at 20 birds, $10 entrance, 
birds extra; handicaps 28 to 3yds; high suns, first money, $75, 
will be added. The number of moneys will be determined by the 
number of entries. The conditions will be same ‘as before, at his 
gun shoot, excepting that he giyes cash instead of a gun, 


& 


_ J. H. W. Fleming (Johnnie Jones) the secretary of the 
Bee Rod and Gun Club, announces that the club’s next shoot 


will take place on Jan, 19, at Rockaway Park, L. I. 


' disbarment, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Mr, John 3. Wright, manager of the Brooklyn Gun Club, won a 
prize at his club shoot on Saturday of last week. ‘It was a silver 
eup, which he prizes much, as the first thing he has ever won 
on his club grounds, and for the hearty good will and good wishes 
which were extended to him in the congratulations, € contem- 
plates giving a prize shoot on Lineoln’s Birthday. 


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- On the grounds of the Carlstadt (N. inh Gun: Club, there will be 


three matches shot. on. ‘Jan. 26,.as:follows:: Messrs. Krug and: 


Baron at 25 targets; the latter allowed two targets. Messrs, Baron 
and~ Banta, ~at 25 targets; the latter allows three. Team race, 
Messrs. Krug and Baron against Banta and Bock, 25 targets each; 
the latter allow six targets, 


__Mr. Russell Klein, of Spirit Lake, Ia., has challenged Mr. C, 
W.' Budd, of Des Moines, Ia., torcantest for the Waconia Powder 
Company's live-bird championship trophy, and has fulfilled all the 
requirements pertaining to such challenge. Mr. Klein has, though 
an amateur, distinguished himself by eminent sticcess in many 
contests. ' 

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P Mr, Ed O. Bower, of Sistersville, W. Va., writes us as follows: 
The fifth annual tournament of the West Virginia State Sports- 
men’s Association will be held at Wheeling, W. Va., May 20, 21 
and 22. Added money and prizes. John B. Garden is secretary, 
Wheeling, W. Va.” 

® 


The Ossining (N. Y.) Gun Club announces a Lincoln’s Day 
target shoot for Feb, 12. Shooting commences at 11 o'clock, 
Lunch on the grounds. Loaded shells can be obtained on the 
grounds. All are invited. Trolley service to grounds. 


R 


We are informed that at Yardville, N. J., on Jan. 11, a match 
at 26 live birds, use of one barrel, 2lyds., was shot between Messrs. 
Wim. B. Widmann, of Yardville, and John F. Reed, of Trenton. 
The scores were: Widmann 24, Reed 20. 

® 


Mr. Fred C. Whitney, of Des Moines, Ia., informs us that T, E. 


Hubby’s six-day shoot at Waco, Tex., will take place on Jan. 27 
to Feb. 2. 
2 


The dates for the Nebraska State shoot are April 22 to 25. It will 
be held at Omaha. 
BERNARD WATERS, 


Mistires and the Rules. 


THE rule in respect to misfires is one which will not bear suc- 
cessfully analysis or argument. It is an unjust rule, and in any 
criticism of it one is confrented with an astonishing array of false 
logic and unsound conclusions which are presented to justify it. 
The axiomatic principle of justice on which all common and statute 
law is founded—and this is but an expression of the common sense 
and usage of nations from time immemorial, namely, that ninety- 
nine guilty men should escape rather than that“one innocent man 
should suffer—is entirely reyersed in that trap rule in question, 
with the exception that there is a resultant awkwardnéss in its 
application, for as applied in practice, it is substantially as follows: 
It is better that nine-nine innocent men should suffer than that any 
one man should havé a chance to become guilty, 

This ruling has been in force so long that it is an act of temerity, 
not to say impertinence, to question its soundness. The fact that 
it is ald—exceedingly old—is considered as being quite enough to 


sustain it, As it now stands, it 1s founded on a general assumption 


that there are dishonest trapshooters; yet if any one were asked 
to name the dishonest men with whom he associates for his sport 
he would probably be unable to name any. Let us assume, for the 
sake of argument, that there were dishonest trapshooters in the 
days of long ago; they then are widely different from the days of 
the present. A case of dishonesty at the traps in events under 
recognized auspices is at present a rarity indeed. Higher standards 
of public opinion, club personnel and club management obtain, and 
gentlemen sportsmen have long since discountenanced trickery and 
unfairness. No rules of themselves can make men honest or 
suppress dishonesty, : 

To illustrate the subject more specifically, the rule in ques- 
tion is here presented. It is the Interstate rule. It ig not pecu- 
liar, as it is in substance the same on this matter as are all other 
rules. It is as follows: > . 

“Section 3. If a misfre occurs with the second barrel ‘the 
shooter shall have another bird, using a full charge of powder 
only in the ‘first barrel. He must, howeyer, put the gun to shis 
shoulder and discharge the blank cartridge in the direction of the 
bird, and the-bird must be on the wing when such blank cartridge 
is discharged.” |" 

First of all, it may be accepted as a self-evident proposition that 
edch and every contestant in a competition should have equal 
equity and equal opportunities. But this rule throws to the winds 
all principle of equity. The framers of the rule maintain that for 
the purpose of safe-guarding against dishonesty, it is mecessary to 
rule as above. It is necessary to protect the honest shooters from 
dishonest ones, and this trashy defense, which contravenes the 
elementary principles of justice, is all that can be presented in 
justification. The fact that in ninety-nine cases in a hundred it 
harms the honest shooter, is lost sight of in bungling and ineffi- 
cient attempt to prevent dishonesty by force of a ruling. 

To those who have not given the matter much investigation, the 
question may occur, How can a man be dishonest in respect to 
misfires? Let us assume that a man wished to be dishonest, and 
that a misfire was considered as a balk, thus giving the shooter 
another inning. He shoots at a bird, misses it, and claims that 
his second barrel misfired. On investigation, the referee finds that 
the primer is indented. He allows another inning, with the use of 
both barrels again. Now, the shooter may have had a prepared 
misfired cartridge which he might use indefinitely, so that, if he 
failed to kill with his first barre], he might go on indefinitely with 
a. misfire in his second barrel. To remedy this, the rule is made 
as above, with the result that every time a misfire occurs, howeyer 
much such may be beyond the control of the shooter, he is treated 
as if he were actually guilty. There also is timorotis eyasion in 
such ruling, for the real issue is between a dishonest shooter and 
the referee and the management. It is their part to disqualify 
him, and not evade responsibility by a ruling which works much 
hardship and injustice. But at present shooters are well known to 
each other. A dishonest shooter, if such there be, is well known 
as such in a very short time. The true way to reach him is by 
and not by the miserable subterfuge of the rule 
mentioned. 

The average shooter, if profoundly disturbed when competing, 
will make many resultant misses. Let us suppose that shooting 
at a pigeon, his first barrel misfires, The referee examines the 
gun and cartridge, then he takes out his knife, cuts the shell, lets 
out the shot, cautions the shooter that he must fire the useless 
shell first, and fire it at the bird, and then that he may fire his 
second barrel. The average shooter is more or less disconcerted; 
his mind is confused by the extra details to keep in mind. He calls 
pull, fires the first barrel; there is a flat report; no recoil; he is 
not used to that, and yielded to it as to the recoil to which he is 
habituated, he cannot readjust @s under the usual conditions, and 
in most instances the bird escapes. To the average shooter the 


‘Club, won first average al the Pegrim shoot last week, 


Wee 28, 198 


tuling is as if it read as follows; 
Second barrel it is a lost bird. : 
Not only is the shooter deprived of half his chances—that is, one 
barrel of the two—but He is handicapped in the manner of using 
it. In his first inning a shooter may have knocked the bird down 
with his first barrel, and could easily have killed it if his second 
had not misfired; in his second inning all that he accomplished is 
considered. void, and though he has fired his first, he is required to 
fire ‘it again, thereby invading uajustly his rights, spoiling his’ 
chances and ‘violating the equity of the competition unjustifiably. 
Let us assume that some one shooter actually committed a dis- 
honest act under this rule, Would it not be better to allow him 
to succeed in it than to impose a penalty, constant in its action, 
on innocent and honest shooters? At best the dishonesty would be 
rare; the rule is ever in action. a 
Let us examine the rule as a remedy. Is it the only rewedy 
absolutely? Wot at all. In the present the referees are appointed 
with care, and their knowledge, integrity and firmness are well 
considered. The managemenis are better organized. Misfres are 
a Tare Occurrence at the worst, so periect is the present day am= 
munition. The general character of a shooter is known, and if a 
shooter has a reputation for trickiness, aml he had too many mis- 
fires to be believable as accidental happeninys. it would be a very 
easy matter to refuse his entrance thercaficr, 
The loss of one bird, so great is the skill of the shooters of the 
present day, is quite enough to destroy all chance of first honors. 
It is hard enough in its own proper difficulties without adding 
to it a principle that aJ] men are guilty, whether something hap- 
pens by accident or design, This is in sharp contrast to the other 
trap ruling anent dropping for place, which is really the result of 
a faulty system and a purely arbitrary ruling, which cannot be sus- 
tained by any logical argument, and which is, as a law, without 
anything other than ipse dixit to sustain it, 
There is absolutely no justification for imposing on innocent 
shooters the hardships and penalties which should be for the 
guilty alone. 


Ti a misfire ceeurs with the 


WESTERN TRAPS. 


Little Doing. 


Cuicaco, IIl., Jan. 11.—Not a great deal is doing jn trap matters 
in the big city of Chicago this winter season. We are having now 
nice, cool, bright winter weather, with just enough wind to make 
the birds fly well. Yet there is almost no interest manifested by 
our shooters in the live-bird or target game outside of the regular 
elub shoots, 

Watson's Midwinter did not materialize. No match of wide 
impottance has been pulled off, and there does mot seem to be 
much rivalry among the local champions of the choke-bore. All 
the sporting goods stores teport the season quiet, and it would 
appear that the boys are letting the winter ship away without get- 
ting together for any serious entertainment at the more popular 
pigeon grounds. 


Grand American Coming, 


There is one thing which the Chicaga boys ought to bear in 
mind, and that is their duty to their sister city on the Kaw, when 
the time comes for the Grand American Handicap next spring. 
We Western fellows have been clanioring for this great event 
for a long time, and now that we have got it we want to handle it 
as if we knew how to handle big things in an easy way. This 
means that every Western shooter, not only of Katisas City, but of 
every other Western city; ought to get together and hold to- 
gether, Let us have the biggest attendance eyer known, and prove 
to the firmament that the West is a neck of the woods worthy of 
something better than a sneeze. OUGH. 


Hartrorp Buitpine, Chicago, Hl. 


Garden City Gun Club. 


Chicago, Ill, Jan, 11.—At Watson's Park, Burnside Crossing, 
the Garden City Gun Club to-day held its club shoot for medals, 
The scores follow: 


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Smitha tdse ce tet ace ee cin eeeai ee vay seceeaeees + «+ 00002020221001122— 9 
Sivatellsig Wigan en See A a op er laloetaates tes seine + «122119022012221 —12 
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Miszisstppt Valley Notes. 


Tue Lincoln Gun Club is one of the strong new trapshooting 
organizations that will make itself felt in Illinois the coming 
season. Slarting with a splendid membership of enthusiastic 
sheoters, it has already accomplished much in the short space of 
twe months. Excellent grounds haye been secured, and are now 
being equipped with two sets of expert traps and model club 
house, 

The Piasa Gun Club, of Alton, Ill, will begin practice work 
about the first of the month, and will be heard from during the 
ear. . 
if The Pegrim Gun Club gave a local amateur, shoot on Friday, 
an, 10, The programme was limited to ten target races, with the 
yen Rabbit system of division, which, by the way, is becoming 
quite popular among the strictly amateur class of shooters in the 
smaller towns of Illinois and Missouri. 

There was an interesting meeting of local shooters at Dupont 
Park on the 12th inst. The usual traphy races and a number of 
special events were shot. St. Louis will not lack representation 
as befits that thrifty shooting center at the big Kansas City gath- 
ering anent the Grand American Handicap. i ! 

J. M. Tedd, president and manager of the Roodho: +e (Gun 

he prom- 
ises 2 pigeon and sparrow shoot in the mear future. 

The Taylorville and Morrisonville gun clubs will continue their 
intercity team matches this year, and the first meeting is now 
being arranged. ‘ £ 

John Burmister, who has charge of the shooting park at Spirit 
Lake, Iowa, says that the shooting game in that vicinity an 
throughout the Northwest will be very lively this year, with a 
decidedly larger consumption of targets and ammunition than 
ever before, - EIcimor:. 


New York German Gun Club. 


New York.—The New York German Gun Club held its annual 
meeting at Garden Hotel, Jan 3. The ayaa oneal were 
elected: J. F. Wellbrock, President; H. Meyer, Vice-President; 
J. Schlicht, Secretary; J. P. Dannefelser, Treasurer; P. Garms, 
Captain, Auditing Committee: P. Albert, E. Rudle and E. Steffen. 
Heudipeppiage Committee: Dr. Hudson, J. P. Dannefelser, F. 


Markoff, usch and P. Garms. 

Prizes won for past year in following order: E. Rundle, H. Meyer, 
_ F. Wellbrock, P, Albert, J, P. Dannefelser, E. Steffens, F. 
farkhoft, J. Wilkins, W. Maisenholder, J. Schlicht! Dr. Hudson 
and M. Detjen. J. P. Dannerenser. 


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j AN. 28, 1902, | 


. Death of Marcellus Hartley. 


THE sudden death of Marcellus Hartley on Wednesday of last 
week was a profound shock to his host of friends. It was par- 
ticularly so to the men who are identified with: sport of shotgun 
and rifle. Although he was active and powerful in the affairs of 
peace and war, but few had a knowledge of his history or per- 
sonality, The following, taken from the New York Times of Jan. 9. 
gives much information concerning the great financier; 

Marcellus Hartley, financier, millionaire, philanthropist, and 
famous as the incumbent of a unique and responsible Government 
position during the Civil War, died suddenly yesterday afternoon 
in the directors’ room of the American Surety Company, at 100 
Broadway, just before the calling of a meeting of the company’s 
executive committee, of which Mr. Fartley was a member. He 
passed away in the arms of R. A. C. Smith, one of his fellow 
directors, . z 

The meeting had been called for 2:30 o'clock. Those in the 
directors’ room were: Walter S. Johnston, Chairman; James A. 
Hayden, rage J. Mec€ook, Wilham A. Wheelock, Thomas F. 
Ryan and Secretary Sickles. The members of the committee 
were seated about the long mahogany table in the room, Chairman 
pepsin at_one end and Mr. Hartley at the other. The latter 

ad taken off his glasses to clean them, and they lay before him on 
the table, when, as Mr. Smith entered, taking a seat beside Mr. 
Hartley, he noticed that his head was drooping lower and lower 
on his chest, ; 

Mr. Hartley had been chatting gayly only a moment before, and 
those 4bout him did not suspect even a temporary illness. Mr. 
Smith pat his arm about Mr, Hartley’s chair, and leaning for- 


ward, asked him if he felt faint. The head of the stricken man 
ss ¢d t@one side. Mr. Smith caught him as he was about to 
fall forward. 


He bore him to a couch, hastily sent for Resins 
and with his arm about his shoulders, inquired if he felt ill. Mr. 
Hartley opened his eyes, looked up at Mr. Smith and tried to say 


something, but death cut him short, and he fell back, lifeless. 

The messengers dispatched for physicians had hastened to the 
Equitable offices, where they met Dr. W, M. Bross, one of the 
company’s staff physicians. Dr. Bross hurried to the directors’ 
room, where he found the members of the executive committee 
standing anxiously about the couch whereon lay the body of 
ie panatles: The doctor made a hasty examination and shook 

Ts head. 

The Coroner's office was notified at once, and for a time the 
telephone of the company was kept busy ringing up friends and 
business associates of Mr. Hartley to tell them BE his sudden end. 
Messengers. were sent to the home of Mr. Hartley, at 232 Madison 
ayenue, to break the sad news to-his family. By 4 o’clock a per- 
mit of remoyal had been secured for the oa and at 5 o’clock 
an undertaker took it to the dead financier’s late home. 

The news of Mr, Hartley’s death spread quickly in Wall street, 
where he had many friends, and throughout the downtown busi- 
ness district, and before long the offices of the company were be- 
siéged with anxious relatives and friends, who refused to beiieve 
the news over the wire. Among the first callers was George \W- 

~ Jenkins, the son-in-law of Mr. Hartley. The executive offices of 
the company were kept open until nearly 6 o’clock, and most of 
the officers of the company remained until that hour answerin 
numerous inquiries which came from all parts of the fnancia 
district. 

At Mr. Hartley’s home it was said last night that death had been 
due to heart disease. Mr. Hartley was not a sufferer from heart 
trouble, so far as is known; but for several days had been com- 
plaining of indigestion. His health had always been excellent, 
and he was remarkably hale and hearty for a man of over seventy- 
three years. His favorite pastime was dtiving and horseback 
paings and as late as last Saturday he went for a ride in Central 

ark, 


‘Career of Mr. Hartley. 


Marcellus Hartley. was born in this city, Sept. 28, 1828, his 
father being the laf Robert M. Hartley, himself remarkable for 
work among 2 large number of charitable institutions and move-. 
ments. After receiving his education at one af the classical schools 
in this city, Marcellus entered the counting room of Francis 
Tomes & Sons, leading importers and dealers in guns and fancy 
hardware. It was because of this early training in the handling of 

ns that the young man ensped. that knowledge which Was 
estined to make him invaluable to the United States Government 
during the Civil War. Also, tntil the very end he remained 
identihed with one of the largest gun and arms establishments in 
the country. — = 

- After acquiring a knowledge of the business in connection with 

. Rutsen Schuyler and Malcolm Graham, associated with the 
ouse of Young, Smith & Co., Mr. Hartley established in 1854 
the firm of tira Hartley & Graham, which continued until 
the retirement of Mr. Schuyler in 1876, when it was known as 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Hartley & Graham. In 1898 Mr, Graham, died, and the firm was 
then incorporated with Mr, Hlartley as its president, the name 
being changed to the M. Hartley Sompany. d 

Tt was early in the days of the Civil War that Mr. Hartley was 
called upon by Edwin M. Stanton to take charge of an important 
service in the Government. The Union troops were sorely in 
need of arms and ammunition of modern make; the Confederates 
were receiving their arms and ammunition from abroad, and it was 
necessary to send to Europe a man who thoroughly understood the 
business of selecting fit weapons and also one who would prevent 
the Confederates getting the arms which foreigners were only too 
willing to sell to them. . . 

The position was one requiting tact, shrewdness, and the most 
intimate knowledge of firearms, and Mr. Hartley was selected as 
the agent of the Goyernment abroad, and was commissioned a 
Brigadier-General, with plenary power, opening for him an 
unlimited credit with Baring Brothers, of London, the fiscal agents 
of the Government there. 

Mr. Hartley visited many manufacturers in England, France and 
Germany, making contracts with them for all the arms and ammu- 
nition they could turn out in a year, iAt the same time surrepti- 
tiously the Southern agents were outbid, making it impossible 
for them to count on the foreign manufactures so necessary to 
their cause. Throughout his service during the war many millions 
of dollars’ worth Ge purchases were made for the Government b 
Brig.-Gen. Hartley, who at great pecuniary sacrifice to himself 
accepted the post, receiving only the salary of hig rank. 

But the efforts of the patriot were not limited merely to the 
duties that were expected of him. During his long stay abroad 
he came in contact with many distinguished statesmen and citizens, 
many of whom Were in sore need of being conyerted in their 
views to the side of the North. 


His Meeting with Bright. 


The following account of a meeting with John Bright is from the 


IN A CAROLINA QUAIL FIELD, 
Mr, Rutledge and his boy. Asheville, N, C 


pen of the deceased himself, published in 1898 in the New York 
Times’ Saturday Review of Books. He wrote: 

_ 1 was in Birmingham one day, and seeing a notice of a meet- 
ing to be held at the Town Hall, at which John Bright was 
scheduled for a speech, I attended it. I was within a few feet of 
the platform, and the hall was crowded to overflowing. Mr. 
Bright commenced his speech by referring to matters in his own 
ccuntry, but after a while drifted to the American question and 
England’s position, He soon showed how he was going to treat 
the subject; that was, in fayor of the North; but before he had 
given full evidence of this there was an uproar seldom heard at a 
meeting, and he was not allowed to proceed. He stood his ground, 
however, until the disturbance had ceased, then started again, with 
the same result; but he was not to be put down. Standing silent, 
resting one hand on the table and the other in the breast of his 
coat, he gazed at the audfence. fter a while, he was allowed to 
continue. Mr. Bright spoke for over an hour. 

“T listened with wonder and admiration to his eloquence and 
masterly presentation of the cause for which he pleaded. tt 
seemed impossible to present the claims of the North more forcibly. 
When he had finished, he had his audience with him, and they 
cheered with the same zest as they previously hissed. Ji I am 
not mistaken, this was the first speech that had been made in 
England in favor of the North, and from that time forward public 
sentiment began to change. , 

“When I left the meeting that night I determined, if possible, to 
have the speech printed, and distributed throughout England, so 
as to give it greater publicity than it would receive at the hands 
of the press, which was generaly hostile to the North. Mr. Bright 
was the guest of the Mayor of Birmingham, and the next morning 
I called on him at Edgebaston, reaching there early and while they 
were at breakfast. I sent in my card, making it known that I was 
from New York. He arose from the breakfast table and came to 
tne, inviting me to breakfast. 

“| had already breakfasted, and thanked him for his kindness. TI 
told him that I had listened to his speech the night before, prob- 
ably being the only American in the hall, and had come to ex- 

tess my gratitude and te beg that he allow me to have it printed. 
Aiter some hesitation, he consented to do so, provided I would let 
him correct a copy. He sent me the speech, and I had 10,000 
copies struck off and distributed throughout England, where I 
thought they would do the most good, water wan I had 6,000 more 
and took some of them myself to Paris, and had a copy placed 
under the plate of ev American’ at the Hotel du Louvre, who 
were mostly from the South.” 


His View of the War. 


On his return home to New York, in 1843, Mr. Hartley published 
at his own expense, a pamphlet on the “Philanthropic esults of 
the War,’' which he caused to be gratuitously circulated abroad, 
and a large bound volume of which he presented to the Meiro- 


politan Fair, instituted for the bencfit of the Sanitary Commission. 


Mr, Hartléy married Miss Franees Chester White, daughter of 
the late Dr. $. Pomeroy White of this city. The couple had jour 
children, but only one, a marticd Saas the wife of George W-. 
Jenkins, president of the American Deposit and Loan Company 
survives fi ,» The elde-t caughter married Norman Dodge, an 
a twin daughter James stokes. ; Pa 

Mr. Hartley was toh busy a man to be lured imto politics be- 
yond taking the iftcrest therein expected of every good citizen. 
Trequently he yas importuned to become a leader in political 
affairs. e stirted as a Whig, and 4n ardent admirer of Henry 
Clay. He re!atudl with great zest the pleasure he had in the early 
fifties in calung upon that distinguished statesman in Kentucky, 
and the warm greeting he received. In the disruption of the Whig 
Party and the formation of the Republican, he allied himself to the 
latter, and ever since had given it a loyal and consistent support; 
but party lines never blinded him to a strict adherence to its 
behests. : 

By remarkable sagacity, his close attention to business, and by 
his earnestness and an indomitable will, Mr, Hartley added to his 
business interests in the course of time, until he beoaine identified 
as president, director or trustee; with no less than fifteen well- 
known corporations. Among these were the American Deposit and 
Loan Company, the American District Telegraph Company, the 
American Surety Company, the Audit Company of New York, 
the Bridgeport Gun Implement Company, the Equitable Life 
Assurance Society, the Fifth Avenue ‘Trust Company, the 
German-American Bank, the Lincoln National Bank, the 
Manhattan Railway Company, the Mercantile Trust Company, 
the Remington Arms Company, the Union Metallic Cartridge 
Company, the Western National Bank, and the Westinghouse 
Electrical Manufacturing Company, The latest preat enterprise 
with which Mr. Hartley was identified was in the organization of 
the International Bank, of which he was president. 

Despite Mr. Hartley’s many business interests, he found time 
to devote to many charitable institutions, particularily the Hartiey 


House, organized under the auspices of the New York Association 
for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor, and named 
after the father of the deceased financier. Among the other char- 
itable institutions fostered by Mr, Hartley, all of which owe 
their existence in part to the work of a member of the Hartley 
family, are the Society for the Relief of Ruptured and Crippled 
Children, the Presbyterian Hospital, and the Association for the 
Iniprovement of the Condition of the Poor, 

-Mr. Hartley was a member of many clubs and societies, both 
social and scientific. He was one of the early members of the 
Union League Club, and for more than thirty years was a firm 
supporter of that organization, He was also a member of the 
Lawyers’ Club, and a patron of the American Museum of Natural 
History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was also a 
member of the following: The American Fine Arts Society, the 
Presbyterian Union, the New England Society, the Kepublican 
Club, and the Essex Cotinty Club of Orange, N. J. 


Mr. Hartley’s Origin. 


Mr, Hartley traced his origin to some of the best blood in 
England. The family of Hartley is of great antiquity in Yorkshire, 
and there are also distinguished representatives in Dorset, Berk- 
shire, and Cumberland. Robert Milham Hartley, the father of Mr. 
Hartley, was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1796, and he 
was the eldest son of Isaac and Isabella (née Johnson) Hartley. 
The grandfather of Mr. Hartley, Isaac Hartley, was a woolen 
manufacturer at Cockermouth until bis removal to America in 
1797, where he continued te conduct his business for seyeral years 
at Beh specs 

On his mother’s side also Mr, Hartley had reason to be proud 
of his descent, She was Miss Catharine Munson, daughter of 
Reuben Munson, of this city, a lienal descendent of Capt. Thomas 
Miinson, who came to this country early in the seventeenth century 
and settled in Connecticut. Burke says in his Peerage, that the 
Monson family, so spelled in early days, has an unbroken record 
from 1378 down to the present day, 

A large number of trade representatives met in the office of 
the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, New York, to take 
action on the death of Marcellus Hartley. Of the number were: 


WE, eau cot i; H. Lau & Co.; J. Von Lengerke, of Von Len- 
gerke & Detmold; H. S. Folsom, of H. S. Folsom Arms Company; 
A. H. Funke; H L. Jespersen, of Jespersen & Hines; R. M. 


Nesbitt, of M. W. Robinson Company; Herre Gales, of Schover- 
ling, Daly & Gales; H. H. Kiffe, of H. H. Kiffe Company; W. P. 
Cornwall; F. J. Purtell, of Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Company: 
pectee Moore, of Moore, Sons & Co.; U,. T. Hungerford, of 
U. T, Hungerford & Co.; C. Godfrey; Wm. M. Odell, Car- 


-tridge Commissioner; Julian W. Curtiss, of A. G. Spalding & 


Bros.; W. P. Howell; P, J. Sanford, of Winchester 
Arms Co.: Tower & Lyon. 
The meeting issued fe following: 


epeating 


88 


At a special meeting, of the gun and sporting goods trade, 


held Jan, 10, the following minute was adopted: 

In obedience to the Omnipotent Decree, in a moment as in the 
“twinkling of an eye,’ Marcellus Hartley has been called from us. 

His name has been associated with all our business undertakings. 
For many years he has stood forth clearly as the leading figure in 
the trade—to which nearly all his life was devoted, and from which 
the many varied enterprises that sought his counsel in later years 
were not able to weaken his allegiance. 

His indomitable will, ceaseless energy and untiring perseverance 
make a standard to which few can attain, 

His integrity of character, faithfulness of purpose, largeness of 
view and keenness of discernment made him more and more 
sought as a leader and advisor. 

Until the last moment of life he was a man of affairs. 

In recognition of his worth, we desire to record this tribute of 


honor, regard and esteem. ; 4 
Joseph Gales, Secretary. U. T. Hungerford, Chairman. 


ON LONG ISLAND. 


Saaz 


New Utrecht Gun Club. 


Interstate Park, L, I., Jan. 11.—The weather was raw, dark from 
a heavily overcast sky, and mildly stormy, a light snowfall setting 
in betimes. A 10 o’clock wind prevailed. Good shooting was the 
rule, and as a consequence there were many ties. Ties in No. 1 
were shot off in No. 2, and ties in the latter were shot off in 
No. 3. Mr, R. W. Haff won in No. 1; F. D, Creamer won No. 2. 


No. 1. No. 2. No. 4. 
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*Guests. 


Smithtown Gun Club. 


Smithtown, L. L., Jan. 9.—Following are scores made at weekly 
shoot of the Smithtown Gun Club, on Jan 9. The targets were 
thrown from very fast traps, which made the shooting quite difh- 
eult: 


Events: 12345 6%7 8 9101112 Shot 
Targets: 55 Goo ebb bob: bow b> pe) at. Broke, 
Ketchain! ioe.sene. fF a AE eae Ol eZee ee 45 21 
B (OWE ans DP oo eld d e2i el es! 3) 0 teed 60 30 
Ty SOUIN TAGs stares stl 2033522834224 60 82 
By onditiae cee one ee heh ea oo A 6 25 q 
Brisht na ete ee 1 BT 52 2A So eed 60 23 
Ver ® tases ee 3.64 43 4 3 42 4 46 60 4b 
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Be IS Snttheeteese ate 2) 2) 1 de 42 422) 03 5b 21 
Sattendg? Siselest ace enoere ew vane ele tee 2 ee 35 15 
HALSEY. 


Trap at Interstate Park, 


The all-day live-bird shoot, at Interstate Park, Queens, L. L., 
Jan. 16, has a main event, which has for a trophy-a solid gold 
watch atid chain. 2 i 

Conditions: 25 birds, $10, birds included. Handicaps, 25 to 32yds. 
High guns; $50 to be deducted for trophy. Balance of money to 
be divided 40, 30, 20, 10. Shod¥ing to commence at 10 A, M, Main 
event to commence at 1 P. M. 4 

Time table L. lL. R. R. direct to Interstate Park station, sub- 
ject to change: From Thirty-fourth street, East River—Week 
Days.—6:30, 7:50, 9:20, 11:00 A. M.; 12:20, 2, 3:20, 4:30, 3, 10 P. M. 
From Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn—Week Days.—6:37, 7:56, 9:25, 
11:04 A. M.; 12:24, 1:54, 3:22, 4:27, 8:07, 10:07 P. M. 


Crescent Athletic Ciuh. 


Bay Naeees L. I., Jan. 11.—Two tied for the January cup, Messrs. - 
W. E 


Marshall and L.-M. Palmer, Jr., scoring the limit, 50. 
Mr. H. M. Brigham was scratch man, and scored 45. The contest 
for the January cup was at 50 targets, expert traps, handicap a* 
lowances added: 


Fisrt 26. Second 25, Grand 

Hdep. Brk. Total, Hdep. Brk. Total. Total. 
Ti Viet Ral tetiranss etre ale Sop BRE ist 3 22 25 50 
W W.> Marshall,.......... Ga l4 25 6 23 25 59 
EF A Bedford, Jr.......... 6 18 24 6 22 25 49 
LL. (GC. Hopkins: .dscse.s.. 6 16 22 6 18 2 46 
Wr Ae ves Me ae EB ects em Si P| 2s toe 2, 46 
¥F B Stephenson.........:. L 238. 24 1 2 wa 45 
HH Me Brigham: 2... «ss 0 23 23 0 22 22: 45 
G G Stephenson, Jr....... ay DUET ales 1 23 24 41 
G Notman  syessnnseeves ae 2 17 19 2 19 21 40 
HB) Vandeveer...--.2... 5. 1G > 7{0) 5 13 18 38 
F E Mendes.,......-..2<+0 8 6 14 8 Say. 31 


The two-man team contest was well maintained, six teams en- 
tering. Messrs. Marshall and Palmer were high with the limit, 50, 
Messrs. Brigham and Keyes being cne less in the score. The 
scores, at 25 targets per man, were: 


Hdep. Brk. Total. ° 
6 17 23 


Marshall ...... Hopkins ....... 
Palnier pe same dy 3 22 25-50 Chapman ...... 8 12 20—43 
Brigham ...,.-- 0 2 24 Mendes ........ 8 ut alee 
Keyes s2t..=5« 2 238 2549 Bedford ........ 6 19 2542 
F Stephenson..1 23 24 Vandeyeer ....: Beeel0s el 
G Stephenson,Jr1 20 21-45 Notman .«....... 2 19 21-36 - 

Shoot for trophy, 25 targets, expert traps; handicap allowances 
added: ' 

Hdep. Brk. Total, Hdep. Brk. Total. 

Bedford .....-.-. 22 © 25 Notman ...<<.<s-< 18. 20 
Palmer: Jeirssemee 22 25 Chapman ...:.-.. 8 12 20 
Brigham ....-..- QO 24 24 CS eres Sonos J Te 19 
F Stephenson....1 238 24 Hopkins ......... G2? 18 
Marshall ......... 62 lbs 222 STeVte, Stress cman G wl2 As 
G Stephenson, Jr.1 21 22 #WVandeveer ....... 5 9 14 

Shoot for trophy, 25 targets, expert traps; handicap allowances 
added; ’ 

Hdep. Brk. Total. : Hdep. Brk. Total. 

SIMGS ae onshore! 5 20 25 $$GStephenson, Jr-1 21 22 
Bedford ...... cz.s6) (48! “24 Keyes. Gnesendsele 2 8) 20 
Palmer ./...s:...-3 21 24  #Mendes ......02.. Se lig ELS 
Marshall ......-.. 6 18 24 Ghapmatyt ine~sster S- 10 “8 
Stake. .i.025 yeDEe 130 (24) sHopkins i pesees-- emt ihe 


Brigham ........0 23 28 


Shoot for trophy, 15 targets, expert traps; handicap allowances 
added: 2 


Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. I'rk. Total. 
INGENTA) plc as cone 2 12; G4 Bedford’ estes Same at TR 
F Stephenson....0 18. 18 Hopkins ......2.. 3 OSs: 
G Stephenson, Jr. 0 18 18 ##Mendes ......,... 4 he 
Vandeveer .......2 il 13 Brigham ......-+ OF pil ake 
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scores during the balance of the seagon. No allowances will count - 


in the totals, so that a Scratch’ mati will have as much chance to 
win as the man who has a big allowance. 


IN NEW JERSEY. 


Carlstadt Gan Club. 


Carlstadt, N. J—The New Year’s Day shoot of the Carlstadt 
Gun Club was well attended. The events were at 10 targets. The 
club is a new one, and its members are enthusiastic. There has 
been much improvement in the skill of its members since it was 
organized. The scores: 


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Forester Gun Club’s New Year’s Day shoot was another big suc- 
cess, although the day was bitter cold and a good sharp wind 
was blowing. The live birds were a good, strong lot of fliers, and 
a goodly number got safely away. The manager kept a good 
warm club house, and served the shooters with a good, hot lunch 
at noon, followed with target shooting, and threw 1,600 targets 
during the afternoon. To prove the way this small club is 
growing in success, eight new members joined on this day, 
which we consider a record. 

Event No, 3 was a free event, with four prizes. The winners, 
after qualifying three times, shooting a miss-and-out. Winners: 
Jj. J. Fleming, turkey; Felger, chicken; Eams, can powder; D. 
Fleming, case shells, 


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D Fleming, 28. 2010100—3 1000012—3 
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J J Fleming, 29. . 21011126 02002%0—2 
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Newton Gun Club. 


Newton, N. J., Jan. 13.—The Newton Gun Club held a live-bird 
shoot last Saturday, on their grounds, and the feature of the day 
was a match between the Newton and Dover gun clubs, 

A cold wind was blowing. Two hundred people were present. 
The conditions were ten men on a side, at 10 birds each, loser to 
pay for birds and supper, 28yds. rise and unknown traps. 

The birds being a fair lot, both sides started in confident of 
victory. But, alas! luck was against the Newton boys. They hit 
their birds, but were unable to stop them, while thé Dover boys 
came up loaded for bear, and when a bird was hit it stopped like 
the old grandfather’s clock—never to go again. At the ending of 
the eighth round, Newton being unable to overtake their op- 
ponents, withdrew from the match with these words on their lips, 
“We will show them next time!’ The rest of the afternoon was 
spent shooting sweepstake, miss-and-out. 

The Newton boys net losing courage, are willing and anxious 
to shoot a similar match with the gentlemen of Newton who stood 
and looked on, and who killed so many birds at a game supper 
the other night, who claimed they could pick ten men who could 
beat them. “Pick them out, you; we will try it.” 


Lrap score type—Copyright, 1902, by Forest and Siream Pub, Co. 


Dover. Newton. 
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FAIRSHAKE. 


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_- Hazard Live Bird Chamefonship, 


Cuicaco, Ill, Jan. 11.—i am pleased to hand you herewith | 
copy of a challenge to contest for possession of the Hazard Pow- 
der Company's live-bird championship trophy, which reaches me 
this morning from Russel Klein, Spirit Lake, Ia,, and is in turn 
transmitted to you and to the Hazard Powder Company. 

Mr. Klein, it will be remembered, is of the amateur class of 
sportsmen, a brother-in-law of Mr, Fred Gilbert, and, for one of 
so slight a build, a very good shot, 

As the daye for practice at the traps approach, preparatory to the 
one grand shooting event of the United States, interest in shooting 
matters seems to awaken as if subjected to the beneficent influence 
of a warm south wind. ; 

Unless all signs fail—and this is the wrong season of the year 
for such failures—there will be battles and rumors of battles of 
especial interest to the sporting public very shortly. 

; : E. S. Rice. 


Spirit Laxg, Ia,, Jan. 10.—Desiring a contest with Mr. GC. W. 
Budd, Des Moines, Ia, for possession of the Hazard Powder 
Company’s live-bird championship trophy, I have this day de- 
posited requisite forfeit, and given notice to donors of cup. 

- RUSSELL KLEIN, 


Trap Around Reading. 


ReapinG, Pa., Jan. 4—The Spring Valley Shooting Association, 
of this city, held a target shoot to-day on their grounds, near 
this city. Sweepstake events at 10, 15 and 20 targets composed the 
programme for the day. The day was not a good one for shooting, 
as the cold greatly hindered the shooters, and as a high wind made 
the targets very irregular, the scores made were below the average 
The principal event, 20 targets, for a fine Holstein bull as first 
prize, attracted forty-three entries, and was finally won by Lee 
Wertz, captain of the Spring Valley Club; who broke 19 out of 20, 
Three tied on 18 for second prize, a fine revolver. The shoot was a 
success, 

Shamokin, Pa., June 7.—The following officers were élected at the 
meeting of the Shamokin Gun Club, held this evening: President, 

. E. Harrold; Vice-President, U. H. Pritchard; Captain, A. B. | 

ongshore; Vice-Captain, J. W. Ritchie; Secretary, as T. Bough- + 
ner; Treasurer, F. G. Seyler. : 

Bridsboro, Pa., Jan. 10—The Bridsboro Rod and Gun Club held 
a business meeting this evening, and closed up all unfinished busi- | 
ness for the past year. At the next meeting, Jan. 30, arrangements 
will be made to hold a two days’ shoot in March, at targets, live 
birds and sparrows, Duster. 


Boston Shooting Association. 


Boston, Mass., Jan. 13,—Herewith find scores of the all-day 
tournament of the Boston Shooting Association, at Wellington, 
Mass., on Jan, 11: 


Events: 123 4 5 6 7 § 910 11 1218 14.45 16 17 
Targets: 16 15 15 15 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 151515 20 Av. 
Le Roy.... 12 13 13 13 18 18 17 10 11.19 141219 11131316 .84 
Herbert ....... 1415 14 14 15 13 19 12 15 16 15 11 1713141119 .90 
Dennison...... 14412 81410121911 111714 81401 91016 .77 
LACE) seer. 18 911 12141318 Tl WIT 2). L. oe ape EP 
DCWaALlevenonee me DD OSES 1D. rian ste Aga tiean eee oe eee Bo aif 
ONG .)es ste ues A $9510, SOT T 14 Ate ee eee pene eee ay ait | 
Wild... os ee ee oe 12 12 12 17 13 12 18 15 10.15 10:12 12 16 ~.81 
(Grtibhen seers ene »- 1815141510 101911 1517 18111215 .83 
Woodruff...... .. Sewer. a5, Sess lOnIUM A, ce Emenee | 5OU 
FROZIER. SoS cena: ere. ca Oe eee ne) See eed S SIGN p OD oT S78 
Miller: .. cic... ah, Ripataatce Mae) Ne eu ledo dione Due spd 
Bilckoawersintce Wee. Seber clk etceinte Latha mee eee ed Paes 16.73 
Bullard........ BL =H) 1 pyri) ewavisces: wegasassuies) me eeeeneiedt 912) 60 
S Wood....... .. we Pop vith ein we masa seer ee ee ELSE I ae 67S 
Nichols sss o, in tvetir come top r a (hae Tense are Patt EE Aub) Oe, ve 


Events 1, 4, 7, 11, 18, 14, 17, regular angles; events 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 
15, unknown angles; events 3, 6, 12, 16, reverse, HERBERT. 


Frankford Gun Club, 


FRANKFORD, Pa,, Jan. 11.—On its grounds at Summerdale, Pa., 
the Frankford Gun Club had as the main event the club handica 
at 10 live birds, $5 entrance, optional sweep, Rose system of divi- 
sion of the.moneys. The! scores: 


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Ridge, BUSI veces a 2*22221222—9 Morrison, 26.....-... 0222012212—8 

Atte SOME ele oiele's ainiees 2222222022—9 Duke, 29.......+++,--1120222201—8 
Edwards, 30......... 22%2222122—9 Cowan, B0....0++++2-2%20222022—7 
Murray, 26....20...65 1112112021—9 Felix, 30....,........"2*220222*—6 


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: af oa miss-and-out events, $1 entrance, 28yds. rise, were shot, as 

ollows: | 

Tbe event: King 1, Morrison 6, Morris 8, Ridge 8, Cowan 8, 
uke 8. : i 
Second event: King 0, Morrison 0, Dalton 0, Smith 2, Morris 

3, Ridge 3, Felix 3. 

ees event: Myers 0, Ridge 1, Morrison 1, Morris 2, King 3, | 
Felix 3. 


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Catchpole Gun Club, 


Wotcort, N. Y., Jan. 8—The day was dark. 
scores were made: 


Wadsworth, 19......... 


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1911100011.001111111111013—19 

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Fitchy.....3. TON EX ERNE EAE Sao Soper tana «+» -141011101101111101101010—18 
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Clearview Gun Club. 


Darsy, Pa.—The Clearview Gun Club, at Darby, at its annual 
meeting elected officers as under: President, A, W._ Harkins; ° 
Vice-President, W. Paist; Secretary and treasurer, Harry B. Fisher; 
Board of Goyernors: B Carr, A. Edwards and WHarrry B, 
Fisher; Scorer and Handicapper, Vincent Oliver; Field and Team 
Captain, W. H. Downs. The first of the new series of club shoots 
for the club prizes will be held on the club grounds, at Darby, on 
Jan. 18, 


Ideal Gun Club, ; 


Detroit, Mich., date 8.—The third regular live-bird trophy of - 
the Ideal Shooting Club was held Jan. 7, at Wyandott. .This is: the 
score at 15 birds: Woods 15, Marks 9, Guthard 10, Linderman 13, ° 
Lewis 10, Parker 14, Baumler 9, Buttler 12, Cabanaw 11; Schroeder 
9, Eilbert 12, Cicotte 8, Sansouci 11, Toll 13, A. J. Loronger 13; J.” 
Loronger 12, McCourt 8, Clark 11. { 


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J. S. Linperman, Sec’y. | 


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She Owed Grimm a Thaler. 


T heard an interesting anecdote of Jacob Grimm the, other day. 
‘One of his prettiest fairy tales ends with the words “whoever, 
refuses to believe this story owes me a thaler.” i a 

One winter morning a little Jewish girl rang the, deor-bell in 
Berlin and asked the servant if Herr Prof. Jacob Grimm was at) 
home. When informed that he was not, she said, politely: 

“Will you please hand him this thaler: when he returns?” _— 
The servant sophie coin, glanced at it curiously, and inquires 
o sent it and what it was for, ” : : 

wee ore him He puceey, myself,”’ said the little girl. 

“Why, what for 

Becwuse I don’t believe the story about the woli”—Chicago 
Record-Herald, pi 


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“To young shooters wishing to kill driven game, L would sug: 
gest that they should do exactly as crack shots. do when’ they are 
feeling for-their lost ‘form,’ that is, take lots of time, get on, the 
advancing bird with the gun at shoulder if the line cannot be got 
earlier, and then bring it away in front, and pull as it comes with- 
out attempting any check whatever; by these means they will 
have started on the right road, and they have only to learn to put 
on the steam, as it were, which they will readily do as they gain 
confidence. I fear, however, I am a poor hand at Giving advice, 
although I know many better shots who are much worse. 

“An Oxtp INDIAN.” 

It will, we fancy, be clear to many good shots that we have 
not in practice got near enough to our game, even yet. They 


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Position of pheasant EK when column of 
shot has traveled 20ft, 


neither make an allowance of 18ft., nor 5ft. either, and yet they 
kill. Sir Ralph Gallwey advises the aiming the length of a pheas- 
ant before the bird; 3ft. would not do for us, but we can, never- 
theless, understand its doing perfectly well, provided the swing is 
enough, We may agree with “An Old Indian” that recoil stops 
swing, but we know that the shot are out of the barrel then, and 
it is clear that any lateral moyement of the barrel imparts lateral 
momentum to the shot. Any one who has seen parcels thrown 


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from an express train on to a platform would know that momen- 
tum imparted at right angles to a momentum already acquired 
does not counteract it, We think that if any one could swing his 
gun muzzle at the rate of sixty miles an hour he need give no allow- 
ance to birds traveling that pace. Swing, however, cannot be ac- 
complished at such a pace. The shooter is figuratively the axis 
of the circle. The bird is on the outside circumference. The gun 
starts behind and gets past the game in alignment; but after all, it 


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Fig. 6.—The pheasant J represents how the last pheasant, Fig. 5, 
will enter the column at the moment of its passing his line of flight. 


does not take much real speed to de that. But whatever value is 
got out of the lateral momentum—and it must be some (for a 
shooter cannot swing fast and stop suddenly, however he tries to 
do it)—it all goes to reduce the necessity for allowance in front, 
Thus, the quicker the bird the quicker the swing, and the 
more lateral momentum the shot gets. This is, to a 
certain extent, a mechanical estimate of speed of game, 
and acts accordingly. With us it does so up to 20yds. or 
so, but beyond those distances we cannot say it does. Fast cross- 
ing binds are always more difficult when high up or a distance 
off. The reason appears to us to be that, being further away fram 
the axis of the circle, they are at the same speed of flight, moving 
apparently slower, necessitating a slower movement of the gun ta 
keep up with and get in front of them, and it is in consequence of 
this, and the slower speed of the shot, that so much more apparent 
angle or allowance is necessary beyond 30yds., than nearer. ; 

cena possibility is that if a shooter swings in front of his 
game, and without attempting to stop the gun; pulls trigger as it 


gets 2{t. ahead of the bird (Sir Ralph Gallwey’s method), there is. 


no knowing how much his gun points ahead when the shet 
actually leaves the barrel. To the individual shooter it may be a 
constant, but as it will vary with the speed of the swing, and there- 
fore with every shooter, it is best of course for us to leave it 
severely alone, 


Wenatchee Gun Club, 


ENATCHEF, Wash., Jan. 3—We have recently organized a gun 
ats under the name Zi the Wenatchee Gun Club, At our first 
meeting we enrolled twenty-two members, which is a very good 
start, considering the size of the town. With the exception of a 
few members, we are all green at trapshooting, but with practice 
and Pete eae: we hope to be able to send you a few scores 
i near future, ; : 
imine names of members are as follows; C, B, Riehardson, H. 5. 
Simmons, John Willis, Ellsworth Wrance, E. F, Morris, G, A. 
Perkins, Percy Scheble, Fred Honuer, L. O. Hall, F. M. Scheble, 
A. A. Bousquet, D. A. Beal, L. V. Wells, Mr. Mefeod, A. A. 
Fuller, Guy C. Brown, R. A, Scheble, Fred Reeves, Dr, G. W., 
Hoxsey, J, -4E, Porter, A. N. Courtway, Clyde France. 
xP dane ak a ae A, A, Bovsguer, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Cincinnati Gun Club. 


Tut New Year’s Day shoot of the Cincinnati Gun Club had 
team races and target contests as main features. The live-bird 
events follow: 

Team race No, 1: 


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-_ Team race No. 8: 
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MOTs! “S.nceeepre eta Giterhemeoneee 22200222221222122*2220222— 27 
DST Ve. Walenstilem eee Fan Vindale feta ticea ena 22%2022222999922992002022—20—41 
Practice, at 25 birds: 
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Mackier 2G Lana eeacscneteies homincememe 2222222220222022222222999- 93 
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Settles A ee er oren ot See om ere: 1*211*2221121221020222202—90 
[arier GOSS; ee teean-neeeenenewe enna 0220101220101222202022211—18 
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GRE gO ROT ite ae ve Oe 1122002011010110100012221—16 


Jan 4—The .first contest of the Cincinnati Gun Club for cash 
prizes took place to-day. The scores: R. Trimble (20) 44, Ahlers 
(19) 42, Maynard (19) 42, Gross (16) 89, Hermann (16) 38, Gambell 
(18) 38, Osterfeld (18) 37, E. Trimble (7) 87, Heyl (19) 35, Block 
(15) 34, Corry (16) 38, Goodman (16) 32, Jay Bee (19) 31, Van Ness 
(14) 29, Littleford (14) 29, Randall (16) 29, Roll (8) 28, Donnally 
He oes R. G, Ward (16) 29, Ackley (17) 26, Falk (16) 25, Butts 

Ea) 5 

The conditions are: 
commencing Jan. 4, at 1,30 P. M., and a contest on each alternate 
Saturday thereafter. Handicaps 14 to 22yds. Class shooting, All 
ties divide. Each shooter must be a member of the club in good 
standing and participate in at least eighteen contests to be eligible 
to division of moncy. Money to be divided, yiz.: $10, $12.50, 
$15, $17.50, $20, ete., as purse will permit, ; 

Jan. 8—The weather was fine, there was a light wind and the 
birds were first class. The race started at 1:20 o’clock and finished 
at 4:50; 135 birds per hour, The visitors (all) members of the club) 
were: Heikes, Rike, Mumma, of Dayton, O,; Ira Post and Wool- 
ford, Spencerville, Ohio. There was no chance for a straight score, 
Trimble and Morris were the only two with one miss, The race 
was unfinished on account of darkness. Those who finished out 
are from out of the city, and shot their last 5 birds when the 
birds were hard to see. The single trigger on Heikes’ Remington 
was much admired. 

The event was the second contest for the Parker gun trophy, at 
26 birds, the scores of which only three were finished: 


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POSE VoOS ayant tients tice eect oraiere 22:22022122220%21222922920 91, 
Wad dell res es ecraet twee (sea tactely sialalecciaee 101202012212**111022 

EE OER au erence ehcreeeetoe ins taudetbep af boa 2222222201 221022200 
Gambell, 29,...... niowelbe cada dane reanenes 20020222120002022022 

Mortis, SO. 4s esas tseb aeReaancnanaceusaee 21120212222211222222 

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Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, Jan. 8.—The seeond serial prize shoot of the Boston 
Gun Club’s current series was held on their grounds at Wellington 
to-day, and though one of those days that is not wholly agreeable 
to a trapshooter, still as we had nothing to do with the conditions 
we made the best we could of it, and let it'go at that. Nineteen 
shooters gathered to try and best the elusive bluerock, and while 
sometimes coming out ahead, it was easily seen that it gave them 
a good’ chase. 

Among the out-of-town visitors was Griffith, of Pasceag, and 
though slightly under the weather, as the scores will show, we 
trust it will be only a question of time when the old-time form 
will be seen and misses ate few and far between, 

Other visitors were present from Brockton, Wollaston, Water- 
town, Fitchburg, and Auburndale, and the shooting continued with 
each event adding more interest than the previous one. The prize 
match had as high gun Putnam, with oodruff a close second, 
followed by Philbrook two targets in the rear. Leroy, as usual, 
though handicapped with a 2lyd. mark, was among the first four, 
and the clever way in which he manipulated the scatter gun 
brought forth a good fair share of applause. Scores follow, all 
shooting handicap distance: 

Events 3 and 5 Sergeant; all others magautrap, 


Events: a 524 93 Sd SGT Ae ES es Seeit 

Targets: 10 10 10 15 10 pr 15 15 10 10 
(Grabigndon, GEE sc ihaas ae hee: bb ate SPs Oe eh TA Sep eee aie 6 
Leroy, 21...... prises le ttchiacpecpeese 2 he, SENG is Se ee ee 
Wanters, « IStnrrcriebeetes saree at GSieet BS esl hs Soe 
Barry, 16..2..<. Reseed liet toe FERS ela eee aac 
Woodnuitt, Toten ace tee eeck GSH MG OY “DF WO 125 ed 
Bistni ee lhegeaunees frase ge UE ARE YA Sh i Min T3 
HPhilbrook, 16.............. Seer POS ae) OMe tet tee eee oS 
Billard) aAGiay\aqere eee sways = Oe con toe ro eee ae 
Hawkitis, (i isnveen eee. ere wer OBS ei OB. 12. ot as kes 
Beanies G8. a.tie- ale Ree ee Tit iS ESE BOs tS se Se the 
Epil brookuslL san. ace eesete heres Ze Ty ie SOUS So ees ad) She 
Miuldaywai, 160 o 6.5 eo cestee ie earee a MOP RES C2 Ea Seta ats, aa tan 
iNGieletolere JE. 5 pe om ans ee Ace) PT OA ON ety gener Ere orgh 
Eros. 6h Ae! wens cess sace oe oe. fe. YE MD AE ap GR th = 
Reda vGlGAassdaceatcnse ceases. SH ee KaeO RSA ene Soe oar 
Ineverétt, oid: f£ 5. es tea ee Mmepceer: SUD bre Sona seer 
eatirben iS.) ul Getta eteiee a cle ltioese a aie tse ee A ee ee ie oe 
Henry, 16.,... sicbalatedelstates aint ifeieteen Crcchaehcm Me ay asa, AM 1 
Frederick; al@iccmisis stint acti. eo ee ig Se. SA. Ue ee lee 

Prize match, 25 singles—l5 magautrap and 10 Sergeant—distance 
handicap: 
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Whoodriitts: (lacus selec ulcticisesiec ans cite 011001301013011 = 8=1111101411—19 
EL 1iarill else Wires nance alee) gece, 111010011011010 = 1011110111—17 
Weroys gl kegs eum pcianmene GE bose red 101111101000101 =: 000011111116 
iit al fa espa ioe eR Gd de oct irhorseatd Oxta $05 OUINIOTONIOIT =—-0111001010 16 
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Griffiths, 19-....,.. Pb 1 oo octet ee 000100110010000 009111111117 
Batirvey Ost oeanies ee peoneeeee esses ~110010011130100  0010100001i—11 
ED Pint brooks, LOsa lectern pipatead 100011010110100  0001100000— 9 
Fairbanks, 16....... nok ot reson 011000100000001 0001111010-— 9 
Muldown, 16.,.....- Asses aera 110110000000010 1000100010— 8 
Bullard, 16...... =i --000000100010000 0010010001— 5 
HnGSt, cLOcMnA Ere eae eke . .001101000100100 0000000000— 5 


Woodlake Gun Club, 


Woop axe, Neb., Jan. 7—lt was a fine day for trapshooting, 
barring a strong west wind, which blew directly from the score, and 
made the targets dip and dive in a most exasperating way- l 

There were about twenty-five spectators and nine contestants, 
Mrs, W. A. Leach and Miss Ida Leach viewed the sport from 
their carriage, the former lady keeping score to the entire satis- 
faction of all. ‘ : 

W. A. Leach made high score, 23 out of 25, running 17 straight 
before he dropped one, the scores running from this down fo 9, 
which was low. Le Roy Leach and Mr. McDowell, from Brown 
county, tied for Class A medal on 17, and on the shoot-off at 5 
birds, Leach won, breaking 5 straight, while his opponent could 
enly account for 2 of ‘his birds, 

Chrysler won Class B medal on the very good score of 15, but 
Johnny Day had blood in his eye, and immediately challenged 
him for it, and at it they went 12 birds to the man, and when the 
amoke cleared away the score showed Dey 9, Chrysler 8. Chrysler 


Twenty-six contests at 50 targets each, 


! 


[Jan. 18, 1902. ‘| 


wasn’t satisfied, and challenged right back again, and another 12- 
bird match was instantly in progress, with the result that Day! 
walked off with the Class B medal pinned securely on the right 
side of his yest. Chrysler took his defeat good-naturedly, and | 
promises to make it warm for Johnny next Sunday, and Johnny | 
says he will be there to see it well done. : 

The shooting was undoubtedly high class, when it is considered 
thet, with one exception, all are new at the game. 

Regular weekly shoot next Tuesday at 1 P. M. | 

Following are the scores at 25 targets: *W. A, Leach 28, Lie Roy | 
Leach 17, McDowell 17, W, L, Chrysler 15, John Day 18, John | 


Dennis 18, Dan Daiiey 13, Parker 9, Bakewell 9. 
*Not eligible for medals, ¥ 
Shoot-off for Class A medal: Le Roy Leach 5, McDowell 2. | 
Shoot-off for third place: Day 4, Dailey 3, Dennis 2. 
Shoot-off for fourth place: Bakewell 2, Parker 2, I 
First challenge match for Class B medal, at 12 birds each: Day. 9, 

Chrysler 8, = T 
Second challenge match for same medal, same conditions: ‘Day 


7, Chrysler 5. 
W. A, Leaca, 


The Hitschy Trophy. 


Minnearoris, Minn., Jan. 4—The Hirsehy trophy shoot yester- 
day only brought a small crowd. Birds were good, as can be seen 
from the scores. 

Morrison and Bull shot a 85-bird race for $85 a side, birds extra, 
in which Morrison came out winner. Herewith you will find the 
scores: 


Trap score type—Copyright, 1902, by Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 


4588258343551215182124411 
RL YEEVMR RT Y YATRA TIARRROR 
Hirschy .ccsese0y+7-2 22 %2229999999999%9299999 998 
42945115145538354452958838155 
SRA REN RROYNASSORAR KR LARRSS _ 
Bull vecceseeeeeese2e201101222911222972309711991 29 
8545454291111%91292945144594 
SPRATT R CLERHA CSAC R7ZRSAHILIRAR 
Kapow oes aimee ven L22Z9BV1929122929190999028 9-93 
2831514148442524558559451 
RTL YOQCIVET TRASNILAARNARTRA 
Smithteew dice ee nnee 120222920222299299029299929 2-29 
11182553252544329594112981 
RALTRLETIAARNT YR YR SARTTARRA 
Kribseccecccsereeee 2 229229299291 920229220 99 9-98 
Shoot-off on 238: 
51524415994 8522 
TT YRARYAZARARAASSR ' 
LIPS CHP: cua aseneeraranedyens sleadedeas te 2229222921899 912 0-14 
3281452417525145 
AAAKRT LOARCRAA LL 
KKiahowes sects tree: 34 eee. Saat 22112222920121 0-18 
5 
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RESID: slelate « cetGthd tok Rostete nladhcn-daslsre wtwtabsiied ti eabl 
. En 
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GALAA 
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Bridle oh. se Teena eran 05 eee ss. 0112291 
Jan, 5—Match shoot, 35 birds, -$35 a side, 30yds. rise: 
55281518158114815412 
VAAKRHYAELTADRDRA KASH 
Morrisoniayessenseceveeees 9220219123292299991024%-18 
2g ee ee ead 
AA RHI RAHI HL RY 
Be oO Tie bo aoe uae —13 81 
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Leah Le eo —11—28 
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Ossining Gun Club, 


Ossrninc, N, Y., Jan, 11—There was_a good attendance and 
plenty of shooting on ihe grounds of the Ossining Gun Club at the 
regular Saturday matinee, Jan. 11. Though the snow tell, it did 
not lessen the ardor of these who were entering in the sweepstakes; 


Events: DT aed AS Os peiteeese 0 9) el Oeil: 

Targets? 15 15 15 10 10 10 10 10 15 15 15 
TE D Garnsey GEAGY ar) Re AR AAT A a a Sty alii 
Wi (Palla 9: 7 MB i Se) a eee a OL Gh 
D Brandreth .,, 12 10 w Pres vn a 11 i 

W Bissing... : 4 #4 eo ee 

Pp Wiasiiburse At Gb ay aie ee ne aaa) 
R Kromer, Jr ec, Today ie iste i Teg Ae eS 
D O’Connor.. ane = a> “Oy Fo ras Ge | re 
W S Smith... “ Cee ca, ese pee & " 
C G Blandford. TS et 4) SO SS 
A Bedell...... ' Bein ay a 
G S Edgers........ Siyeeate ei i Te. eter eine - 

Prize eyents: : : 

Events: LC 32 So 4 6 
Washburn, W7.........405 De rae 12 9 6 10 13 33 43 40 
Garnsey, 2Bieeuedsnseleess WAR enorareey oie WHE Siles Ai! ale S56 eee 55 
DEIN MNT | ies ese FT Areqenrigresse WUE cp thy ls oe er ale 
Deheeatat(aiir, VOM son Baa SsaaaAnonGn Arne EA ey diay IPS no Fe he 
tata) Ss Gar jadeeaecen dads a ae Wane a Bal eee tee tet ted ee 
Kromer, 20... war hee 


Richmond Gun Club. 


New Yor, Jan. 8.—The annual meeting of the Richmond Gun 
Club, of Silver Lake, 5. -1., was held on Jan. 6. The treasurer’s 
report showed the club |o be in a prosperous condition. The 
following were elected officers for the year 1902; Geo, Bechtel, 
President; John Schoen, Vice-President; A. A. Schoverling, Secre- 
tary; F. J. Crystal, Treasurer, A. A, Schoverling, Captain. The 
club shoots are held on alteriate Saturdays, at 2 7. M., and on 
every holiday. Targets reduced io 1 cent. Live birds 25 cents. 
Undersigned bids everybody welcome. ; 

. A, ScHovertine, Sec’y. 


Omaha Gun Club. 


Qarana, Neb., Jan, t1—The seores made at the Qmaha Gun 
Club’s shoot to-day at live birds are as follows: 


Parmelee .; so. nde senses eee eR OnRBrlane 1221111111121122221112122 25 
Stephens! Bila .soeaceenere orth seereeeenr 2121121111111111121112120—24 
Toes, Mane certs SRERE Coon Oc negeene: Annee 22122°21112122232*1 11929293" 
ce(en rs eR oe otinre paedcrinadudposo asd 1211111122111212211111222—25 
Igeiietae Satan or Fe en lets eelete eso) Le 022117111112121 021122999999 

GILES ested tae ee SO cao ne sadac 19110111*1 2022011111011] —20 
(SIAC THIEL 2, Ust\s feeb bs ee ole bm oe ue ee eee (0200122120210 ay 
Gliegtian, lena tetoeartsc sues sont Eee Ramee ~~ 2191991111 —10 


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SPRING SHOOTING. 


' Tus question of the killing of wildfowl in the spring is 
One which will never be settled until it is settled right. 
The necessity for protection of our wild game is uni- 
fersally acknowledged, and to all our wild game, except 
wildfowl, some measure of protection is granted. Laws 
fstand on the statute books which purport to protect ducks 
and geese during certain months of the year, but these 
aws are wholly misleading and actually afford no pro- 
ection, because the close time established for these 
dirds is precisely the time when they are not within our 
perritory, but are north of the United States engaged 
n the labor of reproduction. For all practical purposes, 
therefore, these laws might as well be repealed. They 
te a mere form of words, which, so far as this State is 
oncerned, are wholly ineffective. In practice there is no 
lose time on wildfowl. They may be killed whenever 
ind wherever found, and as a matter of fact, they are 
xilled during nearly three-fourths of the year from the 
very first black ducks and blue-winged teal that make 
heir appearance in our waters in late August and early 
September to the last of the scoters, or “coots,” which 
depart for their northern breeding grounds in late May, 
oY sometimes not until early June. ; 
Gunners have been so accustomed to see the air darle- 
fued by the myriads of migrating fowl that they have 
“ome to believe the supply inexhaustible, and that no mat- 


tbhundance. It is difficult to eradicate this old idea, Pre- 
tisely the same thing: used to be said of the multitudes 
mt buffalo, of the vast flights of wild pigeons and of 
he hordes of the fur seals, People forget how rapidly 
hings move at the present day. They forget the pre- 
ision of modern firearms, the vast numbers of people who 
atry them, the ease with which all sections of the coun- 
ty are reached by modern lines of transportation. They 
forget, too, that this destruction of fowl is going on all 
ver the land for six or eight months of the year, and 
nally and most important that a vast area of country 
etending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the 
atitude of the Ohio River north to that of the Sas- 
Batchewan and beyond, which formerly served as a 
reeding ground for wildfowl, has been settled up and is 
Ow occtipied by people, who, whenever they see a duck 
Pttempt to kill it. It is not only that the birds are 
illed off in vast numbers and for two-thirds of the year, 
mt that the summer homes to which they once resorted 
> rear their young have been largely invaded so that 
teir breeding grounds are terribly contracted. 

‘This is the most important of the results to be gained 
Wy the abolition of spring shooting, that. in spring and 
ammer the birds may have an opportunity to breed some- 
hat as they used to do over a wide area of country from 
hich now they are driven, 

} An argument freely used by those who advocate spring 
hooting is that if spring shooting were abolished, they 
lemselves would get no duck shooting. These persons 
Qaim that in their locality there is no fall duck shooting ; 
at the flyway of the birds on their southern migra- 
ons does not reach them, but that in spring the birds 
ome to them in good numbers, though the flight is short, 
Hch an argument is purely selfish, and might with 
jaal force be advanced in favor of netting trout, night 
looting or any other improvident practice. 

It may be doubted whether there is any foundation in 
ct for the popular impression that the ducks Zo north 
One route and return southward by another, 

In some respects the spring migration is very different 
on that performed in the autumn. After the birds have 
ated their broods and renewed their plumage they 
atter out over a wide territory, working south slowly, at 
tate which depends largely on the closinig of the waters 
the south. The migration is therefore likely to be 
fead out over three months. It is a deliberate journey 
uthward. In the spring matters are quite different. 


NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1902. 


er how many are killed, there would always remain an 


Coryricut, 1902, ny Foresr anp Srream Puntisuine Co, 


The reproductive desire is already beginning to be felt, 
and many birds are already mated. The fowl ate anxious 
to reach their nesting grounds as speedily as possible. 
They follow up the ice closely and pass given points in 
gteat numbers in a short time, where the same number 
while passing southward might occupy two or three 
months. Thus, while in the fall they are not noticed, they 
are likely to be observed in spring, and the greater num- 
ber seen by an observer in a day or week greatly impresses 
him, He may thus come to believe that for this especial 
locality there are very few ducks in the fall and very 
many in the spring. 

Within the past few years widespread belief in the 
necessity in limiting the shooting of wildfowl has grown 
up, until now there are some States and Provinces which 
forbid spring shooting altogether, The time is coming 
when it will be forbidden everywhere, 

Within the recollection of men who ate not yet old 
more than one species of bird and mammals have become 
extinct in America, while over large sections of the 
country many species have been practically exterminated, 
If gunners could be induced to take a broader view of 
these matters and to consider the general good, rather 
than their own selfish advantage, the cause of game pro- 
tection would be greatly helped, and the gunners them- 
selves after a few years would be greatly benefited. Tt 
is probable that before long most of the Northern States 
will have followed the worthy example set them by some 
of those in the Northwest, and will have enacted laws 
leading to the better protection of ouf fowl. 

In stich a reform the Empire State should lead, not 
follow. : 


THE LACEY ACT. 


From the annual report of the Department of Agricul- 
ture we take the report of Dr. T. S. Palmer, Acting Chief 
of the Biological Survey, of his work for 1901 in the en- 
forcement of the Lacey Act, In Acting Chief Palmer we 
have an intelligent, active and efficient agent of game pro- 
tection under Government auspices, and his report demon- 
strates that the year was one of activity and accomplish- 
ment. What must be reckoned the most important of 
the several phases of the work is that which has to do 
with the enforcement of the laws forbidding the ship- 
ment of game. Under the conditions which formerly pre- 
vailed, when once the shipper of illicit game had passed it 
safely across State lines he was reasonably secure; for 
there was no practicable method of tracing such game 
back to its source. The operation of the Lacey Act, on 


the contrary, has enabled Dr. Palmer to trace back illicit - 


game from its destination to the point of shipment, and to 
impose the penalty where it belonged. Fifty-seven cases 
have been investigated, of which eight have resulted in 
conviction, thirty-three are awaiting action by the courts, 
eight have been dropped and eight are awaiting further 
evidence, : 

Much of the efficiency of the Lacey Act is due to its 
moral effect. The shipper or receiver of illicit game who 
is not greatly disturbed by the activity of a local warden. 
is thoroughly frightened when he realizes that the United 
States Government is after him. He realizes that Uncle 
Sam’s arm is a very, very long ‘one; and the usual instinct 
is to settle on the best terms obtainable. 

To Dr. Palmer unstinted credit is due for the way in 
which he has performed a task which, because of its 
novelty, was all the more difficult. The showing of re- 
sults-is most satisfactory and encouraging. 


THE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 


As a general proposition it may be said that the State 
of New York should administer its forest possessions in 
the same scientific manner as that which prevails in for- 
eign countries, where the forests are farmed remunera- 
tively, but yet are handed down from generation to gen- 
eration and from age to age with value unimpaired, Any 
other system fails to use these great resources to their 
full value. _ 

And yet when all this has been said, it may be true that 
the time has not come in New York when the public 
forests may safely be intrusted to the hand of the scien- 
tific forester. The letter written by Mr. W.-E. Wolcott 
and published in another column ungtwestionably voices 
the sentiment of a very large number of people who are 
interested in the Adirondack forest reserves and familiar 
with the conditions governing them} and for this reason 


his views should have consideration. Under the existing mate of revenues from the Maine visitors, 


OREST AND STREAM. 


A WeEEKLy Journar OF THE Rop anp Gun. 


| VOL. LVIIT.—No, 4. 
No. 846 Broapway, New Yorr, 


clause in the constitution adopted in 1896 the forests are 
secure, because they are absolutely protected from the axe. 
Mr. Wolcott and those for whom he speaks believe that 
any present action looking to a removal of this absolute 
security would have only disastrous results. 


THE NEW YORK COLD STORAGE CASE. 


Tue cold storage people, sued by the State for the pos- 
session of thousands of birds held illegally, have demurred 
to the complaint made by the State’s attorneys. The 
brief containing the demurrer has been filed, but is not 
yet accessible, but in a general way its contentions are 
known. ie 

The defendant demurs on the ground that the com- 
plaint as to the seizure of this illegal game did not state 
facts sufficient to constitute a catise of action. It also 
denies the jurisdiction of the court. 

In court the defense declared further that since the 
section of the law which provides penalties makes no 
provision for the bringing a civil action against him who 
violates the laws, no civil action can be brought. Such a 
contention, of course, is directly opposed to the whole 
spirit of the law, since every section of the statute is to 
be considered in connection with what the whole statute 
intends. Everywhere throughout the game law are refer- 
ences to the bringing of civil actions and clauses prescrib- 
ing how such civil actions can be brought. 

Another contention of the defendants is that these 
penalties are cumulative; that a penalty enforced at so 
much a bird when there are a thousand or ten thousand 
birds in question amounts to a penalty so heavy that it can 
never be paid. 

Finally, the defendant’s counsel claim that the statute 
under which these seizures were made is unconstitutional. 

After the argument in the court, the judge ordered 
prosecution and defense to file their briefs within six days, 
They have been filed, and an early decision is looked for, 


SNAP SHOTS, 


We Americans brought our ideas of sport from the old 
country, and although in the last few hundred years they 
have become greatly modified, they still have as their 
basis the idea of fair play. 

We have come to a time when the question is not so 
much ohe of winning in a competition as of winning in 
the best manner. In any contest of sport, whether it be 
against a human competitor, or one wearing hair or 
feather, or even against the silent, majestic forces of 
nature, the man desires first of all his own approval, and 
then the approval of others. Some there be who care for 
the approval of others more than for their own, but of 
such it may be certainly predicated that they are not 
sportsmen, and there is always danger that they will 
descend to unworthy methods in order to make other 
people believe in their skill and their success. . 

Tn the last twenty years there have been many defini- 
tions of the true sportsman. We shall not add to that 
list here, but it may be said first of all that whatever. his 
point of view, the true sportsman must always respect 
himself. 

td 


The Forest AND StTREAM’s long-time friend and con- 
tributor, J. U. Gregory, of Quebec, has for thirty-seven 
years been the agent of the Department of Marine and 
Fisheries at that point, and has now come to a time in a 
long and useful life when he is in receipt of frequent testi- 
monials of regard. from friends and associates and 
subordinates. The other day it was the turn of the 187 
lighthouse keepers of the Province to give expression of 
their regard for their chief, and the testimonial took the 
form of addresses of congratulation and the presentation 
of a bronze clock. It must be very gratifying for one 
thus to know that he holds such a place in the affection of 
the lonely light keepers, and that he has brightened the 
lives of so many. 

® 

The proposed Maine non-resident license has excited 
its share of attention, but we must remember that a year 
will intervene before the subject will come before the 
Legislature. There is good reason to believe that the 
true sentiment in Maine is against the proposition, and that 
when the time comes the sentiment will make itself felt in 
a prevailing opposition. Meanwhile, it appears to be “ap 
to” Commissioner Carleton to prove his $15,000,000 esti- 


62 


Che Sportsman Courist. 


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The Old Logging Camp. 


Ir was my first day in the woods; that is to say, the real 
forest, with its miles upon miles of towering pines and 
waving hemlocks, where one might easily lose his way 
and wander for days before coming upon a human habita- 
tion. Previous to then my excursions into the wilds 
of nature had been limited to a day’s tramp through a 
groye of hard-wood timber adjacent to my native village. 

It was not much of a grove from a grown-up’s point 
of view, but to the imagination of a child it was vast 
and immeasurable, and peopled with many terrible 
monsters and beasts of prey, a veritable ‘forest 
primeval.” Somewhere within the depths of this great 
forest there dwelt a frightful ogre, a second Polyphemus, 
with one eye in the middle of his forehead. We never 
spoke his name aloud, nor confessed our fear of his 
lurking presence to one another, but he was always 
there—somewhere in the bushes just beyond—waiting 
to seize upon and devour us in one big mouthiul. I 
discovered his lair, on a certain memorable day, at the 
end of the deep cafion—or was it only a small, narrow 
ravine, after all—between the two big boulders whose 
tops came together, thus forming a dark cave, a fearsome 
place when you came to think of it; but I imparted my 
discovery to no one, save to whisper the harrowing, tale 
in the ear of my young and confiding sister. 

We made many pilgrimages to this wilderness of u_ts, 
armed with the deadly sling-shot, or a primitive ‘“bow- 
an’-arrer’” that would hit everything except the object 
at which it was aimed, in Search of the ever invisible 
game, or in lighter mood, playing at Indian and many 
other soul-stirring sports; and then came the inevitable 
day of awakening, when all my fond illusions vanished, 
and our “forest primeval’ dwindled down into a few 
acres of oak and maple trees, surrounded by a split-rail 
fence, atid Polyphemus, on closer inspection, had trans- 
formed himself into an one-eyed woodchuck. The dis- 
covery caused a shock to my youthful sensibilities and 
also destroyed my faith in things material for the time 
being; so much so, indeed, that—terribile dictu!—for the 
first time in my life | went to bed without saying my 
prayers, and felt very wicked in consequence. 

I had come to the awkward age of fourteen when my 
eyes were opened to the true state of affairs as they ex- 
isted in our child world. The “Olympians,” those of the 
masculine persuasion, had thrilled my ears many a time 
and oft with tales of their exploits and deeds of adventure 
with beatsts of the forest. I had always imagined that 
their forest resembled ours in all the most important fea- 
tures, but after my disillusionment regarding the latter 
I was forced to conclude that theirs must be something 
greatly different and truly wonderful, the real forest of 
my dreams; wherefore my curiosity became aroused to 
an uncomfortable degree, and I was consumed with the 
desire to yisit that maryelous land of which my elders 
prated. 

My father was a great lover of the woods and 4 most 
enthusiastic sportsman. He spent a certain portion of 
each year among the northern pines, and in my estima- 
tion he represented the wisdom of the Creator in all 
things pertaining to ihe hidden realms of nature, He was 
a silent, reserved man, traits that grow on one, as I have 
since observed, who had passed many days in the still- 
ness of a pine forest, and we children stood not a little 
in awe of him at times. One day—it was on a Saturday, 
J remember, and there were no hated school duties to 
perform—my iather came upon me swinging disconso- 
lately on the front gate, and gazing with gloomy brow 
at nothing in particular, though my thoughts were busy 
with a multitude of vexing problems, and the world 
looked very dark to me. I was in a most cynical mood. 

“Where are the children?” he inquired. 

“Gone to the woods, I guess,’ I replied, with more 
indifference than I had ever before dared assume. He 
looked at me in some surprise, 

“Why didn’t you go with them?” helasked. “Have you 
been quarreling?” 

“No, sir. But I didn’t want to,” I made answer, still 
oppressed with the futility of existence. 

“Why, I thought you liked the woods,” said he. 

“T do,” I assured him, “but I don’t like those woods.” 

“What is the matter with them?” he questioned. “You 
have always told wonderful tales of your doings there.” 

“They are too small,” I scornfully declared. “They 
ain't really woods at all.” And then [I added in my des- 
peration, “there’s a fence all ’round ’*em.” 

My father gazed at me quizzically for a moment, and 
the corners of his mouth twitched suspiciously. 

“Oh, I see,” said he. “Let me see: you are now 
thirteen,” 

“Fourteen,” I corrected. “Fourteen last October.” 

“Well, I guess you are getting big enough to learn how 
_ to handle a gun,” he continued. “I think I'll take you out 
with me the next time I go after duck.” — 

T nearly fell off the gate in the sudden shock of joy 
that swept over me, and I could only gasp out an enrap- 

tured “O!” as he turned away and left me. 

' From that time on my initiation into the mysteries of 
woodcraft had its beginning. All that year I hunted and 
fished with my father, eschewing the society of my 
former playmates, and scorning the terrors of the grove 
with the fence around it; and I fear that I put on airs, 
and essayed the manners of my elders, and spoke boast- 
ingly of the “fine mallards we shot the other day,’ or 
“the big catch of fish we brought home yesterday,” But 
the glory of these past performances faded into insig- 
nificance when my father announced the joyiul news that 
I was to accompany him on his next trip to the woods— 
the real woods. O, the delicious hours I spent in antici- 
pation of my coming happiness! How I polished up my 
biggest jack-knife, and with what diligence did I consult 
the story books dealing with the life of a hunter! IT 
acquired mtich useless knowledge, and whetted my appe- 
tite with tales of adventure until I longed for an oppor- 
tunity to outrival “Hawkeye” himself in deeds of might 
The intervening weeks dragged slowly by and were 
cotinted as years, until, at last, the longed-for day was 
there, and the world had not .come to an end in the 
meanwhile, as I had greatly feared it might. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


How can I describe my feelings as we left the station 
at the end of the railway line and began the long drive 
through the forest to our camping ground? We spent 
that night with Hogarth, a settler who lived on the 
shores of a beautiful lake, and who had seven tall sons, 
like Ishmael of olden time. Early the next morning, 
with the aid of a clumsy, unwieldy batteau belonging to 
Hogarth, we transferred our outfit across the lake, and 
before noon the tents were erected; the camp-fire, with 
its huge backlog, was already- blazing merrily, and we 
Were unpacking our kits and getting or guns ready, and 
trying to do a dozen things at once—at least | was— 
and that was the beginning of my first day in the woods. 

And then came the dinner, My one idea of a meal 
cooked over a caimp-fire had been formed from my 
own youthful experiences in the culinary art, namely, 
a smoky, smudgy fire, a few charred ears of corn and a 
collection of small lumps of red-hot charcoal that at one 
time had borne the form and likeness of potatoes. 
(Sometimes we attempted to iry the potatoes, and the 
result—well, a few of us still survive.) But that dinner 
which Jim, the cook, set before us on an improvised table, 
with the command to “Git busy on the grub afore she 
gits cold,” that dinner, I say, was a revelation, a marvel- 
ous revelation. What the menu consisted of matters 
not, There was an indescribable Havor of the pines and 
hemlocks, the spruce and cedar to the food, mingled with 
a faint aroma from the blazing pine knots of the camp- 
fire. It is an old story now. It is one of the siren voices 


calling to me at times far from the haunts of civilized 


man with his cooking stoves and gas ranges and other 
“modern conveniences.” Yes, it is an old story now, 
but that first meal beneath the far away northern pines 
which Jim the cook served to us at midday, what a 
revelation it was. 

After dinner my father turned to me and said: 

“T think I'll walk over to the old logging camp, if it 
is still there. Get your gun, we might run across a 
partridge,” 

Now, this was the first intimation I had received that 
such a thing as a logging camp existed in that part of 
the woods, and the haste with which I complied with his 
request must have amused my father greatly. It was a 
perfect Indian summer day. The air was soft and hazy, 
and a deep stillness brooded over the forest. I longed to 
run ahead, and leap and shout aloud with the joy of being 
permitted to participate in the delights of this hunter’s 
paradise, but the fear of my father’s disapproval, ot pos- 
sibly ridicule, constrained me. I strove to emulate his 
calm demeanor, while I could not but wonder at his ap- 
parent indifference to the marvelous beauty of the evet- 
varying picture that met our gaze at each step as we 
started on our way. 
of appreciation and calm enjoyment which defies human 
language for expression, 

We ascended the tidge that sloped gently back from 
our camp, my father leading the way and I following 
close on his heels until one or two-stinging blows across 
the face from the low hanging branches of a spruce or 
stunted jack-pine taught me to place a safer distance 
between my guide and myself. As we gained the top of 
the ridge. my father paused, and pointing to a faintly 
traced pathway, scarcely discernible to my inexperienced 
eye, said: 

“Here is the old Indian trail that was made ever so 
many years ago; in fact, years before a white man evet 
set foot in this forest. Be careful that you don’t stub 
your toe on the root of some tree.” 

The announcement. sent a thrill through every terve 
in my body. Here, then, was a real Indian trail such 
as I had read and dreamt about. Of course it was not as 
I had pictured it in my imagination, and I wondered it I 
should ever acquire sufficient knowledge of the woods to 
enable me to follow its obscure windings with any cer- 
tainty of success. Obviously the trail presented no such 
difficulties to my father, for he immediately went forward 
with the assured air of one who was familiar with much 
more vexing problems than that which now confronted 
us. And then my eyer active imagination came to the 
fore, and transported me back to other days and other 
scenes of which I had read. 

. My father became Pathfinder—no, Hawkeye was the 
better name; Hawkeye, that boy's ideal of what a man 
of the woods should be, and I—I was his chasen friend 
and companion, Chingachgook, the wily “Sarpent,”’ one 
of my best loved heroes of all romance. Down among 
the red sumach bushes and the yellowing birches that 
lined the shores of the lake lurked the dreaded Mingo. 
Through the tops of the trees gleamed the waters of the 
lake, and somewhere there, in his rough block house, 
was “Floating Tom’ Hutter with his daughters two, and 
mighty “Hurry Harry” was there, too, to protect them, 
So perfect was the illusion painted by my fancy, that 
when my father stubbed his toe and plunged forward 
with a greatly accelerated gait—a performance that would 
have stirred my risibilities to their foundation under 
ordinary circumstances—I merely paused and glanced 
about for the hidden enemy who had fired the fatal shot 
that had wounded my erstwhile invulnerable companion. 
My father recovered his equilibrium with some difficulty, 
and continued on his way as though nothing had hap- 
pened. After a bit he glanced back over his shoulder, 
and observing my unruffled countenance was evidently 
suspicious of guile on the part of his son and heir. 

“Why don’t you laugh?” he demanded. “You know 
you want tor’ 

T was wholly unprepared for this acctisation, and fear- 
ing to offend him by some unfortunate explanation which 
he would misconstrue into deeper guile, I said nothing, 

“Tt 1s no laughing matter, however,” he went on in 
grieved tones. “I might have injured myself very 
seriously if I hadn’t recovered so quickly.” ' 

O, the subtlety and deceit that is practiced on inex- 
perienced, unsophisticated, giddy youth! 

Presently the trail crossed an old roadway, and we 
turned off to the left and followed where it led, and it led 
us to our destination. We emerged from the forest 
growth that lined the road on either side. and the next 
moment found ourselves standing in a small clearing— 
or what had once been a clearing, for a heavy tnder- 
erowth of bushes and weeds now choked the place. In 
the center of this clearing stood the ruins of an old log 
cabin. Time with his many varying seasons af heat and 
cold, of rain and snow had set his mark upon this isolated 


I have since learned that feeling 


* fool of myself. 


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dwelling. The huge logs of which it had been constructed 


| PJAN. 25, 1002. 


“seemed to hold their own bravely, but on closer inspec- 


tion the finger of decay was plainly visible upon them, 
In places the rotting timbers or rafters of the roof had 


fallen from their supports, leaving a yawning hole in 
their stead. The walls, howeyer, still stood firm, although 


the seams and interstices had spread apart in wide, open. 


cracks, through which the desolate interior could be: 
clearly seen. A chipmunk or two went scampering away 
before us, and a lazy porcupine waddled off reluctantly 
into the underbrush with manifset signs of disapproval: 
at our intrusion, The afternoon sun shone down upon. 
this peaceful scene with genial warmth, and the tall, 
encircling pines, stirred by the faint breezes from the: 
south, waved their graceful plumes in solemn salutation, 

It seemed a sacrilege to break this fitting silence with 
idle questioning, therefore I curbed my desire for infor— 
mation and slowly followed in my father’s footsteps as) 
he walked around the building, surveying it with critical 
eye. At the rear another smaller cabin, in a more ad— 
vanced state of ruin, met our gaze. | 

“That was the cook’s cabin,’ my father explained, 
"The other is where the lumbermen lived.” ‘ 

His yoice aroused me from my cogitations, and I 
ventured to ask a few questions: Who had lived there? 
How long ago was it? Why had they left the cabin to’ 
its fate to fall to ruin? and so forth, and so on. | 

My father answered me patiently. The cabin had been 
there twelve years to his knowledge, how much longer 
he could not say. Et was there when he first hunted in’ 
that part of the wilderness. Ltmbermen had built it and 
none but lumbermen had eyer dwelt there; in other 
words, it was a lumber camp, and the men that had built 
it had leit it to its fate after it had served its purpose 
as a home for them while they were cutting the timber 
in the surrounding forest. Probably Jim’ the cook could 
give me more definite information. So much did he tell, 
me, and | was impatient to hear more about’ this deserted. 
cabin from Jim the cook, { 

We returned to camp by the old logging road, a road’ 
in name only, for the forest had encroached all along its: 
méandeting cotirse on both sides, and the way was en- 
cumbered with many a fallen tree or moss-covered log, 
I killed my first partridge on this road that day. I was 
walking ahead on the lookout for sometiting to shoot at, 
and when the bird scurried across the pathway a short 
distance betore me I raised my etn and fired both bar- 
rels. Immediately there was a great fluttering and flop- 
ping where the partridge had been, I dashed forward, 
and, dropping my gtin, fell bodily upon the expiring bird, 
and clutched at it desperately for fear it might escape me. 
My iather watched my wild antics without comment 
When the bird finally yielded up its life to my frantic 
embrace, [ gradually came back to earth again, and rose 
to my feet sotiewhat shamefaced becatise of my display 
of “buck fever,” if it could be so called. I held the 
partridge aloft in justification of my ‘ansportsmanlike 
behavior, and regretted the act the mext moment. In 
my struggles with the bird I had plucked out whole 
handiuls of feathers, and the effect was quite Surprising, 
te say the least. I never before realized how indis- 
pensable a tail is to a bird’s beauty. 

“What sort of a thing do you call that?’ my father in- 
quired, with a grim smile. 

“T thought it was a partridge,” I weakly made answer, 

“Humph! A partridge, eh?” said he. “A queer looking 
partridge I call it, It hasn’t any tail, and it looks as if 
it Wete moulting, Why did you drop your gun?” 

“T didn’t know that I had dropped it,” I replied. 
“Guess I must haye been pretty excited.” 

“No one would have stispected it,” he ‘assured me, 
“though one barrel is generally sufficient to kill most 
birds. I thought you had shot nothing less than a deer, 
at least.” 

I retired discomfited, picked up my gun and took an 
humble position in the rear. But, in spite of my chagrin, 
T was still highly elated over the success of my first shot 
in the ‘real woods,”’ even though I had made a sort of 
I had long since discovered that a boy 
never does anything tight of his own accord, in the 
judgment of the wiseacres, and also that my male. 
acquaintances olriper years seemed blissfully unconscious 
of the fact that they had ever been boys themselves. 

Jim, the cook, smiled when he beheld my trophy of the 
hunt, but refrained from remarks, for which I blessed him 
in my inmost soul; and he broiled the partridge over the 
coals for supper that night, and the ambrosia of the gods 
was not ta be compared with that delicious morsel of 
flesh. 

After supper I got Jim to tell me all about the old 
lumber camp and the men that built it, and he talked on 
and on in his slow, easy drawl until the shadows had 
deepened into darkness in the forest, and my sleepy eyes 
would no longer stay open, and my tired head began to 
nod on my breast. But when we had turned in for the 
night, and I found myseli reclining for the first time 
on a sweet smelling couch of hemlock boughs, with the 
strange noises of the night sounding outside through the 
thin canvas walls of our tent, sleep forsook me alto- 
wether and left me lying there, listening with beating 
heart to each new sound, and wondering if it could be 
some fierce beast of prey about to attack us in our weak 
shelter. The deep, regular breathing of my two com- 
panions indicated that thy fears were groundless, and I 
was just dropping off to sleep when suddenly:a loud, and 
ta my imagination, piercing cry broke the stillness of the 
night, JI sat up with a start, straining my ears for a 
repetition of the dread sound, and when it came I re- 
tired beneath the protecting folds of my blankets. TI 
fully expected my father to spring out of bed, rifle in 
hand, to meet this new foe—panther or wolf, or whatever 
it might be—but as no such a demonstration took place, 
I feared to rouse the camp, and lay shivering with terror 
in my bunk, until, through sheer weariness, I at last fell 
asleep. For the next two nights my slumbeérs were dis- 
turbed by the same feariul cry, and I wondered how my 
father and Jim could sleep'on unmoved at the threaten- 
ing sound—so deeply obliyious of the lurking danger; 
and it cost me a mighty effort to dissemble. my feelings 
and imitate their calm stoicism. oe t 

Qn the morning of the fourth day, as we were sitting 
at the “breakfast table, my father broke, the spell by 
inquiring: 

“Did. you 


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hear that big owl hooting, last night?” 


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jan. 28, 1902.) 


“An owl?” I questioned, half doubting that I had heard 
aright. : 

"Yes. A great horned owl, most likely,” he responded, 
“He woke me up from a sound sleep with his hooting.” 

“T heard him night before last.” said I, and hastened 
to change the subject. I was beginning to have a very 
poor opinion of mysell. i 


On that same day a friend of my father’s arrived in 
camp, a Mr. Drake by name. They had hunted and fished . 


together for years, and next to my father, Mr. Drake 
occupied the most exalted position in my estimation of 
mankind in general. He was a short, fat, jolly looking 
man, who, to my way of thinking, had given evidence 
of an understanding far superior to that of most of our 
elders. There was so much of the boy about him that he 
could not fail to enter into the mysteries of a boys 
world with due appreciation. He and my father greeted 
each other Indian fashion; that is, without effusion— 
merely a hand-shake and a short, “How!” » His manner 
toward myself was tempered with a dignity that was en- 
tirely new to me, and I withdrew asbashed. Obviously 
these two were playing at some game to which I was a 
total stranger. It resembled, a little, what we children 
called “Indian,” but if such were its true nature, Mr. 
Drake should have advanced on the camp with a war- 
whoop and scalped everybody, and then allowed himself 
to be scalped in turn. Either they did not understand 
the game, or else they had invented a new one of their 
own. Such were my conclusions at the time, and as I 


was evidently not to be a party to their sport I took my. 


gun and announced that I was going after a partridge or 
two for supper. 

I followed the old logging road, and in due time arrived 
at the deserted cabin. How lonely and yet how restful 
and full of peace it seemed. I seated myself on a log, 
so old that it yielded slightly beneath my weight, and 
the stories that Jim, the cook, had told me about the 
place recurred to me. Immediately the camp became 
peopled with those sturdy men of long ago, tall. bearded 
giants nearly every one of them, with an oath ever ready 
on their lips, but with hearts as big as their bodies; 
Long Tom and Peshtigo Sam, and Squatty Jim, and all 
the rest of them; there they were before me, I could 
see the men coming home at night, tired after their long 
day’s work. They stamped the snow from their boots 
in the doorway and entered the cabin where supper 
awaited their whetted appetiles. Behind them caine the 
teamsters, cracking their long whips and urging on the 
slow moving oxen, for they, too, were hungry and 
anxious to join the rest of the crew about the supper 
table. And after supper someone—Long Tom, most 
probably, for Jim had said that he was a great singer— 
Leng Tom, then, started tip a song, and all the men 
joined in the chorus, making the rafters ring, and the 
rude melody floated out in muffled strains upon the cold 
night air and was lost in the moaning of the winter winds 
wailing dismally through the tall pine trees. My fancy 
painted the picture very faithfully, and my imagination 
supplied the actors for the scene. What a fine lot of men 
they were, to be sure! And what had become of them all? 

T sat there dreaming about the life that once enlivened 
this spot, this old cabin now so lonely and deserted. 
Why had it been left to fall to decay, and rot like the 
log upon which I was resting? Why had not someone 
reclaimed it for a home? These were puzzling questions, 
and I registered a solemn vow that when I grew to man’s 
estate I would return and make this place my home. and 
if the girl with the golden hair, that hung adown her back 
in two long braids, refused to come with me, I would 
choose another partner, perchance another dark-haired 
Pocahontas, if I could but find her, and here would we 
live out our lives together. 

And as I sat there, a boy of filteen, I unconsciously be- 
came impressed with the mutability of all things human. 
The same trees that now looked down upon this dwelling 
jashioned by the hand of man, these towering hemlocks, 
and here and there a still loftier pine, they had stood at 
their posts like faithful sentinels during all the interven- 
ing years, aye, and had stood there many decades before 
the ax was laid to the root of a single tree in all that 
vast wilderness; and men had come and gone, and men 
would come and go, and still would they stand there, 
grim old warriors, for Time passed lightly over their 
plumed heads. Some such thoughts as these—though 
vague and inexpressible at the time—filled my mind as I 
contemplated the quiet scene before me. 

1 was aroused from my reverie by the sound of a voice 
—y father’s yoice—calling me by name. In some alarm 
I responded, and started back in the direction of the 
sound, Soon I met him hurrying along the road and 
gazing anxiously about him. 

“©, there you are!” he exclaimed. in tones of relief, 
as I appeared in sight. “I was afraid you were lost, 
Where have you been all this time?” 

“Down at the old logging camp,” I made answer. 

“What were you doing there?” he asked. 

“©, nothing,’ I replied, rather vaguely, 
thinking.” : 

He did not question me further, but from that time on 
he seemed to take more of an interest in my exploits as 
a hunter. 

That was an ever memorable outing. Mr. Drake and 
my father never seemed to weary of playing at the:r game 
of “Indian.” They would address each other in strange. 
unintelligible Indian words. I remember a few of them— 
“kaget,” “cowin-nischin,” “kenebuch;” so they sounded 
to my uneducated ears; or if a wolf howled when we were 
seated about the camp-fire of an evening, one of them 
would be sure to grunt out something that sounded 
like, “Ingen nepo kenebuch.” These words signified 
nothing to my understanding, but all things to my im- 
agination, and impressed me deeply. I have since won- 
dered if there was really any actual meaning attached to 
them, of if these two men were only ‘just pretending.” 

T fancy that most men play at “Indian” or some such 
thing, when they shake off the shackles of civilization for a 
brief period and dwell in close communion with nature, Lt 
is a part of their boyhood which they neyer can outgrow. 
The thing that impressed me the most, and showed me 
that in spite of the discrepancy in our ages we three were 
after all closely akin to one another, was the unmis- 
takable fondness for mother earth, commonly called dirt, 
as displayed by my two companions. Mr. Drake, in par- 


“Just 


ticular, seemed unhappy until he had besmeared and be- - 


smudged a brand new pair of yellow buckskin breeches 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


past all semblance of their original color; and I called 
to mind the many painful times that I, and every boy of 
my acquaintance, had been unrighteously chastised for 
accidentally comumiutting a similar offense against some 
new article of apparel, 

Willy nilly. man of mature years. your daily acts are 
closely noted by some youthful observer who is constantly 
passing judgment upon you, therefore are your responsi- 
bilities great, for your judges are merciless beings, and 
“out of thine own mouth shall they condemn thee.” 


Children are natural hero worshippers, and every man is - 


a hero to some child. There generally—invariably, | 
inight say—comes a sad day of awakening for the child, 
and it is a pity, a great pity, that that day should ever 
dawn. Mr. Drake and his yellow buckskin breeches 
lingered long in my memory, and impressed me as an- 
other evidence of the inconsistency of my elders and 
betters. : 

Althcugh slightly disillusioned with respect to Mr. 
Drake’s and my father’s infall bility on all matters per- 
taining to the woods—owing to their blunders—the forest 
itself, with all its wondrous charms, but more than any- 
thing else, the old logging camp, fulfilled my fondest ex- 
pectations and desires, and created a love for the real 
ou-of-door life that the passing years only serve to 
strengthen. Many moons have waned since I vis ted that 
lar away spot on the shores of the dreaming lake, and 
T often wonder if there if anything left of that lonely 
lumber camp among the pines, any thing save, mayhap, 
a few moss-covered logs lying prone upon the ground 
like graye-stones in an old churchyard; and I never fee 
from “the busy marts of men” to some quiet retreat in 
the wilderness without calling to mind the day when my 
eyes were first opened to the true joy of living, the joy 
that all lovers of the woods may so easily partake of in 
all its fullness: and somehow that old logging camp is 
closely associated with this awakening of mine. 

As I sit here in my den writing down these briei 
memoirs of some happy days J have known, I cannot but 
think of “the many thousands of care-encumbered men” 
who toil from early morn till gloomy night, thankful to 
earn their meagre hire—a mere pittance, barely sufficient 
to keep body and soul together—and living out their 
barren, uneventful lives without the faintest conception of 
the real world in which they live—that “world beautiful” 
which the Maker of all things created and said in His 
wisdom, “Behold, it is very good.” And then my 
thouglis carry me back to that lonely cabin beneath the 
pres, standing there deserted and fast falling to decay 
for lack of human occupant, and IT say to myself: 

“Here is a strange paradox. The world is wide, and 
there is room for all, where with honest toil and not too 
ereat diligence men could build their homes and taste 
of happiness; and yet. not many miles away, like rats in 
a cage, they die for want of bread. and know naught but 
misery. wretchedness and misery from the cradle to the 
graye.” 

Verily. this cabin. of mine stands as a monument 
whereon one may read a message of wisdom, and learn 
many things; and for him “who hath ears to hear” there 
is a wondrous sermon in the low voiced murmurings of 
the tall pines as they chant their never-ending funeral 
hymn over the cabin’s crumbling walls. 

FAYETTE DURLIN. 


The Charming Man of the Maine 
Woods. 


ONLy those sportsmen who have visited m the “far- 
back” Maine lumber camps and have talked with the old- 
timers among the choppers have heard the “charming 
man’ discussed in all his picturesqueness. He is the 
mysterious “great medicine man” of the Maine woods. 
There is much of the occult about this individual, or 
rather individuals. There have been numerous incarna- 
tions of this spirit of healing and divination. Probably 
many of these charming men who have royed on their 
strange mission from Megantic to Molunkus, and from 
Connor Plantation to Greenville have been veriest charla- 
tans. Nevertheless. they form one of the most interest- 
ing phases of character in the deep Maine woods. 

Perhaps, too, many of the stories told about the charm- 
ing man and his exploits are apocryphal, but, on the other 
hand, many are vouched for, and afford a strange chapter 
in woods lore. It is my iriend, The Doctor. who gives 
me a late instance of the work of the charming man. 
As The Doctor was directly concerned in the affair, his 
story is worth while. 

“T was hunting last month in the region above Upper 
Lobster Lake east of the Churchill,” says he. “Now. 
you know I have been in the woods cyery season fcr 
ten years, and I never was lost up to that time. I did 
get lost, though, that day. I don't have the least idea 
how it happened, but all at once | found myself wan- 
dering through the woods with no very clear idea where 
I was going nor why, for I had told the guide that I 
would meet him at the head of the lake for snack. 

“Well, I traveled around quite a while. Tll tell you 
just how I felt—it was as though something all at once 
had set me into a brown study and then when FE came out 
of it. 1 looked around to find that some sprite had moved 
the sun and had skeow-wowed the scenery around in 
some way that I failed to understand, Neyer had tha 
happen to me in the woods before! In what I am going 
to relate 1 do not want to be considered too credu ous. 
but that mystification of the mornimmg made he later 
events of that day more impressive. 

“After a time I climbed the side of 4 hill and took a 
look around to see 1f 1 could locate any landmark. Off 
to the east of south by my compass I spicd a column of 
smoke wavering up over the trees. J was so turned 
around that I couldn't tell whether the lake lay in that 
direction or not, but I scrambled down the hill and 
plowed away in that hope. 

“The smoke must have been fiye miles away, and it 
took me more than an hour to cover the distance. But 
I finally came into a clearing. There was a lumber camp 
there. No one was in sight outside, but in the free and 
easy way that prevails in the woods, I walked across the 
clearing, stamped off the snow in the dingle and walked 
into the camp. I neyer got such a surprise in all my lite. 
Half a dozen ef the crew were in the camp, They all 


_ jumped up and rushed toward me, One of them yelled: 


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‘Be you the doctor?” ‘Well, I’m a doctor,’ I said. 
‘Don't that beat all tophet, fellows?) cried the man; ‘he's 
the doctor. And he’s right here on the dot, too. We've 
been tookin’ for ye” he sttuttered, turning to me and 
jairly trembling in excitement, I commenced to get 
some interested myself. 

“-You folks appear to have been looking for me,’ I 
suggested. : 

“"You bet we have,’ 
bare arms in his apron. 

“*He said you'd get here at four o’clock,’ he added, 
pointing to a little nickel alarm clock that hung beside 
a bunk. It was then a few minutes past the hour. 

“*No one has sent for me,’ said I, ‘and I didn't know 
where I was coming. What do you people mean by 
saying that I was expected? I'ye been lost in the woods.’ 

“*That’s jest what he said, shouted several men in 
chorus, jostling together in their excitement. 

“*Who said so?’ I demanded, with a bit of temper, for 
it suddenly occurred to me that the men were ‘joshing’ 
me for their amusement. 

“‘The charming man, they answered. They were se 
earnest that I realized they were not jesting, though for 
the life of me I couldn't understand what it all meant. 

“He's right there in the bunk,’ explained the cook. 

**This charming man you were speaking of?’ I asked. 
T had never heard of a charming man before and J wanted 
to see the curiosity- 

““No, the man that got hurt,’ said one of the crew, 
‘The charming man went away.’ 

“Tt was dusky in the camp and one of the men carried 
a lantern to a bunk in the corner. There lay a man 
with his foot swathed in a torn blanket and an old coat. 
‘He chopped himself on the ankle,’ one of the men ex- 
plained. While they held the lantern I unwrapped the 
bandages, my professional instincts suppressing, for a 
time, the questions I wanted to pump at the men. It was 
a bad case. The ax had partly severed the ankle at the 
joint, and the wound, treated by such rude methods as 
were at hand in the camp, was past the point where it 
could be healed. ‘He hurt it three or four days ago,’ 
said one of the crew. ‘We done what we could for him, 
but I guess it wasn’t very much.’ 

“That foot must come off, I told them. 

“<That’s jest what he said.’ was the immediate chorus. 
‘Vhe charming man said so,’ added the cook, noticing 
my astonishment at their excitement over my simple 
statenient. 

“T assure you I was getting mighty interested and 
curious by this tune, but the doctor in me was on top. 
I started one of the men off to the sporting camp for my 
case of instruments that I always take into the woods 
with me. Then I sat down to wait and to. listen to the 
story the men had to tell me. 

“The camp was on Matthews’ operation, near the 
Upper Lobster. The injured man was one of the 
swampers, and when he had hacked his ankle the men 
had put on a tourniquet in the best style they could and 
lugged him to the camp, Word was sent by tote-team 
for a doctor. but the nearest one was an hundred miles 
away. On the morning of that day when I arrived at the 
camp a stranger had appeared. The men told me that 
he was about sixty-five years®of age. wore a tight-fitting 
su't of ribbed wool like a union undergarment, and over 
that a huge blanket coat. On his head was a knitted cap 
with the peak hanging down his back. The garb was 
suited well enough to woods’ life, but it was all a dead. 
deep black, and indicated that our mysterious friend was 
a bit ‘siagy.. The men went on to tell me that the 
stranger walked into the camp and up to the bunk where 
the injured man lay. and announced in deep tones that 
he had came to heal. But alter he had looked the v c- 
tim over he said that he could only charm away the in- 
flammation. “The foot must be cut off, he declared, 
‘and | do not stain my hands in human blood. My mis- 
sion. on earth is to alleviate suffering. I can summon 
here the man who will do the work, and T will remove 
all pain.’ 

“The man then drew some unknown substance from 
his pocket and threw it upon the coals that he raked for- 
ward on the camp hearth. A dense. black smoke went 
rolling up the short chimney. The men in the camp 
described this operation as ‘burning medic‘ne,’ a resource 
that is occasionally adopted hy the Penobscot Indians 
in the woods when they seek for good fortune in hunt- 
ing or in recovering lost articles. While the stuff smoul- 
dered and smoked the man jabbered in low tones. Then 
he suddenly broke out, “He is coming this way—he is 
crossing a brook, he is climbing a hill-—now he sees the 
smoke—he will come to this place—he is the surgeon 
who will do this work!’ 

“The crew then explained that at this point one of 
them had the assurance to brace up to the stranger and 
ask him what he was trying to do. The charming man 
explaimed with great dignity tha. through his spell he 
had caused a hunter—a city doctor—who was then five 
miles from that place, to lose his way first and then espy 
the smoke rolling up from the camp hearth. ‘He will be 
here in just one hour by that clock,’ he sta ed. ‘He 
will send for his tools and will cut off that man's ‘cg. 
Tell him for me that there will be no pain from the 
operation and no blood to speak of, neither will there be 
inflammation following. I have attended to all that. I will 
return in two weeks for my pay. If it all doesn’t come 
about as [ have said. you need give me nothing. Re- 
member, the doctor will come in an hour.’ 

“And sure enough IJ did, and under those cireum- 
stances, you see, my lively reception was not astonishing. 

“While L was waiting for the instrumens I examined 
the patient with great interest. I determined that he 
was in a hypnotic trance. °I tested him with the ther- 
mometer, took his pulse and listened to his respiration. 
They were not far from normal, but the man was en- 
tirely insensible. 

“He remained in that condition through the operation 
which L performed without anzsthetics after I had made 
tests and had found that he was apparently insensible +o 
pain. But little blood followed the knife, The manner 
in which the limb had been bound by the rude tourniquet 
was partly responsible for the slight bleeding, but I am 
ready to testify as a surgeon that the bleeding was ap- 
parently somewhat controlled by the patient’s condition 
pyschically as well as physically. But what was more in- 
teresting still was the fact that when the man came ou: 
irom his stupor the next day he felt no pain in the leg, 


the cook replied, twisting his 


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Jaw. 28, 1902, 


and when I visited him and dressed his stamp during the 
next weel: he said that he hadn't suffered even a twinge. 

“Vhe case interested me. mightily, and if it had not 
been for professional engagements that took me back . 
to the city, 1 would have waited to see and talk with that 
mysterious man of the woods.”’ 


Since [ have talked with The Doctor, I have made 
some inquiries among men who own choppings in 
northern Maine, and especially in the Chesuncook region, 
and they say that their crews report the appearance of a 
stranger on several occasions during the last two years— 
a man answering the description of the charming man 
who visited Matthews’ camp.. In most lumber camps are 
men suffering from minor ailments such as felons, rheum- 
atism and small cuts. The charming man, apparently 
by hypnotic stiggestion, removes the pain and even 
soothes a Jumping tooth. 

Forty years ago, according to Penobscot lumbermen 
of the old days, a charming man made an immense repu- 
tation in the Maine Jumber camps. He was not the 
individual who is traveling through the woods of Maine 
al this time, He was broad and squat, and wore a suit 
of greasy leather. A close leather cap, which he never 
removed in the sight of man, covered his head, all but 
eyes, mouth and nose. 

Other charming men have appeared at camps and have 
agreed to cure any or all for the season. These con- 
tractors asserted that they could cure without being 
present in person. They would secure all the names of 
the crew, leave little sticks of some substance that they 
called “medicine wood,’ and direct that this was to be 
burned by the patient in case of illness or accident. 
The patient was to say some words privately communi- 
cated by the charming man and which he must not 
repeat to any one else on penalty of annulling the charm. 
When the medicine was burned and the charm muttered, 
the charming man was supposed to hear wherever he 
might be at the time, and the agreement was that he 
should at once commence to treat the patient in his 
mind. The reader may be inclined to construe that lat- 
-ter statement as double entendre. Perhaps! 

But there are hundreds of apparently well attested 
cases of healing—mental healing, if you will—that have 
been reported from the Maine woods in the wake of the 
charming men, In the old days of lumbering it was a 
charming man for a doctor or grunt and bear it. 

Some refused both methods. It is related of Col. 
John Goddard, Maine's most famous lumberman of the’ 
old days, that he was tremendously bothered by a corn 
on his little toe on one occasion when he was away up 
at his camps on the West Branch. It pained him o’ 
nights so that he couldn’t sleep. After he had tossed 
and cursed for two nights he arose in his wrath and his 
underclothes, and taking a chisel and hammer he chopped 
off the rantankerous toe: and cauterized the bleeding 
stump, ,with the poker. In this connection the heroic 
tooth-pulling exploits of: Uncle Silas Hawkes, of the 
Brassua region, occur to me—but that narration doesn’t 
belong in the present preachment. 

. Hoitman FP, Day. 


AupuRN,, Me, 


A’ Walk Down South.—XIL. 


Suprer at Mrs. Ryman’s was delicious; rib beef was 
served. It had been first boiled and then fried or 
“baked” in a spider till it was brown. A beef that had 
ranged on the hillsides eating ear corn and blue grass— 
to think-of it is to get up an appetite. Burrh loaf bread, 
warm ‘and delicious, apple butter, apple sauce, and berry 
preseryes. The coffee was home made, rye baked to 
a crisp; think, and there was a gallon pitcher full of 
sweet milk. "Moreover, a gray squirrel was served fried 
and brown. 

Aftet we had eaten a fire was stirred up in the sitting- 
room fireplace, and all sat in a semi-circle before the fly- 
ing blaze, with our feet resting on the edge of the stone 
hearth. .Some covert questions were asked of me—tin-' 
sinuations ‘that if I would just as soon they would like 
to know: something about me and my “country.” I told 
them about the Adirondacks, as much as°I could, dwell- 
ing of the rough side of its life lest I be suspected of 
aristocratic tendencies. It pleased us all to exchange 
general views. While we were talking, one of the two 
youths—r7' or 18 year old boys—began to whittle a bit 
of chip with his jack-knife. He made a paddle about 
three inches long and a quarter of an inch wide at the 
spoon’ end. Then, with a side glanee to see if I was 
looking, he elevated his eyebrows at a neighbor woman 
who had-dropped in and made a scooping motion with 
his paddle- The woman looked at my face and then 
handed:a small tin box, round and about the size’ and 
shape of an eighth-pound baking powder box would be to 
him, -While the boy scooped all eyes were turned on 
me, but I merely watched the fire flicker. Two scoops’ 
full were transferred from the box to the left side of the 
boy’s mouth, far back; then the scoop was thrown into 
the fire, and the box returned. ; 

“T don’t expect you alls use tobacco?” Mrs. Ryman 


said, 


if said I hadn’t used any since I started on the trip, — 


which !was: true, 
“Did, youever see snuff taken up in your country?” 
“Why. certainly,” I replied, as surprised as possible. 
Ti I had told the truth it would have been hard to become 
frietidly. with them. Soon after eight o’clock I was shown 


to my bed. The tick was full of sweet, dry corn leayes, _ 


which rustled every time one stirred. It was a clean,’ 
comfortable bed.. When I stirred out a little before eight 
o'clock in the morning, the effects of the long walk on 
Saturday were gone. Breakfast was similar to supper, 
sausage being served instead of beef. The bread was 
steamed and served blistering hot during the meal at 
intervals.  «. 2G. 
One youth went down the road, the other was qitiet 
with a bilious attack. About ten o'clock some neighbors 
came in—all women. One was blind. They sat around - 
the orgai in the sitting-room and while Mrs. Ryman’s 
daughter played all sang hymns. It was too far for them 
to walk to church, they said. In an hour of more the 
visitors departed and dinner was called, The molasses 
on the table they said was made from sugar cane raised 
on the place; the wheat and corn flour, the mashed pota- 


toes, the beef, and the rye in the coffee pot were hottie 
raised, When one lives fifty miles from the railroad, 
much must be supplied from the home ground. The mil- 
ler takes'a “toll” of one-fifth of all the wheat he grinds. 

In the field beyond the fenced-off yard were many 
turkeys—forty or fifty. Four or five of them had small 
“cow” bells on their necks, These tisually keep the 
hunters from killing tame birds when seeking wild ones, 
and also help when lost birds are being sought upon the 
mountains. ; j 

The South Branch Review, published at Franklin, Pen- 
dleton county, W. Va., contained an interesting hunting 
note to the effect that Dick Hussey and James Jarvin 
were hunting on the west side of the Shenandoah Moun- 
tains when they discovered a bear, The beast ran down 
the mountain side between the men, who both fired at it. 
A buckshot from Jarvin’s gun hit Hussey in the left 
thigh. The bear was killed, 

That night I went to church, nearly three miles away. 
The service consisted of readings, prayers and songs. 


_ Upward of eighty persons were present, many of whom 


came on horseback. The striking feature of the service 
was the manner of taking up the collection, The Rever- 
end Sharpe first told a funny story, and then sent two of 
the many pretty girls present around with the boxes, 
Two-thirds of the congrégation were yeung mén, and the 
way they went down into their pockets was an example. 

My companion, after we started for home, remarked 
that the service was very quiet. He said that sometimes 
there was trouble there. 
_ “Did you notice that man who sat just behind you?” 
he asked. “He’s been in jail lots of times—twenty-five 
or thirty, I expect—and paid lots of fines. He gets 
drunk and comes tearing ‘round and cussin’ during 
meetin’, and the pahson just has to throw him out doohs 
sometimes.” 

“Where do they get their stuff to drink?” I asked. 

“Why, some just gets pep’mint and cinnamon, or gin- 
geh, But many puts theh money in a stump down 


_ the/road and gets it theh, Theh’s six men ovyeh in Smoky 


Hole now what makes it. They make it out of mos’ 
anything down theh, out of wheat and rye and corn and 
apples, when they has it, but they use potatoes and cab- 
bages and tomatoes, too. But I don’t think cabbage 
whiskey could make a man drunk. It just makes him 
crazy. Two years ago they had a fight oveh theh and 
one man killed anothah with a rock; jist mashed his 
head right in with it. I heahd say as he was drinking 
they’re own whiskey thataway, and I s’pose he was jest 
erazy and not drunk.” : 

After breakfast Monday morning, I went out squirrel 
hunting with Bill Ryman, He carried a muzzleloading, 
bored out Springfield musket. He loaded it with a .38-40 
shell full of powder, rammed newspaper down on it, then 
poured in a shell full of shot. With the cap on and 
priming jarred in, he was ready. At the foot of the hill 
behind (west. of) the house was a patch of woods two 
hundred yards along the ridge and a hundred wide from 
the foot of the incline. In this strip we saw six squirrels 
in half an hour, and two more in the next hour and a half. 
One of the ‘squirrels jumped up on the side ofa tree 
twenty feet away. I missed it clean. Bill shot another 
that came to the same place a.second later. 

It was my first experience hunting gray squirrels where 
they were plenty. The way they disappeared in a tree top 
barren of leaves. and smooth bark was a marvel to me. 
I got a shot at only one after we treed it. This one was 
forty feet up and seventy-five or eighty from me. Bill 
walked around the tree and I sat still. J saw a curious 
little nub developing on the side of the tree, and after a 
bit saw that it was the squirrel keeping the tree trunk 
between it and the man. I fired, but missed, and the 
squirrel came out to the end of a hollow limb and crawled 
back into the hole. 

At 11 o'clock we heard the dinner bell—it was swung in 
a cupola, and rang with a rope, that took us to the house. 
After dinner I put my pack into the mail carrier's buck- 
board and started for Franklin, ten miles away. 

The road was a beautiful side hill and side stream one. 
The green river water, the white-capped mountains, with 
the snow line high up on the south side and low down on 
the north side, the gnarled trees and the scattered build- 
ings, still novel in design to me, rendered the walk a 
pleasing one. A mill with the cobblestone dam and race- 
way grown with thirty-inch willow trees showed that the 
mill had stood there a long while. A couple of miles 
from Franklin the road left the river, where it came out of 
a rock gorge of wild aspect, and climbed over the ridge. 
Near the top of the ridge the snow line was below the 
road, but that was soon crossed again, and, after seeing 
a rabbit scurry across a cornfield, I came down into 


“Franklin. 
Franklin is in a valley. It can grow two ways only—up 


and down stream. The valley sides are too steep for 
buildings; a long, narrow village, it does not suggest a 
county seat, save in the court house and the big, modern 
store. rr. 

After a bountiful supper I went to the cobbler’s and had 


‘a pair of soles put on my shoes. The ones I had put on at 


Troy, Pa., having worn so thin that I could feel the 
stones and riits at every step—and grew lame conse- 
quently. The shoemaker at Troy told me that brass tacks 
were the best to put in my shoes. They did not rot the 
leather so much, he said: The cobbler at Franklin agreed 
to this, but he said he had no brass ones; that it was 
not the aim of shoemakers to make their shoes and boots 
last a long while these days. He said my shoes were 
good ones. I remembered that I first thought of starting 
off with a thin pair of old shoes on. Had I done so it 
would have been the worst possible mistake to make. 

Somebody was in the street shooting a gun that night, 
but he was merely burning powder. 

In the morning I sent my pack on by a livery man who 
was going out ten or twelve miles. It would haye been 
better to send it by the regular mail carrier, however, but 
I expected to get an early start. Soon it began to rain, 
and until noon it poured a dense mist. Gathering cour- 
age from a slight hold up, I starter on after dinner, 

Five miles out of “town I was overtaken by a boy on 
horseback. While we were talking guns he suddenly ex- 
claimed: “There’s a flock of wild turkeys.” 

I gazed ahead to a corn patch about forty rods away, 
and there were eight turkeys scudding along close to the 
muddy ground, making fast time toward the river—the 
first live ones I ever saw. The boy took the rifle and ran 


down to the river, but could not see the birds. We could 


heat them calling one another for some time. 

He rode by after a while, and I plodded on, the rain 
coming down fast. Just at this time the mail carrier 
overtook me and I got in with him. A couple of miles 
further on we took on the pack and then I rode twelye 
miles further. He was going to Crab Bottom, two miles 
off my road, so I left him at the Forks of the Waters. 
We crossed the State line between West Virginia and 
Virginia in a rain squall. 

Just before we got into Virginia we overtook a man 
with a bag slung under his left arm. Jt was full and 
heavy, with wild turkey. feathers sticking out of the holes. 
The man could get only seven or eight cents per pound 
for wild turkeys in West Virginia, on account of the 
non-export law. At Monterey, over in Virginia, twelve 
cents per pound was the price, so he was going to Mon- 
terey in spite of the law, for the price. 

I was told that hunters in Pocahontas county, W. Va.,, 
carry their deer saddles over to Virginia to sell them. 
The meat is put into a wagon at night and started over 
the mountains in the dark. At daybreak the wagons are 
in Virginia, and there is no one to say ‘nay’ to the ex- 
porters. 

At the corner house where I left the mail carrier the 
wife was sick; at the next house, half a mile further on, 
they were “full wp with company,” but a mile further was 
A. Puffenbarger, who lived across Strait Creek, and would 
surely have room for me. I went down the side road in 
the gloom and found the plank foot bridge. 
pack on and the board springing, the crossing seemed, 
hard to make, but I went over. The welcome I received 
was worth going over several torrents to get. 

My host knew much about the region’s history. He 
had been to Sibert’s Hort, where the Indians, led by a 
white man, had massacred nineteen of thirty white prison- 
ers who had surrendered to them without a blow. 
the game he said it was growing rapidly scarce. Even 
squirrels were not so plenty as they were once. 

For breakfast we had buckwheat pancakes that made 
me think of home. 

During the night the weather changed. The_ rain 
froze and the road became as hard as pavement. Mon- 
terey was only seven miles away. I walked a couple of 
miles and in the fresh snow I saw a rabbit track across 
the road in a hillside patch of woods. While I was 
hunting for the rabbit a man drove up with a sledge 
loaded with turkeys and chickens. He put my pack in the 
front end of the box and we walked in to Monterey at 
noon, Monterey is on the dividing line between the 
Potomac and James Riyer systems. The water from one 
side of the main street seems to flow north, from the 
other south. I was told that it did. 

Tt was a bitter cold day. I went no further because my 
feet were in bad shape. Beside, I had some letters to 
write. On the following morning frost ferns decorated 
the windows. It was only 10 degrees aboye zero, but it 
was clear and bright, with but little wind. I would have 
started early if it had not been that they were killing 
hogs there that morning. I watched the scalding kettles 
come to'a boil, saw the scalding barrel set in place at a 
slant on a saw buck, saw the powder poured into the 
long-barreled Kentucky rifle, and the bullet rammed 
home, Then one of the stickers leveled the weapon at a 
black yearling pig’s head, while the animal pressed against 
the pen sides with its nose, grunting for something to eat. 
Three times the weapon missed fire, and then the pig 
was hit by a bullet in the center of the forehead, stuck 
and dragged from the presence of its cowering, squealing 
mate. 

T waited to see no more, but got into my harness and 
started down the road that leads to Jackson’s River. . 

Raymond 5, SPEARS. 


A Lodging for the Night. 


Mr. Spears’ admirable sketch of his varied experiences 
in securing a place to stay all night, brings to mind an 


experience a friend and myself had some twenty years 
ago, After driving some twelye miles over two ranges 


of hills, we had arrived at dusk of a June evening at our _ 


friend ‘Barnes’ place,’ where we were wont to be hos- 
pitably received and cared for by the owner. In response 
to our hearty call from the wagon, a closer interview. be- 
ing prevented by a big unfriendly dog, we learned that 
sickness was within, and it would be impossible to, put 
us up for the night. Mr. Barnes, although deeply de- 


With my — 


pressed by the sickness of his loved ones, ;was cordial and 


solicitous for our comfort, and 
house down the road. Drawing lots, the choice fell on 
me as the one to ask for lodging. Putting on as-good a 
front as old clothes and wading shoes would permit, I 
tackled the front door of a not-too neat farmhouse, full 


of confidence that my evident gentlemanly self would, 
shine through my dirty and old clothes, and secure the. 


coveted supper of saleratus biscuits, green, yellow and 
heayy, also the feather bed of the ‘‘spare bedroom.” 

In response to my knock the door was opened about 
eight inches and the crack filled by the face of a sharp- 


directed us to the next. 


voiced, sharp-eyed woman. I began, hatin hand, to relate. ~ 


who we were, that we wanted to stay all night, and that _ 


our business was to. fish, in the trout stream, near by; 
also to soften the growing harder lines of the face in the 
crack of the door, I told of our acquaintance with heigh- 


bor Barnes and his sending us here; but, alas! she saw . 


only my old clothes and holy shoes, or, perhaps, it was 
chum in the wagon, for she snapped out with a vicious- 
ness that told of many a hard word around the kitchen 
stove, “No, you can’t stay here,’ and slammed the door 


to like a steel trap and locked it in the bargain, which 


was the worst of-all. 


We felt depressed to say the least, “but “hunger will’ 


press a man to deeds of valor, and the next house was 


soon a target for my blandishments., Again I rapped on. 


the door. This time it was opened by a fresh, cheerful- 


looking woman in a neat, clean dress and blue apron, | 
Oh! visions of a good supper, with nice bread and milk, — 
with local gossip and crop talk thrown in, a clean bed in’ 

the “front room,” the patchwork quilt, with now and - 


then a hen’s feather in the pillow, the chromios of impos- 
sible waterfalls and landscapes, the ill-proportioned cows 
in the foreground. and the photos of dead and living 
members of the family on the wall, and as a great luxury, 
a case of wax flowers or fruit on the stand, All these 
and many more details passed through my mind in the 


Jaw. 28, 1902.4 


ustant of waiting to Pein my speech. Much the satie 
s at the other house. C 


“Well, you can stay if 
Hurrah! chum, bring the horse; we can 
All my visions were realized—nice supper, pleasant 
t, clean, fresh hed quilt, chromos and potos, all there as 
xpected. When we shook hands at parting and left two 
Tisp new one-dollar bills on the kitchen table, all were 
appy. I hope the PE peta one up ne road 
: ot the new calico dress. 

eard how the pleasant one g acre ee 


The Adirondack Forests. 


ditor Forest and Stream: : 

Tn that portion of Governor Odell’s recent message to 
ne Legislature relating to the Adirondack forest pre- 
srve, as published in last week's Forest AND STREAM, 
© expresses the belief that if all property now owned 
y individuals and corporations were purchased by the 
tate, “the result would be the destruction of the lumber 
a wood pulp industries.’ Now that is one way of 
Poking at the matter, of course, but there are many good 
tizens in this great commonwealth who are anxious to 
zve the northern woodlands kept in as nearly a natural 
pndition as possible, or, in other words, they are more 
terested in the preservation of the forests than in the 
otection of the lumber and pulp wood industries. These 


lould retain intact all the wilderness lands which it now 
yssesses, but should acquire title to additional holdings 
the Adirondacks with the end in view that the entire 
gion may eventually be owned by the State. 

Reference is made in the message to an act passed 
me nine years ago, which provided that agreements 
ight be entered into between the State and owners of 
nds in the Adirondacks, limiting the kind and size of 
mber to be cut, in return for which exemption from the 
ate and county taxes was given. The restriction was 
at nothing but soft wood above 12 inches in diameter 
ould be cut. The Governor is convinced that “if the 
v were amended to prohibit the operation of acid fac- 
mes and the cutting of timber below 1o inches in diam- 
er, in rettirn for the assumption by the State of all 


mn of the forests could be accomplished without any 
an. ge,” : 

oe the “the ultimate object aimed at in the 
eservation of the forests’? Is it the enrichment of those 
10 are interested in the lumber and pulp wood indus- 
jes? Is it to lift the burden of taxation from the 
salthy land owners and place it upon the shoulders of 
2 Other taxpayers? Is it to accomplish the ruin of 
t small portion of the primitive woodland which now 
mains by the removal of the majestic pines, spruces and 
mlocks which now grace it? It is safe to assert that 
any one of these questions were submitted to the masses 
the people the reply would be an unmistakable and un- 
nditional “No!” 

‘The opinion is expressed by the Governor that the 
ork in the Adirondacks should be pursued scientifically. 
ature lumber, he says, should be cut and denuded land, 
far as possible, replanted. By the leasing of small camp 
és, a reventie and protection would result, The Gov- 
mor recommends to the Legislature “that the present 
w be amended so as to permit an agreement with owners 
Testrict the cutting of timber down to ro inches in 
ameter instead of 12, and that acid factories be pro- 
pited; and that a constitutional amendment receive 
Maction this year, looking toward the scientific forestry 
id leasing of State lands. 4 ' 
he writer has for many years taken a deep interest in 
Hirondack forest protection, and is identified with sey- 
ul organizations which are also interested in the sub- 
t, and“he is confident he voices the sentiments of 
pusands of true friends of the forest, especially those 
© have a knowledge of the true condition of things in 
t Adirondacks, when he expresses the belief that scien- 
¢ forestry can not be carried on in that region in a man- 
which will preserve the wilderness as it is desirable to 
ve it preserved, and at the same time yield any con- 
erable profit over and above the great expense that 
efficient system would necessitate.” Further than this 
Te is in existence a constitutional safeguard which the 
ople of the State have thrown: over the forest, hoping 
1d believing that it would be effective and permanent. 
there sufficient reason or sufficient excuse now to ask 
its removal? 

Phe electors of New York State have been called upon 
more than one occasion to express their wishes on the 
ject of forest protection, and their edict has been that 
wilderness should be preserved in its natural state. 
stion 7, Article 7, of the new Constitution, adopted in 
M, which says; “The lands of the State, now owned or 
eafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as 
w fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest 
ds. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be 
én by any corporation, public or private, nor shall 
timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed,” was 
ified at the polls by a majority of about 100,000. 

m the fall of 1896 the following proposed amendment 
Section 7, Article 7, of the Constitution, was submitted 
the people: 

Bechon. 7.—The lands of the State, now owned or 
eafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as 
r fixed by Jaw, shall be forever kept wild forest lands. 
Cept as authorized by this section, they shall not be 
sed, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation. 
ic oF private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, re- 
ved or destroyed. The Legislature may authorize the 
sing for such term as it may by law fix, of a parcel 
not more than five acres of land in the forest preserve 
any one person for camp and cottage purposes. The 
sislature may also authorize the exchange of lands 
aed by the State situate outside the forest preserve for 
ds not owned by the State situate within the forest 
serve. The Legislature may also authorize the sale 
ds belonging to the State situate outside the forest 


“ends of the forest are not only anxious that the State. 


xes, that the ultimate object aimed at in the preserya- ° 


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preserve, but the money so obtained shall not be used 
except for the purchase of lands situate within the forest 
preserve, and which, when so purchased, shall become 
part of the forest preserve,” : 

But public sentiment was found to be overwhelmingly 
opposed to revising or tampering with the constitutional 
safeguard provision, and the electors signified their: dis- 
approval of the proposed amendment by burying it under 
an adverse majority of 700,000. 

It may be that the people of New York State are now 
ready to reconsider the position which they have taken. 
But we do not believe it. They understand the situation 
too well. 

It may be they are anxious to relieve the extensive land 
owners of taxation, But we do not think so. The 
revenue from this source is greater than it would be 
from leasing camp. sites. 

It may be that they are willing to sacrifice the pine, 
spruce and hemlock on State lands in order to perpetuate 
the lumber and wood pulp industries. But we doubt it. 
Tt would be far better to remove the existing duty on 
lumber and obtain our supply from Canada. 

It may be that they will sanction the cutting of all the 
big trees in the Adirondacks and the necessary incidental 
destruction of hundreds of thousands of sinaller ones 
under the guise of scientific forestry. But we hope not. 
So-called scientific forestry may be all tight in Germany, 
but the encouragement of timber cutting is not what is 
wanted in the Adirondacks. There is too much of it 
going on now, and on State lands at that. It is well 
enough to replant denuded lands, of course, but there is 
plenty of such territory without creating any more, 

W. E. Wotcorr, 
Utica, N. Y,, Jan. 15. 


Blatnyal History. 
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Rattlesnakes of Florida. 


In an article by Mr. Perry D. Frazer on rattlers, the 
size of these snakes is referred to. 

After some years of quail shooting in Florida, mostly 

in De Soto and Lee counties—which are the most souther- 
ly of the west coast—my largest rattlesnake seen and 
killed was six and one-half feet long, and at the largest 
part about three inches in diameter. In all, we have 
killed about twenty rattlesnakes, It js evident that this 
snake is not at all desirous of striking a man. On our’ 
approach they invariably rattle—if they have not lost their 
rattles, which does occur, as My nearest to being struck 
was by one that had lost them. My companion had fired 
the grass and scrub, and to escape the heat and smoke | 
went to the bank of the river. Knowing that these fires 
drive out snakes, I took care in walking through the 
grass, but did not think of finding one on the sand un- 
der the bank. 
My dog jumped into the water as I stepped off the 
bank on to the sand, As I stepped off some animal—I 
supposed—imade a blowing sound right by my feet, I 
looked down, and inside of one and a half feet was a big 
rattlesnake. My jump was a good one. At this time 
my dog made a rush for the snake, but I kicked him 
back into the water, and then brought my gun quickly on 
the snake and fired—but only eut him in two pieces. 

Again the dog started for him—the half of the snake 
with the head being as ready for fight as if he was all 
there. I then blew his head off. This pointer dog at 
one time retrieved a quail from a rattlesnake, and started 
back for the snake, but we killed it before the dog got 
there. A ground rattler struck him this winter, but he 
recovered. 

There inay be some of your readers-who do not know 
how the rattlesnake does his deadly work. The fangs are 
two curved hypodermic needles curved down, the outlet 
not at the point, but a little way back and on top—this 
enables the fang on striking to tear out an opening so the 


_ poison can enter the wound, and I think ‘that-the snake 


can strike a powerful blow and as quick as-a flash. The 
greatest danger from them is coming on them in very 
thick scrub. They want to avoid you, but are not in- 
clined to move much when they know you see them. If 
not digesting a rabbit or some large bird, they coil qiick- 
ly and keep the head over their body to protect it and 
sing the warning with that rattle. 

The cattlemen of south Florida fire the woods, which 
are not forests, but simply pine trees growing in grass 
and scrub palmettos. This undergrowth in winter is dry 
and burns, and in burning it must destroy a good many 
snakes. Each year we see fewer; last year none; this 
year so far one rattler. There are a lot of big black 
snakes, some eight to ten feet long, and not much afraid 
of man, and it’s easy to get them in a fighting mood. 
A few sticks thrown at them and they will start for 
you. “ at 
I have read of imitating a rattlesnake by birds and 
other snakes, but until last week never saw it. Then I did 
—a black snake—maybe a racer—was lying on some pal- 
metto bushes. As I passed very close, and stopped to look 
at him, he shook his tail against a dry stem and imitated 
very closely the rattler. E 

To protect myself against the rattler I have worn 
about every kind of leggings and boots. Anything sure - 
to stop the fangs is so killing to wear in this climate that 
one would almost as soon die by the snake. TI believe, 
however, the best and easiest protection is fine, close- 
woven, strong cotton duck leggings: if two thicknesses 
quilted, they would be protection against snakes and 
water. Ve ! 

When I think it best I wear a pair of boots with high - 
canvas legs two thicknesses quilted. I can wade in them 
and they are not bad, ttnless the weather is hot. 

The old Florida hunters are not much afraid of rattlers, 
though they ride mostly while I walk—often fifteen miles 
a day. : 

Favther as regards size of these fellows, six and a half 
feet is a big snake. I think I saw one in Goldsboro, 

- C., years ago, in a hotel, that was stuffed and was’ 
eight feet long—he was a big one. MYAKKa, 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 


Dr. Hunter, of Fayetteville, N, C., told me yesterday of — 


_ a remedy for the bite of the rattlesnake, 


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a Texas physician who claims to have had 100 cases of 
rattlesnake bite, nearly all of which he cured by adminis- 
tering three drops of tr. iodine in water every five minutes 
at first, and increasing to five drops every five minutes. 
The attention must be prompt to be efficacious, 


Rattlesnake Root. 


HicHranps, N. C—Your correspondent, J. Thomson 
Gale (Forest anp STREAM, Jan. 11), writing of the rattle- 
snake weed, probably refers to one or the other of two 
plants, one called rattlesnake weed (Hieracium venosum), 
or (Nabalus albus), rattlesnake root, as the plant used as 

( In our forest 

région where snakes are quite common, so that collections 
of skins are frequent adornments of one’s domestic mu- 
seums, we want no better remedy for snake bites than 
that very effective one, whisky, which is never known to 
fail if taken in time, which is, on the whole, before the 
patient is dead. Of course our mountain article is some- 
what stronger than the ordinary yariety of this common 
beverage, but wherever I have been, from this Eastern 
locality to the distant plains of the far West, whisky ig 

. the general antidote, and if sufficient of it is imbibed, it 
cures. I say this from a professional standpoint as an 
M. D., as well as from that of an observer of our moun- 
tain people, who think nothing of a snake bite. 

There are two plants which go by the name of rattle- 

snake weed. One is the above-mentioned Hieracium 
venosum, a plant growing two feet tall from a low bunch 
of spreading leaves, which are marked by purple veins, 
and is common in dry, open woods. The other is Nabalus 
albus, which is more common in the North. The stem is 
three or four feet tall, with a flower of a deep brown- 
yellow color. A related plant commonly called gall of 
the earth (Nabalus fraseri) is used here by the natives as 
medicine. The spindle-shaped root is intensely bitter, 
but never, so far as I have known of it, as an antidote to 
snake poison. I have met. with many cases of snake 
bites here, as well as in the West, but never have known 
one to be fatal. Where no other remedy is available and 
the case is urgent, to enlarge the wound so as to cause a 
copious flow of blood, and to aid this by suction with the 
mouth, is a never-failing treatment. 
_, Pink Edge should spend a whole year in North Carolina 
if he wants to find an all-round climate which will please 
every one. It is true it rains here sometimes. I have 
known over thirty-one inches to fall in a July, and over 
a hundred and ten inches in the year. But generally 
there is ample opportunity for enjoying life here in spite 
of the heavy rainfall, even in this month. On my five- 
acre lawn, which is rather thickly wooded for a lawn, and 
filled with a-complete assortment of the native flora, large 
and small, we have had the preity Bob Whites around 
the house and feeding on the small stuff we leave about 
for them, almost every day; the exceptions having been 
few, and when the light shows have fallen: and we are 
4,000 feet above sea level, A hunter should be above 
grumbling at the weather, when rubber clothing and high 
boots are to be had. Sunshiny days must be the ex- 
ception, or our fishing here would be scarcely worth the 
having. For two weeks past; however, we have had as 
fine weather as one could wish. T am much pleased to 
say that our game laws are having a markedly good re- 
sult, especially on our wild turkeys and deer. The last 
seeming to have increased Tapidly since the five years 
close time was enacted by our Legislature. Small game 
1s very abundant this year, and would have been still 
more so, but for the constant rains which fell in the 
hatching season, Henry Stewart. 


New York Zoological Society. 


THE New York Zoological Society held its sixth annual 
meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Jan. 15. The report of 
the Executive Committee Presented to the Society was 
very gratifying to the members, for it showed that the 
year had been Prosperous, and that great progress had 
been made in developing the Society’s park. That the 
efforts made to improve matters at the park are appre- 
ciated, is shown by the attendance during the year of over 
half a million people: the greatest day having been a Sun- 
day (Aug. 24), when more than 20,000 people were 
present. 

Of the work done this year, the most important is the 
erecting and occupying of the recently opened monkey 
house, at a cost of $64,160, and the beginning of the lion 
house, which is now well under way. Beside this, the 
sewer and water systems of the park have been extended, 
and inclosures and hills made for the. mountain sheep. 
Mr. Chas. T. Barney, the Treasurer, reported that the ‘ 
Society is entirely free from debt, and that having raised 
the guarantee fund of $250,000, and expended it in the 
park, it had fulfilled all the obligations contained in its 

The improvement fund has a 
which is to be used for the pur- 


Mr. Loring was 
of lambs, but it was impossible to keep them ali 
ood yee Pas accrssiile: 

tr. Kidder, of Boston, who not long ago visited Kadi 
Tsland for the purpose of hunting hears there, spoke is 


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a 
terestingly concerning his experiences. He brought away 
with him. twenty-two specimens. 

A resolution was introduced at the meeting proposing 
the establishment in southern Alaska of a national game 
preserve, which should include the Alaskan peninsula, 
the Kenai Peninsula and the mainland around Mt. St. 
Elias and the head of Yakutat Bay, as well as Kadiak 
Island. 

Managers of the Society to serve until 1905 were 
elected as follows: Henry F, Osborn, Henry W. Poor, 
Charles T, Barney, James J. Hill, William C, Church, 
Frank M. Chapman, Lispenard Stewart, Joseph Stickney, 
H. Casimir De Rham, George Crocker, Hugh D. Auchin- 
eloss and Charles F. Dietrich. 


Ways of the Gadwall. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In the chapter on the gadwall (Anas strepera) in my 
recently published book, ““American Duck Shooting,” I 
spoke of the rarity of this species in Eastern waters, 
where, according to my experience and that of most East- 
ern gunners of my acquaintance, it is very unusual. 

This year’s shooting, however, seems to contradict this 
statement, for so far as I can learn the gadwalls have 
been unusually abundant. I have known, for example, 
of the killing of fifteen of these birds in one day by a 
single gun, of seven on another day, five on another. I 
myself have seen two or three flocks of fifteen or twenty 
birds, and have killed two or three of the species. 

I desire through your columns to ask duck shooters gen- 
erally whether they have noticed that the shooting season 
of 1901-1902 furnished more gadwall ducks than’ usual. 
Of course a general impression is desired from each gtn- 
ner, but any definite facts as to numbers, such as would 
be furnished by club score books or by the records of 
men who keep daily memoranda of their bags, would be 
much better. This information is asked for not so much 
for my own benefit as for that of the duck shooters at 
large. 

On page 106 of the volume referred to, I said of the 
gadwall: “It pays little attention to decoys, and in my 
experience rarely comes to them.’ This is my experience, 
but the experience of one man with regard to the gad- 
wall is not likely to be very valuable, because he has’ prob- 
ably seen so few of them. What has been the experience 
of other gunners on the points mentioned? A friend who 
has done a lot of gunning on the Atlantic coast and in 
the Middle West, questions the statement I have made, 
and I am glad to give his experience. He says: “So few 
gadwalls are shot and they are so rare that it is dangerous 
to argue from one or two experiences, but I should say 
that it decoys fairly well, certainly as well as the widgeon. 
I had two days this fall when they decoyed as well as 
could be wished. First at Monroe in November, when 
I killed seven in one day, and again at Narrows Island, 
when I killed fifteen in one day. On the other hand, I 
have mever seen many fly by without decoying.” 


Now this year I had two flocks of fifteen or twenty. 


birds each fly very near my decoys without paying the 
slightest attention to them. J had a single bird come to 
the decoys very nicely. 

This is an interesting topic and of a practical nature, 
and I feel quite sure that all gunners would be glad to 
have more light shed upon it. If such of your readers as 
are gunners will send to you or to me their experience as 
to the gadwall duck on these points, a very interesting 
chapter may be added to our knowledge of the natural 
history of this species. Gero. Birp GRINNELL. 

New Yor. 


A New Jersey Solitary Beaver. 
Hicu Brince, N. J., Jan. 17.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
I inclose a clipping from this week’s Washington, NES, 
Warren Tidings, which is interesting enough to publish 
‘in FOREST AND STREAM. PERCIVAL CHRYSTIE. 


On a lonely spot along the Musconetcong Creek, only 
four miles from where it empties into the Delaware 
River, lives a lonely beaver—the only one living in this 
part of the State, and certainly the only one living any- 
where along this creek, which runs through one of the 
best agricultural portions of this State. 

How this beaver came to locate where he is, or whence 
he came and when, is considerable of a mystery to all 


5. WhO know the whereabouts of this unusual and perhaps 
~" only animal of its kind for many miles. 


It is almost as strange that, though several persons 
have known for a year or more of this animal’s location, 
he has escaped every attempt made to capture him. Those 
who have seen the animal at different times, but never 
when they were armed, say that he is about three feet 
long and very shy, never being far from his house, which 
he has selected in a grotto close to the edge of the water 
and among massive rocks, which line the shores of the 
creek in this special locality. The entrance to this grotto 
is beneath the surface of the water, and at such an angle 
as to make it difficult to effectively trap him. 

This beaver seems to have renounced most of the habits 
peculiar to the nature of beavers, in that he makes no 
attempt to construct dams or build houses, though he has 
at different times gnawed down trees three inches in 
diameter. 


Eutopean Widgeon in North Carolina. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

On page 76 of the January Auk, Mr, Reginald Heber 
Howe, Jr., notes the occurrence of a male European 

widgeon (Anas penelope) on Currituck Sound in North 
' Carolina on Nov. 23, 1900, and intimates that this is the 
first record for the bird from that State. 

My impression on reading Mr. Howe’s note was that 
there are earlier records, since the bird is occasionally 
taken in our State. During the shooting season of 1900- 
1go1, Messrs. Purdy and Greer killed a pair, male and 
femalé, and in Forest anp Stream, Vol, XLVIII,, page 
165, Feb. 27, 1897, Mr. Grinnell has noted the taking of a 
male bird. All these came from Currituck Sound. 

The bird is a well-known straggler in Currituck Sound, 
and Elliot (“Wild Fowl of North America,” p. 116) says 
that he has seen “examples procured on the North 
Carolina coast,” and (p. 117) gives the range in part as 
“coasts of North Carolina on the Atlantic Ocean.” 
Currituck County, N, C, WILDFOWLER. 


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Game Bag and Gan. 


Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in ForgsT AND STREAM. 


The Albino Sprig. 


IF it were not for the white feather pinned on my desk 
as I write this, I would think the incident a creation of a 
too keen imagination, but here the feather lies, and it 1s 
proof positive that the albino sprig has a flesh and blood 
existence, and is more than likely at this moment dis- 
porting’ itself on the surface of sedge-bound Cerritos 
Lake, for the bird assuredly bears a charmed life, and is 
not destined to die at the crack of a ten or twelve, nor 
otherwise than of sheer old age. 

In the early part of October a very good fellow and 
chum. of mine telephoned to me late one afternoon. [ 
was at the time pouring over a dusty tome of the law, 
trying with but poor success ta follow the ins and outs 
of “Blank on Evidence,” for it was a gusty day outside, 
and my thoughts would escape from the law office to con- 
jure up visions of a blind somewhere in the whispering 
tules, with a flock of decoys bobbing about on a bit of 
open lake, where a free wind made little whitecaps dance, 
and the teal were scurrying—. But to that telephone. 
Burton was at the other end of the wire—Burton the 
tempter, for he was saying, ‘Hello, Bob! Don’t you 
want to take the 5:20 train for the duck grounds?” 

I looked out of the window and saw a long ribbon of 
black smoke from the chimney of a building opposite 
trailing away in the teeth of the strong southwest wind 
and again the tempter chuckled, “Sure to haye a good 
shoot in the morning with this wind blowing.” That 
settled it; of course I wanted to go; would go with 
pleasure, and “Blank on Evidence” could be dropped for 
the present. 

It was a matter of but a few moments to gather my 
gun and a valise filled with shells of my own loading into 
a cab, jump in, myself and go bumping over the cobbles 
to the depot, where Burton met me, smiling at my weak- 
ness in thus stealing a mid-week shoot from my law 
studies. 

“T thought you'd come; the breeze was too much for 
you, eh?” were his words of greeting. “Oh! I was not 
very busy, and I had a bit of a headache, and thought a 
day with the birds would be good for me,” I replied, de- 
termined to brazen it out. 

“But, Burton, -did you not tell me at luncheon that you 
would be very busy this afternoon? I thought that there 
was to be a directors’ meeting?” 

‘Well—er—that is, I managed to arrange it all; I gave 
Porter my proxy for the directors’ meeting, and it will 
be all right. I’m here, anyway, so let’s cry quits.” 

The- train speedily whirled us coastward, and soon the 
brakeman opened.the door and shouted “B-i-x-b-y!” 
This was our station, and we disembarked, to find the 
keeper waiting for ms with the team. On the way to 
the club house. we plied him with queries, and learned 
to our delight that the birds were in in large numbers, and 
that the prospects for a good shoot were excellent. 

That evening after dinner as we sat enjoying the 
fragrance of two huge perfectos—of Burton’s own priyate 
stock, for he prides himself on his cigars, and justly so— 
it was suggested that we put out the decoys before turn- 
ing it, so that all would be ready for the morning, This 
we did, and rowing leisurely up to the head of the lake, 
we chose two blinds within hailing distance of each other. 
When the decoys had been set and we had started for 
the cabin, guided by the lights shining from its windows 
far across the lake, a flock of ducks, flushed in the dark- 
ness by the noise of the oars, hurtled over our heads with 
frightened and protesting squawks. It was so dark that 
we caught only a glimpse of their rocketing forms as 
they passed over us, but one among them seemed to 
shine like a meteor among his dusky companions. 

“Burton,” said I, “that was a white duck; an albino, I 
am willing to bet.” 

“Tt may be,” he replied. 
was almost perfectly white. We may have a shot at that 
white fellow in the morning.” 

We got out to the blinds next morning before dawn. 
T filled my pipe and sat puffing great clouds of smoke in 
the vain hope of driving away the mosquitoes, which 
were holding high carnival on my face and hands. Birds 
were dropping in from all quarters, some of them settling 
among the decoys, while others circled about quacking 
and squealing volubly to themselves. It was still too 
dark to shoot, for by a rule of the club no gun may be 
fired until the stars are out of the sky. It was interesting 
to watch the birds, though, and the sight: of so many 
fowl wheeling by within a few yards of the blind served 
to keep me at-a tension of anticipation, and made my 
trigger finger tingle with eagerness to begin. 

flock of widgeon, looming up large in the uncertain 
light, were circling over the decoys, theit wings set, their 

fet hushed out before them to meet the water. What a 
shot ! 

’ While I sat there gloating over the certainty of a good 
shot, there was a swish through the air, made by a duck 
descending rapidly from a height, and with a gentle 
splash, a bird dropped into the water within the stool of 
decoys, and not more than twenty yards from me, It 
was a sprig, and in the misty twilight of early morning it 
gleamed whiter than a cumulous cloud in the blue of a 
summer sky. It was doubtless the bird that we had seen 
the night before. . 

Sitting high on the water, its long neck stretched up, 
its folded wings pressing tightly against its sides, it 
presented a picture of alert watchfulness. I hardly dared 
to breathe, for my heart was set on bagging that bird. 

As the moments passed and nothing occurred to arouse 
its suspicions, it began to preen itself in a dignified man- 
ner, and to swim slowly about with the grace of a swan. 

Tt ‘had, been agreed that Burton was to fire the first 
gun, but I knew that he would not shoot for several 
minutes yet, and so I kept close watch upon the ghostly 


_ visitor, determined to bag him as soon as he flushed from 


the water, which he would doubtless do at the sound of 
Burton’s gun. ; 

I was becoming impatient, and glanced over in the 
direction of Burton’s blind, and as I did so his first shot 
rang out, Quick as a flash I rose toi my feet, brought 


“JT once saw a spoonbill that ~ 


[JAn, 25, 1902. 


my gun to my shoulder, and gaye a hurried glance in 
front of me, where I had last seen the sprig. Fowl were 


filling the air m front of my blind in startled confusion, ~ 


offering many easy shots, but | would take none of them. 
The sprig was gone. : 

Disappointed, I turned my attention to’ the other birds, 
and had soon forgotten the episode of the sprig in the 
exciting pleasures of knocking down teal and other birds 
as they wheeled over the decoys, The sport was mag- 
nificent, | was shooting well, and was perfectly happy. 
Gradually the flight ceased. The birds had scattered, 
some of them speeding off to other parts of the grounds, 
and many flocks keeping on their course to the ocean a 
few miles away. 

There is always a lull between the first fast and furious 
Hight of early morning and the later flight of birds re- 
turning in small bunches and pairs and singles, 

During this luil I again lit my brier and took pleased 
note of the goodly number of dead birds which a light 
early morning breeze was slowly drifting in to the shore. 

From time to time birds dropped in, singly and in 
pairs, sometimes coming from great heights, swooping 
down with startling velocity, their stiffened wings part- 
ing the air with a sharp, tearing noise, that gave warn- 
ing, of their coming several seconds before the bird was in 
sight. 

Presently I heard one of these rocketing birds, and 
with a sharp hiss a shining white shape swung over the 
decoys, giving me a beautiful opportunity. One barrel 
followed the other in quick succession and each time I was 
apparently holding dead on, but not even a feather 
dropped, and the white sprig, with an upward sweep, 
shot up the lake. I was exasperated, and missed the next 
four birds that decoyed. ; 

An hour or more passed, and I was almost dozing in 
the blind, when, without warning. I heard the slight 
splash that a duck makes when alighting, and looked up 
to see the white spric calmly swimming among the de- 
cays, My first,impulse was to give the bird a chance, and 
T started to flush it; then I remembered the awful miss, 
and I decided for this once to defy the ethics of sports- 
inanship and pot the bird, for I yery much wanted it. 

It was as white as snow from the base of its bill to 
the tip of its tail. “This is murder, nothing else,” thought 
I as I slowly brought the gun up and caught the bird 
over the barrels. The shot rained around and about it, for 
it was not more than thirty yards from me, and the 
second barrel as he rose sent another ounce and an 
eighth of chilled sixes after it, but in vain. I felt like 
Saying something, but I was too much chagrined for 
words, 

Slowly and wonderingly I gathered up the birds that I 
had killed during the morning, slung them on my strap 
and rowed over io Burton’s blind, He was ready to go 
in, and we rowed slowly back to the cabin, discussing 
the sport of the morning. I said nothing of the white 
sprig, however. F 

We lounged about the cabin, playing cards, smoking and 
reading until luncheon time. Later a nap, and about half- 
past three we started for the blinds again, The shooting 
in the afternoon was not as fast as it had been in the 
morning, but we passed an hour or two very pleasantly, 
and again started for the cabin. 

As we towed along leisurely in the gathering gloom, the 
whistle of wings caused me to turn. There, whizzing up 
the lake went the phantom sprie. I watched him until 
he turned and again came toward us, 
in a vise-like grip, born of grim determination to bag 
the bird this time, 
from me, when he swerved to the left, at the same 
time rising, thus giving me a beautiful incoming quarter- 
ing shot, Deliberately, carefully, I covered and then 
swung ahead of him. First one and then the other barrel, 
hut the sprig flew on. Then slowly downward, circling 
and whirling, there floated a single gleaming white wing 
feather until it tested on the water. I rowed oyer and 
picked if up, and carefully put it in my pocket, 

“Why, Bob,” said Burton, “that was the white duck; 
and what a miss!” he added. 

“Ves. 7 answered, ambiguously, “it was.” 

Rosert ErskKINe Ross. 


Florida Deer Stalking. 


It is the South once more—the far South, with its 
balsam pine breezes and its rose dreams. 

The moon flooded the desolate little station with trans- 
forming luminousness as I swung off the train, the night 
of my arrival, and landed in the sandy street. 

The English agent was strictly truthful when he replied 
to my question: “I don't know about the hotel being 
very nice, but it’s all there is.” So I went to Mr: Fitz- 
patrick’s to put up. He came out, yawned, walked about 
the yard a while in his night dress, and then showed me 
up stairs. By way of affiliating Morpheus with the 
Florida breezés, two panes had been knocked out of one 
window of my room, and a wooden shutter flapped 
monotonously over the other. Other than this, a nice 
barn ventilator of comfortable proportions adorned the 
front gable, and the wind whisteld pleasantly through 
this as it reached me over the rafters. I slept the sleep 
of the tired, the worn out. 

The next day was full of breeze and balm and sandy 
brightness—the ideal of Florida midwinter weather. By 
the afternoon our wagons were packed with all camp 
necessities, and a cuisine luxury or so as well. Two 
little mttles—Jerry’s rabbits they were called—hauled the 
freight; we others, booted and spurred, bravely bestrode 
bunting horses and turned gayly into the prairie. 

These plains, rangine some fifty miles from Arcadia 
to the Caloosahatchie River, make one of the unique fea- 
tures of Southern Florida. Entirely level, and broken 
only by occasional pine “islands” and dark hummocks, 
they stretch out like the sea to yast, mysterious horizons, 
and, like the sea, too, they hush conversation, and send 
out the eye in aimless wandering altogether delightful. 
Night fell with the charm it always has in desolate places, 
and friendly stars came out before we reached Tippen’s 
Bay, where we proposed to camp. It is a pretty and 


useful custom to call the narrow pine growths islands. 


and the hummocks bays. They are also named specific- 
ally, for they are the only signboards here. Around 
Tippen’s Bay grows a circle of symmetrical cabbage pal- 
mettoes, rising almost to the dignity of royal palms. In 


the center, where the tent gs pitched, they clustered in. 


— i ——— 


IT held my gun- 


On he came, till about thirty yards | 


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swaying tufts, benignantly covering us. In such a place 
the kettle boiled that night to jokes so good and hearty 
that none thought of sleep until the chill of the dawn came 
on, and the blankets lay close, and the wind stirred gently 
the overhanging fans, : | 

The following afternoon we took up the march again, 
and by nightfall reached our permanent camp at Fish 
Eating Creek. 

Charlie made the coffee, Jimmy foasted potatoes, I 
watched the oatmeal, and Jerry joked for all while stak- 
ing out the tent, In the afternoon next day Jerry, Steve 
and I went out for deer, Jimmy being detailed to the 
swamp for turkeys. i 
gan to wag his tail suspiciously. We rode into a pal- 
metto patch and a stage sprang out like a shot. Neither 
of us was ready. Jerry’s mule was dancing with him, 
my horse headed the wrong way, and Steve was behind. 
Pursuit is useless in stich cases, and we rode on, A fox 
next time entertained us with a lively chase. He ran up 
a tree—quite a stupid thing for a self-respecting fox to 
do, I thought—and was shot. 

Near the prettiest spot of all the plain, where Glassy 
Island offers its oblong mirror to the eye, Jerry suddenly 
threw himself from his mule and, at a sign, Catch 
crouched in the grass. My friend had sighted a quarry 
of five deer, and he led me on the stalk—the swiftest, 
deftest, most artistic thing of all. At intervals I had to 
lie on the grass, panting in the hot sun, thinking of what 
an advantage a diamond-backed rattlesnake could take 
of me just then. One of the herd got tp once to look at 
the maneuvers of our horses, and we lay flat in the thin 
grass without a breath. 

By a circuitous route to male a favoring bunch of 
palmetto, the interest was still strained to the highest 
pitch, and even Jerry whispered directions in a quaking 
yoice, 

Soon a “now” from him brotight me cautiously to my 
knees—but as it is a $500 fine to Idll deer out of season, 
of course we -didn’t shoot. 

The, home-coming was always a thing I relished—the 
turning of our faces to the west, along with the night. 
Jimmy had reached the camp first, and his fire, shining on 
the waters of a little lake far ahead of us, was a most 
cheerful will o° the wisp indeed, E, M. 


Spring Shootiny. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


_ At the December meeting of the New York State Fish, 


Game and Forest Leagte, a resolution was passed recom- 
mending the passage of a bill prohibiting spring shooting 
of wildfowl in this State, excepting the counties of Kings, 
Nassau, Queens and Suffolk. This bill will undoubtedly 
meet with opposition from the market-shooter, hotel- 
keeper, guides and a large class of sportsmen, who are 
afraid that if they don’t kill them, some other fellow 
will. And right here IT want to say to these gentlemen 
that they are opposing their own best interests, and I am 
willing to wager that if this bill goes through that they 
will after one year’s trial admit it. We met with this 
Same opposition, and lots of it, in the passage of our 
county bill last winter. 

But after the splendid results last year I do not know 
of a person in this county who is dissatisfied. The black 
duck and mallard stayed here and bred by the thousand, 
and from the opening day until the waters closed we had 
such duck shooting as we sometimes read about. The 
largest bag on marsh ducks for one day was made by H. 
WN. Denny, H. C. Whitney and Frank Mullin, who killed 
forty-three, mostly mallards. 

I consider our law forbidding the shooting of dicks 
between the hours of sunset and stinrise, as vital to the 
interests of the sportsmen as the law forbidding spring 
shooting. Most of the marshes and rice beds in this 
State are hunted every day during the open season; and 


if night shooting is permitted, the birds having no chance 


to-rest or feed, will quickly leave for other parts. The 
marsh and fall ducks began coming from the north early 
in September, and during the months of October and 
November our waters were alive with them. I inclose 
clipping from Watertown Daily Standard: “Duck hunt 
ing in and around Cape Vincent was never known to be 
as good. George Bilky was out three days and brought 
home sixty-nine fine ducks. There were some of inferior 
quality he shot that were mot included. C,. Garlock and 
Alexander Rigden shot twenty-four before brealcfast.”’ 

The main opposition to the passage of the county bill 
was that it did not cover the entire State; that they 
could shoot ducks all around us, and we couldn’t. Well, 
you fellows had your fun last spring. You shot thousands 
of black ducks, mallards and teal, that would have stayed 
with you and nested, giving you splendid sport on young 
ducks in September. All through the months of April and 
May our waters were crowded with all kinds of wildfowl 
resting and feeding and becoming almost as tame as 
“domesticated fowl. Is it at all strange that thousands 
of these birds should have stayéd here and nested, or 
that the birds who did not should have returned early in 
the fall with vastly increased numbers to the choice feed- 
ing spots which they found last spring? Is it at all 
strange that when the season opened and these birds were 
hunted in every part of this county, large numbers of 
them should have been driven into the other counties, 
affording the best shooting you haye had for years? If 
stopping spring shooting in one county will produce such 
results—but we don’t want you to. The sentiment in this 
county has changed to such an extent that I have been 
urged by some of the most vigorous opponents of the 
county bill last winter to write the following letter to our 
Representative : 

“Hon, Elon R. Brown. Dear Sir: I have been re- 
auested by a large number of sportsmen in this county to 
ask you to sectire the exception of Jefferson county from 
‘the proposed law, prohibiting the spring shooting of wild- 
fowl in New York State for the following reasons: 

“tst, We already have a law for this county prohibit- 
ing spring shooting of wildfowl. 

“ad. The sportsmen are more than satisfied with the 
results of this law, as we had the best duck shooting 
last fall that we have ever enjoyed. 

“3d. We do not wish to be included with the other 


counties, who are more or Jess hostile to such measures, 


and the attending danger of its appeal cach year.” 
Our ambition is to make of Jefferson county a grand 


Catch, our slow-trail dog, soon be-. 


fish and game preserve, not for a favored few, but for all 
who love to fish and hunt. We have the best black 
bass fishing in the State in the waters of Chaumont Bay, 
made so by a wise law which permits the taking of all 
fish excepting black bass and muscalonge by means of 
licensed nets from Oct, 1 to May 1. Under this law the 
pickerel, eels and sturgeon have also increased very rapid- 
ly, the pickerel being protected by a State law during 
March and April, and but few of them being caught dur- 
ing the winter. We haye asked our representatives to 
amend this law and making it Oct. 15 to May 15, believing 
that large numbers of pickerel and cels can be removed 
during the first fifteen days in May, and before any great 
number of bass rtin. im from the lake. We also ask that 
sturgeon nets of 5-inch bar, to-inch mesh be permitted to 
fish at any time of year. This law, I am sorry to say, 
applies only to the waters between Horse Island and the 
town line between the towns of Lynn and Cape Vincent, 
and includes Black River and Chaumont Bay. Hender- 
son Bay and the St. Lawrence River still cling to the old 
theory of no net fishing at any time, with the imevitable 
result, the driving out of the game fish. 

Last spring I turned out two pair of Mongolian pheas- 
ants on the farm of Mr. E. R. Adams, on the north shore 
of Killar Point. One pair nested and hatched sixteen. I 
have been unable to learn from the other pair. I also 
turned out seven young birds in July. All these birds are 
alive and appear to be doing well, If these birds winter 
all right I shall turn out twenty-five pair in different 
parts of this county next spring, 

We want the sale of ruffed grouse forbidden in this 
State at all seasons. The position that Governor Odell 
has taken on the bonding of game during the close sea- 
son, making it easier and safer for the dealer in illegal 
game to carty on his unlawful business, is a matter of 
regret to his many admirers in northern New York. We 
believe that the Goyernor has been misinformed and mis- 
led by the wily game dealer, and that when he has given 
this subject the proper investigation, which he surely 
will, he will be on the side of justice and good order, 

The gray sqtirrel, rabbit and ruffed grouse season 
should open at the same time, Sept. 15. The deer season 
should be shortened two weeks, and every sportsman in 
this State should appoint himself a committee of one to 
promptly report any violation of the game law which he 
may observe. W. H. Tatcert. 

Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 10. 


The Maine License Plan. 


Boston, Jan. 20.—Senator McFarlane’s figures concern- 
ing the State of Maine’s account with Ohio and Indiana 
sportsmen, given at the annual meeting of the Maine 
State Fish and Ganie Association at Bangor recently, are 
under a cloud. In a letter to. the Maine Woods, F 
Shaw, of Portland. throws a thtinderbolt at them. Senator 
McFarlane will hardly care to dispute Mr. Shaw, for he 
says. over his own signature, “I had the pleasure of per- 
sonally guiding fifteen of these ninety-five branded sports- 
men, and must say that in my ten years’ experience in 
hunting in the vicinity of Moosehead Lake, I have never 


seen a patty of gentlemen who were more inclined to obey -! 


the laws than were the members of that party.” It should. 
be noted that Mr, Shaw is manager, or prominently con- 
nected with a btisiness college at Portland, Me.. and that 
the college bears his name. It should be added that Maine 
guides are too frequently underestimated. Some of them 
are scholars, who guide in the season to help pay their 
way at school or college. Many are farmers, mechanics 
and business men, who guide for sake of the ready money. 
Others guide in order to obtain an outing in the woods 
that they hardly feel able to take out of their own time 
and pockets. Senator W. P. Frye, of Maine, tells a good 
story. One day soon after he had been elected to the 
U. S. Senate, a member of the House called upon him. 
“You do not recognize me,” he remarked, “and that is not 
strange.’”’ Mr. Frye had already made sure that he had 
seen the face somewhere, but was not able to recall the 
name. “Don't you remember , who guided 
you for several seasons at your cottage at the Rangeleys?” 
The Senator remembered his old guide in a moment. He 
had guided him to help pay his way at school and college. 
Had graduated, studied law, been admitted-to the Bar 
and gone to California. There he had been successful: 
had drifted into politics, and been elected to the National 
House from his district, : 

Mr. Shaw extracts Senator McFarlane’s statement of 
account, made in his speech, as follows: 


Ohio and Indiana hunters in account with the State of Maine: 
To the value of 280 deer taken ottt of the State by them 

ACERS aAMHead eed afer eae s ey, aoe cre Menten eevee, Hels, ce 34,200 00 
800 deer killed in getting those 280, valued at $5 for food 


DUG POSESeern caja ee ele pe DEA Ghee Ao ntianceeaoner: cede e 4,000. 00. 
peti at Toni So crac Pr One err yee a $8,200 00 
rr 
Steamboat fare on Moosehead Lake, for 95 persons.$285 00 
3 guides for 21 days, at $3 per day................. 189 00 
iii | ATA 00 
Showing a total loss to the State of,.,.....,......... $7,726 00 


Senator McFarlane then went on to give an account 
with ninety-five desirable sportsmen, charging them with 
ninety-five guides at $3 per day and other giant ex- 
penses, and shows the State to be benefited to the extent 
of $3,349. But Mr. Shaw’s handling of the first account- 
shows something different. He says: “These fifteen 
people’’—doubtless he means the fifteen he guided—“car- 
ried out ten per cent. of the game mentioned, and I can 
State from personal observation that not three more deer 
were killed by the party. Upon this basis, instead of 800 
deer being killed, there would be less than thirty—quite a 
difference.” , 

Mr. Shaw says at the outset of his letter: “I went to 
the meeting fully convinced that such a license is a neces- 
sity, but, after listening to some of the arguments ad- 
vaticed in favor of the same, I must acknowledge that I 
am slightly on the fence. If the cause is, as I believe, a 
just one, why is it necessary to quote figures which any 
intelligent person can see are made up for the occasion,” 

Further down he says: “How does this gentleman fie- 
ure the cost of these deer to the State of Maine? Why 
does he figure those carried from the state at $15 each, and 
those consumed in camp at $5 each? F would like very 
much to see the booles from whieh this balance sheet is 


taken. Fair play is a jewel and T'dg not believe if js neces. 


sary to descend to these trumped-up figures and insinua- 
tions in order to prove that a license is needed. I inter- 
viewed the members of this party, and they expressed 
themselves as being in favor of a fair license, 

“The speaker gives in his balance sheet a credit of $5 as 
the total outlay for each individual from Indiana. As a 
matter of fact, the members of the party under my 
charge left three times that amount each, and I can pro- 
duce the evidence to prove this. [ 

“His figtites of the other ninety-five people are just_as 
unfair in the opposite direction. These same ninety-five 
sportsmen carried home three deer each, a total of 285, 
and like true sportsmen (?), killed but three deer each in 
addition, making six deer to each man. ; 

“How many of those who listened to his speech believed 
it possible for ninety-five sportsmen, to kill 1,080 deer, and 
that ninety-five other sportsmen killed 570 deer? If the 
truth were known, I do not believe that the whole party 
averaged two deer each. If it is as he states, what were 
the guides who accompanied them doing? ; 

“Just because the chairman of the meeting has stated in 
his remarks, ‘Met one Ohio or Indiana sportsman, who 
lived in a four by four black-looking tent and was eating 
his crackers and cheese out of his own grip,’ need we 
brand all people from Indiana as ‘game hogs and 
greasers?” } 

The trouble seems, to be that the fish and game ques- 
tion in Maine is saddled with a lot of imaginary figures. 
The assertion, made at that Bangor meeting, that $15,- 
000,000 are annually expended in Maine by summer guests, 
hunters and fishermen, is absurd, and not based on actual 
statistics. Something more reasonable might be obtained, 
were the Fish and Game Commissioners disposed to go at 
the matter, Hotel and camp keepers would cheerfully 
give figures, if they could be made sure that names and 
locations were not to be made public, and confidence not 
betrayed. As for railroads and transportation companies, 
their figures are always to be had. Ten thousand guests 
at an average of $100 gives but $1,000,000. Will any- 
body dare to say that 150,000 gtests, including summer 
visitors, fishermen and hunters, at $100 each, went into 
Maine last year? It would require that number at that 
average to leave $15,000,000 there. At $200 to the guest, 
which is too high an estimate, it would requite 75,000 
guests to leave $15,000,000 in Maine. oll. 

We must give Senator McFarlane credit for knowing 
that the Maine gatne laws permit of the taking out of the 
State or having in possession but two deer in a season, 
and why does he go back to the old law and charge each 
of the Ohio and Indiana hunters with taking out three 
deer each? SPECIAL. 


A New Hampshire View. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

I see that the question of killing the Maine goose is 
again being considered. Some of the points made by 
advocates of the license are certainly open to criticism. 
It is said that under ptesent conditions non-resident 
sportsmen can go to Maine, and by marketing the 
game they bring out, make money out of their hunting 
trips. 

A number of years ago I went regularly (usually in 
November) for five succéssive vears to the Maine woods, 
twice to the Parmachenee region and three times to the 
headwaters of Aroostook. On two of the latter trips I 
did not use a guide, and paid $4 per week for my board. 
My trips averaged three weeks each on the hunting 
grounds, and the total cost, with Boston as a starting 
point, was about $650. Once, when in Aroostook, I 
found the worst kind of a noisy, crusty snow, and I did 
not try to hunt—just waited for better conditions, which 
did not come. On the other four trips I killed five cari- 
bou and four deer. I never had a guide who carried a 
rifle. At the prices I found dealers in Boston were pay- 
ing for such game as I killed, mine would have brought 
about $150. I think I was more stccessful’ than the 
average sportsman of the day, and in those days game 
was fully as plenty as now, the limit was larger, and 
caribou were on the free list, 

A sportsman of to-day, with Boston as a starting 
point, goes to any of the well-fitted hunting camps in 


‘Maine, where everything is furnished, even to his two 
- deer, which are hanging up somewhere in the woods 


when he arrives, in case he needs them, and spending two 
weeks.on the-hunting grounds, hiring a guide, his ex- 
penses will not be less than $100, and usually nearer 
$150. At ordinary market prices the two deer he brings 
out will sell for $20 each at the most. Perhaps’ he is 
one of the few who kills his limit, and has a moose to 
go with the deer; even then he will do well to market 
his game at cost, unless the moose has an exceptionally 
fine head. It is rather expensive to get out whole a 
moose or even a deer when killed some distance from a 
railroad. I saw in Aroostook two moose wHich were 
being taken out. The two sportsmen who had them, 
killed them fairly by still-hunting. These moose were 
killed all of twenty miles aboye Oxbow, in Arrostook, 
and they were a number of miles apart and quite a dis- 
tance from any old lumber road. The guides suggested 
taking the heads and a part of the meat out. The sports- 
men said, “No; they are going home whole with us, no 
matter what it costs.” A guide was sent for a team, 
which went as far as it could on a lumber road. Roads 
were then swamped to each moose. After getting them 
to a lumber road they had to be hauled seventy miles to 
the (then) nearest railroad. Both of the moose were 
fair-sized, young bulls, and had their owners sold them 
they would have only received a fair dividend on what 
they cost. 

' There are a good many sportsmen who would not 
care to sell what they kill at any price.. They are proud 
of the heads they have, even if only ordinary specimens. 


‘I have heads of moose and caribou and deer and some 


bear rugs. I killed them and I set them up. Collect- 
ively, they cost me a great deal more than I could sell 
them for, but I-would not sell at cost. If any non- 
resident thinks he can go to Maine, or anywhere else, 
and make money by selling what he kills, I should ad- 
vise him to buy:a foxhound and hunt silver-gray foxes. 
I have been on a number of hunting trips after moose, 
caribou, bear and deer, and they were successful trips. . 
But once did any member of my party maké money out 
gi the trip, A year last Noyember two of my neighbors 


' these upper and nether millstones the 


es - eae 


and I went for a short trip a few miles north of where we 
live. The total cost to each, including car fare, pro- 
visions and rent of furnished cottage, was about $10 each. 
We did our own work as to 
One of the party killed a deer the first day and also found 
four bears in a den. He realized ftom those bears just 
about eight times what his trip cost. Any one can do 
the same on a similar trip, provided they get the same 
number of bears. ' 

It is said that the wealthy sportsman is in favor of the 
license; the higher the better it will suit him, He does 
not have to figure on the cost of a hunting trip. He is 
the man who gives his guide $s0 extra for a shot at a 
moose, or even a buck. I know of an instance where a 
sportsman shot a deer from a canoe, He was so elated 
that he at once gave the high-priced rifle with which he 
did the killing to his guide. Such men say a license 
Gf high enough) will keep out a cettain class of sports- 
men: I think Maine will find out that it will, and it will 
be a large class, too. 

Again. it is said the license will keep out the over- 
eager sportsman, who always shoots at any indistinct 
moving object, and, when it proves to be a man. with 
deadly accuracy. Perhaps it will work as well as the 
manslaughter clause, but there will be this difference— 
the license will have to be paid at the start; the man- 
slaughter penalty, so far, not at all. 

Personally, it does not matter what other States en- 
force against non-residents. It is some years since I gave 
up both fishing and hunting trips to Maine and tte 
Provinces. I am content with what my native State can 
furnish. Here in New Hampshire we cannot offer non- 
resident sportsmen as much as some other States. Deer 
and bear are the largest game, unless one can get into 
Corbin’s Park. 

Since this State adopted the Forest AND STREAM’s 
Plank, closing the market on grouse and woodcock, the 
matket shooter’s day of prosperity ended. We have 
never seriously considered the licensing of non-residents 
who may come here after our larger game. We think 
they pay for what they get. Should Maine enforce the 
hunting license, New Hampshire may follow. It will be 
a case of “If I can’t play in your yard, you can’t in 
mine,” 

Your interesting correspondent, Special, quotes a resi- 
dent of Maine as saying, “It is a shameful fact that nine- 

tenths of the game taken out of Maine by sportsmen is 
. Shot by their guides.” They are registered guides, and 
as I understand, registering means the annual payment 
of a nominal price, and that each guide so registered 
was to keep a strict account of what he or the men he 
guided did in the way of killing game. Why don’t the 
fathers of this guide-registering business publish the 
accounts of their children? Tt would be interesting read- 
ing if truly written, 

Statements are published showing that thousands of 
dollars are left each year in Maine by non-resident sports- 
men, also statements that game js increasing; the railroads 
advertise it, and so do the camp-keepers. The latter 
Say, you are sure of your limit of deer. The inference 
is that if you can’t kill it your registered guide can, and 
will. You can haye all the glory by paying for it. If 
the statement of the Maine resident (as quoted by 
Special) is true (for my part I think it is), the registered 
guide is the one who needs looking after. 


Instead of a license, how would it work to make all ~ 


game wardens justices of the 
going out of the State with 
he got it? It is very 
Bangor or other places, 
going out with it.” 
so-called owner might embarrass some of them. 


C. M. Stark. 


peace, and put every man 
game under oath as to how 
easy to say to the warden at 
“This game is mine, and I am 


Dunearron, N. H., Jan. 15. 


— 


A Maine View of It. 


Tirom the Lewiston, Me., Fournal. 


Te latest move of the Fish and Game Commission is 
the proposition to place a tax on every one who comes 
to this State for the purpose of either fishing or hunting, 
We have known a great many fool propositions and laws 
from this source, but this one seems to cap the climax 
for absurdity. One of the greatest sources of wealth to 
this State is the steady stream of summer visitors who 
seek these shores and hills for a few days or weeks of 
rest and recreation, There are but few of these guests 
who do not like to occasionally take a fishing trip, or if 
late in the season, to take a run through the woods in 
quest of game. To place a special tax on these guests 
would simply be to kill the goose that Jays the golden 
ege. Our people must not think that Maine is the only 
pebble on the beach. There are other States that offer 
feailities to the sportsman as well as ours. Canada, also, 
lies at our doors with her unrivaled forests, lakes and 
Streams, The lower Provinces are fully the equal of 
Maine in this respect, and they will be only too elad to 
welcome the visitors which we may drive away. Vermont 
and New Hampshire are making bids for the people who 
of late have been coming to Maine. In our judgment 
the imposition of this proposed tax would drive a large 
portion of our summer visitors to seek other fields for 
their recreation. The American people are famous for 
rebelling against any unjust measures or petty extortion. 
They are not obliged to come to Maine, and they will not 
. do so if they are oblized to submit to any imposition. 
‘ Not only that, but a large proportion of the people who 
"come here for their vacation cannot afford to pay the pro- 

posed tax. They are mechanics, teachers and others who 
can barely save up enough money to defray the annual 
expenses-of a summer outing. To add an additional tax 
would simply be prohibitive for this class. The rich are 
not obliged to submit to the imposition, as they can easily 
g0 elsewhere and have the money ta do so. f 

: summer business of 
Maine might be ground into atoms. The people of Maine 
cannot afford to indorse an extortion that bids fair to de- 
stroy a large part of their yearly income, 

No part of our State Government has been so befuddled 
and fooled with as our fish and game Jaws, and the 
quicker a change of some kind js made’ the hetter it wiff 
he for our State and its future Prosperity, The imposi- 
ton of 4 license law on the guides was but little short of 


housekeeping and hunting. ~ 


Testifying that it was killed by the 


Between | 


nated in the permit. 


FOREST AND STREAM. | 


an outrage. There is no more reason why a guide should 
be forced to pay a special license tax than a farmer or a 
mechanic. If the business is a legitimate one it should 
be made free; if it is illegitimate, then it should be 
suppressed. At any rate, it is high time to call a halt in 
regard to some of the game laws that are now going on 
our statutes. In view of the fact that human beings are 
frequently shot down for game, it becomes a question if 
enforced Jaw to protect men in our forests is not quite as 
necessary as a law to protect cow moose. 


The Lacey Act. 


From the Annual Report by T. S. Palmer, Acting Chief of the 
Biological Survey, 


The interest in bird protection aroused through the 
pasage of the Lacey act has extended to all classes and 
to all sections of the country, Never before has so much 
attention been given to game legislation, and intelligent 
interest in the subject has been clearly exemplified in 
the numerous improved game laws enacted at the recent 
sessions of the State Legislatures. Efforts have been 
made to place the subject on a higher plane and to secure 
greater uniformity in the laws, of adjoining States. _In 
several instances these efforts, in which national organiza- 
tions have co-operated with State Legislatures and offi- 
cials, haye met with marked success, as shown by the 
enactment of a practically uniform law for the protection 
of insectivorous birds in eight States and the District of 
Columbia. Greater uniformity confers a twofold benefit: 
It makes the State laws far more effective, and it 
strengthens the Federal statute which rests upon these 
local laws as a basis. Thus, it can safely be said that 
the Lacey act has been materially strengthened as a re- 
sult of the legislation of root. 


Additional Game Protective Legislation Necessary. 


The Federal statute has not only been the means of 
giving greater efficiency to local laws, but it has brought 
to light many weak points in both Federal and State laws 
which should be remedied by further legislation. _ Espe- 
cially is this true of the Federal statutes relating to 
Alaska, the Indian Territory, and the forest. reserves. 
Alaska has practically no game law; the Indian Terri- 
tory 1s protected only by a stattite enacted in 1832 which 
fails to meet modern requirements; and the forest reserves 
are greatly in need of a law which will either make them 
game preseryes or provide for the establishment of game 
refuges in certain parts of the feserves suitable for this 
purpose. These Territories and reservations constitute 


. the natural ranges of most of the big game now remaining 


in the United States, and with adequate legislation may be 
made the means of preserving certain species indefinitely. 


Importation of Foreign Birds and Animals. 


With the cordial co-operation of the Treasury Depart- 
ment a system for keeping account of and exercising con- 
trol over wild animals and birds imported from foreign 


- countries was devised and put into operation at the be- 


ginning of the fiscal year. Under this system, permits 
issued’ by the Department of Agriculture must be pre- 
sented to the proper customs officers at the port of entry 
before the animals or birds can be. admitted. Large 
shipments and those containing species whose identity is 
in doubt are subject to examination by special inspectors, 
and quarterly reports of actual entries from customs offi- 
cers, transmitted through the Treasury Department, fur- 
nish a check on the operation of the law. 

In view of the fact that the law was unknown to many 
importers at the time it went into effect, that the importa- 
tions were often made at remote ports of entry, and that 
in many cases a delay of a few hours might have meant 
serious loss in the case of tropical animals afriving at 
northern ports during the winter, it is gtatifying to note 
that only one or two complaints have been received of 
losses due to‘delay, and that for these the ‘Department 
was not responsible... Everything possible has been done 
to facilitate prompt entry. Arrangements have been 
made by which permits may be had on telegraphic re- 
quest, so that within an hour after the receipt of the 
request the collector of customs at any port of the United 
States can be notified that the permit has been issued. 
Special inspectors, who can, when necessary, examine 
consignments immediately upon arrival, have been ap- 
pointed at six of the most important ports, viz., Boston, 
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, and 
San Francisco. Finally, the list of species which may be 
imported without permits has been materially extended, 
During the first three months after the law Went into 
operation, permits were required for practically all for- 
eign animals, birds and reptiles. On September 13, 1900, 
however, an order was issued by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, which exempted on and after October 1, 1600, 


_thirty of the largest and best known animals, three well- 


known groups of birds, and all reptiles. The object of 
this order was to avoid the trouble and annoyance inci- 
dent to securing permits for the importation of well- 
known harmless species. It was intended that this list 
should include no species that could not be identified 
without the aid of experts, but as a few animals requiring 
permits have been brought in under the hames of one 
or two species in the excepted list, further slight modifi- 
cations may be necessary, : 
During the year 186 permits were issued, 
entry of about 350 mammals, 
reptiles. The reptiles include 
the first three months of the 
of mammals is much smaller than it would be had there 
been no order of exemption. Among the birds were 626 
pheasants, 4,237 quail, about 1,000 other fame birds, and 
4.147 cage birds. Among the importations of special in- 
terest may be mentioned a young giraffe from West 
Africa, several chimpanzees, and some Cuban flamingoes. 
The numbers given are somewhat in excess of actual 
importations. Applications for permits frequently con- 
tain merely estimates of the number of animals or birds 
expected, and, through deaths en route or failure on part 
of foreign agents to fill orders, the number actually arriv- 
ing in any consignment is apt to fall short of that desig- 


1 covering the 
10,006 birds and thirty-eight 


fiscal year, and the number 


. The Jaw has accomplished the main object for which 
it was enacted, namely, the exclusion of the mongoose 
and similar pests, Moreover, through its enforcement 
certain important information has been obtained regard- 


only those arriving during. 


BAN: 25, 1902, | 


ing the importation of live birds and of cage birds for! 
exhibition, It appears that a considerable trade in Old 
World pheasants is conducted with the Province off 
Ontario, the birds being imported chiefly by way of 
Detroit and Niagara Falls; there is also a regular trad =I 
in live Chinese quail at the port of San Francisco, where} 
more than 4,000 birds from Hongkong were brought inj 
for market purposes and sold to Chinese residents of the 
city between December, 1900, and June, 1901. Cage birds! 
are imported chiefly from Germany, Australia, China and, 
Japan, through the ports of New York and San Fran- 
cisco, and many parrots from Mexico and Central Amer- 
ica are landed at New Orleans and San Diego, ! 
So far as known to the Department, only three speci- 
mens of the mongoose were imported during the year. 
One of these arrived at Philadelphia on the steamer’ 
Urania, from Jamaica, on May 20. Within twenty-four) 
hours it was killed and deposited as a specimen in the] 
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. A. second mongoose | 
reached San Francisco in June, 1901, and was promptly 
destroyed. A third was reported from Los Angeles, Cal, 
in June, but investigation showed that it had arrived | 
several months previously from some port on the Gulf: 
coast, and had died in January. So fas as known at. 
present, there are no live specimens of the mongoose 
in the United States, except a few in confinement in. 
zoological gardens. <A strict enforcement of existing 
regulations should effectually prevent the entrance of. 
this or any other pest, 


Interstate Commerce in Birds Killed or Possessed in | 
Violation of Local Laws. 


During the year numerous cases of violation of game | 
laws have been called to the attention of the Department, 
of which fifty-seven have received careful investigation. 
Of those taken up, eight resulted in conviction,* thirty- 
three are awaiting action by the courts, eight are still in — 
the hands of the Department awaiting further evidence, | 
and eight have been dropped for want of evidence. These ; 
cases Originated in twelve States and Territories, viz,, 
Arkansas, Indiana, Indian Territory, lowa, nsas, 
Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South 
Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, and involved the seizure 
of 11,940 quail, 974 prairie chickens, 387 miscellaneous 
game, and 2,608 plume birds, or a total of nearly 16,000 
birds. Of the 41 cases acted upon by this Department, 14 
were referred to local authorities and 27 were transmitted 
to the Department of Justice for prosecution in the: 
Federal courts. As a rule, the causes of action have 
arisen through shipment of birds killed in violation of 
local laws, and the large proportion of cases still undis- 
posed of at the close of the year is due to the fact that in 
most instances attention was not called to the offenses | 
until several months after they were committed; more- | 


| 


over, it frequently happened that the most important fact | 


—the shipper’s name—was unknown, and the Department 
was called upon to 
dence, often a very 


slow and tedious process. 

The aid of the Department has been sought in con: 
nection with the enforcement of the provisions against 
illegal shipment of game to a greater extent than was an- 
ticipated. Such aid has been freely rendered, though it 
has been the aim to confine action merely to supplement- 
ing the efforts of local authorities, and to refer cases to 
State authorities for action, whenever possible. The 
provisions of the law are such that violation of the Fed- 
eral statute necessarily involves a previous violation of a 
local law, and it is possible, therefore, to prosecute cases 
either in local or Federal courts. Whenever conditions 
have been favorable to success in State courts, or the evi- 
dence in the hands of the Department has been such as 
could be used in a prosecution in such courts, the case 
has been promptly turned over to local authorities; other- 
wise it has been feferred to the Department of Justice. 

In this connection mention should be made of the cor- 
dial co-operation of Federal and State officers, as well 
as railroad and express companies, game protective asso- 
ciations, and various individuals. These have rendered 
every assistance in their power in the enforcement of the 
Federal law. Important aid has been received from the 
State game commissioners or wardens of Illinois, Towa, 
Maine, and Michigan, by the American, Pacific, United 
States and Wells Fargo Express Companies, and by the 
Game and Fish Protective Association of Maryland, the 
League of American Sportsmen, and the American 
Ornithologists’ Union. 

Of the cases above mentioned, fifty-four involved fame 
birds and three non-game birds. he first case under 
the Lacey act reported to the Department was one in- 
volving the shipment of seventy-two young prairie 
chickens from St, Lonis to Chicago in July, 1900. These 
birds were shipped under a cipher address, without state- 
ment of contents on the package, and were intercepted 
in transit, so that neither the carrier nor the consignee 


assist in obtaining the necessary evi- 


could be held responsible, and as the shipper could not be 


located the case was dropped. The first case acted upon 
by a Federal court involyed the shipment of a small 
package of millinery samples (containing among others 
seven gulls and terns) from Brownsville, Texas, to New 
York Eity in December, 1900. The shipper was indicted, 
promptly plead guilty, and paid his fine, and the case 
was concluded within a few weeks alter it was first 
reported. 

A case which perhaps attracted more general attention 
than any other was one based on information received 
by the Department in September, 1900. The matter was 
referred to the local authorities in Baltimore for action, 
and resulted in the seizure and confiscation of 2,600 plume 
birds, offered for sale in violation of the State law of 
Maryland, The case was prosecuted through three courts 
by the Maryland Fish and Game Protectiye Association. 
and the dealer was compelled to pay a fine of $100 and 
costs. This action attracted widespread attention in the 
millinery trade, and brought the Department into corre- 
spondence with the leading wholesale millinery firms in 
eastern cities. The wholesale houses in Baltimore 
promptly withdrew gulls and terns from sale, and assur- 
ances were received from the Millinery Merchants’ Pro- 
tective Association and from leading houses in ‘Boston, 
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore that they would, 
so far as possible, withdraw from sale and discourage 

“Three of these convictions have been obtained since July 1, 1901. 


Mention should also be made of fi 
the § 


evidence ; ¥eferred by the 
States marshal directly to the State Reme warden for 


Jaw. 28, 1902.] 


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the use of these and other birds protected by local laws. 
The effectiveness with which such cases can be dis- 
posed of under certain State laws is well illustrated by 
one instance in which, through the energy of the game 
warden of Iowa, a conviction was secured and the fine 
paid within three weeks after the evidence had been for- 
warded from the Department. Convictions have been 
seciired in a majority of the cases involving illegal ship- 
ments from Iowa and the penalty itnposed in each oi 
seven cases was a fine of $100 and costs, and in another 
eee for thirty days. 
ut the results of the enforcement of the law are not 
to be measured by the number of prosecutions or by the 
severity of the penalties imposed. Attention has been 
called to local laws which had long remained dead letters; 
the methods of shipping game and the devices resorted 
to in evading the regulations have been investigated, 
and information thus secured can be used in preventing 
similar violations; it has been shown that evidence of 
illegal shipments that will insure conviction cati be ob- 
_tained a thousand miles from the shipping point and 
months after the offense is committed; and, finally, it has 
been demonstrated that shippers ate no longer safe as 
soon as their game has crossed a State houndary. 


Michigan Wolves and Deer. 


Catumet, Mich., Jan. 16—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Acetording to Lowis King, of Baraga, there have been 
thirty or more wolf skins brought into L’Anse for the 
$15 bounty. Speaking of the proposed increase of the 
wolf bounty, Editor Newett, of the Ishpeming Iron Ore, 


ys: 

“Tf the bounty is increased to $100, as one writer sug- 
pests, it would encourage a more active hunting of the 
animals, but with such a premium for the destruction 
there might be evil men who would engage in the business 
of raising the animals for their scalps, or they might be 
imported from other sections of the country. Beside, the 
taxpayers would consider this altogether too much. A 
bounty of $17 is liberal, as compared with many other 
counties, and ought to set the hunters aad trappers after 
them. Wolf hunts have been suggested, but it would 
require far more men than could be secured to round up 
the animals in such an immense territory and so hard 
beating as we possess. 

“Then there is a man who wants to have venison placed 
on the market again. He probably does not go hunting, 
or had hard luck if he did. The prevention of the sale 
is one of the best thing's for the preservation of deer the 
State ever did. It is too good a part of the law to repeal. 
We know it is not lived up to as completely as is de- 
sired, but this is no fault of the law. It is a good pro- 
vision, and we hope it will be kept in force, 

“The man who wants only bucks killed and who de- 
sires a longer open season has also been heard from. We 
have no patience with him. The season is now abundant- 
ly long. It might be cut down five days with advantage. 
The hunter who stops to select the bucks from the does 
will be short of pot roasts. Put the season at a time 
when the bucks are moving and when does are hiding in 
the swamps and it will do very well. But we do not want 
to.see the season extended. 

“The gentleman who wishes to dispense with the high- 
powered guns has also made his protest. He wants 
lighter gun loads, The danger is not so much from kill- 
ing a man after the deer has been shot through as in 
shooting at men, mistaking them for deer. That is the 
real danger. No matter how fast a bullet travels, it can 
only go a short distance in the woods before it engages a 
tree that will hold it. The danger is not in the guns, but 
in the fool hunters who, through nervousness or excite- 
ment, shoot at noises, shadows and men, thinking they 
must be deer. The law, unfortunately, does not look after 
«the manufacture of men, and fools still continue to be 
born and to go hunting. For the man who shoots an- 
other there should be a law and a severe one. If the 
fools kill one man they should at least be placed where 
they cannot repeat the offense.” 


New Brunswick Guides. 


From the Fredericton (N. B.) Herald, Fan. 15, 


THE annual meeting of the New Brunswick Guides’ As- 
sociation was held at the Barker House yesterday after- 
noon and evening. Adam Moore, President of the Asso- 
ciation, presided, and the others present were Henry 
Braithwaite and Secretary-Treasurer Slipp, of this city; 
Thomas Pringle, Arthur Pringle and John Sanson, of 
Stanley; George E. Armstrong, of Perth Centre; Charles 
Cremin, of Scotch Lake, and W. H. Allen, of Penniac. 

A very satisfactory report, covering the operations of 
the Association during the year, was submitted by the 
Secretary-Treasurer and adopted. The financial report 
showed a substantial balance on hand. 

The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted 
as follows: 

President—Major J. E. Sanson, Stanley, 

Vice-President—George E. Armstrong, Perth Centre. 

Secretary-Treasurer—A. R. Slipp, Fredericton. 

Executive—Henry Braithwaite, W. H. Allen, Charles 
Cremins, with the President and Secretary. 

Membership Committee—Henry Braithwaite, Adam 
Moore. 

Tt was agreed to have a delegation from the Associa- 
tion wait upon Surveyor General Dunn, and recommend 
that the game law be amended so as to have the open sea- 
son for big game commence on Sept. 1, instead of the 
15th, as at present. The members of the Association are 
firmly convinced that such a change would be in the in- 
terests of the Province, and they would not object to 
having the season shortened by ctitting off the last two 
weeks in December, providing they are allowed the first 
fortnight in September. A strong argument in favor of 
the proposed change is that a great majority of American 
sportsmen prefer to do their hunting during the mild 
weather of September, and if they cannot make arrange- 
ments for that month they are not likely to come at all. 
Then again, the large colleges of the United States open 
on Oct. 1, and the professors and students, among whom 
there are a great many sportsmen, scarcely have time as 
the law stands at present to have a mogse hunt during 


their vacation period, It is felt that if the season opened 


on Sept. 1, there would be an additional hunting party 
for every big-game guide in the Province. oe 

A set of iyalaers for the governing of the Association, 
drafted by the secretary and treasurer, were submitted 
to the meeting and approved of. 

It was unanimously decided to hold a meeting at Perth 
Centre at a later date in the season, and endeavor to in- 
terest the guides of the Tobique in the work of the 
Association. ; 

The question of issuing licenses to non-resident guides 
was disctissed at some length, and the consenstis of 
opinion seemed to be that steps should be taken by the 
government to prevent this class of people from pursuing 
their vocation in New Brunswick. It was very properly 
pointed out that the non-resident guide has no particular 
interest in preserving the game of our Province, and is 
not overly particular whether he commits a violation of 
the law or not. In addition to’ that the money he earns 
as a gttide is not expended within the Province, and he 
confers no benefits upon the community, 

The New Brunswick Guides’ Association was organized 
one year ago with the object of promoting the interests 
of those who make a business of guiding sportsmen to 
our forests in search of game, and it is felt by those con- 
nected with it, that the organization is more than accom- 
plishing its purpose. The only drawback is that a number 
of experienced guides in different parts of the Province 
have not as yet seen fit to identify themselves with the 
association, and thts encourage and assist a movement 
bound to prove of great benefit to them. The association 
has done considerable advertising during the past season, 
and has no doubt been instrumental in directing the at- 
tention of many sportsmen to the splendid game resources 
of this Province. The same policy will be pursued during 
the ensuing year, and the organization has a tight to ex- 
pect the co-operation of all those likely to be benefited 
by its labors, A large membership is wanted to make 
the work more effective, and it is the duty of all guides 
to enroll themselves beneath the banner of the 
Association. 


New Hampshire Game. 


Dunsarton, N. H,, Jan. 15 —Years ago when a boy 
of ten vears I owned my first gun. I can go to-day 
almost to the exact spot where I killed my first grotse. 
The bird was running along in front of me. I suppose 
I felt better over killing that grouse than of the hardest 
shot I have made since. 

In those days we never thought of shooting at a bird 
on the wing. One might get’ up right at our feet on open 
ground, and we watched to see if it would stop in a tree. 
We seldom missed entirely such shots as we took; yet 
we often failed to kill. As the years passed some of us 
found out that a grouse could be killed otherwise thas 
when sitting still. When I learned how to handle a 
setter, I began to hunt in a more systematic manner. 
Year after year hunting over practically the same ground, 
I killed hundreds of grouse and woodcock each season. 
No matter how many I killed, there seemed nearly as 
many left. Then it was realized that our birds had a 
market value; and the market shooter appeared. He 
got in his work so thoroughly that birds began to grow 
very much scarcer, and wilder. Various plans were sug- 
gested by those interested in preserving our birds; yet 
closing of the markets was not thought of. 


The Forest AND STREAM some years since came out 


with its now well-known plank, “Stop at all times and in 
all places the sale of game.”’ When the above was first 
suggested I spoke to the oldest member of the Massa- 
chusetts Fish and Game Commission. This man was 
very emphatic in his opinion of a man who shot for the 
market. He said, “This plan of Forest AND STREAM’S 
is just what we want, but I do not think either of us will 
live to see it generally in force.” Nevertheless, we have. 
Massachusetts has it; New Hampshire, although late, 
has taken it up; last season was our first with the markets 
closed. Grouse in this section were unusually scarce. I 


have had men say to me that it was owing to closing of | 


the markets. There is little use in arguing with some 
people. The season following Bryan’s first defeat for 
President was a failure for some crops in New England. 
Disappointed bolters said it was because Bryan was not 
elected. : 

For some years we have had a very active and efficient 
Board of Fish and Game Commissioners; Wentworth 
could look after the lower part of the State, where he 
lives; Hughes took care of the central, and Shurtleff in 
the north country. These men were well distributed; 
all were energetic. and there was never a complaint of 
their neglecting their work, the violators of the game 
Jaws, perhaps, excepted. _There has been a change. 
Hughes is out. I know his successor, and he is a good 
fellow. He will do his best. That he will do better than 
the man he succeeds, I doubt. Hughes lives in the deer 
hunting tegion, There are trout ponds in that region 
which need looking after. A man living near such 
grounds can hear of violations more quickly, and get 
after the poachers earlier. 

Some years ago a few deer were turned loose in parts 
of this State where they had not been seen for more than 
a generation. The result has been better than any one 
could expect. To-day deer are seen often. A few days 
since I started out after a fox. Thete was some four 


‘inches of noisy snow, and it was snowing. With my dog 


1 cruised over some miles of good fox ground, but for 
some reason the foxes had failed to leave signs of their 
wandering. Not a track could we find which the old 
hound thought worth following. While going along 
within sight of my house I heard something, and look- 
ing up saw a deer. This deer had just started, and was 
running slowly. It waved its flag as though saying, “T 
am not afraid; I am protected.” A moment later deer 
No, 2 followed the first. The old dog saw them. He 
pricked up his ears and stood looking. He seemed to 
think, “I don’t know what it is, but I know they are not 
foxes.” He showed no indications of wanting to chase 


them, and he was wiser than some of his breed. As. 


I write I think the two deer are within sight of my 
house. 
numbers, 
dead, 


One live deer in this section is worth ten 


C. M, Srarx. 


IT hope they are, and that they will increase in’ 


Game in lowa. 


THE game season closed Dec. 31, with the limit on 
quail. It was the best known for several years on birds— 
quail and grouse. May and June were wet and cold 
months, retarding incubation; July, August and Septem- 
ber were very dry and warm, giving the young things a 
good chance to grow, A boat trip on the Des Moines 
River for a hundred miles the latter part of July, gave an 
idea there was to be a good crop of birds from the num- 
ber seen and heard along the banks, in woods, brush and 
field. With the coming of November and opening of the 
quail season, the first trip afield gave an agreeable sur- 
prise as to numbers. The State being thickly settled, birds 
have a hard struggle for existence, and are very wild, 
being hunted by every man or boy who has a gun, or 
can beg, borrow or steal one. It requires a dog to locate 
them, and a quick shot to catch them as they rise with a 
roar and be off like a hornet. 

Prairie chickens were more plentiful than usual. The 
last trip to the country, Dec. 30, discovered several 
flocks not far from this city; the wildest things ever seen; 
nobody could get within shot of them. Enough quail 
were seen to make a person think plenty were left to keep 
up the supply for mext season, 

Fifty years ago, when the writer came a twelve-year-old 
boy to Iowa, he used to hunt quail with a long, single- 
barrel muzzleloader, so heavy that he had to rest it on a 
stump or forked sapling so as to get a shot. The birds 
were so abundant and tame then that they would not 
rise till shot at; firing into a covey on the ground would 
kill most of them with a pot-shot. A dog was not needed 
then to find the scattered birds; just whistle them up to- 
gether again in a few minutes and get the balance. Wild 
pigeons were plenty then, and many a pigeon pie was the 
result of the boy hunter’s raid through the woods with 
that Jong gun. 

A sixty-two-year-old man ought to think about giving 
up all-day trips hunting, but as a man is only as old as 
he feels, it does him good to get out again with gun or 
rod, and will make him live longer for so doing, It 
makes a cold streak run up his spinal marrow to have a 
covey rise with a thundering roar and be off before he 
can draw quickly enough to make a good shot. Still, it is 
enjoyment. 

Rabbits are very plentiful also, and great numbers have 
been shot. The weather since New Year’s Day has been 
very wartn, with no snow. We are waiting now for a 
good tracking snow, so we can get after cottontails with a 
pack of beagles, to make the fields and woods ring with 
their musical yelps. There is no close season on rab- 
bits, but sports generally agree that after Feb. 1 they 
ought to be given a rest and get ready for next ‘season’s 
crop. SENEX. 

Des Mornes, Jan. 1b. 


See 
bE Scio 


Currituck “Sound Notes. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

From the wildfowler’s point of view, the present sea- 
son has been an exceptionally good one in certain re- 
gpects. Ducks of all sorts have been very numerous, but 
on the other hand, the weather haying for a good part 
of the time beén mild and pleasant, fewer ducks have 
been killed than might have been expected from their 
abundance. At the same time many big bags have been 
made, and it is said that up to the present time the Swan 
Island Club have killed about 5,000 birds. 

The Currituck Club has had good shooting, and so 
has the Narrows Island Club. 

The marshes of Josephts Baum, long controlled by 
the Palmer’s Island Club, have been leased, it is under- 
stood, to a Mr, Simpkins, of Boston, Mass., for a term 
of five years. These are well known to be excellent 
marshes, and whens properly protected yield admirable 
shooting. Of course, unless protected, no marshes are of 
any value. 

For the past three weeks the shooting at Swan Island 
Club has been exceedingly good. The waters there being 
very shoal, they are frequented almost entirely by marsh 
ducks, and deep-water ducks are uncommon, A number 
of snow geese—commonly known as white brant—have 
been killed there lately. 

Further to the southward high tides have prevailed re- 
cently, with the result that the marsh ducks have largely 
desetted the waters and have pushed their way further 
north fo the shoaler grounds, where they can feed better, 

In the Sound, from Church’s Island south to Jew’s 
Quarter, canvasbacks have been extremely abundant, yet 


_ comparatively few have been killed, owing to the bright, 


clear weather. From Jew’s Quarter southward, there are 
large numbers of redheads, a species hardly found in the 
territory just referred to as abounding in canvasbacks. 

Just at present there is rather a lull in the gunning by 
the professional gunners, who use the bush blind and the 
battery. Prices for wildfowl are usually high wp to the 
holidays, but fall immediately after that time, and thus 
the inducement to the market-gunners is lessened, More- 
over, the continual sailing and chasing up of all sorts of 
wildfowl has a tendency to drive the birds away, and in 
pleasant weather many of the fowl when disturbed now 
fly over the beach and out to sea, where they raft in _ 
considerable numbers, not returning to their feeding 
grounds until dark. Meantime the cripple hunters, and 
sailors generally, pass up and down the Sound killing 
bluepeters (American coot) and picking up the odds and 
ends of cripples which they may find floating on the 
water. These, of course, they sell to the buyers along 
the shore, but the bluepeters they eat, for there is no 
market for them. 

In about a month now the law will permit the fringing 
of boobies—the local name for the ruddy duck, which 
within a few years has become a game bird of value, 
though formerly quite beneath the contempt of the gunner. 
Tt is really extraordinary how the increasing scarcity of 
the better sotts of wildfow!l has brotight to the front 
these smaller and less desirable birds. It is possible that 
a time may come when people will bloodthirstily pursue 
the swamp spatrow and the short-billed marsh wren 
through the reeds of the marsh, 

The shooting for this week—ending Jan. 18—has been 
spoiled by a light freeze, which continued so long that 
the ducks were driven away. On Monday two members 
of the Narrows Island Club killed sixty-five ducks and 


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three geese on one of the marshes in the sound. They 
were obliged to break their way through the ice to an air 
hole, where they had good shooting. These were the 
only fortunate members of that club. All the ponds and 
most of the coves in the marshes were frozen over. 

On Tuesday everything was shut tight by thin ice, ex- 
cept portions of the open sound. There was thus no 
shooting. 

Wednesday was a lay day, when duck shooting is for- 
bidden, and on Thursday the pond opened to some ex- 
tent, but very few ducks put in an appearance. 

Friday was an ideal duck shooting day, with a strong 
northwest wind and a cloudy sky, but there were still 
fewer dicks, and the geese scarcely moved at all. The 
score for that day for eight men was only twenty-eight 
birds, and for the whole week only 224 birds, or an aver- 
age of four birds per day per man. 

WILDFOWLER. 

Jan. 19. 


Canadian Non-Residence Licenses. 


MontreaL, P. O—Editor Forest and Streaint: I notice 
in my Forest AND StrEAM of Jan. 18 that there are a 
couple of errors which I trust you will permit me to cor- 
rect. In your editorial on the proposed Maine license 
you say, “The Canadian Provincial laws, which set up 
barriers against Americans as aliens.” Now the Canadian 
Provincial laws set up no barriers against Americans as 
aliens. A sportsman from the States has precisely the 
same privileges in any one of the Provinces of Canada as 
are enjoyed by a Canadian sportsman from any cther 
Province. 'When a Provincial tax is put on a non-resident 
sportsman it applies equally to the British subject and the 
alien. 

Another error which I should like to point out is con- 
tained in the speech which Hon. Charles E. Oak made 
before the last meeting of the Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and 
Game Asscciation. Mr. Oak is reported to have said: 
“We are cited to the fact that the Provinces of Canada 
exact a fee for hunting. and that they still flourish. This 
is true. gentlemen, and it is also true that they exact a 
fee for fishing as well.” 

While Mr. Oak's statement is true as regards most 
of the Canadian Provinces, it is not true of the great 
Province of Ontario. In Ontario no fishing license is 
exacted, provided the fisherman be accompanied by an 
Ontario guide. The only exception to this is the local 
licgase which has to be taken out to fish the Nepigon. 

: TORONTONIAN. 


Publications. 


Slew 
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“American Duck Shooting.” 


The man who secures a copy of the superb volume. 
“American Duck Shooting,” which ha: just been issued 
front the Forest aNp STREAM press, will get a good run 
for his money. In the first place. or the second place, one 
might perhaps better say, the volume itself is a large and 
important one, numbering nearly 650 pages. illustrated 
with eight full-page views. two dozen general illustra- 
tions, fifty-eight pictures of birds and fifty vignettes in- 
serted in the text. The binding. press work and me- 
chanical details are beautifully done. so that the book it- 
self is not only important in subject matter, but also a 
superb piece of work. 

In the next place. that is to say the first place, the 
author, Mr. George Bird Grinnell, has given to the text 
not only a painstaking care, but a breadth of experience 
and scope of information which may not be found in any 
book hitherto published on the not unusual theme of 
wildfowl and wildfowl shooting. As much as this might 
be expected from a writer of Mr. Grinnell’s attainments, 
yet the result remains surprising in its grasp and finality. 
The éspecial excellence of the work is its breadth and 
catholicity. Heretofore we have had books on wildfowl 
which embodied the experience of one man or of a few 
men, or which described more especially one section of 
the country, or a few such sections, All these books were 
interest'ng and valuable in their way and in their time, yet 
it is not too much to say that they are supplanted, and 
satisfactorily supplanted, by this conclusive volume. which 
is the last offering of the Forest ANp STREAM press to the 
discriminating sportsman public. This is the last word on 
wildfowl shooting. and it deals not only with the past, 
not only with the days of abundance. but with the times 
of lessening numbers in wild game, and with the condi- 
tions of to-day. It may be considered, indeed, the only 
up-to-date production in this line. 

It is a difficult thing to produce a book which shall 
appeal alike to the naturalist and to the sportsman, and 
customarily the attempt causes the one or the other to 
suffer. For “American Duck Shooting” it is to be said 
that the scientific information, while ample. is handled 
in such a’popular and easily understood way, that it can- 
not affright the most timid. Upon the other hand. the 
methods of shooting, the habits of the game, and the best 
manner in which ‘to encompass the capture of the game, 
are more fully treated than may be found in any other 
work which at present comes to mind. The descriptions 
of the different forms of wildfowl shooting cover all sec- 
tions of the country, from one ocean to the other, includ- 
ing the West, the Middle West and the Far West. as well 
as the Eastern long shore shooting and the forms of the 
art as practiced in the Southern regions. The writer 
does not pretend to limit himself to his own personal ex- 
periences, and in this he shows a wisdom not evinced by 
all writers on sporting topics. He has availed himself 
without stint of the treasures long garnered up in the 
pages of the Forest ANv STREAM, and the result of this. 
with his own wide researches afield. have enabled him to 
offer the public an amount of solid yet well-digested in- 
formation, such as I take it is not paralleled in any pub- 
lication ona kindred theme. One would apply that quality 
to. the book—that it is desirable for the amount of infor- 
mation which it contains, The pictures are especially 
elaborate and valuable, ( 
and recognize the likeness of every duck he ever saw. and 
he may, by turning over these pages, find the name, de- 
scription and personal habits ef that duck which every 
shooter has, at one time or another, killed—whose name 
he could not tell, As much may he said for the members 


Here the most ignorant can find’ 


a4 
of the goose family and the swans. The individual as 
well as the general habits of the family and species are 
given careful treatment, so that one has no difficulty in 
recognizing all his old acquaintances and in making addi- 
tional friends among the wildfowl. . 

The pictures which accompany the text are not in- 
tended simply to amplify the text, but to add to it and to 
serve the purpose of actual instruction. This applies more 
especially to the portraits of the birds. The general illus- 
trations of batteries, shocting boats, ete.. come in the 
nature of useful information. Lastly. the shooting stories. 
genuine. out-and-out stories of hot corners and big bags, 
are abundant, written as the shooter loves to see it set 
down, All the details of the wildfowler’s arts and strata- 
gems are specified. and it must be a poor reader indeed 
who cannot learn somewhat from this, be he young of 
old in the ancient game of fowling. 

There is one reflection. and one of sadness, left after 
turning the pages of this book, and it is that the old 
day of plenty of American wildfowl has passed away for- 
eyer, The history of the Platte, the Arkansas and other 
streams is fresh in the minds of Western and Eastern 
shooters. Our abundance has departed. perhaps never to 
return. If it is ever to return, then certainly it must be 
through an observation of the wise counsel with which the 
hook concludes: “To bring back the ducks in their old- 
t'me abundance, the gunners must agree— 

“To stop spring shooting; 

“Limit the size of bags for a day and a season; 

“Stop the sale of game.” 

These doctrines are announcéd not in the form of dog- 
ma, Or even of mere personal belief, but are supported by 
careful investigation and an even and fair process of 
reascning, such as best appeal not only to the sportsman. 
but also to the student and scientific man, to all of which 
classifications Mr. Grinnell has surely long been entitled, 
It is questionable whether the Forest and. Stream Publish- 
ing Company has ever put out a book of greater accom- 
plishment than the one at hand. 

E. Houca, 


Hartrorp Burtprixe, Chicago, Ill 


Sea and River Sishing. 
—— —__. 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest AND STREAM. 


The Striped Baw. 


Rockfish, or Roccus lineatus (Bloch), 


THE striped bass is abundant on the Atlantic coast of 
the Un‘ted States from Maine to Florida, and ascends all 
rivers in the spring to spawn. (This run has broken 
stripes.) It is an important game and food fish, and at- 
tains a weight of 30 to 90 pounds. There is no better 
panacea for the ills of man than the gentle health-giving 
pastime of angling. It brings him close in touch with 
Mother Nature, consequently he becomes a good citizen 
and undoubtedly lives longer than his neighbor, who 
chains himself to business and its cares, and won't take an 
occasional day’s outing with rod and reel. 

The striped bass (Roccus lineatus) is yery properly 
classed at the head of the great varieties of salt-water 
fish, taken on hook and line, In the estimation of many 
anglers it is placed at the highest point of all fish angled 
for. It certainly possesses many attributes which other 
fish lack. It is a noble, handsome fish, a hard, courageous 
fighter, and its epicurean tastes and changing habits makes 
it one of the most inexplicable fish found in our local 
waters, with which anglers have to deal. The flounder 
fishermen are quite certain of making a catch in their sea- 
son, fishermen after bluefish generally catch a mess, and 
when the weakfish are running it is not only a question of 
catching those spotted beauties, but how many will each 
tide yield? 

This is not the case with the striped bass. They must 
be hunted and followed from one ground to another. 
They must be coaxed. and lured with endless varieties of 
bait, and thus the angler starting out after these peculiar 
fish knows before he makes his first cast that his chances 
for making a good score are not in his favor. Should 
it be his good fortune to display a half-dozen good-sized 
bass, after his day’s fishing, he feels proud of the 
achievement. 

When a big bass is hooked and landed nowadays in 
these waters, and a 12 or 15 pound fish is considered a 
“big fellow.” it not alone creates excitement among 
angling circles, which no other fishing feat can accom- 
plish, but the metropolitan newspapers devote consider- 
able space to its capture and illustrate both the fish and 
captor. 

In former years striped bass were more plenty than 
now. Their scarcity is attributed to several reasons, 
among them’ the pollution of waters. the increase of 
marine navigation, the illegal setting and hauling of nets, 
and the wanton capture and possession of undersized fish, 
called by local anglers ‘‘baby bass,” signifying fish under 
8 inches long, the size prescribed by law. 

When these obstacles are removed or eradicated by 
sensible legislation, and the laws sttictly enforced, then 
in a measure, and not until then, can anglers look for- 
ward to good sport with these kings of fishes. 

Anglers having the good of their fayorite pastime at 
heart should band themselves together, and insist that 
our law framers should go further than merely to issue 
a lot of printed matter, they should enforce the laws to 
the very letter. 

The habits and tastes of the striped bass are very differ- 
ent from the general run of fish. They are rightly called 


“the epicures of fishdom.” Their appetites are as change-_ 


able as the winds. They are not always found dining at the 
same grounds. They are freaky, appearing and vanish- 
ing as quickly as April showers. To-day they may be 
nosing around the shores of Staten Island; to-morrow, 
Liberty Island and viec'nity will have a visit from them: 
thep they rush away for a trip up the North or Fast 
rivers. Then the waters of Jamaica Bay may afford good 
fishing for them, then the following days they will appear 
in Gravesend Bay, when by common tonsent it would 
seem. they. vanish, na one knows whither, probably put 
into the deep Ocean, APF ISt as like aS not they may be 


sulking under some big rocks within an oar’s length of 
your boat, reftising to be coaxed out of the wet. It is 
therefore by their ever-toaming disposition and dainty 
appetites they have become classed the tincertain fish, coy 
and hard to please. for in their tastes they ate 4s 
changeable as in their travels. ; 

One day they seek one kind of food, and the next they 
inust have a change of diet. Perhaps they may take a 
sand worm to-day, but to-morrow you must offer them a 
wriggling blood worm, then in turn they must be coaxed 
and lured with calico crab, shedders, shrimp, or perchance 
a piece of the white part of mackerel belly. To the aver- 
age reader this may seem strange, but it is nevertheless 
true. which experience and practice will conclusively 
prove. They are intelligent enough to know where these 
various baits are natural to the ground, which perhaps 
accounts to a certain degree for their disposition to fol- 
low those different grounds searching for the particular 
kinds of food found there. 

They love best the rocky places, and wherever rocky 
ledges, “niggger heads” or pieces of loose broken rock 
abound, there they will be likely to be found, nosing and 
rooting about, turning the stones over with their tough 
ridged snouts in quest of worms, crabs and other 
crustacea. 

If you will examine the snout of the striped bass, you 
will obserye a stout ridge of muscle, similar to that of a 
pig. Nature has provided this leathery substance for the 
purpose of rooting in the sand and to turn the stones over 
while they look for choice morsels of food which they 
know are concealed there. 

The smaller bass are quite as voracious as the bigger 
fish} and as dainty. A bass of to inches is frequently 
known to swallow a very large hook in their hungry en- 
deavor to crowd down a big piece of crab baited on the 
hook for a big fish. The big bass would strike and hook 
himself. It is presumed that the smaller fish suck the bait 
in hook and all and the big bass comes along gives it a 
fierce quick grab, which is called the “strike.” There is 
no mistaking the strike from a bass. 


Outfits and Tackle. 


Fishing outfits melt the dollars. Particularly so when 
purchasing striped bass tackle. The better sport with 
bass is in the fall season, when the days and nights are 
cool, and then it becomes necessary to dress with more 
care than in the summer; when the winds blow warmer. 

A lined mackintosh jacket that will cost $5, pair of hip 
ventilated rubber boots. from $5 to $10, used for surf 
hshing: a pair of mackintosh mitts, $1; soft hat or cap. $2. 
and a pair of overalls, $1, fits you for any weather. The 
best rods cost money. A good rod can be purchased for 
$12. If you are an amateur you can get along with a 
cheaper grade until you become more experienced. Five 
dollars will, in some shops, procure a good enough rod for 
all ordinary uses. Calcutta bamboo, well made, is popu- 
lar with some, but greenheart rods, one or two piece, are 
preferred by the majority of anglers. All ash makes too 
heavy a stick, but a lancewood tip and ash butt makes a 
really serviceable rod. 

A casting rod should be 8 feet long, weight from 16 to 
18 ounces. For still-fishing a lighter rod, and for trolling 
a rod as light as 10 ounces can be used. 

Striped bass are almost as shy as brook trout, and they 
know considerable, too. The rig should be clean, the 
leader and line fine and strong, and the hooks sharp. 

Great care should be exercised when selecting leaders. 
which should be three and four lengths, and three and 
fuur ply. The first two for shore and still fishing, and 
the latter for trolling. The very best is the cheapest un- 
der all conditions. Some fine fish have been lost through 
parting of a cheap, inferior leader. Soak when you wish 
to strengthen them. 

The line should not necessarily be large, and should be 
of lnen. Strength is the prime question, not size. The 
Cuttyhunk brand is the most popular line, and the most 
generally used. Three hundred feet should be the length, 


and the size from a nine to eighteen thread, special, ac- 


cording to the style of fishing followed. 

A properly equipped tackle case should contain sinkers 
of yarious sizes to be used according to the current’s 
strength. Do not use heavy lead when a light sinker will 
answer. and perhaps be better adapted to the tideway. 

There are a variety of reels, brass, rubber and nickel, or 
German silver, all rubber and wood. They cost all the 
way from $1 to $50. For our local fishing, a rubber and 
German silver, multiplying click reel, to hold 300 feet of 
line, can be purchased for $10. The beginner can get a 
fair reel for $5. 

In casting from shore the bait should be thrown out as 
far as possible, and with such skill that little if any splash 
in the water is created. When once hooked, a fair-sized 
bass will fight to the last inch, and if any slack is per- 
mitted the chances for saving the fish are slight. 

There are no set rules for making the cast. 

From close observation of multitudes of salt-water 
anglers the writer concludes that each man has a style 
peculiarly his own. The main thing is to get the bait out 
as far and as noiselessly as possible without danger or dis- 
comfort to those who are immediately about you. 

The general rule, however, is to reel the lead up to 
about one foot of the rod’s tip, grasp the butt of the rod 
with the right hand, the thumb pressed lightly on the 
reel’s spool, while the left arm, with the forearm ex- 
tended. firmly grasps the rod above the reel. 

Stand squarely tipon your feet, the right foot slightly 
advanced. 

Now swing the rod over, and above the right shoulder, 
until the tip reaches the proper angle, which is detected 
by its balance, and when all is in readiness give it a sharp 
swing, by describing a half-circle, and let the lead shoot 
out. <A slight pressure of the thumb prevents the line 
from over-running, and as the leaden sinker reaches the 
water, fhe ranid run of the line should be instantly 


' checked. ~ 


When a heavy lead is used, a woolen thumb stall is 
worn to prevent blistering. In reeling in the line after the 
cast, see to it that it is laid as evenly as possible upon the 
spool, otherwise when a repetition of the east is made 
kinks or snarls are apt to form in the line, which annoy- 
ing state of affairs js to he studiously avoided, 


Seasons and Bait, 


The season for striped bass fishing in the waters of and 
adjacent to Greater New York, ig supposed ta open in 


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71 


April, with what is known as the spring run of bass. 

Some have been taken during the first weeks of that 
tnonth. 

After a few weeks’ intercession the sutumer or school 
bass appear, and after these follow the fall run of bass, 
which take the hook tntil December, 

These seasons and ruts, however, ate govertied largely 
by the state of the weather and various other cates, The 
conditions most favorable for successful bass fishing are 
cloudy days and dark nights, when the water is disturbed 
and roilly. Big bass rarely touch the most attractive lure 
when the water is clear and smooth. This conclusion has 
been drawn from actual experience while fishing from 
shore at Liberty Island. One night, when the moon was 
shining brightly. and the water was smooth and clear, the 
writer fishing there, had indifferent sttccess, and so it 
proved en other bright nights. On the other hand, one 
night the wind howled, and the tain fell in torrents, while 
all about was utter darkness, except the flickering of our 
n‘ght lamps. The water was ttrbulent, and the shore was 
being pounded by the waves. It was necessaty to be 
wrapped in oil skins. We could not see where to cast 
our bait, so we just let the sinker go straight out to fall 
where it would. On the last of the ebb tide we got eleven 
fine bass, the smallest weighing 3% pounds, and the larg- 
est 10 pounds. We lost some others, as we could not see 
well how to land the fish. While they did bite. the sport 
was full of keen enjoyment, as their strike was fierce and 
furious, partaking of the nature of the night and storm. 

Our subsequent experience proves that n’ght fishing 
is the most productive for fish, and they seem to be the 
bigger kind, who perhaps are allowed to go out alone 
o’ nights. 

When the surf pounds the shore. thickening the waters 
and turning over thé various crittstacea ttipon which the 
bass feed, they forsake their fair weather hiding places 
to seek food along the rocky ledges, and under these con- 
ditions you will be able to pick them up, as they are bound 
to take the baited hook. . 


Different Baits. 


Some anglers claim that striped bass like as bait first, 
the blood worm, then the sand worm, “shedder” crab, 
shrimp and ~“‘shedder”’ lobster, in their order named. 
That's all very good so far as it goes. It sounds nice, but 
is it sensible? Admitting these peculiar fish have par- 
ticular tastes, they do not have a set menu for their guid- 
ance. After an experience covering a number of years, in 
which the writer has carefully studied the habits and habi- 
tat of striped bass, and comparing this experience with the 
experience of numerous brother fishermen, the natural 
deduction is that it depends largely on the formation of the 
grounds fished to proye the likes or dislikes regarding 
the. taste of the bass for any particular kind of bait, and 
the most successful angler is he who, familiar with the 
natural product of any particular spot, uses the bait which 
is found there. 

If calico crab, then that will prove the most taking 
lure. Should the shores yield a crop of blood worms. that 
bait will entice the greatest number of fish. If shrimp 
are found in plenty, use shrimp, and if sand worms are 
dug from the soil, use the latter when they are found, and 
so on with all varieties of bait. 

Striped bass are rovers of the sea. They know where 
these creatures thrive, and they seek them in their hiding 
places just the same as the birds of the air visit a rice 
field for rice, a pea field for peas, or a buckwheat patch 
oe the grain they know will_be found in each particular 
place. ee 
Shad roe is capital bass bait, particularly for surf fish- 
ing. Cut the roe into small pieces about 2 inches square 


and tie up in thin muslin or gauze bags, when it is ready | 


to-be tied on the hook with exceedingly fine linen thread. 
The roe of the shad can be preserved all summer by 
tying a string loosely around the pair of them (they 
must not be broken a particle), and suspended in a large- 
inotithed glass jar. when melted tallow is poured over 
them until the jar is filled, which must then be tightly 
corked. Keep ina cold cellar, and when the fall bass come 
in you will haye fresh shad roe to offer them, of which 
they are exceedingly fond. , 

An angler relating his experience, says? 
Riverdale, on the Hudson. one fine morning; my tackle 
was of superior quality. and the best of bait that could be 
purchased. I did not get a strike. I tried the same 
place under other -conditions of the weather two days 
after, when the weather was foggy, drizzly and altogether 
inclement. I baited with two large blood worms, made my 
cast, laid down my rod and waited. Soon the reel com- 
imeneced to click, the fish was on, but my carelessness lost 
the prize. ‘Reeling in and rebaiting the almost bare 
hook, I made a cast into the eddy and had a fierce strike 
immediately. It took me more than fifteen minutes to 
land a fine bass. I got six more on that tide and stopped. 
I conclude that the finest weather does not always yield 
the finest fish or fishing so far as taking a number of 
fish is concerned.” 1. ae 


Bass Fishing Grounds, — 


For twenty-five cents Liberty Island is reached hourly 
from the Battery. The fishing there is from the landing 
on the ebb tide. On the west side of the island the fish- 
ing is best from the beach. Sandy Hook possesses some 
excellent spots. Here it is necessary to cast the bait just 
outside the breakers. about roo feet. Since the Gov- 
ernment reservations is there, not every one is permitted 
to fish along the beach. 

Along the New Jersey coast from the Hook to Barne- 
gat, particularly at Ocean Beach and South Elberon, 
striped bass are taken surf fishing, from 2 to 20 pounds, 
and sometimes they exceed the latter weight. For trolling 
or still-fishing “from small boats. the shores of Staten 

Tsland abound with many fishing points—New Dorp, 
South Beach, Gifford’s, Eltingville, Huguenot, Annadale. 
Princess’ Bay. and Tottenyille. particularly in the fall. 
At Gifford’s fish the sods on the outer beach, about 20 


feet from the shore. placing the bait by casting upon the - 


‘sods in 2 feet Of watér, always on the flood tide. 

“The Pot,” about one-quarter mile distant from Liberty 
Island, affords good’ fishing. Trolling about Robbin’s 
Reef around Sunken, Island, along the shores of Staten 
Island from the *‘Dumb Beacon” to “The Willows,” and 
from there down as far as Sailors’ Snug Harbor, and re- 


turning from “The Crib,” jn, out and around the “Nigger 


“T tried at 


Heads,” which dot the Jersey shore, generally yields some 
fish. 

“The Sods,” off Fitzgerald’s, and Gifford’s, S. I., are 
noted good grounds. Many fine bass have been taken 
from the rocks along the shores of Eltingville. Usually 
some fine catches are made from the fishing points located 
between 125th and 155th streets, North River. Numerous 
bass have been caught from the piers at Whitehall street, 
whete petinission mtst be obtained, and along the walls 
of the battery, between the bath houses, plenty of bass 
are caught from small boats. 

A place considered by some as among the best is near 
Buckwheat Island, in Staten Island Sound. within easy 
reach. A small creek there running in from the shore is 
a spot where bass are almost always found. The 
‘“Hedges,”’ in the Raritan River, above the bridge at Perth 
Amboy, are good. A few bass are taken in the Rahway 
River at Tremley. In former years fishing was good at 
the long bridge of the Central Railroad over Newark Bay, 
but it has deteriorated very much. Hell Gate was once 
famotis for striped bass. There are some fine fish to be 
had there now by trolling. If not familiar with the cur- 
rents and eddies, which rush and whirl over and about 
the rocks, it is advisable to have a boatman. Some good 
fish are taken in Bowery Bay, also Jamaica Bay, piers at 
Coney Island. Gravesend Bay affords good fishing. 
Along the ‘“Diker’’ some fairly good fish are catight by 
trolling. Some fishermen content themselves fishing from 
the pier on the Brooklyn side of the Bridge. It is true 
that during the season one or two large fish are caught 
there. As a rule, however, they do not get many over 2 
pounds. It is acknowledged the smaller fish caught there 
have an oily favor from the polluted waters. 

Striped bass fishing nowadays is not what it was some 
years ago. Anglers attribute this to the net fishermen, 
the pollution of the waters from various catises, and the 
increase of navigation. 

Along the Hudson River, at Fort Washington, Yon- 
kers, Tarrytown and Ossining, anglers who are familiar 
with the fishing points in the vicinity of those places. 
sometimes have good luck. On the Sound. at Stamford 
and New Rochelle, where trolling is followed, if you have 
a good boatman, you will be apt to strike some fine speci- 
inens of striped bass. 


The writer has, in this short story of his favorite of all. 


the. game fish that swim in salt waters, endeavored to 
point out the best and easiest way of obtaining the best 
results when starting out to capture him. 

These lines have been written as the writer would talk 
to brother fishermen, particularly the young beginner, and 
it is hoped they will prove of some benefit to that class 
at least, and of interest to the older hands at the business. 

THEODORE BIEDINGER. 
New York City 


Fish and Fishing. 


Cousin Trout or Chivin. 


CHUCK-A-LUCK inquires in your issue of the 4th inst. 
respecting the identity of the chivin, mentioned by 
Thoreau in his “‘Maine Woods,” as associated with the 
brook trout of the upper west branch of the Penobscot; 
and, doubtless misled by the common application to it of 
the name of cousin trout, inquiries if it is not a sub- 
species of Coregonus, thus assuming “‘that they have the 
adipose dorsal fin which would relate them to the trout,” 
The fish in question is neither a Coregonus, nor yet has 
it an adipose fin or any other legitimate claim to relation- 
ship to the trout, not even as a cousin. It is no more 
of a trout than the bass, which, however, passes for a 
trout in some of the Southern States, and no more en- 
titled to the name of cousin trout than a pike-perch is to 
that of salmon. Chuck-a-luck’s last guess at the identity 
of the fish is his best. Yes, Thoreau’s chivin is a 
cyptinoid, and not far removed from the variety known 
in Connecticut woods as dace. The dace belongs to the 
genus Leuciscus, and is in fact one of its chief types. 
This is not, apparently, however, the particular fish de- 
scribed by Thoreau. 

In the passage quoted by Chuck-a-luck from “The 
Maine Woods,” the famous hermit of Walden calls it the 
silver roach. Your correspondent well remarks that ‘the 
nomenclature of that early period cannot always be de- 
pended upon to identify specimens,’ and to this may be 
added the statement that vernacular names are often, in 
all periods, extremely misleading. So in order to arrive 
at the identity of this particular fish of Thoreau’s, we 
drop for the present his names “chivin, silvery roaches, 
cousin trout or what not,’ and examine the scientific 
title applied to it, which he gives as Lewcisci pulchelli, 
It is useful to bear in mind that “The Maine Woods” 
was written in 1846, and interesting to recall the fact 
that Horace Greeley paid $25 to the author for the manu- 
script of a good portion of it, sending him another $25 
later on, when he sold it for $75 to the Union Magazine, 
which printed it in 1848. The dates are important, be- 
catise it was in 1839, or seven years before Thoreau 
wrote his description of the fish, that Storer, in his 
“Fishes of Massachusetts,’ applied the term Lewtctscus 
pulchellus to the fish now known in various parts of the 
United States and Canada as the fall fish, silver chub, 
chivin, cousin trout, wind fish, corporal, gudgeon and 
ouitouche—the latter being a French-Canadian spelling 
of the Indian name. Gunther calls the American chub 
Leuciscus corporalis, Jordan and Gilbert in 1883 wrote it 
Semotilus bullaris, under which name I described the fish 
in 1896 in “The Ouananiche and Its Canadian Enyiron- 
ment.” In their recent elaborate “Catalogue of the 
Fishes of North America,” Jordan and Evermann adopt 
Mitchill’s nomenclature Semotilus corporalis. Gunther, 
it is true, applies the name Leuciscus pulchellus indis- 
criminately to the North American fall fish (or chub) 
and the dace or roach, but when Thoreau called it the 
silver roach, I have no doubt that he simply employed the 
vernacular name of what is usually known as the chub, 
especially as he knew the value of the scientific title used 
by him, Jt may interest Chuck-a-luck to know that one 
of the Southern chubs has been named by Dr. Jordan 
Semotilus atromaculatus thoreauianus, in honor of the 
New England naturalist and poet, who was “the first to 
say a good word for the study of cyprinide,”’ and who 
once remarled, “I am the wiser in respect to all knowl- 
edge and the better qualified for all fortunes for knowing 


that there is a minnow in the brook. Methinks T have ’ 


need even of his sympathy and to be his fellow in @ 
degree. I would know even the number of their fin 
rays, and how many scales compose the lateral line.’” 
The poet had not much need of the flesh of the fish, whicls 
he described as a chtib and found to taste “like brown 
paper, salted."’ Canon Kingsley'’s account of the flesh of 
the English chub is even more forcible. ‘You may make 
a most accurate imitation of him,’’ he says, “by taking one 
of Palmer’s patent candles, wick and all, stuffing it with 
needles and split bristles, and then stewing the same in 
ditch water.’ I well remember a very different appre- 
ciation of the flesh of the American chub from the per 
of our lamented friend, A. N. Cheney, which appeared 
in the columns of Forest AND STREAM only a few years: 
ago. Mr. Cheney, like many another American angler, 
found that the chub was not bad eating at all whew 
taken out of cool water, and well cooked immediately 
afterward. i 

I quite agree with Chuck-a-luck that “as they grow 
heavy and take bait, it is well enough for anglers to be- 
come acquainted with them.’’ They not only take bait, 
but in northern waters take the fly as well, and in parts 
of Labrador, as well as in the St. Maurice and Lake St. 
John districts of Canada, they are a veritable nuisance to 
the trout fisherman, who must keep his flies yery actively 
in motion if he does not wish them to be seized by the 
chub or ouitouche (pronounced weetoosh). The chub is 
less active in taking the fly than the trout, and usually 
sucks it in under the water. When hooked, it puts up at 
first a very stout fight. but takes less time to exhaust 
than a trout of eqttal size. Its flesh is often user as # 
bait for other ‘fish in Canada. Both there and in Maine 
it attains a very large size, often being taken up to five 
and six pounds in weight. When trout are scarce or shy 
about rising, very fair sport may often be had by north- 
ern anglers in fly-fishing for the Leucisci pulchelli of 
Thoreau. , ; , 

The origin of the name chivin. applied by him to the 
chub, is, perahps. interesting enough to be recorded here. 
In France they call the chub echevin, or alderman, be- 
cause of its generous proportions, and hence the contrac- 
tion chevin or chivin. E. T. D. CHAMBERS. 


Maine Ice Fishing. 


Boston, Jan. 18.—Again there is trouble in Maine con- 
cerning ice fishing. The general, or old law, permits fish- 
ing through the ice on and after Feb, 1 for trout and 
landlocked salmon, hut includes inhabitants of the State 
only, and the fish so taken for use in their own homes. 
Pickerel and perch are included, of course, and on most 
of the lakes and ponds fishing for pickerel is allowed at 
all times. Attention has been drawn to this pickerel 
fishing, however, and special laws kave been passed con- 
cerning some lakes and ponds, not so much for the pro- 
tection of the pickerel as to save the landlocked salmon 
and trout, it having been found to be impossible to save 
the latter fish, if pickerel fishing is allowed during close 
time. Much legislation has been had, and the power 
has been given the Commissioners of late years to close 
any and all waters to any and all fishing. A good many 
lakes, ponds and streams'have been closed by edict of 
the Commissioners. But it transpires that it is almost 
impossible to know what waters are closed to winter 
fishing, and what waters are not. A special law has been 
passed concerning a number of ponds in Oxford county. 
This special law of 1901 reads: ‘“‘Ice fishing is per- 
mitted, in accordance with the general law, in the fol- 
lowing named lakes and ponds, situated wholly or partly 
in Oxford county,” including four ponds in Hiram, five 
ponds in Denmark, eight ponds in Fryeburg, a number in 
Brownfield, Porter and other towns, making twenty-five 
or thirty ponds in all. Now the question arises, Does 
the above language close all the above waters to pickerel 
and other fishing, or imply that such fishing is prohibited 
till after Feb. 1 Formerly pickerel, perch and other fish, 
except landlocked salmon and trout, were allowed to 
be taken in some of the above ponds at least. The trou- 
ble seems to have come from careless legislation, or 
edict of the Commissioners. having closed certain lakes 
and ponds and opened certain others. The individual 
who proposes to fish for pickerel in Maine waters before 
Feb. 1, when the general law comes in force, or even for 
trout and landlocked salmon in certain waters after that 
date, will need a special digest of the Maine fish and game 
laws. Even the advice of the Commissioners is not 
always certain. The question recently arose as to the 
legality of fishing in Taylor Pond, in Auburn. A young 
man wrote Mr. Carleton, and recetved reply that the pond 
was not closed, according to the published game and fish 
laws. This somewhat alarmed certain citizens who had 
taken a good deal of interest in restocking that pond, 
These people again applied to the Fish and Game Com- 
missioners’ office with the following result: 

“Dear Sir—Referring to your communication of the 
13th, relative to fishing in Taylor Pond, Androscoggin 
county, I beg to say that the misunderstanding in re- 
gard to the law on this pond arises from the fact that 
rules and regulations, closing it absolutely to ice fishing, 
were adopted by the Commissioners after the book of 
laws was published, hence the reason this law does not 
appear therein.” 

In a copy of Rules and Regulations will be found the 
following : 

“Section 1.—In addition to the general law of the State 
relating to fishing. it shall be unlawful to fish for, take or 
catch any kind of fish in Taylor Pond in Auburn, in the 
County of Androscoggin, from Oct. 1 to the time the ice 
is substantially out of said pond the following spring. 

*Sec. 2—These rules and regulations shall take effect 
Oct. 1. A. D. 1901, and continue in force for years there- 
after.” 

It seems that Mr. Carleton had overlooked these rules 
and regulations. It is also true that a great deal of confu- 
sion exists concerning fishing on certain waters in Pis- 
cataquis county. Special laws were passed concerning 
several of these lakes and ponds: one concerning Boyd 
Lake, in 1901, would seem to apply the general law to all 
the other lakes and ponds, not specially provided for. 
The Rangeleys and the contingent lakes and ponds are 
considered to be closed to all ice fishing at.all times, while 
Moosehead is open to ice fishing for trout and land- 
lacked salmon under the general law, commencing Feb. 1. 
Concerning the lakes and ponds in Androscoggin and 


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Cumberland counties, there is also considerable uncer- 
tainty, though it is generally understood that there are 
no special laws or edicts of the Commissioners concern- 
ing most of the ponds in Androscoggin county, The 
ponds in Kennebec county are pretty well covered by 
special laws or edicts of the Commissioners. But the 
whole matter is in altogether too much of a jumble of un- 
certainty, and sportsmen and citizens of the State desire 
that this matter shall be made plain. A great many of 
the streams, regarded as breeding places for trout and 
landlocked salmon, and feeders to the best trout and 
salmon lakes, have been closed by special laws or edict of 
the Commissioners,’ yet the streams are not posted or 
marked in any way, so that sportsmen or citizens can 
know whether they are on legal waters or not. In justice 
to everybody, these streams should be marked and posted 
with plain notices. If ponds or streams are closed by 
special laws or edict of the Commissioners, they should 
be posted in a number of conspicuous places. Streams 
bounded and marked, and lakes and ponds posted and 
marked, would settle all questions as to legal fishing. 
Notices cost but little, and they can be made to read 
plainly. SPECIAL. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Good Pike, 


A 20-pound pike, of the species commonly known as 
pickerel in the Northwest, was caught in Fox Lake, Wis., 
last week by two fishers, Elmer Walker and Frank Hamil- 
ton, who had out a number of set lines on the ice. The 
hole in the ice had to be enlarged before the fish could be 
taken out. 


Another Big Pickerel. 


Yet another big pickerel, or, more properly speak- 
ing, great Northern pike, to be reported, was taken last 
week by Silas Messervy in Fox Lake, Wis. This fish 
weighed 21 pounds, and was 40 inches in length, and it 
also fell a victim to the wiles of the ice fisherman. 


Work of the Michigan Commission. 


State Game and Fish Warden Morse’s report for De- 
cember shows that 112 complaints were investigated and 
resulted in 82 arrests, 47 for violation of the game laws 
and 35 for violations of the fish laws. Sixty-one con- 
victions were secured. Twenty-one seizures were re- 
ported, consisting principally of immature fish, which 
were condemned and awarded to charitable institutions. 
In fines and costs $752.42 were imposed. 

“From the partial reports received,’’ Warden Morse re- 
ports, “I estimate that in comparison with last year, not 
to exceed one-half of the number of deer were killed. In 
most localities they are wintering well, and very few com- 
plaints of illegal killing have been received.” 

E. Houca. 

HartTForD Buritprne, Chicago, III. 


Texas Tarpon. 


Tue records of tarpon fishing at Tarpon, Tex., for 1901 
show that from April 10 to Noy. 16 549 fish were killed. 
The largest numbers credited to individuals were: J. W. 
O’Dwyer, Kansas City, 58; W. B. Leach, Palestine, Tex., 
42; R. E. Moss, San Antonio, 35; J. P. Haskell, 26; J. 
W. C. Haskell, 20; D. R. Coleman, Weatherford, Tex., 
17; F. M. Hicks, San Antonio, 13; Gordon Barland, St. 
Louis, 11; Mrs. E. De Vaegler, Dallas, 10. 


Che Bennel. 


Fixtutes. 


BENCH SHOWS. 
Feb. £6.—Providence, R. I—Rhode Island Kennel Club’s annual 
show. George D. Miller, Sec’y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 


Jan. 20,—Grand Junction, ge Bn States Field Trial 
Club’s thirteenth annual trials. . B. Stafford, Sec’y. 

Feb. 10.—Grand Junction, Tenn.—Continental Field Trial Club’s 
trials. Theo. Sturges, Sec’y. 


New York Show. 


The premium list of the Westminster Kennel Club 
presents a special prize list of extraordinary length, value 
and variety, and the prizes and classification ate liberal 
and complete, after the manner for which this great 
club is famous. Mr. James Mortimer is the superintend- 
ent, aS a matter of course. Huis address is Room 7ot1 
Townsend Building, 1123 Broadway, New York. En- 
tries close Feb. 3, 


Machting. 
—— 
Designing Competition. 


In view of the continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
columns of Forest AND STREAM. In America the yacht- 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and such a com- 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu- 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months. 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers. Three prizes will be given for the best de- 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: 

I. A pole mast sloop. 

Ij. 25ft. load waterline 
IIT. Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 
TV. At least 50 per cent. of ballast outside on keel. 
V. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 

All abnormal features must be studiously avoided in 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plans 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea in 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet conyey to all that we wished to 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or 
three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 
type. 
DRAWINGS REQUIRED. 
I. Sheer plan, scale 1in. = 1ft—showing center of 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. 

II. Half breadth, scale rin. == rit. 

III, Body plan, scale tin = rit. 

IV. Cabin plan, scale rin. = rft. 

V. Sail plan, 4in. = rft., showing center of effort. 
The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 

A table of offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, the 
designer should inclose his own name and address, to- 
gether with his nom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later than 
Feb, 28, 1902. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 

The Forest AND STREAM reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. : 

The prizes offered are as follows: ist prize, $25.00; 
2d prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. i 

Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane’s professional 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, and 
every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness. 


Design for a Cruising Yawl. 


THE 31ft. waterline yawl, plans of which appear in this 
issue, was designed by Small Brothers for a yachtsman 
who wishes his name withheld for the present. This firm 
has been very successful with both their cruising and 
racing yachts, and in consequence their business has 
greatly increased and they now have a large amount of 
work in their office. 

The design herewith illustrated was intended primarily 
for cruising, and the designers have turned out a fine 
substantial vessel of large internal room. Nothing -has 
been sacrificed fot speed, comfort and sea-going qualities 
being the first consideration. Her dimensions are as fol- 


lows: 
Length— : 
Owens pias. 3 cde Soe 45ft. oO in. 
IDEN iD Ae AP cgeves es Ae mene Riel Oe obec ade b 31ft, oO in. 
Overhange— 
O Winter tet hb tis spssds epee cee tao 6ft. 3 in. 
Stevit, teal tHe aes ee eee 7ft. QO in 
Breadth— ; 
FXGreMme: seeckih tb beedoes aa ee 13ft. O in. 
Tes VWWelt Sacer eel ame ae aoe een ee t2ft. oO in 
Freeboard— } 
OWe be tebe aie ag Siete aon tA Pe 3ft. rolzin 
[east Hie te eee ate Oech en ene Eee tee 2ft. 4 in. 
4 NG hah Nh go “Maney Gk: (es oe en 2ft. Q in. 
Draft— ; 
LEG Weim (eter Me be ated Oe RE ticles scot cin et sft. 6 in. 
cPOSEAD DEE cay nh poets anaes 2it. 6, im. 
iBoardudow ilies) eae eee epee 8ft. 6 in. 
Displacement Sense wdt ssa. Sealers eee: 24,000lbs. 
Sail Area— 
DMbsintsaill Wie ckin ciate sere eee ed eee eae 014 sq. ft 
WEEE wnat tere ke ek, cele ete te 274 sq. it 
7" J) ra ap ROAR an Bie tel mie a een cee we 252 sq. ft. 
Tetley or a epee 1.440 sq. ft. 


The design shows a boat with plenty of underbody, 
moderate draft, short ends and good beam—in fact, all 
the necessary adjuncts to the modern fast cruiser. The 
centerboard houses under the keel and does not come 
above the cabin floor at any point. The cockpit is large 
and roomy, being r2ft. in length, The cabin floor is 
placed, as low as_possible, and in that way the cabin 
house, which is 21ft. long, is kept comparatively low. 
There is a large amount of room below decks, and the 
space has been utilized in the best possible manner. The 
main saloon is 13ft. long. The floor is over 4ft. wide 
for the entire length of the cabin. There are two berths 
6ft. 6in. long on each side of the cabin with broad tran- 
soms in front, In the after end of the main cabin on 
each side of the companionway are lockers for clothes, 
etc. From the port side of the main cabin leading’ for- 
ward is a passage, on the port side of which is the toilet 
room. This is fitted with an Imperial closet and a set 
wash basin. There is also a good-sized locker for linen. 
On the starboard side of the passage is located the 
owner’s stateroom. In addition to the wide berth are 
the usual fittings, such as bureau, folding wash basin, 
etc. The galley is equipped with a large ice box, stove, 
sink and dish racks. In the forecastle there are two fold- 
ing pipe berths. The rig is simple and comparatively 
small, there being just over 1,400 sq. ft. in the three 
lower sails. Two boats will be carried on the davits. 


Western Yachts. 


Cxicaco, Ill, Jan, 17.—Columbia Y. C., of Chicago, has 
installed the following Entertainment Committee: Leroy 
Cook, Chris Balatka, J. Rohan, Max Bromberg and W. F. 
Burrows, There is a special committee, consisting of 
De Witt C. Cregier, Chas. Duggan and Chas. W. Shick, 
and the two committees will work together on the details 
of the Columbia Y. C. annual banquet, which will be held 
at the Palmer House during the first week of February. 


Chicago Y. C. holds the first club smoker of the winter 
at the Victoria Hotel this evening at 8:30. An excellent 
mysical programme has heen provided, E. H, 


a 
[JAN. 28, 1902. 


Two New Yacht Racing Associa- 
tions. 


WuHeEw the yacht clubs located on Gravesend Bay de- 
cided last year to form a yacht racing association to pro- 
mote yacht racing in their vicinity, the yenture was 
watched with interest by the clubs located on the south 
side of Long Island. The Association was a success from) 
the start, and better racing resulted on Gravesend Bay | 
last season than ever before, t 

Com. Charles E. Pellew, of the Westhampton Coun- 
try Yacht Squadron requested the different clubs located 
on the south side of Long Island to send a committee to | 
discuss the advisability of following the move made by the | 
Gravesend Bay clubs. 

At the meeting held at Com, Pellew’s residence in New | 
York a short time ago, the following representatives were. 
present: The Moriches Y. C. was represented by the Secre- | 
tary, Harry Growtage, and William Growtage; the yacht 
squadron of the Westhampton Country Club by Com. 
Charles E. Pellew and Walter Martin; the Quantuck 
Y. C. by Com, William W. Hallock and John B. Stevens; _ 
the Shinnecock Y. @. by Vice-Com. Charles De Hart ' 
Brower and the Secretary, George M. Eddy, and the 
Penataquit-Corinthian Y. C., of Bay Shore, by Com. J 
Adolph Mollenhauer, Vice-Com. Regis H. Post and Bryce 
Metcalf. : 

The question of meastirement was discussed. It was / 
recommended that, during the next season, the measure- | 
ment of a yacht, made by a measurer of its own club, and | 
certified by him to be in accordance with the rules of the | 
club holding the regatta, be accepted by that club as final, 
subject, however, to the usual rights of protest and | 
powers of regatta committee laid down in the by-laws and — 
tules of that organization. i 

It was further recommended that in the rule on meas- | 
urement, the term “amidships” be accepted to mean the 
point midway on the light waterline, and that the dead — 
weight or crew, and also all extra sails, anchors, etc., | 
required to be on board under the rules, be placed at said — 
point. 

It was suggested that each boat should be assigned a © 
racing number at the opening of the season and keep that — 
number all through the season’s racing. 

A resolution was passed to the effect that the several 
regatta committees be requested to send one delegate each 
to a joint meeting, to arrange a uniform system of assign- 
ing racing numbers. 

With reference to the appearance during the last two 
seasons of different types of boats in the regular catboat 
classes, the following rule was referred to the clubs for 
consideration : | 

Entry in the catboat classes shall be restricted to yachts, | 
which, in the judgment of the regatta committee, con-— 
form to the general type of catboats now in commion and 
general use about the waters bordering the south shore of 
Long Island. No yacht now holding a challenge cup shall | 
be deprived by reason of this rule from contesting for | 
such cup until the same is finally won. 

The important accomplishment of the evening was the 
arrangement of a schedule of racing dates for 1902, which 
is to be referred to the different organizations for ap- 
proval. The proposed schedule for the year follows: 

July 5—Shinnecock Y. C. 

July 12—Moriches Y. C., Quantuck Y. C. 

July 19—Westhampton Country Club. 

July 26—Shinnecock Y. C. , ; 

Aug. 2—Penataquit-Corinthian Y. C., Quantuck Y. C. 

Aug. 9—Westhampton Country Club. 

Aug. 16—Quantuck Y. C., Moriches Y. C. 

Aug. 23—Shinnecock Y. C. ; 

Aug. 30—Westhampton Country Club. 

Sept. 1 (Labor Day)—Moriches Y. C, 

The open regatta of the Penataquit-Corinthian Y. C. is 
provided for, and, while it falls on the date of one of the 
@ruantuck Y. C. races, it is understood that the large boats 
oft that fleet will attend the Penataquit-Corinthian race. 

The open regatta of the Shinnecock Y. C. and the West- 
hampton Country Club comes, as usual, on the last two 
Saturdays of August. To this series is now added a third 
wspen tegatta, to be held by the Moriches Y, C., on Labor 
Day. xt this race it is intended to offer prizes for all the 
elasses usually filled in the other clubs. 

A meeting was held Wednesday evening, Jan. 15, at 
‘Hotel Manhattan, New York city, by the delegates of 
‘several of the smaller yacht clubs located in the extreme 
-western end of Long Island Sound, in the vicinity of Pel- 
‘ham Bay and College Point. Members of Morrisania 
Y. C., believing that it would greatly improve the racing, 
have advanced the idea of forming an association for the 
benefit of the clubs in that locality. The project now 
outlined calls for at least two combination regattas dur- 
ing the season in which $400 in prizes will be offered in 
the different classes. The association will be governed 
by a body representing and elected by the representative 
clubs, each club to have a voice pro rata with the number 
of members enrolled on its books, one representative for 
each fifty members or fraction thereof; no club to have 
less than two representatives, A suitable set of rules will 
ibe drafted by this body to meet the requirements. 

Representatives from the Morrisania Y. C., of Casa- 
nova; Stuyvesant Y. C., of Port Morris; Williamsburg 
Y. C., of North Beach, and Morris Y. C., of Pelham 
Bay Park, were present. Another meeting will be held 
at the Manhattan in February, at which it is expected at 
Jeast two other clubs will be represented. 

As none of the clubs connected with the new associa- 
tion belong to the Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound, there 
is mo possibility of there being any friction between the 
hwo. 4 


The tenth annual meeting of the Corinthian Y. C., of 
Philadelphia, was held-on Saturday, Jan. 11, and the fol- 
lowing officers were unanimously elected: Com., Alexan- 
der Van Rensselaer, steam yacht May; Vice-Com., Robert 
J. W. Koons, schooner Crusader; Rear-Com., FE. Walter 
Clark, Jr., sloop Cherokee; Sec’y, Addison F. Bancroft; ~ 
Treas., George E. Kirkpatrick; Race Committee, Addison 
F. Bancroft, Harvey J, Mitchell, Frederick J. Petry; Com- 
mittee on Admissions, Chas. H. Brock, Alexander Van 
Rensselaer, C. Herbert Millett, Frank H. Rosengarten, 
Brereton Platt; Trustees, to serve for three years, Jos- 


eph S. Lovering Wharton, Charles Longstreth, 


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_ Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, Jan. 20.—Among the yachts that will be raced 
under the rules of the Eighteen-Foot Knockabout Asso- 
ciation this summer, will be one, at least, of amateur 
design. The lines have already been turned out, but the 
work of construction has not yet commenced, The sails 
will probably be made by Wilson & Silsby, who turn out 
the fastest racing sails built. The designer of the new 
18-footer, who will be her owner and who will undoubted- 
ly race her on every occasion when he has the opportu- 
nity to do so, is Joseph J. Moebs. Mr. Moebs is a mem- 
ber of the Hull-Massachusetts, South Boston and Quincy 
Y. C.s and is well known among racing men in Massa- 
chusetts. He formerly owned the 25-footer Little Peter, 
and raced her very consistently during five seasons. In 
1900 this' yacht made a good record in the Y. R. A. series 


against the champion Flirt, although equipped with a poor - 


set of sails and faulty rigging. There are many who 
believed then and still cling to the opinion that had Little 
Peter been properly equipped she would have made a bet- 
ter showing, and might possibly have—but that is another 
story. 

Last season Mr. Moebs sold Little Peter and did not 
engage much in racing, but he could not keep out of the 
game very long. During the winter he commenced to talk 
18-footers, and then he decided to have one, and finally 
he decided that he would try his hand at designing, and 
to draw the lines of his own boat. This was no mean 
undertaking, for there are certain rules regarding the 
construction of 18ft. knockabouts which are calculated 
to give the erstwhile amateur designer considerable trou- 
ble in getting around. In the first place, the most diffi- 
cult obstacle is the rule of displacement, by which the 
weight of these yachts is fixed at 4,000lbs., beyond which 
it is not desirable to go to any extent. Then there are 
the scantlings, which must conform to the restrictions. 
Sail area is a matter of comparative ease, so far as figures 
go. However, Mr. Moebs tackled the restrictions and has 
turned out a very clever little boat in which he has not 
only figured as close as possible to the displacement of 
4,000lbs., but has introduced a new wrinkle in the matter 
of shifting his ballast shoe, to work the yacht into per- 
fect balance. He has also provided for the accompanying 
shifting of the mast step. 


In these days of modern yacht designing it is customary 
to cut away the lateral plane of the yacht to the last de- 
gree. This makes the figuring of the balance of the yacht 
an extremely hazarlous undertaking, and it sometimes 
happens that, even in the designs of the most skillful pro- 
fessionals, the balance is found to be all askew when the 
yacht is put in the water and started om her racing career. 


In such cases there is a deal of trouble, for the yacht: 


will either gripe or else carry stich a lee helm that she 
cannot be nursed up to windward even in strong breezes. 
In small boats means have been taken to overcome this 
difficulty, first by providing a sliding mast step to shift the 
center of effort, and then by combining with this a mov- 
able fin to alter the center of lateral resistance. Crown- 
inshield has adopted both of these methods with more 
or less success. 

But in Mr. Moebs’ new yacht it is not intended to 
move the fin, for fin she has not, being of the semi-keel 
type. Instead, he has provided a scheme for sliding the 
iron shoe forward or aft as may be considered necessary, 
and thereby hangs a tale on construction. The keelson 
running forward and aft is in two pieces, the after part 
meeting the forward part at an acute angle, the forward 
part continuing in a straight line to the after end of the 
keel. Between this and the after piece of the deadwood is 
filled in and above the two parts isa piece set in to form 
part of the keelson. The iron shoe is flush to the under- 
neath piece and is bolted through. An arrangement is 
provided so that the shoe can be moved up on the straight 
underside of the lower member of the wooden keel, and 
the bolts are changeable. It can be moved aft as well as 
forward, as she carries a balance rudder and the shoe 
extending beyond the after side of the keel would make 
no difference. There is a play of about a foot in the mast 
step, and there is a further means of experimenting with 
the centerboard, which houses under the cabin floor. The 
centerboard pin may be moved forward or aft, and it can 
‘be also given different lengths of drop. 

The hull ef the boat is very shallow, the only use of the 
little keel being to get the ballast outside. Mr. Moebs 
prefers this type of boat, as he believes that boats of this 
size should be pushed over the water rather than through 
it. She has flat floors and straight topsides, while there 
is just the suspicion of a sweep to. the bilges. 
the scow principle, the deadrise being very slight, Her 


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sections are carried out full forward and aft, and in the 
hull proper there is 4 resemblance to the lines shown in 
the hull of Independence. She is just under 
18ft. on the waterline, 32ft. over all, 7ft. water- 
line beam, and 2ft. 6in. draft. The hull of the boat 
draws just a foot. Her overhangs are in the extreme 
class, and, considering her form, her beam of 7{t. seems 
to me to make her a trifle too powerful for a limit of sail 
area of 450 sq. ft. To get the speed-out of this type of 
hull it is necessary to sail her ‘‘on her ear.’’ She carries 
a total sail area of 445 sq. ft., 355 sq. ft. of which is in the 
mainsail and 90 sq. ft. in the jib. 

She will be provided with water-tight bulkheads for- 
ward and aft. In the forward compartment there wil 
be a system of. diagonal wooden bracing, and beside 
these there will also be a wire rope truss brace. It is 
calculated that these will offset the pounding which her 
long, flat forward overhang ts sure to get in a head sea. 
There will also be bracing in the after bulkhead to keep 
the overhang where it belongs. She will have a cabin 
trunk which will give about 3ft. 6in. headroom. There 
will be transoms on either side of the cabin, and there will 
be sufficient room for the racing crew of three when cruis- 
ing from port to port. The deck will be covered with 
canvas. 


Power tenders are becoming quite a fad in this vicinity. 
Borden, of Dorchester. is building a number of them. 
They are intended to, be powerful boats of very strong 
construction. 

At Lawley’s the keel of the Lippitt bronze 60-rater is 
being turned out. It is expected that the lead may be run 
this week. The ro4ft. steam yacht is planked and a num- 
ber of smaller boats are taking form in the east shop. 

MacConnell Bros. have sold the auxiliary yawl Hy- ~ 
perion to Fred W. Ranskolb, of Boston: the 25-footer 
Hermes to C. W. True, of Auburn, Me.; the sloop Idle- 
wilde to Messrs. Morrisey and Reardon, of Boston; Zelica 
to C. C. Durgin, of Boston, and Muriel to W. W. Colson, 
of Winthrop. ° 

Crowninshield has an order for Otto B. Cole. White, 
of Manchester, has started work on three 18-footers, of 
Crowninshield’s design for W. B. Rogers, W. A. Russell 
and H. F. Kellogg, to be used on Lake Champlain. Rice 
Bros., of East Boothbay, are going ahead on the work of 
construction of the Crowninshield one-design raceabouts’ 


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for members of the American Y. C. Smith, of Quincy 
has the C. H. W. Foster 21-footer, designed by eae 
sBield, all planked. : 
urgess has an order for an auxilia oft. yawl for 
D, A. Richardson, of Hartford, Conn, She will hail from 
Saybrook, TERE A. P. Loring’s 18-footer, of Burgess de- 
sign, 1s to be built by Graves, of Marblehead. The new 
quarters of this designer have been fitted up, and he now 
has his cousin, Hollis Burgess, associated with him. 
Hollis Burgess will look after the brokerage. 


Joun B. Kinieen. 


Sewanhaka Cup News. 


WHEN it was first announced that the Bridgeport Y. 
C.’s challenge had been accepted by the Royal St. Law- 
rence Y. C. for the Seawanhaka cup, there were men on 
every side that were willing to build trial boats, but as 
the season progresses there is very little interest being 
shown, and several who contemplated building boats have 
given up the idea. This is the first time in a number of 
years that a club on Long Island Sound has had a chance 
at the Seawanhaka cup, and it is very disappointing that 
there are not to be more entries. 1: 

However, it is assured that there will be at least four 
boats, and perhaps more. Although Mr. T. MacDonald 
has not closed with Hanley, of Quincy, for a boat, yet it 
1s more than probable that he will do so shortly. Mr. De 
Ver H. Warner is still in correspondence with Mr. B. 
B. Crowninshield, and it is considered very likely that 
there will be a boat from that source. The local boat 
which will be turned out by a’ builder in the vicinity of 
Bridgeport for a syndicate made up of club members, will 
be started this month. 

Contract was closed on Saturday last by Mr. Charles 


D. Mower and Mr. Albert B. Hunt for the boat to be. 


built for them from Mr. Mower’s designs. Some time 
was spent in finding a builder who was familiar with the 
kind of light construction used in these craft, and yet 
whose plant was in the vicinity of New York. The con- 
tract was awarded to Mr. Thomas F. Smith, of Bayonne, 
a man who has had wide experience in light construction, 
and the work will be done by him under Mr. Mower’s 
supervision. Mr. Smith was for a number of years. con- 
nected with the Spaulding St. Lawrence Boat Company, of 
Ogdensburg, and also with the Nilson Yacht Building 
Company, of Baltimore. ; 

There is still a possibility of a boat being sent east 
from White Bear Lake. It is to be hoped that such is to 
be the case, as it would add materially to the interest, 


Captain Joseph Elsworth, 


Capt, JosepH Exsworru, one of the best-known Amer- 
ican yachtsmen and sailing masters, died at his home in 
Bayonne, N. J., on Friday, Jan. 17, at the age of seventy- 
one years. He was born within sight of Barnegat Bay, 
and followed the sea from boyhood, He first went to sea 
on his father’s schooner and stayed on that vessel until he 
was made mate. He studied the coast carefully on his 


many trips down the beach, until he knew every foot of: - 


the ground from New York to Cape Hatteras. After 
spending a number of years on working vessels, he took 
up yachting, and was probably the first man in America 
to make yacht racing a-science, Capt, Elsworth, belonged 
to a family of sailors. . Three of his brothers, John, Robert 
and Watson, were oystermen, and: the fourth, Philip, was 
famed the world over as a yacht designer and builder. 
His knowledge of the tides, eddies, currents and gen- 
eral weather conditions in the vicinity of New York was 
nothing short of wonderful, and he was without a rival 
as a handler of yachts. The first yacht in which he 


scored success was the sloop Meta, a boat built by Pat 
McGiehan, of Bayonne, and in her he had everything 
his own way, beating every boat he met as far east as 
Newport. He displayed his skill to a marked degree in 
the way he handled Comet, Grayling and Montauk, where 
his work was faultless. 

Capt. Elsworth, on account of his wide knowledge of 
weather conditions and his great ability as a sailor, made 
him in great demand. In 1885 he was pilot on Puritan in 
the contest with Genesta. When Atlantic was built from 
his brother’s designs for a syndicate of Atlantic Y. C. 
members, he was put in charge of her. Atlantic was de- 


~ feated in the trial races by Mayflower, and he then acted 


as pilot on her in the races against Galatea. ‘He acted in 
the same capacity on Volunteer in the races with Thistle. 


John Van Schaick Oddie. 


YACHTING circles both here and abroad will be deeply 
pained to learn of the death ef John Van Shaick Oddie, 
the well-known Secretary of the New York Y. C., which 
occurred at his home in New York city on Thursday, Jan. 
16.. Mr. Oddie was fifty-seven years of age, and leaves 
a widow, two sons and a daughter. The N. Y. Y. C. 
thus loses not only one of its oldest members, but also 
its most efficient officer. For twenty-two years Mr. Oddie 
had been its Secretary, and to his untiring energy and 
his loyalty to the club’s interests are due in a large meas- 
ure the fact that the institution is one of the most flourish- 


‘ing of its kind in the world. Mr, Oddie had for a long 


time cherished the idea that the N. Y. Y. C. should own 
its club house, and it was partly through his efforts that 
the plan to enlarge the old Madison avenue building 
formerly occupied by the club, was abandoned, and the 
present magnificent building in West Forty-fourth street 
was erected. Mr. Oddie first became a member of the 
New York Y. C. in 1867, and was the twenty-ninth mem- 
ber on the list. The club was at that time located in 
Hoboken, and its fleet comprised but thirty-five vessels. 
Mr, Oddie was not only a great enthusiast on all matters 
pertaining to yachting, but he was a splendid yacht sailer, 
and at one time owned and raced the sloop-yacht Fouchie. 
To Mr. Oddie’s unvarying courtesy and kindly methods 
is due in great measure the popularity of the New York 
Y. C., and-the bond of friendship which exists between it 
and all the other yachting clubs both here and abroad has 
been cemented by the tact and goed judgment always 
displayed by him, His death is not only a great blow to 
his club, but will be felt also in business circles, he having 
been a member of the New York Stock Exchange for over 
twenty years. Mr. Oddie was also a member of the 
Larchmont Y.C., as well as the Eastern Y. C. 


Yacht Club Notes. : 


At a meeting of the Marine and Field Club, held 6 
Jan. 14, the following officers were elected: Pres., Theo- 
dore L. Cuyler, Jr.; Vice-Pres., Edward C, Platt; Sec’y, 
Nathan A. Weed; Treas., J. Edward Way; Directors 
(term expiring January, 1905), Nathan A. Weed, J. Ed- 
ward Way, Isaac Snedeker, Charles M. Camp, and George 
L. Lord; term expiring January, 1903, to fill vacancies 
caused by resignations, Theodore L. Cuyler, Jr., Frank B. 
Anderson, and John M. Knox, d 


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At the annual meeting of the Capital Y. C., of Wash- 
ington, D. C., held a few days ago, the following officers 
were. elected: Com., L. H. Dyer; Vice-Com., C. GC 
Wilkinson ; Rec. Sec’y, O. E. Braitmeyer; Cor. Sec’y. E, 
P. Nussbaum; Treas., C. H. Bright; Meas., J. E, Taylor ; 
Board of Directors, Dr, W. A. Frankland, H. A. Camp- 


bell and J. W. Jones. The club now has fifty members 
and there are thirty-five boats in the fleet, Arrangements 
are now being made to secure a site on the shore front 
near the city, so that a club house can be built. The club 
was incorporated in May, 1900. 


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The annual meeting of the Kennebec Y. C. was held 
Monday, Jan. 13, Vice-Com. Percy D. Roberts presiding 
on account of the death of Com. Hutchins on Christmas. 
The following officers and committee were elected: Com., 
Edward W. Hyde (President of the Bath-Iron Works) ; 
Vice-Com., Dr. Randal D. Bibber; Sec’y, E. R. Witte- 
kendt; Treas., Harry W. Owen, Jr.; Board of Directors, 
Woodbury A. Potter, Ernest F. Kelley, Dr. Jas, O, Lin- 
coln and the four officers; Regatta Committee, S. Cuyler 
Greene, Owen J. Ledyard and Wm. F. Stevens; Investi- 
gating Committee, A. Merrill, J. R. Knowlton, Dr. G. 


- Way and the four officers; Entertainment Committee, Dr. 


J. Walter Higgins, Edward C. Larrabee and Fred C. 
Scribner, Com. Hyde has appointed ex-Com. Fred M. 
Cook Fleet Captain, and House Committee, ex-Com. 
Augustus A, Percy, Ernest F. Kelley and Fred Mayers. 
The club has a membership of 261 active and two honor- 
ary members, and a fleet of fifty-one steam and sailing 
yachts and launches. Com. Edward Stearns Hutchins, 
whose death occurred on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, I9ot, 
within less than three weeks before the expiration of his 


- term of office, after a short illness, was a charter member 


and one of the originators of the yacht club, and an 
earnest worker for it. He was born in Providence, R. I, 
and was thirty-five years old. He was a graduate of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and came to Bath 
in the early part of 1890 as a draughtsman at the Bath Iron 
Works, and at the time of his death was chief engine 
draughtsman at the Bath Iron Works. 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


Mr, A. J. McIntosh has sold the steam yacht Oberon 


_ to Mr. William Prawl, of New York city, 


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The Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding Co., of Shoot- 
er's Island, S. I., has been incorporated with a capital of 
$3,500,000. The directors are John H. Cuthbert and James 
Alden, of New: York city; W. B. Smith, of Montclair, 
N. J.; B, F. Warren, of Brooklyn, and M. P. Williams, of 
Westfield, N, J. The company’s plant is located on an 
island a short distance from the Staten Island shore. The 
present. area of the island is thirteen acres, but in the 
event of their getting sufficient work to warrant the ex- 
pense, it is the company’s intention to acquire adjoining 
land and fill in, increasing the size of the island to forty- 
two acres. The company is now building the schooner for 
the German Emperor, another schooner for Mr. G 
stock and the 60-rater from Messrs, Gardner & Cox’s de- 
signs for Mr. George M. Pynchon: 


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The 70-footer Yankee, owned by Messrs, H. Payne 


Whitney and Herman B, Duryea, has been sold to Mr. 
J. Rogers Maxwell, Mr. Maxwell’s 51-footer Humma be- 
ing taken in part payment. : 


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There are now building at the Gas Engine and Power ~~ 


Company and Seabury & Co., four steam yachts, a cruis- 
ing schooner and a cruising sloop. A Providence yachts- 
man has commissioned this firm to build for him a steam 
yacht rgoft. in length. A Western yachtsman has also 
signed a contract for a 1ooft. steam yacht for use on the 
Great Lakes. The steam yacht building at this plant for 
Mr. Alfred Costello, of New York city, will be known as 


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The way in which the business of Mr. W. Starling 
Burgess has increased during the past year has been the 
Psubject of much comment. Shortly after opening his 

fice he found it necessary to -have an assistant, and he 
secured the services of Mr. Elliot W. Burwell, who was 
for years in Mr. Arthur Binney’s employ. Mr. Burgess 
‘now announces the brokerage, employment and insurance 
departments of his business would be looked after by Mr. 
Hollis Burgess. 


Ganaging. 

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Down the Danube in a Canadian 
Canoe.—l. 


(Frou Macmillan’ s Magazine.) 


Ir was a brilliant day in early June when we launched 
‘our canoe on the waters of the Danube, not one hundred 


Baenced our. journey of four and twenty hundred miles to 
the Black Sea. Two weeks before we had sent her from 


London to Donaueschingen by freight, and when the rail- , 


way company telegraphed the word arrived, we posted 
‘after her with tent, kit bags, blankets, cameras, and cook- 
ing apparatus. 1 

Donaueschingen is an old-fashioned little town on the 
southern end of the Schwarzwald plateau, and the railway 
that runs through it brings it apparently no nearer to 
{he world. It breathes a spirit of remoteness and tran- 

“guillity born of the forests that encircle it, and that fill the 
“air with pleasant odors and gentle murmurings. 

There, lying snugly on a shelf in the goods shed, we 
found our slender craft, paddles and boat hook tied 
securely to the thwarts—and without a crack! “No duty 
to pay,” said the courteous official, after examining an 
enormous book, “and only seventeen marks for freight 
charges the whole way from Oxford.” She was 16ft. long 
(with a beam of 34in.), and had the slim, graceful lines 
and deep curved ribs of the true Rice Lake (Ontario) 
build. Two or three inches would float her, and yet she 
could ride safely at top speed over the waves of a rapid 
that would have capsized a boat twice her size. Splendid 
little craft, she bore us faithfully and well, almost like a 
thing of life and intelligence, round many a ticklish cor- 
ner and under more than one dangerous bridge, though 
this article will only outline some of our adventures in 
her over the first thousand miles as far as Budapest. 

From the yard of the Schuetzen Inn, where she lay all 
night, we carried her on our shoulders below the pic- 
turesque stone bridge and launched her in a pool where 
the roach and dace fairly made the water dance. You 
could toss a stone over the riyer here without an effort. 
and when we had said farewell to the kindly villagers and 
steered out into midstream, there was so little water that 
the stroke of the paddle laid bare the shining pebbles upon 
the bottom and grated along the bed. 

“Happy journey!’ cried the townsfolk standing on the 
hank in blue trousers and waving their straw hats, “And 
quick return,’ added the hotel’ keeper, who had over- 
charged us abominably in every possible item. We bore 
him little malice, however, for there were no inns or 
hotel bills ahead of us; and uncommonly light-hearted 
were we as the canoe felt the stream move beneath her 
and slipped away at a good speed down the modest little 
river that must drop 2,200ft, before it pours its immense 
volume through three arms into the Black Sea. 

At first our progress was slow. Patches of white weeds 
everywhere choked the river and often brought us to a 
complete standstill, and in less than ten minutes we were 
aground in a shallow. We had to tuck up our trousers 
and wade. This was a frequent occurrence during the 
day and we soon realized that the hundred and twenty- 
five miles to Ulm, before the tributaries commence to 
pour in their icy floods from the Alps, would be slow and 
difficult. But what of that? It wasglorious summer weather; 
the mountain airs were intoxicating, and the scenery 
charming beyond words. Nowhere that day was the 
river more than forty yards across, or over 3ft. deep, The 
white weeds lay over the surface like thick cream, but the 
canoe glided smoothly over them, swishing as she passed. 
Her slim nose opened a pathway that her stern left gently 
hissing with bubbles as the leaves rose again to the sur- 
face; and behind us there was ever a little milk-white 
track in which the blossoms swam and danced in the 
Sunshine as the current raced merrily along the new 
channel thus made for it. ae 

Winding in and out among broad fields and acres of 
reeds, we dropped gently down across the great plateau 
of the Black Forest mountains. The day was hot and 
clear, and overhead a few white clotids sailed with us, as 
it were for company’s sake, down the blue reaches of the 
sky. Usually we coasted along the banks, the. reeds 
touching the sides of the canoe and the wind playing over 
hosts of nodding flowers and fields léyel to our eyes with 
standing hay, while, in the distance, the mountain slores, 
speckled with blue shadows, were ever opening into new 
vistas and valleys. Here the peaceful Danube still dreams, 
lying in her beauty sleep as it were, and with no hint of 
the racing torrent that comes later with full waking. 


Pretty villages appeared along the banks at intervals. - 


Pforen was the first, snugly gathered into the nook of 
the hills; a church, a few red-roofed houses, a worden 
br:dge and a castle with a fine stork staring down at us 
from her nest in the ruined tower. The peasants were 
away in the fields and we drifted lazily by without so 
much as a greeting. Neidingen was the second, where a 
huge crucifix presided over the center of the quaint 
bridge, and where we landed to buy butter, potatoes and 
onions. Gutmadingen was the third; and here a miller 
and his men helped our portage over the weir while his 
wife stood in the hot sunshine and asked questions. 

“Where are you going to?” 

“The Black Sea,’ She had never heard of it, and evi- 
dently thought we were making fun of her. “Ulm, then,” 
Ah! Ulm she knew. “But it’s an enormous distance! 
And is the tent for rain?” she asked. 

“No; for sleeping in at night.” 


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“Ach was!” she exclaimed. “Well, T wouldn't sleep a. 


night in that tent, or go a yard in that boat, for attything 
you eould give me.” 

The miller was more appreciative. He gave us a de- 
licious drink—a sort of mead, which was most refreshing 
and which, he assured us, would not affect the head in 
the least—and told us there were twenty-four more weirs 
before we reached Ulm, the beginning of navigation. But 
none the less he, too, had his questions to ask. 

“T thought all the Englishmen had gone to the war. 
The papers here say that England is quite empty.” 

The temptation was too great to resist. “No,’’ we said 
grayely, “only the big ones went to the war. [We were 
both over six feet.] England is still full of men of the 
smaller sizes like ourselves.” The expresison on his face 
lightened our work considerably for the next mile. 

Soon after the river left the plateau behind it and took 
a sudden leap into the Donauthal. We shot round a 
corner about 6 o’clock and came upon a little willow 
island in midstream. Here we landed and pitched our 
tent on the long grass, made a fire, peeled the onions, fried 
our strips of beef with the potatoes, and made excellent 
tea, On all sides the pines crept down close into the 
narrowing valley. In the eyening sunlight, with long 
shadows slanting across the hills, we smoked our pipes 
after our meal. There were no flies and the air was cool 
and sweet, Presently the moon rose over the ridge of 
forest behind us and the lights of Immendingen, twinkling 
through the shadows, were just visible a mile below us. 
The night was cool and the river hurried almost silently 
past our tent door. When at length we went to bed, on 
cork mattresses, with india rubber sheets under us and 
thick Austrian blankets over us, everything was sopping 
with dew. 

The bells of Immendingen coming down the valley were 
the first sounds we heard as we went to bathe at 7 o’clock 
next morning in the cold sparkling water; and later, when 
we scrambled over the great Immendingen weir no vil- 
lagers came to look on and say “Englander, Englander,’ 
for it was Sunday morning and they were all at mass, 

The valley grew narrower and limestone cliffs shone 
white through the sombre forests. It was very lonely 
between the villages. The river, now 6oyds. wide, swept 
in great semi-circular reaches under the very shadow of 
the hills; storks stood about fishing in the shallows; wild 
swans flew majestically in front of us—we came across 
several nests with eggs—and duck were plentiful every- 
where. Once, in an open space on the hills, we saw a 
fine red fox motionless in his observation of some duck— 
and ourselves. Presently he trotted away into the cover 
of the woods and the ducks quacked their thanks to us. 
Then suddenly, above Méhringen, just when we were 
congratulating ourselves that wading was over for good, 
the river dwindled away into a thin trickling line of water 
that shawed the shape of every single pebble in its bed. 
We went aground continually. Half the Danube had 
escaped through fissures in the ground. It comes out 
again, on the other side of the mountains, as the river Ach, 
and flows into the Lake of Constance. The fiver was 
now less in volume than when we started, clear as crys- 
tal, dancing in the sunshine, weaving like a silver thread 
through the yalley, and making delightful music over 
the stones. Yet most of our journey that day was wading. 
Trousers were always tucked up to the knees, and we had 
to be ready to jump out at a moment’s notice. Before the 
numberless little rapids the question was: “Is there 
enough water to float us? Can we squeeze between those 
rocks? Is that wave a hidden stone, or merely the cur- 
rent?” The steersman stood up to get a better view of the 
channel and avoid the stn’s glare on the water, and in this 
way we raced down many a bit of leaping, hissing water ; 
and, incidentally, had many a sudden shock before the 
end, tumbling out headlong, banging against stones, and 
shipping water all the time. The canoe got sadly scratched, 
and we decided at length to risk no more of these baby 
rapids. A torn canoe in the Black Forest, miles from a 
railway, spelt helplessness. Thereafter we waded the 
rapids. It was a hot and laborious process—the feet icy 
cold, the head burning hot, and the back always bent 
double. Weirs, too, became frequent, and unloading and 
reloading was soon reduced toa science. In the afternoon 
the villagers poured out to start and look on. They rarely 
offered to help, but stood round as close as possible while 
we unloaded, examining articles, and asking questions 
all the time. They had no information to give. Few of 
them knew anything of the river ten miles below their 
particular village, and none had ever been to Ulm. Now 
and then there was a skeptical “Das ist unmoglich (that’s 
impossible),”” when we mentioned Ulm as our goal. Ach 
je! They're mad—in that boat!” ? 

From Donaueschingen to Ulm there is a weir in every 
five miles, and our progress was slow. Wheneyer the 
river grew deep we learned to know that a dam was near; 
and below a dam there was scarcely enough water to 
float an egg shell, But there was no oceasion to hurry; 
everything was done in leisurely fashion in this great 
garden of Wirtemberg, and most of the villages were 
sound asleep. At M6hringen, indeed, we got the impres- 
sion that the village had slept for at least a hundred years 
and that our bustling arrival had suddenly awakened it. 
Tt lay in a clearing of the forest, in a charming mossy 
bed that no doubt made sleep a delightful necessity. The 
miller invited us to the inn, where we found a score of 
peasants in their peaked hats and black suits of broad- 
cloth sitting each in front of a foaming tankard; but they 
drank so slowly that a hundred years did not seem too 
long to finish a tankard. There was very little conversa- 
tion, and they stared unconscionably, bowing gtavyely 
when we ordered their stone mugs to be refilled and re- 
garding us all the time with steady. expressionless in- 
terest. In due time, however, they digested us, and then 
the stream of inevitable questions-burst forth. 

“Vou bivouac? You go to the sea? If you ever get to 
Ulm! You haye come the whole way from London in 
that shell?” ' 

We gulped down the excellent cold beer and hurried 
away. The river dwindled to a width of a dozen yards 
and wading was incessant. We lightened the canoe as 
much as possible, but, our kit having been already re- 
duced to what seemed only strictly necessary, there was 
little enough to throw away—a tin plate, a tin cup, a 
fork, a spoon, a knife, and a red cushion. These we 
piled up in a little mound upon the bank with a branch 
sttick in the ground to draw attention. I wonder who is 
now using those costly articles. 


Another seties of picturesqite villages glided past us: 
Tuttlingen, famous (as the ditty water proclaimed) for 
its tanneries, and where a couple of hundred folk in their 
Sunday clothes watched our every movement as we 
climbed round two high and difficult weirs; Nendringen, 
where a kind and silent miller gave us of his cool mead; 
Miilheim straggling half-way up the hills with its red- 
brown roofs and church and castle all mingled together in 
most picturesque confusion, as if it had slipped down 
from the summit and never got straight again; and Fried1- 
gen, where we laid in fresh supplies, and found two 
Germans who had spent years in California, and whose 
nasal voices sounded strangely out of place among their 
guttural neighbors. “Camp anywheres you please, * they 
said, “and no one’ll objec’ to your fires so long as you 
put ’em out,” 

I forget how many more villages ending in “ingen” we 
passed; but now that the heat of the day, and the labor 
and toil of wading are forgotten, they come before me 
again with their still, peaceful loveliness like a string of 
quaint jewels strung along the silver thread of the river. 

Soon the water increased and the canoe sped onward 
among the little waves and rapids like a winged thing, 
The mountains became higher, the valley narrower. Lime- 
stone cliffs, scooped and furrowed by the eddies of a far 
larger Danube thousands of years before, rose gleaming 
out of the pine woods about their base. We plunged. in 
among the Swabian Alps, and the river tumbled very fast 
and noisily along a rock-strewn bed. It darted across 
from side to side, almost as though the cliffs were tossing 
it across in play to each other. One moment we were in 
blazing sunlight, the mext in deep shadow under the 
cliffs. There was no toom for houses, and no need for 
bridges; boats we never saw; big, gray fish hawks, 
circling buzzards, storks by the score had this part of the 
river all to themselves. 

Suddenly we turned a sharp corner and shot at full 
speed into an immense cauldron. It was a perfect circle, 
half a mile in diameter, bound in by the limestone cliffs. 
The more ancient river had doubtless filled it with a 
terrifying whirlpool, for the rocks were strangely scooped 
and eaten into curves hundreds of feet above us. But now 
its bottom was a clean flat field, where the little stream, 
with its audacious song, whipped.along at the very foot 
of the cliffs on one side of the circle. 

It was a lonely secluded spot, the very place for a camp. 
Though only 5 o'clock on a June afternoon, the cliffs 
kept out the sunshine. We sank the canoe, to soak up 
cracks and ease strained ribs, and soon had our tent up, 
and a fire burning. Then we climbed the cliffs. It was 
a puzzle to see how the river got in or got out. As we 
climbed we came across deep recesses and funnel-shaped 
holes, caves with spiral openings in the roof, and pillars 
shaped like an hour-glass. Across the gulf the ruined 
castle of Kallenberg stood on a point of rock that was 
apparently inaccessible, and when the evening star shone 
over its broken battlements, it might well have been a 
ghostly light held aloft by the shades of the robber barons 
who once lived in it. When we went to bed at to 
o'clock the full moon shone upon the white cliffs with a 
dazzling brilliance that seemed to turn them into ice, while 
the deep shadows over the river made the scene strangely 
impressive. Only the tumbling of the water and the 
chirping of the crickets broke the silence. In the night 
we woke and thought we heard people moving round the 
tent, but, on going out to see, the canoe was still safe, 
and the white moonshine revealed no figures. It was 
doubtless the river talking in its sleep, or the wind wan- 
dering lost among the bushes. d 

At § o'clock next morning I looked out of the tent and 
found our cauldron full of seething mist, through which 
the sunshine was just beginning to force a way. An 
hour later the tent was too hot for comfort. 

All day we followed the gorge, with many a ruined 
castle of impregnable position looking down upon us 
from the cliffs. The valley widened about noon, and 
fields ablaze with poppies lay in the sun, while tall yellow 
flags fringed the widening river. In another great circle, 
similar in formation to that of Kallenberg, but ‘five times 
as large, we found the monastery of Beuron with its 
eighty monks and fifty lay brothers. We bathed and put 
on our celluloid collars (full dress in an outfit where 
weight is of supreme importance) and went up to the 
gates. A bearded monk, acting as doorkeeper, thrust a - 
smiling face through the wicket in answer to our sum- 
mons and informed us with genuine courtesy that the 
monastery was not qpen to visitors at this time of year. 

There are many visitors in summer, I regret,” he ex- 
plained. A 

“Visitors! How do they get here?” 

“By road; they come from long distances, driving and 
walking.” 

“But we may never be here again; we are on our way to 
the Black Sea.” 

“Ah, then ,you will see far more wonderful things than 
this in your journey.” He remained firm; so, by way of 
consolation we went to the Gasthaus Zur Sonne and en- 
joyed a meal—the first for a week that we had not cooked 
ourselves, 

It was a quiet, out-of-the-world spot. Monks were 
everywhere working in the fields, plowing and hay- 
making; and it was here I first saw sheep following a 
shepherd. A curiotts covered bridge, lined with cruci- 
fixes, crossed the river, and we took an interesting photo- 
graph of a monk in a black straw hat and gown going 
over it with a cloud of dust in the blazing sunshine fol- 
lowed by fifty sheep. There was contentment on all faces, 
but the place must be dreadfully lonely and desolate in 
winter. We bought immense loaves in the monks’ bakery, 
and matches, cigars, sugar, and meat in a Devotionshand- 
lung (store for religious articles). 

Sigmaringen, with its old rock-perched castle and its 
hundred turrets gleaming in the sum, was reached just in 
time to find shelter from a thunderstorm that seemed to 
come out of a clear sky. There was a hurricane of wind 
and the rain filled the quaint old streets with dashing 
spray. In an hour it cleared away, and we pushed on 
again; but the river had meanwhile risen nearly a foot. 
The muddy water rushed by with turbulent eddies, and 
the bridges were crowded with people to see us pass. 
They stood in silent dark rows without gesture or re- 
mark, and stared. Suddenly the storm broke again with 
redoubled fury. Up went their umbrellas, and we heard 
their guttural laughter. In a few minutes we were soaked 
and no doubt cut a sorry figure as we launched the canoe 


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 [JAN, 28, 1903. 


at the foot of the big Weir and vanished into the gather- 
ing darkness. We switled between tlie pillars of an- 
other bridge in sheets of rain. aiid the outlook for a dry 
camp and a fire was decidedly poor. It was after 9 
o'clock when we landed in despair under a clump of 
trees on the left bank, and found to our delight that they 
concealed a solitary wedge of limestone cliff, and that in 
this cliff there was an arch, and under that arch a quan- 
tity of dry wood. A fire was soon blazing in the strip 
under the arch—some 3ft. wide—and the tent stood be- 
neath the dripping trees. Our waterproof sheets and cork 
mattresses kept tis dry, though all night the rain poured 
down, while outside we could hear the swollen river 
rushing past with a seething roar. . 

Next day the rapids began in earnest. Rapids are to 
canoeists what fences are to fox hunters, The first wave 
curls over in front, of the canoe, there is a hiss and a 
bump, a slap of wet spray in the face, and then the canoe 
leaps under you and rushes headlong. At Riedlingen, 
while carrying the canoe across a slippery weir, we fell, 
boat and all, into the deep hole below the fall, luckily with 
no worse result than a wetting, for our kit was safely 
piled upon the bank. At Dietfurt we went into an ap- 
parently deserted village to buy milk, but the moment 
we entered the street it became alive. From every door 
poured men and women gaping, and the moment thy spied 
the little yellow canoe upon the shore they rushed down 
in a flock shouting “E’ schiff! E’ schiff!” But, if they 
ran fast, we ran faster, and were off before the terrible 
onslaught of questions had even begun. The milk was a 
mere detail. 

[TO BE CONTINUED. | 


| AMifle Bange and Gallery. 
——)—— 
Rifle at Shell Mound. 


San Franorsco, Jan, 18—Yesterday was the initial shoot of the 
yeat at Shell Mound. The day was cool and clear, and was favor- 
able for good scores. Scores: ae 

Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club monthly competitive and 
medal shoot, rifle, handicap: W. G. Hoffman 219, 214, 215, 222, 220; 
J. Kullman 204, 208; Dr. L. O. Rodgers 226; C. M, Henderson 212, 
017; F. E, Mason 228, 222. \W. F. Blasse 192; Glindemann trophy: 
\W. G,. Hoffman, 213, M. F. Blasse 176, J. IKullman 195, F. E. 
Mason 219, Gold medal: W. G. Hoffman 214, 223; M. F. Blasse 
215, 214, 207, 214, 313, 207; W. FP. Blasse 192. Silver medal: C. M. 
Henderson 220, 218, 215; A, B. Dorrell 211, 222, 205; F. J. Klatzel 
149; W. G. Hoffman 220, 223. Handicap, pistol: M. J. White 83, 
85, 94, 85: J. E. Gorman 98, 95, 94, 93; W, F. Blasse 88, 89, 90; 
D. W. Mclaughlin 84, 80. Revolver handicap: J. R. Trego 79, 
79, 79, 79; P. A, Becker 93, 90, 89, 89, 87, 86, 84, 88, 81; J. W. 
‘Vomkins 80, 86, 71, 65; A. B. Dorrell 86, 85, 84; J. E, Gorman 
93, 92, 89; F. S. Washburn 83, 88; H, Hinkel 78. Revolver, silver 
inedal: J. R, Trego 78; F. S. Washburn 87, 83; H. Hinkel 79. 

Germania Schuetzen Club monthly medal shoot: First cham- 
pion class—Alired C. Gehret 232; second champion class, R. Stet- 
tin 205; first class, J. D. Heise 214; second class, William Morken 
211; third class, J. Beuttler 177; best first shot, D. B. Faktor 25; 
best last shot, D. B. Faktor 25. 

Germania Schuetzen Club yearly competitive shoot for all 
comers: F. P, Schuster 71, D. B. Faktor 71, A. Pape 71, Frank E. 
Mason 71, A. Gehret 71, D. J. Heise 70, Edward H. Goetze 68, 
N. Ahrens 68 Competition for ten best shots for trophies: A. 
Gehret 230, F. E, Mason 229, A. Pape 222, D. Salfield 214, F. P. 
Schuster 212, 

Norddeutscher Schuetzen Club monthly bullseye shoot; John 
1). Heise 89, William Doell 847, Herman Huber 377, A. Mocker 


430, John Gefken 520, F. C. Rust 562, John Lankenau 656, L. N. 


Kitzau 744, A, Hohmann 750, J. Woebeke 752, I. P. Schuster 918, 
Capt. John Thode 947, Otto Lemcke 1111. 

San Francisco Schuetzen Verein monthly medal shoot: Cham- 
pion class and first class not filled; second class, Otto Lemcke 382; 
third class, $. Heino 350; fourth class, D. Dunker 343: best first 
phot, August Pape 25; best last shot, A. Mocker 24. 


Cincinnati Rifle Assoctation. 


Crnctnwatr, ©.—The following scores were made in regular 
competition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at 
Four-Mile House, Reading Road, Jan. 19. Conditions, 200yds., off- 
hand, at the Standard target. Strickmeier was declared champion 
for the day with the fine score of 93. Weather cold and clear; 
thermometer, 82 degrees; wind, light, 3 to 9 o’clock: ‘ 


Union. Medal Shoot. 
Strickmeier ........-. 93 90 84 84 84—485 386088 9 528 9 4 10—23 
Pave Me st tpris dager 88 87 86 8h 80—426 8 8 7-23 9 7 10—26 
Sper ce reniieata 86 85 84 81 77413 10 8 S—26 6 10 T—23 
Nestler 88 83 81 80 79—411 9 4 7-20 7 9 6-22 
Roberts 84 81 380 79 7T9—403 6 6 9-21 3.4 9—I6 
Gindele &2 82 82 80 77—403 8 8 §8—24 & § 8—24 
Oellien ys 81 78 72 68 67—866 610 8—19 ...... 
Brigiigete anc eri eeee ee 78 77 76 74 74-379 7 9 T—28 7 8 &—23 
Wekorter svaesuesanees 78 72 71 69 66—356 4 8 &—20 7 4 9-20 
Welic Crinta eeeeeep eee ae Ti 75 74 78 72—872 89 6 6-21 6 8 72] 
Ses! pe Pea amen tro soit 75 71 71 71 70—358 8 9 5—22 8 9 6—23 
‘Trounstine ...... 1..--11 69 .. 2. ..—140 4 5 6—15 7 8&8 9—24 
IDiniyes ce euee eer 70 67 60 .. .,—197 8 9 4—21 9 6 8—23 
Weinheimer .,.,,..... 70 64 63 62 ,,—259 9 6 5—20 610 6—22 
PME tes SRE. Ws ertse duties 64 63 60 59 58—304 6 5 8—14 5 6 7—I18 


This month begins the contest for the Strickmeier medal. The 
vcottest closes with the first quarter of the year, and under handi- 
cap rules. ; 


‘The Savage Arms Co., of Utica, N. Y., have issued a calendar 
‘tor 1802 which portrays a spirited scene of the wild West, a 
mounted Indian giving the death shot to a tiger which has killed 
a fellow Indian, The dead Indian shot an old-fashioned weapon, 
While the live Indian shot a Savage. It is sent to applicants who 
send fi cents’ postage. 


| Grapshoating. 
Societe |i 


If you want your shoot to be announced here send a 


notice like the following: 
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Fixtures, 


Jan. 22-28.—Cireleville, O.—The Pickaway Rod and Gun Club’s 
second annual winter tournament; live birds. G. R. Haswell, 
fec’y. 

lan 27-Feb. 2.—Waco, Tex.—T, E. Hubby’s six-day shoot. 

Feb, 1112,—Wolcott, N. ¥.—Winter target tournament of the 
Catchpole Gun Club. E. A. Wadsworth, Sec’y, 

Feb. 12.—Ossining, N. Y.—Lincoln’s Day clay-bird shoot of the 
Ossining Gun Club. Shooting begins at 11 A, M. C. G. Bland- 
ford, Capt. 

Feb. 22.—Albany, N. ¥.—West End Gun Club’s bluerock tourna- 
ment. H. TT. Valentine, See’y. 

March 31-Apri! 5.—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo,—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds. Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York, , 

April 14-16.—St, Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F. B, Cunningham, Sec’y. - 

April 22-25—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Me- 
Donald, -Secy, 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, LL, I—Interstate Association’s Grand 


American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Séc’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. P 

May 18-16—Oil City, Pa——Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F. S. Bates, Cor. Sec’y. 

May 20-22.—Wheeling, W. Va—Ilifth annual tournanient of the 
West Virginia State Sportsnien’s Association; added money and 
prizes, John B,. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. 

May 80,—Schenectady, N, Y.—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club. FE. L, Aiken, Sec’y. 

May 30-31.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club. ©, E, Fouts, Sec’y, 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. 

June 4-6-—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club, 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N. Y.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 


ame, 

June 10-11.—Munceie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League's annual 
tournament, 

July 16-18.—Titusyille, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T, L. 
Andrews, Sec’y. 

Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
day afternoon. : 

Chicago, Ill.—Garfield Gun Club's liye-bird trophy shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK, 


Feb. 5,—Interstate Park, L. I.—S. M. Van Allen's cash prize 
shoot at 20 birds, $10 entrance; handicaps 28 to 33yds; high guns; 
$75 added. ; ° 

Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
VPs efi. 8 Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Café and hotel accommodations, 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Tres on all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York. 


Copies of the revised rules of the Interstate Association will be 
ready for distribution in the near future, active measures having 
been taken to have them published forthwith. The older rules, 
while containing all the essentials and much that was faneiful, 
were rather verbose and vague as to expression, and rather a 
medley as to arrangement, The rule referring to the shooter not 
opening his gun after a misfire under penalty of a lost bird, is 
abolished. It in times past brought calamity to a number of 
good men, and served in other respects no good purpose what- 
ever. The only other radical change of importance as to live-bird 
shooting is in respect to a misfire with the second barrel; under 
such circumstances, the contestant has a new inning. In target 
shooting a piece is a “no target,” whether shot at or not, 


& 


On Thursday of last week the Interstate Association’s commut- 
tee on the revision of rules met in the afternoon and completed 
its labors. The members of the committee present were Messrs. 
John L. Lequin, chairman; A, W. Higgins, Elmer FE. Shaner and 
B, Waters. Mr. Edward S, Lentilhon was present in an informal 
capacity, but contributed much to the success of the meeting. On 
Friday of last week, at a special meeting of the stockholders of the 
Interstate Association, the committee submitted its report, with 
a complete copy of the révised rules as prepared by it, which 
were accepted without any chenge whatever. 


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Mr. Frank S$. Hicks, of Los Angeles, Cal., under date of Jan. 11, 
writes us as follows: ‘‘Burglars entered my house in this city 
Dec. 20 and stole a double-barrel shotgun, 12-gauge, automatic 
ejector, pressed fluid steel barrels, straight Italian walnut stock, 
made by J, Purdey & Sons, London, England, No. 16790. Was in 
tan leather case marked “FP. S, H.”’ This is an extremely yalu- 
able shotgun, made to order, and there are but very few in the 
United States of the same grade and value. A reward of $100 will 
be paid for the recovery of the above described shotgun,” 


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The contest for the E. C. cup, emblematic of the championship 
of New Jersey, which took place on the grounds of the Jackson 
Gun Club, Paterson, N. J., on Wednesday of last week, between 
Capt. A. Money, the challenger, and Mr. George H, Piercy, 
the holder, resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 44 
to 36. Each is a skillful performer with the shotgun at either tar- 
gets or live birds, and as a further test of skill they have arranged 
to shoot a match at 25 birds each for $25 a side, at Interstate Park, 
on Friday of this week, - 


John 5, Wright, manager of the Brooklyr Gun Club, has re- 
solved to give a persimmon shoot. A $10 yellow gold piece is the 
persimmon, and the longest pole gets it. This event will be at 
100 targets, entrance price of targets, one high gun. Shooting for 
the persimmon begins at 10 o’clock, Jan. 30. Other events, 
sweepstakes, etc., will be arranged for the edification of the con- 
testants, 

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The Boiling Springs Gun Club, of Rutherford, N. J., announces 
an all-day target shoot for Jan. 25, competition to begin at 10 
o'clock, The first event in the forenoon and the first eyent in the 
afternoon will each be for a trophy. Entrance price of targets. 
Sweepstakes will be the main feattitre of the competition in the 
other events. Lunch and shells may be obtained on the grounds. 


The twenty-second annual meeting of the Cleveland Gun Club 
was held on Jan. 14. Following is the list of officers elected: 
F. G, Wogan, President; W. ©. Talmadge, Vice-President; A, M. 
Allyn, Secretary; S. C. Payne, Treasurer; F, H. Wallace, Financial 
Secretary; C. F. Wheal, Captain- 


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A two-man team match, 25 live birds per man, has been arranged 
to take place between Messrs. James Shevlin and J. Schlieman 
on the one side and Messrs. Frank JD. Creamer and B. Waters 
on the other, to take place the latter part of next week. 


The Catchpole Gun Club, of which “Uncle Ben” Catehpole is 
president and Mr. KE, A. Wadsworth is secretary, will hold a 
winter target tournament on the grounds at Wolcott, N. Y., on 
Feb. 11 and 12. 

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Wednesday of this week was fixed upon for the anti-pigeon 
shooting bill in charge of the Assembly Committee ot the State of 
New York. No special organized effort is being made to oppose it. 


An open shoot was fixed to be held at Interstate Park on 
Wednesday of this week, the conditions of which are 25 live birds, 
handicap, $10 entrance, birds extra; A and B Classes, high guns, 


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The Schenectady (N. Y.) Gun Club announces a spring tourna- 
ment, the dates of which are May 30, Decoration Day. “Mr. E. L, 
Aiken is the secretary, Mr. V, L. Wallburg is the president. 


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Dr. J. K. Knowlton and Mr. Sim Gloyer, both of New York, 
have agreed to shoot a match at 100 birds per man, $100 a side, at 
Interstate Park, L. 7., on Jan. 29. . 


Mr. H. H. Valentine, the secretary, informs us that the West 
End Gun Club, of Albany, N, Y., will hold a bluerock tournament 
on Feb, 22. , 


The live-bird event to be held at Interstate Park on Feb. 5 


will have a donation of $75 in gold for first money, This is a 
kind of prize which will appeal to the interest of a great many 
shooters, as it is useful, whether on the mantel or used for a pocket 
piece. The conditions in full will be published in ample time for 
the information of contestants, 


Bernarp WaAtTEzRS. 


WESTERN TRAPS. 
Garfield Gun Club. 


Chicago, Jan, *8.—The appended scores were made on our 
grounds to-day 0.8 he occasion of the first trophy shoot oi second 
series. Dr. Meek carried off the honors of Class A, killing his 
string of 12 birds straight. I. W,. Eaton was close on his heels 
with 11, which captured B medal, while G medal was taken away 
by A. McGowan on a score of 9, 

The wind blew from the rear, and as a consequence a large pro- 
portion of the birds were outgoers, and fast ones at that. ‘The 
attendance was not up to our average, only twelve shooters put- 
ting in an appearance, while we generally haye twenty or more. 
We have been shooting so many birds lately that the boys seem 
to be getting a little stale. We will show up better before long. 


Scores: 
No, 1 No. 2 No. 3. 
A McGowan.......¢.....005 LOLO2210I BIE 9 ee ea 
ES SER TELS RGe Nive dndinre e nive ee 1012100222*2— 8 001011—3 010102—3 
(GOST Oral eee eeeuiarocco: 020210001000— 4  02*020—2 21101—4 
J MeDonald *0*1*1221021— 7 202100—3 *10200—2 
_A D Dorman 1111210111111 221100—4 221021—5 
F G Barnard 12211*11101*— 9 121001—4 111210—5 
ius Man ict boriienne ein feiele are , 11111 2222*12—11 0*0020—1 1112015 
TD We atone sn. . .222121002121—10 210100—3 0201*1—3 
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No. 1 was the trophy shoot, 
Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 


Audubon Gun Club. 


Chicago, Ill,, Jan, 18—The shoot of the Audubon Gun Club, 
held to-day at Watson's Park, had a light attendance. The scores: 


ANT OE Bees ORB, Abvtails 4, NR hte tearrt ee eet et doen ree ee *2*222222022202  —11 
Gieltcirgs Pas se tastees 8 be tosiere sehen tt fe ee 220200002w 

Weojohisomed)recasenia24+etai a taete eee see 4+ -21100022112121141214 
(EAMES Spee Are etre ashes Thc each eet, 1210111102220122 —13 


Trap at Watson’s Park. 


Surnside Crossing, Ill, Jan. 18—At Watson’s Park, in a match 
at 25 birds, scores were as follows: 
TUT Dey aire eee SE ee eteeene ay 121*112200202210101222111 —19 
Shellenberger, 3 0121*2211000*12212012)011100—17 
Dr SVinilermes ia eee ere Peers 1912122122221212021211112 © —24 
Yen-bird match: 
Pamphrey ~<2:%...)- OMZNOMI=ASt Dr (Carsoneece- ye 122102*112—8& 


Trap at Yardville. 


_Yardville, N. J., Jan. 17.—A match at 25 birds, $25 a side, 28yds. 
rise, between Messrs. Lamb and Widmann was the event of main 
interest. Two traps were frozen up, so that only three were used. 


The birds were fair. Mr, Frank E. Butler acted as referee. The 
scores; 
Reeigalti by. tects pice phe Nemet aucisiectepe pide. 21710911111*0111211141112—21 
Wie ANU tab ne saben ap on aanaasARUHMH eae i 1122119211112010211112112—28 
Miss-and-out, 30yds, rise: 
I W Budd..... as de eee, aayttee 2222) R Wantb. ese en sent ‘ 
JieeApplewatenc sags tees 2200" \W AR Widmantin perc. st ep see 
Grp A Gayees deen ene nae 2220) 
Miss-and-out, 30yds. rise: 
Applegate ......... B2222222222222 Gay ssrsevececssaens 20 
aXcyikie ane. agate WI 21212222120 Wanth) ieee W 
NVitciniicti restart eis 12121111112210 


The West Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association. 


SISTERSVILLE, W. Va., Jan. 18—One of the most interesting 
medal contests that the Sistersyille Gun Club has ever held took 
place this afternoon, when the two Pelton trophies were up for 
competition. Rain and a very heavy wind made the shooting in 
the warm-up event at 25 targets very difficult, and in a measure 
accounted for the. seeming low scores, In this eyent McNaught 
and Dade were high with 20, J. G. Wolfe second with 16, and T.. 
Bedford third with 12. . 

Event No. 2, at the same number of targets, was for the trophies, 
and better shooting was done all around. Dade was high with 23, 
followed very closely by McNaught and Hall with 22, Wolf third 
with 17, and Belford fourth with 14. Dade, McNaught and Hall 
were shooting from scratch, while Wolfe and Belford were allowed 
10 extra targets to shoot at. Of this 10, Wolfe scored 8, while 
Belford showed that he could break them if he had to, and scored 
all but one. This gave Mr, Wolfe a total of 25, and first trophy, 
with Belford and Dade tied for second with 23. In the shoot-off 
which followed, Dade won by breaking 4 out of 5, while Belford 
was a little unfortunate and dropped 4 out of his 7. : 

In eyent No. 3 McNaught came to the front with a very pretty 
score of 24 out of 25. Other scores: Hall and Dade 22 éach, Bel- 
ford 16, and Wolfe 12 out of 15, 

Other scores follow, all races at 25 targets: 

Event No, 4: Dade 24, McNaught 21, Hall 21. 

Event No. 5: Dade 24, Hall 22, McNanght 20, 

Event No. 6: Dadé 24, McNaught 21, Hall 21. 

Taking into consideration the very heavy wind that the hoys had 
to contend with during the afternoon, the above scores are all very 
good. Dade was very well pleased at breaking 94 ont of his last 
100, inasmuch as he is just getting acquainted with a new load 
of Laflin & Rand Infallible, 


Mr, J. G. Wolfe, the winner of first prize, is no doubt the hap- — 


piest man in town to-day. While he had a liberal handicap, his 
shooting was really remarkable, as it was the second time that he 
eyer shot over a trap in his life. The probabilities are naw that 
it will not be the last. Mr. Belford, who had the same handicap 
did exceptionally well. He is an old-timer at the game, but has 
not been shooting or taking any interest in gun club matters for 
ten or twelve years. From present indications, Sistersville will 
have one of the most active gun clubs in West Virginia this year. 
Several beginners are coming out, while his honor, Mayor Chas,. 
W. Grier, set a good example at our club shoot a week ago by 
breaking 23 out of 25. Let the good work go on. LERANZO. 


Jeannette Gun Club, 


Interstate Park, L. I., Jan. 17.—There was a good attendance of 
the club members of the Jeannette Gun Club, and a good shoot 
was held. In the main event one straight score was made. and 
that by Mr. J. H. Koeger. Several miss‘and-outs were shu. ‘I'he 
scores: J 


F H Ehlen, 28,....1212201202— 8 


Challenge medal, 15 birds: 
C Meyer, 28, ..202212210111111—13 


J Mohrman, 28.....*1#1012112— 7 


C Meyer, 28...;.-.. 2011211212— 9 J Hainhorst, 28....2101110122— 8 
ob Lott, 30........ 20*1122212— 8 J Vagts, 28......... 01**010111— Ff 
H Koeger, 28....1121221211-10 H Lohden, 25...... 2002020 2 4 

C N Bunni, 28....201222*200— 6 J Schmidt, 25...... 2121102021— § 
H Pape, 28......... 2022*01102— 6 G Lobel, 28........ 1*22221222— 9 
“'W Sanders, 28.....2222201202— 8 M Rohlfs, 28....... 222#2222(1— § 
CG Meyerdiercks, 28.2222120111— 9 C Thyssen, 25...... 2*01*2*u20— 4 


W Roblfs, 28,.12222111*2*2+2112 


Hudson Gun Club. 


Jersey City, Jan, 12.—At the Hudson Gun Club’s 


were made as follows: 


shoot scores 


Events: Oe er Semi ot SE et) 

Targets 16 15 15 15 10 25 15 15 15 24 
Bock Gti ssacn eesti Heiujssene slo eter 1G St tobe ci GIO as 
ra Ae onl rphre ee Herobeennee 12 10 10 . 21 11 
Bunty es piieued os tabhekitet tt 10 13 12 . 24 12 
Finteties: Sr rwiumercscase teers eta eee cet PRAY as ee Ae: 
(ER OREM noc Gusersor tAboomoras4 & 984 TOD ah Ek Ba” ae ay a8 
TO Yo) help od tte At OrOOO ao A SAAN G& 1t 2oNi0 pi, 2h esd afer on 
Cayinitere dan ap gisnecies Af ca) cise LOD mee Mado EEL de Bile ae 
entiessdte a hihi ee Pete Od. MADD a ee 2 
iavstiary Tose seared sone ide We te 2242 10 9 15 
Golomtho” s2heeeee ee eee eS ey ene fie ME | AM hadi 

No, f was the club shoot, ifowik. (3h 


Jan, 25, 1902.] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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New York German Gun Club. 
_ Brooklyn, N, Y.—The New York Germans, at Dexter Park, 


Jan, 15, had a fine day. It was the first shoot in 1902, In the 
jnain event, af 10 birds, the points and scores follow: 

Hdep. Pts. Score, Hdep. Pts. Score. 
J. Schlicht.......28 7 10 P Garms....-.-- 28 7 q 
Von . Kattdengell.. ne 10 H Messlow..... 28 hla 7 
Dr Hudson..... 28 7 i) F Markhoff..... 28 6 6 
E Stefféns.......28 vi 9 BRedelsanss., 4228 7 6 
P Albert........28 64 «9 HL Martin,......-20 dy 
A ‘Obrock..,.... 25 6 8 H Meyer.....-. 28 6 3 
F Pfaender...,,.28 7 8 <A Sievers,.......20 5 1 
J Wilkins........28 6% «8 


; Sheepshead Bay Gun Club. 


Sheepshead Bay, L. I., Jan, 16.—There were twenty-two entries in 
the Sheepshead Bay Gun Club’s shoot to-day, Mr. Ed. Voorhies, 
with a straight score, was the winner. The scores follow: 


I McKane, 29.......-..*212112—6 M J Rauscher, 27.,,,..1*21*12—5 
er baben Ate were nese ee 02001214 D Bailey, 26......:.+++ 12*10*2—4 
Ed Voorhies, 26,.,-.-.. 2111221—7 EL Kronika, 27......+.+ 1011221—6 

J, Pillion, 28:.--.-. 4 2200202—4 I Garrison, 30,..-.---. 0220222—h 
W Van Pelt 282.2 ..65 1112012—6 BP Suss, 27.......00--40 0001112—4 
ReiGemert) 2200.5... - 20000012 T Storms, 25......- ,.. .010011*—8 
Dr O'Connell, 31...., 27122226 Dr Wood, 28,.......... 11*101*—4 
D J Heffner, 28....... 1120102—5 1.1 E Allen, 26.-....++. 12111*0—5 
G Morris, 26........... 0202222—5 P Kramer, 26..-.-...,. 2021210—5 
J Lubcke, 26...,..,.,..2102021—5 HM Koch, 26........:+- + .1102202—5 
A Montanus, 28,.-.... *022122—5 If Heffner, 26.......... 202*100—3 


Tra McKAne, Sec’y. 


a 
Hell Gate Gun Club. 


Ar a meeting held Jan. 14, under “New Business’ a motion by 
Schortemeier to change amount of prize money from $40 to $100 
was cut to $60 and carried. 

A motion to have one extra shoot a year, expenses to be de- 
ducted from the treasury, was finally carried by a vate of 10 to 7; 
15 birds a man on March 12, at Dexter Park, for club members 
only. Motion to adjourn. Dinner served in club rooms. 

Prizes, handicaps and points in parentheses: P. Albert (26, 24), 
$20; L. H. Schorty (80, 23), $12; P. Klenck (26, 22), toilet set; E. 
Steffens (28, 2116), $10; F. Kohla (28, 18), $8; E. Doeinck (80, 14), 
5; J. H. Voss (80; 14), $5; L. T. Muench (28, 14), A. Dietzel (30, 
12), J. Wellbrock (28, 12), Geo. Breit (28, 1114), L. Stelzle (26, 1144), 
C. Lang (28, 10), P. Woelfy}.(28, 10), G. Meckel (28, 10), H. C. 
Deady (26, 914), J, Schlicht (28, 9), W. Sands (30, 9), B. Amend 
(30, 9), R. Regan (28, 9), E. Petterson (28, 9), J. H. Block (26, 8%), 
J. PB. Dannefelser (28, 8), J. P. Keenan (28, 7), P. Garms (28, 7), 
C. Webber (28, 7). Cala. 

Officers: President, J. H. Voss; Vice-President, J. P.. Danne- 
felser; Treasurer, Conrad Webber; Financial Secretary, John 
Schlicht; Secretary, Eugene Doeinck. J 

Handicap Committee: Schorty, Steffens, Lang, Albert, Woelful, 
Bivet. ] 

Number of shoots, 11; number of birds, 4,000. 

Treasurer’s report, $1,450.65; amount due, about $90, 


New Utrecht Gun Club, 


Interstate Park, L. I, Jan. 18—There was a good attendance, 
and the contestants shot steadily till train time, about 5:11 P. M. 
The birds were fair. A gentle 4 o’clock wind prevailed, but had 
not sufficient force to much affect the flight of the birds. 

The ties in event 1 were shot off in No. 2, and Mr. Haff won. 
In No. 2 Mr. Lurgan won, Five tied in the 10-bird event for the 
monthly average, namely, Messrs. Lurgan, Haff, Ramapo, Edey 
and Cattus. ; 

The members of this club are improving most admirably in 


skill, Whe contests are conspicuous for their good-fellowship and 
generous, though keen, competition, The scores follow: 

o. 1. No. 2. No. 3. 
J, Shevlin, 25......020. ceeees A201012—6 1*22010—4 2111*20112— 8 
W J Lurgan, 28...... vee ees  2221222—T 2222212—7 222122222210 
EF D Creamery, 28........... 10022014 © 2112212—7 2121102222— 9 
R W Haff 28) 0, .... cere et 2221111—7 1211111—7 2211122112—10 
W LL Losee,, 28......- resistetsie 1211212—7 2112010-—5 kee ees 
Annie Oakley, 28...........-.2121012—6  J112020-—5  .......... 
CEA Rammpopates =~ ales con bashes ey" 1202112—6 1112212111—10 
W Burr, 281,225.65 rerun tee 000102*—2 12221026 .......... 
J Schlieman, 30....:..: Citheete shee ||| wets 10222*0111— 7 
TH Eidéy,) 28s. cine. a23inse ge AS enone 2212222222—10 
WAGER ee Rea saesnec pos blue vam | JERE 222222222210 


‘No. 1 was the monthly shoot; No. 2 the prize shoot; No. 3 for 
monthly average. : 
No. 4, 7 birds, for prize: 


a Shevlin, 28..,........ 1121012—7 J P Kay, 28............ 2220020—4 

F D €reamer, 28....-. 22211127 W G Brown, 28........ 1011112—6 

RV Miatie cone ce ars Hite SPN Balle 28a 5 sole 2222221—7 

C A Ramapo, 28...... 1W1i—-7 W L Losse, 28........ 1112222—7 

EE Bdeye eo aoe ee 22212117 J Schlieman, 30........ 0011*10—3 

J V A Cattus, 28....... 2212221—7 \W Burr, 28........... , .0200101—3 

BR Waters, 282........-- 1212222—7 W J Lurgan, 28....... 1222122—7 
Shoot-off, miss-and-out; Creamer won trophy: 

F D Greamer....1112211111110122 B Waters ........ 21222* 

C A Ramapo..... 112211212210 W L Losse...... 212229221219*220 

RSIWabelcitiete. -e clels 210 W J Lurgan...... 122222222220 

J V A Cattus....20 


*For birds only. 


Crescent Athletic Club. 


Bay Ridge, L. 1., Jan. 18.—It was a day of active shooting on the 
grounds of the Crescent Athletic Club. There were distinguished 
professionals present as guests of the club, namely, James A, R. 
Elliott, George R. Schneider, Harry S, Welles and’ Stephen M. 
Van, Allen, professionals, David C. Bennett, of the New Utrecht 
Gun Club, was also a visitor. 

Mr. W. W. Marshall scored a win on the January cup. In the 
shoot for the Sykes team cups Harry Brigham and Dr. J, J. Keyes 
scored 4 victory. Scores: 

Shoot for January cup, 50 birds, expert traps; handicap allow- 
ances added: - 


First 25. Second 25. Grand 

Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Total. Total. 
W W Marshall,.....5-.--. 6 19 25 Belo 25 50 
H M Brigham..<.....++. 0 24 24 OF 228 622 46 
E B Knowlton.....-...--. a 20 24 4 18 22, 46 
TeeiVE "Palmers: Jaze aces = en a 22 26 ont ay 45 
Capt A W Money......... Pi) = Ah 1 18 19 43 
BA Bedtord, Jres.4---- 5 15 20 5 16 21 41 
1G, TOe Talos) Shot as ha secre 6 1 17 6 16 22, 39 
(Die Jail) Meisaesaiibaneas none yy val 2} ee sae 39 
CoH Ghapinan avast 8 10 18 ee IB) Ail 39 


Shoot for Sykes team cups, 25 targets, expert, handicap: 
»Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdcp. Brk. Total. 


20 20 Marshall ,,....6 18 19 

23. - 2945, tBalmer (2.59 4b Al 2443 

20 22 Hopkins ....... (Fi SPR ak 
Wandeveer .....5 17 22-44 Chapman ....., 8 14 22-46 
F Stephenson... 1 22 23 


G Stephenson,Jr1 20 21—44 : 
Shoot for trophy, 15 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances 


Ager, Hdep. Brk. Total 
ep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Total. 
Brigham ....,++-. 05 the a PATING EA pn twncssee t a 3 
S Van Allen..... 0 as UOTE Vat Uae. telenere (af 13 
Knowlton ......-. 2 12 4 KiGVESy a. cadtiyedoce i! i 12 
G Stephenson, Jr 0 14 £14 FB Stephenson..0 12 12 
Bedford ......0.+- ei bs Vandeveer ..7....2 10 12 
MitirstallMaaeesadimeoe aeL(e eley Notman iin... 2 3 5 
Trophy, 25 targets, expert, handicap: 

q Hdep. Brk. Total. dep. Brk. Total. 
EF B Stephenson..1 22 23 Schneider ..,-- 1) 20 20 
Brigham ......-.. it] 23 23 Bennett ...c..... 0 20 20 
FECVES) ates cy soesa Bo 21 Vandeveer ....... uh als Sui] 
Bedford) 2.20.0... 5 16 21 ELapkiniss. teers 6 13 19 
Knowlton ....... 4. 17 21 .G Stephenson, Jr1 17 18 
INOEMATIbes saeco de | ced ‘Padivet Wastelletcos pe AES? 
Money i...--::-25 200 ee Wiellesyniacnen nes Gan aK 
Chapman ........ 8 13° 21 Marshall ...i.. res G 9 15 
Van Allen ..,....0 20 20 


Team match, 25 targets: 


Elliott .... ss eh SGdokbel Spon deere ies eA 19 
Welles ...+.> Sh G Stephenson, Jr. oe pal) 
Schneider ....,., Mironeserrut dea: react ane whpiede 
Bennett w..ccccsscvieeseee lS . EF B Stephenson.....:...+..16 
Van Allen oe... sseavcies s17—99) Keyes i. .cteveeeeeei ay anna sd —86 


Trophy, 15 targets, expert, handicap: 


Hdep, Brk, Total. Wdep. Brk, Total. 


Bedford sssasanns 2 18 15 Money vereryrreve O 12 12, 
Knowlton ........2 12 14 Nottian Gaxererone le 312 
Ghapman ,,-,.45 4 10 14 Marshall ..,..... 3 8 11 
Brigham .........0 14 Mid SVICES wetrelntels plasters Cael LL 


FB Stephenson.. 0 4 14 Schneider Fis.eeO. 107 10 


dep, Brk. Total, Beer Brk. Total. 
G Stephenson, Jr. 2 14 16 F B Stephenson. . § 10 
tera Heyes gle ab aly Chapman ..,..... 6 5 al 
Schneider ....,.. 0 15 15 Brphamt 0,25. 0 9 9 
INGuMtat) seis 44s 3 10 18 Welles... ccs 0 8 8 
Knowlton ....... ae PUN) 13 


Trophy, 15 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added: 
Adep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Total, 


Bedford ave. 22 15 Vandeveer ..,,.. Be all) 12 
F BStephenson..0 15 15 Brigham ........ VE he aht 
Money «.........: 0 14 14 Notman .....:-.. 1 10 i 
Knowlton .,...++ pane iB 


Shoot-off, same conditions: + 
Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk, Total, 
Bedford .,....+..+ Bh ak ik EF B Stephenson... 0 12 £12 
Shoot-off for last week's trophy, 25 targets: 
dep. Brk. Total, 
Bedford ......... 14 8620 
Shoot-off, 15 targets: 
Hdcp. Brk, Total. 
Bedford ,.....+.. See Pak ATIC ram certs 
Match, 25 targets, expert traps: Welles 23, Van Allen 238, Brigham 
22, Schneider 21. 
Match, same conditions: Bedford 20, Knowlton 18, Notman 17, 
Palmer 16, Vandeveer 15, ) 


Oceanic Rod and Gun Club. 


Rockaway Park, L, I., Jan, 19.—The weather was clear, though a 
high wind prevailed. Five events were shot at 20 targets, and one 
at 25 targets. The scores: 


Hdep. Brk. Total, 
1sdebratste” Aredensgira ee 8 it". 


Events: 12.3 4.5 6 Events: 123 45 6 
Targets: 20. 20-20 20 20 25 Targets: 20 20 20 20 20 25 
WayisGtions +. s49 Bl abate. Hawes; Jars os: BODES ese We 
POIMTESS as nbslwscet iss 12,10 11 1015 .. Hopkins ....... .. 1191714. 
Muench ....... 1441012 5 5 AGUTTSOT Sdn cnes eee 15 14 14 , 
Mertens ....... DeLOT NL “BeiLeliny SUOte wrreeyeaciesalaared ae DO oH 
Duke | faethe. Cee Steal Si peeG) aaeibeny Peteanaae ire te eS 
Dr Slimm .. T1211) 8 616 Bourke .-.s.165 <. os AS tay a ort 
Charles ......... 1010 911 .... Richmond ..... 13 14 
Norris GE WE UrsgA cage.  Unqbilnehst Sea 444 G8 An ae 14... 
(ee Aire k Any Re ew scarehd te Pes AASeN Gear ee SLI thn iss 
PR weete ey Scr etry TOaKOY VOOR Pee Ar late aye" en acess Ob Gear ee tanh 


Trap at Interstate Park, 


Interstate Park, L. I., Jan, 16—The watch shoot was the main 
event. It was at 25 live birds, There were twenty-three contestants, 
and of these but two, Mrs, Frank Butler (Annie Oakley) and ‘Mr. 
S. M, Van Allen, scored the limit. The latter retired, leaying 
Mrs. Butler the winner of first prize, a valuable. gold watch and 
chain which cost-at wholesale more than the money deducted 
eharm, which cost at wholesale more than the money deducted 
for it, to wit, $50. The shooting of most of the contestants was 
gocd. Two, Messrs. D. I, Bradley and Sim Glover, were only 
one behind the Jeaders. Mr. Glover had hard luck in losing his 
first bird dead out. He and Mr. Van Allen were the back mark 
men, 

In a preliminary sweepstake at 10 birds, all at 30yds., there were 
thirteen contestants, of which four killed 10 straight, Mrs. Butler 
being one of the number. 

Watch event, handicap, had the following scores: 


Annie Qukley, 28....s0..iesesetine Mies Ges 2121111222122121222211112—25 
SVM Viath ATVETRE SLES ad aapiansata desea bale syes 199112112112211112101111—25 
JO) He iRisvelllesiy WH se peo ane ocobos A psp Aor >. .2222222222022222221222222—24 
DMGHOVENy calm eemmpauiee ete dde boade yaa 0 ¥2222222222222221 22211122 —24 
(GA (Cocanie, BUD EM A ry ee oe 2222222220222222212222021—23 
He Banks cadartstsecehsaekine cheer aed ,2222222212201*21221211121—23 
RMB ERUINN [omeee in tenes tettcct nies shires ber sees 10211122221 22022122211222 —23 
MB BRUVSEC ra lippmine laa ceeds owes s arjeanensre 2212*22202002121222212220—20 
EF D Creamer, 28.....: Ie ouDeuceeneupeaor *210212202212222201212122 —21 
TRO, ates. Pl a teen erb neo GATES SU SAAC AR 22222211202202221 22222222 23 
1D, jes Ain one arr tanta Ms « -2212212202222101112122220—22 
G H Piercy, 29... . -1221112210202222022*11222—21 | 
IDyo TeTeR i eererety ets nooo itvie ki une ease 0201222212112121012202122—21 
D' Mohrmann, 26........../..5....2, += +» -1021222222022222022221202—21 
AP DURING OR SAR Anata oee er frp pitta t foe 20120102022021101101*2122—_17 
Val Wee fSyeehstQ ov PN pas eee Satyinnnde 221.2222222222200211212201—22 
TeP LOC ole 40) Bova beoucc. GADSUnpouCHadcs 22:21212202222222022222222 28 
JE OS AWVGUIGEE SUE eo aniny Coogan qanoeoscctier rl 22222:2.22022220022*222222— 20 
PTAC Calle Zone ua eonte Mince cites cto Gal 1111.121122122211012220100—21 
Mie MoSinrta26 are pcetcct nines esineges 22222222221222022*0012122—21 
SIMA Crysis, Wipe Os ReGoodeneecee rarities 2222000212222200222002222 18 
C A Ramapo, 27,..... Tine SS emuareee 1121120210*10200111200021—16 
Gapt Money, 30.........0005 erste tae Atlitate stat 0212222201121 22211 w 
No. 1, 10 birds; all at 30yds.: 

Annie Oakley......2222121122—10 Call” .............0:- 1210222211— 9 
Banksamece mark tenors 122222212210 Stevens ........... 2222012222— 9 
Capt Money,.......1121212222—10 1Deascceirie ++» -1202122220— 8 
SWwiveller —nee...re 121122221210 Van Allen .. +. .2211212200— 8 
ISHS onnddgente 2220222222— 9 Halsey ........+...- 1122202021— 8 
Bradley ...2102221222— 9 Ramapo ........... 2212100220— 7 
Koegel +2222220222— 9 


The closing event was a miss-and-out, $2, all at 30yds., and few 
contests of the kind were more closely contested. Martin finally 
outshot the twelve contestants opposed to him, and calmly annexed 
the $26 roll for his skill. The scores follow: 


Capt Moneys. -. 202.3 212222120 Eid@ywerer ble cosa. <0 ee 11110 

Hear er ee yeas 222220 Creamer .. o)) 

Wart ness ecmin cee 22222212222 Brityere .. » + 22212122220) 
Stephenson .......... 2222210 Bradley .... e+ 222212220 
Lurgan 22200 Mohrman ,-....+66¢...2122221120 
Waters 12121122220 DS D....... tarts es 22* 

Cattus 20 


=o! 


Ossining Gun Club, 


Ossrninc, N. Y., Jan. 18—The scores herewith appended were 
made at the regular weekly shoot of the Ossining Gun Club, Sat- 
urday, Jan, 18. The attendance was yery good: 


Eyents: 1 BE a in ee ee EL alt) 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 15 15 15 10 10 10 
Gaterccverels Sar N eS aye Sesser ie 2 Si ie Zine BS, TON 
ASRGwiland! 5522s ss ena eset ita watt Site Pf vite i Brie) ele a; 
J Washburn ....... Anta {6 dm yf CUP at Riese". ae oe! 
Ge Fdgerguest terse re SUN BEES 4 ete sw Pie Sw a) sé 
meet heechatesy sch llaietists 0 OW arteries ¥, 4c 
CMB lard onthe lasedladeceeatertee We Gh aye BA ee 44s Ate os 
TIMES citi etary ites treeir eal er) Ae Galas vo 
WIS@7 Cannot ananpeemese ere SS: eee Des - 7 a 
Schultze yerboreuinerteteeie ee rte ga pcan rhe dots 3) Pe 
BeLerse my 42 eg ee eee ee gs Ere VP ee AE 6 x 
IR Ksr orn ets iid t.58,ceesne ree fae Sa Lied! SSE 3 et 
Welallie oe oe vs Mee ece bose Oe cl0 St eceene Ry F 
ip coletanie Seesrt siya tee Be ee RUS aE Hs H 
(CORES Rtgs rage? Hanne as eahs Hig cate te shoes) a ‘7 
IA BEC el ernest aenaeee tas Se eth SEC EC Ay aan 5 SO sy 
AU ROH ghd dom soscereree te ee gel. ge adiaehd. | He 
Prize events, 15 scratch, allowance handicaps: 
IT Washburn, 17-..... 150015 14° AY Rohr, 21 2.1..80. on 13 
© Blandford 16.008. 1) 08... yA Rowlandets. 000) 7 nave ee 
R Kromer, Jt, 20...1110 4... G SHiGseGll, UARaeey Ne Gout Be 
D O’Connor, 20..... .. TOR Bs 


Mr. I. Washburn has offered a silver cup, to be shot for in ¢ 
handicap live-bird events Feb. 1 and 15 Bee March 1, beens 
atts oh birds. pee ey members only. 

silver cup has been donated by the president of the clu 
1B Brandreth. The winner of this cup will hold the title ia eue 
pion Clay-Bird Smasher of the Club. A large entry is expected 
as the conditions are very liberal—100 clay birds, entrance price of 
birds, at 1 cent each. Saturday, Feb, 8 has been named as the 
day to decide the holder of this title, ; 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


An interesting amateur shoot was given on Jan, 16th at Jersey- 
ville, under the management of Mr. Brance Dorsett, Mr. Dorsett 
is one of the pioneers of the shooting game in the Mississippi 
Valley. Te has hunted over eyery ficld and stream in this 
region during the past thirty years, and now has undertaken the 
task of reorganizing the once famous Jerseyville Gun Club, In 
the days of Collenberger, Stice and Scott this thrifty county seat 
was one of the liveliest trapshooting towns in the State, and after 
a long rest it is in a fair way now t6 come back to its own, 
Seven 10:target races were shot on this occasion, with entries 
tanging from ten to fifteen, and these were followed by two live- 
bird events, one at 5 and one at 4 birds’. Riehl and Schiess were 
high for the day at targets, and Riehl and Dorsett at live birds. 
Scores are appended: 

Ten-target events: 


Eyents: etgean AP oy GY i Events? 123456 794 
Schiess .,... 77 6 7 8 5 9 Matthews .. Sie Bre os os oe 
Riehl ..... me eo S 8 Oo Dorset. 404 6. Gd V5 2 
Hamell ....... 5 4776 7 6 Chappell.... 45 5 5 9 6 4 
Schweppe..,. 5 5 5 2 5 8 & Lamb -...,.. 3 5b 7 5 7 4 
Chappee Sy Bk al nse a SW Tye PS me Qe ae ee TOL 
Gaddis .....- S20 Gr a pee eb Ston eet eons PP ies ere els 

Aik: ten eee GG Gy ot Ge Eindsaice, nc cr see 0) Doo 

iia set eel Cet ae o- elutipeh reer. A alee 49 

itterington. 5 & 6 6 4 Bartlett . , Meh ahib ! 


Live birds, $1.50 entrance: 


Titterington OM Tene s Adie arenes ee 
Howell,..:. beaks = +=. -2el0—8 Buckels ...-..1-.-ssuse 
Rieter cece meabs scat es T Quin seacaceds ces tee 
Gaddis Ouirk Raveene hehe een aetah 2022—3 
SLONE Year INGER vq el ndst ss sali ke 
Bartlett .... Dorsett 

Mathews Morning . oe 
Chappel | Kermbohstoyaieere wo ga popoher Oper: 
Schiess Tangenberger wseseseesse 1220—3 
J Quinn ~ EAI ase hire W aa fhasetaincs sees 1220—3 
Chappel 


A gun club was organized on the 17th inst, in the town of 
Fosterburg, Ill., with a membership of fifteen. Weekly practice 
shoots are to be held. : 

The once famous Edwardsville Gun Club has been reorganized 
for active work the coming season, 

A new gun club was organized this week at Wanda, II). 

Peter Hirnbeck and Ed. Kreiner, of Dorsey, wil! shoot a match 
at 25 live birds, per man, against Chas, and Henry Pleger, of 
Fosterburg, at the latter place, Saturday of this week. 

The boys of the Farmer City, Ill., Gun Club open the ball this 
week with a two-day target and live-bird shoot, 

Owing to the inability to arrange a circuit in the South at this 
time, not many of the trap shots of the Upper Valley are at- 
tending the all-week shoot this week at Brenham, Tex. It is a 
good programme, but a thousand miles is a long way to go to a 
tournament. ‘ 

They do say that the Kansas City shooting fraternity fs ar- 
ranging to have a corner on the Grand American Handicap this 
year, and that more practicing is being done on the quiet by 
some two-secore local shots than ever before in the history of that 
thrifty bailiwick. And surely this is well. 

The regular trophy shoot takes place at Dupont Park, St. Louis, 
on the 26th, As usual; the lists are open to all who care to 
compete for the handsome mementoes. KILimMoReE. 


Ambler vs. Highland. 


_ Ameter, Pa., Jan. 15.—The appended scores were made to-day 
in the first_of a series of three contests for a silver trophy, be- 
tween the Highland Gun Club, of Germantown, and the Ambler 
Gun Club. «The second contest will take place at Highland Park, 


Jan. 26... The scores: _ 
Elighland Gun Club, 


MMB I Shite mumbkitss «cel totioe tes + ++1011111101101101011.011011—18 
Hamel SUAva ddadee eben e caste heeds 1100011101000110110100000—11 
Lekota 5 Sa erent COer eats heey 1000011011111100111011100—15 
MBean ane Tsetse eaee pene Sotegerry «+++ 1101010110111111110011111—19 
Utz AR: ote Pepa seyye ees aareneisasF a sive! 10114010191111101111111—21. 
WauGen Gy Sy etacrebeasertedtaa ys: en 101111011101011100101011117 
M W ChE atta nana iiealleiee varie yo plac 1110101110011011010011111—17 
BSW Chi greowimtatr fees eg te ene eas +e » -L010111110111011101111101—19 
Davis 2 ar Neen. RPL Eee eee vereee 1911110111.:1111100010111—20 
Rentschaeette-heseeeoee Se ee oe 11.01010100101101110011101—15 
Dreakly ...... nheeecc Cette 1911199.11011111111191100—22 
Aamain Seesataetiaeed eaten eyes apes ob000019199199999111111111— 25 — 919 
, Ambler Gun Club. 
Ii Griee eee tees acta nether bees ie 1011114111101110101101101—19 
Eaywoods fp oe pase Adaeaee 0111110011110110011001011—16 
SDH OMNES as lh saenti ss bese se tn ceo 1141111011010110111100001—17 
Conway anew eee amen geese eens eee ee L100111110111110110100001—16 
Yerkes sieltiieeea ead dae PERF s afoot 11011117111100111000011000—15 
Gillinty RSs ee ea da. ewes ese 1101100101010000101001111—13 
Dey ikyetse ARP AME) Alon «4 And te A Aine Swe 1111111101910110011111101—20 
Park en bred tn peer penn ser cst ccnatene set 1100110110111111001101100—16 
RB String,.......: A pits era ete 1011101111110111101100111—19 
WIDT IE B= See Bre S beet rr err Sr 1011011111111111011101101—20 
lokeeshakceel Wat aoe oem Cree eee ol 0100111911999191111011111 92, 
a itSi) Peviemagr Peels see eee haat vee yee +1111000191110110011110111—18—211, 


E, Cc Cup: Contest. 


Paterson, N. J., Jan. 15—The contest between Capt.. A. W. 
Money, challenger and Mr. George H. Piercy, holder, excited much 
interest, and a goodly number of spectators were present to witness 
the race. The contestants, on form, were very evenly matched, 
both being excellent performers with the scatter gun. In the 
contest, however, Piercy was not in his best form, and shot far be- 
low his average, though the falling off was but temporary, as in 
the sweepstake \event he shot as well as usual. The challenger 
Capt: Money, won by a score of 44 to 36, Mr. Frank Butler 
refereed. The scores follow: 


DIC RCTes uct ee eae ce See NE 9141110111110010101111011—18 
: . 11001100111101111010111 1118 —36 
AVEC Ca etattonacs let eas sn ttel ene a eee 1111911111101111011011111—22 


191.0919190119191191111110 2244 
‘Sweepstakes:. 


Events: 123 45 67 8 91071 12 
Targets 15 16 18 15 15) 15 15 15 25 15 15 15 iB ic e 
Money Peete Aendiheg hectare 14 11 12 13 15 15 15 12 22 12 14 13 12 1118 
Prerey fitness ey res Seco od 14 14 14 13 12 14 15 14 20 12 13 14 13 13 14 
Count PRC -, J Ue 13 91414 9 811121810 8Bi1.. 3.. 
Babisr sits as-heceecheaes EES Rai rao enemae sti ie cr uyp! Al a 
Wright ....ccss csc, eas steer ee mAINen Beare SPraeaoaa deta 
IN IgUAds eh sas oereterslarel citee eens sed 10:15 12015 11 $1715 11 i. C, “0 
Netelis Me eae tne or Sires ee dey OOF 111013 2210 8 81111 .. 
Geoffroy BPeabh tobe theses He nn +» .. 1313 2013 1013 1 9 12 
pakriie qs Boor ade AA Ae Gr ey oper ade 21 IZaI3 145, ee 
siclebtatstnah td ast tl ee aoe Pine eee wg 22 5 
OR VronesGenceniccan: peek wm ona ee amen if 19 if re aie 
IMGON ENOL vas dedievganen neem) bp eas Mee eT TE (ARDC eae 
Oana ek Renae «beet ee Ae en 107. oh cP Ura 


Match at 25 targets: Piercy 24, Money 23. 


Catchpole Gun Club, 


Wotcort, N. Y., Jan, 15—The followin rere - 
the grounds of the Catchpole Gun Club today. Wile okoee 


ing at 60 targets and breaking all of th r 
light was dark. The scores: . ope St eat tee aT Re 


Wiardswonuhty os eer penstines 0, 1910119991191 

piste 11—30 
ey 1191991919119. 30 60 
Oiler! ay relseran aa aferaiaVave-niay 111101101111001101111010101110—21 
He 4140019111911 11010111— 9849 
wan © tree teen cece eee eee ey ey 511I1111910911119111110107 —22 
Vian’ “Ville cle nawwis.n «a alaaisislelctstrenlea . 1100001101110100100111117 —15 

SAGES Adteetes aA eet t eo++ + -11010011101110101 —1 
| 1110001911111011114411110 — 20> 31 


Cincinnati Gun Club, 


Cincinnati, ©., Jan. 18.—Fine w 
of the Cincinnati Gun Club hobs aie Gacy mee 
cash prices, one of the series at 50 targets, T Phil 
(19yds,) 46, R. Trimble (19) 46, Maynard (19) 45. Pete 
Ahlers (19) 43, Gambell (18) 41, Tenny (15) 41, E. Trimble 7) 41 
Randall (6) 40)! Heyl (19) 40, F. Littleford (15) 39 ) 


Boeh (14) 36, ‘Corry (16) 96, Parfan- (15) 35, Brown’ (id) 96 Blong 


80 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


(Jax. 2g, 1903, © 


<S. ccaa. T Ln i aa? i LLL LLL 
The Hamilton Gun Club. 
Hamitton, Canada, Jan, 14.—I append to-day’s scores from the 


Hamilton Gun Club traps, and beg that you will kindly put them 
in order, as illness at home is preventing my giving the detail I 


would wish to forward: 
No, 1, 10 birds, $10: 


men Sem Lisa ye, ss , -1202021121— 8 Montgomery 
WH OW.....2.- +. .1122001012— 7 Murdock .......... 
Galbraith .......... 0102112211— 8 Mitchell 
NEA G157- eet 2221202022— 8 J Stroud .......... 
E D Fulford... -..2010122222— 8 F Westbrook 
1, Parker. (oy eanes 2122222220— 9 J Simmonds 
ahh Ary ene ».-2111102112— 9 C Scane............ 
Fairbairn .......,.-0222210111— 8 H D Bates......... 
PROSIT oo 2 hayte ers sen aes 0212101011— 7 HH Marlatt.......-. 
SDPOPO! bb naerescres 1211201202 § Waterford ......... 
Olle estivtereet 1212100211 8 B McQueen 
Dr Wilson ........ 2A11122212—10 Norris ...+..+-+---- 
Se LOR tars 75599 45 2002222222— 8 J Des Laurier 
Karkover .......... 2222022202— 8 P Frandeau........ 
Fanning ..-cccesces 2012312012— 8 McCarney ......... 
Shelley | te ccmsccrn: 2120200011— 6 TI Crooks.......... 
ETM aclos curse ..--.0202201210— 6 Conover ..........- 
Griffth Sih. lseas 0202222220 7 Dr Hunt ......... 
Fletcher ........... 2222222012— 9 
MMASOM seaklevelieees 1211102221— 9 W Philips.......... 
L Heady. 475. 2022221222— 9 Summerhays 
C Wood........5 0222222220— 8 Clifford ..........-- 
H Westbrook...... 2101112112— 9 


No. 2, 20 live 


birds, $15, entrance, $100 guaranteed: 
. 222202 § 


erere 


ee eae 


-2101210211— § 


1211221022— 9 
Sei on =» +2022221222— 9 
222222222210 


2021122222— 9 
2221100212— 8 
1121121222—10 


~2202021010— 6 


VV MSIE Gtwisie eases ene 1002211002— 6 


Stroud, 30.. 22) Res (en ee Ot Bese re 922922 
nee ADs wicietes 101121 J L& Head, 29........ aaa ld 201211 
Fairbairn, 27 2IZJav. We (Parker seo y+, ase tere 222222 
Sen Sen, 28.......2.5s3-55- 212122 Toll ...... Sita eit eae 222222 
W HOW, 28iciccceseeeeee ee MTG Tosh WeLeaces. cceteeeneetat 111122 
Griffith, 30..555..../....... 222202, MicCarney; 28..,.-\.------- 002222 
SED THI een Aptatctstocle ctelete elt teichess 002212, Walsonei29,.%...2...5.0...-- 222010 
Manning, "92.2. iccsecs scars 22202 NI POT, 2S) ys4uesedacasegees 222222 
Woods a0M ek cen erneaae Dawe ME\letGhershy wean eer eee ote hee 221021 
RATICGVEL, mo lesen tines 222222 FL Westbrook..........+5- 122021 

No. 12, 10 live birds, $7 entrance, $100 guaranteed: - 

“it Dy otwaha yy Peed 0020222222— 7 G Reid, 28......... 020110 

M Fletcher, 29..... 1211222011 9 F R Dealley, 29....101220 

Dr Wilson, 29..... 2020222222— 8 Sen Sen, 28....... 011220 
2201110121— 8 J Stroud, 30........ 22222222221) 


B Mc 


Fairbairn, 28 
R J Draisey, 27.- 


ueen, 2' 


0112001210— 6 
- -4212010022— 7 
7... .1020121112— 8 


2222202220— 8 C J Mitchell, 29...211222 
--2222222012— 9° € Scane, 29 
2202022222— 8 ; 
. 0000222222 §@ Fanning, 32........ 22:22202210— § 
L --1222202202— 8 EF Westbrook, 29.. .212222 
obbins . -222022 HO ZSe eee ia titer 1022021020— 6 
Kay, 2202221102— 8 Mud, 26......, ve ee -L201222112— 9 
Graihithy yet eee cee 222222222210 Clifford, 27........- 22112 
Kirkover, 30....... 2222020222— 8 H C Marlatt...... 120200 
HK Westbrook, 29..121121 Hinliortyaaaddaateine 
FAS B02 s tat een eee 2122102222 9 T Crooks...... o+< dd2222 
Simmonds, 29...... 2112122222—10 J Parker....-. Baas 200212 
Mason, 28......-.--- 2202022111— 8 Thomas ........... 110221 
Events: Sade 00 Oem) leg ao 
Targets: 10 20 15 20 20 15 15 10 
(PeeB lonely sinonaees sete cca tiltaaet Tae atic MOS eae 
IRD CAD Ge tlonl: cise tle tela alsttetelstsee testicals ee ete MO) ass hs res 
RUOLITU ge eee eetnt te gicietclstetyiet ate elatets Aor annno Me Ghee Tt tien oe re 
Montgomery, 18...... Spvecntals sieercint Pane eee Te, 
Conover Tait a snccwe seb Bheleczsea ee anes 7 18 10-14 1810 9 .. 
Bletcher eis i eeecenesanas Hei ace dite ace aire an acl ath 
Kirkover, 20........, nae eee 10 14 10 16 16 144 «8 
Tollway sree PEPER Teey, tis MOS rae EOLA 
Mitchell, 19... (iat Az. Wy eos SO 
j_L Head, 19 T5355 14! OUTS hE tay ARIE 
Trego, 17 ... WesivgG abba alye mtr abe ve 
Mason, 18.. 6 12> 8 17 16 Il 6 . 
Griffith, 20. Be GGn toe aie oe da Gee 
Shelley, 17.. 8. 157 125 3) a6 
Lipabaveiteey WB 9) Wo sodounec]ecue cree Qe 14-13) 18) Te IS eS se 
Tay plete et oe bee ate sentient se 6 16 15 16 17 13. i 
8) We Galbrathe [sete ene t abece uadlea is T- 15.14 14 14 WI. 4 
MHaitbariis elGtecesse sere ec kenee kana Ucn oh DU es ne beck Ba as 
stort Mpsts eh es EUR, ai ee ee ee Ee yee ge pe Liles Ely Ty ls: a 
WV EI Wa celta Pagar So etan Sette meals 408 15, S50 ae ee 
AV Vice ified Garey oes aatseeut cess ope ow) HR aby bP akhs&e cab 
TE“ Wrestbrools #19 tar orecrae cree ncelsistces SAGE lbs dt 4) ee Be 
J_ Brown, 16...... POSbae se SESSLER ss ois PRY ee A ee eo 
i Sie Wiestbrackoelperereeeksehen: csnas GP ss ee ee AE 
HD Bates, 19....... Pent emietettesiine 9.16 10 18 19 34 2. 
SATION Sel eps eee nae ose Shon Hens Step abbey k yes il ss 
Dr Wilson, 18..-.. Toctoek Sousa tittme eee 8 18 12 15 13 11 
GUTISS MPO ee saacus aula ansare cee : SR IS 7 IS ele : 
Mic Carney ATG. Ny ujuse te cettedilacacrses'e Gets SOAP on eee pee eS 
es Fauriers, 17...-.. Decbaeek seeecsule fase ws wets Ta met 
cRindeanie cl 7eiecscace cose sed ot Pinks een ee (rp Te ee Sa oe 
Langhorn, 16..... potas iioe cere eet eee el es ree ae lan 
A eGronlcs! Alysia s het see sinles estore 5 pe LUE pe RT pba 8 
PISS D lf ord wos ges see ance neta ole je ab at) ib Peake} 8 
Summerhays, 18....< Teedeafeneea te ate ae Tome nll Ae 
TAM EAD agaanrem quaaaAagaedccsasacte cine 8 11 : 
T Upton, 17 R 3: a 
Pn pe bet beeen bhaesrp ans ooee pegs 5 i 
olittord Age) ees een one Bese eae eee: 4 : 
EUG TTIP SW LYS cea ces cou heen Deane fied ie a 
Tre Wise UTA Nesradescesencie tenes chee bee Base 
IDTAIGE YE ALen scant ebe aw: 
Hubert, 17... saad 
Wayper; 19.. istose) on 
Bowman, 17 ak 
Wis, Te. wees Je a et 
Bowron, 17 Pye 
atson, 16 908 
iC lime, Sry PSSEET Rees fled ls alas 13 
urness, 16 10 
Robbins; 17 8 
$1011 13 1415 Shot 
20 2015102015 at. Broke. Av. 
11 15 14 10 13°13 80 65 8125 
18 : 20 18 -9000 
100 80 .8000 
85 74 8705 
15 5B a. Tada 
100 74 - 7400 
55 40 1272 
100 86 8600 
201514 9 19 13 100 90 9000 
; 19 2012101513 4100 89 8900 
Pekacom 17s or yycussese sity Ue 28 eT 45 36 -8000 
NGG DIS LG nko rss fon nae +: 162011 417.. 85 68 8000 
HeiEiess sla eeredider secseean firs Ths ee WET UKs 45 BE -1333 
Ms PRET EN Tpos ob ot ad dates a ae ee 20; 17 -8500 
pon ea Keays Ta eauas nlceeoen ae 181512 91613 100 83 83800 
Hain asta Oe renee otis alee ene 151214 71471 100 73. - 7300 
WewBloudsalisseuseseees Section Uy an, hay sae i hath 35 18 5142 
EY Westbrook, 19) ....1.. 2.13. 191614102013 100 92 9200 
Cancyen Since none inners 151413101413 100 79 - 1900 
WV IMiCD tt sg ceniudererentas c= 181710 .. 66 65 51 1846 
TERE O}S dep Lee eee ea ie 1518 .. me 70 58 ~ 8285. 
Mc@arnevy  17iiid mes sanesnee aa a 20 16 .8000 
tet psee se TEES ee ed a ae geen ere ee 35 30 .8571 
bse tated tle eee ah aah as ye 19 15) 12 3915 T 85 70 8235 
BGwron st feyeos. eee guee sy Te ree Fite be a 40 26 .6500 
ontgomery, 18....,.,....... ST te ae 20 17 8500 
ae Dates 190 Tele dada 171912 91513 100 85 -8500 
Dr Wilson, 18....... eter rra et at: 13.13... 14 .; 65 40 1272 
voueesenrau aes) (KAM Raw es pee f 17 13 10 19 .. 65 59 9153 
WVACSO nr Onn cererictacr yee redteits she eeecr(eay ee 30 20 -6666 
Seay ee -1614.. 5491. 70 47 ‘e7i4 
WWewiey. Ife erent trap Oac ete ye 20 5 ©2500 
Wayper, 19..... ape ty he 50 47 8200 
CRASS Dies IT a coveneeeess shine eet 10... B14 & 50 29 5800 
Dat atts WLGr mics sje erempieae nara re ber ree 1b 11 - .7683 
MG Oscer eV Ta9 oe de on etdaus seers et NEoe fa ow 15 g 5333 
Draisey, 17....,. BOC Ue E nas ose ty if bes Ae 25 18 5200 
IBewwarian, 1%. wise yieeia neta oe gol Ae ueeyy 45 82 =. 5151 
(eCrpolcs nels) asmeereenetia mn Css ai ey Hs 25 22 ~©=-. 8800 
lead, 195. es AS oe «+ $1613 45 38 5444 
li ord reg 1Va\.p-n=507 <a deemed tee at See 30 20 =. 8666 
Summerhays, U.tesscccsscres oe os oo FIR. BI) 7 lad | 


Biillips; 2) iieresttriestt etna et in at 1s 45 39 =. 8666 
Sullivans St6iiyecsicet ot eee a ese ae ih Sen 25 17 -6400 
Grade aS ES AY i ion th rye Se RS 30 22 «£7333 
SpilthomasdOnn te cnhebmeneeteeen 8) eet Bae 30 Pal 7000 
cA ST RAR Ss theese t* ab ie ere yan eal 10 7 ~=.7000 
Ry i itratprals, aU aretha ees nese eciszer oO 8 8000 
Bariver sala. gene son, ites be a OS ee 10 5 -5000 
Presto Us oe delet alone rears boss a 10 5 ~~. 5000 
Riek dong Llereace ota dee eee eer 15 . 20 15 ©. 7500 
bal Serre hie ee Pe Prd scr at tS oe Ba tbo Ae i) 15 9 - 6000 
Glime ere cactad ss iigties gene BRee Leet 12. 20 12 6000 
Briggzet Gaerestessss: (iaigapeedw eens. eels 4) 25 2° 14 ~ = .7000 
MAtonseaa sean Pry eRe stn er Omee 20, 15 . 1500 

* For birds only. 

No. 2, 20 live birds, $15 entrance, $600 guaranteed: 
J Stroud, 31......... » » 2222022222 € J Mitchell, 29........ 2212020211 
PLeCOMET ee cee 1011210002 , Greoksy) 286 anckbe 2012221210 
Fairbairn, 27....... ».. 2101221112 FF R Dealtry, 29........ 1122020000 
Sen Sen, 28...........: 2121222212 T Crooks, 28...1.....<. 2010020121 
WEIN Va iculew eye ennae 0122120020.  D Fulford, 32...... 2220220222 
EV ig Te 25 eee ere 0022200 iallkgueo sae een nents 2221106121 
(Efeitote Sloss ee 2222020222 Rem, 27....4.--+.-. + 2222202220 
Fanning, 32.......:..+. 2222221020 EF G Preston, 27...... 1220222002 
Wood, su0t.scasse een mare 2222122220 Shelley, 27.........-..-. 0102212221 
BGbAR ON Gil So de oe 2222222022 Marlatt, 26...,......... 2200002222 
SIP, 28 eaten eta 2222220202 Jarvis, 26.-., «0122212022 
ye seleads 20e hasceee 2012112210 Montgomery, 29. 2222221222 
mebirkenw olan racaeres 2222222212 Seane, 29........ - 1110121120 

OLERRS I 2 OC epee net 2222222212 Toewis, 27...... «=» 2212221222 
TLOSH. 9 12805 hosed asenieate 1111221001 - Dr Hunt, 28..... s.-» 2012221129, 
McCarney, 28.........s6 0022222222 Hubert, 27............. 0202020011 
Dr Wilson, 29...2..... 2220101220 Summerhays, 27......., 1111122117 
T Upton; 28.)........5 2222222220 Clifford, 27............-. 0011122191 
M Fletcher, 28........2210211200 Graham, 28............. 1110101110 
H Westbrook, 28...,..1220211022 P Blea, 27............. 1222202210 
G Reid, 24.......-- +++ 1112111222 A Roberts, 26......... 1111022011 
J. Simmonds, 28....... 2212120211 Phillips, 27......1...... 2221211112 
FISD Bates 32e.ctobs see 2222222222 B McQueen, 27........ 2112212212 
INOrGIS, BOE S e tess 1112102222 A Bates, 27............ 1111121120 
G Robbins, 28..... +..-2201022220 C Brigger, 28.......,.. 1211212022 
F Westbrook, 29....... 2201001202 > 

Third Day, Jan. 16. 

Events: 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 

Targets 20 20 15 20 20 15 10 26 
Uptony De saadeccs seeds nee hee mors Abe cee eee We ey oe, 
Grawtdrds ds theer eng ereeees Ponies LAS 35) Ov kat ae oe: 
Scares SUT stm eke s ate eae eee nity 18 17 irs Se hile se: 
Molis, 16.cten ste Chenin ech elmieresee LO eS ae le 
FTE ch er ee Semen enn eee nena sae FE ke Eee oa a3 
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Conclusion of eyent No. 2, Grand Canadian Handicap, held on 
Jan. 14, 15 and 16: 
Ueetronds Sl) asses 222022222218 FF Westbrook, 29...22220 —10 
“ETeRO; 29,0 eer: 1120 —9 C Mitchell, 29...:..22009290 —11 
Fairbairn, 27.......111111001i18 J Crooks, 28....,.. 1220011001—14 
Sen Sen, 28........ 222122022119 T Crooks, 28....... 00 —6 
Eg 29 eee eee ee 2102222220—14 Fulford, 32......... 221202111217 
Griffith, 30...,...;. 2220222202 17 Volk, 28........-.- 1010101120—14 
Fanning, 32.......- 121222121017 Rem, 27...........- 2202010010—13 
Wood, 300.0... 22 0222020020—14 Preston, 27.........2202020100—12 
Kirkover, 30........ 2222022222—18 Shelley, 27......... 1222121222 18 
Wicianys t28nen se syle 222222222218 Marlatt, 26........ 222222120 —i14 
Rléadn 290.8. tAsee 122211202217 Jarvis, 26.....,..... 2220220211—16 
bode se bedt ann Seccne 2022222220—18 ontgomery, 29...1201221112—19 
Parker (lessees es 021222222219 Scane, 29........... 10100 —10 
iush cdot serena 1912122110—17 Lewis, 27..........: 2200222220—17 
McCarney, 28....... 222022222217 Hunt, 28...........- 222202222918 
WailSons e209 eee oes 2222222020—15 Summerhays, 29....0112022109—16 
Wiptonw28eeeser on 2220222220--17 Clifford, 27..... 1202112220—16 
Fletcher, 29........ 2120111220—15 - Graham, 28. 01100 —9 
H Westbrook, 29..221111021217 Blea, 27... 021020 —I1 
Reid ake ease oaks 1020212220—17 Roberts, 26...... +» -2001212102 15 
Simmonds, 28......1221111122—19 Phillips, 27...,,....2000222299 147 
H D Bates, 32. 2222222222 2) Mc@ncen, 27...-., -2210122112—19 
Norris, 29... -0201121120—16 A Bates, 27......... 2021110102—16 
Robbins, 28...... ..2201122200—14 Brigger, 28,........ 1210222221—18 

No. 22, $7 entrance, $100 guaranteed: 
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G Reid, 28......,.. 2011222002— 7 Fairbairn, 28,,....- 1111111011 9 
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Fanning, 382..... .--2110111122— 9 Murdock, 28...,....22002220w 
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Sp Mens SI erp adan 9020020220— 4 Bates, 32......., » » -2222222022— 9 
Nn tel ead:, eo0 ne 2111120222 9 Westbrook , 29.....0222201199— 8 
Charles, 27......... 2122122022— 9 Toll, 31....... 2220222222 — 9 
Grimith, ec0stcrs seen 2122200222— 8 Fulford, 32.. 2212211122—10 
Sfeiaton PARR hoor: 1111001112— 8 Kirkover, 32. 222222222110 
Simmond, 29...... 112222122210 Parker, 32,.....-.... 2220202222— § 
Draisey; -27...1....5 0012112012— 7 

Ben Ir. 


Woodlake Gun Club, 


Woop Laxe, Neb., Jan. 14—A strong west wind directly from 
the score made. the targets dip and dive, and one had to be quick 
in order to Jand; otherwise the day was all that could be desired. 

The attendance was excellent, and shows how mutch the interest 
is growing in the shoot. ! 

Mrs. W. L,. Chrysler, Mrs. €: A. Johnson and Mrs: W. A. 
Leach enjoyed the sport from their carriage, and the latter lady 
did good service as score keeper. ' 

Mr. Le Roy Leach was the bright particular star of the day, 
making high score, 21 out of 25, and winning Class A medal, 
while Messrs. Dennis and Chrysler tied for Class B on 18, the lat-- 
ter winning on the shoot-off. : 

Collectively, the shooting was ‘excellent, and shows marked im: 
provement from the scores! of the first shoot of the club, which 
is_only two months old, while out of nine contestants scores of 
one 21, one 19, two 18s, one 17 and a 16 show how closely the boys 
are matched in skill. 
. Following are the seores out of 25 targets shot at: Le Roy 
Leach 21, W. A. Leach 19, W. A, Chrysler 18, John Dennis 18, 
Chas. Day 17, John_ Day 16, Don Dailey 9, Geo. Bakewell 7, T. 
Dailey shot at 15 and broke 5. ; 

W. A, Leach was not eligible for medal. W. A. Leaca. 


Boston Gun *Club. 


Boston, Jan. 15—Just the right kind of a day was what the 
twenty shooters thought who attended the third serial prize shoot 
of the Boston Gun Club, on their grounds at Wellington, to-day, 
and naturally enough a day to the liking of trap shooters brings 
about quite a change in scores, Shooters of all handicaps and 
sizes were present, from our tegular expert at 2lyds. to the real 
enthusiast on the i4yd, mark; and during the afternoon there was: 
not a dull moment. For the first time in the present series straight. _ 
scores were indulged in, it falling to the lot of Summers and_ 
Barry to turn the trick, the former securing two, while the latter. 
Was content with one, eyen if it did come on the pairs. ‘Other 
good scores were made by Leroy, with 24 out of the 25, from the 
Iéyd. mark, and Howe, Brank and Spencer’s work in the 25-bird 
races, each securing good totals. The center of interest, as usual, 
was the prize match, and a more interesting conftest could not be 
imagined, it not being decided till the last target was broken. The. 
leader in this was Barry, with the elegant score of 22, centering all 
targets in the best possible style, and leaying no doubt of it being 
his day on. Not much to the rear were Allison and Hawkins, the 
former standing on the 18yd, mark, and the latter on the 16yd. line. 
Summer, Howe and Leverett were the next, neither being able to 
secure the advantage over the other. In the team match, which 
surely did not lack interest, the Brockton pair were a little too 
good for the rest, though Barry and Woodruff were right on their 
heels, ready to take advantage of any misses that might come along, 
Howe and Allison, though not up to their usual good form, were 
not much outdone, and after one or two more shoots will round 
to in the proper manner. Other scores are as follows: 


Events: le $25 By by 167 ee Se 19 LORIE 

Targets: 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 25 25 10 10 
Suter Ss pL Bs suey s poutine a alcee 510) 812 816 Sa CZ 
Deroy 21s yyy fevers aee SS 1S TE 1G, FO 2 Rees 
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Allison, 18....... ne sere uauee 4 6 18.13 48) 46 Gist AG oe 
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Events 1, 5, 6, 10, 11 Sergeant; 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, magautrap. 


Prize match, 25 singles, 15 from magautrap, 19 from Sergeant 
system; distance handicap: | 
Barkya Ibe RP eeeLrCecicatcnbe aise THOGINIIIII 111101111122 
MUP Goin Tks a sag AR AAA Aas Sa5gubobo> bo 1111110190141 = -1111101110—21 
ia wkasis,§ VOrce. ces. esos ence 101111011111017 =. 110110717121 - 
Simmies, | MLSS sete eee eee OOTITITINI0I = -01111111—20 
Tower, Ole i) Ae Shee ee rae Cheeses de TIII001101NI011 «= 1411111119 —20 
everettis 165ssase Sooper espace essees AIII0IIIII01II1 =—-—-:0101111011—20 
Eipaitic, el Sako ere Rete ora eerie 111100111111100 §=—- 111011110119 
Woodruff, 17....-.... Diebeerer creates 110111101111101 —- 010110101118 
Spencer, 18...,.. recent cpt a ss 011001011011111  0111010117—18 

era AL teat SASSO oe oS 111111110170010 =: 0101111010 17 
Bulag) Go eye eel acice alee Fersiohoten 101100110111111 =: 1101100000—15 
ACGrelcyy oveyalaaasl ts Pear oe ry TON eye ard Ste ag 011111011010111 ow : 
REGIS FH eeisteh th natten een nee -,.-010001000110100  1100011116—11 
Withols: Talis s 220) Peer es pee vaeeoeesLOL000TIII01I01 == -w J 
ESS a RG EA et ee 001001100010100 = 0000000001— 6 


Team match, two men per team, 20 targets per man; 


all shooting 
Ifyds.; 10 magautrap and 10 Sergeant: 


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IDOL Oy Ren sive eieeme orn rials slate latte 1111011111 —1111001011—16—34 
Barry, tens. existential laine) a/sfee icles ee aoreee 1011110011 = 1110111111—6 © 
Woodruff ............ oie ees e ee ere LM101111 =: 011 10011111632 
OWES etidaidteetep sts Leper scence hens 1111111110 1011011110—16 
SV SOLIEP Tay teeter Sdengnorengee 1011101131 1001111010—t5—31 
Frank ....,, De sHalpalsipialscreletefeianswteterelafeiais 1101101110 019111111716 
Katkay Oude... <a. saeaechieccowel arate 1001010111 1111001101132 
Spencer Sie, ope =o-L171111101 ~—-1111000110—15 ’ 
ISG Vere rts mee renal -1110010000 = 0111111111328. 
Richard Sele eeee nats -- 1000011111 0001100171 —31 
$Dyoyes| Pa rier yg +» -1000000101 011011101110 —97, 
Birinci vie ce citieeiteriiceneacatca: 1100111111 + —-0000100010—i9 
IRECIM GSE ECEL Len hbhtataiacese: gon Uee boon: 0000011001  0101011000— 7—17 
‘ : SECRETARY. 
Westchester County Trarshooting Associaticn, 


Osstninc, N. Y., Jan. 18.—Will you kind] 
ForEsT AND STREAM of the formation of the Weetcleseae Trap- 
shooting Association. Appended are the minutes of meeting: 

Organization of the Westchester County Trapshooting Associa- 
tion: 

At a meting of the representatives of the following named shoot- 
ing clubs of the county of Westchester, N. Y., held at Huff’s 
Hotel, at Pleasantville) New York, viz., Mount Kisco Rod and 
Gun Club, Ossining Gun Club and Armonk Gun Club, the fol- 
lowing named county association, above-named, was duly or- 
ganized. 

Officers were duly elected as follows: President, George Sutton, 
of Mount Kisco, N. Y.; Treasurer, Joseph Carpenter, of Kensico; 
Secretary, J. Curry Barlow, of Ossining. ez 
. Carried that any club of this Association be allowed to with- 
draw therefrom upon giving notice of its intention so to do in 
writing and upon thirty days’ notice. 

Carried that the clubs of this Association do deposit with the 
Treasurer thereof the sum of $5 as a guarantee that it will send 
at least three representatives to enter and compete in some of the 
shooting events, to be given under the auspices of the said As- 
sociation, and in the event of the said quota of three men failing 
to appear and take part in said some of the events, the club so ~ 
failing to have said number so present and take part therein, does 
hereby forfeit all right and interest in the said $5, and in addition 
thereto shall forward to the treasurer of this Association the ad- 
ditional sum of 5. : 

Carried ‘that in all events held by this Association there must 
be at least five clay-bird events, and the fixed price of each clay 
bird shot at shall be two cents, 

The following days for events of this Association were by teso- 
lution fixed upon, viz.: Feb, 22, at Kensico, N. Y.; May 30, at 
Ossining, N. ¥.; July 4, at Mount Kisco, N.Y. 

Carried that the next club being admitted to this Association 
shall have the event next following July 4, held at its club house 
on the holiday following that, provided that such club be ad- 
mitted before the first event so held by this Association, , 

Carried that the president be duly authorized to make further 
calls on this Association. 


PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 


——Sse = 


Washington. 


THREE-DAY PERSQNALLY-CONDUCTED TOURS VIA PENNSYLVANIA RATLROAD 


give notice in 


THe next Pennsylvania Railroad Personally-Conducted Tour to 
Washington leaves Thursday, Jan. 30. Rate, covering railroad 
transportation for the round trip, hotel accommodations, and- 
guides, $14.50 from New York, $13 from ‘Trenton, and $11.50 from 
Philadelphia. These rates cover accommodations for two days at 
the Arlington, Normandie, Riggs or Ebbitt House. For accom- 
modations at Regent, Metropolitan or National Hotel, $2.50 less. 
Special side trip to Mt. Vernon. _ i 

All tickets good for ten days, with special hotel rates after ex- 
piration of hotel coupons. ‘ ; 

For itineraries and full information apply to ticket agents: 
Tourist Agent, 1196 Broadway, New York; 4 Court street, Brook- 
lyn; 789 Broad street, Newark, N. J.; or address Geo. W. Boyd, 
Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Phila- 
delphia.—A dv, : 


The Laflin & Rand Powder Co., of 99 Cedar street, New York, 
have received a gratifying letter from the skillful and popular 
shooter, Mr, Kirkover, Jr., of Fredonia,. N. Y., in which 
is recounted that he won high average with Infallible smokeless 
powder at Titusville, Pa., Hrie, Pa., Rochester, N. Y., and at 
Kane, Pa., third to Fleming and Waters, who shot the same 
powder. At Brandford in December he won first RTE at tar 
gets and made four clean scores from the S2yd. mark.—Adp, 


OREST AND STREAM. 


A WeEEKLy Journat oF THE Rop anp Gun. 


-Copyricut, 1902, ny Foresr anp SrrREAM Pupiisuine Co, 


Terms, §4.A YEAR, 10 Crs. a Cory. t 
Stix Monrus, #2. 


VOL, LVIII.—No. 5 


NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FREBRUARY 1, 1902. | | No. 846 Baonnwaiy New Von, 


AN ASTONISHING SITUATION. 


Tue demurrer of the defendants in the case of the 
People vs. Bookman, which is the New York game seizure 
case, has been overruled on all points save as to those 
“counts which are concerned with the possession of plover 
and other birds named in Section 30 of the game law. Pos- 
session of these species Justice O’Gorman holds does not 
constitttte an offense under the act, The possession of 
the other game discovered in the Arctic Freezer Com- 
pany’s vaults, woodcock, grouse, quail, venison, etc., the 
court finds is prima facie evidence that the possessor has 
violated the law; and the burden is then cast upon him 
of proving facts to show that the possession is legal. The 
effect of this ruling is to decrease by the sum of $825,000 
the amount of penalty which may be recovered. The sec- 
tion of the law relating to plover and the other birds con- 
cerned reads: 


Sec. 30. Plover and other Birds fas amended 1901].—The close 
season for Wilson’s (called English) snipe, yellow legs, plover, rail, 
mud-hen, gallinule, surf-bird, curlew, water-chicken, jack snipe, 
bay snipe or shore bird, shall be from Mo 1 to Aug. 31, both in- 
clusive. 


There is here no provision whatever respecting pos- 
session in the close season. The term “close season,” as 


elsewhere defined in the law, relates only to the taking of 


game, not to its possession. With respect to other species 
there are specific prohibitions against possession in close 
season; but the law says nothing whatever specifically as 
to the possession of plover, snipe, etc. 

For this reason the State sought to recover from the 
Arctic Freezer Company for the possession of birds of this 
species by invoking Section 33, which provides: 

Sec. 33. 
birds other than the English sparrow, crow, hawk, crane, rayen, 
erow-blackbird, common blackbird, kingfisher, and birds for which 
there is no open season, shall not be taken or possessed at any 
time, dead or alive, except under the authority of a cértificate 
issued under this act. No part of the plumage, skin or body of any 
bird protected by this section shall be seld or had in possession 
for sale. ; 

That part of the complaint which was based upon this 
section was dismissed by Justice O’Gorman, who wrote of 
it: “Im order to create an offense under Section 33 it 
must appear not only that the birds are wild birds, but 
also that they are birds for which there is no open season. 
Therefore, if they are birds having an open season, or if 
there be no express provision that there shall be no open 
season, the taking or possession of them constitutes no 
offense.’ With all deference to the opinion of the Court, 
we are constrained to express our conviction that the in- 
terptetation which Justice O’Gorman has ptit upon Sec- 
tion 33 is one which it will not bear. Let us examine it. 

Prior to the revision of 1901 the section read: 

Wild birds other than the English sparrow, crow, hawk, crane, 
raven, crow-blackbird, common blackbird, kingfisher, and birds 
for which there 1s an open season, shall not be taken or possessed 
at any time, dead or alive, except under the authority of a certifi- 
cate issued under this act. No part of the plumage, skin or body 
of any bird protected by this section shall be sold or had in pos- 
sssion for sale. 

As it then read the English sparrow and other nenicd 
birds and “birds for which there is an open season,’ 
namely, game birds, were exempted from the application 
of the section. 

But as amended in 1gor, the term “an open season’”’ was 
altered to tead “no open season,” so that the section 
reads (parentheses ours) : “< 

Sec. 33 [as amended 1901],—Wild birds (other than the English 
sparrow, crow, hawk, crane, raven, crow-blackbird, common black- 
bird, kingfisher, and birds for which there is no open season), shall 
not be taken or possessed at any time, dead or alive, except under 
the authority of a certificate issued under this act. No part of 
the plumage, skin or body of any bird protected by this section 
shall be sold or had in possession for sale, 

In other words, the provision is to the effect that wild 
birds may not be taken except under the authority of a 
certificate, nor sold nor possessed for sale; but the birds 
excepted from the prohibition are the English sparrow, 
crow, hawk, ete., and “birds for which there is no open 
season.” id 

The “birds for which there is no open season” are the 
song and insectivorous birds. They are not subject to the 
prohibition of the section. There is no law whatever in 
New York State to protect song birds. 

The birds for which there is an open season are the 


game birds; and they are tharefore included in the cate- ' 


gory of “wild birds’ which “shall not be taken or pos- 


Certain Wild Birds Protected [as amended 1901]—Wild ~ 


‘department provide for a system of firing drill. 


sessed at any time, dead or alive, except tinder the author- 
ity of a certificate issued under this act,” nor “sold or had 
in possession for sale.”’ 

In other words, under this section of the New York 
law as it stands to-day, game birds may not be killed un- 
less the shooter has. a naturalist’s permit, 

Now as to the particular species of birds concerned in 
the Arctic Freezer Company's case, namely, plover and 
snipe, we cannot understand how Justice O’Gorman’s in- 
terpretation of the section ean be maintained. His ruling 
that “in order to create an offense under Section 33 it 
must appear not only that the birds are wild birds, but 
also that they are birds for which there is no open sea- 
son,’ is precisely the reverse of what the statute itself 
declares. The “birds for which there is no open season” 
are the very ones exempted fromthe operation of the 
act. The law says “wild birds other than * * * bitds 
for which there is no open season, shall not be taken,” etc. 
This is equivalent to saying that “birds for which there 
is an open season shall not be taken,” There is an open 
season for plover and snipe; these birds therefore do 
come under the prohibition in Section 33, and a cold 
storage concern which has them in Bpseessiga for sale is 
liable to the penalty. 

As it now stands, the New York law permits without 
restriction the killing of all birds which are not game 
birds, and permits the killing of game birds only under 
authority of a naturalist’s license. 


This is an astonishing situation. The same conditions 


held in March of 1900 when Senator Brown had completed — 


his herculean and stupid revision of the game code. The 
Forest AND STREAM called attention to the situation, and 
it was remedied. The first action of the game committees 
of the present Legislature should be to correct the blunder 
by a simple’ change of the word “no” to “an.” 


COL. THURSTON’S OPPORTUNITY. 


Cot. N. B. THurston, who is widely known for his 
energetic work at the head of the Department of Rifle 
Marksmanship in the New York State Guard, and who is 
now the official head of rifle practice in this country as 
the President of the National Rifle Association, has re- 
cently taken upon himself the duties of Deputy Commis- 
sioner of the Police Force of Greater New York. It 
is a post which brings him before the public in many ways, 
but there is one phase of his many-sided work which 
should be particularly agreeable to this popular National 
Guardsman. He has now a conspicttlous opportunity to 
put to use his knowledge as an instructor in the handling 
of firearms. 

The police force of the metropolis reaches a total of 
about 7,000 men. It is an atmed civic guard, for each 
member is required to carry, while on duty, a revolver, 
and on certain occasions he is empowered and required to 
make use of it. Ask any citizen for his opinion of a 
policeman as a marksman, and the reply would be a smile 


-of derision. Almost every day, tucked away in the comic 


column of any metropolitan journal, may be found a 
report of a performance of the day before where some 
stray dog, having been declared “mad,” was, of course, a 
stbject for immediate éxecution. The general practice 
is for every policeman within hail to empty his revolver 
at the four-legged target, and as many misses as shots 
having been scored, the dog is disposed of with a club. 
Too often the account tells of some citizen being hit 
with one of the wild bullets. Not a few human beings 
have lost their lives in this way. Shot down in the public 


streets, through the incompetence of paid guardians, with - 


blame really resting upon the superior officers. 


This ig the situation which faces Col. Thurston. It is. 


not a matter of choice with him, The by-laws of the 
The force 
is fortunate in having on its rolls one of the best revolver 
shots in this country. Entirely apart from his police 
duties, Sergeant Petty has won a place in the front rank 
as an amateur marksman. Some years ago he was given 
a partial opportunity to find out how needful was some 
system of drill in police marksmanship. Out of a pos- 
sible 75 at ten yards, he found the men could average 
15, and this with ample time to aim at a fixed-target. He 


got the average up to 3o at fifteen: yards, and then came 


a chief who nie the whole system with a single 
“Wot tell.” 


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_tive of the Maine spirit. © 


“ture. 
bany ; the second was introduced by Senator Plunkitt, and 


At present there is. absolutely nothing doing in the 
way of practice. The men ate getting so careless that 
any sort of an old blunderbuss or pigmy makeshift is 
substituted for the weapon officially designated. The cur- 
rent plan of hours of police duty makes it very easy to 
put in vogue a simple system of aiming drill, but so far 
Col. Thurston has issued no orders to that end. In this 
matter there seems no choice between the new reform 
regime and the old slovenly police control. 


NOVA SCOTIA’S FOOLISH LICENSE. 


A. WELL-KNOWN writer who has done more than any 
other one man perhaps to popularize Nova Scotia’s waters 
as resorts for anglers, said in conversation the other day, 
“That action of the Nova Scotia authorities in the Town- 
send case has made many of my friends who have been 
going to Nova Scotia with their families for the summer 
resolve to go somewhere else this, year, They consider 
Mr. Townsend’s treatment an outrage; and they will not 
subject themselves to the possibility of like treatment, nor 
will they pay the license. They will take their families 


* somewhere else.” 


We quote this—which was not spoken with a view to 
publication—not for argumentative purposes, but as a 
significant indication of the feeling aroused by the course 
which the fishery officials pursued in the Townsend case. 
The prevailing opinion among American anglers is that, 
considered from a financial standpoint, and as a business 
proposition, the Nova Scotia angling license exaction is 
likely to entail a loss far beyond any income for licenses. 
Fishing is not everything with the visitor who takes his 
family into the Province for the summer; but it is. so 
much of a factor as to determine one’s choice of loca- 
tion, and the imposition of a tax, where fishing has here- 
tofore always been, free, will keep people away. This 
reluctance to pay the inconsiderable fee may appear very 
foolish, and actually may be very foolish, but it finds 
its seat in that trait of human nature which resents im- 
position, real or fancied; and the point for the Nova 
Scotia authorities to consider is not the justice or the 
injustice of the license scheme as a matter of statute law, 
but the actual working of it in practice as affecting the 
revenues Nova Scotians- derive from visiting Americans. 
If the purpose of the license tax was to raise money— 
and presumably this was the purpose—it is one which will 
not be accomplished. 


SNAP SHOTS. 


We publish elsewhere from Commissioner Carleton of 
Maine a disclaimer of responsibility for the $15,000,000 
of Maine’s revenue from her visitors. It appears, how- 
ever, that Commissioner Carleton did put forward’ this 
estimate in’ the meeting, and if he had not intended the 
figures fo be accepted as reasonable ones, the time for 
him to have said so was there and then. Moreover, $15,- 
600,000 or $4,000,000, the spirit which whines over the 
price of a camping parfy’s potatoes lost to Maine farmers 
is so niggardly that we refuse to accept it as representa- 


& 


We gave in our issue of Jan. 4 the text of the two bills 
prepared by the Protective League of Salt Water Fisher- 


-men relative to pound nets and purse nets in waters ad- 


jacent to New York. These measures embody the fruit 
of a long study of the problem of conserving the salt— 
water fishes, and should have the support of the Legisla- 
The first bill has not yet been introduced at Al- 


is Senate Int. 73. 
& 


The Long Island newspapers have been having some 
fun over a new game which goes by the name of “Over- 
ton chasing the eagle.” It appears that whenever Pro- 
tector Overton has a leisure day he spends it in chasing 
wp the latest eagle slayer. Eagles have been numerous 
in Long Island this winter, and there appears to be an 
irresistible attraction about an eagle for the Long Islander 
with a gun. Five or six eagles have been shot, and the 
five or six shooters have paid their fines; and now. Pro- 
tector Overton has publicly announced that owing to the 
diminished supply the price of Long Island eagles has 
been advanced. 


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The Sportsman Tourist. 


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In the North Country. 


Part 1.—On the Sevogle. 


THE season of planning had passed, and winter and its 


snows had vanished, and summer had drawn to its close, ’ 


when one bright afternoon we left the city behind, bound 
for the North Country. 

In due ceurse, after some thirty-six hours of travel, 
we arrived about 6 of a cloudy morning at New Castle, 
N. B., and immediately looked up my good friend, Mr. 
John Robinson, Jr., who in one word to the hunter and 
fisherman is the “man who knows.” He had been on 
the watch for a good place for me for a year, and in an 
hour or so we had started off with our duffle by wagon 
for the fitst camp, which we hoped to make that night. 
We did it, too, for about 7 o’clock, with the stars show- 
ing brightly overhead, we stumbled and rolled down a 
steep hillside into an old lumber camp, and almost into 
the arms of our good cook Jim. We had but a few mo- 
ments to take in a long breath and look about on the 
tall pines, with the wind rustling in their tops, and hear 
the murmur of the Sevogle River, when Jim announced 
supper, and we were deep in the intricacies of partridge 
broth with potatoes, bread and tea. And it is to be 
supposed that our city appetites did as well as they knew 
how under the circumstances. That night we slept on 
the boughs as soft as ever we did at home. 

The next day Karl said, “I guess we better go to Pea- 
body,” and off we went, a load on Karl’s shotilders that 
I could hardly lift, and if he did not offer when we got 
te the river to take me on top of the load. While we 
are climbing the hill and going around the windfalls I 
want to introduce Karl. He is about thirty, with blue 
eyes and clean, sharp cut features, and a voice that sounds 
honest either with or without birch horn. His last name is 
Bersing, and he calls himself a “Russian sailor,” and the 
way he can go around through the woods does a man’s 
heart good. He is a friend of John Robinson’s, afore- 
named, and now he 1s a friend of mine, and many the 
time traveling along the wood roads have I silently 
thanked him for those little courtesies of hand and heart 
that money-can never buy, and money never pay for. 
Meanwhile, we are traveling pretty fast under the yel- 
lowing birch leayes and over the softest of brown and 
green carpets. 

_ “How far are we going?” I asked. 

“Oh, a couple of miles,” he replied, and I soon learned 
this to be the standard measure of distance in the woods. 
At the end of it, by a tiny rivulet, we raised our lean-to 
tent and cut a few boughs and a little firewood, and the 
house was completed and furnished. My sleeping bag 
was unrolled on the boughs, and my rifle shouldered, and 
again we were off. : 

The next distance was a “mile—maybe more,” and I 
decided on dividing the trail up into quarters and eighths, 
after the manner of the tenderfoot, that the “maybe 
more” was the biggest part of it. But there was the lake, 
some bright places through the trees, then opening out 
broadly, the big green woods hemming it in closely, 
crowding the gray waters and stony shores; and there 
in the mud and sand were the big heart-shaped tracks 
of moose, the broad, wide spread toes of caribou, and 
the sharp, little prints of deer. Thank God! we were 
among His wild creatures. Then came the thought that 
it was to do them no good, and the rifle in my hands 
seemed almost a sacrilege on the shores of that quiet lake. 

We got in Karl’s skiff and paddled out to where we 
could see all around the shores. Nothing. Well, we 
could hardly expect the beasts to receive us at an “at 
home” so early in the day, and so we went a-fishing. 
The trout were “at home” anyhow, and a good supper 
was soon provided. What was that? Hark! It sounded 
like the cracking of a dry stick. Again we heard it 
coming from the nearest shore, and without a word we 
paddled oyer to some big logs and lay behind them. 

An hour went by. Nothing. 

Another hour, and no sound except a family of loons 
making merry at the lower end of the lake. 

A third hour was consumed in day dreaming, and 
then it being almost sunset Karl raised the yellow horn 
to his lips and gave a grunt. No answer except from 
the loon, which creature we cursed by all the saints 
in the calendar, only to provoke fresh mirth on his part. 
Again Karl raised the horn, and a long, dismal wail 
beginning with a clear note, floated over woods and 
waters. Then it began to rain. Clouds had crept un- 
noticed over the blue sky, and a gentle drizzle was dot- 
ting the water. I began to doze, when suddenly Karl 
sat up and whispered, “There he is!” and sure enough, 
over on that high grassy bank, black against the gray 
light, loomed a tall beast with a light-colored face. At 
least 500 yards away—too far to think of shooting. 
Slowly the head turned, and the huge ears stood out. 
A cow! What a let-down! She showed entire indiffer- 
ence to both our disappointment and noise. The long 
wail rang out over the pond again and again, but no 
answering grunt came back, nor did the cow leave her 
evening meal. Meanwhile the shower was over and the 
sky had cleared. The pine tops had long been sharply 
defined; now they were black against a sky that changed 
from blue to indigo and pearl. The stars came slowly 
out in their wonderful profusion, the Northern Cross, the 
Crown, over in the west, the Eagle in the south, and low 
down on the northern horizon the Pointers we all know 
so well. And night came with that mystery one feels 
belongs to it of right, and a suggestion of the east, where 
night seems to haye had birth. One could easily im- 
agine the shifting shadows in the trees to be accom- 
panied by the rustle of her draperies and the earth to 
stand up with uncovered head and bated breath. In the 
last of the twilight we stumbled down the wood road 
over my fractions of a mile till they became multiples 
of a mile, through the thickening dark to our cozy 


little home under the trees, as happy as lords, for was. 


not the pond all tramped up by “their majesties,’’ and 
had not the good Creator shown us a little way down 
those hidden pathways of the world where life is to-day 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


much as it was thousands of years ago. And so we sat 
before our fire and fried our trout and toasted our 
bread and our bacon on a forked stick; and as the 
fire and food warmed our bodies, it also touched our 
tongues and we made friends, Karl and I, Then in his 
pleasant voice he told me stories of the woods and 
the animals until the very pine trees seemed to bend over 
tc listen, and I knew it was time to go to bed, We took 
that look around upon the night that one always talces 
in camp, when the last log is put upon the fire, and 
found the stars blazing brightly in the stillness like 
candles in the evergreens, the trees just breathing, as 
they do quiet nights, to show our dear old mother 
nature is sleeping like a child, and when I lay down 
upon her breast in my blankets that first night’ in the 
open, I swear I could hear her heart throb. : 

The lines of the great poet came to me, and I must re- 
peat them to Karl, who I was to find had a healthy dis- 
regard for them. 


Under the greenwood tree, 

Who loves to lie with me, 

And tune his merry note 

Unto the sweet bird’s throat— 

Come hither, come hither, come hither! 
Here shall he see 

No enemy 

But winter and rough weather, 


Who doth ambition shun 

And loves to live in the sun, - 
Seeking the food he eats 

And pleased with what he gets— 

Come hither, come hither, come hither! 

Here shall he see 

No enemy 

But winter and rough weather. 


The next thing I knew it was dark and quiet; the fire 
mostly gone out, save for a few red embers and the 
smoking end of a green log. I wondered at the sense 
of security the hearth and the light tent gave, and how 
comfortable and warm it was on the boughs. Then a 
brief blank again, and Karl was telling me it was time 
to get up to start for the lake. It was not as early as it 
should have been, and yet quite dark enough for my moc- 
casined feet to stumble over a log under the pines. 

That stumble cost me a shot, for we heard some large 
animal trot strongly off up the brook, but never knew 
what it was. Down at the lower end of the lake a cow 
and a yearling calf were feeding in the water about 
where we had seen the cow the previous evening. She 


was very large, and remained playing in the water for a’ 


half hour after we had begun to call. Morning came 
with wonderful glory and beauty to that small lake 
among the pines, and the birds were singing as if it was 
springtime. As the sun rose, the wind rose with it, and 
blew hard all day. We tramped. back to the Valley 
Camp and found the Doctor had gone some eleyen miles 
up country. The next day we followed, making some 
ten miles to another pond, where we camped for the 
night in a heavy shower, and had no chance to hunt, 
but most excellent sleeping, and the third day went on 
our remaining five miles to Clearwater. The forest was 
high and rolling, beautiful in color and full of partridges, 
so that in the fifteen miles my little 22 caliber stood for 
eight birds. On arriving at the camp we found that the 
Doctor had seen two bull moose on the lake and shot at 
the larger; with no result, and there was much discussion 
over his misfortune. Here we had a very comfortable 
little log camp that held our affections for a week. It 
had been newly built in the spring, and was nice and 
clean, barring a little mildew. Not a quarter of a mile 
away, on the brook, was a cleverly arranged beaver dam 
in the sluiceway of an old, neglected logging dam. It 
was 5 feet high and as thick through at the bottom, was 
some 8 feet across and as perfect a semi-circle as if 
drawn by compasses. The little workers had piled stones 
and sod upon the exposed places, and were adding to it 
while we were there. Meanwhile we, each of us, were 
getting some shooting, and this was the way of it. You 
know that one gets superstitious in the woods. 

The Doctor was an inveterate card player and a be- 
liever that the neighborhood of game is denoted by high 
eards and close rubbers, There is another friend of 
mine who thinks no trip can be successful unless he 
takes an old mirror with him that has survived so many 
rough experiences that its usefulness is long since past, 
and it is only utilized as a decoration of the lodge pole 
for a totem. To return, the first caribou the Doctor saw 
appeared at the critical stage of the seventh game of 
euchre, when the score was three games and four points 
all. He, however, did not consider the shot good 
enough to warrant the noise of the .30-30 in a good 
moose country. My private opinion is that the noise is 
not the worst thing that can happen when one is hunt- 
ing, although better avoided. But to return. 

The next day the Doctor ard I were out behind the 
bushes on the pond playing euchre, and when two games 
all, out walked a caribou and began a hop, skip and 
jump side step over the bushes and mud in the irra- 
tional manner of his kind, but drawing nearer. As the 
Doctor had never shot one of these little reindeer, and I 
had one good head, we decided it to be his shot. Behinda 
bush went Mr. Greytop, took a sip of lake water, tasted 
a bunch of weeds and was then 120 yards away. “Now 
shoot,” said I. “No; he'll come closer,’ was the an- 
swer I got; and sure enough he came on till again I 
said, “Shoot!’’ A bush now spoiled the Doctor’s view, 
and-_one long jump took the gentleman of the barrens out 
of sight in the woods, 

The next morning we were playing poker, and after 
some pretty poor combinations, I got a full house. and 
was prepared to wreck the Doctor’s fortune, and he, 
strange to say, was proving a more than willing yictim, 
when suddenly a stick cracked, and there, behind me, was 
a pair of horns nodding along over the bushes to the left. 

Dropping the cards and picking up my Mauser, I 
aimed for a gray patch that was where the shoulder 
ought to be, and pulled. “Wang! went the sharp dis- 
charge, and Mr. Broadtoes was-20 fect away, and by so 
much nearer the woods, “Wang!” again: and he turned 
and faced us; coming very fast at an easy lope over a 
bush and around a little spruce, but straight for us and 


the air and half turned. 


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not over 50 feet away now. Ten feet in the next bound, 
and “wang!” went the little rifle for the third time, and 
I could almost touch his horns with my rifle barrel as 
he crumbled and rolled his head and shoulders into the 
mud and water at our feet. Now, that is an exaggeration, 
but it was not 25 feet to where he lay. The animal was 
bewildered only, and trying hard to get away, our being 
in his path was a coincidence. We thought the last 
shot only had struck him, but every bullet had made the 
body; one through the lungs, one in the throat, and the 
last, entering half-way up the neck, we took out under 
the skin of the hams. It had gone the whole length of 
his body. 

Although he had only a small head, it was even and 
nicely branched, and there was a good inch of fat on the 
saddle and hams, so that I felt very happy over my 
contribution to the larder. It was with great regrets, 
however, we found that during the excitement our cards 
becaine so badly mixed that we did not know who won 
that hand. ; ; 

The same afternoon the Doctor was again sitting on 
the pond, this time on an old beaver house, and George, 
his guide, was calling. 

The cards had been running very evenly, and they 
stood pat on games. , 

“Tt’s about time for something to turn up,” said the 
Doctor. ‘ 

“And there he stands,” replied George. F 

Less than 100 yards away the head and antlers of a big 
bull moose appeared framed by the trees, his eyes fast- 
ened on the beaver house. Neither man nor beast 
moved for a moment, and then the biggest and glossiest 
of his kind stepped out on the shore and gazed across 
the lake. “Bang! went the 30-30, and he leaped into 
“Bang!” again, and he rushed 
out into the water and stopped for an instant shoulder 
deep. “Bang!” for the time, but he had fallen before 
the flash of the gun, shot fairly through the heart by the 
little bullet. His horns were immense, looking as tall as 
a man, as the guides floated him into shallow water to 
skin out the head and cut up what meat we could carry 
away. He was in his prime—tall, strong and very black, 
a veritable half ton of flesh and bone, and his horns 
measured 5334 inches in spread. | To-day, I fear, the 
greater part of him taints the purity of Clearwater, but 
his passing was not a painful one; he never knew what 
struck him, 


Part I]._—The Big Moose of Little Christmas Ponds. 


Karl had been trying to make me lie out on the meadow 
for a night without a fire, and I had refused point blank. 
“Anything with the fire,” I would say, “but no night work 
without.” ‘‘Well,” he replied in his Russio-English, “We 
go up the brook to-day and camp under my blanket—she 
keep tis dry.” So we went over windfalls and through 
alders for a good “three mile,” made a shelter out of 
an old blanket and some hemlock boughs, b’iled the kettle 
and journeyed on over one of the best marked moose 
roads I have ever seen for something like a mile to Little 
Christmas Pond. This water was simply a spring 50 
yards in diameter and a marsh as wide around it. Here 
we sat down in a blind made of little spruces, slapped at 
the black flies, watched the gathering clouds and waited. 
The Doctor had walked over with us, but did not remain 
very long. So we smoked and made occasional remarks 
about the wind in the tree tops and the lowering. sky, 
It was useless to call, but about 4 P. M. we gave them 
a toot which seemed not to carry 100 yards, and lay down 
again in the long grass listening. I grew very drowsy, I 
must admit, in the sweet-smelling meadows, and came 
to understand why the spruce and fir trees around us had 
given the pond its name. I really expected to see Santa 
Claus step out, leading a couple of caribou to water and 
then hear him humming to himself of the fine crop of trees 
for the Yule Tide. Everything came to us in the wind; 
the noise of cities, the voices of children and the tinkling 
of cow bells. I looked over at Karl. His head hung for- 
ward, his eyes were closed, his pipe was cold between his 
lips. One always sees strange sights in the woods; bushes 
and trees make curious forms, and spaces black with 
shadow become living and moving creatures. One black 
opening behind some low bushes began to take the form 
of that old saint the children love, his beard and whiskers 
came out of the darkness; his old eyes,I could imagine, 
twinkled to see us out there dozing by the waterside, but 
he did not move. I turned away, listening, and then as I 
lay there, seemed to see a tall black form silently steal 
from the woods. Very high he stood on his long gray 
legs,“ his head held majestically high before him as he 
slipped along, huge horns with wide paddles standing up 
high above his head. It was such a thing as one dreams 


of. He appeared to see me easily and regarded me with’ 


courteous curiosity. This, thought I, is the owner of that 
immense track we crossed on the brook; this is the father 
of them all. His nose was held. like a hunting dog’s in 
the air, and the nostrils quivered and expanded in the 
half-light, Still he stood and wrapped us in that wide 
look, The alders had made no noise at his approach, and 
now he stood out from them like an ebony statue. So he 
stood, and in that all-absorbing look he brought to me 
the answers to many questions. What was I here but an 
intruder. A creatute of like make lived here. I must 
apologize before I shot. : 

My gun! It had been forgotten, I raised my hand to 
rub my eyes, and swiftly he passed out of sight as if 
fading away. “Karl,” said I, “wasn’t he big?” and drew 
in a long breath. 

“What?” said Karl, rubbing his eyes. 

“That moose,” I replied. 

“T saw nobody,” said. he, using the personal as was his 
wont. “Nobody came out.” ; f 

“Yes, somebody did,” I insisted. “You must have been 
asleep, The biggest moose in the world came out. See 
here,” and I led the way over to where he had stood. 
There in the moss was a hugetrack. ; 

“This three, four days old. See this spider web over 
it, See grass growing up again straight. Before last 
night’s rain, anyhow,” said he, and after some discussion 
and many questions, he insisted I must have been asleep. 


I recognized the track was not fresh, so maybe I was ° 


asleep; I didn’t know myself, but strongly suspected. 


That night as we lay under our blanket and boughs in 


[{Fes. 1, 1902. | 


the rainy woods, a big moose stalked again through my 
dreams, but did not disturb my sleep. ‘ : 
Three days later, after climbing over some eight miles 
of windfalls, now down in a river bed among the stones, 
now up on the bank sinking knee deep in moss that looked 
soft and inviting to my weary body, now in the cracking 
branches of a fallen hemlock, we came out finally on a 
- “good road,” neglected for four years, and pretty thor- 
oughly neglected, too. i 

The woods had been open in spots and alders grew in 
the wet places. There were some big tracks here in the 
mud, and occasionally we came to a bush that had been 

_ ripped to pieces by the horns of a passing moose. 

Along the road a little piece I saw Karl stop, pointing 

’ with his axe handle into the thick trees and look around 
with a quivering face. “Big bull moose,” said he. “See?” 

“No; can’t see,” I replied, following the axe handle. 

“Two spruces and black thing between; don’t shoot yet; 
don’t talk. There, see his horns yellow?” : 

“Wo, Karl, I can’t see him,’ I said in despair. ap 

“Shoot at black spot between two spruces now; that’s 
shoulders.” 

I shot; immediately out from the woods burst a great 
black moose. “Bang! went the repeater, “bang!” and 
down he went on his haunches. Twice more I fired. “An- 
other like that,” said Karl, but off he trotted, unhurt, I 
trust, through the forest, We followed a half-mile and 

—no blood. Although he seemed to have been a little 
dazed and to haye run in circles, yet we found no blood 
at all, and the further we went the stronger he seetned to 
go. Windfalls and broken stubs were his chosen path, 

* and the hoof marks, starting outspread became close and 
eyen and further between. To say one is disappointed is 
vanity. To think that a year’s planning, of studying guns 
and ammunition, of shooting at a mark for three months, 
of seeing game on and off for ten years, all goes for 
naught when the psychological moment comes, Yet there 
is an excellent saying of Mr. Prime’s, “It is not all of fish- 
ing to fish.” And so I lost him, or so I met him, as I 
thought for the second time, at his best, in his home, and 
some good fortune attended him. I felt afterward, while 
much chagrined at the shooting, that I had left a friend 
behind me in the green and golden forest, and to meet him 
I should journey up there to Christmas Pond next year 
and rest on the fragrant grass and listen to the wind in 
the pines. May the dryads guard him well till I come 
back, and the pads on the Clearwater furnish the bases for 
broader paddles and a wider spread than ever, 

Gero, F, Dominick, Jr. 


A Walk Blow South.—XIV. 


Turee or four miles out of Monterey I stopped at an 
ample-sized house on the right (west) side of the road 
atid asked could I get dinner there. A fine, motherly, 
midddle-aged woman, when satished that I was not a 
peddier, said, “Yes, indeed,’ if I would wait. I waited. 
In a few minutes a square-shouldered, blue-eyed, golden- 
mustached young man came in. He was a son of ths 
lady, Charles K. Gibson by name. 

“That's quite a trick,” he said of the pack and its out- 
fit—an expression I soon became familiar with down 
Jackson’s River, which I now was following. His eyes 
had the direct gaze, which is not a stare, with which one 
becomes more familiar the further south he goes. _ 

Gibson likes to hunt. His dog is a bird and rabbit one, 
but best for driving stock. His gun is a Spencer repeater. 
One day this fall he got into a flock of wild turkeys “back 
on the mountain.” He shot four of the birds as quickly 
as one could have counted them. Less than a week pre- 
vious to my coming he had killed one of the bronze fel- 
lows and seven: pheasants in a day's hunt. ““They’re 
pretty thick,” he said of birds. 

Dinner was of the sort one finds in a prosperous graz- 
ing country—beef with the blue grass and) mountain range 
flavor, cooked in the pot and browned in the pan—nough 
said. It’s hours to dinner to-day, and my appetite needs 
no whetting or memories, ; 

Down the road a couple of miles I sat in a clump of 
woods to grease my shoes with castor oil. They had 
begun to turn tawny where the frozen ground wore them, 
While I was at this a sulky drove up. The woman driver 
gave one look at me and then wiped the horse along the 
backbone with a long water-beech gad. ‘ 

It was quite a cold day—ten degrees below freezing at 
noon, I judged. But the people I met agreed that it was 
“mighty fresh.” Many wore ear-flaps, and with hooked 
fingers hovered over the fire—from these indications, and 
though it did not seem so bad to me, I could tell that it 
was unusual weather, and- not the kind to which the 
residents were used. Te 

The yalley was narrow, the bottoms fertile, but it is in 
the minerals that the region will find its wealth. Iron 
abounds eyerywhere. 

I came to an old grist mill. Jt was kept by an old man, 
who said I would be welcome at his house, three miles 
below. Round the foot of, wooded ridge sides, past large 
rocks, with glimpses of log cabins far up runs, or of corn- 
fields on side hills, I traveled on down. I regretted the 
approach of night. It was a beautiful little valley, where 
one rounded a picturesque turn at every step or two. 
After a while the road ran level along the ridge, while 
the stream fell over its boulder and rocky bed. Woods 
were above and below the road, till suddenly the path 
ran down to the creek again. A split-rail] fence corner 
showed ahead, and then a log house on the far side of 
the stream. It was E. A. McLaughlin’s. He was split- 
ting wood with a 6-pound axe. His head was covered by 
a red Tam o’ Shanter hat. I crossed the single-stick 
bridge, gripping the pole handle tight. I was told to set 
my pack inside and come up to the fire and get warm, 
The invitation with which one is welcomed all down the 
mountain range during cold weather. 

Here the old story of decreasing. game was heard. 
Markets have done the work, In one fall thirty-two deer 
were killed at a single stand just below the mill. Bears 
still are seen-occasionally. McLaughlin told of one big 
one over on the Alleghanies in the Greenbrier country, 


which “rolled out from under a log” on the approach of a 


party of hunters in which he was. The bear reared up 


on its hind legs and trotted away like a fat man. Bullets 


and buckshot brought the beast down. -Then it: was found 


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that both its fore legs had been cut off by traps—one at 
the wrist, the other at the elbow. - 

McLaughlin’s brother, Letcher, was made blind fifty 
years ago at three years of age by a percussion cap ex- 
ploding. He walked freely about the house; but it was 
pathetic to see him go over a rifle novel to him. The 
sight, the breech, the barrel and all were examined care- 
fully. He laughed like a delighted child when the take- 
down apparatus was explained. In the morning he was 
eager to have his picture taken—although he could never 
see it. 


IT went on down the road, which had ice on it in places 
—ice that the horseback riders and the wagon drivers 
alike dread in this region, where “rough” shod or “sharp” 
shod horses, as they say in the Adirondacks, are seldom 
needed. “The country gets better after you go down 
a ways,’ I was informed. I am told often that I ought 
to go in such and such directions, “for they have fine big 
farms thataway,’ With an opportunity to go up the 
Shenandoah Valley “with its fine big farms,’’ why I had 
chosen the mountain trails is not always to be satisfac- 
torily explained by love of the beautiful or joy in the 
novelties; I don’t try to explain, unless I say it is be- 
cause the people in the mountains are easier to get along 
with—a statement that is very true as well as sufficiently 
explanatory. 

I came down into the “fine country” soon, and dinner 
time coming on, I stopped at the best-looking dwelling in 
sight. It was well painted, doors of natural wood var- 
nished, a comfortable woodpile and two hundred acres of 
cultivated land, and a herd of stock in sight. Everything 
was well picked up, and prosperous, 

“We don’t-often keep strangers here,” the woman said, 
and I was not one of the exceptions. At the next house, a 
rough board one, with missing window panes replaced by 
rag balls, the woman said: 

“Come right in and sit down by the fire. We ain’t got 
much, but such as we have you’re welcome to,” 

Sausage, corn bread, wheat biscuit, peach and apple 
butter, “frtit’’ (apple sauce), home-made coffee, cabbage, 
stewed dry corn, sweet milk, berries, crabapple jelly, was 
all they had for dinner. 

The walls were papered partly with weekly papers— 
the “Oh, Lord I loved Thee!” sort. A single-barreled 
shotgun, .12-gauge breechloader, a .38-40 repeater and an 
old Kentucky rifle, hung from the ceiling rafters; shotgun 
shells and eggs were on the bureaw; a sheet-iron stove 
roared in the middle of the sitting room floor, and a Jean, 
brown hound toasted first one side-and then the other 


‘before the kitchen fireplace. A sixteen-year-old girl, very 


pretty, and known for thirty mileS up and down the valley 
for her good looks, took the biscuits out of the oven four 
at a time, so that each eater would have “hot bread” all 
the while. Like all the women, she wore a sunbonnet 
when she stepped outdoors. 

The afternoon wore slowly away. The white sun was 
chilly, reminding one of the song: 


Rained all day the night I left; 
It rained the river dry, - 
Sun shined so hot I froze to death— 
a.. Susanna don’t you ery. 

A bleak landscape the level bottom and steep, brownish 
blue hillsides made; it was bleakest where the bottoins 
were broadest. Long after I was tired enough to stop I 
was still traveling onward. Doubtless I passed houses 
where I could have spent the night, but I was in no frame 
of mind to face a rebuff. I wanted to be sure of a 
hearty welcome, and I saw no house that suggested one 
till at last a couple of hundred yards up a hollow I saw 
what I had hoped for, It was a “poor man’s home,” un- 
planed, a small woodpile, a round-cheeked little boy, a 
smoking chimney and a black dog. With a confidence 


_ born of experience, I approached the tall, lean, black- 


whiskered man, gripping a great axe handle with one 
hand and asked: 

“Do you all know any place hereaway where a stranger 
could get to stay to-night?” I asked. 

“Yes, sit} you can stay right heah if you all can put 

up with our feeding. I ain’t what you’d call a wealthy 
man. Poke up the fire a bit,” he called to his wife, and in 
the fireplace white fire was snapping under vigorous pok- 
ings and additions of fat pine-knots, when I reached the 
hearthstone. 
_ Fresh pork, corn bread, apple butter, jewberry sauce, 
coffee, jelly, apple sauce, was the supper already pre- 
pared. I ate because I was hungry, and then I ate be- 
cattse it was good. At last I could eat no-more. 

A boy of thirteen or fourteen years there was a cripple. 
Everything that is done in the house seemed to come 
from him. Even the fire was poked up nearly every time 
at his suggestion. He told how far it was to this and that 
place. I learned miles from there that the boy managed 
everything, even to the buying of clothes and groceries. 
A fund was once raised to send him to “the hospital,” but 
he refused to go. His father had a bacon rind and long 
splints of “fat pine’ tied above a broken spider before 
the fireplace. The drippings were used to grease the leg. 
None of the family can read or write. The father. how- 
ever, makes a rheumatism cure and other medicines, ‘the 
secret of whose curative properties he will not divulge. 
From selling these, and skunk, ‘possum and other furs, 
he makes a part of his living. The rest of his living is 
picked up at odd jobs. He did not want me to start on in 
the morning. “Stay oveh Sunday with us,” he said, but 
the sight of the poor boy was more than I could stand. 

The wife had been away for a couple of weeks, When 
she came back she brought with her some presents for 
the four children—two boys and two girls. There were 
car muffs for all of them; a cap for one boy and blue and 
green glass cups with a pink or a green piece of silk rib- 


_bon in each for the two-older children, the cripple and his 


sister. Each one had the gifts in hand as much as pos- 
sible, looking at the fire through the colored glass, or 
putting on the muffs to try them with the cold air at the 
door, ' 

_A mountaineer clean through is John Tidd. “Some 
kind-hearted gen’elman tried to poison my two dogs a 


-couple of weeks ago,” he said. “I don’t know who did it. 


But if I could find out who’—the man’s eyes opened a 
little wider and closed down again, then: “I don’t want to 
go to hell for killing a man, but if he’s got any property 


knew how. 


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that'll burn, or die, he'll find that T can poison jest as 
well as he can.” > ; . 

On the mantelpiece was a dusty Bible, among medicine 
bottles and baking powder prizes. After the sentiments 
just expressed, I was curious to. know the man’s feelings 
in regard to religion, recalling that I had not heard an 
oath in the hours | had been there. He proved to be 
a feyival-meeting convert He was doing the best he 
He had stopped swearing. When he had a 
new suit of clothes he went to chureh. His children— 
save the eripple—go to school. Instead of killine the 
man who poisoned his dogs, he would now merely re- 
taliate on cattle and buildings. 

In the morning as I started, Tidd said with a look at 
the pack: 

“On my honah, gen’elman, I'd get me a mewl to carry 
that basket.” 

In a, mile or two the broad bottom of the river nar- 
rowed, and the sides became more rugged. The road ran 
into the river on the west side, and came out on the 
east, I was obliged to go down stream half a mile to 
the foot bridge, climbing some split-rail fences on the 
way. A boy and a girl met in the road, hid like young 
partridges up a tiny run, and came otit behind me. 

I crossed the foot log readily—it had a side stick to 
steady oneself by. I was bothered by a darned place in 
my stocking—it was roughly done. I stopped to fix it 
lest a blister result. 

At the foot of the mountain I stopped to eet dinner 
if possible, but it was not ready, so ‘I walked on up the 
grade away from Jackson’s River} a very beautiful run 
comes down the gully, followed by the road. The water’ 
goes over and arottnd moss-grown rocks and chunks of 
iron ore; the trees are scarcely marred by axes. It was 
such a patch of woods as the first white man in that lo- 
cality must have seen. It was a dark, gloomy trail for 
the next mile, along which I recalled as many stories 
of bushwhacking, feud-murders and the like as I could 
remember. Here, as everywhere, the juncos flittered 
among the bushes, peeping in their friendliest fashion, 
They have relieved the tensest strains of loneliness on 
many a hard stretch of road—they and the sneering blue- 
jays. 

On top of the first mountain step I found a board 
house, where I got dinner. A ways beyond the gtade 
went higher and higher again, climbing the ridge side 
diagonally. I met a lumberman from West Virginia. He 
carried a Stevens shotgun with a bundle tied to the 
muzzle. He asked how I’d swap weapons, but I wouldn't. 
Learning that I had met a horseman whom he was ex- 
pecting to meet him, he hurried on, and I, too, traveled. 

The trees looked gnarled, as if they had worked toa 
hard, and crabbed their dispositions with selfishness and 
desire forall the ground they could-cover, Big nubs and 
broken joints marked their growth. It was a forest of 
claws and fists, through which the marks of fire wete 
everywhere to be seen. = 

On the side hill, a hundred feet above a run, and an 
in-wood farm, I met a red-whiskered man riding a fine 
horse, His wide eyes took me in and then it was, 
“Howdy,” and who might I be, “for the land sakes?” ‘I ~ 
told him more or less. Then he would be blest if he 
wasn't John Ryder, a Virginian, and “Virginians are 
quick-tempered, you know” (though I didn’t, and “mighty 
good people when you don’t insult them” (which I did 
know). 

He had gone clear to Mlinois, with nothing to ‘defend 
hintself but a jackknife. “Yessir, that’s all?’ He had 
knocked a man so hard with his fist one night that “by 
gracious I was afraid I’d killed him.” A peaceable per- 
son, he had been obliged to stand up for his tishts all 
his life. Once he had a dispute with a man: 

“I reached into my pocket just so, just like this, very 
slow, and drew out my knife; this very knife here in 
my hand, just as ii I was going to whittle or some- 
thing like that. And, sir, that man stepped right back 
and up against the side of the house, like to knocked, the 
hoards clean off the building; no ’twas a log house— 
Simmonses—you know, and shook the plastering down 
the back of his neck, and, Sir, he turned just as white’s a 
sheet, just as white’s that ear of corn there. that white 
ear, just about such a color as that, and then he went out- 
doors and one time I was ' 

Mr. Ryder had been through many remarkable experi- 
ences. In two hours he told me about several. 

“I'd ask you to come to my house to-night,” he said a 
little while before we parted, “but my wite’s she’s—you 
know, she’s sick and I can’t do it. I’m sorry’ ’—and he 
really was pretty much all that he claimed to be in every 
respect, y 

“You go down to John Bogan’s,” he advised at last. 
“John’s the cleverest fellow you're likely to meet. He's 
gota place for you to sleep, I know.” ~ 
_ So we parted, and I walked along the hillside three or 
four hundred yards, and then turned “off at a little 
chopped log where I could see a path” leading down’ to a 
neat-looking board house beside the little run, surrounded 
by a fence, and on all sides oak, gum and chestnut trees, 
Tt looked like a standing invitation to “come in.” 

RAymonp S. Spears. 


Adirondack Guides’ Association. 


Saranac Lake, N, Y,, Jan. 21.—The annual meeting 
ot the Adirondack Guides’ Association was held in this 
village this afternoon. About four hundred persons were 
present, representing Saranac Lake, Paul Smith’s, Saranac 
Tun, Bloomingdale, Lake Placid, Newcomb. Flizabeth- 
town, Adirondack, Childwold, Long Lake, Meacham, 
Oswegatchie and several other Adirondack resorts. Upon 
the platform were speakers of prominence, representing 
the press, law, church and medicine. Mr, E. E. Sumner, 
President of the Association, has been identified with the 
Guides’ Association since its inception, haying been its 
Secretary for years before accepting the duties of Presi- 
dent. It was unanimously the desire of the Association 
to be represented at the Sportsmen’s Exposition, to be 
held at Madison Square Garden in March, and a com- 
muttee was appointed to prepare an exhibit and to repre- 
sent the Adirondacks in New Yorkion that occasion. 

At the election of officers, Dr. Frank E. Kendall was 
re-elected Honorary President; Peter A, Soloman, Presi. 


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dent; Benjamin, Treasurer, and Warren J. Slater, Secre- 
tary. 

The Secretary's and Treasurer's reports were read and 
accepted. Mr. Slater, the Secretary, made an uncom- 
monly good showing, and a vote of thanks was extended 
to him for his work for the Association and the Adiron- 
dacks generally. 

The following resolutions were presented by Mr, Slater 
and adopted: : 

Whereas, The Adirondack Guides’ Association was 
organized by representative guides in yarious portions of 
the North Woods for the better protection of the fish, 
game and forests, and 

Whereas, It is plainly evident that the present State 
game protectors are insufficient, both in number and 
qualifications for the exercise of their important duties, 
therefore be it 

Resolyed. That it is the sense and opinion of this Asso- 
ciation and meeting that the State should engage the 
services, as game protectors, of more and better men, and 
that a petition be sent to the present Legislature to that 
end; also, 

Whereas, The Governor of this State has recommended 
the passage of a bill amending the State Constitution so as 
to permit the limbering of the State lands, and 

Whereas, stich an amendment at this time, would, in our 
judgment, lay the State Forest Preserve open to spolia- 
tion and private speculation, resulting eventually in the 
destruction by fre and ax oi that most precious heritage, 
our public forests, therefore be it ; 

Resolved, That the Adirondack Guides’ Association is 
unalterably opposed to any scheme or amendment of the 
Constitution of our State looking toward the lumbering 
of said lands or their apportionment among private 
parties. 

Whereas, The Governor of the State has recommended 
the amendment of the Constitution permitting the rental 
of camp sites on shores of Adirondack waters, be it 

Resolved, That we, the Adirondack Guides, indorse the 
recommendation. We believe that this last will give 
many guides employment, will open up many of our 
fairest Sections for the building of summer homes, and in- 
cidentally bringing in a revenue to the State. 


dlatural History. 
; —-¢— 
Natural History Notes. 


AnouT six ears ago the dead body of a bull whale was 
left by the tide’near the mouth of the Colorado River, in 
lower California. It was measured by Mr. H. A. Jenkins, 
owner of a large stock ranch in that vicinity, and slightly 
exceeded 86 feet in length. From point to point of the 
extended flukes it measured nearly 50 feet, and was 16 
feet from the corner of the mouth to the point of the chin. 
The lower jaw was 12 feet wide at its base. With the 
exception of a few of the vertebra, which have been car- 
ried off for seats, the skeleton of the monster still lies in 
the sand and mtd, and can be had by any institution at 
the expense of a few dollars in taking them out. For 
this work Indians can be cheaply employed. One thor- 
oughly dry joint of the vertebre, brought to Yuma about 
a year since, weighs 42 pounds, and makes a very comfort- 
able seat. It is about 13 inches deep, and measures 14 
inches in diameter. 


A wounded duck fell on a mud flat of the Colorado 
River about a week ago and was almost immediately at- 
tacked by crows, killed and eaten. During the killing 
they kept up a continual noise and then fell to fighting 
over the body. A Western herring gull claimed its share 
of the fleshpot, and was to every appearance ireated as 
an equal by the colored brethren, 


A wildcat attempting to escape made a running spring 
at a plastered wall 20 feet high. In the 20 feet the wall 
has a two-foot slope, and the cat struck it about 17 feet 
up, then ran along the side about 1o feet before it fell. 
Tt was a wonderful jump, and although- the cat struck 
it so near the top, it made no attempt to go higher, but 
held a very even course along the wall by forcing its 
claws into the plaster. 


One day last fall a Yuma county ranchman saw the tail 
end of a rattlesnake protruding from a gopher hole and 
endeavored to prevent it being drawn in by standing on 
it, but although he weighed about 140 pounds the snake 
pulled him along with apparent ease. It measured rather 
more than three inches across where it was cut in two, and 
had eleyen rattles. The business end of the snake was not 
seen, - 


This same ranchman reports that when a resident of 
Esmeralda county, Nevada, in 1892, he saw where a 
“gopher snake” had passed along a dusty road and had 
apparently visited every squirrel hole on either side of 
the road. Further on he found where some one had 
thoughtlessly killed it and that the body contained seven 
adult “gopher squirrels.” This ought te be argument 
enough against the destruction of these harmless and use- 
iul reptiles. 


Well. back to rattlesnakes again. During the early 
eighties, when the Quijotoa mining camp was on the 
boom, the Indians supplied the camp with wood. While 
so engaged an Indian cut a rattler in two with an axe as 
it was escaping under a woodpile. This was in the after- 
noon. On the following morning, while engaged in re- 
moving the wood, the man was struck by the snake and 
died the next day about noon time. This story may sound 
a little snaley, but the facts of the case were well known. 
I did not see this thing myself, but it was common talk at 
the time. The snake had been cut in two about ten 
hours at the time it inflicted the fatal bite. 


Last spring when the annual overflow of the Colorado- 


drove the snakes from the bottom lands, they became quite 


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plentiful on the adjacent hills. One rattler by climbing 
an almost perpendicular wall of a stone quarry succeeded 
in getting on top of the penitentiary wall, from which it 
was knocked by one of the guards. It then traveled along 
the base of the wall and entered the yard of the superin- 
tendent’s residence, where it was attacked by a cat, Just 
what the result would have been had they been leit to 
fight it out cannot, of course, be told, but attention was 
attracted to them by the continued rattling of he snake. 
When seen by the light of a lantern, for the night was 
quite dark, the snake was coiled and the cat had its en- 
tire attention, Both cat and snake were very much 
excited. 


A resident of Yuma, who lives on the bank of the 
Colorado, is the owner of a white bull-terrier. This 
dog fully understands the destroying power of water. He 
is a pugnacious brute, and does not hesitate to attack any 
dog that encroaches on his domain. If in conflict with a 
large dog, he can force it in direction of the river he in- 
variably does so, then comes the struggle to hold it under 
water, If with a smaller or weaker dog, he deliberately 
drags it to the water and drowns it. Recently when being 
beaten to compel him to release a victim, he struggled and 
held on till he reached the river and out of reach of 
the troublesome stick with which he was being belabored, 
when he forced the head of the dog under water. Need- 
ing air, he was compelled to let go, but when he did so the 
dog came to the surface and attempted to swim away, only 
to be seized again and dragged to the bank, but at a place 
where he could not be interfered with, where he stood 
and held the dog under the water till it was dead. The 
whole life of the dog has beeen passed by the river, and 
he is apparently as much at home in the water as out of 
it. Ifa stone be thrown into the water at any depth that 
he can reach, he never fails to bring it out, although he 
may have to make several attempts before he gets it. 


Yuma, Ariz,, Jan. 17. 


The Gray Wolf. 


Morcantown, W. Va., Jan. 20.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: During the past two years or more, I have been 
reading articles in Colorado and Wyoming papers which 
have caused me many hours of thought, and the more I 
study the matter in question, the more I get lost in its 
mysteries. The following appears in the North Park 
Union, printed at Walden, in North Park, Colorado, 
dated Jan. 3, 1902, and is a fair sample of the articles 
referred to, which appear from time to time in that paper, 
and also in Wyoming papers, and which investigation 
show to be correct: 

“In a recent letter from Mr. John B. Riach, of Hebron, 
he writes that Emmett Lee in hauling hay from Riach’s 
field Dec, 30 scared up a drove of eleven gray wolves 
that ran outside the fence and lay down. Lee returned 
home, took a gun and followed them, killing one and 
wounding another. Mr. Riach thinks it would be a good 
idea for stockmen to join in a subscription or some other 
plan and make war on the wolves until they are destroyed. 
Several small droves have recently been seen by others 
in the vicinity of Riach’s place, and of course wolves 
must have something to eat. Somebody’s herd suffers 
a loss every few nights. At the coming stockmen’s 
metting would be a good time to discuss plans and make 
provisions for war on wolves. The Union hopes some 
successiul method will be adopted to rid the park of this 
great pest to stockmen.” 

Now, these conditions exist to-day in the cattle country 
of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, which lo- 
cality was familiar to me some years ago. From 1888 
to 1894 I lived in and traveled much through these wild 
and spatsely settled regions, both in the open cattle 
country and in the mountain districts, and never in all 
that time did I see or track a gray wolf, and never 
eyen heard a report of their being seen in this section 
of country. It is only, then, in the last few years they 
have appeared in that locality; and reports show them to 
be rapidly increasing from year to year. This in the 
face of the fact that strenuous efforts have been made 
and are made for their extermination. In some places in 
Wyoming the stockmen have paid as high as twenty dol- 
lars bounty on their scalps, aside from the regular bounty 
paid by the State. A 

Four methods are adopted for their capture, in that 
open country, all more or less successful, and still they 
persist in increasing in numbers, and enlarging their 
territory. 

They are caught with greyhounds, trapped, poisoned, 
and quite frequently shot with the rifle, as they are prin- 
cipally in the open, where they can readily be seen. 

In the days when the early pioneers pushed, their way 
into the forests of the Eastern States, gray wolves were 
found in great numbers in most of the States. They 
are, of all the larger North American wild animals, 
among fhe swiftest runners, the hardest to trap, the 
hardest to get sight of in the forest country, excepting, 
perhaps, the panther, and withal one of the most, if not 
the most, difficult animal to capture: and yet, nothwith- 
standing all this, their larger neighbors of the forest, 
such as deer, bear and moose, which are more sought 
after and more easily captured, are still holding their 
own, and are found more or less in all the States; while 
the wolf has long vanished from the forests of our 
Eastern States. 

This question of the disappearance of wolves from the 
Eastern States has long perplexed me, when considering 
with how much greater security a wolf should be able 
to live his retired and secluded life in our forests, than 
the monstrous moose, or even the deer or bear; and yet 
how early and complete was his annihilation. There is 
no doubt that poison was the chief means of their destrtuc- 
tion, but why should it have made their destruction so 
complete at so early a date, with all the vast forests still 
left where they might be far from man? 

Following their history for the past ten years, in the 
locality referred to, deepens the mystery. Owing t the 
Openness and natural adyantages for hunters in that 
region, all big game animals are disappearing faster than 
they ever did in any of our eastern forests, but what of 


(Fes. i, tood. 


the wolf? With but one, or at most two, practicable 
methods of capturing him in the East, he vanished at 
an early date, when big game was yet abundant. With 
four practicable ways open for his undoing in the West, 
he not only grows more abundant, but adds new terri- 
tory to his possessions, and refuses to be “‘ousted,” while 
all other of the larger wild animals of the West are rapidly 
disappearing. 

We can only gain information by three methods—see- 
ing and observing for ourselyes that which others see 
and observe and record for our benefit, and the theories 
ot others as well as of our own. The last could hardly 
be called information, but rather conclusions arrived at 
after a certain process of theorizing, and accepted as 
facts, in the absence of any means whereby their truth 
can be demonstrated. Thus to arrive at any conclusion 
in this matter of wolf history might require more or less 
theory; and if anyone has a clear conception of the cause 
of the conditions, past and present, of this interesting 
animal, he would interest at least one reader of FOREST 
AND STREAM, and I dare say many, by “letting his light 
shine.” EMERSON CARNEY. 


New York Zoological Society. 


THE annual meeting of the Board of Managers of the 
New York Zoological Society was held in New York 
on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Among those present were: Levi 
P. Morton, Henry Fairfield Osborn, H. D. Auchineloss, 
H. A. C. Taylor, John S. Barnes, Edward J. Berwind, 
Joseph Stickney, Madison Grant, C. L. Blair, Chas. F-. 
Dietrich, Chas. T. Barney, W. W. Niles, C. Vanderbilt, 
Samuel Thorne, George C. Clark, Cleveland H. Dodge, 
George B. Grinnell, Jacob H. Schiff, Lispenard Stewart, 
Charles E. Whitehead, H. J. Chisholm, William C. 
Church, Philip Schuyler, Percy R. Pyne and Frank M. 
Chapman. 


Prof. Henry F. Osborn, Chairman of the Executive _ 


Committee, presented his report, which showed that the 
Society was free from debt. He spoke of the progress 
of the new buildings now under way, and of the needs 
of the Society for new animals, new accommodations for 
them, an administrative building, and a zoological library. 
He alluded also to the fact that the portion of the park 
lying on the east side of Bronx River is suffering from 
depredations by timber thieves, and must be fenced in. 

The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted 
in the choice of the following: President, Levi P. Mor- 
ton; First Vice-President, Henry F. Osborn; Second 
Vice-President, Charles E. Whitehead; Secretary, Madi- 
son Grant; Treasurer, Charles T, Barney;, Director, Wil- 
liam T. Hornaday. Executive Committee: Henry F. 
Osborn, Chairman; Samuel Thorne, Charles T. Barney, 
John S. Barnes, Philip Schuyler, Madison Grant and 
William White Niles. 

The Director of the Park submitted his annual report 
to the Board of Managers. It was a long document, of 
which only the gist was given. It will be printed in full 
in the Society's Annual Report. The most important 
improvement of the year was the completion and the 
opening of the primates house for the apes, monkeys and 
lemurs. This is 162 feet long by 74 feet in greatest width, 
including the outside cages. The total cost of the build- 
ing was $64,160. It was opened Dec. 22 with a collec- 
tion of 115 specimens. A 

The lion house is well advanced toward completion, 
and it is hoped that the month of June will see it finished. 
It is to cost about $150,000. Until this building is com- 
pleted it is impracticable to collect any of the tropical 
cats, as there is no place to keep them. 


The erection of the mountain sheep’s hill gives quarters _ 


for a new collection of wild sheep and goats. This is 
now divided into four large inclosures, three of which 
are occupied by old world species. 

An interesting experiment has recently been tried in 
the park, by which it has been shown that in this climate 
pumas and lynx can be perfectly well kept out of doors 
the year around; which, after all, seems natural enough, 
Large quarters for the raccoons, with a tree for them to 
climb in and a good shelter for the buffalo are among the 
other new buildings. 

Attention is called to the excellence of the collection 
of bears, consisting of thirty individuals, representing 
ten species. The two Kadiak bears, believed to be the 
only ones in captivity, are developing well. 

The Zoological Society, after having had many misfor- 
tunes with the antelope that it has had in captivity, has 


at last succeeded in keeping seven specimens for a year 


and a half, and these seven are in fine condition. There 
have been three deaths from the original herd of ten, all 
of them by accident. 

On the whole, the health of all the animals in the park 
has been good, except in the case of the orangs, among 
which death is said to have been due to a micro- 
organism introduced into the park by the giant tortoises 
from the Galapagos Island. An interesting paragraph in 
the report shows the kinds and quantities of animal food 
furnished during the year to the reptiles. This list in- 
cludes 389 mice, 1,410 rats, 1,273 English sparrows, 366 
rabbits, 531 pigeons, 232 chickens, 812 toads, 408 frogs, 
26,900 live fish, 55 pounds of earth worms, 122 large 
pumpkins, and 2,266 pounds of green vegetables. It is 
mentioned that all the animals were killed before being 
offered as food. 

The director speaks of the great need of money for the 
society in the following language: 

“Tt is now vitally necessary that an additional ground- 
improvement fund of $500,000 be secured at an early date 
for the erection of other buildings for animals and many 
other improvements. To-day, with but few trifling ex- 
ceptions, all the animal installations of the park are filled 
with animals, and many are crowded. Four new bear 
dens must be created with the utmost dispatch to provide 
adequately for the thirty bears now on hand. The need 
for the antelope house, the ostrich house, eagles’ aviary, 
and large bird house is painfully apparent. It is humiliat- 
ing to be compelled daily to admit that there are thous- 
ands of birds and mammals which we cannot accept, be- 
cause of the lack of suitable quarters for them. The 
plans for the antelope house and ostrich house are com- 


plete, and if funds were available contracts for their erec-. 


tion could be let within ten days.” 


Se 


Fes. ye 1902. a 


Disease Among the Whitetails. 

iditor Forest and Stream: i 
went down on the Missouri River a short time ago 
a little hunt, but only killed one whitetail. The 
itetail deer are very scarce on the river this 
all. There was some sort of a disease among them 
n September that killed a great number, mostly 
cks. I saw three dead butks in one point of the river. 
ople living on the river say that the deer would get 
ck and die in from three to four days after being taken 
Sick. Their lungs would swell up and be full of water, 
which would soon kill them, The disease did not seem 
affect the blacktail deer or antelope, which seems 
ous. 
The game wardens have done some traveling around 
this fall,-and have made quite a number of arrests. The 
frees and half-breeds, I tell you, are very careful out 
ere now. They don’t drive the points and run deer with 
hounds as they used to. I saw a colony of breeds 
on a point across from Armell’s Creek, but I never saw 
any meat or hide in their camp, and I can say it is the 
first breed camp I ever saw on the river that did not 
haye a lot of deer hanging around in camp. 

We are having the best winter so far I ever saw in 
‘Montana; no snow and the finest kind of weather. 
} ; W. J. A. 
Hays, Mont., Jan. 10, 
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The Blacksnake on the Trail. 


Editor Forest and STREAM: i 

One afternoon last summer while seated on a log in 
the woods, I saw a very small rabbit hopping past. and it 
an into a heap of brush a short distance off. - 

Soon after that—perhaps two or three minutes after— 
hearing a slight rustling among the bushes and leaves, I 
turned and saw a blacksnake about five feet in length, with 
thead some six inches from the ground, coming on the 
track of the rabbit. It seemed to follow in exactly the 
same place, and also went into the brush heap. 

Being much interested, I arose quietly and started for 


Now, until it got to the brush heap the snake was evi- 
dently following its prey by scent alone, for it could not 
possibly have kept the rabbit in sight through that growth 

£ grasses, weeds and small bushes with its head ele- 
vated only a few inches. 

I have never heard that a snake ever follows its prey by 
sense of smell alone, but it looked very much that way 
pn this case. I would like to hear through Forest AND 
“Stream from others who are interested in herpetology in 
‘regard to it. 7:Nog| Dewar 

Mixtuursr, N. J., Jan. 21. 


. 
| The Porcupine’s Quills. 


_ Napanee, Ont., Jan. 13—Editor Forest and Stream: 
‘In your isstie of Jan. 4, re “Porcupine Quills,” I do not 
“agree with the fishery overseer that the animal has the 
‘power of throwing his quills at any time. I inclose a few 
‘taken by myself from a porcupine fourteen months ago 
while I was on a hunting trip out north, The dark end 
is the business end; notice that the other end grows from 
the skin, and that the quills are interspersed with the hair, 
‘and it is not hard to pull them out. The fine point will 
enter a buckskin glove and pull from the animal about 
as easily as pulling hair. 
_ TJ have seen a number of dogs suffering from a dose 
of quitls. They usually get the quills in the mouth large- 
ly, showing clearly to my mind they get them in an at- 
tempt to seize the animal in the mouth. 
Wm. RANKIN. 


5, ee 
| Game Baq and Gun. 
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Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in FoREST AND STREAM. 


Hunting with Henry Braithwaite. 
| 


- 1.—The Moose Country. 


REMEMBERING that November brings tracking snow in 
the great New Brunswick woods, my friend, Charlie 
Small, and myself rolled into the station at Fredericton 
= the first Monday in that month; and on the plat- 
form, true to appointment made the spring before, we 
saw the friendly face of Henry, looking earnestly for his 
boys. It is good to see new faces sometimes, but it is 
better to see old ones, when they light up with pleasure 
at the sight of you. And so, from Christy, the hack- 
driver, to Mr. Flewelling, the deputy surveyor-general, it 
made one feel among friends to be greeted with a con- 
stant stream of well-wishing. Mr. Small had never been 
in New Brunswick before, but in about half an hour he 
became convinced that he always lived there. We took 
the Canada Eastern for the fifty-mile run to Boiestown 
in a couple of hours, and this was perhaps fortunate for 
everybody. Even as it was, the expressions of friendship 
were so emphatic and varied that we never noticed the 
absence from the train of the little steamer trunk contain- 
ing all our ammunition and old clothes, until just before 
we got to Cross Creek. Then, in looking over the stuff 
in the baggage car—everybody rides in the baggage car 
when he goes hunting via the Canada Eastern—we 
couldn’t find the trunk. Well, we just telegraphed back 
| to have it brought up by wagon that night, so as not to 
lose a day. Ambrose Holt was at Boiestown to meet 
us, and we went up to his farm at Pleasant Ridge to 
stay all night. His house is within a mile of the big 
woods, and he always hauls our stuff in as far as the 
Crooked Deadwater, whichisthe head of horse navigation. 
Meanwhile, Henry stayed down at Duffy’s hotel in Boies- 
town, to hustle up the rear-guard with that indispensable 
‘trunk. We were sorry for Henry, for when he stays down 


at Duffy’s the boys always try to make the occasion 


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memorable, and ftom what he said the next day I think 
they succeeded in breaking the record. 

Charlie Small and I slept like Christians in Mr. Holt’s 
comfortable farmhouse, and when we were dressing the 
nextmorning, looking out of the window, we saw a spring 
wagon come tearing into the door-yard, with Eli Taylor, 
Henry and the trunk. The young man who had driven 
up from Fredericton to Boiestown, forty-eight miles, in 
the night, had never been over the road before, but he 
was dead game, and he waked them up at Duffy’s at 
four o’clock in the morning. Eli and Henry had done 
the rest, and there was great joy as we opened up the 
trunk and disguised ourselves for the woods. We could 
have gotten along without the clothes, but we had to 
have the cartridges, because there were no others this 
side of London that would fit our guns. 

Henry and I have got the personal equipment business 
down fine. One pair of old trousers, any kind at all; six 
pairs of woolen socks, country knit; one pair of larri- 
gans; one pair of snowshoes; six or seven cartridges; 
one pair of mittens, one coat if you want it, though you 
will never wear it. This is all the luggage I take. Henry 
looks after the grub and bedding. 

Out of the Pleasant Ridge settlement, as the team was 
being hitched, came Charlie Cameron, the surpassing 
cook; Jerry Fowler and Theodore Pond, of the lugging 
department, whose peculiar usefulness appeared after we 
had left the team behind and gone on into the real 
country. 

In all the years I have been going across William 
Carson’s field, back of the Holt farm, I have often won- 
dered why there was no more clearing done; and I men- 
tioned it to Henry. He told me how it was, and it ts 
mighty interesting. ; 

Seven or eight years ago, when Mr, Blair was premier 
of New Brunswick, a bill was passed allowing the lease, 
for lumbering purposes, of all the crown lands of the 
Province, at not less than $4 per square mile. Once 
leased, the lumbermen hold these lands for twenty-five 
years, on the payment of a nominal rental, whether they 
cut any lumber or not. When they do cut any, they pay 
a stumpage fee of so much per thousand. 

All the land worth lumbering (and this includes all 
the land worth clearing for cultivation) is thus locked up 
under lumbering leases. This makes of all central New 
Brunswick a vast forest reserve, which will not be open 
to settlement for years to come. So the boundaries of 
Mr, Carson’s back fiéld remain as they have been; no 
new clearings are being made; and between the last 
farmhouse and the first moose-ground there is a strip, 
miles in width, of some of the most beautiful hardwood 
ridges and spruce forest that it has ever been my delight 
to see. If this arrangement is sending all the New Bruns- 
wick boys to the States to make homes, it is at least 
keeping the country a paradise for game, and in the 
past few years the moose have multiplied almost beyond 
belief, while the people have not. 

About six miles from the clearing, close by the portage 
road, lies a huge stick of square pine timber, moss-grown 
and decayed. Old Tom Hunter has often told me how, 
sixty years ago one Saturday, he overlooked that log 
when hauling for his father. Where, in any community of 
the United States, can one find a sixty-year-old sawlog 
lying where it was cut, with deep woods still all 
around it? 

To the man who is accustomed to hunt in Michigan 
or Wisconsin or Maine the experience we had in the 
very matter of going in would be notable and unique. 


With the exception of a lumber crew here and there in © 


the lower country, around the Dungarvon, and along the 
Crooked Deadwater, the whole wilderness was deserted. 
We were going where for a month we. should not hear 
a rifle shot except our own, where no rival camp-fire 
smoked heavenward. As a matter of fact, Henry had 
three hunting parties in before ours this year, and Tom 
Pringle, Henry’s efficient lieutenant, had piloted a St. 
Louis gentleman and his daughter to the edge of the 
great game kingdom, where on the fifth day eaeh had 
slain a fine moose. William Carson had guided one party 
a day’s march into the moose pasture, where their .30 
calibers lost them seven wounded moose. And in the 
vast forest extending north, east and west, no other 
sportsmen had been all this year, till you reach Adam 
Moore’s ground on the Tobique, or the waters of the 
Nor’west Miramichi. In all North America I know oi 
no such combination of game profusion, accessibility and 
freedom from other hunting parties. New Brunswick is 
as yet an unknown field to most Americans, and I have 
had a very good little map engraved, which shows where 
we went, for the benefit of the readers of this article. 

Moose hunting in winter is no boy’s game; and as we 
had to walk more than fifty miles to come to Henry’s 
home camp, you may think ave had a sore-footed time of 
it, soft as we were, just from city offices, But it was 
hard traveling for the horses, with the wooden-shod 
sled, and they moved slowly. Charlie and I went ahead 
of the team, and every little while, as we stepped easily 
along the old portage road, we would sit down on a 
providential log, and wait till it seemed as though the 
men and horses must have gone some other way. Then 
at last we would hear the distant voice of Ambrose, 
encouraging Bob and the Colonel to struggle on with 
the sled. Henry had about 800 pounds of a load on the 
vehicle, and it was bare ground in the road. Such a 
fine open fall had not been known for years. We only 
made twelve miles that day, and tented in the door-yard 
of a decayed lumber camp on the banks of Salmon 
Brook. 

The tent was soon pitched. Then came the moose- 
birds. I thought Henry and I had thinned them out 
some when we were bear hunting in the spring, but there 
were aS many as ever. After we saw a moose-bird— 
hereafter in this article called by his local name of gorby 
—rob a poor little chipping-bird of her darling brood, 
murdering them in cold blood, I registered an oath that 
no gorby should rob any more birds’ nests if I could 
get a look at him along a gun barrel. Charlie Small 
had a beautiful .30-30 along with him, and it was great. 
I have seldom seen any rifle more deadly on gorbies. 
Its penetration and shocking powers on these birds were 
excellent. I only saw one gorby that had been wounded 
by a .30-30 this fall, that had lived. This is gospel truth. 
Up at the Moccasin Lake camp one of Henry’s parties 
in September shot at a gorby and knocked off the end 
of its beak. When we got up there I caught this gorby 


—_ ——— — 


in a box-trap and had it in the camp. Its bill was a 
misfit, but it was in good health. The bullet evidently 
had not expanded. 

The men had a fire of their own that night, and scorned 
any tent, curling up under their blankets, their heads 
inside, and no roof between them and the stars. In the 
night a little owl made a noise like the filing of a saw. 
I heard him in my dreams, and felt the biting caress of 
the cold air; and I felt happy beyond all words that now 
I was really at home again. 

The second morning out we were passed on the road 
by Warren Malone and Charlie Patchell, going up to run 
a line for Tim Lynch, who has a block of timber on the 
North Pole branch. They went on ahead, talking and 
laughing, and half an hour later we, following on behind, 
came to where the road skirts Hurd Lake for half a mile. 
As soon as I looked the lake over I saw two moose stand- 
ing in the water at the lower end. We followed the 
portage down to the end of the lake, and turned into an 
old hauling road that ran within ten feet of the shore. 
Of course a partridge flew up. Henry and I have often 
wondered what wages the moose pay the partridges to 
keep watch for them. But these moose were doubly 
warned, for the~partridge scared up a deer that was 
lying in the logging road, and he ran straight for the 


‘lake. A hundred yards further on we caught the gleam 


of the water through the bushes, and beheld as pretty a 
sight as God ever made. The two moose had not moved, 
but were looking fixedly at the spot in the bushes where 
we were. They had surely heard us. The old cow was 
a little uneasy, but her calf was consumed with curiosity. 
Every second or two he would take a step nearer to us. 
Big as four deer_he looked, and while his mother ran 


‘splashing to the shore and hid in the woods, he simply 


gazed as though he would stare ts out of countenance, 
while the water dripped from the corners of his lately 
submerged mouth. Charlie and I both had our rifles 
in our hands, and Charlie said afterward that it was fine 
training in steady-handedness to hold the bead on the 
black foreshoulder for a full minute with no thought of 
firing. Finally we stepped out in plain view, and then the 
youthful moose concluded to see why his mother had gone. 
Charlie began from this time forth to take more than 
a periunctory interest in the assurances of Henry and 
myself that he should surely have a shot at a moose. 

A little after noon that day we came out on ihe old 
Rocky Brook portage, which for seventy-five years has 
been the scene of lumber operations. It is one of the few 
historic highways of the wilderness, dating back to the old 
days of square timber. Nowadays the lumbermen cut 
a new portage road every year or so. I once asked 
one of them why this was done, instead of all uniting and 
making a good road. He said there wasn’t money 
enough in spruce logs for one man to improve another 
man’s road, so each man cut his own! The roads all fill 
up with trees every winter anyway. 

It took four days of tramping and three nights of 
tenting out to reach the first of Henry's camps on’ the 
Crooked Deadwater. By this time I came to the conclu- 
sion that we were a lucky crowd. Beside Ambrose, who 
was going back with his team, there were six men in the 
party, four of them employed to smooth the way for 
two; and no matter how cold the night was, everybody 
had a smile and a cheery word in the morning. 

The Iumbermen have closed in around the Crooked 
Deadwater in the last few years, and this winter they 
are cleaning out the last marketable spruce. The log- 
ging has not jarred. the moose any, for they stick to 
Rumsey’s ridge and somber old County Line Mountain 
as of yore. Next year, when all this country is quiet 
again, there will be great doings in moose here, because 
of the new feed. Now Henry uses this camp merely as a 
stopping place on his way to the home camp at Little 
Sou’west Lake. _ The only regular residents of the camp 
now are the white-bellied mice, which Henry says would 
let him: get rich if they would only stop cutting up his 
blankets. He wages war on them incessantly, and there 
were ten of them in a wooden bucket, under a layer of 
floating meal, collected since he left camp the week be- 
tore going out. 

At this camp we began to see left-over ammunition of 
sree pees: parties this year and last—cartridges of 
€ new shapes; .30-30s, .30- i 35 
Manttenge Des; .30-30s, .30-40s, Savage .303s and 
“And every one of these different kinds of cartridges 
for small-bore rifles,” said Henry, “has wounded and - 
tet lot of moose this fall.” 

€ next morning we went over to Henry's home cam 
on Little Sou’west Lake. The men made two trips, half 
the way before dinner and half-way after, and as there 
were partridges along the road, I undertook to pilot 
Charlie over ahead of the others. There were a good 
many roads leading down to the lake, and I kept to the 
main portage. But when. I had gone about half as far 
again as the camp. should be, I began to suspect my 
ability as a guide. I told Charlie I thought I had got him 
lost, but he didn’t seem to mind it much, and when, half 
an hour after we sat down to consider the matter, we 
saw the rapid approach of Messrs. Cameron, Fowler et 
al, concealed beneath large packs of provisions and bed- 
ding, we were very proud, and bragged of our ability to 
keep the right road. We revealed our secret to Henry 
that night, and he said, “Always remember, when you 
are traveling in the woods, to go twice as far as you 
think you ought to, and then a little further, and you will 
be almost there.” , 

On the way we passed the place where Dan Kelly, lum- 
ber boss at the Crooked Deadwater dam, saw a big 
wounded moose, a victim of a .30-40, just able to keep out 
of Dan’s way, so he could not kill the poor animal with 
his axe, but not strong enough to run fast, Dan said the 
moose was so poor that his ribs showed pitifully, and he 
was dragging one hip. Henry said he was certain this 
was one of the moose out of the nine wounded and lost 
by small bores this fall in the hands of sportsmen he 
had taken into the woods. 

Henry’s home camp is the cook’s half of a former lum- 
ber outfit. It is large and commodious, an fitted up 
witha long bunk, a cook stoye and “ram down” or sheet- 
iron heating stove that gets red hot in three minutes: 
benches, a table, a gun rack and all the crmforts of a 
woodland palace. 

The next day after we reached there, Henry and I 
thought we would attend to the meat question. Four or 
five inches of snow had fallen, the wind was hiowing so. 


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that the woods were full of sound, and the snow on the 
trees was sifting down. It was an ideal day for still-hunt- 
ing. So after spending a lazy morning in a five-mile circle 
toward Moccasin Lake and back, we returned to, camp, 
where partridge stew and potatoes and onions and sweet- 
cake and stewed apricots called us to over-eat. About 1 
o'clock. as we had seen no tracks in the lowlands, Henry 
and I went up on the first ridge of the Cow Mountains, a 
mile back of the camp, and immediately began to find a 
succesion of moose tracks, criss-crossing each other so 
that to follow any one track was impossible. For the 
poetry of hunting give me fresh snow on a hardwood 
ridge, where the woods are open, and the wind sings in 
the birch trees, I followed Henry in a happy daze, that 
not even the labor of climbing, or the whacks of the white- 
wood branches could dispel. 

Now presently, about forty yards to the left of us, a 
Jarge black animal rose up out of the snow and stood on 
long, gray legs, listening and looking. Then another and 
another, and we had run into a bunch of three small 
bull moose, almost before they heard us. A hasty glance 
alone the rifle barrel, a single shot, and_a two-year-old 
bull moose crashed to the ground, dead. The other moose 
did not seem to know just what to do about it. They 
stood around in an undecided way, but finally, in half a 
minute or so, trotted off loose-jointed, and disappeared 
among the trees. The meat question was settled for this 
camp. An old bull is tough. A cow is always respected, 
A young bull was just what we needed. 

Now, was not that a better ending to the matter than a 
long chase would have been, finding a little blood here 
and there, starting the poor brtite from his despairing 
bed, following till the early fall of night, and perhaps a 
dismal sleep-out in the snow? Yet the boys of the thirty 
caliber, who never saw a moose, will laugh at me. 

The rifle I carried was sent to Henry by a gentleman 
who lives out in Indiana, and I suppose there is not 
another one like it in the United States or Canada.. It 
was made by the Winchester Company, and its caliber is 
377. It takes the famous Ely cartridge, burning 160 
grains of powder, and the bullet weighs something over 
500 grains, As Henry says, when a bullet from this rifle 
strikes a moose anywhere between the tail and the ears, 
you don’t need to follow that moose any further. He 
dies right there. This rifle, which is a single shot, weighs 
81%4 pounds, and I could hit the size of a silver dollar 
with it at too feet. I noticed afterward that the bushes 
and branches of the thick woods did not seem to impede 
these bullets any. There was only one trouble with this 
rifle. Being specially built, not enough allowance had 
been made for the withdrawal of the cartridge head 
through the breech, and occasionally a shell would stick. 
I do not know what the gentleman out in Indiana paid 
for this rifle, but anyway he is accustomed to haying his 
ideas carried out, and, maybe, now that he has broken 
the road, other people can get a large game rifle of re- 
spectable size without sending to England for it. The 
cartridge this rifle takes is the one which all the world 
except the United States have been using for large ani- 
mals ever since the time of Sir Samuel Baker, who 
designed it. 

When we went back to camp and showed Charlie a 
bunch of moosehair, -he hardly believed we had got a 
moose so soon. But he had rested a strained tendon 
enough so that the next morning we started out in the 
full-fledged business of getting a big head. Indications 
all pointed to the fact that the moose had taken up their 
quarters on the high ridges, where the moosewood and 
other shoots gave them ample early winter feed. 

Theodore and Jerry went along with us as far as the 
meat moose, to skin it and bring in as much as they 
could carry. We stayed with them till they had a fire 
started, and had settled down to business, and then 
Henry, Charlie and I departed, to search for the big- 
headed moose, : 

The rifle Charlie was carrying deserves to be described. 
This same gentleman who had the .577 Winchester made 
is a connoisseur of weapons, In England they long ago 
found out that the .30 calibers were uncertain on large 
game, and several makers are building high-power rifles 
of larger bore. Our good Indiana friend has a .375, taking 
a 320-grain hollow-point bullet. He asked us to try the 
gun. Charlie carried it. I commend this little story to 
Mr. Emerson Hough, who, as these lines are written, is 
purstting the majestic moose up on the Tobique, in the 
company of Adam Moore. Mr. Hough has a vast and 
yaried experience with guns, but he is just meeting his 
first moose. He has some .30-40 cartridges with hollow- 
point bullets, and by these he sets great store. If he hap- 
pens to get a moose out on open ground, where he can 
pick the spot at which he fires, he may stop his game with 
one shot. If the moose is hidden by bushes, so that 
nothing except his antlers and his hindquarters can be 
seen, or a mere black spot that represents an undeter- 
mined portion of moose anatomy, Mr. Hough may learn 
a few things about small bullets that will contribute to the 
jiterature of sport. 

Henry, Charlie and I had gone perhaps a mile beyond 
yesterday's moose, and were going down the other side of 
a big ridge, The world_was a mass of moose tracks 
everywhere. 

“Here is a likely place for a moose,” said Henry, as we 
came on a whitewood thicket covering many acres. 
Scarcely had we gone fifty yards before all three of us 
saw a movement beyond two big birch trees, and on one 
side, towering above the bushes, rose the sweeping antlers 
of a very large moose. How splendidly they swung! 
The moose had risen and was listening. He was broad- 
side to us, but his body was completely shielded by. 
trees, only the faintest glimpses of his bulk being visible. 
Charlie saw a black spot and fired, The moose gave a 
mighty spring and was gone. You can hardly appreciate 
what a tangle of fallen trunks, bushes, spruce, birch and 
roundwood growth, we had to struggle through. As I 
was only a spectator in this controversy, I lagged be- 
hind. Away went Henry and Charlie, and ‘soon 150 
yards ahead, I heard the crashing of the .375—the 
wickedest sound I ever heard in the woods. Crack, crack, 
crack, and finally, as I ran and scrambled breathless, I 
saw a big dark object standing, and heard Henry say to 
Charlie, “Qh! let up on the poor brute. He is done for.” 
But it was nearly a minut¢ before the enormous moose, 
yielding to the infinite disarrangement of his interior, let 
go and tumbled down the hillside, taking a big dead stub 
with him as he fell. heh 


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There were five awful wounds in his body, four of which 
you would have expected, any one of them, to produce 
instant death. I have seen a great many moose, but 
this had the biggest body of any I ever saw. His 
shoulders lacked just an inch of being seven feet high. 
His antlers, which did not spread wide for their size and 
weight, were 54 inches across. He was a monster. 

The first shot had fortunately caught him through the 
small bowels, so he could not run fast, and the others 
had gone through the ribs forward, just where the story 
books say they should go, 

But listen now to this. As soon as Henry began cutting 
into the neck to remove the head, he discovered a large 
discharge of pus from an old wound in the breast of the 
moose. Examining this, we found a piece of jacketed 
bullet sticking in the skin of the bell, a part of which 
had been cut off by the bullet in its flight. In the left 
half of the breast was a bullet hole; and dissecting into 
this, we found more pieces of jacket and spatters of 
bullet. The missile had struck the point of the shoulder, 
but had not broken it. It had lifted the flesh from the 
bone, and had penetrated the body of the moose, outside 
the bone, about four inches. The larger part of the bullet 
had already been removed by the stream of pus. Only 
spatters of it remained. The shoulder was perfectly 
efficient, and the forearm of the moose beautiful in its 
tremendous strength. “I guess this is one of Ad. Moore's 
wounded moose,’ remarked Henry, grimly, as he in- 
spected the old wound. “Here’s more small-bore work 
for you!” And then Henry told me a happening of this 
fall, that all the New Brtnswick guides are laughing 
about. 

A gentleman who went out with Adam Moore fired at a 
moose with a small caliber, emptying his magazine and 
knocking the animal down. They had to go around a 
little pond to get to the dead moose. Seeing that he was 
plainly beyond this life, they started around the pond, 
and when they got there, the moose had concluded to try 
this world again, and had disappeared. They tracked 
him a long way, but never got him, and he probably 
joined the host of educated moose, or died as scores of 
others do, by slow degrees. 

Next week I will tell you. some more things that hap- 
pened. FREDERIC IRLAND, 


A Maine Moose Case. 


Boston, Jan. 27—Fish and Game Commissioner Henry 
O. Stanley, of Maine, was in Boston last week. His 
term of office expired Jan. 1, but Governor Hill has re- 
appointed him for the usual term of three years. Mr. 
Stanley has seryed on the Fisheries and Game Commis- 
sion of that State for over thirty years, and has won the 
good will of everybody. Indeed, there were other candi- 
dates for his place, but the more prominent declared that 
they were not seeking the position, if Mr. Stanley wished 
to succeed himself. His early service on the Commission 
was in company with the late E, M. Stillwell, than whom 
no man ever worked harder for the good of his State-in 
the defense of fish and game. It may justly be claimed 
that the foundation of game protection in New England 
was laid under the efforts of Mr. Stillwell, seconded by 
Mr. Stanley. Both were poorly paid, and stood the brunt 
of blame and curses in their early attempts at enforcing 
a system of game laws which has caused the multiplica- 
tion of deer a hundred fold, and saved moose and caribou 
from extinction. Mr. Stanley early took great interest in 
the propagation of fish in Maine, at a time when the 
system was in its infancy. It is only justice to his efforts 
to state that the presence and success of landlocked sal- 
mon in more than fifty of the lakes and ponds in his native 
State, is due to the efforts of Henry O. Stanley—efforts 
made at a time when he was poorly paid, and received but 
little encouragement from anybody. % 

The difficulty in securing convictions in cases of in- 
fractions of the game laws in some of the Maine counties 
are considerable, to say the least. This has always been 
especially true of Washington county, a county where the 
game wardens have been defied, and in one well-remem- 
bered case, one was shot and died from the shooting. 
Judge Whitehouse, who has been holding court in that 
county, created a sensation Tuesday when he declared 
that the verdict of the jury in the celebrated Libbey 
moose case was entirely wrong. In closing court, Judge 
Whitehouse said: 

“All jurors in attendance are entitled to the thanks of 
the court for their faithful, intelligent and impartial ser- 
vices in the trial of all civil actions, but my feelings of 
courtesy do not so obscure my judgment or sense of 
justice as to include the last criminal prosecution for the 
killing of the calf moose. That yerdict was so clearly 
wrong, that if it had been rendered in a civil action, it 
would have been promptly set aside by any tribunal in 
New England having jurisdiction in such cases. But I 
believe it is one of those compensations of advancing age 
that there are mellowing influences that carry with them 
greater charity and toleration for the opinions of others, 
and I am constrained to think that the jury believed they 
were justified in rendering that verdict.” 

The prosecuting attorneys are very indignant at the 
verdict; declare that it is demonstrated that Washington 
county juries will not bring verdicts of guilty in game 
cases, and it is intimated that important game cases may 
hereafter be tried in neighboring counties, Howard J. 
Libbey, of Columbia Falls, was tried for causing the death 
of a calf moose, contrary to the game laws of the State. 
A good deal of importance is attached to the case since it 
was the first one tried in that county, if not in the State, 
under the new law imposing a fine of $500 for killing 
moose illegally. It seems that the case was very plain. 
The hide and part of the meat of the calf moose was 


found in Libbey’s barn, while the head was found in the | 


woods, in close proximity to where Libbey had legally 
killed a bull moose, which he took to Boston to sell, and 
also near to where somebody had killed a cow moose. 
The parts of the calf moose were found under the hay in 
Libbey’s barn, while more moose meat was found on his 
premises, although he had taken the bull moose to Bos- 
ton whole, The parts of the calf moose were found 
during Libbey’s absence in Boston, All this appeared in 
the testimony. The defense was a denial of all knowledge 
of either, the cow or the calf moose on the part of Libbey, 
with the suggestion by Libbey’s attorney that some ‘one 


had put the parts of the calf moose in his barn. County © 
Attorney McKusic flatly accused Libbey, during his cross _ 
examination, of having talked the matter over with one | 


of the jurors. Libbey denied this, but finally admitted | 
that if he had talked the matter over with one of the 
panel, which he did not think he had, it was not done | 
with a view to prejudicing his case. The jury was out 
only five minutes, when the panel came in with a verdict © 
of not guilty. The case will go up, and the full bench will 
be asked to set the verdict aside. County Attorney Mc- 
Kusic has one or two other cases of breaches of-the game 
laws, one a case of deer dogging, which he has not pushed, | 
doubtless feeling that it would be of no use before juries f 
like the one before whom the Libbey case was tried. 
SPECIAL. 


A Hunting License Blackmail. 


Editor Forest and Stream: _ 
In an editorial of the Forest and Srream of Jan. 18 


you speak of Mr. Carleton, of Maine, as making much 
of the fact of the non-resident hunting license being in 
force in many States. You mention this system as 
enforced in Arkansas as being in effect chiefly for the 
purposes of blackmail by various county authorities. P..' 

The following is an instance (as I should call it) of 
blackmail, The victim is a man I know quite well. I 
give his’ account just as he wrote it over his signature: . 

“I was born in Milton, Queens county, Nova Scotia, ~ 
and lived there until I was sixteen years old. My 
parents still live there. On Ang. 10 last I went into a 
hospital for a surgical operation, I was there four . 
weeks. After [ came out and was able to travel, on the © 
advice of my physician, I went to Nova Scotia to re- 
gain my health and to visit my parents. While there I 
was invited by John Randall (who was making meadow 
hay some fifteen miles over in the meadows) to go * 
with him and spend a week camping out. Thinking it — 
would do me good, I went. I took my camera, but did 
not take a gun. I hired Willard Freeman to go as cook 
for me. My father, Peter Starratt, and my brother, 
Harry Starratt, also went. I went for my health, My | 
father and some of the others left the tent to look for 
moose. I was not able to. All the week we were out . 
none of the party either saw or heard a moose. Imagine 
my surprise when I got out to my parents’ house to have 
a summons served on me and my brother (who lives in 
New York) for hunting moose without a license. My — 
business called me immediately to Boston, So I did | 
not wait for the trial, which was almost a week later 
Well, they tried my brother and me. They acquitted my | 
brother, but fined me $50 for hunting without a license, 
$30 for a license and $6.50 for costs; total $86.50. 

“Lawyer L. A. Lovett, of Liverpool (in which place | 
the trial took place), wrote to me and asked if I wanted 
him to-appeal the case, as he would act as my attorney 
and that I would win if I appealed and took it before a 
jury (as it was a magistrate who imposed the fine). He | 
asked me to send him the $86.50 and also $25 to cover 
probable cost of next court; total $1ri.50. iI did as he 
advised. James Hunt acted as game warden, with 
Church Freeman as his lawyer. My attorney, instead 
of serving summons on Hunt and Freeman for the ap- 
peal, told Freeman that he should appeal the case. The 
latter said, ‘All right. This was in October. - Court 
opened Noy. 5, and when Lovett arose to present my 
case, Freeman jumped up and said that as no summons © 
had been served on Hunt and himself, it was illegal. 
Lovett and he had some words about it, but Judge © 
Forbes decided that he would not try the case, but take | 
it under advisement. Along about the last of December 
he decided against me and had a license sent me, which 
I received Jan. 4, 1902, after the open season on all 
game had closed. 

“T can prove (if given a chance) by my father, Will- 
ard Freeman, John Randal! and my brother Harry, 
that I did no moose hunting in Noya Scotia. I had a 
certificate, sworn to by my physician and signed before 
a notary public, as to my condition (physically) at the 
above time. This was sent to my lawyer as evidence | 
that I was in no condition to hunt moose if I wished. I 
am well aware of the meanness of some of the natives 
of Milton, and their disreputable actions. J know of 
what I speak as I was born and reared. among them, 
But I did not suppose that any judge would sustain | 
them in their actions. I have never violated the laws 
of this or any country, and I claim that I was unlaw- 

; 


fully treated, and I wish to show my brother sportsmen 
the Nova Scotians and their laws in a true light. I am 
ready to back up the above charges in full detail at any 
time to all who may call on or address me. 
“CHARLES E. STARRATT.” ! 
59. NortH Marker STREET, Boston, Mass. 


The above statement of Mr. Starratts shows how non- 
residents can be blackmailed in some parts of the country. | 

I will give my first experience of ‘The land of Evan- 
geline.” 

Some years ago two of us planned a trip after 
moose. I carefully read the game laws of Nova Scotia. , 
We knew we would have to take out a hunting license. | 
We had (as we supposed) engaged some Indians as — 
moose callers. We were assured we could get everything ~ 
in Digby in the way of provisions and hunting licenses. | 
When we landed in Digby our Indians did not show up; 
one had been bought off by some jealous local hunters, 
and the other was drunk (perhaps through the same 
source). We bought a couple of written documents © 
(paying $30 each for the same) from a man who was or 
had been a game warden. The amount we paid we were 
told would be sent to Halifax (vhich I understand was 
done). We bought our proyisions in Digby, and the 
result was that we decided to bring them with us on any 
future trips. Mr. Starratt speaks of the meanness of cer-_ | 
tain Nova Scotians. I, will vouch for his statement 
from personal experience. There is a certain class of 
Nova Scotians who ought to be sent to fight the Boers. — 
The Boers would treat them about as ‘they deserve. — 
This class is composed of the native hunters, (I will not — 
call them sportsmen.) They kill all kinds of game in 
season and out, and market what they kill, They howl - 
against the non-resident sportsman who goes to the 


Province in the open season and spends five times the 
worth of what he kills. They always do their howling 
behind your back. 
After we left Nova Scotia on our first trip, these 
thowlers began. It was said that we hunted without a 
license, and that, had we not skipped out in a hurry, we 
would have been arrested. This was absolutely untrue. 
We were hung up on our way home in that lively town 
of Digby for nearly two days waiting for a steamer for 
Boston. Why didn’t the howlers arrest us? In Decem- 
ber of the same year I went back to Digby and hunting 
with the same document (as a license) I killed a moose 
' and brought part of it home. Why didn’t the howlers 
arrest me? ; 
_ Twas told on my last trip to Nova Scotia (I went to 
headwaters of Shelburne River) of an instance which 
would indicate that the blue nosed lawyers (or barrusters, 
as I believe they call them) of the Province do not get 
very much legal work. I was told that on the opening 
of a certain term of court in Shelburne there were no 
_jurymen present when his honor the judge took his seat. 
He did not like it, and ordered the sheriff to hunt up 
the jurymen and bring them in. Just then a lawyer spoke 
up, saying: “Perhaps I can explain. There is not a 
' case to come before this court and no jury has been 
drawn, as there was nothing for them to do.” It looks 
as though when the legal fraternity of Nova Scotia 
' get a chance at a non-resident they make the most of it. 
Now, I will say something in favor of a trip to Nova 
Scotia. I wish to praise all the following officials: Those 
of the steamboat lines, custom house, railroads, stages 
~ and hotels. I never received better treatment from the 
~ above class. One and all were most courteous and ob- 
liging in every way. They said: “We are very glad to 
see yout; we wish you good luck; we will do all we can 
- to induce you to come again; we do not believe in mak- 
ing you pay a hinting license; we suppose you have such 
a license, but if anyone bothers you while under our 
care, just call on us and we will back you up.” And I 
am sure they would. C, M. Starx. 
DunsarTon, N. H., Jan 22. 


Eighth Annual Sportsmen’s Show. 


Tue eighth annual show of the National Sportsmen’s 
Association igs now but a few weeks away. and with 
characteristic energy and enterprise, Manager Dressel and 
his assistants are working overtime, to have everything 
in readiness for the opening date, Wednesday, March 5. 

With each succeeding year, the Association has planned 
in addition to new exhibits in the realm of sport, a main 
feature that would distinguish the latest show from its 
predecessors, and in accord with this policy, the show 
of 1902-will furnish a spectacle presented upon lines 
radically different from those of last year. Instead of a 
small lake at the eastern end of the Garden, one great 
wooded island will rise from the center of the amphi- 
theater, with the waters of a trout brook winding their 
way along the south shore to the Madison avenue en- 
trance. Bending northward, the stream will flow back 
along the north shore to its point of outlet. The source 
of the stream will be a tumbling cascade in the Adiron- 
dacks, or rather so much of the Adirondacks as will have 
been transported from northern New York for the pur- 
pose of lending realism to the scene. This will be repro- 
duced with all of the skill of well-known scenic artists, 
and when completed will represent as delightful a view 
from the Empire State’s magnificent playground as any 
eyer enjoyed outside of the Adirondacks themselves. 

Upon the island, which will be reached from the “main- 
land” by rustic bridges, there will be walks and paths 
leading to the big-game inclosures, which this year will 
be so cleverly designed as to give the impression at first 
glance, that the animals are no more confined than they 
would be -in their native wilds. Along shore will be lo- 
cated the camps and cabins of Maine, Adirondack and 
Canadian guides, equipped and constructed just as they are 
along the shores of the Fulton Chain, Moosehead Lake, 
the Rangeleys or the St. John. The entire island will be 
wooded with pine, hemlock and-sprttce, and the visitor will 
wall, not upon a board flooring as at past shows, but over 
earth and rocks and moss as though in the woods them- 
selyes. 

Upon the stream* surrounding the island, a canoe ride 
may be enjoyed with guides and Indians plying the 
paddle, and the show thus be viewed under conditions 
that, will bring back memories of one’s experiences in 
camp all the more vividly. As in past years, the arboreal 
decorations will be most profuse and elaborate, it being 
the purpose of the management to transform the amphi- 
theater as nearly as possible into an ideal sportsman’s 
Ganipe ae 

At the Fourth avenue end of the south promenade will 
be logated the fish exhibit, and in a corresponding loca- 
tion on the north promenade will be-found what must 
prove one of the most attractive and interesting features 
of the show. ~ This is the most complete and valuable 
collection of birds’ eggs and nests, as well as mounted 
specimens of the birds themselves, in the world. The 
owner, Mr, John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, Long 
Island, has been engaged for the past two years in adding 
to his rare collection by purchasing outright, other valu- 
able collections, until to-day he boasts of a display that 
can be equalled by. no other collector. Some idea of its 

- value can be arrived at, when it is learned that one single 
lot of specimens, many of them ~being° eggs of rare or 
extinct birds, was acquited at a cost to the purchaser of 

The exhibit of sportsmen’s supplies and equipment, and 
of motinted game heads, birds and animals, will again 
occupy. space facing the broad-promienade to extend 
around the arena, twelve feet above the main floor. 

One of the features’ will be the presence of a party of 
typical Long Island baymen:-. Their dick shooting hut 
will be brought piecemeal-from‘its présent-location on the 
south shore of Long Island-near the famous duck waters 
of the Great South Bay, and réconstructed incthe Garden. 
It will-then be fitted up'in the style faniiliar to all duck 
hunters. The baymen will also bring with them a com- 
plete duck hunting outfit, and will show during the after- 
noon and evening, in a realistic and novel manner, how 


the birds are decoyed and bagged, In this connection a. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


number of trained geese and ducks for decoy purposes 
will be used. 

Another interesting feature will be the -presence of an 
old half-breed Canadian trapper, who has, during his 
long career, caught hundreds of all fur-bearing animals 
known in the Dominion. He will come to the show with 
a full set of the devices used for trapping all species of 
animals, from the mink, the muskrat and the otter, to the 
lynx, the fox and the bear, and will give demonstrations 
of his methods and- the capacity of many of the animals 
whose hides he makes a business of securing. 

The fly-casting contest, in view of the excellent facilities 
which the 250-foot stretch of water will provide for the 
sport, promises to be a most interesting competition this 
year. It has been several years since fishermen have 
enjoyed this privilege at the New York Show, and since 
the annotincement that it would be made a feature of this 
next exhibit, many letters of approval have been received 
from well-known fly-casters of this and other Eastern 
cities. 

Scenic artists are now, and have been for some time, at 
work upon the model for the interior of the Gatden, which 
will be far more elaborate than anything yet attempted by 
the Association. Judged from these models, now about 
completed, the illusion of a great composite camp for 
the hunter, the fisherman, the trapper, the guide, the 
canoeist, the duck shooter and the lover of nature, will be 
most striking and complete. 


New York Game Interests. 


Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 22.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: This-question of protection of fish and game is 
one of great importance to all lovers of the rod and 
gun, and it seems to me is one that should be governed 
to a great extent by the sportsmen of the several counties. 
I have always been a strong adyocate for uniform game 
laws for the entire State, with this exception: That when 
any Ohne or more counties want a shorter open season 
for the better protection of fish and game than the general 
law allows they should be permitted to have it. 

The conditions are not alike in all counties. , In some 
counties, by reason of over shooting or other causes, 
game is rapidly decreasing, while in others it may be 
plentiful, To say, for the sake of uniform game laws, 
that the sportsmen in the counties where game is rapidly 
disappearing must continue to shoot, simply because some 
other county still has game in plenty, is unjust. In some 
of the counties there are still sood breeding grounds for 
wildfowl, where, if spring shooting was prohibited,, the 
black duck, mallard, teal and woodduck would breed in 
lareg numbers. In other counties there are no such 
breeding grounds, but by reason of high water in the 
spring a few ducks are killed, and these are the counties 
that are, and always will be, opposed to any law stopping 
spring shooting. We have read in FoREST AND STREAM 
more than once that the private game preserve is a good 
thing not only for its members but for the surrounding 
territory. If the sportsmen of Erie, Niagara, Cayuga, or 
any other county want to make a duck preserve of their 
counties as Jefferson has done, why should the sports- 
men of Oswego, Onondaga or any other county object? 
If the counties which are directly interested, who have 
good breeding grounds, stop spring shooting, which I 
believe they soon will, there will be very few ducks shot 
in this State in the spring, and we will not have these 
other counties seeking the repeal of this law each year, 
for it will be none of their business. 

At the request of the sportsmen laws are passed, and 
with a great majority of us that ends it. We have sixty- 
one counties and we expect our thirty-eight protectors 
to enforce this law. If anyone steals your favorité gun 
or dog you say nothing; it might hurt your business. 
The fellow might burn your house, poison your stock or 
give you a black eye; but if you see this same fellow kill 
a game bird in the close season, or spear a bass or trout 
on its spawning bed, you at once notify the nearest pro- 
tector. Do you? A demand has been made for twelve 
more protectors; we need them, but unless they have 
the support and aid of the sportsmen in each county, they 
will accomplish little. Why is it that the average man 
will see his favorite cover cleaned out a month before 
the open season by some unprincipled sooner, and yet, if 
this same unprincipled sooner should. steal one of his 
hens he would prosecute him quicker than a flash? What 
we need more than protectors is a public sentiment for 
the strict enforcement of the game laws, and one way to 
secure this is for the sportsman to obey them himself, 
and to give his aid and support to our protectors in pun- 
ishing those who do not. Get the people interested 
through the local press. Few editors will refuse to ad- 
vocate good game laws and their proper enforcement, and 
Our sticcess in securing good laws and their enforcement 
in Jefferson is due largely to the local newspapers. With- 
out them we could have accomplished little. 

If the sportsmen of each county would give a small 
fraction of the time, money and energy that they ex- 
pend in the pursuit and the killing of game during the 


-open season to the proper enforcement of the game 


laws during the close season, there would be fewer viola- 
tions of the game law, and by the term sportsman I 


mean every man and boy; black or white, rich or poor, 


country or city bred, who loves to hunt for the pleasure 
or profit it brings him. I say profit, for as long as we 
permit the sale of game, just so long is market shooting 
a legitimate pursuit, and the market shooter, of all others, 
should be the most interested in the protection of game 
during its breeding season. The sportsmen of Jefferson 
have stopped spring shooting of wildfowl. Why? Be- 
cause we have the water and feed, and we believed that 
the birds would stay and nest here, and the result has 
been such that we want no more spring shooting in 
Jefferson, — 

The gray squirrel, ruffed grouse, and woodcock are 
growing less each year, and in many of our woods and 
covers where a few years ago they were abundant, few 
or none can be found to-day. If the sportsmen of Jeffer- 
son should ask for a close season for one or two years 
to allow the few remaining animals and birds to multiply 
and restock our woods and covers, what valid objection 
can any of our sister counties have? 

A bill has been introduced in the Assembly to stop 


-ing it is worth asking for, a1 


the sale of ruffed grouse, quail and woodcock in this State 
at any time. The game dealers have a strong lobby at 
Albany working against this bill, and tunless the sports- 
men who believe in “the Forest AND STREAM plank” 
make a united and determined effort, we cannot pass 1t. 
The sportsmen of each county are responsible for the 
action of their representatives. {Tf this law is worth hav- 

4 if you and your friends 
don’t ask for it you may rest assured you will not get it. 

W. H. TALvertt. 


Commissioner Carleton’s Figures. 


Avucusta, Me., Jan. 24.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
My attention has been called to various editorials and 
communications, in the last few issues of your paper, re- 
flecting more or less upon the opinion I have held for 
many years relative to the licensing of hunters of big 
game in Maine, and more particularly upon my Bangor 
address before the Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and Game 
Association. j 

Assuming that you desire to be fair, I wish to point 
out a few of the errors you have given editorial utter- 
ance to. 

In your last issue you say: “Meanwhile, it appears te 
be up to Commissioner Carleton to prove his $15,000,06 
estimate of revenues from the Maine woods.” 

Now, if you desire to be fair, you will say as con- 
spicuously as you have made the assertion, that Commis- 
sion Carleton has never made any such “estimate of 
revenues from the Maine woods;” nor, indeed, any such 
estimate or revenues from the Maine woods, Maine in- 
land waters and the summer vacationists combined. 

What I did say in my Bangor address was as follows: 

“The result has been that tourists, fishermen, hunters 
and recreationists have been flocking to our State in ever 
increasing numbers for twenty-five years or more, and 
now a vast throng visits us annually, attracted primarily 
by our unparalleled facilities for fishing and hunting. 

“Tt would be of great importance if we were able to 
count them correctly, so\that our people might know 
definitely just how many there are who come to us each 


ear. 

“Considerable effort has been made to ascertain 
definitely this number, and the figures given run up into 
the hundreds of thousands, and the amount of money left 
with us by them as fifteen millions of dollars. 

“This vast sum is the amount as estimated by the 
Boston Herald, according to a statement I saw pub- 
lished in it last year, and favorably commented upon by 
many of the papers in Maine.” 

From our annual report for the year 1900 I take the 
following: : 

“The number of people who came to Maine in 1900, 
and amount of money expended by them, is variously 
estimated by those best qualified to judge as from filty 
to two hundred and fifty thousand. Col. F, E. Boothby, 
general passenger agent of the Maine Central Railroad, 
writes: ‘While of course we cannot give you a definite 
statement as to the number of summer visitors, fishermen 
and hunters who passed over this road from out of the 
State the past season, yet from figures-which we have 
previously made, I should say that two hundred and fifty 
thousand (250,000) would not be very far out of the 
way; certainly as many as that number.’ 

“Bitty thousand would seem, in view of Mr. Boothby’s 
letter, as much too small an estimate; two hundred and 
fifty thousand may be too large an estimate. It is clear, 
however, that not less than from four to six millions of 
dollars were expended in Maine by these visitors; cer- 
tainly nearly double this amount if Mr. Boothby is 
correct.” 

Now, if you do me the fairness to print this, I will, 
with pleasure, call attention to other errors and mislead- 
ing misstatements which have appeared in your paper. 

L. T. Carterton, Chairman. 


Non-Resident Licenses. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The recent agitation of the hunting license question in 
the State of Maine shows the utter selfishness that 
prompts the enactment of non-resident license laws. The 
motive is usually read between the lines; but Commis- 
sioner Carleton bluntly admits that the object would be 
to keep the non-resident of limited means out of his 
State, and thereby make it easier for men of wealth to 
find game in sufficient abundance to induce them to come 
again. He seems to take especial objection to_the pres- 
ence of Ohio and Indiana hunters, for which I am very 
sorry, for I had hopes of seeing that much-talked-of game 
country in the near future. It goes a little “ag’in the 
grain” to tramp over a preserve where the watchmen 
look upon you as a trespasser or poacher. I feel better 
while accepting an invitation, than I do while being in- 
formed that I am not welcome, 4 \ 

I have often wondered if those who are responsible 
for the present Michigan game law ever feel the least bit 
of remorse, now that they have practically shut non- 
resident sportsmen out of their State. These Michigan 
statesmen, however, inadvertently paid tis aliens a com- 
pliment. We can pay $25 railroad fare and $25 license 
fee, hunt deer three weeks and kill three deer for con- 
sumption within the State. 

That, in brief, is the substance of the law. Now that 
certainly is complimentary in more ways than one. We 
are first accredited with being able to pay the $50. That 
is a mere nothing for desirable sportsmen. Secondly, we 
are supposed to be able to kill our three deer within the 
specified time, and have enough time left over in which to 
eat, devour or dispose of our three deer without either 
selling or exporting any portion of them. Now, serious- 
ly, the compliment comes, in the supposition that a visiting 
sportsman not being allowed to sell nor export any part 
of the three deer he pays for, will kill no more than he 
can consume during his stay. But where is the compli- 
ment to the father of such an unjust law? 

There was once in cOmmon practice such a thing as 
consistency, and it was referred to as a jewel, but it 
does not find favor with some of our lawmakers. 

T was in Michigan one trip when I did not kill a deer. 


On three occasions I got only..one, on another two deer, 
on another three, another time five, and another seven, 
making a total of twenty deer for eight trips covering 
twenty weeks. At this rate I would have gotten the 
legal limit of three deer for three weeks’ open season. 
But, and you may well spell the word with a big B, there 
were only thirty deer killed by the entire party in all 
those hunts, and the party averaged five to six men, “In 
other words, forty-four men killed thirty deer in eight 
years, 

The reason was—and it applies in many other in- 
stances—that a large per cent. of my companions were 
not hunters. They enjoyed the outing, and were full of 
hope that they might bring down a deer, 

Four of my especial friends have been with me five 
trips, and three of them on another, when I did not go; 
also two of the number have been to the Yellowstone Na- 
tional Park, and were last fall in Maine, and neither of 
them has ever killed a deer. Now, I have no doubt there 
are many stch enthusiasts scattered over Ohio and In- 
diana. They are willing to spend a reasonable amount of 
money; that is, they will pay transportation to any point 
decided upon, hotel and all other necessary expenses for 
the sake of an outing. "We have been in the habit of 
camping in tents, and having the train put us off at some 
water course or lake in the wildest and wooliest spot 
reached by that particular railroad, and, as a matter of 
conyenience, we have gone furnished. 

Such a precaution may be unnecessary in Maine, but 
possibly Ohio and Indiana boys are not aware of the 
fact, and if Commissioner Carleton was ever set off a 
tailroad at 6 P. M. or 6 A. M. after a ride of 500 of 
600 niles, and as the train sped on, he looked at his 
surroundings and found only wood and water, and by 
comparison with his railroad guide and a near-by mile 
post, found himself nine miles by rail from the nearest 
point for purchasing supplies’ with no wagon roads nor 
settlers to use them, he would thank his lucky stars he had 
brought those potatoes with him. , = 

In fact, it is “small potatoes” to take a sportsman to 
task for looking after his own comfort and convenience. 
If he is a sportsman he is a gentleman; and if he takes 
his bread and butter from home, it is for convenience and 
that is sufficient reason. 

I haye been reading about Maine in Forest ann STREAM 
and I fail to see where any hunting party of say half a 
dozen men-can camp and enjoy themselves with a more 
limited outfit than is customary in Michigan and Wis- 
consin. To expect to buy this outfit, or find it awaiting 
their arrival at their destination, is manifestly absurd, 
when it is not always certain twenty-four hours before 
starting as to who or how many may go. But why 
reason when the proposition to tax non-residents is not 
based on reason? 

I am going to Propose an amendment to the Michigan 
game Jaw, however, to wit: Charge non-residents a 
license fee of $10. Allow each licensed hunter to kill one 
deer, and take home what he does not consume of it. I 
would not care for the $10, and I would he willing to 
stop at one deer if only I were permitted to bring home 
what I did not consume in camp. The present law is so 
unreasonable and unjust that, there is every inclination 
on the part of visiting sportsmen to violate it with im- 
punity. G. W. CunnincHam. 


Guoversvitte, N. Y., Jan. 25.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I would like to be heard in regard to the non- 
tesident license. It really makes me tired to think of it 
I for one shall do no fishing or hunting in a State that 
Tequires me to pay a license. I don’t see where other 
States have so much more advantage in the quantity of 
game over my own State of New York, that we should 
be held up to the tune of $25 if we should visit in some 
Western State and wanted to enjoy a day or two with 
the quail or prairie chicken, My own State-is as free 
from license as the water that flows, and that it may ever 
be so is my earnest wish. Living as I do in the foot- 
hills of the Adirondacks, I know something about the 

game supply, J. H. Drake, 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Western Game and Western Laws. 


CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 22——Not much attention was paid 
to the non-resident acts of Michigan, Wisconsin and 
Minnesota, but when Indiana put a $25 tax upon Chicago 
visitors, things began to get mighty interesting to the 
sportsmen of this city, for hunting in Indiana has hereto- 
fore been about as free as air. So muchthas this nlofn- 
resident license of Indiana galled the spirit of the Chicago 
public, that there is loud and growing talk of a test case 
beating upon the whole non-resident tax idea. 

fet not without a subtle revenge has ‘the Chicago 
sportsman been in his attitude toward the Indiana citizens 
who inflicted this hardship upon his northern brother. It is 
rumored, with probably some support in fact, that it was 
the Tolleston Club which was behind the Law and Order 
League which was formed in upper Indiana not long ago. 
This League dug out of the musty pages of the Indiana 
statutes an old law forbidding hunting on Sunday. This 
law has quietly and yet sternly been enforced in a very 
large number of instances in the State of Indiana, and 
the town dweller or the busy country lad who has been 
wont to take his gun and go out for a little shooting on 
Sunday has in many an instance found himself brought 
up with a round turn. Perhaps he did not know, and 
will not until he reads this in type, that his undoing was 
a quiet cross-counter intended’ for those Indiana persons 
who made it a hardship for the Chicago man to shoot in 
Indiana, where everything was wont to be free. 

_ A curious effect of this enforcement of the Sunday law 
is noticeable in the Calumet Heights Club, also a Chicago 
organization, whose grounds are across the line in Indiana. 
This club is not so much a duck shooting club as its 
wealthy neighbor on the Little Calumet, but it is rather a 
country club, where members and their families pass a 
day or so at the end of the week. Some of these mem- 
bers, it may be frankly stated, as it is the truth, have 
been in the habit of doing a little Sunday shooting. All 
this has been stopped by the Indiana league above men- 
tioned. Indeed, one Calumet Heights member was ar- 


‘done. 


_ few days since, and they were large, strong birds, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


rested and mildly fined, for being caught out in his boat 
on the river one Sabbath day. The result has been that 
the attendance at Calumet Heights Club during the last 
fall and early winter has fallen off very sharply. 

So far as can be determined, Tolleston Club does not 
in the least suffer by the present game situation. Its 
members are nearly all wealthy men, quite able to pay 
the $25 license and quite able to run down to the club 
on any day of the week when the shooting may be good. 
It is no hardship for them to hang up their coats on Sun- 
day. Moreover, the enforcement of both the non-resi- 
dent license act and the Indiana Sunday law has been an 
excellent thing for Tollestoz Club marsh. Its mem- 
bers have had good shooting, although they have said 
mighty little about it. 


About Wild Celery. 


Mr. Jasper B. White, of Waterlily, N. C., in the Curri- 
tuck Sound country, writes: “In Forest AND STREAM of 
Jan. 4a New York writer says that ‘wild celery does not have 
seed.’ I am not well enough acquainted with the scientific 
names of the many kinds of duck foods to discuss the mat- 
ter with him, but I do know that what we call ‘wild celery’ 
here at Currituck does have seed, and is the kind of 
food always selected by canvasbacks, redheads and ruddy 
ducks in preference to all others, and is the kind of food 
that gives them such a delicious flavor. It resembles 
celery, has seed on top, and a small root or bulb, which 
tastes almost exactly like garden celery, If you can help 
me in the matter, I shall appreciate it very much indeed, 
as I have promised to get about eighty bushels for differ- 
ent gentlemen, from Texas to Maine, and I have no 
desire to lead them astray. My only wish is to help them 
secure the kind of food which will secure the same de- 
licious flavor for their ducks that we have at Currituck.” 

I do not think that Mr. White need fear that he has led 
any one astray in sending out wild celery seed. This is 
an industry which at-one time had considerable propor- 
tions in the Koshkanong Lake country of Wisconsin, 
which is a notable wild celery water, or was before the 
carp ate it up, The long, pod-like receptacle of the 
seeds were familiar articles of export by Duane Sterin and 
ex-Game Warden W. Y. Wentworth, who gathered them 
on Lake Koshkanong. I must plead scientific ignorance 
in common with Mr. White, and yet join with him per- 
fectly in his description of the plant popularly known as 
wild celery. The latter can be propagated either from 
the seed or from the bulb. 


FE. Houcx. 
Hartrorp Buitpine, Chicago, Ill. 


. The Game Seizure Case. 


THe demurrer of the Arctic Freezer Co. in the game 
seizure case has been sustained in respect to the para- 
graphs of the complaint relating to shore birds; but over- 
ruled in all other respects. The text of Justice O’Gor- 
man’s decision reads: 

People, etc., vs. Bookman—The statute under which 
this action is instituted extends over the entire State and 
is in no sense a local law. It was, therefore, unnecessary 
to recite or refer to the act in the complaint. The 
pleader was required only to allege facts bringing the 
case within the purview of the act, and this has been 
Section 1897 of the Code is inapplicable. The 
complaint accompanied the summons, and in such a case 
no reference to the statute need be indorsed upon the 
summons, The statute in question contains no excep- 
tions within the sections of the act, and the complaint, 
therefore, does not offend against the rule requiring the 
pleading: to show that the case is not within an exception 
to the statute. The expression “and is liable to a penalty,” 
etc., in Section 39 of the act, clearly means that, in 
addition to the criminal liability, the offender subjects 
himself to a civil action for the recovery of the penalty 
prescribed. There is no such ambiguity in the language 
as to support the defendant’s contention. The posses- 
sion of the birds at the forbidden season within the State 
is prima facie evidence that the possessor has violated the 
law, and the burden is then cast upon him of proving 
facts to show that the possession is legal (People, etc., 
vs. Buffalo Fish Co., 164 N. Y., 99), and this is as true as 
a ttle of pleading as it is concededly true as a rule of 
evidence. As to the birds mentioned in counts 14 to 19 of 
the complaint, the claim of the defendants must be up- 
held. Sections 30 and 33 cannot be reconciled. Under 
Section 30 plover and snipe have a close season from May 
1 to Aug. 31, and Section 33 is applicable to birds for 
which there is no open season. In order to create an 
offense under Section 33 it must appear not only that the 
birds are wild birds, but also that they are birds for which 
there is no open season, Therefore, if they are birds 
having an open, season, or if there be no express pro- 
vision that there shall be no open season, the taking or 
possession of them constittttes no offense. Courts will go 
far to preserve the paramount intention of the Legisla- 
ture where it is possible to do so, but here the incon- 
gruities are so serious and irreconcilable that the con- 
struction urged by the plaintiff's counsel can be yielded 
to only by the court usurping legislative functions. No 
cause of action is set forth in these counts, and as to them 
the demurrer is sustained. In all other respects the de- 
murrer is overruled. 


Massachusetts Game Notes. 


Danvers, Mass., Jan. 24.—We have had a cold winter, 
but no crusty snow to kill the quail. I saw a good flock a 
There 
is a plenty of ruffed grouse in the swamps. I was out 
after rabbits the other day and saw plenty of tracks, but 
they were all in their holes. Another party out the same 
day. got ten. : 

Tom Wilson, of Ipswich, brought up ten black ducks 
and three geese to send to Boston market. This last item 
is hearsay, but from good authority; I can’t understand 
how about the geese being around here at this season of 
the year. a 

A large, handsome snow owl was killed in town, and is 
being mounted by Ingraham. Will Tillson has gone on a 
hunting trip to Bartow, Fla, J. W. Bassrrr. 


| i | 
e *, | 
Rulinefiin the; Marlintivs. Shields, 
oT 
Uase. 
£HE Apyellate Division of the New York Supreme 
Court has handed down an important decision with a 


direct bearing on the law of libel. | 
_The complaint in an action eee by the Marlin 


| 


Fire Arms Company against George O. Shields, the pub- 
lisher of a monthly magazine called Recreation, charged | 
the latter with writing and sending to the company “fake” 
letters purporting to have been written by sportsmen 
and falsely asserting that there were certain defects in a 
rifle made by the plaintiff, 

The Marlin Company claimed that the scheme was 
designed by the defendant to extort money because the) 


time advertised in the columns of the defendant’s paper, 
but “had to discontinue doing so because of the exorbi- 
tant rate subsequently made by Shields.” 

A judgment of the special term of the Supreme Court 

“sustaining a demurrer to the complaint was reversed by 
the Appellate Division. The prayer for relief asked that’ 
an injunction be issued restraining the defendant from 
publishing in his magazine or elsewhere any statement 
falsely attacking the Marlin rifle. 

The Appellate Division says, by Justice Hatch, that 
while ordinarily a court of equity has no power to restrain, 
the publication of a libel where the injury is merely per- 
sonal, yet if the injury complained of is one to property: 
an injunction may issue. This principle, Justice Hatch 
says, was upheld by na less an authority than Justice 
Story. Continuing, Justice Hatch says: 

“The case presents, therefore, an injury to the property 
and business of the plaintiff of such a character as renders. 
it quite impracticable to measure the injury in money) 
damages. These acts are done and the injury inflicted 
solely for the purpose, as appears by the averments of the: 
complaint, of coercing the plaintiff into advertising in the! 
publication of the defendant and paying therefor an ex- 
tortionate sum. It would seem that, under such circum- 
stances, the plaintiff ought not to be turned away empty- 
handed. * * * 

“We think that in principle this case is brought within | 
the recognized equitable powers, and that to some eo 
tent, at least, the plaintiff is entitled to relief. : 

“Tt is not easy to frame in precise language the extent 
to which equity may interfere and restrain this publica- 
tion, bitt we are-clear that the defendant may be restrained 
from planning and endeavoring to injure and ruin the, 
business of the plaintiff by maliciously publishing untrue 
statements contained in letters written by himself but 
falsely purporting to be written by some person using 
the rifle manufactured and sold by the plaintiff. ' 

“To this extent the defendant may be enjoined.” 


Boone and Crocket Club Meeting. 


Tue fifteenth annual meeting of the Boone and Crockett 
Club was held at the Metropolitan Club, Washington, | 
D. C., on Monday, Jan. 27, at 6:30 P. M. Among the 
members present were Major W. A. Wadsworth, presi- 
dent of the club, the President of the United States, the 
Secretary of War. Senator Redfield Proctor, Mr. D. G. 
Elliott, Caspar W. Whitney, H. L. Stimson, A. P. Proc- 
tor, Alden Sampson, C. Grant La Farge, Madison Grant, 
C. De Rham, Dr. J. C. Merrill, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, | 
W. Woodville Rockhill, R. Stuyvesant, Col. Roger D, 
Williams. Dr. Lewis Rutherford Morris, Arnold Hagte, 
Gifford Pinchot, W. B. Bristow, James S. Watson, G. 
Bleistein, Paul Dashiell, Senator H. Cabot Lodge. Hon. 
Wm. Cary Sanger, Major Emmet, Mr, Prentice, Mr. W. 
J. Boardman, D . Barringer, Hon. W. A. Chandler, 
George Bird Grinnell and Dr. W. Lord Smith. 

Among the guests were Hon. John F. Lacey, of Iowa; 
Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana; Senator John Kean, of 
New Jersey; Hon. J. Small, of North Carolina; Mr. J. 
Kidder. of Boston, and Dr, T. S. Palmer, of Washington, 

At the business meeting reports of the officers and of 
different committees were received, and two changes 
were made in the constitution. The following officers 
were elected for the enstting year: President, Maj. W. A, 
Wadsworth; Vice-Presidents, W. B. Devereux, H. Mel- 
ville Hanna, Col. D, Pickett, Chas, Deering and 
Owen Wister; Secretary, Alden Sampson; Treasurer, C, 
Grant La Farge. Exectitive Committee, A. Rogers, Dr, 
L, R. Morris; Caspar Whitney, Gifford Pinchot, Madison 
Grant, John Rogers, Jr. Editorial Committee, George 
Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt. 

The dining room was decorated at one etid with the skin 
of a giant Kadiak bear, killed by Mr. Kidder, and behind 
the president of the club and the guests were ranged four 
of the huge and massive skulls of this species, 

The first speaker of the evening was the Hon. John F, 
Lacey, who talked at length of the wasteful methods of 
the American people and of the imprtance of preserving 
our natural resources, among them the great game of the 
continent. He outlined briefly the method by which this 
might be done, He likened the club to Saul of Tarsus, 
who, having seen a great light, became a defender of the 
faith, and said that the club which—he assumed—had been 
inaugurated to encourage killing had now become an as- 
sociation of game protectors. Mr. Lacey’s speech was 
listened to with great interest, and was frequently in- 
terrupted by applause. 

When Mr, Lacey sat down there were loud calls of 
“Roosevelt,” “Roosevelt,” and the President arose to re- 
spond. He referred to the founding of the club at a 
dinner at his house, fifteen years before, and went on to 
speak in a practical way of the importance of game preser- 
vation. He believed that the game ought to be pre- 
served, in order that it might be reasonably and wisely 
hunted, so that the children of our generation may be 
able to see something of the sport that their fathers 
have known. He paid a warm tribute to the good work 
that has been done in game protection by some of those 
present, among them Mr. Lacey, Dr. C. Hart Merriam 
and Mr. Gifford Pinchot. He emphasized the importance 
of striving earnestly to enlist public sentiment on the side 
of game protection, declaring that with public sentiment 

everything was possible, but without public sentiment 


— 


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89 


nothing. He declared that the protection of game by the 
establishment of refuges in the forest presetve was the 
most democratic thing that Congress could do, for the 
very rich are able to acquire lands and stock them for 
their own sport, but the average man cannot do this, and 
must depend for his sport on Governrent protection of 
the game. The President’s speech was received with great 
enthusiasm. Interesting remarks were made by Senators 
Clark and Proctor, and by Dr. C. Hart Merriam. 

The chairman of the Commtittee ott Game Refuges sub- 
mitted his report, an abstract of which follows: 

At a meeting of the exectitive Committee of the Boone 
and Crockett Club, June 3, 1901, it was 

Resolyed, That a committee of five be appointed by the 
executive committee to formulate a plan to provide for 
game refuges in stich parts of the country as may be 
desirable, and to teport to the executive committee, 
which shall then call a general meeting of the club fof 
the discussion of this plan, with a view to prepare it for 
action by the club at the next anntal meeting. 

The following committee was appointed: Messrs. 
Alden Sampson, A. Rogers, G, B. Grinnell, Caspar 
Whitney and D. M. Barringer, 

The report of the committee was submitted to the ex- 
ecutive committee at a meeting held at the Players’ Club, 
in New York, Jan. 7, 1902, at which the following resolu- 
tion was passed: 

Resolved, That the report of the committee on game 
refuges be received with thanks, and that the cotiitittee 
be continued, with power to take such steps as ttiay be 
necessaty to ftitther the objects set forth in their repoft. 


The Committee’s Report, 


~The report may be summarized as follows: The com- 
mittee soon reached the conclusion that for the present 
the wiser course is to giye attention fo the establishment 
of gamne refuges in the Govefnitient timber teserves, and 
to defer for the piésent diy considetation of gafile 

_feluges in the East, whether by State aid, individual 
generosity or, general subseriptioh: 

The area of the United States titiber reserves is more 

than 78,000 Sduate miles. At first their establishment 
was bitterly opposed by the gefieral public, which did 
not understand their objects, biit now that they have be- 
come better understood theif advantages ate realized 
and they are very poptilar. The establishment of game 
refuges in these tracts inay at first meet with the 
game Opposition, btit the wisdom of stich action will 
soon be appreciated by the commion sense of the Ameri- 
ean people. Among the appendices to the report are 
letters giving information as to ceftaih fesetves froiti 
men living in their vicinity, and a full report. on the 
Black Mesa Forest Reserve of Atizona, and its Avail- 
ability as a Game Resetve, by Mr. E. W. Nelson, the 
well-known naturalist. 
_ The committee at first considered the advisability of 
introducing in Congress a bill providing for the creation 
of game refuges in all the timber reserves, but later, 
finding that legislation was pending at Washington 
which might materially affect the future control of the 
forest reserves, it was thought better to await legisla- 
tion, and then, if it should take the desired course, to act 
directly through the department having charge of these 
TESErVES, l 

While it is altogether probable that the effort to es- 
tablish gaine refuges in the manner stated will at first 
iNeet with opposition, the club is to be congratulated on 
a number of hopeful circumstances which will work 
toward the accomplishment of its purposes. 

The President is heartily in favor of some action of 
this sort, as shown by his message, which treats the sub- 

ject wisely and temperately, and which draws attention 
among other things, to the terrible injury to the forest, 
ee even to tle iree range, caused by the grazing of 
sheep, 

The United States Forester, Mr. Pinchot, will do 
everything in his power to make effective any legisla- 
tive action that may be taken looking toward the desired 
end. The establishment of game refuges and public 
parks in the East shows that the public is beginning 
to feel an interest in these matters. The proposed Ap- 
palachian Park and the reserves of land owned by New 
York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and some other States 
are encouraging signs of the times. 

The increasing interest in the irrigation of the arid 
lands of the West is another cheering circumstance. The 
interests of forestry and irrigation are identical, and the 
interests of forestry are ours; so that the irrigationists 
and foresters and the game protectors, who are the 
hunters, will all work together. 

The establishment of these game refuges has an eco- 
nomic, financial and purely selfish side to it which must ap- 
peal to people living in the vicinity of such refuges. About 
their borders there will always be game, people will come 
to hunt it, and will leave large sums of money in the 
country. Every head of game killed will undoubtedly 
be worth more to the community living near where it 
was killed that a beef steer raised and marketed for $50 
or $75. While’ the American woodsman or ranchman 
is slow to yield what he regards as his rights and priv- 
ileges, he has a cold, hard appreciation of the value of 
money, which is likely to lead him, after a time, to see 
the desirability of preserving the big game. 

Finally there exists now, far more than a few years 
ago, a reverence for life based on scientific teachings, 
which is not without its important influence on many 
classes of our people. Beside this—appealing alike to 
cultivated and uncultivated man—there is the growing 
‘realization of the fact that, with protection of this sort, 
comes familiarity with the animals, an opportunity to 
study their ways and to comprehend many of the motives 
‘which govern their lives. This is a strong motive. We 
thave seen the beginning of it in the Yellowstone Park, 
and we are sure to see it elsewhere. 


The meeting then adjourned to the other room, where 
Mr. Kidder, who has perhaps had more experience than 
any one else in hunting bears on Kadiak Island and in the 
‘Alaska Peninsula, gave a mast interesting talk. illustrated 
“py lantern slides. = 


Sea and River Hishing. 
——_>—— 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forrest AND STREAM, 


North American Fish and Game 
Protective Association. 


TuE two days’ session of the North American Fish and 
Game Protective Association, held in Burlington, Vt., Jan. 
22 and 23, was a highly suecessful affair,and productive not 
only of a better understanding and a better fellowship be- 
tween the States and Provinces represented, but also of 
inspiration for legislation and law enforcement which is 
bound to prove of the greatest benefit to sportsrtien in 
general, ; 

Probably the most iffipoftant action of the convention 
was the mutual pledge of representatives from Quebec 
and Vermont to put a stop to the seine fishing in Missis- 
quoi Buy, which depletes the chief spawning beds of the 
wall-eyed pike iii Lake Champlain. 

For years attempts have been made to stop the evil, 
but politics have obscured the jiistice of the demand. 
Quebec, bounding as it does but a trifling fraction of the 
shore of Lake Champlain, was considered to hold the 
key to the situation, because that fraction contained 4 
considerable pottion of the available spawning grounds 
of the lake and carried with the possession the power to 
license net fishertnen, Vermont permitted netting, ac- 
cording to her representatives, as a retaliatory measure, 
simply because Quebec permitted it. 

It fell to Mr. Wilson, of the Empire State, to show that 
New York was in the position of the nether millstone, 
having for years refiised the seining privilege to its 
citizens, and possessed of this moral vantage point, he 
assailed Quebec and Vermont in no uncertain terms for 
their ungenetotis and short-sighted policy. 

As an interesting sidelight on the question, it de- 
veloped that practically all the seiners are natives of 
Vermont, the Superintendent of Fish and Game for 
Quebec stating that otir of the eighteen or nineteen 
li¢enses give by his Province, all but three were held by 
Vermontefs, : 

The Vermont Leagtie has long labored to put an end 
to the seining, but has so far been balked by the strong 
position and clever political intrigue of the net fisher- 
men, who haye not only worked in their own legislature, 
Hut also have sent delegations to Quebec who repre- 
sented that Vetmont did not want the repeal of the 
seining privilege. 


Though speaking for a limited number of people on 4 


limited extent of the lake, they made it appear that they 
represented the sentiment of the State at large. 

The advantage of the international organization of the 
North American Association was never more strikingly 
demonstrated than by the business-like manner in which 
an insight into the situation was gained and by the con- 


- certed agreement of those concerned to demonstrate the 


true situation to the proper authorities, and not to rest 
till the necessary legislative action is secured. 

Equally suggestive was the prompt action taken to as- 
certain what means of relief might be afforded our North- 
ert! neighbor to check the illegal export of her game. 

The entire session of the convention was marked by 
courteous consideration of the interests on either side of 
the border, and by good fellowship and ‘concord. The 
Canadian and visiting contingent were hospitably enter- 
tained, and left with the most pleasant memories of their 
stay in the beautiful city of Burlington. When an op- 
portunity availed they were taken to points of interest 
about the city in sleighs. The hospitality of the Ethan 
Allen and Algonquin clubs was extended to them, and 
they were not allowed to feel themselves strangers, and 
from some the fact was even concealed that Vermont is 
a prohibition State. 

- ‘The matter was well summed up by Dr. Drummond, 
who, as spokesman for the visitors, offered the follow- 
ing resolution: 

“When in the course of human events it was pre- 
ordained that the annual meeting of the North American 
Fish and Game Protective Association should be held 
in the city of Burlington, little did the members of the 
Association feel that they would be the recipients of the 
whole-souled, spontaneous hospitality from the good 
people of that city. 

“They feel, therefore, that it is ‘up to them’ to put on 
record in this humble and inefficient manner their great 
appreciation of the true Green Mountain welcome which 
they have encountered at every turn of the street, and 
to one and all, his Worship, the Mayor of Burlington, the 
Algonquin and Ethan Allen clubs, city officials, the 
different charitable orgenizations, and to the police and 
ambulance departments, we Owe our deepest thanks. 

“Be it also resolved, That said thanks be tendered to 
them in a golden casket, to be finally placed away among 
tlie most sacred archives of Vermont.” 


Moraing Session, Jan. 22. 


Ahout thirty members were present at the morning 
session, Jan, 22, which was called to order by President 
John W. Titcomb, in the waiting room oi the Van Ness 
House, at 11 A. M. President Titcomb said: ' 
“Wfembers of the North American Fish and Game Pro- 

tective Association: 

“That there was need: of an organization like the one 
convened in annual meeting here to-day was proved last 
year by the cordial response of men of affairs who came 
from various parts of the country, and gave their time 
and money to organize this Association, and much seri- 
ous thought to a discussion of the various matters neces- 
sary to the furtherance and accomplishment of its ob- 
jects. 


When that meeting adjourned every member returned _ 


to his home with a duty to perform, either officially or 
as ah individual. That duty. was to aid in putting into 
execution the resolutions adopted. ; 

Thus our meeting to-day might be likened unto an 
experience meeting, in which each officer and member 
relates his experience during the year—his success or 
failure to accomplish the desired, legislation. 


“JT am reminded of the country deacon who announced 
to his pastor that he was going on a vacation to the 
seashore, and had come to say farewell. His pastor 
warned him against some of the temptations to which he 
would be subjected. ‘They don’t observe the Sabbath at 
all where you are going,’ etc., etc. The good deacon en- 
joyed his outing immensely, and returned to his home 
much refreshed. Calling upon his pastor, he was met 
with the inquiry, ‘How did you get along?’ and he re- 
plied, ‘First rate, first rate! Not one of ’em suspected 
IT was a church member’ 

“Now, I hope that not one of the members of this As- 
sociation concealed the fact that he was a member of this 
Association, and that we can have a good experience 
meeting to-day and to-morraw, and go home with re- 
newed resolutions to further the objects of the Associa- 
tion and to increase its membership, 

“The issuance of circulars will not do it. 
done by personal solicitation, 

“The work of stich an organization depends very 
largely upon your secretary, and I am sure he has been 
faithful to his trust. 

“Tast September, owing to ill health, Mr. Joncas felt 
obliged to resign the office, and I appointed Mr. E. T, 
D, Chambers as his successor, Mr. Joncas, being under 
bonds as treasurer, has continued to assume the financial 
responsibilities of his office until he is relieved of them by 
your action to-day. As they are both here to-day, we 
can hear from them as to their work the past year. 

“Centlemen, I welcome you to our State, and to the 
Queen City of our State. In behalf of the Vermont Fish 
and Game League, I repeat my written invitation to be 
their guests at a banquet to-morrow evening.” 

At the close of the address a vote of thanks was 
tendered Mr. Titcomb. 


New Members, Committees and Reports. 


The membership committee proposed the following 
gentlemen, who were unanimously elected members of 
the Association: J, G. McCullough, of Bennington; 
Dr. W. Seward Webb, of Shelburne; Olin Merrill and 
W. A. Whiting, of Burlington; F. A. Phelps, of Willces- 
barre, Pa.; J. E. Bentley, of St. Albans, Vt.; H. J. El- 
liott, and J. B. Sparrow, of Montreal; W. L. Chase, of 
Torkington, Me., and J. E. Walsh, of Ottawa. 

The following committees were appointed: 

On Nominations—F. G. Butterfield, C. H. Wilson, ~ 
F. S. Hodges, E. S. Kingsley, H. Stanley, D. G. Smith 
and Dr, W. H. Drummond. 

On Location of Next Meeting—S. T. Bastedo, GG 
E, Ussher, D. G. Smith, N. W. Fisk, Andrew Irving 
and H. Russell. 

On Programme—C. C. E. Ussher, E. Tinsley, H. Rich- 
ards and D. G. Smith. 

Mr. E.°T. D. Chambers read the report of the secre- 
tary and treasurer, which showed that a large amount 
ef literature had been distributed during the past year, 
including a number of the annual fish and game reports. 
Mr. Chambers also stated that the membership of the 
Association had almost doubled over the number of 
charter members a year ago. 

The financial affairs of the Association, he said, were 
on a sound basis. The total receipts have been $385, 
while the expenditures were $315.13, leaving an unex- 
pended balance of $69.87. 

Secretary Chambers read a circular letter which had 
been issued by President Titcomb preyious to the meet- 
ing, requesting each member to prepare some paper OT 
offer some topic for discussion at the forthcoming ‘ses- 
sions of the Association. To this end a committee to 
arrange a programme was appointed, consisting of 
Messrs. Ussher, Kinsley, Richards and Smith. 

Before lunch the local committee on entertainment 
and members of the Vermont League escorted the vVis- 
itors about the city and introduced them to the hospi- 
tality of the Ethan Allen and Algonquin clubs. _ 

Among the members present at the opening session 

were S, T. Bastedo, Toronto, Ont., deputy commis- 
sioner of fisheries for Ontario; Dr. Thomas C, Brainerd, 
ex-president of the Providence of Quebec Association 
for the Protection of Fish and Game; Charles FP. Bur- 
hans, Warrensburg, N. Y.; F. G. Butterfield, Derby 
Line, Vt; E. T. D. Chambers, Quebec, author of the 
“QOuananiche,” “Anglers’ Guide,” etc.; H. R. Charlton, 
Montreal; N. E. Cormier, Aylmer East, Quebec, chief 
game warden for Ottawa and Pontiac; G, A. Farmer, of 
the Bank of Montreal; Hon. Nelson W. Fisk, Isle La 
Motte; Dr. John T. Finnie, Montreal, ex-president of 
the Providence of Quebec Association for the Protection 
of Fish and Game; Wm. W. Henry, U. S. Consul to 
Quebec, and president St. Bernard Fish and Game Club; 
F. S. Hodges, Boston, Mass.; Andrew Irving, Gouv- 
eneur, N. Y.; F. Z. Joncas, Quebec, ex-member of Par- 
liament, superintendent of fish and game for the Prov- 
ince of Quebec; Dr. H, T. Drummond, Montreal; Alex. 
Hardy, Quebec; Hon. F, R. Latchiord, Toronto; Horace 
Bailey, W. H. Parker, Lac le Peche, Quebec, secretary 
and manager of the Laurentian Fish and Game Club; 
Colin Rankin, Mattawa, Ont.; D. G. Smith, Chatham, 
N. B., Fishery Commissioner of New Brunswick; E. 
Tinsley, Toronto, Ont., chief game warden; John W. 
Titcomb, Vermont Fish and Game Commissioner; 
&. E. Ussher, Montreal; Frank L. Wing, New York; 
John W. McGeary, Burlington; G. A. McGrath, Frank- 
lin, Pa.; H. Maltby, Montreal; G. H. Richard, Boston, 
Mass. 


It mtist be 


The Afternoon Session, 


The afternoon session opened at half past 2. 

The committee on programme reported a list of sub- 
jects, the discussion of which occupied the entire after- 
noon, Among the subjects were: The Harmonizing of 
the Laws of the Different Provinces of Canada and the 
Contiguous States of the American Union; the Preser- 
vation, Propagation and Protection of Fish, Game and 
Bird Life, and the Maintenance and Improvement of 
Laws Relating Thereto, and Mutual Assistance in En-~ 
forcing Game and Fish Laws on the Borders of the 
Various States and Provinces; the Preservation of For- 
ests; The Promotion of Fisheulture; The Introduction 
of New Species and Varieties of Fish, Game and Use- 
ful Birds, and the Dissemination of Information Relat- 
ing Thereto. . 


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The discussion was opened by Dr. Brainerd, who said 
that successful efforts had been made to harmonize the 
game laws of the Province of Quebec, and that there 
have been many improvements, of which he cited in- 
stances. : 

C. H, Wilson gave the history of the anti-spring 
shooting bill and the bill for a uniform bass law intro- 
duced in the New York Legislature at the instance of the 
North American Association. He attended three hear- 
ings, but the bills died in committee. 


Spring Shooting. 


Mr. Tinsley said, “The first action in harmonizing 
game laws should be in connection with migratory 
game, and I know of no action so urgent as the uniform 
and general prohibition of the spring shooting of water 
fowl. 

“Tt has long been a mystery to me that you, our Ameri- 
can friends, follow business in your various trades and 
professions, and then act so inconsistently in the matter 
of spring shooting. There is not one redeeming feature, 
not a valid excuse, for otherwise intelligent people act- 
ing so foolishly as to shoot birds when full of eggs 
en toute to the nesting grounds. Those that are honest 
in this matter know they are violating laws of nature 
and common sense. Nature will not allow her laws to 
be violated without exacting heavy penalties. 

“The main obstacle to the abolishment of spring 
shooting is not ignorance, but selfishness. I often hear 
advocates oi spring shooting say, ‘If we don’t shoot, 
others will.’ 

“I have been working to the best of my humble abil- 
ity for the last forty years to have this senseless system 
abolished. I therefore make an urgent appeal to the 
members of the North American Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association at this your annual meeting, to 
give the matter your earnest consideration, and I trust 
your efforts may result im having the miserable practice 
of spring shooting forever abolished on this continent.” 


Non-Resident License, 


Mr. Tinsley is in favor of a non-resident license fee. 
He read a paper on this subject, in which he said: 

“The non-resident license question is being thrashed 
out with considerable warmth and ability. We may take 
it for granted that the main object of fish and game pro- 
tection is to perpetuate and increase the supply in the 
interest of the public at large. This can only be accom- 
plished by meeting the constantly increasing number 
of hunters who enjoy improved destructive facilities 
with more closely drawn restrictive measures. 

“In old and densely populated countries the license 
system has been the most effective factor in keeping up 
the supply of game. It is an accepted fact that game is 
the property of the State or Province. Such being the 
case, it is the bounden duty of the respective legislatures 
to enact and enforce laws regarding these natural and 
valuable products of their respective countries. 

“Tf our law-makers have the power to say how and 
when game may be killed, they should certainly have the 
power to say how much those doing the killing should 
pay for the privilege. It is a poor excuse for a man to 
say that because he pays his railway fare and pays for 
the food he consumes he should be allowed to go into 
a neighboring State or country and kill and take away 
game with him without contributing to the cost of breed- 
ing and protecting stich game. In the instance of the 
expenditure for transportation and food, he receives 
value for the money spent. True sportsmen will not ob- 
ject to paying a license fee when by so doing the pros- 
pect of having good sport is enhanced. The time is not 
far distant when it will be imperative to collect a general 
license fee from both resident and non-resident sports- 
men in the interest of game protection.” 

S. T. Bastedo said they had been unable to do any- 
thing in Ontario relative to harmonizing the game laws, 
although such attempts had been made. 

Mr. Titcomb said that Vermont had no report on 
legislative progress to make, as there had been no ses- 
sion of the Legislature since the close of the last meet- 
ing. 

Hon. A. T. Dunn said that spring shooting of ducks 
had been abolished in New Brunswick, and that the laws 
in general were being more strictly enforced, with the 
result of a gratifying increase in the game. The trap- 
pers who had formerly been game law violators, are now 
assisting the enforcement of the law. The number of 


visiting sportsmen has largely increased, and the big , 


game is more than holding its own, now that the number 
of animals allowed each hunter has been reduced. Mr. 
Dunn also mentioned the fact that New Brunswick has 
passed a law prohibiting the sale of partridge. : 

Mr. Richards, of Boston, said that the law passed two 
years ago by Massachusetts prohibiting the sale of 
woodcock and partridge had been a great stride in the 
direction of game preservation. 


Illegal Game from Canada, 


Dr, Brainerd brought up for discussion the subject 
of the illegal shipment of game from Canada to the 
United States, and asked the assistance of American 
sportsmen in putting a check to the evil. Here was 
an instance where the helping hand could be stretched 
out, and one of the main objects of the Association vin- 
dicated. Dr, Brainerd said that market hunters, to 
evade the laws of the Dominion, resorted to all sorts of 
expedients, even shipping partridges to the States done 
up in rabbit skins to avoid detection.* He thought there 
should be a more strictly enforced inspection at the 
custom hoses along the frontier. 

Mr. Wilson objected, on the ground of the additional 
work devolving on the customs inspectors. 

After a spirited discussion, it was resolved to send 
a committee to confer with Hon. Olin Merrill, Col- 
lector of the Port of Burlington, to ascertain in what 
way the United States Customs Department can assist 
in preventing the importation of game sent under false 
invoices or otherwise illegally exported from Canada. 
Messrs, Fisk, Brainerd, Parker, Wilson, Dunn and But- 
terfield were intrusted with the commission. 

Mr, Wilson mentioned the fact that Senator Brackett, 
of Saratoga, had introduced a bill in the last New York 
Legislature, permitting berry growers to shoot song 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


and insectivorous birds when feeding on their berries. 
It was significant that the bill died in committee, 


Black Bass in" Trout Waters. 


In commenting upon the evils resulting from the in- 
troduction of black bass into natural trout waters, Presi- 
dent Titcomb said that much harm had been done in 
Vermont from this cause. Wherever this had been done 
the trout were exterminated, and there could be no hope 
of again introducing them. He believed that bass should 
be confined to the warmer waters of the State, as they 
will endure a temperature up to 06 degrees, while trout 
require a temperature below 70 to live and thrive. 

Mr. Bastedo said that though he had transplanted 
10,000 black bass in the waters of Ontario he had only 
known of one instance where they were introduced into 
a natural trout water, and this in a case where the trout 
were already exterminated from some unknown cause. 

Mr. Ussher made a plea for the black bass on the 
ground that they furnished sport for the tourists at a 
time when trout were not to be caught. 

Mr. Bailey said that bass were very destructive to fish 
life, trout included, and asked if there were any fishermen 
present who had opened the black bass of their catch 
and not found the remains of smaller fish. 

For answer, General Butterfield said that he had 
caught bass which disgorged minnows after a hard fight. 
Another member replied that trout were just as bad. Mr. 
Bastedo ended the discussion by stating that he had been 
catching bass for years and never yet found anything in 
them -but the minnow with which they were taken. 


_ Wolf Bounty. 


At its last meeting the Association passed a resolution 
that a bounty sufficient to insure the trapping of wolves 
should be offered in Quebec, Ontario and New Bruns- 
wick, where these pests are sufficiently numerous to be 
a detriment to the game supply, and that the minimum 
amount of such bounty be $15. 

Referring to this resolution, Mr. Irvine said that the 
need of the bounty was more than ever felt in Quebec. 
He was aware that a law was in force in the Province of 
Ontario giving $15 bounty for the destruction of wolves, 
though he did not know its effect. He did know that the 
repeal of the wolf bounty in Quebec had resulted in an 
immediate increase in the number of wolves. A few 
years ago, Mr. Irving said. there were scarcely any 
wolves to be found in the neighborhood of the preserve 
in which he is interested, while at the present time their 
howlings can be heard nightly. Last year they killed 
seventy sheep and two young moose, besides a numbe1 
of young cattle. 

Mr. Tinsley said that the wolf bounty law worked 
very satisfactorily in Ontario. It was formerly $10, but 
had been raised two. years ago to $15. The result was 
that wolves were almost exterminated in the territory 
covered by the law. One most gratifying effect was that 
the red deer were now to be found 150 miles further north 
than had ever been known before. owing to the com- 
parative freedom they now enjoyed from the attacks of 
wolves. rn) Wy 

Dr. Finnie confirmed Mr. Irving’s statement that 
wolves were becoming dangerously numerous in Quebec, 
and said that they were not only destroying game, but 
were also a serious menace to the farmers. 


~ Protectton ‘of Fotests. a 


The disastrous fire of 1901 in Quebec, when 500 square 
miles of timber land were burned over, was commented 
upon, and Mr. Smith remarked that such fires com- 
monly originated from the operations of settlers clearing 
land, and that there was too great laxity in their methods 
and in the supervision. 

Mr. Wilson read the New York law of the Fisheries, 
Game and Forest Commission on the subject. 


Mr. Titcomb alluded to the effect of forest fires upon 


the fish and game reserves of a country. 

Commenting upon the forestry department of Cornell 
University, Mr. Ussher spoke of the Canadian Associa- 
tion. modeled on similar lines to the United States For- 
estrv Association, which he said was. doing effective 
work. 


The last discussion of the day was on the length of- 


open seasons for fish and game, which were generally 
conceded to be too long, and on the Association’s effort 
to harmonize the open seasons of neighboring States and 
Provinces. so that they shall correspond as nearly as 
compatible with climatic variations. 

When the discussion was over the committee on nom- 
inations reported the following list of officers to serve 


_for the ensuing year, their choice being unanimously 


ratified by the Association: President, Hon. F. R. 
Latchford, Toronto; Secretary and Treasurer. E. T. D. 
Chambers. Quebec; Vice-Presidents, H. O. Stanlev. 
Dixfield, Me.; John Fottler, Tr., Boston, Mass.: R. E. 
Plumb, Detroit, Mich.; A. T. Dunn, Fredericton. N. 
B.; N. Wentworth. Hudson Center. N. H.: C. H. Wil- 
son, Glens Falls. N. Y.; Dr. G. A. McCallum. Dunville, 
Ont.: Dr. T. C. Brainerd, Montreal. Quebec; F, G. But- 
terfield, Derby Line, Vt.; C. S. Harrington, Halifax, 
N. S. Executive Committee: F. S. Hodges. Boston, 
Mass.; Henry Russell. Detroit, Mich.; D, G, Smith, 
Chatham, N. B.; W. H. Shurtleff, Lancaster, N. H.; 
J. H. Sevmour, New York; C. E, Clark. Aucusta, Me.; 
J. W. Titcomb, St. Johnsbury, Vt.; S. T. Bastedo, 
Toronto, Ont.; C. E, E. Ussher. Montreal, Que.; Mem- 
bership Committee: E. T. D. Chambers. Quebec; Dr. 
W. H. Drummond, Montreal; Wm. W. Henry, Quebec; 


Auditing Committee: L. O. Armstrong, Montreal; W. . 


J. Cleghorn, Quebec. 

The committee to select the place for holding the next 
meeting suggested Ottawa, and the Association ap- 
proved of their choice by a unanimous yote. 


Jan, 23, Morning Session. 


The morning session was devoted to a discussion of 
the resolutions passed last year by the Association, and to 
the reading of two papers of more than usual merit by 
President Titcomb and Mr. C. H. Wilson. All the reso- 
lutions were reaffirmed. : 


Limiting the Bag. 
There was little discussion until the sixth resolution, 


; to press the matter. : 
{nineteen netting licenses issued by Quebec three only 


-[Frx. 1, 1902. 


which limits the number of .game birds and game fish to 
be taken in one day by any sportsman, was reached, but 
this was objected to by Mr. Richards, who said he be- 
lieved it to be almost impossible to enforce such a law. 
Mr. Richards said that any law, to be a good law, should 
be easy of enforcement, and that a law which was not 
enforced hurt other laws by putting them in contempt. 
A law limiting the game and fish to be taken put a re- 
striction only on the conscientious, honest sportsman 
who was not the man needing attention. The game hog 


and market hunter would not be stopped unless game 


wardens were sent with them to see that they did not 
evade the law. 

He cited the duck law of Ontario, which limited the 
number to be killed in one season to 300, and said that 


while clubs and conscientious sportsmen obeyed, others , 
did not, and there were men who killed a thousand or 
more ducks, and though they made no particular effort - 


to conceal the fact, they were not prosecuted. 

Mr. Cormier spoke in favor of the resolution. 
said that in Quebec the law obliged the lessee of a preserve 
from the Government to give some idea of the fish and 
game taken, and that this record was of great practical 


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value from a statistical point of view, as enabling the — 


Dominion to keep tab on its resources. 

Mr. Titcomb said that in Vermont experience had 
proved the law a mighty good thing, and that the sports- 
men were observing it. ““We don’t have to send wardens 


after any one but poachers,” said Mr. Titcomb. “The law | 
is needed. and we have too little game to go around — 


otherwise.” 
Pike-Perch Protection. 


Mr. Wilson read his paper on the wall-eyed pike, as 


the pike-perch is locally known in the 
Champlain. 

Mr. Wilson’s paper was timely, and received con- 
siderable applause. 

Ex-Gov. Fisk, of Vermont, said: 

“T want to thank Mr. Wilson for his paper.. I want 
to ask the press of Vermont to publish it in full, and I 
shall ask the League to appropriate funds to print the 
paper for distribution in pamphlet form to the Legisla- 


waters of Lake 


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ture of Vermont and the authorities of the Province of | 


Quebec. The reason the Quebec Government did not 
stop the net fishing was because it did not know the feel- 
ing of our State. For years I stood at Montpelier and 
told our commission that Canada would not grant 


licenses. but Quebec was misinformed by those who de-— 


sired the privilege. 
quite a source of income, and there are many in favor 
of it. 

“T want to ask if we have here a commissioner or a 
League member who is not in favor of stopping the 
netting, that he be asked to resign as hostile to our best 
interests, 

“We haven’t got to pass any new laws. It stands with 
the fish and game commissioners of Quebec to stop the 
granting of licenses. We will assure them that any 


motive, and does not represent the State.” 

Dr. Brainerd said: ' 

“As your vice-president for the Province of Quebec. 
T would say that for years I have been trying to carry 
this very matter. I understood that last year it would 
have been carried if it had not been for the action of 
Vermont representatives, I believe this year it can be 
passed, I ask that we of Quebec bear half the expenses 
of printing Mr, Wilson’s paper.” 


In my county the net fishing is 


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-petition from Vermont in favor of licensing is wrong in — 


Mr. Joncas said that he felt morally sure the matter 
could be carried to a successful issue, and that represent- 


atives of the Association from New York, as well as 
from Vermont and Quebec, should be present in Quebec 
He stated that out of eighteen or 


were used by Canadians, the others going to residents 
of Vermont. 

‘Messrs, Bentley, of the Central Vermont R. R,, and 
Hodge, of the Rutland R. R., who were present, made 


short speeches in favor of concerted action to prohibit — 


the netting licenses. 


Illegal Game Export, 


Dr. Brainerd reported for the committee sent to confer 
with the customs authorities that, “Your committee duly 
interviewed Hon. Olin Merrill, Collector of the Port 
ol Burlington, concerning the illegal import of fish and 
game from Canada. 

“They were received with much courtesy by Mr. Mer 


{ rill, and assured that any information received as to 
“shipments of game under false invoices or in violation 


of the laws of the United States would be most heartily 
welcomed by the customs authorities, and would be 
promptly and fully investigated. 


Tag and Coupon System 


Mr. Tinsley gave some interesting information with 
regard to the practical working of Ontario’s system of 
licensing game dealers, etc,, and also the restilts of the 
tag and coupon system now in force in the Province. 
The information was elicited in response to a question 
by Mr. Joncas during the discussion on the Association’s 
resolution, “That the tag and coupon system in use in 
Ontario and Michigan be adopted by all the Provinces 
and States, and that market-men, game dealers, buyers, 
sellers and tanners of deer, moose and caribou skins, and 
proprietors of hunting camps be duly licensed—if such a 
system can be legally so arranged—by the chief game 
authorities of the States and Provinces, to whom they 
shall periodically report.” 

Mr. Tinsley said that during the past year Ontario has. 
received, chiefly from license fees (though a smal] amount 
in fines is included'in the total), the sum of $13,000. 

There are in force license fees for cold storage, for 
hotels and restaurants, and for game dealers, as well as 
for those killing game. The fees for the former classes 
are regulated in accordarice to the population of the cities” 
or towns where they are located. In Toronto, with a 
population of 200,000, the cold storage fee is $25. The 
manager of the concern is compelled to make returns 
at the end of the open season of the kinds and amounts of 


game, and the names of those haying game in storage, — 


with description and quantity to their credit. ewe. 
Dealers in game are allowed twenty days after the ex- 


‘piration of the open season to dispose of their stock. 
“This tides them over Christmas and the holidays. 

With regard to the tax as applied to the tag and 
ecupon system in the export of game, Mr. Tinsley ex- 


: plained that the coupons are attached to hunting licenses 


when issued. Jt is illegal for ratlroad companies to 
carry moose, caribou or deer without coupons attached, 
and the express companies decline to accept stich ship- 
ments. The law obliges transportation companies to 
‘cancel coupons at place of shipment. Any game animal 
er portion of such animal found without the coupon at- 
-tached is confiscated. - 

Mr. Richards said that under the coupon system every- 
thing worked very smoothly. He added that previous 
to its adoption the club which he represented, which is 
the largest user of coupons in Ontario, had experienced 
‘much trouble and annoyance, which was now done away 
with. : 

Spring Shooting. 


The resolution passed by the Association a year ago' 


with regard to spring shooting is as follows: 

“That this Association respectiully petition the Legis- 
Jature of the State of New York and of the Province of 
Otiebec to enact legislative measures which will pro- 
hibit spring shooting of wildfowl in- that State and 
Provitice.” 

When the resolution came up for discussion, Mr, Wil- 
son said he would like to have it changed, as he under- 
stood the Province of Quebec had practically stopped 
spring shooting: 

Dr. Finnie answered that, while Quebec had legis- 
lated against spring shooting, unfortunately the law had 
been emasculated and the effect destroyed by the per- 
mission given to shoot buffle-headed ducks or divers 
in the spring. The gunners had an excuse to be out 
and shot what they pleased. 

A committee, consisting of Messrs. Smith, Wilson and 

Finnie, was appointed to draft a new resolution, and 
later on reported as follows: 
_ “Whereas, The governing laws of adjoining States of 
the American Union, except New York, and of the 
Provinces of Canada, except the Province of Quebec 
(which, having a general law prohibiting spring shoot- 
ing, makes an exception in fegard to divers or buffle- 
heads, which practically nullifies the law), and in the 
opinion of the Association it is desirable that stich shoot- 
ing and exception be prohibited. Therefore, 

“Resolved, That the Association respectfully petition, 
the legislatures of the State of New York and of the 
Province of Quebec to enact legislative measures which 
will entirely prohibit spring shooting of wildfowl in the 
States and Provinces. 

Mr. Titcomb read a very interesting paper on the red 
trout.— s 

Gen. Henry suggested that the fish be named after 
Mr. W. H. Parker, who was the first white man to catch 
them back in 1852. ° 


J Afternoon Session. 


Gen. Butterfield presided at the afternoon session, 
which was devoted to a discussion of legislation for the 
prohibition of the sale of game, and to a hearing of 
Col. Gilmour, the additional Fish Commissioner of Ver- 
mont, who wanted to put it on record that he was not 
an advocate of seine fishing in Missisquoi Bay, and that 
his visit to Quebec at the time the netting licenses were 
given was on business of a personal nature and not in his 
capacity as a Fish Commissioner, 

Mr. Joncas, who had been obliged to resign his posi- 
tion of secretary-treasurer, owing to ill-health, was made 
an honorary member of the Association, with power to 
take part in its discussions and exercise his franchise as 
a voter. 


To Forbid the Sale of Game. 


Mr. Wilson moved the adoption of.the Forrsr AND 
STREAM plank that the sale of game shall be forbidden 
at all seasons. While there was a strong sentiment in 
favor of the plank, it seemed to be the general opinion 
that FoREST AND STREAM was in adyance of the situa- 
tion as it existed, particularly in the Canadian Provinces, 
and after a long discussion Mr. Wilson, with the permis- 
sion of the gentleman who seconded the motion, withdrew 
the resolution, announcing, however, that he should 
again present it at the next meeting of the Association, 
Mr. Dunn, of New Brunswick, thought the resolution 
too sweeping, and said that the natives of his Province 
often sald the carcasses of large game animals shot by 
visiting sportsmen who had taken only the head. A 
moose, ior instance, was too large an animal to be eaten 
by one family, and the sale of its meat to_neighbors or 
in the towns provided a large amount of wholesome food 
that might otherwise be wasted. 

Mr. Wilson said the Association realized that it had a 
high ideal to attain in its stand for game protection. 
FOREST AND STREAM, he said, had had this resolution 
for its plank for a number of years. By the adoption of 
the plank the North American Association would not 
only honor itself, but also put brawn and muscle into 
every effort that is being made and will be made in the 
future for the highest ideals of game protection. 

Mr. Tinsley said that the non-sale of game was one 
of the most powerlul factors for game protection, and 
cited the great increase of quail and partridge since their 
export had been forbidden. 

Dr. Finney said the motion was too sweeping; that he 
believed in stopping the sale of game in instances where 
the supply was running low, but not otherwise, and that 
if passed the law would hurt the cause of protection in 
Quebec. 

Mr. Smith also spoke against the resolution, and as 
a matter of policy. it was withdrawn. 

Mr. E. T. D, Chambers moved the thanks of the As- 
sociation to FOREST AND STREAM for sending a repre- 
sentative to the present meeting, and to the local press 
for the care with which they had reported and pub- 
lished its proceedings. .Qne of them had referred to 
tie bunches of violets worn by the Canadian members 
as being the colors of the Association. Nothing would 
perhaps have made a more appropriate emblem jor it 
than the modest flowers which were so generally worn 
at the Eastertide approach of nature’s resurrection from 
the white pall of winter to the beautiful new life of 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


spring. The newspaper reference to the bouquets of 
these flowers, worn by some of the members of the As- 
sociation yesterday, to mark the first anniversary of the 
death of Queen Victoria, recalled the, exquisite tribute 
paid to Her Majesty’s memory at the last annual meeting 
of the Association by one of the American members, 
Mr. Shurtleff, of New Hampshire, when he described her 
as “one of the brightest stars in the firmament of 
heaven.” This graceful reference could never be ef- 
faced from the memory of the subjects of the dead 
sovereign, who were privileged to hear it. Since that 
meeting the whole civilized world had been horrified by 
the dastardly act of the assassin, which bereaved the 
people of this great Republic of its late revered Presi- 
dent. The death of President McKinley had been 
mourned perhaps as sincerely throughout the British 
Empire as in the United States, and especially was this 
the case in Canada, where elaborate functions, prepared 
in both Montreal and Quebec for the reception of the 
present heir to the British throne, for a few days after 
the sad event were canceled as an emblem of mourning 


_for Mr. McKinley's death. He added that if the modest 


flowers which they wore typified, as they were intended 
to do, the fragrance of the dead Queen’s memory, they 
were equally appropriate to the purity of both the public 
and private life of the late President of the United States. 

The motion was seconded by Mr. Wilson and carried. 


The Banquet. 


Three hundred and thirty members of the Vermont 
League and of the North American Association sat 
down to the banquet at 8 o’clock in the large dining hall 
of the Van Ness House. It was a thoroughly repre- 
sentative gathering of Vermonters and representatives 
of the game interests of the North. With its forty new 
members elected just previous to the banquet, the Ver- 
mont League has now a total membership of more than 
eight hundred, and is one of the livest and strongest 
organizations of its kind in the world. 

To take the plate of game, Belgian hare was served as 
a feature of the menu. The tables were tastefully deco- 
rated with palms and cut flowers, and at each plate was 
a small bouquet for the coat lapel. 

During’ a lull between the courses President Titcomb 
read letters of regret, and telegrams from prominent 
men, including a telegram from President Roosevelt, 
who, it will be remembered, received notification of the 
assassin’s attack on President McKinley while a guest of 
the League at its summer outing on Isle La Motte. The 
latter was sent from the White House, Jan. 20, and read: 


“John W. Titcomb, President Vermont Fish and Game 
League: 

“T have received, through the courtesy of Senator 
Proctor, your cordial invitation to be the guest of the 
League at its banquet Thursday evening, I thank you 
heartily, and regret that my engagements make it im- 
possible for me to accept. Please extend to those pres- 
ent my cordial greetings and good wishes. I shall al- 
ways cherish a warm remembrance of your League. 

“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” 


Ex-Governor Fisk introduced a resolution indorsing 
the action of the North American Association with ref- 
erence to the seining in Missisquioi Bay, which received 
the unanimous approval of the League, enforced with 
hearty cheers. The resolution was “that, while the 
Vermont Fish and Game League is in hearty sympathy 
with all the objects and aims of the North American Fish 
and Game Protective Association, its members here 
assembled desire to especially indorse a resolution passed 
by the aforesaid association to-day: That all net fishing 
be prohibited in Lake Champlain in the spring of the 
year in New York, Vermont and the Province of 
Quebec.” 

It was after ten o’clock when President Titcomb called 
the gathering to order with words of welcome to the 
guests, and particularly the Canadian members of the 
North American Association. He referred to the resolu- 
tion relating to the prohibition of net fishing in Missis- 
quoi Bay, and said that he hoped for a hearty co-opera- 
tion of the influential political members of the league and 
of the association. 

Mr, Titcomb urged the appointment of a salaried war- 
den whose time should be’entirely devoted to the en- 
forcement of the game laws. He said that-deer were 
being killed at the present time, and that it was difficult 
to secure evidence to convict the pot-hunters, and that 
one good, salaried officer would do more to save the 
game from poachers than all the volunteer wardens in 
the State. 

Mr. Titcomb introduced as toastmaster Dr. Hawley, 
Mayor of the city of Burlington, who, he said, was the 
safest doctor in these parts, as he was almost always 
off fishing when wanted. Mayor Hawley said that it 
would appear irom the introduction given by the League’s 
honored president that he was a noted fisherman, but that 
though he plead guilty of the possession of piscatorial 
tastes, when it came to the supreme test of lying about 
the catch he had been ruled out of the craft. “However,” 
he continued, “we have with us to-night a large number 
of gentlemen who are past grand masters in the art, and 
I promise to call upon them before the evening is over.” 

Toastmaster Hawley welcomed the guests of the occa- 
sion, and with special reference to the Canadian delega- 
tion said that he trusted their visit to Burlington might 
be another revelation of the good will, the fellowship, 
and the kinship which exists and must ever exist between 
those who read in the Union Jack liberty, progress and 
triumphant leadership, and those who read the same in 
the Stars and Stripes. He ended by stating that while 
he would not dwell upon the objects of the siter associa- 
tions represented, he would say that the protection of the 
wild game of the forests and the protection and propaga- 
tion of fish in the streams and lakes of Vermont was a 
most worthy object, and a matter of vast importance to 
the State’s industrial interests. 

Mr. L. Z. Joncas, the first speaker introduced by 
Toastmaster Hawley, made a graceful little speech in 
which, though hampered to some extent. by a lack of 
freedom with the English language, he made amends by 
his naive tact and good breeding, and his thanks for 
hospitality received and proffer of a warm welcome by 
the. Canadians to the visitors from the United States on 
the occasion of the next meeting of the North American 


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Association was warmly received and applauded by the 
banqueters. 

Mr. M. P. Maurice, of Montgomery, Vt., who was in- 
troduced as a fishing lawyer, eulogized his native State, 
and wound up with a toast to the North American Asso- 
ciation and all kindred organizations. 

Dr. W. H. Drummond, author of “The Habitant” and 
“Johnnie Courteau,” gave recitations from his poems 
which brought forth such a storm of applause that it was 
dificult for the toastmaster to continue his programme. 
Finally, on the assurance of President Titcomb that Dr. 
Drummond would be heard again later in the evening, he 
was allowed to sit down. Dr. Drummond is a man of 
fine presence, 48 years old, an Irishman by birth, and a 
Canadian by adoption. He is a sportsman and many of 
his poems, which are just now very much in vogue, judg- - 
ing by the large sales of his books, have to do with 
shooting and fishing. One of his best poems is “Bateese 
and His Little Decoys,” which tells of an old duck hunter 
on his sick bed just before his death who has his live 
decoy ducks brought in so that he can lecture them and 
soliloqtuize on the past. 


“Wall, I’m mebbe stayin’ long enough, 
For eighty-four I see it on de spring, 
Dough ma fadder he was feelin’ pretty etough, 
An’ at ninety year can do mos’ ey'ry f'ing, 
But I never knew de feller, 
Don’t care how old he come, 
Dat isn’t sure to tink he’s got anoder year, ba gunt!’ 


The selections were mostly hiimorous, but through all 
there was a note of pathos and the regret of the exile 
or of changed conditions. The last verse of ‘‘Léetle 
Lac Grenier [pronounced Green yay], which is a gem in 
its way, illustrates this: 

“Oh, let me go; don’t spik no more, 

For your voice is strong Jak de rapid roar 
An’ you know you’se’f I’m too far away 
For visit you now, leetle Lac Greenvay!” 


Toastmaster Hawley told the story of the recipé of 
his boatman on St. Alban’s Bay for cooking a mud fish: 
“Oh, yes,” Joe said, “dat var’ nice fish. You want scale 
him an’ clean him, and be var’ pertic’ how you do it. 
Den you put him in de water an’ you parboil just one 
and a half hour. You take him out and split him up de 
back and put in de salt an’ de pep’, an’ den you fry him 
just forty-five minute. You want to be var’ partic’ not to 
fry him more dan forty-five minute, if he was to been 
delicat’ an’ joost right. Den you put him in de drip-pan 
and put him in da hot hofen and bake him joost one an’ 
one quatter hour. You mus’ be var’ partic’ to get him 
joost right. Den you take him out and if you know what 
you vos doin’ you want to gif him to your pig right hof, 
for he don’t worse a dam.” 

Hon. D. G. Smith, of New Brtinswick, madé a happy 
speech in which he said that he should go home feeling 
amply repaid for his journey of 1,500 miles by the suc- 
cess of the meeting and the kindly hospitality he had 
received. 

Dr. Brainerd, of Quebec, prophesied more abundant 
game for Vermont-in the future as a result of an enlight- 
ened policy of stocking and game protection, and sug- 
gested that he would not be satisfied until Lake Cham- 
plain was not only swarming with pike-perch but also 
stocked with muscallonge and gray trout, and the Green 
Mountains once more the home of moose and caribou 
as well as the red deer. With such natural advantages 
as the State possessed, the doctor said the famous words 
“may God have mercy on your souls’ would be applica- 
ble if the people of Vermont did not improve their fish 
and game resources. 

Mr. Joncas, upon request, sang “The Brigadier,” being 
assisted in the chorus by the entire Canadian contingent, 
and then Mr. E, T. D. Chambers wound up the cere- 
monies with an apt speech of congratulation to the Ver- 
mont League and an invitation to the next meeting of the 
North American Association. in Ottawa, of which city, 
though not a citizen himself, he knew the spirit so well 
that he had no hesitancy in promising the visitors a right 
royal welcome. 

J. B. BuRNHAM. 


Striped Bass near New York. 


New York, Jan. 25.—I notice in your isstie of Jan. 25 
by Biedinger, under the caption of striped bass fishing, 
he has failed to mention one of the finest bass fishing 
grounds on the Atlantic coast, and that is Allenhurst, 
N. J., at the flume at the foot of Deal Lake. Here the 
fresh water is always rushing out from the overflow_of 
the lake, and mingling with the salt water, fornis a 
brackish pool of considerable area, In this pool a natural 
bed of sea clams (skimmers) have grown, and the bass 
find it a great feeding ground. The fishing is done either 
from the flume pier or from the beach, and is generally 
opened by one of the old-timers catching a big one. Last 
year the season was opened by a 16-pounder being caught 
en Decoration Day, and from then until-the middle of 
July the fishing was fast and furious. The bait used was 
exclusively skimmers, which’ were procured either by 
raking or treading at low tide or else picked up along 
high water mark. It is best, if going from the city, to 
take them with you, then you are sure of your bait any- 
way. The pyramid sinker is used generally, as it will 
hold ground better than any other shape. 

The fish run very large and a goodly number are caught 
every season, running from 15 to 47% pounds. Very few 
bass are ever catieht under 5 pounds. 

Savage holds the record, with a 48%-pounder, caught.in 
1900; Brummacher next, with a 46!4-pound beauty. — 

Lou H. JoHNson. 


» Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 


THE Chicago Fly-Casting Club held its mid-winter din- 
ner Jan. 14. The members and guests of the club were 
highly entertained with stories by Thos. W. Nash, H. 
Greenwood and J. F. Robertson; songs and burlesque 
by H. Wheeler Perce, and.an address by President 
Church, of the club.. The annual meeting of the club and 
election of officers for the ensing- year will take place 
Feb, Io, N, C. Heston, Secretary, 


92. 


The Pike-Perch. 


Paper read by C. H. Wilson, Glens Falls, N. Y., before the North 
American Fish and Game Protective Association. 


The pike-perch is the largest of the perch family, and 
one of the most valuable of fresh-water fishes. Through- 
out its range it is taken nearly the year round, owing to 
its fine table qualities. Its flesh is firm and well flavored, 


even in warm weather. Few fish stand shipment, holding . 


or freezing better than the pike-perch. Prof. Jordan, writ- 

ing of this fish, says: “This is one of our best food fishes, 
with firm, white flesh of good flavor, and in markets sup- 
plied from the Great Lakes it ranks below the whitefish 
and lake trout only.” pany! j, 

The 1808 report of the U. S. Commission says: The 
pike-perch in Lake Erie are commercially the most valu- 
able fish’ While this broad statement may not be made 
concerning its standing in New York State, Mr. B. 
Morrill, a fisherman afid guide at Hotel Champlain, and 
a former fish and game protector, writes me as follows: 
“\WWall-eyed pike are regarded as the most important food 
fish in Lake Champlain. Bass and pickerel abound, but 
pike are by far the most valuable.” Another important 
consideration to the summer visitor, at least, is that 
while this fish is what is called a food fish, it will take 
readily a baited hook, spoon on artificial fly, and so 18 
classed as a game fish. ‘ : 

Now, as to the matter of the reproduction of thisfish : 
The pike-perch does not make a nest like the bass, but 
throws its spawn in shoal waters and is followed by the 
male fish, which deposits its milt in proximity to the eggs, 
trusting to conditions over which it has no control to 
fertilize the same; and it is already known that the natural 
increase, owing to the almost innumerable enemies of the 
egg and fry, is very small—indeed, barely enough to keep 
up the supply, when fish are taken in the legal and right- 
ful way alone. : . 

Now, as to the artificial propagation of this fish: Not- 
withstanding the large number of eggs supplied by each 
fish, the average for those taken in Missisquoi Bay being 
50,000 eggs per fish, there are three reasons, or diffi- 
culties, to be overcome, and which, as compared with eggs 
of other varieties, causes a large decrease in percentage 
of eggs hatched by artificial means. These difficulties are 
as follows: Penning fish or holding them for eggs to 
ripen. The delicate membrane of the eggs which rupture 
easily, and their great adhesiveness. ; 

The U. S. Commission in a recent report, speaking of 
difficulties attending the securing of pike-perch eggs, 
states, that after seventy-two hours of confinement in 
pens, na eggs can be taken from fish. The eggs will 
bunch in the fish, the tail will split and fungus, and fish 
will die, Any noise or jar or discharge of firearms or 
other disturbances will cause plugging of fish so no eggs 
can be taken. The inner membrane of the egg is so deli- 
cate that a large percentage is broken in process of 
stripping, and in undergoing the processes necessary to 
separate the eggs which attach to each other in large 
masses, which unfits them for hatchery jars. A pike-perch 
egg is never safe until the inner membrane is cushioned 
by the water which passes into the outer shell—to illus- 
trate, of the 231 millions of pike-perch eggs taken one 
season in New York State, only about seventy-one mil- 
lions of fry were hatched and turned into the waters join- 
ing the territory of our friends of Vermont and Canada, 

In 1800, of 38,000,000. of eggs taken from Missisquoi 
Bay by Livingstone Stone, only 9,050,000 were hatched. 
James Nevin, of Wisconsin, for three years after taking 
150 to 200 millions per year, hatched only 5 per cent., the 
milt of male clotting and would not dissolve in pans. 

Notwithstanding these difficulties, the U. S. Commis- 
sion and New York successfully hatch these fish; but the 
Dominion of Canada, speaking of fish and eggs possessing 
these characteristics, says. by its Commissioner, Prof. E. 
E. Prince, in his report of 1900: 

“The eggs of these fishes, indeed, are less favorable for 
incubation and treatment by artificial methods than the 
salmonoid family, and the vast number of eggs produced 
by each spawner, the extremely delicate and fragile char- 
acter of the ova and the voung fry, indeed, the futility of 
handling the fry, are the reasons which have deterre 

operations in Canada in that direction.” 

Let me say here, that Prof. Prince may know for his 
encouragement, that it is undoubtedly a fact that the first 
pike-perch eggs hatched on this continent were hatched 
by Mr, James Nevin, now superintendent of the Wiscon- 
sin Fish Commission, at the Sandwich, Ontario, fish 
hatchery, during the spring of 1877. The first lot—seven 
boxes of eggs—all died, and of the second lot of ten mil- 
hons, only one million were hatched. Of the third lot of 
twenty millions, there were hatched 3,500,000 fry. In 
1878, of the fifty million eggs taken, six millions only were 
hatched and planted: later Mr. Nevin, who, by accident, 
discovered the tise of mtick to break up adhesion of eggs, 
was able to hatch 50 to 60 per cent. of eggs taken, 

The State of New York in its Department of Fish and 
Game, next to the United States, annually expends more 
money for fishculture than any other State, or the entire 
Dominion of Canada. In this matter it has in mind the 
reproduction of those species that are called food fishes, 
the work being done for so-called game fish being sec- 
ondary. And this is right, and if the State_did not do 
just this very thing, the people would abolish the Com- 
mission having these matters in charge, or tear down the 
hatcheries. or leave them to rot and fall of their own 
weight. The waters of the State of New York are well 


adapted to carry in large quantities and of fine quality a — 


great yatiety of food fishes, as well as those varieties that 
furnish rare sport for the anglers, and our supply of 
these varieties must largely depend upon due regard for 
the reproductive age and season. In most cases the law 
of the State, with its close season, its restriction as to 
size, its method of capture. and limit as to catch, give 
ample protection to the fish that are in our waters. It may 
be said here that New York does not discriminate in these 
matters, but withholding no privilege we enjoy, we ex- 
tend a héarty invitation to all to come and with us enjoy 
our motntains and valleys, lakes and streams, usually 
well supplied with fish and game. 

It seems almost a misfortune that we do not control 
the fresh-water boundaries of our State, for if this were 
s0, we showtld have no outside disturber of our peace and 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


happiness in regard to the proper protection of these 
waters during the close season. 

The desirability of such a condition is made very promi- 
nent just now by the position and practice of our neigh- 
bors of Vermont and the Province of Quebec. Three 
neighbors—one, New York, affording ample protection 
to. the pike-perch; another, Vermont, using the money 
received for licenses to net pike-perch during the sea- 
son of reproduction, to operate a State hatchery to propa- 
gate species; the other, the Province of Quebec, using 
its license money, gained in the same manner, certainly 
not in restocking the waters it so ungraciously depletes. 

The State of New York possesses upward of 120 miles 


of shore line on Lake Champlain, while Vermont pos- 


Sesses somewhat less, and the Province of Quebec about 
six miles, bordering upon the Missisquoi Bay, an arm 
of the lake. For some reason, best known to this variety 
of fish, they congregate in this bay for spawning purposes, 
and there, from January to the last of April, Vermont 
and Quebec destroy in embryo what should go to keep 
up the regular supply for a very large portion of Lake 
Champlain. It is not enough to say that the pike-perch 
is a prolific fish, and that those that escape the net will 
fully maintain the needed supply for these common- 
wealths, for information is in my hands, from Rouse’s 


Point to Westport, a distance of sixty-three miles, stating — 


that the size and number of these fish have decreased, 
giving as the main reason for this conditions of affairs, 
netting in Missisquoi Bay. This position is strengthened 
by letters received from points south of Westport on the 
New York side (where pike-perch apparently go the other 
way to spawn, large numbers congregating in South Bay 
and along marshes), stating that it is believed they are 
holding their own here, where netting is not permitted. 
There might be some exctse for this business if Vermont 
and Quebec gave some eqtivalent in return in the way of 
stripping fish and fertilizing eggs, returning them to 
the water at the time of capture, or allowing commis- 
sioners to strip and remove eggs to hatchery; but this can- 
not be done, as is performed by nettets of the shad, who, 
stripping the fish and fertilizing the eggs, go many miles 
to deliver to proper hatchery agents; or on the Great 
Lakes, haying experienced spawn takers, who deliver eggs 
to hatchery representatives, or plant the eggs on natural 
spawning beds, for the reason that male fish come earlier 
to the spawning grounds than the females, and great 
trouble is experienced in taking ripe fish of both sexes at 
the one time—besides the fact that the netting begins be- 
fore the fish are ripe, many thousand pounds being taken 
in January and February. 

I hayé in my hands the customs report of receipts of 
fish entered at St. Albans and East Alburg, coming from 
Missisquoi Bay for the following years, viz.: 1809, 139,190 
pounds; 1900, 153,913 pounds, and roor, 94,698 pounds, 
From Vermont, the report for 1901, shows 507 barrels of 
fish, 217 being pike-perch alone, the rest mixed fish, and 
of these pike-perch, 25 per cent. are taken in January and 
February, unripe fish; 75 per cent, the remainder, are 
taken in March and April—fish in a large measure ready 
to spawn. 

Whoever heard of stich lavish improyidence? It is only 
permissible in matters of fish and game in any cotntry, 
and then to its complete undoing and ruin. 

Furthermore, whoever heard of a friendly neighbor 
carrying on an unrestricted slaughter of that, which in 
part belongs to his friend, and which for two-thirds of its 
life has been the ward duly cared for and protected by 
that friend? 

To say that this is an unfriendly act is a fact; to say 
that it is a wrong is no injustice, and a very mild way of 
expressing it at that. 

Now, there are other reasons why this spring netting 
should cease, and one may find them in the following 
figures: 

In 1899 the U. S. Commission, at a hatchery expendi- 
ture of $140,000, distributed of eggs, fry, fingerlings and 
adult fish, a total of 1,056 371,808; of these, there was a 
total of lake trout, whitefish and pike-perch of 394,800,000, 
and of this number 341,788,000 went into waters con- 
tiguous to United States and Canada, with a report from 
the United States Commission for the last fiscal year of a 
planting in Missisquoi River of 160,000,000 eggs, In 1897 
and 1808 New York State, through its Commission, with a 
hatchery account of about $53,000 annual expenditures, 
distributed in fry, fingerlings and yearlings, 364,000,000, 
planting in contiguous waters 41,000,000 whitefish and 
pike-perch. 

In 1900 the entire Dominion of Canada, at an expense of 
$38,070 for hatcheries alone, distributed a total of 265,- 
941,000 fry of salmon species, lake trout, whitefish and 
lobster; of this amount. 55,175,000 whitefish and lake 
trout went to the Great Lakes. 

Look at these figures: United States plant in joint 
waters, 341.788,000; one-halt of two years’ output of New 
York in joint waters, 20,500 000; making a total of 362,- 
288,000, as against 55,175,000, with a total planting by 
U. S. Commission of pike-perch for Ig00 and 1901 in 
contiguous waters of 67,737,300, as against a cold o for 
the Dominion; and the 1901 report for New York State 
makes a still better showing of these two vatieties, show- 
ing an increase of best year, of about 10,000,000 fry. 

One feels as though he had the voice of a child calling 
shrilly for help, when there is needed the loud and united 
voicé of Quebec, Vermont and New York demanding a 
proper adjustment of this matter. Do not mistake the 
spirit with which I have tried to bring this matter before 
you. Ilove Vermont; my boyhood days were spent under 
the shadows of its hills of green, and part of my early 
education was here acquired. I love your people—sturdy, 
friendly and helpful they are. I know your depleted lakes 
and streams and your honest efforts to bring them back to 
their old-time condition, notwithstanding the difficulties 
that have stood in your way. JI admire our neighbors 
of the great north, and count as some of my best friends 
you of Qttebec, Ontario and New Brunswick; I have 
summered in your mountains and partaken of your gener- 
ous hospitality; I have taken of your best in fish from the 
gamy trout to the gamier salmon. I have read your an- 
nual report, which shows in 1900 a decrease in your 
fishery output of $1,181,812. I know something of the 
present supply of fish in your well-settled districts, and 
heard two years ago at Montreal the cry of your people 
for the opening up-of club-and preserve, that they again 


_be no doubt as to the angling possibilities of the Sea 


_ this excellent river, fram its gulf up to the lakes: ‘salmon, | 


‘ 


; ([Fex. 1, 1902. | 
I) 


might have good fishing—the open waters having been: 
depleted; and on one of Canada’s best rivers last Junel 
for ten days on an average of seven hours a day, I cast my| 
fly without a rise, and I say to you, her representatives! 
here, as I say to Vermont, you are wrong in this matter, 
andasyounow regret empty waters of your own, you willl 
regret this spring netting in Lake Champlain. I beseec 

you lay aside politics—lay aside present profit and leave; 
to your successors and friends a fair proportion of fish 
life of Lake Champlain. 


Fish "and Fishing. 


* The Sea ofi Galilee. 


AMERICAN anglers who may tour the Holy Land andj 
who haye an ambition to try their luck for the descendants 
of the sacred fish of olden times, in the same waters in! 
which Peter and his fellow fishermen toiled all night and 
caught nothing, should take warning by the experience of 
a correspondent of the London Field, and take their own’ 
tackle with them. With-fish rising all around him in the 
Sea of Galilee, this gentleman was taken by his lying) 
dragoman and conductor on a fishing expedition without] 
bait, and with tackle that was absolutely rotten and use- 
less, only to be subsequently told that their former stories) 
of big catches in the lake were false, and that no gentle- 
man ever could or did or would catch a fish in the Sea) 
of Galilee. Mr, Layard, the angler in question, has no! 
doubt that the fish in this lake can be captured with proper 
tackle, and it will be remembered that Dr. Prime, the’ 
accomplished author of “I Go A-Fishing,” relates the 
success of his friend, the Effendi, in taking some there.’ 
Dr. Prime had his own tackle with him, and tells of 
the unsuccessful efforts he made to take some of the 
famous fish from the pool in which rises the spring that! 
feeds the waters of Merom. Mr. Layard corroborates Dr.) 
Prime’s report of the large quantities of fish in these! 
waters, and, like him, believes that it is only necessary) 
to learn their habits in order to catch them. Many anglers 
would consider themselves highly privileged to take fish 
by modern angling methods out of waters that the sweet 
story of old has made so famous. More than forty differ— 
ent species of fish are known to exist in the Jordan and 
its tributaries, and Mr. Layard reports that a large silyer| 
variety, resembling chub, probably one of the chromides, | 
rush greedily for grasshoppers when these latter are 
thrown upon the water. There would seem, therefore, to’ 


of Galilee. 


ws 


Walton’s Fishing House, 


It is a far cry from the Jordan to the Dove. From) 
the one stream to the other, both of them “sacred to fish- 
ermen,” we are carried by the announcement, in the Eng- 
lish newspapers, of the recent sale of the Beresford Hall 
estate, which*includes the upper portion of Dovedale. 
The property is famous for its associations with Walton 
and Cotton, and for the fishing -house on the bank of the 
Dove, erected by the last-mentioned in 1676, with the in- 
scription Piscatoribus Sacrum over the arched doorway 
on the outside, and on the keystone the cypher of Cotton 
and Walton, who spent stitch pleasant hours together there: 
when the second Charles was King. It was described by 
several who visited it in the earlier part of the last cen- 
tury as being considerably dilapidated. About 1835, how- 
ever, it was neatly repaired and placed, as nearly as pos- 
sible, in the condition in which it had been constructed, 
thanks to the good taste of the then owner of the estate, 
the Marquis of Beresford. The property subsequently 
passed into possession of Mr. Phillip Beresford Hope, 
from whom it has just been purchased by Sir Edward 
Green, of York. Disciples of the gentle Izaak, every-, 
where, will delight to learn that the fishing house has 
been kept in excellent repair, and that the entire sur 
roundings ate to remain intact, and not to be exploited for) 
building or other speculative purposes. 


Early Mention of Canadian Fish. 


The other day, while reading a journal of the occur- 
rences in the garrison of Quebec during the winter of 
1759-60, which was kept by Captain Knox, an officer in 
Wolfe's army, I came across an interesting account of the 
fishes of the St. Lawrence, and found that during that} 
rigorous season, when fresh provisions were so scarce that; 
scurvy made great headway among the troops, both 
soldiers and French-Canadian natives had recourse to the 
trick learned from the Indians, of cutting holes in the ice 
of the river and setting lines for fish. Quebecers of the: 
present day enjoy the sport of fishing for tomcods through 
the ice, but do it im quite a luxurious manner, erecting a 
hut or cabin over the holes in the ice and heating the in- 
terior with a stove, often placing rugs or robes of fur 
upon the icy flooring of the cabin. At the time of the 
conquest of Canada, the fishing was more for food than 
for sport, and Knox, from whom I will quote a few) 
lines literally, says: ‘‘The inhabitants, and some of the: 
troops who have acquired the method; take great quan- 
tities of fish on the river, through holes made in the ice as 
already described; they are of various kinds, particularly 
small codlings” (apparently tomcods), “roaches, plaice, 
smelts, and the poisson d’or, or gold fish, so universally 
admired in Europe, which is of different sizes, from a 
sprat upward, I am told, to the length of fifteen inches. 
A Frenchman who dined some days ago at the mess to 
which I belong, gave us a most elaborate dissertation upon 
the sundry kinds of fish abounding in the St. Lawrence, 
and the other “riyers, bays and harbors throughout the 
colony. He said he never saw any in such plenty and 
perfection as in this country; particularly their salmon, 
and a species of trout peculiar to the lakes, which he 
called fruites saumonees, and are equally red and firm as 
salmon; whether he exaggerated or not, when he declared 
he had seen some that measured five feet in length, and 
weighed upward of fifty pounds, I will not take upon me 
to determine, because it is possible; and, if I am not mis- 
taken, they have, in some of the lakes in Ireland, particu- | 
larly in the county of Galway, trouts, of an uncommon | 
length and thickness, with all the properties of salmon. 
This entertaining gentleman, at my request, favored me) 
with the following list of the principal fish inhabiting | 


Fes, 1, 1902.] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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eels, bass, mackarel, gusperot’ (probably gaspereai), 
“herrings, poisson d’or, or gold fish, chad” (probably 
shad), “cod, haddock, pike, turbot, halibut, plaice, lam- 
prey, sprat, perch, ray or thornback, a particular species 
of tench, cougar or couger, smelt, roach. The lakes 
abound with sturgeon, armed fish, divers sorts of trouts 
and eels,’ whitefish, a species of herring, mullet, carp, gul- 
fish, sadgeons and an infinite number of other sorts, whose 
names are not known to any Europeans.’ - 

There is little doubt but that the truifes saumonees 
mentioned by the Frenchman to Knox is not the fish so 
named by modern anglers as a supposed special variety of 
sea trout, but the so-called salmon trout of American and 
Canadian lakes, the Christivomer namaycush, or great lake 
trout. Knox quotes the. Jesuit Father. Hennepin as say- 
ing that he had seen salmon trout taken out of the Cana- 
dian lakes, “sixty pounds weight, five feet and a half in 
length, and about one foot diameter, red and firm as a 
salmon,” etc. Father Hennepin’s writings are marked by 
Many notorious inaccuracies, not the least noteworthy of 
which is the statement that a sixty-pound lake trout meas- 
ured five and a half feet long. 

I have been trying to make out what fish in the St. 
Lawrence Knox and his French informant could have 
mistaken for the tropical gold fish. Sometimes specimens 
of the pike-perch, doré or pickerel—Stizostedium vitreum 
—taken in the waters. of the St. Lawrence, are wonder- 
fully golden or doré in hue, and it is possible that they 
may have suggested the name “golden” to the early Eng- 
lish residents in Canada, as they did the French equiva- 
lent to the early immigrants from the continent of Europe. 

E, T. D. CHAMBERS. 


Wi) Cleveland's. Little ‘Pace, 


Boston, Jan. 25.—The office of the Massachusetts Fish 
and Game Commission has added to its interesting col- 
lection a black bass the whole of 7% inches in length. 
Ex-President Cleveland, with his friend, Dr. Bryant, of 
New York, and a farmer, were fishing from a boat on 
a lake in Monteray, one hot day last summer. The 
fishing was certainly poor, but after many hours Mr. 
Cleveland or Dr. Bryant caught the little bass now in 
the possession of the commission. The little trophy 
hardly came up to the requirements of the law, and some 
native, on the watch, told two of the deputies that if 
they desired to secure evidence of bass being taken under 
the legal length, they should follow a boat containing 
“a very fat man in a straw hat’ and two others. The 
deputies overhauled the boat and asked the corpulent 
“old farmer,” as they supposed, to show them the fish 
he had taken. Mr. Cleveland readily complied, though 
not very proud of his catch, The deputies, when they 
saw the little specimen, told the fishermen that they had 
broken the law, and asked who had taken the fish. Both 
the ex-President and Dr. Bryant claimed that they had 
caught the specimen; the worthy Doctor anxious to 
shield his friend, and mistrusting that the men were 
wardens. Mr. Cleveland insisted that the boat and the 
tackle were his, and that he alone was responsible. He 
told the wardens to do their duty, and that he was ready 
to pay whatever fines the law required. The shock was 
something to the deputies when they inquired the name 
of the “fat man” they were troubling, and when told that 
it was Grover Cleveland, of Princeton, N. J., they de- 
sired to “back out,’ but Mr, Cleveland is said to have in- 
sisted upon appearing in court next day and paying the 
requisite fine and cost. Hence came the little bass, 
mounted and in the archives of the commission. 

SPECIAL. 


Michigan Bass and Spears. 


Port Huron, Mich., Jan. 25.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I inclose you clipping from the local newspaper, 
showing that at least one of our deputy game wardens 
is awake and looking after the interests of the game and 
fish in his section of the country: 

“Joseph Lapanse, of Algonac, was brought to Port 
Huron on Thursday and will spend ten days in the 
county jail. Mr. Lapanse was arrested by Deputy Game 
Warden Fred H. Fisher, for spearing bass in St. Clair 
“River. He considers the punishment severe for the 
offense committed.” 

Large numbers of bass are speared every winter at the 
St. Clair Flats, the ice on Anchor Bay being covered with 
small huts, for the protection of the fishermen during the 
ice season. The netting in Black River and Mill Creek 
is practically at an end, owing to the scarcity of fish, the 
majority of those planted a few years ago having been 
murdered by the seiners. 

I spent two days on the above-named streams last fall, 
with the result of one small bass, where, three years ago, 
twenty fine bass, averaging irom a pound to three pounds 
and a half, would be the reward of the “patient angler.” 

Large numbers of wall-eyed pike are being caught 
through the ice on Sarnia Bay and along the docks. 

ERD Kes 


Fred Mather’s Angling Friends, 
From the New York Times’ Saturday Review. 


Amone the many categories into which men are divided for the 
nonce in this kaleidoscopic world, none is pleasanter than that of 
comrades-in sport. Campaigners who remain together must neces- 
sarily be chums, and the recounting of their adventures is tre- 
Mendously interesting to themselves because every story relates a 
case of pars quorum fuit. With the easy garrulity which comes of 
the choicest of such experiences, both of campaigning and com- 
radeship, Mr, Mather returns again to the reminiscences of angling 
and anglers, which he began in “Men I Have Fished With.” ‘This 
he does with the same hearty and genial and copious pen, and the 
present book will be as welcome to the vast mutual admiration 
posieey of fishermen, as was the last. It has a wider interest, too, 
for ther's twenty “friends” include men whose importance and 
Sep aeneD are a good deal wider than even the cast of their skill- 
fully flung flies, and the future biographer and local historian may 
thankfully search these pages for facts, and color upon the lives of 
such men as President Arthur, Grand Duke Alexis, Congress- 
man Cumimings, Ned Buntline, Charles Hallock, and Thad, Norris. 
“However, the book is not to be read that way, but on a porch in 
2 summer afternoon, or im the easy chair before your fire, with 
your pipe well going and your mirid ready to drift away on the 
waters of Currituck or Great South Bay, or to trace the rushing 
torrents of Canada and Michigan and the Adirondacks, till your 
‘reel will hold no more, and your appetite is worth all it has cost. 


Che Fennel. 


Fixtures. 


BENCH SHOWS. 


eb, 4-6.—Providence, R. I—Rhode Island Kennel Club’s anntal 
show. George D, Miller, Sec’y. 


FIELD TRIALS. 


Jan, 20.—Grand Junction, Tenn.—United States Field Trial 
Club’s thirteenth annual trials. W. B. Stafford, Sec’y.  . : 

Feb. 10.—Grand Junction, Tenn.—Continental Field Trial Club’s 
trials. Theo, Sturges, Sec’y. 


Field Trial Club Election. 


Ar the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Field 
Trials Club, held at Santa Maria on Thursday night, 
the following officers were elected to serve for the 
ensuing year: President, Joseph E. Terry, of Sacra- 
mento; First Vice-President, W. W. Van Arsdale, of 
San Francisco; Second Vice-President, Henry W. 
Keller, of Santa Monica: Secretary-Treasurer, Albert 
Betz, of San Francisco. Executive Committee: J. H, 
Schumacher, C. N. Post, W. S. Tevis, C. E. Worden, 
T. J. A. Tiedemann. It was decided to hold the next 
annual trials during the week beginning the second 
Monday in January, 1903, on grounds to be selected by 
the Executive Committee later on, During the mecting 
the subject of permanent grounds came up for much dis- 
cussion, and the Exeutive Committee was especially ad- 
vised to try and procure such a preserve before the next 
trials, F. J, Stone, G. H. Anderson and R. L. Jones 
were elected members of the club. A special vote of 
thanks was tendered to Judge John A. Balmer for his 
conscientious efforts and fair decisions in the trials just 
ended. No members’ stake took place on Thursday, as 
the owners did not care to tax their dogs with a two 
hours’ heat, which would have been necessary in that 
event. Instead, almost all of the sportsmen went hunting 
and fine bags of quail were the order of the day, as the 
country there is teeming with those game birds.—Breeder 
and Sportsman. 


Philadelphia Dog Show Association. 


At the annual meeting of'the Philadelphia Dog Show 
Association the following officers were unanimously re- 
elected; Clement B. Newbold, President; Edward Moore 
Robinson, Alexander Van Rensselaer and Louis A. Bid- 
dle, Vice-Presidents; Marcel A. Viti, Secretary; S. Boyd 
Carrigan, Treasurer, and Francis Edward Bond, C. Le- 
land Harrison, Sidney W. Keith, D. Murray Bohlen, 
Mitchell Harrison, C. Hartman Kuhn, Jay B. Lippincott, 
George R. Packard, Reginald K. Shober, J. Sergeant 
Price, Jr., Robert Toland and Henry Jarret, Bench 
Show Committee. 

The Fourth Annual International Show will be held 
upon November 26, 27, 28 and 29. 


Bear and For Bear. 


Barre, Vt., Jan. 20,—Kindly favor me space to pro- 
pound the following inquiry: - Will someone who has had 
experience in hunting the black bear with dogs give the 
method of pursuit? What breeds of dogs are best? ITs 
one dog sufficient for successful hunting? State if hunt 
ing is best on bare ground or snow. When the bear is 
started does it run long before making a stand or tree- 
ing? Any other information thereon will be appreciated. 


Machting. 
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Designing Competition. ° 


In view of the continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
columns of Forest AND STREAM. In America the yacht- 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and such a com- 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu- 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months. 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers. Three prizes will be given for the best de- 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: 

IT. A pole mast sloop. 

II. 25ft. load waterline 

ITI. Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 
IV. At least 50 per cent. of ballast outside on keel. 
V. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 

All abnormal features must be studiously avoided in 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plans 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea in 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished to 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or 
three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 
type. 

DRAWINGS REQUIRED. 

I. Sheer plan, scale tin. = 1ft—showing center of 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. 

II. Half breadth, scale tin. = rit. 

Ill. Body plan, scale tin = rift, 

TV. Cabin plan, scale lin. = rft. 

- Sail plan, Yin. = rft., showing center of effort. 
The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 

A table of offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, the 
designer should inclose his own name and address, to- 


gether with his fiom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later than 
Feb, 28, 1902. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 

The Forest Anp STREAM reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs, 

The prizes offered are as follows: 1st prize, $25.00; 
2d prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. ' 

Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane’s professional 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, and 
every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness. 


Our English Letter. 


THE announcement that Prince Henry, of Prussia, is 
to become the guest of the President on the occasion 
of the launch of H. I. M. the German Emperor’s new 
schooner, has excited some interest over here, Prince 
Henry is very well known among English yachtsmen, 
and is very popular. The Hohenzollern will excite a little 
stirprise when she is first seen in New York. She is a 
magnificent ship, but very fat removed from the ordinary 
idea of a royal yacht. 

What the Emperor intends to do with the new 
schooner is not certain. One who may be thought likely 
to. know, told me, in answer to the qttestion a few days 
since, that “if she turned out fast he would race her, and 
if not she would be a cruiser.” That, perhaps, is a safe 
prediction. The Emperor is very pleased to race a win- 
ning yacht, even if it be in handicap matches, and he sets 
special value on Royal Yacht Squadron King’s Cups, 
which are open only to members of the club, and are 
always. sailed under a handicap, a very mixed lot always 
entering. All the same, His Majesty is deeply interested 
in making the sport popular in Germany. He is, indeed, 
far more in sympathy with his navy than with the army, 
though compelled by his position to care for the army 
before all things. 

On the 13th inst. took place the death of Mr, William 
Fife, Sr., after an illness of three days, and at the great 
age of 84. His father originiated the celebrated Fairlie 
firm of yacht builders, but it was the late Mr, Fife that 
gave it a world-renowned fame, A genius for yacht de- 
signing runs in the family, but it can hardly ever be more 
pronounced than in the case of the old man. He was in 
his day a master of the craft, and to the last he was as 
good a judge of a model as lives. His greatest work was 
done in the days when a model served for the design, 
and yet he was able, until he gave all designing over to 
his son, to,successfully compete with those trained in 
scientific methods. It is no secret that he held the type 
of racing yacht in vogue during the past ten years in some 
contempt, and strongly felt that any taxation of sail is 
a mistake, The Fairlie yard, of which so much has been 
written, is one of the most striking instances of staunch 
conservatism possible to find. Until within the last six 
years or sO, not a vestige of a “yard” was visible. All 
the great yachts that had made their names famous, and 
all the fine cruisers, had simply been built on the shore. 
No shed, nothing to indicate a flourishing business, was 
visible. As the grandfather started, so the son went on. 
and it was long before even the grandson could bring 
about any change. The astonishment of strangers who 
visited Fairlie used to be extreme when they found this 
state of things. Yet the old boats built there were won- 
ders. Two years ago the writer bought an old Fife boat 
of 45 tons. She was over fifty years of age, and yet she 
held a class at Lloyds! 

Mr. J. R. Drexel has flatly contradicted the story that 
Mr. G. L. Watson is designing a 2,500-ton steam yacht 
for him. The lie originated in Glasgow, and as the peo- 
ple of that city are actually thinking of running street cars 
on Sundays, I am afraid that a national backsliding is 
setting in. 

The Saunders Patent Launch Company has opened a 
branch at Kiel, Germany. The boats built by this firm 
are remarkable. They are in two, three or four thick- 
nesses of skin, and between each skin is a thin water- 
proof material. The skins are stitched with wire, the 
stitching starting at one gunwale, under the boat and up 
on the opposite side. Nothing can possibly be stronger. 
A gentleman who bought one of the launches for the 
smooth water of the Thames, took it up this summer and 
used it in some wild weather on a Scotch Loch. He told 
me that she could go out when he dare not venture with 
a Watson-designed boat, and she got such knocking 
about that at the end of the season she was quite out of 
shape; yet she never leaked, and a month after being 
laid up she had resumed her proper shape. At Kiel the 
firm is building a launch of 4oft., which, with a powertul 
oil motor, will make twenty miles an hour, 5 

A firm in Dublin has started a factory for making 
hollow spars. The spars are said to be superior to those 
of other makes, being both more accurately made and of 
better stuff. The wood used is Oregon pine, and it seems 
to be vastly superior to the wide-grained spruce spars 
sent over here. In the small sizes we find that the spruce 
spars will not stand. a twisting strain, and that when used 
for masts they crack or become useless—never going at 
the joint, however. The Oregon spare will stand twice 
this strain, and they are twenty-five per cent, cheaper on 
account of the high ireight charged on the American 
spars. 

King Edward has re-purchased the famous old Brtitan- 
nia from Sir Richard Bulkeley. This is the second time 
he has sold and rebought the vessel—once when he was 


- Prince of Wales. Evidently he has a real fondness for 


the grand old ship, and indeed she is about the best all- 
round sailing yacht that Mr. G. L. Watson ever turned 
out. 

The German Emperor’s match, from Dover to Heli- 
goland, is fixed for June 21. It is a handicap for British- 
owned yachts over 80 tons (Thanies measurement). The 
match is always well patronized, for the Emperor treats 
his visitors at Kiel right royally, mixing freely with them, 
and puting the sceptre entirely out of sight, 

To-day comes.a cable from New York Stating that a 


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report is circulating there that Sir Thomas Lipton has 

given the order to Fife to design Shamrock III. Of 

course it is safe to say that Mr, Fife has such a design in 

his mind—probably on paper, too—but beyond that there 

is no truth in the report that the order has been given. 

It will be time enough to design the boat next autumn. 

If the Cup is to be won, Mr. Fife is the man to do the 

trick, but a golden opportunity was lost last year, through 

Sir Thomas “swapping horses whilst crossing the io 
stream.” E. H. HAmILtTon. 


Twin Screw Yacht Zaida. 


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OWNED BY THE. EARL of ROSEBERY 


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Tuts handsome steam yacht, whose arrangement plans \ 
we reproduce, was finished.in August, 1900, and con- S 
structed to the order of Mr. Alfred Shuttleworth, of / A 
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son, M. I. N. A., Camden, N. J., although the arrange- 
ment of the cabins is in accordance with the original 
owner’s‘ideas. ler contract price was $87,500, and she 
was recently sold to Lord Rosebery at a price not stated. 
The vessel is mainly interesting as being of a type which 
strikes a mean between the mammoth productions in 
yacht architecture of recent years and the smaller sized 
steam yachts just outside the pale of power launches, 
whose cruising qualities are necessarily limited to coast- 
ing. The Zaida, on the other hand, while a boat of moder- 
ate expense compared with the large ships referred to, has |) fol 
the necessary sea-going qualities combined with bunker — 
capacity to enable her to undertake trans-ocean voyages. 

She is constructed of mild steel throughout to one 
grade in excess of Lloyd’s Register requirements for the i fo] 
“190 At” class, ‘a ndwas specially surveyer by that classifi- 
cation society's officers while under construction. The a= (a) 
principal dimensions are as follows: 
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Tt will be seen by the over all length that the vessel has 
very long overhangs, which add considerably to the grace- 
ful appearance of the semi-elliptical stern and the clipper ; ; 
stem, terminating in a beautifully carved female figure = 
with scroll trail boards executed from a design specially 
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The deck houses, which are two in number, arranged 
forward and aft of machinery spaces, are fitted as deck 
saloons, with main entrance and drawing room respective- ; = 
ly. They are beautifully furnished and upholstered, the : Ese 4 
fixtures being of the highest grade. =i 

The arrangements below deck are much of the usual 2 : 
order, but finished in the most luxuriotss manner. 7 WWE 

A feature of the deck houses is the continuation of the = 
aft end sides and top to form deck shelters or cosy cor- 
ners, where retreat may be had in dirty weather without € I 
the disadvantage of going indoors, 

The ventilation is complete and ample, the old-fashioned 
gooseneck and mushrooms being superseded by Simpson’s 
patent diaphragms. : 


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usual inverted triple expansion type, having cylinders 
Ilin., T7in. and 26in. diameter by 201n. stroke, steam being 
supplied by a single ended boiler 13ft. diameter, at a 
pressure of r50lbs. per sqtiare inch. On trial the engines 
developed 620 I.H.P. combined, propelling the vessel at a 
mean speed of 12.8 knots. 

The auxiliary machinery comprises electric light instal- 
lation, steam steering gear, steam windlass, etc., the whole 
being supplied by a vertical donkey boiler. 

Altogether the Zaida, though relatively small in size, is —— 
a notable addition to the ever-increasing fleet of modern 
yachts owned on both sides of the Atlantic. 


The Rating Rules. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your issue of the 18th inst. Thalassa points out with 9 J 

reference to my notes on yacht measurement, that a cor-— Z l 

rected length under the old Seawanhaka rule is a measure 

of speed rather than of mere size. Now, curiously fal il 


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enough, I have a private letter from a well-posted yachts- 
man, who disagrees with me in quite the opposite way. : = 
He contends that size—in yacht measurement—is the = as 
summation of the speed-producing factors, and conse- 
quently the various forms of the length and sail area rule { | : 
do not fairly represent size in so far as they take no | . * 
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account of certain factors of design such as itis now pro- | = 
posed to tax under the new Hyslop rule. No doubt a c | 
good case may be made out. on either side, and it simply ; 
shows our want of precise terms for use in discussing this 2 || 
question. Every writer uses the word size, and no two oi 

in just the same sense. Some recognized rule or formula 
for expressing size would be very useful. 

When comparing yachts by length, the phrase “other 
things being equal,” means, as I understand it, that the 
vessels are in every respect similar in their dimensions, 
and when stch is the case, any one lineal measufement 
serves as an index to size. Length qualified by the square 
root of sail area, is to my mind a reasonable extension 
and practical application of this principle to yachts which, 
while not strictly similar, are not grossly dissimilar. We ° 4 
might do worse than accept it as a conventional expres- 
sion of size, and use it as Mr. Hyslop has done, as the 
ioundsrien or dominating factor of the measurement 
rule. 

I should like to add that the question of restricted 
classes versus rules demanding complicated data is largely 
one of local convenience. Yacht clubs able to obtain the 
services of expert measurers and having weighing ma- 
chines or other necessary gear, may successfully apply 
rules that would be impracticable for clubs in remote 
localities, and for such restricted classes be far better than 
a decline of racing owing to the sinister influence of freak 
designs. WILt1AM Q. PHILLIPs. es See 

Curnron, Ont., Jan. 24. Ya . 


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Mr. J. W. Oliphant has sold his 8sft., steam yacht 
Nemahbin to Mr. C, M, Everest, of Rochester, N.Y, 


FOREST AND STREAM: 


TWIN-SCREW YACHT ZAIDA, DESIGNED BY GEO, SIMPSON, M. LN. A. 4 


Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, Jan. 27.—It would seem that about all the 
orders for yachts to be turned out before the coming sea- 
son opens have been placed with the different designers. 
The orders for new ones are now coming in straggling oné 
at a time, where before they came in twos, threes and 
often in greater numbers, so for the present at least things 
may be said to be quiet among the designers, Nothing 
more has been heard about restricted 25-footers, nor has 
there heen any open declaration in regard to any new 
restricted 21-footers, although I have a very good idea 
that one more is coming. ‘This, if true, will make the 
total number of new ones in the restricted class to be 
built before or during the spring, fifteen. The prospective 
awner of the new one has kept very quiet in regard to 
his intentions, and I hesitate to state who he is for fear 
that any premature announcements may catise him to 
change his mind. I can say, however, that he is not a 
Marblehead yachtsman, and that, if he should build, his 
boat will follow the circuit for the greater number of 
races during the season. There may be something more 
definite coming to light about this new boat within a 
few days. : 

Tt may or may not seem strange that almost every one 
of our Boston yacht desisners are trying their utmost 
to get all the work possible in the merchant service. 
Arthur Binney long ago took this step, and he has, within 
the past few years, turned ott several coasters and fisher- 
men. Crowninshield, too, has been doing something in 
both of these lines, 
Roy, which proved a very fine vessel. She has fair speed, 
which the designer thinks can be much improved, as her 
present sail plan is much smaller than she is able to 
carry. We has turned ont the lines of another fisher- 
man this winter, and the owners of this boat expect great 


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things of her. His greatest venture has been the greatest 
taken by any designer of coastwise vessels, that of turn- 
ing out a seven-masted steel schoonet. This vessel is 
now well under way at the Fore River Engine Works. 
His latest order has been for a four-masted schooner, of 
ereat carrying capacity, which will be built “down east.” 

The progress made by Starling Burgess in all lines 
since his venture into the field of naval architecture has 
been wonderful. He and Crowninshield rose to the top 
of the ladder probably more quickly than any other two 
yacht designers in Atnerica, Burgess has had his greatest 
success this winter, having in the neighborhood of thirty 
new ones to turn out. He, too, has been anxious to tackle 
the merchant service, and has been fortunate in getting 
the orders for two fine vessels. The first of these was 
for the largest six-masted schooner afloat, to be called 
the Edward Burgess, after his illustrious father. The 


~ second order camelast weelk for a four-masted schooner 


for F. L. Pigeon et al. This one will have a carrying 
capacity of about 3,000 tons. She will be 222ft. on the 
keel, about 250ft. over all, 23ft. beam and 22ft. 6in. depth 
of hold. She is expected to go around Cape Horn to the 
Pacific coast. F. L. Pigeon, who will head the syndicate, 
is a well-known yachtsman, a member of the Annisquam 
Y. C, He has owned several editions of yachts, bearing 
the name of Circe, and was the owner of Thelma, chal- 
lenger for the Quincy cup in 1899. He is one of the firm 
of famous spar makers, and it is expected that many 
cargoes of the new yessel will be Oregon pine. 4 
The supporters of the restricted classes of the Yacht 
Racing Association of Massachusetts are jubilant over 
the recent decision of the Columbia Y. C., of Chicago, to 
adopt the restricted 21ft. class, as governed by the rules 
of the Massachusetts Association. This is an important 
move, as the class is sure to be adopted by the Lake 
Not only is the feeling 
good over this matter, but Secretary Bliss is also further 


rejoicing becatise of the receipt of a letter from Mr. J. 
Lungley Neame, Honorable Secretary of the Freemantle 
Sailing Club, of Western Australia, asking about this 
particular class. In the case of the Columbia Y. C., it 
was desired to get a yacht of small size, which would 
have good accommodations and speed, and which could 
cruise comfortably in the rough waters of Lake Michigan. 
The choice seemed to lie between our raceabout, which 
has been popular from New York to Bar Harbor, and the 
Massachusetts Y. R. A. restricted 21-footers. Secretary 
Harry P. Simonton, of the Columbia Y. C., sent out a 
letter to prominent bttilders, designers and yachtsmen in 
the East, asking their opinion, and I think that this letter 
and the conservative answer by Small Bros., the Boston 
designers, and official measurers of the Massachusetts 
Y. R. A,, will bear repeating, as there might be many 
others who would be interested in the same classes. 
Secretary Simonton’s letter of inquiry was as follows: 
‘Dear Sir: A committee has been appointed by the 
Columbia Y. €. and one by the L. M. Y. A. to decide 
upon the respective merits of the 2rft. ‘raceabout,’ with — 
7ft. cabin trunk, its width being 60 per cent. of greatest 
beam, with height forward 6%4in. and height aft 9oin. 
above deck, as compared with the ‘21ft. cabin yachts’ un- 
der Massachusetts Y. R. A. rules. The committee is 
divided and desires your opinion on the following points; 
*t. Which is the most seaworthy boat? 
What is the relative cost? 
What are relative cabin accommodations? 
Which is the fastest boat? 
. Can a fast freak be built under either rule? 
. Which has prayed the best boat all-round in your 
locality ? 
“7 Which class would be’the easiest and best to de- 
velop? ; 
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“A large nuniber of boats will be built if we adopt a 
class that would be popular for these waters. The com- 
mittee is required to report on Jan. 16, and your reply 
would, consequently, be highly appreciated. 

“Harry P. SIMONTON, 
“Secretary Columbia Y. C.” | 

The following was the answer sent by Small Bros.: 

“Mr, H. P. Simonton, Secretary of the Columbia Y. C., 
Chicago, Ill. 

“Dear Sir: Your favor of Jan. 9 was duly received 
and contents carefully noted. In reply I would say that 
we take pleasure in complying with your request for 
‘our opinion on the relative merits of the cabin raceabouts 
and the 21ft. cabin boats built under the rules and restric- 
tions of the Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts. 

“Point No. 1 we shall have to answer by saying that 
we consider the 21ft. cabin boat the more seaworthy, 
simply and only because of heavier scantlings and better 
construction, with less of strain. 

“Point No, 2—The relative cost of cabin 21-footers is 
about I5 per cent. more than of raceabouts; and if the boat 
is an extreme keel type, the extra cost would be increased 
to 20 per cent. 

“Point No. 3—The cabin 21-footers have much the bet- 
ter cabin accommodations in every way. 

“Point No, 4—In reference to speed, we consider that 
at present on an average the two are about equal, though 
some of last season’s cabin 21-footers were faster than any 
of the raceabouts, excepting perhaps in a light air or drift 
with a sea; and the ones building for the coming’ sea- 
“son, we are very confident, will be quite a little faster 
than any of last season’s baats, 

“Point No, 5—A regular out-and-out freak cannot be 
built to advantage, under the rules of either class, but a 
designer has an equal chance in either type to get close ta 
the scow model. 

“Point No. 6—It is rather difficult to say which class 
has proven the best all-round boat. Our opinion is that, 
owing to the ease of handling, the raceabout is a little 
the better for afternoon sailing, though not quite so com- 
fortable as the other, owing to limited space and a quicker 
and greater angle of keel. For cruising and general all- 
round work, we favor the 2rft. cabin yacht. 

“Point No. 7—On this point we are not clear as to your 
exact meaning, If you mean what class would be more 
quickly and easily established from second-hand material, 
we should say the raceabout. But the cabin class; in our 
opinion, is easier and better to develop, for the reason 
that the raceabout has practically reached the limit of 
development under present rules. Considering your 
weather and cruising conditions, we should favor the 
cabin class. 

“The Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts at its 
last meeting voted to slightly increase the sail limit in 
its restricted classes, which evidently proves that the 
boats built were capable.of handling their sail area all 
right. Probably your weather conditions are different 
from ours, and you generally have stronger winds on the 
lake than we do here, but as boats in the atft. cabin 


class can be built under a sliding scale, you can produce 
any style of yacht to suit your conditions, either center- 
boards or keels. 

“Perhaps it would not be out of place for us to say 
here that if the scantling scale could be changed and in- 
creased to secure good construction, and a little attention 
given to cabin accommodations, the raceabout would be 
an ideal yacht and as popular as ever. As it is, we do not 
hear of a single one being built for Boston parties; while 
on the other hand, fourteen of the 21ft. cabin yachts are 
under construction for the coming season, 

“Tn our capacity as official measurers of the Yacht 
Racing Association of Massachusetts, we have had ample 
opportunity to judge, and the experience of knowing the 
relative merits of all the racing boats under various con- 
ditions of wind and water, and our judgment is still 
slightly in favor of the 21ft. cabin yacht, built under the 
Association’s rules, as against the cabin raceabout. Sin- 
cerely yours, — “SMALL Bros.” 

Another piece of news has made the Association men 
feel good, and that is to the effect that at the annual meet- 
ting of the Quincy Y, C. Saturday evening it will be pro- 
posed that the club join the Association. The Quincy 
Y. C. withdraw from the Association two years ago be- 
cause of an alleged grievance on account of protest deci- 
sions by the Executive Committee of the Y. R. A., and 
there are many who believe that there was foundation for 
such grievance. However, the motion to secede from the 
Association was not unanimous, and it is not expected 
that the vote to return, if carried, will be unanimous 
either; but there is no doubt that if the club should go 
back, it will be welcome news to the majority of racing 
men, The Quincy Y. C. has never had a fleet of large 
yachts, but it has always been known as one of the 
strongest racing clubs in the entire bay in classes up to 
30ft. waterline, and it has always given a series of open 
races during each season. Every one will be pleased to 
see it doing business again at the same old stand. 

Crowninshield has an order for an 18-footer, Knock- 
about Association restrictions, for Richard D. Boardman, 
of the Manchester Y. C., to be built by White, of Man- 
chester. She will be raced at Boston, Hull, Marblehead 
and Manchester. Mr. Boardman is a good helmsman, and 
the boat may be looked for among this season’s race 
winners, 

At Lawley’s the keel of the Lawson 46-footer and that 
of a 25-footer are set up. The keel has been turned out 
for a 30ft. yawl for Messrs. Foss and Gunnison. Two 
of Benney’s designs are being laid down—a 46ft. and a 
33it. yawl. Most of the frames of the Lippitt 60-rater 
have been bent. The 30ft. yawl for Bancroft C. Davis has 
been completed. The to4it. steam yacht is planked, and 
her deck is being laid. Fred Lawley has just completed 
the lines of a 25-footer, and has sent the lines of a 35- 
footer to Mr. Richard Korte, of Philadelphia. 

Joun B. KiLieen. 


All communications intended for Forest AnD Stream should 


always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and — 


not to any individual confiected with the paper. : 


New Home for the Manhasset 
Bay Y. C. 


Mr. Epwarp M. McCtetian, Secretary of the Manhas- 
set Y, C., has kindly sent to us for reproduction in 
this issue, the front elevation and first and second floor 
plans of the new home for the Manhasset Bay Y. C., at 
Port Washington, L. I. The club’s membership had 
increased to such an extent during the last two years 
that the organization had quite outgrown the old club 
house, and the needs of a new building were very urgent. 
The club has an ideal location, being situated on a beau- 
tifully sheltered bay, and still within easy reach of the 
city. The Manhasset Bay Y. C. is the outlet for many of 
the people who live a short distance inland, and who 
wish to go on the water occasionally. When the new 
club house is completed, the Manhasset Bay Y, C. will 
not be second to any club on Long Island Sound, either 
in its strength as a yachting organization or its location 
or its completeness in regard to its house, grounds, docks, 
etc. 

Some $30,000 will be spent in building the new house 
and stable, improving the grounds and erecting a new 
dock, The house itself will represent an expenditure of 
about $12,000 when completed. Messrs. Hoppin & Koen, 
the architects, have succeeded in producing an ideal club 
house, which is not only well arranged inside, but one 
that has a most attractive exterior of colonial design. 
The house has been kept well upi from the ground in 
order to make the basement rooms light and dry. The 
building is two stories high. On each corner of the 
structure are pilasters, which extend up two stories and 
support the cornice. The sloping roof is surmounted by 
several dormer windows. The feature of the facade is 
made by a Palladian window on the second story, and 
above this just under the pediment is the club’s insignia. 

A piazza 12it. wide extends around three sides of the 
building, which faces the northwest. On the east side is 
located the porte-cochére, 

On entering the house one steps into a two-story hall 
22 by 34ft., which will be used as sort of lounging room. 
Directly opposite the entrance is a large brick fireplace, 
behind which is a circular staircase. Just to the left 
of the staircase is the office. Opening from the east 
side of the lounging room is the ladies’ room, 17 by 22ft. 
French windows extend to the floor, and on the east wall 
is a fireplace. A ladies’ toilet room adjoins, A passage 
connects the ladies’ room with the pantry. On the west 
side of the lounging room is the café, a room which cor- 
responds in size and arrangement with the ladies’ room, 
which is directly opposite. The kitchen is located in a 
wing well away from the main structure, and only con- 
nected by a glass-inclosed pantry. In this way all odors 
of cooking will be avoided in the club house proper. A 
staircase leads from the kitchen down to a large storeroom 
in the basement. The kitchen has windows on three sides, 
and is very well ventilated, and while almost wholly and 
distinctly apart from the main building, still it is very, easy 


of access, and the work of serving is greatly simplified. 
On the second floor there is a gallery running around 
the main hall which is a most attractive feature. There 
are servants’ stairs entirely separate, running from the 
basement to the second floor. There are nine bedrooms 

n the second floor, varying in size from 6 by oft. to 9 by 
t2ft. There are also two linen closets, two separate toilet 
‘yooms and two bath rooms, one of which is fitted with 
shower baths and the other with a porcelain tub. 

On the attic floor there are three bedrooms, 11 by 12ft., 
irr by 13ft. and 13 by 16ft. respectively. There is also a 
large space left unfinished for a store room. The deck, 
which is located on the top of the thouse, is reached from 
the attic by a ladder. 

Tn the basement, on the east end of the main building, is 
jocated the billiard room, which is 16 by 3oft, with a toilet 
‘room adjoining. Directly under the lounging room is 

the locker room, 16 by 24ft., and in the west end of the 
basement is the furnace and bins for coal and wood. 

The big hall, or lounging room, on the first floor, will 
be a very handsome apattment when completed. The 
club has among its members some very well-known 
‘artists, and they all have agreed to contribute some of 
their work to help decorate the interior. Around the 
lounging room above the wainscot will be panels painted 
by such men as Julian Rix, Carleton Chapman, Charles 
Dana Gibson and Guy Standing. 

_ The stable will have accommodations for five horses and 
‘earriages. Connected with the stable will be a large coach 
house, where there will be room for some thirty carriages. 

A large building of this sort was necessary, as many 
‘of the members drive from their homes in the surrounding 

country on race days and leave their horses and carriages 
in the club stables for the day, while the owners are away 
on some of the boats. All the buildings on the grounds 
are to be lighted by electricity, and arrangements will be 
made for a charging station for automobiles, 

On the upper floor of the coach house there will be 
four bedrooms and a domitory for the club servants. Two 
grass lawn tennis courts and a bowling green will be 
laid out. : 

The new dock, which will be built to take the place of 
the old one, will be 150ft. long and 8ft, wide. It will be 
T shaped, so that a landing float can be be placed on 
each side and be sheltered, One side will be for the use 
of the crews and taking provisions and luggage to and 
from the yachts, and the other for the owners and guests. 


Western Yachts. - 


"Cabin Type for Columbia Y. C. 


Cuicaco, Ill., Jan. 22—The committee of the Colum- 
bia Y. C. has decided upon the 2rft. class, cabin yachts, 
as the type for the races for the Lipton cup. This caused 
some comment from those who favored the earlier knock- 
about type, but the committee holds out the argument 
that the cabin type is far more seaworthy, is of stronger 
construction, allows wider range to the designer, and is 
altogether better suited for the conditions which prevail 
on the Great Lakes adjacent to Chicago. 

The type was not selected without consultation with 
authorities both East and West, and it was developed 
that in the heavier waters of the East the cabin type was 
preferred to the knockabout or raceabout model, the 
cabin type being considered many years in advance of 
the other model so far as progress in naval designing is 
concerned. Questions were submitted to Eastern de- 
signers by the committee as below: 

t. Which is the more seaworthy boat? 

2, What is the relative cost? 

3. What are the relative cabin accommodations? 

4. Which is the faster boat? 

5, Can a freak be built under either rules? 

6. Which has proved the better all-around boat in your 
locality? . 

7. Which class would be the better and easier to 
develop? 

Mr. Burgess, the well-known Eastern designer, reply- 
ing to the above, stated that the cabin class is stronger; 
second, that the M. Y, R. A. boat is a trifle more costly 
but gives better accommodations and can produce the 
faster boat. He thinks a freak would hardly be possible 
under either rule, but is more apt to turn out under the 
raceabout class. Small Bros., naval architects, replied 
much as above, but placed the cost of construction for 
the cabin class as about filteen or twenty per cent. greater 
than in the raceabout. They favor the cabin class for 

eruising conditions. 

Secretary H. B, Simonton, of Columbia Y. C., stated: 
“We believe that raceabouts like Colleen, Spray and 
Katie H. are not stiff enough for the heavy weather of 
this lake. They ate lighter built than the new boats will 
be, and are much less roomy. We think that in settling 
upon the cabin class we have determined upon a type 
which will be strong in construction, very seaworthy, and 
in eyery way much more suitable to the conditions of 
this port.” - E 


Sailors and Knives. 


“T WONDER why it is,’”’ said a cotton sampler who prides 
himself on his close observation, “that the Italians have 
acquired such a sinister reputation as knife fighters. The 
facts don’t bear it out. I have been knocking ‘around the 
wharves for a good many years and have seen plenty of 
fighting among sailors, roustabouts and desperate men of 
all kinds, colors and nationalities, and neyer but once did 
| see an Italian use a knife. Even then the weapon was 
thrust into his hands by a companion, after he had started 
blithely into the mélée with a stick. T> 

“As far as my observation goes, the people most addicted 
to cold steel in the settlement of their little differences are 
Norwegian sailors. The most formidable knife wielder 
I ever met in my life belonged to that class. He was a 
big, yellow-haired, rather melancholy looking chap, who 
came here on a Liverpool tramp and invested some small 


savings in a lodging house not far from the old fruit - 


wharves, I got acquainted with him soon after he set up 
in business and took quite a fancy to the fellow. Like 
many seafaring men of his nationality, he was passionately 
fond of music, and, strange to say, he had heard nearly 


all the great singers and was familiar with most of the 
famous operas, although he was otherwise tineducated 


and could barely read and write. I sized him up as a 
gentle, simple-minded giant, and labored under that delt- 
sion until it was rtdely dispelled by a tragic episode of 
which I chanced to be an eye witness. Three drunken 
seamen dropped into his place one evening with the 
avowed intention of raising a row, and one of them set 
the ball rolling by kicking over the stove, Instantly my 
Norwegian friend leaped over a little counter, at the same 
time drawing an r8in, dirk from somewhere back of his 
neck, and went to work on the trio. The fracas occu- 
pied possibly half a minute, at the end of which time the 
sailors had disappeared and everything in the room was 
more or less spattered with gore, I never learned how 
badly they were hurt, but there was certainly some promis- 
cuous earying while the row lasted, Later on, the lodg- 
ing-house keeper showed me how he carried his knife. 
He kept it in a sheath sewed to the inner side of his 
vest, just under the collar. It seemed an outlandish place 
for a weapon, but he could draw it like lightening and, as 
he remarked, it was apt to be overlooked in a search. 
He also gave me an exhibition of dirk throwing—at which 
some sailors become astonishingly proficient, He would 
hold the blade open on his right palm, the point to the 
left, and launch it through the air with a sudden, in- 
describable swoop. Ata dozen feet away he could strike 
a circle 6in. in diameter with unfailing accuracy, but with 
all its. dexterity there was something so barbarously un- 
couthabout the performance that it made my blood run cold 
to watch him. He got into several knife fights afterward, 
and his fondness for that diversion eventually led to his 
departure between suns. If he were still here I think I 
would select some other illustration for my remarks.’— 
New Orleans Times-Democrat. 


Chester Griswold. 


Cuester Griswotp died suddenly at his home in New 
York City on Jan, 23. Mr. Griswold was a well-known 
yachtsman, and had been a member of the New York 
Y. C. since 1876, and in 1880 he was elected to serve on 
the Regatta Committee. Mr. Griswold was a member of 


the committee in 1881-82-83, and then declined renomina- 


tion. In 1889 he again served on the committee, and 


with the exception of the years 1896 and 1897 Mr. Gris- 


wold has been on the Regatta Committee ever since. He 
had declined re-election on the committee this year. 
During his term of club service he had been one of three 
judges during five international matches, Mr. Griswold 
was born in Troy, N. Y., in 1844. He was a member 
of the following clubs: Union, South Side, Sportsmen’s 
Club of Long Island, Down Town Association, Racquet, 
Sons of the Revolution, Church Club, Suburban Riding 
and Driving, Metropolitan and the Meadow Club of 
Southampton, Long Island. 


Yacht Club Notes. 


At the annual meeting of the Indian Harbor Y. C. 
the following officers were elected: Com., Frank Tilford, 
steam yacht Norman; Vice-Com., Alfred Peets, sloop 
yacht Enpronzi; Rear-Com., George F. Dominick. steam 
yacht Varuna; Sec’y, Charles P. Bruch; Treas., Richard 
Outwater; Trustees, John H. Downing and Charles E. 
Simms: Meas., Charles E. Mower; Regatta Committee, 
Frank Bowne Jones (chairman), Charles F. Kirby, 
Charles E. Simms, Frank C. Henderson and R. Babcock. 


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The annual meeting of the American Y. C. was held at 
the Waldorf-Astoria on Jan. 21. The meeting was ad- 
journed to May 30, as there was not a quorum present. 
Several matters of interest were informally talked over, 
and much satisfaction was, expressed over the two new 
one-design classes that are now being built. Five of the 
larger and seven of the smaller boats have been ordered. 
The following nominations of officers for the ensuing year 
have been made, and these will serve without being for- 
mally elected: Com., Henry W. Eaton; Vice-Com., Will- 
iam H. Browning; Rear-Com., Stuyvesant Wainwright ; 
Sec’y and Treas., William Porter Allen; Fleet Surgeon, 
Dr. Samuel B. Lyon; Meas., and Consulting Eng’r, 
George W. Magee, U. S. N.; Trustees, Class of 1904, 
Wilham G. Nichols; Class of 1905, H. De B. Parsons, 
Edwin H. Weatherbee and William H. Beers, 

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The Jefferson Y. C., of Holland Station, Rockaway 
Beach, has elected the following officers for the ensuing 
year: Com., George Kern; Vice-Com., Henry Hoyt; 
Fleet Capt., Oscar L. Schwencke; Fin. Sec’y, George H. 
Pladwell; Treas., John Swan; Serg’t-at-Arms, Thomas 
Daily; Board of Directors, Christian G. Moritz, Thomas 
F. Gaynor, Thomas F. McCaul, Morris Feigel, George 
Kern, Henry Hoyt, Oscar L. Schwencke and John Swan; 
House Committee, Edward J. Brady, Bartholomew F., 
Donohue and John W. Ennis. 


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The annual meeting of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. 
C. was held at Delmonico’s, New York City, on Jan. 27. 
The following officers were elected: Com., Arthur Cur- 
tiss James, auxiliary brigantine Aloha; Vice-Com., 
Henry T. Sloane, auxiliary schooner Idler; Rear Com., 
William J. Matheson, steamer Layerock; Sec’y, Francis 
G. Stewart; Treas., Frederic P. Moore; Meas., John 
Hyslop; Fleet Surg., N. Bowditch Potter, M.D.; Fleet 
Chaplain, The Rey. George R. Vandewater, D. D. Race 
Committee: Charles W. Wetmore, Clinton H. Crane, 
Johnston de Forest, Daniel Bacon and Allen E. Whit- 
man. Committee on Lectures and Entertainments: Wil- 
liam Crittenden Adams, P. K. Hudson and Wilson M. 
Powell, Jr. Committee on Lines and Models: John 
Hislop, A. Cary Smith and J. R. Maxwell, Jr. Law 
Committee: Arthur D. Weekes, Henry R. Hoyt and 
Frederic Coudert, Jr. Trustees, to form the class of 1905, 
in place of that of 1902, whose term of office expires: H. 
M. Crane, Alfred Ely, Frank S$, Hastings and Walter 
Jennings. r , 

Some additions were made to the racing rules to 
govern centerboards. These new rules are as follows: 

Yachts may have the use of centerboards excepting 
as these are affected by the provisions which follow: 


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Centerboatds shall not have more weight than is 
needed to insure their sinking into proper position for 
use, and the limit shall be considered as reached when 
the centerboard has a weight twenty-five per cent. greater 
than that of the water displaced by it. 

Centerboards weighing less than 150 pounds shall be 
exempt from the provisions of this rule. 

Vessels having use of centerboards of the prescribed 
weight at or prior to July 1, 1901, shall be exempt from 
the foregoing specified requirements. 

Owners of centerboard yachts shall, when required, 
certify to the measurer that the centerboards used are 
within the limitations stated. 

The members have talked for some time past of having 
a town house, The company of club members that have 
the matter in hand reported that a suitable piece of prop- 
erty on which to erect the building will soon be secured, 
The scheme now under consideration is to erect a building, 
the lower floors of which will be used by the club and 
the upper floors to be rented to club members for 
bachelor apartments. 

The club membership is now within ten of the limit, 
and these will be elected as soon as the new officers 
enter upon their duties. 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


Another rumor reaches us from across the water to the 
effect that Sir Thomas Lipton has already ordered an- 
other Cup challenger from William Fife, Jr., the de- 
signer of the first Shamrock. Positive information on 
the subject is not forthcoming at present, but the matter 
is undoubtedly under consideration, and it would be no 
great surprise if the third Shamrock came from the 
board of the eminent Fairlie designer, William Fife, Jr. 


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The prizes won in races sailed under the auspices of the 
Indian Harbor Y. C. last season are now on exhibition in 
the store window of the Gorham Manufacturing Co., No. 
2t Maiden Lane, where they will remain displayed till 
Feb. 1. They include the prizes presented by Com. Frank 
Tilford for the open races, the Tod cup and the club 
prizes won in the handicap races. 

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The turbine yacht which the Hon, C. Parsons is build- 
ing for Mr. A. L. Barber, will be about 1 400 tons bur- 
den, says the foreign correspondent of the New York 
Sun. Her length is designed to be 260ft. 8in., and her 
maximum breadth 33ft. 3in. A comparison of the fuel 
consumption of the turbine steamer King Edward and 
the paddle-wheeler Duchess of Hamilton, both of the 
same class, made by the same builders and plying on 
the Clyde, shows that the turbine boat does not suffer 
when one considers her higher speed. The figures for 
the season show that the King Edward burned 1,429 
tons 16 cwt. of coal, and covered a total mileage of 12,116, 
meaning 8.47 miles per ton of coal used, and an average 
speed of 18% miles per hour. The Duchess of Hamilton 
consumed 1,758 tons £3 cwt. of coal, covered 15,604 miles, 
being 8.87 miles per ton, and an average speed of 16% 


miles per hour. 
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Messrs. Huntington & Seaman have sold the twin-screw 
naphtha launch Gemini for Mr. Clarence J. Osborn, of 
Norwalk, Conn., to Mr. Davis J. Pancoast, of Camden, 
N. J. The yacht will be used by her new owner on 
Barnegat Bay. 

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Mr. Frank Bowne Jones has sold the raceabout Jolly 
Roger for a syndicate of Northport Y. C. yachtsmen to 
Mr. T. V. Bleecker, Jr. a 

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Messrs. Samuel Ayers & Son, of Nyack, N. Y., are 
building for Mr. Frederick G. Bourne, N. Y. Y. C., a 
high-speed launch. The boat was designed by Messrs. 
Gardner & Cox, and is 67.10ft. waterline, 9.9ft. breadth 
and 3,8ft. draft. 

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The class of one-design boats for the Horseshoe Harbor 
Y. C. will be built by the Lachine Boat Co. Six members 
of the club haye agreed to build. The boats are 18ft. 


over all. 
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Word is received from Jacksonyille, Fla., that the cat- 
boat Dandy and the sloop Teal arrived there on Jan, 20, 
after a seven weeks’ trip down the coast. Both boats were 
originally owned on Long Island Sound. 


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Mr. L. D. Fiske, of Hartford, Conn., has sold his high- 
speed steam launch Genevieve to Mr, S, V. R. Thayer, of 


Boston. 
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The English yawl Ailsa, owned by Mr, Henry S, Red- 
mond, will appear next season in a new and larger rig. 
The changes in her sail plan will be made under direction 
of Messrs. Cary Smith & Barbey. Last season Ailsa was 
hardly a match for Vigilant and Navahoe in light weather, 
owing to her much smaller cail spread. If her larger rig 
improves her speed in light air, she should be more than 
a match for either of her competitors in any weather, for 
in a breeze and a sea she always had matters pretty much _ 
her own way, 

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The Marine Engine and Machine Co., of Harrison, 
N. J., will equip the tenders for Mr. A. S. Bigelow’s 
steam yacht Pantooset with three and five horse-power 
alco-vapor motors. This firm has also an order for a 
two-horse-power engine for Mr. T. W, Hine, of Eureka, 
Cal., which will be installed in a 2oft. launch. Mr. A. L. 


_ Belfield, of Philadelphia, will furnish his 30ft. launch, now 


building, with a seven-horsé-power motor, made by the 
Marine Engine and Machine Co. 


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At. the Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding Company’s 
yard at Shooter’s Island, S. I, a shed has been erected 
over the schooner building for the German Emperor. This 
was done so that bad weather would not interrupt the 
work. The plating is now nearly completed. The cabin 
and deck fittings have been made in the shops, and as soon 


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as the steel workers finish, joiners will immediately be- 
gin the fitting up of the interior. Everything has been 
done to hurry forward the work so that the yacht will be 
completed in titne for the latitching, which will take 
place about Feb. 24, The launching promises to be an 
affair of considerable international importance, and sey- 
eral thousand persons will witness the ceremony. The 
keel’ for the new 60-rater, building at this yard from 
designs made by Messrs. Gardner & Cox, has been cast 
and the frames bent. The Tobin bronze plates have ar- 
rived and the yacht will be set up shortly. 


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At City Island Mr. Robert Jacob has had the founda- 
tions for his new 1,000-ton marine railway laid. When the 
railway is completed Mr. Jacob will be able to haul any of 
the large steam yachts at any tide, as there will be 22ft. 
over the cradle at mean low water. The 6o0ft. waterline 
auxiliary schooner building at this yard from Mr. Henry 
Winteringham’s designs has been ribbaned off and the 
work of planking has commenced. The yacht is built en- 
tirely of wood, and will be of rather heavy construction. 
She will make a fine, wholesome cruiser, and will have 
large accommodations below decks. Mr. Jacob has com- 
pleted two more boats for the Manhasset Bay one-design 
class. The loft building on Mr. Jacob’s property for 
Lapthorn & Ratsey, the English sailmakers, is well along. 
Mr. Ratsey is expected the early part of February, and the 
structure will be completed under his supervision. Mr. 
Ratsey has already several large orders that will keep 
him busy up to the opening of the racing season. Com. 
F. T. Adams, Larchmont Y. C., has ordered a complete 
suit of sails for his schooner Sachem, and in all prob- 
ability this firm will make the sails for the two 60-raters 
now building from Messrs, Gardner & Cox’s designs. 


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At Wood’s yard the Bullock 47-footer is practically 
completed, and will be run out of the shop to make room 
for some of the new orders. Mr. Wood will build five 
or six boats from Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane’s de- 
signs. Among these is a raceabout for Mr. Crane’s 
brother, Mr. H. M. Crane. She will be quite similar to 
Merrywing, the boat built by Mr. Wood for Mr. Crane 
last year. 


A gentleman in New England, about seventy years of 
age, who apparently is a vegetarian, having learned of 
Dr. Henry van Dyke’s expeditions to Canada and else- 
where in search of big game, recently sent him a pen 
drawing made by himself of a stag—a charming piece of 
work for a man of such years—and underneath placed 
this motto in large letters: ““Thou shalt not kill’ Dr. 
yan Dyke, in acknowledging receipt of the drawing, 
thanked his friend for his kindness, and suggested that 
under certain conditions a more appropriate text would 


be Acts x., 13: “Rise, Peter, kill’and eat.’—New York 


Times. 


Dr. Hillis’ experience under a charge of plagiarism re- 
minds one of Dr. Lyman Beecher’s, who, when a lad 
going across the fields with a book under his arm, spied, 
as he thought, a rabbit in the bushes, and, knowing how 
tender and easily killed they are, hurled the volume at 
him, It was not a rabbit. In after life when a violent, 
scurrilous attack was made upon him, his friends said, 
“Why don’t you answer him, squelch, him?” “Ah,” said 
the doctor, “years ago I once issued a whole octavo at a 
skunk and learned better.”’—Waterbury American. 


Rifle Range and Gallery. 
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Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club. 


San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 19.—The Columbia Pistol and Rifle 
Club’s bi-monthly shoot took place to-day. Many visitors were 
present, among them being Dr. Smith, of S. & W. Co., Springfield, 
Mass., and Capt. Geo. E. Bartlett, representative of King’s Pow- 
der and Peters Cartridge Company. He is an expert in shooting 
at moving and stationary targets. 

Scores, off-hand, Columbia target, 10-shot scores: 

Rifle, 200yds.: A. B. Dorrell 45, 50, 52, 58, 58, 59; W. G. Hoff- 
man 52, 55, 58; F. O. Young 53, 69; A. H. Pape 55; A. H. Cady 
60, 66, 86, 91; G. Mannel 69, 71, 77, 77; Gimmel, .22 rifle, 124; E, A, 
Allen, repeater, 125, 147, 

Pistol, 50yds.: C. M. Daiss 42, 52, 53, 56; Ed Hovey 46, 49, 50, 
53, 56; ck we Young 47, 48, 48, 48; A. J. Brannagan 57; Dr. Smith 
58, 78, $2, 90. 

Revolver, 50yds.: Hoffman 47, 55, 61; Brannagan 53, 57; J, R. 
Trego 58, 76, 89; P. Becker 63; Dr. Smith 67, 120; Dr. Twist 86; 
H. V. Dubois 97; Prichard 72. 

.22 and .25 rifles, b0yds.: E. A. Allen 26, 46; Dr. Twist 27, 30, 33, 
86, 39; C. Gimmel 40, 59; Stephens 55, 69; H. Paul 76 

Military and repeating rifle, Creedmoor count: E. A. Allen, 
repeater, 46, 43. : 

ifle, 200yds., 3-shot scores: Hoffman 14, Young 19, 
Frep, O. Youne, Sec’y. 


Mr. Charles Lancaster, of 151 New Bond street, London, W., 
sends us a description of the “Ross” straight-pull magazine re- 
peating and military and sporting rifles, invented and patented 
by Sir Charles L, Ross, Bart. The “Ross” is distinctly different 
in appearance and mechanism from the regulation rifle, though it 
uses the regulation cartridge. For sporting purposes, the “Ross” 
straight-pull magazine rifle has been adapted to the .256 Mann- 
licher, the .303 and the .870 calibers, and at the present time it is 
in contemplation to supply it to the .400. The average weight, 
with a 26in, barrel, is 7lbs. 80z., and the total length is 46in. 


Trapsheoting. 
——— ——— 


If you want your shoot to be announced here send a 
notice like the following: 


| Fixtures, 


Feb, 11-12.—Wolcott, N. Y.—Winter target tournament of the 
Catchpole Gun Club. E. A. Wadsworth, Sec’y. 


Feb..12.—Ossining, N. Y.—Lincoln’s Day clay-bird shoot of the 


Ossining Gun 
ford, Capt. 


Bland- 


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Club. Shooting begins at 11 A 


“saree tig se 


Brooklyn Gun Club, as follows: 


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FOREST AND STREAM? 


Feb. 18-20.—St. Edward, Neb,—St. Edward Gun Club’s annual 
tournament, . 

Feb. 22.—Louisville, Ky.—Jefferson County Gun Club’s tourna- 
ment. \ 

Feb. 22— Akron, O.—Team shoot of Akton Gun Club. 

Feb, 22.—Albany, N, Y.—West End Gun Club’s bluerock tourna- 
ment. H. H. Valentine, Sec’y. ) 

March 31-Apri! 5.—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds, Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 

April §-11.—Olathe, Kan.—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament. ’ 


April 15-17.—St. Joseph, Mo—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 


Association’s annual tournament. F. B, Cunningham, Sec’y. 

April 22-25.—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Mc- 
Donald, Sec’y. 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L, I.—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E, 
Shaner, Manager. 

May 1314.—Enid, Oklahoma Territory—Oklahoma Territorial 
Sportsmen’s Association tournament. 

May _ 13-16.—Oil City, Pa.—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F. 5. Bates, Cor. Sec’y. 

May 14-16.—Charleston, S. C.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W. G, Jeffords, Jr., Sec’y. 

May 20-22,—Ottumwa, la——lowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 

May 20-22,—Elwood, Ind—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind, 

May 20-22.—Wheeling, W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. 

May 21-23.—Springfield, S, D.—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s 
Association tournament, 

May 30.—Schenectady, N. Y.—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club. E. L. Aiken, Sec’y. ‘ 

May 30-31.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club, O. E. Fouts, Sec’y, 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. 

June 4-6.—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club. 

June 9-18.—Rochester, N. Y.—Forty-tourth annual tournament of 
ae New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 

ame. 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual 
tournament, 

June 17-20.—Warm Springs, Ga.—Annual Interstate tournament. 

June 18-19.—Bellefontaine, O.—Silver Lake Gun Club’s annual 
tournament. Geo. E. Maison, Sec’y. 

June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. C.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
Ee the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club. Jas. I. John- 
son, Sec’y. 

July 16-18.—Titusville, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T, L. 
Andrews, Sec’y. 

Aug. 13-14.—Brunswick, Me.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L. C. 
Whitmore, Sec’y. 

Newark, N, ).—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
day afternoon. 

Chicago, Ill.—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J, W. Meek, Sec’y, 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Feb. 5.—Interstate Park, L, I—S. M. Van Allen’s cash prize 
shoot at 20 birds, $10 entrance; handicaps 28 to 33yds; high guns; 
$75 added. 

Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 

ele ik. Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Café and hotel accommodations. 


DRIVERS AND. TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 


way, New York. 


Mr. F. P. Cunningham, of St, Joseph, Mo., secretary M. 5. 
A. S, A., writes us aS follows: ‘Please change our dates for the 
Missouri State amateur shoot from April 14, lo and 16 to April 15, 
16 and 17, as it has been mutually agreed between the Jansas 
Missouri and Nebraska amateur shooting associations to form a 
circuit in the order named for holding their annual tournaments, 
following the Grand American Handicap, to be held at Kansas 
City, Mo. ‘The above-named State associations expect the at- 
tendance at the Grand American Handicap to exceed any yet 
held, and no doubt a large proportion of the shooters will come 
prepared to attend these three State tournaments.” 


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The Austin Cartridge Company, of Cleveland, O., have issued a 
lithograph, a reproduction of a beautiful scene of the wild woods, 
from the brush of the famous artist, Mr. Edm. H. Osthaus. It 
portrays a sportsman taking a few moments of rest atid a soothing 
smoke as he inspects the ruffed grouse which have fallen to his 
good gun, -His two dogs, a setter and a pointer, have suspended 
all effort in the way of seeking game, though watchful of the 
doings of their master. On a tree close by is fastened a rustic 
sign bearing the legend, “The Austin Cartridge Company, Cleve- 
land, Ohio, U. S. A.” The title of the picture is “Comrades.” 


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Mr, John S. Wright, manager ot the Brooklyn Gun Club, has 
issued the programme for his target shoot, on the grounds of the 
“One hundred targets, handicap, . 
Thursday, Jan. 30. Three trophies to the three high guns. 
Entrance $2, targets included. Handicap allowance. The man- 
agement will also donate $10 in gold to the shooter making the 
highest score in this event, handicap allowances not being counted. 
The winner of this cash prize will not be entitled to win one of 
the trophies, Other sweeps to suit shooters. Practice shooting 
at 1 P. M. Main event at 1:30 P. M. sharp.” 


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Mr. S. M. Van Allen’s: name appears as the first entry of the 
Grand American TNandicap at live birds, and Mr. W. Fred 
Quimby’s name appears second. The event thus has an actual 
beginning, Thus Long Island and St. Louis, the East and the 
West, start on practically even terms, for Mr, Van Allen’is a 
resident of Jamaica, I. I., and Mr. Quimby, of St. Louis. There 
is quite a prevalent belief that the entries will number between 
350 and 400. The estimate is made on the fact that in the West 
there are many men who know how to shoot and dare to shoot. 


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The local scribe, who deigned to cover the Brenham tourna- 
ment, can put more color in a report than all the regular reporters 
together. It often is a difficult matter to describe a very fast bird, 
but the following, written by the aforementioned scribe, does it 
perfectly: “‘In the handicap out of 15 birds he got 13 of these 
old tough blue twisters. Nothing but a bolt of thunder could 
kill one of the devilish things, and that could not come any ways 
near hitting one of them, because when the trap is sprung they 
fly so-fast a man can’t keep up with his eyes,” 


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- Concerning trapshooting matters of San Francisco, the Breeder 
and Sportsman says: “A consolidation of several gun clubs is 
under serious consideration by many shooters who have come to 


the conclusion that we have too many local organizations, This is 
the reason for too many conflicting interests. By coming together 


it is urged that expenses can be cut down and 
programine for the season can be carried out.” 


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Mr. Alfred Griesemer, of Allentown, Pa., announces that a two- 
day shoot will ‘be held at the Duck Farm Hotel Feb: 12 and 13. 
The first day is a target day, on which shooting commences at — 
9 o’clock. The second day has a live-bird programme. The main 
event is at 15 birds, 90 entrance. A valuable trophy will be 


awarded to the one making highest average. All s i 
v it C s portsmen in- 
vited. Miss Annie Oakley will be in attendance on both days. 


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a ME. Elmer E, Shaner, under date of Jan. 25, writes us as follows: 

lease announce to the readers of Forest AND STREAM that the 
Interstate Association has made arrangements to give a tournament 
at Charleston, S. C., May 14, 15 and 16, under the auspices of the 
Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club; one at Raleigh, N. C., June 25 
and 26, under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club, and one at 


Brunswick, Me., Aug. 13 and 1 spi ; 
oh Cone g. 15 and 14, under the auspices of the rarer 
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Mr, Paul R. Litzke, of Little Rock, Ark. i veli 
; : } L + 1S now a travelin 
salesman for the Peters Cartridge Company, of Cincinnati, O. He 
Was present af the reunion of the Peters Cartridge Company’s 
lieutenants, at Cincinnati recently. His territory is Arkansas and 
paelsetett Siete ay Litzke pas ae extensive acquaintance among 
hooters an as been actively identified with 
shooting for some years, “ ' i : ae a 
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Mr. F. C. Riehl, in “Mississippi Valley Notes,” 
columns, states that there will be no tourhament at Hot Springs 
Ark., this year. This information will evoke a feeling of regret 
among the many trapshooters who in the past enjoyed the Hot 
Springs reunion in a climate free from the rigors of the Northern 
climate, 

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The friends of Mr. Eugene Dupont, of the world fam 

; y} i amous house 

of Messrs. E, I. Dupont de Nemours & Co,, Wilmington, Del., 
will be profoundly grieved on learning that he is seriously il] 


with an attack of pneumonia. It is to be fervently ho 
1 1 : ed that the 
attack ip not so serious as rumored, cs Ve 


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Mr, R, O. Heikes, who recently recovered from a serious illness 
Was present at the Sunn} South tournament at Brenham Texas, 
won unlimited admiration from the good residents by the ver- 
satility he displayed in expert shooting in the daytime and playing 
the banjo in the evening, 

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Mr. G, G, Williamson, secretary-treasurer of the Tra hooti 
League of Indiana, writes us as follows: ‘The Zoo ROAvaE GEE 
Club, of Elwood, Ind., members of the Trapshooters’ League of 


Indiana, have been granted as dates for thei 
Moy seer yee heir annual tournament 


a more satisfactory 


in our trap 


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Mr. A. A. Schoverling, whose address is P, O. Box 475, New 
York, and who ts secretary of the club mentioned, informs us HAE 


the Richmond Gun Club will, hold all-day shoot Lincoln’ 
Birthday, Feb. 12, and Washington’s Birthday, Feb. 9. ae 


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Ii the target contest for the Peters Arms Company trophy at — 


the shoot of the Cincinnati Gun Club, on Jan. 25, ‘Phil’? (C. W. 


ie high man with a score of 45 out of 50, made from the 
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The shoot to be held by Mr. S. M. Van Allen at Interstate Park 
on Feb. 5, the main prize of which is $75 in gold, is exciting 
much interest, and promises to be a success in every particular: 


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From the forecasts, which are alike in respect to the next. Grand - 


American Handicap at live birds being a gigantic affair, the con- 
testants in numbers will be like an army with banners, 


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Messrs, A. Gardner, of Brenham, Texas, and R. O, Heikes, of 
Dayton, O., haye agrerd to shoot a match at 100 live birds at 
Brenham, on Feb. 5, foi an important purse. : 


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Mr. Geo. E. Maison, the secretary, informs us that the Sil 
Lake Gun Club, of Bellefontaine, ‘pies will hold its aargal tains 
ment on June 18 and 19, 


BernarpD WATERS. 


Boston Athletic Association, © 


_ Boston, Jan. 25.—The Boston Athletic Association Gun Club 
is to hold a handicap tournament, on Saturdays through February, 
for members only. 

The first 60 targets shot at on each day to count, and at the 
end of the month the contestant having the highest average plus 
handicap wins the prize. 

If a contestant is absent more than one Saturday through the 
month, his average will not be taken, and he therefore forfeits 
his chances of winning. 

Class A receives 12 added to final average: Class B receives 18 
added to final ayerage; Class C receives 25 added to final average. 

All targets will be thrown from expert traps, at unknown angles, 

We would be pleased to have you publish our scores for this 
tournament, as well as the ones inclosed of our last shoot, held 
on Saturday, Jan. 25, as follows: ; 


eyes “ 23 5 _ Shot 

argets: ; 5151515 at. Broke. Av, 
OQ ERS Uke erent eer 12 14 13:13 52 60 87 
"The (hs eBaseter bist ee eer ie, 15 14 11 12 52 60 87 
(GIR BALGlaricneereeece sess cton 1 woes 13 12 12 13 50 60 83. 
Pica MVCVAP nik ohat sy pe phloem hee ta 13 12 14 11 50 60 .83 
ET SBRVED OGLE. wee ss er edeekttie 8 13 11 13 12 49 60 -82 
SOSA eC eee arene ta acetone oer) 12 14 12 11 49 60 82 
dB OG Sa el ee Rp te 12°12 12 11 47 60 18 
Wage Biarirerecse erties ree witecer et irs Ii 11 12 12 46 (0 ate 
IDS We sHidwardsee eit erent enetannsteps 10 14 10 11 45 €() 75 
UATISHITIO nae tees, Ae os ee. BoP he 1112 9 12 44 6) 13 
Gt Te (ainters). Qoaaaaanene sceheae 121310 8 43 60 -72 
IEP AEE MV Lit Helin tt nesito seteorste a terete 10 11 10 11 42 60 .70 
1) Dewey? plitetee see tet eta es pew re 2 81011 Al 60 68 
W B Goodwin....... PicsNie cs eae flee 01210 9 41 60 -68 ~ 
C A Parker 91110 9 59 60 65 
( ie PIB ate Feria Se ee RE Roa 10 812 9 39 60 60 
R L Warner - 1010 $11 3 60 65 
M L Pratt stats LO ere of Lat 39 60 65 
*Rierover at ea . 14 13 12 14 Dap GOL | 488 
TABI HIEE © ARAIIS § s5oncmesonae Asean San 13 13 11 10 AT 60 86.78 4 
FET BEB ET aoe ey aaa see etal re ere 13 14 13 13 53 60 88 

*Guests. J. H, Daceerr, 


Capt. B, A. A. Gun Club. - 


. Take inventory of the good things in this issue 
of Forest AND Stream. Recall what a fund was — 
given last week. Count on what is to come nest 
week. Was there ever im all the world a more 
abundant weekly store of sportsmen’s reading? - 


S. M. 
SCOTES follow: 


at the monthly shoot of the Emerald Gun Clu 
and Capt. Dreyer. 


ON LONG ISLAND. 


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Emerald Gun Club. 


el . 21—There were twenty-seven contestants 

Brooklyn, L. f., Jan ee GF these 
were new members, namely, Messrs, W. J. Corbett, P. Wray 
Bear Dr,’ O'Connell and the Jamaica crackerjack, 
an Allen, scored straight. The birds were good. The 


Henry, 28.......-. 1021120001— 6 


Y, { 2 
“Tom Short, 98. ./1*11#221222— 8 Dr Stillman,’ 28....2121210*2i— 8 
Dr _O’Connell, 31,.2222222222-10 *Mull, 28...... , »» .0212001020— 5. 
choverling, 28..22*2222222— 9 H Quinn, 28........ 0200121010— 5 

ot Hudson, 28.....2112120222-9 A Donncort, 25....02*2020100— 4 
RR Regan, 25........ 112120000I— 6 W = Catton, 28...... 0212012120— 7 
r W Joerger, 28...... 2021292211 9 P Wray, 28...... + » -2202002020— 5 
C Wash, 28.......-201*222020— 6 HH Dressel, 28.....2110011112— 8 
F Krall, 25.........0202201*01— 5 J Rathjen, 28......002100000*— 2 
BEG) NG T3288 cass 0210200022— 5 © Hillmer, 25......01011101*0— 5 


Moore, 28........0200201112— 6 


Roberts, 28....... 2010202022— 6 F Hansman, 28.....0000210012— 4 
Corbett, 25...1202102100— 6 ‘ 
est. 


New Utrecht Gun Club. 


Interstate Park, L. I., Jan. 25.—The matter of chief interest in 
the competition was the shoot for the monthly average, here 
were but two contestants who had any peeretbis chance, namely, 
Messrs. H, Edey and C, A, Lockwood (Ramapo), who tied on 100 

er cent. The winner will receive a silver cup. They shot the 

mal shoot of the month, tieing on a straight score. Then began 
a shoot-off which was of extraordinary closeness and pertinacity, 
continuing to the 27th bird. ' . 

The birds were good, yet most of Mr. Lockwood’s kills were 
with one barrel. In fact, of the 87 shot at in the monthly average 
event and its shoot-off, 29 were one-barrel kills. Out of a total of 
64 shot at for the day, 41 were killed with one barrel. He centered 
his birds with admirable precision, his work being notably quick, 
clean and skillful. It will also be noted that the shooting as a 
whole was of a high order. The birds were a fair lot, with quite 
a number of very fast ones, 


Monthly averages, 10 birds: 


C A Ramapo...... 1111111112—10  H Edey.............2112212211—10 
Shoot-off. Ramapo won in the 27th round: 
Cove eetnd oes Moen dieeiee eet aS Ue evo e > 2112120211 21221111211222120 
SEANAD Ns s.ca ee Sap ee oe Beas ptae egntR TERN Taal BAe, ook 111112211121119211 221111112 


No, 2. No, 3. 
G B Ritchie, 28...........0.005 eEpdiseyect hye 21121217 | 2141112 7 
T Riley, 28........ rg ecten cine esr eopuaues ..2221212 7: 211220w 
VetGattig, ORs lladdssceteas fee Tees 22192127 92119317 
aie OR ee eels TS feces AM eee on 22122117 1129291- -7 
Hamilton, 30.....0.0.0c0s000. = ees eC 0111216 11221117 
C A Ramapo, 28............ ««+1221221—7 11222217 
ITS DD) GOs das cose veka ..221211t—7 ~—-1211212 -7 
B Waters, 28............005 Date 100122w 


Shoot-off of Nos. 2 and 3. J. P. Kay won No. 2; Ramapo won 


o vo: 
G B Ritchie.........222120 JP Kay,.......0+0+ 2211221110122 
J V Cattus..........22110 C A Ramapo........1121222110120 


Trap at Dexter Park. 
Brooklyn, L. I., Jan. 25—At Dexter Park to-day matches were 


shot as follows: 
Twenty-five birds: 
PL Creamenr: 1. teste rete deditegiadals 1411221201112101202112120—21 
pred oe EArt top ou les oak slaaltattce nite eared «= -0190101111111200221122193—97 
mSchliehiante vet ect teers ee cie se owoee ee 1220221221001200012000111—16 
Ie VAN ase rete oirlleen es Woniaheces tee ++ ++. «1111220022220000002010001—13 
Five birds: . 
Creamer .......- wetice wed 21122—5 Shevlin ...........0- +<-»-00200—1 
HEA AIE Fo nisi se ut ae memes! OLUL0—2 Selrematn Wassseereee) sry 01000—1 


Crescent Athletic Club, 


Bay Ridge, L. I., Jan. 25.—Competition was active and pleasing 
from start to finish. Mr. W. Marshall was victor for the 
January cup, though in to-day’s shoot for it Mr. F. T. Bedford, 
Jx., won with a full score. The conditions were 50 targets, expert 
traps, handicap allowances: 


First 25. Second 25, Grand 

Hdep. Brk. Total, Hdcp. Brk. Total. Total. 
Pet Bedford, JIterice.en 4 2a "25 42-2 2h 50 
W W Marshall....... sane oO 15 21 6 19 25 46 
H M Brigham............ 0 22 22 0 23 23 45 
rey KWeyess eens Sol eee 2. 1S eer DE oO: 42 
LL M Palmer, Jr.....::... 3 19 22, 3 15 18 40 
LC Hopkins... .....5...5 .) 6 shh 6 10 16 27 


Messrs. Marshall and Palmer scored a win in the contest for the 
Sykes cup. Their past wins and good word indicate favorable 
chances for ultimate victory. The conditions are 25 targets, expert 
traps, handicap allowances added: 


Hdcp. Brk. Total. Hdcep. Brk. Total. 
24 . 6 13 19 


Marshall ....... 6 18 Hopkins ...... 
Palmer ..s..0..- 3 17 (20-44 Chapman .......8 16 2449 
ai Haie cea ee eee oS 

GYCESE Masta 2 els 20—43 


For trophy, 25 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added: 


: Hdcp. Brk. Total. , Hdep. Brk. Total. 
O'Brien ....ce.- 6 22 25 Skelly t.:09.54. 0 23 23 
Chapman ...... 8 16 24 Bedford ....... 4 16 20 
Brigham ..... ad 23 23 #Vanderveer ..;.°5 14 19 
Marshall ....... 6 17 23 Stake acs ese 6 ae) 19 


For trophy, 25 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added: 

Hdep. Brk, Total. _ Hdep. Brk. Total. 

Bedford ........ 5 24 25 Brigham ....... 0 21 21 
Marshall .....,. 6 16 22 

For trophy, 15 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added: 

Fi Hdcep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Total. 

MLO PITS) osu 3 9 ty Bedford ........ 0 i 1 


Brigham ....... 0 14 
Shoot for trophy, same conditions: 
Hdcp. Brk. Total. 

Bedford 14 


Hdep, Brk, Total. 
spare all 14 14 
Marshall 


15 Braham setae sO 
pee 3 12 15 
Shoot-off, same conditions: Bedford 15, Marshall 12. 
Shoot for trophy, same conditions: 


Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Total, 


Brigham .,..,.. 0 13 1B: Palmer “Sass. nce i 8 9 
Dcelly on wtersicetre 0 12 12 Vanderveer .... 2 6 8 
Marshall ....... 8 9 12 Hopkins ....... 3 5 3 
Bedford ........ 0 9 g 

Shoot for trophy, same conditions: 

. Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Toial. 
Brigham ....... 0 13 13 OMBTICT ease secs 8 ii 
Skelly ...5.20,2-;0 12 12 Chapman ...... 4 8 12 
Bedford ....... 0 12 2 : 


Shoot for trophy, same conditions: 


: Hdcp. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk. Total, 
Brigham ......0 1 Di Stace e553: asecels Pes 6 9 
Hopkins ....... 3 6 9 OwWrien Telisess 3 5 8 
Marshall, ....... 3 6 9 


Sweepstakes, 25 targets: Skelly 24, O’Brien 18, Vanderveer 16, 
Stake 15, Blake 7. E 

Match, 25 targets: Brigham 23, Skelly 22. 

Match, same conditions: Brigham 22, Skelly 21. 


Capt. A. W. Money Vs, G, H, Piercy. 


Interstate Park, L. I., Jan. 24—The match between Capt. A. W. 
Money and Mr. G. H. Piercy, at 25 live birds, for a purse of $50, 
resulted in a victory for the latter by a score of 24 to 22, The 
three birds lost by Capt.. Money were dead out. The scores fol- 
ow: 


Capt Money, 30....... A pe ae 21221**2219311112"21 91999 99 

G Piercy, 30,.:.... yrds A 0 AE ba bee tens 12221220292999991 9999992994 
Ten birds, $5, high guns, 30yds.; : 

Wan Allen 0.22, 211122222210 Ramapo ..... seantas 211102*210— 7 

phanriin gt escs ate eecs 2122712211— 9 Wm Hopkins ...... 2012112212— 9 

Capt Money........1*112211*2— 8 Pierey .......... ++ 2-2*22211122— 9 

Banks) 240 ...-2- 0. clw Morfey ......00.+0-2122222299—10 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


enty birds, $10, high guns: 
va Ga pees # saa ee ATA vowvases cess ol1102212211 299999999 19 
Whitin. Suen sso eek MU neEr en es « « »22222222222222022202—19 
Capt Money, 30. -0120222010w. 
PELCVomrovGr cipe cnc micas 0221121112211212121"*—18 
Ramapo, 28...0ssessecceeseees Fes vt A .2211292#222291229299 14 
Fanning, 30..:...... SOAS at hee + » 622121122122221021210—18 
Parker, 28....... Piktess+;s Leis ctp ate bret ope s io etteee 222.222'2.2220222022122—18 
tch at 25 live birds, $) entrance, birds extra; high guns; 
Many Sis eee ninnieeesla totais terl seeeeeeees + -1202222202222722212222922-—22 
ER RMIES pera atet A ck ature bialeie'o/s aieisisere mia ocehi dia ane 0011201101001w 
Gapt. Money oi... .tieces ssn tees scene ov» ¢-22211*2012222120101012202—20 
Priitiawltor 2 oieivcns+cssis see sane 2112222202222212020102222—21 


tch, Wednesday, Jan. 22.—Morfey vs. Van Allen: 

S$ was ‘Allen BS ne if 2 ph 7 .111220211212"122111111122—23 
SeNMotteyiaccrnssts bvtrrves een tnartid eee» 2122111 2122111 21222212001—23 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
nee eS 


Hudson Gun Club. 


Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 26.—The scores made at the Hudson 
Gun Club’s shoot to-day are appended: 


Events: TOO eee eee als 

Targets: 15°25 25 25 25 26 26 10 
Dae” Reka nhtes tac cee ee eee soe peels 8 20 23 19 .. 15 12 10 
IBSTOW IT Ra geen een tees re nese eres Eee 10 eS 1S PI SS 80 910 
RRevnoldsevcuna ts canon ao Me cuties vintoleme eee TEAR IG 33, 19 4, 
CONRAN Secs angie: Peete so reed peste! Seemale owllemel ye 2 oe 
Elaretininies oats t eve Pete Frise vise ee ee i 1B. 18 
Hughes .......... Snes dpe iceimiestes Te te ye te He 
TEGMINY) fasted ehhtt paces se oe eree Lhe S 


J. L. H., Sec’y, 
Carlstadt Gun Club, 


Carlstadt, N, J., Jan. 25.—Shooting began at, 1 o'clock; 1,500 
targets were thrown. Mr, T. Baron won the handicap prize. 


Events: Ne + Ie ee Oo ie To 

Targets 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 
SUPSal eee nhte ce eres oa een on So See ee eee es. aes 

Vent ii of .20 25 errs Settee eyes dae See i a A ee Uae es ke 
(Sarrtas ee itelertdata corm cette ce «see ey Ui fe ee ey OS) 
"RAG GRae eile cen eines sotabeaaees nate ee TES arolcl0” 28 8. 8G LOG 
Tygert .ssceses TEES ye My ee oe eet a ee eee a re 
DEAULE™ See Lclenclel Setar ws eee hte AE edi a aS : 
Dodsa\s sass Foy nee Yor ce atic ents ec Se ales ws Gh i 
arom Bevass ssred a hs ieee Larork-P raWaT-arnik.b.aTtehe Leet ih ey aera yaa. SF aha 
GaVonrienSerke we. .s esses: cenitestidde . 9 A010 To 9 St 10: 9 
UESEETE ay 9)45 89 AA SAEs Se #4 RS i a a ay 
INTECETEL” oa saiayre BR St etrent se eta nee ae ae ae A cect deat oh 
Roemer ..... metre ats POUT eee toy Bark de ek Gat OME 


Handicap event, 25 targets: Super, 4, 18; Greiff, 2, 22; Banta, 2, 
20; Rider, 4, 28; Tygert, 7, 21; Sedore, 7, 23; Dods, 4, 23; Baron, 3, 
25; C. Von Lengerke, 0, 24; Krug, 4, 17; Niederer, 10, 16; Roemer, 
9, 19; J. WVohs, 10, 20. 

Following matches were shot off: 

No. 1, at 25 targets: Krug 21, Baron 22. - 

No. 2: Baron 22, Banta 19. 

Greiff, standing on his head and Rider on his feet, Rider al- 
lowed Greiff 4 targets; prize, box of cigars: Rider 17, Greiff 18, 


East Side Gun Clb, 


Newark, N. J., Jan. 23.—The scores made at the shoot of the 
East Side Gun Club to-day follow: 7 
Five birds, $2.50 entrance, two moneys: 


Mchorky: epee sss ae oie eek 22112—5 ~Koegel j....:..05: big eet 01222—4 
Goluniithi..urpsechcceeeee 2*222—4 Hlassinger ...1.:.....0005 10122—4 
@apt Money, .....:...4..2 2*10I—3 C Von Lengerke ........ 22221—5 
Club shoot, 10 birds, $4.50 entrance, handicap: 
Schorty, 29..5...... 0221112111— 9 J Fischer, 27........ 2*11122220— & 
Koegel, 29...,...... 2220222222— 9 Capt Money, 29....1012*22112— 8 
J _H Moore, 27....- 12011*1112— 8 Won Lengerke, 29..2222*92129— 9 
Rarboldt, 27....... 0022021012— 6 Colquitt, 29 ..... + .2200222022— 7 
Lauthauser, 27..,,.2111222210— 9 J Jones, 27.....-... 121011200*—~ 6 
Dr Hudson, 27..... 1011112020= 7 fassinger, 29......2212121920— 9 


In a practice shoot Annie Oakley killed 14 out of 15. 


Peters Cartridge Company’s Annual Reunion. 


Cincinnati has had within her gates during Jan. 14 to 17 that 
small host of traveling men who represent the Peters Cartridge 
Company on the road in the capacity of salesmen and shooters. 
While the purpose of this assembly was principally to talk over 
business and Jay plans for the ensuing year, there were many little 
enjoyments that will endear this meeting to the memory of the 
fortunate participants. 

Jan, 14 was reporting time, and that morning at roll call all were 
found present but Jack Parker, Capt. Bartlett and J. W. Osborne, 
the latter being delayed by a belated train, and arriving that even- 
ing. In the morning of this day, after shaking hands all round 
and getting acquainted, there was a general review of the work 
of the past year and the mapping out of a general plan of cam- 
paign for the present year by the president and other officers, of 
the company. 

After spending a pleasant hour or more in discussing an elegant 
spread at Schuler’s Café, a photographer was visited and a group 
picture was taken. Another business session was held until dinner 
time. After dinner the party attended the theater, the guests of 
Mr. R. S. Waddell, agent for the Dupont and Hazard powder com- 
panie$. In addition to Mr. Waddell and the Peters Cartridge Com- 
pany party, there were also present, Fred J. Waddell, Luther 
Squiers and C. W. Phellis. The play, a farce comedy, “Are you 
a_ Mason?” was thoroughly enjoyed by all, and after its conclusion 
all dpatied for their respective hotels, after thanking Mr. Waddell 
for : e pleasant and enjoyable evening they had spent as his 
guests. y 

Wednesday, the 15th, the entire party visited the company’s 
plant at King’s Mills, Ohio. . 

The time passed all too quickly, and Juncheon arrived Jong 
before any one was aware it was so late. The repast was served 
at the company’s mills’ hotel, and here a bounteous table ap- 
peased the appetites of all. While everybody was actively engaged 
in satisfying the’inner man. Mr. J. E. Bolmer, assistant manager 
of the Peters Cartridge Company, had quietly gotten together the 
King’s Mills’ Band, all its members employees. of the company. 
The band appeared on the-scene most unexpectedly and serenaded 
the diners while the feast was at its height. This proved a most 
delightful surprise, and was greatly enjoyed by all present, 

That night a banquet was tendered the members of the party by 
the company at the Business Men’s Club. This, too, was an en- 
joyable event, and, unlike similar affairs, took place at a seasonable 
hour, and was therefore over before the wee small hours of morn- 
ing.. Mr. J. H. McKibben, secretary of the company, sat at the 
head of the table and was master of ceremonies, while at the foot 
sat Mr. F. C. Tuttle, treasurer of the company. Speeches were 
the order of the occasion, After a few kind remarks by Mr. Mc- 
Kibben on behalf of the company, Tom Keller spoke in his usual 
able and capable manner. Mr. Harry Lemcke spoke interestingly, 
and among other things, took occasion to cite the characteristic 
liberality and urbanity with which the company had always treated 
him. Each one present had his little say, and all voiced the senti- 
ments so ably expressed by Mr. Keller and Mr. Lemcke, and the 
unanimous expression of loyalty on the part of every one brought 
a generous response from Mr. McKibben and Mr. Tuttle on he- 
half of the company. 

During the preceding two days considerable friendly bantering 
had been indulged in regarding the respective shooting ability of 
the various members of the party. In order to appease this spirit 
of friendly rivalry, it was decided to divide the party into ‘two 
teams of ten men each and shoot a purely friendly race of 50 
targets per man on the grounds of the Cincinnati Gun Club. This 
event took place Thursday, the 16th, and was highly interesting, 
though the weather conditions were most adverse, it being cold 
and raw, with an occasional snow flurry, which made the light 
very deceptive. Manager Gambell has a reputation for throwing 
hard targets, and he more than maintained this on the occasion. 

As the company is now loading Dupont, Hazard. E. C. & 
Schultze, as well as King’s Smokeless, all these various brands 
were used indiscriminately by the contestants, and thus in 4 
practical way the electrical tests of the previous day were backed 
up, confidence in the goods confirmed and many talking points 
marked down for the future. 

The visiting salesmen and employees participating were as fol- 
lows: Maurice Kaufman, New Orleans; Charles Spencer, St. 


+ 


Louis; J. W. Osborne, Albany, Ga,; Thomas H. Keller, New York; 
H, B. Lemeke, Savannah, Ga.; T. F. Norton, Kansas City; d 
Harris, Atlanta, Ga.; L. T, Wade, Nacodoches, Tex.; . S. French, 

ackson, O.; T, H. Keller, Jr., New York; Paul R. Litzke, Little 

ock, Ark.; Geo. Benjamin, New York; W. M. Locke, Pittsburg, 
Pa.; J. H. Mackie, Cincinnati 0.; F. C. Tuttle, Cincinnati, O.; 
L. R. Myers, Cincinnati, O.; Cc. M. Peters, Cincinnati, QO.; Frank 
See, King’s Mills, O.; M. F. Lindsley, King’s Mills, O.; N. L. 
Richmond, King’s Mills, O. } 

Mr. O. E, Peters, president of the Peters Cartridge Company, 
was present, and watched the shooting with much interest. In 
addition to the above, Mr. Harvey ap AN of the Hunter Arms 
Company, and Mr. A. W. du Bray, of the Parker Gun Company, 
were also present, mingling with the party. The following are the 
scores oF ges matches: 

First Match: x 

Mackie 45, Kaufman 39, Spencer 39, Osborne'30, Keller 29, Tuttle 
24, Lemcke 35, King 38, Richmond 37, Roll 42; total 368. 

Norton 46, Hatris 41, Myers 28, Wade 42, French 34, Keller, Jr., 
35, Litzke 17, See 48, Peters 39, Lindsley 37; total 362. 

Second match: . ‘ 

Mackie 47, Kaufman 44, Spencer 42, Osborne 36, Keller 29, Tut- 
tle 31, Lemcke 33, King 36, Richmond 89, Roll 33; total 370. 

Norton 44, Harris 40, Wade 39, Myers 24, French 31, Keller Jr., 
27, Litzke 24, Peters 40, Lindsley 41, See 45; total 355, 

This shoot closed the programme, and the boys departed for 
their territories full of enthusiasm, assurance and loyalty. As one 
of them remarked, “If we can impress the trade as well as the 
Peters Cartridge Company have impressed us, there will be no 
end to the good we can do.” 3 
Paut R, LitzKe, 


The Brenham (Tex.) Tournament. 


Tue tournament of the Brenham Gun Club, at Brenham, Texas, 
Jan. 20 to 25, had not the attendance in numbers which was ex- 
pected; yet it was a busy gathering in respect to competition. 

The most important event, the Sunny South Handicap, at 25 
live birds, $20 entrance, birds extra, 26 to 30 yds., commenced at 
11:30 o’clock. Besides Pode Be davideds there was a 
trophy for the winner. Following are the preliminaries: 

1 Bi ht live birds: Jackson & Nolle 8, Hill 6, Thompson 6, Brady 

Chapman 8. Atchinson 8, Graber 5, Burnes 7, Gardner 7, Tucker 
6, Spicer 6, Heikes 8. d 

Twelve live birds: Jackson 6, Nolle 12, Hill 11, Thompson 8, 
Brady 12, Chapman 11, Atchinson 10, Graber 8, Burnes 11, Gard- 
ner li, Tucker 11, Klatt 4, Vermillion 11, Spicer 10, Heikes 10.. 

Sunny South Handicap: 


VaeKSOnS pas vases ee wists cyl eee eee tceeaa tines 0211111*01201210011110211—18 
Dr eH eet dessa Bat ate ster viabe Whaleta a ectanen 2222922100121222022222222—22 
Nolle ....... is Sr Pe etel i clore alate crea piel eee are 2111210220020211111211202—20 
Giitere saradeces tates out nciimestin ees seed ae 229012122221 2*22221 21229022 
Chapman’ 2...c cence sees c eres secee gee teeees 10211122231*1212012222212 22 
levered etna. sememaeas siiesesteele bili ctals 20010022212202001001 w 
EAE CHIGOTIN My atctecoistnints tataieert a 2 ta ae Mnverdus erelateiste 22%**11211222*22122022111—20 
Taeaalety) eeyrasermene Oe er ots sae ce ccted 0210212*12222110202222212—20 
TUG era bes Doe's ee meinaee Smash sole ealeeleie cid 2220022121112222222120020—20 
Gardner «......- 222220202222*222111222221—22 
Thompson ......--..» . « -122*001121001102"12222222 18 
LADY ced cccensccceececcenesseceeesses ese rs tone220000222210%21002121—17 
Heikes ....... een faeries pitt sr bane sce 2222222212210222212102220—22 
BUITTIGGn Sas pe ete cess te conte ood cial Aur naetneiebetn ae 21222021012202*2222221312—21 


Heikes, Hill, Gardner Spicer, Chapman tied on 22. In the shoot- 
off Hill missed in the second round, Chapman in the fifth, Heikes 
in the seventh, leaving Spicer the winner. 


Seven birds, $5: 


Fackson ..sssseeeesees1I212I—T Rowe ......--.--. A attp ore 0110212—5 
“Ingraham ....--sse+ess 02121216 Gardner ..........2s00: 02022225 
Hill 2212112—7 Thompson ............. 2022212—6 
Heikes : NEVURTEGE 9 Wete.a cloth al aiate wire 2222020—5 
Brady Dhompson) Ci. .cceesss 21211217 

i Einipe s¢itcn teeters 2722202—5 


There was a falling off on the third day in the number of live- 
bird contestants: The following is the lst of target events with 
their scores: 


Events: i) 2a 3.24088 Events: 123456 
Targets: 15 2015 201520 Targets: 15 20 15 20 15 20 
Ingraham ..... 141512161418 Lockett ....... 13 18 10 15 15 16 
ackson .....-- 111111201316 Tucker ........1315 81311 4 
fii UNF pdedvecs 10 1511161316 Brady ......... 1018 111611 17 
McClennaham.. 13 18 12191219 Heikes ......... 15 16 14 17 14 19 
Atchinson ..... 131612171418 Folks .......... 1014171 1611 11 
Gardner ....... 14 18 12141318 Clover Leaf....1015 91511 15 
Spicer set. cess $11 1315 910 -Spaeks ¢.....% 121614111414 
Heat Weecsr ans 181115161218 Miller ...... ««» 11 17 10 17 12 16 
CA. SS TR TG aa fe eSaniers: Aeats ss 7138 7161216 
Burnes .....-.-- 121513151217 Beckham te = AD AT. 
Wirran eee - 91817141414 Rowe .......... 1013 11:17 12 11 
=e 


At a banquet on Wednesday evening, Mr. Spicer, of St. Louis, 
was presented with the trophy which he had won in the Sunny 
South Handicap. ‘ 

The cashier’s office was ably filled by Mr. Fred C. Whitney, of 
Des Moines, Ia. 


Cowan vs, Buckwalter. 


PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 22.—A close match at 50 live birds, $50 
a side, was shot to-day at Belmont Driving Park, between the 
shooting celebrities Messrs. James Cowan, of Manayunk, and Wm. 
Buckwalter, of Royersford. The wind was nearly right-quartering. 
The birds were mixed in quality, though there were many excellent 
ones. The rise was 28yds.; boundary about 40yds. Buckwalter had 
something the hardest of the draw. The race at 50 birds resulted 
in a tie on 43. In the shoot-off Buckwalter withdrew in the eighth 
round, having lost three birds, while his competitor had killed 
straight. Mr. C. E. Geikler acted as referee. The contest com- 
menced at 2:10 and ended at 3:45. Scores: 


Trap score type—Copyright, roo2z, by Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 
AA ATA TTAGEARATIA TOTAAL ~ 


Buckwalter.....2 222 12202122290222%929922 * 9-21 
AADSTCACA TOARSTAST TARGET HOH 
2222222220102229022222992 2 2 2-99-43 
CRIETASSIACTTAA LT TIPTI teeta 

Cowan, ,...0-5.2022222299299*29929999939992 * 9-99 
APAATTTTTCACTAA LAT LT EAATOA 
222222029222920*25*229222 29-91-48 

Shoot-off : 
: A ¢ 

Birckwurlters cat Utell seis eiecactiiictee fds 4iaase ae es aes Ye hee 

NWOT THLaAY 

COWAT crimes cnna 49,60 4 dts ior acstaeral eters Sbases-stpsittvoansear 2 2PDBADW 


Frankford Gun Club, 


FrRANKFORD, Pa., Jan. 25—On its grounds at Somerdale th 
second live-bird shoot of the Frankford Gun Club was well aes 
tended. The birds were good. The conditions were 10 live birds, 
handicap rise, $5 entrance, optional sweep, five best scores in six 
shoots to receive a dividend of the club prize of $40, according to 
the Rose system. The scores: 


Schwartz, 30........ 0221221222 9 Meyers, 26.......... 2011110 

Morris, 28,........! 0221221292— 9 Kind Satay eee oe TOUTIORIeE S 
elixs a0), Eaieart. ++2212222022— 9 Murry, 26........... 0022210111— 7 
Ridge, 30 .-...c..5. 1222122002— 8 Hoffman, 28 ....... 1220011022— 7 
Edwards, 30........2221222200— 8 Morrison, 26........ 0211011000— 5 
Wayne, °26.......%. 2011012212— 8 Dalton, 28.......... 0290220022— 5 


After the shoot the regular annual meeting was Held and the 
following officers were elected: G. Redifer, President* A. Soist- 
man, Vice-President; Robert Krier, Treasurer; John Ploucher, Jr. 
Secretary; W. K. Parke, Assistant Secretary; W. H. Johnston, 
Captain; E. Betson, Assistant Captain: D. Meyers, Scorer: C. 
Puff, Assistant Scorer. The Board of Governors are G, Redifer 
Howard George, Robert Krier, David Meyers, J. Ploucher, Jr. ( 


All communications intended for Forest anp STREAM should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


The Hamilton Gun Club. 


HAmiItton, Canada, Jan, 21.—I append the scores of Jan. 16 and 
li, the last days’ shooting at the Hamilton Gun Club’s tourna- 
ment, and regret that illness has prevented their going forward 
more promptly. Both live birds and target scores haye now been 
checked to both the secretary’s books and original score sheets, 
and averages will be forwarded at once along with notes, etc., 
from my book: 


Events; 15 16-17 18 19 20 21 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 

Targets: 15.20 20 15 20 2015 10 20 15 20 20 15 20 20 15 
Farbainn: W6s.o at 71515 9171513 7 .. 13 19.20 13 18 17 13 
WHEZ OL iin Shenton s2. Jo SD IS 121317 9 yes ae Fa eS ere re ai 

Glky 165440. shaiaaeeue’ Ase: | Maseeek <8 38 ee! x 
F Westbrook, 19....... 13 18 19 12 16 17 10 8 18 11 19 16 14 17 16 10 
H. D) Bates) 19207 % 8 13 2018 14191712 9 201217 16 11 16 15 12 
Fulford, 200... .22..%. of S08 16 81614 9.... ora-seasey ae 
Wiocd Esher cece cennens eo: arid bie pues! bi eg EeMRMP) epee eens BS 
Griffith, 20............5. 14 18 16 11 1717 12 7 16 14 18 18 12 20 18 12 
Panning, 20.0... ..s.00.s 13 16 18 14 1418 11 9 1413 19 19 14 19 20 12 
Kirkover, 20... .0id2s00- 13.14.1615 1717 9 817 12 17°20 13 20.19 15 
Gonover, 18) Hinsdale 13 19 19 121617 12 9 .. 11 18 14 13 14 18 14 
WO PEOT NW (Shee cate shee favtary- LE sshd, hdarertare aye ds uly ee eye pretence LG es 
Satay, lias.4 ts. eee 13°18 18 12:13 12 11 812... 1. 41212 17-11 
SGanes lieu: es ststca a AS EG aD new LIE A sate rua EVEL dalss kas 
CrAwiord PAG. .ck ces see ES Neon Soldh an doa Grae 
le CHET WLS Ss ns nc masse) he EDS LY Re ant, Naas he se Reece he ae 
Phillips) Wit ceccare ete 18 16 15 16 7 7 
Montgomery, 18......55 .. LN aches nC Re " 
H F Westbrook, 17... .. VA Ge eA 
Furness, 16...... S50 A319 1643519 2. 9s tara: 3 
dT (Craokspilferrrsssses Ry n= tide ee Pellet ee ce lcem Geers FR Sa eas ee. aoe 
J Crooks, 17...... Rey Pt tes De ry oe AP a 8 eer ret EE I 
MEW Sells ust epeeeueeses, oe TEN Fj Be eer 3 are far A aa ee : 
Mason, 162) .seteestsae ime sd tO de fae ceets. te “a ces 
Peicere Ibis eee LN ae Bet artist 2 4 
RETO ivi eads tan eee 18 15 Soest as Sis 
BGOwros Siete os) oe avons ewe gits. tot Se asien ger ae 
TEED STe ries Us oes Rei en 18 16 11 oe 5 5 
WVEIEGH EH Dae occas ely ES RES ISS Se Sb eee 4 ; 
dels Bota lis peg a eae A 13 .. 1513 201712 916.. Se 3 ae 
Tit PLT eta ene Boe 18) BS 14 oo POR ee 
Saliva, IGs sae os wee 1 2 135 ee Terra t 
Pokagon, To... 2s ass RL Se AB khpoiios oso ioe c 
wimps, SITS eke ca cates, ve TESTS ETG Ae 1A ee ee pO ene es ad 
Clittord ely. .cs. 2 te oe DE geet) ee ar at E01 25 ad ed en! 
ReDbomas! Ah, ee ee Veet Beers eee aos oe ee bere 
De Walsan 215 s05 1... es 16...... .. 6 20-13 1815 14 12 18 14 
ie binimias males eeeias rene: th ee ee ads ates slia Ts 
SUING Cees woe ate ae 14 1819 12 819 ..17201218.... 
Charlese Aires staeceace: ; SMDORS (2 Fue OPE om EN Tai ee Gaeee 
1b! ORE Bre oor Ghppecot boetnee hana ears s Pistoia teed a 
Tor SEATitEs pie Neen teeta? wee eae nes 
Scholefield, 1G UL bee ses re te 10. 

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LOM ae oe ec cee Cte os nda 
W’ Work, 16.......- oe 
Bente Seales mae a aie EES TRE be Om Jie cali gag ae age 

Event 32, sweep, 10 birds, $10: Y 
WMOLK a2 nde teeelone 2020012212 7 Fanning, 82........ 2002102202— 6 
shosh-sessnssgsseced. 012212001I— 7 S Kay, 28.........,. 2222202222 9 © 
Parkers sire oleae 1010020020— 4 EF Westbrook, 28...0112220212— 8 
Talsma, 30.........- 0022222220— 7 ‘Thomas, 27.......%. 2212022222— 9 
Griffith, 30.......... 2220222222— 9 McOueen; 29::.:::. 2222222220 — 9 
H D Bates, 32...:0212222020— 7 1 TOoks; 272343235 1010201220— 5 
@\ifrond; -27..2...2) 0121100001— & Prous Ls. ae aees 2202122220— 8 
Dr Wilson, -28..... 1102210212— 8 Kairkoyer, 32........ 2222022202— § 
Fairbairn, 28....... 0001121112— 7 .B Stewart, 27....... 2020212201— 7 

SEO y ad eens 2121002221 8 Hull, 29............ 1200021011— 6 
NV Lewis, 29....... 2122020202— 7 - 


Several miss-and-outs were also shot. 


Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, Jan, 22—The Boston Gun Club’s weekly shoot took 
place on their Wellington grounds to-day, thirteen shooters taking 
patt. For the first time in a long while we were troubled with the 
fog. That it was a regular “London fog” goes without saying, as 
it entirely obscured the target l5yds. from the trap at one time in 
the afternoon. Considering the difficulties, most of which occurred 
during the prize match, the contestants were equal to the occasion 
and made good progress, Blaney and- Leroy excelling with just a 
few targets to spare. ; : 

One of the features of the afternoon was the shooting of Leroy 
who made a run of 41 straight breaks, nearly half of them being 
when standing on the 21yd. mark. 

Every one was on the lookout for straight scores, but not all 
kept up their good resolutions, Leroy excelling in that respect 
with Blaney and Frank good seconds. 

In the individual match, which is now rounding to in the same 
old interesting way and bids fair to eclipse all former matches if 
the present indications are any criterion, Blaney took care ‘of first 
position with a well deserved .22, Leroy looking out for second 
place, with Frank and Williams next. Other scores: 


_ Ben Jr. 


Events: 123 45 6 7 8 91011 12 
Targets: . 10 15 10 5p 15 10 10 15 10 
PSEAN Te ya el Rateeterereere et eet eer, a Si aV ers bak 7 
Be ryViee Ls ieetrhga ul cecctetreees A - ISG 9 8 
MPopa ta rg uti tee 1s aan bBo en 713 8 7 4. 
PoC ATC ARS dete te Sears oiese 512 8 4 0 
Billard “AGS anes agln es e dntie 9 3 4 3. 
Wilden. lheme. seautires tee eee 311 3); te ate 
btawderrts; Ub aes ccc esse sane Ay ae ss 
I acl IGS enue f osipteh eee 6 2 2 = 
Witiliams. 16 5il 3 2 ao 
yuck TGS es sete et ae eh A AR 2 
(het ys cee e Taare, ee > s » 4+ 
Frederick, 14,.......... MS ook at Ae tend Sa ap peewee Te 


Events 2 and 6, Sergeant; all others magautrap. 
Merchandise match, 25 singles—15 magautrap, 10 Sergeant system 
—distance handicap: 


(NE hh eee ee, Wee ee 111111919131010 =. 1111111110 —22 
fELOM, WAL Sac acts dla esis foots ee cote 110100101110111 | 111111117120 
Frank, Isr date nansneshedtetcoanaane ee tee 103111,011011011 0011111001—17 
Wallianrs: 1G seen en aware 101001111001010  1111111110—17 
Woodriit, 07:22 as eae ee 100001100110111 116101111116 
Wir dtr peal Gite scgee, mnie eA 110001110001010 1111010101—14 
Lawns aalGcepscctid Asana we ner ene 101100111010101 0111111010—16 
Bail Rand And eet sere gal) phe: eee -110111001001101 1100001100—13 
ATU BLO Se ergs a ia ea at 010001000001100 11011.00101—10 
ACCC SS et 3 ky ene ng ane 010000010010010 0000111110— 9 
SECRETARY, 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


Tue boys who follow the circuit will be sorry to learn, on 
authority of no less a personage than Mr. E. Price himself, 
that the Whittington Park Association has decided not to hold a 
tournament at Hot Springs, Ark., this winter. This was looked 
forward io as one of the certainties of the winter season, and the 
Hot Springs meets were always events to be remembered with 
pleasure. 

Attendance was reduced at the winter meet of the Farmer City 
Gun Club this week on account of extremely unfavorable weather, 

The Piasa Gun Club beginsvits regular practice work for the year 
this week, 

Country gun clubs in Illinois and Missouri who have been 
Wanting to hold sparrow shooting tournaments, find that the birds 
when confined more than a few hours fight to such an extent and 
so viciously that it is impossible to keep them alive. At: Jerseyville 
this month a Sparrow shoot was advertised, 500 sparrows were cap- 
tured the preyious day, the birds were confined in a large room, 
yet the fext day only a few remained alive. Can some one sug- 
gest any practical method by which the birds may be kept in cap- 
tivity for from. two to five days? If so a great many of the little 
pests may be thus disposed of to some purpose throughout the 
middle West. 

That is a forcible editorial introducing the current issue of 
Forest anp STREAM. Loth as we are to give up the certain 
pleasure of spring duck shooting for the chance of a little sport 
in the fall, every reasonable and fair-minded sportsman must real- 
ize and admit, when brought face to face with the facts, that we 
must stop spring duck shooting now, or within a few years be 
deprived finally, and forever of this royal sport, F 
' We in the Bee Sa Valley find it true, even as the editor 
gtates if to be on the Atlantic coast, that the fall fight of the ducks 


+ 


. Maynard 9yds., "35; Butts, 15yd 


22, Le Roy Leach 18, W, L. Chrysler 12, J. D 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


south is more desultory and reaching over a longer period than 
the return of the birds in the spring; consequently, the spring 
shooting is much easier and more ‘successful from the point of view 
of the game.bag alone, and I beliéve it to be a fact beyond question 
that these conditions apply with equal force to every flyway in 
this country by which our wildfowl follow the seasons. 

There is, however, one argument very effective and well founded 
which the then who advocate spring shooting are wont to use 
with great gusto whenever the subject comes up, That is that the 
birds are relentlessly followed up and slaughtered by every means 
devisable during their sojourn in the South, They claim that 
protection afforded the birds by the law of Illinois or New York 
in their brief spring flight, would amount to practically nothing as 
compared to this wholesale annihilation in winter. To be sure, 
this argument is essentially and wholly selfish, but it points te a 
grave conditions, demanding a broader treatment than local legis- 
ation, 

In_this connection your second editorial citing the efficiency of 
the Lacey Act as largely “due to the moral effect,’’ is very apt and 
timely. Before much can be accomplished in the direction of 
affording practical protection—that is to Say, Such protection as 
will effectively preserve the species—the matter must be taken in 
hand by Uncle Sam in a Congressional act similar to, but yet 
stronger and more positive than the Lacey Act, 

Of-the importance of this matter and the necessity for prompt 
action too mtch cannot be said. Already at least one species, 
the beautiful and peerless woodduck, is all but exterminated. It 
has suffered most by reason of the. fact that its natural zone is 
within the temperate latitude covered by the agricultural regions 


-of the United States, within which few breeding places temain, 


But all other species are snow faring almost as badly, and the 
remedy lies not, with any one, or any number of States, but in 
national legislation. F, C. Rrext. 


Shooting at St. Louis. 


THERE was a splendid gathering of local trap shots and interested 
visitors at Dupont Park on the 19th. The special attraction was a 
new Dupont trophy, which is put up by the management on a 
handicap plan similar to the rules governing the contests for this 
medal last year. The number of birds, however, is reduced from 
10 to 8. The opening contest had been well advertised, and no 
less than five hundred people were on the grounds when the first 
man was called to the scoré.. Among the visitors were several 
members of the Richland Gun Club, 

Twenty-three contestants faced the score for what proved a very 
fine lot of winter birds, and nine finished with straight scores. 
In the shoot-off Phil Webber won with a string of 12 straight kills, 
Will Baggermann being the runner-up. The handicaps, kills and 
total scores are appended: ‘ 


Total. Score. 
7 vi 


Hughes, 283....0-<cheess 7 8 Dr g@laricn SU... oan eee 

Pher berton aU nydtesiedtem sear 7 7 P Webber, 29........... 7 8 
Hutchinson, 29......... 6 7 Barker, 20st eee este w 
Bowmlan, 29.....026.s.5. 6 7 Pstzke: 5, oe eS 6 7 
Brooke, 29..,...... seuges § EES Boe hr Pe er 6 7 
MMs e209 F ec eneeaeecee 5 6 CaBarer 28mm. cosue acne 7 
Brawn, -29. ieee eek ee Be oe! 5 Mes PAS HAS eit SRE ie i 8 
Orvis, 30....... 555550044 6 6 V Baggermann, 29..... it 8 
Money, 332.04... aoe 7 7 C Cummings, 28,,... ..8 g 
ase Cabanite olsen nas 6 6 Dr Cummings, 28 ..8 8 
Thirty Cents, 28........ 4 6 H B Spencer, 28........ 6 8 
O [Optics 235. Meer. 22. 7 8 


In the Rawlings medal at targets, Hageman proved the winner, 
scoring straight from the hendicap of 21. Twelve of the contestants 
in this event finished with clean credits. Frank Orvis was the 
last man out in the shoot-off of ties, Names, handicaps and scores 


follow: 
Total. Score. Total. Score. 

Bowman ..........50221 25 lio Ward) i275 sada de Aaa 20 25 
Hutchinson ........- 20 25 Glgeemany 4o.yess eek 21 25 

WAS As ees ceetetaaae 20 25 BAIRGOWS fae. sole 18 23 
her Derts tscaa cen Sa9 a 14 19 TIAN Sh 8 es, cus ees 14 23 
Bro wilwennss onan) see 20 25 GIS OLINES ¢ slots: n lotete csotere 19 24 
be Si yeintsulman Aare tye es 20 25 IBGE Sitcom las nles ates oat 22 25 
HD Meyer.iscccesesscs 18 25 Ds tte ht ee ng 21 25 
Giyig. Serre. ny woe, 22 25 W Sbaggermann...... 21 25 
Malorresia ie Jes oe 19 24 


An open club shoot at 25 birds was held as a final for the day, 
with the following scores: Htimphreys 15, Steininger 16, Ellen 9, 
Rudemeyer 2, Kunz 9, Dr. Pferling 12, Howard 19, H. Meyer 14, 
Prior 15, Schomberg 18, Barz 8, Fasnacht 10. 

A glance at the above scores and entries for one day’s sport at 
the popular Dupont Park “will convince any one that the shooting 
game stafts most promisingly for the year in St. Louis. And 
Alec Mermod says they are just getting fairly started. 

Harold Money is spending the month with his friends, Mermod 
and Mason, at the park, and incidentally helping push the game 
along with his splendid enthusiasm. 

Frank Orvis has become, in a short time, one of the most 
promising trap shots in the city. It is not so long since his name 
first appeared in the scores, and now we habitually expect to see it 
near the top of the list. 

W. Baggermann shot a good race to-day, scoring the top in both 
events. 

H. Stroh, who shoots under the appellation of Jonah, is an- 
other of the old SERED who may always be counted on, who 
shoots for the love of the sport, and who may always be figured 
as a factor in the finish, 


And by the way, just watch this list of names for 


entries for 
the G. A, H 


KILLMORE. 


Ossining Gun Club. 


OssrniNnc, Jan. 25—The following scores were made at the regular 
Saturday afternoon shoot of the Ossining Gun Club. Next Sat- 
urday, Feb. 1, will be the first shooting for the Washburn cup, 
10 live birds, handicap. This contest will be quite spirited, as 
fifteen entries have been_received to date: 


Events: De Pd ib i aS Se tO 

Targets: 15 15 10 10 10 10 15 15 15 10 
I T Washbrun.......... Ee ee eee ad GRP alk Tp aa 
D Brandreth..... dS. TU Gee fee Doe eo eee ee 2 
D_ O’Connor... 2 pee ig Ceasar Le te -G 
EGeee Nerve caw OR TEE NT ter eee ere, © 
CGS Blandfardsgowes eeere sees IGT IS SG PST” RY ESE ee if 
E D Garnsey..... Fe one et ice 1210 Sebo nae ih ine ee oe ae 
R Kromer, 1G Puls Fre credit Sie ee th toe oe. 8 
Wie vita [et S585 eee 1S Be ce, Ro Seed AL = 
Miss Hyland......... “AEE 3 ; 6. ST eee 

ip Elyland es nasa ues ewes) "hell Sethe cS 

W Fisher ......... waee ate ee ste Pee ene ie ar oo I cy 

ce Dyakinatets sa. fees ee ieee Ch: ee 2b eA ges af 
ATS Bmore a. bates nade peer ome eos ees ar 
DrsSnowi snooewe ts SAAS oe er AMI IS OA ae 

Prize events, 15 scratch, handicap allowances: 
I Tp Wie hbnrn IU Rls tc dee ie, retreat IB) Cl alse aOk GPL 4R} ape 
DP EBratrdéeth; 01 sie See ee pL San eR ele fr BB 
CeBindford: Chey Te Pie es 5 ee ae el Ne ee 
E Garnsey, 18...... Daren Pie a ee 
WW SEfa NE Gee re See EH oC: 12 Fae ay ee eee 
M Dyckman, 17:)....1.....:. sence TeIO MT ake re 2 ee en 

Cc. G, B. 


Woodlake Gun Club. 


Wooprakz, Neb., Jan. 21.—It was too cold and windy to be en- 
joyable, but a few of the faithful were on hand when time was 
called, and the game was fast and furious while it lasted. 

The targets were thrown as far as a new expert trap could be 
made to throw them, and with a strong wind behind them, they 
certainly went far enough. 

Some of the boys, in consequence, have changed their minds in 
regard to how far a shotgun will shoot. 

W. A. Leach; who is not eligible for the club meédals, made 
high score, 22 out of 25. Leroy Leach won Class A medal on 18, 
and J. Day and Chrysler tied for Class B on 12, and as there were 
no shells left on the ground they concluded to wear it turn about 
until next shoot day. 

Following are the scores, 25 targets each Lene’ W. A. Leach 
jay 12: 

W. A. Leacr. 


Cincinnati Gun Club, 


38; Jay Bee, 18yds.,. 36: F 


I5yds., 31; Falk, ibyds., 81; Jack, i6yds., 29; Boyd, 
Ibyds., 16. 


t 


WESTERN TRAPS. - 
Racine-Milwaukee Return seacel 


Cutcaco, Ill., Jan. 25.—To-morrow, at Milwaukee, there will b 
a return race between the team of the Racine Gun Club, probably’ 
of nine men, and an equal number of shocters from the South 
Side Gun Club, of Milwaukee. The race between these two 
organizations, which was shot at Racine last week, was won by 
Racine with a margin of 3 birds, and the likelihood is that the, 
South Side-boys will put up a stiffer game at the race to be shot- 
to-day. The members of the Racine team will be H. S. Blake, 
Jackson I. Case, James Busch, Charles Comley, Oswald Von! 
Lengerke, Messrs, Botsford, Ripley, Pugh and Harzelius. The 
South Side Club has not yet fully determined upon the team which 
it will put in the field, The race is at 10 birds per man, and the 
shooting will be one man up for each side, in the nature of nine 
individual contests. ip. 1 

Too much cannot be said in praise of these little intercity con- | 
tests. There is no money put up, not even bird money, in the way 
of competition. The races are invitation affairs. The Racine team 
entertained its guests at the first contest, and the courtesy will be 
returned, the South Side-men even paying for their visitors’ birds. 
It will be a good day out of doors and a pleasant meeting in the 
evening for all concerned, 


E. Hoves. 
Hartrorp BuitpiIne, Chicago, Lil. 


Nonpareil Gun Club. 


Burnside Crossing, Ill., Jan. 25.—The shoot of the Nonpareil 
Gun Club, at Watson’s Park to-day, was closely contested. Ed 
Graham won first on 15 straight; J. B. Barto was second after a 
prolonged shoot-off, and Mr. Shaw was third. The scores: 


RGU) sree secant 2112001711 0101—14 Dr Shaw.......222222229909299 14 | 
Pumphrey ....122202201101111 12 Blake ......... 22002 1222202222—13 
Stephens .....222222021122111—14- McComber ....22211020220121212 
at eek eee 211102121111112—14 Dr Miller ..... 221220222222222—14 7 
Amberg ....,.. 122122020122220—12 Ed Graham. ..222222921922992 15 | 
uy R_ Graham. .222222122202222 14 Myrick .......122222222990022—13 7 
Vi B Defic... 222210212222222—14 Q©’Brien -...... 222222101122222—14 


221112112120 
2911220 ; 
21112222221221212129201 99 © 
22120 
2210 5 | 
Shia peeks ACP SMe a, 1 oT ee ee 929999191129991 9299919110 | 
1 SA ee ee hhh Ae welGelateecens 0 i 
Giibtien StI ie eee 22121212221121110 
Sweep, 25 birds, $25 entrance, birds extra; $100 to high gun: 
BASE On an meets a peene Ftd aa Hod ses Ree 222299021229229 001 2002112—20 | 
Hilgers nw astne snant thal astiea deere ercer ree 2202222000221022200220222 17 — 
Stephens ....... Aveta aMeheeheehehh heck th 22222002222()2220220229229- 9) 
Deriy ceseee ERIGEEEERELEEE CER LG cetcec con 2221222971 202021220221110—21 
Ten birds, $10, 60 and 40 per cent.: . 
Roll” 5, i sateus asses esacl2n0id22—9 i Sper. 72, 5.2280. ast 1222021221—9 | 
stephens’ .2.1.255% 02 22222220129 Blake .....+..----.-. 2222022220—S 
Bartosraurcdh +s tecnttt 1121021120—8 
Miss-and-outs, $2: ‘ ‘ 
Barto ...... iets, 220212 Stephens: assess seas 20 ©2120 
SPCURY, aetas See Aare 222 222220 Rn Cortes Hartt tee pe 2120 
Pais Crees yn ns Pere 112 ©=4222292 pe Spa q eeeee Ras | § 1222122 
Baker, ess nas Se cae 222 222210 
Watson’s Park, Jan, 24,—Match for $5 purse, 25 birds, high gun: © 
AMLUV Nes gea- ane eee ae baat d Ase she pee 10221*22022*0200122021222 17 
Weyhoft ..cctemeeoeantes tates PURER ER BERR 011102*201102222202100200—15. 
NV OULES pas danieectnen anos MNS (9284450055 5505544° 2020100200001021 2002011112 
Dirpicarson sper. coe pee Perret. fessssnsso5sAad- 0112222022210002222022*20—17 — 
_ Match for birds, 25 birds: 
poral bee pe eenbrr Sheath ote hm iber eo 2222212110112220222909)22 91 
Ni avititles sae Jee seen ee peas ereeeeveses oe 0202212010021221220122021—18 
Ground covered with snow and birds pretty good. = 
RAVELRIGG, 


Robin Hood Gun Club, 


Concorp, S. IJ, Jan. 25.—First and, second moneys were divided 


by Lewis and Schoverling. Lewis won the silver cup, All stood 
at 28yds. The scores: \ 
Conditions: 10 birds, $3.50 entrance, high guns: 

Had karst. dag ocnes 002100122i— 6 Seawood .......... :0202220212— 7 
echt clear sanews cee ..1102012120— 7 Becker .....+...2:.0010100120— 4 
Butler, 4s 2sg2e02 so5 0020012110— 5 Riersen ............ 1020211112— § 
Schoverling ........ 2222202222 9 Rawson ....---.-.-. 2110202212— & 
ae WISs is. sawae asses 2121102212— 9 Murray ............ 0020202212— 6 
Volitres Gre. see oe ae 2202101100— 6 Tobin .............. §112020202— 6 
Connelly. ........:- 0022201222 7 Lovett ..... radon 1212002202— 7 


A. A. ScHOvERLING, Sec’y. 


Smithtown Gtin Club. 


SMITHTOWN, Jan. 21—The weekly shoot of Smithtown Gun Club 
was held on Jan. 20, on their grounds at this place. The fine 
weather brought quite a crowd of shooters. It seemed to be an 
off day for everybody, as the scores are much lower than usual. 
Event No. 5 was for a gold medal, to be won three times before 
becoming the property of the holder. It was won by Brush on 
the shoot-off with B. Olivia. Following are scores: 


Events: f 1 2 8 he 6. fees [Shot 
Targets 555 51010 5 5 5 at. Broke. 

J @Olivias i..g-2- ee S tames lee ieee th EY eee Sh 5D 36 
BAO liyier feat teaececes cote ei me of w So a Foe AS 5D 30 
Wefchanis ie canes e takes pe eee! cape ee 8a 13 
C27) are ba ntl eenet Se yee 25 tre SS aL eh ai 55 26 
SnittliwesS kerthessccashakhie 24495 43 2 3 55 29 
Wood wir... AEP bor ye ort) peo hek. Sabos t VERT (Oem eek Peds 28 
Nichols! pws tse ted esate hate tel C25 SS ae ae, 35 § 
Mivler priests taesensacmeeee AOD Sinden GRP tums 55 38 
Mheyain se ee ee Aa leu? whaxa, aleeiee 50 19 
CrOZIET. © shack i abm snes scenes TO Bete Ose ate eee 55 22 
Boshi e. vee ape eed lege ea) ceteaey ie, Ee al 50 25 
easter et teen ete Sree ued en 30 10 
SEI a (CREB EO ME POEEEHEREE: tsb Wot wie. pieehae 30 7 
TOBA RG oe aerriy: BBGEBE Soe odes. SRE BHet 6 Al rd) ese oor 10 4 
(TIT renee eters ctaryiere comeretelerra re ae eente 8 ORs 20 6 
CIGSte ehh d OMe SE SEER ee er ae, A I 20 i 
Patrig tact am So Secks Sete do nye one. copes Oy. sve? 5 0 

Hatsey. 


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ville, allowing two weeks in Florida, will leave New York, Phila- 
delphia, Baltimore and Washington by special train on Jeb, 4, 

Tewtainn tickets, including railway transportation, Pullman ac- 
commodations (one berth), and meals en route in both directions 
while traveling on the special train, will be sold at the following 
rates: New York, $50; Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Baltimore and 
Washington, $48; Pittsburg, $53; and at proportionate rates from 
other points, | : E . 7S 

For tickets, itineraries and other information, apply to ticket 
agents, or to Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, « 
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.—Ady, 


The Perfected Mafcoim Telescopic Sights, 


THe Malcolm Telescope Manufacturing Company, of Syracuse, 
N, Yi, has been reorganized, and has enlarged its plant for the pur- 
pose of placing upon the market a telescopic sight that can be 


adjusted to any gun or pistol by the purchaser himself by selecting 


h tfit from a local dealer. _ ss e 
. Tf Biotec hunters used this telescope sight on their rifles they 
would not mistake human beings for animals. —dAdy, 


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FOREST RESERVES AS GAME REFUGES. 


THE suggestion first made by the Forest AND STREAM 
that the timber reserves of-the West should be utilized 
also as game refuges, has always appealed very strongly 
to the fraternity of sportsmen and to all interested in the 
preservation of big game. When it is realized that civiliza- 
tion and settlement are absolutely destructive of natural 
conditions, the necessity that the killing of game shall 
absolutely cease over certain extensive areas becomes evi- 
dent, unless we are prepared to face the utter extermina- 
tion of all our more conspictious wild creatures. 

One has only to read the old books to appreciate what a 
wealth of game this country once supported. When its 
only enemies were those of nature, the wild beasts and the 
savage man with his primitive equipment; when the 
game ranged everywhere from the narrow fringe of settle- 
._ ments along the Atlantic to the great unknown toward 
where the sun goes down, the annual increase exceeded 
the annual deaths, and there was food for all. 

Before the ever-increasing torrent of white settlers 
which soon began to sweep westward over the continent, 
the game melted away as the snow disappears before the 
warm spring rain. As this tide swelled, the percussion 
cap took the place of the old flint, then came the breech- 
loader and then the magazine gun—arms whose precision 
and rapidity of fire constantly increased. Thirty years 
ago the buffalo of the Southern herd were fast disappear- 
ing; twenty years ago they had long been gone, and the 
Northern herd had been greatly cut down. The next year 
that also disappeared. Thirty years ago, elk were found 
over all the prairie from the Missouri River westward: 
now, the elk is a dweller in the thick timber in a few 
places in the mountains, occurring in any numbers only 
in the neighborhood of the Yellowstone National Park, 
and there likely soon to disappear except within the Park. 

At its recent annual meeting in Washington the Boone 
and Crockett Club—a body of well-known sportsmen— 
took strong ground in favor of such action by the United 
States Government, as should preserve in the vast area 
of our timber reserves the remnants of our great game 
still found there. 
be found—as we have already pointed out—all the diverse 
sorts of country and of climate required for our different 
species, and with proper protection for a time, and later 
with proper stocking, great herds of these animals, now 
so rapidly disappearing, may be preserved forever to fur- 
nish hunting to Americans for all time. 


In the Yellowstone National Park bears and elk and 


_ antelope and deer and mountain sheep have been preserved 
and have become common sights to the casual visitor to 
this beautiful region. How great the charm they add to 
it, the man or woman who'has seen them there well 
knows. In that Park we have an admirable object lesson 
which furnishes strong reasons for the establishment of 
other refuges like this in the timber reserves. 

The timber reserves are the property of the United 
States, and action looking ‘toward their preservation must 
be taken by the Federal Government, and preferably with 


the co-operation of the authorities of the State or States . 
If the Government owns - 


in which the reserves may lie. 
the land, it would seem that it must own also whatever is 
upon the land; that it may protect the timber and the 
game as it protects the property which it owns on any 
other Government reservation. This ground was taken 
years ago in “American Big Game Hunting,” the first of 
the volumes of the Boone and Crockett Club. 

In his recent speech on the establishment of such 
game refuges, President Roosevelt gave an unanswerable 
and thoroughly American reason why Congress ought to 
eriact laws furnishing protection to this game. The very 
rich may gain possession of vast areas of territory, which 
they may fence in and stock with: game for their own 
pleasure, but this is something far -heyend the means of 
the average man. In future years, this average man must 
depend for his big-game hunting op game preserved by 


In these various forest reserves may 


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the Government; whether of the State as in Maine, or of 
the United States as on the borders of the National Park, 
or on the borders of some of these forest reserves of the 
West. From such game refuges, if they are wisely ad- 
ministered, the big game will constantly stray forth, as 
to-day it wanders beyond the borders of the National 
Park, and will furnish for generations the opportunity 
for men to exercise those hardy and manly qualities which, 
up to the present time, have been characteristic of the 
American rifleman. This Government is a democracy 
and looks for the greatest good of the greatest number. 
A democratic reason like that advanced by President 
Roosevelt must appeal to every American. 

Hon. John F. Lacey, of Iowa, to whose intelligence and 
energy the country owes first the law of 1894, which gave 
protection to the Yellowstone Park, and second the Lacey 
act, which has done so mttch for game protection in other 
respects, has taken hold of this subject of establishing 
game refuges in the timber reserves. It is understood that 
he is at work perfecting a bill with this end in view, which 
will soon be presented to Congress. It is an extremely 
encouraging fact that the Presidential chair is occupied 
by that good sportsman, Theodore Roosevelt, who has the 
matter of protection of great game as deeply at heart as 
any man in all the land. 


THE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 
ASSEMBLYMAN Days has introduced a bill in the New 
York Legislature. which embodies the recommendations 
of Governor Odell respecting the Forest Preserve. It 
proposes an amendment to the State Constitution to per- 


mit the cutting of timber in the Forest Preserve under 


such rules as may be prescribed by the Forest, Fish and 
Game Commission; to permit the leasing of lands on the 


Forest Preserve to the extent of two acres to each plot 


for camp sites. No lease is to run for more than twenty 
years, and the leased plot is to be within no. more than 
250 feet ot any lake front. The leases are to be sold to 
the highest bidder, and do not carry with them exclusive 
shooting and fishing privileges. 

These are proposals which contemplate a radical change 
of conditions now governing in the Adirondacks, and they 
should have most careful and deliberate consideration. 
Grave objections to the scheme will at once present them- 
selves. 

In the first place, it is proposed to take away from the 
Adirondack Forest Preserve the safeguard which ‘the peo- 
ple of New York put upon it with such an overwhelming 
vote. That safeguard lies in the absolute protection of 
the public forests from the axe. The Davis bill would 


substitute for this a new system of cutting by lumber- 


men subject only to stich rules as the Commission ‘might 
make. 

We believe that the people of New York are not ready 
to assent to any such dangerous proposition as that. We 
have advocated, and others have advocated, the provision 
of a rightly planned, organized and equipped scheme of 


scientific forest administration for the North Woods; but: 


that would be a very different thing from this putting in 
the lumbermen to cut under the direction of the Forest 
Commission. We never have had. have not now, and are 
not likely soon to have in New York, a forest commis- 
sion made up of trained foresters. We say this with no 


disrespect to the present Commissioners; but it needs to 


he said that no, one who is not a trained forester could 


wisely be entrusted with the direction of lumbering on 


State lands. In fact, there should never be lumbering on 
State lands by private lumbermen. 
Reserve trees ever are cut they should be cut by a State 
forester, who will work for the State’s interest, and not 
by private lumbermen who will work for theit own in- 
terests. 

Until we can have in New York the organization of a 
State forestry service, the only safe rule will be to keep 
the forests intact. 


A Rochester correspondent is moved by newspaper re- 
ports of prodigious slaughter of wildfowl to renew the _ 
stiggestion of territories to be set apart by the Govern- - 
Tt will be remembered that the ~ 


ment for wildfow] refuges. 
plan was proposed by Dr. Willard G. Van Name in the 


ForEST AND STREAM a year or two ago, and has been ad- - 


vocated by its author with convincing argument. The 
one thing which stands in the way of national intervention 
is the lack of authority. Congress has no power to regu- 


late the killing of game in the several States, nor has it 


Tf Adirondack Forest © 


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) No, 346 Broapway, New York. 


territory which it could protect, nor is there much prob- 
ability that stich territory could be acquired for the 
purpose. The simpler and more feasible plan would be 
the reservation of lands and waters by the State. This 
system is now in operation in Connecticut, where the 
establishment of game preserves was authorized by the 
last Legislature. While the retnedy pointed out by our 
correspondent may not be provided, there is no room to 
question that this abuse of big bags of game has been 
lessened and will be lessened by a growing popular dis- 
approval. We are governed in our sports as in other 
activities by the conventionalities. In the years of game 
plenty, when there was game sufficient for all, the big 
bag was generally regarded as legitimate; and this con- 
ventional view largely determined individual attitude and 
action, In like manner, now that the game supply has 
decreased and excessive killing by the single gun is 
recognized as folly, the conventional attitude is one of 
deprecation, and by this in turn, consciously or uncon- 
sciously, the individual is controlled. Duck shooters are 
not going on to make big bags to boast of unless the 
boasting shall be approved by their audiences. The power 
of public opinion will be potent here as in most other 
things. Popular disapproval of big bags of game will 
surely prove a powerful factor in compelling moderation. 
» 1 

At 12 o'clock noon of Sunday, Feb. 2, the ground hogs 
of New England and the Middle States carefully ap- 
proached the mouths of their respective holes. Consider- 
able water was trickling into the openings and most of 
them got their feet wet. Precisely at the meridian hour 
each ground hog emerged from his burrow, sat up straight 
in the pelting rain and carefully looked about, to see if 
in any direction his shadow might be visible. Not one of 
all the gray and furry company was able to detect his, and, 
damp and shivering, all of them withdrew again to bur- 
rows and nests, where they curled themselves up for a 
further sleep. This, .then, is the first sign of spring, for, 
as we all know, on that day, 

If the ground-hog sees his shadow in the sun, 
Six weeks of winter will have begun, 

and no doubt the converse is true, that if the ground 
hog fails to see his shadow in the sun, the back of the 
winter is broken and milder weather is at hand. 

That same Sunday was, according to our English an- 
cestors, Candlemas day, of which they said: 


Tf Candlemas day be fair and bright, 
Winter will take another flight. 

If Candlemas day bring showers and rain, 
Winter is gone and will not come again, 


On either saying we hail the approach of balmy spring— 


_ that season which all love, no matter how much they may 


dread its poets. “ 

Warren Hapgood, one of the oldest and best knqgwn 
sportsmen of Boston, died on Jan. 30. Mr. Hapgood 
Was an enthusiastic wildfowler, and a student of the ways 
of the shore birds; and had a vast fund of information 
in this field. He was a frequent contributor to the 
Forest AND STREAM ; two of the chapters in the pamphlet 
“Shore Birds” were from his pen. In an early issue we 
shall print a notice of Mr. Hapgood’s life, written by a 
friend of years’ standing. 


One of the most interesting points in the Massachusetts 
Fish and Game Commission report is that which records 
what may fairly be regarded as the re-establishment 
of deer in various parts of the State. In connection with 
the report should be read the letter by Mr. Robert O. 
Morris, in the Springfield Republican, which gives much 
Massachusetts deer lore. What has taken place in Ver- 
mont and Massachusetts and Connecticut with their new 
deer stock goes to show that we may have game if we 


care to provide for it. 
& 
Among the recommendations made by the New York 


Fisheries; Game and Forest Commission are these: That 
the Constitution shall be amended to provide for a system 
of scientific conservative forestry on the State Forest 
Preserve; that camp sites in the Preserve shall be leased ; 
that spring shooting of wildfowl shall be abolished 
throughout the State; that non-resident sportsmen shall 
be taxed $30; and that guides shall be licensed. 


; & . 

Dr. James R. Romeyn, of Keeseville, N. Y., died on 
Jan. 26 at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Romeyn was one 
of the most widely known of Adirondack fishermen; hg 
gave his name {to the Romeyn trougfly, _ 


SY ees | ah 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


‘[Fes. 8, 1902. 


The Sportsman Gourist 


— 
The Metamorphosis of a Trapper. 


Our acquaintance with Charley began in Canada’s 
woods on one day of the previotis autumn, when, re- 
turning to our camp on Lake Crapaud with only a de- 
capitated woodduck to show as a result of a morning’s 
hunt for big game, we sighted a canoe, containing two 
men, one of whom paddled while the other cast flies 
into. our fayorite trout hole. We called this hole our 
“larder,” because at any time of day we could within a 
few minutes withdraw from it a sufficient number of fish 
for our next meal. It was, in fact, the main prop to our 
voracious appetites, and consequently we did not feel 
very cordial toward the intrusive strangers; but never- 
theless, when rain began to fall, we hallooed to them 
an invitation to share our shelter and good cheer. They 
accepted, and the fisherman proved to be a Scotch 
gentleman on an initiatory visit to the American wilds, 
and his guide was Charley, who probably would have 


attracted neither especial attention nor thought beyond — 


our enmity for trespassing but for an ensuing incident. 
The Scotchman while sipping his smoking tea—a won- 
deriul antidote for cold and fatigue, by the by—evinced 
considerable uneasiness regarding a companion who 
had gone into the timber in quest of caribou with scant 
preparation either as to suitable wearing apparel or ex- 
perience in woodcraft. Charley then came to the fore, 
volunteered to search for him, and toward evening re- 
turned to camp preceding a wobegone Englishman 
clad in golf suit and tennis shoes, the wettest two-footed 
creature ever seen. He had, we learned, succeeded in 
forcing his way through tangled undergrowth, half way 
around a small lake, then, becoming exhausted and 
feeling unable to retrace his steps, thought to swim 
across, but having no strap for his rifle decided to wade 
out of the difficulty, and when found was floundering 
about in the lake with cold water up to his armpits, and 
no idea as to the points of the compass. 

Charley’s accuracy in discovering our choice fishing 
ground and this amphibious Englishman were interest- 
ing, and prompted interrogations, which developed the 
information that he was merely acting as guide until the 
opening of the trapping season, when he would go to 
a more remote part of the wooded country. He told 
us of certain haunts of the moose, caribou, bear and 
other fur-bearing animals, until we felt as though it 
were still the age of Boone and Crockett. We had be- 
heved that the day of professional trappers in lands which 
we could reach during our puny vacation had long since 
closed, but here was an afterglow illuminating those de- 
lightful stories of earlier times, which had always catised 
us to criticise the belated date of our nativity, and to 
metaphorically shade our eyes with the hope of catch- 
ing a glimpse of the fast-retreating trackless forest and 
its denizens, Yes, he said, he would take tus into this 
primitive land, which time, represented by woodchop- 
pers and railroads, had overlooked, if we would write 
to him after the grasp of the northern winter telaxed 
and he emerged from its fastnesses. So, during the 
following summer, we wrete and wrote again, and when 
we despaired and the stories of the strange land wefe 
becoming mythical, a reply came saying, “I received 
your letter asking will I go with you into the woods as 
a guide. Yes, you may come to me. I will be all to 
you. In the places where we will go, they are not good 
places for fishing; we can take only a little quantity, but 
it is a good place for hunting; there are many reindeer 
and many moose.” 

‘I wonder how many times we reread that letter be- 
tween the time of its receipt and our departure. While 
st was true we had some heads over our fiteplaces, still 
we wished for one or two more in order to illustrate 
the successive stages of development of the horns of the 
wild quadrupeds—at least this was the excuse given for 
our impatient longing to once again experience the 
barbarous exhilaration attending the outwitting of the 
timorous beasts. Well, one day in late September we 
joined Charley and pitched our tent in the deep woods 
of a corner of Canada, and during the ensuing careless 
days of a beautiful season in a picturesque country we 
gained an insight into the life and feeling of a pro- 
fessional trapper; in this case, a trapper by inheritance as 
well as by profession. His ancestors wete Indians of 
the Huron tribe, and subsisted entirely by the spoils of 
the chase. The fact that his father was reduced (or 
advanced, if you chose) to an half-breed did not inter- 
rupt the inherited proclivity, and Charley, when a child, 
dwelt in the woods between Quebec and Lake S$. John, 
where game was then very plentiful, ’Twas in these 
same woods, by the by, that we met him, and after hear- 
ing his story, we were no longer puzzled by his prompt 
discovery of our trout hole and the lost Englishman. 
This neighborhood withheld no secrets from him; it 
was the book from which he had gotten his entire 
education. As firearms imptoved, and their value dimin- 
ished, and traps became a manufactured article, the 
trappers, being no longer limited to snares, deadfalls, 
figure 4 and such other ingenious contfivances, slaugh- 
tered large numbers of animals during a season; there- 
fore a frequent change of location was necessary. So 
our friend shouldered his few belongings from time to 
time, wandered back and forth along the borderland 
of the United States and Canada, through the Provinces 
of Ontario and Quebec, from Lake Superior to the ex- 
treme end of Gaspé Peninsula, with pecuniary results 
varying from $1,500 to $300 per winter, until the season 
preceding our acquaintance, when his catch netted him 
but little more than $100, and convinced him that a suc- 
cessiul nomadic trapper was an institution of the past. 
A man living on the edge of a game country, however, 
can spend a couple of months of the long Canadian win- 
ter, during which there is no occupation except log- 

- ging, in the bush, and satisfactorily supplement his sum- 
mer earnings. Within this time he can almost deplete 
the furry tribe in quite a large expanse of country, for 
food is scarce duiring the season of heavy ‘snowfall, and 
the hungry eritters are easily enticed into traps. 

Charley, in hig discouragement, decided to try to main- 
gain himself by guiding sportsmen—a most natural meta- 


pressing duties. 


-carbeen, but de ole bull he go quicker. 


morphosis for him, who had felt no limitation to com- 
plete freedom during his sixty years. He could no 
more endure the yoke incident to an industrial pursuit 
than a moose could be taught to draw a plow. 

We found the country to be exactly as he had rep- 
resented it. We were, indeed, in the midst of game, and 


inquisitive animals could be heard “whistling” near our- 


tents during the night. Between our going and coming 
over the trails, moose and caribou would have traversed 
them. Charley was religiously truthful, as delicately con- 
siderate as a woman, systematically energetic, with a 
clearly defined object always in view, and altogether 
an enjoyable companion; but a veritable beast of prey. 
He noticed every sign and indication of our animal 
neighbors—where the bear had torn the bark of trees 
into ribbons when after the sweet sap, where the moose 
had nipped the buds of shrubs and rubbed its horns upon 
the stems of young fir trees, or where a caribou had left 
a tuft of hair upon a tesisting twig and butnished his 
antlers upon the low-growing Bushee beside the stream. 
No sign, old or new, escaped him, and every fresh track 
was subjected to a close sctutiny, which enabled him to 
draw a vivid and accurate mental picture of the kind, 
size, sex and age of the brutes, so that he was in ¢on- 
stant association with the inmates of the forest, and when 
he came up with them he had but one thought and in- 
tention. He knew no more about restraint than any 
ether wild animal in search of prey. The citizens of 
northern latitudes require a warm covering and meat for 
food; the indigenous beasts supply both, a provision of 
nattire, and Charley had been for years an intermediary, 
as purveyor, who hesitated no longer about appropriat- 
ing an animal than the fur trader did of rewarding him, 
or than a lumberman would before felling a noble ttee. 
Te him the moose and caribou, for instance, meant sey- 
eral dollars for the hides, meat for himself, and bait for 
his traps. There was no waste of matetial here, to his 
mind. ‘The only game law he observed was the opening 
and closing of the hunting seasons, and observed these 
incidentally because they corresponded with a marketable 
condition of fur. 

While with us, he carried no weapon, and his agitation 
when game came into sight was like that of a beagle 
hound in leash when a rabbit is jumped. He was dumb- 


founded by our declination to expend one cartridge for 


the beautiful hide of a cow caribou with which we came 
face to face. A Crane of an owl, though worthless 
when dead to him or us, would inspire him with the 
thought and suggestion of slaughter, and ohe evening 
on our return to camp from an independent quest for 
game, we found him handling a dead moose bird, one 
of a pair that had shared our luck, good or ill, and 
almost ate from our hands, 

“Why did you kill it?” we asked. 

“T no like dem.” . 

“Why not? They keep our camp clean.” 

“Oh, yes, dey’s good fer dat; but I no like dem.” 

“Tell us why.” 

“In de col’ of winter time, when I climbs de mounting 
and fin’ my draps down and dinks I hab a marten an 
maybe ten dollar, I fin’ only dese bitds! Dey spfings 
de draps maybe five mintites ‘after’ I walks fer tiles 
and sets um,” 

We, too, had friitlessly elimbed some of those “tiotin- 
tings,” though not in winter’s rigor, and were silent, 
his reason being rational. His language was knock- 
kneed, bow-legged and pigeon-toed; that is, it wobbled 
but always came to a point at the end. His stofies Wete 
entirely confined to the anitials which had escaped hini, 
and no dotibt his thoughts dwelt principally upon these 
mischanees duting his summer hibernation. He had 
captured a number of bear when in this neighborhood 
during the preceding winter, but one of them avoided 
him; therefore a bear trap was a part of our impedi- 
menta, and the matter of the intended capture of this 
animal gave him occupation whenever there were no 
The bear referred to had visited the 
camp, it seems, one day during the absence of the 
owner, and after devouring a considerable portion of 
the femains of one of its own kin, had, beside rending 
some reserve wearing apparel, scattered things generally 
while searching for dainties. This was aggravating, 
but itnagine Charley's indignation some nights sub- 
sequently when the audacious brute twice encircled his 
tent and then began tearing it down in order to obtain 
possession of a moose hide which was drying upon it. 
The moon éast Bruin’s shadow obliquely upon the can- 
vas, and a hasty shot failed to do more than put him to 
flight. There being snow on the ground, Charley ran 
ten miles on the trail the next day—a tremendous ex- 
ertion—but failed to overtake the fugitive. The daring 
performances of the bear, and the lost opportunity, will, 
we think, never be forgotten, and after the fall of our 
first caribou Charley catried pieces of meat far over the 
mouttains in four directions, rubbing his moccasins 
upon it from time to time; saying, “Ef dat bear him 
cross dis trail, him fin’ de meat purty quick; den him 
fin’ de caribou, an’ de day next after him fin’ de cari- 
bou, we got him sure.” He poked his head into our 
tent one evening to say, “I dinks I hear de bear snif- 
fin’ las’ night.- We bes’ put dis head and hide in you's 
tent dis night.” We didn’t feel jubilant over the prope- 
sition, Consorting with bait, under the circumstances, 
might not be an altogether desirable occupation, so we 
said, “If you put them in here you had better hug the 
earth pretty tightly, for ii we hear a noise in the night 
we shall promptly fill the air with lead. He closed the 
bargain by replying quickly, “Dat’s all right; you get 
de bear.” 

It was a sorry day for our friend when our vacation 
ended before the bear’s larger circuit crossed the trail 
of the meat. We came upon one of his marten traps 
when on one of our tramps, and it recalled another lost 
opportunity. This time the ill-luck befell Jean, his 
partner of the previous winter. Getting on his hands and 
knees before the trap he said, “Here was Jean youst so, 
an’ w’en he look up dere was a ole bull caribou, twendy 
yards near, wid big, big, big, horns, yotust a-lookin’ ride 
ad him, Jean hes carbeen be ten feed far, and he youst 
stay here so and dink a heap; den he run quick fer hes 
By gosh!- Jean 
he one mad man,” 

We are indebted to Charley for a thoroughly enjoyable 
outing; all the more enjoyable no dqubt for the insight 


-as any other man follows a business. 


into the feelings of a-son of the woods, notwithstanding 
his regrettable bloodthirstiness. This proclivity con- 
vinces us that if more trappers are driven to change 
their calling the better it will be for sportsmen gener- 
ally. We know of.three of this profession who ae- 
knowledged having killed during last winter thitty moose 
and nine caribou, regardless of sex or age, Think of 
it! a herd of these animals shot down in one winter by 
three men, yery much as buffalo were some years ago— 
for their hides. These men are, however, natives of the 
woods, pursuing their accustomed occupation, who be- 
lieve that their necessities—and some members of this 
class are abjectly poor—take precedence over game 
laws, ahd they ate probably less reprehensible than the 
amateur hunter, who, although shooting for pastime only, 
and being possessed of less bias and a more intelligent 
comprehension of the necessity of protective laws, is at 
times eqtially regardless of them. When away off in the 
woods, ott of sight and hearing, and, we are sorry to 


‘add, not being watched, he cannot resist ‘taking a beau- 


tiful head or hide, even though in a closed country or 
out of season of in excess of the permitted quota. He 
excuses his lawlessness on the ground that restrictive 
laws ate not intended for him, but for the pot-hunter, 
and withholds his influence from those persons, or- 
ganizations and periodicals who and which are striving 
to establish preserves and laws in order to perpetuate 
his pleasure, by preventing the carnage that is now 
going on. LIprincorr. 


A Walk Down South.—XV. 


Joun Bocan weleomed me; so did his wife, and his 
eight ot nine year old daughter climbed into my lap 
before the fireplace. Supper was soon ready—we ate— 
livet pudding, fresh pork, two kinds of peaches, three of 
apples, cherries, jelly and berries, beside coffee, hot 


_ biscuit, ete. Then we went into the sitting room and 


gathered before the fireplace. My maps, with the violet 
lines actoss them from the far Adirondacks clear down 
to their own mountain, excited their interest. I was the 
“funniest fellow” that had ever happened their way. 
Soon Watwick, John’s brother, came in. He found 
May Ginger there already, doubtless as he expected. We 
sat around the fite, I telling sotiething of my travels. 

. banjo was on the bed in the sitting room. John 
picked it up and tuned it, Miss Ginger played a “low, 
sweet lullaby” and looked unutterable things at War- 
wick, The spectators grinned heartlessly, and the tall 
young lady tossed her chin. Then John took the in- 
strument and picked a few bars, as if to try it, but the 
stranget’s presence restrained them all, as I could see. « 

Then I went to my pack and took from it a harmonica 

(mouth organ), or as the Virginians called it, a “French 
harp.” It was a good one. I offered it to them of 
course, and Watwick played a song—a slow, mournful 
kind of tune—to which Miss Ginger hummed an ac- 
companiment. Then I took it and cut loose with a jig, 
That stirred the banjo in mighty style. 
_ Marking time with his foot, Join began ati equally 
lively piece, followed by another, and a thitd. e tunes 
to thy eats wete drowned at first in the melody (7). 
The pieces all sotunded alike; that_is, even in the 
changes and time. But after a bit I could trace the 
thread of the tune up and down and round about. The 
effect was that of a stream flowing down a valley hidden 
now by high banks and again by woodlands. Pretty 
soon Bogati said, 


“T went up ot the mounting,” 


“T beg pardon?” I said, not catching the words un- 
derstandingly. 
“FHe’s singing,’ said Miss Ginger. 
The banjo kept on moving. Then 
“To give mah horn a blow. 


Watwick rolled a cigarette and Miss Ginger frustrated 
the lighting of it, the banjo still moving, + 


“Ah heared them hounds a-coming, 
A-coming very slow.” . 
After a line of music came the chorus unbroken: 
“Here lies a po’r gal, 
Here lies Elizer Jane; 
Here lies a po’r gal, 
Who died upon the train,” 


Warwick and Miss Ginger paused to join in the 
chorus with low voices, Then they resumed the diff- 
culty resulting from the demolished cigarette, while 
John thrummed steadily on, singing: 

“T went down the river, 
A-stripping sugar cane; 
Eyery shock Ah picked up 
Ah called on *Liza Jane. 
Chorus: 


“J went out on the mounting— 
I went out on a train— 
I went ont on the mounting 
To see poor "Liza Jane. 
Ah ast her if she loved me, 
She said she loved me some, 
She throwed her arms around me 
Like grape vine ‘rotind a gun.” 
Chorus: 
“Railroad, plank road, Tennessee canal, 
Hadn’t been for Lizer Jane, there’d never been no hell.* 


“When I was in the army, 
_ Six hosses was me team, 

Drawed mah check, cracked mah whip— 
 Glang, ’Liza Jane.” 


Bogan is a professional hunter. He kills deer for 
market. At 12 cents a potind he makes a comfortable 
living selling venison. He hunts six days a week, just 
His farm has 
a too-foot thick vein of iron ore on it. Capitalists 
negotiated for 2,200 acres of land, supposing this vein 
was on it. Finding that Bogan owned it, they tried to 
buy the land at good farm prices. They offered as 
much as -$2,000-for the place, a staggering price, when 
one does not consider the ro0-foot iron ore vein. But 
Bogan considers the iron, | . 

After two hours of music, song and talk, we went 


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‘to bed. I to the sitting room bed, they to the bed 
room. ‘The couch of the little girl, long since asleep, 
_ was drawn up before the fireplace. For another hour I 


- watched the. red firelight flicker around the room. It” 


died slowly away, till at last only a red glow was to be 
_ seen, broken from time to time by a sharp crack, a sigh 

or a whistle, as the heat found new fuel to flare over, It 

was like the nights I passed in a tent "way back in Penn- 

sylvania. I chuckled when I recalled the fashion in 

which I was treated at the Pennsylvania camp by the 
_ lhunters, there, and by the Virginian hunter. 

People in Pennsylvania who were willing that I should 
sleep in barns, gasped when I told them that I was com- 
ing down into West Virginia and along the Alleghany 
Mountains. 

“Why,” they said, “you'll be murdered down there. 
They'll shoot you for your pack. ‘They're desperate 
people. Aren’t-you afraid?” 

I rolled over on the soit bed, threw down the top 

_ blanket because it was too warm, and went peacefully to 
sleep. The situation was suggestive of a song I found to 
be a favorite down this way: 


“Oh you talk about your rough coons,” 
I’m one of them mese’f; 
With a pistol in-me pocket 
And a razah in mah ves’. 
Tl shoot you an’ I’ll cut you, 
_And'stabs you to your heart, 
And drink down your blood like wine.’’ 


‘This is sung in fierce tones, 
soit anneal in every word: 


“The ham bone am sweet 
And the bacon am goad, 
And the possum meat 
Am mighty, mighty fine; 
‘ho \ But gimme, oh, gimme, 
} I really wish you would, 
y That melon a-smiling on the vine,” 


I don’t think any one will blame me for saying that I 
like the West Virginia and Virginia mountaineer better 
than the Pennsylvania and New York farmer. I have not 
forgotten Mr, Johnson or Mr. Williams or any of the 
others who treated me like a son. Nor have I failed to 
consider that I have had to pass on to the next house 
on several occasions before I could get place to sleep 
since I got into the mountains—like at Upper Tract, 
W. Va., for instance. The only ones, in fact, with whom 
it has been difficult to get a meal and a place to sleep 
so far haye been prosperous farmers and store-keepers. 

All day Sunday I stayed at Bogan’s. There were 
many yisitors, most of them relatives. Some of them 
refused to let me take their pictures because it was Sun- 

‘day. Some of these came around on Monday morning, 
and I took their pictures then. Miss Ginger and War- 
wick met at the house that “evening” about 2 P. M. 
Miss Ginger and Mrs. Bogan (sisters) sang some re- 
ligious songs, Their voices were clear and high-pitched, 
but less musical than the faces were pleasing. When I 
asked for the words of the songs I’d heard the night 
before they were given in monotone. I was told that 
“in the morning” I could get the tunes “because he 
couldn’t repeat the tunes without fingering the banjo.” 
They were German Baptists or Dunkards. 

So many visitors were present at one time that the 
chairs would not go around, Then the wives sat on 
their husbands’ laps. . 

A generous fire was kept blazing in the fireplace. The 
dog irons were kept piled with wood—oak from ‘2 to 6 
inches in diameter. The back log having burned 
through, another was brought-in, It was 3 feet long 
and over 20 inches in diameter, To bring a blaze fat 

“pine was shoved under the wood into the coals, from 
which the blaze climbed into the logs and stuck its many 
heads out of the crevices caused by the criss-cross way 
of piling it on, 

“A more peacable community it’ll be hard for you to 

find,’ I was told. Jt certainly seemed so. 
About 9:30 o’clock Monday morning I started down 
the road, heading for Warm and Hot Springs. A mile 
‘through the woods brought me in sight of a clearing 
in the far side of the run. A man was down the field 
from the house. It was Ryder. I put down my pack 
and crossed oyer to let him know I'd slept well at 
Bogan’s. 

“Did you hear about John Pritz?” he asked the first 
thing. “Well, sir, three men came to his house—little 
log house down by Muddy Run—last Friday night. They 
had *bout a gallon, and wanted Pritz to drink with them. 
Pritz wouldn’t, and they cussed around some; so Pritz 
ordered them outdoors. They went, and then all three 
drawed their revolvers and shot a lot of shoots through 
the door and through the chinks in the logs. One bul- 
let like to have killed Pritz’s wife; planted itself right 
in the mantelpiece where she was standing. They fired 
fifteen or twenty shots, or maybe *twas only twelve or 
thirteen. Pritz said he neyer was so scared in his life. 
Those men didn’t have any right to do that. Ifa man’s 
trying to quit drinking they’d ought to let him alone; 
but some men haven't got any more principle than a yel- 
_low pig inacornfield. My pigs are all black. I like that 

kind better. I ust to” 
Just then_the mail carrier hove in sight on a buck- 
board, and Ryder and I cut for the road on the run, so 
that I could put my pack aboard to send it to Warm 
Springs. The pack adjusted on the buckboard, Ryder 
told about a corn shucker he had made, which there 
wasn't ‘a blacksmith in the country could haye done, so 
folks said. 
The Reverend Miller came along in a few minutes, 
driving a horse and buggy. Ryder hailed for a ride for 
me, and I got in with the rider, a large, heavily whisk- 
ered, twinkling-eyed man. 
serving, perhaps, that Ryder had wet his-lips for a new 
' start. ; 
“Did Mr. Ryder have anything to say?” Mr. Miller 
asked, around the bend, Perhaps Ryder has a reputa- 
tion in that region. “af 

A mile up grade followed the crossing of Muddy Run— 
a stream that got its name from the discovery of In- 
dians up the creek by the mud they stirred up, I think— 
and then on a wooded ridge tap we came to a house of 
rough boards. Here Mr. Miller stopped for a few minutes. 
He talked to the woman there while half a dozen children, 


Then, sweetly, with a 


He drove on quickly, ob-— 


FOREST AND. STREAM. — 


all less than eight years of age, looked on, wild-eyed 
and open-mouthed, When he came to the buggy, in- 
stead of getting in, Mr. Miller reached under the seat 
and drew the mouth of a bushel or larger bag around. 


From this he took out*handsful of apples and filled the - 


arms of the little‘tots with enough for eating, and some 
over for satice. = 

“They neyer forget anything like that,’’ the Dunkard 
preacher said, “I like to see the way they laugh when 
they get apples.” . 

At Warm Springs I got my dinner in the jail. For the 
first time in weeks I ate pie—berry pie, It tasted good. 
Warm Springs is a summer resort—so is Hot Springs, a 
few miles further on, and Healing Springs, still further, 
People come there ‘from all over to get washed,” the 
darkey I rode to Healing Springs with on. a load of 
iron intended for a bath house, told me, ‘“‘Folks that 
need it gets benefited a mighty, too,” he added. 

A few miles away I came to a store known to post- 
masters as “Carloover.” I stopped there and found that 
I could get a place to sleep there at the charming home 
of H. W. Hooyer. It was raining hard in showers, mud 
forming. The prospect of a walk to Covington on the 
following morning—thirteen miles—was not a pleasing 
one. The room to which I was shown after supper was 
a large and comfortable one, the chill damp having 
been banished by a fire in a stove. On-the table were 
many books—“Hen Hur,” the “‘Deemster,” “Portraits 
and Principals,” the Bible, “Sappho,” “An Original 
Belle,”. “Commercial Law.” I skimmed through ‘‘An 
Original Belle, following the hero from his maculate to 
his immaculate state—after E. P. Roe’s usual course of 
description. 

In the morning the weather was changed. A film of 
ice covered the mud, thick enough to bear one’s weight. 


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It was clear, moreover, and good walking. For a ways 
the road kept down in the valley, with a flank of large 


houses and fine farms on either side. I hurried on. 
Toward noon the road clawed up on the sidehill, the 
ends of jagged rocks appearing on the right.(up) side 
of the road. Soon I was a hundred feet above the valley. 
Coming around a point, far below appeared a watercress 
farm, clear, level, green, in a setting of broad hillside 
acres of brown. The water where the cress was growing 
steamed, for it is a natural warm spring there. The 
cleared valley ended abruptly ahead in a gulch of rough, 
-treed and rocky slopes. 

At the blacksmith shop I learned that I could get 
dinner in the house on the hillside a hundred yards 
away, It was lucky that I stopped. Not only was the 
dinner good—hot biscuit, sausage, several kinds of 
preserved fruits, milk and coffee—but it was the last 
house, with one exception, for seyen miles. 

I started on aiter eating, and half a mile away I was in 
a wild woods, looking at a fine waterfall over a ledge of 
recks, Having felt as much of the poetry of the situation 
as possible, I traveled on to the top of the divide. The 
road clung to the mountainside, and in a sort of gap the 
grade changed from up to down. North and south led 
the yalley, with a great mountain range on yon side— 
a range which led one’s gaze further than did the valley 
—so far, indeed, that the most distant sugar loaf peak 
seemed to blend with the gray-blue sky. It was diffi- 
cult to fasten one’s gaze on any point of the mountain. 
(Repeatedly my eye was led along the range from straight 
across the valley to the most distant rise in the sotith, or 
to the north. As usual with such scenes, the vastness 
brougth a feeling of lonesomeness and smallness. I 
went marching down the slope, playing “Home, Sweet 
Home” on a French harp, with as many variations as I 
knew. 

Many hundred feet below I caught glimpses of the 
Jackson’s River, which I left above Bogan’s. When the 
road led round an aerial cape I could see farms on the 
bottom and miles of the sidehill I was following. The 
road was like a Z, a W, a U and other letters in various 


places, for it had to zigzag back into gullies and out on 


points in its effort to keep the decline gradual. 

There were signs that fire had swept the mountainside 
at least once. 
scrub oak. ‘There were patches of hardwood trees here 
and there, and the promise of a thicker growth in some 
saplings. The air grew soiter and sweeter as I gradually 
made my way down toward Covington, smoke from 
which I saw from the divide. The road was good. It is 
cared for by contractors, just as all Virginia roads are. 


Tt makes the New York system of every man working - 


out his road tax look expensive, when one compares the 
roads. 

IT met a man on horseback when half way down the 
divide, The horse was partly harnessed. Later I learned 
that a flock of pheasants had raised with boisterous 
wings in front of the horse and scared it off the road 
down 50 feet of sliding embankment to the scrub trees, 
wrecking the carriage and accounting for the man’s cross 
look in response to my greeting. P 

I walked so slowly that it was nearly dark when I 


reached Covington. The more beautiful a region is, the 


more exhausting it is to travel through it. One stops 
oftener, looks for commanding sites, and travels further 
generally, I was unusually tired and hungry when I 
reached a stopping place. I intended to stay in Cov- 


ington a couple of days, but learning that there were a 


“hard road to travel,” and a “mighty mean country” 
ahead, and that the “people were pretty rough” on my 
proposed route, I left Covington on the following morn- 
ing, spurred somewhat by the hotel fare. This was on 
Wednesday, Dec. 11. 
- RayMonpD S. SPEARS. 


Five Wounded by One Bullet. 


Last evening, just before 6 o'clock, native policeman 
No. 477 accidentally discharged his revolver at the Parian 
station in the Walled City.. The bullet rebounded on the 


stone floor, and split into five pieces, each of which took. 


effect in the body of a Filipino prisoner, two of whom 
were women, One of the women had an artery severed 
and almost bled to death before she could be conveyed to 
San Juan de Dios Hospital. One of the other wounded 
prisoners was also conveyed to the hospital. The police- 
man himself was wounded in the foot, and has been placed 
under arrest, although it is thought the affair was entirely 
accidental—Manila Times, ~ sis 


Jack and bull pine grew tall among the © 


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The Southern Forests. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

As the resources of nattire become wantonly exhausted 
—as with other instances of natural human depravity— 
the remedy enforced by nature for this ill usage is tanta- 
mount to our own invention of hard labor as a penalty 
for ill-doing. This fact comes home to all of us when 
we think of the wanton destruction of the rapidly dis- 
appearing forests and the inevitable penalty even now 
suffered in waste of land and dearth of timber. The time 
will never come in which the use of timber will be sub- 
stituted by other materials. Indeed, with all our iron 
and steel and stone, which go to make up the present sky- 
scraping edifices necessary for very scarcity of land on 
which to build in our crowded cities, all the more they 
are used the more is the demand for timber. As a small 
but interesting instance of the dearth and value of timber 
I may mention the example of a little bit of land I once 
owned in New Jersey, near New York, which had a few 
only of good sized original trees, the rest being hoop- 
poles, saplings and other small timber, and for which I 
paid two hundred dollars. When the land was cleared 
to square out one of my fields, the timber on it sold for 
considerably more than the purchase price, and there was 
not a stick on it left to burn off, even the brush being 
sold to a nearby baker for oven wood, The thinnings of 
a hill side grown up with young chestnut trees, large 
enough for fence posts, brought more than the actual 
value of the land, and still left a valuable grove of young 
trees for future harvesting. The fact is that the re- 
planting of thousands of acres of land within sight of 
the city of New York would be far more profitable than 
its present culttire is, except so far as the intensive cul- 
ture of the market gardens may go. And to this com- 
plexion must return the bulk of the rougher lands of the 
North, now under unprofitable, if not wasteful culture. 
All'this seems doubtless more apparent to me because in 
my early life I was acquainted with these conditions as 
existing in European countries, and in my abundant 
leisure, afforded during my profesional studies, I gladly 
ocupied myself with this matter of forest culture. The 
planting of thousands of acres of the blowing sands of 
the French shores with pines (P. maritima) and the 
methods of protecting the young trees from the blowing 
sands especially interested me as even then applicable 
to the preservation of our own Eastern coast lands. But 
the forest culture, for profit solely, in the European and 
English wood lands afforded a still more attractive study, _ 
for it brought to mind so forcibly our common method of 
butchering our valuable forests, as well as the enormous 
injury otherwise as to washing of the soil and the effect 
in our climate. All this is of supreme interest to me now 
as the owner of some thousands of acres of original 
forest Jands here in the southern mountains, and the 
matter of turning all this timber here to profit when the 
time comes, as it surely will, that this fine forest will be 
in good demand for the markets. Still more so since 
the present excitement in regard to the acquirement of a 
large tract of the southern mountain lands on the highest 
parts of the Blue Ridge and Grand Smoky ranges, lying 
parallel to it, has, as it could not fail ta occur to our 
National Government, an unavoidable necessity for the 
preservation of all the important rivers which rise in this 
vicinity and flow into the ocean or the Mexican gulf. 

Now the dream of a score of years, and the’study of 
a forest under scientific culture for the profit there is in 
it, seem to be about to be verified, and these broad moun- 
tain slopes and flowery valleys will be spared from the 
wasteful hands of the fire fiend, and equally from the un- 
skillful owner who leaves to undisturbed nature the care 
of the wealth lying inert, and spoiling for want of human 
care and direction. 


Let me giye an instance. A lot of over two hundred 
acres joining the village and my dwelling lot has been 
spared from fire by extreme care and personal oversight. 
At first it was covered with sparsely scattered trees 
among which one might easily drive a loaded wagon, 
It was a clean hard wood forest of rough gnarled trees, 
of no value except for firewood. Now itis densely wood- 
ed, and a profitable harvest is already in sight, which, 
if transportation were available, would pay a good in- 
terest on the investment. Virst there is a vast quantity 
of the best of hoop poles, in some places standing thick 
enough to make the finest growth as to length and 
smoothness, and amounting on the average to more than 
five to the sqtiare yard. This is in addition to the scatter- 
ed larger trees, many of which are two feet or over in 
diameter with straight, smooth stems forty feet from the 
ground to the first limb. There are young pines now 
large enough to saw into. framing timber, but this would 
be a waste for the present growth I have found, by 
measurement, is equal to twenty times as much as that 
of the first five or six years; which, of course, means 
that the future growth will be many times more:annual 
value than the past has been. There is sufficient small 
undergrowth which may be utilized in various ways to pay 
the running expenses and care of the land, and. in ad- 
dition to all this, there is feed sufficient for five sheep, or 
one steer to the acre on the natural grasses on the land 
which is in no ways interfered with by the sheltering 
timbrage overhead. 


The more I study and reflect on my original estimate 
of the actual possible annual income from this vast moun- 
tain region, now going to waste, the more sure I am 
that the amount suggested, viz.: $10 an acre as the in- 
come, not all profit of course, is in no way excessive, and 
tmder such careful conduct as any well informed owner 
would give, is easily posible. F 

As a meadow under good culture is spoiled by disuse, 
and the overgrowth strangles the roots and so prevents 
the renewing of it; and proper pasturing of it goes to 
thicken the growth and strengthen it, and make it more 
and more valuable, so the aerial growth of the forest is 
checked by too dense a covering of the surface at the 
same time by skillful use, as by the pasturing of a field. 
so by the utilization of the sub-growth of the woods by 
annual thinning, the larger timber is forced into more 
valuable form and finer quality, the smaller lower limbs 
are killed by want of light and air, and the top growth is 
forced into the open above, leaving the trunk long, eyen 
in thickness, and free from dead knots. But unless the 
sub-growth is left sufficiently thick to force this upgrowth 


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of the larger tfeés, it is itself in time choked otit of ex- 
istence, and a mass of gnatly, knotty short trunks of the 
larger trees only is left. So far the study of forestry in 
this side of the world has been quite the reverse of prac- 
tical, and the basis of it has been experience of other 
countries where the conditions are almost entirely dif- 
ferent. We must have a mative school of forestry kept 
in the forests for some years at least, before we can make 
rules exactly suited for our special conditions, and one 

- of these conditions must be the adaptation of methods to 
natural laws derived from existing facts. 

Henry STEWART, 


HiGHranps, N. C. 


The Adirondack Park. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The article on “The Adirondack Forests,” by W. E. 
Wolcott, is well received by quite a number who are not 
likely to be heard from in print. It is a timely encourage- 
ment to some of us who watch uneasily the continual eat- 


ing into the forest of the lumbered and burned tracts, . 


often one and inseparable. And the editorial comment 
intimating that possibly it is not yet time to let im the 
lumberman is also encouraging. JI am one of those who 
believe in making use of the ripe crop, and that ultimately 
it can be saved without injury to the forest, but-I more 
earnestly believe that the attempt to do any harvesting 
now will lead to irreparable injury without eyen tempor- 
ary net returns, This-is the opinion of several men who 
know much about the management of affairs in the woods 
and outside. Some of the big spruces may be ripe, but 
the time for selling them with safety is not, and it will 
not be until nearly all the unlumbered forest belongs to 
the State. 

ForEsT AND STREAM, if J remember rightly, has always 
held that the mere carcass equivalent of the animal is of 
little account when properly estimating the value of the 
game to the people, and I can hardly believe that the 
forest will be valued on the basis of the pulp wood it can 
supply. Within the Adirondack Park lies the only pri- 
mitive woodland or refuge of game that the great ma- 
jority of us will ever see. The wild game may belong to 
the people, but if it has no place to lay its head will not 
for long be a tangible possession, A glimpse of one wild 
deer disappearing over the unmapped mountain is worth 
a long gaze at two through the meshes of a woven wire 
fence. Fences and preserved grounds are to-day certain- 
ly necessary and desirable; but if the people can afford 
to assure to any individual an exclusive pleasure ground, 
cannot they afford to purchase one for all, and to keep it 
attractive even at the expense of many logs uncut? A 
ee is surely not worth more consideration than is the 
whole, 


Several. of my friends who voted against the proposed 
constitutional amendment in 1896, because of the proposi- 
tidn to lease camp and hotel sites, are still in the same 
mood. They believe that in practice the leasing of sites 
would be no exception to the general rule that the most 
desirable things will inevitably go to the bidder with the 
most money. They believe that somebody wanted to 
qualify under the ruling or the proposition would not 
have been made. They believe that soon all the desirable 
sites would be permanently. occupied, and should they 
want to camp for their week or two they would follow up 
a row of “ move along” orders, unless they took at. once 
to the swamps and punkies. They believe that the most 
commanding sites on the shore of every beautiful lake 
would soon be illuminated by the glaring paint of a barn- 
like hotel. 

While I do not entirely agree with all of their ideas 
concerning the leasing of camp sites, it seems to me that 
any premature action would be an injury, and that leas- 
ing is certainly unnecessary at present. Three are hun- 
dreds of unoccupied lots now in the open market, once 
as good as sites now protected by the constitution. At 
the present time it is possible for one to see a few moun- 
tain lakes in their nearly primitive beauty as well as many 
others with a fringe of gaudily painted cottages and boat 
houses. After they have all been exploited there will 
never again be the possibility of choice. A few guides 
have a notion that more employment would come with 
more summer cottages. Possibly it may in the matter of 


cutting stovewood and mowing lawns, but for guides the _ 


demand would be more permanent in the wilderness than 
among a network of trolley lines and plank walks. 

Most of my friends are not rich men, and they like to 
spend their fortnight’s yacation under the trees. They 
assume, perhaps wrongly, that it is the rich who would 
lease all the choice locations, and they feel that so far as 
mew privileges by law ate concerned the interests of men 
like themselves should be considered before those of men 
who can picnic in Africa or Alaska when only bare rocks 
remain here. In the welfare of the pulp mills they have 
little interest, instead a lurking antagonism exists. They 
see the woods now going very fast close up. to the lots 
which belong to the State, and it is said even across the 
lines. Some of them, uncertain as to what may be the 
best management, feel that if the State fails to cut mature 
trees and finds itself m error it may lose the value of 
some lumber—a temporary loss, but that if lumbering 
begins now and is found a mistake they may lose the 
beauty of the forest for life. They prefer the lesser evil. 

With a few of us, hunting and fishing is a very second- 
ary consideration, although the wild life of the woods is 
the chief interest there found. The love of the woods, as 
of the open air generally, has been the great help to my 
wite in living down the dread tuberculosis, a fight which 
she has won. The chief attraction of the forest to her 
lies in the big trees. These are her continual delight. 
The second growth is not satisfactory, nor the culled 
timber. Many other good women are of the same mind. 
They can't yote to save the old woods, but would like to 
have a chance. 


Tn the “ North Woods” we have been on the trails of 
some.of the old-time woods lovers, of Nessmuck and Fred 
Mather. They are cold trails now, but I rejoice to say 
not entirely destroyed, though on some of their camping 
spots big hotels stand. It is our hope that the lumber- 
men will not get a chance for a good many years to file 
their saws where every old camp has been. 

Dayrp Care. 


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The Wild Hotse. 

Wuat has become of the wild horse? : 

I remember that the school geography that we used in 
my youth had a picttlre of a scene in Texas, the principal 
feature in which was two men catching wild horses; one 
of them had thrown his lariat over the head of his victim, 
and was pulling it to the ground, while the other man in 
the distance was in full pursuit of his game. 

In our school reader, too, was a very Spirited account of 
“Ringing the Wild Horse,’ by Washington Irving. I 
have since discovered that the account was taken from 
Irving’s “Tour on the Prairies,” in his “Crayon Mis- 
cellany.” In this book are frequent notices of the wild 
horses, and one gets the impression that they were’ very 
common on the prairies in the Far West. “The wild 
horses,’ he says, “which range those vast grassy plains, 
extending from the Arkansas to the Spanish settlements, 
are of yarious forms ard colors, betraying their various 
descents. Some resemble the common English stock, and 
are probably descended from horses which have escaped 
from our border settlements. Others are of a low, but 
strong, make, and are supposed to be of the Andalusian 
breed, brought over by the Spanish discoverers.” 

Of all the writers on our early Western country, I think 
Irving is still easily the first in point of merit. His 
“Prairie Tour,” his “Bonneville” and his “Astoria” have 
not been equalled in yivacity and interest. Those who 
know Irving only from his heavier works, his life of 
Mohammet, of Columbus and of Washington, or from his 
books at the other extreme, his Knickerbocker, his Sketch 
Book or his Bracebridge Hall, should read his sketches 
of our Western country when St, Louis was a frontier 
town, and the point of departure for those who sought 
to explore the great wilderness beyond. Those wete the 
days when it was thought the Great American desert 
could be traversed only by camels, and when Thomas 
Jefferson, in a message to Congress, could gravely speak 
of ‘a salt mountain’’ up the Missouri, “one hundred and 
eighty miles long and forty-five in width, composed of 
solid rock salt, without any trees or even shrubs on it,” 

But to get back to our wild horses, 

Not only were they found on our Western plains, but 
they were. reported; even in very early times, to abound 
in parts of Europe. Herodotus says that in the northern 
part of Thrace, beyond the Danube, the wild horses were 
covered with hair five inches in length. Smellie, in his 
“Philosophy of Natural History,” an excellent old book 
by the way, quotes from the “History of the Buccaneers” 
to the effect that troops of horses, sometimes consisting of 
500, are frequently met with in the Island of St. Domingo; 
that, when they see a man, they all stop, and that one 
of their number approaches to a certain distance, blows 
through his nostrils, takes flight, and is instantly followed 
by the whole troop: 

Readers of Byron will remember that the wild horses 
of the Russian steppes had something to do with Mazeppa 
in his fearful ride across the waste. 


‘A trampling troop; I see them come! 
Tn one vast squadron they advance! 
I strove te cuss—my lips were dumb, 
The steeds rush on in plunging pride; 
But where are they the reins to guide? 
A thousand horse—and none to ride! 
With flowing tail and flying mane, 
Wide nostrils, never stretched by pain, 
Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein, 
And feet that iron never shod, 
And flanks unscarr’d by spur or rod, 
A thousand horse, the wild, the free, 
Like waves that follow o’er the sea.” 


But what has become of the wild horse? In no modern 
book have I been able to find any mention of him. I 
have just turned over the leaves of the latest geography 
book out, but I find no picture of that untrammeled steed 
and no notice of him whatever. Has he joined the pro- 
cession with the buffalo, the wild pigeon, and the rest of 
them, and disappeared from the earth? : 

T. J. CHAPMAN. 


Concerning the Adirondack Forests. 


Editor Forest and Stream: | 

I have noted with interest what the Governor has sug- 
gested concerning further cutting on State lands. 

Also the talk about scientific forestry, and while not 
positively sure that there is nothing good in it for the 
State, [am yery skeptical, 

Such reports as are available concerning the so-called 
scientific forestry suggests that the science consists more 
in getting funds for a college than for a building up of the 
State’s Forest Reserve. 

For years I have been a close observer of the ordinary 
methods of lumbering in that region, and am prepared 
to. oe the statement of a thorough lumberman who 
said: 
more are spoiled and wasted.” There seems to be a great 
desire that acid factories shall not get the “ hard wood.” 
The odds as between the acid factories and the pulp mills 
are fifty to one in favor of the acid factories. You can 
travel for miles through the Adriondacks without finding 
a spruce tree of average size, or a pine, and hardly a hem- 
lock, and travel constantly, too, through hardwood 
growth. By all means prohibit the furnishing of hard- 
wood from the State Preserve, but be, ten times as jealous 
of the everlasting encroachments of the pulp mills. 

The removal of the black growth timber has very sen- 
sibly diminished the flow of brooks in a region still well 
timbered with hardwood, and it seems certain that the 


removal of that would not only denude the mountains 


of tree growth, but also, and shortly, of soil. For the 
soil is only held to the rocky foundation by interlacing 
tree roots, which roots feed and sustain the shading 
branches, preventing rapid evaporation, and compel a 
mild and steady flow from the sponge-like soil. 

Granite peaks may be all right if Switzerland where 
the everlasting snows prohibit vegetable growth. But if 
the peaks of the Adirondacks are robbed of their crown 
of green, instead of remaining the “health resort and 
pleasure ground of the nation” it will become “ an abom- 
ination of desolation.” As to scientific forestry, that is 


“For every tree cut and hauled to market three 


“as those ducks. 


be feared that it is forestry ‘‘ for revenue only. 


very well if it be scientific forestry. But pics pepe Wate ; 


It was not, be it remembered, that kind of forestry, that — 
made these forests. They got along very, well for thou- | 
sands of years before this State existed or Cornell was 
chartered. It would seem not unreasonable to believe 
that the good God, who made the original forest, could | 
still manage to preserve it without scientific aid. The 
“joker” in all this matter, is the pecuniary profit that 
somebody expects to get out of it. And surely the Em- 
pire State is not so poor that it can’t have a little bit of 
unscientific nature left in it somewhere. 

The forests, I am persuaded, can still safely be left 
alone. As to the proposed suggestion of the Governor 
and the Adirondack Guides’ Association concerning the 
leasing of camp sites, by all means let this be done, only 


with the proviso that the income from this source shall 
support a force of fire and game wardens large enough to | 
make sure that the campers do not fire the forests, and 
do observe the laws. Wardens are rarer in that country 
than policemen are in this city when needed. 
In the present state of affairs 1 am clearly of opinion | 
that till the experinient of Cornell can be shown to be | 
much more successful than it has yet appeared to be in © 
the matter of re-foresting, the present restrictions as to ' 
cutting timber should be rigidly enforced, and that leas- 
ing of camp sites should have a clause that would render | 
liable for damage lessees who started a forest fire. 
Probably not one in ten persons who visit that region | 
know that in a dry time the soil on which they kindle — 
fires will burn like tinder. I have personally extinguished 
a fire which came from the fact that those who started it, 
though educated people, were ignorant of this fact—a 
fire which, had it not been checked at the opportune time, 
would probably have swept over thousands of acres of 
‘what is now, and 4vhat I hope will remain for years to | 
come, green woods. D, A. Jorpan. 
BROOKLYN, Jan. 30, 


Alatuyal History. | 
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Labrador Duck and Great Auk Eggs. 


In the bequest of his valuable collection of birds’ eggs | 
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to the Natural History Museum of London by Mr. Philip 
Crowley, two great rarities passed to that institution. © 
One of these is an egg of the great auk, and the other 
that of the Labrador duck. Both these came into the | 
hands of Mr. Crowley on his acquisition of Canon 
Tristram’s fine collection of eggs. The Crowley great auk’s | 


egg was purchased in the year 1853 for £35, while last 


last year a very fine specimen brought 315 guineas, It is 
stated that the additions by this bequest to the collections 
of the Natural History Museum. have increased their eggs 
nearly a third in numbers, and about 15 per cent, in 
species represented. 


Ways of the Gadwall. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

I am very greatly indebted to the friends and un- 
known sportsmen whom I quote below for their kind- 
ness in responding so promply and fully to my inquiry © 
as to the manners of the gadwall duck. I am also obliged 
to you for your kindness in turning over to me the vari- | 
ous notes which you have received on this subject, in 
order that I may bring them all together under a single | 


head. : 
My friend Mr. Chas. P. Frame, of this city, whose ex- 


perience in duck shooting covers a wide range, from 

Canada to the Southern States, and over much of the- 
East and West, writes me something as to the abun- 

dance of the gadwall in recent times and their relative 

numbers. He says: “One day in 1900 in South Dakota 

I killed nearly eighty ducks from 10 o’clock till 4, hay- 

ing some twenty decoys tied out. Over half my bag were 

gadwalls. 

“T have seen more gadwalls in South than in North 
Dakota. My shooting in the former State has been in 
the northern part, in counties adjoining North Dakota. 
In North Dakota I met with more mallards than others; 
next came blue-winged teal in the early part of the 
season, and green-wings later. Sprigs, redheads and | 
widgeons were about the same as to numbers, ~Then — 
follow the gadwalls and shovyelers, and of these two 
species there were not so many.” 

Mr. Jos. B. Thompson, of this city, whose name is 
familiar to all students of game law matters, writes: 

“A quarter of a century or so ago, when hunting in ~ 
the Mississippi Valley was better than it now is, this © 
duck was abundant at times; and it would decoy fairly 
well. At times, however, it would not do so at all. Why © 
this was so is not clear to me. I think it was due to © 
food conditions. When food was. plentiful it was not 
easy to decoy; when it was scarce its disposition was © 
different.. Mallard or widgeon decoys I found satisiac- | 
tory. 

“In later years, in hunting on the Pacific coast, par- | 
ticularly from San Francisco north, I have found these 
birds plentiful only occasionally; but I think they de- — 
coyed just about as well as mallards. When artificial 
feeding was practiced they came in well whenever they 
were around. I have frequently shot them over mallard 
decoys, but I have never found them in such numbers 
I think they are growing scarcer.” 

Mr, O. D. Foulkes, of Stockton, Md., tells something | 
of his experience with this bird on the Eastern Shore. 
It is interesting to know that. an old English name is still _ 
applied here to the species. Mr. Foulkes says: 

“Any variety of fowl will decoy if you have your de- 
coys placed just where they wish to feed. 

“My experience with the gadwall (Anas strepera), © 
called here the bl’atin’ duck—a corruption of-bleating— | 
is that it is one of the poorest of the pond ducks to 
come to decoys. There have been so few of them here 
for the last ten years that it would be hard to say what 
they would do now. In years gone by they were very 
plentiful here, feeding in the small ponds with which the | 
islands and marshes are dotted. aie | 

“They were killed in this way: A pond was found in 


hich, by Be usual signs, it was determined that 
| fowl were feeding, An hour or so. before sun- 
down the gunner went there, made a small blind, 
termined that owls were feeding. An hour or so be- 
fore sundown the gunner went there, made a small blind, 
and without decoys had good shooting at black ducks, 
|) mallards, widgeons, gadwalls and shovelers. I suppose 
they would have come to decoys of any kind, but as de- 
coys were not necessary, the fowl coming to these ponds 
to feed, we did not use them. 
“We shoot black duck and mallard in these ponds now, 
“using four or five decoys, On moonlight nights we 
tack a strip of gray cloth or a few feathers on the back 
of the decoys to keep them from glistening. The black 
duck and mallard are all we find now; widgeons, gadwalls 
and shovelers are gone. I do not think the decoying 

of single birds is of any value to form an opinion of 
what any variety will do over the stools. My experi- 
ence in wildfowl shooting is that a single bird of any 
variety will readily come to the decoys, while a large 
bunch of many of the varieties will dart and twist away 
out of gunshot, or even will make no offer whatever. 
The single exception to this is the golden-eye or whistler, 
yet no bird decoys so easily or with more confidence if 
you use but a few decoys, not over seven or eight. 

“We have had more mallards here this fall than have 
‘been seen for many years. In fact it looks like the old 
days again. I also killed two female gadwalls, single 
birds, the only ones killed on_ the marshes in many 
years. Mr, Baker, of Milford, Del., killed from one of 
my blinds, a female American eider.” , 

From Chicago comes a pithy note by Mr. Edwin F. 
Daniels, which is very interesting as agreeing with Mr. 
Foulkes’ observations, which are those of most experi- 
enced duck shooters: 

“T am a member of the Tolleston Club, of Chicago, 


which has a shooting preserve in northern Indiana. We- 


had very heavy shooting last fall, both with the teal 

fight on Sept. 17, and with the mallard flight, which be- 
gan about Oct. 15, and lasted until December. There 
were more gadwalls seen on our marsh last fall, 1 be- 
eye, than for several years, and the experience of one 
of our members, Mr. W. T. Johnson, with gadwalls, was 
quite remarkable. 

“Tt was in the latter part of October, a beautiful fall 
day. Mr, Johnson went into a slough known to the club 
members as Second North Shore. As he went in there 
was seen to be quite a bunch of ducks on the water. He 
did not cotint them, but there were probably from 
twenty-five to fifty, a good, large flock. As they raised 
when he went in, he saw they were nearly all gadwalls. 
He put his decoys out and made his blind, and they soon 
began returning by ones and twos and small bunches 
until he had bagged twelve. They came in much like 
mallards and swung around and decoyed just the same 
as mallards. The open water where they sat when he 
first went in was not very. large. They had evidently 
been in there feeding for some time and were anxious to 
get back. They might have come in in the same way 
had there been no decoys out; that of course it is impos- 
sible to determine, but to all appearances they came to 
the decoys just the ’same as mallards, and apparently an- 
swered the mallard call that Mr. Johnson and his pusher 
gave when they came in sight.” . ; 

Mr. A. G. Holmes, of Green Bay, Wis., relates an in- 
teresting experience of last autumn, which seems to show 
the general unreliability of the bird under certain con- 
ditions. He says: ; . , 

“The gadwall duck with us is a yery unsatisfactory 
duck for decoy shooting. Sometimes they will decoy 
nicely, and at other times they will not. 

“Tn two days’ shooting from exactly the same point 
and with the same wind, the first day the birds would 
come as though they were about to decoy nicely, but 
when within 100 to 120 yards would swing off and go 
around behind us, while the second day they came fairly 
well. Saag: 

“Qur blind was well made, and we were well con- 
cealed in thick rushes about 2it, high and of a natural 
growth. Our clothes matched the weeds well, and the 
distance out to our decoys was about 30 yards; and from 
the decoys when low down we were invisible. Being no 
novices in duck shooting, we used every precaution in 
keeping still, and in setting out our decoys and fixing 
upon the place for the blinds, which, as stated, was very 
good. My companion was an old market-shooter of long 
experience, and he claimed that the gadwall was never a 

.satisfactory duck to shoot over decoys.” ; 

The birds—and they were quite numerous on this 
day—and would come from the north anr northwest, ap- 
parently looking for a place to feed; but would swing off 
and go around us, sometimes completély in a circle, but 
would not come within gun range. Our blind was so 
good that we managed to bag about thirty birds, a couple 
cf canvasbacks being in the bunch, and the balance red- 
heads, bluebills and mallards. . 

“The next day we shot from the same place and with 
the same wind, and bagged about the same number of 
birds, but this day we killed about a dozen gadwalls, and 
they came to the decoys very prettily. This was during 
their southern flight in October, 1901, and if I remember 
tightly, was the 17th or 18th of the month. { 

“Now, why these birds should act differently is beyond 
me. The flocks were large on both days; often twenty 
to 25 birds being in one flock, although the flocks as a 
rule contained about a dozen. This is the way we get 
-gadwalls at this point. We can never tell what they will 
do, as they are decidedly erratic in their ways.” 


I am greatly indebted to those whom I quote below for. 
ndness | a filly 


their kindness in responding so promptly an to my 
inquiries as to the manners of the gadwall duck. I am 
also obliged to you for your kindness in turning over to 
me the various notes which you have received on this sub- 
ject in order that I may bring them together under a 
single head. 
called here the blatin duck—a corruption of bleating— 
bunch of many of the varieties will dart, and twist away 
years. Mr. Barker, of Milford, Del., killed from one of 
“The birds—and they were quite numerous on this 
day—would come from the north and northwest, ap- 
The reports above quoted, coming as they do from so 


many localities, are extremely interesting to me, as. I think - 


they will be to all gunners. They seem to indicate that 
_the gadwall is an uncertain bird in the matter of coming 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


to the decoys, but I should be very glad if we, might hear 
from other obseryers, since the more evidence we can 
receive about this not very well known bird the better. 
Mr. Daniels speaks of the response, which Mr. John- 
son’s gadwalls made to the mallard’s call, and that brings 
up the question of the voice of the gadwall, Of course it 
is a common matter to call flying. birds by the voice of 
another species, just as we sometimes call canvasback by 
honking to them like geese. The only cry that I person- 
ally have heard the gadwall utter is a single full rather 
high-pitched whistle. It may haye other calls, however, 
and it would be interesting to learn if other people know 
what these cries are, Gro, Birp GRINNELL. 
New York«, 


Studies of Bird Songs. 


In a recent number of Science, Prof. W. E. D. Scott, 
of Princeton, N. J., has published an interesting paper 
regarding the propensity of birds to acquire new methods 
of expression in song. The subject naturally divides 
itself into three parts; first, the disposition of wild birds 
to change their normal song or to acquire new songs; 
second, the acquirement by direct teaching from man to 
birds in confinement of novel forms of expression; third, 
the propensity of captive birds to imitate songs or 
seunds that attract their attention. 

Of these divisions, the first is sufficiently familiar. The 
trained field ornithologist recognizes the individuality of 
the song produced by many birds of a species, Certain 
observers also have heard wild birds produce the songs 
of other birds, as well as such unusual sounds as the 
barking of dogs, human speech, the creaking of a wheel, 
the filing of a saw and the like. The mockingbird is the 


_hest exponent of this apparently imitative faculty, but the 


catbird is almost equally facile in this respect. One of 


-these birds which nested in the neighborhood of Prof. 


Scott’s house in the season of 1900 reproduced the call 
of a whippoorwill so perfectly that it was a hard matter 
to induce those who heard it to believe that the song was 
not made by a whippoorwill. A person who was ignor- 
rant of the catbird’s agency in the matter announced to 
Prof. Scott that she had heard a whippoorwill singing 
near his house repeatedly in the daytime, and inquired 
if this was a usual habit of the bird. During a residence 
of twenty years in the locality, the author has never 
heard whippoorwills nearer than three miles to the point 
in question. 

The curious case of a rose-breasted grosbeak talking 
1s quoted from Miss: Emily B. Pellet, Worcester, Mass., 
who says: : 

“Early last summer, while standing on my back steps, 
I heard a cheerful voice say, ‘You’re a pretty bird. 
Where are you?’ I supposed it to be the voice of a 
parrot, but wondered how any parrot could talk loud 
enough to be heard at that distance, for the houses on 
the street back of us are quite a way off. 

“Almost before I had done laughing, the voice came 
again, clear, musical and strong: “You're a pretty bird. 
Where are you?’ - 

“For several days I endured the suspense of waiting 
for time to investigate. Then I chased him up. There 
he was in the top of a waltiut tree, his gorgeous attire 
ae me immediately that he was a rose-breasted gros- 

eak, 

“At the end of a week he varied his compliment to 
* Preity, pretty bird, where are you?’ with a kind of im- 
patient jerk on the last ‘ you.’ 

“He and his mate stayed near us all last summer, 
and though I heard him talk a hundred times, yet he 
always brought a feeling of gladness and a laugh. 

“Our friend has come again this spring. About May 1 
I heard the same endearing compliment as before. 

“Several of my friends, whom I have told about him, 
have asked, “Does he say the words plainly? Do you 
mean that he really talks?? My reply is, ‘He says them 
just as plainly as a bird ever said anything; so plainly 
that even now I laugh whenever I hear him,’ ” 

In the second division—the education of birds by 
direct teaching from man—the European bulfinch’s abil- 
ity to whistle airs has been well known and cultivated 
for a hundred years. This seems the more remarkable 
because the wild bulfinch has little or no song. Canary 
birds have learned to whistle simple ‘airs; parrots, star- 
lings, jays, crows and magpies also talk and whistle. 
The minos of India very readily learn to talk, ‘sing and 
imitate many other birds’ songs. 

For the study of the third division of the subject— 
the propensity to imitate sounds that attract their at- 
tention—Prof. Scott has kept in captivity a considerable 
number of native birds, which have been left purely to 
themselves, with the view to learn what they would do 
in the way of song, their needs as to food and water 
being supplied. Among the birds so observed were 
bluebirds, robins, woodthrushes, catbirds, thrashers, yel- 
low-breasted chats, rose-breasted grosbeaks, a* cardinal, 
Baltimore and orchard orioles, cowbirds, crow and red- 
winged blackbirds and bluejays. 

A number oi the robins have peculiar songs, that do 
not resemble the wild robin’s song. They are perhaps 
invented songs. Catbirds mimic the songs of’ other 
birds. The yellow-breasted chat imitates with astonish- 


ing fidelity the whistle sounded by the postman who 


comes to the house. The call deceives the members of 
the family, and even after the author was known, it still 
continued to call to the front door persons who believed 
the posttnan to be there. 

A certain redwinged blackbird crows for ten months 
of the year in very close imitation of the crow of the 
common bantam rooster. A bluejay reproduces the 
song of the cardinal bird; the European jay has learned 
to imitate certain phrases spoken by the cockatoo. 
Finally Pret Scott quotes a letter of Mr. Edwin T. 
Merrick, of New Orleans, telling of a duck, which was 
hatched with thirteen turkeys by a hen as foster mother, 
which followed the turkeys about, learned their call and 
*“still imitates the turkey’s note with its duck voice.” 

Prof. Scott concludes that the reason why birds in 
confinement diverge from the normal in habits of song 
is that all their physical wants being carefully looked 
after, they have leisure, and employ it in giving their 
attention to occurrences about them, Wild birds, on the 


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other hand, are more or less constantly occupied in seek- 
ing food, and they do not have much leisure. 

This is a matter about which little is known, atid ‘the 
suggestion offeted by Prof. Scott presents a broad field 
for investigators who have opportunities to pursue studies 
of this nature, 


Snake and Scent. 


WestFIELD, New Jersey, Feb. 2.—Editor Forest and 


“Stream :—I notice in your issue of Feb. 1 a commtnica- 
. tion from A, L. L,, Milhurst, N. J., relating an instance: 


of a blacksnake following the trail of a rabbit, and ex- 
pressing his surprise thereat, as it was all new to him. 

I wish to say through Forest AND STREAM to brother 
A. L. L, that not only blacksnakes but many other snakes 
follow the trail of their prey in exactly the same manner 
as a hound—by pure scent, 

I have observed tany instances of it in blacksnakes, 
watersnakes and gartersnakes. 

I will relate one of the most singular and best demon- 
strated of my observations on this subject, viz.: Three of 
us were planting potatoes one May day, and hearing a 
sort of squeaking croak looked about for the source, and 
directly saw a watersnake coming along with a toad half 
in his mouth, I put my foot on the snake, and it at once 
threw ott the toad and ran into a log heap near by, 
The toad lay flattened out on the ground for some five 
minutes, and then gradually opened its eyes and cau- 


‘tiously looked around, when, not seeing its enemy, it 


began to creep away—slow at first, then faster, until it 
had made a distance of probably 75 feet, when ‘it straight- 
ened up, gave a squeaking, exultant sort of croak, and 
started on a jump and passed out of sight over a little 
hill toward a creek, 

After the toad had disappeared we bethonght ourselves 
of the snake, and looking toward the log heap saw its 
head projecting: above the top and its tongue flashing. 
I said: “Boys, let’s keep quiet and see what the snake 
will do,” which being agreed to, we stepped behind a 
big stump and waited for developments. Very soon we 
noticed the snake had drawn itself entirely upon the log 
heap, and was surveying the situation. It soon seemed 
to be satisfied, for it descended and made a careful: cir- 
cuit—exactly as a-dog would do—to find the trail; and 
when it came to the place where the toad had crawled 
away, it stopped instantly; then holding its head about 
five or six inches from the ground, started at a rapid 
gait after the toad. In about two hours’ time we were in 
the vicinity of the log heap again planting, and the sub- 
ject being called to mind by the log heap, we began to 
discuss the matter, when some one shouted, “Well, here 
comes that snake now.” And sure enough, there was a 
watersnake following back on the trail where the other 
had gone out. And as this snake seemed to be very 
portly, I concluded to investigate. So we killed the 
snake and opened it, and found the toad as I expected. 
The toad lay dormant for some minutes, then gradually 
went through his former performance and returned re- 
joicing to the creek, this time with one enemy less to 
contend with, M. L. NicHots. 


An Outing in Acadia.—X, 
BY EDWARD A. SAMUELS. 
[Continued from Vol. LVIL., page $46.) 


“WELL, Doctor,” said I, as he tossed the newt and-tad- 
pole back into the water, “your pan of mud will give us 
an evening’s entertainment, I have no doubt; but see, 
here is one of the biggest caterpillars I ever met’ with; 
it’s a perfect monster,” 

“Yes,” he replied, breaking off the small branch of an 
oak to which the worm was hanging, “it is a beautiful 
specimen, indeed; fully grown and all ready to spin its 
cocoon. It is late in doing so, however. It is a fine 
specimen: it is the caterpillar of the American silk worm, 
or Polyphemous moth (Telea polyphemus); its history is 
now well known, and its value as a silk producer has 
been fully established, chiefly by an enthusiastic natural- 
ist named Trouvellot, who had at one time a vast num- 
ber on a tract of several acres of scrub oaks in Medford, 
near Boston.” 
_ The larva which the Doctor still held was about three 
inches in length and it was very thick and fleshy; its 
body was of a handsome yellowish-green color, with 
seven oblique lines of a pale yellowish on each side: 
its head was of a light brown; the underside of the body 
was striped longitudinally with a faint yellowish band; 
the feet were brown, and there was a number of wart-like 
protuberances along its body of a variety of bright 


‘colors. The posterior part of the caterpillar was bordered 


by a purplish-brown line in the form of the letter V, 

“And so this is the Polyphemus larva,” said I, exam- 
ining the caterpillar more closely. “I had no idea that 
it lived in these parts,” 

“Oh, yes,” was the reply, “and I have no doubt that 
other varieties which have been reared as silk producers 
occur here.”* 

“Other varieties?” 

“Yes; Trouvellot experimented with several large and 
handsome species, among which the _.Polyphemus, 
Cecropia and Luna moths were the principal. He, finally 
settled down to one and confined his attention to the 
Polyphemus. This is one of the handsomest of our 


*The writer has frequently captured the Polyphemus in N 
Scotia, and, although I have not found the Gee bun and ama, T 
have never had any doubt that they occur there, To Settle the 
matter beyond question, I wrote to Mr. Robert R, MéLeod ‘of 
Brookfield, N, S., for information, and his reply was: “I Have 
a poor specimen of a Luna moth that I obtained in the summer 
of 1899, and have seen two others in twelve years here. The 
cecropia | have seen from time to time; its caterpillar oftener than 
the moth.” 

A. H. McKay, Esq., Superintendent of Education for Nova 
Scotia, also writes, in reply to my inquiries: “The sillc worm 
moths, to which you refer, are pretty common in Nova Scotia, 
Some years ago I prepared illustrated articles—lessons—as samples 
of ‘nature object lessons’ in the public schools, A. cecropia ‘being 
the first, as it is the most common, so far as my observation has 
gone; 4. polyphemus second, and if I prepared a lesson on A. lung 
it was more on account of its gorgeous shape and green color than 
of its commonness. * * * é have lists of portions of our in- 
sects published, * “ * but T cannot say whether there is any 
ee list of the ocniEe ans ne ea the three species 
which you name will be in any list that covers s r 
are the best known.” 4 : Pech uch group, Be FESY 


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lepidopterous insects, and it measures across its expanded 
Wings from four to six inches.” 

“Its color is a dull ochre-yellowish, clouded somewhat 
with black in the middle of the wings. The front margin 
of the wings has a gray stripe, and near the hinder margin 
is a dusky band edged with reddish white. On each of 
the wings is a transparent eye-like spot, surrounded by 
black and. yellow rings, and before the eye-spot of the 
hind wing is a large patch of blue which shades into 
black.” 

“Tt must be a very handsome moth, judging by your 
description,” I observed. 

“It is, but it is not so beautiful as the Cecropia moth, 
which is also larger than the other, its wings expanding 
sometimes to six and a half inches. They are of a 
grayish, dusky brown, and the hinder margins are clay 
colored; near the middle of each wing is a kidney-shaped 
reddish spot with a white center and a narrow black 


Longitudinal section of the mouth of a lepidopterous larva, seen 
from the middle line; m, cavity of the mouth; /r, labrum or upper 
lip; /b, labium or lower lip; mx, maxillz; md, mandibles. 


border; near the tip of each fore wing is an eye-like spot, 
black and with a bluish-white crescent, and there is a 
wavy, reddish band across each wing bordered on the 
inner side with white; on the fore wings next to the body 
is a curved white band on a dull red ground. The body 
on the upper side is of a dull reddish-brown color, and 
on'the under side it is variegated red and white; there is 
also a number of white rings across the abdomen, and 
the body is covered with a soft, dense down.” 

There is as much beauty in the Luna moth as in the 
Cecropia, but it is of more delicate character. 

The Luna extends from four and a half to five and a 
half inches across the extended wings, and each hind 


The mouth of a Lepidopterous larva seer. from below; a, antenne; 
oc, ocelli; Jb, Jabium or lower lip; mx’, mx”, md, maxille and 
mandibles. 


wing is prolonged over an inch at the posterior angle so 
as to give the insect the appearance of being swallow- 
tailed, The color of the wings is of an exquisitely deli- 
cate pea-green, and along the front edge of the fore wings 
and across the front of the thorax, or that part of the 
‘body to which the wings are attached, is a brownish- 
purple stripe; the legs and outer edges of the wings are 
also of that color. On each of the wings, near the middle, 
is an eye-like transparent spot which is surrounded by 
white, red, yellow and black rings. The body of the 
insect, like that of the others, is covered with soft down, 
which on the Luna is white. 

Mr. Trouvellot experimented with all these species in 
his attempts at silk culture, but, as the Doctor stated, 


Side view of the head of a moth, showing the compound eyes,o; 
the antenne, a; the palpi, p; the antlia, s, 


he at last confined his operations to rearing the Polyphe- 
mus moth. He published a yery interesting description 
of these insects, and gave in it much important informa- 
tion regarding them. . 

From his paper,.which is a very lengthy one, I will 
make a few extracts. He says: ; 

“The Polyphemus worm, like all other silk worms, 
changes its skin five times during its larval life. The 
moulting takes place at regular periods; which come 
around about every ten days for the first four moultings, 
while about twenty days elapse between the fourth and 
fifth moultings. The moulting generally takes place 
after four o’clock in the afternoon; a little before this 
time the worm holds its body erect, grasping the leaf 
with the two pairs of hind legs only; the skin is wrinkled 
and detached from the body by a fluid which circulates 
between it and the worm; two longitudinal white bands 
are seen on each side, produced by a portion of the lin- 


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ing of the spiracles, which at this moment have been 
partly detached; meanwhile the contractions of the worm 
are very energetic, and by them the skin is pulled off and 


Bee. 8, i902. 


of this loose skull-cap, removes it by rubbing it on a 


leaf; this done, the worm finally crawls out of its skin, 


Once out of its old skin, the worm makes a careful re-+ 


THE CECROPIA MOTH. 
From Harris’ “Insects Injurious to Vegetation.” 


pushed toward the posterior part; the skin thus becomes 
so extended that it soon tears, first under the neck, and 
When this is accomplished, the 


then from the head. 


view of the operation, with its head feeling the aperture 


of every spiracle, as well as the tail, probably for the 


purpose of removing any broken fragment of skin which 


THE POLYPHEMUS MOTH, MALE. ws 
From Harris’ ‘Insects Injurious to Vegetation.” 


most difficult operation is over, and now the process 
goes: on very rapidly. By repeated contractions the 
skin is folded toward the tail, like a glove when taken 


might have remained in these delicate organs. Not only 


-is the outer skin cast off, but also the lining of the-air 


tubes and intestines, together with all the chewing organs 


THE LUNA MOTH. -° — — - ar 
From Harris’ “Insects Injurious to Vegetation.” 


off the hand, and the lining of the spiracles (breathing 
tubes) comes out in long, white filaments. When about 
one-half of the body appears, the shell remains like a 
cap, inclosing the jaws, then the worm, as if reminded 


and other appendages of the head.” 
Trouvellot further says that the worm “when fifty-six 
days old is fully grown, and has consumed not less than 


one hundred and twenty oak leaves weighing three- 


a 


' 


purths of a pound; beside this, it has drank not less than 
1e-half ounce of water. So the food taken by a single 
Ik worm in fifty-six days equals in weight eighty-six 
ousand times the primitive weight of the worm. When 
ally grown, the worm, which has been devouring the 
‘aves so voraciously, becomes restless and crawls about 
ie branches in search of a suitable place to build up its 
cocoon; before this it is motionless for some time, hold- 
ag on to the twig with its front legs, while the two hind 
airs are detached; in this position it remains for some 
me, evacuating the contents of the alimentary canal, 


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through the fine texture of the wall; then a gummy, 
resinous substance, sometimes of a light brown color, is 
spread over all the inside of the cocoon. 

“The larva continues to work for four or five days, 
hardly taking a few minutes’ rest, and finally another 
coating is spun in the interior, when the cocoon is all 
finished and completely air-tight.” 

The silk is spun quite differently from that of the 
spiders already described. If we examine carefully the 
lower lip of the caterpillar which is ready to make its 
cocoon, we will see there is an outlet of a small conical 


: SPHINX MOTH WITH TONGUE UNCOILED. 


until finally a gelatinous, transparent, very caustic fluid, 
looking like albumen, or the white ofan egg, is ejected; 
this is a preparation for the long catalepsy that the worm 
is about to fall mto. It now feels with its head in all 
directions, to discover any leaves to which to attach the 
fibres that are to give form'to, the cocoon. If it finds 


the place suitable, it begins to. wind.a layer of silk around =) 
a twig, then a fibre is attached to a‘leaf near by}-and thy ‘ 

meat oa: jeans ‘ natute has. provided to carry out her. ends. 
the caterpillars have strong cutting jaws the moths have. 


+ 


CHRYSALIS, 


many times doubling this fibre and: making it shorter 
every time, the leaf is made to approach the twig at the 
distance necessary to build the cocoon; two or three 
leaves are disposed like this one, and their fibres are 
spread between them in all directions, and soon the 
ovoid form of the cocoon appears. This seems to be the 
most difficult feat for the worm to accomplish, as after 
this the work is simply mechanical, the cocoon being 


CATERPILLAR OF THE AMERICAN SILK WORM. 


made of regular layers of silk united by a gummy sub- 
stance. The silk is distributed in zig-zag lines about one- 
eighth of an inch long. When the cocoon is made, the 
worm will have moved his’ head to and fro, in order. to 
distribute the silk; about two -hundred and fifty-four 
thousand times. 

“After about half a day’s work, the cocoon is so far 
‘gompleted that the worm can hardly he distinguished 


tube in the middle of it; from this the silk exudes in a 
sort of sticky fluid which hardens as soon as it is exposed 
to the air. Some species make a large quantity, while 
others but very little. , ; 

In the cocoon the pupa gradually assumes the imago 
or moth form, and early in the following summer it 
emerges as:a moth. Its mode of escape from the silky 
covering is a most.interesting example of the methods 
Although 


none whatever, their place being filled by tubular tongues, 
through which water and dew and the honey of flowers 
is sucked up by the insects for food. These tongues are 
often very long, sometimes a number of inches, and 
when not in use they are coiled up spirally under the 
insect’s mouth like a watch spring. Without jaws then 
to gnaw out of the cocoon some other method of escape 
must be provided, and this is done most perfectly and in 
the simplest manner, for when the moth is ready to 
emerge a peculiar secretion, called bombycic acid, exudes 
from its mouth which acts upon the gum and fibres of 
the silk, finally permitting the insect to burst it open 
and come out. The moth is perfect when it emerges from 
the cocoon with the exception of its wings, which are 
hardly more than pads upon its shoulders. The moth 
remains perfectly quiet for a few minutes, when the wings 
begin to grow, and in about twenty minutes they have 
attained their full size. 

For a few minutes the Doctor and I studied the cater- 
pillar which hung motionless from the twig in his hand, 
and then he attached it to a branch of an oak near by. 

[To BE. CONTINUED, ] 


Perils of the "Alaskan ‘Coast. 


A press dispatch from Vancouver, dated Jan. 9, gives 
details of the loss of the steamer Bristol, which was 
wrecked near Dixon Entrance on her way to the Tread- 
well River, near Juneau, Alaska. 

I well remember the Bristol as I. saw her in August, 
1897, first at the dock in Victoria and later on in Skagway 
Harbor, with a glacier for background, a snub-nosed 
tramp steamer of a type common on the Atlantic coast, 
loaded down with men and horses, who were te participate 
in the first. Klondike rush. Some said that she carried 
800 passengers on this trip.’ She had picked them up by 
cutting rates and by making more liberal arrangements 
for the carriage of horses and supplies than the regular 
lines, and there was a general impression that horses and 
men alike got about what they paid for. » 

Be that as it may, she is gone, and with her has dis- 
appeared the last of the steamships (with the possible 
exception of the Rosalie), of which I had an intimate 
knowledge at the time of my visit to Alaska in 1897-08. 
The list, though short, and comprising as it does but a 
fraction of the shipping loss since the discovery of the 
Klondike and Nome, is suggestive. First there was the 
Mexico, on which I had reserved passage to the north. 
The company operating her refused to make provision for 
my horses, and I gave up my reservation, taking passage 
on the Islander instead. The Mexico was wrecked on 
this. very trip, and though the Islander survived four 
yeats, she too went under last summer, as all newspaper 
readers know, with considerable loss of life. Lastly there 


was the Clara Nevada, which I missed at the dock in. 


Skagway by the smallest possible fraction of time, only 
to find upon my arrival in Seattle that she had blown up 
and was lost with every soul on board. ~ 

One of the Seattle newspapers published not long ago 
a list of the vessels wrecked on the Alaska route, and 
though I do not recollect the number, the total was some- 
thing appalling. . 

The thing was commented upon from the standpoint 
of the marine underwriters upon a basis of dollars and 
cents, but from another point of view it illustrates the 
thorns which strew the path of the gold seeker, a sotemn 
warning of the uncertainty of life in the ee aa 


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Gane Gag and Gun. 
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Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest anp STREAM. 


Hunting with Henry Braithwaite. 


II].—Caribou and Deer. 


WHEN we got back to camp, after Charlie Small killed 
the big moose, Theodore and Jerry, who had been left to 
skin the smaller one, had a story’ to tell. After Charlie, 
Henry and I had left them at work, they had kept up their 
fire, as it was cold business cutting up the frozen meat. 
They had been at work perhaps an hour and a half, and 
had plainly heard the fusillade which accompanied the 
decease of the second moose. Then they heard a noise 
close by, and saw a largé bull moose moving their way. 
He came up within 50 feet of them, when he stopped and 
stared, not seeming to know what to make of them or 
their fire. Jerry called at him, “co, co, co,” just as if he 
were an ox ina barnyard. The boys said the moose only 
shook his head, and was in no hurry to leave them. 
Finally he trotted off in a leisurely way. The next day, 
when Theodore and Jerry went over the mountain to 
bring in Charlie’s big moose head, they said the moose 
that came to look at them had a head quite as large as 
the. one Charlie got. 

There was a big yellow “saple” or marten that stayed 
under the floor of Henry’s home camp. When any par- 
tridge heads or other refuse pieces of meat were thrown 
out, the saple would come out and eat them, in broad 
daylight. If any one came out of the camp door while he 
was eating, he would stand his ground, and bark defiance 
in the funny little hoarse cough that expresses saple dis- 
approval. 

Henry’s gun rack at the home camp was a curiosity. 
Beside our rifles, it contained a .45 double English rifle, 
a .45-70 Marlin, a Snider and two shotguns. After one 
of Henry’s 30-bore sportsmen this fall had wounded and 
lost five moose, thereby nearly breaking Henry’s heart, 
he took out the old Snider, commonly known as “the 
Binding Pole,” and got his moose the first shot. A 
Snider, be it Known, is .577 caliber. The bullet. weighs 
480 grains, and the propelling force is 76 grains of black 
powder, There is no question whether this bullet 
mushrooms. It has diameter already before it strikes. 
What is the difference in principle between such a 
weapon and a high-power smokeless? ‘Try this experi- 
ment: Make a small cross-bow, with heavy rubber 
bands for the propelling force. Take a light wooden 
projectile, with a nail in the end. Place a block of wood 
in front of the cross-bow. Draw the rubber back to its 
utmost tension. Release it, and the nail point will be 
driven a considerable distance into the wooden block, 
which, however, will not be moved. «-~ 

Now take a much heavier projectile with a nail point 
in it. Draw the rubber only half as far back, if you 
please; but be sure your projectile is heavy. Release it,. 
and what happens? The tension is much less, the 
velocity is lower, the nail point is not driven so far into 
the block, but the block itself is knocked flying. 

Now, compare the case of the Weaver moose, famous 
all over New Brunswick, with the moose killed by the 
Snider. The Weaver moose was in the open. He came 
right out of the water alongside of Mr. Weaver, who had 
every chance in the world, at short range, with a .30-30. 
Thirteen bullets from this rifle struck the moose. Donald 
McCoy told me there was no mistake about the number, — 
and when they found the moose long after, that state- 
ment was found to be correct. But Mr. Weaver lost the 
moose. The poor animal died two miles from where he 
was shot, and some lumbermen swamping in a road, after 
the snow came, ran against something sticking above. 
the snow. It was the tip of one enormous antler. The 
blades were about 20 inches wide, and the head was one 
of the finest ever seen in the Province. 

In the case of the Snider moose, one shot was fired. It 
smashed both shoulders of the moose, which fell on its 
knees. “That was the first time I ever see a moose say 
his prayers,” said Dune Moon, who witnessed these 
doings. In the one case thirteen light bullets, fired at 
high tension, had no immediate effect on the great bulk 
and amazing vitality of the bull. In the other case, one 
heavy, large-bore bullet, fired at low tension, knocked 
the animal down and out, and he never got up. The 
blow delivered anywhere at all in the frame of the moose 
would have had the same effect. 

Having in two days exhausted the legal limit of a 
moose apiece, we decided the next day to move camp.up 
to Gover Lake, on the edge of the caribou country. 
This Gover Lake camp is one of Henry’s own construc- 


‘tion, and he regards it as being now the very center of 


his hunting ground. It is ten miles north of Little Sou- 
west Lake, and near the head of the river. From there 
it is only a day’s journey to the water shed of the Ser- 
pentine, a tributary of the Tobique. 

Gover Lake is really only an irregular enlargement of 
the Little Souwest Miramichi. It had frozen over just 
before the first snow, and the thin ice was covered a few 
inches deep. In order to get to the high, open barrens 
where the caribou are found in winter, it was necessary 
to cross Gover Lake. We tried it one day, and there was 
stich an ominous threat from the buckling ice that we 
gave it up for that time, and Henry and I went up on 
the ridges back of camp to try for a deer, as we needed 
meat here. It was too far to carry the moose meat 
from below in such traveling. . 

Again the white glory of the hardwood forest. Again 
the matchless witchery of glistening twig and bending 
branch, loaded to the endurance limit. You must see 
the evergreens thus covered to understand the utility of 
this tree form, and the fitness of its survival. 

Soon we came upon a big deer track, fresh and sharp. 
Its maker was going very slowly, just wandering around 
and nibbling, here and there rubbing his horns against 
a tree. Every minute we expected to see the tracks 
stretch out into long, straight jumps. But no; in fifteen 
or twenty minutes Henry madeva gesture I have learned 
to know so well. He pointed with his ax handle. There, 
not 15 yards anead, stood the buck, his head cocked on 


ane side, Jooking at us in the most henevglent, amiable 


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way you can imagine. His eyes beamed kindness; he 
was just the most exaggerated picture of beauty you ever 
say. If a girl had been there she would have said truly, 
“Isn't he a dear?” It was with teal pity in my heart at 
the murder of it that I pulled the rifle from its case and 
shoved the cartridge, a brazen monster just about the size 
ofa pint cup. But there was nothing else to do, I raised 
the rifle slowly, the bead shone fair against the graceful 
neck, just Where the white tapered into the brown. I 
was awiully sorry to shoot that deer, It was a low-down 
betrayal of confidence. But I pulled the trigger, the 
heavy ordnance roared, the mountain jarred, and J 
looked. 

Fiity yards away I got a glimpse of a bouncing, flaunt- 
ing thing of rubber and steel zigzagging out of sight. 
My sympathy had been premature, I had made a beauti- 
ful, elegant, clean miss. I call on those hills to witness 
that I have never lost a moose at which I fired, I once 
missed a caribou at 200 yards, and Henry can tell you he 
never saw me miss anything else, not even the passing 
of a jug. How in the world I let that deer go will ever 
uF amystery tome, But to my dying day I shall be glad 
or it. 

The weather was freezing all the time, but not cold for 
us. Our great trouble was that in trousers, drawers, 
undershirt, sweater and three pairs of woolen socks to 
resist the snow, we were nearly always too warm, 

When I was in Boston on my way to New Brunswick 
I went into a clothing store with Charlie Small’s father, 
who wanted to please Charlie. So when he saw a leather- 
lined corduroy vest, that was warranted to keep out the 
cold of Greenland, he bought it. I got one for myself, 
and also got a pair of long-legged corduroy trousers. It 
had long been my ambition to own a corduroy suit. I 
remember when I was a boy up in Michigan, and the 
grown men started out for a fall deer shoot, the swellest 
of them wore corduroy; and I somehow got the idea that 
you couldn’t really enjoy yourself in the woods without 
ribbed clothes. For twenty-five years I had had other 
use for my money, but this fall I managed to get $3.50 
together and buy the trousers, I wore them two days 
going in, and the boys said they could hear the legs 
scrape together when I was a quarter of a mile off, 

Charlie Small wore the leather-lined corduroy vest one 
day, and that night he had to hang all his clothes by the 
fire to dry, and the next day too, Charlie said he had 
only one ambition, which was to get the vest on his 
father some day when he had a long walk to take that 
couldn’t be postponed. After that the corduroys stayed 
in camp. 

For a few minutes in the gray morning we would wear 
the woolen mittens, as we started out from camp. Then 
first one would come off, soon the other, and we would 
be warm till we stopped to boil the kettle, while Henry 
would devastate the ever-present rampike for the noon- 
day fire. I have been a good deal colder since I came 
* home to Washington this winter than I was up among 
the New Brunswick green woods, 

The next day after the episode of the vanishing buck 
Henry and Charlie and I went up to the great barren 
which a few fortunates will recognize by the name of the 
Graham Plains. This is the great caribou ground of 
Henry’s country. The caribou are everywhere except 
where the moose have driven them away; but on the 
Graham Plains and vicinity they are nearly always to be 
seen. They go there to dig the moss under the snow. 
We were so sure of getting some meat that Theodore and 
Jerry were taken along to cut up and lug back to camp 
some yet unselected yictim. 

Gover Lake growled and protested as we crossed it. 
The warm blanket of the snow had kept it irom freezing 
very thick, and in many places our shoe packs brought 
the water up through the snow. Henry went ahead, 
whacking now and then in a perfunctory way with his 
ax. The ice carried him all right. He weighs a scant 
150. When the ice cracked with Henty it was small as- 
surance to Charlie Small bringing up the rear, for 
Charlie weighs 200, But it has often been a wonder to 
me how much abuse new ice will really stand before it 
bredks. Sometimes Henry would warn us to be ready 
to throw ourselves on our faces it necessary; but as usual 
when you go with Henry, nothing happened, and we 
clambered out at the upper end of the lake and picked 
up the trail, 


Now, it is about a mile from the head of the lake to 
the Lower Plain. I suppose we all expected, in a vague 
way, to see some caribou pretty soon, if we were lucky, 
The wind was at our backs, which was bad. But there 
was no other way to get where we wanted to go. We 
toiled up a little hillock, and as our heads rose above 
the top Henry began heartily to swear. The whole 
landscape in sight was simply a cloud of galloping 
caribou and flying snow. 

That was Charlie’s introduction to caribou. He lives 
in Maine, where there are none, and here, the very first 
thing, we had run again more caribou than I ever saw 
before in all my hunting trips together. You couldn’t 
count them, but I’ll bet anybody that there were 100 
catibou within gunshot. They didn’t stay long. Some 
of them had winded us before we saw them, and that 
started them. 

The main herd swept out of sight, among the balsams, 
and then some scattéring ones that had missed the first 
roll-call began to pile over the hill. It was Charlie’s am- 
bition to get a good head, but it was late in the season, 
most of the old bulls had already shed their antlers, as 
Henry had predicted, and there were only a few traveling 
treetops in the bunch. But among the very last of the 
outfit a bull with a very good head stopped to look back 
and see what it was all about. He was about 200 yards off 
and Charlie took a quick shot at him with the .375. Just 
as he fired, the caribou gave a jump and went over the 
divide. : 

Henry thought there might be more caribou ahead, 
and that if we did not follow the main herd they might 
soon quiet down, and we might look them up later. He 
never follows alarmed animals if he can help it. 

Charlie and I were amazed to see the countless tracks, 
The caribou had apparently been trying to see how muc 
snow they could dig up and beat down. 

We went on for half a mile, and Henry began to show 
signs of coming to a point. Pretty soon he pointed out 
two caribou lying down. Neither of them had horns. 
Charlie wanted. horns, The camp wanted meat, We 


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stood and looked at them till a little cow that we had 
not seen at all rose up, looked at us, and started to get 
out of that. When she was about 7o yards off and going 
pretty fast, I sighted for the end of her nose with the 
two-bushel rifle, and the four men who were watching 
say that the caribou seemed to bounce right into the air 
as the gun went off, Anyway, she didn’t get up any 
more, and the disgraceful miss of yesterday was wiped 
out. The bullet had struck too far back for a small-bore 


_man, but it did the business, and there was meat for 


Theodore and Jerry to lug. 

After lunch we went back to where Charlie had fired at 
the big bull. There was a splotch of blood where the 
caribou had stood, The .375, with its 320 grain hollow 
point bullet and 2,100 feet initial velocity, which some 
people tell you will stop a charging elephant, had not 
even knocked the caribou down, Henry and Charlie 
and I followed the trail of blood about a quarter of a 
mile, and then, all traces being obliterated by the hoof 
marks of the herd, had to give it up- That was the only 
animal we wounded and lost on the entire trip. 

When we went back to the lake we found that Theo- 
dore and Jerry had made a long bridge of small trees, 
placed end to end, to get out on to the ice, because 
there were springs under it at that end of the lake, and 
we-had shaken it up pretty well, coming over the ice in 
the morning. 


Having now killed my one moose and one caribou, I 
was out of the running, but I went along with Charlie 
and Henry the next day to give them the benefit of my 
valuable company and adyice. We went away up to the 
Graham Lakes, where the water from one runs into the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence, and from the next one, forty rods 
away, into the Tobique, St. John and Bay of Fundy. We 
didn’t see any more caribou conventions, but when we 
came to the first lake, and from the hills looked down 
on the tracks on the ice, it certainly looked as though 
the caribou might be at home, : 

When you have traveled over miles of snow, unmarked 
by the feet of any living thing, and then come on t6 a 
maze of fresh tracks, showing the presence, not only of 
one animal, but of many, it has a very stimulating effect 
on the mind. So, though no caribou were in sight, we 
made the circuit necessary to get a friendly wind, and 
looked over every new vista with the keenest expecta- 
tions, 

We had scarcely come in sight of the second lake (the 
one falling into Tobique water) before we saw a bunch of 
caribou out on the ice, and we crouched down and 
watched them, There was one large bull in the party, but 
he had shed his antlers. So there was no shooting to be 
done. But it was great fun to watch these restless, care- 
‘free animals as they aimlessly poked around, on the sur- 
face of the snow-covered ice, The country around these 
lakes is very rough and brokeu, full of piled up rocks. 
The outlet of one lake, which for some distance is a 
canoe stream in size, disappears entirely beneath the 
rocky formation for miles, and then comes out again. 

While we were watching the caribou on the ice three 
more came out of a little spruce growth just below us, 
and among them was a young. bull with quite a head of 
horns. Charlie concluded that it was good enough for his 
purposes, and so, resting the rifle on his knee, picked 
the spot he wanted and let go. The distance, we after- 
ward found, to be 110 yards, down hill. 

The caribou gave a couple of jumps, stood for a few 
seconds as though looking for a place to lie down, and 
then tore frantically down the gulch, making the snow 
fly at a great rate as he tumbled headlong to his death. 
The shot was classical in its: perfect location, 4 inches 
behind the foreleg, midway between back and belly. 
The high velocity light bullet did not knock the animal 
down as a bullet from the two-bushel gun would have 
done. The hollow point seemed to have spattered into 
the lings and the solid-jacketed base had gone right 
through, making the exit hole just about as large as the 
entrance, 

On the way home we made a long detour, and struck 
one of the river branches falling into Goyer Lake. This 
we followed down, and came upon the broad trail of a 
great caribou herd, probably the one we had seen the 
day before. Every hour or so we would jump a few 
stragglers. 

It was dark by the time we got to the lake, and an 
impenetrable snow squall struck us while we were cross- 
ing. We could not even see our morning tracks on 
the Ice, and Henry kept feeling for them with his feet. It 
was a great comfort to know that the responsibility of 
ayoiding the numerous air holes, springs and soft spots 
in the ice rested on some one beside ourselves. That 
was what we had Henry for. For a long time we plod- 
ded through the darkness and storm, wishing we were 
at home; but presently the dim outline of the wooded 
shore loomed feebly, and then we were on the trail. 

At this point in the proceedings a curious quality of the 
shoe-pack developed. If you have never worn one you 
have something to live for. The shoe-pack is the easiest 
foot covering to be found for the woods. But it has no 
heel, and under certain conditions its soleless bottom be- 
cemes very slick and slippery; and then, as Henry says, 
“look out or you will be up-ended.” When we struck the 
trail the shoe-packs had accumulated a coating of frozen 
slush and new snow that made them slip at every step. I 
could neither walk nor stand with any comfort. And 
Henry said he ought not-to laugh at anybody for twenty 
years, he laughed so-much at me during the interminable 
quarter of a mile from the foot of the lake to the camp. 
I could sympathize with Henry a day ot two thereafter, 
though, when, as-he was going down a ridge ahead of 
me, his feet shot out, and he landed on his ribs with a 
sound exactly like’ that produced when you strike a big 
roll of carpet with a club. But all these things, as Henry 
says, belong to hunting. 

It was getting along toward the end of the month, 
and as Charlie and I had an engagement at Portland 


for Thanksgiving Day, we decided to move down coun- ° 


try by slow degrees, and so we sorrowfully left Gover 
Lake and took the winter trail down the Little Souwest 
and across Birch Lake to the camp at Moccasin Lake, 
which Henry tses asa half-way house on just such oc- 
casions, Henry and Charlie and I took to the ridges 
for a possible buck, while’ the transportation department 


tuck religiously to the trail, 
ad he Frepezarc IRtanp, 


Massachusetts Game Interests. 


Fiom the annual report of the Massachusetts Commissioners ot 


Inland Fisheries and Game. 


There is undoubtedly a very utilitarian side to the pro- 
tection of game in this Commonwealth. With the pass- 
age of years the New England States haye become in- 
creasingly the favorite resorts in summer and autmn 
of those of ample means, who find an abundance of 
game one of the greatest attractions which nature offers. 
It is well known to be an inducement to some, more 
powerful than any other; hence millions of dollars are 
annually spent by sportsmen in a neighboring State in 
the enjoyment of hunting, and no insignificant portion 
of those millions is contributed by citizens of this State, 
If, then, it is possible by judicious protection to im- | 
prove our game conditions, so that sportsmen from less - 
favored States and from this Commonwealth shall be at- 
tracted thereby, it is evident that positive benefit will | 
result, inasmuch as considerable sums of money will be 


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retained within our own borders which otherwise might — 


go elsewhere. It certainly seems wise to utilize as fully 


as possible the large areas of wild Jand and covers that © 
still remain in the State, and to that extent hold out | 


an inducement for those with means to build summer 
Forse in many localities which may be largely benefited | 
thereby. 

But there is another side to this question. While the | 
well-to-do may experience no special deprivation from a _ 
scarcity of game in this State, because they have both | 
time and money to seek desirable conditions in other 
localities, it must be conceded that a reasonable conserva- 
tion of game by adequate protection, stocking the covers, 
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etc., is a matter of much moment to thotisands who may ~ 
derive both pleasure and physical benefit from hunting, 


but may not be able to expend the time and money re- ! 
quired for a trip to some other State or to Canada. 


It is therefore highly desirable that every reasonable — 
effort should be made to preserve and increase the game 
in Massachusetts, and the benefit to be derived therefrom 
seems to warrant any reasonable outlay which may be 
made for such a purpose. 


Referring to these questions, the Boston Globe of Jan. | 


24, 1901, makes the following statements: 


Generous encouragement from the Legislature in the way of a 
sufficient appropriation to conduct experiments and to keep in: 
active seryice a corps of game wardens is all that is necessary to 
retain within the State boundaries a supply of game in abundance 
sufficient to warrant good shooting, There is no good reason why 
shotgun men should be forced by scarcity of game to go to other 
States for their field sports. What the privilege of hunting means 
to men whose business confines them to workshops, manufactories 
and counting rooms cannot be expressed in words or figures. The 
desire to hunt is almost universal, and probably no other form of 
recreation is so healthful or so helpful to jaded nerves. Some | 
have the time and means to visit other sections to enjoy the 
privilege of hunting, but a large number cannot atford this, even 
though they may most need the relaxation from their ordinary 
duties which it brings. It is to the adyantage of the general 
public, and consequently beneficial to the State, that every reason- 


able measure should be taken to promote an increase of game, i 


But, even if the claim made by some, that hunting is 
a “fad,” be granted, and its great advantage as a recu- 
perative recreation be ignored, there is still an imperative 
necessity that wise protective laws should be enacted, 
and: that they should be enforced with vigor and deter- 
mination. 


ours would not be inhabitable by men in fifty years after 
its bird life had been taken from it.” It is only neces- 
sary to refer to statements made by E. H. Forbush, 
ornithologist of the State Board of Agriculture, to be 
able to comprehend this, and to realize the importance 
of the work that is continuously carried on by birds 
during certain months of the year. Few appreciate how 


much humanity is-indebted to birds, but there can no © 


longer be excuse for neglecting them. 


Effect of Recent Laws. 
Effect of Recent Laws.—The laws relating to shore, 


marsh and beach birds (Acts of roor, chapter 178), to — 


squirrels, hares or rabbits (Acts of 1901, chapter 102), 


to snaring partridges, hares and rabbits (Acts of rgo1. 


chapter 141), and to shooting in Boston harbor (Acts of 
1901, chapter 174), have all been so recently enacted 
that it is too soon to speak with precision and in detail 
of their effect. 
that their effect has been very beneficial. The full pro- 
tection to the passenger pigeon, the small gulls and the 
terns ig most desirable, and may be expected to lead 
to gratifying results. The change in the opening of the 
hunting season for squirrels, hares and rabbits, so that 
it corresponds with the beginning of the open season 
for other game, is most commendable; while the same 


This may be more fully appreciated when it — 
is known that science has declared that “this world of 


It can, however, be said in general terms © 


can be said of the change in the snaring law, whereby . 


snaring on one’s own land is Jegal only during the 
months of October and Noyember. 

But it is possible to judge with some accuracy of the 
effect of the game law which prohib ts the sale of part- 
ridge and woodcock (Acts of 1900, chapter 379), for its 
beneficial results are already observable to a very pro- 
neunced degree in nearly all sections of the State, not- 
withstanding it has been in force so short a time. There 
can be no doubt that the increasé in ruffed grouse, con- 
cerning which there is a large mass of evidence at hand, 
is directly attributable to this measure and the active en- 
forcement of the game laws. The outlook for the wood- 
cock also seems somewhat improved, even to the extent 
that it is reported breeding in this State, although it is 
well known that its appearance is generally as a migrant. 

While the act referred to does not prevent the sale 
of quail from cold storage between the first of December 
and the first of May, if legally taken in this Common- 
wealth, the nearly practical elimination of the pot hunter, 
by the restrictions on the sale of partridge and wood- 
cock, has unquestionably proved a protection to quail, 
and to that extent has Jed to their increase. It is the 
universal testimony that quail have not been so abun- 
dant in many years as during that covered by this report. 


Sea and Shore Birds. 

Sea and Shore Birds.—It is claimed by those who. 
have been in a position to know, that the opportunities 
for shooting sea birds have been exceptionally good dur-— 
ing the season covered by this report. The special :fea- 
ture this year at Chatha 


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im, for instance, was that up to 


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the middle of October at least there was a flight of birds 
every day, and consequent, steady shooting} whereas in 
other auttimns it is conceded that “there have been days 
of exceptional shooting which would mofe than equal 
any day this season, but on that one particular day the 
big bags had to be made, or not at all.” As many as 
twelve to fifteen coots have been commonly killed in a 
morning by the local sportsmen at North Chatham, and 
one hunter “bagged eight coot and six shelldrake.” 
Fine bags of yellowlegs, peeps, grass birds, etc, were also 
obtained. Conditions more or les similar to those above 
described prevailed along the south shore and elsewhere 
where sea and shore birds are generally sought. 


Pheasants. 


Pheasants.—Evidence of a gratifying increase of pheas- 
ants within the Comttonwealth, and of their breeding 
siiccessitilly in a wild state, have been numerous and 
‘convineing. It is practicable to metition only a few of 
these, but the statements that follow demonstrate the 
capacity of the Mongolian pheasant not only to live in 
our climate, but to multiply rapidly. The success of the 
hen pheasants in rearing large broods shows conclusively 
that in ah effort of this kind the natural instincts of the 
mother bird excel the best achievements of man. 

Mr. W. G. Pray, of Topsfield; wrote as follows regard- 
ing pheasants on September 25: “Pheasants have bred 
well this season, and within a tadius of twelve miles 
there are fifteen broods and from twelve to fifteen_in a 
brood. * * There are a number of broods in Tops- 
field, and the teamstets tell me that they start them in the 
road almost every day.” 

A gentleman who has watched with interest the work 
at Winchester, informed Commissioner Brackett that he 

“had found a pheasant’s nest early in the season, in a 
secluded place near enotigh for him to keep it under ob- 
servation. Twenty-one eggs were laid in it, and these 
produced nineteen chicks, all of which were raised as 
long at least as the mother bird could keep them together. 
In another instance the commission was creditably in- 
formed of a young brood at or near Arlington that num- 
bered fifteen. 

The pheasant has done well on Nantucket. The En- 
quirer and Mirror of that town, in its isue of September 
21, said: “The Mongolian pheasants, which were liber- 
ated in the vicinity of Pognoy several months ago, are 
multiplying rapidly, several large broods of young birds 
having been discovered this week.” ' 

At the other extremity of the State the outlook also 
seems encouraging. 

Deputy Nichols, writing on September 29, states that 
he had been informed by a well-known sportsman at 
Turner’s Falls that a man had seen two pheasants near 
thal village a few days previous; also, that Deputy Brock- 
way, of South Hadley, had stated that a farmer living 
near where the pheasants were liberated last spring, in 
the last-mentioned town, saw an old bird and ten young 
one a few days Cae: to the date of Mr, Nichols’s 
etter. te Des 

Hon. I. M. Small, of North Truro, in a letter dated 
Oct. 26, 1901, makes the following statement: “A beatti- 
ful cock pheasant was seen in the field between our house 

and the lighthouse last Tuesday, quite likely one of those 
which you put out here last spring.” 


Deer. 


Deer.—There are many evidences that deer are in- 
creasing in this State to a satisfactory degree, and that 
they are widely distributed. Occasionally one is killed 
by accident or design, but the persistency with which 
the deputies have investigated all complaints of deer be- 
ing Ulegally killed, or killed in any manner, undoubtedly 
has had a tendency to prevent many, who - otherwise 
might have hunted deer, from engaging in so hazardous 
an enterprise. 

Complaints of the abundance of deer have been received 
from farmers, who claim that their growing crops have 
been injured by tHe animals. Other evidences of the in- 
crease of deer are too numerous to be quoted here, and 
they are sufficient to indicate that the protection given 
by the State has resulted satisfactorily; it has demon- 
strated the feasibility of keeping this beautiful wild ani- 
mal within our State borders, and if the chasing of it by 
dogs can be prevented, there is no doubt that we can 
ultimately have deer to hunt in Massachusetts for a few 
days at least in each year. 

Tt will thus be seen that the game conditions in the 
State indicate much advancement, and, with some hoped- 
for improvement in the protective laws and adequate 
means for their enforcement, there is reason for antici- 
pating much in the future which until now seemed almost 
hopeless. 


Breeding, Game Birds and Animals. 


Winchester.—The breeding of game birds and animals 
at the State experiment station at Winchester has been 
carried on as usual, but, for reasons specified in the fol- 
lowing patagraphs, the success with birds came short of 
expectation. ; = 

Pheasants.—The past season has been very unfavorable 
for the artificial rearing of all kinds of birds. Owing to 
the warm weather of the previous fall, they molted late, 
and consequently had not recovered their usual vitality 
when winter overtook them. The spring was cold and 
wet, extending into June. Many of the eggs were not 
fertile, and many more lacked the vitality necessary for 
a continued life. The consequence was that the antici- 
pations for a large increase in the number of pheasants 
at the station were not realized. 


The Mongolian pheasant: is. a wild, restless bird, re-_ 


qttiring a great deal of exercise and the widest range 
possible, By frequent experiments it has-been found 
best to give the chicks, after the first five or six days, 
the liberty of the large enclosure. They grow faster and 
in every way are superior to those raised in small coops. 
They not only retain their instinet of self-preseryation 
to a large extent,but learn to forage for themselves, and 
do not depend entirely on the hand of the superintendent 
for their food: As they grow older they will often fly 
over the fence into the adjoining woods and fields, but, 
if not caught by their enemies, will invariably return to 


the enclosure, and in the fall can be easily trapped for - 


distribution or for confinement in winter quarters. _ 
The experiments with the new food were continued 


this year. This is a grantlated food, in appearance 
closely resembling that which is sold tinder the name of 
“orape-nuts.” For feeding young birds, a lightly cooked 
custard without sugar was thickened with the granulated 
food until sufficiently dry to crumble. Beginning when 
they wete five or six days old, about one hundred pheas- 
ant chicks wete’fed once a day on this food and twice on 
maggots. As pheasants are not naturally grain feeders, 
and as young chicks are reluctant to feed on anything 
that is not alive, it was necessary to teach them to eat 
the food by mixing maggots with it. They soon acquired 
a taste for it, and the effect was apparent, as they made 
rapid gtowth, began molting early, and when trapped in 
the fall were larger than any of the same age heretofore 
raised at the station. . 
As these birds had their liberty in the large enclosure, 
and were. not always under close observation, it was 
thought adyisable to try the new food with birds in con- 
finement. Accordingly, thirty chicks were placed in the 
brooder house with small yards, and fed in the same 


way; but unfortunately, when three or four weeks old, a | 


herd of migratory rats dug into the brooder house, and 
in one night killed twenty-six. The remaining four were 
more or less demoralized, yet ofie of them, a male, has 
made a phenomenal growth. 

Until they are fully feathered. out, young pheasants 
should not be fed.on farinaceous food unless it is thor- 
oughly cooked, In a state of nature the mother bird, 
although she may be a seed or grain feeder, never makes 
the mistake of feeding her young on such food. 

Ruffed Grouse—Unfortunately, we were unable to ob- 
tain eggs to continue experiments with grouse at Win- 
chester this year. Superintendent Merrill made an effort 
to raise some partridge in confinement at-Sutton. As in 
the experiment tried by Mr. Brackett the, previous year, 
no difficulty was met with in hatching the chicks and rais- 
ing them to about the same stage as those attained to at 
Winchester last season; but then they all died in a short 
time. at 1,2 
The Belgian Hare.% 


The Belgian Hare—The remarkable rabbit craze that 
recently swept over the country has apparently subsided. 
Elaborate advertising caused a temporary boom that has 
not been sustained. Many books were published giving 
directions how to breed and care for these animals, The 
breeder was cautioned to avoid all currents of air, as it 
was stite to produce sntuffles. Nor must the anitnals be 
given green food, as it would cause slobbers, Then fol- 
lowed thirty or forty different prescriptions for sick rab- 
bits, conveying the idea that these animals are very de- 
pendent tupon continuous medical treatment. Rabbits 
reared under conditions thus suggested are wholly unfit 
for food, and should not be used for that purpose. 

It is to be regretted that the Belgian rabbit was not 
put on the market at its true value. The reaction which 
is likely to follow the attempts to breed it for speculative 
purposes, and under unnatural conditions, may for a time 
retard the proper development of an enterprise that must 
be considered an important factor in the production of a 
very desirable article of food, 


Distribution of Game and Animals. 


Distribution of Game Birds and Animals—During the 
year 368 pheasants have been liberated in the covers of 
the State, in response to the requests of 55 applicants. 
This distribution far exceeds in numbers-anything here- 
tofore accomplished by the commission in this direction, 
and is due primarily to the expansion of the work, es- 
pecially at Sutton; but also to the fact that it has been 
considered desirable to liberate all the birds available for 
distribution, and not to winter any except those reserved 
for breeding purposes. 

The output of hares has been 224; in addition to those, 
a considerable number of young have been retained for 
wintering, as has been mentioned elsewhere. The list 
of persons whose applications were complied with and 
the points of distribution are shown in the appendix. 


Proposed Introduction of New Game Birds. 


Proposed Introduction of New Game Birds ——Through 
the kindness of Rev. Cephas F. Clapp, an effort has been 
made to introduce from Oregon, for the purpose of arti- 
fic'al propagation, the so-called ‘‘mountain’ quail,” or 
plumed partridge (Oreortys pictus plumiferus Gould). 
This is a hardy mountain species, that is found in the 
comparatively dry elevated regions in the interior of the 
Pacific coast States and as far east as Nevada. Captain 
Bendire found it on Mount Kearsarge, Inyo County, Cal., 
mci in summer it reached an altitude of ten thousand 
eet, 

The reputed hardiness of this species, and the fact that 
it “buds” in winter, like ‘our native ruffed grouse, 
prompts the belief that it will thrive in this State. It is 
claimed that it can be reared in captivity with less trouble 
than the Mongolian pheasant. If, therefore, it is practic 
able to secure even a few birds to breed from at the 
beginning, it seems feasible to soon be in a position to 
annually turn ott a large nttmber, in view of the fact that 
two litters of eggs may be expected under favorable con- 
ditions. 

Mr. Clapp unfortunately found a serioltts obstacle in 
the law of Oregon which prohibits the transportation of 
any wild birds of this species ott of the State. With the 
utmost desire to serve us in this matter, he found that he 
was effectually prevented from doing anything, because 
the statute, which was enacted to-prevent pot hunters 
from accomplishing the practical extermination of the 
“motntain quail,” proved an effective barrier to its ex- 
portation to another State for scientific purposes. Under 
the circumstances, and in view of the purpose for which 
the birds were desired, it was considered advisable to 
invoke the good offices of the Governor of Oregon. Ac- 
cordingly, a letter was addressed to His Excellency Gov. 
T, T. Geer, by the Chairman of the Board, on Nov, 8, 
T90I, setting forth the object of this commission in at- 
tempting to secure living specimens of the “ mountain 
quail,” and expressing the hope that their procurement 
for transportation out of Oregon for the purpose indicat- 
ed might not be found contrary to the spirit of the law of 
that State regarding transportation of game across its 
boundaries.* é 
*Since the above was written, and w i i i 
through the press, arrangements ‘ek hose ee Saas Phas 
birds of this species can be obtained at the proper time, 


Correspondence has also been tentatively inaugurated 
bearing on the possibility of the introduction of the caper- 
cailzie (Tetras urogallus) and the black game (T. tetrix). 
Both of these are inhabitants of northern Europe, and are 
among the finest game birds known, The capercailzie 
belongs to the grouse family, of which our ruffed grouse 
and prarie chicken are well known examples im this 
country. It is the largest grouse known, and considered 
the noblest game of the grouse family. A weight of 
ten or twelve pounds is often attained by the full-grown 
cock. The black game weighs about three pounds, is 
hardy, and recognized as a fine game species. Like its 
larger congener, the capercailzie, it is a grouse, and e¢s- 
sentially a bird of the woods. These are considered the 
two. most important species of -wild birds of the Scandi- 
navian peninstla, considered either from the standpoint 
of food of sport. 

Attempts to introduce the black ganie in Maine and 
Vermont are reported to have been made by private par- 
ties; but little is known regarding them, beyond the fact 
that a very few birds were liberated in the woods, dowbt- 
less in a weakened condition, in consequence of the trans- 
atlantic voyage, and it is ‘not improbable that they died 
before the period of reproduction arrived—at least we 
are tunable to learn that any birds of this species have ever 
been seen. lf, however, it is practicable to breed either 
of these species in captivity—and there appears no reason 
to doubt it—entirely different results might be secured 
by the acquirement of enough of them to inaugurate their 
‘propagation under State auspices. All attempts to breed 
from eggs of these species, shipped from a distance, have 
resulted in failure. Only adult birds can be relied on, 
and experiments already made prove the feasibility of 
their safe transportation, Mr. Thomas estimates the cost 
of strong, healthy birds of these species at twelve dollars 
each for capercailzie and seven dollars each for black 

ame. 

; The familiar quail, or “‘ Bob White,” cannot be con- 
sidered a new species in any sense of the word, since it 
is-one of the best known and most highly valued of our 
gamé birds. But the inauguration of the work of breed- 
ing and rearing it in captivity, which is now seriously 
contemplated, will, if undertaken, be an innovation in 
the effort the commission is making to keep our covers 
properly stocked with game birds, Until now there-has 
seemed to be no necessity for the State to breed quail, 
since there has been no difficulty, as a rule, in purchasing 
them for stocking purposes. Much has been done in this 
direction by clubs and public-spirited individuals, and no 
doubt this commendable effort will be continued if it is 
feasible to get the birds. But the necessity for increasing 
the stringency of protective laws in the various States 
points to the probability that it may not be long before 
it may be impracticable to obtain in the open markets 
large numbers of quail for stocking our covers. Whether 
or not we undertake the breeding of quail immediately, 
it, will be wise to be in a position to engage in this work, 
if necessary, before it becomes difficult or impossible to 
sectire breeding birds. No difficulty whatever is anti- 
cipated in breeding and rearing quail, as they can be rais- 
ed as easy as chickens, 


é 
Wildfowl Refuges. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

I would call your attention and that of the many 
readers of your excellent journal, to the wholesale 
slaughter of game by persons who are pleased to call 
themselves sportsmen; not that this is anything new, but 
to arouse all true sportsmen to what confronts them. 
The first instance is one published in the North Ameri- 
can, of Philadelphia, Pa., giving an account of a hunt- 
ing trip of Mr. J. Fred, Betz, Jr., and others. The paper 
also contained a picture showing some of the individuals 
and the rigging of the vessel “festooned” by the trophies 
of the trip, a collection of ducks, geese, and brant to the 
number of 840, in addition to five great swan swaying 


‘from the peak of the main-mast; and it is said the “Sibylla 


left Philadelphia, Pa., Novy. 22, having on board a party 
consisting of J. Fred Betz, Jr., and the following guests: 
F, L. Glosser, Albert Baltz, Louis Beitler, Assistant Sec- 
retary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; C. A. Dur- 
ban, owner of the Girard Avenue Theatre; Lory E. 
Brown, of Richmond, Va.; Jesse Rawcliffe, and John H. 
Leary, of Chester, Pa. In addition to the birds brought 
back, the party killed seven deer, which were given to 
friends in Norfolk. Va. The deer were from Hatteras 
Island, off Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, where about one- 
half the feathered game was bagged, The remainder was 
secured. on Ocracoke Island, also off the coast of North 
Carolina.” 

“Tt was the greatest hunting trip I ever took,” said 
F. L. Glosser. “The abundance of the game was asion- 
ishing. However, the bag was not so great as it would 
have been but for the fact that for five days we were un- 
able to do any hunting.” 

All persons interested in the propagation and preserva- 
tion of game, and all right-thinking sportsmen, cannot. 
applaud such, seeming wanton slaughter. 

Here is another similar instance to the above item and 
was dated New Orleans, Dec. 24, and says: “Martin 
Hughitt, Jr., freight trafic manager of the Chicago and 
Northwestern, left in his private car for his headquarters 
this morning, after a week’s hunt on Little Lake which 
broke all records. Mr. Hughitt was accompanied by R. 
M. Cox, of Chicago. 

“The two Chicago men made the hunt as the guests 
of J. M. Cummings, treasurer of the Louisiana Cypress 
Company, who had invited them to try Louisiana waters 
as a hunter’s paradise. For the trip the steamboat Hale 
was chartered and elaborately provisioned. A large force 
of hunters was engaged to keep the ducks flying; The 
party was gone just a week, and in that time about t,600 
ducks and geese fell to their guns.” 

Some of the men, it seems, hold important business 
positions, but what all real sportsmen will regret, I think, 
is that they have so little consciousness of wrong doing, 
not only toward the game, but the public at large. And 
if these, slaughters are to be continued to the extent that 
we read of from time to time in the public press, it cer- 
tainly cannot be very. many years before the wild duck 
will be as rare as, the. wild pigeon, ‘3 

I would suggest-that all interested in the preservation 
ef the wild duck and Wildfowl urge upon Congress 


110 


through their respective representatives that some action 
be taken during the present session, establishing certain 
winter preserves where the wildfowl can have two undis- 
turbed winter homes free from the hunter, one on the 
Atlantic and one on the Gulf Coast. If Congress would 
pass an act prohibiting the taking or killing in any man- 
ner of wildfowl within certain territory on each of the 
above mentioned coasts during the winter, say from 
November until ‘May, it would seem that extermination 
might be prevented, and if this is not done, it can be 
but a few years before our wildfowl, like the wild pigeon, 
will be but a matter of history. 

I do not hunt wildfowl,. preferring the upland sport, 
yet I feel sad to know how rapidly our wild ducks are 
disappearing. 

And now, your paper, I hope, with the other sports- 
man papers, will take this matter up, and not allow it to 
rest until we have protection for the wildfowl in their 
southern winter home. 

I feel confident that Président Roosevelt would be 
pleased to put his signature to such an act of Congress. 
Let every sportsman and eyery one who loves the wild- 
fowl, so that he and future generations may continue in 
the taking of them, see that his representative in Congress 
knows his wishes and that he urges him to act accord- 
ingly. ; WILDFOWL. 

Rocuester, N, Y., Jan. 81 


Massachusetts Deer. 
Robert O. Morris in Springfield Republican, 


THe Virginia deer, Cervus virginianus, after an ab- 
sence of nearly 80 years, has returned to its former home 
in Western Massachusetts, and residents of every hill 
town report their presence in constantly increasing num- 
bers, and occasionally one is observed in the river towns. 
The reappearance of the deer here is probably due mostly 
to the protection awarded them in Vermont for the past 
10 years, which has been the means of producing a large 
increase in numbers in that state, and many have wander- 
ed south into Western Massachusetts. The Revolutionary 
War was one of the causes of the extermination of deer 
in this vicinity, At that time there grew up a great de- 
mand for the skin of this animal, to be used for making 
buckskin breeches for soldiers, and at the same time on 
account of the war, firearms became much more com- 
monly used, and the men of that day became, with their 
~greater practice, better marksmen. 

I regret to see a disposition on the part of some of the 
farmers to prejudice people against this interesting and 
valuable animal, and some of the most ridiculous charges 
against it are made and published. One man claims that 
his Seckel pears have been eaten by deer. He is un- 
doubtedly mistaken; the real culprit is Probably the red 
squirrel. These little rodents will pass by all other fruit 
trees until they reach one of this kind. They seem to 
have a voracious appetite for the seed of this fruit, and 
for the purpose of gratifying this taste will make-a tree 
ae this kind their feeding place as long as one pear is 

ert. 

Another man said that deer had eaten up a field of cab- 
bages, This is very unlikely. It would be contrary to 
their usual habits for deer to eat this vegetable. Neither 
pears nor cabbages are the favorite food of deer. They 
feed largely on bark and buds of trees and are particularly 
fond of the aquatic plants that grow along the margins 
of ponds. I suppose they may occasionally do a little 
harm in some way, like every mammal and bird, but 
_I cannot but believe that if it were possible to keep an 
actual account of their good and bad attributes. the 
balance would be largely in their favor. 

We have had very little experience with them here in 
our generation, but our ancestors in Western Massa- 
chusetts and elsewhere in the state had them as neighbors 
for nearly 200 years, and by the tenor of the laws they 
passed regarding them, we must believe that they con- 
sidered them as animals worthy of the best protection. 
As early as 1693, the Puritans finding, as they expressed 
it, “the killing: of deer at unseasonable times of the year 
very much to the prejudice of the province, great num- 
bers having been hunted and destroyed in deep snows,” 
they enacted the first game laws of Massachusetts, mak- 
ing 1t unlawful to kill deer between the rst of January 
and the 1st of July, under a penalty of 40 shillings for 
the first offense, £3 for the second, and £5 for the third 
and if the offending person was tunable to pay this he 
was to be set to work until the fine was paid. Two years 
later the open season was shortened. In 1718 a law was 
enacted by the General Court, providing for a close season 
for three years, prefixing to the text of the law this re- 
solve: Whereas, the depth of snows in some late 
winters hath been so great as hath occasioned the des- 
truction of a great part of the deer in this province, to 
the intent that the said creature (which is both Harmless 
and profitable) a ie preserved and increased.” In 
cilling a deer out of season was fixed 
at £10,a very large sum for those days, and each town 


condemned by some pe 


as deer. A farmer told me that he was havi i 

hawks around his place shot, because they had Ae 
many of his little chickens, Now, the night hawk is en- 
rely an Imsectivorous bird, preying on such insects as 
are active in the early evening, Probably it was the 
sharp-shinned hawk that was the thief; they are ver 
fond of young poultry. , “ 


I was once on the mountain 
2 - ains west of Westfi w 
a broad-winged hawk flew by. estfield, when 


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exception; his favorite diet is not of that order; frogs, 
mice, snakes and insects furnish his daily bill of fare, 
and he renders valuable service in destroying some of the 
large moths that are the great enemies of shade trees. 
The Cooper’s hawk would be the bird most likely to have 
destroyed these hens. 

I heard a sportsman say to his victim, as he ended the 
life of a red-shouldered hawk that he had wounded and 
captured: “This will stop your killing quail around 
here.” The poor hawk had probably never tasted quail 
in his life, unless he had run across a dead or crippled 
one. They are not quick enough to catch a healthy quail 
if they wished, and in an indirect way they are protectors 
rather than destroyers of this game bird, as the red- 
shouldered hawk often kills black snakes, which are great 
destroyers of the eggs of quail, as well as of other birds, 
and many a nest is broken tip by them. Goshawks, 
Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks, are the only kinds in 
this vicinity that destroy quail in any appreciable num- 


er, 

All these things teach us that we should not too speed- 
ily condemn either beast or bird; we have none too many. 
There is no living thing that will not occasionally do 
some harmful act, even the most useful bird may destroy 
a beneficial insect, but if all have a fair trial and the faults 
and virtues of each bird or beast are ywell understood, 
public opinion would condemn very few. 

One of the principal attractions of the country, to many, 
is the wild life.there found, and without that, to some 
it would be dreary enough. The sight of a deer bound- 
ing over a distant field, a hawk sailing gracefully in the 
air, a gull wheeling over an expanse of water,—all such 
things add beauty and interest to the landscape. 


The Maine License Proposition 


Boston, Feb. 3.—Interest continues in the suggestion 
made by Commissioner Carleton to require non-resident 
sportsmeén to pay a license to hunt in Maine. Former vis- 
itors to that State are discussing the proposition. The 
Maine papers are full of articles, all generally leaning 
against a license, except such as would create an exclu- 
sive hunting aristocracy, and except the residents of that 
State who are willing that non-residents should pay the 
cost of fish and game protection. The writers suggest 
many: features; some of them novel, to say the least. 
One is to make hunters pay for every head of game 
they kill; say, $2 for deer and $10 for moose. This plan 
would not be obnoxious like a license system; the free 
American idea would not object. The successful hunter 
would cheerfully pay a small fee toward the care of the 
game in a State where he has been successful, while the 
unsuccessful htinter would go home without the feeling 
of disgust that haying paid for a license and got nothing 
naturally inspires. 
rifle taken into the State, as well as require residents to 
pay a moderate etn tax; no rifles to be allowed in hun- 
ters’ hands in close season. 

Mr. H. M. Widney, of St. Jo, the general manager of 
the celebrated Indiana party. has been drawn out in a 
letter to the Maine Woods, He declares that he managed 
a party of law-abiding citizens of his State who greatly 
enjoy sport in the Maine woods; but he does not like 
being misrepresented as his party has been misrepresented 
by Senator Macfarlane. He says that he does not wish 
to take up the license question, pro or con, but that a 
reasonable, true sportsman would not object to a reason- 
able license justly imposed, “But if exorbitant laws 
are passed, you will be likely to meet opposition you have 
not thought of, namely, a contest in the United States 
courts. It has been the opinion for some time that laws 
granting one citizen of this grand, free country of ours 


_ privileges that you tax others for, is, in substance, class 


legislation; or, in other words, tariff for revenue between 
States, and, if contested and carried to the United States 
Supreme Court, could not stand the test.” As to the 
statements of Senator Macfarlane concerning the num- 
ber of deer killed by his party, Mr. Widney says that 
they are entirely wrong. He says: “Not caring to travel 
1,100 miles for a day’s sport, we aimed to be choice as 
to what we killed, and only as a last resort did we draw 
a bead on anything smaller than a well-formed buck.” 
He says of their guide, Mr. F. L. Shaw: “He was always 
on the alert to have all of the boys enjoy the time, but at 
the same time cautioning all to keep within the limit of 
the law. We certainly honor the gentleman for his good 
and true citizenship.” SPECIAL. 


The New York Game Law. 


We commented last week on the decision of Justice 
©’Gorman in the cold storage case, and pointed out that 
the text of Sec. 33 of the game law actually protected 
all wild birds except named species, and the birds for 
which there is an open season. Under the law as it 
stands, birds having an open season may be taken only 
tunder authority of a naturalist’s permit. The section un- 
der review reads: 

Sec. 33 [as amended 1901]—Wild birds (other than the English 
sparrow, crow, hawk, crane, raven, crow-blackbird, common black- 
bird, kingfisher, and birds for which there is no open season), shall 
not be taken or possessed at any time, dead or alive, except under 
the authority of a certificate issued under this act. No part of the 


plumage, skin or body of any bird protected by this section shall 
be sold or had in possession for sale. 7 


We have received from a correspondent, who, being a 
member of the bar, is familiar with the construction of 
statutes, the subjoined comment upon the subject. It 
will be seen that this writer arrives at the same conclu- 
sions that were expressed in our last issue, except that 
he appears to have read Sec. 30 hastily, for there is in 
it no provision respecting possession. Our correspondent 
writes: . 

The question is purely one on the construction of the 
English language. I am of the opinion that while the 
two words “am” and “no” are grammatically antithetical, 
that, in the construction of these two sections, the sub- 
stitution of “no” for “an” in the section mentioned, 
works no injury and leaves the law whole. * 

Let us chart this seeming paradox, starting with the 
1900 law. Section 33 of Chapter 741 of the laws of 1900 
reads as follows: “Certain wild birds- protected: - Wild 


birds other than the English sparrow, crow, hawk * * 


Another suggestion is to tax every 


kingfisher and birds for which there is an open season, 
shall not be taken or possessed at any time, dead or 
alive, except under the authority of a certificate issued 
under this act. No part * * etc.” 

This is plain. “Other than” means in this section a 


division of ene class from another, and wild birds are put — 


in a class opposed to that containing the English sparrow, 
crow, etc., and birds for which there is an open season, 
Split the sentence up and it reads: Wild birds shall not 
be taken or possessed at any time dead or alive, etc., 
but this shall not apply (this being the equivalent of | 
“other than”) to the English sparrow, crow, hawk, etc., 
and birds for which there is an open season. Section 30° 
opens the season on plover, etc., therefore that they clags " 
with the sparrow and others, so far as this section-is 
under discussion, is a fair grammatical construction of 
Section 33. a 

In the laws of 1901, Section 30 remains practically in- 
tact. Section 33, however, undergoes the metamorphosis 
alluded to by Justice O’Gorman by substituting “no” for 
“an,” as indicated above. Let us now reduce this sen- 
tence to its lowest terms by the same process of elision. 

Wild birds (elide that portion of the section from 
“other than” to “season”’) shall not be taken or pos- 
sessed at any time dead or alive, ete. This certainly pro- 
tects wild birds, Then substituting “but this shall not 
apply” for its equivalent “other than,” we have remaining 
in the section-sentence this: But this shall not apply to 
the English sparrow, crow, ete., and birds for which 
there is no open season. But there is an open season for 
plover, efc., and therefore they are excluded from the class . 
denominated wild birds and included in the class with 
the English sparrow, etc. 

This leaves them, under that section, without protec- 
tion, but fortunately Section 30 is still law, and by the 
provisions of that section they cannot legally be killed 
or possessed from May 1 to August 31. 


Amicus CurtAr. 
Port Rricumonp, N. Y., Jan, 27, 


The Chesapeake Bay Dog. - 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

By a mischance, which I greatly deplore, certain in- 
teresting examples of intelligence in this breed of 
dog were omitted from the chapter on this breed in my 
recently published book, “American Duck Shooting.” The 
first of these deals with a dog owned by Mr. J. G. Mor- 
ris, of Easton, Md. 

Mr. Morris was shooting from a floating blind not far 
from the shore, and his dog on the shore was gathering 
the birds as they fell, taking them to the land and putting 
them in a pile there. Mr. Morris’ blind was just off a 
fence, which ran down into the water between two fields. 
The dog had made his pile of ducks close to this fence, 
and near the water’s edge. In the same field with the 
dog and the ducks were confined some young cattle, and 
the path which they used to go to water passed close to 
the fence against which the dog had collected the ducks, 
by which he lay. 

As the day: went on, the young cattle, following this 
path, attempted to go down to water, but when they 
approached the dog he got up and drove them away. This 
was repeated several times, for the cattle persisted in 
coming down to the water by their usual path, and the 
dog would by no means permit them to approach his pile 
of ducks. At last the situation became so annoying to 
the dog that he rose to his feet, took a duck in his 
mouth, jumped over the fence into the adjoining field, and 
leaving the duck there, jumped back and got another 
one, and continued this until he had ‘transferred all the 
ducks to the other side of the fence, when he again-lay 
down by them. The next time the cattle attempted to 
come down the path to water, the dog paid no attention 
to them, but permitted them to go down and drink. 

To my mind, this was a clear case of the reasoning out 
by the dog of a special remedy for a set of conditions 
that were entirely new to him, and so is very well worth 
putting on record. a 

A second incident took place on a marsh in Currituck 
Sound, where my friend Mr, C. R. Purdy was shooting. 
Harrison, the watchman for the marsh, had a dog named 
Grover, that he had reared from a puppy, and kept with 
him on the island. He was a useful animal to Harrison, 
and brought him an income of perhaps $75 to $100 a sea- 
son from the sale of the cripples which he recovered. 
Harrison was accustomed to shove around the marsh 
morning and evening, letting the dog run along the shore 
while he pushed his light skiff close to the shote, When- 
ever the dog crossed the trail of a cripple that had gone 
into the marsh, he would follow it, bring the bird out and 
deliver it to Harrison. In this way each week a consider- 
able number of birds were recovered, which otherwise 
would have gone to feed the minks and the coons, 

On the particular occasion referred to the birds were 
flying very well. Flock after flock of widgeon were 
coming up to the decoys in the natrow pond, where Mr. 
Purdy was tied out, and a number of birds were being 
killed. The flocks came so frequently that it was im- 
possible to recover the wounded birds, which fell in the 
marsh, but the gunner, his boatman and Harrison watched 
them, and counted five that went down at different dis- 
tances before the flight lulled. When the birds stopped 
flying, the dog, without a word from any one, started 
off across the pond and into the marsh, and making five 


. trips, brought back to the blind five widgeons, which he 
shad marked down and recovered. Then he lay down by 


his pile of ducks. 

To any one familiar with the work of these dogs, the 
accurate marking down of the birds will not appear re- 
markable. But that he should have made five trips and 
brought five birds—all that there were—and then should 
have stopped, does seem odd. Those who witnessed’ the 
performance believe that he counted the birds, and knew 
when he had brought them all, but perhaps it is not neces- 
sary to assume this, gi 

What seems possible enough is that the dog, having 
marked down these birds, may have carried in his mind 
the different directions in which they went, and have 
remembered them all.’ For a man, this would be a diffictilt 
task, but it must be-remenibered that the dog had all his 
life been accustomed to doing just this thingy and the 
reealling of the several spots in whigh the birds fell may 
have been natural enough, 


bo weens ‘ 


‘EB. 8, 1902.) 


Again, it is conceivable that the dog may have gone 
into the marsh to the leeward of the birds and on his first 
journey have passed so far beyond the furthest duck that 


_ Another incident of like character has recently been 

_ relatéd to me by Mr. Morris, whom I quote so frequent- 

ly in connection with this breed, and who, through many- 
years’ experience in gunning on Chesapeake Bay waters 
and of breeding these dogs, is probably the first authority 
on them in the world to-day. He has said: 

“T was shooting off a point of marsh over decoys, the 
wind blowing hard off shore, and my skiff covered with 
reeds and sedge made the blind. Under these circum- 
stances it was my dog’s habit to bring his ducks to the 
boat and make a pile, curling himself up alongside it. 

“A flock of mallards came in, out of which I was lucky 
enough to kill two drakes—very large ones. My dog, 
Marengo, went first for the one which fell furthest off, 
and it coming back met the other drifting out. He tried 
his best to get both ducks in his mouth, but finding that 
impossible, he held the second duck under his jaw in some 
way, with the aid of the first, which was in his mouth. In 
this manner he sticceeded in bringing both some distance, 
but the sea then washed the second duck from its posi- 
tion.” He went through the same performance again, ap- 
parently getting the second duck under his jaw as lefore, 
and pushing it forward as he swam. ' 

“When he had brought both ducks as far as the decoys, 
fhe second again washed out from-under his jaw. Here 
he hesitated and looked toward the shore, and finding it 
not-far off, he abandoned the second duck, took the one 
he had in his mouth to the bank, dropped it there, went 
back to the drifting duck, got it and brought it to the 
pile in the boat. He then jumped out of the boat, got the 
duck he had left in the edge of the marsh, took it to the 
pile in- the boat and before curling himself down gaye me 
the most intellizent glance, which said as plainly as 
language could, ‘Master, don’t you think that was well 
thought out?” . : 

- ““T fully agreed with him.” 

‘The whole matter of the intelligence shown by these 
dogs in their work in the water and the marsh is very 
interesting. 

The gunner who for the first time witnesses the work 
of the Chesapeake Bay dog is likely to be astonished by 
sometimes seeing the animal plunge into the water, and, 
swimming to the place where a wounded bird has fallen, 
take up the scent and follow on the water the trail of 
the “sneaking” duck, which has passed along over the 
water swimming toward the marsh. 

We usually assume that water washes away scent, and 
believe that deer and other animals take to the water to 
throw the dogs off their trail, This is undoubtedly true, 
and yet, as I say, it is a common thing te see a crippled 
bird: fall in the water and swim away toward the marsh 
and to see a dog going after it, turn when he reaches the 

_ place where it fell, or the path where it passed, and follow 
the watery trail to the marsh, and then up on to the 
bank. 

In some cases it is possible that the dog may smell 
blood which has flowed from the bird’s wound and leit 
its odor on the water, but I do not think that such an 
explanation will account for the dog’s actions in a ma- 
jority of cases. ; 

I am inclined. to believe that particles of grease detach 
themselves constantly from the well oiled plumage of 
the ducks and geese and float upon the water, and that 
it is the odor of these particles which the dog smells 
and follows. It is often to be observed that to the lee- 
ward of a duck which has fallen in the water, or of a live 
decoy, there isan area of water smoother than the sur- 
rounding water—a sort of “slick’’—which is caused by the 
oil which comes from the bird’s plumage. This hy- 
pothesis would seem to account very satisfactorily for 
the power of the Chesapeake Bay dog to follow the trail 
of a swimming duck over reasonably quiet es 2 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Chicago Sportsmen’s Show. 


Curcaco, Ill., Feb. 1—The second annual exposition of 
the International Forest, Fish and Game Association will 
be thrown open Monday evening, Feb. 3, to invited guests, 
and-the building will be open to the public on the day 
following. . x ’ 

In many respects the show will this year exceed in 
popular interest that given here last winter. The addi- 
tional space granted by the opening of the annex will 
clear the main floor for a freer use of general features. 
The good expedient is also adopted of placing the trade 
exhibits back under the galleries, thus leaving the whole 
central space of the main exhibition hall available for 
decorative purposes and for the passage of spectators. 
The decorative scheme is simple and in general terms fol- 
lows‘ that of last year. At the north end of the Coliseum, 
where the Grand Cafion was exhibited last year, the en— 
tire space is occupied by the stage of the Ojibway Indian 
company, which will present the outdoor show of Hia- 
watha, familiar to the Eastern public which has attended 
earlier sportsmen’s shows. The tank for the diving elk 
is also arranged at this end of the building. The central 
space is well used for a wide point, which gives good 
opportunity for the water sports, canoe displays, etc. 
The uninteresting and inept display of basket ball, etc., 
which took up so much room and time last winter, has 
been cut out, to the advantage of the show from an out- 
‘door standpoint. The duck pond will be larger this year 
than last and better stocked. The pheasantry and ex- 
hibit of upland game birds is removed from the main floor 
to the gallery in the annex: - There will be a grand dis- 
play of. pheasants, with numbers of quail, grouse, etc. 

-- At this writing the trade exhibits are not yet installed, 
and, in fact, the whole interior of the Coliseum remains 
in the cttstomary confusion preceding the opening of such 
an-exposition, so that extended mention of the show as a 
_ whole must be deferred to a later day. -The exhibits of 


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7 ' i - — 
. _ ‘ ics 


different railroads bid fair to he very interesting, and 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


there will be the customary display of specimens, mounted 
heads, ete. i> 

Dr. Heber Bishop is on from Boston assisting in the 
details of the show, as was his pleasure last year, and 
with him comes Mr. Alexander Pope, who displays a 
number of his beautiful paintings in the art gallery. The 
display of fishes in the nicely installed aquaria will be a 
good one. 


Detroit Sportsmen’s Show. 


The first annttal Automobile and Sportsmen’s Show, of , 
Detroit, Mich., will be held Feb. 26 to March 1, and will 
be notable as a trade exhibit. Among the sporting goods 
firms which will be at the Detroit show, the following are 
listed at this date: The Peters Cartridge Co., the Savage 
Arms Co.. Horton Mig. Co., Parker Bros., Ithaca Gtin | 
Co, and Cleveland Target Co. Yet others may be added 
at a later date. Detroit will patronize the exposition 
handsomely. 


Wisconsfn Game Protective Association. 


The Wisconsin Game Protective Association in its meet- 
ing at Milwaukee during the present week, elected Jos- 
eph Fisher President, Valentine Raeth Vice-President, 
August Plambeck Secretary, G. A. Steppan Treasurer, 
and Valentine Raeth and Robert Raasch Game Wardens. 
This Association was organized in Milwaukee three years 
ago for the better and more practical enforcement of the 
game laws. E. Hovex. 

Hartrorp Buiitpine, Chicago, Ill, 


Haunts and Habits of the Moose. 


Every moose hunter—and in these days their name is 
legion—will feel a deep interest in the handsome little 
volume recently brought out by Mr. Burt Jones, and 
entitled “Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose.” 
The volume is a luxurious one, and contains a very ex- 
traordinary collection of photographs of living wild 
moose. 

The moose is the largest of big-game animals found 
to-day in. North America, and its habits at all seasons 
of the year are of the very deepest interest to big-game 
hunters, both those who have secured their moose and 
those who hope to do so. Mr. Jones’ luxurious little 
volume is full of hunting, full of natural history, and full 
of most interesting anecdotes of outdoor life. It tells of 
hunting the moose with the rifle, and of hunting him with 
the camera, and on many of its pages exhibits trophies 
of the species captured with the last-named implement. 
There are more than thirty photographs of moose taken 
from wild living specimens, showing them in all sorts of 
places, in all sorts of attitudes, and under the greatest 
variety of conditions. Nowhere, so far as we know, is 
to be found any collection of pictures of living wild 
moose which is at all comparable to this one. 

Mr. Jones’ style is fresh and pleasing, and he writes 
with the enthusiasm of an ardent sportsman. This, with 
the pictures in the volume, make the work extremely 
attractive. j 

The work was printed in two editions, one limited to 
1,000 copies, numbered and signed by the author, price 
$2; the other, from the same plates, not signed or num- 
bered, price $1.50. The signed edition is almost ex- 


- hausted, 


New York Game and Forests. 


ALBANY, Jan. 30.—The annual report of the Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission, which was sent to the Legis- 
lature to-day, says in part: 

Particular attention has been given by the Commission 
to the planting of trees on denuded tracts of land. Ex- 
tensive experiments made by the Commission have shown 
that, at a remarkably small expense, these barren places 
can in time be replaced by a healthful and valuable forest 
erowth. Thousands of trees have been successfully 
planted in the Catskill region, and preparations haye been 
made to plant hundreds of thousands in the Adirondack 
regien. The experiments show that large appropriations 
will not be necessary to sectire an extensive renewal of the 
forest. : 

The following recommendations are made for your con- 
sideration : 

That a Constitutional amendment be provided for the 
application of scientific, conservative forestry to State 
lands. — 

That a Constitutional amendment be provided to per- 
mit the leasing of small camp sites within the forest pre- 
serve, 

That a Constitutional amendment be provided which 
will permit the sale or exchange of detached parcels of 
land outside the Adirondack Park, not in the Catskill 
region, for land within its confines. 

That steps be taken to prevent the cutting of hardwood 
for commercial ptirposes, and especially for acid factories, 
within the Adirondack preserve. 

That spring shooting of wildfowl and birds of all kinds 
be prohibited. 

That a license fee of $50 be imposed upon non-resident 
hunters, excepting members of organized clubs in the 
Adirondacks who shall present certificates of membership, 
and Adirondack land owners. 

That provision be made for the licensing of guides. 


The Return. 


He sought the old scenes with eager feet— 
The scenes he had known as a boy; 

“Oh! for a draught of those fountains sweet, 
And a taste of that vanished joy.” 


He roamed the fields, he mused by the streams, 
He threaded the paths and lanes; 

On the hills he sought his youthful dreams, 
In the woods to forget his pains, 


Oh, sad, sad hills; oh, cold, cold hearth! 
In sorrow he learned thy truth— 
One may go back to the place of his birth— 
He cannot go back to his youth. 
Ie John Burroughs in the Independent, 


Sea and River ishing. 
—}——— 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest anp STREAM. 


Pacific Coast Items. 


THoucH it is only the third week in January, com- 
plaint may be heard on every side that lower California 
must suffer trom another exceedingly dry winter, as up 
to date the rain has amounted to scarcely 5 inches, which 
fell early in November, and the earth has become baked 
as. it would be in midsummer. An optimistic view, 
which may be impossible for ranchers who regard their 
withered grain, appears best for those with other inter- 
ests to be encouraged only by plenty of water, as the 
spring precipitation can always turn out the heaviest of 
any season. All the brooks flowing through our own 
yalley, though their supply has not been upheld by snow 
in the mountains, in past years a generotis help to them, 
run as freely as heretofore at this time, and should there 
still bé hard storms, the fisherman may look for fine sport 
with rod and line. 

During a 300-mile wagon trip last summer, in which 
many points of Senta Barbara and Obispo counties were 
visited, it gratified one to see large schools of trout fry 
in nearly every stream. Plunge of wheels disturbed 
numbers of such pretty little creatures from the fords. 
Carrying water for camp became a pleasant office where 
brooks held within them so mttch miniature life to 
fasten the gaze, though on occasion my three comrades, 
thirsty for a drink of cool water or for a cup of outdoor 
coffee, may have had a severe-opinion of their lost 
Mercury. It seems that the county authorities and 
numerous sporting clubs have been restocking these 
waters within the last two’ years, and recently game 
warden Ables, of Santa Maria, after an exhaustive in- 
spection of the territory within his control, reported that 
with few exceptions the fish had propagated immensely, 
and that the brooks were alive with trout. : 

The board of supervisors of Los Angeles county, as it 
had been petitioned by two or three hundred local anglers 
to prohibit purse fishing along the Pacific Coat within 
one mile of shore, held an interesting session recently 
at which Prof, C. F. Holder, founder of the Tuna Club, 
represented the sportsmen, and J. H. Lapham, president 
of the California Fish Company, looked after the netting 
rights. The California Company, whose business is 
chiefly in sardines, has its launches and purse nets at 
work from the Santa Barbara Islands to San Diego. 
Upward of $100,000 is invested. Now that an agreement 
in regard to Catalina is about to expire, this concern will 
make ne promise for the future, declaring that their 
boats must fish wherever sardines may be taken, and 
the rod men have organized to protect the best water 
for large fish. Prof. Holder declares that the interests of 
all concerned will suffer, canner or sportsman, if the only 
spawning places along this coast, a few bays and estt- 
aries, are seriously disturbed by large nets, and that a 


_ one-mile limit should be observed, as on the Atlantic 


coast. The supervisors adjourned without taking action. 
Outside of the meeting a limit of even half a mile was 
urged, 

Owing to the warm season, winter fishing has been- 
unusually good within the past month, and nearly every 
week report comes from some near point of large 
strings, chiefly of mackerel or white perch, being caught 
by a lucky angler. Just now the weather is like that of 
spring or stmmer, and any one fond of the line, if he 
only runs his thumb along common string, feels as 
though he should be feeding bait into some likely tide. 
On any of these sunny days, the white perch are biting 
over at Serena, on the Pacific, ten miles down from 
Santa Barbara, where the more fortunate have hooked as 
many as seventy-five fish in an afternoon. 

A number of us were hunting dead limbs a short time 
ago as fuel for the fireplace at home. Wood costs $8 a 
cord in the valley, so it is well to save the winter supply 
by using whatever rough can be found. With cross-cut, 
axes and a single wagon, our party had set to work about 
a field in which oaks were spotted freely, when our at- 
tention was called to the number of pigeons to be ob- 
served. There were flocks nearly hidden in live oak 
foliage, others on the bare white oaks, noisy flights im- 
mediately above our heads, and distant lines of them that 
resembled specks. They were everywhere. As the gun 
had been left behind, I could only snap my fingers at 
the most feasible shots. Our party worked right along 
from midday to sunset in this wild aviary of bandtails. 
Though these flocks stayed here for several weeks, feed- 
ing now on the acorns of one grove, then of another, it 
was impossible for me to plan an attack upon their ranks, 
The ubiquitous small boy, to whom potpie is life, existed 
for the time in a glorious plentitude. 

The trip for wood had in it real work. Outings for 
pleasure are decidedly more popular with some members 
of our family. A small wagon is loaded with fry-pan, 
coffee pot, food, books and other provision for a day 
abroad, then we hark away to a point at which to have 
a picnic. In summer a spot down the creek road, where. 
cool breezes find their way in from the sea, has. proved 


.a favorable site, and in winter, any of the warm hillsides 


or sunny mesas about the valley. This climate permits 
living out of doors at any season. 

That nearly all enthusiasts, even those who would be 
believed under other conditions, often find it easier to kill 
large game or take monster fish than it will be later to 
convince the public of such achievement, is universally 
conceded. Only a short while ago the Duke of New- 
castle, a thorough paced angler, who has been spending 
the winter in southern California, landed off Catalina 
with rod and reel a 50-pound yellowtail, the second larg- 
est specimen ever caught there, then hastened to Los 
Angeles to have his huge catch mounted, that he might 
show it at home as visible evidence of the exploit. But, 
poor man, he will only be met with silly questioning. 

A young hunter of this valley, Mr. Bert. Cooper, whose 
word had never been questioned, now in the San Rafael 
Mountains with a party of Government surveyors, re- 
cently killed three grizzlies in a single day, a mother and 
two cubs, then shipped the hides to Nordhoff, where 


they may be seen at present; yet the Times and the other 


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papers of Los. Angeles. award him the Ananias belt, and 
ask our nitmrod how much he paid for those pelts, or ex- 
hibit a doubt like that shown by these same low humor- 
ists when ranger Herbert brought into our town the 
pads of old Club Foot. . 

The Grand Jury of San Diego county has just recom- 
mended that the office of game warden be abolished, 
though, so far as an outsider can judge, the present in- 
cumbent has been impartial in doing his duty, showing 
neither fear nor favor, and Has worked assiduously to 
have the local law enforced. Magistrates have not been 
so faithful. In one case brought to the attention of a 
justice, the warden had not only arrested culprits with 
game upon them, but had seen some of the ducks shot, 
and had picked them up, yet conyiction or fine did not fol- 
low. So far as one can judge, there appears to be a feel- 
ing in the lower counties of this State, especially near 
large preserves, that game laws are made for the wealthy 
sportsman, which no amount of reasoning can oOver- 
come. tan 

Those of your readets who may have heard the junior 
Senator from this State called “Grizzly” Bard, a soubri- 
quet often applied in his home county and at times else- 
where, will be interested to learn that some reason exists 
for this title. While suryeyor for Ventura county years 
ago, the present United States Senator undertook to 
build a grade from the lower to the upper plateau of this 
valley, and to accomplish his purpose chose a route lead- 
ing up a brush canyon. Grizzly sign had been reported 
as being visible in the chapparal; but the young engineer 
just out from Pennsylvania was not to be deterred. 
What occurred soon afterward will never be known, ex- 
cept that the bears sent their intruder to the hospital 
with a new name fastened deeply upon him, and he be- 
came “Grizzly” Bard to distinguish him from his brother 
the Doctor, another prominent citizen of Ventura county, 
The grade was completed up an open hillside from which 
the running to town might be easy and exceedingly 
swift. No one-eyed or careless workmen were allowed 
on the job. H. R. STEIGER. 


Nokpuorr, California. 


Fish and Fishing. 


Sale of New Brunswick Salmon Fishing Leases. 


Tue public auction of the fishing leases of New Bruns- 
wick salmon and trout streams has been fixed for Thurs- 
day, the 27th of February instant,’ and the details as to 
place of sale and other conditions are to be announced by 
advertisement in the columns of FoREST AND STREAM. 
By far the most valuable of New Brunswick fishing 
waters are those of the Restigouche, the best of which 
are at present under lease to the Restigouche Salmon 
Club. None of these rights have been continued by pri- 
vate sale, and the present lessees of angling rights will 
have no special privilege or advantage over the other 
bidders at the sale. The waters of the Restigouche and 
its principal tributaries ‘will, it is understood, be offered 
in thirteen different lots; the upset price of these lots 
running from $50. per annum ina couple of cases to 
$1,000 per annum in two other cases, and totalling $7,300 
a year for the whole of the river. These figures show a 
slight increase upon the prices-now paid for leases. 


Salmon Fishing in British Columbia, 


WHILE it is generally understood that American fly- 
fishing for salmon is pretty much, confined to the rivers 
of the Atlantic slope, increasing numbers of anglers are 
turning their attention to the sport of trolling for the 
various salmonoids of the Pacific coast. During last 
season some very heavy catches were made. An Eng- 
lish angler, who has now fished the tidal waters of a 
British Columbia river ior two years, reports that two and 
a half tons of salmon fell to his rod there last August 
in nineteen days’ fishing, or, to be exact, 5,212 pounds. 
His tackle was coarse for some of the smaller fish killed 
by him, but, on the other hand, his catch of the Quinnat 
Columbia type or King salmon included fish of 58 
pounds, and he took 106 of these fish, the smallest of 
which weighed over 23 pounds. He fished with a 16-foot 
greenheart salmon rod, 200 yards of gulf tarpon line, a 
steel wire trace, and a spoon of 3% inches in length, fitted 
with a single hook. His catch of Cohoe,. or silver sal- 
mon, numbered 98 fish, the largest of which weighed 15% 
pounds: In one day he caught twelve salmon, varying 
from 25 to 51 pounds. This is a pretty good result, even 
for trolling. E. T. D. CHAMBERS. 


Photographing Leaping Salmon. 


We shall print next week an account of photograph- 

ing leaping salmon on the Sevogle, one of the riyers ad- 
’ vertised in this issue as for rent. The photographing was 
done by Commissioner D, P. Smith, and we shall repro- 
duce one of the sticcesstyl photographs. 


Che Fennel. 
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Fixtur ‘Se 


BENCH SHOWS. 
Feb. 4-6—Providence, R. I1.—Rhode Island Kennel Club's annual 
show. George D, Miller, Sec’y, 
FIELD TRIALS. 


Feb, 10.—Grand Junction, Tenn.—Continental Field Trial Club’s 
trials. Theo, Sturges, Sec’y. 


Irish Setter Club. 


Boynton, Va., Jan. 30.—Editor Forest and Stream: The 
anntial meeting of the Irish Setter Club of America will 
be held in the Madison Square Garden, New York, on 
Friday, Feb, 21, at 5 P. M. 

Gro. H. THomson, Sec’y I. S. C. 


All communications intended for Forrest ann Streaw should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
got to any individual connected with the paper, 


Pachting. 


eS 
Designing Competition. 


In view of the continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
columns of Forest ANn StrEAM. In America the yacht- 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and such a com- 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu- 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months. 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers. Three prizes will be given for the best de- 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: 

IT. A pole mast sloop. 

If.-25ft. load waterline 

Til. Not over aft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 

TV. At least 50 per cent..of ballast outside on keel, 

V. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 

All abnormal features must be studiously avoided in 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plans 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea in 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished to 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or 
three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 
type. 

DRAWINGS ‘REQUIRED, 


I, Sheer plan, scale tin. = 1ft.—showing center of 


buoyancy and lateral resistance. 
Il. Half breadth, scale rin, = rft. 
Il. Body plan, scaie rin = rft. 
IV. Cabin plan, scale tin. = rit. 
V~Sail plan, %in. = 1ft., showing center of effort. 

, The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 

naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 

A table of offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must, be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope. however, the 
designer should inclose his own name and address, to- 
gether with his nom-de-plume, All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later than 
Feb. 28, 1902. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 

The Forest AND STREAM reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. 

The prizes offered are as follows: st prize, $25.00; 
2d prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs, 

Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane’s professional 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, and 
every confiderice will be put in his ability and fairness. 


Albicore. 


PERHAPS one of the best examples of a cruising yacht 
of moderate size that is now to be seen in American 
waters is the yawl Albicore, designed by William Fife, 
Jr., and built by the Beetle Boat Building Co., of New 
Bedford, Mass. She was launched in July, 1896, and was 
used by the gentleman for whom she was built about two 
months. when he died. To close up the estate the boat 
was offered for sale, and she was purchased by Mr. 
Seymour Hyde, of New York City, who has owned her 
since then. Her dimensions are as follows: 


Length— | 
Oxperhall Ec. gh set ete Ft apts serene A sift, 8in. 
EV, ee i eet as See ee eee 36ft. 
Ovyerhang— 
Etat Odi k cnn AS raters aur dine mtaerne ta at Oft, 2in. 
ASL teed esate aot ee ee Le aes oe oft. 6in. 
Breadth— - ¥ 
Fscone give’) aah A aid ae eet ee te Tift. 4in 
EVE a ee er ee iy ecg neers Ot ape Toft, in. 
Freeboard— 
Bows thas. oe 8 Pe Ait. 
see's t= ee cis eerie ie one ce ace ait. 7in 
Thatta = Aa tee ois keene Pete et Chih 
SP raitts «pep oa Dapen oy Ape yee sd ne eet 7ft. 2in. 
Tonnage, Custom House— 
LOSSES tedster ee nah deee te cedene 11.15 
BN A lai sccgpticin Aleks kee dead tbe des 11,00 
Sail Area— 
Miatinsail ie ree parte Cette eure 835 sq. ft. 
May aeiieern eee ot atretile LAO: BAR SA ae 208 sq. ft. 
RSE DME HIT Mw. Wr ss the. tees ttt ae see 186 sq. ft. 
ONG Niners pre A Pcie ey ieee eth Mea sires tr tlie TOF SLOTS Rin 
Total area lower sails ...........:. 1,548 sq. ft. 


The boat was designed for off-shore use, the owner 
wanting a craft that could keep the sea in any weather, 
and one that could be driven at a fair rate of speed with 
a small sail plan. When Mr. Hyde bought Albicore he 
took her to Wood's yard at City Island and there, during 
the fall of 1896 and the spring of 1897, extensive altera- 
tions were made on the boat’s interjor arrangement and 
in her sail plan, The rig was increased abont twenty-five 
per cent. This was done as it was found that she was 
under-rigged for the light weather that prevails during 
the summer months on Long Island Sound. The sail 
plan which the boat now carries is shown in the drawing 
which accompanies this article, and this was made by 
Messrs. Gardner & Cox, of New York City. The rig is 
particularly graceful, and while it -is materially larger 
than the old rig the boat is in no way over-sparred, and 
is always easy to handle. In making the new sail plan, 
Messrs, Gardner & Cox took great pains to have the boat 
perfectly balanced, and they certainly succeeded in so 


doing, for it matters not what the weather or what: sail 
is carried, ene hand on the wheel is sufficient to handle 
her with ease. A wheel was substituted for a tiller which 
Albicore originally carried, as the stick took so much 
room in the cockpit, - 


Albicore originally was laid out below with one large 
main saloon with a combination companionway. and sky- 
light overhead. The boat is now atranged.as is shown 
in the cabin plan, and it was laid out under direction of 
the owner, She is practically a flush deck boat, heayy 
beams running athwartships at the after end of the main 
companionway. One gets but a poor idea of the large 
amount of room the boat has from the cabin plan. The 
interior looks somewhat cramped on paper, but in reality 
she is not only very roomy, but exceptionally well at- 
ranged. Four persons can ertiise in Albicore for an in- 
definite period and enjoy every comfort and convenience 
without being in the least crowded. Even on the hottest 
days it is always cool below by opening the skylight in 
the forward end of the cabin trunk and lifting the win- 
dows in the after house, in that Way a draft is created. 
There are swinging windows on all four_sides of the after 
house, and no matter from what quarter the wind is 
blowing in bad weather, it is possible to open the lights 
on the lee side and secure proper ventilation without 
haying the rain driving in. The berths in the main cabin 
pull out, making wide and comfortable bunks for sleep- 
ing. Behind the transoms are large locKers, and under- 
neath is stowage space for canned goods: On the port 
side of the steerage are five drawers, all of good size, 
for code flags, linen, etc. Opposite, on the starboard side, 
is a large hanging closet. The main cabin is upholstered 
in green plush and the partitions and sheathing are 
covered with green burlap. All the woodwork in the 
cabins is of mahogany, the cabin lamps are of dull brass, 
and in the panels of the doors to the galley are two 
large plate glass mirrors. On the shelves above the 
transoms are racks specially made to hold the cabin 
china, silver, glasses and decanters. The ladies’ cabin 


is upholstered in red plush, and the partitions are hung. 


in a light silk brocade, curtains of the same material 
hanging across the berths. A dull red carpet covers the 
floor of the cabin and stateroom, and completes what is 
a most artistic and restful interior. A Sands’ water closet 
is placed under the after transom in the stateroom, and 
is covered with a cushion, Just over the transom is a 
folding wash basin which drains into the closet. There 
1S Dver Six feet headroom under beams both in the main 
cabin and stateroom. The galley is roomy, and the fore- 
castle has ample accommodation for the two men that 
make up the crew. In the port side of the lazarette there 
is an ice chest for use on long cruises. Mr. Hyde is a 
deep sea sailor in addition to being an expert yachtsman, 
having made two trips around Cape Horn in a sailin 

vessel, and in consequence prefers to be in charge of his 
own yacht, so that no sailing master is carried. Two 
paid hands constitute the crew, although the boat could 
easily be handled with one man. Two round bottom boats 
are swung on the davits when cruising, 


The writer was aboard Albicore on the New York 
’. C, cruise last summer, and within the short 
space of a week an excellent opportunity was had to size 
up the “little ship’s” splendid qualities. On the run from 
Glen Coye to Huntington Albicore started ahead of the 
fleet (we were not racing) in order to let Columbia, 
Constitution and the big yawls overtake us at the mouth 
of Huntington Bay. The breeze was light and the sun 


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wery hot; when off Huntington the mainsail was lowered ~ 


and a sailing awning set up from the main to the mizzen 
mast, and we jogged along very comfortably under jib, 
staysail and mizzen, keeping within good seeing distance 
of the “big fellows.” This is one of the advantages of 
the yawl rig when the sun is uncomfortably warm and 
one has time to spare. At New London the boats were 
packed in so closely that one could almost step from one 
to the other, and in the morning each man was waiting 
for his neighbor to get out first to give him some sea 
room. Albicore being one of the smallest in the fleet 
‘and the wind blowing hard from the east, it promised 
to be a long, hard beat to Newport, so it was decided to 
make an early start. She lay sandwiched in between 
several big schooners and steam yachts with not a boat’s 
length to maneuver in. Here the yawl rig showed one 
of its advantages again, and by a little skillful handling 
of the jib and mizzen she slipped ottt of a bad pocket 
to the great admiration of many onlookers from the sur- 
rounding craft. 
wishing to save as much ground as possible, carrying all 
lower sails. The wind was picking up every minute, and 
the sea was beginning to be felt. We were in company 
with several large sloops and cutters, and when off Ston- 
imgton it was thought wise to “tie in some cloth” before 
getting into rough water in Block Island Sound. Several 
of the big yachts near us thought it wise to do the same 
and a number of them ran in behind the breakwater at 
‘Stonington for this purpose. With the yawl rig, how- 
ever, this was not necessary, and we lowered away our 
mainsail and put in two reefs, jogging along the while 
very nicely under the headsails and the mizzen, keeping 
headway on all the while and not losing any time. When 
Block Island Sound was reached our friends who run into 
Stonington for shelter while reefing were far astern. 


There was quite a joggle on outside, the sea having: 
. picked up very fast. 


On the long beat ~all that day 
Albicore made beautiful weather of it, moving along fast 
in the heavy sea with the greatest ease and comfort to 
all on board. Her bow sections being just full enough 
to “pick her up” and not take any solid water on board, 
still not full enough to pound. She made far better 
weather of it than many of the boats twice her size in the 
fleet. One may get some idea how well Albicore is built 


and how little she “works” in a sea way, it being-—posgi-. 


ble to open and shut doofs and drawers. while in 
the heavy sea in Block Island Sound as easily as if 
the boat was at anchor in still water. 
hitches over toward the Watch Hill shore was seen, one 


of the most magnificent pictures in the way of a yacht-. 


ing scene possible to imagine. Colunsbia and. Constitu- 


tion, both on the port tack close hauled, were standing 
toward Block Island, Albicore ran in-just, between them 


as she did not want-to bother Columbia by crossing her 
bow, she being to windward.  The-‘‘big) fellows” 5 were 


not one hyydred yards apart, and right abreast of cach 
ils into the big sea, 


other, with topsails set, driving ahead 


au 


We stood into Fisher’s Island Sound’ 


On: one- of the. 


We were absolutely without wind, as Columbia blanketed 
us in passing, and everyone on board Albicore instinct- 
ively got on his feet and cheered as the boats swept by 
a smother of foam. Columbia heeled down with her lee 
rail well under and all the crew outlined clearly on the 
weather rail, while Constitution was just under our lee 
with her weather side rolled well out and -her bronze 
bottom shining brightly. It was a great sight to pass so 
closely to these big machines carrying such an enormous 
spread of canvas and pounding into the big sea. 

Four of us had lived on board Albicore in addition to 
the crew for a week, enjoying every comfort, and we left 
her with many regrets at Newport, feeling that she was 
as perfect a cruiser “of her inches” as floats. 
is remarked wherever she goes for her very sweet lines 
and graceful sheer and in designing her Mr. Fife has kept 
up his reputation for turning out the handsomest yachts 
in the world, 

In addition to Albicore’s showing as a crutiser, she has 
shown considerable speed, and has a racing record of 
which to be proud. For her last racing’ season, 1900, owt 
of fourteen starts she won eleven firsts and one second 
prize. In her class. L 36ft. to 43ft., she headed the list 
of twenty-four boa’: fir the season’s racing. Altogether, 
she has won for her owner in three years of racing, 
twenty-one prizes, elulteen of which were firsts. 


Western Yachts. 


Cabin and Knockabout Classes Stand. 


Curcaco, Ill., Feb, 1—In the meeting of the delegates 
of thé Lake Michigan Yachting Association held at the 
_ Briggs House earlier this week, there were present dele- 
gates from Little Traverse Bay Y. C., Macatawa Bay 
Y. C., Milwaukee Y. C,, Chicago Y. C,, Columbia 'Y. C. 
and Jackson Park Y, C. President H. A. Coleman had 
the chair, there being also present Treasurer W. S. 
Bougher and Secretary H. G. Finney. A warm discts- 
sion arose over the question of cabin type ot knockabout 
type. The Milwaukee men especially were displeased 
at what they termed too much tinkering with the rules, 
showing an inclination to hang to the knockabout type, 
and claiming that an injury would be done to Milwaukee 
if this type were thrown out, since a number of boats of 
the knockabout type are now building in the Cream City. 
Opposition coming up to the adoption of the 21ft. cabin 
type exclusively, the matter was finally compromised by 
passing the rule relatine to the 2rft, cabin boat and allow- 
ing the old knockabout clause to stand without change. 
Article 3, relating to measurements, was changed in one 
or two partictilars. ; 


Milwaukee Y. C, Elects Commodore. 


In the annual meeting of the Milwaukee Y_ C. last Sat- 
urday night, Mr. E. P. Vilas: was chosen Commodore; 
H. A. Coleman, Vice-Com.; Rene Hilbert, Rear-Com., 
Alexander Mathers, Sec’y-Treas.; F. B. Huntington, 
John M. Handley, Rene Hilbert, Alexander Mathers and 
H. A. Coleman, Board of Directors. The new Commo- 
dore will, at the next meeting, appoint his Fleet Captain, 
Fleet; Surgeon and the chairmen of the working com- 
mittees on House, Entertainment and Regatta, 

The regular Fourth of July regatta will be held as 
usual, and there will be a cruise to Macatawa Bay. Mich., 
of several boats, which will enter in the Lake Michigan 
Yachting Association meet next August. 

Milwaukee Y, C. comprises 180 active members, a larger 
list than it has ever had before. Thistle, schooner, will 
be the flag ship this coming season. Milwaukee Y. C. 
will probably send a trial boat for the Canadian cup pre- 
liminaries next summer, and the supposition at this writ- 
ing is that the boat will probably be a freak, something 
on the order of the Milwaukee “sidewalk,” which created 
so divided a comment here last season. 


Arrival of Windward, 


Windward, yawl rigged, the property of E. L. and P. 
Springer, arrived this week from Patchogue, N. Y. Wind- 
ward will go into the fleet of Jackson Park Y. C. She is 
3ait. over all, 23ft. lw.L, 3)4it. draft and 514ft. draft with 
centerboard. E. Houcu. 

Hartrorp Buitprnc,’ Chicago, Ill, 


Western Ice Yachts. 


THE sport of ice yachting has attained greater pro- 
portions in the West this winter than in any previous 
season, and there is hardly a good-sized Western lake but 
can boast of its fleet of race horses. Winnebago Lake has 
something like fifty boats, the queen bee thus far being a 
Hudson River importation. There is a constant tendency 
to look for the latest and best models which have found 
approval in the East, and there is more and more money 
going into good flyers in the West, the old makeshifts 
being relegated to the dump yards. 

Pewatikee Lake, Wis., is another to have a nice little 
fleet of ice yachts. Such waters as the Madison Lakes, of 
Wisconsin; White Bear and Minnetonka, of Minnesota, 
ete., are also turning out more and better boats this year, 


“Mr. G. L. Watson, who has his hands full with huge 
steam yachts for America, is also engaged on the plans 
for a steam ‘tender’ to Mr. James Coats’ fine schooner 
Gleniffer,” says the Yachtsman. “The ‘tender,’ by the 
way, will be of a tonnage almost equal to that of the big 
schooner herself, the dimensions being: Load waterline, 
147ft.; beam (moulded), 22ft.; depth (moulded), r3ft. 
6in. She has a plumb stem and an elliptical stern, The 
vessel is being built at the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company’s 
yard at Troon, and she is now plated and riveted. The 
“engines are being built by Messrs. Dunsmuir & Jackson 
and are designed to drive the yacht at twelve knots, and, 
with the Gleniffer in tow, at ten knots an hour. The 
launch will probably take place next spring.” 


All communications intendedetor Fonrrst asp Sreeam should 
slways be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
* g0t-to any individual connected with the paper, 


Albicore - 


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ALBICORE, 


Some Strange Cruises. 


ANOTHER, and perhaps the final, chapter has been added 
to the romantic history of the schooner yacht Norna, says 
the New York Times, which was stolen from this port 
four years ago, and has since been wandering about the 
world masquerading tnder the flag of the Atlantic Y. C. 
and beating her way from port to port. A private letter 
received in this city a few days ago from Australia said 

-that the Norna had been put up at auction and sold there, 
and that she would soon start for the United States, either 
going to the Pacific Coast or putting around the Horn 
for New York. “Commodore” Weaver was tnable to re- 
tain his yacht after the public authorities had seized her, 
though in previous cases of this kind he had been able to 
pay off all the claims. 

Norna was worth about $10,000. She was a large 
schooner of the Dauntless type and had been a famous 
yacht about these waters in the early eighties. Her ex- 
traordinary career since she came into possession of N. J. 
Weaver has made her famous in yachting annals, and she 
will go down in history as-one of the select list of yachts 
which have left New York tipon voyages that were roman- 
tic, adventurous or extraordinary. 

Indeed, no other port has yielded so much material for 
the chronicler of sea romances as New York. Piracy and 
the slave trade are only two of the queer lines of industry 
in which New York yachts have indulged. They have 
penetrated into unknown seas, exchanged shots with the 
guns of warships and fortifications, and been productive 
of mysteries which have remained unfathomable with the 
passage of years. : 

Perhaps the most notorious yacht that ever put out of 
New York was Wanderer. While flying the flag of the 
New York Y, C., of which her owner was a member, she 
took part in the slave trade, and a special meeting of 
the club was called to expel her owner and strike her name 
from the list. 

She was built by James G. Baylis at Port Jefferson, 
L. L, for J. O. Johnson, a wealthy member of the New 
York Y, C., and was launched in June, 1857. She was a 
keel schooner, roaft. over all and o5ft. on the waterline. 
with a draft of about r1ft. That she was a fine-looking 
yacht may be seen from the beautiful painting of her 
which now hangs in the house of the New York Y. C. 
Mr, Johnson sold her to Capt. W. C. Corrie, who was 
elected a member of the New York Y. C. May 29, 188. 
Under the rules of the club he was captain of the yacht, 
but her sailing master was a brother of Admiral Semmes, 
who commanded the Alabama in the Civil War. 

Corrie sailed south with Wanderer, ostensibly for a 
pleasure cruise, although as a matter of fact he went to 


Charleston and puta slave outfit in her hold. From there 
he sailed to Trinidad. Capt. Egbert Farnham, a” man 
of an adventurous career, went along. Wanderer put into 
St. Helena and thence sailed to the Congo River. There 
she met the British warship Medusa, looking for slavers, 
but as Wanderer was flying the American flag and that of 
the New York Y. C., the British officers never suspected 
her designs, 


Indeed, Capt. Corrie ran alongside the Medusa and 
remained there for several days, paying calls upon the 
British officers and actually entertaining them in the cabin 
of the yacht Together they visited places of interest 
ashore, and one day, by way of a joke, Capt. Corrie asked 
them why they did not search Wanderer to see if she 
was not a slaver. The British officers Jaughed at this 
sally. As soon as the Medusa put to sea Wanderer sailed 
tip the Congo to the barracoons. Among her owners at 
this time beside Capt. Corrie were Charles A. L. Lamar, 
of Savannah; N. C. Trowbridge, of New Orleans; Capt. 
A, C. McGhee, of Columbus, Ga.; Richard Dickerson, of 
Richmond, Va., and Benjamin Davis, of Charleston, S. C, 
Capt. McGhee was authority for the statement that she 
took on 750 negroes between thirteen and eighteen years 
of age. She got away safely with this cargo, and is 
thought to haye reached the coast of Georgia Dec. 2, 


.1858. The Savannah Republican stated a few days later 


that she had landed her slaves on Jekyl Island, for which 
privilege the negro traders paid $15,000. 

The great difficulty was to get the slaves up the river 
past the frowning muzzles of the guns at the fort. Com- 
munication was opened with Lamar in Savannah. He 
thereupon announced that he was going to give a great 
ball in honor of the officers of the garrison, and insisted 
that the soldiers as well should come. When the ball was 
at its height and the fort abandoned, the river steamer 
Augusta steamed past with the negroes from Jekyl Island. 

The affair caused a public scandal. Congress took the 
matter up. Wanderer was seized and condemned. but the 
smugglers escaped through technicalities. The yacht was 
sold at auction and bid in by her former owners. It was 
shown that slaves, purchased for a few beads and ban- 
danna handkerchiefs, were sold on the market for $700 
apiece; the owners cleared $10,000 apiece on the venture. 

But within a year Wanderer had again gone to the 
Congo and come back with another cargo of slaves. In 
attempting to enter Jekyl Creek she ran aground, and a 
number of the captives jumped: into the water and were 
drowned. The rest of the cargo reached land in a ter 


tible condition. Most of them were sick and many dying. 


Tt was said that several murders had occurred on board, 
dying slaves being thrown overboard to get rid of them, 
This was the last cargo of slaves landed in America, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


When Savannah was blockaded, at the outbreak of the 
Civil War, Wanderer was hemmed in, and was finally 
sold to the Confederate Government. She was eventually 
captured by the Union forces, and was for a time used as 
a revenue cutter at Pensacola. Then she was sold at 
auction and put into the cocoanut trade, being finally 
wrecked at Cape Henry. 

Previously, however, the New York Y. C. had taken 
action in regard to this flagrant abuse of its flag. Ata 
meeting of the club held Feb. 3, 1859, Corrie was ex- 
pelled from the club and the name of Wanderer was 
erased from the club list. 7 h 

The greatest mystery of the sea, which has given rise 
to innumerable theories, but which the shrewdest minds 
have been unable to fathom, resulted from a voyage begun 
in this port a number of years ago. Marie Celeste put out 
from Brooklyn, bound for Mediterranean ports. There 
was a large crew and a full complement of officers on 
board, and the captain’s wife went along as a passenger. 

About a month afterward, Marie Celeste, with all sail 
set, was found abandoned 800 miles east of Gibraltar. All 
the boats were at the davits, the life belts were all in 
place, there were no evidences of a fight or struggle, and 
the vessel being sound and in good condition, there was 
no apparent reason why the crew should have abandoned 
her, and nothing to show how they got away. 

Marie Celeste was taken to Gibraltar and put in charge 
of the American consul there, and it was hoped that in 

‘the course of time the crew or some members of it would 
turn up to shed light upon this strange mystery. But 
months passed and no word was heard from them. From 
that day to this not the slightest evidence has ever been 
found to show exactly what happened. The whole crew 
had vanished. A prolonged investigation was made be- 
fore the ship was finally sold, without discovering any- 
thing to clear up the mystery. 


It was shown conclusively that but a short time had~ 


elapsed between the abandoning and the finding of the 
ship. In the cabin was a sewing machine which the cap- 
tain’s wife had been using, and standing on the edge of 
it was a spool of cotton, showing that it had been put 
there since the last preceding storm. As Marie Celeste 
had all sail set, she would have been seriously damaged 
had she been in a storm with no crew on board. The date 
of the last storm in that locality was found to have been 
only three days previous to the date on which the ship 
was picked up. What happened during these three days 
no man probably will ever know.. Conan Doyle, the 
creator of Sherlock Holmes, had been so fascinated by the 
mystery of Marie Celeste, that he wrote a book- about 
it, attempting to account for the disappearance upon the 
theory that savages from Africa came aboard the ship 
and took the crew into captivity. There was nothing, 
however, to show that any such thing occurred. 

The career of the schooner yacht America after she 
left this port in the spring of 1851 is surprising, aside from 
her winning the Cup forever afterward identified with her 
name. 

Bought by an English nobleman, she remained on the 


other side for years. Then she came back to America - 


and was for a time used as an oyster schooner in Chesa- 
peake Bay. She was taken south before the outbrgak of 
the war and was scuttled and sunk in Florida waters. 
The yacht was found there by the Federal authorities, 
taken up, repaired, and put into the service. To account 
for her lasting all these years it is said that she had been 
sunk in some kind of metallic sand, which penetrated her 
timbers and acted as a preservative. : 

After the war she was auctioned off by the Federal 
authorities and bought in by Gen. Ben Butler, who used 
her as a private yacht. He paid a very small sum for 
her, and it -was alleged in Congress at the time that.the 
auction had not been duly advertised and that the transfer 
of the yacht to Butler had been a job put up between him 
and the Government. 

When Gen. Butler died the yacht was sold again. The 
astonishing thing is that she is still afloat and in fairly 
good condition after the passage of fifty years, more than 
three times the life of the ordinary yacht. 

One of the most extraordinary voyages in nautical his- 
tory came to an abrupt termination in this city a few 
years ago aiter the participants, who had started out for a 
leisurely cruise around the world, had experienced a lively 
time for over a year. An English lord was commander 
and owner of the craft, and there were several other 
sprigs of rtobility on board. 

The yacht was called Tyburnia. She was in appear- 
ance perhaps the most extraordinary craft that ever en- 
tered. the port of New York, at least since Hendrik Hud- 
son on the Half Moon sailed up through the Narrows. 
Tyburnia had been built as a convoy to East Indiamen— 
to look slow and sail fast. She had the lines of a yacht 
on the waterline, but above that looked like a ship of the 
seventeenth century. Her three masts raked forward, .a 
thing few living mariners remember to have seen even in 
early youth. Around these masts were stands of cut- 
lasses under the belaying pins. She was square rigged on 
all masts, with queer little jigger sails that excited the 
wonder of Front and Water streets. 

When Lord Grosvenor got her from his father, the 
Duke of Westminster, for the purpose of this cruise, he 
put carpenters at work on the decks and fitted up a num- 
ber of staterooms, while square windows were cut in the 
sides of the ship from stern to midships. Outside these 
windows there were places for flower pots, while little 
white curtains inside gave Tyburnia the appearance of a 
hospital ship. Costly mirrors and Turkish rugs added 
elegance to her cabin and staterooms. Lord Grosvenor 
had printed a circular for private circulation describing 
Tyburnia, and saying he was about to start on a voyage 
around the world for enjoyment, to last two years, the 
cost to each passenger to be £650. A large consignment of 
wines, liquors and cigars was put into the hold: 4: 

‘A Mr, Murray and his wife left the ship at the first 
port, saying the times were too lively on Tyburnia, which 
continued her voyage. She put into several ports in the 
Mediterranean, took on consignments of wine, and de- 
parted without paying for it. It was expected that 
eventually she might turn up in New York, and agents 
of European wine houses in this city were notified to be 
cn the lookout for her, 

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and found the whole company on deck enjoying them- 
selves. 

She left the port of Madeira under fire from the forts. 
Lord Grosvenor and some of his friends, when attempt- 
ing to land, got into a fight with the Custom House 
officials there and put back to Tyburnia, got up anchor 
and started out. The forts sent a few small solid shots 
through her sails, and Tyburnia replied with a popgun she 
had mounted on the stern. 

She next turned up at New Orleans, where there was 
an exposition in progress. Here some more passengers 
left the ship, and Lord Grosvenor, running short of 
funds, took on a small cargo of sugar. He attempted to 
sell the sugar on his way from New Orleans to this city, 
but could not do so. : 

Upon her arrival in Brooklyn, where she was in dock 
neat the bridge, Tyburnia was seized by the authorities 
of Kings county for debt. A deputy sheriff was put on 
board, but she slipped her cable and came over to Pier 13, 
East River, this city, thinking thus to escape from the 
Brooklyn sheriff's jurisdiction. The Tyburnia was 
promptly seized here. Lord Grosvenor and _ his 
friends left her to go hunting big game in the Rockies, 
the vessel was sold to satisfy the claims against her, and 
an immense quantity of fine wines was taken from her 
hold. Ship carpenters then went to work on her and 
turned her back into a merchantman by removing the 
staterooms, and she sailed from here for Australia with a 
miscellaneous cargo, continuing thereafter in trade for a 
few years, é' 

One of the old pilot boats that used to put out from 
New York and was known to every mariner, was the Ezra 
Nye, a stanch schooner with a straight stem and magnifi- 
cent seaworthy qualities. She was bought by F. Marion 
Crawford, the novelist, who paid $1,000 for her. when 
the fleet of pilot boats was put up at auction a few years 
ago. He now uses her as a yacht on the Mediterranean, 
and many of his finest recent literary efforts have been 
conceived when lounging on her deck under the blue 
Italian sky. She is about. 62ft. on the waterline. She 
brought a low price because-she was old. 


Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, Feb. 3.—Two more new 21-footers, to be built 
under the restrictions of the Yacht Racing Association of 
Massachusetts, were heard of last week. One of these is 
to be for Vice-Com. J. E. Robinson, of the Savin Hill 
Y. C., and the other will be for Arthur J. Cavanagh, of 
the Quincy Y, C. Both are well-known yachtsmen. Vice- 
Com. Robinson raced the 16-footer Perhaps for three 
seasons, and Mr. Cavanagh is well known as having been 
the skipper of the 21-footer Privateer. As yet no details 
have been given out as to the type of boat that will be 
built for each owner, but it is very likely, judging from 
the yachts they have raced in before, that both will be 
centerboards, with plenty of beam. Mr. Robinson’s yacht 
was designed by Jefferson Borden, of Fall River, and the 
contract for her construction has been given to Howard 
H. Linnell, of Savin Hill. Mr. Robinson has great faith 
in the Savin Hill builder, and the fact that her designer 
is not a Boston man, is sure to lend interest and make the 
competition closer. Mr. Cavanagh, who is studying naval 
architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
has turned out the lines of his own boat. While he is 
yet an amateur, his practical experience at racing should 
serve him in pretty good stead in putting ideas into his 
own boat. She will be built at Quincy Point. 

There is one thing that is certain in ccnnection with 
these two new ones. They will be sure to be found at all 
of the open Y. R. A. races throughout the circuit, when- 
ever their owners find it possible to attend, and from 
what has been shown in former years, that is likely to 
mean that there will be few races, indeed, that they will 
miss. It does not stand to reason that the owners of other 
boats in the class, no matter how much any of them may 
desire to confine racing to one place, will allow these two 
boats to go over the circuit alone and scoop all the prizes. 
It is a good thing that Mr. Borden has designed a boat 
for the class, for it wil] surely mean that owners of 
yachts of local design will get out and give her a run 
for her money. The boat of amateur design is also a good 
thing, for it will create fully as much competition as the 
Borden boat. It will be a very strange thing if these two 
boats are allowed to go over the circuit without constant 
competition, and it is certain that if the others want to 
be in on the running they will have to get out and race. 
Objections to racing in Dorchester Bay have been started_ 
by some on the ground that there is not enough water 
there for the keel boats in the class. I am personally very 
well acquainted with the waters of Dorchester Bay, and 
I have no doubt that there will be found plenty of water 
for the deepest of the 21-footers on race days, and it might 
be that there would be found a little too much for any 
who should fail to keeep their boats right side up. 

At the annual meeting of the Quincy Y. C., it was voted 
to join the Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts 
again. This movement will cause no surprise among the 
yachtsmen of Massachusetts Bay, as it is known that an 
effort has been made in that direction since the club with- 
drew. As was expected, there was some opposition to the 
motion, but the judgment of the majority in going back 
to the Association will be doubted by only a few. 

A very good clause was added to the by-laws offering 
special inducements to those desiring to become members, 
who design or build boats. The clause is as follows: 
“Any person who personally designs or builds a sailboat 
of over 12ft. waterline may become-a member of- the 
Quincy Y. C., and be exempt from the usual $5 member- 
ship fee, being liable only for dues of the current year, if 
application for such membership is made-within twelve 
months from time said yacht is finished and in-commts- 
sion; and said applicant is voted a member in the usual 
manner.” sfiges 3) pf 

The following officers were elected-for the year ~1902: 
Com., Eben W. Shepard; Vice-Com., Frank F. Crane; 
Sec’y, Harold B. Faxon; Treas., Walter E..Burke; Meas., 
L. C. Embree; Executive Committee, Henry M. Faxon, 
Charles W. Hall, George W. Jones and Herbert W. Rob- 
bins; House Committee, John P. Brainbridge, C. C. Col- 
lins, Arthur W. Harris, Elmer F. Ricker, Ira M. Whitte- 
more, George H. Wilkins and John Wood, 


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From the present outlook it seems that the Boston Y. C. 
intends to have a very busy season in racing events. At 
the annual meting, held last week, it was voted to appro- 
priate’$600 to the Regatta Committee to be used for prizes. 
In addition to this amount, Com. B. P. Cheney offered 
$300 to be expended for cups. The $600 will be used for 
club and open events: The-Cheney cups will be com- 
peted for only by club boats. Com. Cheney did not specify 
that the cups should be raced for only by. yachts owned in 
the club, but left the matter to the discretion of the Re- 
gatta Committee. That body thought it wisest that the 
cups should be competed for only by yachts whose owners 
would and could become members of the club. Nine 
hundred dollars may not seem a great sum to be placed at 
the disposal of the Regatta Committee of a club for its 
races, but when it is considered that the yachts which will 
compete for the prizes will be less.than 3oft. on the water- 
line, and in the majority of cases less than 25ft. water- 
line, the amount given appears to be very generous. 

The work of driving piles for the new station at Marble- 
head has been started, and is expected to be finished very 
soon. Nearly all of the material for the building is 
there, and work will be started on the structure just as 
soon as the piles have been driven. Seventeen lockers 
are provided for in the new building, and as there were 
many applications for them, it was decided to auction off 
the choice at the annual meeting. The bonus on the 
seventeen was $143, and the highest amount paid for 
bonus on a single locker was $43. é 

Amendments were made to the constitution as follows: 
“That the Board of Trustees, instead of being elected an- 
nually, -shall be elected one for three years, one for two 
years and one for one year, and that at each annual meet- 
ing one shall be elected for three years; and that the 
House Committee, instead of being elected individually 
for a term of years, shall consist of five members, who 
shall be elected annually.” ; 

The officers elected for the year under the laws of the 
club as amended were as follows: Com., Benjamin P. 
Cheney; Vice-Com., Walter Burgess; Rear-Com.. Elmer 
H. Smith; Sec’y, Albert C. Fernald; Treas., William H. 
Bangs; Measurers, W. Starling Burgess and Jefferson 
Borden; Trustees, Commodore, ex officio, C. W. Jones, 
H. W. Wesson and W. C. Lewis; Regatta Committee, 
Walter Burgess, B. D. Amsden, C. A. French, C. G. 
Browne and Sumner H. Foster; Membership Committee, 
Commodore and. Secretary, ex officio, W. C. Lewis, E. H. 
Tarbell, W. D. Turner, Albert Geiger, Jr., and C G. 


ALBICORE—SAIL PLAN. 


Browne; House Committee, W. D. Turner, Miner Robin- 
son, T. Walcott Powers, W. B. Jackson and Herbert W. 
Wesson. ! 

Crowninshield has an order for a soft. waterline cruis- 
ing schooner for Thomas G. Bush, of Mobile, Ala. She 
will be 73ft. on top, 16ft. beam and 4ft. 10in. draft. She 
will be built in the South, in the vicinity of Mobile. The 
boat will have a light draft for cruising in Southern 
waters. There will be as few bulkheads as possible, so 
that as much sweep of air as possible may be had through 
the cabin. She will carry inside ballast entirely, and 
there is also a provision whereby a shaft and wheel can 
be put in if auxiliary power is desired. 

Burgess has an order for a 25-footer for Dr. R. S. 
Souther. 

At Lawley’s work is going on on the 1o4ft. waterline 
steam yacht, and on others in the east shop. The Lippitt 
60-rater has not commenced to take form yet in the west 
shop, but is expected that she will commence to go up 
in a few days. JoHN B. KiLLEen. 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


At the Townsend and Downey yard at Shooter’s Island 
the Emperor’s new schooner has received her priming 
coat of paint. The steel deck house aft is nearly finished 
and the deck is laid. As soon as the deck fittings are in 
place the interior cabinet work will be put in place. The 
three-masted schooner yacht Shenandoah, building at this 
yard for Mr. Gibson Fahnestock, is plated, cemented and 
painted, and the work of laying the deck is well along. 
The auxiliary schooner for Mr. Alessandro Fabbri, build- 
ing at Shooter’s Island from designs. by Messrs. Cary 
Smith & Barbey, is more than half plated, and her deck 
and interior joiner work is being. made in the carpenter 


shops. 
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To the Greenport Basin and Construction Company, of 
Greenport, L. I., has been awarded the contract of de- 


signing and building the one-design boats for the members- 


of the Ardsley Y. C. These craft have been so planned 
that they can be carried on the davits of steam yachts, sey- 
eral of the owners having this idea in view. The prin- 
cipal dimensions are as follows: Length over all. 25ft. 
gin.; waterline, 15ft. 6in.; breadth, 6ft., and draft 4ft. 
There will be 1,200lbs. of ballast, all of which will be on 
the keel. The boats will carry just over 400 sq. ft. of 
sail, which is divided between the mainsail and jib. The 


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construction of the boats will be simple and strong. The 
stem, keel-and stern post will be of white oak, and the 
planking will be of cedar, and the boats will be copper 
fastened throughout. Under the new rule recently adopted 
by the Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound, the boats meas- 
ure just 18ft. It is expected that at least a dozen of the 
boats will be built. The Greenport Basin and Construc- 
tion Company is also building an 18-footer for a member 
of the Shelter Island Y. C. This firm is also constructing 
a cruising sloop of the following dimensions: Length 
over all, 34ft.; waterline, 22ft. 6in.; beam, oft., and draft, 
5ft., which will be used solely for cruising, and will be 
put together in the most substantial manner. 
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The American Power and Construction Company has 
sold the schooner yacht Leslie to James N. Norris, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.; the auxiliary yawl Flora to Cornelius Mc- 
Lean, Mount Vernon, N. Y., and the cabin launch Mystic 
to W. E. Blanchard, Boston. 

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The purchasing of the 7o-footer Yankee by the veteran 
yachtsman, Mr. J. Rogers Maxwell, has given new life 
to the 7oft. class. The “seventies” will be the largest 
single-stickers seen in the racing next season, and it is 
now announced that Charlie Barr will be in charge of 
August Belmont’s Mineola. This means that splendid 
racing will be seen, and all four of the boats will be in 
commission. Perhaps Mr. W. O. Gay will come around 
the Cape from Boston and try conclusions with the New 
York 7o0-footers now that his boat Athene made -1'ch an 
excellent showing against them on the New York Y. C. 
cruise last season. 


Yacht Club Notes. 


During the past year the Hampton Roads Y. C. was 
incorporated and the organization is now in a most 
flourishing condition. The club felt the need of a new 
club house, and the Building Committee has already ac- 
cepted plans submitted by the architects, and work on the 
new building will be commenced at once, so that the club 
house will be ready for occupancy at the opening of the 
coming season. cee | 5 

The site finally selected ‘by, the club is near the end of 
Willoughby Spit and extends from Chesapeake Bay 
on one side to Willoughby Bay on the other. 
There is probably no site in this vicinity posses- 


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sing as many nattiral advantages for yacht club purposes. 
It is located practically in the center of the sailitig 
“grounds of this section; it fas on the Willoughby Bay 
side ample and a perfectly safe anchorage for an un- 
limited number of small boats, and it affords unequalled 
opportunities for bathing and fishing. ; 
“Willoughby Bay, being almost entirely landlocked, is 
admirably suited for rowing and small sailboats, while 
just around the point are the waters of the Chesapeake 
for the large craft. This location is equally as con- 
venient for the yachtsmen of Newport News, Hampton 
and Old Point, who are members of the club, as for the 
local yachtsmen. a 2 
It is the intention to build.a club house facing on Chesa- 
peake Bay,-and a boat house facing on Willoughby aie 
The following is the list of officers; Com., James F. 
Duncan; Capt., Clarence A. Neff; Sec’y, Lewis Van R. 
Smith; Paythaster, Charles C. Couper; Board of Gov- 
érnors, Harry C. Dodson, Wyndham R. Mayo, Jr., H. R. 
Rice, Thomas P. Thompson, Joseph F. Drummond, R. B. 
Taylor and Ira B. White. i. 
Tt was the original intention of the club to limit its 
membership to 100 members, and accordingly the club was 
incorporated with 1oo shares of stock. These were all 
stibscribed to, and with such readiness that the Board. of 
Governors decided to increase the membership to 150, and 
has ordered 50 additional shares to be issued. 


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The following named naval officers having kindly 
offered to address the members of the New York Y. C., 
dates as below haye been decided upon: 

Feb. 6—Rear-Admiral Francis T. Bowles; U. 5S. N,; 
subject, ““Naval Construction.” 

Feb. 27—Rear-Admiral George W. Melville, U. 5S. N.; 
subject, ‘Arctic Experiences.” 

March 20—Rear-Admiral Charles O’Neil, U. S. N.; 
subject, “Ships, Guns and Explosives.” 

On April 10 there will be a musicale, and the subject 
for May 1 will be announced later. 

After an address, should there be time, other features 
will be added, The entertainments will begin at 9:30 
o'clock in the evening. 


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The annual meeting of the New Rochelle Y. C. was 
held on Saturday evening, Feb. 1, at the Hotel Man- 
hattan, New York city. The following officers and com- 
mittees were elected: Com., Clendenin Eckert, yawl 
Thistle; Vice-Com., L. M. Scott, sloop Tosto; Rear-Com., 
P. E. Revelle, sloop Louise; Sec’y, James E. Ricketts; 
Treas., F. R. Farrington; Trustees, three years, A. S. 
Cross, Charles M. Fletcher, H. T. Noyes; Law Commit- 
tee, John F. Lambden, Frederick L. Seacord; Regatta 
Committee, Charles A. Tower, Howard L. Smith, C. A. 
Becker, A. P. Weston, William E. Moore. 


Canocing. 
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Down the Danube in a Canadian 
Canoe.—Il. 


(From Macmilian's Magazine.) 


At Gutenstein, where we camped in a hay field, the 
mowers woke us at dawn, peering into the mouth of the 
tent, But they made no objections and merely said, “Gruss 
Gott’ and Gute Reise’; and for an hour afterward I 
heard their scythes musically in my dreams as they cut 
a pathway for us to the river. 

At Obermarchsthal we left the mountains behind us, 
and with them, too, the memory of a pathetic figure. As 
we landed to go up to the little inn for eggs, an old man, 
leaning on a stick, hobbled down to meet us. His white 


hair escaped in disorder from beneath a peaked blue hat,- 


and he.wore’a suit of a curious checked pattern that 
seemed wholly out of keeping with the dress of the coun- 
try. At first, when he spoke, I could not understand him, 
and asked him in German -to repeat his remarks. 
“He’s talking English,” said my companion. 
you hear?” And English it was. He invited us up to 
the.inn and told us his story over a mug of beer. 
“This is my native village. 
here, and sixty years ago I ran away from Germany to 
escape military service. I went to the United States and 
settled finally in Alabama. I had a shop in Mobile, down 
South in! a nigger town, and as soon as I was ready I 
wrote to the girl I left here to come out to me. She came 
and we were married. I’ve had two wives since out 
there. Now they’re all buried in a little churchyard out- 
side Mobile. And this is the first time [ve been back in 


sixty years,” he went on after a gulp of beer. “The vil- 
lage ain’t changed one single bit. I feel as though I’d 
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been sleepin’ and sorter dreamin’ all the while. 
The shop’s sold and I’m takin’ a last look round at the ole 


place. There’s only one or two that remembers me, but I © 


was born and raised heré, and this is where I had my 
first love, and the place is full of memories, just chock 
full. No, I ain’t a-goin’ to live here. I’m goin’ back 
to the States nex’ month, so as I can die there and lie 
beside the others in the cemetery at Mobile.” 

The country became flatter and the mountains were 
soon a blue line on the horizon behind us, At Opfingen 
we crossed our last weir, and among the-clouds in front of 
us saw the spire of Ulm cathedral, the. tallest in the 
world. A fierce current swept us past banks fringed with 
myrtle bushes, poppies, and yellow flags. Poplars rose 
in lines over the country, bending their heads in the wind, 
and we camped at 8 o’clock in a wood about a mile above 
the town. While dinner was cooking a dog riished bark- 
ing up to us, followed by three men with guns. They 
were evidently German Jager. Two of them were dressed 
like pattern plates out of a tailor’s guide to sportsmen—in 
spotless gaiters, pointed hats with feathers (like stage 


Tyrolese), guns with the latest slings, and silver whistles 
slung on colored cord round their necks, They examined 


the canoe first, and then came up and examined us. One 
of them, who was probably the proprietor of the land, a 
surly gruff fellow, had evidently made up his mind that 
we were poachers. And I must admit that at first sight 
there was ground for suspicion, for no poacher could 
Possibly have found fault with. our appearance. 


“Can't - 


I was born and raised” 


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“What are you doing here?” he asked. P 

“Preparing to canip for the night,” we told him, 

“When are you going on?” ; 

“We intend to go into Ulm in the morning.” "f 

“Where do you come from; are you Englishmen?” 

“Ves; we come from London.” 

“Ach was!” (they all say Ach was when they want to 
be witheringly scornful). ‘In that egg shell?” - 

“Certainly.” 

“And where are you going to?” 

“Odessa.” 

They exchanged glances. “Evidently madmen, and not 
poachers,” said the face of the man with the biggest silver 
whistle plainer than any words could have spoken it. Do 
you know these are private preserves?” was the next 
question. : 

“No.” My friend, a keen sportsman, sheltered him- 
self scowling behind his alleged ignorance of German 
(somehow he always knew our conversation afterward to 
a word): but the penny whistle and immaculate costume 
of the hunters in a scrubby wood where not even a rabbit 
lived, excited him to explosions of laughter which he 
concealed by frequent journeys to the tent. 

“What's in that tent?” 

“Beds,” The chasseurs and the keeper went to ex- 
amine, while the dog sniffed about everywhere. Our beds 
were not then untied, and the sportsman untied them; 
but they found only blankets and cork mattresses. 

“You have no guns, or dogs, or fishing rods?’ We 
shook our heads sulkily. “And you are only traveling 
peacefully for pleasure?” 

‘We are trying to,’ we said meekly. : 

“Then you may sleep here if you go on again to-mor- 
row; but don’t go into the woods after game.” Then the 
men moved off. Doubtless they were right to ask ques- 
tions, yet we were so obviously travelers. “Still, our 
weather-worn appearance and tunshayed faces probably 
made us look more than a little doubtful,” quoth my 
friend, who himself wore a slouch hat that did not add to 
the candor of his expression. 

In the middle of dinner the men suddenly returned 
from another angle of the wood and examined everything 
afresh. We offered them some tea in a tin cup, which 


“they declined; and at last after watching us at our meal 


in silence for ten minutes they moved off, evidently still 
suspicious, Thereafter we always knew them as ‘the 
chasseurs. They were not the only pests, however. Mos- 
quitoes appeared later—our first—and that night we slept 
behind the mosquito netting we had so carefully fitted to 
the mouth of the tent when we first erected it weeks 
before in the garden of a London square. During the 
night some one prowled about the tent. We heard twigs 
snapping and the footsteps among the bushes; but neither 
of us troubled ourselves to get up. If they took the 
canoe, they'd be drowned; and our other only valuables 
(a celluloid collar apiece, a clean suit for the big towns, 
and a map), were safely inside the tent. 

In the morning we shaved and washed carefully, and 
put on our full dress for the benefit of Ulm. We intended 
to paddle down quietly and stop at the Rowing Club 
wharf of which we had read; according to the map it was 
a mile, and the current easy and pleasant. We wished 
our entrance to be sober and in good taste. 

The best-laid plans, however, will sometimes go amiss 
when you’re canoeing on the Danube. We were half-way 
when we heard a roar like a train rushing oyer a hollow 
bridge. It grew louder every minute. In front of us the 
water danced and leaped, and before we knew what had 
happened, we were plunging about among foaming waves 


and flying past the banks at something more than ten . 


miles an hour. 


“Tt’s the Iller,’ cried my friend as the paddle was 
nearly wrested from his grasp. “It’s marked on the 
map just about here.” 

“It was the Iller. It had come in at an acute angle after 
rinning almost parallel with us for a little distance. It 
tumbled in at headlong speed, with an icy, turbulent flood 
of muddy water, and it gave the sedate Danube an im- 
petus that it did not lose for another hundred miles below 
Ulm. For a space the two rivers declined to mingle. The 
noisy, dirty Iller, fresh from the Alps, kept to the right 
bank, going twice as fast as its more dignifed companion 
on the left. A distinct line (as though drawn by a 
rope) divided them, in color, speed. and hHeight—the 
Tller remaining for a long time at least half an inch above 
the level of the Danube. At length they mingled more 
freely and swept us down upon Ulm ina torrent of rough, 
facing water, Our leisurely, dignified:entrance into Ulm 
was, like thersuspicions of the chasseurs, a structure built 
on insufficient knowledge, a mere dream, Ulm lies on a 
curve of the river. Big bridges with nasty thick p‘llars 
(and whirlpools. therefore, behind them) stand at both 
entrance and exit. How we raced under the first bridge I 
shall never forget. We were half-way through the town. 
with the wet spray still on our cheeks, before the sound 
of the gurgling eddies below the bridge had ceased behind 
us. Where, oh, where was the friendly wharf of that 
Danube Rowing Club? The second bridgé rose before 
us. There were crested waves under its arches. Already 
Ulm was almost a thing of the past; yet we had hoped 
to spend at least a week exploring its beauties. 

“There it is,” cried my friend in the bows, “on the left 
bank! That old board—see it? That’s the wharf.” 

We managed to turn in mid current and point the cance 
up stream. Then, by paddling as hard as we could, we 
dropped down past the wharf at.a pace that just enabled 
us to grasp the rings in the boards and come to a stand- 
still. You'll never forget Ulm if you arrive there, as we 
d°d, in a canoe, when-the Iller is in flood. . 

We spent a week in the quaint old town of Ulm, but 
our adventures there have properly no part in our journey 
down the river. Only, in passing, I must mention the 
courtesy of the Danube Rowing Club. Fritz Miller (who 
rowed at Henley in 1900 for the Diamond Sculls) is the 
leading spirit in a list of members who showed us all 
possible kindness, They housed and mended our canoe, 
varnished it afresh, and gave us better maps. The secret 
charms of picturesque Ulm unknown to the tourist wete 
shown to us; and in the evenings we used to meet for 
music and stipper in a quaint little club room that hanes 
half of its Roman masonry over the rushing river. i 

Here the navigation of the Danube (such as it is) is 
said to begin. The fierce current allows no boats or 
steamers, but immense barges (called Ulmer Schachtel) 
laden with merchandise, are floated down the current to 


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the Bavarian towts below. On arrival they are sold for 
jumbet, the retturn jourtiey being irtipossible, ; 

The Rowing Club takes out eights and fotrrs. Rowing 
with all their might they move two miles an hour against 
the current; and it may well be imagined that, with this 
training, they are well nigh the first rowing club in 
Germany. r ‘ ‘ 

There was a great deal of rain while we were in Ulm 
and we started again on a rapidly rising river, full of 
floating rubbish, and rushing at a pace that made it a 
pleasure merely to stand and watch it from the bank. The 
Bavarian bank (Ulm is on the frontier line of Bavaria 
and Wiirtemberg) displayed black sign boards with the 
kilometers marked in white. We timed our speed by one 
of Benson’s chronometers and found it to be ever twelve 
miles an hour. It was like traveling over a smooth road 
behind fast horses. My notebook gives an average day, 
the day. for instance, we left Ulm: | 

June 19—The members of the Rowing Club came down 
in force to see us off at 11 o’clock. Flags were flying in 
our honor and we heard the men shouting gluck- 
liche Reise as we shot the middle arch of the 
bridge on the wave of a rather nasty rapid. The 
bridge was lined with people, but we only faintly heard 
their cries for the thitnder of the waves. This exceed- 
ingly rapid water makes awkward currents as it swirls 
round the pillars of the big bridges. Behind the arches 
are always whirlpools, which twist you sideways and 
toss you from them with ridiculous ease. A wrong turn 
of the steering paddle and the canoe would be sucked 
in instead of thrown out, and then——! At a little dis- 
tance below the bridge the eddies of the whirlpool-from 
adjacent pillars meet in a series of crested waves. The 
only safe channel lies exactly in the middle. The canoe 
rises, slaps down again, all its length a-quiver; the first 
wave breaks under the bows and some of the water comes 
in, but before enough is shipped to be, dangerous the 
frail craft rises again with a leap to the next wave. Then 
the race begins, The least wrong twist to left or right 
and the waves break sideways into the canoe and down 
she goes. It takes so little water to sink a laden canoe. 

To-day, for the first time, we heard the famous song 
of the Danube=famous at least to ts who had read of 
it in so many different accounts. It is a hissing, seething 
sound which rises everywhere from the river. You think 
steam must be escaping somewhere, or soda water fizzing 
out from an immense syphon among the woods on the 
banks. It is said to be the friction on the pebbles along 
the bed of the river, caused by the terrific speed of so 
great a body of water. Under the canoe it made a pecu- 
liar buzzing sound, accompanied by a distinct vibration of 
the thin basswood on which we knelt, 

We swept through Bayaria much faster than we wished, 
but it was impossible to go slowly. The river communi- 
cated something’ ef its hurry to ourselves, and in my mind 
the journey now presents itself something in the form 
of a series of brilliant cineomatographs. Delightful were 
our lunches at the quaint inns of_remote yvillages—black 
bread, satisage, and such beer!—Lauingen, a town of the 
sixteenth centtiry, where the spokesman of the crowd 
said, ““I suppose you're both single’; Donattw6rth, in a 
paradise of wild flowers, where the Lech tears in on the 
right wth leaping waves; Neuberg, with a dangerous 
stone bridge and the worst rapids we had yet encountered, 
Then a long stretch where the swamps ceased and the 
woods began to change. Instead of endless willows we 
had pine, oak, sycamore, birch and-poplar, The river 
was a mile wide with outlets into lagoons, like Norfolk 
Broads, that ran parallel with us for mes and were 
probably empty mud flats at low water. Fishing nets 
were hanging up to dry along the shore, and hay lay 
sunning itself on the narrow strips of the banks. We 
passed Ingolstadt, a military post, and then the river 
dipped down before us into blue hills and we came to 
Vohburg—destroyed by the Swiss in 1641, and now, ap- 
parently, nothing but a collection of quaint chimneys and 
storks’ nests—and, soon after it, Eining, near Abusina, a 
Roman frontier station established fifteen years before our 
era. Trajan’s wall crossed the river near here and ex- 
tended north as far as Wiesbaden. ; 

Then the river narrowed between precipitous lime- 
stone cliffs and we entered the gorge of Kehlheim. At 
its very mouth, between impregnable rocks, lay the 
monastery of Weltenburg, the oldest in Bavaria. The 
river sweeping rotind a bend into the rocky jaws made 
landing difficult; but we accomplished it, and entered 
the old courtyard through an iron gate with graceful stone 
pillars. There were everywhere signs of neglect and 
decay. The monks’ quarters formed one side of the 
square and the church another; a third side was a wall of 
rock; the fourth was the river. It was secluded, peace- 
ful beyond description, absolutely out of the world, The 
air was cool, the shadows deep. Fruit trees grew in the 
court yard, and monks (there were only thirteen in all) 
in black gowns were piling up wood for the winter. “A 
priest was intoning yespers <n the church, which boasted a 
beautiful organ. marble altars and elaborate catving of 
the ustial gilded sort. The sunshine filled the painted 
air, Outside over the neglected walls crept vines, and at 
the far end of the courtyard a wild rose tree, covered 
with sweet-smelling blossoms, grew at the foot of crum- 
bling stone steps that led under shady trees to a chapel 
perched on the cliffs. _We toiled up in the heat and 
were rewarded by a glorious view; from above the monas- 
tery was. shut in like a nest betewen river and cliffs. 

Later in the day we were driven by a violent thunder- 
storm t+ ‘the first landing place we could find, It was 
a few miles bélow Weltenburg in the very heart of the 
gorge. With surprising good fortune we found a cave 
leading deep into the mountain. and in less than ten min- 


. tes we were dry and snug before a fire burning cheer- 


fully for dinner. It was a strange camp—the storm howl- 

ing outside and the firelight dancing down behind us into 

fe interior of the cave, which was unnecessarily full of 
ats. 

At Ratisbon, the Castra Regina of the Romans, we were 
solemnly warned not to attempt to pass under the bridge 
“The whirlpools are savage.” they told us. “Of the 
seven arches of this six-hundred-yeat-old bridge, all but 
one are forbidden by the police.’ Leaving the canoe half 
a mile above. we landed and walked down the shore to 
examine, “Boats have gone through,” said a pompous 
man on the bridge as he pointed out the worst places to 
us, “but even if they got under the arch they have always 
been, sucked in there!” He pointed to a white seething 
circle of water. “You'll never get through that in your 


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cockle shell, and you'll be arrested eveii if you do.” 

“Arrested—how?” we asked. By way of answer he 

raised his eyebrows and held up a fat hand in eloquent 
warning. However, we carefully selected our channel 
from the bridge, and twenty minutes later were coming 
down stream toward the arches as catitiously as our speed 
would permit. People ran along the shore waving their 
hats and shouting to us to stop. The bridge in front was 
black! with the crowd waiting to see the verruckte Eng- 
lander upset. We reached the arch and recognized our 
channel. The water dropped suddenly in front of us and 
the canoe dipped her nose with it. We were off. The 
bank and the shouting people Hew past us in a black 
streak. I was just able to recognize one man, OUT 
pompous friend, standing below the bridge shading his 
eyes with his hand, evidently determined to get the best 
view possible. The roar of voices dwindled behind us 
into a murmur and a minute later we were out of sight; 
Ratisbon, bridge, whirlpools and townsfolk were things of 
the past. We were ng arrested, but perhaps the police 
are still trying to catch us. 
EN this Gare a dull spell as we crossed the great 
wheat plain of Bavaria, winding for two days with many 
curves and little current. Every morning here the workers 
“in the fields woke us early, and praised the boat, and 
asked us the usual questions, and told us the usual false- 
hoods about the depth of the river, the distances of the 
towns, the floods of past years, and all the rest of it, 
We made no halt at Straubing (Servio Durum of the 
Romans), or at Dessau, where the Isar adds its quota 
of mountain-gathered waters. . 

Another dlay was very dismal—cold showers and.storms 
of wind following one upon another, We crouched under 
bridges, trees and anything else that gave cover, paddling 
fast between the squalls to keep ourselves warm. The 
plain of Straubing affords little shelter. Toward even- 
ing, however, the river made a welcome turn toward the 
mountains, and we camped on a high bank among clumps 
of willows with thick woods behind them. New potatoes, 
dried prunes, and onions in the stew pot were points of 
light in a gusty and otherwise dismal meal. We pegged 
the tent inside and out. All night the wind tore at it, 
howling; but a gipsy tent never comes down. The wind 
sweeps over it, and finding an ever-lessening angle of re- 
sistance, only drives it more firmly into the ground. 

Gradually, now, we were passing out of the lonely por- 
tioas of the upper river. The country was becoming 
more populated; larger towns were near; railway bridges 
spanned the river; steamers and tugs raced down, and 
toiled up it, } 

A few miles above Passau we camped on an island, and 
were visited by an inquisitive peasant, ‘who saw our 
fire and came over from the mainland in a punt, “Are we 
trespassing?” I asked. “No; the island’s usually under 
water.” This was all he ever said in our hearing, though 
he stayed with us, it seemed, for hours. He was a surly 
looking fellow in the roughest clothes, with trousers 
iurned up to his knees, and ‘bare feet. His curiosity was 
immense; with arms crossed and legs wide apart, he stood 
and stared in silence with expressionlessfeatures, We 
had some villainous Black Forest cigars, bearing on the 
label the words Ja noblesse, which we sometimes used to 
get rid of obnoxious people. We gave him two. Know- 
ing nothing about the Greeks and those bearing gifts he 
nodded his thanks—and smoked both to the very end! 
Yet he never stirred, his eyes never left us. It was im- 
possible to prepare our frugal dinner under this merciless 
scrutiny. At length I preyailed upon him to go over for 
some eggs and bring them to us in the morning for break- 
fast. He left without’a word in his punt, and a sense of 
oppression seemed to go with him. But, just as dinner 
was over and we were settling round the fire to our 
tobacco, he suddenly reappeared. He had brought the 
eggs in his hat, and he was dressed this time in his Sun- 
day clothes! For an hour he stood beside the fire, answer- 
ing no questions, volunteering no remarks, till at length 
my friend went up, shook hands, wished him good night 
and straightaway disappeared into the tent. I did like- 
wise, and then the fellow took the hint and went. 

This happened at a place called Pleinling. Another 
thing also happened there. On the smaller of the arms 
which our island divided the river was a weir. With 
empty canoe, and dressed in shirt and trousers, we prac- 
ticed shooting this weir next morning. The day was 
hot, and our other things were meanwhile drying on the 
bank. The silent peasant came over to watch the pro- 
ceedings, and with him came a picturesque old fellow, 
most talkative and entertaining, with white hair and a 
face like Liszt’s. When he saw us preparing to shoot 
the fall he was much excited. ‘Have you wives and 
children?” he asked shaking his head warningly. I went 
over first while my friend took the camera, and got his 
picture a second before the canoe plunged into the foam 
and upset, The old fellow, whose name was Jacob Meyer, 
was not in the least put ont. He leaned on his scythe 
and watched me struggling in the water with the over- 
turned canoe without making any effort to help. ~ After- 
ward, when we gave him a noblesse, he took a lean, dirty 
little purse out of his pocket, and said, “How much am I 
to pay for it?’ And when we promised to send him the 
photographs he asked the same question again. 

Some hours later we reached Passau, a few miles from 
the Austrian frontier, and this last glimpse of Bavaria, 
after traversing its entire breadth, was the sweetest of all. 
But only from the river itself can you see the quaint old 
houses leaning over at all imaginable angles; the towers 
and crooked wooden balconies; gardens hanging from 
the second stories; walls with ancient paintings dimmed. 
by wind and weather; and decayed archways showing 
vistas of tumbling roofs, broken chimneys, and peeps of 
vivid blue sky at the far ends. The picture it made in 
my mind as we paddled through it in the late afternoon 
is uncommonly picturesque—a jumble of gables, towers, 
bridges and the swift muddy Danube rushing past it all in 
such tremendous hurry, : 

Half a mile below, the Inn poured in from the Tyrolese 
Alps and carried us into the finest gorge we had so far 
‘seen. ‘The newcomer brought cold air with it, and we 
swept into the gloomy ravine between high mountains 
with something like a genuine shudder. More and more 
swiftly ran the river as it compressed itself with an angry 
toar into a few hundted yards’ width and swirled into the 
hills raging at the indignity thus heaped upon it. It 
became very difficult now to choose camping places, as the 
stream fills the entire gorge, leaving only narrow ledges 


FOREST AND STREAM? 


at the foot of the heights where a tent can stand. Upon 
one of these ledges, broader than the rest, we managed at 
length to land. A projecting point of rock sent the water 
flying out at a tangent into midstream and formed a 
strong backwater below it. Into this we contrived to 
twist the canoe’s nose and on a little promontory, covered 
with yellow ragwort, we pitched our tent. It commanded 
a view for two miles up the ravine with the sinking sun 
at the far end. A boy was tending half a dozen cows 
among the scanty bushes; a queer little imp with wide- 
open blue eyes, who watched us land and prepare our 
camp with no signs of fear or surprise. We gave him 
cherries and chocolate, and he stuffed his mouth with 
one and his pockets with the other; then he came and 
stood over our fire and warmed himself without invitation, 
as if it had been made for his special benefit. A, quaint 
little figure he cut with his pointed, feathered -hat and 
big eyes. He told us that his name was Josef, that he 
lived two miles further on, went to bed every night at 9 
o'clock and got up every morning at 4. Then he took 
off his hat, said good night, and vanished into the bushes 
after his cows. : 

The sun set in a blaze of golden light that filled the 
whole gorge with fire; but when the glory faded, the 
strange grandeur of the place began to make itself felt. 
The ravine was filled with strange noises, the wooded 
heights looked forbidding, and the great river rolled in a 
sullen black flood into the night. 

Next morning we passed a big rock in midstream with 
a shrine perched on its summit; and just beyond it we 
entered Austria and visited the customs at Engelhartzell, 
a village on the right bank with an old Cistercian monas- 
tery behind it. There was no duty to pay, and we raced 
on past the mountain village of Obermihl, and out of 
the gorge into a fertile and undulating country basking in 
the fierce sunshine. 

Neuhaus, with a fine castle on a wooded height, and 
Aschach, with a yiew of the Styrian Alps, flashed by. The 
river from here to Linz is full of history, and its muddy 
waters have more than once borne crimson foam. There 
were bloody fights here during the revolt of the peasantry 
of Upper Austria. Aschach, in 1626, was the insurgents’ 
headquarters where (as also at Neuhaus) they barricaded 
the Danube with immense chains to prevent the Bavarians 
from assisting Count Herberstein, the Austrian governor, 
who was shut up in Linz. When in flood the Danube 
escapes from this narrow prison with untold violence. 
Everywhere the villages bear witness of its path, though 
most of them lie far away from the banks. High up upoa 
the walls lines show the high-water marks of previous 
years with the dates. “A single night will often send us 
into the upper stories,” said a woman who sold us milk 
and eggs; “but the water falls as quickly as it rises, and 
then we come down again.” She took it as a matter of 
course. 

The shores became lonely again and our camps were 
rarely disturbed. One morning, howeyer, about 6 o’clock 
we heard some one rummaging among our pans. Then 
something stumbled heavily against the tent, and there 
was a sound of many feet and an old familiar smell. We 
rushed out, to find ourselves in the center of a herd of 
about fifty cows. One had its nose in the provision 
basket; another was drinking the milk and standing in 
the pail of water; a third was scratching its head against 
the iron prop of the kettle: Their curiosity was in- 
satiable; every time we drove them off they returned. 
While my friend was frying the bacon and I was per- 
forming ablutions lower down on the river bank, a 
squadron swept down upon us unexpectedly by a clever 
flank movement, and one of them whipped up my paja- 
mas near the tent and ran down the shore with them on 
her horns, My friend dared not leave the bacon—and I 
was in nudis! It was exciting for the next few minutes. 

In blazing heat that day we came to Linz, the capital 
of Upper Austria. Below it the Traun and the Enns 
flowed in, and the Danube became a magnificent river 
rolling through broad banks alternately wooded and cov- 


ered with crops and orchards; and now, too, we begin~ 


again to see vineyards, of which Bavaria had seemed 
bare, 
[to BE CONTINUED. | 


Aifle Bange and Gallery. 
———_— 
Cincinnati Rifle Association, 


Cincinnati, O,—The following scores were made in regular 
competition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at 
Four-Mile House, Reading Road, Feb. 2. Weather, Cold and 
clear; thermometer, 18 degrees} wind, fishtail, 4 te 8 o’clock. Con- 
ditions, 200yds., off-hand, at the Standard target: 


Honor. Medal, 
Pave: so eeeee ay Melgadeatee 89 87 84 84 81 3010 7-27 WW 6—26 
SDEths Hover nies resoreee OL 86 82 82 87 8 7 7-22 4 6 8—18 
Gindelem@ne pecou es pra 80 87 81 .. .. § 8 §—24 810 7—25 
Strickmeier ...,.......+. 85 84 81 80 80 8 8 & 24 8 926 
Odell vescressanenrnccces Of 82 80 70 68 7 8& 10—25 7 5 921 
Tuk Sie open tanteaeeee 84 80°78 77 69 9 5 9-238 10 7 825 
Drones esis Seyret O48. scents 6 & 6 20 ee eae 
GUIS) ee -elaadadeerseaee nad Opies pase &8 8 925 5 9 721 
Roberts: -..0especrerer7s 82 99 78 76-76 10 5 9-24 9 5 5—19 
Nestler ...csssseasses-+- 80 80 78 77 76 9 § 825 10 6 10—26 
FOROS title wereeleseme ei 79 78 76 74 _. 10 7 G&—28 9 8 8—25 
Hoffman syserererere ++» 79 76 71 69 67 9 7 4-20 6 4 8-18 
Uckotter .....-. DASE BOOE, 74 69 69 66 66 6 4 10—20 9 9 6—24 
Weinheimer ..........-. 73 72 GT 67 67 6 5 6—17 8 6 4-18 
ELoter’ isjajcecverercoeeee 70 63 61 60 56 5 6 9-20 9 7 G22 


Rifle at Shell Mound, 


San Francisco, Jan. 27.—Yesterday was a fair shooting day at 
Shell Mound range, and a large attendance was present. J. E. 
Gorman did some very fine work with the pistol, The ‘writer 
greatly admires the marksmanship of Mr. Gorman, and doubts 
whether he has a superior in the world with revolver and pistol. 

Dr. Dudley Smith, a crack shot of the Smith & Wesson Pistol 
Club, of Springfield, Mass., attended the range as the guest of the 
Golden Gate Club, of which he will become a member should he 
locate in San Francisco. He made some excellent scores on the 
pistol range. 

Scores of the day: : . : 

Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club handicap rifle shoot: M, F. 
Blasse 218, 211, 205; A. B. Dorrell 210; W, G. Hoffmann 224, 220. 

Glindemann trophy: M. FP. Blasse 204, J. Kullmann 208, W. G. 
Hoffmann 221, A. B. Dorrell 226, F. E. Mason 227, 

Gold medal rifle shoot; F. E. Mason 227, 229. 

Silver medal rifle shoot: C. M. Henderson 219, 212, 220, 214; 
F. H. Bushnell 212, 201; A. C. Thode 177, 194, 186, 199, 208: A, B. 
Dorrell 227, “ 

Handicap. pistol shoot: G. W. Hoadley 88, 88, 87; J. Kullmann 
82, 83, 73, 68; W. F. Blasse 80, 85, 80, 85; T. S. Washburn 89, 89, 
90, 91, 86; J. E. Gorman 97, 96, 95, 95, 95, 91. 


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tHe. 8 tod. 


Goetze 1167. - . 
Germania Schuetzen Club monthly bullseye shoot: D. Salfield 


11, Herman Huber 269, John Beuttler 390, A, 
Sweiger §45, D. B. Faktor 660, 
Brandt 938, A. Jungblut 966, 

German Schuetzen Clab 


Gehret 485, Hi. 


yearly competition for trophies; best 
3-shot scores: A. Gehret 72, D. B. Faktor 71, F. E, Mason 70,-A. 
Pape 72, F. P. Schuster 70, B. H. Goetze 69,..N. Ahrens 68, Otto 
Bremer 69, Louis Bendel 67, Herman Huber 65. : = 
Competition shoot for Siebe-Faktor trophies; best-10-shot scores: 
A. Gehret 230, F. BE. Mason 221, D. Salfield 224, Otto’ Bremer 
220, A, Pape 217, Ronen. 


Grapshooting. 


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If you want your shoot to be announced here send a - 


notice like the following: 


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| Fixtures, 


Feb. 11-12.—Wolcott, N. Y.—Winter target totitmament of the 
Catchpole Gun Club. E. A. Wadsworth, Sec’y. 2 

Feb, 12.—Ossining, N. Y,—Lincoln’s Day clay-bird shoot of the 
Dpeaane Gun Club. Shooting begins at 11 A, M: GC. G Bland- 
ord, Cap 

Treb, 12,—Paterson, N. J.—Contest for E, 
of target championship of New Jersey, between Capt. A. W. 
Money, holder, and Wm. H. Weller. of Newark. 

Feb. 12.—Paterson, N. J.—All-day tournament of the Jackson 
Park Gun Club. . 

Feb. 18-20.—St. Edward; Neb.—St. Edward Gun Club’s annual 
tournament. © é 

cee 22,—Louisville, Ky.—Jefferson County Gun Club’s tourna- 
ment, 

Feb. 22,—Akron, O—Team shoot of Akron Gun Club, 

Feb, 22.—Albany, N. Y.—West End Gun Club’s bluerock tourna- 
ment. H, H. Valentine, Sec’y, 

March 31-April 5.—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds. Hd Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 

April 8-11,.—Olathe, Kan.—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament. 

April 15-17—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament.” F, B. Cunningham, Sec’y, 

April 22-25.—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot H. 5S. Mc- 
Donald, Sec’y, ; 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L, I—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. ‘ 
_May 13-14—Enid, Oklahoma Territory—Oklahoma ‘Territorial 
Sportsmen’s Association totrnament. 

May 13-16—Oil City, Pa—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F. S. Bates, -Cor, Sec’y. 

May 14-16.— Charleston, 5S. C.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W. G, Jeffords, Jr., Sec’y. 

May 20-22.—Ottumwa, Ja—Ilowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 

May 20-22.—Elwood, Ind—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind, 

May 20-22.—W heeling, W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association; added money and 
Prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. 

May, 21-23.—Springfield, S. D.—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s 
Association tournament, : 

May 30,—Schenectady, N. Y.—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club, . Li Aiken, Sec*y- ‘ 

May 30-31—Union City, Ind—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club. O. E, Fouts, Sec’y, 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. 

June 4-6.—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club. 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N, ¥—Forty-iourth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 


tourna- 


ame, 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League's annual 
tournament. : 

June 17-20.—Warm Springs, Ga—Annual Interstate tournament, 

June 18-19.—Bellefontaine, O.—Silver Lake Gun Club's annual 
tournament. Geo. E, Maison, Sec’y. : 

June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. €.—The Interstate Association's tourna- 


‘ment, under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club. Jas. I, John- 


son, Sec’y, 

July 16-18.—Titusyille, Pa—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T, L. 
Andrews, Sec’y. i 

Aug. 13-14.—Brunswick, Me.—The Interstate Association’s- tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L, C. 
Whitmore, Sec’y. . . 

Newark, N, J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
day afternoon. ; 

Chicago, [l.—Garfield Gun Club’s liye-bird trophy shoots,. first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second ayenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Feb. 5.—Interstate Park, L. I—S. M. Van Allen’s cash prize 
shoot at 20 birds, $10 entrance; handicaps 28 to 33yds; high guns; 
75 added. : ; ; 

j Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
Fa ID, Wik Trams direct to grounds. Completely appomted 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Café and hotel accommodations, thy : 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in. these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed, Ties on all events ore cons dered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Brvud- 


way, New York. 


Mr, John 5. Wright announces an all-day target shoot, to be 
given by the Brooklyn Gun Club on Feb, 12, at Enfield street, 
near Liberty avenue, Brooklyn. Competition commences at 10:30 
o'clock, There are eight programme events, of which three are 
prize shoots, handicap allowance in the form of misses as breaks. 
The events are at 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 targets; entrances varying 
from 60 cents to $1. There is a total of 145, with a total entrance 
of $5.60. Moneys divided 50, 80 and 20. No shooter may win more 
than one prize. Targets, at 2 cents, are included in all purses. 
Lunch free. Any one may shoot for targets only. : 


Mr, Elmer E. Shaner, manager of the Interstate Association, ‘in- 
forms us as follows: “The work in connection with the office of 
manager of the Interstate Association has grown to such an extent. 
that it! will occupy all of my time during the year 1902; consequently I 
will not be in a position to accept the management of tournaments 
other than those given under the auspices of the Interstate Asso- 
ciation,” , 

A reckless disregard of the loading imstruections which pertain 
to the use of nitro powders is not an uncommon occurrence, but 
the common errors sink into insignificance when compared to 
the coguetting with eternity as set forth in the communication 
of the E. C. & Schultze Gunpowder Co,, elsewhere in our trap 
columns. —~ = : 


O. Bremer 714, J, Gefken 741, FB, 


C. cup, emblematic — 


| 


Fes, 8, 1902.] 


At the shoot of the Brooklyn Gun Club, Jan. 30, in the main 
event at 100 targets, there was a prize for the highest score, all 
without handicaps. There were fourteen contestants, all mighty 
men with the scatter gun, and of these Capt. A. W, Moncey broke 
95 and won, There was a strong and cold wind, which affected the 
targets and the hands of the shooters, so that the scores as a 

whole were remarkably good. Capt. Money has demonstrated 


that with the shotgun at targets or at live birds, or both, he is in 
the first flight. - 


The Handicap Com:aittee for the Grand American Handicap at 
live birds has a membership as follows: Chairman, Mr. John M, 
Lilley, of Indianapolis, Ind.; Mr. C. W. Budd, of Des Moines, Ia; 
Mr. Chris Gottlieb, of Kansas City, Mo,; Mr. Lewis Erhardt, 
of Atchison i 
Mr. Elmer E. Shaner will act as secretary to the committee. All 
are eminent and thoroughly convérsant im every branch of the 
spert, and all are deservedly high in the esteem of their fellow- 


men, 
¥, 


Mr. John D. Bethel, who has for many years been eminent in 
canvas atid leather goods, manufactured for sportsmen’s use, has 
accepted a position with the Marlin Fire Arms Co. For the pres- 
ent his headquarters will be in New Haven, Conn., where he will 
be pleased to see his many friends. He will, at a later time, look 
after the interests of Marlin repeating rifles and shotguns in 
Southern territory. His extensive acquaintance and popularity 
with the trade insure his success. 


® 


The two days’ shoot to be held at the Duck Farm Hotel, Allen- 
town, Pa., Feb, 12 and 13, is open to the world. The first day is 
at target competition; the second, live birds. Miss Annie Oakley 
will be one of the participants in the competition, or pro- 
grammes address Mr, Alfred Griesemer, Allentown, Pa, 


* 


On Saturday of Jast week, at Gorgas Station, Pa., in 4 twelve- 
man team match, 25 targets per man, unknown angles, the High- 
Jand Gun Club defeated the Clearview Gun Club by a score of 
2%) to 206. The latter club had only six men present, so that, in 
order to get action, each one shot two scores, 


* 


Elsewhere in our trap columns from Mr. Paul R, Litzke is a 
communication which informs the public of the conditions govern- 
ing the live-bird championship of Arkansas, the trophy of which 
was presented by the Peters Cartridge Company, which Mr. Litzke 

_ represents, ® 


On Saturday of this week, the 100 target event for the cham- 
ienship of the Ossining, N, Y., Gun Club will take place. Mr. 
F Brandreth has donated a cup for a trophy to the winner, and 
Mr. H. W. Bissing has donated a trophy fer second prize, 


® 


In a contest for a 750lb, hog, each contestant shooting at 5 live 
birds, at Freehold, N. ip Jan, 29, Messrs. E. I. Vandeveer and 
R. A. Ellis, of Freehold, and Al, Iyins, of Red Bank, tied on 
straight scores, sald the hog and divided the money- 


x 


The New England Kennel Club members are active betimes in 
contests at flying targets on the club’s grounds, at Braintree, Mass., 
and several of them who are eminent in Kennel matters display 
quite vhe, skill with the shotgun, 


® 


New Yorkers are in a state of suspense in respect to the fate of 
pigeon shooting, but this state will in all probability be of short 
duration, as the matter is expected to be definitely determined in 
the near future. ® i 


The press dispatches credit Mr, R. O. Heikes with a score of 99 
out of 100 targets, in which was a run of 89 straight, shooting 
ent the 19yd. mark, at the tournament held at Waco, Tex., last 
week, 

Bernarp WATERS. 


A Matter of Careless Loading. 


New York, Feb. 1.—Editor Forest and Siream; In asking you to — 


find room for the following in your next issue we do not believe 
that we are making a mistake, the subject matter being of interest 
to those who shoot at the traps or in the field, more especially to 
those who prefer to load their own shells. : 

On Jan. 20 last, less than two weeks ago, we were in receipt of 
information to the effect that two guns (a Winchester “pump” and 
a high grade L. C, Smith) had been blown up by a party who. was 
using “only 3dts, of ‘New Schultze.’ ”’. We were further informed 
that we would be furnished with some of the shells containing the 
above load, and also with the loose powder which remained in the 
ilb. can out of whieh the other shells had been filled, Thus we 
would be in a position to investigate and possibly ascertain the 
cause of the trouble. Within three days we were personally handed 
about a score of the shells, together with a llb. can of New 
Schultze, in which was about enough powder to load a dozen shells. 
It transpired that the party who loaded the shells had only loaded 
about seventy, had succeeded in bursting and wrecking two guns 
(fortunately with no setioug injury to himself), and yet had used 
mierely some half dozen shells, the guns being wrecked with the last 
two shells he fired that afternoon. 

The following extracts from the records in our ‘Daily Shooting 
Book,” page 446, will best set forth our findings: 

“Shooting trial made Jan. 27, 1902, by Messrs, Hawkins and 
Borland, to test cartridges which were reported to have burst 
Winchester and Smith guns belonging to V. L, & D.’s customer. 

“Two and three-quarter-inch Trap cartridges with heavy turn- 
over; reloaded shells with primers deformed by recapping tool,” 

The report then goes on to give figures showing six tests for 
pressures, four of which were only normal, about three tons, while 
two gave the terrific pressures of “probably eight or nine tons,” 
pressures which, as the report says, “would burst any gun.” 

The tests were stopped, and an examination of the remaining 
shells was instituted with a view to finding out if possible what the 
shells contained, which caused them to give occasionally stich 
extremely high and dangerous pressures. It was only necessary to 
open two shells, for the report goes on to state: “Upon opening 
two cartridges one was found to contain 36grs. of New Schultze 
lightly rammed; the otlter contained a charge of E. C., and on 
the top of the same 3lgrs. of ‘green Walsrode.’ Thirty-six grains 
of powder from the canister loaded in 2%in, Magic, 1440z. No. 7, 
gave pressures as follows: 3.6, 3.0, and 3.2 tons. The powder is 
perfectly normal, and the burst puns\have evidently been caused 
by the mixture of the charge of E. C. with a full load of Walsrode 
on top.” 

On Jan, 28 we wrote the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 
so as to place them in possession of information which we deemed 
rightly belonged to them, It seems, however, from the contents 
of the following letter, signed by T. G. Bennett, president of the 
W. R. A. Company, that his company was about to write to us on 
the same subject. Mr. Bennett’s letter follows: 

New Haven, Conn., Jan. 29, 1902.—The American E. C. & 
Schultze Gunpowder Co,, Ltd., 318 Broadway, Néw York City: 
Gentlemen—We have your favor of the 28th and note contents with 
thanks. We were about to write you on the same matter; also 
the Walsrode people. 

The gun came back to us very badly broken up, showing signs 
of extreme pressure. With it fortunately were two or three. car- 
tridges, and one of them had a load just as described in your let- 
ter, A number of shells were turned in by a mutual friend in 
New York, which were all right. The party was using U. M. C. 
shells, eyidently reloaded. : 

Thanking you again for the interest taken in the matter, we 
remain yours Feepecetaty 

(Signed) inchester Repeating Arms Co., 
T. G. Bennett, President. 

It may be as well to state that some twenty-five shells were also 
sent to the U. M. C. Company at Bridgeport, Gonn., who tested 
them and report to us that the pressures were all normal, and that 
no shell contained the curious mixture given above: The -shelis 
sent to the U. M. ©, Cosmpany were forwarded to them by the 
“mutual friend” referred to by Mr, Bennett, who, as will be noted 
Te pire ao as “all airs et : a! a 

nm Jan. 30, a critical examination of one of the shells containin 
“the mixture’ was had in our New York office, several ‘disintest 


ested parties being present, emong Mr. Chas, H, Mowry, of Sysa: 


Kans., and Mr, Arthur Gambell, of Cincinnati, O.. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


cuse, N. ¥., editor of the Sporting Goods Gazette; Mr. Marshall 
Herrington, and Mr. B®. F. Pride, both likewise newspaper men 
interested in shooting affairs, The shell on being opened per- 
mitted the Walsrode to drop out, but the E. C. was tightly packed 
by heavy ramming, and had to be picked out, The Walsrode 
walehed Sigrs., the E. C, 3644grs., making a total of 67ers. 
of powder. ' 

Mr, Mowry and others being anxious to find out whether the 
above if reloaded would give the pressures—“probably eight or 
nine tons’—Mr, Justus Yon Lengerke performed the operation in 
the presence of all, using a new 2%in, Trap and the wads which 
were in the original shell. These wads, by the way, were a thin 
card (probahly “B’’ thickness) over the powder, followed by two 
black-edge wads understood to be il-gauge. The wads used in 
loading the shells which contained 36grs, (or ddrs.) of New 
Schultze were found to be as follows: Winchester nitro felt and 
two black-edges. 

The result of this test for pressures made with “‘the mixture” as 
reloaded, was startling to the lay brethren, the crusher lead being 
reduced to the thickness of a wafer, while leads used with two of 
the shells properly loaded stood up and showed only normal pres- 
sures, 

Tt is worth while noting in this extraordinary case two special 
features: (1) The recognition by the loader of the shells of the 
necessity of using a different and a thinmer coribination of wads 
with “the mixture’ from the combination used with the correctly 
loaded 36grs, (drs. by measure) of New Schultze. (2) That in ad- 
dition to using thinner wadding with “the mixture,” the loader 
had exerted enough pressure to pack the E&. C. so tightly that it 
had to be picked out with a penknife, whereas with the 36gr. loads 
he had used very little pressure indeed. 

From the above you will note that no possible blame can be 
attached to any one save only to the loader himself. Neither load 
of powder by itself could have caused him any trouble, but ‘the 
mixture” was fatal to the two guns, though luckily not to him. 
That he knew he had at least two different lots of shells with him 
at the time is shown by the fact that the top shot wad on the 
shells loaded with “the mixture’’ bore a mark on them, while 
those containing correct loads of powder were left blank, having 
no mark or number on them at all. ; 

This communication having run to greater length than we at first 
anticipated, we feel that an apology is due you, and therefore tender 
same in a duly humble spirit. ; 

Tur American E, C, & Scaurtze GunrowpeR Co., Ltp. 


The Hamilton Gun Club. 


Hamitton, Can., Feb, 1.—The Hamilton Gun Club have to-day 
had the pleastre of the company of the Stanley Gun Club, of 
Toronto, who visited Hamilton to shoot a return match in our 
interclub series, and we were more than pleased to find them all 
such real good fellows, 

The Stanley Gun Club did not arrive here until after 2 o’clock, 
so that the match had to be shot off at once, without preliminary 
practice events of any kind. This may account in some measure 
for a number of our Toronto friends failing to make their usual 
good showing, while on the other hand, our boys have excelled 
themselves, and made an average much above anything ever be- 
fore sceomp ished by a Hamilton Gun Club team composed of so 
many members. : 

The match was shot by teams of twenty men on each side, at 
25 targets and 7 live birds per man, resulting in the following 


totals: . 

Shot at. Broke. Av. 
Hamilton Gun Club............------220.es woe 00 405 SL 
Stanley Gun Club........ Patusttters Vitecadddahsa tts 500 360 12 


Hamilton won by 46 targets, 


As each Squad finished shooting the targets they were sent at 
once to the live-bird score, with the following results: 

The Hamilton Gun Club shot at 14 live birds and killed 109. 
The Stanley Gun Club shot at 14 live birds and killed 103. 

Individual shooters are eligible for all competitions other than 
that for the Mail peRey by becoming members of the Associa- 
tion, as per Article if. of the Constitution of the Dominion 
aa ert and Game Protective Association, i. e.: 

“‘Affiliating clubs shall pay an annual fee of $5. Individuals may 
become members of the Association on payment of a fee of $1 
per annum. All fees to be paid on or before June 15 in each year.” 
“ Tt is the intention of all our affiliated clubs to assist in every 


possible way toward making this shoot one that will be long re- 


membered by all who are fortunate in being able to attend. 

In point of attendance, we already have promises which will 
bring to our grounds in August next more competitors than have 
eyer taken part in any tournament yet held in Canada, and we 
trust that we may have the pleasure of the attendance of many 
shooters from over the borders. 


Stanley Team. Hamilton Team, 


Wm Lewis 4 5 
Fairbairn ,.-.cs.secsecees 6 5 
G Briggs... 6 6 
J, Meyers 5 6 
dwards .. 5 7 
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H Townsend............. 6 5 
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Stell secveececsconssencenes 1f 4 T Upton... .cscscessccacs -21 6 
iMbombon holed “hese: ener hee Oe ID rawilsorm asteatuue: cones 24. ¢66 
[stern og shestroscrine aia be b) G  Grawtord®. us.) 12... 19 3 
bin Dili) taste ceed eeene 2 2 C Brigger........ A ale soo 66 
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Shephard .-.<0.-.00- Peniane Sethe: Ei Grahame snes yesen seta ce A a 
~J Townsend .....ccceccee 17> 3 MWB. Pletthetinwc. fet.) 230 ai 
Waketeldom tytssetaatateccmocn tg) abcie UES oheas ys) shee rita wea) 
360 103 405 109 

Ben Ir, 


IN NEW JERSEY. 
Boiling Springs Gun Club. 


-, Jan, 25.—Following are the scores made at 
oiling Springs Gun Club, held to-day: 


Rutherford, N. 
the shoot of the 


Events: 123 45 Tevents: Ie 2 eed 

Targets; 16 15 15 165 15 Targets: 15 16 15 15 15 
Fanning .......... 1b 131214 9 acs Koester se nererate Seon enieey en 
Money ... 11811 8 6 Gardiner ............ 1213 8, 
Glover 9 13 12 13 13 ElleES s..eseaseee ae 1412. 
Carlough ........ 10 14121310 Hexamer .......... -. -- aie a 
Swiveller ....-..0. ipl josgeee nea tas PBeenerds cece - eS 
ASCOT Me eran ss LPIA ROLES PPT Collins, oecceaccese nctecmes 11 12 
(An par .len tence eae eee a nee SE ITI OM); Uk soe oti ietelonsetdure ete eb OO 

Special prize event No. 50 targets, with allowances in 


2, 

parentheses: Money (3) 46, Carlough (6) 48, Fanning (0) 44, 
Welles Set Seon + a aed Hexamet By 36, 

ardiner , Huc , James 4 ar 34, Swivell 
broke 20 out of 40 and withdrew. ee ree 

Special prize event, same conditions: Money (8) 46, Swiveller 
(4) 44, Fanning (2) 50, Glover (2) 47, Carlough (4) 87, Huck (8) 22, 
Gardiner (5) 41, Axford (7) 38, Frank (6) 40, Apgar (8) 42. 

Team match, two men on a side, 25 tatgets per man; W. L 
Gardiner 18, Capt. Money 16; total 34. 
Carlough 12; total 23. 


North River Gun Club, 


Edgewater, N. J., Jan. 25.—In the contest for the Glaser trophy, 
50 targets per man, the following scores were made: 


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H. S. Welles 11, W. V. 


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Boston Shooting Assoctation. 


Boston, Mass., Feb. 2.—The all-day tournament of the Boston 
Shooting Association, at Wellington, Mass., on Feb, 1, brought 
out seventeen shooters, in spite of our vicious New England 
weather, A northeast snowstorm, blowing directly into the faces 
of the shooters, was conducive neither to comfort nor good shoot- 
ing, Lack of numbers was made up by the enthusiasm of those 
who had braved the weather, some of whom shot the programme 
nearly twice through. j 

While the percentages may not seem high, it must be remem- 
bered that a number of the events were at pairs and_reversed 
angles, which are not a feature of modern tournaments. Exclusive 
of thase, some really good shootitig was done by Le Roy, Griffith 
and Herbert, the first twé averaging a fraction over 90 per cent, 
seinpak latter a fraction over 94 per cent. at known and unknown 
angles, ‘ 

Grifith made a journey through two States in order to be with 
the boys, and his quiet, unassuming way has not been at. all 
marred by his success at the trap, He promised that Rhode 
Island would enter a five-man team in the Interstate match among 
New England States, and we feel assured that the other States 
will fall into line, 

That genial shooter, Lambert, made his first appearance of the 
season, and received a hearty welcome. H. came down from 
Leominster, but did not shoot in his ustial good form, 

Most of the boys ran out of shells during the afternoon, and 
strange loads, however good, always raise havoc with the averages, 

On the regular programme of 175 targets, Griffith broke 160, 
Herbert 159 and Le Roy 154. The full scores are: ~ 


Events: 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 
Targets: 10 10 10 15 15 10 10 10 10 15 15 10 10 15 10 10 15 15 20 24. 
Coffin ... 6 8 81015 6 5 6 8 91310 7 8 7 813 10 18 14 13 
Herbert.. 1010 61418 9 61010141310 714 710 15 14 20 21 1b 

Higns 97 61211 6 8 7 71014 6 912 1 5 B18.. .. 
Le Roy., wn. se ee 8 7 8 91418 9 814 710 14 14 19 21 2 
Griffith... ,. .. 4... +. 8 9101018315 81013 6 10 15 13 20 17 15 
Stewart... 8 9 81211 6 8 7 81315 71010 6 10 14 18 19 20 12 
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Lambert.’ ., -. s..20. 75 4100114 7 911 6 5121117 18 10 
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HERBERT. 


Grand Prix. 


A speciAL cable to the Herald, published in its issue of Feb. 2, 
has the following in respect to the Grand Prix: 

Monte Carlo, Saturday.—Another Grand Prix is concluded, and 
M. Grasselli, whose brother won it in 1897, is the winner. 

Seldom has such excitement been seen regarding this event, but 
the weather militated greatly against a large attendance. 

A steady downpour of rain was all against the birds, but at the 
end of the sixth round a strong wind from the northeast helped 
an extraordinarily good lot of birds to defeat most of the shooters. 

Twenty-eight zeros were recorded in the opening round, and no 
fewer than fourteen shooters failed to account for their sixth bird, 
while a similar number were defeated by their seventh. 

_Then the fielders began to reap their rich haryest, as in_ the 
eighth round only eighteen shooters accounted for their birds, 
while fifteen missed, 

Eight more misses occurred im the ninth round, and only three 
gentlemen had accounted. for their birds, namely, Mr. Grasselli, 
Mr. Wood and M. Schiannini, 

All these gentlemen killed their tenth birds, but M. Schiannini 
had the worst luck possible with his eleyenth bird, as it fell quite 
dead within 2in. of the boundary line, but outside. 

All interest now centered in the performances of Mr. Wood and 
M. Grasselli. The latter had to lead off, and with a beautiful first 
barrel killed a very good bird from the middle trap, while Mr. 
Wood, who had an exceptional bird from the right-hand trap, was 
easily beaten, . 

: Thus M, Grasselli gained 2 most popular and well deserved viec- 
ory. 

Four shooters had to compete for the remaining prizes, and it 
was not until the end of the sixteenth round that Mr. Wood was 
awarded the second prize, amounting to 11,000 franes ($2,200). 

M, Schiannini and Comte O’Brien agreed to divide the sum of 
13,000 francs ($2,600), while Lord Rosslyn, who had shot ex- 
tremely well but unluckily, had to take fifth place. 

Grasselli, beside winning an objet d’art, annexed the sum 
of 22,000 franes ($4,400), and reports have it that he backed him-- 
self heavily as well. 

The betting was the highest seen for years, and the fielders won 


a big haul. ; 


Boston Athletic Association Gun Club, 


Boston, Mass., Feb, 1—The February Handicap of B. A. A. 
Gun Club was started this afternoon. There was also a cup pre- 
sented by one of bur prominent members to go to the contestant 
making the highest score for the day. 

The heavy snowstorm was accountable for many of the con- 
testants not making better scores, but it did not prevent Mr. Clark 
from winning the cup, although his margin was only one-third of 
Wes aeevals aitted Hye, be 

e have also pitted two of our members against each other for 
a 500-target match. Each Saturday they. are t shoot at 75 targets, 
unknown angles, and 5 pairs, In the opening round to-day 
each scored 72: 


see Th Ree eit ak! ieee Pay 
argets: a 15 15 15 15 16 5p - < 
GE Geer Clark seanne sme aaa liiiataes 12 138 13 14 12 3 Hicks 
Dr Ellis ...<. Soe eb aes PA pobhee ne . 11 14 12 138 15 «7 72 
exerts) a a 3 4 Per 
_ Targets: 51515 Broke. Cent. Hdc 
GB Glarks sian «12 18 13°14 52 86 2-3 2. oe a4 
Wo OBRarmers yet: be 10 15 15 11 51 85 12 97 
Heel od faz. nescence: 111 9 14 44 73 1-3 25 98 1-3 
Or Hillisceree en nee n ++» 41 14 12 18 50 83 1-3 12 95 1-3 
H By Moore on yicee 2 Oo 12 dtad8 44 73 1-3 18 91 1-3 
C M Howell....-.c.... 1315 8 11 47 78 13 12 90 1-3 
D E Edwards.......2... 12 12 10 11 45 75 18 93 
Re Woarneteciesicccses 10 10 10 18 43 TW 2-38 18 89 2-3 
HH Whitey ...4. ee 10 12 11 11 44 73 1-3 18 91 1-3 
AD AGI IDE fret a reyes) aoe 9 13 12 12 46 76 2-3 12 8&8 2-3 
GA Parker....-cn.0. ». 121214 & 46 76 2-3 18 94 2-3 
Gb Granmer Ses ysis 411 9 9 oo 55 25 80 
W B_ Goodwin,......... 8 912 91 40 66 2-3 18 84 2-3 
Geo B Vunter.....-., rev 11 D> 896 34 56 2-3 25 81 2-3 


Death of Eugene Dupont. 


To the hosts of friends of Eugene Dupont, president of ¢ 
firm of E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., aie the bateeaatt 
sorrowiul news that on Tuesday of last week he had passed away 
He was sixty-one years old at the time of his death, He was a 
son of the late Alexis I. Dupont. He leaves a widow two sons 
and three datighters. _ The interment took place on Friday Jan 
$1, in the family burial plot on the Brandywine River. He was 
eminently beloved by all who knew him, whether socially or in 
business, He succeeded Gen. Henry Dupont as head of the fir in 
1889. Since the establishment of the great firm of E, J, Dupont de 
Nemours & Co., 100 years ago, there have been but four heads to 
it, namely, Eluthere Dupont, who died in 1884, and was succeeded 
nies AE wera seed was succeeded by Gen Henry 
ont, who died in , an 2 i i 
ri Pan Ra was succeeded by him who so re- 


Death of Charles Parker.. 


on Pa a lat ass Charles Par 
of Parker Brothers, eriden, Conn., died a 

ninety-three years. He hegan the inaurneniee At arias sg 
Gpilye part of the last century, and was a pioneer in that branch of 

Mmerican manufacture, From a small beginning, such was th 

sterling worth of his products, there grew the mammoth busi : 
interests of the firm as it exists to-day. Starting at a time BuHieg 
the English-made gun was considered the only gun ecurtiny ‘of 
consideration, vit tequired energy and wisdom of the highest: ae 
to compete up to the highest standards of the art of sk a 
and to overcome unreasoning prejudice, eSmeking 


ny 


ker, founder of the great firm 


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Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, Jan. 29.—Twenty-four shooters were on hand to smash 
bluerocks at the fifth serial prize shoot of the Boston Gun Club, 
held on their Wellington grounds to-day, and though the ther- 
mometer was “way down the majority stayed right through the 
programme, first getting half frozen “trying te find *em,” and ther 
Warming up for a while at the fireside listening to the various whys 
and wherefores of the unfortunates. : 

Looking at the scores and summing up the number of straights 
made, it would seem as though no one was shooting, Worthing 
being the only party guilty of such an offense, and he seemed 
very well pleased with one in a 10-target event. 

The prize match had to be started late, owing to the magautrap 
needing a little repairing, but after getting started was doubly 
interesting: Howe turned out to be the right man in first position, 
and ably took care of it with a 21, none of which were doubtful 
breaks, Leroy, as usual well up in the bunch, came in seer 
tied with Ford, with 19 to their credit, Next in line were Dickey. 
and Whitten with 16, the former keeping company with Leroy on 
the 2lyd. mark, and was a welcome visitor, it being his first ap- 
peAtarice on the ground for quite a long time. Other ‘scores as 


allows: 

Events: dhe ecb Ee elites fr math 

Targets: 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 20 10 
Worthing, 192.2.) o-cemu enue pee Se ee ee See 
Deroy) 21 laura lab ess be rey ce ae a AP cist Oa A 
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CAT Kola rerrcr ats) sdeeeaden ane ae eee ae RTS Weimer OMB re gts 
Gakes 1st. oo ee eer et Pris) SEY ect Var We ae 
Dennison, PAaskyure es cee Sy AiO te cE aye pile ye 
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Wihtttents® Goh follies. ses une eee me 0 FT eet 
Mess) S164. esaoes ett Bye Ae . Be Bc (9h WG? 89 
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Hawkins, 16 6 he le ee Oe 
Kirkwood, 18 6 Gael ae 
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Jack Gre sor sone : Piet Metre shee v(m ue 
Fredericks, Oe flo Bei de gba ih! 


Events 1, 2; 3, and 6, known angles, Sergeant system; event 4, 
, 6 and 9; unknown 


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SECRETARY, 


ON LONG ISLAND.  .- 


Glover vs, Knowlton. 


Interstate Park, L. I., Jan. 29:—The match between Dr, IKE 
Knowlton and Mr. Sim Glover, shot at Interstate Park to-day, 
was one of unusual interest. It was a fine up-hill race on the 
part of Dr. Knowlton. Out of his first 7 he lost 3 dead out, and 
losing 2 more in the first 25, he scored 20. Mr. Glover scored 24, 
The first misses in the 25 practically decided the race. 

In the second 25 Glover killed straight, while his opponent was 
but one less. The third 25 was a tie on 28. In the last quarter, 
Dr, Knowlton shot a splendid up-hill finish, scoring 24 to his 
opponent’s 22. The total was: Glover 94, Knowlton 91. A snow- 
storm, steady, but light, prevailed, and this, in the absence of 
wind, made the birds, which were a good lot, slow flyers. The 
match was for a purse of $200. Dr, Knowlton has been shooting 
very little of late, was out of practice, and therefore far from his 
best form, Mr. J. S. Fanning acted as referee, The scores follow: 


Knowlton ........ Mecaeks as mstonieo els ereeaie aoe 2*22*1*121'222229122220202 20 
111222222122121221 222202194 
2021212212222*22292112991 93 
2212221212222222992012999 94 94 

Glover! space eee ee Saas egatele vite ee hede 2222222102222229999229912 94 


2222222122221222121212999- 95 

12222222212220222299*2291 23 

2202221222112222020121222 99 94 
SWEEPSTAKES, 


After the match between the two gladiators was concluded, a 
10-bird sweepstake,°$5 entrance, was arranged, and, this being con- 
cluded, a second was arranged. In the shoot-off for second and 
third in No, 2 event darkness supervened, and at the end of the 
tenth round in the tie, all straight, the shooting ended. Scores: 


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PRADA O ume ite th PELE. dukuus eer eee =v 6112212111I—10 1022222211— 9 
Fanning ....... aren winet yey: spay aise secs. 1121021112— § 2121220222— 9 
SO Wineller we nee oc sites Rd, OA oe neeinM 11211220*2— g 2120120271— & 
~NiVologeayyst Ses e L ARS 3 CSO B OAR ANE, 2200222210— 7 122222202*— § 
Slatchcock: nass+ ROAR e BEB AA AC he oe 1112200222— 8 2011222212— 9 
TA Carini aren pee vnh hah ek ey 211211212210 2211202222— 9 
Goller eos ev ane rst hale Daly shed 1222120012— 8, oie. 
Knevels ..:.. SOEEO REE BARE re 1 ok pip 212112222910 22220 
Waters ten ieee ene eae Toes 212212111210 RADLEY 5) 
*Hopkins st tence tee eee eee ci bee  DIZI2IIIZIAOD 2002211122— 8 

*For birds. 

Shoot-off of No. 1 event: 

TEVELS: mc emnes ote ve raereey ALCATEL ONS oso 1211 
Waters = lal) Dre Carman WJ see. e 10 
Hopkins ...... Pepe ene ER ee 1211 

Shoot-off of No, 2 event: 

Ramapo .,.... Ae B be ser 2111212111 Dr Carman .......... » 2112219121 
JEEbehatbOt 45 ayaa Aare 1111112211 


New Utrecht Gun Club. 


: Interstate Park, L. [., Feb. 1—The snow covered the ground 
entirely in every direction, and the sky being darkly overcast, 


the remaining two contestants, Messrs. Keenan and Morfey, stood 

on the balcony of the Casino, about 48yds. from the traps. Keenan 

scored 6 straight, which goes to show how much value lyd. is in 
The scores follow: 


2202122 J P Kay, 80......<+0ee-... 2122228 
--2121210 C Sanders, 27............. 2120 
220 
fa a eae ee 211* T W Morfey, 31......., nas slDD2 
CaAgRamupomcgusess annie 10 AAC SU a Se Wa ae 1122 
No. 3, 5 birds, one barrel, gun below elbow: 
B Waters, 28...... JS 110—4 -T Ww Morfey, 28.........11111-—5 
C A Ramapo, 28......... 1l0—4_-J P Kay, 8). 11001—3 
No, 4, miss-and-out, 85 and 48yds. : 
BuiWiaters secs SS Se oe 220 T W_Morfey....... SS irhtc 222220 
Coev Raina oer pe jeu 0 Kav atysacccnne cheecd. 122212 


Winchester Gun Club, 


‘Derroir, Mich.—At the annual meeting’ of the Winchester Gun | 


Club, Dec. 18, prizes were awarded as follows: Class A—First to 
Robt, Shiell, a silver cup; second to T. M. Brodie, gold medal, 
Class B—First, a silver cup, to J. T. Warner; second, gold medal 
to D. A. Hitchcock, i 

For 1902 T. M. Brodie was elected President: D, A, Hitchcock, 
Gecretary-Treasurer; J. T. Warner, Captain; F, S, Randall, Liey- 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


tenant-Captain, and H, H. Rackham, Member of Board of Di- 
rectors, “ 

The following prizes were decided upon for the coming year, Jn 
each class, A, B and C: First, handsome gold medal; second, a 
Sterling silver cup; third, six months’ dues succeeding year. 

In addition, there will be awarded to the greatest number of 
straight scores in the club event, 25 targets, a silver loving cup. 
For the best teri club event scores of a beginner who has filled 
out the blank furnished on application and been admitted as eligi= 
ble by the directors a Fletcher special hammerless shotgun. 


The good financial condition of the club, and the interest taken - 


in the prizes for the year just starting augurs well for the pres- 
ent season. 

Regtilar shoots will be heid Ree two weeks, starting Jan, 25, at 
the club grounds, Highland Park, with a rand arinual tourna- 
ment Decoration Day, and the annual tieeting and supper Dec, 
20 for the awarding of prizes and election of officers, 

The first shoot, Jan. 25, was an unqualified suécess. Class A was 
especially well represented, and the contest for the niedal was close 
with good scorés, Mr. Wood winning with 28, with two 2s ta beat, 

Two beginners started the race for the special prize, Messis, 
MeAdam and Ford, with McAdam ahead. 

An extra event was shot, the last one being the club event. The 
scores: 


Events: Nhe OR ae othe Tit iee ay ple SD} 

Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 25 95 
NWtreys US Apa ey Cer © See Mane ru. 10 8 8 10 8 8 10 24 99 
INGE rics, fo eewiticct ele iri aur naie By Ee i Rel odie as 
I hg eee es SRO SHUR HE Mee gi pe Oe Sie Arn mm OD 
Jeptorelt> WON OBR RO BMHSEHUE Ate Ay ay tcl varuer MRS eee Fill aah ts cei oa 
Givthacd! Mya Ne cree seen ES OD ES orl Bal 
SRR ST Rey cae ea eRe Teen wert eat He EH Wy en Hee 
At RGid Ba ak pee cee Asam) entre tos Te ea ts Zhe ie 
ten Res nebo steeds estes putes chit { Ae OS LY, a 19 
iontlnnieaeeenees Bota nt Rind titer Sh Rg 9 
IMEC UANGE GOR = 56.544 cued peswisshd pore: Cit ie i ve 6 
Wainer aihavebtna Lnitenba knit yee Ge gS. oS el She Nee © HG 
TOTES Miucenrtetneee coatml ety tent ac Le iit PO bg eS el he MG 
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D. A. Hircucock, Sec'y-Treas, 


WESTERN TRAPS. 


Cureaco, Ill., Feb. 1.—The Chicago live-bird shooters to-day 
will not be out in yery great force, and those who do will meet a 
typical raw, bleak Chicago air. It is time there was a bigger 
entrance at Watson’s Park of men who want to get into training 
for the Grand American Handicap, 


At Racine. 


Mr, Oswald Von Lengerke, who tied with Mr, H. S, Blake, of 
Racine, at Watson’s, on 45 out of 50 live birds a couple of weeks 
ago, shoots a second race to-day with Mr. Blake at Racine under 
the same conditions, The same shooter meets another Racine 
man, Mr, Jackson I. Case, soon after the close of the Blake race, 


South Side against Racine. 


The winning of the team race by Racine this week at Milwaukee 
in their contest with the South Side Gun Club, of the latter city, 
by a score of 46 to 40, sixman teams, has put the South Side 
shooters on their mettle. Heretofore the shoots have been for fun, 
but the South Side men on Feb, 8 will go t6 Racine and shoot 
the Racine team for the price of the birds and expenses, 


Chicago Party for the Grand American. 


Mr, E. S. Rice, of the Dupont Powder Company, will get up a 
special car party to start from Chicago for Kansas City for the 
Grand American Handicap. At this date it is stated hat eighteen 
members have been signed for this trip, not all of these, however, 
coming from this city. It is certain that Chicago and all our 
adjacent towns ought to send strong delegations to the big event 
this spring. The Legislature of Missouri is not going to monkey 
with the live-bird business, and there will be a wide open good 
time for everybody. 


Mt. Carroll Gun Club of Iowa. 


Interest attaches to the amateur shooting tournament of the Mt. 
Carroll, Ia, Gun Club, Feb. 25-27, from the fact that this is a 
young club holding its first tournament. The citizens of Mt. 
Carroll subscribed $400 in added money within twenty-four hours 
after it was decided to hold’ the shoot. The tournament will be 
nicely handled at the fair grounds under the management of MMe 
Forquer, of Lake View, whose record is one of success. Mr. 
Forquer will furnish programmes at Lake View, Ta., on applica- 


tion. The shoot will be at 10-target events each day, $10 added to - 


each event, 200 birds per day, Sergeant system. In addition, there 
will be three average cups offered; one for 85 per cent. or better, 
one to those less than 85 per cent,, and one to the manufacturers’ 
agent making the highest average through the programme. | This 
is a very courteous way of treating the manufacturers’ agents, and 
both the latter and professionals are cordially invited to attend 
and to shoot for the price of the targets. Cup ties will be shot 
off at 50 targets, purses divided four moneys. 
there will be a 20-live-bird handicap, $10 entrance. Go to Mt. 
Carroll, ' 
E. Hoveg. 
Hartrorp Buitpine, Chicago, Tl. 


Gatfield Gun Club, 


Chicago, Feb. 1—The appended scores were made on our 
grounds to-day on the occasion of the second shoot. of the second 
series. A, D, Dorman and Dr, Mathews divided the honors in 
Class A, both killing 11 out of 12; F. G Barnard won Class B 
trophy on 9, and A. McGowan class € on 8. 

The birds were a good lot, onl} three sitters developing in about 
300 birds trapped. The ground was covered with snow, and the 
sum shining On it made it dazzling to the eyes, and a white bird 
was, almost invisible, 

No wind and not too cold. All things considered, it was a very 
decent midwinter day for trapshooting. Mr. Lard, of New York, 
came out to show the New Westley-Richards single trigger gun. 
In the opinion of the writer, the single trigger is sure to be the 
next step in advance in modern shotguns, and in a few years the 
double trigger gun will be a back number. 


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Dr. J. W. Merk, Sec’y. 


New England Interstate Team Contest. 


To the trapshooters of Maine, 


Connecticut, New Hampshire, 
Vermont and Rhode Island: 


In 1901 the proposition was favorably received that an interstate . 
match among teams from the above-named States and Massachu- » 


setts could be arranged; but owing to the lateness of the season, 
the matter was not definitely settled. 4 

In order to make such a match and furnish an opportunity for 
a friendly contest at the traps, we make this proposition in behalf 
of Massachusetts: E 

Massachusetts will enter a team of five men or more in a con- 


test with teams from any or all of the other New England States. - 


The contest to consist of a shoot in each State which enters a 
team; each man on the respective teams to shoot at 100 birds at 
each shoot, and the aggregate of the scores in all the shoots to de- 
termine the winner, 

Entrance fee, times and 
agreed upon. ¥ 

Communications from shooters in New England upon this sub- 
ject are heteby requested, 


places for the shoots to be mutually 


H. M. Feveruen, Jr., 
558 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. 
O. R. Dicexzy, 
Wellington, Mass. 
B. Le Roy Weonwarn, 


Campello, Mass, 


On the last day ° 


was held on Monday, Jan, 27, 


' [Fx.. 8, 1902, 


Brooklyn Gun Club, 


Brooklyn, L, I., Jan. 30.—There were fourteen contestants at the! 
100-targe handicap of the Brooklyn Gun Club to-day, notwithstand: 
ing the cold, fierce wind and wintry aspect of the lands 
conditions of the 100-target race were as follows: 
to the three high guns. Entrance $2, targets inc 
allcwance. The management will also doriate $1 
sheoter making the highest score in this event, handicap allow-! 
ances not being counted. The winner of this cash prize will not. 
be entitled to win one of the trophies.” : 

Capt. A. W, Money annexed the $10 in gold with 2 score of 95/ 
without any handicap allowance. Considering wind and weather, ) 
it was an extraordinary performance. The contestants, handicap: | 
allowances, and scores at 25 targets, and the totals without the! 
handicap allowances and with the handicap allowances, follow: 


Broke, Wdep.' Total,’ 
Bennett ...-..... Derceet Coreat srone 1920 23 21 83 20 109 
Nariel eaten aye saver enema 23 20 19 21 83 12 95: 
GIOV Ere ele ope anaes rts ho Z1 24 23-28 uM 8 99) 
Martin ... emer ais yore Pantene, dAeedl Dib 71 30 100: 
Dudley ....... Sa ile teste Tarp hetaye.s 17 19 20 22 78 12 90 
Fanning ....... Set Aides orice +s 22.23 23 4 92 8 100 
Marsh alte eae enie Beli ie danas Lovee 223 83 22 100 
Super ..:.. atten neddedsneers ugene Ao 22 20 O9 79 20 100, 
IICoGYiN ceria ols Jeet AMES es rae 24 24 23 22 93 10 100 
Remsen ~..:,...2.+ ieaae eat +=. 18 21 22 22 83 18 100 
aan pe aun eens i vee» 19°23 25 24 91 12 100 
NViGUICS on -1) Seton iht che beat versrenue 200 IT 17 T4 15 89 
Mon Thengerke (2.0) slyesaus re«-- 19 21 21 20 81 17 98 
AV iReyih sh MN Sate PRR PS ee RRR 23 25 24 23 95 10 100 


Shoot-off at 25 targets, for handicap prize; handicaps added: 
Bennett (4) 24, Martin (7) 25, Fanning (2) 22, Marshall (4) 24, 
Super (6) 20, Piercy (8) 25, Remsen (8) 27, Hogan (2) 24. ; q 

Second shoot-off; Martin (4) 22, Piercy (2) 23, Remsen (3) 25. 

Event 3, at 25 targets, $1 entrance: Fanning 21, Piercy 23, Glover 
23. Seah Money 24, Ramapo 16, Welles 23, Hogan 24, Dudley ” 

. Super 18. ! 

Event 4, at 15 targets, $1: Welles 15, Hogan 13, Martin 18, Money 
14, Piercy 14, Dudley 11, Martin 15, Glover 13, Super 9, 

Event 5: Money 5, Piercy: 16, Fanning 13, Hogan 10, Welles 12, 
Glover 18, Fanning 14. ; 


Ossining Gun Club. 


Ossininc, N. Y., Feb. 1.—The first shoot for the Washburn 
cup came off to-day. The birds were a good lot, the scores being — 
very good for the class of birds. Mr FE, Brandreth ldlled straight 
from the scratch mark, 3lyds, W. P. Hall surprised every one 
by killing straight from the 28yd. mark. The cup is a handsome | 
affair, and will be hotly contested for, 4 


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I T Washburn, 28. .2221**1919 8 M Hb Dyckman, 29.7121111120— 8 — 
D Brandreth, 30...222210121/—9 A Rohit. Oe EE ee 000"1,02010— 3 


W H Hyland, 29...2222001020— 6 
J_C Barlow, 27... ,.2222200210— 7 
Hi W Bissing, 26...22*0101200— 5 
31.22*2229202 9S A Macbeth, 26...0010#20700— 9 
D Garnsey, 28...0110111021— 7 


A few events at clay birds were shot. 
in a drizzling rain, the second squad 
handicapped by darkness setting in: 


The Jast event was shot | 
of which was seriously 


Events le oe Events: 12 3 44 

Targets: 15 10 15 15 Targets: 15 10 15 15 
VV OP Eales, 2s 12 81012 A Bedell ........, PAM lan tihe 
C G Blandford. = it Dose We Goleman 0.) ed Tone 
I T Washburn, © sf6 42S EL WB IS Sitch i) anfilecte eC ee 
C D Garnsey . Sager ae sGMRUSShrrender nner ae . §12 
Wi Oar Sess ee Sesh DAOUConno ee ae <a Oe 
1D) Brantiseti ees. ly Mt, fe Cee Ete li ee 8 10 

CECWELL A eens eee Se 2.3, 3 ON) Hyatt. ; ‘Goe 

H. Dyckman....... .. 8 910 TSO ty=e SRO Ey! 
Ue Rpaeell On Beli we gle dcoleverco: 2 nae oN l/c ae el 10 
eG Barlowa een hp es 

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_ Arkansas Championship, 


Lirrre Rocx, Ark,, Feb, 1,—I beg to inform you that the in- 
augural contest for the live-bird championship of Arkansas will be 
held at Little Rock, Feb. 26. This will be a 25-bird race, the en- } 
trance to which will simply be price of birds, though there will be 
a $10 optional sweep for the’ benefit of those who desire to make 
the affair more interesting. Interstate rules will govern, and all | 
contestants will shoot from the 80yd. mark. Entries for this event _ 
must be accompanied with a forfeit of $5, and be made not later 
than Fes. 20. This is necessary for the reason that pigeons are 
very scarce and the management must have some way of knowing 
how many birds to provide. 

Heretofore the sportsmen of Arkansas-haye had no live-bird 
trophy to compete for, but recently the Peters Cartridge Co., 
with characteristic liberality, have generously donated a beautiful 
emblem in the shape of an elegant watch charm, of appropriate 
design and inscription, ~ 

The winner in the inaugural contest will be subject to challenge 
and must defend the trophy every thirty days if called on, though 
there cannot be any contest during the months of June, July and 
August. At this season of the year it is difficult to get good birds 
in the South, and the Association does not wish to encourage the 
trapping of anything else. None but residents of the State can 
compete for the trophy, but any one ean enter the sweep and shoot 
for the money. Forfeits can be sent ta Paul R. Litzke, secretary 
ef the Arkansas State Sportsmen’s Association, wha will also 
cheerfully furnish any additional information Atma to this 
event, : ‘Aun R, Litzxe, 


Smithtown Gun Club. 


an. 28.—The weekly shoot of Smithtown Gun Club 
The attendance was small on ac- 
count of the unpleasant weather. Eyent No. 7 was for a gold ¥ 
medal, and was won by E. E, Smith. The fresh breeze from the 
west, blowing across the traps, made the targets dip and twist, 
and some of the boys had quite a lot of trouble in finding them, 
as the scores will show; 


SMITHTOWN, 


Events 123 4 5 6 7 8 91011 12 13 14 15 16 17 
Targets 5556555155555 6 6 6 5 6 
WIC TE I ears til, «45444658 2454553 426 
Ny eOdryia tees stots 1 4 bo 1 4 2 6eb 44 4 gf BP ica a 
Dose ob eR Ry Ded iboes) foe: ted) on eg apes 
BE SSmitht... v2 2. PAR): i: ie iat ee i lela hy 
Croziengn eee et 12 Oi eke -2 eb A A 2a ons: 
NavTt ae oe cree See Og eae abe Ae x i se ae 
Gin ewer tenes ee NAYS fates i a 0? eee Lae 
Weikert Bae eee ceaes aaa eet 3 2 3 6 2 sn #2 oF ce a* 60 09 of On 
By lO ey Peer eee weep hs. Weert we ee It ol Ao koe coo ne 
° HALseEy. 


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PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 


Mexico and California. 
FORTY-FIVE DAYS’ TOUR VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, 


Tue Pensylvania Railroad Personally-Conducted Tour to Mexico 
and California, which leaves New York and Philadelphia on Feb. 
11 by special Pullman train, covers a large and intensely interesting 
portion of North America, embracing a great part of Mexico, the 
beautiful coast resorts of California, and on the return journey 
from California, the Grand Cafion of Arizona, one of the great 
wonders of the country. Fourteen days will be spent in Mexico 
and nineteen in California, The Mexico and California 
Special, to be used over the entire trip, will be com- 
posed of the highest grade Pullman Parlor Smoking, Dining, 
Dyawing-room Sleeping, Compartment, and Obseryation cars, 
heated by steam and lighted by electricity. Round-trip rate, cover- 
ing all necessary expenses during the entire trip, O75 from all 

cints on the Pennsylvania Railroad system east of Pittsburg, and 
$570 from Pittsburg. For the tour of Mexico only, Which will be 
$350, and for California only, which will leave Feb, 25, $375. For 
itinerary and full information apply to ticket agents, or address 
George W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad Sireet 
Station, Philadelphia.—ddv, 


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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1902. 1 Ok EE 


VOL, LVIII.—No. 7. 
New Yor«K, 


A MONUMENT TO PROFESSOR BAIRD, 


Aw effort is making by friends of Professor Spencer F. 
Baird, who loved him in his lifetime and revere hrs 
“memory, to secure an appropriation for the erection of 
a monument to his memory at Washington. Senator 
Lodge has very kindly signified his willingness to take 
charge of the matter, and has, we believe, already intro- 
duced a bill or resolution to secure such an appropriation. 
Many letters and petitions have gone to Washington im 
support of this measure from men engaged in the fish 
trade, from fishculturists. from members of legislatures, 
from the faculties of colleges and others. It is hoped 
that success will be attained in the movement. The form 
of petition which has been used follows; we give the text 
of it with the hope that every person who knows and ap- 
preciates the great services of Professor Baird may be 
moved to add the weight of his eT: to the movement 
for the memorial: 
Yo the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Con- 
gress assembled: 

We, the undersigned, recognizing the great merit of the late 
Prof. Spencer F. Baird as scientist, writer and father of the United 
State Fish Commission, and deeply appreciating his services to the 
fishing industries of the country, and the establishment of fish- 
culture on a broad basis, the benefits of which grow more apparent 
with passing years, most respectfully and earnestly petition that 
an appropriation be made by the Congress for the erection of a 
suitable monument to his memory at Washington, D. C 

We are confident that the great work accomplished by Professor 
Baird in scientific investigation, as the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, the Director of the National Museum, and as the head 
of the United States Fish Commission, are so well known and 
have-been of such vast consequence to the educational and in- 
dustrial activities of the nation that detailed discussion here is 
unnecessary and uncalled for. : 

Ever praying that our petition may receiye the considerate at- 


tention of the Congress, it is respectfully submitted. 


In this connection we are permitted to quote a letter 
written by President Jerdan, of Leland Stanford Junior 
University, to Capt. Joseph W. Collins. of the Massachu- 
setts Fish Commission, who is actively interested in the 
movement : - 

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR University, Stanford University, Cal, 
—Office of the President, Jan. 29, 1902—Mr. Joseph W. Collins, 
Boston, Mass.: Dear Sir—l am very deeply interested in the 
proposed memorial to Professor Baird. The fact that Washington 
is now a center of scientific research in various lines is due to 
Professor Baird more than to any other man. I shall take pleasure 
in writing to different men who may help. Very truly yours, 

(Signed) Davin 5S, Jorpan,. 

Copies of the petition may be obtained by addressing 
Capt. Collins. 


THE PLANK IN NEW YORK, 


Writtnc of New Hampshire game conditions in our 
issue of Jan. 25, Mr. C. M. Stark testified to the valuable 
results of the adoption and enforcement in that State of 
the law forbidding the sale of woodcock and grouse. In 
our issue of last week we quoted from the annual report 
of the Massachusetts Commissioners of Inland Fisheries 
and Game proof of the admirable effect of the working 
of the anti-sale prohibition in Massachusetts. They 
wrote: 

But it is possible to judge with Some accuracy of the effect of 
the game law which prohibits the sale of partridge and woodcock 
(Acts of 1900, Chapter 379), for its beneficial results are already 
observable to a very pronounced degree in nearly all sections of the 
State, notwithstanding it has been in force so short a time, There 
_can be no doubt that the inerease in ruffed grouse, concerning 
which there is a large mass of evidence at hand, is directly at- 
tributable to this measure and the active enforcement of the game 
laws. The outlook for the woodcock also seems somewhat im- 
proved, even to the extent that it is reported breeding in this 
State, although it is well known that its appearance is generally as 
a migrant. 

Testimony to the same effect has come to us from 
Minnesota, where the anti-sale law as enforced by Execu- 
tive Agent Sam. F. Fullerton, has proved to be of most 
unquestionable advantage. Other States have reported 
like results. There is everywhere abundant and convinc- 
ing evidence that in the application of the Forest AND 
StREAM’sS Platform Plank—“The sale of game should be 
forbidden at all seasons’—lies the remedy for unsatis- 
factory game conditions. It is in large measure the SOUS 
tion of the game protection problem. 

Now come the New York Fish and Game Commissioners 
who in their annual report to the Legislature advocate the 
adoption of a similar law for: New York. They give it as 
their opinion that the sale of woodcock, quail and grouse 
killed within the State should be prohibited at all seasons. 


It stands to reason that what is good for New Hampshire 


and Massachusetts and Minnesota and other States, is 
good for New York. The recommendation of the Com- 
missioners should be carried out by the present Legisla- 
ture. A hill to this effect has been introduced into the 
Assembly by Mr. Marson, of Oneida county, providing 
that woodcock, grouse and quail shall not be sold or 
offered for sale at any time or place throughout the State. 
The bill is now in the Committee on Fish and Game. 
Every citizen who appreciates the situation and recog- 
nizes the opportunity now presented to secure this most 
important law, should use his best endeavor by a personal 
appeal to his representative at Albany to assure for this 
measure legislative approval. 

As is- pointed out by a correspondent who writes from 
Rochester, there is a well-reccenized counter influence at 
work at Albany in the person of an official, who is not 
named by our correspondent, but is perfectly well known 
to be Deputy Comptroller Gilman. Mr. Gilman is or was 
interested in a cold storage concern in New York city; 
has for years been active in opposition to legislation in- 
tended to restrict dealing in game, and has worked for 
ereater license in game traffic. Now it is not to be toler- 
ated that the legislation asked for by the Game Com- 
mission and demanded by the people should be thwarted 
by the personal’and selfish interest of an individual. The 
indorsement of Mr. Marson’s bill should be so pronounced 
that its prompt reporting out of committee should follow. 

Let us have in New York the non-sale system which has 
proved so advantageous elsewhere. 


THE WILD SHEEP’S MEGAPHONE? 

THE theory has recently been advanced in England that 
the great curving horns of the wild sheep, of which our 
big-horn may be regarded as typical, are of use to the 
animal as making its hearing more acute; that they are 
curved around the side of the head in such a fashion 
that the ear appears to be at the apex of a hollow cone 
formed by the great spiral horn. Mr. Geo. Wherry, of 
Cambridge. believes that “the form of the horn and the 
position of the ear enables the wild sheep to determine the 


direction of sounds when there is a mist or fog, the horn 


acting like an adimiralty megaphone when used as an ear 
trumpet, or like the topophone (double ear trumpet,. the 
hells of which open opposite Ways s), used for a fog-bound 
ship on British-American vess@ls to determine the direc- 
ton of sound signals.” 

The statement is ingenious, but is interesting chiefly as 
showing the way in which scientific guessing may be mis- 
directed. The author appears to have forgotten, if he ever 
knew, what ts called to his attention by Mr. Harting, that 
there are many wild sheep and that the spiral of the horn 
of each species of wild sheep is a different one. Even 
within the species the spiral may differ to some extent 
aniong individuals. In some cases, perhaps. the ear lies 
at the apex of a cone formed by the horn, but in others 
it does not. Moreover, it may naturally be inquired why 
it ig that the adult males of a particular age should be 
provided with such an aid to hearing, which is lacking 
in the females and the young. These old males with large 
and perfect horns have acquired their full fighting powers. 
They have also reached their full strength and agility 
for flight, and through many years of experience have 


- come to a full knowledge of the dangers to which their 


race 1s exposed. How does it come that nature should 
have cared so well for them and should have left the far 
more defenseless females and young a prey to the dangers 
likely to come to them from enemies which may make 
the sounds ina fog. Should not the latter possess this pro- 
tective ear trumpet as well as the males of full age, whose 
horns—to the field observer at least—would seem to be 
sexual characters analogous to the antlers of the deer or 
the spurs of the cock? 

It is very well known that the male sheep use their 
horns for the pttrpose of fighting, and that their battles 
are severe. To what other uses beside self-defense these 
horns may be put the outdoor American does not very 
clearly know. 

It is not so very many years ago that good common 
sense people were told and believed that the horns of the 
mountain sheep were tised by him as a buffer on which to 


alight, when he sprang headlong from lofty cliffs, and 
‘striking on his horns on the rocks below, 
“alighted on his feet and ran away. 


rebounded, 
Those who told this 
story and those who believed it did not consider what 
would happen to the females whose horns ate practically 


straight, and only from 6 to to inches long, nor did they 
take into account the young males who for several 
years have horns too small to act as buffers in this way. 
In this they were like Mr. Wherry. 

As a matter of fact, we believe that the observations of 
outdoor men generally will show that the mountain sheep 
depends for its safety chiefly on its nose and its eyes. 
We believe that if the observations of hunters in general 
could be gathered and collated, it would be found that 
the female sheep are rather quicker to notice danger than 
the males, though both are quick enough. 

Wariness in sheep as in any other animals is 
very largely a matter of education. With regard to our 
Own species, it is well known among the old-timers on 
the plains that fifty years ago in many parts of the West 
the big-horn was the most unsuspicious and easily killed 
of any animal except the buffalo. At the present day he 
has changed his habits with his location, and is now the 
most difficult of all animals to hunt, except the white-tailed 
deer. 


wild 


THE STATUS OF TRAPSHOOTING. 

In every branch of sport, and for that matter in every 
branch of the affairs of men, there are those who, being 
abnormally wise, declare its decadence and predict its 
ending. To them, no special process of reasoning, in this 
connection, is considered as an essential in making a con- 
clusion. The most meager data concerning some particu- 
lar serves them in making an estimate of the total situa- 
tion. Let methods change, and disintegration is denoted ; 
let the scene of activity change, and it further denotes the 
hastening of the end. In short, the pessimistic person 
not infrequently mistakes his pessimistic condition of 
mind for an actual state of external affairs. 

The matter of trapshooting has not escaped the notice 
of those who make a specialty of observing the down- 
ward trend of established institutions. 

Notwithstanding the many mistaken regrets over im- 
aginary decay of trapshooting, it may safely be asserted 
that never in its history was this sport, throughout the 
length and breadth of the United States, in such a pros- 
perous condition. Gun clubs abound everywhere. Whether 
indulged in as a mattér of pleasurable competition, or as 
a matter whereby skill with the shotgun may be acquired, 
trapshooting has a place everywhere, whether cross- 
roads hamlet or city, throughout the land. 

It is true that it has been through many stages of evyolu- 
tion, in respect to its competitive features in the past few 
years; but such may be considered as incidents af the 
sport, and not the sport itself. 

It, too, has betimes been affected by the vicissitudes of 
the business world. When hard times prevail, sport for 
the time being is less, or in abeyance. Yet, all in all, it 
has held more than its own in public favor as compared 
with other sports. 

As a true index of its pervading popularity, the national 
interest manifested in the Grand American Handicap, to 
be held at Kansas City, Mo., in March and April, and the 
more than national support which will be accorded it, are 
pertinent to the case in point. The most conservative 
estimates are- that not less than 350 shooters will be 
present at that great event, and there are other well- 
grounded estimates that there will be not less than 4oo. 
Others, again, more optimistic, place the number nearer 
500. In any event, it will be without doubt the greatest 
gathering of mighty trapshooters in respect to skill and 
numbers that the world has ever known. - Such a happen- 
ing, truly, could never have a place if trapshooting was 
in a state of. decay. It per se is an index of universal 
activity and approval. : 

There is here much for both individual and national 
gratification—the sport affords wholesome relaxation and 
recreation to the individual; to the nation which has a 
skilled shooter in every citizen, there is always a ready 
defense from all enemies. 


Dispatches from the Russian newspapers state that the 
expedition which was sent out by the Academy of Sciences 
under the zoologist Hertz to examine the mammoth re- 
mains discovered in the district of Kolymsk, is returning, 
after a very difficult journey, bringing the mammoth with 
it. It was a male, and a»parently middle- aged. Its skin 
and skeleton were both preserved. In the stomach and 
in the mouth were found remains of undigested food. The 
different parts of the mammoth have been gonveved to SG 
Beseysperes i in a qeoeey condition, : 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[FER. 15, 1902. 


Che Sportsman Canrist. 


—S SS 


Floating on the Mlissouri.—I. 


Ar last our dreams were about to be realized. We had 
long planned a trip down the Misseuri from Fort Ben- 
ton, the head of navigation, to—well, some point to be 
determined tpon later, and here we were, boat loaded, 
ready to embark. The boat we had named the “Good 
Shield,” which is the English of our better half’s Indian 
name, was just a plain, sharp-bowed, flat-bottom skiff, 
some nineteen feet long and of five feet beam, Not ex- 
actly a thing of beauty, but staunch, light of draft, and 
serviceable. It held our tent, stove, bedding, clothing, 
guns and aimmunition, provisions for a month or so, and 
still there was room for more. So impatient were we to 
be off that we had loaded up by the light of a lantern, 
But now the eastern sky was streaked with crimson, and 
it was quite light enough to see the channel. The swift 
current was gently tossing and swaying our craft, as if 
to say; “Come, why tarry? Cast loose and I will bear 
you swiftly into the land of your dreams.” Well, then, 
the river should have its way. “Get aboard and take the 
stern seat,” I said to Sah-né-to, and as soon as she had 
done so, I pushed out into the stream. Splash! Sah- 
né-to dropped a little beaded buckskin sack into the 
water. What it contained I know not, nor did I ask, 
But I heard her low prayer: “Spirits of the water, 
people of the depths, accept my poor sacrifice. Pity us, 
J entreat you; draw us not down to our death in your 
cold, dark realm; cast us not upon the rock hidden by the 
foaming current. Pity, pity. Accept my offering, I ptay 
you, and harm ws not.” 

Sah-né-to has not forgotten the gods and devils of 
her people if she has been married to a pale-face these 
twenty yeats and more, Missionaries and their creeds 
are as nothing to her; the sitin, the glorious, dazzling, 
resplendent orb, is the kind and living ruler of the world, 
By his aid, and through sacrifice, the evil spirits may be 
kept from working harm. : 

I set the oars and pulled a few long, steady strokes; 
aided by the swift current we sped down stream at a rate 
of five miles an hour at least. It seemed only a moment 
or two since we had cast off, and here we were already 
at the Jower end of the town and opposite the old adobe 
fort—that is, what is left of it. Of the great thick walled 
fortress nothing now remains but the southeast bastion, 
and that, too, would have long since fallen had not a 
generous and public spirited one of the old-timers rooted 
it over, and shored up its crumbling walls. Cannon no 
longer point irom its deep port holes ready to discharge 
a hail of trade balls into some party of murderous red- 
skins. That day has long since passed. Built in 1856 
by the American Fur Company, this fort was for years 
the center of a yast and far-reaching fur trade. Hun- 
dreds of thousands of buffalo robes, like numbers of 
wolf and beaver skins, and pelts of the deer and elle were 
brought to it by Indian and white from the far North, 
from the South, from the Rockies and the yast extent 
of plains surrounding it, and were later shipped down the 
river to St. Louis. 

Sah-né-to gazed long and sadly at the solitary bastion. 
“How well I remember,” she said, “coming to the great 
fort with my father and mother to trade. When spring 
came ‘and the horses had become strong from eating the 
new green grass, the whole camp came here to trade the 
winter's take of robes and iurs. No matter how great the 
distance—maybe from the Red Deer River of the North, 
perhaps from the Yellowstone, or the foothills of the 
Rockies, or from some point far down the river—here 
we always caine in the early spring. When the men of 
the fort saw us coming down the hills in to the valley, 
they raised a great flag and fired cannon to greet us. 
We were many in those days, and when we moved, 
people on horseback, and horses packed and drawing 
travois and lodge poles, with herds of hundreds and 
thousands of loose horses, made a wide, dark streak on 
the plains miles long. The great chiefs, the proud war- 
riors, rode in the lead when we neared the fort, all dressed 
in their war costumes. ~And when the flag was raised 
and the cannon boomed, they fired their guns and 
charged up to the gates singing the song of joy and 
friendship. Then the great white chief came out and 
shook hands with them, and invited them in to feast and 
smoke, and tell of the experiences of the winter. And 
while they sat in the room with the great white chief, 
outfit after outfit came hurrying down the hill, the women 
shouting and whipping up their horses, lodge poles rat- 
tling and clashing, travois jouncing and bouncing as they 
were hurriedly dragged along, And then one by one and 
by twos and threes and fives the lodges were put up on 
the plain near the riyer, fires were built, and soon hun- 
dreds of columns of smoke were rising to join the clouds. 
When the feast and the tall were over the chiefs came 
home to their lodges, each carrying a present of some 
kind. My father always brought something away from 
the white man’s table for me and I would watch for him 
and run to meet him. Soimetimes he brought me a hard- 
tack, sometimes a lump of sugar, and taking it from him 
I would run on ahead to our lodge and show my mother 
what he had given me, Such little things were highly 
prized in those days, especially by the children; only 
once or twice a year did they become the fortunate pos- 
sessors of a cracker or bit of brown sugar. But no; we 
were neyer hungry. Always the lodge was provided with 
meat; meat of the buffalo, the elk, the deer and antelope: 
and we had berries, quantities of the variotts kinds, dried 
for wifiter use.” 

Qn we went past the fort, and down over the Shonki 
bar at the mouth of the stream of that name which puts 
in here from the Highwood Mountains to the south, It 
js a stream no longer. Once it was a good sized creek 
of pure mountain water. Schools of trout lived in its 
clear depths, and the beavers bridged it with their dams. 


Then came the white man and used the water to irrigate 


vast tracts of the barren plain, so nothing now runs in 
the old channel but a little seepage of brown alkalme 
water. The-trout are dead, the beavers haye vanished 
never to return. 

A little further down we passed the 


“Groscondunez,” 


Here the Teton River makes an elbow to the south at the 
apex of which it is divided from the Missouri only by 
a narrow, sharp, high ridge. Along its crest runs an 
old Indian trail, a short cut from the fort to the mouth 
of the Marias. It was here, in 1865, that the Piegan chief, 
Little Dog, met his death, murdered by his own people. 
The Piegans then were bitter enemies of the whites. 
They would come to the fort professing peace and trade 
their robes, but parties of the warriors were out at all 
times of the year traveling even as far South as the Cali- 
fornia Overland trail in search of scalps and plunder. 
Of the whole tribe Little Dog alone was the white man’s 
friend, and by every means in his power he tried to keep 
his people at peace with them, even, shooting one or two 
of the most obstinate and bloodthirsty. He was the 
especial favorite of the factor of the American Fur Com- 
pany, Major Dawson, who gave him many valuable 
presents from time to time, and often sent him down the 
Missouri on the company’s boats that he might see some- 
thing of the world. His warriors feared him, for he 
ruled them with an iron hand, and they were jealous of 
the favors showered on him. No one had such fine 
guns, stich brilliantly colored blankets, such durable sad- 
dles and bridles as he, One day four or five of the more 
hot-headed warriors held a secret council and determined 
that, if the tribe was to keep up its record of scalps and 
plunder taken, their chief must die. The camp was then 
at the mouth of the Matias, some twelye miles below the 
fort, and they knew that Little Dog was up there visiting 
the Factor, and would return home that aiternoon. So 
they went up to the Groscondunez and lay in wait for 
him, At dusk he came riding leisurely along, humming 
his favorite war song. As one man they leveled their 
rifles and fired at him, and he fell from his horse without 
a cry or groan, stone dead. 

Strange to relate, every one of his murderers died 
within a year; some in battle, some by disease, and one 
by a fall while running buffalo, The people said it was 
because the sun was angry at their foul deed and had for- 
saken them, It was an unlucky day for the tribe when 
their chief was killed. Relieyed from the restraint his 
unbending will had imposed, the braves began a system- 
atic wartare against the whites. Lone trappers and hun- 
ters—‘woodhawks’—along the river, travelers on the 
Oregon trail, and the trail between Fort Benton and 
the mines to the west are waylaid and murdered by 
scores and scores. And then came that January morning 
in ‘yo when Col. Baker and his two companies of infan- 
try crept up the edge of the bluff on the Marias over- 
looking a part of the Piezgan camp, some eighty lodges. 

There was a massacre! There the whites avenged the 
death of many an unfortunate pioneer, of many a helpless 
wife and child, Of all the inmates of those eighty lodges, 
but three escaped. Men, women and children were indis- 
criminately shot and then burned in piles of their lodges 
and household effects. It was a severe lesson, but in no 
other way could the Piegans haye been taught to cease 
their murderous ways: from that day they took no more 
white scalps. 

Little Dog was Sah-né-to’s uncle. No wonder, then, 
that as we passed the scene of his untimely death, she 
was for a time somewhat depressed in Spirits. But on 
such a lovely morning no one could long have sad 
thoughts. The stn shone from a clear sky; the river 
flowed swiftly by narrow strips of timber fringing the 
shore, yellow and red painted by the early frosts. Here 
we passed a sheer cut bank reaching from the water's 
edge up to the level of the plain. On the opposite side 
there would be a gentle slope of gray sage brush and 
buffalo grass. Magpies flew back and forth across the 
stream with discordant ¢ries. Ducks were a-wing seeking 
some tnuddy slough where a rich breakfast might be 
found. Here and there a flock of chickens were lined 
up on the shore taking their morning drink of water. 
The sharptail grouse are interesting birds. Have you 
ever approached a flock on a cool, frosty morning and 
seen them running about chasing each other, and all the 
time keeping up their pectiliar and inimitable gabble? 
The Blackfeet say that they haye a language, and talk 
with each other as well as human beings do. 

It was too pleasant a morning to row, and after the sun 
was an hour high too warm for much exertion; so we let 
the boat float with the current, dipping a blade now and 
then to keep it in the channel. Tt was ten o'clock when 
we atrived at the Brule Bar, and gliding down over the 
rifles we went ashore to stretch our legs and gather a 
few bullberries. It was here, in 1833, that Mr. James 
Kipp established a trading post for the American Fur 
Company. It will be remembered that when George 
Catlin, the Indian artist and philanthropist, visited the 
Upper Missouri in 1832, Mr. Kipp was im charge of the 
company’s post in the Mandan village, and that the two 
became great friends. The fort built here did not last 
long: the Blackfeet finally succeeding in burning it, with 
all its contents, and murdering a part of its inmates. 
After some search, we found the site of the fort—just 
some long, low. grass-grown motinds of dirt and a few 


fire-cracked rocks where the chimney had stood. While 


Sah-né-to was gathering the berries, I flushed a covey at 
chickens and got three of them with my repeating shot- 
gun before they could fly out of range: Then we got 
aboard once more and continued our journey. At noon 
we arrived at the mouth of the Marias River, twenty-two 
miles from Fort Benton. This is the stream which Lewis 
and Clark thought was the main fork of the Missouri, 
and which they followed up for some distance until con- 
vinced of their mistake. It is a large stream, draining 
an immense scope of mountain country. its principal 
tributaries being the Cutbank, Two Medicine, Badger. 
Birch and Dupuyer Creeks. All of them rise in the fast- 
nesses of the Rockies, and are fed by the perpetual ice 
and snows of the higher ranges. We landed on a dry. 
sandy bar at the mouth of the river and had lunch, wash- 
ing it down with long draughts of the cool but slightly 
muddy water. “It is the water of the Two Medicine 
also.” said Sah-né-to. “I wonder when this cupful 
passed by our ranch up there in the foothills. Perhaps 
our son saw these very drops dancing down over the 
rifles at the ford,” ’ 

We rested an hour and then went ou. Passing the 
Spanish Islands Sah-né-to discayered a flock of green 
wing teal asleep on a bar. I stopped rowing and picked 
up the gun, while she guided the boat straight toward 


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them. When within thirty or forty yards of them they 
began to stretch their necks uneasily and waddle down 
to the water’s edge, There they took wing, but at the 
crack of the gun fiye of them dropped into the water and 
were presently picked up. 

At four thirty we came in sight of the “Coal Banks,” 
so named on account of some deposits of inferior lignite 
in the bluffs at the lower end of the big bottom. We had 
made forty-two miles since daylight. I remembered that 
on my last trip down the river in April, 1882, we had 
camped for the night in a narrow strip of cottonwood and 
willows, and thither I directed Sah-né-to to steer the 
boat. We found on landing that we were within the 
bounds of an accursed sheep ranch; but in memory of 
old times I decided to camp there anyhow, and in a few 
minutes the tent was up, a fire going in the sheet iron 
stove, and preparations for a good dinner under way. 

The winter of 1881-2 was the last good season of the 
buffalo robe trade on the Upper Missouri. I had been 
employed by Mr, Joseph Kipp for several years at his 
Carroll trading post. In March of ’82 we ran owt of 
whisky, and there were thousands of Crees, Blackfeet 
and Bloods camped about us. Every lodge had numbers 
of prime robes to trade, but our stock of drygoods, 
provisions, red paint and brass jewelry was not what 
they wanted. “Give us fire water,” they said, and you 
get the robes.’ So I went up to Fort Benton overland, 
built a large flat boat, loaded it with twenty barrels of 
cheap whisky, and got it down to Carroll as quickly as 
T could. In Jess than two weeks after I landed at the 
port we had the robes, all of them. As I remember it, 
there wasn’t a single fatal quarrel in the camp during that 
erand spree. It was a sight never to be forgotten, that 
of several thousand Indians, men and women, drinking, 
dancing, singing, and cutting all sorts of queer capers. 
One day some young Crees and Blackieet did get into 
dispttte over the ownership of a bottle of the precious 
spirits, and guns and knives were drawn. Then Crow- 
foot, the chief of the Blackfeet, and Big Bear, chief of 
the Crees, jumped into the excited circle with rifles 
cocked. “Whoever fights,” said Crowfoot, “be it Cree 
or Blackfoot, fights us.” “Ai,” said Big Bear, “he tells 
our minds. Back to your lodges, foolish youths, and be 
ashamed of your hot and idle words.” 

They slunk away at once. : 

While I sat and mitsed over those good old times, 
Sah-né-to had been busy with the dinner, and now she 
announced that it was ready. Broiled breast of chicken, 
baked potatoes, hot biscuits, stewed bullberries, a ctip 
of black coffee. I did the meal full justice. Darkness 
had long since settled down over the valley. The stars 
came out, the owls began their nightly concert, a coyote 
ki-yied and yelped on the opposite side of the river. 
There was nothing to disturb our contentment except the 
distant bleating of the acctirsed sheep. And so, after 
4 stnoke or two, we went to bed with pleasant anticipa- 
tions of the wonderful scenery we were to pass through 
on. the morrow. APPEKUNNY. 


The Cedars of bee 


BY EDGAR MAGNESS. 


Ons naturally imagines the mountains of Lebanon cov- 
ered with the famous cedars, but one does not have to 
travel far in the lonely mountain wastes of Syria to 
realize how improbable this is. Very little of the once 
luxuriant foliage of these fine hills now remains, and of 
the cedars only a few groups are left, and they are found 
at an altitude of from 5,200 to 6,200 feet above the sea. 
We have only to read in Ezekiel 31:3 and Psalms xcii., 
12, and ciy., 16, to know how much valued these orna- 
ments of the mountains were in ancient times. There 
were no cedars in Israel or Solomon would not have 
brought them from Lebanon (I. Kings v., 6). He was 
supplied also from here for a second temple (Ezra 3:7). 
Earlier, David built a palace of cedar (II. Samuel v., 11). 
Cedat was used in shipbuilding (Ezekiel 27:5), and for 
idols (Isaiah xliv., 14). Theophrastus speaks of it as 
‘‘admirable cedar,’ Pliny as “cedrus magna,” This variety 
belongs to the conifers and resembles larch. but is dis- 
tinguished from it by evergreen leaves, which do not fall 

in winter, and by spreading branches. The cones are as 
large as goose eggs; the wood is white and soft, and 
inferior to the cypress of the Kadisha Valley. The only 
place where these cedars grow in any quantity at this 
{ime is the Cilician Taurus—beyond Mercina and Taurus, 
Here, as at Lebanon, there are two varieties—one dark 
green, with bright green leaves. the other silvery white, 
with leaves of bluish bloom, The cedar of Lebanon is a 
local form of a wider species—that of Himalayah (Cedrus 
deodora) and that of Atlas (Cedrus atlantica) belonging 
to the same family, merely differing in size and habits to 
correspond to locality. The Indian cedar, called in San- 
scrit, wood of the gods, is one of the finest trees in the 
world. It reaches a height of 250 feet and a circumfer- 
ence of 39 feet, about double the size of the Lebanon 
yariety. That of Atlas is smaller, its leaves are short and 
cones smaller. The cedat of Lebanon has been intro- 
duced in Europe and does well in the climate of England. 
The specimens in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris came 
from seeds planted by Turnefort at the beginning of the 
eighteenth century. They are the oldest trees in Europe, 
but not so tall as the one near Geneva, which is 120 feet 
high. 

The group of cedars of Lebanon generally visited covers 
an estimated area of ten acres, and they are located at 
the foot of Dahr el Kodib—a snowy peak of about 6,300 
feet elevation. To the west and opposite rises the peak of 
Fum el Mizab. The group has 390 trees, and the tallest 
is not more than 80 feet high. They grow in white lime- 
stone rock. The oldest trees, nine in number, are on the 
southeast point. In the midst of the northwest group is a 
Maronite chapel, and to the north of this stands the 
largest cedar, The group is now surrounded by a wall as 


''4 protection against the goats and also against the peasants 


who were accustomed to hold a gteat festival here in 


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A Walk Down South.—XVL 


My directions in regard to leaving Covington were 
confusing. but after making an unnecessary loop and get- 
ting off on a side street I at last reached the first main 
road J was to follow. A mile or so out of town I found 
a fork im the road at which I sat down to await directions. 
1 followed the lme indicated by a man’s finger, and came 
tu another fork, I remembered somebody saying I’d see 
a farmhouse down across a field. Here was such a farm- 
house. I followed what seemed to be a mere lane, and 
sure enough there was a big coveted bridge over 
the main branch of the James River. It is called the 

“country bridge.” It is.suspended by a system of timber 

X's, and is painted white. I crossed it, and getting 
directions ata log house from some hog killers T began 
a climb that lasted for hours, with a nub to think about. 
The man who gave me my directions had lost two houses 
by fire. The first, a large one, the second a fair sized 
one. He lives in a cabin with but a single room in it 
now. Two great stone chimneys mark the site of the 
first dwelling. one that of the second. The lool and ges- 
ture of the unfortunate man showed how~ heayily his 
disasters told on him, He replied to his wife’s always 
smiling greeting with a wan grin. 

My road, as usual, followed a run. It led up the moyn- 
tainside in a woods growth from the dooryard of the 
burned dwellings. There were no more forks to bother 
me for miles at least. To remember and take the ‘“‘first 
road to the right, next to the left, then past Sam Collins's 
to the old schoolhouse and through Peters’'s farm to 
where Alec Kinter lives, etc.,”-is something of a task— 
one that must be-performed daily tnless one is fortunate 
enough to strike roads with no forks. 

The road was a crooked one—more so than that one 
which led*me down into Covi ington. It was up hill, more- 
over, every step of the way. After hundreds of yards of 
walking, I could look down on the road which I had 
lollowed Tong before; and I could see, high im the woods, 
perhaps itom the ‘samie point where the road léed high 
above me, on the far side of a gully. With the views 
which each coil in the road gave in mind, I did not be- 
vrudge a.single inch. -of the rise, howeyer hard it made 
the walking. .-. 

Across’ the valley: beyond Pott’s Creek were some 
heavy. mountains—great, lumbering creatures, suggest- 
ing =a herd, ol-fat cows frisking with their calves. The 
soit coal smoke above Covington was spreading in a 
level, dayer ver the valley of the Jackson, as if it had 
found,a, ceiling in the air strata. 

After awhile the road left the face of the mountain 
ridge;and-went in to a gap. J came to a house, but could 
get-nothing to eat, there being “nothing cookéd up.’ But 
a Sbttle sways: further, "bout a mile,” I'd find a dinner, 
perhaps., It, was afternoon, my breakfast had been un- 
satisfactory, and I was hungry. At 12:50 o’clock, how- 
eyér,, L.reached Nathan -Brtish’s, the blacksmith, 81% 
miles- from, Covington. There I, ate an ample dinner— 
milk, biscuit, sauces and jellies, and boiled salt pork. 

A few days-before a wheelman..had stopped there for 

dinner, -He-had.come over, the Alleghanies with his 
wheel from: Buffalo, i in spite of the snow “and cold, headed 
for his. home. in. one of the Carolinas. He had come 
through a:tmost.interesting country at the rate of from 
40 to 70.miles;a day.,. The bicycle is too fast. No one 
can really .see.a. region until he has hit the pikes with 
the soles of his. shoes. Even walking is too fast if one 
does not hold up to talk to the friendly farmer who comes 
clear ‘to the road just oj see where. might the stranger be 
going. . 
From Brush’: Ss, to ihe ‘Graig. road’? was only a mile or 
sO, slightly down, ‘grade, but from there on it was up and 
up. again, the. toad..working: Its, way ascending the side 
of Rich Patch, Mountain, , the valley rising with it, so 
there,. WEeTE NO deep gullies to. look down. “T thought in 
the morning that was climbing Rich Patch, but it was 
a mére. ridge” masking. -Pott’s Creek valley. The real 
article, however, was scarcely worse. One’s best maps 
are delightfully uncertain... They tell. but litthe—one can- 
not guess at the: ‘scenery, , . Where there seems to be a 
plain ene finds! -beautiful ridges and hills, and through. 
the roughest portions on the maps are fine valley roads 
very often. In the case of, the Rich Patch district. how- 
ever, the country-was as “rough” as the map said. The 
roads were ill kept in the back district compared to the 
other road into Covington, It was a hard tramp. Four- 
teen miles from Covington I.was still two miles from the 
divide. . A school district - cluster. of houses was reached, 
and I sought a resting place. | 
of Nickol’s Knob at John Persinger’ S. 

A man came through this locality a few years ago and 
bought black walnut trees by the carload. “He gave 
good prices,’ as mtich as fiiteen dollars for some trees 
us they stood. He surprised people by grubbing up some 
old..stuimps the trunks of which had been burned in fire 
places or in brush piles to make way for cornfields. He 
said the butt-wood made “pretty” gun stocks. and of 
course the people were glad to have. their land cleared 
in sO cheap a fashion, Here, as everywhere on the 
mountainsides of West Virginia and Old Virginia, m'n- 
erals, are the hope of the land ownmers—a not baseless 
hope, 4s anyone who knows iron ore can see in the road 
itself. 

“Every little ways, not more than a mile of so apart.” 
{ would find houses, so I was told in the morning when 
T headed for Craig county over the divide which marks 
the separation - between Johns’ and Potts’ Creeks, both 
James River tributaries. It was a pretty bit of road 
where the rise ended and the down grade began, Serth 
oak, Jack and bull pme grew in all directions. In the 
underbrush were rabbit runways and cattle paths. It 
seemed. like a good game country. The ground was 
frozen, in contrast with which the profusion of green 
due to the ground and mountain laurel was exceedingly 
pleasing. Wintergreen berries were there, too, and jolly 
hluejays who bothered a redhead woodpecker because 
it was their nature to do so. The quiet little juncos 
staid with me longest, as they always do, and seemed to 
enjoy our talk as much as I did. 

After a howdy to a man and some children at a clump 
of three houses, I proceeded to enjoy a novel kind of 
road. It was all down grade through the woods: At all 
times] couldhear the “run” of a brook, as it rustled down 


I found it in the shadow 


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the bed, a crisp sound it gave off after the fashion of cold 
water on a dry day, Many times the road crossed the 
stream, but I could jump it at first, and then cross it on 
rocks without much trouble. The stones are not so 
smooth and treacherous as the rounded boulders of 
Adirondack streams. 

The woods had the same forbidding: look that I noted 
back in Highland and Bath county—a snarling sort of 
forest, each tree looking like a thwarted miser. After a 
mile or so I came to a side hill clearing in which there 
was a log house, abandoned for some time. It looked 
gloomy and forbidding, as inwood abandoned clearings 
usually do. The fruit trees were unkempt in appearance, 
too, and there was a big boulder in the orchard, the 
memory of which was afterward vividly impressed om my 
mind by a story. 

It seems that Straud Helm was a mighty mean man. 
He was always picking and quarreling, and no one could 
get along with him very well. One day he took the no- 
tion that he would claim the fruit of the orchard at the 
abandoned house I saw and served notice on Alec 
Tucker, whose brother-in-law had the right to the fruit, 
jor whom Alec was acting, that Alec should leave the 
fruit alone on penalty of getting shot. 

Alec is deaf as a stone wall, and only one familiar with 
his voice can understand him. He ‘lowed he was a 
peaceable man and always treating other people right; 
nevertheless; when the fruit ripened he went up to the 
orchard, taRing two children, one a boy of twelve, the 
other a younger girl; he carried an old muzzleloading 
rifle and a hatchet to cut a stick to knock down the 
[rait. 

When Tucker gotto the place, Helm was bushwhacking 
for him behind the big rock in the orchard. Helm fired 
at Iueker, but missed. Then Tucker drew down on 
Helm and shot him in the head. Tt is said that Tucker, 
on the spur of the moment, cut the bullet out of Helm’s 
head with the hatchet. so that it couldn't be used as 
evidence, but, thinking better of it, he went down to New 
Castic Court House and gave himself up. That was in 
1807. Self-defense was a sufficient plea, and Alec 
Tneker is one of the most respected men on Barber’s 
Creek fo-day. One doesn't haye to look at the clear- 
eyed old man to see the most dangerous sort of gun 
fighter—it is enough to look into the eyes- of the son 
who stood by his father’s side during the shooting. 

I came, aiter a while to a prosperous looking farm: 
there was a small threshing machine under a shed; there 
was a pile of old sawed lumber and a low barn beside 
the log house and the ‘detached kitchen. It was after- 
noon and I went to the kitchen to get dinner. The 
woman's yoice was high pitched, and the man’s both 
lips showed through his bushy brown whiskers—he was the 
kindthatone looks square in the eyes when about to turn 
the back on him. A young fellow there seemed pleasant 
enough, and after an ample “cold” meal, the meat part 
of which consisted of venison pot-stewed, I talked for 
some time with him, Deer, he said, were “scarce,” 
pheasants scarce; so, too, were turkeys, squirrels and 
rabbits. I had seen several deer tracks after | came over 
the divide, and, noting that the speaker had hunted a 
good deal, I judged that he didn’t want any strangers 
in his hunting ground. He had killed the deer of which 
I ate three days before. Two days later he killed another. 
He uses_a slow-track hound, one that follows a trail no 
faster than the hunter goes. He told me that if he saw 
a hound running in the woods he’d shoot it; “so would 
anybody around here.” Roy Tucker, son of Alec, when 
I repeated this assertion to. him, said: “If he killed my 
dog, I’d kill him.” There are some dogs on Barber's 
Creek which the young man will not kill, nor try to. It 
is said that the bushy-whiskered man is the meanest man 
on Barber's Creek. “‘He’d draw the hide on a neigh- 
bor’s S pig and stick it, then let it go off into the brush 
and die.” By “drawing the hide” on the throat of a pig 
and “‘sticking it” when released the animal’s skin slides 
over the cut and so doesn't bleed. 

Through that district one will not get a neighbor to 
say that another is “mean.” When I-asked in regard to 
a place to stay in the morning I was told that there were 
“lots of places.” I might try so and so. A tiny frown 
and “you'll find plenty of places to stop at’ if I men- 
tioned one or other particular place where the man or 
family had a bad name indicated that I might find a cold 
reception. 

I wanted to stay a couple or three days at the house 
where the bushy-whiskered. man lived, thinking I would 
like to see his way of life, but he refused—not directly. 
but through his wife—the only incident of the kind I 
haye seen since I crossed the Potomac. 

I walked on down the valley for several miles, think- 
ing to continue on day aiter day as I had been doing. 
But toward night I came to two board houses close to- 
gether and evidently occupied by one family, I went up 
the lane to the stable, and leaving my pack on the fence 
crossing board, I walked up to the house “kitchen.” <A 
tall, heavy youth was in the doorway. On the floor were 
two dead rabbits, freshly killed. I was welcome for the 
night, at least. 

Jt was the home of Col. Thomas Taylor which I haa 
jound. The father was not at home, however; but there 
were three sons, two of them six-footers, one over five 
feef ten inches tall, and two daughters, one of them “the 
best looking girl in the valley.” 

Aiter supper we gathered before the fire- place—seven 
of us—and as they had two French harps and I one, music 
soon filled the cabin and “spurted out the cracks.’ The 
letters of the instruments were all different—mine D, 
theirs A and C, but it didn’t matter. Nor did it matter 
that we didn’t play the same tunes, so lone as the time 
was about the same. When I played a new tune, they'd 
practice it, and when they played a new one I'd practice 
at it. 

The evening passed quickly and we boys went down to 
“the other house” to sleep. And sleep we did, till long 
alter daylight the next morning. 

On the morning of Dec. 13 the sky was clouded over, 
and clouds clung along the ridge tops in lowery fashion. 
‘A dash of chilly mist was in the air. It looked dismal 
and like a storm. I hesitated, prepared to go, stopped, 
and then decided to stay over Sunday. It was fortunate 
that I did so. Before noon the dash of mist became a 


, drizzle so cold that it drove one to the fire-place, 


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There was only a small window, and that was closed 
by a board slide. The door had to be left open so that 
the women could see to do their work, The rain swept 
in, consequently, with the still further reaching wind, 
One must needs turn first one side and then another to 
the fire. 

One of the boys, Walter, rode over to the mine on 
horseback. Noon, one o'clock, two o'clock came, and 
he did not return. Nor were there any signs of dinner. 
My appetite increased as the day waned, and a headache 


was the result. At last, Mrs. Taylor asked if I was 
getting hungry, 
“Oh, yes,” I said, “but it doesn’t make much difference 


to me when I eat,” 

“We're clean shet of salt, and Walter’s just gone to 
get some, I can’t see what makes him gone so long.” 

“Why,” I said, “I've got a can in my pack yonder 
chock full of salt. You're welcome to it.” 

I got the salt, and directly fresh pork was sizzling on 
the spider and. the daughter, Hattie, was fetching the 
rolling pin down on the biscuit dough with the peculiar 
plunking thud which characterizes the biscuit rolling. 
Dinner grew on the table as one fancies the India magi- 
cian males the mangrove bloom. We sat down to it. 

Biscuit of flaky texture, corn bread, potatoes, fried 
pork, with plenty of grease, molasses, apple and cream 
butter, coffee, sugar, cream and wild honey were the 
leading dishes, 

“Will you haye milk?” 

“Tf -you will, please,” I replied. From a_ six-quart 
pitcher running full she poured out’a glass full. I 
reached for it, and without setting it on the table, began 
to drink—three swallows only. It was sour and thick. 
I had already begun to eat. I continued to eat, but only 
by main strength was that possible, 

We were soon around the fire-place again with the 
door shut. When the blaze died away, it was renewed 
with a fat pine knot. The body of the fire was furnished 
by six or eightinch green oak, cut from day to day by 
the three boys. Of the father I heard only one mention 
made. “Where’s paw?’ asked Walter. The reply was 
not meant for my ears. 

Charlie, 18 years, and Harmon, 16 years old, studied 
their school iessons by the light of the fire. Hattie 

“heard” Harmon spell his two pages in a pocket or 
school dictionary. Walter sat silent, watching the flames 
fly; I, too, saw much in those red flickerings. One can- 
not get tired of seeing the open fire. It seems that there 
is no mind so dull that it cannot find a kind word for it. 
Wrapped in eyery blazing log are the flame spirits—and 
the memories. “It ‘pears to me like that yere open fire 
was a book, and me reading it. It must of been a friend 
who first boxed up fire. He must a done it to keep the 
tormented from seein’ how pretty is the fire that never 
dies, lest they got to liking the sight of it.” Neverthe- 
less, this woodsman philosopher insisted on hot biscuit, 
done clear through, and that the stove makes certain. 
“The stove don’t use so much wood, either,” is the other 
leading argument which is slowly taking the ugly black 
things to this country where the pioneers made their 
fame and left their habits. RayMOND §. SPEARS. 


Miss Taylor asked. 


Warren Hapgood. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr. Warren Hapgood passed away at his home in 
Boston on Jan, 30. Warren Hapgood was born in Har- 
vard, Mass., upon the original Hapgood farm, Oct. 14, 
1816, 

In 1887, after fifty-four years of active business life, for- 
ty-one of which were on his own account, he retired. In 
all his life Mr. Hapgood never borrowed money nor gave 
his note, 

Mr, Hapgood was an ardent sportsman, and early inl 
life began to use the gun and rod. More than fifty 
years ago he turned his attention to the beach and shore 
bird shooting. and has long been an authority on that 
branch of sport. A fluent and accurate writer, he has con- 
tributed to the literature of shore bird shooting a num- 
ber of instructive articles, many of which appeared in 
the Forest AND STREAM and Shooting and Fishing. 

He followed the ruffed grouse, quail and woodcock for 
many seasons, and was a capital shot. He organized the 
Monomoy Brant Club in 1862, and was its president and 
manager for thirty-four years. Forest AND STREAM 
readers will recall numerous articles written by him in 
connection with that shooting. He was, as well, a disciple 
of Izaak Walton, and has fished i in the streams of Maine, 
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, California. Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana 
and- Canada. Trout fishing was his favorite, but he en- 
joyed pickerel fishing. andl also bluefishing from a sail- 
boat. as practiced on Buzzard’s Bay. 

Mr, Hapgood was early interested in game preservation 
and propagation by introduction of new birds. In 1877 
he imported some European quail; 189 arrived alive out of 
a shipment of 250 from Messina, and were distributed 
in the vicinity of Haryard, in Worcester county. About” 
the same time the Hon, Martin G, Everts, of Rutland, 
Vt., and Horace P. Tobey, Esgq., of Wareham, Mass., each 
imported a consigninent of birds from the same place. 
What finally became of them is a mystery. Readers are 
referred to copies of Forest anp Srream for. 1878, to 
which these gentlemen all contributed articles relating 
tm the quail. 

Mr. Hapgood also introduced black bass from Halfway 
Pond, in Plymouth, to the ponds of his native town. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association, the Boston Art Club, the Museani 
of Fine Arts, the Bostonian Society, the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society; belonged to Dr. Edward 
Everett Hale’s church, and the Hale Club; had served on 
the Boston School Board, was a liberal subscriber 
periodical and other literature. He donated a Ree 
sum to complete the public library. of his native town, and 
made an address at its dedication; presented her citizens 
a clock to be placed upon the Unitarian Church; published 
in 1894 a history of Harvard for free distribution. 

Mr. Hapgood during the nineties made six annual trips 
to North Carolina for the quail shooting. With a party 
of friends he would spend from fotir to six mice; some 
seasons in Dare county and others in Edgecomb, - 


Shortly after the war he began quail shooting on the 
Cape (Cod). My father and I met him on the cars com- 
ing up from Orleans. From this chance meeting 
sprang a friendship and acquaintance of nearly forty 
years. 


Mr. Hapgood visited East Wareham regularly for many . 


seasons—in fact, as long as he could follow a dog with 
any pleasure, I remember how kindly he would wait 
until I could get my muzzleloading gun charged up be- 
fore he would advance after a covey we had flushed and 
shot at. The same kindness of heart and thoughtfulness 
for others characterized his whole life. He was endeared 
to a wide circle of friends, many of whom have preceded 
him over the great divide. To know him was to love 
him, and no words of mine can express the affection I felt 
for him while living. or my sorrow for his loss. 

: Water B. SAVARY. 
East WAREHAM, Mass. 


— 


Boston, Feb. 5.—Editor Forest and Stream; I inclose 
this tribute ‘to Mr. Hapgood, given in the Boston Trans- 
SCLiIpiay ; ‘ 

Although in his eighty-sixth year, Mr, Hapgood tfe- 
tained his vigor and activity to, the last. Enjoying grate- 
fully and heartily all the good gifts of a benign Provi- 
dence, he always desired that his fellow travelers on the 
journey of life should Have it in their power to do the 
same. He was one of a class of men, not too numerous in 
the world, who have far less desire to formulate or sub- 
scribe to any definite creed or form of belief than they 
have to live lives of helpfulness by speaking the encourag- 
ing word and extending sympathy and aid to others. He 
was a good citizen, a hospitable and loyal friend, and a 
kind neighbor. To the writer, who knew him for more 


than half a century, in many different relations, one of his - 


strongest characteristics seemed to be thoroughness in 
whatever he undertook. A striking illustration of this 
trait is found in his “Genealogy of the Hapgood Family,” 
a work of more than five hundred pages, upon which he 
spent years of time and almost endless labor, requiring 
great patience and persistence. 

Another equally prominent trait was the manner in 
which his warm-heartedness manifested itself in his daily 
walk, what Wordsworth terms “that best portion of a 
good man’s life—his little, nameless, unremembered acts 
of kindness and of love.” For many a year to come, at 
Chatham and Monomoy, where Mr. Hapgood was accus- 
tomed to make his periodical visits, will be recounted the 
many instances of his good will and kindness, substantially 
expressed and hardly known by any one outside the circle 
of recipients. Leen GEC 

Feb, 1. 


dhatuyal History. 


i 


| ‘A New Elk from Arizona. 


A NEw. species of elk has just been described from 
Arizona by Mr, E. W. Nelson, the well-known naturalist, 
who-is perhaps more familiar than any other man_ with 
the birds and mammals of the extreme Southwest. So far 
as Mr. Nelson has been able to learn, its range is limited 
and has long been isolated, and it is almost extinct. Only 
two specimens are known to naturalists, both obtained 
by Mr. Nelson near the head of Black River in the White 
Mountains of Arizona. Of these, the type is im the 
Natiénal Museum at Washington, while the other, repre- 
sented by the skull and antlers of an old male, is in the 
American Museum of Natural History, New York. It is 
the skull of this last species which is described and figured 
in the paper which Mr. Nelson contributes to Vol. XVI. 
of the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, which has just been issued. 

It is ah extraordinary thing that this species should 
have been made known to science just as itis about to 
disappear. But this is hardly. more extraordinary than 
the fact that of all the herds of elk which two or three 
hundred years ago ranged over the Eastern United States, 
but one solitary specimen has been preserved; an old and 
faded mounted skin now in the Museum of the Academy 
of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. There are natural- 
ists of eminence who believe that the elk of the Eastern 
United States was a different species from the animal 
‘which thirty years.ago was found in such great numbers 
in Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas and all over the plains, 
but it is possible that this question may never be settled. 

Of the Arizona elk which Mr. Nelson calls Cervus 
merviami, for Dr. C. Hatt Merriam, the energetic Chief of 
the Biological Survey, who more than any other 
man has made known the mammals of North Amer- 
ica, Mt. Nelson says: “My first knowledge of its exist- 
ence was obtained in the fall of 1882, when some prospec- 
tors at Chloride, New Mexico, told me that elk in- 
habited the Mogollon Mountains near the extreme head- 
waters of Gila River. Nothing further was heard of it 
until fhe early months of 1884, when | spent some time 
exploring the Indian ruins about the village now called 
Frisco on the headwaters of the San Francisco River, in 
western Socotro county, New Mexico. During January 
I made a horseback trip of about ten miles to the east- 


ward into the borders of the Mogo'lon Mountains, and - 
saw a doe elk and two young bucks hanging by a hunter's » 


cabin. At this time elk were reported to be not uncom- 
mon on the higher parts of the range, but the total number 
from ‘all accounts must have been very small compared 
with those then found in Colorado and further north, 
“From 1885 to 1887, while living on my ranche at the 
eastern base of the White Mountains, near Springerville, 
Arizona, I heard frequently of elk living in the higher 
and. more remote parts of these mountains, mainly along 
the border of the White Mountain Indian reservation, 
near the head of Black River (a tributary of the Gila). 


The Jacal hinters reported them not uncommon in this. 


area where, during these hunting trips between 1885 and 
1888, I saw signs of their presence in various places. 
Their main range covered an area of about thirty by fifty 
miles in extent, at an elevation of 8,000 to 10,000 feet above 


‘50 it was not to be expected that 


gea level. This country forms the divide between the 
headwaters of Little Colorado River and Black River, and 
the high Prieto Plateau, between the upper Black River 
and Blue River. At the time-of which I write elk were 
far from numerous, but I never visited that territory 
without seeing signs, usually more or less recent ‘tracks, 
and in fall the broken branches and barkless trunks of 
saplings where the bulls had been rubbing their horns. 
The most abundant signs were found about some beauti- 
ful meadows in the midst of the dense fir forest of the 
rolling summit of the Prieto Plateau, between the Blue 
and the Black rivers. Owing to the presence of hostile 
Apaches at that time, it was dangerous to linger in a 
country where we saw most of the elk signs, so we always 
pressed on to a safer distance before doing much hunting. 
Outside the Indian country they were not common enough 
for one to hunt them with any degree of certainty. From 
1884 to 1889 the white hunters did not kill a dozen elk in 
all this district. ' 


“Mr. W. W. Price, who made a collecting trip for mam- 
mals through the White Mcuntains during July and Aug- 
ust, 1894, states: ‘So far as we could learn, this animal 
is now confined to a small area in the higher White Moun- 
tains. Several were seen and a fine male was shot at 
about 9,000 feet elevation on Aug. 10. They feed in 
the dense fir woods and glades which clothe the upper 
slopes of the mountains. A recent letter from my brother, 
F. W. Nelson, informs me that a local hunter found the 
trail of a bull elk near the head of Black River the pres- 
ent autumn (1901), and followed it for two days without 
obtaining a shot at the animal. This-shows that the 
Arizona elk still survives and that it is pursued by local 
hunters, regardless of the legal prohibition.’ ” 

Merriam’s elk has the nose darker, and the head and 
legs more reddish than in the elk of the northern Rocky 
Mountains, but paler than Roosevelt’s elk from the north- 
west coast. The skull is more massive, with the nasal 
bones much broader and more flattened, and the series 
of upper molar teéth heavier and more curved. The 
antlers are most like those of the Rocky Mountain elk, but 
the tip is straighter. : 

It isa melancholy thing that this animal should be on 
the verge of extinction. The present game law of Arizona 
prohibits the shooting of elk at all seasons, but this law 
is not at all regarded, as shown above. Here is a case, if 
ever one was, where the establishment of a-game refuge 
in a forest reserve might preserve from extermination’ a 
superb species which so’far as can now be foreseen has 
been discovered only to be lost again forever. 


Ways of ‘the Gadwall. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Under the above heading in your issue of Jan. 25 the 
author of “American Duck Shooting” desires to know 
if duck shooters generally have noticed more gadwalls 
than usual during the fall of 1901. 

Speaking for the locality about Toronto, on the north 
shore of Lake Ontario, I might state that I know of three 
specimens that were shot here last October- 

In this vicinity the gadwall is only an occasional 
visitant, and during my observations, covering the last 
twenty-five years, ] have not seen more than twelve or 
fifteen—mostly single ones. 

I have a very distinct recollection of the first gadwall 
I shot. It came and sat down in the water about 100 
yards from my decoys, and started to feed on the surface 
weeds, when a shot in another part of the marsh alarmed 
it, and in flying by me—without paying the slightest atten- 
tion to my decoys—I made a long shot and killed it. When 
I picked it up I saw at once that it was a strange duck, so 
I came to the conclusion that it was a hybrid between a 
pintail and baldpate, for it had a mark on the wings like 
the latter, and the bill more like a pintail. However, my 
father informed me that it was a female gadwall. On 
another occasion three gadwalls were flying past without 


paying the slightest attention to my decoys, when \I suc- ° 


ceeded in killing one. In just one instance I saw.three 
gadwalls swing up to decoys as ducks generally do. I 
have made several inquiries among gunners, and the 
opinion seems to be generally held that gadwalls do not 
decoy well. 

The month of October, 1888, I spent at Whitewater 
Lake, in southwestern Manitoba, near the Dakota bound- 
ary, and there found gadwalls in abundance—more of 
them, in fact, than any of the numerous kinds of ducks 
then to be seen there. Small flocks of from eight to fifteen 
were all round the edges of the lake, and every now and 
then they would take a fly around, just for exercise as it 


were, and when they were on these flights they would | 


take no notice of-their own kind that were sitting about, 
they would look at 
decoys—in fact, none of the ducks seemed to decoy as 
well im the West as they do here in the East. 

We have had an unusual number of white owls about 
here this winter, also several flocks of grosbeaks, which 
would seem to indicate a /colder winter than usual to the 
north of us. Jno. Townson. 


Toronto. 


Duck, Crows and Gull. 


PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 4—Editor Forest and Stream: 
An occurrence somewhat similar to the one noted by your 
Arizona correspondent concerning wounded ducks, crows 
and gulls was noted in this city a few weeks ago. When 
first seen the duck (sheldrake) was on thin ice in the 
Schuylkill River, and was in trouble either from wounds 
or having been frozen to the ice, probably the latter, as it 
was well within the park and city-limits, where shooting 
is prohibited. It was surrounded by a throng of crows, ap- 
parently holding an ante-mortem corfference, when an ex- 
ecutioner appeared in the person ofa large gull. After kill- 
ing the duck, which made a feeble effort to escape. the gull 
proceeded to eat it, the crows in the meantime keeping 
a respectful distance and picking up the small pieces 
dropped by the gull. Probably these crows were not so 
hungry as their Western cousins, as they were the very 
tame park birds. OcEAN. 


.f (Fes, 18, 1902, 


European Widgeon in North Carolina. 


Cuicaco, Feb. 8—£ditor Forest and Stream: In the ~ 
January number of the Auk Mr. R. H. Howe, Jr., records: 
a specimen of the European widgeon, which was taken 


‘on Currituck Sound, Noy. 23, 1900, and which he thought 


the first to be recorded from North Carolina. 

In the National Bulletin. Vol. V., 1800, p. 126, I 
recorded a specimen of this duck which was shct at Curri- 
tuck in 1879, and received by Mr. Geo. O. Welsh, of 


Lynn, Mass., who advised me at the time he received one 


or more adult or immature birds from the same locality 
nearly every winter. RUTHYEN Deane, 


Linnaean Society of New York. 


A REGULAR meeting of the Society will be held at the 
American Museum of Natural History, Seventy-seventh 
street and Eighth avenue, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 25, at 
8 o'clock. Subject, by Eugene Smith, ‘Wild Life in the 
vicinity of New York City.” _ 

WALTER W. GRANGER, 
Secretary American Museum of-Natural History. 


All communications intended for Forrest AND STREAM “sheuld 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any indiyidual connected with the paper. 


Gane Bag and Gun. 
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Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise. 
them in FoREST aND STREAM. 


Killing Powers of Hunting Rifles. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In the days when all rifles were loaded with black 
powder there were various opinions as to the merits of 
this or that rifle. At the time when I became ambitious 
to kill something larger than’ deer the nitro rifle was 
unknown. J wanted something which I thought would 
kill quickly. There was the double express or the re-- 
peater. My choice was the latter, a Winchester .45-90. 
I did not believe in a solid or non-expanding builet, and 
I experimented a good deal. with yarious hollow-pointed 
bullets, and the split-pointed Keene. Loading my car- 
tridges with loo grains of powder and the latter ‘bullet 
of 300 grains, I found by practical work that I have a 
pretty good gun. I[ killed with this rife and load three 
moose, five caribou, four bears and four deer. I used_ 
twenty-two cartridges to do it, and I am convinced that 
I fired three shots of the above number which were not 
needed. None of the above animals went 50 yards after 
the first shot. I will admit that I got good shots as to 
distance; never a shot at over 80 yards. Some of the 
game was running, and none of it om open ground. A 
companion on a trip, using a rifle like mine, and car- 
tridges of my loading, killed two moose one afternoon, 
each with a single shot, at 295 yards and 175 yards. 
The first was struck just back of the shoulder, a trifle 
above center, dropped at once, got up and staggered 
some 20 yards and fell. The second, hit at base of ear, 
dropped in its tracks. 

Now I had reason to think I had a good game killer; 
yet I know of ah instance where such a rifle, using the 
same bullet, failed most signally. A companion on 
hunting trip took a great fancy to my rifle.- Th‘s man 
was one of the best game shots I -have met; he had 
killed over twenty moose, and had owned a good many 
rifles. I had a rifle like mine made for him, and he was 
very much pleased with its accuracy. The first moose 
he tried it on was (as he said) the largest bull he had 
ever seen. He had what he called a good chance. He 
hit that moose five or six times and Jost it. With his two- 
Indians he spent two days trying to find him, 

To-day the modern small-bore nitro rifle is trying to 
supersede that of black powder and larger caliber. The 
manufacturers of the former vaunt to the extreme the 
wonderful powers of their product. Without doubt 
Braithwaite, the noted New Brunswick guide, has had 
more practical opportunities of seeing the death-dealing 
powers of the small-bore on moose and such game than 
any other man in our Eastern States, or the, Provinces. 
The most eloquent maker of the small-bore might talk 
until he: was black in the face, and I hardly think he 
would make any impression on Braithwaite. 

Your very interesting correspondent, Mr. Irland, 
praises (sarcastically) the .30-30, As an exterminator of 
his friends, the moosebirds or gorbies (as he calls them), 
he says it is immense. The penetration. and expan- 
sion of the soft-nosed buHet is most effective on the 
gorby. Since one of Mr. Irland’s objects in visiting 
New Brunswick seems to be the sending of as- many | 
gorbies as possible to the hereafter, why did he not try 
that moose gun on a few? I think that, as the effect of 
a .30-30 bullet on a soap bubble, so would that .577 have 
been on a gorby. There would not have been a trace of 
the gorby left, Not even a feather. In fact, there would 
not have been anything to send to the hereafter. 

Now, as-to Braithwaite’s moose gun. As to its kill- 
ing (so that no following is needed) every moose it hits 
anywhere from the tail to ears, with all respect to the 
renowned guide, I do not believe he ever saw or will 
ever see a rifle which will do so. Braithwaite knows a 
great deal more than I do as to the anatomy of a moose, 
yet I think I could with a piece cl chalk mark fully 
twenty places between the pomts he names (the moose 
to stand broadside); which if struck by any bullet ever 
fired from a rifle, would fail to bring down the animal 
then and there. A very highly charged live wire wou'd 
do it, but I do not think anything else wow d. 

As to the ideal hunting rifle: As the world grows 
older, inventors of all kinds multiply (nerhaps the only 
failures are the inventions to keep.up the game supply, 
non-resident hunting licenses included). What would 
our ancestors have said had they been told that we 
could sit in our homes and talk with friends hundreds 
of miles distant? Also that messages could be sent thou- 


Fux. 18, 1902. 


ds of miles with no connection other than the ait’. 
the time to come, when moose have been practically 
srminated, with perhaps the exception of a few on 
ithwaite’s and his neighbor, Moore's, reservations, 
ich few have been so repeatedly wounded by the 
L-bore cf to-day, that they are death proof, the ideal 
anti i i No matter what the caliber, it 
l be a truly meat gun. Nitro powder will be too 
ak. Something a hundred times more propelling will 
used. As for the bullet, it will be on the principle 
a live wire. Peesibly it will be so charged that it will 
10t be necessary to hit what is shot at. It will shed 
ch an ever-increasing radius of death in its flight, that 
je future sportsman can tell of wiping out a whole 
of moose at one-shot at a thousand yards—only 
lere will be no flocks of moose then. When such 
rifle appears, Braithwaite’s moose gun will be called 
i sood one for gorbies. I predict that in spite of 
Ir. Irland’s “registered oath.” the gorby will survive 
he moose. 
My moose hunting ended, as I thought, some years 
ince. I worked harder for the last one I killed than 
any of its predecessors, Yet, as I stood over the 
en moose I was sorry that I had killed it. I had no 
for it. Mr, Irland’s account, however, revives the 
spirit. I would like to go to New Brunswick with 
\ I would like to see and talk with Braith- 
yaite (perhaps not on the merits of the small-bore 
ifle); simply to sit in camp and hear Braithwaite talk, 
md to see Mr, Irland shoot gorbies, would be the main 
jerformance and side show combined. 
‘o return to the small-bore rifle. I had but little 
aith at first in its killing power, as compared with my 
and tried Winchester. Anything that the small 
let would kill when-hit in certain places, I felt sure, 
yould be killed fully as quickly with my old rifle, and 
o that the latter would kill when the former would 
ail. I have not got this idea out of my head yet, al- 
hough I think better of the small-bore. My practical 
Xperience with the latter as a killer is limited to deer 
md some domestic animals. I have a Savage .303 which 
think well of. The first game I tried it on was the 
argest and handsomest buck I ever saw in the woods. 
iit this deer just back of the jaw on the under side, the 
millet coming out on top of neck, with neyer a bone 
puched; yet the buck dropped in its tracks. Braith- 
jaite’s mocse gun would not have done the work better 
‘or more quickly, and that .577 bullet might haye 
poiled the deer’s neck. As I write, that buck’s head 
s looking at me. If I did kill and set it up, I think it 
handsomest head of the kind in this State. I had to 
é one of my horses killed. A single bullet from the 
yage killed the horse instantly, with never a quiver. 
\ wild heifer in the woods came next. At 60 yards i 
hought I could hit it fair between the eyes. I failed, 
md the bullet struck just over the eye. The heifer 


jlure. A neighbor who had some experience in such 
Jork had a horse to kill. My Sayage and three car- 
fidges were loaned for the work, Every care was taken 
6 make the first shot fatal. Yet when that, horse re- 
ved that soft-nosed bullet fair between the eyes he 
eared, broke the halter and started for home. A 
econd bullet just under the ear and also a third through 
he neck failed to stop him., After reaching the road the 
orse was headed and a shotgun was used. The first 
hot blew a hole the size of a broom stick straight 
hrough the head. It took two more shots from. the 
hotgun to finish the job. Now, this, 1 think, was an 
stance of unusual vitality. Is it unreasonable to sup- 
se that occasionally a moose or a deer is built on 
same principle? What would kill almost instantly 
eteen times might fail on the twentieth. I have 
nd it so on animals no larger than a fox. The modern 
as a game killer may not be anywhere near per- 
ection. I think the man behind it oftentimes does his 
bart to make it a failure. M. STARK, 
Dunesarton, N. H., Feb. 7. 


7 "he Maine Man-Shooting Law. 


‘Boston, Jan. 25.—The first case before the’ Maine 
lourts under the new law, imposing a heavy fine or im- 
Tisonment, for accidental or negligent shooting of 
uman beings, mistaken for game, has been put on trial 
Skowhegan. The case is that of State vs. Henry Hil- 
The indictment sets forth that Hilton, while hunt- 
ag for deer last fall, carelessly mistook Nathaniel Gerald 
jr one of those animals, and discharged a rifle at him, 
founding him badly below the knee. The defendant 
ton admits the shooting, but denies that he was care- 
y or criminally negligent. County Attorney Gower 
secuted for the State, and Forrest Goodwin appeared 
ir the respondent. 

‘The statute under which this action was brought reads 
isee Game Laws in Brief): “Chap. 263, Laws 1901.— 
lec, I. Whoever, while on a hunting trip, or in the pur- 
hit of wild game or game birds, negligently or carelessly 
hoots and wounds, or kills any human being, shall be 
unished by imprisonment not exceeding ten years, or 
y fine not exceeding $1000,” 

‘The case was given to the jury on Tuesday last. After 
everal hours of deliberation they reported that they 
ere unable to agree. Judge Powers instructed them 
Jat they had nothing to do with sentiment in the case; 
4 they must find their verdict under the law, purely 
1 the evidence. Hilton admitted the shooting; they 
ere to find whether he was criminally careless or negli- 
ent. The jury retired again, and soon brought in a ver- 
ict of guilty. The judge himself seems to have had 
ome doubts as to the amount of blame to be attached to 
dilton, the respondent, for he imposed a fine of only 
brty days in the county jail. ; 

he law against the careless or negligent shooting of 
uman beings in Maine will amount to nothing if the 
bave is a sample of the punishment to be administered. 
onfinement. in the jail-in that county for Hilton simply 
leans that he will board there, and pass his time in re- 
ng visits irom his friends or in playing cards with 
ie county officers. I haye in mind a young man, shut 
P in the same jail for some light offense, who now 


Topped as though struck by lightning. Now comes a- 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


boasts that he had a tather fine time playing cards, ete,, 


etc, 
Feb, 8.—The New-York State Forest, Fish and Game 


Commission seems bound to restock the Adirondacks. 


with moose. An Auburndale, Mass., man is in charge 
of capturing these animals. His name is John T, Ben- 
son, and he has had considerable experience in work 
of this nature, He does not like to state just where his 
woodsmen are at work capturing moose and getting 
ready to transport them to the nearest railroad stations. 
But hunters understand that he has permission to take a 
certain number of moose from Maine and as many more 
from the Provinces. The method of capture is not quite 
as difficult as might at first be supposed,, provided the 
snow is deep enough, for a moose can stand no chance at 
all against guides on snowshoes The moose is soon ex- 
hausted and stands buried up to his legs in the snow. It 


‘is then not much of a task to pass ropes around his head, 


legs and body in such shape that he is powerless to es- 


cape. The next thing is to build a crate around the ani- - 


mal, and then begins the work of dragging the captive to 
the nearest. railway station or to lumber roads, where 
belp can be had from teams. The captors carry practi- 
cally nothing with them except their axes, and these 
they use for cutting wood to burn and in making tem- 
porary sleds for drawing the moose out of the woods, 
Mr. Benson expects to set at liberty in the, Adirondacks 
region at least twenty moose by the middle of April. 
Great pains will be taken in liberating the animals where 
their natural food is most abundant. They will not be 
liberated all together, according to Mr. Benson, but at 
considerable distance apart. for each family of a bull and 
a cow, and possibly a calf or two. The commission has 
great expectations concerning this restocking. 
SPECIAL. 


New York Game Interests. 


From the annual report of the Commissioners of Forest, 
Fisheries and Game we take the following paragraphs re- 
viewing the game interests and the work of protection: 


Adironduck Deer. 


From the returns made to this office by the American 
and National Express companies it appears that the num- 
ber of deer shipped out during the hunting season of 1901 
exceeded that of the previous-year, the shipments between 
Sept. 1 and Nov. 15 amounting to 1,062 carcasses, 103 
saddles and 121 heads. As compared with the previous 
year, the figures are: 


Carcasses. Saddles. Heads. Total 
OUD eae eke ae he Phi dutnprng needs ; 8 95 1,204 
HOO eer shs nea 5 lk crate y + prlnne PRM oe 1,062 103 121 1,286 


Reports received from each locality indicate that for 
every deer shipped by express four more are killed which 
are eaten in camp, consumed by the residents, or hauled 
out on wagons to the numerous towns and villages near 
the outskirts of the forest. . 

As in previous years, the weights entered on the ship- 
ping bills of the express companies show that the Adiron- 
dack deer compare favorably in size with-those of other 
hunting grounds. The deer this season, so far as ob- 
served, were larger and in better condition than usual, 
which may be due in some extent to the fact that 1901 
was a beechnut year. 

A buck was shipped from Big Moose to Charles Phil- 
more, Remsen, N. Y., which weighed, on the scales of 
the station agent, 267 pounds, dressed weight. By adding 
one-fourth, according to the usual well-attested rule, we 
have 33334 pounds, as the live weight. : 

The shipments from Dolgeville included a deer that 
weighed, dressed, 237 pounds. This would indicate 296 
pounds, as the live weight, or over 300 if the carcass 


had dried out by hanging on the pole at camp for a few — 


Gays, This deer was consigned to F. Shaad, Little Falls, 
INE . 
From Mountain View a deer was shipped to J. Robb, 
Malone, N. Y., whose dressed weight indicated a live 
weight of 281 pounds or more; and the express agent's 
returns from North Creek 
pounds dressed weight (live weight estimated at 2 
pounds), which was shipped to L. Stadaro, Albany, N. Y. 
Mr. Frank S. Partridge, of Oneonta, N. Y., shot a deer 
near Goldsmith’s, in Franklin county, that weighed, ac- 
cording to report, 310 pounds before it was dressed. 
Only a part of this animal was shipped out by express. 
The statistics furnished by the express companies are 
interesting and valuable so far as they go. But the deer 
which are killed and not shipped out are so much more 
numerous than those which are transported by rail that 


some definite information is also needed regarding the ~ 


former. In order to legislate intelligently for the pro- 


tection of this kind of game, some specific statement is 


necessaty as to when, where, and how many are killed, 
It would be well to ascertain also the proportion of does. 


Eik and Moose. 


Through the generosity of Mr. William C. Whitney a- 


carload of live elk was brought into the Adirondacks and 
liberated in Township 40, Hamilton county, on the carry 
leading from Raquette to Forked Lake. Early in June 
last I went to Mr. Whitney’s preserve, situated on October 
Mountain, a few miles from Lenox, Mass., and made the 
necessary arrangements for the shipment. Mr. Whitney 
has over 120 elk onshis preserve, and from this number a 
small herd containing five bulls and 
cows were set aside for shipment to the Adirondacks, 
As the animals were very wild, considerable difficulty 


was experienced in driving them into the wagon vans for 


transportation to the railway station, six miles distant. 

When the elk were safely on board the cars, they were 
left in charge of Game Protectors Courtney and Winslow, 
who accompanied them to Raquette Lake, where the ani- 
mals arrived in good condition and none the worse for 
their journey. The car containing them was run upon one 
of the railroad scows of the Raquette Lake Transporta- 
tion Company and towed to the Forked Lake carry, where 
the elk were turned loose into the woods. 

The general character and feeding grounds of the 
Adirondack forests are so different from the usual habitat 
of these animals that their introduction is largely a matter 


include a carcass of ae 
8 


seventeen | 


125 


of expetiment. . There have been no elk in the Adiron- 
dacks within the memory of any one now living; neither 
is it claimed by naturalists that the species was ever 
found there. But, so far as heard from, these elk seem 
to be doing well, and will probably increase in number. 

Unfortunately, the cows resemble the deer greatly in 
their general appearance, and so may be killed by hunters 
who mistake them for does. True, they differ in color 
and are of a much greater size, but these differences would 
not be apparent when the animal was standing breast high 
in the underbrush. 

About one year ago an association of sportsmen was 
formed in the city of New York for the restoration of 
moose to the Adirondack forests, its organization being 
due Jargely to the efforts of Mr. H. V. Radford, editor 
of Woods and Waters. The association, in furtherance 
of its objects, prepared a bill which was introduced in the 
Legislature by Hon. Frank J. Price. This bill, which be- 
came a law, carried an appropriation of $5,000 for the 
purchase of moose, dnd provided for their protection by a 
penalty of $250 fine and imprisonment of not less than 
three months nor more than one year. The expenditure 
of this appropriation having been entrusted to the Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission, contracts have been entered 
into with persons who deal in this kind of game to furnish 
moose at prices varying from $1roo to $150, delivered free 
of freight at such railway stations within the Adirondack 
region as the Commission may designate, 

/ Wm. F, Fox, Supt. State Forests. 


Report of the Chief Game Protector. 


My report for the year might propérly include a de- 
tailed account of many actions brought and many suits 
won in the interest of the State, of thousands of letters 
written in explanation of mooted questions about the 
game law, or of statements of many raids made upon 
persistent violators of the law in vatious parts of the 
State. These details would, however, be cumbersome, and 
the results show for themselves to an extent that would 
seem to make such a review unnecessary, 

The work of this Department is increasing steadily, and 
the money turned into the State Treasury shows for itself 
in the monthly reports. 

The notable events of the past year were the suits 
brought against the Arctic Refrigerating Company, which 
stands practically convicted of having game out of season 
in its possession amounting in value to many thousands of 
dollars. It is suggested that if game is found in the close 
season outside of warehottses where a record is had of 
the same, or illegally possessed, a law should be enacted 
declaring that when a seizure is made, after the game 
has served its purpose as evidence, it should be turned 
over to some charitable institution instead of being 
allowed to go to waste, thereby benefiting some one with- 
out laying any one liable, and last but not least giving the 
officer making the seizure something definite under which 
to act. ‘ : 

Several large trespass cases have also been prosecuted 
during the year, notably that of. the Moose River Lumber 
Company, which is still pending. 

Very many smaller cases, mentioned collectively in the 
accompanying detailed report, attest the vigilance of the 
Department. I submit them with the other matters for 
your consideration and make the recommendations here- 
after stated, 

During the year the protectors seized and destroyed 
many nets and devices that were being illegally operated. 
The total of the individual seizures was 803 fyke nets, 
443 trap nets, 416 gill nets, 76 squat nets, 20 seines, 335 
set lines, 7 spears, 16 eel weirs, 8 wire nets and 2,637 tip- 
ups. The total number of illegal devices destroyed was 
4.761, which represented a total money value of $25,820. 

Actions were begun against 348 persons. Of these 317 
were convicted or judgments taken, and the total sum . 
imposed as fines and penalties amounted to $0,856.75. Of | 


. this amount the sum of $8,526.70 was collected and de- 


posited with the State Treasurer as the law provides. The 
remaining $1,330.05 was retained by attorneys, justices 
and constables in cases where their fees were deducted 
before remitting to this Department. There were also 
fines imposed to the amount of $938 where to recovery was 
had, and the persons upon whom these fines were imposed 
served time-either im penitentiaries or jails, one day for 
each dollar, which amounted to 938 days served. The 
remaining 38 cases resulted as follows: 19 acquitted, 
either by court or jury; 6 cases on appeal; 4 actions 
withdrawn, and 2 where there was insufficient evidence 
to hold the acctised. 

Too much cannot be said in favor of the Law of 1899, 
which prohibited for a term of years the hounding of 
deer. It was an undisputed fact that, with the advan- 
tages of numerous railroads penetrating the Adirondacks 
about that time and the many people becoming interested 
in hunting, the deer of the State would surely become 
exterminated. The Legislature of 1901 should be com- 
mended -for its legislation along this line, as a law was 
enacted which forbids for all time the hotinding of deer. 
There is not a question, from the best information ob- 
tainable, but that deer have increased in the last five 
years fully fifty per cent., and they can be found in 
abundance through the main woods, and also in all the 
little detached parcels of forest land in every county ad- 
joining the Adirondacks. If this law can remain on the 
statute books together with the Act of 1888 which limited 
the number one could kill or transport, there is no pros- 
pect of the deer becoming exterminated, although the 
advantages of reaching nearly every portion of the 
Adirondacks are much greater. With the increase yearly 
in the number of people who are desirous of hunting, it 
might be well to shorten the season, making the close sea- 
son Oct. 31 instead of Nov. 15. The past two years have 


% shown that more deer are killed during the last ten days 
_of the open season than in the two months prior to that, 


on account of the snow which facilitates still-hunting 
ten fold. 

I would respectfully suggest that while it is not advis- 
able to make too many alterations in our game law, for 
fear of confusing the public mind, it would be both ad- 
visable and expedient that the following changes in the 
law as it now stands should be made during the present 
session of the Legislature :_ “a 

1. Increasing the force of protectors to fift i 

1 : o 3 tl ¥ aS against 
the present thirty-eight. Several localities are one sere) 


tically without any protection and. too remote from the 
location of the present protector whose expense account 1s 
insufficient to permit him to travel any distance beyond 
his immediate locality. This is true of all that territory 
lying east of the Hudson River from Lake Champlain ta 
Long Island Sound, which embraces six counties. On 
account of the increased acreage of forest land and the 
reservations made for lumbering, mutch time also will be 
yequired to prevent the inadyertent cutting of imber 
outside of that reserved. to say nothing of the constant 
necessity for checking the general tendency of many peo- 
ple to plunder on the State land wherever an opportu- 
rity presents. , 

2, Continuing the present close season for deer in the 
counties of Delaware, Ulster. Greene and Sullivan abso- 
lutely for a term of years, or, if this is not possible, then 
not allowing more than two weeks open season in these 
counties. The State has stocked this territory with deer at 
a considerable expense, anl the results of the work have 
been highly gratifying. The continuation of the present 
close season, aS suggested, will materially aid the work 
and be beneficial to everybody concerned. 

3. Amending Section 36 of the present law so as to 
place in the hands of the Commission the granting of 
certificates to take birds for scientific purposes, instead 
of the matter being as at present in the hands of “any 
society of natural history incorporated in the State or by 
the Regents of the University.” The reason for this sug- 
gestion is that the Commission can readily ascertain 
through the protectors im their several localities the exact 
standing and the full object of perscns making applica- 
tion, which would prevent an abuse of the law that might 
very easily arise under the present system. 

4, Establishing a system of licensing guides, thereby 
placing upon the list of those available to the public a 
much more competent class of men as compared with the 
many inexperienced so-called guides of the present day, 
who are not familiar enough with the woods to render 
efficient service. b 

5. Enacting a law charging a license fee to non-resi- 
dents for the privilege of hunting in this State, thereby 
in a measure reserving the game to the citizens of the 
State who are paying a large amount annually to propa- 
gate and protect it. This proposition may meet with some 
objection from a few hotel keepers, but it is no more than 
justice to the taxpayers who are called upon to pay a 
license in nearly every State into which they may go: to 
hunt. It is particularly tre of Canada, where many of 
our citizens who go hunting are compelled to pay a large 
license fee for that privilege. The revenue derived from 
this source and from the licensing of guides should be 
placed at the disposal of the Commission to further aid in 
carrying on the work of protection, ; 

6. Prohibiting the sale of woodcock, grouse and quail 
killed within this State, and compelling dealers who are 
handling any game from outside the State during the 
open season to keep a record and be ready at all times 
when a proper demand is made to furnish an invoice of all 
game received or sold. 

7, Repealing all superyisor laws on Long Island relat- 
ing to fish and shellfish. The Legislature should enact 
laws for that locality as it dees for other parts of the 
State, By reason of the fact that the supervisors have 
been legislating independently since 1849, their laws have 
become confused, and in recent years to my certain knowl- 
edge they have not conformed to the State law. There 
is no question but that a majority of their present laws 
are in such a confused condition that they cannot be 
enforced, notwithstanding the fact that this Department 
is called upon frequently to prosecute under those laws. 
Several years ago the Legislature empowered all the 
boards of superyisors throughout the State to pass laws 
further restricting the taking of fish and game. Each 
county availed itself of this, and matters became so mixed 
up that, in 1895, the Legislature at the request of the 
general public repealed the law, except as to the power 
given to the counties of Long Island in relation to th 
taking of fish and shellfish from salt water. 

J. WarrEN Ponp, Chief Protector. 


Lobby vs. Game Laws. 


Editar Forest and. Stream: : 

Every person with whom IT have come in contact in the 
past six. months, interested in the preservation of our 
game birds, viz: grouse, woodcock and quail, expresses but 
one opinion, and that is, that the only way to prevent the 
extermination of these birds is to prohibit their sale. This 
is, of course, not a new remedy. Such a law has been in 
force for the past two years in Massachusetts, and one 
year in New Hampshire, and it is claimed that in the 
former State an improvement in numbers of these birds 
is already noticeable. 

Ma, Marsen, of Oneida county, has offered a bill now 
in the Assembly Committee on Forest and Game, which 
it is believed will accomplish just what we want. The 
number of the bill is q1o, Int, 386. This bill provides 
that woodeock, grouse and quail shall not be sold, or 
offered for sale, at any time or place throughout the 
State. 

New I urge every person who hunts for recreation and 
resides in the State of New York, to write to their re- 
spective Assemblyman and Senator and respectfully insist 
upon the passage of this bill. If this is not done, this 
most necessary and important of all amendments to the 
game laws will never get out of this committee, because of 
the powerful lobby of the cold storage interest at Al- 
bany. 

Last year I was told by one whom I have every reason 
to know knew of what he spoke, and he said the reason no 
satisfactory legislation was had was owing to the great 
influence of a deputy official with a leading official of the 
Assembly. These officials are in the same positions to- 
day that they held one year ago. 

Hence I call upon every one who would save these 
birds to write at once, as above suggested. Don't de- 
Jay it. F. 

Rocupster, N, Y., Feb. 8. 


| Editor Forest and Stream: 


Every sportsman in this State should at once write the 


representatives of their county urging them to support 


FOREST AND STREAM: - 
Assembly Bill No, 410, introduced by Mr. E. M. Marson, 
to prohibit the sale of woodcock, grouse and quail at all 
times. Prompt and energetic effort on our part will secure 
the passage of the Forest anp StrEAM Plank at this ses- 
sion. With this law in foree we can stop the snaring 
and shooting of birds for market. 

But there is a hunter more skillful and relentless in 
the pursuit of game than even the snarer or market- 
shooter, one who knows no-law, a meat hunter, who 
hunts 365 days im the year, and one whose deadliest work 
is done in the winter, during the close season. Years ago 
when the hounding of deer was permitted, large numbers 
of hounds were bred and kept in our northern tier of 
counties, and during the winter great sport was had in 
hunting the fox, but since the hounding of deer was 
prohibited, few dogs are kept, and the foxes are increasing 
to such an extent as to become a serious menace not 
only to our game, but to the poultry interests as well. 
There are few farmers in northern New York who cannot 
testify against this sly marauder, who at early dawn raids 
their poultry yard for his brealfast. Their favorite bird 
seems to be the young turkey, and so numerous and de- 
structive has the red fox become in this section that 
inany farmers haye given up the attempt to raise any 
turkeys at all. I have talked with a great many fariners 
on this subject, and all are willing to help us to extermi- 
nate this pest. 

The law protecting foxes from May 1 to Sept. 30 should 
be repealed and a bounty of one or two dollars pad for 
each fox lulled in this State. There is no queésti:n bu 
that more grouse will be killed hy the foxes duriaez ih _ 
close season this winter than were killed by the hun er: 
during the open season Jast fall. W. H. Dapvern, 

WarerTown, N. Y., Feb 8. 


Hunting with Henry Braithwaite. 


If.—The Land of Increasing Game. 


Tue Moccasin Lake shanty, like Henry’s home cam, 
was originally built for a lunvber crew. I[ have herc- 
tofore explained that all the New Brunswick wildernes. 
is held under 25-year lumber leases, so that the clearing 
of the séttler does not follow the lumber camp. A spruce 
forest is little changed by the cutting out of the larger 
trees. The number cut is a very small per cent. of the 
standing trees. For a year or two the forest resounds 
to the whoops of the logging crews, and then their de- 
serted shanties become the homes of skunks and other 
wood-folk. If a fire is occasionally made in one of these 
camps, so that the logs are dried out, it will stand for 
years. But if dampness is allowed full sway, the struc- 
ttire soon becomes a tottering ruin. Henry has a super- 
antiated stove in the Moccasin Lake camp, and occupies 
it a few days each year. Two summers running the 
place has been devastated by a bear, which on both occa- 
sions bit a hole in the coal-oil can. Henry says the 
bears are fond of coal-oil, and that when they can get 
at it, they roll in it and sattirate themselves. If any of 
you come across a bear next year which has an unusually 
fine coat of hair, perhaps it wil! be one of the animals 
using Standard ©il Pomade. “7 

A large weasel, pure white in color except the tip of 
its tail, had possession of the camp when we arrived, and 
he promptly began to steal such things as he could earry 
away, and yarded them in the crevices of the logs. About 
two miles from Moccasin Lake, reached by a very hard 
trail full of fallen trees, is Reed Lake, full of trout. It 
is against the law to catch trout in November, and so we 
did not go to Reed Lake and catch a few through the 
ice; and the weasel did not come out at night, pull the 
cover off the tin pan containing the fish, and carry the 
troutup betweenthelogs of the double roof, in spite of the 
profance efforts of Charles Cameron, the finest coole in 
New Brunswick, to rescue them. These things did not 
happen, because it is against the law to catch a meal 
of trout in November, in a lake that is never fished, 
seventy-five miles from the settlement. 

It was at the Moccasin Lake camp that we caught 
the gorby in the box-trap. His bill had been partly shot 
off by a member of one of Henry’s earlier fall parties. 
We kept him in the camp and fed him, and he might 
have become sociable in time; but Charlie Cameron had 
a steel trap set under the table for a thieying red squirrel, 
and the poor gorby, with the fatal curiosity of his kind, 
had to get into the trap, and that was the end of him, 

Tt was near this cainp that the moose was killed earlier 
in the season by the gentleman who, haying lost five 
wounded with a small bore, concluded to try the Snider, 
and brought the moose to his knees with one shot, 


While they were skinning this moose, a very large one. 


that Henry has tracked many times, came out of the 
bushes close by. The gentleman, having killed his 
moose, would not fire at the monster. We saw the big 
track in the snow, when we were there six weeks later. 
Next year the moose will be bigger still, and someone 
can have a day’s excitemént following a giant track, 
and not getting a sight of the maker of it. 

Charlie ‘Small wanted to get a deer, so we took a lone 


circuit that would cover some hardwood ridges, intend- - 


We- 


ing to bring up at the home camp that night. 
climbed up and up, till finally we reached the very top 
of a mountain from which, as the trees were not very 
thick, we could see a good deal of horizon. 


Henry blazed the topmost.tree on four sides, “so that 
if he ever came there again, he would remember he had 
been there before.” He said if he had time he would like 
to climb a tree, just to look around. Henry is-a great 
climber. Some years ago he and-Arthur Pringle put in 
a winter trapping on the Patapedia, a branch of the 
Restigouche, in Quebec. They went into a wilderness 
absolutely strange to them, and by climbing trees, tak- 
ing the bearings of distant landmarks by compass, and 
following out the directions thus determined, they laid 
out trapping lines and soon became familiar with the 
country. You couldn’t lose Henry if you dropped him 
from a balloon on the east side of Hudson’s Bay. He 
would climb a tree and get his bearings in a few minutes. 

Dan Lynch, one of the greatest lumber cruisers in New 
Brunswick, is also a great tree-climber. When he sees 


Nothing but | 
mountains, a sea of forest tossed into wave on wave. t 
-of youngsters, some of them not over fifteen years old, 


timber he never knows it is time to make for camp. One 
day last winter Dan was out looking for spruce over to- 
ward the Gulquawk, and had Jack Spencer along with 
him. About half past two in the afternoon, when there 
was not more than an hour and a half of good daylight 
left, Lynch clapped on the climbing irons and went up a 
big white spruce. What he saw from the treetop pleased 
him greatly, and he called down: “Jack, watch where | 
throw this club.’ Down came a stick in the difection 
of a newly discovered btinch of standing ‘timber. Spen- 
cer, who had an eye to comfort. noticed with displeasure 
that the direction of the find lay far from camp, and he 
knew Lynch’s enthusiasm might keep them out all night. 
So, while Lynch clambered down, he picked up the stick 
and carried it where it would do the most good. When 
Lynch reached the ground he carefully took the bearing 
of the stick, and the two men started through the track- 
less woods. 
of Manly Black’s camp. Dan stopped and eyed Spencer- 
with sorrow and reproach. “Jack,” said he, sadly, “T 
never throwed that club this way, never in the world,” 

I suppose it was because we were looking for deer 
to-day, but I never saw stich a mess of moose tracks he- 
fore. The whole country seemed a vast mooseyard. 
“Look there,” gasped Charlie, as we poked along the 
rdge. There stood a two-year-old moose, about forty 
luc. Irom us, his nose outstretched, his eyes almost pop- 
ping from h's head. He stared as if he had never seen 
stich creatures as ourselves before, and I think he never 
had. Anyway, he showed no. proper spirit of self- 
nrescryation. It was only after he had strained his neck 
looking at us that he turned and trotted off, lifting his 
sheulders and legs twice as high as was necessary. But 
that same habit of high-stepping helps the, moose over 
fallen trees and through the snow. 


[FEB. 15, i902. | 


An hour later they came into the door-yard | 


It was on this day that one of the most remarkable | 


hunting episodes of my life occurred, We were coin- 
pleting our circuit and coming toward the home camp, 
tramping slowly through the soit ankle-deep snow. The 
woods were of the deceptive sort that seem more open 
than they really are, 
on the far side of a fallen tree-top. Charlie shot, and I 
saw the deer tearing through the woods, . Willing ta 


Henry and Charlie saw a deer lying © 


lend a helping hand, I elevated the two-bushel gun, and — 


shooting ahead of the flying animal, saw it collapse in 
a heap. But Charlie also banged away, and I could not 
see why he was shooting when the deer was down. 
“There he goes, but he’s hit,’ said Charlie. “He’s down 


over here,” said I. Then Henry, who had gone to the | 


tree-top, began to laugh. The deer at which Charlie shot 
had never got up. The one I knocked down was a deer 
we had not seen at first. So we had two. and didn’t 
know it. i 

“But this isn’t the way he went,” said Charlie, as he 
loked at my buck with the half-gallon hole in his side. 
“The deer I shot at went off over there,’ . Henry. and 
Charlie went to look, and there were tracks about twenty 
feet apart. The fourth jump or so there was a spurt of 
blood on the snowy bushes, and a hundred and fifty yards | 
from the place where the trouble began we found a third 
deer, with two clean-cut little holes in his sides, one 
where the hollow-point smokeless .375 went in, the other 
where it went out. We had killed three deer in the.in- 
hocent effort! to get one. The bushes were. just thick 
enough to hide each of the running bucks from one of 
us, “It’s funny how they will run in the way of the 
bullets sometimes.” said Henry in mild sarcasm, remem-, 
bering how I had missed the standing buck a few days, 


before. a) _— 
This curious episode is a fair illustration of the change 
that has come about in the New - Brunswick woods: in’ 
the past five years, in reference to deer. | In all his woods), 
land experience, covering moré than fonty years, Henry) 
never shot but one deer, and until lately.a deer track: 
was a rarity-in the wilder parts of the woods. While, 
the moose and caribou haye been very plentiful, deer 
were remarkably scarce. 
natural enemies of the deer, are pretty well thinned out, 
and the hunting is not enough to réduce their numbers, | 
Henry says he always regrets to see a doe shot, but he) 
realizes that the-kiligg-of anfew biteks, is not likely ta— 
prevent the present increase from continuing. 
We had now more meat ithan even six yoracious men | 
could use on the:remainder of-thetripy and. So after: Jerry 
and Theodore had dressedit and=brought it impitawas 
hung where ‘it would “freeze; and be1 ready for Henry's 
use during*his trapping’ this wintery.» ~ A; 
The day aiter ithe activity’in' aceidental ‘bucks :we 


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DFy Seay her 3 | 


left 
the home canip,-and-countermarched via the Crooks 


Deadwater, Indian-Lake, and the ponds which form the 


mc 


Now the bears and lynxes, the ) 


head of Rocky Brook,-to,.an old driving camp on that / 


team, ; : n : 

At the Crooked Deadwater camp, where we stayed one 
night, we heard choppers going by from their shanty at 
the dam, long before daylight. They stopped and ad- 
mired the heads, and then went on their way to their 
work, three or four miles’ walk: It does not seem as 
though there was much in it for these young fellows—. 
about $20 per month for turning out and eating break- 
fast while-it ts pitch dark, then walking over a rough’ 
path through the snow, so as to be at the foot of the 
tree as soon as it is ght enough to see to chop; working 


stream where Ambrose had agreed to meet tis with the 


- till it is too dark to:swing an ax, walking back to camp,- 


getting supper,-grinding their axes, and dropping into 
dreamless oblivion: till the call for breakfast. Hard as | 
that condition seems, Kelly’s camp at the dam was full’ 


who seemed as proud as peacocks at the-fact that they. 
were doing men’s work. Years ago there used to be con-- 
siderable moose-kitling to furnish meat for the lumber 
camps-alter the snow got deep. But now that is all done 
away. Cattle are driven in regularly, and killed at the’ 
camps. This furnishes a reliable-supply, and the boss 
lumbermen do all they can to assist in the enforcement 
of the game laws. i 
Probably: the Indians were once the greatest menace 
to the future of the moose in New Brunswick. About 
two miles back of Little Sottwest Lake, Henry once) 
shdéwed me an enormous mass of mouldering moose hair, 
scattered over, as much ground as a fair sized house 
would cover. .This had evidently been there a very long 
time; and Henry told me it was where an old Indian 


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| Pes. 15, 1902. JI 


named Newel Bear and his two sons, all now dead, had 
dressed the skins of more than one hundred moose, one 
‘spring about twenty years ago. Naturally, with such 
killing, they were scarce in the Little Souwest country 
for a while, But now the Indians of New Brunswick are 
nearly all dead. Here and there you come upon one of 
their ancient dead-fall traps, and the rotting ruins of their 
roofless camps; but these are the fast decaying vestiges 
of a day that will return no more. Lucky it is for the 
game that this is so, and the result in New Brunswick 
justifies the*charge that the Indian is the greatest enemy 
‘of the moose. Although these grand animals are found 
in considerable numbers in Quebec, Ontario, and thence 
throughout the vast northwest, they suffer greatly from 
the Indians, who. kill them wastefully during the winter, 
when the snow is deep, and during the summer when the 
moose are in the water. They are undoubtedly becoming 
more numerous in some parts of Quebec. In the Lake 
Temiskamang region there are many. Where the Indians 
have practically ceased to hunt, as around Lake Kippewa, 
there ate plenty of moose. But where Indians are the 
only inhabitants of the country, as in the neighborhood 
of the Grand Lake Victoria, and toward the head of the 
Ottawa, the moose are scarce. 

E have seen Indians kill a cow moose and her twa 
calves, in spite of my protests, when they already had 
two moose hanging up; when the calves were worthless, 
and they could not use the meat of the cow. ; 

Between the Crooked Deadwater and the driving 

camp where we met Ambrose, the moose fairly got in our 
way, and we saw eleven in different places that would 
have furnished easy standing shots. It was snowing, and 
the continual noise of the wind and the sifting of the 
snow from the branches, made approach easy. Not one 
of the animals was further away than fifty yards when 
we saw it. Often where two were together they would 
stand and look for as much as half a minute before turn- 
ing to go away. It was a succession of glorious pictures, 
and it made us proud of North America that such things 
had continued down to our day and time. 

The next two days we spent in dogged plodding he- 

hind the sled, through a steady, blinding snowstorm that 
nearly took the heart out of Colonel and Bob, the poor 
old horses. For a few miles we tried snowshoes, the 
first time on the trip, but the snow was so soft that we 
soon gave them up, and were content to put one foot 
before the other in the narrow furrow of the sled runner. 
Tt was an occasion of great joy when, on the second day 
about noon, we met a procession of five portage teams 
coming in, the first of the season, and for the rest of the 
way out had a fairly well-broken road. 

I cannot find it in my heart to conclude this plain 
natrative of hunting in a real game country without a 
brief and modest statement of certain pertinent facts 
which came under my notice. I have told you of the 
big bull moose shot by Charlie Small, that had the wound 
in his breast, made weeks before by a small-bore jacketed 
bullet. I have mentioned the wounded moose Dan 
Kelly saw, dragging his hip. I will tell you of another 
typical case. 

Henry and a gentleman who was out with him in Sep- 
tember were calling, in broad daylight, mind you. There 
is no night’ calling in New Brunswick. They heard 
a stick break. Then, not forty yards away they saw a 
large moose nearly facing them, a fair mark, a little 
quartering, The gentleman, whose name is a tip-top one 
in the annals of sport, fired with a high-power, small- 
bore rifle and knocked the moose down, but he got up 
and ran. They found two bunches of hair, one the long 
breast hair, the other on the further side, where the bul- 
let had gone out, They trailed the moose as far as they 
could before it was time to return to camp. All the next 
day Henry followed the track amid a maze of others. 
and finally found a place where the moose had Jain and 
bled profusely. He got near enough to get one glimpse 
of the moose as he left the water after crossing a stream, 
The third day Henty and the man who shot the moose 
followed the bloody track till a tremendous rain came on, 
which obliterated every trace, and so they never got the 
moose. 

I have mentioned the case of the fiye moose wounded 
and lost this fall.by another of Henry’s parties. In re- 
capitulating the events of the season so far as we heard 
of them (and we probably did not hear one-tenth of all 
the cases), Henry and I heard of more than twenty 
moose hit by small-bore bullets this fall and lost. Ii 
these moose had been openly and illegally killed, the 
Province would have been too small for the law-breakers. 
As it is now, they are free to go about telling of the 
wonderful range and penetration of their ineffectual 
weapons. Oi course they kill sometimes. But why not 
ise a weapon that will always kill. If you will read the 
Oregon Trail, the story of Francis Parkman’s trayels 
long ago among the Indians,-you will find that before 
the days of breechloaders the eastern hunters who went 
West believed that their small-bore rifles that had done 
service im Kentucky were good enough for buffalo and 
grizzly, and the fact that the buffalo got away- and the 
grizzly chased the hunters did not jar their gun conceit. 
In, that charming story, “The Forest Runner,” just begun 
in McClure’s” Magazine, we are ‘told of an: Indian in 
northern Michigan who hunted deer with bird shot, and 
who never expected to kill his game at one shot, but who 
tracked it for_miles by the blood, till the animal became 
exhausted. Lhe history of shooting in New Brunswick 
this fall sounds like. a reversion to those ancient times. 

The claims for the small bore are its accuracy and its 
Jong, flat range, its lightness and its freedom from smoke 
and. recoil, .-All admitted, but all immaterial, so far as 
moose hunting goes. Charlie Small and I saw more than 
twenty moose on otr trip. Not one was over 50 yards 
away. In still-hunting moose in those woods, one never 
gets a long shot, because he ‘cannot see anything very 
far. ‘The branches. and bushes are too-thick. No moose 
shot, with a-480-grain bullet, or one of greater weight, is 
likely to get away. I know the answer of the small-bore 
advocates, They will tell us we owght to learn to shoot. 
That is all very well, too, I can make this modest State- 
ment of fact, that in.some dozen of moose-hunting trips 

I have never lost one moose I fired at, not one, and*gen- 
erally fired hut one shot. How many .30-hore gentlemen 
can say they. hayg had 4 dozen straight kills of qyogse and 
Hong lost} ae eae es 


One htindred yards is a very liberal limit of distance 
for moose hunters. Now J am not talking about shooting 
in the Rocky Mountains—though T have shot sheep and 
goats in British Columbia at 50 yards—I am not talking 
about shooting on the plains. I am talking about moose 
hunting in the northeastern part of North America, I leave 
jt to any fair-minded man of experience if 100 yards 1s nota 
large limit of distance in this sort of sport in those woods? 
It has for years been a matter of amazement to me that 
the splendid makers of shotguns in this country have not 
turned their attention to the making of these short-range 
combined rifle-shotguns on the paradox system. You can 
get a beautiful American sixteen-bore hammerless shot- 
gun for half what an Enelish gun costs. There is un- 
questionably a demand for something more effectual than 
any rifle regularly made in the United States. Many 
English rifles are sold here, not because we want to use 
English-made guns, but because we don’t like to turn 
sport into cruelty and toil by wounding an animal, follow- 
ing it for miles, and then losing it. The .50-110 Win- 
chester, with its light 300-grain bullet, is not powerful 
enough to be certain on moose. The .50-100-450 is much 
better. Even the .45-70 is pretty sure. I have killed 
several moose with it, and generally made a clean one- 
shot job. I do not ask any man to carry a 9%4-pound 
rile into the woods, when so much more powerful 
weapons ate made weighing very little. All the moose 
country now limits the sportsman by law to one moose a 
year. If the law limited him to firing at one moose, and 
jailed him for wounding it and letting it get away, that 
would settle forever the question of small-bores, because 
all the small-bore men would sooner or later go to live at 
Newcastle, N. B., or other places devoted to his Majesty’s 
public instittttions, Of course, that is not practicable, but 
unless something is done in the education of the public 
on the imatter of hitting moose and letting them get away, 
there are a lot of these animals that will need medical 
treatment for lead poisoning. Mr. Emerson Hough, who 
is a continual joy to so many of us, may continue to pooh- 
pooh the opinions of Henry Braithwaite and other ex- 
perienced moose hunters by saying that their views are 
well known; and an army of gentlemen may rise up and 
testify to the cfiicacy of theit one .30-30 bullet, “placed 
where it ought to be’ One of them was with Henry 
last full, and he sa’d to Henry: “Can't you make the 
moose stand in a little more. open ground?” At which 
remark the moose made for the open ground on the 
other side of the mountain. The fact 1s, you have got 
to take the moose as you find him, and be pretty quick 
about it, too, And until gentlemen learn by slow degrees 
that the .308 are the curse of the modern woods, this fad 
in fitearms will be as great a menace to game increase as 
was the skin-hunting cruster of a day now happily gone 
by. For the smaller animals, like deer and bear, the 
small bores are doubtless efficient. The irrefragable evi- 
dence is that for moose they are very uncertain. To fire 
at a great bull moose with an ineffectual weapon is wan- 
ton; and to let a wounded moose rtin away is a thing for 
a-man to regret all his days. FREDERIC IRLAND. 


Damages for Reckless Shooting. 
Fron the London Field 


Tue case of Norton vs. Sparks, which, after two days’ 
hearing, was concluded in the Cotirt of King’s Bench on 
Friday last week, however deplorable the facts, affords a 
lesson which those who are fond of rabbit shooting would 
do well to consider. From the evidence adduced, it ap- 
peared-that the parties were ferreting a hedge bank at 
Benfleet, Essex, and the plaintiff, to use his own words, 
“Inelt down with his left side toward the hedge ready to 
fire.” That he should depart from the customary posi- 
tion adopted in shooting seems somewhat strange on the 
part of one who averred that “he had had consider- 
able experience in rabbit shooting” ; but his statement was 
not disputed. While in that position. a rabbit bolted on 
the opposite side of the hedge, but whether it ran along 
the bank, or ditch, or entered the field in which the de- 
fendant. was standing, was not made clear; at any rate 
the defendant fired at it, with the result that the shot 
passed through the hedge and struck the plaintiff. He 
received twenty-seven shots in the leg, twelve in the arm, 
one in the Jeft shoulder, one in the back just below the 
neck, and one in the left eye, He was removed to London, 
and was attended by a well-known oculist, who did’ all 
that was possible for him, but he permanently lost the use 
of the eye. In his opinion the defendant was almost at 
right angles to him when he fired, and for this act of 
alleged carelessness he brought an action for damages. 

For the defense it was contended that the plaintiff was 
euilty of contributory negligence in not keeping in line 
with the defendant, who, when he fired at the rabbit as it 
ran down the hedge, understood that the plaintiff was in 
line with him. Two witnesses gave evidence to the effect 
that they had examined the hedge in question, and were 
of opinion that the shot was fired at an angle of 45 de- 
grees, Upon these facts it was for the jury to say whether 
the defendant, by firing into the hedge with a knowledge 
that the plaintiff and other persons were 6n the opposite 
side of it, was guilty of such carelessness, or negligence, 
as would render him liable for damages in the event of an 
injury resulting. The jury found a verdict for the plain- 
tiff, and assessed the damages at £100, notwithstanding 
that the defendant had paid the medical expenses incurred, 
including a fee of 20 guineas for the services of an expert 
oculist. This may appear to many, as no doubt it did so 
to the defendant, a severe penalty to pay for his care- 
lessness; but, on the other hand, the plaintiff lost an 
eye, which-has always been held to be a more serious in- 
jury than the Joss of a limb—and in feudal times, as we 
know, to deprive a man of one or both eyes was the 
greatest punishment short of death that could be imflicted 
on a imalefactor. pa i. 

Tn all cases of unintentional or accidental injury, the 
pont upon which the question of lability turns is whether 
there was negligence on the part of the person who 
caused-the injury. Circumstances, no doubt, alter cases, 
and it seems clear that where the shooter is not actually 
to blame—as, foy example, where the injured party was 
fot in the direct line of fire, hut a single pellet from a 
charge fired at a rabbit ricochetted froma stone at an 
angle aid struck Ninian the face—no compensation would 


rhe 


opinion of such a statement as that? 


be recoverable at law, and none would be morally due 
This happened in the case of Stanley ys. Powell, tried im 
November, 1800, before Mr. Justice Denman, It was an 
action by a beater for compensation for injuries caused, a5 
he alleged, by the reckless shooting of the defendant at 
a pheasant, The jury, however, took the defendant's view 
that some of the shots glanced ftom an oak tree, and so 
wounded the plaintiff in the face that he lost the use of 
one eye. They considered, therefore, that there was no 
negligence, but, in the event of the plaintiff being entitled 
to recover, assessed his damages at £100. The judge, who 
had reserved his decision, gave judgment for the de- 
fendant, on the ground that the plaintiff had failed upon 
the gist of the action, which was to show that the de- 
fendant was negligent. 

In the case now before us the jury came to a different 
conclusion, To fire through or toward a hedge with the 
knowledge that there are persons on the other side is an 
act which can only be characterized as reckless; and if, as 
in this instance, a serious injury is the result, it is only 
right that the shooter should suffer for it, To some 
persons, apparently, it is useless to preach caution; they 
either cannot or will not be taught the necessity for exer- 
cising it. The only remedy is to mulct them in damages 
for their carelessness, and let others know the penalty 
which attaches to such conduct. We have it now on 
record that, in the opinion of two different juries, the 
cost of an eye is £100, Let this be generally understood 
and we shall perhaps in future hear less of so-called “acci- 
dents” in the shooting field. 


Non-Resident Licenses. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

I have been an interested reader of everything in recent 
numbers of your journal on the subject of shooting 
licenses, and am much surprised that no one of the large 
and increasing army of sportsmeti who acquiesce in the 
license system as reasonable and necessary, has had any- 
thing to say on the subject so far as I haye observed. 

I do not refer to enthusiastic advocates of the system— 
people are not usually very much delighted so far as | 
have observed, at any additional taxes; but if there is 
sométhing they want, and it can be had by the impost- 
tion of a moderate tax, they are willing enough to pay 
their share, 

I have talked with sportsmen in widely different parts 
of Indiana and Illinois this fall, and have not found one 
who did not agree, perhaps in some cases a little sadly, 
that the license idea is the right one. 

I have heard complaint that the license in Indiana is 
outrageously high, as it is, and suggestions have been 
made in regard to making a license so much a day or 
two days, or week, and not-have the charge the same 
for the sportsman who spends but a few days in the field 
as for him who enjoys as many weeks. These are all 
matters of detail, and sportsmen would better devote 
themselves to securing just and reasonable license laws 
rather than making a fight against non-resident license 
laws in general—which are here, and here to stay, either 
with posted farms and sundry othet things which make 
for game preservation, and are welcomed by most intelli- 
gent sportsmen. 

There is among sportsmen generally more than ever a 
recognition of the fact that game protection costs money, 
and some one must pay for it. I cannot understand any 
gentleman objecting to the principle of paying something 
for the privilege of shooting in another State, where 
he pays no direct taxes, 

He may consider the tax as absurdly high, and com- 
plain bitterly about it, as he would at any other excessive 
change, but that he should object to the tax as such is 
unreasonable, and I am happy to say, not many do. 

It is to be regretted that in this matter the editorial page 
of Forest AND STREAM does not reflect what I believe to 
be the views of sportsmen generally. The article of Jan. 


.18 on “The Proposed Maine License” shows a bias quite 


different from that of a very large number of sportsmen 
all over the cotintry. You criticise the able and temperate 
address of Cotnmissioner Carleton at the meeting of the 
Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and Game Association, but give 
Mr. Oak, who opposes a license, the revenue from which 
is to be used for the protection of game, credit for “‘put- 
ting the case in a nutshell” of a dozer! lines, although 
his rambling and illogical speech was twice as long as 
Commissioner Carleton’s, and contained statements which. 
under other circumstances, I should expect to have seen 
refuted or denied on your editorial page. Take this for 
instance. Mr. Oak says: “Having talked the matter 
over with numerots sportsmen, I find quite a universal 
disposition to try to get their money's worth; being 
obliged to pay money where they think they ought not to, if 
unable to secure trophies of the chase such as desired, they 
are more or less inclined to destroy a certain amount of 
property equal at least to the amount of money they 
have left.’ Gentlemen of the gun and rod, what is your 
It is pleasant to 
think Mr. Oak does not*believe you will destroy more 
than the cost of your license if you do not get any*trophies. 
Tf your license costs $25 and entitles you to two deer and 


“you get but one, you will give credit for $12.50 and care- 


fully destroy only an equal amount of property, 

The most bitter enemy of the sports of the field could 
not make a worse charge against our class than this; and 
Mr. Oak assures us “this is no fanciful idea.” He 
has heard “these sentiments expressed by the people 
themselyes’ who had been compelled to pay a license 
somewhere, 

Under the circumstances it would seem the proper 
thing for Maine to keep every acquaintance of Mr. Oak 
out of the State at any cost. The rest of us believe we 
might safely be allowed to pay for our licenses, and that 
there would not be serious risk of wanton destruction of 
property if our neéryes were not steady and we could not 
bring down our game. 

This talk of creating a ‘'selecl aristocracy’ by the im- 
position of-a $20 shooting license seems to me the yeriest 
twaddle, Taking into gonsideration all the other expenses 
of a shooting trip to a meighboring State, in very few 
cases wotld twenty dollars additional decide the matter 
ane way or the other. There is an old saying that “those 
who dance must pay the piper,” which | commend thase 
sportsmen who object qq contribating something toward 


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defraying the expense of game preservation.’ Mr, Oak 
speaks of requiring a shooting license as “throttling the 


innocent sportsman and ordering him to stand and de-. 


liver.” What nonsense! 

Why should a man from Indiana, for instance, who 
wants to kill Maine or Michigan’ or Wisconsin deer ob- 
ject to paying for the’privilege? If he favors game 
preservation; he expects those States to maintain game 
wardens; these are the pipers he should help to pay. 

-sportsmen figure too much in the papers in forma 
fauperis. Everything must be free for them; they can 
hardly reconcile themselves to paying for their pleasures 
us other people do for theirs, If they want to shoot over 


the land of a farmer who happens to have a few coveys of. 


quail on his place, there is no thought of paying. It is 
a sufficient concession to ask the owner for permission 
to kill and carry off his game. If he objects he is an 
unreasonable old curmudgeon whom it is only fair to 
outwit if it can be done. 

Farmers will in time become wise enough to allow no 
shooting on their lands which is not paid for, even at the 
risk of being accused of “throttling the innocent sports- 
men. 

I have paid as high as forty dollars for a non-resident 
Shooting license, and if there is game enough to justify 
such a high pi: it is all right. whether I can kill-my 
quota or not. ‘\- a matter of fact. I ought, in order 
to carry out Mr. Ouk’s idea, to have destroyed about ten 
dollars’ worth of property, in order to get my full forty 
dollars’ worth—but I didn’t, LEXDEN. 

Micuican Ciry, Mil. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Chicago Sportsmen’s Show. 


Cutcaco, Ill., Feb. 6—The view of the different ex- 
hibits, in the trade and otherwise, may conveniently be 
taken from right to left around the ellipse of the main 
floor as one enters from the Wabash avenue entrance. 
There is a very good display of Navajo blankets, In- 
dian relics, etc,, made by the Hyde exploring 
expedition, a company which has been some time opera- 
ting between Durango and Albuquerque. ‘The Hyde 
outfit encourages the Indians to discard the Germantown 
wool and return to the old fabrics. 

A. Chicago company displays foot-power launches and 
matine engines, beyond whicii comes the display of 
launches and motors made by the Truscott Boat Com- 
pany. of St. Joseph, Mich., the latter being a full and 
attractive disply. 

On the cpposite side of the main floor, and at ihe 
southern extremity, begins the beautiful exhibit made 
by the Grand Trunk Railway System, a collection ¢{ 
140 photographs, each 40 by 50 inches in size, showing 
typical scenes of the beautiful and wild Canadian scenery. 
This exhibit has a grand lot of mounted game fish, after 
the fashion known as the mezzo mount, the skin ot the 
fish being stretched upon an oval conyex plaque. 
Mounted in this way, were a number of grand brook 
trout, one of 9 pounds. A 57-pound St. Lawrence mus- 
callunge is another striking specimen, as well as numer- 
ous landlocked salmon, a big wall-eyed pike, etc. The 
colors of the trout are beautifully rendered, and one 
could not imagine a more perfect display of game fishes 
in mounted form. There is one photograph here which 
shows four deer taken by a telescopic Tens at a distance 
of one and a half miles. The game and shooting picture: 
of country reached by the Grand Trunk are very numer- 
ous. Mr. H. R. Charlton, advertising agent of the route 
at Montreal, is in charge of the exhibit. He states that 
there were 6,500 hunters carried by the Grand Trunk 
last fall, and that they killed 10,000 deer, 

Beyond this exhibit there is a souvenir booth, and 
then comes the comprehensive trade exhibit of Hibbard, 
spencer, Bartlett & Co., of this city. The main sport- 
ing goods concerns of the country are represented by 
these general agents, among the goods shown being a 
good display of the products of the Winchester R. A. 
Co., U. M. C. Co., Marlin Fire Arms Co., the Reming- 
ton Co., the Ithaca Gtin Co., the Hunter Arms Co., 
Savage Arms Co., Parker Bros., Colt’s Patent Fire Arms 
Mig. Co., Smith & Wesson, and Iver Johnson. All 
these concerns have comprehensive, though not very 
widely extended exhibits in the generous space of the 
local firm above mentioned. In angling goods the same 
display comprises a good showing of the output. 

Adjoining the gun and tackle exhibit last mentioned 
is the elaborate exhibit of the Peters Cartridge Co., 
which has been elected as sportsmen’s headquarters, 
lounging accommodations, copies of sporting papers, 
etc., having been furnished the boys by Mr. J. H. Mackie. 
the attendant in charge. The arch and frame decora- 
tions of the front of this exhibit are in tasteful form, the 
borders being in four colors, and the design executed 
m the four Peters shells—League, Referee, Ideal and 
New Victor. / 

There are some cases of ammunition on hand, and there 
are shown shells loaded by the Peters Company in all 
the modern makes of smokeless powder, quite outside of 
the loads in King’s smokeless. There are souvenirs for 
the curious, displays of targets made by the Peters shells, 
and all sorts of things interesting to the shooter. This 
firm offers a silver cup for competition at the target 
gallery, to be contested for by Peters cartridges exclu- 
syely, and the gallery attendant has hoisted a sign to that 
effect. 

Progressing now toward the rear of the building, that 
is to say, the northern extremity, one sees Periolat’s 
characteristic exhibit of fine heads, horns, robes, etc., of 


‘American big game. 

A cabin, left to-day without an occupant, is next in 
line, and beyond this is shown the clever work of 
“Silhouette Bill,” who cuts black pictures of you while 
you wait. Adjoining Bill on the north is a display of 
somewhat singular nature, a cowboy artist doing pyrog- 
raphy, which is to say, drawing pictures with a hot iron 
on wood, The card stated that. this was the temporary 
home of “Jim and Kid Gabriel,, bronco busters, of Buf- 
falo Bill’s Wild West since 1893, dispatch carriers for 
Gen, Nelson A. Miles in the campaign of 1890, cham- 
pion long-distance riders of the world, as shown in the 
cavalry horse contest of 1897.” i 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


“Friend,” said I to the artist, which is Kid Gabriel, 
as he bent over his hot iron, “how did you happen. to 
go wrong?” He looked at me out of the corner of his 
eye andi hardly cracked a smile. “Ain’t it a shame,” 
said he, “an’ me with such pretty eyebrows, too!” 

“Did you learn it on the real hide?” I asked him, 
referring to his hot iron operation, 

“Sure,” said he. Thenceforth we were friends. 


Explaining his tendencies toward art, Mr. Gabriel 


said, “A heap of folks think that a cowpuncher don’t do 
anything but eat hay and go to sleep in the middle of 
the road; but I allow-I can show them that the modern 
art tendency has struck in west of the. Missouri. What 
do you think of that?” - ' : 

He pointed to some of his hot-iron pictures, and I 
must say they surpassed anything I have eyer seen of the 
kind. The Kid can do artistic stunts on bronco busting, 
roping and all that sort of thing, as well as most folks 
can with plenty of brushes and any amount of -paint, 

By and by Jim Gabriel came along, and in him I 
recognized an earlier friend, no less than Jimmy Tuff, 
once of Johnson county, Wyoming. Jimmy could tell 
considerable history if he felt like it, and we had quite 
a pow-wow together. He was got up for show purposes, 
and grinned when he caught me looking at his silk shirt, 
old gold neck-scarf and pearl-handled gun. None the 
less, Jimmy has seen the cow game in plenty of different 
stages. He promises me an old pair of chaps, as I had 
to admit that I had not a pair left to my name, and as 
we both agreed that a household without a single pair 
of chaps in it was in pretty bad shape. 

“Jim,” said the Kid, as he busied himself with his art 
tendencies, “he does the big talk-talk for the firm, and 
{ do the branding, I always seemed to take naturally 
to a hot iron. That’s how I came to this. But you 
stand around here and just listen to Jim talk. He'll 
amtise you some. Say, he just rears right back on his 
hocks and tells it to ‘em scarey. You ought to see the 
eyes hang out on these States folks that come down 
through here.” 

Both these men are pretty well equipped to “tell it to 
"em scarey.” Jim knew Tom Wagner, Nate Champion 
and a whole lot more real rough riders in the days of 
the once famous Johnson county war. 

Next in order come several curio booths, among these 
one, a stall, showing hair ornaments made of glass beads, 
done by a fair damsel from Berlin. “Ich bin auch Injun,” 
said she, smilingly, realizing the value which Indian 
goods had on the market for the time being. I could not 
believe her accent. 

The Santa Fe railroad has a number of fine paintings 
and large photographs in the space at the northern end 
of the building, these views including familiar presenta- 
tions of the Grand Cafion and many other landscapes in 
one of the most curious and interesting regions of 
America. What the Santa Fe does is good, as need not 
be said, 

At this same extremity of the building is a small 
cabin known as the Chicago hunters’ den, in charge of 
Norris, and decorated with hides, heads, pictures, Alaska 
trophies, Indian implements, ¢lothing, etc. The target 
gallery is next in line, under the seats and back of the 
Hiawatha stage, 

Swinging now toward the main entrance on the west 
side of the lower hall, one comes to the grand exhibit 
of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, in charge of Mr. L. O. 
Armstrong, of Montreal. There are several good spaces 
devoted to this exhibit, Which includes a comprehensive 
display of pictures, oil paintings and those striking pho- 
tographs which alone would serve to make the Canadian 
Pacific scenery world-famous. There is-an abundance 
of skins, heads and other trophies of big game to be 
seen here, and a very good working collection of maps, 
descriptive literature, etc. 

“We make a specialty,” said Mr. Armstrong, “of fur- 
nishing speaking information about our country. Every 
year I search out new sporting regions, going into the 
woods as soon as the ice goes out. I always take along 
Indian guides, and I have had with me at different times 
several of the Indians who are here with the Hiawatha 
show,” 

It was the Canadian Pacific which was instrumental 
in bringing to Chicago the first performance of the 
Hiawatha drama, which constitutes one of the main at- 
tractions of the sportsmen’s show. The total space 
occupied by the C. P. R. R. is 1,200 feet, and it shows 
the wilderness in every inch. A 

Among the Indians present with the Hiawatha troupe 
is William Kabaoosa, a sixty-year-old veteran, who 
was once a timber cruiser for Western luambermen. This 
man carries a George III. medal, which was given to 
his grandfather in 1778. He is a man of somewhat dis- 
tinguished family, his ancestors having sold to the whites 
a deal of country along the Great Lakes many years ago, 

Others of the Canadian Indians present who are ob- 
tainable as guides, and who are present at the show, are 
Geo. Linklater, White Fish, Ont.; Hugh Irvine, Des- 
barto, Ont.; Joe Banngeseck, Tom! Obtossoway, George 
Kabaoosa, Tom Kabaoosa, Bukwujimimi, Henry Buk- 
wtjimimi, Albert Wabunosa, Sam Wabunosa, Aleck 
Wabunosa. Shawano, Tom Shingwauk, Wm. Kaboosa, 
Garden River, Ont. a 

The foregoing covers the exhibits as seen in place at 
this date. 


The Indian License Law. 


John Watson is just back from Maksawba Club, In- 
diana, and he says that the rabbits are simply running 
away with the country down there. Asked if he shot any, 
John replied: “I should say not. It may be lawful under 
this new Indiana license law, but nearly everybody at the 
club is afraid to take his gun out of the case for fear he 
will be fined $25. As near as I can figure it out, you 
can’t shoot rabbits or anything else down in Indiana 
without paying a $25 license. Of course you can shoot 
jacksnipe after Nov. 10. That's a good thing. I wonder 
how many jacksnipe there are left in Indiana after Nov. 
to!” - E. Houceu. 

Hartrorp Buripine, Chicago, Ill. 


All communications intended for Forest any Sterau should 
always be addressed, to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


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Transplanting Quail. 

St. AuGustine, Fla——Editar Forest and Stream: It 
strikes me that a very small amount of thought is used’ 
by people who talk about importing quail from Texas andi 
other places for propagating purposes. Some time ago [| 
called attention to the fact that a Florida cock quail! 
weighed only 5 otinces, and as I felt sure that those I used: 
to shoot in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Long Island) 
were nearly twice as large, I urged your correspondents| 
in different States to settle the matter by sending in the 
weight of their birds, but very few of them seemed to 
take any interest in it, and I got but few responses. 

In a late number of Forest anp STREAM Mr. W. Hy 
Emmons has taken the trouble to weigh some of his birds, 
and he gives the weight of a cock as 714 otinceés, and a 
hen as 6 ounces. Now it would appear like stupidity in 
the sportsmen of Long Island to ruin the breed of their! 
splendid birds by introducing a diminutive specimen that’ 
on a piece of toast appears about the size of an English} 
sparrow. oi / 

I very well remember that when [ shot in Pennsylvania’ 
and New Jersey a broiled quail was enough for my} 
breakfast, while here they are very small and tough and 
altogether so unattractive that I let them vigorously alone. 

li I wished to import quail I would first know the size 
of the birds, and just here is something to be considered; 
Tt will not do to weigh a bird that has been caged up, for 
they dwindle to nearly nothing in three days’ time. Weigh) 
only freshly shot birds. DipyMus.. 


[Our correspondent’s note is interesting, but we venture 
to suggest that it is based in part on a misapprehension. 

The Northern quail weighs from 6 to 6% ounces for the: 
female, to 7% to 8 ounces for the male, and we fancy that: 
the weighing of a great many birds would show that, 
the females average about 6% ounces and the males a verys 
trifle under 8 ounces. This,for birds in good condition 
and freshly shot. 

We do not believe, however, that the importation of’ 
Florida quail—provided they would stand the Northern} 
climate, which at first they. will hardly do—would “ruin 
the breed of Long Island birds.” Instead, we believe that 
after a generation or two the progeny of the Florida birds 
would attain very nearly the size and weight of a native 
bird. 

It is a, well-known fact that Western cattlemen com- 
monly bring yearling cattle from Texas, New Mexico, 
Arizona and even old Mexico, and turn them out to range 
and grow in Montana and North Dakota with the result 
that when of beef age these cattle are some hundreds of 
pounds heavier than cattle of the same age, which have 
reached maturity in the Southern country. The colder 
and more bracing weather, and possibly the more nutri-: 
tious food of the North tend toward a greater vigor and a 
better development than is had in the milder South. 
Analogy would lead us to conclude that with wild ani- 
mals—say deer, or even birds—brought to the North, a 
similar state of things might occur, provided they could’ 
he protected during the first winter. | 


Seizure of Kansas Quail Shipment. 


Corronwoop Fats, Kan., Feb. 4.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Topeka State Journal of yesterday reports) 
from Wichita under date of Feb. 3: 

“Detective Harry Sutton of the local police force, who 
is also a game warden under the new law passed by the) 
Legislature, seized a shipment of quail at the Santa Fe 
depot Saturday. The birds were in the possession of the 
Welis Fargo Express Company, and the local agent of 
the company refused for a long time to give them up. 
The shipment contained about twenty dozen birds, and 
was billed to T. J. Kiely & Co., St. Louis. It was 
shipped from Cunningham, Kan. The express com- 
pany officials deny all knowledge of the shipment, and 
say they do not know the shipper’s name. The birds 
were taken to the police station and will probably hes 
distributed among the hospitals of the city. 

“Inder the law the shipper is liable to a fine ranging 
anywhere from $500 to $1,000. While his name is at! 
present unknown, the local officers say they will have ne} 
difficulty in apprehending him. Just what penalty will 
be attached to the express company is not known, but 
under the law, it is equally liable as the shipper, 

“The matter will be brought before the United States 
grand jury, and an indictment will probably be returned 
against the offenders at its next session.” 

This is of interest as a fingerboard to show that the: 
express company that carried the six crates of quail te’ 
Pittsburg for “breeding purposes,” which I reported 
one year ago, is not having as easy a time with its ship-j 
ments this year. W. F. RIGHTMIRE. 


Sea and River Fishing. 
Eh, a 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in ForEsT AND STREAM. 


g s 6 

Maine Ice Fishing. 

Boston, Feb. 10.—Maine ice fishing is in order, for 
residents of that State, who may fish with a small number 
of lines, after Feb, 1, the fish to be taken to their own 
homes, but not otherwise. Nevertheless Boston fisher- 
men go down there, and possibly they don’t care to fish. 
Friday evening a large party of representative Boston 
sportsmen started for Maine. The list of names was as 
follows: Dr. Heber Bishop, Dr. F. M. Johnson, Dr.| 
Lewis F. Foss, Dr. William A. Rolfe, Sullivan Newton, 
Sewell Dinsmore, George J. Raymond, the Hon. Fred 5. 
Risteen, S. R, Raymond, J. G. Stewart, William H. Law-4 
rence, Col. H. T. Rockwell, Thomas Ferrand; I. S. Jeffrey, 
the Hon. G. W. Wiggin, Asher Hyneman, Frank N. Gan- 
nong and others. They started for Hon. Frank Jones’ 
camps, at-Tunk Pond, beyond Bangor, and seventeen’ 
miles from the junction of the Washington County Rail- 
road. Here Mr. Jones owns one.of the finest sporting! 
camps in the country, costing over $60,000, and fitted with? 


_ Fes, 45, 1902,] \ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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every modern convenience. including a telephone 
to the outside world. The Boston fishermen are pre- 
sumed not to fish. They have employed natives of the 
State to have bait ready and holes cut. They will “assist 
the natives about putting in the hooks.”’ They have taken 
down some of the best tackle, to “loan to the natives.” 
This done, they pledge themselves, that though not fish- 
ing, they will not see a native lose a good fish; will take 
hold and assist him. There is no law against assisting 
a native of Maine. The Boston fishermen also have 
pledged themselves that they will not stand and see a 
native pulled down through the ice by a big fish; they 
will come to his rescue. They have provided themselves 
with necessary tackle for such emergencies. They have 
taken along one or two shark hooks, of about three-quar- 
ter-inch wire, strongly fixed with iron chain links, These 
hooks will be liberally baited with dried herring, and if 
they see a native in danger from landing a large trout or 
togue, the big hooks will quickly be brought into use. 

_ Thompson Pond, near Poland Springs, Me., is a fayor- 
ite resort for winter fishing. This year a number of 
parties have been fishing there, including several Boston 
fishermen. Togte fishing requires that the hook shall 
be kept constantly in motion, about~three feet from the 
bottom, and ingenious Maine guides and residents near the 
ponds have constructed little houses that they set up over 
the holes. Kerosene stoves are provided, and seats, and 
the fisherman can sit and bob his line in comfort. These 
little houses are let for hire. They are in use at Sebago 
Lake, and also much used by the smelt fishermen. Lake 
George, near Skowhegan, Me., is also another fayorite 
resort for the ice fishermen. Hundreds of ponds in that 
State are open to winter fishing, after Feb. 1, to resi- 
dents only, while non-residents fish them without molesta- 
tion. ; 

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Commissioners 
gaveahearing at Concord, Feb. 4, to petitioners, both pro 
and con, in regard to ice fishing. The continued close 
time on many of the lakes and ponds in that State expires 
Feb. 24. The summer hotel people want the close time 
continued, claiming that open*ng the lakes and ponds to 
ice fishing will ruin the fishing in a very short time, as it 
did years ago, before protecticn and propagation brought 
about an era of better fishing, On the other hand, the 
residents about there waters claim that they ought to 
have the right to fish waters that they are taxed to pro- 
tect; a rig*t to fish at a t me of the year when they can 
attend to it. The interest on both sides is great, and 
the petiticns numerous and volumincus. At the hearing 
almost eviry secticn of the State was represented. The 
Comm’ ssicners find that it will take some time to adjust 
so many requests. One petition asks for the opening 
of Newfornd Lake to ice fish ng. The petition sets forth 
that this lake was closed last winter by the Legislature 
without notice to the people of Bristol county. Petitions 
also ask for the closing of Suncook and Pleasant ponds, in 
Northwocd, the ponds in Hillsboro and a section of the 
Winnipisaukee River at Garden Grove. in Belmont. 

The -Ma ne Fish and Game Commisioners have just sent 
100.000 trout eggs from the Lake Auburn hatchery to the 
new hatchery at Moosehead Lake. As soon as possible 
200000 more trout eggs will be taken to the hatcheries 
there from Sourdnahunk Lake, where they were obtained, 
and where they have been kept in a temporary hatchery. 
In additien to the above 300,000 trout eggs, 300,000 salmon 
eggs will be sent to the Mossehead hatchery from Lake 
Auburn and Sebags, All these eges will be hatched and 
devoted to restocking Moosehead, 

An Augusta, Me., dispatch says that the Hon. Henry 
QO. Stanley says he thinks that the fish and game interests 
should be separated. SPECIAL, 


With Game Sea Fish in Turkey. 


My old fisherman Yanni sent me hasty word that, after 
baiting a rock for twenty days, he was beginning to catch 
large merdjian, and that if I cared to have a night out 
with him I must come at once while the moon was still 

oup. It is not very often that an amateur has the chance 
of wetting a line on a baited rock without going to the 
trouble and. expense of baiting and watching it himself, 
as professionals are exceedingly jealous, and not without 
reason, of anybody else reaping the harvests for which 
they have laberiously sown. It is mot a mere question of 
the value of the fish, but they like to catch them then:- 
selves, and are ayerse to showing their grounds. A 
knowledge of the various submarine rocks and their 
peculiarities is a tangible possession, handed on frem 
father to son as a capital or stock in trade, and it is by 
no means easy to persuade any of the few line fishermen 
to disclose the nishans, or marks, by which he finds his 
rocks, even to a customer. These nishans are conspicu- 
ous, of sometimes insignificant, objects on the shores 
en different sides, which must be brought into line, and 
when the imaginary lines drawn from. them are p-o- 
duced until they intersect each other, there is the pre- 
serve, twenty or thirty fathoms deep. 

The fishing on rocks is principally for merdjian, a 
species of pink sea bream, wrongly named on hotel 
menus a dorade. The merdjian is a very handsome and 
sporting fish, fighting with a strength and determination 
surpassing that of any of kis fellows, not excepting the 
bass. Indeec, I doubt if a salmon at the end of a 
20-strand horsehair lne and’ a double trace of best 
tested gut, with a hook 5 or 6 inches long, heavily 
weighted with lead on the shank, in his jaws, would give 
the same amotint of trouble. 

An hour's run by train through vineyards, orchards, 
strawherry beds, and fields of russet corn brought me to 
the little village on the Gulf of Ismidt, and there I found 
Yanni and his son Niko waiting in their caique. “You 
should have come sooner, Kyrie, as the moon rises very 
late now, and my merdjian aren't accustomed to stay 
on the reck after midnight. But I daresay we shall 
get some all the same, with a little luck.” 

“Tnshallah!” said I. “Have you got the crabs all 


right?” He has; and hoisting a tattered apology for a 


sail to help the rowers, we head straight away across the 
gull, 

“Is ask how the old man has been doing lately, and how 
it is that he has taken to merdjian this season instead 
of bass, which was his usual and favorite pursuit, “Well, 


all but killed?” 


you see, Kyrié,’’ was the answer, “for the last four or 
five years they have made May, June and July close time 
for merdjian, so that we could not fish for them. Yon 
can’t keep a baited rock secret, nor smuggle in a pair of 
big fish. Before that I always used to bait'a run. When 
the restriction was taken off this year I thought I would 


try again, as, after all, it is surer, and in some way 


easier than leverak (bass) catching. I am sorry I can't 
do both, but it is impossible to be after shrimps and 
crabs all day and to be up on the rock all night. 
Shrimps have become so scarce now that, upon my 
word, it is harder to get the baits than the bass. The 
other morning I collected about 100 with great difficulty, 
but you know how they are taken by the fish. In three 
hours they were all gone, and I only had one leveral: of 
five okes (about 13 pounds) and seventeen little brutes, 
none of them more than half an oke. As for these 
chagini (mud crabs), they give me bother enough. Since 
I began baiting the rock I don’t know how many I must 
have thrown in. To catch them I have first to prepare 
a parak kat (night line) with 100 or more hooks: and 
ley it out in the shallow water of the mullet pond. After 
an hour or two Niko and I go in up to our waists with 
landing nets and pick the crabs off the bottom. I sup- 
pose I use at least 200 a day. I wonder they don’t peti- 
tion against me.» I haye only been out on the rock about 
half a dozen times, and thrice out of these with an 
effendi who is an. adjemi (a novice). Altogether we 
have lost about as many as we have caught—nine to ten. 
How they escape this -year ptizzles me. In former 
springs I have taken eighty or ninéty without one ever 
setting off the hook, but now they seem to be verily 
bewitched.” A J 

As we approach the hidden rock, old Yanni abandons 
his oars and reaches for the crab crate, a wicker con- 
cern about a yard long and a foot in circumference, three 
parts filled with a creaking mass of chagani, averaging 
about 2% inches across their shells. By the time he has 
prepared a score or two by stripping them of claws and 
back piece, leaving only the bodies and breastplate, we 
are close to the scene of operations, and the sail is 
furled and packed away, and the decks generally cleared 
for action by stowing snugly everything which might 
catch a line or interfere with us-in any way. A series 
of careiul observations of certain trees, promontories and 
other marks enables us to locate the rock, and we gently 
drop our buoy, consisting of a string of corks, a block 
ot wood and an empty tin, painted searlet. The use of 
the wood and the tin is apparent later, as they give ott 
faint tinkles from time to time, showing us our where- 
abouts by ear when we could not see more than a yard 
of two. The boat should never be anchored for merd- 
jian fishing; ‘firstly, because the rope might frighten the 
fish, and secondly, because in his rushes a big one 
would be tolerably sure to foul it. Consequently a buoy 
is laid a short distance north, south, east, or west of the 
rock, and the boat, by gentle paddling, is kept in the 
right place. wy 

The hooks are now baited, one to each line, the shank 
being about the thickness of a fine knitting needle, with 
its end moulded into a piece of lead the size of a pigeon’s 
egg. This lead is kept smooth, and is polished at inter- 
vals with mercury till it shines like sflver. The bodies 
of the crabs are threaded up it, each-one being pierced 
through the breast, and six to eight going to the hook. 
When there is no moon the hours tor catching merd- 
jian are the first two after sunset and the last two be- 
fore dawn. During the darkness itis useless to attempt 
to beguile them, as the phosphorescence thrown off by 
the line warns them, 
does not exist. ae 

It is just 8 o'clock as we drop our first lines, paying out 
until the hook just lies on the bottom at thirty-two 
fathoms, but for nearly an hour we feel nothing but 
futile nibbles from small fry. There is no mistaking the 
bite of a sizable merdjian, who generally begins by one 
or two smart snatches, of which no notice must be taken. 
Then finding. he cannot extract the succulent morsels 
of crab, he makes a gulp, pouches the whole hookful and 
sails away with a steady, strong pull, inviting the strike. 
At 9 o’clock Yanni exclaimed, "There isa fish at me,” 
and the next moment he is fast. ‘“Siya, siya!” (back 
water!) he shouts as the merdjian bolts aft, the line rip- 
ping through the water like a knife and leaving a glit- 
tering track as it flies. Then the fish bores, and we haye 
to pay out line, letting the horsehair whistle and hiss 
over the rounded pole, which is lashed along either side 
of the caique. No sooner are a few fathoms gathered 
in than he takes them out again with determined rushes, 
but after five minutes he seems tiring, and there are not 
more than ten fathoms out between him and the net. 
Already we are speculating on his size, when he makes a 
dangerous dart under our keel, and then—the line slack- 
ens into sickening limpness. , Words cannot picture our 
feelings, but most fishermen will. guess what they are. 
Yanni emits just one terrible oath, and then quickly 
hauls in the hook. Nothing is damaged, and there are 
still two or three corpses of crabs threaded, while the 
lead is marked deep with the savage teeth. 

“JT told you they were bewitched this year. 
saw a fish get off after being played for five minutes and 
Tt certainly is extraordinary with a man 
of Yanni’s skill, but it has happened, and there is nothing 
more to be said. “You can pull in your line now,” he 
remarks; ‘there won't be any more fisli here for an hour 
or two—not before the moon rises. You had better have 
your dinner, Kyrie. I haven't any appetite just now. 
That fish has given me a headache. He was a seven- 
oker (about 18 pounds), every dram of it,’ and Yanni 
bends ‘over the oar and splashes his grizzled head with 
salt water, with which, I fancy, he mingles. some briny 
drops from his own eyes. 

We give them a rest till 11, when a pale glimmer in 
the southeast shows where the moon is lifting beneath a 
heavy bank of clouds. Slowly she rises, but only slightly 
more than a full crescent, surrounded by mist and fleece, 
and Yanni shrugs his:shoulders and growls, “That moon 
won't be much good to’us yet a while; she is very small 
even when she gets high. but we may as well throw our 
‘voltas.” 

So we do; bit as the night wears on the clouds mass 
thicker and thicker, and never a bite or a nibble from 
great or small. What a glorious night; though! Fresh, 

* 


With a bright moon this danger” 


Who ever 


but not cold enough for me to use a heavy coat I have 
brought; no dew, but a crisp, sweet air, with occasional 
puffs of stronger wind from over the mountains to break 
a general rippling calm. Even if we catch no merdjian 
it is a delight to lie lazily on the poop of the caique 
smoking a soothing cigarette, watching the shearwaters, 
which never seem to rest by day, swimming fearlessly 
past, and listening to the tinkle of the buoy and the quaint 
wooings of amorous gulls, who are now pairing, and 
turning night into day, instead of roosting in peace, — 

Niko is fast asleep in the bows, but old Yanni keeps 
up a ceaseless paddle with one hand, attending to his 
line with the other, while I also, though half dozing, 
have still a watchful finger on the horsehair. It is get- 
ting on for 3 o’clock, and Yanni remarks, “The dawn 
will break in another hour, and we have had no moon 
yet. But we may be blessed with an hour of her. See! 
the sky is clearing fast.” And indeed it is not long ere 
she emerges into the open blue, renewing our fading 
hopes. “There is a fish,” says Yanni, and scarcely has 
he spoken before I feel a tug. “And I’ve got one at 
me,” I reply. But his is already hooked, and the first 
run scares off mine, so I take Yanni’s oars as best I 
can from my position while he plays the fish. “A small 
one,” he growls, but still he shows sport. “You take 
the line now, Kyrié, while I get the net. It’s not worth 
while waking Niko.’ Two or three minutes more are 
enough to tow him sliding over the mouth of the kept- 
cheh, and he is kicking at our feet, a nice fellow of two 
and three-quarter okes, as he is pronounced by the cus- 
tom officer later, though to look at him and to feel,.him 
on the line one would have credited him with a good 10 
pounds instead of under 7. All drowsiness has fallen 
from us, and we rebait without delay, although it is 
seldom that a second fish is caught within less than 
half an hour owing to the commotion below produced 
by one on the hook. Looking anxiously at the moon, I | 
see another curtain of clouds advancing, and in the east 
a faint glow already tops the hills. ; 

“T am afraid we shan’t get any more to-night, Yanni. 
By George! Look out! One touched me then. Here 
he comes again. Yeoho!” JI have a fathom or two in, 
when he is gone; Instantly I drop the line again, and 
before it has straightened he has come at me like a bull- 
dog. This time no mistaké. Though certainly nothing 
like as big as the first one, he must be a decent fish, to 
judge by his rushes, but they avail him nothing against 
Yanni’s cunning handling of the caique, and the elastic, 
well-tried line. In three or four minutes he joins his 
brother, and the scales give him over four okes. 

There is little use in going on now, as before the dis- 
turbance this fish has created can subside the sun will 
be up, so we pound all the remaining crabs into a tasty 
mess, enough to fill two strawberry pottles, and lower 
them on to the rock in a slip net,.where we jerk them 
out and spread them as a peace offering to the friends 
and relatives of our pair. 

I should like to try for leverak, but we have no 
shrimps, and I must be back in town early. The first 
train leaves soon after 5, and we row quietly back, reach- 
ing the scala at half past 4. The me’mour is asleep, and 
the fact of my being in a hurry to catch a train does not 
appeal to him in the least. I must have a teskereh, 
though, to show I have paid on my fish, or they may be 
confiscated at the terminus. Prayers are of no ayail in 
this instance, and the official finally appears just as the 
engine puffs out of the station. I cannot help pointing 
out to him that he has made me lose an hour by not 
hurrying himself, “Missed the train?’ he murmurs. 
“Zararyok (it does not matter); there will be another one 
soon.” I turn away as much in sorrow as in anger, and 
Yanni murmurs, “This is Turkey.”’—A. Hulme*Beaman 
in London Field. 


Niagara County Anglers. 


Lockport, N. Y., Feb. 4—The club that can make 
thousands of brook trout to grow where before there was 
none is certainly well worth while. The Niagara County 
Anglers’ Club, numbering 250 members, has within the 
last four years accomplished something that has attracted 
the favorable comment of the State Fish, Game and Forest 
Commission. The lowlands of Niagara, with here and 
there slight elevations cf from 100 to 200 feet above the 
sutrounding country, do not afford streams well adapted 
to the common brook frout (Salmo fontinalis), for springs 
are few and far between, the little spring water being 
modified by surface water to an extent which makes the 
streams tncongenial if not entirely unadapted to the 
gamy speckled beauties. However, a half-dozen streams 
in the vicinity of Lockport have been found habitable for 
certain varieties of trout, Four years ago brown trout 
were planted in a spring-fed pond, and since that time 
each year thousands of trout fry have been planted in 
various streams. This included brown, rainbow and 
black-spotted trout. ast summer some splendid catches 
were made by local anglers in this vicinity. In one 
brook, three miles long, averaging only two feet in width 
and two in depth, it is estimated 1,500 trout averaging 
three-quarters of a pound in weight were caught. Some 
of the brown trout weighed over one pound each, and- 
the largest was fourteen inches in length. ‘They had 
attained that splendid growth from fingerlings in four 
years, The three-yearlings averaged ten inches and over 


a half-pound in weight. 


At the meeting of the Niagara Anglers’ Club this week 
it was decided to secure 100,000 trout this year and stock 
‘note streams in the county. Postmaster Chatles W. 
Hatch, chairman of the Committee on Planting, made the 
following interesting report, which should encourage other 
elubs to take up the work of re-establishing the speckled 
beauties in streams that now afford only dace, bullheads 


and suckers: 


This club has done a great amount of stocking public 
waters in this cotinty. This report also shows the amount 
of work done by members of this club to make this 
county second to none in this part of the country as an 
ideal spot for the trout fishermen. 

It has been demonstrated beyond a doubt that we can 
grow the rainbow and brown trout in our spring brooks, 
which will afford in yeats to come plenty of sport for the 
expert trout fishermen. Last summer many fine samples 
were taken, and it was the pride of the club when we 


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were called upon to furnish for the Pan-American ex- 


hibit from Niagara county a specimen catch of our brown | 


trout, which was done by a few of the active members of 
this club, and in return for our efforts Mr. Conway, the 
gentleman in charge of the Government exhibit, gave us 
all the trout fry hatched at the Pan-American, or nearly 
so, amounting to some 90,000, which we had by going 
after them. Some five different shipments were brought 
here by different members and getting them here safely, 
and the writer many times performed this duty, and they 
were all transported and: planted without scarcely a loss 
of a single trout. 4 

This club in 1899 planted 27,600 lake trout in the fol- 
lowing places: 


YN Re NAONGE fees WON NE So DO a gegen ec eros Oe GOGO 10,000 
ZY NAT orders era aire Grit ner tates OF ie Oar eOOATIO EIDE 3,600 
Lai =( DINO Ad eye ee oes See ROE ec eee eon ene ds 14,000 
27,600 
1809. Distribution of pike-perch: , 
In Eighteen-Mile Creek at Olcott............... 2,500,000 
In Tonawanda Creek at Pendleton............... 25,000 
2,525,000 

1899. Distribution-of whitefish: 
At WVaTSO fn. sce epee ee Sn eee 1,800,000 
AE “Walsonmee serene nore. WA esc cata) cre 2,500,000 
AT @ICOLG cam iene acne re aren sca etree caeey st 1,875,000 
VNB GDS tot bee beter eee nr Re eee Da ma ncaa tui 3,000,000 
9,175,000 


As shown by this report, the total catch of the net 
fishermen of this county alone in the waters of Niagara 
county was 540,712 fish, valued at $28,773, while a large 
amount of fish must have been caught by Canadian fisher- 
men in American waters of this county but do not find 
their catch and value in this report. 

This brings us to what was done in the brown trout 
line in the past two years, and especially last season, when 
so much was done of benefit to the club. This report 
shows that in 1899 the chib received through its mem- 
bers 10,000 fingerling brown trout, and were placed at 
various points in the county streams. oe 

On June 10, 1901, we received from the State Fish Com- 
mission 2,000 rainbow trout; July to, 1,500 California 
trout from State Commission; July 20, 2,000 brown trout 
from State Commission; July 22, 2,000 brown trout from 
State Commission, and on Oct. 2 we received 2,500 brown 
trout from the Commission, thus making a total of 20,000 
trout fingerling which have been planted in Niagara coun- 
ty. and in a very few years we shall have as good trout 
fishing in our own county as can be found in almost any 
country where trout streams are more numerous and 
trout more plenty. 

This club also received this past season of trout fry 
140,000, as follows: 


From U. S. Fish Commission: 


Via SL eau cette dicate tees 3rown. trout fry......./...: ete et Oey 60,000 
From Pan-American: 

ATV PA cere sr atorialel esas Brown trout iry......................00,000 

[REIN rgeaor Seater Rainbow trout frys...s.......0..... 20,000 

sly OB tr. ane Guyavilined fives renters setae ee 20,000 

CNN Eee are oe 5 tNet ve amnesniin 9 "...Black-spotted trout ffy.,.-...-++-<s5 10,00) 


making a total last season of 140,000, all of which were 
taken care of by the club, and will be transplanted the 
coming season. The readers of this report will notice 
that a great deal of hard work has been done.to get and 
care for this vast amount of game fish in one season, and 
you will note the different varieties of trout we haye— 


the rainbow, the brown, the black-spotted, the California - 


and. the grayling. all very game fish, and will afford good 
sport to the anglers. 


Fish and Fishing. 


Trout on Ice. 


It is against the law to take the speckled or brook trout 
(Salvelinus fontinalis)- through the ice in Canada, for the 
close season lasts from Sept. 30 to May r. Nobody, how- 
ever, is compelled to starve in the woods if he can obtain 
the necessary means of subsistence. and hence it some- 
times happens that trout are taken through the ice in the 
Province of Quebec by hunting parties who have unex- 
pectedly run short-of provisions. One of these parties 
recently returned to town from the Lake St. John coun- 
try with a remarkable fish story. Having failed to ob- 
tain game and having run short of pork, they made a 
hole in the ice of a lake and fished for trout. The fish 
came to the bait, but would not swallow the hook. They 
adroitly removed the bait and left the hook bare. The 
fishers tried to secure the trout by striking more promptly 
and jerking the line with the hook attached from the 
fishing hole. The story told is that a three-pound trout. 
in his dart after the disappearing bait, leaped through the 
opening in the ice and landed upon the frozen covering of 
the lake. 

As a matter of fact, trout are not quite so easily taken 
through the ice as is usually supposed. Complaints hav- 
ing reached me that lumbermen were taking quantities of 
them from certain preserved waters in this Province upon 
which they were operating, I made careful inquiry into 
the circumstances, and found that although considerable 
fishing was being done through the ice of certain lakes 
which were known to contain fontinalis, among other 
kinds of fish, scarcely any of the speckled trout were 
caught. The fish that take bait most greedily in these 
latitudes, under the ice, are the pike-perch, locally known 
as doré, and the namaycush, or large gray trout of the 
Great Lakes. The Montagnais Indians throw a blanket 
over both themselves and the hole in the ice through 
which they fish, and often in the course of half an hour 
ea catch half a dozen large pike-perch or wall-eyed 
pike. ; 
New Brunswick Salmon Rivers, - 


Since referring to the approaching auction sale of the 
New Brunswick salmon fishing privileges, I have looked 
into the form of lease employed by the Government of that 
Province. The Government leases, to the highest bidder, 
the Jands alongside the banks of the streams “‘for the 
sole purpose of conveying the fishing rights pertaining 
thereto.” Only surface fly-fishing is permitted to the 
lessees, who must bind themselves to give free passage 
over their land to thase engaged in lumbering operations, 
pnd a general right of way along and upon the rivers of 


FOREST 


An. STREAM. 


‘streams leased, for logs, lumber, boats and vessels of all 


kinds: One of the most important clauses in the form of 
lease is that which binds the lessee to keep and maintain, 
at his own charge and expense, one or more efficient 
guardians, as the Surveyor-General may direct, and for 
such terms as that official deems necessary, for the 
effectual protection of the fisheries; and another wise pro- 
yision is to the effect that lessees “shall be answerable for 
damages done to the lands and timber growing thereon, or 
on adjoining lands, either by himself or his agents, or 
persons under his control, either from waste or from 
want of sttficient precaution in lighting, watching over 
or extinguishing fires; it being incumbent on the lessee, 
in case of damage caused by fire, to prove that such pre- 
caution had beén taken, and that such damage was not 
caused by or through his negligence, or that of his agents 
or employes,” 

The New Brunswick leasing system is the means of 
placing about sixty-five guardians upon the best rivers of 
the Province, at a cost to the lessees of about $10,000 a 
year, over and above the rental paid by them to the 
Government. The lessee of the Tobique and its tribu- 
taries alone is required to keep at least fifteen guardians 


PACIFIC ISLAND FISHHOOKS, 


upon the streams from June 1 to Oct. 1 in each year, and 
not less than five guardians from Oct. 1 until the ice forms 
upon the streams. The Government thus secures the 
proper guardianship of its valuable salmon fisheries, both 
commercial and angling, which, but for the surveillance 
of these guardians, would, in a comparatively short time, 
be destroyed by those who derive the greatest benefit from 
the protection thus afforded, __- 
Speaking of the fact that the settlers who live alongside 
and near these rivers haye not, as a rule, been satisfied 
with the privilege of taking only the fish required by 
their families for food, Mr. D. G. Smith, the Fishery 
Commissioner of the Province, hits the nail squarely on 
the head when he says, in a recent report: ‘They have 
lost sight of the fact that the fish belong to all the people, 
just as the lumber on the Crown lands: does.” But this 
is a view of the case that it is extremely difficult to im- 
press upon those who. live nearest to the waters in 
question. ., TT. TY. D. Campers: 


Photographing the Salmon Leap. 


As all anglers who fished the New Brunswick rivers 
in 1901 know, the season was the record one for low 
water. Streams which, in other years, could be fished 
from canoes only, were waded almost anywhere; fords. 
usually crossed knee deep, could be passed over dry shod 
by stone-to-stone stepping; the noise of waterfalls, whose 
welcoming roar in July and August were aforetime heard 
half a mile, reached scarcely a hundred yards off; the 
accustomed July, August and September runs of salmon 
were compelled, in most cases, to school at tide heads 
awaiting a freshet to enable them to ascend to the spawn- 
ing grounds, while the June run, which had gone up, was 
centralized in the deeper pools because most of their 
acctistomed haunts had become mere shallows. In the 
main waters of the St. John, Ristigouche, Northwest 
and Southwest Miramichi and the Nepisguit, there were 
exceptions to these conditions, but the distinctive schools 


- whose habitat is the tributaries of those rivers, lay in 


the bigger pools only, listless, and in many of the rivers 
only to school there in large numbers awaiting the rise 


in water on which they might ascend, but which did not 


come uatil late in October, and then only to put the 
Cas oer Vee kia As A Via eat rete eee” 


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good sport. 


“feet. 


‘FER. 15, 1002. 


streams up to ordinary summer level, - 

It was, therefore, on the big rivers alone that salmon 
fishing was at all satisfactory during the season ef 1901. 
and even on them the “low-water pools’ only yielded 
The conditions for nearly the whole season 
took the: fly-taking sportiveness out of the salmon, and 
matiy an eager angler was driven to desperation by the 
lazy listlessness of the king of game fishes. , 

Tt was, however, to the unustially low condition of 
water in Atgtst that I was indebted for opportunity to 
obtain some photographic pictures, which I think should 
interest not only anglers, but all who have the capacity for 
admiring natural phenomena, and to whom the grandeur 
and beauty of our forests and streams, in relation to 
their larger game fishes and animals, would be revela- 
hon, , d Ae eG pe jot ys 

Most people are familiar with the toothsome salmion, 
but how few know of its migrations between: the river 
bars covered by water of only a few inches’ depth a 
hundred miles perhaps in the forest; where it begins its 
existence, and the unknown ocean- depths which it after- 
ward seeks as it matures. to return periodically during its 
life to the waters of the same river which hatched it? Or, 
how many of those who are acquainted with this phase 
of salmon life know that the mature fish does not eat 
anything for six consecutive months of each ‘year of its 


‘periodical migration, and that its fasting time is also 


the most vigorously active of its existence? ~ It is one 
of the wonders of nature that a fish of the salmon’s* Size, 
after fasting for months until its stomach has prac- 
tically become congested from apparent disuse, is capable 
of projecting itself out of seething water into the air to a 
height equal to seven or eight times its own length. Yet 
the salmon has been known to leap to a vertical height of 
sixteen feet. 

Having said thus much of the Jow water of the past 
season in New Brunswick and of the salmon, I ‘come: to 
what I have to say in connection with the picture I send 
you, 5 baci 

Among the New Brunswick rivers I visited last sea- 
son was the Sevogle—the second largest branch of the 
Northwest Miramichi. It runs. for the first nine miiles, 
through a section of country of diversified formation, the 
chief features being stunted forest, an occasional bit of 
land suited for agricultural purposes, and frowning ledges 
reaching a sometimes overhanging height of fifty to eighty 
At the end of the nine miles, the upward-bound 
voyageur scés straight in front of him two scarred, rocky 
barriers forming a line at right angles to his course and— 
as if resting in their rugged embrace—a white-fronted. 
red-roofed and vyerandahed anglers’ lodge, with a sloping 
grass plot stretching down about seventy-five feet to the 
water in front of it. The stranger in the canoe naturally 
asks why the river ends so abruptly, but as he emerges 
from between the ledges on either hand he finds himself 
in a deep and beautiful basin which receives two streams, 
known as the North and South branches of the Sevogle, 
which join the main river at perfectly right angles to 
it, on either side, through rocky chasms, and give to the 
spot the name of'the Souere Forks of the Sevogle. _ 

_ Looking from a point on the ledge about twenty feet 
above this basin at the Forks one day in Atigust last, I 


,counted in the pool below twenty-six full-grown salmon 
+ and seores of grilse, but so low and clear was the water 


that I was able*to lure but one salmon and one grilse 


~ with the flyin two days’ fishing. This pool is only 200 


feet from the camp or lodge—a picture of which, taken 
from a point within a féw feet of the river bank, I send 
you. “You will-observe that the guardian, George Eastey, 
js proudly holding up the salmon ‘just killed “to bring 


him into the picture,” 


About 500 yards above the Square Forks there are 
two ideal salmon pools,‘with a fall of three feet between 
them, All the water of the river drops a little over, finc 
feet perpendicularly into the upper pool, into a basin 


- which is more than twenty-five feet deep under the. falls. 


When the water is at normal summer height, the salmon 
and grilse leap from the basin at the foot of the -big 
fall, and if they have come out of the foamy depths below 
in the right, alignment for the top of the falls, and there 
strike the unbroken water rightly with their powerful 
tails, they successfully make the ascent. Otherwise, they 
miss and fall back, sometimes turning somersaults in 
doing so, and often striking the rocks on the sides of. the 
fall in their descent. . 

This fall was reduced to less than one-half of its ordi- 
nary width. and perhaps a fifth of its normal summer 
yolume in August and September last. It was therefore 
broken much nearer the brink than usual, so that neither 
salmon or grilse succeeded in stirmounting it for two 
months. The two pools below, like that at the camp, were 
full of these fish, which were constantly moving about, 
from one to the other pool, and going up and attempting 
to leap the nine-foot fall. I timed the leaps of salmon and 
grilse there one afternoon, and thirty-three were made 
in forty-five minutes, and not one of them was successful, I 
resolved to get a picture of the salmon leap if possible, 
so I made a second visit—in September—taking with me 
a5 by 7 camera and sixteen quick plates. With the aid 
of Guardian Eastey, I made an 18-foot long raft of three 
Hatted cédar logs by nailing broad pieces of board across 
them, and on this I set wp my caméra on its tripod. 
After getting the “rig” fastened about 20 feet from ‘the 
face of the falls, with more than 20 feet of water under 
me, I focussed on the falls, and, with my finger .on the 
button, which was set like a hair trigger for quick work, 
I did “my shooting” as each fish essayed the Jeap, 

After using nine or ten of my plates during two after- 
noons’ sessions, while the guardian sat on the ledge and 
made sundry references to Job and his patience, I felt that 
I had been successful. On developing the results in a 
dark room, I found that I had done well—some plates 
were spoiled, some of the fish were out of focus, but on the 
whole I was satisfied. ty par pee 

I send you one of these photos. It is of a Salmon which. 
haying struck the water néar the top.of the falls the 
wrong way, was tumbled over and caught by the caniera 
in its descént. ~ rae 2. ee bee, 3 

Perhaps ‘the subject will be of ‘sufficient-interest to 
justify you in reproducing the picture, which I know, is 
of a class not easily obtainahle. and also its story as I Wave 
written Pl” Sl | | s,s NRG Suite. 

CratHantNew Branswigk, Jan is A at ete 


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| ‘Fer. 35, 1902.1] 


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Massachusetts Fishculture. 


From tne Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries and 
| "Game. 

Tre work of the Commission has expanded materially 
jn yartous directions. The facilities for hatching and 
rearing fish haye heen increased or perfected, and the 
output of young fish this year is about four times as 
great asin any year pfeyious to 1900, notwithstanding 
many of those distributed this season were fingerlings and 
yearlings. whereas only fry were formerly produced, 

_ The Commission is impressed with the idea that the 
» free distribution of fish, hirds and animals it breeds or 
-rears will be an important step forward in the effort to 
restock our inland waters and our covers. This is done 
in other States—certainly in nearly all of them that make 
any pretense of carrying on such work upon a.scale com- 
mensurate with its importance. Not a few of the States 
have cars of their own for distributing fish and fry, with 
the most approyed cquipment and trained crews. If it is 
» worth while for. the State to breed fish or game it is 
-¢ertainly important that the full result of its work in this 
direction shall -be attained by~ making the Commission 
responsible for distribution. This is in harmony with 
--the most advanced thought and action of the foremost 
2 men and commonwealths in this country. not to speak 
- of ether countries. Pes” 
- Manifestly it is unwise to longer depend on fish being 
distributed by those not responsible to the Commission, 
“for while miuch may have been accomplished wnder the 
~ system. heretofore prevailing, whereby fish are delivered 
“to applicants at the 
hatcheries, it is scarce- 
ly to be expected that 
all .will -be. experts in 
the cate of fish, and 
considerable loss may 
result in consequence 
of inexperience, even 
/ when individuals are 
honestly. “desirous — of 
carrying. ot the pur- 
poses of the Commis- 
~ sion.’ And’ whether or 
not there is*fotindation 
for disquieting ‘asser- 
tions; as to the disposi- 
* tion of some 6f the fish, 
it certainly will be an 
advantage to know be- 
yond question that fish 
+ intended for public 
“waters, where alone 
“=they should be put, 
__ have not been used to 
*-stock private preserves, 
_ from which the public 
may be-excluded. 


‘2.5 :ofishculture. -  . 
©’ "Phe work embraced 
_Junder this head, which 
includes’ many things 
_ beside fislictilture prop- 
Ser, Aas been carried on 
“hy®. ‘the ”'Commission ~ 
durmg the current year 
upon a more compre- 
hensive scale than ever 
‘before. This applies 
not only to the magni- 
tude of the work, and 
’ the results accomplish- 
ed, but* also’ to the fact 
that it has’ been btoad- 
ened in the matter of 
 'speciés,; -propagated or 
reared on a large scale, 
and there» has been 
much- expansion of 
‘effort in other direc- 
‘tions bearing § strictly 
on the question of the 
“preservation and in- : 
crease of food fish in the Commonwealth. ; 
~ About the usttal quantity of trout fry, 865,000, was 


| 
: 


' distribtitted in the spring. In addition to these, 2,600,000 


spike perch fry, hatched at the Sutton and Hadley-~ sta- 
'fiens from eggs received from the United States Fish 
“Commission, were put into ponds shortly after the brooks 
were stocked with trout fry. Beside these, 11,500 yearling 
and 44.750 fngerling brook trout have been put into the 
breoks, and 15,000 rainbow trout fingerlings, 13,000 land- 
locked salmon: fingerling,: 586 yearling Loch Leven ‘trout 


-and 250 four-year-old brook trout have béen distributed 


in various ponds. This makes a total of 3,550,086 fish 
distributed by the Commission this year for stocking the 
-inland waters of the State. -It is noteworthy, too, that 
~inore'than 80,000 of the fish above enumerated were finger- 
lings and yearlings, concededly more valuable for stock- 
ing purposes than ten times as many fry. Mention may 
alse be made of the reservation of several thousands of 
_fingerlings and yearlings for increasing the stock of brood 
fish at the two principal hatcheries. é 


Introduction of New Species. 


_ his Commission has made a notable advance dtiting 
the year in the work of introducing new species, and at 
no time in its history have fhe results attained in. this 
-direction even approximated those of which mention will 
be made. The fact, too, that what has been already 
accomplished makes probable still greater results in the 
future. adds to the importance of the work done, and 
suggests possibilities in the restocking of our inland waters 
not heretofore deemed ‘attainable, © ; 

-In point of numbers, the stocking of our: ponds with 
2,600,000 -fry of the pike-perch (Stizostedion witrewi ) is 
“the most important event of the year; in the introduc— 
Vow of new Species. The fact that information has in- 
tirectly reached the Commiission that young pike-perch 
were taken last spring or summer in Mystic Pond, where 
they had been planted as fry the previous year, suggests 
{he probability of the ‘species thriving in some of our 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


ponds at least. While no member of the Commission 
saw the fish caught in Mystic Pond, the statement seemed 
to be well authenticated that boys fishing there took some 
fish which “looked like pickerel, butt were not pickerel,”’ 
This would seem to indicate plainly enough that they 
caught young pike-perch, for no other fish in Massachu- 
setts waters would answer to that description. ' 

li, then, the pike-perch can be successfully introduced, 
it is evident that much greater results may reasonably be 
anticipated from plants of 200000 or 500,000 fish:in a 
pond, than by putting into it from 200 to 400 white perch, 
eyen if the latter are half-grown. And it may be said 
here that the pike-perch is a true perch—the largest of 
the perch family—and that in food and game qualities it is 
conceded to eqtial or surpass any of the smaller varieties. 

There are, however, some of our ponds in which the 
conditions are not suitable for the pike-perch, and others 
which it is desirable to stock with several other species of 
fish. For this reason it has been deemed’ desirable to 
attempt stocking some of the ponds with fingerlings of the 
rainbow trout (Salo trideus), a species which: is believed 
to be particularly fitted to the conditions which obtain in 
a majority of the ponds in this State, There is, indeed, 
reason for anticipating greater sticcess with this than 
with any other trout in the attempt to stock our ponds 
with a species which is alike desirable for food and game 
purposes. As is well known, the rainbow trout, though 
indigenous to the Pacific coast waters, has been success- 
fully introduced in many of the Eastern and Central 
States. It thrives under conditions where our native 
brook trout could not exist, especially so far as tempera- 


LEAPING SALMON. 
Photo by D. G. Smith, 


ture is concerned, and for that reason may also be used 
for stocking brooks, which, because of defoliation, have 
become so warm that brook trout can no longer.live in 
them. It may not be generally known that -a condition 
like this prevails in Massachusetts, but such is a fact, as 
will be shown by the following: extract from a letter.-re- 
ceived from Deputy George. E, Whitehead, of Millbury: 
“I would say that the brook avheré I propose to try. the 
rainbow trout is ruined so far as Fovttinalis is concerned. 
I know of 35,000 fry that have been placed there inside of 
seven years. There are.only-a few very small brook 
trout in the extreme upper part of the brook. Fhe lum- 
bermen with his steam saw mill on‘ wheels is responsible. 
Where there used to be two miles. of heavy. growth timber, 
it issnow bare of everything but scrubs: - There. are three 
miles of meadows and mowing land below where at was 
once good trout fishing.. The watér is. now so warm that 
our brook frout will not live there except! very early in 
the spring. Now it looks to me as if the rainbow ‘trout 
should find congenial quarters... The brook is mostly hard 
grayel bottom with just enough rapids to-reaérate the 
water, It has been my impression that the rainbows 
would inhabit the lower reaches of this brook and not 
interfere in any way with the few..brook trout that are in 
the upper and colder waters. The jong stretch of water 
that is now unproductive would then be madé to produce 
a fish that is but little inferior to the brook trou 
Many of our ponds have a temperatute too high for 
any of the salmonidz to thrive in except it be the rain- 
bow trout, and as these ponds abound with worms and 
insect Jarvee, which constittite the favorite food of this 
species, there is good reason for thinking it will do well, 


since, as already stated, it isnot unfavorably affected by 


moderately” warm -water. It has, However, been the aim 
of the Commission to put this trout in ponds having a 
considerable variation of temperature in midsummer, at 


different depths, and thus to give it an opportunity to 
’ select-the conditions mogt agreeable fo it. .- | 


Under favorable environments the yainkyw trout grows 


dees ho 
; ‘Se VOehe Eas N\\ 


f DGS MT pheloN” 


> related species to. the. brown. trout. 


' has become specially adapted to ponds. 
*. An attempt was made to- secure 


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rapidly, and attains a maximum of 12 of 13 pounds, ‘but 
it is generally much smaller if the water is cold. Fish of 
this species in the .pond at the State. fish hatchery in 
Sutton weighed 314 pounds when two and a half years 
old. It is reputed to be a fine food fish, also a good biter 
and a sturdy fighter, though it must be considered. sec- 
ondary in food and game qualities to our native brool 
trout, which is almost without a peer in these regards. 
Its special recommendation is that it seems well adapted 
io many of our ponds. Jf this assumption proves true, 


-and it is practicable to have our ponds fairly well stocked 


with a fish that grows to the size of a salmon under 
favorable conditions; that is graceful in outline, beautiful 
in color, and possesses other desirable qualifications, it is 
evident a material advance in the State’s fishcultural work 
will have been acconiplished. With this end in view 
steps have been taken to- secure a supply of brood fish of 
this species at our hatching stations in Sutton and Had- 
ley, and an effort will'be made to rear to the fingerling 
size the rainbow trout bred at our hatcheries. 

The Commission is likewise preparing to extensively 
breed the European brown trout (S. fario), and it now 
has a lot of fine two-year-old fish of this species from 
which it is expected a considerable yield of eggs will be 
obtained at the close of the present, year. 

The brown trout was introduced in the United States 
in 1883, and since then has been widely distributed, so 
that now it is well established in many States where the 
conditions are suitable for it. It is essentially a brook 
trout, requires cool water, but is reputed to thrive at the 
mouths of streams tributary to ponds or lakes. The 
| experiment will he 

made of putting it into 
_ some of our ponds hav- 

ing a low temperature, 
and with streams run- 
ning into them. It is 
also: possible it may 
thrive in some of our 
brooks where the con- 
ditions are no longer 
stitable for native 
brook trout. 

’ This species has been 

credited with attaining 

a weight of 22 pounds 

under favorable condi- 

tions. Among the 
brown trout in the 
‘aquarial exhibit of 
_ Wisconsin at the 

Worlds Columbian 
- Exposition were nu- 

merous specimens 

which must have 
weighed from 9 to’ It 

pounds, although a 

weight of 5 or 6 

pounds may be consi- 

dered a good average. 

It is a matter of record 

that “in the United 

States, a wild specimen, 

seven years old, weigh- 

ed about rr pounds.” 

The food and game 
qualities of this species 
are scarcely secondary 
to those of our native 
brook trout. Its adapt- 

yeah ability to capture with 

Me artificial flies and its 

gameness’ are well 

known. 

The Loch Leven 
trout. (S. levensis) is 
also receiving some at- 

- tention from the Com- 
mission, chiefly with a 
vet fh _ view to its utilization 
in stocking ponds, A\s 
its name indicates, it is 
essentially a — pond 
trout, but it is a closely 
It has the charac- 
teristics of the latter, the chief difference being that it 


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a 


some calico bass 
(Pomoxis sparoides), in the spring.for stocking purposes, 
but it was not found practicable to obtain them, owing to 
the fact that, the parties who could have supplied them 


- last year were not in a position to furnish them last spring, 


ole Stocking Ponds. 

Twenty great ponds-of the-State have been stocked and 
the fisheries therein regulated, under Chapter 208, Acts 
of 1897. This is a record in this particular line of the 


-€ommuission’s fishcultural work, the ponds thus stocked: 


under the act referred to being more than were ever 
stocked-in any previous year. Beside this, several other 
ponds were stocked by: request, and-some that had been 
stocked. and. closed the previous year were restocked, as 


‘will appear in the detailed statement. 


Although the- decision of the Attorney-General , was 


published in--our last report, and this clearly and fully 


sets forth the fact that the Commission, having once’ 


~ stocked a pond-and regulated the fishing therein in accord- 


ance with Chapter 208, Acts of 1897, has no authority 


‘thereafter to-renew such-regulations, appeals have been 
‘received this year urging that certain ponds be restocked 


and the- fishing regulations relating thereto be renewed. 
Inquiries as to,the Commission's authority to take further 
action, after the-expiration of the period during which 
fishing has been regulated in a pond, haye been received, 
and these invariably evince much concern as to the te- 
sult of unlimited fishing 11 a pond wherein the supply of 
fish has heen improved by limiting fishing. All this indi- 


‘cates a strong poptdar desire for a law which will in some 


way limit fishing in- ponds, It is recognized by all who 
haye studied the question that nothing less than almost 
utter depletion can he expected iti ponds where ice fishing 
is permitted. When one individual can use a multiplicity 


of lines and hooks for the capture of pond fish, whethey 


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it be in winter or summer, it is not difficult to predict the 
result. It is quite impossible with any means now at 
command to keep up the supply of fish in such small areas 
of water, if unrestricted fishing is permitted; consequent- 
ly, waters which might annually yield large quantities of 
fish, if the supply is reasonably conserved, become more 
or less barren, especially so far as the most desirable 
species of fish are concerned. : 

It is the present policy of the Commission to add to 
the resources of closed ponds by stocking them each year, 
if’ possible, while they are closed, but this can effect no 
permanent good, if no limit can subsequently be put on 
fishing, for if such efforts result in filling ponds with fish, 
and that fact is known, as it is sure to be, the rush to 
catch as many as possible at the termination of the closed 
period will soon result in depletion, and thus the best in- 
tentions of the State will be defeated. 


Examination of Ponds. 


The importance of obtaining a few leading facts con- 
cerning the great ponds of the State will be apparent to all. 
Without stich-data it is impracticable to act intelligently 
in regard to stocking our inland waters. As is well 
known, fish, being cold-blooded animals, are dependent 
for comfort and even existence upon the temperature of 
the water in which they are placed. Certain species re- 
quire a low and nearly uniform temperature, and it would 
be a manifest error to put such into a pond having only 
comparatively warm water, in which it would be impos- 
sible for the fish to thrive or even to live. It is, there- 
fore, evident that the best-intentioned efforts may be de- 
feated, and public money may be expended to no purpose, 
if there is not‘in the possession of the Commission knowl- 
edge of conditions which will make possible approximately 
correct conclusions regarding the proper action to take 
in stocking a pond. It is one thing to stock a pond with- 
out any basis for estimating the result, which is for lack 
of knowledge fully as liable to prove a failure as anything 
else: and it is quite another matter to stock it with full 
information of its leading characteristics, and thus have 
reasonable assurance of success. It is unquestionably 
important to do whatever seems feasible to imsure the 
increase of fish in our inland waters, and nothing, perhaps, 
can more surely lead to this than a knowledge of the 
conditions in our ponds and lakes which may influence the 
stocking of them. ge 

With this end in view, every opportunity has been im- 
proved by the chairman to continue the examination of 
ponds, and thus to supplement the work im this direction 
which was begun last year. 

Nineteen ponds were examined as to temperature, 
depths, bottom, etc., and seven other ponds were visited; 
but it was not practicable to make a complete examination 
of the latter, because boats were not available. In a 
majority of these cases, however, sufficient knowledge was 
obtained to serve the purpose of the Commission, so far 
as stocking the ponds is concerned; for most 1f not all of 
those visited and not fully examined are shallow, with 
water of relatively high temperature. 


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Fishways. 


Much effort has been put forth in the examination of 
fishways built, rebuilt or repaired, under orders issued last 
year, and also in examining dams or other sites for new 
fishways. In many instances the chairman and superin- 
tendent of hatcheries have visited fishways or sites to- 
gether, and in other cases the examination has been made 
by one of them. 


Prevention of Stream Pollution. 


The effort to enforce the law (Chapter 129, Acts of 
1890) for the prevention of stream pollution, which re- 
sults from the unrestricted discharge of sawdust into 
trout streams, has been continued. In pursuance of this 
work, many mills and streams haye been personally yisited 
by the chairman. Among these were a number of mills 
the owners of which had been notified last year, but, as a 
result of a hearing held by the Commission, the enforce- 
ment of the orders was temporarily suspended until it 
was practicable for the chairman to visit the mills, The 
examination made indicated the desirability of prohibit- 
ing the discharge of sawdust from these particular mills, 
with one exception, and new orders were issued aceord- 
ingly. One mill in the vicinity which had previously not 
received any attention was also examined, but its loca- 
tion and environment did nct warrant any action, since 


the little stream it was located on was not a trout brook, _ 


and emptied into a pond about a quarter of a mile or less 
from the mill. 

Orders have been-issued this year to twenty-four mill 
owners. and Similar orders were issued last year to fifteen 
owners. Inasmuch as seme individuals or firms own 
more than.one mill, the mills thus affected somewhat 
exceed in number the orders issued. Thus, in the period 
covered by this report the orders sent out applied to 
twenty-six mills at least, and forty-one mills have been 
stopped from discharging sawdust into streams in 1900 
and Toot. 

Naturally there is more or less objection to the enforce- 
ment of this sawdust law, and it may not be wondered at 
that mill owners, who at best find their business not any 
too remunerative, cannot see that the maintenance or in- 
crease of trout in a brook is of sufficient consequence 
to warrant any action on the part of the State which may 
interfere with privileges that have been long enjoyed, and 
thus to cause them some trouble and expense. As a rule, 
the claim is made that there are no trout in the brooks, or 
at least not sufficient to justify any limitation or prohibi- 
tion of the discharge of sawdust; and occasionally the 
argument is advanced that the emptying of large quan- 
tities of sawdust into streams is most beneficial to trout, 
which thrive and grow more abundant because of it. It 
4s scarcely necessary to seriously consider the last-men- 
tioned claim. As to the other assertion, a single instance 
may properly be cited. 

Last year the statement was made that a _ cer- 
tain brook in the northern central part of the 
State, upon the bank of which a sawmill was lo- 
cated, was of little or no’ practical value as a trout stream. 
From observations made by the writer a different con- 
clusion was reached, and orders were sent to the mill 
owner to take such means as were necessary to keep his 
sawdust out of the brook. It is believed that the order 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


was faithfully observed. Early in last July two well- 
known anglers from a neighboring town caught in a short 
time one day thirty-three brook trout, which ranged in 
size from nine inches to a weight of one and one-half 
pounds. Both of these men had fished the streams of 
Maine and New Hampshire, and one of them, who recited 
the aboye facts to the writer, declared neither of them had 
previously taken stich fine strings of brook trout. It is 
quite within the possibilities that it would mot haye been 


_ practicable to secure such results the year previous, not 


far below the mill, and it is equally possible that con- 
siderable improvement to fish life may have resulted even 


in one year from keeping the stream free from pollution. 


The Salt Water League. 


New York, Feb. 9.—Editor Forest and Stream: 1 
send herewith Assembly Bill 604. This bill was drawn 
on suggestions offered by netters, and it stands for the 
indorsement of anglers, net fishermen, bait and tackle 


dealers. boatmen, hand and line fishermen, railroads, hotel ~ 


keepers and those interested in any way in fishing. It 
gives all a fair show. It has been introduced in the Legis- 
lature by the Hon. Wm. S. Bennet, and I hope every man 
interested will write to his Senator and Assemblyman, and 
also to the Fish and Game Committee at Albany, N. Y., 
indorsement the proposed measure, The bill reads: 


See. 77.—Nets in the tide waters of New York city and vicinity: 
Nets, other than nets used especially for catching lobsters, crabs, 
catching of eels by the use of eel pots; or the capture of minnows, 
killies, spearing, or shrimp, for bait by means of hand nets, shall 
not be used from Friday noon until Monday noon of each and 
every week. 

Nets used especially for catching lobsters, crabs, catching of 
eels by the use of eel pots; or the capture of minnows, killies, 
speating, or shrimp, for bait by means of hand nets, shall not 
exceed thirty feet in length and four feet in depth. Pound and 
fyke nets shall not be used at any time, in the Atlantic Ocean, 
within the jurisdiction of the present city of New York, to three 
miles. east and southeast of the boundary line of the present city 
of New York; nor in New York Bay, nor in the Hudson River 
to three miles north ‘of the boundary line of the present city of 
New York, nor in the Harlem River, nor in the East River or 
Long Island Sound from Hell Gate to three miles east and north- 
east of the boundary line of the present city of New York. Nets 
other than nets used especially for catching lobsters, crabs, catch- 
ing of eels, by the use of cel pots; or the capture of minnows, 
killies, spearing, or shrimp for bait’ by means-of hand nets, shall 
not be used at any time in all adiacent bays, creeks, inlets, 
channels, narrows, kills, or confltent brooks ‘within said’ limits, 


_ angling shall always be Jawful. 


This bill speaks for itself, and there is no good reason 
why it should not become law at once. It took some time 
to get on the right tack, and at last here it ts. 


Up-the-- 


State legislators should help pass this measure at once; 


for ask any of the Hudson- River net men about the 
bill, and T predict they are all in favor of it, and why not? 
They have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The 
fact is. and I know it to be true, that that is just the kind 
of a bill that is wanted, and they might want to extend 
the Hudson River clause. 
only to within the three-mile limit outside of the present 
city of New York. If this bill becomes law, I am sure 
nothing more will be wanted, as it covers all that was 
wanted on both the netters’ and anglers’ sides, and it will 
be the most perfect law on the game statutes. I hope all 
interested in fishing, especially associations, will lend a 
helping hand, as I am sure the Hudson River Netters’ As- 
sociation will surely do its share in having it passed. It 


Of course this measure relates ~ 


vs! 


is the duty of all interested to do a little now toward - 


having it passed at once. Here is your chance. Do not 
shirk your duty; you must be up and doing at once. 


Here we have a measure that was wanted for a long ~ 


time, and I sincerely hope the Committee of Fisheries 
and Game will give it due consideration; and justice to all 


will be done when their part is done by reporting it favor- - 


ably to the Legislature. I assure them that many thous- 
ands of citizens will praise them for the part they haye 
taken. 

The Jersey legislation will be almost tpon the same 
lines as ours, and it is in good hands on that side of 
the river. 
gates will be on hand to report. All who can come are 
most respectfully invited to attend. Do not forget the 
date, Feb. 19 at 106 West Thirty-first street, New York 
city, at 8 P. M. 

Following is a copy of a note being sent out by our 
president to members of the League: 


To Members of the League: 

The aims and objects of our organization haying become so 
widely known, and the scope of our efforts so far reaching,’ 1 am 
more than pleased to inform you that the applications for member- 
ship have reached such proportions that efforts are making toward 


- securing our own permanent meeting house. 


The aggressive advantages to be gaimed by such results are evi- 
dent to you. The Social benefits to be derived by such a realiza- 
tion are limitless. The open door of welcome. The pleasant re- 
union of old friends. The reminiscences of days of sport and the 
attractiveness of such a home for all lovers of angling would with- 
out question add to the popularity of our League and help fill 
our coffers. 

As this subject, as well as other questions of interest, will be 
brought before you for your consideration, I ask you kindly to 
give us your attendance at our next regular meeting, which will 
be held at Wall’s Hall, 106 W. Thirty-first street, Wednesday, Feb. 
19, 1902, at 8 o’clock P. M. I respectfully ask that you forego all 
other social engagements for that evening, and come and see your 
old friends again and witness the zeal and energy of the officers 
and your friends in harness. I can assure you the evening will be 
well spent. 

Trusting that you will not be counted among the absentees, and 
that I may be accorded a renewal of your acquaintance and friend- 
ship, I remain, yours most respectfully, : 

AL. Baywoop. 


Let us hope that this appeal of our president has not 
been in vain. It will be the most important meeting in 
the history of the Protective League of Salt Water Fisher- 
men, now that the olive branch, which has been ex- 
tended, is about to be accepted by those who were killing 
the goose that lays the golden egg. a 

T. BIEDINGER. 


‘What d’yer call de dog?” 
"EK used to be called Gerald, but ‘e's ‘ad so many fits 
that now I calls ’im Fitz Gerald.”—Ally Sloper. 


Ail communications intended for Forest AND STREAM should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co,, and 
not to any individyal connected with the paper, 


At our next meeting of the League their dele-~ 


every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness. 


-almost every instance the boat built from them turnec 


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Hachting. 
t —_@-—— 
Designing Competition. 


IN view of the continued and increasing interest i 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
columns of Forest AND, STREAM. In America the yacht} 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and stich a com 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu: 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months 
The competition is open to both amateur and professiona) 
designers. Three prizes will be given for the best de} 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: — 

I. A pole mast sloop. ‘ 

II. 2sft. load waterline a 
III, Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 
IV. At least 50 per cent. of ballast outside on keel. 
VY. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 

All abnormal features must be studiously avoided ir! 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plang 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea it 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished te 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two of 
three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of) 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center; 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as sc 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 


type. 


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DRAWINGS REQUIRED. : 


. Sheer plan, scale tin. = 1ft—showing center olf 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. 
Il. Half breadth, scale rin. = rit. 


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Ill. Body plan, scale tin = rit. ; 
IV. Cabin plan, scale rin. = rft. rf 
V. Sail plan, 4in, = rft., showing center of effort 


The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried 

A table of offsets and an outline specification musi 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawifigs should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments. should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope. however, the 
designer should inclose his own name and address, to- 
gether with his nom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later thar 
Feb, 28, rg02._ All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 

The Forest AND STREAM reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. 

The prizes offered are as follows: st prize, $25.00 
2d prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable. mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. 

Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs, Tams} 
Lemoine & Crane. has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane’s professional 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, an 


. 


THE competition for a 25ft. waterline cruising sloop, the 
announcement of which has appeared in our columns for 
some weeks past. is now drawing to a close, Feb. 28 being 
the day fixed when all drawings must be in our hands. In} 
order to acquaint those who have not already become in- 
terested in this matter, we will again say that the objec’ 
of the competition is to educate amateurs as well as pro- 
fessionals in the science of yacht designing, and to give 
them an unusual opportunity of securing a criticism oni 
their own work by one of the best known naval architects 
in the country, Mr. Clinton H. Crane. There are marty 
amateurs who are more or less interested in the mysteries 
of yacht designing, and many of them have turned oui 
creditable productions, but without ‘the assistance of some 
capable instructor their work is often along unscientific 
lines, and they do not make progress becatise they do noi 
get proper advice on important points. The yachtsman 
who has a knowledge of the designing, construction and! 
rigging of boats is greatly benefited in the sailing and 
handling of them, and it goes without saying that a grasf! 
of the fundamental principles of boat designing helps the 
amateur designer to work intelligently. Amateurs whe 
have given the subject of the designing and rigging oj 
yachts careful study have occasionally worked out some 
valuable improvements to which the naval architects hay 

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given consideration and sometimes adopted. There are] 
many men interested in this subject who live in places) 
of small size and who are out of reach of good libraries: 
and who have no good examples from which to work, and 
it is through the medium of the yachting journals thai 
these men can keep posted with what is going on in the 
yachting world. In this way the yachting papers become 
something of a public benefactor. The designs published! 
‘in them are from the hands of the ablest men, and tr 


out to be successful, whether as a racing, or a cruising 
craft. A number of our nayal architects located in the 
Eastern cities have received orders from men in the most 
remote parts of the world for designs of yachts, and ir] 
many instances the order can be traced to one of the 
yachting papers in which the yachtsman has seen a desigt 
that met his requirements, Wuth the large number of 
excellent designs that have been published in recent year 
and the valuable amount of data to be had, there is ne 
reason why the drawings sent in should not be of a higf! 
order. We have had many letters from possible com- 
petitors, and the sticcess of our plan is already assured 
The conditions governing the competition should be close) 
ly adhered to. as those who do not conform to the ruled 
will be barred from receiving a prize. It is not well te 
wait until the last moment before sending in drawings, aij 
the postal service is not over good, and express is muck 
safer. as packages ate subject to considerable delay. 

All drawings should be at this office on the day men 
tioned above. The number of competitors in this compe! 


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A 30ft. Cruising Yawl. 


THE boat, plans of which appear in this issue, combines 
about all the points exacted by yachtsmen now building 


cruising craft of moderate size. The boat is of moderate 
draft, with a centerboard housing under the cabin floor, 
yawl rig, auxiliary power, full headroom under the cabin 
house and a water-tight cockpit. She was designed by 
Mr. Fred D. Lawley for Mr. Bancroft Davis, and. was 
built by the Geo. Lawley & Son Corp., of South Boston, 
Mass. 
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of the highest grade all through. 
boat of considerable displacement and full underwater 


body with long, well-balanced overhangs. The deadwood 
is cut away aft in order to make her quick in stays, and 
the rudder is hung on a skeg, which extends from the 
deadwood just under the propeller. The freeboard is of 
a good height, and the cabin house is quite low. All those 
who have seen the boats since she has been completed have 
been pleased with her handsome appearance and impressed 
by the large amount of room below decks. The cabin 
house is 17ft. 6in. long, and there is a waterway on each 
side of it 2ft. 3in. wide. The engine, which is a five-horse- 
power Palmer motor, is placed under the forward end of 
the cockpit, the flywheel being just under the companion- 
way steps. 

There is 6ft. lin. headroom under carlins in the main 


‘saloon, which is 8ft. long. On each side there is a bérth 


aft. 6in. wide, and 6ft. 3in. long, in front of this is a wide 
transom that can also be used for a berth. On each side 
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top, and under the deck on each side of the cockpit is 
available space for the stowage of charts, etc. In the Nn 
forward end of the saloon on each side .are located | 
buffets and lockers for the cabin silver, china, linen, etc. 
The stateroom, which is forward of the saloon on the | 

starboard side, is unusually large for a boat of this size. 
There is a berth 6ft. 3in. long and 2ft. 6in. wide, and a 

bureau with three large drawers and a plate glass mirror 

above is placed against the forward partition. On the 

port side a passage leads from the main saloon to the 

gallery, and opening from the passageway is the toilet 

room, which is fitted with a water closet and a folding 

wash basin. There is also a large linen closet in the toilet 

room for bedding and towels. The saloon and the state- 

room is finished=in butternut and mahogany, and it makes 

a most attractive interior. In the galley, which is next 

forward, there is 5ft. Sin. headroom. The galley is 

roomy and well equipped. There is a two-burner Primus © 
stove, back of which is a space for cooking utensils. For- 

ward of the stove space is a dresser and dish locker. On 

the starboard side. opposite is the ice box and sink. In 

the forecastle there are two pipe herths for the crew and a 

closet for the men’s clothes. 

The deck, cockpit floor and top of cabin house are of 
white pine finished bright. All the trim on deck, in- 
cluding skylights, companionway, hatches, rails, etc., are 

_of mahogany. The boat steers with a wheel, and two 
boats will be carried on the davits. The ballast, wh‘ch is 
of lead, is all outside on keel. 


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Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, Feb. t0.—Last week there was on exhibition 
at the offices of the Edson Company the steering gear 
with which Metecr, the new schooner for the German 
Emperor, will be equipped. To say that it is a marvel 
i its line would be speaking lightly of it. It is called 
the Edson Positive Motion steerer, and was designed by 
Mr. George E. Loud, the treasurer of the Edson Com- 


pany. It is of the screw pattern and, like the recent con- ai 
trivances that have been installed in large yachts, it has eH 
right and left threads. But it has been supplied with new y 
features which render it far superior to any gear that has a 
heretofore been used on large yachts. 5 

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Much touble was experienced on Independence and on 
other big racers because the gear on the rudder head 
was inclined to bind under the immense strain to which 
the hull was subjected. To overcome this fault, the new 
gear has been supplied with ball bearings, by which the 
motion of the screw will not be stopped by the binding: 
With the ball bearings supplied, the gear works remark- 

_ably easy, and, although it is necessarily quite heavy, it 
cin be operated by a small child without any trouble. 
On the fore and aft screw, one half of which is forward 
and the other half aft of the rudder head, work the con- 
necting straps. The outside diameter of this triple-thread 
screw 1s 27%in., the pitch of the screw being 17%in. The 
connecting straps are of Norway iron, the traversing nuts 
being of gun metal. A sample pouring of the cast iron 
in the. rudder head casting stood a tensile test of 32,307 
pounds to the square inch before breaking. This test 
was made by. Prof...E. F. Miller, of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology. ; é 

The rudder head swivel box is made of gun metal, while 

the rudder head is of steel, 3%4in. in diameter. The rud- 
der past.has a rake of 33 degrees, ball-bearing- supports 
for the rudder post rest on thirty-two steel balls, running 
on case-hardened steel plates with four adjusting screws, 
which provide for the wearing strain on the rudder 
pintles. The gear is also provided with two taffrail 
boxes, one forward and one aft; with rubber springs. It 
takes five and one-half turns of the wheel to turn the 
rudder from hard up to to hard down, 45 degrees in each 
direction. 
_ While the steering gear proper is a piece of mechanical 
perfection, one would, perhaps, be more attracted by the 
wheel. It 1s 54 inches in diameter from fip to tip. The 
hub is of highly polished brass. There are ten rose- 
wood spokes, the felloes being of teak and the rim of 
ebony. Where the king spoke passes through there is 
inlaid in the rtm the coat of arms of the German Em- 
peror worked in gold and silver. On the remaining part 
of the rim at each spoke is the German crown in Ger- 
man silver, while the tips of the remaining spokes bear 
plain caps in the same metal. ~The wheel alone was made 
at a cost of $500: 

Wilson & Silsby, sailmakers, have orders for 100 new 
suits of sails, including those for the yachts Scimitar, 
Ruth, Paukewis, Lady-Mary, Torpedo,’ Dragoon, Pan- 

~tooset, schooner Agatha, Malillian 2d, 25-footer, Neriad, 
21-footer, Christina, Senta, 21-footer Micmic, 21ft. race- 
about, 35ft. yawl for Bancroft Davis, 21-footer, 2rft. . 
-knockabout, yacht: Volipsi, 26-footer for R. H. Lee, | 
Devon, Eng; schooner for Arnold Lawson, sloop for H. 
C. Morse, 25-looter, Cherokee, 30-footer, 25ft. yawl, 60- 
rater for H. F. Lippitt, the Pirate, 21ft. knockabout for 
Mr.:Pugh, Pasadena, Cal.; ice boat Ariel, 21-footer, 
Helen, Daniel Crosby & Son, yawl; George Lawley & 
Son, 18-footer for Alired Douglass; Tam, Lemoine & ~ 
Crane, 21ft. raceabout, and 30-footer; G. R. Liljegren, 38- 
foot L. W. L. cutter ior O. Mark, Gothenburg. Sweden; 
2iit. raceabout for Mr. Henry B. Rogers: Tams, Lemoine 
& Crane, 26it. sloop; Arthur Bianey, 3o0[t. yawl for Mr. 
Foss, and 46ft. yawl; J. A.- McKee, 21ft. raceabout: 
George Lawiey.& Son, 25-footer; James Andrew, Oals- 
ville, Ont., 38ft. racing cutter, and Charles W. Cole, 18- 
‘footer. 


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Since the Massachusetts Y. R. A. restricted 21-footer 
has been introduced in the Columbia Y. C.. of Chicago, if 
and in the: Lake Michigan Yacht Racing Association, R il) 
it is expected that some of the yachtsmen theré will pur- ll, 
chase yachts of the class that haye been raced in Massa- i- ol 


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-chusetts Bay. Last year there were. 19 -boats in the i 
class, and, as there are. 16 new ones building, the loss of i it 
«a few ol the older ones might not, perhaps, be felt, It il: ah : 
is not thought, however, that many of the old ones will oof 
eo to ihe Lakes. Mr. Thomas H. Webb, of Peoria, I) 
{ll.. who was largely instrumental in having the class 
adopted there, is said to be one of the yaehtsmen who 
will come East for a 2%-footer. In a recent commuthica- 
tion he stated to me that he thought the Yacht Racing 
Association of Massachusetts rules the best now if, ex: 
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Fes. 1s, 1902.] : KOREST AND STREAM: me Ne | 
Mr. Webb is now having built, by Murray & Tregatr- 

A tha, a 42ft. waterline cabin power yacht, which will 
he very complete in every detail. White oak will be used 
for the keel and stem and sternpost, and also for the 
irames, while her planking will be of cedar in selected 
lengths. Her cabin trunk, rails, doors and hatches will 
all be of mahogany, and the interior finish will be in 
buttérnut, She will have good accommodations, and will 
be fitted up with all the necessities for cruising. It is 
expected that she will have a speed of about ten ailes. 
Mr. Webb intends to keep this boat 1m salt water as much 
as possible. It is likely that he will use her for cruising 
in eastern waters. 

Crowninshield’s latest venture in the merchant marine 
is a four-masted schooner. The managing owner of this 
schooner, the lines of which haye been turned out by the 
designer of Independence, will be Edwin P. Boggs, who 
is Commodore of the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. She 
will be built by the New England Company, at Bath, 
Me, She will be called Robert H. Stevenson, and will 
hail from Boston. She is a big bodied vessel, her sec- 
tions being very square. She gains her greatest beam 
only a short distance from the stem and carries it nearly 
to the taffrail. She will be 220ft. roin. over all, and 18s5it. 
2in. on the keel. Her load waterline will be to7it.. and on 
this length she will draw 20ft. Her beam is goft. Her 
displacement will be 2,862 tons and she will have a cargo 
capacity of 1,800 tons, or 1,000,000 feet of lumber. She 
has one general hold, as it is intended that she shall be 
used in the lumber trade, but she has beams for a third 
deck, and, if necessary, can be loaded with other cargoes. 

At Lawley’s a 35-footer and 25-footer are planked. The 
46ft. schooner, designed by Crane for Arnold Lawson, 
is in frame. The frames have been turned out for the 
Lippitt bronze 60-rater, and it is expected that she will 
take form in a short time. Fred Lawley has three new 
designs for 21-footers and 25-footers. 

Joun B. KILieen. 


The Cruise of the ‘Tunie. 


Tue “staunch and~favorite’” yacht Tunie had begun 
life in the service of her country as a man-of-war's “‘gal- 
ley.’ I had, up to the time when I became principal, 
though not sole owner..of this vessel, supposed that a gal- 
ley was a place to cook in; but this was not the case with 
the Tunie; she was certainly no place to cook in. On the 
other hand. I found the fact that she was a galley legibly 
set forth in black letters in several places in her interior, 
and as the statement had undoubtedly been made under 
the authority of the Bureau of Constructicn of the United 
States Navy (or whatever it called itself in those days), I 
suppose there can be no doubt that she had at some time 
certainly been a galley, though I don’t think she ever 
carred a cook—she did. not while Cheeksey and Phan- 
tom and I owned her, at any rate. ria 

Beside being the only boat I ever owned in conjunction _ 
with a partner, the Tunie was the only boat I ever bought 
on anybody else’s recommendation, a single experience in 
both cases being sufficient to convince me that I set too- 
high a value on my own opinion to be satished with any 
ather. Be that as it may, I listened to the glowing ac- 
counts I heard of her performances in the Straits of 
Karquinez, and betaking myself to Martinez, bought her 
at about double her value without even trying her. I can 
only plead youth and deference for the opinion of my 
elders as-excuse for my idiocy, and I have never made 
exactly the same mistake since. 

This yacht, with a length of 3o0ft. and a beam of only ~ 
7, had a draft which would have been none too great, 
had she been 12ft. wide. In appearance she was some- 
thing like a whaleboat, without a whaleboat’s grace. She 
had rather more sail than she could carry; couldn't get 
out of her own way, going to windward; was nearly as 
hard to get about as a four-masted ship, and had, as far 
as I can recollect, but the single merit of being able to 
run before a breaking sea in a gale without showing the 
slightest tendency to take any water over the taffrail. The 
fact that she had no taffrail, being as sharp aft as for- 
ward, may have had something to do with this but it cer- 
tatily was the fact that she Jeft the water as clean as a 
knife. : 

While waiting for her.to be towed down to our abiding 
place, we had had constructed some gorgeous white shirts 
and caps of a supposed sailor-like cut and fashion, and 
one Fourth of July a great many years ago made our 
appearance on the bay in full unitorm. 

There was, I think, some sort of a regatta on—probably 
one of the races of the “Master Mariners’ Association,’’ 
but what few yachts there were—this was several centuries 
ago, you must understand—were out making themselves 
ds prominent as possible, and among them we were by no 
means the least conspicuous. When it did not blow too 
hard and we-did not have to get anywhere in particular, 
the. boat really looked very well, but the thing that para- 
lyzed the assembly was those uniforms. i 

Such a thing as a yachting uniform wa~ unknown. 
Commodore P., when elected Commodore of the S. F. 
Y. C. (he was its first), did attempt the :nnovation, but 
his brass buttons nearly swamped his dinghy and no one 
had strength of mind enough to follow his example; there- 
fore, our complete rig out drew upon us an amount of 
attention which, though pleasant enough while the wind 
was light, became somewhat embarrassing later in the day 
when our inability to “fetch” anywhere became paintully 
apparent to the nautical eye; but for a time all went well. 
ey Ef. — as __ \eN <= ' The flagship, under steam and sail, vainly tried to leave 

} 4 2 \ us, until, in desperation, the Commodore set his foresail, 
and in imminent danger of capsizing, at last drew away. 
By this time we were in Islais Bay, and not deeming: it 
prudent to run to leeward lest we might never be able to 
beat back again, I gave the jib to one and the foresail 
to another, and kept the remaining member of the crew as 
a reserve, whom unkind destiny might conrpel me to -put 
on a sweep; then, with a rap full that brought the cockpit 
rail to the water, I gave her the helm and awaited de- 
velopments. ——. 

To our intense relief she got far enough around to en- 
able us to back the jib and slowly (very slowly) swing, 
on the other tack; but it was not until we had made a 
, oats _ spectacle of ourselves that we managed, aiter many miles 
|: : : 7 i + of sailing, to get our yacht back to her moorings. ‘ 

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made with “the full strength of the company.” 

I cannot at this late day quite understand how four of 
us Managed to get a vacation.at the same time—vyacations 
were not by any means the rule, and you didn’t get Satur- 
day afternoons, either. 
able to go, and great were the preparations. Under the 
half deck forward were stowed the mattresses, two tin- 
lined trunks, the club stove. brought down from the 
palatial (?) quarters of the Whip-poor-will Club, blankets 
and a few other trifles. The cockpit being some irft. 
long and nearly 6ft. wide, a tent more ingenious than 
practical was devised to cover it at night; the ends were 
made separate to lace in, so that the fly could be used as a 
square sail, a brilliant conception, which I fear must be 
laid to my door, and which was about as complete a 
failure as any I have ever designed. 


There was no conipass and no chart (by some oversight, 


there was an anchor), but we were well supplied with 
flags, and there was even a fair outfit of spare ropes. The 
provisions were in charge of Cheeksey, the Purser, and if 
my recollection seryes me, that end of the affair was 
creditably managed. om 

I don’t remember what day it was, nor what month, and 
it was so long ago that I don’t want to remember the 
year; but we set sail and cast off with a favoring wind 
and tide, merrily bound for—well, we didn’t quite know 
where, The yacht distinguished herself; the wind was 
fair, the water smooth and the tide with us, and we slid 
along in a way that surprised us, and I resolutely put 
aside all thought of the journey back. 

Near the Brothers:we stopped long enough to pick up 
a floating boat's sail and mast, and then on again, making 


Vallejo in what seemed to us who knew the craft, phe- 


nomenal time. ' 

At Vallejo we dropped one of our party, who took the 
train to keep a “date” at Sacramento, then on we sailed 
for Napa. Now, the navigation of the Napa River is 

something to test the skill of the amateur, but we bowled 
along before the wind, as happy as clams, as innocent as 
children, “and never touched it once,” proving for the 
millionth time that fools, drunken men and incompetents 
generally are the special care of Providence. 

I suppose we should have gone on sailing up Napa 
River to this day if we had not come to a bridge at Napa 
which forbade any further progress, so we tied up to a 
bulkhead, set the tent, and prepared our first meal, much 
to the edification of the populace who had never in their 
lives seen just that kind of a circus before. . 

We did the town a little after dinner, and Phantom 
and I bought a couple of pipes, not that we wanted them, 
as we already had many more than was good for us, and I 
think I’ve got mine yet; but the town seemed to hold little 
to interest us, so I fancy we must have been rather sleepy. 

We put in a very good night, and were awakened in the 
morning by the rain pattering.on our tent, but it was only 
a shower and ‘soon cleared away. The tent was high 
enough to stand up in, and we dressed and got breakfast 
in great comfort, but as the tide was flood, there was 
nothing for it in a craft like ours but to wait until it 
turned before making a start back. 

It was well on in the afternoon before we got under 
way, and the first thing our yacht did was to drift slap 
into that bridge. There was no damage done ,except to 
our lacerated feelings, but after several attenrpts to coax 
her away from it we abandoned the attempt to leave Napa 
under sail. and sending a line to the foremast head Cheek- 
sey took the other end up on the high bank, and for about 
a hundred and fifty miles patiently dragged her down 
the stream, while Phantom and I did our best to keep her 
from sticking on all the mud banks at the turns. Just 
befote he died of exhaustion we got to a place where it 

seemed that we might venture to hope to sail, so we took 
him aboard. 

We sailed back and forth across the stream pretty well, 
but as we lost as much .in coming about as we made in 
sailing across, we figured out that we should either starve 
to death or die of old age, unless: some other plan was 
devised, so the other two stationed themselves forward 
with the boat hook and a sweep, and when we got into 
water shallow enough, poled her around while I tended 
sheets. As a tesult of this maneuver, we actually got 
below Soquel, only delaying a team waiting to cross on 
the ferry some half an hour or so, and began to think 
we might only be middle-aged men by the time we got 
homie. 

But it was getting dark, the tide had turned against 
us, the wind was gone and we were hungry and pretty 
well fagged out. 

At this juncture a small creek appeared, so we came to 
anchor there, set up the tent and had a good dinner, and 
over our pipes discussed our future movements. As owing 
to the fact that that part of the crew which had gone to 
Sacramento had informed us that he would strike Benecia 
on the next evening flat broke, it became absolutely 
necessary for us to be there to meet him, or he would 
have no dinner and no bed. This meant the utilization of 
all the ebb tide we could get if we did not want to find him 


a haggard and wasted skeleton; so we set up a box in the | 


middle of the cockpit and by the light of a solitary dip 
played cards until midnight, when the tide turned, 

There wasn't a breath of wiid, and we got out a couple 
of sweeps—all we had—and swept that boat to Vallejo. 
For a time we relieved the toil with song and story, but 
as the night wore on those sweeps got to weigh about a 
hundred pounds apiece, and we had to stop and let the 
boat drift-with the current to convince ourselves that the 
tide had not turned against us; but we’ did get to Vallejo 
at last in the early morning, just as the workmen were 
pulling over to the Navy Yard to begin their labors, and 
having about life enough left to pick out a place where 
we shouldn't ground at low water, Phantom and J slid un- 
der the cuddy and went fast asleep in two winks. Cheek- 
sey foolishly stayed awake and cooked breakfast. 

We spent the greater part of that day getting rested, and 
in the afternoon, with a soldier’s wind, got under way 
for Benecia. In the straits it was blowing for keeps, and 
the sea was booming; but when we squared away be- 
fore it the Tunie showed she had one merit at least, and 
except that we had to kick Cheeksey when we wanted him 
to wake up and slack the fore sheet, we had nothing to 
complain of, and rac’ng with the big combers was great 
fun, 

As an anchorage, Benecia left a good deal to be desired. 


Somehow we all found ourselves | 


-blame them. 


and by the time we had found a place whete we cotld 
float at low Water and yet not be run down by steamers 
making a landing, it was high time to set the tent, start 
dinner and look out for the man from Sacramento, 

Pretty soon he came and we got him aboard, a task 
of some little difficulty in an 8ft. dinghy in that sea, and 
he got out of his store clothes in short order and packed 
them away in one of those tin-lined trunks, carefully shut- 
ting the latch through the sleeve of his best coat; but he 
didn’t know it then, and was hungry and happy. 

Our tent proved to have been built on scientific, btit 
mistaken, principles, and Phantom and J were compelled 
to go out on deck and with sail needles and palms stitch 
the forward. end of the thing in, As it was dark, cold and 
blowing half a gale, and our only light a candle in a 
lantern, our progress was slow enough; but we got it done 
after a while, and after a fashion,-and crawled in to get 
warm and get some dinner, only to find that the other two 
fiends had got away with all the milk in their coffee, and 
we had to put up with a half-cold dinner, and milkless 
coffee. I fear that the opinions we expressed of the 
other chaps were far from complimentary. 

That night was a somewhat uncomfortable one, for by 
a singular caprice of fortune I_had managed to anchor 
exactly on the edge of the channel. The consequence was 
that everything that made a landing at the wharf that 
night, and up to that time I had had no idea how ex- 
tensive the commerce of Benecia was, sent in a swell 
which broke just alongside and banged us on the bank, un- 
til every pot and kettle in our menage set up a separate 
clatter, and woke us up in a fright. By the time we got 


settled down again another would come, and so it went 


on all through the night. 

Morning found us pretty well used up, and when we 
attempted to-cook breakfast nothing would induce the 
stove to draw. As a last resort, we got under way under 
the jib alone, and then the stoye did very well—to this 
day I don’t understand the vagaries of that stove. 

It came on to blow quite early, and we decided to 
make a harbor as soon as we could, putting in the rest 
of the day doing as near nothing as possible. Sailing 
along, still under the jib only, we made the mouth of the 
creek which in those days ran through the town of Mar- 
tinez, and which was usually called the Alhambra—it 
should really have been “El Hambre,” the Hungry, since 
it was so designated by the friars who discovered it, and 
who so called it in commemoration of their short com- 
mons at the time—and hoisting the mainsail shot in 
among the tall tules. The boat held on under the strong 
breeze, and flew over the water that was as smooth as 
glass, until we brought up at the bridge, which carried the 
principal street of the city across the stream, 

We did not realize that we were in the heart of a me- 
tropolis, and without stopping to set up the tent, proceeded 
to get into our shore togs. While thus engaged, we were 
startled by a subdued titter, and looking up discovered a 
young ladies’ seminary filing over the bridge. 

We hastily ducked for shelter, and as soon as the coast 
was clear got the tent up. And right here was where we 
all missed the opportunity of our lives; one of those girls 
was the daughter of a man who owned no end of land and 
orchards and things in the neighborhood, and not so very 
long after this a fellow, nothing like such a good fellow 
as we were, I am sure, came along and married her, Ii 
we had only known—but we didn’t, until too late to pre- 
vent the catastrophe. 

Here the Pursef applied for shore leave, and made a 
trip to Mount Diablo, and I think we put in two days 
waiting for him, 

At some unearthly hour in the night (about 4 A. M., I 
think) we were routed out the morning after his return 
by a big scow schooner bumping her way in to tie up at a 
warehouse close by, so we concluded it was time for us 
to move. 

Getting out of that creek was a picnic. We tried sail- 
ing out, and promptly drifted on to the mud flats before 
we could get steerage way. We made several attempts 
before we hit upon the plan of hauling her up to some 
piles on the windward side of the channel, just where the 
tules ended. We made fast fore and aft and set all sail, 
then when a good strong puff came we let her go. 

The first attempt was a failure, but the second time we 
got headway enough on to slide her over the mud after 
we drifted out of the channel, and with a fair tide and a 
wind that we could carry all sail to (it must have been 
made on purpose), beat our way down through the straits 
and San Pablo Bay without accident. I remember trying*™ 
to shave as we sailed, and succeeding after a fashion, but 
shaving in a breeze in an open boat is open to criticism, 
and I have never tried it since. 

Phantom and I made another cruise later, before we 
got rid of the craft, but the other two could never be 


induced to try her again, and for my part I can hardly 
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Our English Letter. 


Boru Kariad and Sybarita have sailed for the Mediter- 
ranean, which happy hunting ground ought to be more 
extensively patronized by American owners of large rac- 
ing yachts. Sybarita will probably show up in her very 
best form there, as she is particularly good in light 
weather. Kariad was built to suit our new rule, and she 
is of a better type than that to which we have been 
used of late years. She is a handsome vessel, and in her 
short racing career last season she gave great promise. 
Her great race was with Sybarita round Ailsa Craig, at 
the mouth of the Clyde, in a whole tear of wind, The 
yaw! was of course favored on such a day—all reaching— 
by her light rig, yet she could barely beat the cutter, and 
could not have done so without her allowance for “‘in- 
feriority of rig.’ This sounds funny after being told for 
so long that the pure champagne-glass section is essential 
for the highest speed, Both boats were sailed with grim 
determination, and had a rare dusting out in the channel. 

Apropos of the launch of the Emperor’s yacht, it may 
be interesting to mention that His Majesty has this year 
added another inducement to foreigners to visit Kiel 
regatta. He is presenting a handsome cup’ to be raced 
for by small boats with no paid hands. The rule for the 
boats is, length, beam and extreme draft not to exceed 
32ft. when added together; displacement not to be less 


than 36cwt., atd sail not to exceed 500 square feet. The 
cost is: not to be more than £250, and certain restrictions 
as to construction are imposed with a view to securing 


serviceable knockabout boats. The idea is an admirable 
one, but so far as we Britishers are concerned it is to 
be feared we Have very few boats to suit. Nene of the 
boats now being built for our new rule would stand a 
chance, for no doubt a bulb-fin craft will prove the neces- 
sary type. 

The new 52-footer designed and building by Mr, Fife 
will have a mixture of steel, cut oak and steamed frames. 
She is said to be a very powerful looking vessel. This 
class is sometimes called “the twenties,” in affectionate — 
remembrance of the old Thames 20-ton class out of which 
a fostering legislation has gradually evolved it. The old 
twenties were passing large on 46ft. waterline and toft, 
beam, and the new 52-footers are about fifty feet on the 
loadline with huge overhangs, and 1a3ft, beam. Unfor- 
tunately there is a gap between this class and the 36- 
footers, 

No doubt there will be'a large number of yachtsmen 
over here this season for the Coronation ceremonies. It 
will well repay a visit to witness the review of the Pleet 
at Spithead. Those who were over here at the Diamond 
Jubilee review will not readily forget the spectacle, and 
it is said that the forthcoming gathering will be con- 
siderably more imposing. A steam yacht is an ideal point 
of vantage from which to view the sight, and I noticed 
last time that the United States naval men fraternized 
nrore freely with their countrymen than was the case with 
other nationalities. , 
_ There is a new 36-footer being laid down by Fife for, 
it is said, Capt. J. Orr-Ewing, who last year had two 
boats built for this class, one by Gibbick and one by Fite, 
The Fife boat did fairly well, though she came out late 
and had to meet well tuned-up boats. The Gibbick boat 
was a failure, but might have been better sailed, perhaps. 

A new class (handicap) is being formed on the Thames, 
It is eomposed of ex-52tt. boats, and will include Gaunt- 
let, Balaena, and Senga. These three will not need much 
to divide them, but quite a variety of older boats are on 
this station which could not be included in such a class 
by any ingenuity. A well-known German handicapper 
informed the writer the other day that a handicapper must 
needs be an elephant, and there is much truth in the 
remark, | E. H. Hamirton. 


Chicago Yachts. 


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Activity Follows Cabin Class Decision, 


Cuicaco, Ill,, Feb, 8—The decision of the Lake Michi- 
gan Yachting Association, to admit the new cabin type to 
at least an equal position under the rules with the old 
knockabout class, has been a good thing for yachting in- 
terests in this port, This will admit the cabin boat to the 
competitions in all the lake clubs holding memberships in 
the Lake Michigan Yachting Association, so that the type 
will be adopted not only by the Columbia Y. C. for the 
Lipton cup, but practically accepted in this part of the 
Great Lakes. The decision seems to be a yery wise one, 
making as it does, for a practical and seaworthy naval 
eae for waters which are admittedly rough and 
risky, 

The adoption of the new class produced something 
better-than a languid interest, and it is stated that six 
new boats will be built for the coming season. Mr. T. H, 
Webb, of Peoria, is conferring with Hanley for a new 
boat; Mr. H. B. Simonton, of Columbia Y. C., will go 
East for a 21-footer; a syndicate of three gentlemen will 
buy yet another; Dr, Pinkard orders one of Cuthbert; 
Vice-Com. McGuire will have H. Davis design one for 
him, and Mr. F, H. Osborne says he will go East to buy 
yet another. Given a fair and well-worked-out set of 
rules, it would seem that this innovation will be a de- 
sirable one. : 


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Seawanhaka Cup Notes. 


THE boat building by Mr. Thomas Smith at Bayonne 
for Messrs. Mower and Hunt, from the former’s design, 
is now in frame, and the work of planking has com- 
menced. Mr. Smith has made a wonderfully fine job on 
the boat thus far, and she is very fair throughout. The 
boat is being built upside down, and as soon as ‘she is 
planked will be turned over and the deck frames put in. 
The boat is 39ft. 6in. over all, 22ft. waterline, 8ft. 6in. 
breadth, and 5in. draft. The frames are spaced ~3in. 
apart and every possible detail of the boat’s construction 
has been thoroughly done, so that the hull will be very 
strong and rigid. The spars will be hollow, and are now 
being made by the Spaulding St. Lawrence Boat Co., 
Ogdensburg, N. Y. This firm will make all the masthead 
fittings, goose neck on boom, etc. The sails will be made 
by Messrs. Wilson & Silsby, of Boston. 

Word is received from Bridgeport that Mr. Thomas 
MacDonald, instead of being sole owner of one boat, will 
be interested in two boats, one of which is to be built by 
Hanley, of Quincy Point. It is not stated who the builder 
and designer of the other boat will be, ; 

Larry Huntington, of New Rochelle, still has a pos- 
sible customer for a trial boat, and White Bear Lake and 
Chicago yachtsmen are in correspondence with Mr. Mac- 
Donald in regard to sending on a boat from the West. As 
the season progresses more interest is manifested in the 
races, and there are now brighter prospects for a fair 
number of competitors in the trial races. 


Yacht Club Notes. 


The annual meeting and dinner of the Riverside Y. C. 
was held at the Arena on West Thirty-first street, New 
York City, on Friday evening, Feb. 7: About fifty of the 
members dined together before the meeting. ~ The fol- 
lowing officers were elected for the coming year: Com., 


_ George G. Tyson, schooner Nirvana; Vice-Com., William 


A. Hamilton; Rear Com., George J. Bascom; Treas., 
George T. Higgons; Sec’y, John G. Porter; Meas., T. E- 
Ferris. Trustees for term ending February, 1905: O. R- 
Houghton, W. J. L. Davids. Regatta Committee;Charles 
P. Tower, C. T. Pierce, Edwin Binney. Membership 
Committee: Robert Rutter, J. H. McKenna, George E. 


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-Entertainitent Committee: Ernst H. Brandi, 
W, J. L. Davids. - Fleet Surgeon, Dr. H, H. 
Chaplains:, Rey. George C. Houghton, D.D., 
Delegates to the Yacht Rac- 
C.-T. Pierce, 


Tarks. 
Sred Beltz, 
Fyson, Jr. 
ey. Charles F, Boylston, 
ig Association of Long Island Sound: 
Vrank Bowne Jones. 

RRR 


“The annual meeting of the Stamford Y. C. was held at 
Whe Suburban Club in Stamford, on Feb. 4. The follow- 
he officers were elected for the ensuing year: Com., 
ames D. Smith; Vice-Com., Walton Ferguson; Rear 
fom., Edward F. Leeds; Treas., Charles H. Leeds; Sec’y, 
Terbert Lawton; Fleet Surgeon, Frederick Schavoir; 
WMeas., I. Franklin Wardwell; Chaplain, the Rey. Charles 
M. Addison. Directors: George S. Hoyt, Schuyler 
Merritt, Albert C. Hall, Edward C. Hoyt, George H. 
Wioyt, H. P. Bartlet, E. E. Bruggerhoff, Alfred Se cert 
Frederick M. Hoyt, Walter S. Hoyt. Nominating Com- 
Bnittee for 1902-3: H. P. Bartlet, Walter D. Daskam, 
Malcom R. Pitt, Archibald Smith, Walter M. Smith. 


mee 


7 At the annual meeting of the Stuyvesant Y. C., which 
was held a few days ago, the following officers were 
slected: Com., William J. Hogg; Vice-Com., Dr. H. 
fepner; Rear Com., Granville Stibbens; Treas., C. 48h: 
Ogden; Sec’y, J. Alfred Smith; Fleet Surgeon, F. Le 
Sount Dowe, M.D. Directors: William C. Cartwright, 
C. H. Clapper, Peter Barry, Frederick Kleinle, F. C. 
Kaiser. Finance Committee: A. W. Strong, A. Wise. 
Membership Committee: J. Babst, G. Stevens, J. Mc- 
Gregor. Regatta Committee; J. Kraus, G. Wagner, J. 
Muller, S. Wright, H. Merkens. Law Committee: 
Hall, A. T.. McKenzie. 
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The New Amsterdam Y. C, was incorporated in Albany 
ion Feb. 7. The club will be located in New York City, 
anid the directors will be as follows: A. Hobart Walton, 
Ridgewood, N. J.; James F. Holder, Gustave A. Girard, 
New York City; John W. James, Brooklyn, and Thomas 
L. Buckingham, of Flastbush. 


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Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles, U. S. N., addressed 
he members of the New York Y. C. on “Naval Con- 
truction,” on Feb. 6. The two hundred members present 
were greatly interested in the lecture, which was illus- 
trated by stereopticon yiews. This was the first of a 
series of entertainments that has been arranged for the 
winter. The next will be on Feb: 27, when Rear Ad- 
miral George Melville, U, S. N., will talk of “Arctic 

xperiences.” Rear Admiral Charles O'Neil, U. S. N., 
will talk of “Ships, Guns and Explosives’ on March 20, 
and on April to there will be a musicale. 


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The Canarsie Y. C. held its annual meeting on Feb. 
&. and the following officers were elected; Com., T. H. 
Northridge; Vice-Com., George H. Matthaei; Sec’y, 
Walter W. Tamlyn; Finan. Sec’y, George E. Winters; 
‘Treas., J. K. Alexander; Meas., Joseph T. Fletcher. 
| Members of Board of Trustees: 
‘Thomas M. Mannion, W. G. Herx, C, F. Kalkhaff, 
Charles J. Neilsen, Frank P. Mapes and Daniel J. Brins- 
Tey, Jr. The reports of the various officers and commit- 
tees showed over one hundred boats in the club’s fleet, 
and the first mortgage on the club’s property, which had 
matured, was paid in full. This leaves but a slight second 
mortgage, all held by club members, on the new club- 
house at Sand’s Point. It was decided to open the season 
on Memorial Day with a parade of the club fleet, inspec- 
‘tion by the Commodore and races in the afternoon. 
During the season the club will hold races each Satur- 
day and holiday. ; 


| YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


_ The schooner Jennie R, Dubois, the first fiyve-master 
ever built in Connecticut, will be launched on Feb. 11 
‘from the yard of the builders, The Holmes Shipbuilding 
Company, of West Mystic. 


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The Electric Launch Company, of Bayonne, N. J., 
is building, in addition to some twenty-five launches 
varying from 20 to 45ft. waterline, a cruising keel yawl 
to be equipped with a 6 horse-power Globe engine, for 

a New York yachtsman. She will be 37{t. on the water- 
line, soft. over all, 15ft. beam, 5ft. draft, with 2i{t. 3in. 
least freeboard. There will be 1,374 sqare feet of canvas 
in her lower sails. On the keel there will be 6,000 pounds 
of lead and 5,000 pounds more inside. The boat will be 
used on Long Island Sound. The launch for Mr, J. D. 
Johnson, of New York City, is finished and has been run 
out of the shop. The boat will be used on Barnegat Bay. 
She is 5oft. over all, 42it. on the waterline, I1ft. beam, 
2ft. 2in. freeboard, and 3ft. 3in. draft. Her pilot house 
is 8ft. long, the saloon oft., the lavatory 3ft., and the 
engine room roft. 6in. The forward deck is toft. din. 
Jong and the after deck i1ft, 8in. A 16 horse-power 
Globe engine will furnish the power and the builder 
@uarantees a speed of nine miles an hour. The tanks 
shave a capacity of 175 gallons, an amount sufficient to 
Tun 750 miles without refilling. Another boat shep is 
Mow under proces of construction by the Electric Launch 


Company; this building was made necessary by the large 


amount of work now on hand. 
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Mr. George Robinson, of New York City, is having 
Te Witt Conklin, of Patchogue, L. I., build for him a 
boat to race in the 36ft. class on Great South Bay. 


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The Northport Y. C. is to have a class of one-design 


boats next season. Nine clipper dories have been ordered 
from Gerry Emmons, of Swampscott, Mass. These boats 
are i7{t. over all, and carry a lJeg-o’-mutton sail and a 
small jib. 

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The Daimler Motor Company, of Steinway, L. L., has 
completed plans for a yacht of good size to be propelled 
by gasoline motors, She will be tosft, over all and 16ft. 

Breadth. She will be driven by two 50 horse-power Daim- 


Dr. 


J. C. Heinemann,: 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


-ler motors, The boat will have excellent accommioda- 
tion under a low cabin house. 
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Mr. W. H. Childs, of Brooklyn, has purchased from 
Mr. Henry Hunt, of Boston, the r&ft. knockabout Trou- 
ble. She will be raced in the 21ft. class on Gravesend 
Bay, Trouble was designed by Mr. Fred D. Lawley, and 
built by the Geo. Lawley & Son Corporation. 


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Captain Charles E, Bailey died at sea on board the 
steam yacht Katoomba on Feb. 1, while making a trip 
to the West Indies. Captain Bailey was one of the 
best known yacht skippers in this country, and was for 
nine years in command of the old and new Corsairs owned 
by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. 


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Thomas Manning, a well known yachtsman and yacht 
broker, and publisher of Manning’s Register, died_at his 
home in New York City from heart failure on Feb. 7. 
Mr. Manning was born in England sixty-nine years ago, 
and ever since he came to this cotntry, in 1873, he had 
been most successful. He was a member of the New 
York, Larchmont, American, Atlantic and New Rochelle 


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Messrs. Read Brothers, of Fall River, Mass., have the 
yawl building for Mr. A. Homer Skinner well along. She 
will take the place of Penelve sold by Mr. Skinner last 
summer. She is 4oft. long on the waterline and 57{t. 
over all, and will have a 16 horse-power Murray and 
Tregurtha motor. 7 

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Frank N. Isham, Mystic, Conn., is building four 
launches 36ft. long and oft. beam. Each one will be 
equipped with a 10 horse-power, motor. 

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At Patchogue, L. I., Gil Smith has the deck frames of 
the 2sft. waterline cutter for Mr. George Trowbridge 
Hollister in place. Mr, Smith is building a catboat for 
Mr. John Masury for use around Moriches. She 1s 20ft. 
over all and 1oft. waterline. Another catboat is being 
built for Edgar Lynn, for use on Shinnecock Bay. This 
boat is 16ft. waterline and 24ft. over all. Judge Carter is 
having a catboat built identical in design with Mr. 
Masury’s boat. Mr. Smith is building for himself a rac- 
ing catboat to be 35ft. over all, 23ft. waterline, oft. 8in. 
breadth, and 2ft. 3in. draft. 


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In addition to. the boat Mr. Charles D. Mower has de- 
signed for the Seawanhaka trial races he has turned out a 
number of others. The largest of them was for Mr. 
William Clements, of West Perth, West Australia. She 
is a compromise keel and centerboard boat 45ft. 8in. over 
all, 28ft. waterline; 1rft. 2in. breadth and aft. 6in. draft. 
She is sloop rigged and carried 1,100 square feet of sail. 
Another boat was for Mr. H. H. Robinson, of New 
Hayen, Conn, She is 21ft. waterline, 33ft. gin. over all, 
Sft. toin. breadth, and 3ft. 6in. draft with centerboard 
hoisted. All ballast is of lead outside, and there is 4ft. 
toin. headroom in the cabin. There are 500 square feet of 
canvas in the lower sails and a small sprit topsail will be 
carried, Mr. Mower got out plans for a 21ft. racing 
length sloop for Mr. W. H. Childs, of Brooklyn, to be 
raced on Gravesend Bay, but Mr. Childs did not build 
owing to the change in measurement rules. Mr. W. S. 
Wheaton had Mr. Mower design for him a racing cat- 
boat to be used at Atlantic City, N. J. She is 18ft, over 
all, raft. waterline, 6ft. breadth and 6in. draft; 225 square 
feet of sail in mainsail. Members of the Victoria Y. C., 
of British Columbia, are building six boats of Mr. 
Mower’s design. They are 15ft. on the waterline, 24ft. 
over all, 5ft. gin. breadth and 4ft. draft with 1,000 pounds 
of outside ballast. Their. sail.area is 328 square feet, 262 
of which will be carried in the mainsail. 


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The Marine Engine and Machine Company, of Harri- 


son, N. J., has secured an order from Mr. J. Beaver 
Webb for a 26ft. double cockpit tender equipped with a 
seven horse-power alco-vapor motor for the steam yacht 
Isis, owned by Messers. W. S. and J. T. Spaulding, of 
Boston. + This firm has shipped to Mr. H. Reginald 
Hunt, of Yokohama, Japan, a 25{t. alco-vapor launch 
fitted with a five horse-power motor. 


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A number of the members of the Shelter Island Y. C. 


have contracted with the Greenport Basin and Construc- 
tion Company, of Greenport, L. I., to build for them a 
number of small sloops. These craft will be identical in 
design and construction with the boats being turned out 
by this company for the members of the Ardsley Y. C. 
The dimensions are as follows: 25ft. gin. over all, 15ft. 
6in. waterline, 6ft. breadth and aft. draft. The boats will 
carry 410 square feet of sail in mainsail and jib, and there 
will be 1,200 pounds of outside lead ballast. 


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At Huntington’s yard at New Rochelle the frames of 
the ketch building for Mr. F. T. Hastings are all set up 
and the work of planking will soon commence. The boat 
was designed by W. Starling Burgess and will replace 
the 28-footer Peggy that was*lost in the storm at New 
Rochelle last November. 


Qanaving. 


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Down the Danube in a Canadian 
Canoe.—Ill. 


(From Macmillan’s Magazine.) 


For a-long time, strange as it may sound, we had been 
enforced vegetarians and drinkers of condensed- milk. 
We could rarely get fresh milk, though we trudged many 
a mile to farmhouses and inns for it; either it was all 
used for butter, or had already been sent to the towns. 


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Of cotirse it would not keep sWeet- itt oti catioe under the 
blazing heat, and we could only trust to the chance of 
getting it an hour or so before we needed it, But, when 


-we were lucky enough to get it, how delicious were those 


messes of boiled bread and milk; meat, too, was hard to 
come at, except at certain hours. The butchers 1n the 
snall towns open their shops at certain times only, Not 
one of them would ever trouble himself to supply us with 
merely_a potind of meat, and more would not, of corse, 
keep fresh. E 

We were drawing near Vienna now, but first we passed 
through another fine gorge. It began at Grein (where the 
Duke of Coburg’s castle, Greinburg, looks down trom 
the heights) and before we emerged breathless at the 
other end we had come through the famous whirlpools 
known as the Wirbel and Strudel, The river, narrowed 
by Half its width, plunged with many contortions round 
sharp corners between high cliffs and past the island 
rock of Worth. Rising in long, heaving undulations the 
water was alive with whirlpools, twisting and sucking and 
throwing us here and there, gushing up underneath us 
with ugly noises and seething on every side. There was no 
foam, no crests, no waves or spray; it was like a mon- 
sstrous snake trying to writhe through’ a hole too small 
for it. The shore raced by at top speed, and steering 
was uncomfortable for a time. In former years these 
whirlpools were a source of great danger to the naviga- 
tion; but in 1866 the Emperor had certain rocks blown 
up and now an inscription on the face of the cliff testifies 
to the thanks of a grateful people. The traveler in a big 
steamer might ‘think this inscription exaggerated. He 
would not think so in a canoe. * 

It is impossible to mention, as one would like, all the 
abbeys, churches, monasteries, ruins, islands and other 
points of historic interest that throng the banks. The 
scenery is enchanting as well as enchanted, There were 
some interesting castles in these mountains, and grim , 
they still look even in their ruins. Aggstein rose in soli- 
tary grandeur on a peak that commanded miles of the 
Danube in both directions. ~ It was built in the twelfth 
century by the Kuenings, a robber race which stretched 
chains across the river, plundered the traffic and drowned 
the owners. We could still see the Blashaus Tower from 
which the sentinel announced the approach of ‘boats, | Its 
was-a plundering, murdering family, and was finally de- 
stroyed by the great Ulrich von Grafeneck. 

Before Ybbs (the Roman Pons Isidis) we saw the 
wonderful ruins of Diirrenstein where Richard Coeur de 
Lion was imprisoned. Here, on the very spot, it was in- 
teresting to recall how he was recognized when walking 
through the fields at Erdberg (since merged in Vienna), 
captured and handed over to his enemy, Duke Leopold 
of Austria, who intrusted him in turn to the keeping of 
the Kuenings. They kept him’ for fifteen months (1193) 
in the great castle of Dtirrenstein beneath whose grim 
walls we passed in our canoe. In Austria the story is 
a believed, whatever we may think of it in Eng- 
and, 

The following day we saw the blue hills of the Wiener 
Wald rising behind Vienna, and before long we were 
obliged to don our best clothes, and send a porter down 
from our hotel to fetch the luggage from the bathing 
house, where the canoe lay below the Reichsbriicke, 

We did not stay long in Vienna. Rooms in July seem 
stuffy after a tent, and a fly-spotted ceiling is a poor 
substitute for the stars. 

The canoe was packed full of provisions ready to start 
when our first accident occtirred, The river had risen a 
couple of feet and was very swift. My friend had just 
taken off his shoes and placed them on the top of the 
other luggage. Several of the crowd, in’ the’r misguided 
fashion, were ttying to help us, when I stepped into the 
little space vacant for me in the stern. How it happened 
no one knew; some one let go too soon, and she was in- 
stantly swept out sideways into the current. The next 
second I was dropped out nearly into 5ft. of water, and 
the canoe, settling till only the tops of the luggage re- 
mained in sight, went full tilt down stream. There were 
soyds, of clear water, and then came a row cf barges tied 
Toft. from the shore and leaving an inner channel. Into 
this the canoe luckily was swept; had she careered off 
into midstream probably we should neyer have seen her 
again, With boat hooks and poles we ran along the 
banks to catch her before she banged into the barges. 
My friend ran in his socks. The hotel porter, the bath 
house man and a dozen idlers all followed shouting 
different things at once. But the canoe and the mad_ 
current had the start of us. Crash! with a sound of 
rending splintering wood she banged into the nearest 
barge and turned completely over. A few seconds later 
the various articles appeared on the surface again, and 
there began a sort of obstacle race that might haye been 
highly comical had it not been so serious. Our beds with 
the cork mattresses floated high out of the water. Jumbo 
(a huge kit bag holding our wardrobe) came next, up to 
his neck. A smaller waterproof bag, tied at the neck and 
holding bread and cameras. followed, spinn‘ng merrily. 
The provision basket (filled with the morning’s careful 
shopping and some tea just arrived from England) 
showed only its nose above the surface. Coats, hats, 
soeks, maps, tent poles and tent followed in motley array 
at the end of an idiotic-looking procession. Every time 
an article banged into a barge it went under for a few 
seconds, and meanwhile the canoe was crashing on among | 
ropes and poles in the van. The heavy articles defied our 
efforts, and Jumbo pulled one man. bodily into the water 
when he tried to drag it ashcre, ' 

In the end, however most of the things were saved. 
The men caught the cance a> she spun past a barge and 
held her till help came. All the articles. too, were fished 
out except those that wou!d not float. Thus, we lost our 
lantern, the prop of the kettle. a pair of my friend’s shoes, 
an odd one of mine, the ridge nole of the tent and my 
town hat and coat. It was w ndertfully little. The bows 
of the canoe, however, were completely smashed in; and 
to make it worse, the ran suddenly came down in tor- 
rents and a cold wind blew from the north. * 

Then a carpenter appeared on the scene and said he 
could mend the canoe and make a new tent pole. The 
people of the bath house tcok cur things in to dry, while 
we jumped into a closed carriage and drove back into 
Vienna my friend with no shoes on his feet, and I with- 
out a hat on my head. Yet, such wee our good luck, that 
three hours later we were spinnire d-wn the river in the 
mended canoe; the stin was shin ng brightly, our things 
were dried, we had a new tent pole, Vienna was out of 


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sight below the horizon—and when we landed for camp 
the place was so lonely that, on climbing the bank, I 
looked straight into the eyes of a great stag with branch- 
img antlers, 

For two days at tracing speed -we journeyed through 
wild and lonely country toward the frontiers of Hungary. 
The river was like a wide lake—no hotses, no boats, no 
token of man except the daily steamer between Vienna 
und Budapest. We passed signs of Roman days and 
‘Turkish occupancy strangely mingled: Carntiitum, where 
Marcus Aurelius is said to have written much of his 
philosophy; Theben on a spur of the little Carpathians, 
with its rock-perched fortress destroyed by the Turks in 
1683, when they swept on to besiege Vienna, and again 
by. the French in 1809.. At its very feet. the March (the 
botndary between Austtia and Hungary) comes sedately 
in, and the Danube received a new impetus as we passed 
below its shadow and into Hungary at last. 

The Germans had been kind in a negative fashion, the 
Bavarians courteous, the Austrians obliging; but the 
hospitality of the Hungarians was positively aggressive. 
“Nothing is too much,” they used to declare when we 
expostulated with them on the overwhelming naturé of 
their attentions, “nothing is too good for Englishmen. 
Everybody will tell you the same in Hungary.” ‘Kossuth 
was, the magical word, and hatred of the Austrians the 
keynote of their emotions, We_ blessed the generation 
that had welcomed him in exile and went on our way re- 
joicing. The crowds no longer stood gaping; they helped 
without being asked. When we landed for provisions they 
ran down to hold the canoe, while others went into the 
village to make our ptirchases mote cheaply for us. Eyen 
their questions were intelligent. German is of uncertain 
value here, and we had carefully learned the Magyar 
words for the articles we most needed. “Now you begin 
to learn Magyat when it is too late,” laughed the woman 
in a Pressburge shop where we bought milk and eggs and 
bacon; “but it’s no matter; you can’t starve in Hungary.” 
The Hungarian name of the town is Pozsony. It was 
formerly the capital, where the kings of the Hapsburg 
race were crowned, Below it the Danube branches into 
three arms, one of which makes a circuit of fifty miles and 
comes in again at Komorn. The main river is a couple 
of miles wide and full of islands, separated by rapids and 
falls. An officer assured us that we should get lost for 
days together unless we carefully kept to the main chan- 
nel. The cotintry is wtterly deserted, save for the little 
black landing stages of the steamers that appear every 
twenty miles or so, the villages lying far back and pro- 
tected by high earthen banks. The loneliness and deso- 
lation of these vast reaches of turbulent river and low 
willow-clad islands were impressive; in flood time it must 
be.grand. ‘ 

The water escaped into so many side channels and 
lagoons that the depth of the river was most variable. 
Gray shingle beds appeared often in midstream, and over 
and over again we were swept into them before we could 
eross to deeper water. It was difficult to distinguish 
them in time from the muddy, foam-streaked river, until 
we learned that the cormorants invariably used them for 
fishing grounds; and then we took the black bodies in the 
distance as warning signals that saved us much dangerous 
wading. The yelocity of the stream is so great that one 
almost expects to see the islands swept bodily away. Big 
gray hawks circled ever over head and gray crows by the 

thousand lined the shores. That evening, after crossing 
and tecrossing the river, we found a sheltered camp on a 
sandy island where pollards and willows roared in the 
wind. As if to show the loneliness of the spot an otter, 
rolling over and over among the eddies, swam past us as 
we danded. Abotit sunset the clouds broke up momen- 
tarily and’ let out a flood of crimson light all over the 
wild country. Against the gorgeous red sky a stream of 
dark clouds, in all shapes and kinds, hurried over the 
Carpathian mountains, and when we went to bed a ful 
moon cast the queerest shadows through the tossin: 
branches. We dined—prosaic detail !—off tongue, onion’ 
potatoes, tea, and dried prunes which we stewed and at 
with quantities of beet root sugar. 

[TO BE CONTINUED, | 


Grapshoating. 
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Fixtures, 


Feb_ 18-20.—St. Edward, Neb.—St. Edward Gun. Club’s annual 
tournament, 

Feb. 22.—Louisville, Ky.—Jefferson County Gun Club’s tourna- 
iient. meoia 
Feb. 22.—Akron, O.—Team shoot of Akron Gun Club. | 

Feb. 22.—Albany, N, Y.—West End Gun Club’s bluerock tourna- 


ment. H. H. Valentine, Sec’y. . 
- Feb. 22.—Brooklyn, L. 1—Wandicap cup shoot of the Fulton Gun 
Club. 

Feb. 22.—Armonk, N. Y.—First shooting tournament of the 


Westchester County Shooting League. H. T. Wayne, Secretary 
Armonk Gun Club. i 

Feb, 22.—Lynn, Mass.—All-day shoot of the Birch Brook Gun 
Club, J, C, Hamley, Presider't; J. W, Hay and C. F. Lambert, 
Managing Committee, 

Feb. 22.—Carlstadt, N. J.—Second match of series between Wait 
view and Carlstadt gun clubs, 

March 6.—Omaha, Neb.—Contest at 100 live birds for Hazard 
trophy between C, W. Budd, holder, and Russell Klein, chal- 
lenger, at 2 P, M. 
eee 8.—Carlstadt, N. J—Inyitation shoot of the Carlstadt Gun 
Club. 

March 31-April 6.—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds, Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 

March 19-21.—Indianapolis, Ind.—Annual Grane Central Handi- 
cap tournament; first two days, targets; third day, 25 live birds, 
$25 entrance. .Bert A. Adams, Sec’y. 

April 8-11,— Olathe, Kan,—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament. -_ > ; 

April 15-17.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F, B. Cunningham, Sec’y. 

April 22-25.—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Me- 


Donald, Sec’y. / WL, 
May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L. I.—Interstate Association's Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer FE. 


Shaner, Manager. 


May 13-14.—Enid, Oklahoma Territory—Oklahoma ‘Territorial - 


Sportsmen’s Association tournament. 

May 13-16.—Oil City, Pa.—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the aiispices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F. S. Bates, Cor. Sec’y. 

May 14-16.—Charleston, S. C.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club, 
W. G. Jeffords, Jr., Sec’y. - , * 

May 20-22.—Ottumwa, la.lIowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 

May 20-22—Elwood, Ind.—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind. __- ; a 

May: 20-22. Wheeling, W. Va.—Fifth annual.tournament of the 
West ‘Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. 


-tournament, 


-fees $1 and $1.25, a total of $15.25. 


FOREST AND STREAM? 


May 21-23.—Springheld, $, D.—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s 
Association tournament, 

May 30.—Schenectady, N. Y.—Spting tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club, E. L, Aiken, Sec’y. 

May 30-31.—Union City, Ind—Spring tournament of the Parent 


' Grove Gun Club. O, E, Fouts, Sec’y. 


June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co, 

June 4-6,—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club. P 

June 9-18,—Rochester, N, Y.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the, Protection of Fish and 

ame. 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League's annual 
tournament. 

June 17-20.—Warm Springs, Ga—Annual Interstate tournament. 

June 1$-19.—Bellefontaine, O.—Silver Lake Gun Club’s annual 
\ Geo, E, Maison, Sec’y. 
June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. C.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 


ment, under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club, Jas. I. John-. 


S0il,, SEC, =o 

July 16-18.—Titusville, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T. L. 
Andrews, Sec’y, b , 

Aug. 13-14.—Bruriswick, Me.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
namient, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L. C. 
Whitmore, Sec’y. ; 

Newark, N. J._—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 

y aiternoon, i 

Chicago, Ill.—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy shoots, first 

d third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 

d Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y, ; : 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
ete Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 
1o0ting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
ractice, Café and hotel accommodations, 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


The Birch Brook Gun Club, of Lynn, Mass,, announces an all- 
day shoot on its grounds in that city on Feb, 2 There are 
thirteen events on the programme, 175 targets in all. Entrance 
Events 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 12 and 13; 
15 targéts each, will be shot from the lbvd. mark; 6 and 11 at 4 


pairs from l4yds.; 7, 8, 9 and 10, total of 50 targets, distancé han- - 


dicap, 14 to 2lvds. The contestant scoring highest in prize events 
will receive a Sole leather gun case; second, Thurman shooting 
blouse; third, Powers cleaning rod. High guns to win. Open to 
all. Moneys in sweepstakes will be divided according te Rose 
system, as follows: Twelve entries or under, 45, 3 and 2. Over 
twelve entries, 4, 3, 2 and 1. Price of targets, 14% cents, included 
1 entrance. Lunch served free of charge on grounds. Sweep- 
akes optional. Loaded shells for sale. Take Lowell cars, leaving 
.entral Square, Lynn, at 8:07 and every thirty minutes for Elm 
ireet, Lynhurst. Time permitting, extra events will be arranged. 
_W. Ilay and C. F. Lambert, managing committee. J. C. Ham- 
vy, president. 
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the annual meeting of the New Utrecht Gun Club was held on 
hursday evening, Feb. 6, at the Clarendon Hotel, Brooklyn, 
.. Y. The attendance of members was not as large as might be 
xpected, considering that the books of the club show a record 
; eighty-nine meinbers in good standing. The treasurer’s report 
iowed that there was a considerable deficit in the club’s funds 
ving to the heavy expenses the club had»incurred in connection 
ith the New York State shoot last September, the programme of 
hich was remarkably generous in the amount of cash added to 
qe purses and number of valuable prizes purchased out of the 
wiub’s funds for competition in the popular merchandise event. 
To wipe out the above deficit a pro rata assessment on each mem- 
ber in the sum of td was authorized. The retiring officers were all 
re-elected to office for the ensuing twelve months. The club ofh- 
cials are therefore Walter F, Sykes, Presidént and Treasurer; A. 
A. Hegeman, Vice-President; i. J. Keveny, Secretary. 


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Certain members of the Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club are making 
all necessary preparations with a view to having the Interstate 
Association’s visit to Mémphis, June 46 next, an unqualified suc- 
eess in the target shooting line. The club will throw targets at 
2 cents each; and will add $120 in cash pee day to the purses, 
making a total of $360 for three days. Of course none but ama- 
teurs will be entitled to compete for any portion of the regular 
purses, but the Memphis Gun Club also will give consideration to 
manufacturers’ agents, for whom the club will hang up $100, to 
be competed for in three general average prizes of $50, $30 and 
$20, respectively. The programme will call for $205 targets each 
day, seyen eyents at 15 targets each, and-five at 20 targets. Such 
are the present intentions of the Memphis Club’s officials, but it 
is also quite possible that a five-man State team race will be ar- 
ranged for the second or third day. 
certaimly prove a decided attraction. 


Rx 


The. press dispatches of Feb. 6, concerning the efforts of the 


anti-pigeon shooting interests now in action at the New York | 


State Capitol, are substantially as follows: “‘The Slater anti-pigeon 
shooting bill was reported favorably in the Senate to-day. Mr. 
McCarren, a member of the Judiciary Committee, who was un- 
ayoidably absent from the hearing, asked that the measure be 
committeed in order that an amendment might be made, The 
amendment proposed is that pigeon shooting may be indulged in 
by members of-clubs licensed by State Forest, Fish and Game 
Commission. Senator Slater opposed the proposition to recommit 
the bill, and declared he could amend the bill just as well in the 
committee of the whole. Senator McCarren insisted on a motion 
to recommit, witereat Mr. Slater asked a call of the Senate. The 
motion to recommit was lost by a yote of noes 24, ayes 20.)’ 
e " 

The Westchester County Shooting League announces its first 
tournament, to be held on Feb, 22, commencing at 10 o’clock 
sharp. It will be supported by clubs as:follows: Mount Kisco, 
Ossining, Pleasantville, White Plains and Armonk gun clubs. 
Loaded shells for sale on the grounds. Dinner, 60 cents. Vhe 
officers of the League are: President, G. FE. Sutton, Mt. Kisco; 
Secretary, Curry J- Barlow, Ossining; ‘Treasurer, J. Carpenter, 
Kensico. There are twelve events on the programme, 160 targets, 
$11.50 entrance for the day. To reach Armonk take Harlem R, R. 
to Kensico, where “a stage will meet the 8:15 and 11:30 A. M. 
trains and take slooters to the grounds. 


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From an eminent and authoritative source whose center is 
Kansas City, we have received the follow “word regarding the 
Handicap’: ‘There is hardly a day passes but we receive a re- 
port from some section or town where they are getting up a 
Grand American Handicap party. .A couple of the boys, just back 
from the Brenham and Waco shoots, say the Texas boys will be 


here about forty strong; they are getting up a special for the~ 


oceasion. In fact, all through the South the enthusiasm is un- 
bounded. ‘They are anxious to meet their Eastern brethren at 
the trap, whom they have so far only met in print.” 


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At a meeting of the Keystone Shooting League, of Philadelphia, 
on Saturday of last week, Messrs. Walter Stetline and H. L. 
David, were elected to fill the vacancies on the board of goy- 
ernors caused by the resignation of Messrs. J. Anderson Ross and 
W. N. Stevenson, The matter of refusing the club scores to news- 
papers was considered, but left in abeyance for future considet- 
ation. As there is nothing wrong in pigeon shooting, there is no 
reason to recognize what others niay do against it. : 


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Mr. F. C. Riehl, in “Mississippi Valley Notes,” published in 
our trap columns this week, enumerates twenty-one shooters of 
St. Louis, who will participate in the Grand Américan Handicap 
at Kansas City. Estimates concerning the number of entries, now 
settle near the 400 figure. Tt is possible that the managers may yet 
have to build an annex to the club house and grounds. 

Mr. C. W. Budd, of Des Moines, high in the office of the In- 
dians as Chief of the Wampum, has accepted Mr, Russel Klein’s 
challenge to contest for the Hazard trophy. Mr. Budd has named 
Omaha, Neb., as the place for the match, and March 6 at 2 P. M. 
us the time for its commencement, Mr, Klein also is an Indian, 
and is known as Chief Toboggan, : a. 


An eyent of that nature would ~ 


by the way. 


(Fee. 15, 1902. 

Feb. 22 has been fixed upon as the date for the handicap cup. 
shoot of the Fulton Gun Club. The grounds are reached- yia 
King’s County bapa ta, Crescent street station or Douglass street, | 
Woodhaven’ car to Crescent street. Stages are in waiting at the 
Crescent street station. Targets 11 cents. There are eight events 
at 10, 1h, 20 and 25 targets, and the special cup event at 50 targets, 
tl entrance. Sweepstakes optional, Shooting: Commences at 1) 
o'clock, f 

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_A series of target matches has been arranged hetween the Fai | 
view, Ni Ji. Gun Club, and the Carlstadt, N- J.. Gun Chib. The 
first: match will take place on Iveb. 12, on the grounds of the | 
Fairview Gun Club, the second on the grounds of the Carlstadt 
Gun Club, the third, if ome is necessary, fo be determined later as_ 
to place of holding it. ~ 

td ham 

Mr. C, F. Lambert, of Lynn, Mass., writes us that the Birch. 
Brook Gun Club, of Lynn, are preparing for at least thirty-five” 
shooters, as all who have ever attended this club’s shoots were — 
pleased and eager to attend again. Contestants will haye prizes 
or their equivalent in money, 


The Hayerhill, Mass.. Gun Club is already considering the de— 
tails of the Interstate Association target shont, to be held under 
its auspices later in the season, It is an active, energetic and 
popular organization,’ and is noted for its successful tournaments. 


e 


Elsewhere in our trap columns the Limited Gun Club, of In- 
didnapolis, Ine, announces that its annual Grand Central Handi- 
cap tournament will be held on March 19 to 21. For programmies 
address Mr. Bert. B. Adams, the secretary, Indianapolis, Ind; 


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_ Among the ga ished leaders of the trepshooting world visil- 
ing in New York Jast and this week were Mr. Irby Bennett, of 
the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and Capt. A. W. du Bray 
and. Mr. S. A, Tucker, of Parker Brothers: . 


On Tuesday of this week, Mr W. L, Colville (Dick Swiveller), 
famous both as the representative of the Dupont Powder Co. and 
aS an eminent writer, started on an extensive tour in Pennsyl- 
vania in the interests of his company. 


*, 


The Carlstadt, N. J., Gun Club announces a big inyitation shoot — 
to take place on March 8, on the elub grounds at Carlstadt. 
BERNARD WATERS. 


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A Lost: Art. 


Wurm have you ever seen anything in the papers about reload 
ing shells? The writer hardly recalls just how long it has been, 
yen all discussion about the various methods of hand-Joading 
new Shells has almost ceaséd. How fondly we dwell upon the 
different kinds, number and thicknesses of wads; amount -of pow- 
der, shot.and pressure; just how, and how much to crimp, efc. 
All this is lost to us, 

Each would read carefully the other's statements; feel, if he did 
not express, sorrow for his ignorance or inexperience, and then 
return to his own best ways, Soinewhere beyond careless scrutiny 
he had a box or closet full of all kinds of reloading tools; to 
this list every new one must be added, none of the old fayorites 
discarded. ‘There was the old japanned brass-headed crimper, | 
the Nye or wheel créaser, and the modern star of the BG. [_ 
Company's make. Shot measures, powdér measures, cappers; 
decappers, rammers, jammers, ad intnitum. Where are all these 
cranks? 1 can’t be the only one yet living. I see the imple ~ 
ments are stil] being made and advertised. I also note with 
pleasure that the above-mentioned company is constantly im- 
proving this line of goods. So there must be a generous sale for 
them Somewhere. It has not been so long ago. If Jiving, they 
need not be so old, I was a thitty-second degree crank, and am 
not yet married. The fact that they have risen to affluent cir-— 
cumstances or that factory loads are much more convenient and as— 
cheap will not account for his subsidence. The financial feature © 
has nothing to do with it. Jt is a sentiment, “a passion, and | - 
deeply regret its lack of nurture. It will not die, being peren-% 
mal and springs cternal, : ' -% 

Possibly the old guard in this age of millionaires may-_be- 
ushamed to acknowledge they are so perurious. Some of their 
friends may coniment on a man who will spend half the night = 
reloading some old shells to Saver 1h cents, Flowever it-is, ls 
know of but few and hear of none, abe htile STR A 

There is nothing in the art to be ashamed of* On the contrary, | 
it is a feeling that finds lodgment in _the breast iofla‘trne ‘sportsel) 
man. Nome other could harbor it. The practice does net, amply jy 
that one is pursebound, purse-empty or hidebound; .that ong is, 
impecunious, stingy or money-loving. The fact that dé’ likes “to 
engage jin whatever remimds hiin ‘of ‘his loved sport; “of thet 
heanties of nature; of rambles in-field and’ woods, accounts for ite, 

1 remember being at a trapshooting. tournament with L. 1. Wade, 
of Nagadoches, Texas, now, | think with the Peters Conipany. * 
Ife had a way of catching the shell as it was ejected from? his’! 
\Winchester, All these he saved, no doubt throtigh force of long- 
continued habit, It was.at Many, Ga., and a ball was given to 
the visitors that night. Wade is a fine-looking fellow, jtist in the 
thirties. Calling at his room early before he should ga to the 
ball, I was surprised to find him, instead -of being arrayed..or 
arraying in white vest and swallowtail, down on his knees assort-_ 
ing over his shells. I asked him what he was doing.- His answer’ 
was, “Nothing, Don’t you know, I just like “to fool with these. * 
This is an expression of the true passion.. Something to be proud 
of rather than to be ashamed of, 

What one who has this sentiment deeply seated of “just liking 
to fool’ with all the hunter’s and shooter’s paraphernalia, ever’ 
made any money shooting? The writer has’ wasted “dollars whére 
shooters wha wouldn’t know a crimper from a coffee.mill have | 
shot away cents, and wouldn't shoot a reloaded shell — |, 

{ remember in a cross-country trip with Mr, F. M. -Fatirote,;” 
one of the best and most ‘genial shooters beforé the publie to-day,- 
he spoke of a fellow up in Texas who was worth a quartér-of.q _ 
million, yet saved and. reloaded his shells. Now, Mr. Faurote 
thought it was from a desire to saye money. He is no doubt “4” 
species of the genus now under consideration. eats we 

Mr. A, H. Hogue, of Many, is another. He buys fine gun | 
alter gun, all the known loading tools, and there not being 
enough an the markt, has made some af his own, Belcher load- 
ers, Hunter loaders, B, G, loaders, ete. I have seen hitn- 
load hundreds of shells for the boys, just for the fun af it. He 
would sit down by the table, one of his loaders screwed to it, 
pour out shells, wads, shot, powder and primers; and waste the 
profit, Then, with a beatific smile, as if in the seventh heaven of — 
delight, he would go’ to work. He turned out an tnequaled article; 
His apparatus cost him at least $100, and he prab- 
ably shoots 75 cents’ worth of ammunition. There’s the profil. 
“Only one in whom this is bred can appreciate what I am trying 
to tell, Toading new shells by hand, while it partially meets, yet~ 
it does not completely meet the heart’s desire. ated 

The shells carried on a long hunt in the woods become a 
sert of companion. On the wad, and frequently on the sides are 
all sorts of hieroglyphics, almost requirmg a Rosetta stone to 
decipher if a translation is sought by other than from the shooter, 
To him it is*plain. Here is a light load of 244drs, and loz. No. 4s 
for a possible snipe; another with 10s for woodcock; one with 
6s for the large fox squirrel; a few 3'%édrs, and No. 2s for a pos- 
sible turkey, as he crones the old pine windfall; an oceasional 
deer-is seem among the holly shrubs, so in goes a load or two 
of blue whistlers. . : 

On various trips each of these fills the expectation of, or dis- 
appoints the shooter in performance of their various missions. 
As he removes them from the stained old coat, carefully brushes 
away the adhering feathers, straightens out the throat and 
smoothes oyer the outside, his memory dwells complacently on 
his pleasant outing, It is all gone over again, as he decaps 
and recaps the old standbys. ; - 

“This one, T know it by that mark on the side, must have been 
poorly loaded, I held dead on that snipe as he went straight away. 
1 was afraid this one with the flaw ih the crimp would fail, 
but it was the second of as fine a double shot as I eyer made.” 

So on it goes fill he regrets parting with them as he would with 
old friends. In truth, I still haye some used in my boyhood, and 
shall always keep them. 

Now, as a fact, I shoot shells loaded by the manufacturers. Yet 
T still cannot help experimenting on the lines suggested just to 
be fooling. I had some Ideal shells heavily loaded for trap. This 
fall IT extracted those loads and reloaded for game; just 
a comparatively small number of course, I haye shells now whicli 
[ lave loaded three times, and the shells have never yet had the 


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ifal primer fired. Why is it? I do not know. It is an un- 
ainable passion. ‘TI just must sit down and get ont all those 
s and go to Joading, ‘just as Coleridge’s butcher must get 
}and go a-killing.” Half may never be used; probably will 
t be; that is neither here not there. The only way to prevent 
s loading is to enact a law prohibiting it, and then arrest and 
{ me in_adyance, 
“think if you should call at my bachelor quarters [ could show 
ore guns, pistols, revolvers, etc., than you would see outside a 
e, and many more than some retail stores, Why is it I waste 
this money? Don’t know. If you ask the question, and it 
mes prompted by the feelings of your heart, 1 can’t explain to 
u. (ne who is not prompted to ask the question will under- 
nd without explanation. He is one of the few elect, A member 
“the best circle on this earth, a true nobleman or sportsman, 
‘I have twenty-one different styles of revolvers and_ pistols, all 
odern and thirteen rifles; beside the guns mentioned above, 
en old-time guus. Why, to save money, of course. Shut up! 
% ask any more fool questions. 
Now, as to the practice of the art referred to, I shall say 
hothing now, but may later. I wish #0 finish this article with 
‘something that may be of yalue to its devotee, and of some in- 
terest to shooters in general. To satisfy my own curiosity, I ex- 
perimented with a large number of the different makes of shells 
to test their Wearing quality. I loaded each with the same load 
‘and fired from the same gun chamber. <All were the same length. 
ae new Club and Rival (old styles of each) broke off at fourth 
shot; the Leader and Smokeless at the fifth; also the Green 
‘ap, Winchester. The U. M. C. Green lasted seven shots; the 
nitro Club four shots; Repeater five shots; the Ideal eight shots; 
the new Victor ten, f , 
_ The Ideal held ont longer than the Trap because it has thicker 
paper. All the above shells burned off just where the metallic 
base stops on outside shell, caused, I presume, by the unequal 
heating of the two materials. The secret of the long resistance of 
pile Vietor is the inside non-metallic support. This reaches up 
‘aboye the metal base on the outside. All these shells would 
crimp beautifully up to the third time; then began divergence, 
None would take a square crimp after first firing. 
Here, then, to the country boy, fatfmer and reloader of shells gen- 
erally is your combination, Buy twenty-five new shelis, a box of 
1 eTers and reloading tools, and you are fixed, if economy is your 
“object. ; , 
And this, it seems to me, might be landably encouraged, A 
shell is undoubtedly as good second shot as at first, and almost 
‘at the third firing. 
_ The wealthy shooter and the one who apes his demeanor may 
he overlooked; the one because he can afford it; the other be- 
-eatise he is a fool, The paid trapsShooter must of course throw 
his away, because the company wishes to destroy shells; yet IL 
‘think they would sell more if shooting Were made cheaper, as a 
“greater number will take part, Yet if you feel like saying your 
‘Shells do so from this standpoint alone. 
' I see colored boys here who save coppers until enough are 
accumulated to buy a box of black powder shells, invest with all 
the abandon of a skilled roué, throw away the empty as a Van- 
derbilt would toss the stump of a Havana. So you will not at Jeast 
‘be in this class, Some of these fellows who are now so layish 
when boys put a little shot in a peppermint bottle, seme powder 
im another peppermint bottle, five or six caps in a salve box, 
“spent hours hunting up old hornet nests for wadding, *then with 
an old $3 muzzleloader, with a barrel as long as a stove poker, 
they went forth to kick and be kicked. One of the shells they 
now shoot with such apparent eclat would make a day’s hunt 
then. _Well, they are all good fellows; so is any one who likes 
to shoot and hunt and fool with guns and walk in the woods 
just because he likes to do so. J. F. Ween. 
Roweuine, La, 


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American Shooting. 


WHuie We are quite willing to admit that our American cousins 
‘are excellent performers with the shotgun, that so far as skill in 
game shooting goes they have little to learn from us, we are 
scarcely eerated to admit that the American sporting newspapers 

are justified in pointing so exultingly to the result of the Anglo- 
_ American clay bird shooting contest here last summet as having 
demonstrated beyond doubt the superior skill of Americans as 
regards shotgun marksmanship. Those whe witnessed the match 
at Hendon in June last were under the impression that they were 
' spectators of a trial of skill with the gun between two amateur 
teams. The English team was known to be entirely an amateur 
team of sportsmen, who had gone into the contest purely as a 
Sporting event that they scarcely expected to win. They expected 
to meet a team of American sportsmen solely, to- the entire ex- 
‘clusion of the professional element, and on that footing, we 
tinderstand, expressed or implied, the-money was staked and the 
match entered into. But almost every man in- the American team, 
it would now appear, was a recognized professional shot in the 
United States. 

By the term “professional,”’ according to the rules of the I. B. 
S. A., is meant a competitor who shoots or has shot in public 
for a livelhhood, ‘The majority of the American team were such 


professionals, we find, from the review of trapshooting in America 


_for 1901, appearing in the American Sporting Life. The two names 
appearing at the top of the list, for instance, ranking first and 
second among the professional shots of the year, are Fred Gilbert 
and W. R, Crosby, both of whom shot at Hendon in the Ameri- 
tan team. The team, in short, was not composed of amateurs, but 
‘of professional shots, who would, by our English rules, have been 
précluded from entering: to compete here in any club contest. 
This, as any reader of American sporting newspapers must see, 
compels a considerable discount from their victory, and deprives 
it of the character of the result of an international struggle on fair 
terms. This is a feature of the Anglo-American match that we 
do not think has hitherto been brought to light, and it leads us 
fo deny the American claim to superiority in the skilled use of 
the shotgun. In any match of the kind that miay hereafter he 


arranged, the first condition should be a stipulation for the ex- . 


clusion of professional shots—The Country Gentleman. 

[We are under the impression that some members of the English 
team. were professionals, and that the members of it knew that 
they were meeting professionals.] 


WESTERN TRAPS. 
Kansas City—Ho! 


Cnrcaco, LU,, Feb, 8—Special train for the Grand American 
Handicap, I desire to announce through the columns of your 
paper, thus early, that I haye arranged for a special train to 
Kansas City, leaving Chicago, Sunday, March 20, via C., B. & Q. 
This train is due to leaye the passenger station of the Burlington 

cad, Adams and Canal streets, at § A. M., calling at Aurora, 
9 A, M.; Mendota, 9:55; Galva, 11:15; Galesburg, 11:55; Bushnell, 
12:35 P. M.; Quincy, 2:30, and due to arrive at Kansas City at 
9:30 P.M. ; 

This train will accommodate passengers from Decatur, Knoxville, 
New Boston, Tampico, Jacksonville, McHenry, Rock Island, 
Keithsburg, Meponser, Rockford, Danville, Springfield, Peoria, Til., 
and Dubuque, Ia. Arrangements have been made for chair cars, 
buffet and dinings cars, one fare for the round trip. . 

I shall be pleased to reserye space, provide tickets and supply 
any further information required. KE. Ly Rice: 


Garden City Gun Club, 


Burnside Crossing, Ill, Feb, 8&—At Watson’s Park to-day the 
Garden City Gun Club held a club shoot, which was markedly 


well attended. The main event had a handicap allowance. Follow- 
ing are the scores: 
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Young, 1..... +. 2222102210201112 —13 
Kleinman, 0.... 11202*121131011 —12 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


The Late Charles: Parker. 


In last week's issue of Forrst ann Stream there was pub- 
lished a brief mention of the death of Charles Parker. Since then 
we haye received a copy of the Meriden Journal of Jan, 31, which 
contains a brief biography of his career, substantially as follows: 


The funeral of ex-Mayor Charles Parker, who died at 1:15 o’clock 
Jan, 81, at the advanced age of ninety-three years will be held 
Sunday afternoon, There will be prayer at the house at 1:45, and 
the regtilar service at the First M. E. Church at 2:30. ; 

While the details of the obsequies were not fully completed this 
afternoon, it was announced that an opportunity would be given to 
all who wished to view the remains at the church at the con- 
clusion of the services, . 

Notwithstanding his age, Mr. Parker had heen in fairly good 
health until] recently, and therefore his death was a surprise and 
shock, 

Early last evening he began to fail, and at 8 o'clock his tempera- 
ture was 108. Dr. Smith then thought he would not last an hour, 
but M+. Parker's wonderful vitality, which on former occasions 
had pulled him through severe attacks, again manifested itself, and 
he lingered until 1:15 o’clock, when he died in the arms of his 
daughter, Mrs. W. H. Lyon, Death was attributed to nephritis, 
or inflammation of the kidneys. : ; 

Three weeks ago he caught cold and suftered from a grip attack, 
He was gradually recovering, and had almost rallied from the ail- 
ment when -stricken yesterday. ‘ 

Mr, Parker retained his full mental factulties until a few hours 
before his death. Tle was always of a cheerful disposition, and 
never complained or was a burden in any way to the family. Elis 
death will be mourned with sincere sorrow, 

All the factories of the Charles Parker Company were closed 
to-day and will remain closed until Monday, owing to the death. 

While a member of Sf. Elmo Commandery, Knights ‘’emplar, 
the members of the commandery will not turn out in a body and 
hold Masonic services at the grave, as customary. This is at the 
request of the departed. 

The following sketch of Mr. Parker is taken from Dr, Davis’ 
“History of Meriden and Wallingford’: 

Charles Parker, son of Stephen and Rebecea Parker, was born 
in Cheshire, Conn, Jan, 2, 1809, When nine years of age he was 
placed with a farmer by the name of Porter Cook, where he te- 
mained until he was fourteen. Ele continued on a farm until he 


CHARLES PARKER, 


was eighteen, when he went ta work in Southington, castin 
buttons for Anson Matthews, He remained there one year an 
then removed to Naugatuck, then a part of Waterbury, where he 
worked for Horace and Harry Smith about six months. 

in August, 1828, Mr. Parker came to Meriden and hired out to 
Patrick Lewis making coffee mills. In December, 1829, he went 
into business for himself with a capital of $70, taking a contract 
from Lewis & Holt for thirteen months to manufacture coifee 
mills. “His shop stood nearly opposite -his present residence. 
During the thirteen months Mr. Parker cleared $1,300. He then 
took in as a partner, Jared Lewis, and took another contract from 
Lewis & Holt to manufacture coffee mills, ladles and skimmers. 

In January, 1831, he sold out to Jared Lewis and bought an 
acre of ground lying west of his present residence. On this ground 
was an old brown house, and Mr. Parker paid for the house and 
ground $650. On the back of this lot he built a shop, which was 
finished in the spring of 1832, in which he manufactured coffee 
mill and waffle irons. Mr. Parker then went to market his own 
goods, : 

In November, 1838, Lewis & Holt failed, thus leaving the whole 
market in Mr, Parker’s hands, In 1833 he associated with his 
brother Edmund, and Heman White, and carried on business 
until 1885, when Edmund Parker was sent to Montgomery, Ala., 
with clocks and dry goods. in 1836 he returned, and Mr. White 
went to Montgomery with dry goods, which sold readily, 

In October, 1837, he made a second trip to Alabama with a 
large stock of dry goods; but the hard times came on and he 
lost heavily, much embarrassing the firm of Parker & White, who 
did not fully recover from their embarrassment for over six 
years. They were often advised by their friends to fail, but did not, 
and paid all debts in full with interest. — 

During this time Edmund Parker sold out his interest to Mr. 
White, and in 1843 the parinership was dissolved, Mr. White 
going South, where he soon failed. Tle came back to Meriden 
and hired out to Mr, Parker for $100 a month. 

Mr. Parker's business steadily increased, and ‘in 1844 he added 
largely to his buildings, putting in steam power, having previously 
used horse power. He was the first to manufacture plated spoons 
and forks, and the first to plate hollow ware in Meriden. 

At the age of thirty-one Mr. Parker experienced religion, and 
after two years united with the Methodist Church. He gaye 
the Methodists the lot on Broad street on which their first church 
was built, and also. gave three-quarters of what the building cost; 
and he and his brother John jointly contributed between $30,000 
and $40,000 toward the erection of the present Methodist Church. 
His liberality was great, but unostentatious, and whenever he 
conferred a favor he endeavored to conceal it from the world. Mr. 
Parker always refused to accept office, though often urged to do 
so, until Meriden was incorporated a city, when he was elected 
mayor, which office he held two years. 

Mr, Parker married on Oct. 6, 1831, Miss Abi Lewis Eddy, of 
Berlin, and had ten children. The youngest son, Dexter Wright 
Parker, was graduated at West Point in the spring of 1870, he 
being then in his twenty-first year, — 

In 1877 the several industries which Mr, Parker controlled 
were to a certain extent combined and the Charles Parker Com- 
pany or corporation formed, so that Mr, Parker might be relieved 
of some of the arduous duties. Beside the main Parker plant 
hetween Elm and High streets, other concerns in which he was 
the principal owner and which are controlled by the Parker in- 
Vue 5.5 ULL, arker bros,, manutacturers of the celebrated Parker 
gun; the Meriden Curtain Fixture Company, the largest manu- 
facturer of shade rollers, curtains and fringes that there is in 
the United States; the Parker Clock Company, with factory situ- 
ated about two miles west of the railroad depot. The Parker 
Company has manufactories at East Meriden for making cabinet 
locks, tea, table and basting spoons, and at Yulesville for making 
piano stools} coffee mills and packing boxes. 

For the past few years the burden of management of the diverse 
industries has rested on William H. Lyon, Mr. Parkers son-in- 
law, under whose abJe direction the plant in all departments has 


heen most prosperous, 


Mr. Parker became connected with Harmony Lodge, 


ly. and A. M., of New. Britain, Dee, 11, 1848, and later igaiae 
charter member of Meridian Lodge and its first treasurer. THe 
was exalted in Keystone Chapter No, 27, Feb. 21, 1871, and 
knighted in St. Elmo corapandeny Nev 9, May 27) 1871. 


i 
Mn Perkes’y surviving children are xter W. Parker ard Mrs: 


139 


randchildren ate Miss Elsie Lyon, Mrs, J. F. 


W. HH. Lyon, The ! 
Parker, and Charles P. 


Allen, Alderman Wilbur F, and L, C. 
Tireese. 2 

Mr. Parker’s success in life was owing to strict economy and 
close application to business; he often working fifteen hours a 
day, attending to his large correspondence eyenings. He was 
distinguished for good sense, great industry, method in business 
and punctuality in all his engagements. He was the ideal busi- 
ness man in hig younger days, and for many years after othars 
of less energetic character would have given up all business 
affairs, he kept in thorough touch with the many lines in which 
the immense Parker company was engaged. In his death Meriden 
loses its most distinguished citizen, 


ON LONG ISLAND. 


Van Allen’s Shoot, 


Interstate Park, L, I., Feb, 5.—There was a rallying from afay 
to the shoot of Mr. S. M. Van Allen, held at Interstate Park to- 
day. There were visitors from Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, 
and New Jersey was strongly represented. Jt was a good day for 
the birds; that is to say, it was hard shooting. There was a stiff 
7 o'clock wind, full of a sharp coldness, which accelerated the 
flight of the birds and chilled the fingers of the contestants, The 
ground was covered with snow, whose glistening white surface 
added a further difficulty to accurate work with the gun. 

The main event was well contested, The handicaps in it were 
none of the easiest, the 33yd. mark being scratch, a rather un- 
usual distanee as to length, as more than 32yds. is seldom used. 
But the first price was tempting, it being no Jess than gold in the 
form Of $75, a tempting morsel of wealth, all the more attractive 
since all the entrance moneys were divided. The conditions were 
20 live birds, $10 entrance, birds extra, high guns, handicaps 28 
fo 33yds. 

Before the, main eyent three preliminary events were shot, 
namely: A miss-and-out at 2&vds., $2 entrance; a miss-and-out at 
a0yds,, $3 entrance; an event at 7 birds, $5 entrance, 26 to dlyds. 
handicap, two moneys, class shooting, The scores in the prelimin- 
aries follow: : 

No. 1, miss-and-out, 28yds.: Piercy 10, D. 5. D. 10, Le Roy 9, 
Van Allen 8, Hopkins 8, Schoverling 5, Morfey 1. 

No, 2, SARE eS 3 30yds.: Morfey 7, Van Allen 7, Schoverling 
7, Piercy 6, Le Roy 3, D. S. D. 1, Hopkins 0. 

No. 8, handicap, 7 pigeons, two moneys, class shooting: 


DTS 20 evar stern ea ie 21111I—7_ Bissett, 29......-.0....- LoL 22ea—e 
MGTeys) polar encase eH geo2221—t (Morris, 29.....-.2.4.06 2222222—T7 
PrierGyy) wai: de¥eerees 2222121—7 “Yan Allen, 381..,-,.-... 2222012—6 
Inirayoishoe YAR EES SA gab oor 1211222—7 Le Roy, 30.,... eee 2222022—6 


Iextra, miss-and-out, 80yds.: Annie Oakley 5, Bissett 4, Steffens 
4, Buteh 4, Buzby 4, Kroeger 3, Schoverling 3, Morris 2, Herbert 
2, D. S. D. 1, Clark 1, Koegel 1, Dupont 1, Belloff i, Piercy, 
Banks, Capt. Money and Fanning missed first birds. 

In the 20-bird event there were twenty-six entries, and of these, 
some shot for birds only. Besides the first ptice, there were six 
other prizes, which went to the high guns in order and value, as 
follows: 28.50, $19, $14.25, $12.55, $11.40, and $9.50. Mr. F. C. Bis- 
sett annexed the golden prize on a straight score, the only one 
made in this event, Messrs. 5. M. Van Allen and A. A. Schover- 
ling killed 19 each, which was a 95 per cent. gait, and a good 
performance. ‘The scores: 


Van Allen, Daag srer tsa RAL Shale] hn Onn We aba 22222202222222222222 19 
Le Roy, Bee OBO EA SAR A OLRM i 5 nee 02222220022222202222—16 
SOT CV pat Pie ress « nieian otal d techyintteicratring a aot AEA 20202222012201112122—16 
LES ead es atte tals acasetrataceis dec tioiehice oede & 101212*0011221212222 16 
Dutch, 29,,... wretneNaepeeetgtternrhpey eg eer sys 2022*122122202202202—15 
bs(elakeyferd by tsr pier entas nie Petre t oon arin soon 22222202222222222222 19 
Bissett, BO ceegnerestrtennters te gecs Tee En 22112212222222922292— 2) 
Morris, Bde eet se tease ener ce etary eeseneunes aes 22220202002220222222 15 
Stevens, $2...... Fgh bel ipdtase? tetra leno ete Aree eet te 202222222221 22232202 18 
DUG RS Way Cll Sty Aho rae mwusandgaene lel ee del ceu 21110011202220*01110—13 
Hopkins, Pleat nceetem ne SIMMER as eee lori imreen 222222*220222210"112—16 
aries SOs sana dh Sea E LL, ate ay sas aay se 22222012221*01*10222—15 
HSOGREL Depicie > cveeae cece ante Seteeentats Pye shea Mes ale 2222201222*012001222—15 
TKO RCS a) wee) BEAR eG BAD SE ogo oH + -22222202222202222222 18 
Annie Oakley, 1 eS yh eee 443 22021121121220122020—16 
PATIL Etna: ate oe Eee were aee cet noe oad 0201222222222022220116 
Werbert, 29.0 ...535 Eee Geter eee ae 21101100212211220222—16 
LO) Fel eR PAS preg reais ee OY eRe eee 22020121221201111222 17 
Capt, Maney, 815.0... eceiemetcese sant sich sate tetas 202220210*1222112120—15 
SV GELICOTA Ao suiegts set aedeea as & LNA Me en eee 02222121110110201211—16 
Mohrman, Ponti tat s epe we MELT BRA R Ee Ae ee 22022220122210202202—15 
@) Rourke, PE Pre iis ie Pa te » -12221120211112111012 418 
Belloff, 30 20002211212022220021—14 
DCCITEIEG iol fesse nei pire Weemralers aa aN p kee sete eae 21221200221111222229—18 
CG liy etin iets eceieicicnn reais 222222222222020222*2—17 


01122122202220220210—15 
An extra event at 10 live birds, six high guns, was shot, and in it 
Messrs. S. Glover and H. Koegel were the only ones who scored 


straight. The scores: 
Capt Money........ 1212122272— 9 Piercy 22002w 
Herbert es Rey D 0212020210— 6 Te Roy ... 2222222220— 9 
J Es eey wba keae wma Ses ie oe 22012w Stevens 022222220w 
O’Rourke -.......2, 1221220222—$ Bissett 210202w Ss * 
SteeENS ciertacrnaune 0211221**2— 7 Schoverling 0222220222— & 
Mohrman ......... 2022022022— 7 Swiveler 122221221*— 9 
Hiteheock: 200.22: 2111202202— 8 Butch 2220220w 
Clarke: oe eee es 11202121200— § DS D 2210*12121— § 
Rit sLoiya stared -ti oe shapes es 2200202002— 5 Banks 2221002w 
£ a ieee ingest aerate tne eye taeehedertet 122*212121— 9 
an BMLaweooe 2 Sue Voelker sh ontene iis 111* 
BP Ge gel wet reels AA 211222222210 eS 


New Utrecht Gun Club. 


_Interstate Park, L. 1., Feb. 8.—Excellent birds and a strong 7 
o'clock wind tried out the skill of the shooters to an untsual de- 
gree. ls event No, 1 J. P. Brown won, the ties of it being shot 
off in No. 2. The ties in No, 2 were shot off in No. 3, and J. B 
Brown won again, Ties in No, 3 were shot off in No. 4, 


a No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 
H DyGreamers 28055... 22110116 + 2111221—7 12188995 “019-6 
R W Ebadty 285 ener 1**2111—5  1*0122i—5 1112112 -7 #119919 -¢ 
Wien loratoa hie osanee beni 1222012—6 22222227 2199299 7 9999995 7 
J, 2 Brown, 28... pefelel sd vee 122220—6§ 2221221—7 1112299--7 9997999 —7 
C A Ramapo, 28......... 1111210—6§ +2011 *y 1112121—7 1122221—7 
S Van Allen, 30.....,...: 2220012—6 25... *112221—6 1*02*22—4 
Ge SEMEL eee hg PORN Oy ee ne pee 121*111—6§ 
ty BG of ties in ae ee 4; Lurgan won: 

Ap dei beteys tote eo eee aze222 C A Ramapo.........-- 
2 Brown cscive 2112120 rien Vie 
, mee Nay 6: No. 6. Yo. 
G B Ritchie, 28........ HoneSee Ooubisr 1121210—6 2201012—5 ae 2 it 
W ak Lurgan, CUS A A ER ARS eae be al 22222206 2222220—6 12222" 
|) De Os 6728 ste ee OS MHH Ne. yl — ee 421122 
CPA Ramitipo. 98.00 fei ie ts eases 12229127 220%" = 
URS NYMG AS ESCA cent, Mrepblbl nat aie UNE aie 21121217 «1290121 6 =. 
[ee Statet Meets Par ee Ga ew AAP Le a opis i 


Oceanic Rod and Gun Club. 


Rockaway Park, L. T., Feb. 3—The competition of the Oceanic 


Rod and Gun Club was favored with pl red " 
shoot will be held on Feb. 16. The sence East pach LLbranace 
Events: DO Soa eb ath ve S910 
E uy Paget 5 112 
Targets: 15 15 15 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 26 15 
aang SERRE ES tote oy on sans ; 3 10 810 9 818151814 6.. 
Tc CAA} Stier: A AC MA eee, 9 6 
PNET OS BO. esate Mee orn a8 5 % é e. Ot as naan 
I islebeustchar 3 AAA ieee se ebu Meee eee Tape Tbe aie Mbe rant 
Gl ati oe at nr oreertee. Mn bey nS 5. Nn <9 sehen aa 
Stay PG nod cha rs ep in 5 9 bie ay 
enige + 5 6 eon, thar 
SENSE wees rr tees e neater emis 7 7 7 91512 6 
MV hard [abes hppd ret cet pooosth «nati, Ala. 10-611 10 6 8 10 i 
Vee SAA bass 30 a oe Me a4 % 9 10 
IGE g ATE Ye yey Py Prelate Tio occa Ta Wt ai38 es 
UNAS GATES ENT). alien fees UNE UE VEO TER arti Sener ocees z 


Limited Gun Club, 


TInoianarouis, Ind, Feh, T—The Limited Gun Club, of Indi 
apols, tnd., will hold their annual Gr: ig i i rat teas 
Sta, on March 19, 20 and 21, 1902, SAS Ges ea a artes Oost 

The first two days will be at targets, and on the y wi 
the big pigeon race at 25 birds, $25 entrance, This ase . ae 
intervening before the Grand American at Kansas City, thus al 
lowing the Eastern shooters a chance to attend our shoot and to 
have a week's practice at Kansas City. - ‘Vb 
Programimes will be forwarded in a few Se 


formation may le gbiained from Ber, B Any further in- 


ms, Secretary Bb, 


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Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, Feb. 5.—Just fifteen real enthusiasts were present at the 
sixth serial prize shoot of the Boston Gun Club, held on their 
grounds at Wellington to-day, though a more congenial gathering 
would be hard to find. One of the welcome visitors was Bullard, 
of Watertown, who, it was thought, would be unable to attend many 
shoots for some time to come, owing to having a slight accident 
to his hand that necessitated the doctor’s attention; but the fever 
struck in, and nothing would do but to be there, even for a short 
time, and come he did, and only regretted that the injury com- 
pelled him to cease shooting before the finish of the events. 

Our usual 2lyd. shooter being absent, the honors of long-distance 
shooting fell to the 18-yarders, who in the majority of cases aquit- 
ted themselves in the best of style. The honors of the afternoon 
were ably taken care of by the Brockton representative, “Worth- 
ing,” easily leading in the prize match with a 21, and averaging 
high for the thirteen events with 78 per,cent. Prank was a good 
holder of second place in the match with 18, and was*second high 
gun for the afternoon with a small percentage lead over Spencer, 
who held third position in high guns, but had to give way in the 
match to Woodruff and Converse with 17. Other scores follow: 


Events L234 5 °6 7 8990 01 12413 

Targets: 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 
Wiottlinive olitercth tect arcsec SOT eT SF OS st SG 25 Reg 
Krank, A8s-%. 20: eee ea Ghote 78 710 8 6 511 9 78 8 8 
Wi cadritiey seen eee eee Ceca? kalpll~ ab-iabaee ode Oa eel ey ae 
WCEVErLeLo mo argue icetns teins a 3 6 6 6 3) Sab 8) 49) 3 5 
Bitlfard Sores ee oe aia ie a) diet lie te edewel aa we aj OS 
Philbrook, 16 (ec S Wisse likephelis ie 
Converse, 16...:.... 6-7 4 8 9 5 6) § 5 he es 
Williams, 16........ (fA ims ruse, and ae A 
Wirohuls@attne aah ee ss, Sea eee sn 1M ylhogy Reh ame ere bees Pay cag a8 
Marnitobay 18" sess uence Hens ae ln an Wome Te hin eS See! 
DP SHNGETA OS parnenn ata eee eee te On rune GG go) 6 Se i 
JB baw aS eS eo eB BAUM ene Godt BSS = Sith). ae 
Je Oa pr SS AL So SER, om To 46; 628) 4s Abe G7 
Eliectrigye ehotect aes trae cette eae aro) hokey =e EES 
EVGdenicks 0 Iter Gece .utnusak seiit se bow Saat saeate men ce 1krn uno 

Events 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12 and 13, magautrap; 1, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 11, 
Sergeant. ry 

Merchandise match—25 singles—15 magautrap, 10 Sergeant— 
distance handicap: . ‘ 
Viorehinie. ul Ss. SeuCe acne neges ca eter 011101111101111 1011111111—21 
Heeb ol ows TUS OP sr sna el aoe eee 011111110010011 1111103110—18 
Woodruik, ici... doe. - -111110100111110 1011110010—17 
Gonwersey 16. ee ae ee oo eee 410001011110010 1111101111—_17 
SHENAE, HL Wa tee A eda as esr shat aecse 111160010100100 0111111111—16 
Milam s VIGH ou spsgies +tanek Paeteoetane 011101100101110 0111011101—16 
ASK nrAilan g@elet eta eae pute eee ee ee (00011001011110 1110101111—15 
eaters ele ee oe ee) ROL) PEAS ah 101100101100011 1011111010—15 
OT AUP LB hepato cee won eee ee 000000101100011 111101011114 
IP Tia totaal hs, eens coarctenn cee tere fate Meee 111101101000101 ~~ 1010119010—14 
BS rillacdal hs ees 8, sh osaee ese ete ee 001001000011100 001101101111 
MiG eretite hGsnshscia ese eee to ye ee 000110101010100 1010100010—10 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


Emil Tonsenberger, of Jerseyville, and Loren Lamb, of Mc- 
Clusky, shot a match at 25 live birds recently, at the Jatter place, 
for a stake of $50. The match was the outgrowth of a friendly 
rivalry between the shooters of these two thrifty Illinois towns, 
and although the weather was cold, it brought out a good attend- 
ance. The Jerseyville man proved the winner. killing 18 strong 
birds inside the bounds, while his opponent grassed 16. Each lost 
3 dead out of bounds. 

Incidental to this match a number of sweepstake events at tar- 
gets, live birds and sparrows were arranged for the benefit of the 
crowd, and entries ran from ten to fifteen. 

Another match is now being arranged between Fred eet of 
Newbern, and Brance Dorsett, of Jerseyville, for a stake of $100. 

The Edwardsville Gun Club has promulgated a general chaHenge 
for an intercity team with any other club in Illinois outside of 
Springfield or Chicago. A’ number of neighboring clubs have al- 
ready signified their willingness to accept the gauntlet, but no 
match has yet been arranged. 


Scarcity of Pigeons. 


Managers of shooting parks throughout the West are already 
feeling the effect of the demand for live pigeons, owing largely no 
doubt to the fact that the Grand American Handicap is to be held 
this year at Kansas City. Aleck Mermod, of Dupont Park, St. 
Louis, is offering fancy prices for good birds, and is unable to get 
enough at this, while several gun club secretaries complain that 
they cannot arrange live-bird shoots on account of the impossibility 
to get birds. 7 ; 

There is, and has been for several years, a steadily growing de- 
mand in the West for pigeons for trapshooting, and if this tendency 
continues there is going to be money for somebody in raising 
pigeons for this purpose, There seems to be no doubt that the day 
of 10, 15 and even 20 cent pigeons is past. 


The Kansas State Shoot. 


The genial, wholesouled Western sportsman, Mayor Frank 
Hodges, of Olathe, writes, as president of the Kansas State Sports- 
men’s Association, that his people expect to make that the greatest 
meet of shotgun experts ever brought together in the Sunfiower 
State. They have claimed the week immediately following the 
Grand American Handicap, and will devote three days to target 
and one to live-bird shooting. Mr. Hodges states that the business 
mien of Olathe are much enthused over the event, and while he is 
unable to state positivély as yet, he believes that neatly if not quite 
a thousand dollars will be raised as added money and for the 
entertainment of the visiting shooters. 

The programme will be made up as soon as the item of added 
money is decided, and as Olathe is but. an hour’s ride from 
Kansas City, Mr. Hodges will try to head all the boys from North, 
East and South sho attend that event toward his own bailiwicl 
when the big meet is over. 

Excepting State and one or two special events, the programme 
will be open to all; and all events will be shot on the distance 
handicap plan, which Mr. Hodges personally guarantees to be as 
fair as it is possible to make it. 


‘The April Circuit. 


The month of April is destined to be an important one in West- 
ern shooting matters. Beginning at Kansas City, then follow 
Olathe, the 8th to 11th; the Missouri State amateur meet at St. 
Joseph, the 14th to 16th, and the Nebraska State meet at Omaha, 
the 22d to 25th, making a circuit covering the whole month, with 
but a few days intervening bétween tournaments, and only short 
tailroad jumps. 

And then, shortly following, in May, come the Missouri and 
Illinois State meets at Kansas City and Springfield, respectively. 


Great Rabbit Shooting. 


The unusually heavy snowfall and cold weather in the Mississippi 
and Missouri valleys has brought into prominence again the old- 
fashioned sport of rabbit shooting. It somehow takes a snowfall to 
enthuse one on the idea of rabbit shooting, as in this medium it 
passes from the category of hard work to that of sport. Within the 
past three weeks rabbit hunting has been the rage with our shoot- 
ers, and none are too fastidious to join in the pastime. The names 
of no less personages than the mayors of St, Louis and Alton have 
been mentioned in the focal prints of late as of those who sought 
the bunny in his native bush. 


Quail Suffering from Cold. 


I have had several reliable reports of the discovery of whole 
coveys of quail found frozeri in fence corners during the past week. 
The weather has been more severe than for some years, and doubt- 
less this, with the succession of snows, has been very hard on the 
birds. But we are very apt to overestimate a damage of this kind, 
and J do not think that there is cause, thus far, for serious alarm. 


They ate Busy at St. Louts, 


It has already been said in these columns that the St. Louis 
shooting fraternity will be well represented in the entry lists for 
the G. A. H. At an informal canvass of the shooters at Dupont 
Park this week a partial list was secured in which appear the 
tollowing nathes: W. Fred Quimby, Chas, Spencer, Aleck Mermod, 
Hi, B. Spencer, John Bowman, Frank Orvis, Fred Fink, Harold 
Money, Dr, J. M. Simms, C. B. Shaw, Frank White, W, A. Thomp- 
son, Dr. H. Cummings, Con. Cummings, Dr, M, Starkloff, W. D. 
Kenyon, W._E. Nason, John Cabanne, L, D. Cabanne, Blake 
Collons and ‘E, Prendergast, This is only a partial list, and while 
; “a & Td ere ‘ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


some live outside the city of St. Louis, all hail from the immediate 
vicinity, and are accredited to this point. Meantime, these are 
doing some lively practice work at the park, and will be very 
fit for the fray when the date arrives, 


A Huntets’ Protective Association. 


An association has just been organized in St. Louis, 
as the name implies, 
fishermen,” At a preliminary meeting, held one week ago, a com- 
mittee was named to formulate a code of suggestions as embracing 
the general objects of the order, and the teport submitted is as 
follows: “Objects—To provide a fund for the promotion of just 
laws regulating the killing of game in the State of Missouri; to pro- 
tect farmers from trespassing pot-hunters; to regulate the quantity 
of game that may be killed by any one hunter in the course of a 
day, and to protect sportsmen from unlawful and blackmailing ar- 
rests.” The temporary officers are H. C. Tully, Chairman; R. C. 
Wright, Secretary; E, J. Dients, Treasurer. 

The Edwardsville Gun Club has elected Breese Glass, President; 
Henry D. Warles, Vice-President; Breese Glass, Jr., Secretary; 
Louis May, Treasurer; John Dotterway, €. F. Cook, John Grigsby, 
Trustees. 

The sportsmen of Mansfield, Mo., have just completed the or- 
ganization of a thriying new gun club. They will practice on their 
range every Friday afternoon, for a gold, silver and bronze button, 
representing A, B, and C classes, respectively. 

At Minneapolis, Kans., Feb, 7, H. E, Crawley, of Minneapolis, 
and Frank York, of Junction City, shot a match for $50 at 50 live 
birds, for championship honors. Crawley won easily on a score of 


designed, 


3 to 3%. He is the present recognized wing shot champion of the 
state. ~ 
The Call of the Chiefs 
(For the Grand American Handicap, 1902.) 
Tune: “The Watermelon Season Donwn in Georgia.” 


All aboard, ye valiant warriors from the land of setting sun, 
And from North and South and West, the Chieftain calls you, 
every one; 
Bring your quiyers filled with arrows and the trusty scatter gun, 
There is honor for the braye at Kansas City. 


Chorus: 


Come on!- Don’t linger in idle debate; 

Forward together, to battle, don’t wait. 

Heed well the summons, and come not too late— 
There are scalp locks ripe and rare at Kansas City. 


Bring the shining string of wampum, which to stake upon the fray, 
»For a trophy to the winners, whom no foeman shall gainsay, 
For the strongest, bravest warrior who shall face the lists this day, 
With a heart to do and dare at Kansas City, 


Chorus: 


Mark! the Chiefs have 
the blood, 

Who abide in friendly commune by the dark Missouri's flood; 

And the manner of their welcome will be truly fair and good; 

Gee the crown of conquest waits at Kansas City. 
orus: 


pitched their wigwam with the brothers of 


Frank C, Rreut,. 


Jeannette Gun Club, 


Evrincvitve, S, I., Feb. 7.—The Jeannette Gun Chub had a fine 
attendance of members at its monthly shoot to-day. Messrs. Loeble, 
C. Meyer, Greiff, Rolph and Steffens scored straight, The prize win- 
ners were determined by shooting off the ties miss-and-ont, and the 
list of them is: First, G:-E, Loeble, gold-mounted toilet | set; 
second, G, E. Greiff, silversmounted toilet set; third, L: H. 
Schortemeier, gold-mounted mirror; fourth, N. J. Kroeger, silver- 
mounted toilet set; fifth, J. Hainhorst, Italian vase hand-painted ; 
sixth, R. Debacher, dress suit case; seventh, J. Mohrman, toilet 
set; eighth, J. Bohling, Italian vase; ninth, W. P. Rottman, Italian 
vase. 

The birds were a good lot, and there was a fair wind to make 
them fly. A large crowd was present* The weather was fine. An 
excellent dinner added to the pleasure of the meeting, The value 
of prizes was over $300, 


There was a consolation evént for those who had failed to win ~ 


in the main eyent; and in it were sixteen contestants. In the fifth 
tound only two had straight scores, Messrs. Schmidt and Thysen. 

Mr. H. P. Fessenden acted efficiently as referee; Mr, J. H. W. 
Fleming was skillful and alert as tra attendant; Mr. H, W. Gray 
was expert as scorer, and Mr: L, H. Schortemeier was accurate 
cashier. 

A miss-and-out for a fishing rod resulted in a victory for J. 
Vagts in the seventh round. 


I hlen? (28s les 100100*0*0— 1 © Seigrist, 25...... 0000010010— 2 
R R Debacher, 27..0211*22212— 8 J Schmidt 26.....- 1010002120— 5 
N Bunnie, 28...... 1010211112— 8 Kroeger, 29......... 2201222123— 9 
ob. Gott ile ee 2121222202 9 J Wapts, 27......... 2201100101— § 


W_ Sanders, 28..... 2122202012— 8 


F Kastens, 29...... 10111*2200— 6 
J. Mohrman, 29..... 2222201020— 7 


C Meyeérdiercks, 29.1002212102— 7 


H Pape, Sr., 28..,.012222002*— 6 G Greiff, 31......... 2222222292 40) 
G_ E Loeble, 31....1112222299 40 We Rolph, 28....... 222211221110 
W P Rottman, 27. .**21222*20— 6 © iRetetse S27. Ore. 2*22012022— 7 
J Hainhorst, 29..,.1021201111 8 C Steffens, 31...... 122222122210 
Capt Meyer, 26..... 1100122222 § A Schumacher, 25..1012200200— 5. 
J_G Bohling, 29....2202202202— 7 Tomforde, 28....... 1222010100— 6 
C Meyer, 30....... 211121212140 Shipen, 25.,........ *100122001— 5 

Matches for birds only: 

Events: 123 Events: tte 3} 

Targets: AS Targets: 1 5 6 
Mebacher: peveuas note Gd) WieeomeLtairiiorsie 20 eee & 2. 2 


Ossining Gun Club, 


Ossininc, N. Y., Feb, 8.—To-day the Ossining Gun Club shot 
for the Brandreth cup, Bedell, the winner of which, carried off 
with it the clay-bird championship of the club, The shoat was at 
100 birds, with very trying weather conditions. A Strong wind blew 
directly across the grounds, so that often the shooters “ were 
whirled completely around by the force of it, There were three 
visitors who shot through the race, Messrs. G. R. Schneider, of 
Schoverling. Daly & Gales, and Dick Swiveller and B. Leroy 
Woodard, of Dupont Powder Company. The latter, who has world- 
wide fame for cutting out high averages, led the pace here with 
77 per cent, : ¥ 


The scores, 100 elay birds: 
ee ag 2 3d.25. 4th 25. Total. 
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Woes eUlall Specter ane ettes se aed ete rie 5 4 14 7 () 
Da Brander lete. pape ont sete oat eee eam ane al: Sake ys) 56 
Geb lar dior damascene niger ee eee Hh: 018 ohh TK 64 
AY Bediclies, omamette to hee hone ae bat lie ob ike Ay: 70 
NEEL OVS trate nere tee Sees asta ect te eee $3589. wlDel oon TW 
Dwviviellarw teres am eto toast ge oe See ene: i 12 4s ls 52 
Gee. Lup see Bee Oe aS nee eee FOL. en BE Paki “ali 48 
Wes Garces eee ota aan coe”. Nae 13 ie 3 40 
G R Schneider 13 i ars 40 
H W Bissing 7 2 uf 26 
I T Washburn ; 12 DL Sy 51 
IDG ‘Barlow. een eeu. wees . GP) f 44 
Vic UBisherge soe. one “ AES al SS aes 
Ne Uuthleeee ie neneene 12 le Age 44 
D O’Connor T 6 5 25 
Wis ialern are tonchs aeaian ewe oe ais fs Senere ee ae 60 
Ri Krome Mien deestsen te ae ieehip teeelcie ally ak 1 Ea 49 
A SRobitr, soon pane wines: Aces elniea 8 6 10 12 36 
RERENSL E.: tet ot ate SEE Tas eno Bann Site 12 6 Ww 
E D Garnsey...., Aah vs ee CeO 9 w 
M WW Dyckinaitesn-tiasqdeycsicnet sees 1b ow 
C..G. B 


Cincinnati Gun Club. 


Cincrnxati, O,, Feb, 1.—The scores made in the third handi- 
cap cash prize contest of the Cincinnati Gun-Club, held to-day, are 
appended herewith. The conditions. were 50 targets, distance 


handicap: . Trimble (20) 44, Ahlers (19) 42, ‘Squier (18) 41, 
Gambell (18) 40, Osterfeld (48) 40, Block (15) 40, Randall (47) 4n, 
Herman (17) 40, Heyl (19) 38, E. Trimble (18) 36, Phil (20) 86, 


Tenny (16) 35, Goodman (16) 35, Littleford (15) 34, Peters (18) 
I; B, (18) 32, Boek ay bk Bayd (15) 30, Roli (418) 39, 
Palk (16) 29, Porry (16) 27, Van Ness (15) 


54, 
, Butts (15) 29° 
25, Harris (16) 22. 


“for the protection of hunters, farmers and - 


* tions of its advocates. As far as we know, 


tion. 


_ products of these seeds. 


The nineteenth contest for the Peters Arms Co. prize baal 
Squier was high, with 4 


‘ J 
Pigeon Shooting Legislation, 

OsstntnG, N. Y—Probably by the time this article goes t 
print the fate of the Slater’ anti-live-bird shooting bill will hay 
been decided. With the rantings of the yellow journals and fh 
absurd arguments advanced by the S, P. © A., it will be a wonde 
if the bill is not passed. ae : ‘ 

Of all the misdirected and senseless balderdash printed by new) 
papers, the climax was reached when-one of the evening paper 
Saturday last, inserted cuts on the subject, one of which showed | 
pile of dead pigeons with this description: ‘Still another phot 
shows a ghastly heap of slaughtered birds: their necks are a: 
supposed to have been wrung as soon as retrieved, but they ar 
not. The dogs retrieve the birds so rapidly, and it takes so lon) 
to wring them from the dogs’ jaws that many of the pigeons ar 
still alive when cast into the pile’ Thus in this pile many wer 
still fluttering and were left to die in agony.” : ) 

All pigeon shooters, in fact, any one with common sense, know/ 
this to be false, for pigeons are always killed when retrieved. Wit! 
excuses for the-slang, the writer of that article must be a “bird,’ 
for he ends it up in this manner: ‘Another here reproduced shoy 
a retriever gripping a woman bird between his sharp white fan 
now dripping with bloody foam. The poor dove is still flutteri 
though one wing hangs but by a shred, and its breast feathers ari 
dyed red from its death wound,” etc. This would read well ix) 
a nickel novel—*Bonanza Jake buried his trusty blade in Long) 
Jim’s heart.” ( - i 

Had the trapshooters’ associations and the sporting goods peopl 
made some effort, the bill would never pass the Assembly, for ther 
are men there who ate not to be deceived by the false representa) 
the Ossining Gun Cluli 
is the only organization which has made any effort to defeat thi 
bil. Mr. B. B. McAlpin,:who is a lawyer of note, brilliant and! 
convincing in his arguments, is in Albany representing the Ossin 
ing Gun Chib. Cc. 


Grand American Handicap. | 


] 

Kansas City, Mo., Feb, 7.—We forward you to-day, under, 
separate cover a copy of cover for our “‘Souvenir-Score’’ of the 
Grand American Handicap. We have endeavored to make it ag) 
attractive as possible. 

The body will be about 25 pages, printed on heavy, glazed book 
Paper, and contains a synopsis of all former handicaps, beside 
blank space for name, distance and score in detail of all the par 
ticipants in the Grand American Handicap for 1902, and as this willl 
undoubtedly be the largest shooting event this world has ever 
known, it is out aim, in publishing this Souvenir, that every -par-| 
ticipant may carry home with him something to commemorate the} 


occasion, ! 
The souvenir will be ready for mailing about March 1, and willl 
Beside, we will furnish any firm who 


be free to the shooters. 1 ve 
advertises with us, if desired, a limited amount for their own 
distribution, : 


Committee: H, F. Schmelzer, R. S. Elliott, Chris. Gottlieb. 


Hudson Gun Club. 


Jersey City, N. J.—Shoot of the Hudson Gun Club, held on Feb, 
+. oF Jersey: City, Duke won the cup for February. Wind. very: 
high: 


Events: 02. ie xd be of O78) Qelate 

Targets 15 15 15 15 25 15 15 15 25 10 
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Biiicks wa, ony frye eae, wank et TL 9 By 06 2d AD ee ee da 
Bantawal lings ae anu rides D8) Wd AO: 222 12. Tike SEN ee 
FR ROW, tate. hkasfelsierie S10 8al24 TT) 12 as aes 
VG RSC S cata wees esas a ey arity p O38) 9 Do 21 Site Coma 
Van Dyne, 9.... aitag Bi 39 10 Rsk eR ee” ee 
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Catinitz, dee. .asseters Saige sel He Sie OO dhe nh hy ¥: 
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hour between Chicago and Denver. It is the best picture of a | 
train in motion ever taken, and “‘the train took the picture itself.” 
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who has occasion to journey by water, begins to consider what he + 
will need in the way of transportation for his outing next summer 
or autumn. To all who are in need of canoes or light boats, the 
name of Rushton will at once occur. He has been an advertiser 
in Forest AND STREAM almost from the beginning, is known to all 
old readers, and will be known to all new. He builds towboats, 
dinghies, sailboats, sailing and paddling canoes, and their ap- 
purtenances, all of which are described in his eighty-page cata- 
logue, which he will send on application.—A dy, 


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The passage of ground hog day on the calendar leads the farmer | 
and country dwellers to think of the approach of spring and the 
early planting. Wery timely, therefore, is the one hundred and first 
annual catalogue of J. M. Thorburn & Co., which enumerates vast 
number of seeds, and is illustrated by halftones of many of the 
The beautiful illustrations of flowers in 
this catalogue will be as attractive to women, as such creature 
comforts as peas, melons, potatoes and cauliflower are to the men, | 


A de ‘ 
—Al tt, 


For certain special purposes, the advantages of the canvas boat, 
which can be taken down and even carried in a buggy, are great 
The duck shooter or the traveler on shallow and unknown water 
courses often need a boat, but cannot transport one of ordinary 
type. The King Folding Canvas Boat Co. offer to send their 
catalogue to all who ask for it—4dv. 5 S- ' 


The 1902 catalogue of the Andrew B. Hendryx Co., of New 
Haven, Corin:, is‘an wp to date publication, treating of much of the | 
fishing tackle used by anglers, It deals with nearly a Hides 5) 
patterns of reels, with spoon baits, fly spoons and feathered hooks, | 
and contains a wealth of illustration which is quite extraordinary, — 
The figures of a number of the reels ate printed in go 
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VOL. LVIII.—No. 8. 


SATU RDAY, FEB RUARY 22 ) 1902. - { No. 346 Broapway, NEw York, 


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ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen, 
The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its 
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of current topics, the editors are not responsible for the views of 
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particulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page iii. 


THE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 


WE publish to-day two communications relative to the 
proposed amendment of the New York Constitution in 
order to open the State Forest Preserve to the lumber- 
All that Mr. Von Hoffman, the writer of one of 
these letters, has to say in advocacy of scientific forestry 


men, 


is in the abstract sound and reasonable, and we opine that 
Mr. Wolcott, whoin he criticises, is as thoroughly con- 
vinced as he himself of the merits of scientific forestry in 
its theory. That Mr. Wolcott and the rest of us oppose 
this proposition to open the forests to the lumbermen, is 
not because we are insensible of the advantages that would 
accrue from a rightly established system of forestry for 
the State lands, but because we recognize in this measure 
a scheme which, if carried into effect, would inevitably 
work havoc with the forests. No one can read the Com- 
mission’s report in which this step is recommended with- 
out reading between the lines the impelling motive, which 
is not to perpetuate the forests, but to supply pulp to the 
pulp men and lumber to the lumbermen. 

In the face of this menace of spoliation of the forest 
possessions by official connivance, the people of the State 
of New York are not in a mood to concern themselves 
with the pros and cons of theoretical scientific forest ex- 
ploitation. The one thing immediately demanded of them 
is to thwart this attack upon the Adirondack forests. 
After this shall have been done, there will then be 
abundant time and opportunity to discuss scientific for- 
estry. Lae 

The communication from John R. Spears is written by 


one whose knowledge of Adirondack conditions has come | 


from the study of years; we commend his paper to the 
careful reading of all who would know the actual con- 
ditions prevailing in the North Woods, and the actual 
results which would follow the putting into execution of 
this foolish scheme of surrendering the people’s forest 
to the pulp men. 


THE BIG RIVER. 


Far from the homes of men, among the cold, gray © 


rocks which lie beneath the vast snow fields and slow-mov- 
ing glaciers of the Rocky Mountains, the Big River takes 
its source. Along a hundred mountain sides trickle a 
thousand unseen rills and rivulets and streams, which, 
uniting at last in mountain torrents, pour down the 
ravines and over the tall precipices until they reach some 
gathering place not far above. the level of the prairie. 
In. the lakes which form these rendezvous, the waters 
‘pause for a little, marshaling their forces for the onward 
journey, and then with a more deliberate haste set forth 
again. And now from every side valley come streams, mut- 
tering or babbling, moaning or roaring, to join themselves 


to the advancing flood, and little by little the crowding. 


waters push out for themselves a way wider and wider, 
until rill and rivulet and creek and stream are united in 
a mighty river, that surges ever toward the distant sea. 
The Big River, the Medicine Water, the River of Life, 
the Yielder of Fat! How full of character and meaning are 
names such as these, given by the red dwellers along 
the river’s banks. The Blackfeet, journeying from a 
northern home, when they first looked upon the mighty 
flood, were impressed most of all by its vastness by com- 
parison with any streams that they had known, and 
called in the Big River. To the shaven-headed Pawnees, 
who had come from the far southwest, it was the River 


white bones and a few cartridge shells. 
fellows only by a nickname, he passed away, and those 


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of Mystery, the Medicine Water, and who that has stood 
upon its banks and watched its tortuous. turbid tide—sul- 
len, ponderous and deliberate, but never still, turning 
over and over, now thrusting up from below and again 
being sucked down from above, its flotsam and jetsam 
from afar endlessly appearing and disappearing—has not 
felt the same sentiment that led the Pawnee to call it 
mysterious? Is it the sign of a more material nature that 
the Algonquian Cheyenne—reasoning like the Blackfoot 
—gaye the Missouri its name from the fat drowned 
buffalo that were cast upon its banks and furnished food 
for the people? The legend which comes down to us from 
the olden times tells us that when the Cheyennes, journey- 
ing westward with their dog trains, came to the banks of 
the great river, they saw many dead buffalo in the 
water, and hurrying down to see if they might be used for 
food. they found them fat. So, gratefully, they said of 
the stream, “It gives forth fat,” and ever since that day 
this has been for them the river’s name. 


However we may look at it, the Missouri is a stream of 
mystery and of romance. Marvellous in a thousand 
ways are the mountains from which it springs, and not 
less strange for beauty and for interest the narrow val- 
leys through which its tributary sources thread their 
course. 

The far-reaching, silent plains over which it flows are 
not less impressive. As it wound its way through their 
brown vastnesses, the riyer heard no sound save the 
thunderous tread of the moving buffalo herd or the chatter 
of light-hearted people whose cone-shaped homes stood 
close along its banks. Its quiet reaches were disturbed 
only by the dip of the swallows or the breast of the 
mother goose and her brood, except when at evening or in 
early morning, the blunt nose of the beaver clove the 


’ muddy waters. 


Sometimes the stream level is almost that of the prairie; 
again it has cut for itself a deep channel, and on either 
hand rise for a thousand feet bluffs of white and yellow 
and gray and brown, scarred and furrowed by the winds 
and rains and snows of perhaps. a million years, Some 
Titan sculptor of primeval time might have carved the 
strangely grotesque figures which surmount these blufis, 
and the narrow tongues which they stretch out to divide 
ravine from ravine and watershed from watershed. 


Since the advent of the white man with his in- 
satiate hunger for gold has come also the romance of 
the river which all can comprehend. The heroes who first 
tracked along its muddy. banks were stirred by no ignoble 
impulse; the early Frenchmen, a white captive or two of 
the Indians, and our own Lewis and Clarke, were pushed 
on by thirst for knowledge or devotion to duty. But 
following on their trail came those who craved only 
their own material advantage. The trapper, the fur 
trader, the hunter, the gold seeker, each sought some- 
thing that could be exchanged for dollars. These—like 
their predecessors—wetre men of heroic mould—at least 
when viewed through the lens of fifty years of distance. 
Most of them were brave, steadfast, enduring and devoted 
to the interests of those who hired them. They gathered 
wealth in amazing quantities, but saved little or none of it 
for themselves, and they remained to the end as poor 
as ever. 


Then came the period of the Indian wars, when death 
and destruction for-red and white alike lurked among 
the willows that grew in the bottom of the big river and 
of its tributaries,;and looked out at the passer by from 
behind the great gray cottonwood tree trunks. Many a 
savage, tushing bravely upon an enemy as brave, was 
bitten by thé leaden death, and never returned to his 
village. Others, defeated and penned up—as at the mouth 


of the Musselshell—sang their death song with stoic calm- . 


ness, while the balls flew thick about them and their 
friends fell fast on every hand. 

Many a luckless hunter and trapper and woodhawk 
died there and left no memorial more lasting than a few 
Known to his 


who—somewhere—knew and loved him, waited and 
watched, in vain, for word of his welfare or his fate. 


Time passed on. The fur trade dwindled to nothing, 
the hoofbeat of the buffalo no longer sounded on the 


hard plain, the Indians were defeated, gathered up and 
herded on their little reservations. The cattle supplanted 
the buffalo and fed on the thousand hills where once the 
bearded, ctook-backed food of the red man had grazed. 
The domestic sheep took the place of the antelope, and 
may yet drive out the cattle. Yet among the desolate, 
wind-swept bluffs of the Big River, the traveler may still 
ponder over relics of ancient days—days which living men 
yet recall and declare were better days than these. 


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INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION RULES. 


Tue revised rules of the Interstate Association are now 
in the hands of the printer, and will be ready for general 
distribution in the near future. It was an easy matter to 
arrange all the points in them, save one, that relating to 
misfires with the second barrel. On this point the com- 
mittee were unanimous in holding and maintaining that 
while all dishonest practice in the competition should be 
guarded against as vigorously as the circumstances of 
the case permitted on the one hand, on the other hand the 
rights of honest competitors should not be abridged a hair 
breadth if it were possible to avoid doing so. 

A meeting for final action on the rules was held in the 
office of the W. R. A. Co., on Thursday of last week, at 
which it was decided to impose the old restriction in 
respect to handing the gun unopened to the referee after 
a misfire. While this restriction imposes added burdens 
on the minds of the contestants, it also is a benefit to 
them in safeguarding their interests from the men who 
might be tempted to adopt dishonest methods of which 
misfires afford opportunity. 

As the rule now stands, a contestant who has a misfire 
with his second barrel, is entitled to an entirely new 
inning if he has not killed with the first -barrel, but he 
must first hand his gun to the referee without having 
opened it. The referee then pulls both triggers, or the 
one trigger, in case of a single trigger, and by so doing 
determines whether the gun is cocked or not. [If it is 
cocked, clearly there could not have been a misfire. If 
it is a bona fide misfire, the contestant is entitled to a 
new inning. The referee notes whether the misfire was 


 eatised by the fault of the gun or the fault of the cartridge. 


If it is the fault of the gun and the contestant uses such 
gun a second time in an event, he does so at his own 
risk and must abide by the results, and the same in re- 
spect to a faulty cartridge. It is probable that the referees 
will be instructed to take possession of all cartridges 
which misfire in the competition, and if there is any sus- 
picion of dishonest practice by a contestant concerning 
them, they may be examined within anc without, such 
contestant being permitted to compete pr visionally. 

The committee held in theory that all the details of con- 
testant’s inning are essential to it as a composite whole, 
therefore giving a contestant only one shot at a bird after 
a misfire is a direct and destructive invasion ef a con- 
testant’s rights. One shot at each of two birds is not at 
all equivalent to two shots at one bird, which was the 
law under the old rules. 

Tt has been stated that even the present rule does not 
offer a perfect safeguard against dishonesty; that a dis- 
honest shooter could put in an imperfect or doctored 
cartridge in his second harrel, and, if he did not kill with 
the first, could hand his gun unopened to-the referee and 
that the referee could not tell whether the misfire was 
genuine or not. In reply to this; it may be said that the 
contestant cannot know whether the referee will decide 
that the misfire is the fault of gun or cartridge; if the 
former, the contestant uses the gun again at his own risk. 
If the latter was due to a reloaded cartridge, the referee 
would decide a lost bird. Two or three misfires in suc- 
cession would put a contestant under grave suspicion if 
his gtin was all right, for the statistics of the last Grand 
American Handicap show that there were only three mis- 


~ fires recorded in a total of about 30,000 shots, so that with 


good gun and ammunition there is about one chance in ten 
thousand for a misfire, a chance so smal! indeed as to be 
hardly worth considering were it not for the abuses which 
it might let down the bars to were it not properly safe- 
guarded. 
Fortunately, the dishonest contestant is a rara avts, 
and should one happen to stray into the fold, the opinion 
of the good shooters, the firmness of the management, 


- ete., would make his path anything other than one of 


roses. Rules do not make men honest, but they give 
ample power to bar nen who are known to be dishonest, 


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Che Sportsman Conrist. 


——— C 
Floating on the Missouri.—II. 


WE were brought back from the land of dreams by the 
keen whistle and beat of wings. Numerous flocks of 
water fowl were faring up and down the river—ducks 
principally, yet not a few gray geese were also passing, 
and their honking was most pleasant to hear. It was 
half-past four. I arose and lit the lantern, and then 
stuffing the stove with cottonwood bark had its top and 
sides glowing hot in no time. It did not take.Sah-né-to 
long to prepare breakfast. Broiled teal, fried potatoes, 
hot biscuits and strong, fragrant coffee furnished us an 
ample and satisfying meal. 

We had everything packed and stowed away in the 
Good Shield at daybreak. There had been a heavy 
frost during the night, and thin wisps of fog were rising 
from the water. There was not enough, however, to 
obscure a glimpse now and then of the channel, so we 
pushed out into the stream and bent to the oars. From 
the Coal Banks to the mouth of Little Sandy Creek, about 
five miles, the course of the river is almost due north; 
then it turns to the east again. As we were passing 
_ the creek Sah-né-to sighted a flock of geese sitting on 
the lower point of an island opposite it “Stop rowing,” 
she said. ““There are some whitenecks.” 

But even as she spoke they began to honk and rose from 
the shore, flying away down the river. Then they turned 
and came back, mounting higher and higher as they ap- 
proached. They were probably eighty yards distant when 
directly over us, but I chanced a shot and was somewhat 
surprised to see one come timbling and whirling down 
and strike the water with a splash that sent it high in 
fine spray. We held the boat back and waited for the 
fowl to drift down to us, and then drew it aboard. It 
Was a yoling one and extremely plump. 

Five miles below the Little Sandy we came to the first 
of the remarkable formations which the old river during 
countless years has gradually exposed to view. Here in 
the center of a wide level bottom stands the Haystack 
Butte, round, jagged, of dark yolcanic rock and several 
hundred feet in height. Its sides are perpendicular for a 
part of the way, and then slope up to a sharp point. It is 
an odd sight, the lone butte standing there on the level 
plain. Away to the north of it and across the river to 
the south the bluffs are of white sandstone and blue 
clay; no rock of its character being anywhere in sight. 
As seen from the river, it is doubtful if it could be 
climbed. The eagles seem to think it a safe place to 
rear their young and nest tipon it every season. As we 
passed we saw a couple of the birds soaring above it. 

Not far below Haystack Butte the valley becomes much 
narrower, The wide bottoms disappear and from either 
shore there is a steep ascent to the foot of the bluffs or 
cliffs. These are of sandstone of varying degrees of 
density, and in color passing from brown to dazzling 
white. Some of it is so soft that the rains and melted 
snow have fluted and carved it with all the precision of a 
sculptors’ chisel. Here and there along these cliffs, some- 
times in groups of from dozens to hundreds, and of vari- 
ous heights, stand slender columns of sandstone, capped 
by circular pieces of a dark and harder variety, giant 
mushrooms of stone, And again all sorts of fantastic 
shapes come in view, which my poor pen is utterly unable 
to describe, With the camera I tried to catch some of the 
remarkable features of the valley, but the distances were 
too great. Nothing but canvas and colors, the touch of 
a great artist, could faithfully portray them. 

Along through the cafion, as it may aptly be termed, 
the river flows very swiftly. Jn a short time we arrived 
at the mouth of Eagle Creek, fourteen miles from our 
starting point in the morning. Just below here stands 
a thin wall of rock, rising from the water's edge straight 
up for several hundred feet and running back north- 
ward until merged in sandstone bluff, The wall is built 
up, layer upon layer. of blocks of the stone of unyarying 
width and thickness, but of different lengths, which, singu- 
larly enough, always overlap, so that no interstice is 
more than the height of the block, On the opposite 
side of the river the continuation of the wall can be seen, 
jutting from the southern bluff. How long has it taken 
the old river to tear the half-mile gap in it? 

Sah-né-to said that this great wall was built by Old 
Man when he. made the world. I objected to her theory 
a ne ground that no man could have lifted the massive 

ocks. 

“Just by jumping,” she replied, “he made the backbone 
of the world (the Rockies). Why, then, had he not 
the power to lift those rocks?” 

T answered not. Surely it was no more of a fable than 
certain others we wot of; the .rock, for instance, that 
gushed water upon the blow of a certain ancient in- 
dividual’s staff, 

The river flows by the great wall with a sullen roar, 
battling with and wearing against some great bowlders 
which impede its course. It is a deceptive stream, this 
old Missouri, generally so silent in its flowing toward 
the sea that one would think it had no life. But where a 
“sock or snag impedes its course there is a hissing and 
roaring and foaming of water which tell of its power and 
haste. And then on its bosom there is a constant up- 
heaving and sucking swirling which explains only too 
well the reason why the best of swimmers fear to breast 
its tide; the undertow seizes them and claims them for 
its own. The drowning man in this stream does not rise 
twice or thrice before he finally succumbs. Once drawn 
beneath the surface his body will only reappear long after 
death and miles and miles below the scené of the accident, 
where it may be found cast up on a bar and half-buried 
in sand. Years ago, one such victim of the river we 
found, left by the receding waters on a shelying bank, a 
swollen and shapeless form, We fastened some rocks 
about its waist with willow withes and consigned it to 
the depths. Who he was, how he met his fate, we 
never learned. 

For some miles below Eagle Creek there are many 
narrow walls of the volcanic rock protruding from the 
clay and sandstone formation, some of them rising from 
the watet’s edge. Nearly all of them run due north and 
south, but in one Place a double wall nearly encircles 
a hill, for all the world like the walls of an ancient city. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Another hour of lazy drifting brought us to Kipp’s 
Rapids, named after that intrepid successor of Lewis 
V: Clark, who established the American Fur Company's 
post at the mouth of the Marias in 1833.. Here on his 
yoyage up the riyer with his long, deep “‘keel’’ boat, he 
found the water so shallow that he was obliged to make 
a portage of the cargoes. The water could not have been 
lower then than it was when we went over the riffies, for 
we bumped the gravel several times, and the boat drew 
only eleven inches. I fancied I could see those sturdy 
cordelliers bending, straining, tugging on the long rope 
with which they drew their heavily laden boat against the 
swift current. Here, waist and even neck deep in the cold 
water, there wading over a bed of quicksand or mud, and 
again forcing their way through a tangle of willows and 
prickly rose brush, they toiled early and late. The 
rough rope chafed sores on their shoulders, which formed 
into hard calluses and cracked and bled every morning. 
Their feet were blistered by the water and sand. At 
night they gathered around the fire and dried their clothes 
while they eat their simple meal of meat and tea. Then, re- 
treating into the willows or sage brush away from the 
decaying flames of the fire, they lay down to sleep, their 
freshly primed flintlocks by their side, hoping no sneaking 
war party would disturb them. But there was a bright 
side to their life. It was not always a battle against 
the swift current of the river. There were the happy 
days in the winter; the excitement of the chase, the 


pleasant evenings in their warm quarters in the post. 


And then in the spring the long, delightful sail of 3,000 
miles down to St. Louis, the meeting with friends and 
sweethearts, and the grand carouse. What would we 
dilettanti hunters of to-day not give to see the valley of 
the Missouri. teeming with game as it did, countless 
herds of buffalo, elk and deer: bands of antelope and 
sheep. droves of wolves and everywhere the grizzlies, 
singly, in twos and threes and dozens. Oh, theirs was 
the life! ‘ : 

Just below Kipp’s Rapids, on the north side, is a dark 
cliff jutting out from the river ofthe valley, named 
Eagle Rock, At the very top of it Sah-né-to discovered 
something which she was sure she saw move slightly. I 
sot out the glass and found that it was a lone bighorn, a 
ram, standing at the verge of the precipice watching us 
and occasionally stamping with his forefeet, And there 
he stood until we passed out of sight. Two miles from 
the rapids we passed Citadel Bluff, also on the north 
side of the river. It is at least a quarter of a mile long, 
and its summit looks for all the world like the pictures 
one sees of fortresses of the Middle Ages. One could 
well imagine it swarming with armored men, bristling 
with gleaming pikes and spears. We drifted along by 
with the current enjoying the view of it from different 
points. and meanwhile I told Sah-né-to of the ancient 
fortresses it resembled, and of the men of those times 
who were shirts of mail, helmets of steel and whose 
weapons were the bow and arrow, spears and swords. 

“How silly they were,” she said. “Men cannot fight 
weighted down with a mass of iron; the battle belongs 
to the agile and swift of foot.” 

Rounding a bend we came in sight of Cathedral Rock, 
a dark upheaval of volcanic rock on the south side, rising 
straight tp from the water to the height of several hun- 
dred feet. The side facing the river terminates in a slen- 
der spire, and from the base of this the formation runs 
back toward the bluff, like the roof of a church. We 
passed close under its ice-scarred wall, the slow eddy- 
ing and swirling of the water there indicating great 
depth. 

“Surely,’ said Sah-né-to, “some of the water people 
must live down there; they love the deep, still places.” 

Half a mile further on we came to a thin strip of cot- 
tonwood and willow, service and bullberry brush fring- 
ing the shore; just back of it there was a narrow, level 
strip of grass land at the foot of the steep rise of the 
hills. “Why not camp?” Sah-né-to asked, And nothing 
loth, although the sun was still an hour high, I pulled 
in to the shelving bank, We soon had the tent up on the 
level strip of grass, and everything made snug for the 
night. Then, taking my rifle I struck up an old game 
trail, which ran along the comb of a ridge up toward 
the far-away level of the plain. It was a deep old trail, 
sunk far below the level of the ground by the countless 
feet of buffalo, elk, and deer which had traversed it in 
years gone by. I was not a little pleased to find that it 
was still used by the wild creatures of the valley. Here 
were numerous tracks of the coyote and wolf, and among 
them the fresh footprints of some mountain sheep—ewes 
and their young—and the long, tapering impressions of a 
buck mule deer’s hoofs. If I could only get you, old 
fellow, I thought, how pleased Sah-né-to would be. Ever 
since leaving home she had been wishing for some ni-tap- 
i-wak-sin, which. in plain English, means real food. 
Birds and such like she could eat, but meat, real fresh, 
was what she wanted. So I sprinted up the steep ridge 
after that deer, stopping now and then to get my breath 
and at the same time admire the wonderful view of val- 
ley, and winding river, sculptured cliffs and pinnacles 
spread out on either hand. Up and up, past deep cut 
barren coulées, past clumps of juniper and groves of 
stunted pine, and ever the tracks of the |big buck were 
before me, enticing me on into the sunset and descending 
shades of the night. At last I was obliged to turn back, 
for the waning light no longer afforded a clear view of 
the rifle sights. How I ran down that ridge. The ground 
was soft, and jump as I would, I felt no jar. It seemed 
but a few moments until I came in sight of the tent, glow- 
ing like a pale opal from the light within. And then I 
caught the appetizing odor of fried chicken, coffee and 
other good things. As I sat down on the edge of our 
couch, Indian fashion, and the good cook set them before 
me. I thanked my stars that yet, even in this late day, 
there was a place left where one could get away from the 
discordant sotunds of civilization—even the lowing of 
cattle—where nature had ever reigned supreme. And 
then, after the satisfying smoke, we lay down on the rest— 
ful couch and went to sleep, serenaded by the coyotes and 
wolves far up in the breaks. Long may they escape the 
deadly poisons and traps of men. 

Again we were afloat at daybreak. A watm west wind 
had blown during the night, and there was no fog. When 
the sun atose above the horizon, gilding the white bluffs 
and time-worn sandstones of the valley’s rim, we thought 
we had never beheld a fairer or more weird piece of ja- 
ture’s handiwork.. Sah-né-to was moved to tears, I 


of sandstone. 


(Fes. 22, ch 
: - 4 


know not what was her simple prayer to the tising king 
of day—yes, I know; but why repeat her earnest supplica- 
tions to her god? Who knows but what they were of as » 
much avail as those of the Christian to his unseen God? 

The Hole in the Wall! Neyer a traveler on the upper » 
Missouri but remembers that wonderfully thin, high wall 
From the top of a high ridge it juts. 
straight out over the yalley and then drops straight down, 
hundreds of feet, to the level of the plain. Some fifty feet 
back from its fall, and perhaps twenty from its crest, 
some blocks of the stone have dropped out, leaving an — 
oblong, jagged hole. When we came in sight of it, for 
a moment the sun shone through it, illuminating a bit of | 
hill and river with an intense light, and leaving all the ° 
rest of the valley in dark shadows. No travelers were — 


‘more careful to record the physical aspect of the country 
they passed through, than were Lewis and Clark, yet I find — 


no mention of this remarkable freak of nature in their 
journal. Perhaps in their time it was a solid wall. | 

There were numerous flocks of Canada geese along 
the riyer this morning. From every bar and island point | 
they arose ahead of tis with a din of honks that echoed — 
from bluff to bluff in the still morning air, I had many 
opportunities to go ashore and creep upon them, sheltered 
by high banks and growth of willow; but we had one fat 
one in the boat, and that was sufficient for our needs. 
For an hour or more after starting, we saw many flocks 
of chickens—sharptails, of course—coming to the river’s 
edge for their morning drink. Once there there were a 
number of them running about among a flock of geese, 
the two species apparently paying no attention to each 
other. As a rule, the chickens came to water but once a 
day at this season, spending the rest of the day far back 
at the heads of the coulées. Earlier, in August, Septem- 
ber and October, while the weather is warm, they can 
always be found near the river. I would not dare to 
estimate the number of those birds on the upper river 
from the Coal Banks, say, to old Fort Peck. Along this 
stretch of nearly 300 miles by water, they have never 
been disturbed, and are as plentiful as they were a hun- 
dred, or, for that matter, a thousand years ago. 

From Cathedral Rock the river runs northeast for five 
miles, and then turns sharply to the southeast. Rounding 
the bend, we found a moderate breeze blowing in our 
fayor, so I pulled in the oars and hoisted a small, square 
sail of muslin I had brought for just such an occasion. 
Aided by the current, we sped rapidly along through 
a continuation of the wonderful scenery of the day be- 
fore. Here were the Pinnacles, a succession of needle 
points of sandstone, varying from a foot to fifty in 
height. And then we came to Steamboat Rock, a high, 
long, massive butte lying a mile north of the river. 
I never could see its resemblance to a steamer. On both 
sides of it and beyond, far to the north, are a succession 
of odd-shaped buttes and hills typical of this weird coun- 
try. In another hour we came to the Dark Butte, a sharp, 
high mass of brown conglomerate, pumice and clay, rising 
from the river’s edge to a height of at least 500 feet. 
Passing here on the steamer Red Cloud in 1880 we espied 
a big mountain ram almost at its summit, curiously look- 
ing down at the boat. One of our party, Eli Guardipee, 
knelt down on the deck, and resting his rifle on the rail, 
took a careful aim at the animal before he fired. At the 
report of the gun the ram made one bound straight up in 
the air, fell on its side and then rolling, tumbling, sliding, 
splashed into the river. The steamer was stopped at 
once and the great stern wheel held it back until the ram 
floated alongside, when the deck hands drew it aboard. 
That was a splendid and difficult shot, as the boat was 
making at least twenty miles an hour. If almost any 
other man had made it, I would have thought it a scratch, 
but Eli—well, more of him and his marksmanship later, 

Down past the Dark Butte and around a bend we came 
to Pablos Island, named after an old employe of the 
American Fur Company. The upper part of it is a long, 
wide sand bar, but the lower end has a fine growth of 
tall, slender cottonwoods. Just below it are Pablos 
Rapids. As we came into them I was so absorbed in the 
scenery to the north that I forgot to point out the channel 
to Sah-né-to, and with a rude bump the Good Shield ran 
hard aground. I put on my waders and finally got her 
out into deeper water, although it was hard work against 
the swift current. From the rapids we had a run of fast 
water to Wolf Island, why and when so named I never 
learned. And then a couple of miles further on we came 
to the mouth of Arrow Creek and landed for lunch, hay- 
ing made sixteen miles since daybreak. : 

Arrow Creek rises in the Judith Mountains, and for 
part of its course flows through a deep and narrow val- 
ley, in places a walled cafion. At its confluence with the 
Missouri it has formed a wide and beautiful plain, ever 
pushing the old river further and further northward 
against the hills. There is a beautiful grove of timber 
along the edge of the plain skirting the river. Just back 
of it we found the ruins of an old “woodhawk’s” and 
hunter’s home, half-cabin and half-dugout, Nothing was 
standing except the fireplace and chimney of uncut rock. 
At one side of it was a great heap of bones, skulls and 
horns of the buffalo, elk, deer and mountain sheep. It 
was not all work for the old-time “woodhawks”’ the 
men who supplied the steamers with fuel. Betimes they 
hunted and trapped, and took life easy. Many a pleasant 
evening they spent in front of the old fireplace after a 
long day’s work or tramp. Many a tale of adventure they 
told as they watched a great side of fat ribs brown and 
crisp before the glowing coals. 

After lunch Sah-né-to remarked with rather an ap- 
pealing look, I thought, that she had found sore heavily 
Jaden bushes of bullberries back in the brush. “And you 
want to gather them?” I asked. “Very well; then, we will 
camp. We will take our time on this trip, even if we get 
frozen in somewhere below.” APPEKUNNY, 


Ticonderoga Gun Club. 


THE second annual dinner of the Ticonderoga Gun 
Club, motto, K. W. Y. A. A. (Know What You Aim 
At), will be held at the New Yale Club, 30 West Forty- 
fourth street, New York city, Friday evening, March 7 
(first week of Sportsman’s Show), Hunters will meet in 
the colonial dining hall at 8 o’clock sharp, informally at- 
tired, and will be assigned to their “stands” by the head 
forester. About fifty brethren of the woods and streams 
haye promised to attend, Peter Fiint; Secretary. 


— 


A Timely Lesson. 


P A Story of Early Days in New England. 


_ “J wisi you’d show me jest how to load a gun. I ‘most 
know now watchin’ you so many times,” said Reliance 
_ Staples, as sitting on a stool with one knee held between 
her clasped hands, she watched hér brother, Asa, care- 
fully load a long-barreled smooth-bore, 

“Sho! he answered, with good-humored contempt, 
while he smartly rammed a -wad of tow down on. the 
powder. ‘“Loadin’ guns is for men; cardin’ an’ spinnin’ 
is for gals.” e | 

“Men, say you, and have to ‘most lay the gun down 
to load it? But, Asa, it might be well for me to know 
how, if an Indian or a wolf came and me alone.” 

A deal you'd do if they did,” he laughed, “’ceptin’ to 
tun up the ladder an’ hide ’n under the eaves,” but being 
proud to be able to instruct his sister, he began at length 
to do so. ( 

“First you want to pour the charger full o’ powder in, 
an’ shake it down good by thumpin’ the butt on the floor. 
That I’ve done. Then make a wad o’ tow an’ ram it 
down till the ramrod bounds, an’ that I’ve done, too. 
Then drop the ball in, so,” taking a bullet from the buck- 
skin pouch and rolling it down the long incline of the 
barrel. ‘‘An’ if you’ve got buckshot, put three of 'em 
atop o’ the ball, but we hain’t got none. My sakes!” he 
exclaimed in concern, as he fingered the attenuated pouch. 
“There hain’t but five balls left, an’ there hain’t an ounce 
o’ lead in the house. We couldn’t stand much of a siege, 
that’s sartain. Mebby there’s some pewter ‘round the 
cubberd—pieces 0’ somethin’. We don’t need ’em now.” 
Then he continued the lesson, as he tore a fragment of 
tow from a great bunch on the table, “Wraps up a great 
wad, so, an’ ram it atop o’ the ball, tight, but not so hard 
as on the powder,” : 

Having accomplished this and returned the iron ramrod 
to its pipes-in the stock that half-encased the barrel to the 
muzzle, he opened the pan and filled it with powder from 
the great horn. 

“There!” said he, shutting down the hammer on the 
pan and leaning the gun against the wall, “that one’s all 
ready, and now for the other.” e 

“Now, Asa,” Reliance pleaded in her most persuasive 
voice, as he brought a similat weapon from the corner 
near the broad fireplace, ‘you let me load that one, all by 
myself,” - 

The brother graciously consenting, she set about the 
work under his direction, and soon proved that she was a 
ready pupil. She filled the horn charger from the big 
powder horn, poured the charge into the barrel, rammed 
the wad upon it till the rod rebounded smartly, and so 
on to the priming of the piece, doing each part a little 
nerveusly, but all so well that her brother said: | 

“Why, that’s good enough!” 

This boy of fourteen and his sister, two years younger, 
were of firm, tough fiber, like young trees that have grown 
in exposed situations. They were accustomed to most of 
the labors that employed their elders, for they were reared 
among the hardships of the eastern New England frontier 
where every one was compelled to do his utmost to main- 
tain bare existence won from stern nature and defended 
against more relentless human foes, 

The children were the sole tenants of the house that 
day. It stood at one end of the settlement that struggled 
along a rough highway not far from the seashore. Their 
father was gone fishing, and their mother, who was wise 
in the use of medicinal herbs, had been called to. a sick 
woman at the other end Bf the village, so Asa had been 
installed as house guard with strict injunctions to let no 
wandering Indian or stranger enter it, and to fire an alarm 
if any number were seen lurking about. Reliance took 
her place as housewife, a duty which she was well quali- 
fied to perform even to spinning flax on the little wheel. 

The house was built for defensé, being of hewn logs 
with a jutting upper story, so that assailants attempting 
to batter down the door or set fire to the walls, might be 
fired on irom above. It was the strongest in the settle- 
ment, except a similar one at the other end of the village 
and the blockhouse in the center. This had a stockade 
and flankers or small loop-holed towers at two diagonally 
opposite corners, from which an enfilading fire could be 
directed. A guard was kept in the blockhouse when 
danger was expected, and every one fled to its shelter on 
the first alarm. 


There had been no attack on this settlement for nearly 
three years, so that the old vigilance was relaxed, and 
all the able-bodied men were gone fishing, or were making 
hay on the salt marshes, leaving old Gaffer Gray and 
Jason Gale, who had lost a leg in a sea fight, to garrison 
the blockhouse, and only womenkind and a few boys in 
the other houses. 

Looking abroad from the door to the next house, forty 
rods up the rough highway, known as King’s road, which 
his Majesty would not have been proud of had he seen 
it, Asa and Reliance caught occasional glimpses of Dame 
Jarvis and her brood of small children. Across the road, 
out on the broad meadows, they saw the haymakers, slow- 
ly moving specks against the blue summer sea, where 
the white sails of the fishing vessels shone in the sun. The 
children felt no loneliness except when they looked over 
the rugged clearmg to the somber verge of the forést, 
where danger always brooded. That outlook recalled Re- 
liance’s thoughts to their meager store of bullets. 

“Say. Asa, I couldn’t find any lead on the top shelf. 
Can't folks make balls out o’ pewter?’ Asa nodding 
assent, she continued, “Then, if it comes to a stress, 
there’s a mess o’ buttons on father’s Sunday coat, and 
there’s the four spoons.” 

“My! I shouldn't know which to dast to take first.” 

“The buttens is the least use,’ she suggested, her gaze 
still wandering over the clearing, then with an alarmed 
start she asked: 

“See, what ails the cattle?” . 

Some scattered members of the little common herd were 
running in wild fright toward the houses from the direc- 
tion of the forest. . : 

“Ts it wolvest Is it a,bear?” she asked, watching Asa’s 
intent face growing pale before his answer came in a 
gasp, “Indians!” 

As he spoke a heifer halted’ in her headlong flight to 
stare back at the half-discerned cause of terror. A puff 
of smoke burst from.a log-heap, the stricken beast stum- 


he 


'S FOREST AND STREAM 5 


bled and sank out of sight in the brakes and briars with a 


bellow of agony which came to the children’s ears almost - 


with the report of the gun,’ followed by a chorus of terrific 
yells as a dozen dusky figures broke from the cover of the 
woods. J 

“Into the house! 
door. et 

“Let's run for the fort,’ Reliance urged, hesitating at 
the threshold. 

“Come inside, girl,” he cried imperatively, pulling her 
after him and hastily barring the door, “They'd have our 
scalps afore we could get half-way. If there hain’t more 
on ’em than we seen, I’d risk ’em if we had balls enough. 
Stir up the fire an’ have the kittle b’ilin’ agin the balls 
is spent, an’ they try to burn us out or beat in the door. 
I'll peek out an’ see what they be at. I wonder they don’t 
fire a’ “larm to the fort. If I can only fire one, that'll do 
some good,” 

Looking cauti«usly through the loop hole, he cotild not 
suppress an exultant exclamation when he saw the In- 
dians swarming around the dead heifer. Evidently aware 
that the men of the village were all away, they made no 
attempt at concealment, and ravenous from long fasting, 
they at once fell to butchering the carcass, tearing at the 
reeking flesh like hungry wolves. : 

*All in a bunch, they be,” Asa whispered in excite- 
ment, as he drew back and took up one of the guns. “A 
long shot off, nigh forty rod, but I'll try it in the thick 
on ’em,” 

He was not strong enough to shoot the long, heavy gun 
off-hand, but from a rest he was so good a marksman 
that he could cut off the head of a partridge at thirty 
yards. He poked the muzzle ‘through the loophole and 
taking a carefully calculated high aim, pulled trigger. 

“Massy! They be firin’ at us, close to,” cried Reliance, 
since all the noise save the quick spitting hiss of the 
priming seemed outside the house. 

“Tt was me fired,” her brother said, as quickly as he 
could, while he peered under the lifting smoke. No less 
to his surprise than his jay, he saw one Indian stagger 
and fall, and another skulk away nursing a wounded arm, 
while the rest vanished like a brood of partridge chicks. 

“Oh, glory!” he cried joyfully. “Ive downed one an’ 
winged another. Now tty if you can load whilst I look 
sharp for another chance,” 

As he put down the empty gun, he turned to see what 
kept his sister busy at the hearth. Their father’s fine 
green coat lay across the chest, stripped of a number of 
its shining buttons. These were in the smelting ladle on 
the coals, Reliance watching their melting with the bullet 
mold in her hand. 

“Well, you be a good one,” he said in admiration. 
“Never mind the loadin’, Vll ’tend to that. You run 
some balls. Dottse "em in a bucket o’ water to cool an’ 
trim the’ necks off wi mammy’s shears.” ‘ 

Puffs of smoke burst out along the woodside and bul- 
lets struck the log wall with spiteful thuds or ripped the 
shingles off the roof with a sharper crash. Asa peeped 
out over the barrel of the loaded gun, but nowhere could 
he discover a living mark. Looking up the road through 
another loop hole, he saw the portly form of Dame Jarvis 
driving her scared flock before her toward the block- 
house, from which now came regular reports of alarm 
guns, and the sullen boom of the great patterero hurtling 
its screeching but harmless charge of pebbles at the hid- 
den enemy. 

“Then he saw four Indians running at full speed, belly 
to earth, along a fence to cut off the old woman and 
children. He took a flying shot at the crouching figures 
with the happy effect of bringing them to a sudden halt 
behind the nearest log heap. ie 

Reloading his gun, he returned to his first position and 
watched intently for some incautious enemy to disclose 
himself. Presently he saw the flutter of a feather above 
a stump, then a bead-wrought cap slowly rising be- 
neath it. He aimed carefully and fired. A thicket near 
by belched an answering smoke, and Asa’s left hand was 
stricken from its hold by a numbing blow. He reeled 
backward, and the gun, unsupported, came down with a 
clang on the puncheons. 

“What is’t, Asa?’ Reliance asked, and then seeing the 
bleeding hand, “Oh, Lord, deliver us! You be wounded,” 

“Jt hain’t no killin’ hurt,” said Asa, stoutly, inspecting 
his hand curiously at arm’s length, and repressing a 
groan as pain came with returning sensation, “but it 
bleeds pretty smart, an’ I guess you'll have to do it up.” 

She bound the wound with lint and a bandage that 
nearly stopped the bleeding, but to ease the hurt, the arm 
had to be put into a sling, and he could not use it. 

“Now you will have to load the guns for me an’ poke 
“em into the port hole so I can shoot.” 

Taking fresh heart from his coolness, she set to prac- 
tice the recent lesson to good purpose, and was proud 
to use one of the shining new bullets of which she had 
ten perfect ones cast. ; 

Emboldened by the cessation of firing from the house, 
the Indians began to come out of cover and draw nearer, 
so that when a gun was ready, Asa hada fair shot at a bie 
savage within easy range, and brought him to the earth, 
where he lay motionless, save as the wind tossed his long 
He ee gaye the dead form a ghastly semblance 
of life. 

His comrades scattered to cover again, and did not 
venture from it to carry him off as was their usual cus- 
tom, for the exposure of a hand’s breadth of their per- 
sons brought a shot from the ready guns of the house 
which they were sure was garrisoned by half a dozen 
Pastoniacs, as they called the New Englanders. 

In such manner Asa and Reliance held them at bay in 
that quarter, while the pother made by Gaffer Gray and 
Jason at the blockhouse kept them from attacking in that 
direction till the armed haymakers came hurrying up from 
the meadows. Then the verge of the forest became silent 
and deserted as the savage band slunk back into its path- 
less depths. 

Dame Staples hastened home in great alarm, and was 
full of joy to find the children unharmed but for Asa’s 
wound. In the same breath she fell to scolding Reliance 
for despoiling the green Sunday coat of its buttons, tll 
Zachary Staples coming in from the fishing stopped her. 

“Hush, wife, thee should not berate the brave child. 
What signifies a few pewter buttons when Jason Gale has 


Quick!’ cried Asa, making for the 


a mould and we can’ make dozens out’n ‘the broken por- 


ringer thee saved in thy chist these ten-year.” 
Gaffer Gray hobbled up from an informal inquest on the 


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body of the fallen Indian, with a bloody scalp lock of 
coarse, black hair dangling in his hand. 

“T make out fro’ the mark o’ the Bear, on yonder dead 
un, these be some o’ old Cap’n Bomaseen’s gang, an’ as 
tough-headed a beast as ere J tackled. Here, lad, this be 
thine, an’ take what belongs to thee.’ The boy shrank 
back from the ghastly tyophy and would have none of it. 

“Then I'll get the bounty, for it’s a sin to waste it. 
Thee’s a brave lad, anyhow, an’ done the most work 
whilst me an’ Jason made most noise. An’, Zach’ry, thee 
give thy gal the right name when thee called her Re- 
liance.” ROwLanp E. Roprinson. 


Adventures in Tropical America. 


IX —Examining a Mine under Difficulties. 


I once made a boasting engagement that I would re- 
pogt fully #1 a mine in eastern Honduras, Central Amer- 
ica, for which it was claimed that fabulous wealth lay 
exposed along a precipice where a stream had cut a deep 
gorge through the mountains, I found the place just as 
described, except that there was very little mineral, yet 
cnough to make me anxious to see all the precipice, 

I went to the upper part of the gorge, where a good 
yiew could be had down the river, but could see no 
signs of any mineral deposits. Then I said to my guide 
that we would go on down the river, but he told me 
it was impossible, that no person had ever been down the 
gorge, nor could they possibly go. However, we went 
on as far as we could, and presently came to a place 
where the river cut its way through solid walls of rock. 
I then proposed to go around to the other side and come 
up the gorge, but my gttide said that was equally im- 
possible, and that at this place there were about two 
miles of rock which no man or animal could pass. I 
quoted the description of the mine, at which the guide 
laughed, and told me that such a report was the ex- 
aggeration of an impossibility. JI had no thought of giy- 
ing up, however, and asked the guide if I could not swim 
down the fiver, at which he looked at me in astonish- 
ment. “Impossible; the place is full of snakes, and there 
must be a big waterfall in there, because the river is 
much lower on the other side of the mountain.” 

I wasn't going home without seeing every inch of that_ 
gorge, the precipice had been noted in a former report 
and I proposed to examine it. So I threw off my clothes, 
telling my guide I intended to take a bath. I found the 
water cesl and pleasant, and presently let the current 
carry me slowly down, then swam to one side and came 
back again, as if I meant nothing, fearing that the guide 
might restrain me by force, for by this time he too had 
entered the water. Then I let the current take me down 
again, This time I went a little further, and when well 
beyond his reach, while he shouted to recall me, I let the 
current carry me into the gorge, then around a bend, and 
I was alone, rocks and water all about me, and a line of 
blite sky overhead, I was frightened, but having started I 
meant to keep on. 

The river was low, and for a time I floated lazily along, 
watching out for signs of exposed mineral deposits; but 
there was-nothing, only dark rocks of even texture. Pres- 
ently I noticed that the current was becoming swifter, and 
so I caught hold of a convenient ledge, and held myself 
back to see what was ahead of me. There were some 
rapids, a little cascade, and further on more rapids, and I 
floated carefully down to them, keeping well against the 
rocks. There was not much difficulty about getting over 
the cascade, just a tumble into a deep basin of water, 
where I was washed up to one side and found a con- 
venient seat on a gravel bed under a rock, where I 
stopped to rest and consider. The rapids were a little 
threatening, but I decided to try them, and soon had the 
pleasure of finding that, though the water was rough, it 
was deep and easy to swim in, with plenty of eddies along 
the sides, where I could avoid the heaviest currents. Go- 
ing on down, I came to a place where the rocks: of 
the precipice suddenly changed, and above the dark in- 
trustve rocks a contact with sedimentary types could be 
distinctly seen; but there were no signs of mineral, and I 
floated on down, and presently came to the end of the 
gorge, about a mile or more from the place where I 
had left my clothes. 

I rested for a time, and then started to swim back, but 
it was fatiguing work, and presently the current became 
too strong for me, Here was a predicament; it was 
some miles around the base of the mountain to where I 
left my clothes; to walk that distance naked in all the 
burning sun could not be even thought of, and to clamber 
along the rocks where, because of the dry season, hun- 
dreds of snakes had. gathered, seemed madness. I was 
well perplexed as to what I should do, and not a little 
frightened. After considering, I determined to climb 
along the rocks, and started out on a really perilous jour- 
ney. 1 saw snakes from time to. time, but these were 
accommodating, and got out of the way, though I was 
constantly in dread of the next step. Scorpions and black 
farantulas were numerous, and I climbed along the cliffs 
among the black rocks and saw poisonous snakes and 
dreaded insects; with deep shadows about me and here 
and there a radiant beam of sunlight, I was constantly re- 
minded of Doré’s illustrations of. the Inferno. Weird 
and dangerous as it was, I soon became accustomed to it 
all, and then deeply interested in-the strange, wild beauty 
of my surroundings. When I came to the place where I 
had noted the sedimentary rocks, I climbed up to them. 
selected a few small specimens to take back with me, and 
then tying them in a leaf, with'a bit of inner bark from 
a convenient trumpet tree, 1 started _on again, carrying 
the little package with my teeth. So I made my way on, 
swimming at times and at others climbing along steep 
rocks. A fall. ‘the sting of a poisonous insect or snake 
would probably be fatal, and I was thoroughly tired out 
with excitement as well as from the exertion when I fin- 
ally got over the little cascade,-forced my way along the 
side of the swift water above it, and came to the open 
river with an easy swim ahead. of me to reach my 
clothes. One can test beautifully in the water, and by the 
time I reached my guide I was feeling quite rested again. 
A number of people had gathered there, all supposing I 
was dead, and they hardly knew what to say when I 
told thenw where I had been, and I think that none of 
them believed me, Francis C, NicHo.As, 


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144 
A Walk Down South.—XVIL. 


It was the great storm which did so much damage 
through floods that had come in my way at Taylor’s. 
When we went down to the men’s cabin on Friday night, 
we had to run for it, the rain was coming so fast. On 
Saturday morning it was pouring faster yet—the mud 
lying deep and the brooks bank full. The great ridge 
behind the house, to the west, and the one on yon side, to 
the east, were whiskered with cloud streamers. . It was 
cold and dismal. But in the sheet-iron stove in the 
men’s cabin was a hot fire, and by it Walter and I hovered 
most of the day—the women folks were ironing at the 
kitchen, and didn’t want us around them. 

Walter told of the boys’ sports down at New Castle, 
county seat of Craig; chief of all was rocking niggers. 
The white boys, he said, would start around about 9 
o'clock at night with their pockets full of rocks. When 
they met a band of negro lads. they ordered them home 
and then the negroes ran for it, the rocks flying after. 
In this fashion are the young negroes kept from growing 
too pert. It sometimes happens that revolvers are drawn 
and many “shoots” exchanged, but seldom is any one 
hit. Of course, arrests are made at times, and white boys 
spend as high as thirty days in jail for their sport. 

While we were talking, sparks fell around us, and 
looking up we saw that the iron stove pipe had set fire 
to the house wall. Flames were climbing the hemlock 
boards in rapid fashion. We ran to the house, seized 
six-quart pails, ran to the flooded brook and then back 
to the house, The fire was soon out. A hole two feet 
across had been burned in the wall. _ 

Harmon rode to New Castile, twelve miles away, on 
this day, horseback, in spite of the pouring rain. It was 
late when he came back, drenched through. He went 
aiter groceries. 

As on the previous day, dinner was late, but I did 
not mind it so much. I learned that it was usual to eat 
two meals a day when no one was working—it saved 
lots of trouble, I judge that one could easily get used 
to that way of living. Before I came away I rather 
liked the idea of not having to bother to eat three times 
a day. What was the use of stirring around when one 
might so easily sit still? In such weather it was de- 
lightful just to sit by the fireplace and turn one’s white 
cheek to the fire and give the red cheek a chance to 
cool off, The fire felt good to me, but it was plain 
that I was a long ways south of the Adirondacks. The 
fingers of the women folks were drawn with the cold, and 
the boys stuck their hands fairly in the flames every 
time they returned to the fireplace from as far as the 
door. 

We went to the sleeping cabin as usual on Saturday 
night. But because the fire seemed more cheerful inthe 
sheet-iron stove, and because the_air seemed different, we 
did not go right to bed. To the music of French harps 
and bones there was jigging and dancing, the like of 
which one might travel a long ways and not see. 

In the morning I was awakened by squeals and snorts. 
Opening my eyes I saw my breath go like a cloud of 
steam. 
boys were fighting for the bed clothes in good-natured 
fashion. We were up at last, dressed in record time and 
ran to the kitchen. The boys roared, becaiise the women 
didn’t have a fire built. One was soon started. 

When I washed at the brookside, my hair froze and 
I had to thaw it out at the fire before I could comb it. 
The mud was frozen as hard as planks, and the over- 
flowing streams were shrinking till the ice along banks 
cracked of its own weight, yet Charlie ran the hundred 
yards from the dormitory to the kitchen with his shoes 
and stockings in his hands. ; 

Jt was not the numbing cold of the dismal rainstorm 
—eyerybody jumped around lively instead of hanging 
over the fire. Some cut while others carried in oak bil- 
lets for the fire. It was done in fast time. 

The day was passed quietly, Two of the boys went 
courting, and one did not come back till lone after dark. 
He was Harmon. 

“Let's go rock him,” Walter suggested, but Charlie 
objected. Harmon, Charlie said, would throw rocks back, 
whereas the sport of rocking required that the one who is 
storied must get scared*and run. 

While we sat at the fireplace, first one and then an- 
other would stand up and hold his heels to the fire. It 
is the characteristic of the open fire that one’s heels get 
cold on a cold day before one. Roy Tucker was a 
visitor that night. Small of his age, his eyes looked like 
cutting edges, for his eyelids were half-closed. He spoke 
but little, and that was chisel-like. He remained all 
night, and in the morning Walter lanced a boil on the 
lad’s neck; he did it as roughly as possible, squeezing 
the wound, “just to make him holler,” but there wasn’t a 
sound came. 

On Monday Walter, Roy and I went hunting. I had 
gone perhaps a mile along the ridges when I saw smoke 
way down in a hollow. They had become cold and 
lighted a fire to warm by. Jt took a couple of hours to 
get away from the pine-knot blaze. The country was 
cavered with scrub oak and scattering bull pine. We 
saw a couple of pheasants, but shot nothing. To climb 
the high ridge to where the deer and other game was 
did not séem worth while, so we came back by the road 
past the little log schoolhouse, where the pupils were out 
on their noon recess, teetering, some of them on an 
eight-inch, twenty-foot oak log, splitting firewood, play- 
ing tag and eating snacks. 

That night J was out at the spring when a tall figure 
glided up the path past me, opened the cabin door and 
entered. JI heard no sound. Following, I saw a six-foot 
man, black and gray whiskered, wearing a broad-brimmed 
black hat aslant on his large head. He stuck two long- 
fingered bony hands into the fire flames and turned them 
over in therwarmth, He drew a pound package of coffee 
froim his pocket and dropped it into the lap of the oldest 
girl: the younger one sat on his left knee. 

“Get some pine knots—this fire’s ’most out,” he said. 

“There ain’t none.” 

“Why not?” was the demand, with a black-eyed glance 
at each of the boys’ faces. 

“The weather's been tolable bad,” said Mrs. Taylor. 

“Well, fix it up them,” and in five minutes the “shift- 
less blaze” was feeding on a dry split board and the heat 
began to hunt the cold instead of the cold running the 
heat up the chimney. Colonel Taylor believes in big 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


The weather had changed for bitter cold. The - 


fires on cold nights, and biscuit that cool soft instead of 
hard Sang knows the reason why when he doesn’t haye 
them. : 

In the morning the sun was out: thick frost was on 
every limb, and the water in the runs rattled and rustled 
along in crispy fashion. The streams were low, so I 
started on. ‘The road led back and forth across Barber's 
Creek." T crossed once on a pole steadied by a grape 
vine, again on a fallen tree; a third time on an eight- 
inch log coated with ice. This last was a sticker, but I 
cut a ten-foot’ alpenstock and then put handsful- of 
sand on theice. I crossed, pack and all, in safety and 
dry, where another man had waded an hour before, Fif- 
teen minutes later I started oyer Red Brush Run on a 
pine scale or slab. It broke and I soused through quarter- 
inch ice into two feet of water. At no time on the trip 
have the short trousers shown to better adyantage than 
then. My tight stockings did not freeze, but dried inside 
of five miles, where the legs of long trousers would have 
become like boards. 

Everywhere was evidence of the high water—roads 
wasked out, and brooks in a tumult. At John’s Creek— 
a forty-foot wide stream, the fences had suffered, and 
some drift was lodged along the bank. The road bed 
was beautiful. The water had frozen in the ground and 
then the ice ferns grew up to a height of five inches in 
places. For miles | walked along a road glistening and 
gleaming with the colors of the spectrum, crushing a 
thousand sparkles at every step. 

I came to a brook too wide to jump and too deep to 
wade. Yet the only way of crossing was a three-inch 
pole used to swing a tilt-up brook gate on. When the 
water is high the gate floats horizontal, but goes down 
and closes the gap in low water. The hinges are forks of 
saplings. 

With my pack on my back and rifle in my hand, I 
started across. It was six feet above the water. I got 
one foot over the center fork hinge and then started to 
lift the other, but I swayed and had to go back with the 
foot. Time and again I tried, but each time I was set 


-a-staggering. Then up drove two men and a handsome 


girl on horseback. They stopped to watch me. It was 
do or jump anyhow, apparently, and I did. I crossed in 
safety, But that was the worst five minutes I’ve had on 
the trip. 

As it came on dark, my road led into woods, I met a 
man dtiving in his work team—on horseback, of course— 
and he said that the next house was two miles away. 
could go back a couple of hundred yards and stay for the 
night, but I preferred to go on, To turn back a yard is 
hard to do. With careftil directions, I walked rapidly 
ahead; a schoolhouse on stilts was at one turn, It was 
a still-looking place—the door open, with blackness stick- 
ing out of every window. The rail fences, the sullen 
trees, the increasing noise made by my feet due to the 
air grown heavy with falling moisture, warned me to 
move on more rapidly. It was plumb dark when I came 
over the ridge and trotted down to the run, up which I 
must go. 


The big rain had flooded the stream, which washed 
out the road, leaving only cobbles and half-bowlders for 
a dozen rods. In the night the round sides found my 
feet, and I stumbled at every step. I came to a church 
suddenly, and there the road ended. But my directions 
were specific, “follow the run.” So I crashed down the 
slope toward the water, and there was the road again, 

At last a light and the sound of an ax—Caldwell’s 


He *lowed I could stay there that night. I ate hot bsicuit, 


fried pork, “‘iruit,” apple butter and other things, and 
then I sat down with the lower rim of my heels on the 
broad hearth stove. Who might I be? Where might I 
be going? My pack was a source of womder, too, espe- 
cially when I disclosed its depths while I searched for 
the needle and thread kit to darn a hole, It is best to let_ 
the contents of the pack leak out slowly, rather than 
all at once. To the stranger my pack seems to be a 
constant source of wonder, a wonder that quickens the 
fancy and the curiosity. 

“Do you carry a house in there, too?’ some ask, and 
my tent makes them laugh, crinkling their foreheads. 

Caldwell is the postmaster at Eakin (A-kin). Half a 
mile away is a summer resort, with water for external 
and internal use. I had stopped just in time. 

The night grew cold. It was moonlight, but a drift of 
haze was thickening over the face of the famous huntress 
—she was about to spread snow upon the ground as a 
special favor to her respectful and not too eager de- 
votees. Tame geese were feeding around outside with 
noisy gosip. Somehow it was a night that I remember 
more distinctly than many others. Perhaps because the 
motherly wife there spoke only with tears in her yoice: 

“We buried our youngest son the 20th of last February. 
It has not been the same to me since then. It never will 
be the same again in this world,” she explained. She 
looked at me, seemed fairly to watch my every move. 
Another son at the house wanted to’ “go West’ and 
grasp the opportunities there. Mrs. Caldwell seemed to 
think that I was a son who had started West. She acted 
for the mother far away, ufnobstrusively but distinctly, 

Jn the morning I wrote some letters, and after dinner 
noon) I walked a couple of hundred yards further up the 
run, then turned to the left to take “the ridge road.” I[ 
crossed the main rum at a saw mill, and then a side hill 
toad went down into a hollow, across a stream, then up 
on the ridge. The green of laurels contrasted with the 
snowy grotind and the bleak landscape as it must always- 
do to Northern eyes. : 

The ridge road is seven miles long. One’s directions 
are simply “keep to the back.’ They are easily followed. 
‘One walks on the backbone all the way. 

It was cloudy, windy and with whiffs of snow the day 
I was there. As the ridge increased in height, the val- 
leys seemed to sink, To the east there was range be- 
yond range of mountains, and John’s Creek was hundreds 
of feet, perhaps a thousand, below, blue, still and cold. 
The yellow sunshine which sometimes came splashing 
through the clouds was colder still, One could. fancy that 
ice snakes had left their trails in the snow in the woods. 
across the valley and in the cleared bottoms, but it was 
only wagon toads leading from house to house, from the 
chimneys of which blue smoke issued in unusual volume 
—it was a cold day for Virginians, but I sweat and 
whistled under my pack—and saw the sundogs stepping 
from peak to peak instead of the fireplace flickers. 

In one place on the ridge there were the hair, blood 


and scraps of a rabbit, fresh. Round about were cat 


tracks, and crow tracks. The cat was a large one, and a 
wild one, I guess. Three other hunters whom I saw had 
not been so successful. Their deg had run a deer off 


the mountain on the wrong side,:so they didn’t get a 


shot at it. With their thick overecats and ear flaps they 
looked the picture of shivers. They felt of my sweater 
and of my knickerbockers. 


“Good law, strangeh,”’ cne sad, “ain’t yo” mos’ froze?” 


The ridge is seven miles long. One log heuse. is in a _ 
gap on. the back, and two are out of sight down sits: sides. <1 


It was a pleasing place. 


Raymonp S. Sprars. 


The Destruction of the Adirondack 
Forests. } 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Much yaluable space in the Forest anp SrREAM 
been devoted recently to the proposal, made by our For- 
est, Fish and Game Commission, to tutn the lumbermen 
loose in the State forests of the Adirondacks; but for 
the love of our good, green wilderness—the wilderness 
as God made it—let all the facts be brought out. I beg 
the reader to consider this quotation from the last report 
of the Commission” (pp. 20-21) : 

“The annual output of the Adirondack forests show no 
diminution, the product for 1900 being largely in excess 
of the previotis year, although not quite equal to that of 
1898. Aside from the State holdings, there are now 
about 700,000 acres of forest land in the Adirondack 
Park that have not been lumbered, or from which a 
second cutting of spruce can now be obtained. 

“Each year recently the soft wood timber on 80,000 
acres Of more is cut and removed by the lumbermen or 
pulp wood operators. This would indicate that, if the 
present rate of cutting continues, these industries will 
exhaust their supply of raw material in ten or twelve 
years, after which they will haye to depend on the State 
forests or Canadian iniports for a further continuance of 
their business. At present the Empire State leads all 
others by far in the number of its pulp mills and amount 
of product; but if it expects to hold its supremacy in 
this industry, it must make some prompt and intelligent 
provision for a future supply.” 

“It’—the Empire State—‘must make some prompt” 
provision for the supply of these pulp mills and lumber- 
men. Those paragraphs were written by Mr. William F, 
Fox, Superintendent of Forests. Is it the duty of this 
Superintendent of Forests to promote the manufacturing 
interests of the State, or is it to preserve the forests for 
the people? The question answers itself. Mr. Fox has 
abandoned his duty to become the advocate of the pulp 
and lumber interests, 

But that is not all. Further down on page 21 he re- 
vamps and prints, at the expense of the State, the old 
threat of the lumbermen and pulp operators. He Says, 
speaking of the exhaustion of the New York and New 
England supply of pulp wood: ; 

“Our people then will not only have to go to Canada 
for their raw material, but will have to take their mills 
and workmen with them. The millions invested through- 
out New York in the great manufacturing plants belong- 
ing to the lumber, pulp and paper business will be non- 
productive, and these industries will be paralyzed.” 

This Superintendent of Forests, who is paid to preserve 
the forests, tells us that, at the end of twelve years, these 
lumbermen “ will have to depend on the State forests’” or 
Canada, and that we “must make some prompt” provi- 
sion for them or they will take their mills and their men 
off to Canada. It never occurs to him to say that the 
lumbermen ought to apply “scientific, conservative for- 
estry”’ to their own lands. 

_ Following this, under the subhead, “Industrial Statis- 
tics,’ Mr. Fox tells how many millions of dollars these 
lumbermen pay out every year in wages. It seems an 
impressive statement to him. The 9,382 pulp mill em- 
ployes received, he says, $3 040,478 in one year. He 
does not mention the fact that this pay roll includes the 
presidents, secretaries, superintendents, etc., who receive 
thousands of dollars a year each, but without enlarging 
on the way that increases the average income of an 
employe, it will be found, by simple division, that this 
average is $6.23 per week for each man during the 
year. The men who work for the pulp mills are, on the 
year’s average, compelled to support themselves and rear 
families on $6.23 a week! But the saw mill statement is 
still worse, for the 8,617 men employed in saw mills re- 
ceived $1,846,930, or 71 cents a day for a year of 300 
working days. 

The Superintendent of Forests wrote his report to tell 
us that we “must” open our forests if the Empire State 
is “to hold its supremacy” in the industries which pay 
$6.23 a week, and 71 cents a day on the average to 
employes. 

Unfortunately there is more to be said about this report, 
On page 25 it speaks of 14-inch trees as “matured timber.” 
Governor Odell in his message advocated the cutting of 
to-inch trees, but take the report at its word. Is a spruce 
tree 14 inches in diameter mature? On page 16 of Bulle- 
tin 30, U. S. Department of Agriculture, it appears that 
on a scientific survey of Township 40, in the Adirondacks 
(Hamilton county), there were found, on good spruce 
land, 24.23 trees per acre above ten inches in diameter, 
and that the average size of these was 14.2 inches. The 
maximum size was 35 inches in diameter. And that is not 
all. On page gr of Bulletin 30, is a table which shows 
that a spruce increases its diameter .126 of an inch in a 
yeat, when it is 10 inches in diameter, and .1725 of an 
inch when it is 18 inches in diameter. In the face of 
such facts the Commission call a 14-inch tree mature. 


has 


The report of the Commission says of the spriice of 14 


inches in diameter and upward, that “its removal would 
inflict no injury to the timber. or impair the protective 
functions of these woodlands.” Let the reader familiar 
with the Adirondacks recall the picture of a good spruce 
stand, or look at the reproduced photograph at the top 
of, plate III. in Bulletin 30. The fact is that to cut out 
the spruce trees of 14 inches in diameter and more (not 
to mention all down to 10), would open up wide holes 
in the solid green forest. For it is a well-known. fact 
that in felling, dividing and skidding these trees, at least 
tlree small trees would be ruined for every one turned 


I wished it was longer when © 
_I turned down to Squire Huffman’s. 


es tora 


lumper or pulp, while the eutting of roadways to 
ids would destroy another host. ; ‘ 

here is one very important fact in connection with 
e cutting to which but small attention has been given 
‘the press, If these spruces be cut, the tops will be 
t in the forest; no matter what rules may be made the 
ps will remain on the ground, and will become the 
seding places of uncountable hosts of insect enemies of 
trees): The -Adifondacks are now in fair condition 


visitations is steadily increasing. In proof that this is not 
| light danger, let the reader secure “Insect Enemies of 
@ Spruce in the Northeast” and “Insect Enemies of 
rests in the Northwest”—Bulletins 21 and 28, U. 5S. 
partment of Agriculture. These two bulletins are 
me worth the cost of the scientific work of that De- 

ment for a year. On pages 28 and 29 of Builletin 28 
e statements of damages done by insects. In 1876-1881 
he destruction of spruce on the tributaries of the St. 
hn River was estimated at 1,000,000,000 feet. “In some 
ces 90 per cent. of the spruce is said to have been 
cilled; in fact, all the grown timber.” 

“he beetles that destroy these conifers are now to be 
found throughout the Adirondacks, but they have been 
pt in check by their natural enemies save in certain 
ons noted in Bulletin 28. But to turn loose the 
ermen in the great stands of spruce will result in 
ishing these insects with such abundant breeding 
es that they will multiply into a pest that will sweep 
forests, as the geometrid larva swept “‘the hemlock 
Sitka spruce in a belt between_an elevation of about 
iso and 1,200 feet above tide” in Clatsop and Tillamook 
rounties, Oregon, a few years ago. f ‘ 
Bulletin 30, already mentioned, will be found interesting 
wlso in this matter, for it says a saw fly destroyed the 
sntire tamarack stand in the Raquette Lake region a few 
Ts ago. ; = ; 

Of the danger from fires nothing need be said, for 
hat is well known. Of the dangers from fungi a word is 
ecessary. In felling the large spruces many a small 
Tee will lose branches and slashes of bark. In skidding 
ogs and making roads many a root will be scraped, The 
ungus that produces witches’ brooms on the spruce and 
lalsam, is now spreading up the West Canada Creek, 
filling every tree it attacks. Fungi of several kinds 
read through wounds in trees, and this destructive 
ency will be greatly increased by the proposed lumber- 
ng operations. 
est this warning be thought the talk of a mere alarm- 
st, I beg the reader to procure “Some Diseases of New 
gland Conifers,” the admirable work of Hermann yon 
hrenk, Bulletin 25, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
ether with the English translation of Hartig’s “Dis- 
of Trees.’ J : 
e more point of fact is to be noted: The forests into 
ich the lumbermen are to be admitted are the original 
tural growths. In these solid green woods the roots 
not penetrate as deeply into the ground as the roots 
trees growing in open ground. Therefore, they are 
so well supported as trees in old fields. It follows 
hat when the big spruces are cut out, and to the wind 
Ss thus given a stronger sweep against the remaining 
fees, many will be thrown over. An example of this 
fact can be found at Northwood. One land owner cleared 
all the pulp-sized spruce in his wood lot, but touched 
io other trees. Since then the spruces and hemlocks 
Maye been rapidly falling before the wind in an adjoining 
LOL 
“How does it happen, it seems fair to ask, that the For- 
est, Fish and Game Commission have shown such notable 
activity in the interests of the pulp and lumber operators? 
was through their initiative that Mr. Ralph S. Hosmer 
Eugene S. Bruce, of the U. S. Agricultural Depart- 
t, came to the Adirondacks and developed “A Forest 
orking Plan” under which the last accessible 12-inch 
“ice is to be cut and made into pulp. A force of twen- 
six men went, at the expense of the State, into Town- 
ip 40 to develop this plan. Steadily—with “damnable 
tation’—this commission that was appointed to pre- 
serve our forests, strives to overthrow the constitutional 
feguard. They ask that “a constitutional amendment 


estry to State lands.” The fact is there is nothing in 
he Constitution that forbids “the application of scientific 
conservative forestry.’ They are permitted to plant, and 
‘their preliminary work done last year is worthy of praise. 
They are permitted to apply remedies, if a tree is in- 
ected with fungus, If insects multiply they are per- 
mitted to make trap trees in the interests of ‘“‘conserva- 
e forestry.” There is no “‘conservative’ work that is 
bidden. In short, the desire of the Commission is 
Tmission to sell trees, miscalled mature, to the lumber- 
nm. They wish to cut out every tree of 14 inches diam- 
r, or more, and to say to the people, “Henceforth no 
re forever shall an accessible full-grown spruce be seen 
the Adirondacks. Such spruces are worth money, 


practical age sentiment shall not interfere with busi- 
mess men willing to pay their employes an average of 71 
Cents a day. 

And the Governor comes and says that “fourteen inches 
too large. You shall not leave a stick above ten. If 


mission to visit the private lands of men rich enough 
keep big trees standing. Your sentimental regard 
an eleven-inch spruce is sheer nonsense, Get out of 
he way when the pulp man comes.” 

Joun R. SPEARS. 
he ToRTHWOODS, Adirondacks, N. Y. 


| 
Scientific Forestry. 
New York, Jan. 25.—Editor Forest and Stream: 1 
e read with the greatest of interest of the contro- 
Tsy now going on concerning the future treatment of 
pur Adirondack forests, and since the appearance of Mr. 
olcott’s article in your last issue, I feel called upon to 
a few words as a probable enlightenment upon the sub- 
I say “probable,” because there are people who 
ver can and never will be enlightened upon a certain 
estion, for which they have a fixed idea, clinging to it 
ith stubborn desperation, only to awaken one morning 
find out, that after all their struggles and opposition, 
S was a matter of mere short-sightedness, ignorance 
nd prejudices. 


regards: theseinsects, but the danger of destructive © 


provided for the application of scientific conservative » 


sentimentalists may object to their removal, but in 


you wish to see larger sprtices, you must beg or buy. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


This class, to judge from practical experience, while in 
the minority among the brotherhood of American sports- 
men and loyers of the forest, is the very one which is 
raising most of the dust ard smoke with their cry for 
“absolutism”—‘‘absolute forest protection.” ‘Ehese may 
will be classed as ‘extremests.” They are the ones who 
like to see a fence ptt around the forest forbidding every- 
body else to enter; who like to see the forester watch and 
protect every tree therein, so it may not be damaged or 
removed by human hand, but who do not care a wink if 
the monarchs of the forest, after having reached ma- 


turity, succumb to the Jaws of nature which govern every- 


thing in this world, and becoming enfeebled by old age, 
are easy victims of diseases and decay, and are finally 
blown down by the storm—an entire loss to man—a 
hindrance to his progress in the forest. These “extrem- 
ists’ with their monstrous taste delight in the admiration 
of the jungle, brambles and briars of the down and 
decaying timber—never giving a thought to the possi- 
bility that man by his ingenuity has found a way, by 
which this immense loss of trees occurring each year in 
forests left entirely to nature to care for, may be turned 
into a source of financial remuneration, by the removal 
of trees which have reached that point where growth 
is stopping and decay is likely at any moment to set in 
thereafter. They do not believe the scientific forester 


when he tells them that by his methods he has it in his 


power ‘to produce more than double the quantity, leave 
out the quality, of valuable trees per acre, than nature 
alone can do it, and that it has taken nature centuries to 
produce—what few monarchs we find in a virgin forest 
and which would take the forester just half the time to 
produce—less in size, but larger in bulk and number of 
trees. With other words, he can produce in half the 
time double the amount of valuable wood in bulk per acre 
that nature herself if Jeft alone can do. 

This is an absolute fact that has been proven to the 
satisfaction of every civilized nation in the world except 
our own, sitnply because we have had no occasion and 


necessity to try it. 


To condemn a thing before trying it is unfair, and, in 
this particular case, where the management of our ‘public 
preserve in the Adirondacks is concerned, it is simply a 
matter of short-sightedness and ignorance, and belittles 
the public-spiritedness as expressed in our President’s 
message to Congress, in which he refers to the perpetua- 
tion of our forests by scientific forestry methods, and 
also put forth in the recommendations of Governor Odell 
to our Legislature. Mr. Walcott claims that scientific 
forestry cannot be introduced and carried on in the 
Adirondacks without destroying the wilderness of the 
preserve—as it is desirable to have it preserved by him- 
self and friends; but why not,-he does not say. 

Does he imagine that scientific forestry means the mak- 
ing of parks of our forests? If he does, and if this was 
the case, all of the professional foresters of ‘the country 
would fight hands and fists against such introduction. 
But nothing of the kind is intended, There is one branch 
or system known to the ‘scientific forester, called the 
“selection system,” by which only those trees are removed 
as referred to above, and I leave it to the reader to judge 
for himself, if such a system once adopted and tried would 
not be found an entire success,. It would not destroy 
the wilderness nor hundreds of thousands of smaller trees, 
as Mr. Wolcott seems to fear under the guise of scientific 
forestry, as he delights in putting it, but on the contrary it 
would improve the growth of millions of younger trees 
struggling for life. The cutting would be done care- 
fully and scientifically, and above all, the revenues from 
such cuttings would at least balance all money outlays 
for the sustainment of an efficient corps of foresters. 

T agree with Mr. Wolcott in claiming that the “clear cut 
policy” in the Adirondacks would be an entire failure, 
with very few exceptions—in fact, we find this throughout 
our entire country, also that German methods cannot 
bodily be applied to our forests, owing to the fact that 
we have not got the material to apply them to—the “‘selec- 
tion system,” though, is well adapted for the Adiron- 
dacks. I can say this from practical experience, and the 
future will bear me out in my claims. In speaking of the 
laws governing our preserve, Mr, Wolcott fails to see 
that they were enacted at a time when the majority of 
our citizens did not know anything about scientific for- 
estry—he does not consider the fact that only a very 
minimal number of voters know and care anything about 
the Adirondacks—the greater majority never going there 
on account of not having means or time enough to do so 
and caring little or nothing about their future. This ma- 
jority of voters are always prejudiced against any consti- 
tutional amendment “out of principle.’ It is this ma- 
jority of disinterested voters who Mr. Wolcoit trusts 
will vote down any amendment opening the way toward 
the introduction of scientific forestry in the Adirondacks 
—may be he is right—but I sincerely hope he is not. 

This is a time of progress and expansion. Our country 
has made and is making continually tremendous strides 
forward in every direction; a good many of our laws 
have outlived their usefulness, and have become inade- 
quate—the laws governing our forest preserves particu- 
larly so—what great pity would it be to keep them on the 
books simply to please a few selfish and short-sighted 
citizens at the expense and to the detriment of the ignor- 
ant multitude? 

This much I claim: “If every voter of the Empire 
State were taken and the aims of scientific forestry in- 
telligently explained to him, 99 per cent. of all would 
vote ‘for’ instead of ‘against’ the proposed amendment,” 
but since this cannot be done, we must rely upon the 
educational system, which has done so much during the 
last few years in awakening interest in all forestry 


“matters. 


That scientific forestry is an established fact in our 
country nobody can deny at this date, and even if an 
amendment should be voted down in the near future by 
the indifferent voters—you cannot stop its passage sooner 
or later, It has got to come before long—the earlier the 
better for our commonwealth, for us and our children, 


who will have nothing but praise for us, for our “far-~ 


sightedness and intelligence.” 
F. yon-Horrman, C. E., Forest Engineer. 


Ail communications intended for Forest anp STREAM should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


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Slatiyal History. 


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Musk-Oxen in Captivity. 


THERE is now on exhibition at the Sportsmen’s Show 
in Chicago the first living musk-ox that has ever been 
brought to the United States. It was captured not far 
from the shores of the Arctic Ocean by Capt. H, H. 
Bodfish, of the whaler Beluga. The place of its taking 
ve sae of Lady Franklin Bay, and about thirty miles 
inland, 

Capt. Bodfish sent out four Esquimanx hunters on this 
expedition in March. They found the musk-oxen, and by 
means of their dogs succeeded in rounding up the herd 
and killing the adults. Capt. Bodfish states that he 
ordered the kunters to make every effort to capture young 
musk-oxen alive, but they killed two young bulls that 
were with the herd. Two female calves left alive after 
the old ones were killed came to the hunters for protec- 
tion from the dogs, and were captured. After the two 
calves had been brought to the ship they did well, living 
on grass and willow twigs, but on Baillie Island, where 
they were turned out, the Esquimaux dogs got after them 
one day and killed one, 

The survivor did well until the Beluga reached Port 
Clarence, where timothy hay was secured, and from that 
time on she subsisted largely on hay, tntil, when San 
Francisco was reached, she was eating hay altogether. 
Since then she has done very well, and appears in per- 
fect health. 

It is well known that there was a time when the musk- 
ox ranged almost from the southern portion of Hudson 
Bay north to the Arctic Sea, but owing to pursuit by 
man, its range for many years has been continually con- 


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YOUNG MUSK-OX IN THE LONDON ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
From the London Field. 


tracting, so that now it is found only in the barren grounds 
of the far North. Long ago it no doubt ranged over the 
whole of the northern hemisphere about the pole, for its 
remains haye been found in Siberia, Germany, England 
and France, as well as in Alaska. It is no doubt a very 
fone time since it became extinct west of the Mackenzie 

1ver, . 

Hearne, writing toward the end of the eighteenth cen- 
tury, says that he saw the tracks of a musk-ox not far 
from Fort Churchill, in latitude 59 degrees, and that 
during his first journey to the north he saw many in ~ 
about latitude 61 degrees. 

Dr. Richardson says: “The districts inhabited by the - 
musk-ox are the proper lands of the Esquimaux, and 
neither the Northern Indians nor the Crees have an 
original name for it, both terming it bison, with an addi- 
tional epithet. The country frequented by the musk-ox 
is mostly rocky and destitute of wood, except on the 
banks of the larger rivers, which are generally more or 
less thickly clothed with spruce trees. Their food is simi- 
lar to that of the carihou, grass at one season and lichens 
at another; and the contents of its paunch are eaten by 
the natives with the same relish with which they de- 
vour the ‘nerrooks’ of the caribou. * * * When this 
animal is fat its flesh is well tasted and resembles that 
of the caribou, but has a coarser grain. The flesh of 
the bulls is high-flavored, and both bulls and cows when 
lean, smell strongly of musk, their flesh at the same time 
being very dark and tough, and certainly far inferior to 
that of any other ruminating animal existing in North 
America. The carcass of a musk-ox weighs, exclusive 
of the offal, about 300 weight, or nearly three timeg as 
much as a barren-ground caribou, and twice as much 
as a woodland caribou. , 

“Notwithstanding the shortness of the legs of the musk- 
ox, it runs fast, and it climbs hills and rocks with great 
ease, One, pursued on the banks of the Coppermine, 
scaled a lofty sand cliff, having so great a declivity that 
we were obliged to crawl on hands and knees to follow 
it. Its foot marks are very similar to those of caribou, 
but are rather longer and narrower. These’ oxen as- 
semble in herds of from twenty to thirty, rut about the 
end of August and beginning of September, and bring 
forth one calf about the latter end of May, or beginning 


of June. Hearne, from the circumstance of few bulls 


being seen,-supposes that they kill each other in their 
contests for the cows. If the hunters keep themselves 
concealed when they fire upon a herd of musk-oxen, the 
poor animals mistake the noise for thunder, and forming 
themselves into a group, crowd nearer and nearer to- 
gether as their companions fall around them; but should 
they. discover their enemies by sight or by their sense of.. 
smell, which is very acute, the whole herd seek for. 
safety by instant flight, The bulls, however, are-very 
irascible, and particularly when wounded will often. 
attack the hunter and endanger his life unless he possesses 
both activity and presence of mind. The Esquimaux, who 
are well accustomed to the pursuit of this animal, some- 


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FORES? AND STREAM. 


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times turn its irritable disposition to good account, for 
an expert hunter haying provoked a bull to attack him, 
wheels around it more quiekly than it can turn, and by 
repeated stabs in the belly, puts an end to its. life. »The 
wool of a musk-ox resembles that of the bison, but is 
perhaps finer, and would no doubt be highly useful in 
the arts, if it could be procured in sufficient quantity.” 
The musk-ox at present is confined to the ‘eastern 
half of northern North America north of latitude ‘65, 
including Greenland, where it is quite abundant. Many 
of the Arctic expeditions of recent times have supported 
themselves by its flesh, which is very nutritious, and a 


very few hardy sportsmen have journeyed to the north for : 


the purpose of securing this rarest of all game, ' Among 
such may be mentioned Pike, whose faithiul volume on 
the Barren Grounds of Northern Canada is full of in- 
terest, and Whitney, who published an equally interesting 
work entitled “On Snow Shoes to the Barren Ground.” 

The systematic position of the musk-ox is intermediate 
between the sheep and the oxen, but is perhaps nearer to 
the oxen, It takes its name from an odor with which 
the flesh of the bulls is said to be permeated at the rutting 
season, but this odor is reported as not disagreeable or 
even perceptible at other seasons, when the flesh is very 
good. Jt is compared with moose meat rather than 
buffalo meat by writers, 

There are three points about the musk-ox which are 
very obvious and interesting. 

One of these is the coat, which is extremely long—the 
hair on portions of the body being 15 or 20 inches in 
length—and hangs down toward the ground about to the 
hocks, and the wrists—which are commonly called the 
knees. This robe is generally very dark brown in color, 
but the forehead is paler, sometimes whitish, and there 
isa patch of yellowish or whitish on the back, The 
animal’s tail is very short and is entirely hidden by the 
long hair, 

The legs, which, owing to the long. down-hanging coat 
appear very short, terminate in large hoofs. These are 
well separated in the middle, but curved together again 
at the toes and hollowed out beneath like those of- the 
caribou. This form of hoofs, as suggested by authors, 
enables them to climb the rocky ridges with great facility, 
and to scrape away the snow in their search for lichen and 
moss. No doubt it enables them also to run about with- 
out slipping over snow and ice. 

The horns of the musk-ox in the yoting grow out from 
the side of the head, very much like those of the domestic 
cattle, ag shown in the photograph; but with age these 
horns enlarge at the base with a flattening backward and 
forward, and also an approach to one another in the 
middle line, so that finally the bases of the two horns 
cover the whole top of the head, and almost come to- 
gether, Whitney tells us that in its sixth year, and after 
that, there is a crevice between the horns which in an old 
bull is from an inch to an inch and a half wide, At the 
base of the horns, called the boss, the surface of the horn 
is wrinkled and rough, but where the horns bend down- 
ward and turn up again, it is smooth. The width of the 
He in the cow is less than half the width of the average 


food can be fotind for them. 


MUSK-OX CALF SHOWN AT THE-CHICAGO SPORTSMEN’ S SHOW. 
q From a photograph. 


During the last few years several musk-oxen have 
been captured and brought out to civilization. from their 
frozen homes, and ‘it is quite apparent that these animals 
may readily be domesticated, providing only the proper 
A few years ago Prof. 
Kolthoff, the leader of a Norwegian Arctic expedition, 
brought out with him from Greenland two musk-ox calves 


' —a’ bull and cow—which were doing well, and that he 


hoped to be able to acclimatize on the hillsides: of north- 
ern Sweden. Whatever became of them we do not know. 

Again in August, 1900, a calf was captured in Jame- 
son’s Land, East Greenland. The occurrence is described 
as follows; The party, after having passed several soli- 
tary musk-oxén, came upon a herd of twelve full-grown 
animals, accompanied by one calf. Not far off there were 
two bulls, which afterward joined the other herd. This 
herd was lying on the hillside, and on its outer flank 
lay a cow with a calf near it, and a number of other cows 
not far off, One of the party managed to creep to a 
large stone, something over 100 yards from the cow and 
cali. He intended to shoot the mother in the hope that 
the calf would remain with it, and to permit the rest of 
the herd to run off. At the shot, however, the whole herd 
took to flight, but being pursued, by the help of dogs they 
were stopped from time to time and killed, until at last 
only the calf and two wounded cows were still on foot. 
The cows were killed and the calf captured. It was then 
two or three months old, and made a very good fight be- 
fore it was subdued. But after being taken on board 
ship it became quite tractable, and has done well eyer since. 
It was taken to Denmark and kept in the Zoological Gar- 
dens, Copenhagen. Of it the London Field says: “Ad- 
ditional interest now attaches to him from the fast that 
he has passed fifteen months, including an exceptionally 
hot summer, in a climate differing greatly from that of 
his native wilds in the Arctic, and that he is not only 
alive, but flourishing. Herr Jul, Schiétt, the able man- 
aging director of the gardens, is to be congratulated on 
the success which has attended his treatment of the rarest 
animal in the collection under his charge. He has in- 
creased greatly in weight; his whole frame is sturdy 
and thick-set; he has completely lost the lameness with 
which he was affected, as well as the depression from 
which he for a time suffered; he has started a pair of 
horns, which are already 9 inches or 10 inches in length; 
his little wild eyes shine out from his shaggy countenance 
bright and clear, and he has a splendid coat—about the 
shoulders thicker than a bear's. Although the open-air 
inclosure in which he is confined is a roomy one, he 
looks as if a good straightaway gallop would please him 
greatly, and the chamois and pair of goats which ¢on- 
stitute his companions get hunted about a bit. He has 
become quite fond of and eats a lot of hay, and every 
morning he gets three loaves of French bread, a luxury 
with which, says his attendant, ‘he would not be supplied 
in Greenland, where the baker does not call every morn- 
ing. Such matters, however, can hardly be looked upon 


as necessaries of life, and in so far as climate and food . 


are concerned, there seems to be no reason why the plan, 
which has of late been much discussed in the Scandi- 
nayian press, of acclimatizing the musk-ox in Sweden, 


should not be carried out, The main difficulty would ap- 
pear to lie in the capture of living specimens, and it is 
earnestly to be hoped that in future those who proceed 
to the Arctic regions with such a purpose, whether they 
be members of scientific expeditions or Norwegian seal 
and walrus hunters, will be provided with materials some- 
what more humane in their character and more suitable 
for the object in view than magazine rifles.’ ’ 

There are said to be other captive musk-oxen—one im 
England in the possession of the Duke of Woburn, and 
one in the zoological garden at Berlin. 


Ways of the Gadwall. 


Editor Forest_and. Stream: 

_ 1 was talking last week with an old gentleman who has. 
lived here for over eighty years. He tells me that wher. 
he was a boy the gadwall was known all along the’ East- 
ern Shore by the name of bladen duck. I have spoken to 
several other gunners of the old days, and all agree that 
the original name was bladen duck. Why it was so 
called none can tell me, If you should ask any one here 
now. if he can shoot a gadwall, he would look at you in 
bewilderment, but say blatin duck and he would know 
what you meant at once. 

Now blatin would seem to mean that it was very noisy, 
and this is the fact. All the time they are on the wing 
they keep up a sort of whispering quack; of an evening 
you can hear the bunch coming long before you see them, 

Srocktox, Md, O. D. Fourxs, 

[As suggested in “American Duck Shooting” and in 

an earlier note from Mr, Foulks, blatin, bladen, are the 


equivalent of bleating and blatant, and these of the bird’s 
specific name strepera, meaning noisy. | 


European Widgeon in North Carolina. 


-By an unfortunate error of the type the reference in 
Mr. Ruthven Deane’s note on this subject in Forest AND 
STREAM of Feb. 15, was badly mixed up. It should have 
been Nuttall Bulletin, Vol. I, 1880, p. 126, 


Maryland Duck Shooting. 


Our correspondent, Mr. O. D. Foulks, of Stockton, 
Md., writes us: 

Our December shooting was something fine, the best in 
years; gunners who were with me killed from my bat- 
tery alone, 980 geese, brant and ducks from the last weele 
in November to the first week in January. Since then 
we have not had ome good day. The weather has-been so” 
cold and stormy and the bay always frozen or full of 
moving ice. It has been the coldest and stormiest winter 
for a great many years—in fact, I do not remember one 
where we have had so little chance to shoot. The bay 
is full of fowl of all:kinds, and when the weather is such 
we can shoot, expect some nice work will be done. I 
wish the sale of wildfowl could be prevented. I have 
not sold one for years. On days that no one is here I do 
not _go.out, or ifI do only kill enough for myself and a 

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: - Non-Resident Licenses. 


Editor Forest and Siream: : 

It is very evident after reading the article by Lexden in 
your isste of Feb. 15, that he belongs to that class of 
sportsmen who have money to burn, as the phrase is, If 
all sportsmen were in that class there would be very little 
kicking on account of any non-resident license law. As 
it is, there are a good many of us who cannot afford to 
have another piper added to those that already stand wait- 
ing to relieve us of our money when’ we step over the line 
of another State to do our hunting. 

With from two to six others, I haye made some eight 
trips to Maine for the purpose of enjoying the grand 
advantages of lake and forest, and for the chance of 
killing what game we legally could. 

In that time we have expended at a low estimate some 
$1,200, divided among the railroads, as little as possible to 
hotels and restaurants, some to. guides for canoe hire, 
groceries and incidentals, nearly all of which was a direct 
benefit to the residents of the State where the hunting 
was done. ~Per contra. the State was the poorer by a 
few deer and grouse, the bait, we might call them, ‘that 
tempted us to expend our dollars. 

Now, if Maine is foolish enough to demand of us, say 
$20, or even $10, apiece, we shall be obliged to discon- 
tinue our trips and seek our pleasure elsewhere, It would 
appear to be a very short-sighted policy for any State to 
pass a law, the character of which will keep out at least 
one-quarter of the hunting visitors. Of course the license 
law will give more room to those able.to pay it, the 
higher the license the more room. 

Will the people derive as much benefit from the smaller 
number of visitors as from the whole number? And why 
raise this extra money to protect the game where no 
scarcity exists, and the outlying farmer is complaining of 
crops damaged by deer? It might become necessary to 
expend the money to buy wire fences to protect these 
gardens, or perhaps some of the wardens might be sta- 
tioned there to keep out the deer. Seriously, there is a 
plenty and a great plenty, too, af deer. Why, coming out 
on the train this fall, there at the edge of the woods bor- 
dering the track, stood. a deer watching the train as it 
whizzed by; this is no uncommon sight, either. 

Maine is_large, her forest grand and some of it hard to 
get at; her laws as they stand are good enough, both for 
the proteetion of game and the visiting sportsman, and 
in the name of everything sacred do not compel some of 
us to stay at home and forego our hunting trips, just be- 
catise some people are not satisfied to let well enough 
alone. B. 

PrymouTH, Mass. =X 


SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb, 7—Editor Forest and Stream: 
T.am a frequent visitor to Maine, and am interested in 
the proposed taxation of non-resident hunters. I do not 
believe in it at all. My own honest belief is that the seri- 
ous depletion of Maine’s fish and game reserves comes 
not from the sportsmen outside the State, who make an 
annual or less frequent visit to the woods, but from the 
residents of the State itself, particularly in those regions 
which are remote from the large cities, and where there 
are few, if any, game wardens, or, as is often the case, 
inefficient wardens, I firmly believe that many residents 
of the State get their entire meat supply at the simple 
expense of hunting down the game or catching the fish, in 
season or out, as opportunity offers. — 

In common with a number of other Springfield men, I 
have frequently visited John F. Haynes’ Alligator ‘Lake 
Camp, in Hancock county, Me., during the past twelve 
years, and one of my Springfield friends has often been 
there during the past seventeen years. 
is that the average city visitor to Maine is willing to 
observe any reasonable game or fish law, and that the 
latge game killed will average considerably less than one 
animal to each outside visiting sportsman. I have seen 
that usually after a vacationist has killed his first deer he 
is not at all particular whether future trips result in se- 
curing more venison, although, of course, he is desirous 
that the camp should have at least one carcass for use 
in providing the table. We have carefully read your 
news report and editorial on the “Maine Non-Resident 
Tax” in your issue of the 18th, and cordially indorse 
Hon. Charles E. Oak’s speech before the meeting of the 
Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and Game Association. 

Why should not the railroads, which reap a heavy finan- 
cial harvest from the traveling sportsmen, be induced to 
contribute materially toward the extension and improve- 
ment of the game warden service? All right-thinking 
sportsmen want to have the fish and game of Maine prop- 
erly guarded, but most of us can hardly afford to addd 
such a tax, as is proposed, to the expense of our vaca- 
tions. “ i 

The people of Maine need to watch a very large ele- 
ment of their own fixed population, at all times, even more 
closely than they do the sportsmen from out of the State, 
if they want to preserve their game and fish, ~ 

Sn ‘ E. M. Wirxrns, 


Aucusta,- Me., Feb. 6.—Edittor Forest and Stream: 


I am very thuch obliged to-you for printing ‘my com- ~ 


munication. I*read your-editorial in relation to it with 
some surprise. iv : 

I inclose you an editorial from to-day’s issue of the 
Bangor Daily News, the leading daily morning news- 
paper in Maine east of Augusta. 

Now you said-in substance a few weeks since that if 


there is as much poaching in Maine as I allege, “that the - 


demand is not for a non-resident license tax, but for a 
reorganization of the Commission.” 

Now, in Maine we are, as this editorial in the News 
states, in substance, confronted “with a condition, not a 
theory.’ We cannot get a larger appropriation for fish 
and game, strange as it may appear to you and others. 

What, then, in your opinion, had we best do? Do the 
best_we can with what, we have, as we have been doing, 
and sée our big gamé more or less rapidly disappear, as it 


Our joint belief 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


' sttrely will under present conditions, or impese a moder- 


ate license fee to hunt it, sufficient to afford it reasorm 
able protection? . 

Now, I for ore, will be grateful to you, if you, as a 
practical’ sportsma 1 will answer *his squarely, It is not 
argument to abuse me—that is b.ing the question, 

Task you fer your opinion what we had best do, grantea 
tat I ‘state the conditions cerrectly in relation to our 
being unable to procure any large. appropriation frc4 
the State. r i! 

I notice that your correspondent, Special, says the 
Maine papers re generally leaning against a license, ex- 
cept such as would create an exclusive hunting aristucracy. 
The Bangor Daily News in the editorial above referred 
to .jistinctly states the contrary, as I read it. 

he L. T. CARLETON, 

[It has by no means been demonstrated that the Maine 

Commissioners have done “the best we can with what we 


_haye.”” and that therefore the w-ovision of more funds 


is the sine qua non of better game protection in the Maine 
woods. On the contrary, there is reasonable ground for 
entertaining the’ Jelief that a Commission which shouid 
avoid the mistakes of the praesent one and administer its 
affairs with more gumption and ability might achieve a 
vast improvement eve without being given more money. 


There is no necessity then of accesting simply on Mr. 


Carleton’s bald statement, the coneltusion that there are 
but two alternatives, to see the game disappear or to raise 
more money for the Comn..ssion. ] 


- Editor Forest and Stream: 


I have just read what an advocate of a non-resident 
hunting tax had to say in your recent issue. Possibly I 
am not a sportsman, in the generally accepted meaning 
of the word. Moreover, I am an Indiana boy, who thinks 
a license tax is unnecessary and inconsistent. The trans- 
portation companies pay enough money into the State 
treasuries to compensate the State for any expense it is 
put to on account of game protection. Instead of appre- 
ciating this fact and drafting laws to limit the kill, they 
choose by direct license tax to take carnings from trans- 
portation companies by curtailing travel; or, if the travel 
continues, cover game warden expenszs off non-residents. 
But the travel is curtailed in a marked degree by a non- 
resident license fee. Ask representatives of any of the 
lines tiunning into the hunting grounds of Michigau, 
Wisconsin or Minnesota.. 

To limit travel is the real object of a $25 non-resident 
license. It means “stay out of our State; we don’t want 
you.’ If the man with easy money feels complimented 
by the knowledge that he can take his ottting if he wants 
to, and that he is specially invited by this class legisla- 
tion, he siniply overlooks the intents and purposes of 

Fi i 


the law. 


~ Of course, there are people who won’t take no for an 
answer; and there are many others to whom the sport at- 
tending an outing during the hunting season meats so 
much to their health and happiness, that they will meet 
any sacrifice within their means rather than remain 
at home. This is the class deserving of sympathy. The 
sportsman of this type can’t afford to spend a month 
or two each summer at the seashore. He is the man of 
moderate means. He may be a doctor, lawyer, merchant, 
bookkeeper, clerk, farmer or what not. He wants an out- 
ing. He prefers to camp in the woods. with a few con- 
genial companions, whete he can ramble for a couple of 
weeks. gun is considered a natural adjunct to 2 
ramble in the hunting season. Four out of five of these 
people don’t expect to kill anything larger than a rabbit. 
It is a hardship for them to pay $25 for the privileges they 
ask, and, as I said before, it 1s inconsistent. 

The only license fee within the bounds of reason would 
be the local market-value of the game named in the 
license. And this game the licensee should be permitted to 
carry out of the State. I am not in favor of class legisla- 
tion, nor a license to hunt on wild lands. I think Amer- 
ae citizenship should not sink to the level’ of peasant 
ife. 
true manhood; and if a man to be a sportsman must be 
able and willing to spend money lavishly, then the time is 
at hand to classify under another title the army of sober, 
industrious men who, like the Boers of the Tratisvaal. 
know how to shoot, and Jove to tread the hills annoyed 
by the hand of oppression. 


Those who are responsible for non-tesident license - 


laws make the mistake of legislating in the interest of a 
class, instead of the game or of the people in general. It 
is not their intention to do so. Legislators frequently 
vote on a proposition without knowing what it consists 
of. and our discussion of the subject will avail nothing. 

The proper way to protect game is to limit the kill, but 
give rich and poor an equal chance at it while it lasts. 

G. W. CUNNINGHAM. 


Small Bores vs. Big Bores.” 


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I wish to publicly acknowledge my gratitude to Geo. 


. F. Dominick, Jr., and also to Frederic Irland, for the 


graphic. descriptions of moose hunting which appeared 
over their names in Forest AND StREAM for Feb. 1. 
Both of these descriptions are classic word pictures of 
the sport, for which every reader of Forest AND STREAM 
should feel grateful. Mr. Irland’s article is also a valu- 


_able contribtition to the literature relating to small-bore 
_tifles, and I think will do much to dissipate the mental fog 


in which many are groping as a result of conflicting re- 
ports in regard to the work these rifles are capable of. 
When I was outfitting for my first moose hunt the 


“praises of the .30-30 and the .30-40 were’ persistently 


sting for my benefit by my friends, but I looked at that 
little ,30-caliber 160-grain bullet and closed my ears to 
the song of the siren, finally buying one of the much- 
maligned .45-90 repeaters. I will say here for this rifle, it 
has killed three big bull moose, one bull caribou, and about 
twetty-five deer, and no animal was ever struck by one 
of its bullets that did not go into camp with me. I do 
not argue from this that the .45-90 is an ideal moose gun, 
for in my opinion the ideal black-powder maose gun 
should have a bigger caliber and a cartridge holding more 
powder and leati—in fact, something very close to the 
577 gun which Mr. Irland mentioned. The .375 high 
power gun which he described comes still nearer to my 
ideal, and I have waited a Jong time for our manu- 
facturers to put such a rifle on the market, and” have 
wondered at their failure to do so. There is certainly 


, 


' which to lall bear. 


ferocious animal if placed in a vital 


Dollars and cents will not weigh in the scale with” 


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rifle to make its manufacture 


ficient demaiud for sttch a i 
proftable. Mo: in regard to rifles are based 


profitable, —Most opinions 
tipo insufficient: data, : * 
‘The first moose a man kills may come out irito an open- 
ing and stand like a pet lamb to: be killed. by one shot 
from a .30-30, or even a .44-40, and then the lucky hunter 
thinks his rifle is née plus ultra, the best gun for moose, and 
stre vhtway tells all of his friends of his: wonderful 
achievement, and consequently a good many form errome- 
ous opinions respecting the gtin, all of which are based 
upon a single lucky shot. I have heard of a moose being 
kill by one shot from a .22-caliber rifle. 
have also heard of a bear being killed by one 
blow’ from the butt ead of a common carriage 
whip, but who would assume from stich «an occur- 
rence that carriage whips are the best weapons with 
Yet this would only be Seer e the 
fallacies of the small-bore craze’ to an extreme. some 
nf our instructors in the noble art of rifle shooting, aye 
Jecty the use of big bores ee eee aan a 
1 the Di s 
Hhat most any little bullet will ki nace, therefore bal 
‘ets should alwavs be placed in vital places, as this wou 
Bs pee nee the teenot L x bores and powerful, charges 
unnecessary, but would be- evidence of greater skill and a 


“hieher type af sportsmanshin, 


This is a very beautiful theory and would be just the 
thine ta put into practice if it were possible to do if. But 
it ig impossible, and some of the most lamentable failures 


-T know. of were made by some of these same instructors 


i i i into practice. 
while attempting to put their own theory into, : 
When a mecse hitnter has snent perhaps years in a vain 
auest f¢ > the najestic head which he fondly hopes to some 
day see adorning his hall or dining room, and at lee dis- 
coors it when it is being borne ayer from him at a teed 

f biindle of musctilar energy, now glancing 
as apa g over windfalls, and 


do you think he. will 


can penetrate? 
No. it is the instinct of the hunter to shoot. and shoot 


i i in hi d the 
he will, even to the last cartridge in his etn, an 
ou: is generally a huge animal with a few sore aes 
near the surface of its anatomy at one end of the trail, 
and a hunter sick with disappointment and saying un- 
keable things. at the other. , 
Sh mioudels san. to say nothing of the touch, thick 


i ich i is like a coat 
ce and massive bones which it covers. 1s 
eet bull. made by a 


nail. I once saw a wound on a big I 
Oe sa bullet weighing 400 grains, and driven ve 
srairis measure of Dunont No. 1 smokeless powder, mM 8 
bullet first cut squarely through one thickness of s fie 
then through about 6 inches of muscles, then satiarely 
¢..rouch another thickness of skin, and lastly, lengthwise 
through about 4 inches of skin, and then stopred. That 
was an eve-opener for me. Another bullet, from a .30-40 
Winchester, struck the same bull sauarely in the center 
of the neck, went through one thickness of skin and 5 or 6 
‘nches of muscle, and then stonped against the neck bone 
without shattering it in the least. As Irland would put 
it. the old bull kent right on thinking the w “rid was 
good place to live in. until ahout three hours later. whes- 
two more bullets from the Winchester got in where he 
lived and mixed things un a little. It matters little what 
the velocity and shock of a bullet is so long as it fails 
to deliver its shock at the seat of life. To do this regu- 
larly. ic must have weight in proportion to the resistance 
it has to meet. . } 

I agree with Irland that the .30-30 1s all right for moose 
birds. but when I am dealing with moose, I want bigger 
caliber, more powder, and lead enough to eut its way 
through the tremendous resistance it sometimes meets 
from tough hide, thick muscles, and massive bones, and 
still have vim enough to smash the interior arrangements. 

I shall await with what patience T can summon, the 
second installment of Mr. Irland’s delightful story, which 
is promised us, 

I am ctirious to know whether any more of the small- 
bore aftermath was gathered in up there on the Little 
Sou’ west. ; Jos. W. SHuRTER. 

GANSEVOORT, Feb, 8, ; 


A Quwsaint Old Arm, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

A description of an old flintlock gun, or musket, in the 

possession of the writer, may prove of interest to the 
readers of the Forest AND STREAM, and incidentally call. 
forth a clue to the origin of history of this relic of an- 
tiquity. Knowing the family from which it came, we are 
confident that it did duty against the British in— the 
Revolution, and it is also quite possible it saw the heights 
of Quebec in the French and Indian war. It came from 
Ridgefield, Conn., a section rich in Revolutionary lore, 
and the scene of a minor engagement with the British. 
_ After reposing quietly in an attic, with other antiques, 
it was only brought.forth from darkness to light—not for 
love of country, but love of gain, and in this worldly man- 
ner became the property of the writer. Length (“over 
all”), 62 inches ; length of stock, 1214 inches; the stock is 
of the club variety, and it and all the woodwork appear to 
be of beech; length of barrel, 47 inches; gauge, three- 
quarters of an inch at muzzle. The fore end—or what- 
ever they called it—extends to within three inches of the 
muzzle, and is the receptacle for an iron ramrod of 
unique manufacture, 

The lock is in fair serviceable condition, and the flint 
looks as though it might still do duty—should necessity 
require it. The drop of stock we did not measure, and 
the pull is not of the hair-trigger variety. By the liberal 
use of emery and oil, aided by an abundance of “elbow 
grease,” the mame (or part of it) was deciphered on 
the lock plate to be “Jacque Valet” on first line, and “A 
Liege” under or on second, the letters “J. A. C.,” also 
the word “Valet,” also the “A” and the letters “Lie” 
on second line we are positive of, but that it all spells 

Liege” is a supposition on our part. The butt plate and 
trimmings are brass. H. Fox. 


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_. some) Foreign / Game} Birds. 
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Tue exhibit of game birds, which wiv be a feature of 
this year’s show af the Massachusetts Sportsmen’s Asso- 
ciation, will be the most comprehensive exhibit in its line 
that has ever been brought together, and will give the 
sportsmen of New England ‘an opportunity to study at 

-close range, not only the birds with which they are 
familiar, but many yarieties from distant parts of the 
world, ; { 

Peculiar interest attaches to'this collection of imported 

game hitds from that fact that it has been arranged to 
turn them over, at the close of the Show, to the Massa- 
chusetts Conimisioners of Fish and Game for the pur- 
pose of experiment in breeding them. The Commission 
has two well-equipped breeding stations (at Winchester 
and Sutton), where the Mongolian pheasant has been 
successfully raised for some years, and at these stations 
the experiments in breeding the foreign varieties will be 
carried on. If they prove successful, as seems highly 
probable, the offspring will be used in the Commission’s 
work of restocking the Massachusetts covers. 


One of the varieties which seems to hold out the most 
promise of adapting itself to Massachusetts covers is 
the mountain quail of the Pacific coast. The native Bob 
White breed well here, and are at present quite plentiful, 
but Massachusetts is the extreme northern limit of their 
Tange, and an unusually severe winter is liable to sadly 
deplete the present stock. The fact that the mountain 


quail “buds” when the ground feed is cut off, ought to 
enable it to sutvive a season that would prove fatal to 
the Bob White, and, being a larger and more wary bird, 
adds to its desirability. 

Of the European varieties, three, which are sure to 
attract much attention are the French, the Armenian 
and the Hungarian partridges, shown in the accompany- 
_ing illustration. The French partridge is a very showy 
bird and of good size, but, being a native of a warm 
climate, is liable to find the New England winters a trifle 
severe. 


The Armenian partridge is somewhat larger than the 
French and is quite as handsome a bird. In its mark- 
ings the French and Armenian varieties are very similar. 
The French bird has the sides of the body barred with rich 
teddish brown, the corresponding color in the Armenian 
being black, and its white throat patch extends further 
down the neck, the black border not being so sharply 
defined, nor has it the speckled black and white upper 
breast of the French bird, 

The Armenians, -which have been here for several 
weeks, have become quite tame, and there is a possibility 
that they may not prove sufficiently wild for a prosperous 
career in so thickly settled and so hard-hunted a State 
as Massachusetts. However, they will be given a trial, 


ae upon being liberated, may proye this fear ground- 
ess. 


The Hungarian partridge is smaller than either the 
French or Armenian, and a less showy bird. In size 
he is midway between the Bob White and the ruffed 
grouse, resembling ihe former in body coloring, while in 
shrewdness he is reputed to rival the latter—and that 
is as gooil a recommendation as he could bring to New 
England shooters, Being a native of a cold climate, there 
‘is no doubt of his being able to winter here, and the Com- 
missioners feel that this is the bird which will prove the 
most yaluable addition to our game bird supply. 

As the Massachusetts Commission is sadly hampered in 
its efforts at restocking, through lack of funds, it is a 
- matter for sincere congratulation that, through the 

courtesy of the Sportsmen's Show management, they will 
be able to secure so extremely desirable 2 line of game 
birds for the coming season's work, 


~ t 2 Cc. H, Mores. 


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FOREST AND STREAM: 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST 


In the Interest of -Science. 


Cuicaco, IIl., Feb. 14.—Justice Hildebrand, of Water- 
loo, Ia., last Saturday fined Harry Fields, of Cedar Falls, 
$120 and costs, penalty for killing six quail, In doing 
this Justice Hildebrand casts a certain damper upon the 
ardor of Mr. Fields in the interest of science. The com- 
plaining witness was Victor Speer, who claimed that Mr. 
Fields killed the quail in his orchard Jan, 22. Mr. Fields 
admitted the impeachment, but said that he had shot the 
birds under the broad powers of a commision from the 
Iowa State Normal School, to procure specimens of 
birds and animals for mounting and display in the scien- 
tific department of that school. Professor Arey, of the 
institution above mentioned, testified that Mr, Fields had 
done such work. It was the argument of the prosecution 
that to allow the killing of so many quail to go unpunished 
would incite others to shoot the birds illegally and to set 
up a similar defense. No case of a similar nature has 
ever been taken to the Supreme Court of Iowa. 


Snowshoes for the Rockies, 


Mr. John M. Phillips, of Pittsburg, Pa., writes; 
“Some years ago you were experimenting with snowshoes. 
I’ want a pair for Rocky Mountain travel. My guides 
have advised me to get Canadian shoes, three feet long 
and fourteen inches wide. I would esteem it a favor if 


you would kindly advise:me where I could get a first-class 


THREE FORMS OF THE EUROPEAN PARTRIDGE. 
Shown at the Boston Sportsmen’s Show. 


pair. Like yourself, I have been trying to get a fall 
grizzly, and after reading your last spring’s experience, I 
have concluded to try to get one on the spring snow, I 
hope. some day to read in the Forest AND StTREAM the 
obituary of your grizzly.” , 

The Canadian shoe is not suitable for use in the damp 
snows of the spring in the Rocky Mountains, where 
there is nearly always some thawing during the day. It 
is all right for a cold, dry snow, but packs up horribly 
when the snow begins to stick, I have found the long 
Alaska-bow snowshoes the best for straightaway travel- 
ing, but for climbing in the mountain country of the 
West, Iam on the whole disposed to believe that the most 
practical shoe is the bear-paw model, such.as may be found 
in the Northern Rockies. I présume they could be bought 
at Kalispell, Mont. These are a short, oval shoe, about 
fifteen inches in length and perhaps twelve inches in 
width, and the filling is very coarse, indeed almost any 
kind of a crazy eriss-cross in thongs, the thongs being 
cut very wide and stout. It is astonishing how these 
shoes will carry one up. In climbing they hold better than 
a longer shoe, as one can dig in his toes. Moreover, and 
this is a very valuable quality of the bear-paw shoe, when 
one has gotten up above the snowdrifts upon the bare 
rocks, he can carry these shoes on his back and they 
will not inconyenience him in his hunting. A longer 


shoe is much in the way in climbing a steep pitch of a 


mountain face, where very often one cannot keep on his 
feet at all, but has to wallow upward the best he can. I 
think if Mr. Phillips would write to Mr. J. B. Munroe, 
Kipp, Mont., that Jack Munroe could get him a pair. 
They are not very beautiful, but they get there. 


Hudson Bay Guid e. 


It wag a pleasure to talk this week for a little time with 
George Linklater, an old Hudson Bay man, who is in 
town.” Linklater is one of the quiet, retiring sort, and 
he does not limber up very much at first, but it needs no 
practiced eye to discover in him the real article. Link- 
later has worked for twenty-eight years in all for the 

udson Bay Company, and for five years was stationed 
at Moose Factory, at the foot of James Bay. e says 
that the new railroads heading north through Ontario 
are going to open up a great game country, more e&spe- 
cially for moose and caribou. He says that in the early 
days of his Hudson Bay service, moose were almost un- 
known, having been either killed out er not having moved 
into that northern country. He thinks the moose are 
steadily working north toward the James Bay, and says 

are very mamy more meese in Ontario sow, and 


_a pail of water. 


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very many more deer. He also states that so far as he 
can see, the annual take of fur at Moose Factory is about: 
as good now as it was many years ago. 

T asked Linklater whether he had ever seen sign that 
moose were killed by bears, and he said no. “I don’t 
think the bears destroy very many young moose,” said 
he, “or at least I don’t know that they do, but they kill’ 
a great many young beaver, that I know very well.’ He 
stated that he has twice seen proof of the’ fact that the 
fisher can kill a full-grown lynx. The Indians also tell 
him that the fisher frequently kills lynx. He states that a 
polar bear was once killed at Moose Factory on the lower: 
part of James Bay (this is, of course, salt water). The/ 
bear came down from the north and was killed while chas- 
ing a squaw, who had gone down to the water. hole after’ 


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I asked Mr. Linklater what sort of weapon he preferred | 
for killing moose or deer, and he said that the .38-55 was’ 
a good enough gun for him. He one time killed three, 
moose in three shots with the .38-55. I asked him if he’ 
thought the .30-30 was good, and he said yes, although: 
he once had to shoot a moose three times with that gun, 
Asked what animal he considered to be the shiest and 
hardest to stalk, he said that the red deer was very much, 
more difficult in his opinion to kill by still-hunting than 
the moose. 

As to the killing of moose by bear, our old friend, 
Henry Braithwaite, of New Brunswick, states that he 
is sure that bears often kill moose calves, and on one: 
occasion he saw a bear in the act of killing a three-year- 
old moose. The bear had the moose down and was biting | 


at its neck. Henry shot the bear through with a Wesson 
rifle, but had only the one shot with him, and the bear 
escaped. The moose was past surgery by that time. 
Henry says he has always had it in for bear ever since, 


The Wariest Creature 


By the way, speaking of the relative wariness of game 
animals, I have always personally believed that the wild 
turkey is the hardest of American game creatures to kill 
in legitimate fashion. Of course, one cannot classify 
roosting turkeys as sport, and I refer only to the fair 
outwitting of the bird in the daytime. This week I saw 
Mr. Charles Payne, of Wichita, Kan., very well known 
as a dealer in game animals, and of considerable ex- 
perience in the field, and I asked him what, in his opinion, 
was the hardest bird or animal to kill by fair means. 
Without hesitation he replied that it was the wild turkey. 
“T have hunted white-tail deer and wild turkey both,” 


- said he, “and I would much rather undertake to kill two 


fleshy surfaces together. 


white-tail deer than one wild turkey.” 


From Wyoming. 


Another outdoor man who is in the city this week is 
Ben Sheffield, of Livingston, Mont., a well-known West- 
ern guide. Mr. Sheffield hunts in one of the best elk 
countries of the Rockies—the Jackson Hole region below 
the Yellowstone Park. I asked him what he thought 
about the supply of elk, and he said that elk are decreasing 
very rapidly, and that unless something be done promptly 
within five years they will practically be exterminated. 
Mr. Shefheld thinks that the Wyoming law is respon- 
sible for the death of a great many elk. This law re- 
quires that the visiting shooter take out not only a license, 
but a licensed gtide. All sorts and conditions of men 
offer themselves as such guides, many of them being of no 
account. Unable to'make a living at guiding, they do a 
turn at a little elk killing upon their own account, ac- 
cording to Mr. Sheffield. 


Salt the Hides, 


William Kaempfer, the Chicago taxidermist, comment- 
ing upon the condition of a lot of hides recently received, 
offered the following advice: “It would be a good thing 
for sportsmen to know that nearly all hides killed in warm 
climates, or hides which have much grease on them, 
spoil very iy if left in the stm, or if rolled tight with 
the fleshy sides together. If you spread a hide out and get it 
well dried, it will not sweat so quickly as if you put the 
the grease once fries into 


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the hide, that means first a horny place and then a brittle 
place after tanning. For light hides like those of the 
fur-bearing animals, no salt is required, and it is enough 
to stretch them and dry them in the shade, but a party 
killing bear or elk, for instance, do not always have the 


- time to thoroughly dry out their hides in the shade. The 


best way is to.salt them thoroughly, The salt brings out 
the moisture, and-after this is scraped off the hide, it can 
be-rolled arid shipped with the certainty that it will arrive 


in good condition at the taxidermist’s.” 


Northern Shootet in the South. 


Mr. R, B. Organ, of Chicago, is not content unless he 
is having a little fun with somebody, and he says he 
had fun with his pusher in his late Southern trip, where, 
among other places, he shot at the Chef Menteur clubs of 
Louisiana. Roll drew a pusher who was some tired, and 
who did not want to get out into the marsh any further 
than he had to. The Northern shooter theretipon gave 


the young man a lesson in Maksawba duck shooting, in- 


cluding the art of marking down a duck. The result was 


-a bag of thirty ducks, which proved to be the top bag of 


the day, since out of fifteen other guns on the marsh, the 
total result was only twenty-two birds. These old Kan- 
kakee clubs of ours used to turn_out some pretty good 


duck shooters, one of whom was Roll Organ. 


Io the South. 


Tt was like old times to get a letter this morning from 
O. C. Guessaz, of San Antonio. It is Lietit,-Col. Guessaz 
now, inspector of rifle practice, First Division Texas 
Volunteers, and the same says he is well and hearty, also 
adding the information that Dick Merrill, of Milwaukee, 
and W. W. Peabody, Jr., of New York, are at present 
sojourning in old San Antonio, to the mutual pleasure 
of everybody on both sides of the transaction. 

By the way, Mr. E. H, Brown, of this city, is among 
the Chicagoans who are headed southward. Mr. Brown 
goes next month to Aransas Pass for some tarpon fishing, 
and will probably put tip at the Tarpon Club. In April 
he goes to Burdick, Ark., for a try at the alligator gars, 
with which he proposes to have some fun. In May he 
will go trout fishing on the Brule, of Wisconsin, and in 
June he will fish for muscallunge in the same State. 
Now, that is what I call a rational sort of business life. 


Ephraim and His Idols. 


Mr. Fred Irland, of Washington, D. C., is always in- 
teresting, and never more so than when he is writing on 
his favorite topic of the efieacy of the stove-pipe gun as 
compared to the small-bore. I fear that Ephraim is 
wedded to his idols, and that it would not be worth while 
to try to convert Mr. Irland away from his tomato-can 
load. I don’t doubt for a niinute that the big gun will 
kill game, although I have heard of cases where a man 
wanted another shot awful bad. I am afraid that neither 
Mr. Irland nor myself will ever reconcile all the conflicting 
reports about this, that and the other gun and load. As 
to the size of gun, I imagine that the 8-bore would kill 
more quail, and perhaps deader ‘quail, than the 12-gauge. 
I like to use the 12-gauge, none the less. Sometimes a 
crippled quail gets away from the 12-gauge, and I imagine 
it would occasionally from an 8-gatge. There is no gun 
which is going to kill game every time you loose it off, 
It takes something more than general concussion to bring 
meat into camp. If I were afraid of heing charged by a 
desperate quail, I might want to get me an 8-gauge, but 
I have usually found the game charging in the other 
direction, and must confess a sort of leaning toward 
something which will hit “em quick and often. I do not 
know much about moose, but would hate to have a collar- 
bone broken mighty bad. I noticed that every time Henry 
Braithwaite fired off his two-bushel gun, we had to hunt 
about half an hour before we could find Henry. The 
old machine would kick him clear over the-hill. Avaunt, 
Mr. Irland! Prithee, say not so. 


The Belgrade Bull. 


Anybody who is anybody in Montana society has heard 
of the Belgrade bull. which is owned by an English out- 
fit near Belgrade, Mont., and which has more than a local 
reputation. The fame of this creature dates back some 
years, and rests for the most part upon the extreme loose- 
ness and flexibility of the aforesaid creature’s hide. 
Whenever a new cowboy comes up into that part of the 
range, and gets full enough to ride anything with hair 
on it, the owner of the bull meekly suggests that he will 
bet $500 that he has something with hair on it that the 
said cow puncher can’t sit for love nor money. This 
is cOmmonly sufficient to close the preliminaries. The 
owner takes the cow punchet out into the corral and 
shows him a meek, mild-mannered, thoroughly gentle 
old Hereford ox. The old fellow does not in the least 
mind being saddled and cinched, and he allows any one 
to pull the cinch as tight as he can. The cow puncher 
mounts into the saddle, and then the owner of the animal 
takes a long pole with a brad on the end of it and pokes 
up the bull, About two movements after that usually 
settle it. The bull takes a shift in his hide oyer to the 
right, and tilts Mr. Cowpuncher at an angle of about 
60 degrees on that side. Then he pulls his hide over to 
the same point on the left side. The saddle slips around 
and the cow puncher falls off. That is all there is to it. 
Many a good, straight-up rider has come to grief in just 
this sort of fashion, among these Jerky Bill, a famous 
buster, and Spokane, another celebrated subduer of mean 
ones. Spokane was so ashamed when he found that he 
could not ride the Belgrade bull that he left for parts 
unknown, and was not seen for many a moon. 

Yet it seems that the glory of the aforesaid bovine 


hath somewhat paled. A rumor is out to the effect that . 
“he has beerr “rid.” 


Tt was done by a man who worked 
for the Story outfit, name otherwise tnknown. Jack 
Monroe says that this man rode the bull, but did not do 
it fair—that is to say, he only succeeded after tying his 
stirrups underneath the belly of his mount, which is con- 
sidered to be not quite professional in busterdom. 

Kid Gabriel, when interviewed in regard to these’ epi- 
sodes, said: “Down at the cow punchers’ tournament in 
St. Louis, four years ago, there was a feller who come 
down therefrom the Northern range, and said deliberate 


- that he had rid the Belgrade bull, He’ put on a lot of | 
“variably that it really cuts no figure whether the caliber 


airs and allowed that he was about the best that ever 
come down the trail, We staris in te ride some mean 


that he could locate his late partner. 


ones in the tournament, and says he to me; kind of care- 
less, ‘Shall I ride ’em fancy, Kid?’ I says to him, ‘You 
just ride "em any way you can,” Well, you never saw a 
man pull otit more leather than he did in all your life. 


Ge was the punkiest kind. He couldn't ride straight up | 


at all. We knowed he never had rid the Belgrade “bull, 
and we told it to him, Afterward we found out that he 
had taken on the name of the feller that did ride him, and 
at that with tied stirrups.” " 

Mr. J. D. Hawks, president of the Detroit & Mackinac 
Railway, of Detroit, issues a bautiful pamphlet showing 
the resources of the country tributary to that line. This 
region is one of the greatest interest to all sportsmen, 
whether lovers of the rod or gun, and Mr. Hawks will 
be glad to send out copies of the publication to inquirers 
for sporting localities, more especially those who purpose 
forming sportsmen’s clubs, whether for angling or shoot- 
ing purposes. Hovues, 

Hartrorp Buitptnc, Chicago, Ill, 


A Black Duck Pair. 


Revere, Feb. 5.—Editor Forest and Stream: The black 
duck has begun to come in on ovr marshes, but not in any 
large numbers, For the past few years they have been 
getting thinned out to an alarming extent. Spring shoot- 
ing is the main cause for the scarcity, I suppose. Up to 
five years ago we cotld pick up a few birds during an 
evening’s shooting, but it is almost impossible now to 
get more than enough to make a dinner, 

While out gunning one day last March, we ptt up a 
pair out of a small stream. One of the party fired at 
them and dropped one. The duck floated down stream, 
and we were surprised to see it remain in the middle of 
the’ current. We did not have a dog with us, and we 
were in a quandary as to how we could sectre the duck, 
which was in a small eddy and kept whirling about. 

While we were doing our utmost to secure it by throw- 
ing sods of turf and other stuff, we were greatly sur- 
prised to see a lone duck come swiftly up stream and 
poise directly over it. The stream was about twenty 
feet wide, and the gallant mate of that poor duck was 
satisfied to meet a possible death in that narrow stream, so 
He was not more 
than four feet from the surface of the water, and not 
over eight feet from us. Sekt 

We remained standing while the drake kept fluttering 
over. the duck. We made no attempt to conceal our- 
selves, and we were filled with admiration and pity for 
such a courageous and noble fellow. Gladly would we 
have restored his partner to him, but it was beyond us.. 
It was their season of love-making. Let us stop spring 
shooting. ; 

Various evenings while sitting at supper, I noted the 
call of a female duck. I thought nothing of it at first, 
but determined to find out what a foolish duck could be 
quacking about in such close proximity to a railroad 
track in the night time. A small pool of stagnant water 
had formed just back of my neighbor's house. His ducks 
enjoyed its juicy contents during the day. I thought it 
probable that one of his ducks was out. I got a lantern 
and slid down the banking to the pool. I saw a black 
duck in the dirty puddle, and shoo’d at her to drive 
her into her box. She swam to the end of the puddle, 
which was not over ten feet long. I went to the end after 
her, when she startled me by jumping into the air like 
a skyrocket, leaving nothing behind but her quack, quack. 
Funny experience, wasn’t it? She must have been visit- 
ing the tame drakes during early morning hours. 

Last summer I found the nest of a thrush, with the 
old bird at home. By using caution I approached close 
enough to ptit my hand on the back of the thrush and 
stroked her feathers a few times before she left the 
nest. Her young ones had just been hatched. She drove 
me away very quickly by her rapid dashes. The partridge 
displays more cunning, but, none of the courage possessed 
by the smaller birds in defense of their young. Pick up a 
baby partridge in the woods, and its tiny squeak will 
cause the old lady to resort to tricks*to lead you away. 
But she will not dash at your head as the little birds do. 

Jay PEs. 


The Bie-Game Rifle of the Future. 


Wuiute, for army purposes, the improvements along the 
line of small-caliber rifles may continue, yet do I firmly 
believe that common sense will sway the sportsman back 
again to the large-bored rifle. _ 

The man who has chased a .30-30-riddled moose over a 
blood-bespattered trail only to eventually lose him, will 
be inclined in future to change his rifle for one that will 
drop a moose in its tracks. ; 

I have read with much interest Mr. Irland’s remarks 
upon this subject, and if experience counts for anything 
in the woods, his statements and conclusions must carry 
weight. To be able to drop your moose “all of a heap,” 
as against making a stern chase for your wounded quarry 
through séyeral miles of windfall country, between the 
two there can be no question as to the better method. 

The bullet that will knock a moose off its feet as if hit 
between the eyes with a sledge would seem to be the 
bullet par excellence. © | 

To drive a really expanded, soft-nosed bullet directly 
through the heart of a moose is apt to stop him in his 
tracks, but, if the reports one reads are true, to hit a 
moose “any old place” with a .30-30 is not apt to do 
anything immediately further than to make him run. He 
“may eventually bleed to death or die from inflammation 
because of the wound—but cui bono. 

And all this fortifies the many arguments against taking 
the .30-30 into the woods. The large-bore gun with black- 
powder-propelled bullet is not only a safer arm, for 
the rest of the fellows in the woods out of ordinary gun- 
shot, but is a surer arm with which to bring down: your 
game. Of course, the result of planting a 480-grain bul- 
let in a man’s back, because his corduroy coat “looked 
like a deer,” would be, perhaps, more disastrous, but yet 
more merciful than were the act done with a .30-30. Even 


in the shooting of a human being, if the man must be 


shot by mistake for a deer by his fellow. man, the aim 
of the innocent murderer in such cases is so good in- 


is one thing or the other. But as to killing some one in 


the next county, certainly the small-bore smokeless will 
always carry off the palm, 

Fads and fashions rule temporarily in all things. I 
think the small-bore rifle fad for big game that haunt the 


woods has had its run, especially so with the men who 


have tried it and know. 

I should like to know Mr, Weaver's opinion of the 
shocking powers of a .30-30. Just where he planted those 
thirteen bullets in that unfortunate moose. Mr, Irland’s 
article does not state, but I’ll venture to state that it 
would not have taken any such number of 480-grain bul- 
lets to have done the business—and the antlers would to- 
day be gracing Mr, Weaver’s dining hall. 

Years ago I remember reading an article in one of the 
standard magazines reciting the experience of one—I can 
not now recall the name, a noted pioneer Californian, and a 
great hunter. It particularly referred to his killing at 
close quatters five grizzlies, using, of course, the small- 
bore, muzzleloading rifle of the pioneer days. Where he 
planted his bullets (he wasted no second shot on the same - 
grizzly) and what the grizzlies were doing when he was 
busy with his powder horn, patches, bullets and ramrod 
have always been mysteries to me, If I remember right, 
the article was written in a. veraciots, commonplace strain, 
and lacked the enthusiasm that sometimes permeates such 
tales. The article was illustrated, and I can see the 
leather-robed hunter, with the orthodox coon cap of the 
day, in the act of loading his Kentucky rifle, one dead 
grizzly at his feet and fotir real live ones on their hind 
feet in charging attitude and within arm’s length of the 
hunter. Writers of hunting storie§ as well as engravers. 
like poets, are granted license with an open hand, and I 
have always thought that story-teller and engraver put 
their heads together and pooled their licenses. 

The above was vividly called to my mind when on a 


fishing trip in Maine years ago, I saw hanging up in the 


shanty of a guide a single-shot, breechloading Remington 
tifle of very heavy caliber. Whether this had been bored 
especially large to order I do not know. Alongside the 
rifle hung a leather pouch holding not more than three 
or four loaded shells. The bullet used was certainly as 
large as my thumb, and the fewness of them to the pound 
was a source of surprise to me. When I remarked on 


the size of the ammunition, the guide quietly replied that 


every bullet meant a moose or a deer. He never believed 
in spoiling meat by boring it full of holes. When he 
pulled the trigger he liked things to drop right there. 
After covering miles in finding his game, he liked to 
end the hunt right there and not have to follow his 
wounded game over into the next county. 

I think Mr, Irland and this guide might shake hands 
and compare notes, CHARLES CRISTADORO. 


The Megantic Dinner. 


Boston, Feb, 16.—The members of the Megantic Fish 
and Gaime Corporation sat down to their fifteenth annual 
dinner at Hotel Brunswick Saturday evening. The at- 
tendance was the largest ever recorded—about 200. This 
is considered favorable, since it was for some time a mat- 
ter of doubt as to whether a dinner would be held this 
year. Only two or three guests wefe invited. Presi- 


dent Roosevelt was unable to be present by reason of 


the recent illness in his family. Chairman L. T. Carleton, 


of the Maine Fish and Game Commission, was present, 


and took occasion, as was expected he would, to get in his 
hunter’s license work. After congratulating the club 


.on the ntimber of young men. present and dwelling for a 


few moments on the delights of the woods and waters and 
general out-door life, he launched into his chief subject. 
As an introductory, he cited the destruction of the buffalo, 
and added that Maine does not propose to lose her moose, 
caribou and deer in such a manner, It is proposed to im- 
pose a license fee on non-resident hunters sufficient to 
furnish the money to protect the fish and game of the 
State. He did not take pains to say that this fee is sug- 
gested to be imposed on non-resident hunters only, while 
the people of his State will be permitted to hunt in- 
discriminately, without paying for it. He said, in sub- 
stance, that there were less than 2,000 persons registered 
from outside the State who went in search of big game 
last season, but that throughout the season the forests 
were fairly alive with camping and canoeing parties. 
Each one carried a rifle, regardless of its ‘being close 
season on all sorts of game. They carried these rifles for 


protection, though there was nothing in the Maine woods 


in summer time more dangerous than a red squirrel. The 
Commission feels that some means must be provided to 
prevent this summer destruction of game. They have 
come to the conclusion that it is best to impose a license 
fee on all non-residents who come into Maine to hunt, in 
ordet that sufficient funds may be provided to pay war- 
dens to see that the game laws are enforced. 

In reply, President Gleason said that he was sure that 
the members of his club would gladly assist the Maine 
Commission in protecting big game. He suggested that 


the members would doubtless be willing to pay a $10 


license fee. But he added that he felt confident that the 
destruction of big game in Maine cames not so much from 
visitors outside of the State _as from hunting for the 
market by Maine residents. He might also have added 
that sportsmen from all over the country have carried on 
for two seasons, particularly last season, a regular system 
of market-hunting. Mr. Carleton might have gone into 
Clinton Market one morning last fall and seen fourteen 
handsome deer, nearly all heavy bucks, strung up by the 
heels. -A hunting party of seven got home the night 
before. These deer were their trophies. A gentleman, 
who spent his boyhood in the Adirondacks. a hunter then 
and a good shot, who knows every one of the returned 
hunting party well, remarked of them: “They never shot 
one.of those deer. Not one of the party could hit a deer 
if they saw it, let alone the finding of them and getting a 
chance to shoot.” It is perfectly well understood that 
every one of those deer were shot by Mr. Carleton’s 
registered guides. Neither were those deer the hun- 
dredth part of the game of that sort that came into Bos- 
ton markets last fall. Mr. Carleton’s licensed guides are 
deer slayers by trade—the most of them—and the deer 
come directly to the Boston markets. 

Mr. Gleason also mistakes the sentiment of the Me- 
gantic Club, if he believes that a majority of its mem- 
bers are in favor of a hunter's license in Maine. At the 
meeting Saturday evening it was suggested im ope little 


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circle at least that the matter be put to a yote, and if the 
volume of expression had come out against the system 
that I hear every day on the streets, it would have been 
overwhelmingly voted down. But there is an aristocracy, 
and it is to be found in the Megantic Club as well as 
elsewhere; an aristocracy that would be willing to pay for 
a license to hunt, in order to keep the common people 
back: to save the game for the aristocracy. But this 
aristocracy cannot accomplish its puipose through a non- 
tesident license system in Maine, It may rest assured that 
the residents of Maine, among whom there are more rifles 
and experts with them, to the number of inhabitants, than 
in any other part of the country, will see to it that there 
is no great increase of game for the visitors to shoot. 
Almost every boy, and most of the men, in Maine are 
interested in shooting, Rifle makers have sold more 
rifles to go into Maine during the past eight or ten years, 
particularly the last four or fiye, than ever before 
recorded. The matter of a non-resident license to hunt in 
- Maine was not put to a vote at that meeting. 

Speaker Myers congratulated the club on its excellent 
showing, and added that Massachusetts, though having no 
great expanse of lake and forest, is doing good work in 
protecting and propagating fish and game. He added that 
he was sorry that Massachusetts has not already taken 
steps to prevent the sale of big game in her markets dur- 
ing the closed season on the game in the States from 
which it is shipped. SPECIAL. 


That. Queer New York Law. 


TerrE Haute, Ind. Feb. 11—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue of Feb. 1, you discuss Section 33 
of the New York Game Law, as amended in 1901, which 
section is given as follows: 

“Wild birds (other than the English sparrow, crow, 
hawk, crane, raven, crow-blackbird, common blackbird, 
kingfisher and birds for which there is no open season). 
shall not be taken or possessed at any time, dead or alive, 
except under the authority of a certificate issued under 
this act. No part of the plumage, skin or body of any 
bird protected by this section shall be sold or had in pos- 
session for sale.” 

Your conclusion is that only game birds are protected 
by the section, and, consequently, that insectivorous or 
song birds have now no protection whatever in the State 
of New York. In this construction of the section Amicus 
Curiae, in your issue of the 8th, concurs, although he 
seems to hold the opinion that song birds are protected by 
other sections of the statute. 

Amicus Curiae also declares that “the question is purely 
one on the construction of the English language.” 

It seems to the writer that the construction of the sec- 
tion under discussion involves much more than the ap- 


plication of the rules of grammar, and that the antention ~ 
of the lawmakers should control, if a reasonable inten- 


tion can be discovered. A careful analysis of the section 
will show that the section was not enacted for protection 
of game birds, but for the protection of wild birds other 
than game birds and those non-game birds specifically 
mentioned. The legislative intent is so apparent that it 
cannot be defeated nor obscured by the erroneous tran- 
scribing of a single word. The word “no” before the 
words “open season” has evidently, by some error, been 
written into the text of the law in the place of the word 
“an.” The word “no” makes good grammatical sense, 
but a logical and legal absutdity of the entire section. 

But assuming that your construction of the section is 
correct, and substituting the words “game birds” for their 
equivalent in the section, it reads: 

“Game birds shall not be taken or possessed at any 
time, dead or alive, except under the authority of a certi- 
ficate issued under this act. No part of the plumage, skin 
ot body of any game bird shall be sold or had in posses- 
sion for sale.” 

It is a little remarkable that an idea so simple and so 
easily expressed should have been expressed by such an 
obscure circumlocution as is used in the section. _ But 
let that pass; the New York Legislature may not have 
known how to express itself in good English. 

The section defines two distinct offenses. The first 
offense defined, on the theory of the Forest AND STREAM, 
consists in taking or having in possession any game bird. 
In defining this offense it should be noted: 

1. That the section recognizes an open season in which 
one may lawfully kill game birds. 

2, That it does not require one who kills a game 
bird, to have a permit to kill it. 

3. That it does require one who kills a game bird to 
have a permit before he takes it into his possession. 

Thus, on the theory assumed, the evil to be cured, so 
far as the sportsman is concerned, is the picking up of 
his dead birds without a permit. . 

The second offense defined consists in selling or having 
for sale any “part of the plumage, skin or body of any” 
game bird. . 

The section forbids the sale of certain specified parts of 
the bird of the class sold and used for personal adorn- 
ment, and other parts not specifically named, but of the 
same class as those specified. 

It is a rule of statutory construction that a general 
term connected with and following a specific term em- 
braces only things of the class indicated by the specific 
term. Hence, the section does not forbid the sale of 
whole birds nor any part of the bird, except such as 
are sold and used for personal adornment. The crime 
defined consists not in selling game birds whole, but in 
selling and keeping for sale the feathers, heads, feet and 
skins, instead of sending them to the garbage heap. : 

The evil to be cured is the habit of using as millinery 
the heads, skins and other parts of the body of wild geese, 
ducks and other game birds. : 

The theory that Section 33 protects only game birds 
depends upon keeping the word “no” in the text before 
the words “open season.” But the presence of the word 
in that position refutes the theory. With it in the text, 
the section recognizes that there is a class of birds for 
which there is “no” open season—that is, a class of birds 
which it is not lawful to kill at any time in the year. 
But, if the only class of birds protected by the section 
is game birds, it follows that the class of birds which it 
is unlawful to kill, at any time of the year, may, at any 
time of the year, be lawfully taken, dead or alive, divided 
into parts and sold to the ladies to trim their hats. 


On the theory that the purpose of the section was to 
protect game birds only, that purpose would seem not to 
be economic, but purely xsthetic; and the title of the 
law should have been “An act to prevent the female popu- 
lation from decorating themselves with geese and ducks 
instead of orioles and hummingbirds.” 

Rozerr B. Stimson. 


Jacob Wier. 


Princes Bay, Staten Island, N. Y¥., Feb. 10.—Jacob 
Wier was born in the first quarter of the last century, and 
died Feb. 8, 1002. He was well past the allotted age of 
three score and ten, and it is fitting that his death should 
be noted in Forrst AND STREAM, as he was a follower of 
Forest AND StREAM’s Platform regarding game laws. 
Uncle Jake. as he has been called for a great many years, 
was the last of the old hunters in this vicinity; all his old 
hunting friends in the days of his youth have passed the 
Great Divide. He could well remember when Staten 
Island was the paradise of the wing shot. I often took 
advantage of my close personal acquaintance with Uncle 
Jake to lead him into conversation about the good old 
times he used to have with his dogs and gun, as well as 
his fiddle, for he was a great fiddler in his day, Even 
twenty years ago he was in demand by the young people 
to play at their little parties held around at private resi- 


dences; they seemed to think that no one could do the’ 


Fisher’s Hornpipe as Uncle Jake. ‘ 
Jacob Wier in his younger days was a close friend of 


JACOB WIER, ij 


William H, Vanderbilt, when Mr. Vanderbilt conducted 
his large farm at New Dorp, Staten Island, many years 
ago. When Mr. Vanderbilt came down to this end of 
the island to some of the social functions, he would always 
insist on having Mr. Wier there with his violin. One 
evening, as Mr. Wier was wending his way down the 
road to the old Bennet mansion, where he was expected to 
play for Mr. Vanderbilt’s party, he came in contact with 
a “pole cat,” and Uncle Jake told mie, .“I did not smell 
anything else but skunk for three months.” “Well,” said 
I, “how did you make out to play that night?” “Now, 
see, it was just like this. I kept right on and went to 
the front gate and hallooed to William H, to come out, 
and he did, and I told him what was the matter. He 
prentended to me that he could not smell anything, but 
he said, ‘Wait a minute, Jacob, I will go in the. house 
and bring you out something.’ Well, he went in the 
house and brought out another young fellow, [ don’t 


know who he was, but he was a mighty powerful young 


man. Any way, Mr. Vanderbilt and this young fellow 
grabbed me by the nape of the neck and hustled me into 
the house. I kicked and clawed, but it was of no use; 
they were too much for me, and I went right among all 
those fine people. Mr, Vanderbilt started to introduce 
me—they took one breath; that was enough. The women 
shrieked and the dog barked, and out went all hands 
helter skelter, and William H. stood there laughing; but 
there was no dance in the house that night.” 

Jacob Wier advocated the Forrest AND Stream Plat- 
form many years before the paper was printed. He} 
would put his gun, away on New Year’s Day, and it was 
not used on game until the next fall; but it stood in 
the corner ever ready for the hen hawk or any. other 
enemy of the farm yard. I have often heard him speak 
in emphatic condemnation of shooting birds in the spring, 
and he had no use for a man who shot a rabbit sitting. 
He claimed that a man who tracked a rabbit on the snow 
and shot it sitting did not know what sport was; and 
that is sound logic, His idea of honest sport was correct. 

For the last six or’ seven years Mr, Wier had been 
troubled badly with rheumatism, but before that I was 
always invited to go out with him every fall—in fact, he 
thought it was my duty to go out with him once a year 
anyway, He killed a partridge in the fall of 1880 in a 


swamp back of his farm that, I think, was the last par- 
tridge ever shot on Staten Island. He could remember 
when foxes and raccoons were numerous on the island, 
when hotises were few and far, between, and the large 
farms were tilled and their products taken to market 


_ on the sloops in. the bay; when quail were so plentiful that 


they mingled with the barnyard fowls for their break- 
fast, and good-sized trout could be caught in a near- 
by stream; but he said, “I never bothered with. those 
little trout. I had more fun with sheepshead and sturgeon 
down in the bay.’ Qne night, as I sat by his bedside in 
the long hours toward morning, he opened his eyes and 
told me of his younger days, and as he went on telling 
of the sport he had with rod and gun, I felt as 1f,1 
would go and hide my gun where I could never see it 
as soon as I went home. As he lay there his mind was 
perfectly clear, and he told me he would be up and around 
again. I thought not, as one side of his body was per- 
fectly helpless; but his prophecy was correct. He was 
able in a short time to get up and be around for a-little 
while in pleasant weather, but he had a second stroke 
week before last, which was the cause of his death. 
Jacob Wier was a good citizen, an honest neighbor and 
a faithful friend. tk 


Ontario Deer. 


Tue Grand Trunk Railway system has just announced 
that the deer hunting season in the woods of Ontario was 
most satisfactory to the hunters who went there during 
the open season of 1901. Complete information is not 
yet at hand, but the officers of the road estimate that at 
least 5,000 licenses to shoot deer were issued. They also 
estimate the number of deer killed to be about 8,000, They 
say that it is marvelous how the stock of deer keeps up 
in that Province, and that it is partly accounted for by 
the shortness of the open season, from Noy. I to the 15th, 
and by the strict prosecution by the Ontario Government 
of any one transgressing the laws. This year the Cana- 
dian Express Company has conveyed, by actual number- 
ing, 2,372 deer, which is an increase over the preceding: 
year of 878 deer. The largest number were taken from 
the Magnetaway River region, the Muskoka Lakes dis- 
trict, and points on the Northern Division of the Grand 
Trunk, north of Huntsville. The number of deer trans- 
ported by the express company can scarcely be considered 
a criterion of the whole number killed, since settlers, 
Indians, half-breeds and hunters who do not have to 
express their deer to their homes, have doubtless killed 
a great many more than were transported by that com- 


pany. Neither is the number eaten by the hunters while - 


they are in the woods taken into this account, and careful 
estimates suggest that at least 8,000 to 9,000 deer must 
have been'killed in the woods of Ontario during the sea- 
son of “L901. SPECIAL, 


American Duck Shooting. 


Curcaco, Ill., Feb. to—Hditor Forest and Stream: 
I am in receipt of your valuable work entitled “American 
Duck Shooting.’ I have looked it over carefully, and 
can say truthfully, after upward of forty years’ experi- 
ence as a duck shooter, that in my opinion, it is the most 
yaluable work on that subject that it has ever been my 
good fortune to read. I think the book invaluable to all 
duck shooters, and especially so to new beginners, as 
there are instructions therein which required many years 
of experimenting for me to learn—particularly the article 
entitled “The Art of Duck Shooting.” “Guns and Load- 
ing,”’ which, in Jy estimation, is the best advice that J 
have ever seen in print to any shooter, either veteran or 
novice. I can cheerfully recommend this book to all 
classes of sportsmen as the best that I have ever read, 

. W. W. McFartanp, 
President Hennepin Shooting Club. 


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The North American Association. 


Scranton, Pa., Feb. 12.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Could all small and narrow minded loyers of out-of-door 
sports read and read again the clear, concise report of 
Mr, J. B. Burnham, as he has so worthily and beautifully 
outlined the doings and defined the wishes of those grand 
representative men who, on Jan. 22 and 23, gathered at 
Burlington, Vi., under the ngme of the North American 
Fish and Game Protective Association, it is my opinion 
that these would even be willing to listen to the call for 
the better enforcement of law, in so far as regards protec- 
tion of fish and game. Seldom, if ever, has it been my 


good fortune to see in print a worthier band of genuine » 


sportsmen; and when one takes into consideration the 
good feeling and good fellowship pervading this grand 
gathering, he who has cast his flies and used his. rifle 
on either side of the border, can appreciate the fact that 
we should be brother fishers and shooters in’ reality. It 
is quite apparent to very many that the inhabitants .of 
Quebec, New Brunswick, Ontario and even Nova.Scotia 
are in sympathy with their brother anglers and hunters of 
the Republic, . / r Al 
We of the States, year after year, visit the waters of 
Champlain, the islands of the St. Lawrence, the Lauren- 


"B. 


tian Hills, Lake Edward, the feeders of Lake St. John ~ 


and the Grand Discharge, looking for and finding, great 
pleasure on or along the higher waters of the north; and 
while I for one have had occasion at times to protest 


against the actions of poachers, it is a fact that for the. 


must part distance has added to the enchantment, when 
one realized that a wagon road could only be found at a 
(listance of forty miles. 

So long as my brothers shall continue to agitate the 
question of fair legislative protection, so long shall I 
be found with them in the field, in the deep forest and 
beside the stream, A. B, Brat, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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New Jersey Fish and Game. 


Just at present the Commission is engaged in an 
attempt to secuite some modification of the present laws, 
' for new circumstances are’ continually arising demanding 
a change in the laws. A number of bills have already 
been introduced in the Legislature, with every prospect 
of being enacted into laws. Commissioner Frothingham, 
who has a pleasant residence on the banks of Pompton 
Lake, in Passaic county, when approached on the sub- 
ject of legislation, said: 

“Perhaps the most important measure we shall ask the 
Legislature to pass is a law requiring non-residents of 
the State to take out a license for gunning. Such meas- 
wires have been introduced before, and I have always been 
strongly opposed to them as altogether un-American and 
in violation of that hospitality which the citizens of differ- 
ent States should show toward each other. But with the 
lapse of years the potency of the arguments in favor of a 
license increased until I have been made a convert, In 
the first place, yout must remember that we spend thou- 

sands of dollars every year in the propagation of game 
and its protection, The citizens of New Jersey pay for 
all this, and I think it would be only fair if non-residents 
were required to contribute their share. New Jersey 
has taken a front rank in fish and game protection, and 
the result is that stmnners from abl over 
the country ate attracted hither, a state 
of affairs which is only accentuated by 
the fact that New Jersey is the great 
highway between the populous cities of 
New York and Philadelphia. The resi- 
dents of both these cities find it yery con- 
venient to slip across a ferry and enjoy 
the game which belongs to New Jersey 
and which New Jersey pays for. The 
best hunting grounds near New York 
and Philadelphia ate in New Jersey, but 
the time is coming when it will be im- - 
possible to stock our covers to satisfy 
the demand. Non-residents should be 
required to assist in defraying this annu- 
ally increasing expense. Delaware and a 
number of other States have passed laws 
requiring such licenses from mon-resi- 
dents. Perhaps the principle of retalia- 
tion alone would constitute a sufficient 
argument in favor of the passage of a j | 
license law, but there is one thing cer- fi, i) 
tain, and that is if Delaware and other 
States deem it advisable to have such a 
law it is rendered imperatively necessary 
in New Jersey. Then, again, men o 
wealth in New York and New Jersey 
have bought up large tracts of land, espe- 
cially along the sea coast, for wildfowl 
shooting. The resident of the State is 
kept off these preserves. If these non- 
residents want to enjoy the peculiar ad- 
vantages pertaining to New Jersey, they 
ought to be willing to pay for them and. 
by affording funds to stock the fields and 
woods open to all, in a measure make up 
for what they have deprived the citizens 
of New Jersey of. 

“The proper principle for the enact- 
ment of fish and game law: js one of 
restriction. With every yea) there is 
an increase of gunners, and the progress 
of civilization and increase of population 
denudes large tracts of land of trees and 
shrubbery. The chances for the exist- 
ence of game are decreasing. The chances 
of its being killed on account of the in- 
crease in gunners and the improvement 
in firearms are continually on the in- 
crease. For this reason we shall ask the 
Legislature to pass a law limiting the 
number of birds and other game animals 
a giinnet may kill in a day, and also 
restricting the taking of fish as far as 


numbers are concerned. We cannot keep up the supply 


withotit some such measure. 


“By an inadvertence the last Legislature passed a law 
permitting the killing of flickers, as the yellow-winged 
The Audubon so- 
cieties all over the State are up in arms over this enact- 
ment, but I hardly consider the subject worthy of argu- 
The flicker is one of the most beautiful and one 
of the most useful of birds to the farmer, for it deyotes 
If flickers are 
not to be protected and if gunners are to be permitted to 
lall them in the months when our game birds are mere 
fledglings, we might as well let down the bars and kill 


woodpecker is known in this State. 


ment, 


its whole life to the killing of insects. 


off all our birds and game. 


- “By another inadvertence the Legislature last year re- 
moved all protection from deer, but I do not presume 
there will be even the slightest objection to the enact- 
ment of a statute giving proper protection to the few 


deer that are left in the Sate. 


“T also believe that July woodcock shooting should be 
abolished and that there should be protection for eagles 
I The latter animals have again put in an 
appearance in the State, having been introduced by the 
But these are minor 
matters, and our principal insistence this year will be the 
non-resident license law. the limitation in the number of 
fish and game to be taken and the protection of deer 


and beavers. 


owners Of sOmMe game preserves. 


and flickers.” 


“Do you think that the stocking the Commission has 
done in the past few years has been rewardéd with suc- 


cessful’ results?” inquired the reporter. °: 


“That is a difficult question to answer definitely,” re- 
plied Mr. Frothingham.. “I should certainly answer it 
affirmatively: and that without any hesitation, but to give 


any definite ided as to the extent of‘ the success would-be 
impossible. (Ijam- free to*say-that as far as stocking with 
rino-necked pheasants 1s concerned, it was an utter fail- 


ure, but I do not think this should be ascribed to the 
Comission. These birds and their Japanese congener 


have been successfully introduced in many of the West- 
ern States, where they have to a great measure taken the 
place of the native partridge or grouse. There is no 
reason why the birds should not thrive in New Jersey. 
We tried the experiment, and from nearly every place 


where the birds had been put out we received encouraging 
letters and frequently glowing accounts of the success 
of the experiment. The birds bred well, and, although 
the old birds, from the fact that they had been bred in 
confinement, were rather tame and thus became easy 
marks for gunners, the young birds were sufficiently wild 
to afford good sport and to preserve themselyes, Un- 
fortunately a measure we had introduced prohibiting their 
killing for a term of years failed to become a Jaw. The 
next Legislature was equally obdurate in this direction, 
and. by the time the following Legislature passed the pres- 
ent law the birds had been killed off. . Want of funds has 
prevented us from pursuing the experiment, but the mat- 
ter will in all probability be taken up again. 


“That the stocking of quail has heen a success cannot 
be denied. for, according to all the accounts we have 
received from all parts of the State, there are now more 
quail in New Jersey than there have been for many 
years. We were very careful to secure only Western 
birds coming from high latitudes, calculated to with- 
stand the rigors of our winters, for it is a well-known fact 
that Southern quail migrate im the late fall. Money ex- 
pended for Southern birds is wasted, but the quail we 
have distributed bred here and did well. What we shall 
do this year I do not know, for the markets have been 
practically closed for live quail by the enactment of 


HON, 
Fresident North American Fish and Game Protective Association. 


F. R. LATCHFORD. 


strict laws in different States prohibiting their trapping 
and exportation. About the only State left open to us is 
California, which still permits the exportation of quail 
under restrictions from the State authorities. Whether 
the California quail will withstand our winters is some- 
thing I cannot tell. We may try the experiment if inquiry 
warrants a belief that it may prove successful. The Cali- 
fornia bird would certainly be a glorious acquisition to 
our wild fatina, and the temptation to try to acclimate it 
here is certainly great. But the fact that we cannot secure 
any more of the common Western quail affords another 
strong argument in favor of further restriction and for 
the passage of a law limiting the number of birds that 
may be lawfully taken in a day’s otunning, 

As to whether the introduction of the pike-perch, the 
white bass, the channel cathsh and other fish brought on 
from the Great Lakes will prove successful, time alone 
can tell. We have had very satisfactory reports from 
matly waters where these fish were introduced, but 


whether the sticcess was -merely spasmodic, whether their _ 


breeding was merely due to peculiar and fortuitous cir- 


cumstances or whether it will be lasting, cannot as yet be 


told. Hundreds of circtmstances, many of: which we ° 


know nothing at all about, govern the well-being and the 
multiplication of fish, Mankind has been’ studying fish 
for centuries, but what we do not know about fish would 


fill a far larger yolume than what we do know about fish. ‘ 


Why fish should multiply one year and not another is 
something we cannot tell. This is not at all surprising. 
Ask a farmer why it is that one year he has abundant 


crops and the following year none at all, and he wall’ - 


simply shrug his shoulders and say he does not know. 


He uses the same quantity of seed, the same quantity, of. - 


.compost and does jist as much work one year:as. he-dogs.. 


the following, bit the results are vastly different, How 
is it that an apple tree one year will be laden with fruit 
and the next year not produce enough to make a decent 
pie? And yet here you have the soil, the tree and all 
its surroundings under your eye. You can use the micro- 
scope, and you can make chemical analyses, but all the 
science in the world will never answer that simple ques- 
tion. With the fish you haye the impenetrable veil cast 
over their doings by the water, Fish keep moving about 
continually ip search of food or for some other reason. 


. 


The large fish feed on the small ones, these on the small 
animals that live on the weeds and other sttbaqueous 
plants, these plants subsist on the food found in the soil, 
and this food subsists on the'Lord knows what, but a 
single break in this chain and there is disaster. If the 
weed in the water dies, the small animals which obtained 
life from the weed also die. Then follow the small fish 
aud in course of a short time-the larger. We may know 
all about these things some time in the future, but that 
does not help us in New Jersey in this year 1902, 


“Fish and a great many other animals frequently change 
their habits, and this has given rise to disputes as to 
what these habits really are. I have read with some 
interest recent discussions as to whether the gray squirrel 
hoards nuts for the winter or whether he depends on his 
more industrious cousin, the red squirrel. The question 
has been answered both ways any number of times, and 
that by men who were positive that they were right, for 
what they knew they had learned from their own observa- 
tion. I believe that the gray squirrel very quickly gets 
out of the habit of hoarding nuts when he finds that he 
can depend on robbing the red squirrel. Then a year 
comes when the red squirrels die off or leave the country, 
and the result is that the gray squirrel starves, and then 
people wonder what has become of the gray squirrels. I 
know that gray squirrels hoard nuts, for I have seen them 
do so, and I haye seen them go to their 
hoard in the winter. But in Central 
Park, in New York, the squirrels must 
be supplied with food during the win- 
ter months, for they have long since. 
Jearned to depend on man to keep up the 
supply of their food. Remove those gray 
squirrels into the wilderness, and they 
would quickly go back to the ways of 
their ancestors and put by a wintet’s sup- 
ply of food. I only cite these facts to 
show how many matters must be consi- 
dered when we undertake to interfere 
with the admirable balance nature has es- 
tablished in the animal kingdom, when 
we undertake to place animals where 
nature did not place them. Remove a 
white perch from the brackish water in 
which he had his home to some land- 
locked water, and he will spend the rest 
of his existence in trying to find a way 
out to get back to brackish water. Take 
a white bass a few months old and place 
it in the same water, and he will never 
worry about brackish water, but will 
promptly settle down and multiply. But 
these incidents are only a few of many 
hundreds. We know these, but we do 
not know the hundreds of others, Un- 
der these circumstances we use what 
knowledge we have, and then the rest 
is experiment. We know that certain 
fish will not thrive in certain waters, and 
these facts guide us in our work of © 
- stocking. A pond may be stocked, for 
example, with pike-perch, and the follow- 
ing year there may be thousands of them 
and a few years after none at all. In an- 
other pond the introduced pike-perch 
may apparently wholly disappear, only 
to show up some years later in large 
numbers. What the cause of all this is 
we do not know, We do the best we can, 
and I do not think that we have any rea- 
son to complain that our efforts have not 
been successiul.” 


The New Jersey Commissioners are 
Howard P. Frothingham, Mt. Arling- 
ton, President; William A. Halsey, of 
Newark; Benjamin P. Mortis, of Long 
Bee and Richard T. Miller, of Cam- 
en. 

The Commissioners appointed under 
the law of 1894 have made regular an- 
} ' nual reports, and these show that dur- 
ing the incumbency of the Commission there have been 
collected fines for violation of the law to the extent of 
$23,376.84, the State’s share of which amounted to $7,- 
792.28. This latter sum was turned into the treasury of 
the Commission and expended for the furtherance of its 
work. The reports also show that there were distributed 
throtighout the State 474 ring-necked pheasants and 8,626 
quail, Dtiring the last year the Commissioners gave heed 


to some few demands for rabbits and distributed 180 cot- 


tontails. In the distribution of fish the Commission was 
among the first to recognize the fact that the distribution 
of grown fish proved more satisfactory than the planting 
of eggs or fry, for the latter were subject to too great a 
rate of mortality on account of their delicate condition. 
The Commission was the first one in the country to suc- 
cessfully carry out the project of bringing carloads of live 
fish from the Great Lakes to the waters of the East, and 
annually this work has been going on for the past five 
years. The Commission was at first atra loss to secure a 
supply of black bass, a fish that cannot be bought in the 
market like trout, but a happy solution was found in the 


‘discovery that» annually thousands of these fish found 


their way into the Delaware and Raritan Canal, through. 
which they traveled to certain destruction. Now most of 
these fish are netted and placed in the waters of the State, 
the, work all being done by the wardens. The reports 
show that the Commission has distributed 256,300 yearling 
brook trout, 326 channel catfish, 13,318 black bass, 5,955 
pike-perch, 180 strawberry bass, 2,510 pike and pickerel, 
13.688 yellow perch, 3.393 white bass and 41r white perch 
These were all adult fish and these figures do not include 
maty thousands of fish transplanted from one-pond to 
another, atid: of which no record was kept. In addition 


to this, the- waters of the State were supplied with mil- 


tions of bait fish, food for the fish which had been intro- 


‘duced. 


The Conimnissioners serye without pay. The State 
allows them $800 a year for expenses, but the Commis- 
sioners have annually turned this amount into their treas- 
ury and have paid their own expenses. Of the original 
board only one remains, Mr. Frothingham, The rest 
either resigned or failed of reappointment on account of 
political influence. 


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A Club Banquet. 


Aut day Feb. 8 a great storm swept over Montreal. 


The wind blew a gale, the snow fell fast and was whirled 
into deep drifts; added to the masses already piled up 
it blocked the streets and roads. The guests of the Place 
Viger Hotel looked out over the park upon an Arctic 
scene. 

But at night the curtains dropped and the electric lights 
made a summer interior. Thé main dining room of the 
hotel was given up to the Laurentian and the St. Maurice 
Clubs for their annual dinner. At seven o’clock the 
piper, in full regalia, led the procession down the long 
halls, and soon thereafter the train of waiters led on the 
delicious “Malpecque”’ oysters. 

The invited guests were Judge W. Lynch, Hon. S. N. 
Parent, P. N. Martel, QO. C., Gen, Wm. H. Henry, U. 5S. 
Consul at Quebec, Hon. George W. Stephens, C. M. 
McCuaig, Messrs. L. A. Boyer, J. S. Brown and Mr. 
Boulter. 

The president of the Laurentian Club, Mr. Joseph W. 
Howe, of New York, presided. 

The company included members of the two clubs from 
Montreal, Boston, New York and otHer places in the 
States, for the membership extends from Quebec to 
Texas. : 

Among those present were Dr. William H. Drummond, 
author of “The Habitant,’ “Johnny Corteau,” etc., of 
the Laurentian Club, and also president of the St. Maur- 
ice Club; Messrs. W. H. Parker, managing director of 
the Laurentian Club, J. George Veith, secretary-treasurer 
of the Laurentian Club; Mr. Johnson, V. P., of St. 
Maurice Club; Messrs. Charles P, Frame, Emory Lyon, 
Charles P. Cowles, George A. Weber, E. M. Fulton, W. 
H. McCord, L. A. Bevin, James McCutcheon, Wm. M. 
Ivins, W. J. Kingsland, Chas. G. Ritchie, Henry B. 
Bates, Geo. H. Hazen, E. A. Olds, all of New York: Dr. 
Wm. Gardner, Louis Sutherland, Capt. George C. Hiam, 
John Forman, C. J. McCuaig, H. W. De Courtney, A. 
W. Stevenson, all of Montreal; A. W. Leitch, of Hamil- 
ton. 

After introductory remarks by the president, the first 
regular toast, “The King,’ was announced, and re- 
ceived the loyal and dignified response usual from every 
compaty over whom the flag of England waves. 

The succeeding regular toasts were: “The President 
of the United States,” happily responded to by Gen. 
Henry, U. S. Consul at Quebec; “Our Guests,” wittily 
touched by Mr. L. A. Boyer, Hon. George W. Stephens, 
and Mr. J. S. Brown; “The Laurentian Club,” “The St. 
Maurice Club.” . 

A flood of brief, impromptu and appropriate speeches 
followed the calls to these toasts by Mr. Hubert R. Ives, 
A. W. Stevenson and J. George Veith, of Montreal; 
Messrs. Charles P. Frame, Charles P. Cowles, George A. 
Weber, James McCutcheon, E. A. Olds, of New York; 
and E. M. Farnsworth, of Boston. : 

Songs by Mr. Charles G. Ritchie and others were in- 
terspersed among the speeches. 

Wm. H. Parker, the managing director of the Lauren- 
tian Club, moved the company to much laughter by his 
iinique and facetious narrative of a patient and much- 
winding trip he took from Mistassini to the Gadbout 
River in a fog. 

Dr, William H. Drummond, who was most tactful, 
genial and indefatigable in making the dinner a success, 
recited in his inimitable style several of his poems. among 
them “Johnny Corteau” and “Little Lac Grenier.” 

The feeling of the members toward their clubs and their 
enthusiasm for them, was manifested by their applause 
when, at the beginning of the speaking, it was said, in 
substance: “Montreal has the enyiable reputation of be- 
ing the foster-mother of many successful clubs, and if she 
is ever proud of that maternity she ought to be proud of 
the two clubs who are gathered at this family banquet. 
There is not a man of all this most intelligent company 
who does not believe in his heart that they are among the 
very best and most promising of all Montreal’s forest- 
born children.” LAURENTIAN. 


President Latchford. 


Toronto, Jan. 29.—Editor Forest and Stream; You 
will no doubt have learnt ere this reaches you that the 
Hon. F. R. Latchford, Commissioner of Public Works 
for the Province of Ontario, was unanimously elected pre- 
sident of the North American Fish and Game Protective 
Association at the recent meeting of the Association at 
Burlington, Vt. 

It was wisely decided to hold the next annual meeting 
in the city of Ottawa, the capital of the Dominion of 
Canada, and also the home of the Hon. Mr. Latchford. 
It augurs well for the future of fish and game protection 
to have such men taking an active interest in the im- 
portant work as Mr, Latchford and his worthy predeces- 
sor. 

I feel stire the warm-hearted sportsmen of Ottawa will 
do their level best to emulate the generous hospitality 
accorded us at our late meeting by the citizens of -Bur- 
lington. E. TINSLEY. 


Wew Hampshire Ice Fishing. 


Boston, Feb. 15.—The New Hampshire Fish and Game 
Commissioners have made public their findings on the 
numerous petitions handed to them both for and against 
ice fishing in certain lakes, ponds and rivers in that 
State. The hearing was begtin on these petitions several 
days ago at Concord, and of which the Forrest ANpD 
Stream has already had an account. The Commissioners 
say: “Under authority of Sec. 5, Chapter 78, of the pub- 
lic laws. we do hereby prohibit fishing through the ice in 
all ponds and lakes in the towns of Hillsboro, Newton, 
Plaistow, Danville, Hampstead, Salem, Atkinson, Derry, 
Brookline and Francestown; Suncook Pond, in the town 
of Northwood and vicinity; Kelly Pond, in the tawn of 
New Hampton; Trury Pond, in the town of Bow; Web- 
ster Lake, in Franklin; the waters, bays or basins stp- 
plied by the Winnepesaukee River, between the dam and 
East Tilton and the Tilton & Belmont Railroad bridge, 
over the same river—all for a term of five years.” , This 
finding will throw some ponds and lakes open to ice fish- 
‘ing after Feb. 24, but it closes a good many more. It 
is evident that the Commission had the good of the 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


fisheries of the State in view in their findings, and opened 
few if any, waters where the fish needed greater protec- 
tion. In order that there may be no misunderstanding 
as to the status of any waters in the State since the new 
findings, the Commission is preparing for publication a 
list of lakes and ponds closed by the Legislature to ice 


fishing, as well as those lately closed by the Commission; _ 


and also those that will be opened to ice fishing after 
Feb. 24. SPECIAL. 


Che Fennel, 
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Atlantic City Kennel Club. 


THE first annual show of the Atlantic City Kennel 


Club will be held in Marine Hall, Young’s Pier, Atlantic 


City, N. J., March 26, 27, 28 and 20, 

The officers are: President, G. Jason Waters; Vice- 
Presidents, Mrs. Jas. L. Kernochan, Hon. John J. Gard- 
ner, Hon, Jos. Thompson, Mrs. D. Murray Bohlen, Hon. 
Franklin P. Stoy, Hon. Allen B. Endicott, Capt. John 
L. Young; Secretary and Treasurer, Thos. H. Terry; 
Board of Stewards, Marcel A. Viti, chairman; H. K. 
Bloodgood, Louis A, Biddle, D. Murray Bohlen, Ronald 
H, Barlow, W. S. Blitz, G. M. Carnochan, S. Boyd Car- 
rigan, John Caswell, Wm. C. Codman, Richard Croker. 
Jr., Frank H. Croker, John A. Davidson, R. W. C. Elli- 
son, C. Wistar Evans, George Greer, Richard H. Hunt, 
Henry Jarrett, Rowland P. Keasbey, Harry T. Peters, 
Chas. W. Rodman, Jr., Winthrop Rutherfurd, Singleton 
Van Schaick and others; Superintendent, James Morti- 
mer. 

Classes: 165 in which the prize money is $10, $5, $3 
throughout; 29 winner's classes, 16 local classes; 210 alto- 
gether. 

Specialty Clubs; The Ladies’ Kennel Association, Fox 
Terrier Club, Irish Terrier Club, Great Dane Club, Collie 
Club, Welsh Terrier Club, Dachshund Club, and Pome- 
ranian Club have made liberal response to our invitation 
to offer prizes at the show, and the others we expect will 
follow. The Philadelphia Dog Show Association willl 
offer several prizes, and sixteen cups to cost $25 each 
have been offered by individuals, and we expect many 
more. 

Entry fees: $3 in regular classes, $2 in local classes. 
Entries close March to with James Mortimer, superin- 
tendent, at Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. Mortimer will come 
to Atlantic City directly after the New York Show and in 
the meantime any communication that may be addressed 
to the secretary of the club, Mr. Thos. H. Terry, Atlantic 
City, N. J., will receive prompt attention. 


Hachting. 
aaa 
Designing Competition. 


In view of the continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
columns of Forest AND STREAM, In America the yacht- 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and stich a com- 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu- 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months. 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers. Three prizes will be given for the best de- 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: 

TI. A pole mast sloop. 

II. 25ft. load -waterline 

III. Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 

IV. At least 50 per cent. of ballast outside on keel. 

V. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 

All abnormal features must be studiously avoided in 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plans 
should be of the simplest character, It was our idea in 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished to 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or 
three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 
type. 
fe DRAWINGS REQUIRED. 

I, Sheer plan, scale 1in. = 1ft.—showing center of 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. 

Il. Half breadth, scale rin. = rft. 

[iI. Body plan, scaie tin = rit. 

[V. Cabin plan, scale tin. = rft. 

V. Sail plan, 1%4in. = 1ft., showing center of effort. 
The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 

A table of- offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, the 
designer should inclose his own name and address, to- 
gether with his nom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later than 
Feb, 28, 1902. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. F 

The FoREST AND STREAM reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. 

The prizes offered are as follows: 4st prize, $25.00; 
2d prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr, Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. 

Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm-of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine &- Crane, has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane's professional 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, and 
every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness, 


- Bridgeport Y. C., for a yacht to compete in the trial races: 


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Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, Feb. 16.—Last week B. B. Crowninshield re- 
ceived an order from Mr. Thomas H. McDonald, of the 


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to select a challenger for the Seawanhaka cup. It was 
expected that the order would come from another quar-: 
ter, but New England yachtsmen will be glad that the 
designer of Independence will be given a try in this class. 
He has had experience in designing a boat of about the 
same scantlings for the Quincy cup, and the knowledge 
gained in that venture should be of great service to him 
now. —- 

A better choice for the builder of the McDonald boat 
could not have been made. She will be built by William 
B. Smith, of Town River, Quincy Point. Smith has al- 
ways been known as a builder who constructs a boat in 
the most solid manner, Yachts which he has built are 
fitting examples of this fact. It was he who built Thetis 
and Huron, and who remodelled the schooner Gitana. He 


- also built the schooner Alert, now owned by Clement A. 


Griscom, of the New York Y. C. Although his skill as a 
builder of solid yachts is known, he has also had an 


experience in light construction that comes in handy on 


occasions like the present. He was for some years con- 
nected with Ruddick, a builder of racing shells, and in 
this way he has thoroughly learned how to combine 
strength with the lightest possible construction in wood. 
No better example of his skill in this direction was shown 
in Hostess, the successful defender of the Quincy cup in 
1899. Although she is an extreme scow with abnormal 
overhangs, her ends were not held up by turnbuckle 
trusses. She had a system of square and diagonal wooden 
bracing of the lightest possible kind, and it is interestin 
to note that she kept her shape better and held her origin 
waterline length longer than any boat of the same type 
that has ever been built. She was supplied with a double 
deck of wood, the top covering being laid diagonally. 
This prevented wringing and the consequent loss of shape 
under strains. 


_ It is quite likely that this boat will be wholly Boston 
in her make-up. Adrian Wilson was closeted with 
Crowninshield Friday afternoon, and, although it is not 
known that any contract for sails has yet been given, it 
is likely that they will be made by Wilson & Silsby. 
Crowninshield has wasted no time since the receipt of the 
order, but at once saw Smith and placed the contract 
for building. He knows well the value of tuning up, and 
intends that the McDonald boat shall be in the water as 
soon as possible. Crowninshield also has an order for 
an 18ft. knockabout for Com. L. B. Goodspeed of the 
Duxbury Y. C. Com. Goodspeed is also a member of the 
Hull-Massachusetts Y. C, , 

At Lawley’s things have commenced to hum. The 
east shop is filled with boats and it is likely that the same 
condition will prevail in the west shop before long. The 
lead keel for the 60-rater, designed by Gardner & Cox 
for Mr. Henry F. Lippitt, was run last week. Its weight 
is 21 tons, and it is a beautiful casting. ‘There does not 
seem to be a bubble throughout its entire surface. All 
of the frames have been turned out, and it is likely that 
they will be set up this week. The frames that reach 
below the waterline are bronze and the floor plates are of 
the same material. They are very light, and to give them 
strength there is a reverse frame of steel. In the same 
shop the s5rit. launch for Yale has been planked and the 
work of imstalling the boilers and engines has commenced. 
The third boat in this shop, a 46ft, yawl, designed by 
Arthur Binney for Mr. W. L. Wharton, will probably be 


_set up this week. The oak keelson, stem and sternpost 


were turned out last week, and the lead keel has been run. 

In the east shop the 1o4ft. steam yacht, designed by 
Fred Lawley for Justus C. Strawbridge, of the Philadel 
phia Corinthian Y. C,, has been planked and her deck 
partly laid. The interior joiner work is now being put in 
and the deck house fotward is being built. She is 104ft. 
on the waterline, 128ft, over all, 16ft.-4in. beam and 7ft. 
draft. She will have good accommodations and should 
make a fine cruiser. There is but one deck house forward, 
which will be used for a dining room, a dumb waiter 
leading to the galley below. The bridge will be. over 
this house. Below decks there are three staterooms, and 
the main saloon in the owner’s quarters, There are three 
skylights. At the forward end of the main saloon there 
is a fireplace. There is fine closet room throughout these 
quarters. Forwatd of the boiler and engine space there 
is a large galley. Then come the captain’s and the en- 
gineer’s stateroom, while, in the forecastle, there will be 
eight pipe berths. It is expected that she will make 
1244 knots under natural draft and fourteen forced. She 
will be used at Camden, Me., where Mr. Strawbridge has 
a fine summer residence. During the winter a large 
wharf has been built on his property, with boat houses, 
and a landing stage will be supplied where the yacht can 
come in at any tide. 

In this shop the 46ft. schooner, designed by C. H. 
Crane for Arnold Lawson, is partly planked. She will 
be a very fine boat in every detail. Her garboards are 
oak, and, above the sixth strake of planking, she will 
be double planked, the outer skin being of mahogany and 
the inner of yellow pine. Capt. Oloff Cronstadt will be 
in command of her. He has been in Puritan, Volunteer, 
Pilgrim and Independence. He was also in the 4o0- 
footers Helen and Gossoon, and in the 46-footer Oweene. 
Close to the Lawson boat is a 35-footer, designed by 
Crane for H. A. Morse, of Boston, She is a large- 
bodied boat, with the easy sections seen in old-time 
cruisers. She will make a fine cruiser. She is now 
partly planked. A 3oft. yawl, designed by Binney for 
Messrs. Foss and Gunnison, is in frame. The Y. R. A. 
2t-foater, designed by Crowninshield for Hon. Charles 
Francis Adams, 2d, is planked and the deck is being 
laid. She is a very clean-looking craft, and looks Crown- 
inshield all over. 

Fred Lawley has an order for a Soft. waterline auxiliary 
yawl for Mrs. J. B. Gibson, of New York. The yacht 
will probably be used at Bar Harbor: e also has 
orders for a 35-footer for Mr. W. H. Fleetman, of New 
York; a Y.R.A. 25-footer for a Marblehead yachtsman; an 
18-footer for Mr. John Pridgeon, of Detroit; an auxiliary 
a2sft. cat for Mr. W. S. Hills, He has turned out the 
lines of a 35-footer for Mr. R. H, Harte. She will be 
built at Philadelphia. He has orders for two 18-footers 
for members of the Duxbury Y. C. One of these will-be 


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Howard Linnell, of Savin Hill, and the other will 
be built at Kingston by Shiverick. 

nell Bros. have made the following sales: The 
46ft, sloop Gorilla, to a member of the Corinthian Wen S 
sea acht Vivian, to Com. George Stewart, of the Chel- 
sea. ¥. C.; 25-footer Beatrice, to Mr, J. P. Clare, of the 
Quincy Y, C.; Agness to Mr. A, Willis, of Boston; r8ft. 
knockabout Dazzler, to Mr. C, D. Reynolds, of Auburn, 
R.1, ; knogkabout Comet to Mr. H. J. Gilbert, of Milton, 


-and Caper, to Mr. C. M. Gibert, of Savanna, Ga. 


Small Bros. have orders for an 18-footer for G. W. — 


Glover; two 17ft. auxiliary knockabouts, one for Dr. F. I. 
Proctor, and the other for Mr. Charles Gammon; a 
launch for Mr. N. A. Smith, of Seneca Falls, and a 3r1ft. 
yawl for Dr, Edward Reynolds. j a 
Burgess has received from Mr. J. Hopkins Smith, an 
order for another 18-footer from the same lines as the 
four which he previously ordered, and which have been 
completed by Grayes, of Marblehead. This yacht will 


race in Massachusetts during the coming season, and will- 


then go to Portland, Me. 
Joun B. KILieen. 


Two Large Steam Yachts Launched 


Tuer yard of the Burlee Dry Dock Company, Port 
Richmond, L. I., was the scene of two important launch- 
ings last week. ‘ Both of the yachts in question were de- 
signed by Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs, 
Tams, Lemoine & Crane. 4 

The first of the yachts to take the water was Rheclair, 
which was launched on Monday, Feb, 10, She was built 
for Mr. D, G. Reid, and the yacht was christened by his 
daughter. Rheclair’s dimensions are as follows: Length 
over all, 215ft.; waterline, 183ft.; breadth, 27ft., and draft, 
13it. She is built of steel and is fitted with bilge keels. 
The vessel is fitted with twin screws and her engines will 
be of 2,000 horse-power. The engines are of the triple 
expansion type and four Almy boilers will furnish the 
steam. A speed of 17 knots is guaranteed. As the yacht 
was designed primarily for cruising, her bunkers were 
made of sufficient size to permit her to cross the Atlantic 
at a speed of 10 knots without recoaling. There will be 
a continuous steel deck house covered with teak. The 
deck house contains the galley, pantry, dining-room, 
smoking-room; in the forward end there is a lounging 
room. A passageway extends the entire length of the 


deck house, so that the forward and after apartments may 


be reached without going on deck. The owner’s and 
guests’ living quarters are located both fore and aft of 
the machinery space, and they consist of seven state- 
rooms, each with a bath room adjoining. The yacht is 
fitted with a large electric light plant as well as ice ma- 
chines, clothes dryers, etc. The yacht will be steam- 
heated, and in summer cold air will be forced into the 
living tooms throughout the ship. The windlasses are 
run by electricity. The yacht is fitted wth two pole 
masts and one funnel. 

On Tuesday, Feb. 11, the yacht Noma was launched. 
This vessel was built for Mr. W. B. Leeds, and was 
named by his wife. Noma is one of the largest pleasure 
vessels designed and built by Americans. The vacht jis 
built of steel throughout, and conforms in every par- 

. ticular to Lloyds’ requirements, She is 263ft. over all, 
226{t. waterline, 28ft. 6in. breadth, and r4it. drait. 
fitted with twin screws, four cylinder, triple expansion 
engines, and Almy water tube boilers.. Noma has a large 
bunker capacity, and.can cross the ocean at a speed of I2 
knots without recoaling. Under forced draught a speed 
of 18 knots is expected. The yacht is fitted with every 
possible contrivance that would add to the comfort of 
those on board. In the main deck house are located 
galley, pantry, dining-room, smoking-room, with owners’ 
office, stateroom and bath forward. A passage in the 
deck house connects the forward and after apartments 
of the vessel. In fact, her arrangements are very much 
like those of Rheclair, only on a much larger scale. The 
owner's and guests’ quarters are located just forward and 
aft of the machinery space, while the officers’ and crew’s 
quarters are in the extreme ends of the vessel. The 
guests’ quarters consist of eight staterooms, a bath room 
adjoining each. = 

Noma is also fitted with electric windlasses and boat 
hoists, and she is the first yacht to be equipped with 
what is known as the long arm system of closing the 
water-tight bulkhead doors. By this method it is possi- 
ble to close all the bulkhead doors in the ship by press- 
ing a lever on the bridge. Noma will also be furnished 
with a wireless telegraphy outfit and a space has been put 
aside for carrying automobiles. She will have a refriger- 
ating plant of six tons capacity, an evaporator, which 
will make ten tons of water daily, and a distiller with a 
capacity of 500 gallons of drinking water, 


Navahoe Purchased by a German 


Yachtsman. 


THE yawl Nayahoe has been sold by Mr, Royal Phelps 
Carroll, through the agency of Mr. A. J. McIntosh, of 
New York City, to Mr, George Wilhelm Watjen, fleet 
captain of the Kaiserlicher Y. C,, of Bremen. Navahoe, 
whose name is to be changed to Alice, will be taken across 
in time to participate in the regattas at Kiel. 

When Navahoe was in English waters in 1803 she did 
not do very well, and although she won the Brenton’s 

- Reef Cup the race was given to her on a protest. The 
trace was sailed on Feb. 14, 1893, the course being from 
the Needles across the channel to Cherbourg and return, 
a distance of about 120 miles. The wind was strong from 
the east. Britannia led over the starting line by 54 sec- 
onds. Both yachts carried jib headers over single 
reefed mainsails. Nayahoe took the lead early in the 
race, but the boats were within a few seconds of each 
other when they started for home. Topmasts were 
“housed and smaller jibs set on both boats, as wind and 
sea were increasing. The sea was so rough off the 
Needles that the committee’s steamer went into Alum 
Bay just inside the Needles, and anchored in smoother 
- water; making the finish line east of the light. Britannia 


_ was’ declared a winner by 2% seconds. Mr. Carroll pro- 


tested on the ground that the finish line was not correct— 
the committee boat having shifted her position. The 
committee allowed the protest, and Navahoe was given 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


the race. Last season Mr. Carroll had Navahoe’s rig 
changed to that of a yawl. The work was done at City 
Island under the direction of Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & 
Crane, and Defender’s hollow steel mast was substi tuted 
for her Oregon pine stick. She was not raced much till 


the summer was well advanced, but during the balance’ 


of the season made a most creditable showing against 
Vigilant and Ailsa, much to the surprise of yachtsmen 
The. tig yawl class -suffers a great loss by the sale of 
Navahee, and Vigilant and Ailsa will now have to fight 
tt out alone. It has been stated that Navahoe’s new 
owner intends to change her rig to that of a schooner. 
As Nayahoe never performed so well as she has since she 
hay been rigged as a yawl, it would seem that any further 
change would be a mistake, ! 

Navahoe is a splendid all around boat, having made a 
very fair racing record, and on her several ocean cruises 
has proved very seaworthy.. Captain Watjen could hardly 
have secured a better vessel. Navyahoe was designed by 
N. G. Herreshoff, and built by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co., 
at Bristol, R. I., in the fall of 1892 and spring of 1893. 
She was launched in February of that year. She is r2git. 


over all, &4ft. waterline, 23{t. beam and 12fit. Gin. draft. 


Navahoe is in winter quarters at New London, near Con- 
stitution, and it has been suggested that a good ocean 
raze might be had between her and the German Em- 
perors schooner Meteor, now building at Shooter’s 
Islana. While such a race is rather remote, still it would 
be of considerable interest, 


Seawanhaka Cup News. 


Ir was stated in these columns last week that Larry 
Huntington, of New Rochelle, had a possible customer 
for a boat for the Seawanhaka trial races. The order 
was placed by Mr. Clinton B. Seely, of Bridgeport. The 
boat will be a scow with lead ballast hung on a fin, The 
boat will be about 37[t. long on deck, while her breadth 
is slightly over 6ft,, and she will be sailed by a very light 


crew. 

The Hanley boat for the Bridgeport syndicate is said 
to have taken shape. The boat is only 35ft. over all, 
rather shorter than any of the other boats now building. 

Tt is stated.that another Bridgeport syndicate has or- 
dered a boat from Jones and La Borde, of Oshkosh, 
Wis. This firm has turned out some wonderifully success- 
ful boats of the scow type. 

One of the ‘syndicates in which Mr. T. H. MacDonald 
is interested has placed an order with Mr. B. B- Crownin- 
shield for a trial boat. She will be built by Smith, of 
Quincy Point, Mass. Her sails will be made by Messrs. 
Wilson & Silsby, and the Spaulding St. Lawrence Com- 
pany will furnish the spars. 

A slight misunderstanding as to the correct interpreta- 
tion of the rule governing centerboards in the Seawanhaka 
cup class has arisen, and to make the matter clear beyond 
all doubt, Mr. Macdonald, chairman of the Bridgeport 
Y. C. Regatta Committee, gives the following informa- 
tion: 

Wooden boards weighted to 450lbs. total weight can 
not be used. Wooden boards covered with iron or other 
metal plates may be used, but the iron or other metal 
used must not weigh more than just sufficient to sink the 
board. There are just three kinds of boards which may 
be used under the restrictions, First, one of a maximum 
weight of 450lbs. This must be made of a steel: or iron 
plate of uniform thickness. It must be a plate and cannot 
be a combination of steel or iron and wood, ot lead or 
other metal; simply a plate of iron or steel. Second, 
when made of other metal than steel or iron, the same 
remarks apply except that 30olbs. is the weight limit, and 
3@in. the thickness limit. Third, a wooden or combina- 


_tion plate or board. ‘This can have only sufficient weight 


to sink it, no more. 


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Calypso and Flirt. 


“Quincy; Mass:, Feb. 17.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
As the championship in class D of the 25ft. class of the 
Massachusetts Yacht Racing Association, appears to be in 
dispute in yachting circles, by reason of contrary publica- 
tions as to the relative merits of Calypso and Flirt, con- 
testants in that class, we, the designers and builders of 
Calypso, in justice to all concerned, beg leavé to publish 
the following extract from the records of said Association, 
found on the first page, under this heading: “Cham- 
pionship Winners, Season of 1901.—Class D (25ft. cabin 
class), Calypso. A. W. Chesterton, owner.” 

Haney Construction Co. 


Yacht Club Notes. 


_ A large number of members attended the annual meet- 
ing of the Atlantic Y. C. which was held at the Waldorf- 
Astoria on Feb. 10, and the following officers and :com- 
mittees were unanimously elected: Com., Robert E. 


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- Tod, schooner Thistle; Vice-Com., Edwin Gould, steamer 


Aileen; Rear Com., Frederick F. Ames, schooner Varuna; 
Sec’y, Louis F. Jackson; Treas. Charles T. Pierce; 
Meas., George Hill; Trustees: J. Fred Acker- 
man, Frederick T. Adams, Robert P. Doremus, Frank 
McKee, Alfred W. Booth, J. Rogers Maxwell. Regatta 
Committee: George Hill, chairman; Edgar F. Lucken- 
back, Frederick Vilmar. Membership Committee: J. H, 
Hallock, chairman; George D. Provost, William E. 
Sperling. Library Committee: J. M. Foote, chairman; 
T. B. Allen, S. L. Blood. Entertainment Committee: 
Edwin Hollis Low, chairman; F. E. Camp, Frank Bornn. 
Nominating Committee: E. B. Havens, chairman; Wal- 
ter H. Nelson, G. E. Vernon; Henry Robert, Spencer 
Swain, Alexander H- Tiers. 

The report of the secretary showed a-large increase 
during the past year in the membership, which has now 
reached a total of 586, divided as follows: Active, 496; 
life, 68; honorary, 5; ex-officio, 7; chaplains, 8; flag, 2. 
The fleet, which also ‘has increased, consists of 100 
steamers, 36 schooners, and 130 sloops, yawls and main- 
sail boats, a total of 265 vessels. 

An amendment to the constitution providing for the 
election of officers in the United States'Navy to member- 
ship in the club upon payment of a fee of $25, but with- 


out payment of annual dues, was passed. 
Commodore Tod said on taking office that he hoped: 


to boom ocean tacing in-the Atlantic Y. C, He sug- 


gested that the cruise go as far east as Newport, and then 
the yachts race back, the big yachts sailing outside Long 
Island to Sea: Gate and the smaller yachts going inside 
and finishing at Execution Rock. For these races he 
offered $1,000 in prizes. The date of the annual regatta 
and the cruise was left to the flag officers. 

The German Emperor and Prince Henry were elected 
honorary members, 

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The Passaic River Y. G. has elected the following offi- 
cers for the ensuing year: Com., George L. Staats; Vice- 
Com., Addis Wiley; Record. Secy, Frederick Keppler; 
Finan. Sec’y, William K. Wilkins; Treas., Frederick 
Weslow; Meas., William Scales. Board of Trustees: 
Theodore Hatfield, Thomas Chamberlain, William Bus- 
ser, Frederick Hartung, and C. E. Krauth, 


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At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Y. C., held 
on Wednesday evening last, Feb. 12, 1902, at the Tinicum 
Anchorage, Delaware county, Pa., the following officers 
were elected to serve for the ensuing year: Com., 
Abraham LL. English, yacht Nanon; Vice-Com:, 
Warren Webster, yacht Ibis; Rear Com., William H. 
Bromley, yacht Lesbia; Fleet Captain, Sylvester W. 
Bookhammer; Fleet Surgeon, Fred J. Haerer, M.D; 
Meas., Philip H,. Johnson; Harbor Master, Charles S. 
Warfield; Treas., Samuel B.S, Barth. Regatta Commit- 
tee: Captain John S. Muckle, chairman; Robert C. 
Clarkson, George D. Gideon. Trustees: Col. J. Lewis 
Good, Robert P. Thompson, J. Horace Cook, S. W. 
Bookhammer. 

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The well-known English yawl Satanita is to be sold at 
auction by Messrs. Lory & Co., at the Hotel Cecil, Lon- 
don, England, eatly in March. Satanita has proven her- 
self a fast and able vessel, and has shown phenomenal 
speed when sailing with a lifted sheet. Satanita won the 
last Queen’s cup and made a record over one of the Medi- 
terranean courses when she beat Ailsa, which up to that 
time held the record by forty minutes. 

Satanita was designed by Mr. J. M. Soper and built by 
Messrs, J. G. Fay & Co,, Lim., at Southampton in 1893. 
She was altered from a cutter to a yawl in 1898. Satanita 
is of composite construction. She is 08.05ft. on the water- 
line, 24ft. 7in, beam and t2ft. 3in. depth; and carries un- 
der yawl rig 10,300 sq. ft. of sail. Satanita is very roomy 
below decks. having a large main saloon, four staterooms 
and five berths and a large bath room. ‘ 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


Messrs. Huntington & Seaman, yacht brokers, have 
sold to Mr. R. Poyntz Mackenzie, of Port of Spain, 
Trinidad, B. W. I., the one rater Keneu. She is to be 
used for racing and has been shipped direct by steamer. 


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William Raymond Townsend, a designer and builder 
of pilot boats and yachts, died at his home in Brooklyn 
on Feb. 8. He was eighty-fotr years of age. Sappho, 
one of the early America’s Cup defenders, was modeled 
by him. Mr, Townsend designed altogether sixty-one 
vessels. He planned most of the sailing pilot boats used 
at this port. For thirty-five years he was superintendent 
in C, & R. Poillon’s shipyard in Brooklyn. 


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_ The steam yacht Aroc, formerly Lady Beatrice, is be- 
ing entirely refitted below decks at the Morse Iron 
Works, under direction of Messrs. Gardner & Cox. 


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At Wood's yard, City Island, five boats are being built 
from designs made by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane. 
One is a raceabout for Mr. H. M. Crane, which will be 
quite similar to the raceabout Merrywing that Mr. Crane 
owned last season. Another boat is for Mr. John R. 
Suydam, who will race her in the 30-foot class on Great 
South Bay. She is 44ft. gin. over all, 25ft. waterline, 13ft. 
breadth, and 3ft. draft. The other three boats will be 
raced in the 30-foot class at Bar Harbor, and will be 
owned by Messrs. Everett Macy, Walter G. Ladd and 
W. B. Taylor. The Bar Harbor Y, R. A. will race under 
the new rule adopted by the Y. R. A. of Long Island 
Sound, and the three latter boats are designed under the 


new rule. 
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The New Rochelle Y. C. is to have a one-design class 
next season. Hive boats are to be built by Mr. Robert 
Jacob, City Island. They will be 14ft. waterline, 2sft. 
over all, 6ft. 6in. breadth, and will carry 1,200 pounds of 
outside ballast. 

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The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, former Viceroy of 
India, and who at one time was Governor General of 
Canada, died on Feb, 12 at Clandeboye, County Down, 
Ireland. He was a well known yachtsman, and was 
commodore of the Royal Ulster Y. C. 


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More than a hundred members were present at the 
annual meeting of the Brooklyn Y. C., which was held 
at the Argyle, Fulton street, Brooklyn, on Thursday, 
Feb. 13. The following officers and committees were 
elected: Com., H. R. M. Cook, sloop Kiora; Vice- 
Com., C. H. Humphreys, sloop Kangaroo; Rear Com., 
Henry J. Heath, sloop Squaw; Meas., G. Ashton Kay; 
Sec’y, C. H. Parson; Treas., Willard Graham. Trustees: 


' Term expiring 1905, Cornelius Ferguson, E. W. Graef; 


D. J. Culpeper, term expiring 1904; R. H. Sherwood, to 
fll vacancy, term expiring 1903; J. B. White, to Ail 


vacancy. Committee on Racing: G. B. Waters, G. C, 


Gillispie, John R. Brophy. Membership Committee: N. 
TF. Cory, Joseph M. Gans, J. E. Haviland. Nominating 
Committee: P. H. Jeannot, W. R. Sainsbury, J. R. 
Brophy. 

Reports of officers and committees show the organiza- 
tion to be in prosperous condition. The receipts of the 


“year were $6,102.63; the expenditures, $5,703.23, making 


a cash balance in the treasury of $309.40, 

At the beginning of last season 357 names were on the 
roster. One hundred and forty-three members were lost 
during 1901 by death, resignation and other causes, while 


107 newcomers were admitted. 
members in good standing. 


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The Staten Island Y. C. has elected the following offi- 
cers for the ensuing year: Com., C. F. Wiegand; Vice- 
Com., H. B. Johnson; Sec’y, E. S. Seguine; Treas., J. F. 
H. Lindeman; Meas., Matthew Taylor. Trustees: F. G. 
R. Roettger and George Cramer. 


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The regular annual meeting of the New York Y. C. 
was held at the club house, West Forty-fourth street, 
New York City, on Thursday evening, Feb. 13.’ The fol- 
lowing officers were elected: Com., Lewis Cass Led- 
yard, schooner Corona; Vice-Com., Frederick G. Bourne, 
steamer Colonia; Rear Com., C. L. F. Robinson, steamer 
Wanderer; See’y, G. A. Cormack: Treas:, Tarrant Put- 
nam; Meas., John Hyslop; Fleet Surgeon, J. McWood- 
bury, M.D.; Regatta Committee: S. Nicholson Kane, 
Newbury D. Lawton, E. H. Wales. Committee on Ad- 
missions: Henry C. Ward, Frederick Gallatin, J. Searle 
Barclay, Cornelius Wanderbilt. Henry S. Redmond. 
House .Committee: Thomas A. Bronson, William H. 
Osgood, G. A. Cormack. Library Committee: Theo- 


The club now has 321 


dore C. Zerega, Paul Eve Stevenson, Arnold Wood.- 
H. Thomas, ~ 


Committee on Club Stations: William 
Frederick G. Bourne, FP. August Schermerhorn, Augustus 
C. Tyler, Charles Lane Poor, Ralph N. Ellis, Harrison 
B. Moore, Henry C. Ward, Amzi L. Barber, J. R. Max- 
well. 

During the meeting Commodore Ledyard offered a 
resolution upon the death of former Secretary Oddie, 
which was passed unanimously, and Commodore Kane 
offered a similar resolution upon the death of Chester 
Griswold. 

It was decided to hold the annual regatta of the club 
on June 19 in New York Bay. : 


-Cowles,. U. 


SINGLEHAND CRUISING YAWL—SAIL. PLAN. 


The club decided upon the night of March 9 as the 
time when the club will receive Prince Henry of Prussia. 
The arrangements for the entertainment will be decided 
upon by a committee later. : 

The following resolution regarding a new system of 
measurement was adopted: 

“Resolved, That the commodore appoint a committee 
of seven members to obtain from such naval architects 
as may seem desirable their opinions as to the advisability 
of changing the present rule of measurement of this club 
and as to the practicability of formulating such a new sys- 
tem of measurement as would be generally adopted by 
the clubs of this country, and might eventually serve as 
a basis of an international standard and to report to this 
club.” ms re 

The membership of the club, counting the 51 members 


elected, numbers 1,929. The total number of vessels in 


the club’s fleet numbers 468. 

The list of new members elected included the name of 
Nathaniel G. Herréshoff, who was proposed by Commo- 
dore Lewis Cass Ledyard and seconded by ex-Commo- 
dore E. D. Morgan. The following are the new 
members: 

Augustus. Smith, Lieutenant Herman O. Stickney, 
U. S. N.; Henry Reuterdahl, Commander W. Sheffield 
. N.; Lieutenant. Commander Robert I. 
Reid, U. S. N.; Lieutenant Commander Reynold T, Hall, 
U.S. N.; Ensign Morris H. Brown, U.S. N.; C. Ritchie 
Simpkins, H. Seymour Houghton, M.D.; Albert S. 
Plummer, Johnston L. de Peyster, Captain B, H. Fuller, 
U. S. M. C.; Lieutenant Orlo S. Knepper, U. S. N-.: 
Colonel Frank L. Denny, U. S. M. C.; Lieutenant 
Charles J. Lang, U. S. N.; Colonel James Forney, U. S. 
M. C.; Lieutenant John 5. Doddridge, U. S. N.; Henry 
H. Melville, Albert B, Cameron, Captain Henry Sehuy- 
ler Ross, U. S. N.; Ensign William R. White, U. S. N.; 
Frank W. Fletcher, Sidney Lanier Smith, Henry W. Put- 
nam, Jr.; Ensign William P, Cronan, U, S. N.; W. H. 


Beebe, Andrew McKenney, N. Townsend Thayer, George 
D, Cochran, M.D.; Lieutenant Arthur T. Chester, U. S. 
N.; Stewart W. Smith, Augustus B. Hart, Lieutenant 
Commander Carl W. Jungen, U. S. N.; Surgeon Eton 
O. Huntington, U. S. N.; Lieutenant Charles E. Gilpin, 
U. S._N.; Lieutenant Bion B. Bierrer, U. S. N.; Surgeon 
Carl D. Brownell, U. S. N.; W. Campbell Clark, R. H. 
Hooper, H. B. Smithers, L. C. Benedict, Charles H. 
Davis, John A. Burnham, Jr.; George T. Wilson, Cal- 
braith Perry Rodgers, William S. Eaton, Jr.; Robert 
Toland, Joseph D. Redding, J. Van Schaick Oddie and 
Harold Hoyle Oddie; honorary member, Nathaniel G. 
Herreshoff. di 
RR eR 


At the annual meeting of the Huguenot Y. C., held at 
the Arena, West Thirty-first street, New York City, the 
following officers were elected: Com., A. P. Thayer, 
launch Thalga; Vice-Com., George C. Allen; Rear-Gom., 
Joseph P. Donovan; Sec’y, H. H. Van Rensselaer; 
Treas., L. C. Ketchum. Trustees to serve two years: 
William B. Greeley and John Tatlock. . 


7 . 9 « . R sd ad ., ' 
The annual meeting of the Gloucester (Pa.) Y. C. 


‘was held on Feb, 9, and the following officers were elected: ' 


Com., Benjamin Wilson; Vice-Com., John Minnehan; 
Rear-Com., Gilbert Taylor; Rec. Sec’y, Walter Flemings; 
Fin, Sec’y, Americus Brinton; Treas., John Casnet; 
Steward, Harry Quinn; Auditing Committee, Frank 
Dunn, James Flemings and Americus Brinton; Trustees, 
Frank Smith, James Flemings, Harry Quinn, Thomas 
Platt, John Benchert and George L. Kurtz; Measurers, 
Robert Murray, George L. Kurtz and Thomas Platt. 


Re ER 


At the annual meeting of the Yale Corinthian Y. C., 
held on Feb. 7, the following officers were elected: Com., 
EH. I. Low, 1902; Vice-Com., J.B, Thomas,” Jt, 1903; 


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FOREST AND STREAM" 


BY HENRY 


SINGLEHAND CRUISING YAWL—DESIGNED 


K. WICKSTEAD, 1902. - 


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Sec’y, J. W. Reynolds, 1903; Treas., David Boies, 1904; 
Governing Board, M. L. Willing, 1902, Chairman; G. A. 
Cochran, 1903; F. Farrell, Jr., 1903; A. L. Ferguson, 
1902; T. B. Thacher, 1904; Q. T. Reeves, 1902, 5.; C. 
D. Rafferty, 1903, S. 4 


A Singlehand Cruising Yawl. 


_TuroucH the courtesy of the designer, Mr. Henry K. 
Wickstead; we are able to reproduce in this issue the 
plans of a 27ft. waterline single-hand yawl. Mr. Wick-~ 
stead’s work has appeared from time to time in these 
columns, and it is always of a high order. The boat is 
a particularly handsome and well-turned craft, and is 
admirably adapted for the purpose for which ,she was 
designed. Her dimensions are: 


Length— , 
Ohicakt siete Set te Toten ah ple Se ee oo 4oft. 61n, 
AU Wod [sey Meats Ait Ps vt htt i ce Sau co eaontys 27ft. oin, 
Overhang— 
OR WAGCL ve #5-cn gota ae ee eee eee ae 5ft. oin. 
PNG Gee ae pr ee ips CARMI ARIR Sft. 6in. 
Breadth asctremie, B4a4..14 ie ey tees ners jects oft. Oin. 
IDR Gat, dake irae tit na grey AEM A de ed ec 5it. 6in. 
Freeboard— 
OW ee ab mt tte cok och mh waehshe nS aa ste oooed 3ft. 6in 
IL Poe HE Uti 5 gO. Ee ye ie yee i ae Hives 2tt. oin. 
TAR os Pesca Ih by heat, a ee eae phetes Rena ate ars 2tt. 6in 
Sail Area— 
IN (AG UTI « cal bar oe eee biter DN caedeeiiinn Paes 559 sq. ft, 
SAV Sail treet Gases si aalee speabertte ters aden II2 sq. ft 
Filo pte ce gt cet PSTN UAE Sisco ator beep srry 130 sq. ft 
INEPT hae A A artery. Een Wane aera 126 sq. ft 
ARCH ihre a te ee eee ee 927 sq. it 
Displaceientartiotam cores cet ett ace ate aaa rete 7,400lbs. 
halle Ova eres EA SS Be ace oe ae ea hE 5,000lbs 


The following is from a letter written by the designer 
and gives a very clear idea of what Mr. Wickstead had 
in mind when working out the boat’s design: 

“IT should have a man to look after her and to accom- 
pany me on long cruises, but on ordinary occasions I 
should handle her myself. The cutting off the rudder 


SINGLE HAND CRUISING YAWL——MIDSHIP SECTION. 


stem at the cockpit floor is a new departure for me, but 
seems to be a good idea, and gives room for the main 
sheet and traveler, and does away with the danger of 
the former getting caught in the tiller in case of a jibe 
with a slack sheet, a thing which has happened to me 
more than once, and which is very awkward when there 
is not room to come to and get the strain off it. The 
interior is arranged as follows: A hanging closet on 
one side of the companionway for oilers, etc., and a 
compartment with shelves for stores and kitchen utensils 
on the other. Two transoms 6ft. 6in. long forward of 
these, with folding berths over, then a lavatory fitted with 
closet and folding wash basin, and another clothes closet 
the full width of the boat. Forward of this 1s a pipe 
berth for man, and storage for lines, sails, chain, ete. The 
ice box is located tinder cockpit floor. I find that where 
no regular crew is carried it is much handier to have the 
galley and all connected with it in reach of the cockpit, 
not only because you can watch your boat and cook ar 
the same time, but because of more air and better ventila- 
tion. One-half of the meals are generally spread in the 
cockpit anyway. In a final sail plan, I shall add another 
6in. or even a foot to the width of the mainsail on the 
after leach, which will give a mizzen of quite insignificant 
size. After all, its main use is as a riding sail, and to 
keep the main boom inboard and in practice; the jib and 
mizzen alone are not used often, but the two inboard sails 
which, in spite of their greater size, are really easier 
to handle in going to windward through a narrow chan- 
nel or anything of that sort. But of course the mizzen 
must be big enough to keep her head up when the main- 
sail is lowered for reefing. 

“In designing the boat I had in view the coast of Nova 
Scotia and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but it is equally 
applicable to the Great Lakes. Anything under 6ft. draft 
is unobjectionable, except perhaps on Lake Erie, and a 
centerboard is a tremendous addition to a single-hander’s 
work and responsibility. Some people, I think, will want 
the main mast further forward, and only one head sail. 
So would I, on a smaller boat, but I have tried both 
ways, and believe the double hadsail to be far better for a 
single-hander of this size, and besides, the question of 
staying the mast properly becomes important in so large a 
boat. The catboat problem over again. If the mast is 
left partially stayed and dependence put on extra diam- 
eter there, then comes the great weight in the eyes of the 
boat. The strain on the boat herself and the insufficient 
space in which to.move around in when getting the 


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‘anchor, making sail, etc. _ 


“In regard to dimensions and form of midship section, 
I have tried to get full headroom, coupled with moderate 
draft and sufficient beam to give high initial stability with- 
out getting so much as would necessitate a big and lofty 
rig to drive her. The waterline length has been fixed 
quite independent of any attempt to evade measurement 


riles and has been reduced only so far as I thought proper |... 18-1 
j uy tournament. 


to secure graceful outline and snug skin surface.” 


Rifle ange and Gallery. 
——<)——> 
Cincinnati Rifle Association. 


Cincinnati, O.—The following scores were made in regular 
competition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at 
Four-Mile House, Reading road, Feb, 16. Conditions: 200yds., 
off-hand, at the Standard target. Strickmeier was declared cham- 


pion for the day with the fine score of 91. Weather, cloudy; 
thermometer, 24; wind, 8 to 9 o’clock: 
Strickmeier .........5.- 91 81 77 76 76 7 F% 10—24 6 6 9-21 
ayither en ees Wicd niitsncle wae . 86 84827979 10 10 10—20 6 8 §—22 
Nestler ...... pitstop aentette 85 85 83 82 81 9 7 6—22 8 4 820 
Spelt inate slidseerpsiere 84 82 82 81 80 610 7-28 10 6 9—25 
Odelivs. Shae 82 81 81 79 79 5 9 9-23 7 9 824 
Gindeled ee ears. 82 79 78 78 74 5 8 6—19 7 7 10—24 
Baits, so ee ee 82 75 74 71 I 4 7 8—19 6 4 5—15 
RODErMsS Wess eee ees 79 77 76 73 75 9 7 7-23 5 7 5—17 
TSC PEC eee ees eee 78 77 75 75 73 7 9 2-18 9 4 §—21 
APRS eT Seen cradee re ae TT 73 65 64 .. 8 6 6—19 5 8 6—19 
OLET? “Weta Wel aoa 76 72 71 69 65 6 6 7—19 7 56 6-18 
Elaitman aes ee sana 74 67 66 66 66 8 7 5—20 5 &§ 9—22 
ESTAS gadesa nme apa iatelaielelg WG ER eA we 6 7 9-22 810 5—23 
Weinheimer ............ Ti 68 61 61 61 6 4 9-19 5 7 4-16 
WGkKOLeer Week hetaaien neds 67 65 61 .... 6 6 4—16 nba ng 


Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club. 


San Francisco, Feb. 2.—The Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club 
held its at Sy meet to-day. A north wind made it cold and dis- 
agreeable, but a good number put in an appearance. Capt. Geo. E. 
Bartlett eave us an exhibition of his great skill in hitting flying 
objects of any size when thrown in the air, using Peters .22 short 
eartridges and a borrowed rifle. A Mexican gentleman of high 
estate was present and took much interest in our shooting. A. 
B. Dorrell carried off the honors with the rifle after a hard tussle 
with Hoffman. Brannagan broke in a new S. & W. pistol, and 
was high. Dr. Twist outdid himself and the rest with the .22 rifle, 
and Hoffman led with the revolver. Col. S. I. Kellogg showed up 
for the first time in years, and took a turn with the .22 rifle. 

Scores, off-hand, 10 shots, Columbia target: 

Rifle, 200yds.: A. B. Dorrell 47, 58; \W. C. Hofiman 49, 49, 53, 53, 
53, 60; F. O. Young 57, 60, 64; A. H, Cady, 59, 76; Alex, Pape 74, 
88, 88, 89, 91; C. Bachman 96, 134. 

Fifty- ard range, pistol: A, J. Brannagan 42, 45, 47; F. O. Young 
AS 61; p. Becker 55, 64; Capt. Geo. E. Bartlett 58, 71, G. Johnson 

Revolver: W. G, Hoffman 52, 63, 66. ; 

22 rifle: Dr. J. F, "Twist 21, 22, 24, 24, 27; 29, 80; 31, 36; Ed 
Hovey, 24, 25, 25, 26, 30; A. J. Brannagan 25, 28: Col. S.. I. Kellogg 
32, 382; P. Becker 62, 

Frep. O. Youna, Sec’y. 


Grapshooting. 
Se 


If you want your shoot to be announced here send a 
notice like the following: 


[Fixtures. 


Feb, 22.—Louisville, Ky.—Jefferson County Gun Club’s tourna- 
ment. HU TELE 

Feb, 22,—Akron, O.—Team shoot of Akron Gun Club. 

Feb. 22.—Albany, N. Y.—West End Gun Club’s bluerock tourna- 
ment. H. H. Valentine, Sec’y, 
earn 22.—Brooklyn, E. I.—Handicap cup shoot of the Fulton Gun 

ub, 

Feb. 22—Armonk, N. Y.—First shooting tournament of the 
Westchester County Shooting League. Wayne, Secretary 
Armonk Gun Club. 

Feb. 22.—Lynn, Mass.—All-day shoot of the Birch Brook Gun 
Club, J. C. Hamley, President; J. W. Hay and C, F, Lambert, 
Managing Committee, 

Feb. 22.—Carlstadt, N. J—Second match of series between Fair- 
view and Carlstadt gun clubs. 

Feb. 22,—Silver Lake, Staten Island.—Holiday shoot of the 
ees Gun Club. Live birds and targets, Albert A. Schover- 
ing, Sec’y, : 

Feb. 22,—Brooklyn, L. I.—Holiday shoot of the Brooklyn Gun 
Club. John S. Wright, manager. 

Feb. 22—Warrisburg, Pa—Annual holiday shoot of the Harris- 
burg Shooting Association, for amateurs only. 

Feb. 22—New Haven, Conn.—Washington’s Birthday tourna- 
ment of the New Haven Gun Club. John E. Bassett, Sec’y, 

Feb. 22.—Lynn, Mass.—Free-for-all shoot of the Lynn Gun Club, 

Feb. 22.—Interstate Park, L. I.—Free for all; 25 live birds; $12.50 
entrance, birds included; high guns; handicaps 25 to 33yds. 

March 6.—Omaha, Neb.—Contest at 100 live birds for Hazard 
trophy between C, W. Budd, holder, and Russell Klein, chal- 
lenger, at 2 P. M. 

h 8.—Fairyiew, N, J.—Open target shoot of the Fairview 

Gun Club. 

eee 8.—Carlstadt, N. J.—Inyitation shoot of the Carlstadt Gun 
ub. 

March 31-Apri! 5.—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds. Ed Banks, See’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 

March 19-21.—Indianapolis, Ind.—Annual Grand Central Handi- 
cap tournament; first two days, targets; third day, 25 live birds, 
$25 entrance. Bert A. Adams, Sec’y. ‘ 

March 25-27.—St. Thomas, Ont.—International live bird tourna- 
ment. 

April 8-11.—Olathe, Kan.—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament. 

April 15-17,—Asheyille, N. C.—Target tournament given by Col, 

. P. McKissick. 

April 15-17.—St, Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F, B. Cunningham, Sec’y. 

April 19.—Haverhill, Mass.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill 
Gun Club. 

April 22-25.—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoct. H. S. Mc- 
Donald, Sec’y, P 

April 29-30,—Greenville, O,—Annual tournament of the Greenyille 
Gun Club. H. A. MeCaughey, Sec’y. 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L. I.—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap ateTargets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager, : 

May 13-14.—Enid, Qklahoma YTerritory—Oklahoma Territorial 
Sportsmen’s Association tournament. 

May 13-:16.—Oil City,*Pa.—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F._5. Bates, Cor. Sec’y. 

May 14-16.—Charleston, 5. C—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W. G, Jeffords, Jr, Sec’y. 

May 20-22.—Ottumwa, Ia.—lIowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 

May 20-22—Elwood, Ind.—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind, 

May 20-22, Wheeling, W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmen's Association; added money and 
jprizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. : 

May 21-23.—Springfield, S. D.—South Dakota State Sportsmen's 
ee n estat 

Tay 30.—Schenectady, N. ¥Y.—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tagy ee ets E. ers auy Be 

ay 30-31—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
iGrove Pie pipe Os Es BERESs Sée’y. ; i 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O,—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
WLesgue, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co, e 


rae te 


June 4-6.—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club. ed 
June 9-13.—Rochester, N. Y¥Y.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
ie Wew York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 
ame. 
June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual 


- tournament. 


June 17-20.—Warm Springs, Ga,—Annual Interstate tournament. 
_June 18-19.—Bellefontaimme, OW—Silyer Lake Gun Club’s annual 
Geo. E. Maison, Sec’y. ; SIS 

June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. C.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ae pone the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club. Jas, I. John- 
son, Séc’y. 

July 16-18.—Titusville, Pa—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
Ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T. L.° 
Andrews, Sec’y. 

Aug, 6-7.—Marietta, 
ment, under the auspices of the Columbian Gun Club. 
Bailey, Sec’y- ; 

Aug. 13-14,—Brunswick, Me.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L. C. 
Whitmore, Sec’y. 

Aug. 27-28.—Haverhill, Mass—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
mament, under the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Club. S. G. 
Miller, Sec’y. 

Sept. 3-4.-—Nappanee, Ind.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Nappanee Gun Club. B. B. Maust, 
ec’y, 

Sept, 24-25.—Lewistown, Ill.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Lewistown Gun. Club. H. 
McCumber, Sec’y. A 

Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 

y afternoon. ; 

chicago, I}.—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy shoots, first 

d third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 

d Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Interstate Park, Queens, L. 1.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 

. I. R. R. Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 

looting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
_raectice. Café and hotel accommodations, 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in. these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York. 


O.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
Chas. 


The Harrisburg Shooting Association announces its annual holi- 
day shoot, for amateurs only, to take place on Feb. 22. The 
programme has 12 events, at 10; 15 and 20 targets, $10 entrance for 
the day. Other than amateurs will be allowed to shoot for tar- 
gets only. Any shooter may enter for targets only, At one 
o'clock a live bird event will commence, the conditions of which 
are 20 birds, $10 entrance, birds included; handicaps 26 to 29 
yards. Moneys divided a la Rose system, in the ratios 6, 6, 3 
and 2. There will be a silver consolation cup to non winners. 
Other events to fill out the day’s competition will be arranged. 


& 


A meeting of the committee on rules appointed by the Inter- 
state Association, met on Thursday of last week, in the offices 
of the W. R. A, Co., 312 Broadway, New York, for a reconsidera- 
tion of a few points in the revised rules. The knotty matter of a 
misfire with the second barrel was the one of chief interest. It 
was finally decided that in case of a misfire with the second 
barrel, the contestant has a new inning if he does not kill with 
his first, but must not open his gun before handing it to the 


referee. 
® 


The cup offered by the Fulton Gun Club for competition at its \ 
all-day shoot, Feb, 22, is on exhibition in the window of Messrs. 
Schoverling, Daly & Gales, 302 Broadway. This cup was donated 
by Hon, P. J. May, president of the club, The cup event is at 50 
targets, open to all. Competition commences at 10 o’clock. Targets 
1% cents. The grounds are in Brooklyn, and can be reached via 
Kings County Elevated to Crescent street station, or by Douglas 
street car to Crescent street, thence by stage to the grounds. 


The Brooklyn Gun Club will hold an all-day shoot on its grounds, 
Erfield street, near Liberty ayenue, Brooklyn, on Feb. 22. Com- 
petition commences at 10:30. There are eight events on the pro- 
gramme, at 10, 15, 20 and 25 fargets: 135 targets in all, with a total 
entrance of $6. No. 6 is a handicap at 25 targets, $2 added. Two 
dollars are added to each of the two 20-targeb events, Moneys 
divided a la Rose system. Lunch complimentary. Any one may 
shoot for targets only. Loaded shells on the grounds. 


® 


Mr. H. D, Kirkover, one of the most skilled of New York State 
trapshooters, arrived in New York city early in the week, He will 
probably engage in the amateur championship of the Carteret Gun 
only contestant to kill straight. All stood at 28yds. In the club 
eyent for a trophy there were twenty entries, of whom Bergner 
and Longnecker killed straight. The club, since its recent re- 
organization, has closed its gates to the public. Visitors are now 
present at their shoots by invitation only. 


® 


Mr, Elmer E. Shaner, manager of the Interstate Association, 
writes us as follows: “Please announce to the readers of FoREST 
AND STREAM that the Interstate Association has made arrangements 
to give additional tournaments as follows; Marietta, O., Aug. 6 
and 7; Haverhill, Mass., Aug. 27 and 28; Nappanee, Ind., Sept. 3 
and 4; Lewistown, Ill, Sept. 24 and 25. This completes our cir- 


cuit for 1902.” 
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Col. E. P, McKissick, of Asheville, N. C., under date of Feb. 
16, writes us as follows: “Please announce in FOREST AND STREAM 
that we will have a clay pigecn tournament here on April 15, 16 
and 17. The shoot will be given by myself, and I presume that 
these dates will suit, as they are not claimed by any one else, 
except in the West for a tournament.” 


td 


If matters can be satisfactorily arranged for it, Messrs. J, A. R. 
Elliott (holder) and R. O, Heikes will contest for the Review cup 
at Hot Springs, Ark., the second week in March. This is a 
postponed match, caused by the severe illness of Mr. Heikes. It 
was originally arranged to take place at Kansas City in Decem- 


ber last. 
® 


At the recent annual prcking. of the Altoona (Pa.) Rod and Gun 
Club officers were elected as follows for the ensuing year: Presi- 
dent, R. A. McNaught; Vice-President, G. T. Bell; Secretary, 
G. G Zeth; Treasurer, R. H, Fay; Captain, J. FP. Killitts; Mem- 
bers of Executive Board: W. W, Wilson and W. E. Bell. 


* 


Owing to the illness of Mr. W. Weller, the match between him 
and Capt. A. W. Money, for the championship of New Jersey, 
Feb, 12, did not take place. Instead, a new match for the cham- 
pionship was arranged between Capt, Money and F. B. Carlough. 
Capt. Money won on a score of 41, 


The Lynn (Mass.) Gun Club announces an open shoot to “he 
held on Feb. 22. A feature of the competition will be a mer- 
chandise shoot, the only expense of which, to the contestants, is 
the entrance, the price of targets. 


, &® 
At the shoot of the Keystone Shooting League, Holmesburg 


Junction, Pa., on Saturday of last week, Mrs. Frank Butler (Annie 
Oakley) was a guest. In the open eyent at 10 birds, she was the 


_only contestant to kill straight. All stood at 28yds. 


Those who contemplate entering the Grand American Handi- 
cap at Live Birds should bear il mind that entries close on 
March 22. Read the programme published elsewhere in our 
trap columns this week. ; 

td 


We have been authoritatively informed that the Infallible 
Smokeless powder, mannufactured by the Laflin & Rand Powder 
Co., will not be taken off the market, rumors to the contrary not- 
withstanding, : ; - 

<s ® 


The Haverhill (Mass.) Gun Club announc 
open to all, on Patriot's Day, April 19. 


a 


There will be a free for all liye bird shoot at Interstate Park, 
Queens, L, I., on Feb. 22. The conditions are 25 live birds, $12.50 


- entry fee, birds included; high guns; handicaps 25 to 33 yards. 


e 


Mr. Ben Norten, of the Hazard Powder Company, arrived in 
New York on Saturday of last week, after several months of active 
trayel in the West and South, in the interests of his company. 


7 


Mr. Chas. Schmeltzer, of Kansas City, famous in the world of 
trapshooting, has gone-to California to recuperate, after a pro- 
tracted illness from which he is slowly convalescing, 


& 


Mr, Dave Elliott, of St. Louis, and Mr. T. A. Devine, of Mem- 
phis, Tenn,, eminent gentlemen of the sportsman world, were 
visitors in New York the latter part of Jast week. 


R 


The next shoot of the Richmond Gun Club will be held on the 
club grounds, Staten Island, Feb, 22, commencing at 10 o’clock. 
There will be live-bird and target events, : 


® 


_In a 10-mile team match between Omaha and Kansas City, 26 
live birds per man, at Omaha, on Feb. 8, Omaha won by seven 
birds; scores, 216 to 209, ; 

® 


The second match between the Fairview and Carstadt gun clubs 
will take place at Carstadt club’s grounds, on Feb, 22, 


Ld 


The next shoot of the Richmond 
Staten Island, will be held on Feb. 22. 


* 


The Greenville (O.) Gun Club claims April 29 and 30 as dates 
for their annual tournament, 


Gun Club, of Silver Lake, 


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The Fairview CN. J.) Gun Club announce t 
shoot on March 8, y S an open to all target 
Brrnarp Waters. 


ON LONG ISLAND, 


Brooklyn Gun Club, 


Brooklyn, L, J., Feb, 12.—The holiday shoot of the Brooklyn 
Gun Club, held to-day, was one of rare activity. Several priae 
shoots were held, — 

No. 2 was for a toilet set, a handicap allowance event, as follows: 
Conitz (8) 25, Wagner (10) 25, McDonald (10) 24, Marshall (8) 24, 
Dudley (2) 19, Welles (2) 24, Gil (5) 17, Hadfield (8) 19, Arrow- 
smith (9) 18, Froeligh (3) 25, Baron (5) 25, Awell (8) 25, Car- 
man (5) 25, Ebbetts (8) 25, Vorhees (0) 25, Remsen (6) 25, Rider 
(5) 25, Martin (8) 25, Ruyl (9) 25, Griffith (4) 25, Wood (9) 25, 
Barnard (10) 24. 

No. 6 was also a handicap event, the prize of which was 2 toilet 
set, It was at 30 targets, as follows: Conitz 30, Gil 26, Ebbetts 20, 
Ansell 30, Marshall 26, Carman 28, Arrowsmith 30, Froeligh 30, 
Welles 20, Hadfield 30, Rider 30, Dudley 30, Baron 29, Martin 30, 
Rone 30, Voorhies 30, Ruyl 29, Wood 27, Barnard 30, Grif- 

t i 

Event 8 was for a hand-painted strawberry set, a handicap at 
20 targets, as follows: Conitz 20, Marshall 20, Dudley 17, Froeligh 
20, Welles 20, Gil 20, Hadfield 19, Martin, 18, Remsen 20, Voorhies 
18, Ebbets 20, Carman 16, Arrowsmith 17, Baron 19, Ruyl 18, Wood 
20, Rider 19, Wright 20, Ansell 19, Griffith 20, ' 

A number of sweepstakes also were shot. Griffith, Conitz and 
Remsen tied for the three prizes, but as it was too dark to shoot 
the ties off they agreed to draw for them. The results were: 
Conitz got the straberry set; Remsen got the toilet set and Grif- 
fith got a brush set. 


New Utrecht Gun Club. 


Interstate Park, L, I,, Feb. 15—A light left-quartering wind and 
a beautifully clear, pleasant day were the weather conditions. The 
birds were a good lot. Birds which had been contracted for failed 
to arrive, and as the supply gave out, no regular events were shot, 
A three-cornered match, 50 birds per man, was shot between 
Messrs. Sheylin, who used a very light 28in. field gun, Creamer 
and Lurgan. The scores: 


ye Shevlin e2osas. stecceatese es tenses , -22*200**2211220021122202* 16 
11111121091 222102*12"1111—21—37 

BE) Di Greamen, 23yses0eses sae sen=sed=ss 1122220221311211121110212—23 
011012*11*211111112110121—20—48 

W J Lurgan, 28..-,.....-..-. bane re on 201211212*022202212202112—91 
2022121222220121121112222 22 _44 


Smithtown Gun Club. 


Smithtown, L. I., Feb, 11—Following are the scores made at 
weekly shoot of Smithtown Gun Club on Feb 10. The attendance 
was small, although the weather was fine, excepting quite a stiff 
breeze, which, combined with new traps, made the targets fly fully 


65yds. Eyent No. 5 was for medal and was won by Tyler, 
Events: 123 45 6 7 8 910 Shot 
Targets 1010 1010 101010101010 at. Broke. 
Gall Wikae bn lsteleti cos eialstepetays 1 AS OTIS ony ee LOG 63. 
‘Dyler lias: eats ATOTovaT caw D0. ST 28010) “D0? Ge Ses Fe 100 82 
COINGET SP anGsn odode oo) > 3356658 3 3 6 £100 47 
Higby ....... tak Gaia es Be Tt EMIT Stn wary cee 50 23 
(Wioodittertecsntcessseaen 17 6 8 6 8 7 3S 8 6. 100 62 
Britsheeenecacenseeeutertieys 2475224612 £100 35 
Bhebhiee Hida sastedesates sn 558 645646 4 100 53 
Ketcham ,........ yiehtees deg Ge G>tafsmees Gee ber vaeenimcryh 24 
ELALSEY. 


Trap at Interstate Park, 


Interstate Park, L. I., Feb, 12.—The holiday shoot given by In- 
terstate Park had a main event at 25 birds, entrance $10, birds in- 
cluded, class shooting, handicaps 24 to 33yds., surplus moneys 
divided according to the number of entries. For first prize there 
was a Parker gun; for second prize an L. ©. Smith gun. The 
number of birds was changed to 16. Following are the scores: 


Van Allen, 32..1*22*1221222*222 13 Mackay, 26....2022122129992999 14 


Hawes, 27.....0212122111012202—138 CC Steffens, 30.12112112212.2121—16 
Greiff, 31..... 1222222222222200—14 Kroger, 28....0002220202112120—10 
Glover, 32..... 2212222222222220—15 D S D, 28....1122122102121121—15 


Geoffroy, 29. .2202222*02022222—12 


Schenk, 25....1022110221112101—13 
Creamer, 28...0111101111210111—13 


E Steffens, 27.0112001122222221 13 


Koegel, 31....2222202022222*00—11 ‘Elliot, 28..,...*202122021221111 13 
Stevens, 31. ..222222222222221216 T Riley, 26....2122200011111122 13 
Mowery, 25...2122221120002210—12 Davis, 28,.....2211100821121012—12 


Oceanic Rod and Gun Club. 


Rockaway Park, Feb. 17.—Following are the scores made at the 
shoot of the Oceanic Rod and Gun Club: 


Events: Ie pe gS ae es Events: | or Mw: Seals fare 
Targets: 20 26 20 20 20 20 25 Targets: 20 20 20 20 20 20 26 
Dudley ....,. 111016151410 .. Harris ...... 1 ak BG er 
Duke ........- 16°12.11 $1313 .. Hawes, Dig Ge Pet ee bball Ae 
Hones Soe 16 15 18 17 18 18 20 Smith sree das 4H oe 9 $ il Mh 
WEHES! ee PONS LMS Se. 2 AMON enews a de Or lOM Ss ers 
OneS ...-+s- 915121415 ..16 Richmond .... .. -. 12 913 .. 
Rey ise ese S58 (6e7 "61116 “Manken ee 4 oy Bhs 
O39 eee o 10 OTS ee es Bourke st tee at se ee os 
Anderson .,, 1210 911 6... Vi he! ices 
— = — 


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‘The Grand Prix du Casino at Monte. Carlo. 


‘Saturpay, Feb. 1—The thirty-first contest for the Grand Prix 
4 Casino was brought to a conclusion this afternoon, after three 
lays’ continuous SOnHEy, Nothing could haye been more agree- 
ible than the start, for Thursday was an ideal Riviera day, the sun 
aning brightly, with a pleasant breeze, which had a very imvigo- 
ating effect upon the birds; but rain commenced to fall in_the 
ght, and it continued as.though likely to last. The Grand Prix 
ual, and it was quite certain that the competitors would be far 
More mumerous than last year, when only eighty-three shot, But 
this was quite exceptional, and the great drop in numbers was 
wing to-the collective abstention of the English, who agreed not 
ko shoot, owing to the death of Queen Victoria on the eve of the 
isontest. There were then about thirty English entered, but ‘this 
total has been largely exceeded on the present occasion, as the 137 
leompetitors (so far as it is Breas to make out with so many 
kssumed names) about forty-three British shooters, while the Ital- 
ans mustered in about equal force, the French and Belgians making 
up nearly as many. Germany, Austria, Russia and Holland also 
had a few representatives, but the only ppanieee shooting was 
(Count O’Brien, who won two years ago. M. Guyot, the young 
Frenchman who won last year, was not in the field this time, and 
among other noted shots missing were M. Drevon, M, de Dorlodot, 
Sount L. Gajoli, Count Voss, and Mr. Walters. However, there 
Were Quite enough conipetitors to cover the three days allowed for 
the shooting, and it was as much as ever could be done to get 
hrough two rounds on the first day, and as many more on the 
Pacond. so that the jrospect of finishing this evening was not a 
yery rosy one, as thiee misses only put the competitor out, al- 
though the stewards wisely decided at the close of the fifth round 
Mot to call up those who had missed two, as their chances were 
practically hopeless, There were 37 misses im the first round, which 
was led off by EHO Guidicini, the triple winner being among 
hose who failed. The birds were not at all good at this stage, and 
in the second round on Thursday only 31 missed. The third and 
fourth rounds were shot yesterday, and the former was vety fatal to 
the shooters, half of whom, 68 out of 187, missed. The birds were 
again need in the fourth round, as of the 188 who shot in it, no 
ewer than 61 missed, and the state of the poll at the end of the 
day was that 19 had killed all 4, and that 39 had killed 3 out of 4. 
t was mecessary, therefore, to make an early start this morning, 
despite the rain, and the first shot in the fifth round was fired on 
the stroke of noon, 28 misses being registered to 115 kills. It was 
lat this juncture that the stewards decided not to call up those who 

d missed twice, so that only 58 were left to shoot in the sixth 
round, and of these, 18 missed. There were only 44 left to shoot in 
the seventh round, and of these, 28 killed and 16 missed, while the 
eighth round effected a still greater clearance, as out of 34 who 
shot 15 missed, and there were only 21 left to take part in the ninth 


round, and the only two who missed were Signor Miola and Signor 
Lainoti, but when this round had been completed, only three had 
killed all their birds, these being the Italians, G. Grasselli and 
Schiannini, and Mf. Wood. But nine others had made one miss, 
so that they were entitled to shoot, as in the event of the three 
others missing they would be on the same line. Mr. Radclyfie and 
Tord Rosslyn led off with kills from the right and second traps, 
ibut Signor Rrareeieiw was put out by a clean miss from the second 
trap, while Signor Schiannini had bad luck, as a strong bird from 
he right trap fell dead just outside the boundary. The same fate 
befel Signor Catenacci, and then Count O’Brien put in a good 
second barrel, which stepped a bird from the fourth trap, Mr. 
Kennedy also killing with his second barrel. Mr. Wood and 
ignor Grasselli both maintained their unbeaten scores, but Mr. 
. Blake and Mr. Roberts were both put out, the former’s bird 
escaping, whereas Mr, Roberts killed his, but it dropped on the 
wrong side of the railing. This round concluded with Signor An- 
selmi’s failure, and thus seven were left to’ shoot in the twelith 
round—two who had killed 11 (Signor Grasselli and Mr. Wood) 
and five who had missed only once. It was evident, therefore, that 
if one or both of the two first-named killed, the contest would be 
over, so far as first place was concerned. Mr. Radclyffe started 
with a miss from the fourth trap, but Lord Rosslyn killed his from 
the same trap, Signor Schiannini following suit with a bird from’ 
he right trap. Signor Grasselli then stopped a not very difficult 
bird from the center trap, so that he was sure of being either first 
or second. Count O’Brien again killed from the right trap, but 
Mr. Kennedy destroyed all chance of coming in tor the place 
money, and last, of all, Mr. Wood came forward to finish the 
‘round, It was rather a neryous moment for him, knowing, as he 
did, that if he missed, the first place was gained by Signor Gras- 
selli, and that the best he could hope for was to take the money 
for second, third or fourth, and he betrayed his ee Eon by 
taking the wrong gun. But this error was soon rectified, and there 
was a silence as he came forward to shoot. He got a very smart 
bird from the right trap, and quite failed to stop it, so that the 
'contest was over, so far as the first place was concerned, Signor 
)Grasselli_being the only one of the 187 competitors who had killed 
‘his 12. He has been shooting at Monte Carlo for many seasons, 
and killed Jast year 110 out of 151, while a younger brother won 
the Grand Prix upon the last occasion of its falling to the share 
of an Italian. The winner’s countrymen were jubilant at the result, 
and Signor Grasselli shot so steadily that he well deserved his 
victory. Lord Rosslyn, Signor Schiannini, Count O’Brien, and 
Mr. Wood were left to shoot off the, ties for second, third and 
fourth moneys, as each of the four had killed 11 out of 12. In the 
first round of the ties Lord Hees and Signor Schiannini both 
‘killed from the fourth trap, while Count O’Brien brought his bird 
down with the second barrel from the second, Mr, Wood dropping 
his from the center trap. The four competitors all killed again in 
the ‘next two rounds, but in_the fourth Lord Rosslyn missed a fast 
bird from the fourth trap, Count O’Brien from the right, and Mr. 
Wood from the left. The three left in did not agree upon a divi- 
sion, and the next round settled the matter, as Signor Schiannini’s 
bird from the fourth trap fell dead outside, while Count O’Brien 
missed his from the center trap. Mr. Wood, who was the last of 
the three to shoot, brought his bird down, but it was a very near 
thing, as the pigeon, ba We hit, flew toward the stand and fell just 
inside the railing. Mr. Wood, who had shot here four years ago, 
hus became entitled to the £434 second money, the two others 
|agreeing to divide the £558 for third and fourth. Scores: 
_ Grand Prix du Casino of £800 and trophy, added to a sweep- 
Eagkes of £8 each; second received £160 and 25 per cent.; third, 
80 and 26 per cent.; fourth, £40 and 15 per cent.; 3 birds at 26 
9 birds at 27 meters; the winner of this prize in 1901 to 


meters : c 
stand back 2 meters; previous winners, 1 meter; 137 subs.: 


Signor J. Grasselli, first of £849 and trophy........ 114111111111 —12 
Mr- Wood.......... Ppt et dttcietiiniatela aie cis esate. eed jen 111111141310—11 
SIGAOT | BCHIANMIN so eeevy yy scenes tet ntne sec sees e eee 121111111110—11 
Count O"’Brien....... oe SES ASB PEAR AG AASB pbs 111111110111—411 

1 of Ross! Vl saherenetelp pal siole tals phe ein sa eile ly a Pip blotaicbstatattin atch ere 110113111131—411 


fine series rae Pei tinae eats cee 114111110110-—10 
mobaee NVetaelpctelpi gets ae Get em aig eletcmie cen MILT 1 EO) 
eerste females erase pee 10d 1d 1G 


AREAS Cas IWR ALCO MULTE Tee ticle soe ees orp te sietechls. nfm sinitieng vers} sl 11101311110 — 9 
TROT MP ALG ACG epscy item eaten ceca ome rlatiycig sa fat 11111101110 — 9 
Mr Blake.... 11011111110 — 9 
Mr Roberts......< 11111101110 — 9 
SHEE Fy yo) OM MO Ee Se SS A) AR ries a geriaasn 1101111110 — 8 
RFUETEC TAs Deel TEL fliecstatatorctsbetd ste ays scha ses sig i eostarsnona-b ots alas ok .. 1071111110 ~— 8 
Me Pal Dunderls.ussesaseres Seidler steaks Selstoccs in eease 0111110 — 7 
AB Gtiri Gees airdee= tric tit ye abs slab ele ss poste are leuetsly sts) 3 Tb ioe 111011110 — 7 
SSA OMWITIG hs GUN TG Teale eleysisiary Sia ory aesleve ase Greg's = Sagas ae 111111100 = — 7 
Mora tarite htt aA sch Sate ye ells cheeses F999 alepe mate ete cates ena 110111110 — 7 
Ik (al IE pygeeneconcacr tartans eS “PEASE a ile ae 111011110 — 7 
Potion m@astolot.. cespens padass ps 0s deaie rn nica mtseeptias 1101130 — 7 
Cyregetese olefetabee- aah deeampe nda Celice Gra Coe cert sewn’ v1ere1111010 = — & 
Muna Ei crrtal el Mb Arie. satay cleisterety rites = spy alae es Pye gered CA” 6 
Mia PGUIHE, Wiiuns «oth sen te Sn Sasha eee 11101110 _ —6 
arquis-de la Villaviciosa.........--....-.. Wenn v1¢ 11017110 — § 
ienc A ee ask een Ae ee o1111110  — ¢ 
Signor Redealli............ Sip peacot hare eter er b 1111010 = — 6 
UCSC ARNO SARA OED AAO nae ce FOF 11101110 —6 

tgnor R. Gallardo......... reinfstaselettteleteetesTlsru(aee,= aes 11111100 = — 6 
ROM Caeser tess ctasstsis iisistersietets: tents Sete peiitettere oor OT 3G 

ee Pe od ee ee es er oe STS LEN A) —6 

he og 5 EO bao Shae eres eae Womb 01111110 — 6 

SVT eA SCH nin otalale'otsle mitts nls ielsicic hele slelelciriaisiaisiad ,--.. 11111100 —6 

Van Wanghendonck....................-.-- anteorsne 140110 + 6 


son, M, se eeerneSs Mr. Horton, M, Faure, M. Brasseur, Mr. i: 
H. -Butt, Hon, € 
(2 on. F. Thellusson, Baron Leonine, Signor 


M. Z 
fe Se ealene 
. H. Thonier, Mr, Chase, Signor 


d, for some reason or other, evoked much more interest=than — 


ound. Fourteen only were qualified to compete in the tenth 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Missed 3. out of 5; \Count M, de Nuva, Mr. Hannam, Count 
d’Havrincourt, Marquis de Grésy, Signor Fortunio, Prince Herco- 
lani, M. Moncorgé, Baron Gourgaud, Prince Poniatowski, 
Bethlehem, M, Sibrik, Signor P. Galli, Count Karolyi. 


Missed 4 out of 5: Signor Guidicini, Signor Sani Signor 
Qnieralo, Mr.-Orchardson, Signor Borghi, Mr, Woolton, Mr, Ker 
r. Asplen, Mr. Marsden Cobb, M. E. Maran, M. Ra mond 


Huet, Count de Robiano, M. Damour, Signor Gierleri, M- Charles 
Vogel, Signor Zonda. : 


Missed first 3: Mr. Cross, M. Desgenetais, Mr, Powell Cotton, 
Count Valdelagrana, M. Dores, Mr. Greville Ryan. 

Ties: A 7 
‘Mr Wood, second of £484,,..., Peay iS ae eRe TENS See .111j1—5 
Count ©’ Brien, divided third and fourth of £558..........11110—4 

iPMOF ACHIANMIM CittOngeg where sess sass Aas, nae etaee payee LL110—4 
Earl of Rosslyn..... ST MMM eee aE ee ortee Reed ty 1110 —3 


Winners of the Grand Prix since its institution in 1872: 


1872, U.S.A., Mr. Lorillard. 1887, Italy, Count Salina, 

1873, England, ath Jee, V. C. 1888, England, Mr. C. Seton. 
1874, England, Sir William Call. 1889, England, Mr. V. Dicks, 
1876, England, Capt. A. Patton. 1890, Italy, Signor Guidicini, 


1876, England, Capt, A. Patton. 
1877, England, Mr, W, A. Yeo. 
1878, England, H. C. Pennell, 
1879, England, Mr. E,. Hopwood, 
1880, Austria, Count M. Ester- 


hazy. 
1881, Belgium, M. G, Camauer. 
1882, France, Count de St. 


suentin: 
1883, England, Mr, J. Roberts, 


1891, Italy, Count L. Gayoli. 
1892, Austria, Count Trauttmans- 
dorff, { 
1898, Italy, Signor Guidicini. 
1894, Austria, Count C. Zichy. 
1895, Italy, Signor Benvenuti, 
1896, France. MM. HW, Journu, 
1897, Italy, Signor G. Grasselli. 
1898, England, Mr. Curling. 


1899, France, M. R. Moncorgé. 
1884, Italy, Count di Caserta, 1900, Spain, Count O’Brien. 
1885, Belgium, M. Dorlodet. 1901, France, M, Guyot. . 
1886, Italy, Signer Guidicini, 1902, Italy, Signor J, Grasselli. 


—London Field. 


Ossining Gun Club, 


On Saturday, the 15th inst, the Ossining Gun Club_shot the 
second string of 10 live birds for the Washburn cup. Daubene 
Brandreth was the only one to kill straight, shooting from the 30yd. 
mark. There are now three shooters tied for the cup with 19 kills 
out of 20. On March ji the last shoot of the series will take place. 
The, birds were a good, strong lot of flyers, and some spectacular 
second-barrel kills were made, After the live-bird trophy match, a 
miss-and-out was shot. Messrs. F. Brandreth, I. Washburn and 
G. J.. Stengel divided the money on the fourth bird. Some clay 
birds were. shot to fill in the afternoon, Herewith find scores: 

Washburn cup, 10 live birds: 


F Brandreth, 31...11122*2211—9 W P Hall, 28...... 1022222222— 9 
D Brandreth, 30...2222222222—10 D ©O’Connor, 27.....00*0200110— 3 
G Stengel, 29....... 021102*102— 6 A Rohr, 28.........0020010202— 4 
C Blandford, 31....2202022222— § H Wissing, 27...... 0012*00202— 4 
M Dyckman, 29..,.111121*12*— § -W Coleman, 29,...02*1220012— & 
R Kromer, Jr, 27...1112110211— 9 I Washburn, 28.,..0122020112— 7 
E D Garnsey, 28...2201112111— 9 J C Barlow, 27..... 2112120200— 7 
Miss-and-out: 
By eranorethig riers stersiese 112—4 M Dyckman............... 20 —L 
We Erearat clt-etilaewedenan nao mare ee 120 —8 R: Kromer, Jr.........,..-. 10 —1 
G, Stengel is seein Bee 21114 I Washburmi,.:..:::-.:.., 2222—4. 
Ce Blandtordtiystsaqs soc se 2* —1 ~ 
Events 1 2 8) Events: 123 4 
Targets 10 10 10 15 Targets: 10 10 10 15 
veksiarie eansauatos Mangere MACk ancl sauteed 4 Ay TAD. Ort 
Colemaiil vs. sceedeend Melgrarye EbAtTt ayaa dy sctrded dekicle)« a a Pears 
Blandford ...%........ ie a OO, AGevebEhte Kondo eoonooke. ae 5 Ae. 
D Brandreth ........ LAS wishaltly SBE POWe ees nh be oo) oc Tie ees 
A. Bedell’ ......050..5 ale ee RSI er meme Erna lees) es 2 eae 
alia gWefsh Kone ne BHObb oOo ae ysh Gatto ra Annona. ctaeit Th oe 
CUE aeeenoebAnbabebe bate pease MiSachiises esnangaaaann Mneieetttit uiaeNe 
WashDiriey er cores Gh ee [ERT eve Bor aeeeicee er Ag 6.. 


OSSINING, N. Y., Feb. 16.—The Lincoln's Day clay-bird shoot of 
the Ossining Gun Club was well attended. The trade was repre- 
sented by Messrs. Skelly and Gerow, of the Laflin & Rand Com- 


pany, and Leroy and Dick Swiveller, of the Dupont Company. , 


_ Among the other outside shooters were Messrs. Burns and 
Roberts, of Mamaroneck; Goetter, Jones and Schortemeier, of New 
York City; “Old Reliable’ Ike Tallman, of South Millbrook, 
N. Y., and A. Betti, of Mt, Kisco. Skelly was high for the day 
with 150 out of 175—.857, with rey and Tallman tied with 149 
breaks—.850 even for second place. Through some oversight only 
six barrels of targets were in the store room, so the shooters were 
obliged to quit early. Scores: 


Events 1 2 34 -& 6 7-8 910 11 12:13 
Targets 10 10 10-15-15 15-15 15 15 5p 15 15 15 
Skelly einen creat eae eee 910 812 14 13 13 12 13- 5 15 14 12 
ASErO Vee wee ce ey telus ule cen hie 9 9 7 12-1414 111313 713 14 18 
eeMalinwar see Note oun sete seen e 8 9 9121414121213 813 12 13 
Blhe seneunnpassuabpoadbeubeer 7 6 9..10111013 11 6 1014 11 
Craters aspen te ett Tie SolOAG alse 2, ESCO ed ee Bee, 
atcridtieteee tre cea at ane Ae diie.Gc pe el PS GeSs Ge. 
(GESDWEen ee Then tan caidas dasene - fs. Beoe nk IOs AB IDs Sone 
NUttISeeteiemeed oeitase toe sac datas 8 8 51212312 9.9 7 & 91012 
WW ASIIDINtI Wie. aeste sfemisenl canine staca Sr he “fees wiser ite: On TAL Le ee e 
Shuuiwae ted le we ce trenme cereale 8 7 710 911101014 ., 9 1418 
IBEHELR ete diner conte asice fe Ce ye Vee Tbh eas Sie Le 7) ABP 
lea yaVeltordals oh 4A horeag sedeeet fone 7... .. 10121711738 914 4 71114 
TRETS Mets v dete M oiiviite fe cielo oa ironic ‘Dares 5 8 11 12°10 14 .. 13 14 12 
Ae Was HAR Bre Edges bat 2s Se TOS ART Tee et ie ies ie 
NSittd eee wear sey ot te feeds iiiglasiees reticrs ie arebioteertenakce Dine A is 
TROD Sut Shale tl coe victuer tals Gace ster vabdlrece peo aes ale 5 pte! 
RO TEN Se ratte cone ON acetate, oe ie Se alse ais 1a 
RESIST eer rade gd ac Hatin ao anerar ae aaa inn Anois et 3 111 
ARS rOpanShyce ot Md Lia See Sapa ieee ole Seaton ee = ts Pe San oud I ie gi 8 10 10 
Goletiian. cont treet cece: cnc me mere bok waa ig Bis, rr, Teall = 
PENORE Wah teins Her eiech i icten te oe caer nee hae a f » Oh ai 1x 
Hitchcock F ( 5) og, eget 
Gs Gree 


Richmond Gun Clut. 


Sitver Lake, Staten Island, Feb. 12.—To-day’s events were live- 
bird competitions of the Richmond Gun Club. Events 1 and 2 


were at 10 live birds; Event 3 was at @ birds. Four miss-and-outs 
were shot. The scores: 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3, 
Geo Bechtel.,....: rerrert Be23 10201202016 - 12102102218 122100—4 
M_ Riersen...iee.peysees ++ .0020121101—6 12211100006 ...... 
J Keppler......,.- Tem tsene 4 2221112012—9 01111021118 2212996 
The following miss-and-out events had $1 entrance: 
Gael ecitelen mee halyard see ee 0 212 ~ 21 210 
PVF RI ELS CF Tee tr petal ttt had oh shedct ches st cbebele stot FR, 0 20 120 
A Ge 0 Crehab adel tA ee eee BABE ES ph an aA oe, 0) 0 WN sans 
PAG CASES CRON ELITT einen fh aeaniiaire cae 2022220 ° 220 0 2222 
RV Tzo at ol SSL EVR oe yeeros AD AA AE eres 1021222" 210 0 0 
AGN eri! Sire Sea ae ee ae ee ee, 120 03 Ait 
Events: AR BAR Uae ee Sy he ye rete th Skt abl 
Targets; LAG OS AO S10 TU a0 10) 
(Gui trewltina bya ya ee ges Re eet ae 9 2 a Gee Se br 
A A Schoverling......+... Neon cheeses ees: NGS igen 
iD Asrcloveyetst Sey we Pe eee eS Eee ESE” ae GEE AR ae ies Se og 
ape Ciystali tino. Serre eye SE = all Glo See BME SERRE Gar 
Ms SRIGESENG Lt betas en cee Buea ha Pete te a Se Me tie og ees 
G Connelly ......005 TTT C) igen —wonetin To acel had. 
Van Tobin...... — Gee cup 434 ©, 
E Ramson ..., eee A 
} Weir ccicsss J Bae O an 
W wslapert naan: eae gue oan ECR Oe teria Vee i Ne 
Events: 12) 13 14 15) 16 17 18 19 20 21 29 
Targets: 10.10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 25 
G Bechtel ........csse0--s Br a, cee Gh th Emin tarts ake 
A A Schoverling.......... PaO tees. Se eSO9. RE ONT eR OT 
J -Sehoen..<1-.+- eer: “eebret! ae sty CAS, cal le Ai er Be 1) 
eerste ey eaeeitey ae CE te weet Oe Le Sue kG 
M Riersen............ ACES eh 2 13 


A. A, ScHOVERLING, Sec’y. 


Birch Brook Gun Club 


Lynn, Mass., Feb. 16—The outlook is good for a large attendance 
on the occasion of the shoot of the Birch Brook Gun Club, Lynn, 
Mass., the 22d inst. . 

They have just completed a shooting platform covering all] dis- 
tances from 14 to 22yds. which should be appreciated by’ shooters 

enerally, and particularly by those haying a tendency to “cold 
eet.” 

The grounds are inclosed on three sides by a wood, which gives 
ample protection from any possible wintry zephyrs. While not so 
stated In programme, winners of merchandise prizes will be paid 
the equivalent of same in money, if they so pease 

. F, Lampert. 


187 


neo = Seri rl 


IN NEW JERSEY. 


Fairview vs. Carlstadt. 


Fairview, N. J., Feb. 12—The first match of the series between 
the Fairview and Carlstadt guh clubs was shot to-day on the 
grounds of the Fairview club. In the tearm race, each man shot 
at 25 targets. -Fairview won by a score of 102 to 78. There were 
seven men on a side, f 
Carlstadt Gun Club grounds, Feb. 22, The Jatter club will hold 
ati open shoot on March 8. he ciub team race resulted as fol- 
lows: 

Fairview Gun Club—Townsend 18, Brinkerhoff 8, C, HM. Sedora 19, 
Brinkerhoff 18, Lambrix i4, Con. Sedora 14, Lawrence 11; total 102. 

Carlstadt Gun Club—Krug 13, P. Rasmus 14, A, Ronner 10, 
C. Niederer 7, C. Steinbrunner 8, M, Rasmus 17, C, Smith 9; 


total 78, 


Events: 123 4 Events: srs a at! 
Targets 10101010 = Targets: 10 10 10 10 
JA Roemer sissatcenns See ee A MGAMUTI See proppress te SLS fei 
C Niederer...... lee: Sie eis cc, lath chester tee Ue mp hy a) 
C Steinbrunner....... Ap ye ee SE Slt) mp gin te rane YO. +6 G9 
Lawrence......-. igo) Dee eee sor ME RA SYTIS sy rte c0 yay 8O8 Gas ges 
rinkerhoff ........ Ne YS yey WE DaGeidle= A) te aseenn mice OP 
Tilcawhenceitrrre ns. 5 6.>.., Townsend ,.......,.+, a A 
@ Sedora Lepeeee ose 6 7 8 5 Walling ..........5 cy Bites este 
Ghas Sedora.......... We "996. 5, “Siiiil Sess enerrurs ats oe 44, 
Babdettantnecedos ste: Hea ee ce eWalltanison) pobesske ees os Bt Ho 
Singer vs, Lambert. 
Near Rahway, N. J.~A_match took place recently between 
Messrs. J. The 


W. aeeeene Tony Lambert, at 25 live birds, 


birds were good. high wind prevailed. Mr. Gus Greilf refereed, 


The result was a tie, 
J W Singer, 32.853." 
YT Lambert, 30 


The scores follow: 


20200*21.2291.21221012*2220—18 
220122202202" 1222*202222 18 


Championship of New Jersey. 


Paterson, N, J., Feb, 12—The match between Capt. A. W, 
Money, holder, and Mr, L. B. Carlough, for the championship of 
New Jersey and the E, C. cup, emblematic of it, was shot to-day 
on the grounds of the Jackson Gun Club. Capt. Money won by 
the score of 41 to 40. 

A number of sweepstakes were shot. 


Money ‘ys, Carlough: 
Capt A Money. ~.101000111111111011111111011110141111111011011 1. 17—4. 
L VY Carlough. , .111100110111111001111111110111111110110111111.10011—40 


The scores follow: 


Events 32) eB fe ke 893810 112 
Money 11 13 12 14 14 10 12 9 18 13 14 12 
DG ts ot EE Oe eee Sel 121225 Seb 10) 10: Seat 
Carlough 12 12 138 13 13.18:12... 141415 § 
Lenone See ey elem! LL wc Same a ted 
Reaves 1 1G) ape RET eae a ae 
Van ‘Tassell TS wk Pe. 

ID isi tite Pic SOUR AAO Ca eee seat a Fie sucoitttalny 3p9. ey pai Eopio ent 
ADUEr stole mh hae hata citi fot corte 18 14 8 .. 13.10 1012.11 .. 
Bitin OCLs obntan Prey Tle etic chaite oete tile ees 13.18 13 1414 14 14 12.., 
heap ears trad vit eyodends teed me lettioee Aes 10 7T1WUN.., 
atid, Peet rrmrrteeate CEP ee ee bie lilies snes de reer saenys OL 0 Day T3e 8-2) Se 
ETT Gl Satrrecercvrerer reper ate = LER PERSON ees he tgsbstai eat cet 912 14 13:43 11 
Torbay ee Pe at estat ae re ota ee LOM eloelZs “9s 
Astford ecsd era ceawe SE ertic nen ee EPI e ele eee 1110 911 8 13 
VGA Ys pratt slower ayn eEte Brey oe Res nie ig poe nO eet eee: 
geared ,ts te Re eran Soe wre Peers teeth tba fet rere ier ieee eeet 

TAbAUH ys eau ds Drarea ye eaay> 5 ayepete Bleek = Hr ete a fea, epee oe 
SOWKGLS cs iie lenrantine ie Meanoe ace rap ee ie” te Sane essa Sut i 
Jalen | Gabo See er EO loo. RoAgenaeno oerE fc ; 2 8 


Boston Athletic Association Gun Clvb. 


Boston, Feb. 8—The second shoot in the February Handicap 
of B. A. A. Gun Club was held at our club grounds this after- 
noon, : 

Considering the severe handicap imposed on the gunners by the 
cold and high northwest wind, the scores do not seem so bad. 

By the way, in looking over the scores of the many gun clubs 
about Boston and the excuses made for not doing better work, 
it would seem that the elements conspire to make the trap shooters 
‘of this section find fault. But, as a matter of fact, we are often- 
times thankful for even this excuse. 

Messrs. Clark and Ellis, in their 500 target match, have both 
shot to date 170, and their scores stand 137 for Mr, Clark to 135 


for Dr. Ellis. The scores of the second shoot on February 
Handicap follow: 
Targets: 15 15 15 15 Targets: 15 15 15 15 
G. B. Clark........ 9 14 13 14—50 C. A. Parker...... 91010 %—a6 
Cc. M. Howell...... 812 91140 J, H, Daggett...... 12 12 12 945 
Ric, ASEM chap eds 14 9131046 \W. B. Farmer....13 14 9 12—48 
Dr. Ellis ..........12 12 11 1146 CG. S. Grammer.... 9 8 7 10—34 
H, B. Moore.....« 14 11 18 11-49 *Dr. Baker ....... 14 12 14 13—53 
D. E. Edwards....11 11. 9 1041 *Dennison ,...,... 13 11 8 1143 
E, C, Dodge...... Wii 9 941) *Herbert .......... 12 15 14 138—54 
*Guest 
7 ts: 15 15 15 15 155 “ae B 
argets: : 5 15 at. Broke. 
Geciibea@laney penepiiasctetesas cress: 9 14 18 14 10 B 85 65 
Lyre PU Mlle lelecctetslers tinal chy tverd dere eiackt |< 1212 11 i111 6 85 63 


Feb. 15.—The third shoot in the B. A. A, February Handicap 


was held at the club grounds this afternoon. It was an ideal day 
for target shooting, but in spite of the excellent weather condi- 
tions, the scores as a whole were rather low. 

In the 500-target match Dr. Ejlis had an off day, while Mr, 
Clark, on the other hand, has his “eagle eye” with him, breaking 
7b out of 85 shot at, to the Doctor’s 61. heir scores to date are: 
G, B. Clark shot at 226 and broke 217; Dr. Ellis shot ‘at 255 and 
broke 201. 

Handicap scores: 


Targets: 15 15 15 15 Targets: 15 15 15 15 
Glatkoerateeet es 15 14 13 18—55 Goodnow ........ 11 811 9~—39 
Baxbehacese te cna 15 15 12 18-55 Dodge ...0..0.,.. 711 9 11—e8s 
Dr Weld ....... 141413 10—-f1 Hunter .......25. § 1110 8&—27 
Howell ........... 12 14 138 1JI—50 Grammer ... . 811 9 8-33 
IBRD, Ss thee ens 13 “S41 1446. 9S) Clark, 00.4. 37 § 4-20 
AMISH. pies -t ede 10 11 10 1546 *C HT North..... 11 11 10 10—42 
Moore ... >. 12°10 1440-46: Hierbert o 12... 14 15 13 12—54 
Daseett .0......., 13 10 1012-46 *W oF Bache...) 11 1210 942 
tees Scat rs un at arn a Picts Teun ene opens 910 8 10—87 

ATTICUS cen ey a2 OFAGEL sa uice ede 12 4—BA 
Barker 2 ane acy one 1113 $ 942 oe 

*Guests. 


Catchpole Gun Club, 


Wotcort, N, Y.—The regular programme for the tournam 
the Gaebpels Gun Club was postponed, as the severe Ate ee 
blocked the railroads and made it impossible for the shooters to 
get to Wolcott. Only four gentlemen from Auburn, N, Y., arrived 
here, namely, Messrs, Knapp, Knox, Tuttle and Whyte. The reg- 
ular programme for Feb, 12 being set aside, a series of events at 
10 and 15 targets, two moneys in 10 and three moneys in 16 target 
events, were shot. 

The day was cold and snow filled the air ali day, 


: making shooti 
not the easiest. & ing 


The club expects to put on a shoot again about 


April or the first of May. Good weather is then assured, A good 
programme will be arranged. 

Following are the scores of the shooting on Feb, 12: 

Events: 12 3 4 8,6 7 8 910 11 12 13-14 45 

Targets: 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 10 15 1015 40 1B i0 ie 10 
Wadsworth ..... 911 914 913 913 9 912 918 91271 99 9 
Knapp -.... es eee 9 613 814 71210 9 14 10 12 10 14 13 22 10 
ARTA Reon ayant 612 912 910 918 T 8138 912 9131393 9 
iMode tderadeb oe 813 910 812 718 8 910 911 7... 
Fowler .....s-.-. 8 9 514 710 711 810 § 8i2.. °. 87)" 
Whyte veveccsenes 10.8 812 714 818 7 610 9 510 911 |1-- 
ISOS pe ptectesreat eer 6121013 912 79 9 9 8 44 7 Tq: 

Shot Shot 
at. Broke. Av, at. Br 

Wadsworth, ...285 202 86 - Fowler ..,..... 16 190 14 45 
Knapp aig 235 201 8 te Whyte ot 200 147 «73 1-2 
aPibRg alt, Aspens Ae $3 1- SHO 4 SABA 200 2 
winiccanene tes: 170 «18478 4-7 ecg ae 


E, A. Wapsworrn, Sec’y. 


The New Hayen (Conn.) Gun Club announces a holiday shoot 
for Feb. 22. Traps ready at 9:30 o'clock. Fourteen programme 
events; 180 targets in all, with a total of $12.20 entrance. Eighth 
event, three-man team race, All inyited. Targets 144 cents. John 
E, Bassett is the secretary, 


The next match wil! take place on the - 


' 


188 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


On Certain Species of Exaggerations. 


THE charges made by the anti-pigeon shooters in support of 
their contention are all alike marked by gross exaggeration in 
all important particulars, Rumors are dignified with the con- 
sideration due only to established facts; isolated instances of 
possible suffering are presented as a true portrayal of the whole; 
furious denunciation, whose origin is a personal prejudice, is 
presented as pertinent argument, and everything is pitched in an 
abnormally high key. A circular, entitled, “An Open Letter 
to the People of the State of New York on a Certain Species 
of Legalized Cruelty.” by a non-resident agitator, is pertinent to 
the case in point, though in this respect it does not differ materially 
from others of its kind from other sources. All alike bear the 
earmarks of exaggeration and straining to make a case whether 
there is ground for it or not. <A few extracts from the 
non’s- open letter will best serve fo illustrate the point. It is 
eyident..that the non’s- memory is treacherous, and that he 
forgets what he wrote about a matter in one connection when 
he writes of it again a few moments later in some other connec- 
tion. The inconsistencies of his “open letter” are brought to- 
gether to make them conspicuous. He says: 

“T witnessed one series of live bird shoots Jast spring, in which 
nearly 20,000 pigeons were slaughtered in a single week. The 
conditions there and generally are these: an exceedingly high 
grade of explosive—nitro powder—is used in the shells; the dis- 
tance is from 27 to 30 yards, less than a 100 feet; the tame 
pigeon is sprung up on a trap from under ground by a boy who 
atends to feeding them into the trap, and almost always comes 
up in a dazed condition; the sportsman (?) has his gun leveled 
and gives word when he is ready, and he can use the second 
barrel of his gun if he misses with his first. So powerful is the 
charge that one can see a direct line reaching from the barrel 
to the pigeon, and the shell wads can be seen covering the 
ground for a considerable distance beyond the traps. Under 
these conditions but few with even a fair degree of practice— 
unless quite drunk—could fail to bring down the bird, which has 
practically no show for its life.” 

The foregoing was set forth in an effort to show that the 
sport “was not a legitimate test of marksmanship.” But, on the 
other hand, he wished to show the cruelty of the sport, so he 
took another try at it as follows: 

In most cases the pigeon is almost instantly killed, either 
riddled to pieces, or it falls back a ruffled ‘mass of feathers, strug- 
gles for a few seconds, gasps and dies. If this were all, the case 
against live bird shooting from traps would not be so strong. 
But it is the case of those poor helpless birds which haye merely 
a wing broken, or a beak or a leg shot away, or are partially dis- 
emboweled, but have vitality enough aided by a strong breeze, 
to fly beyond the bounds and reach a distance from which they 
are mever recovered, and there die in the slow torture of pain or 
hunger or cold, or are eaten by rats, lying sometimes for days hbe- 
fore kind death deals with them more humanely and kindly than 
even civilized human beings have dealt. I have seen these by 
the hundreds, and they are a necessary part of every live bird 
shoot; and after many of these damnable exhibitions, for miles 
around and days after, large numbers oi these haye been picked 
up dead.” 

In the same breath he states above that “in most cases the 
pigeon is almost instantly killed,’”’ and that he has seen wounded 
birds “by the hundreds.” He does not know that a wing-broken 
bird cannot fly, and therefore cannot fly beyond bounds, strong 
breeze or no breeze. Again, where do all the rats come from 
to eat so many: hundreds of birds? . 

He states: “Thousands upon thousands of birds are fed into 
the traps each year in the State of New York.” He entirely 
omits to mention, however, that before being “fed into,” the 
farmers and farmers’ boys are paid three or four times more 
for the birds than would have been paid had there-been no trap 
shooting, and that after being “fed into” they are sent to the 
markets as a public food supply, sold at a less price than if they 
had not been used for trap shooting. Thousands upon thousands 
of sheep, calves, steers, chickens, game birds, etc., are “fed into” 
something or other, in some torm or other, and the pigeons 
serye the same purpose, namely, a food supply to mankind. 

In denouncing men who shoot at pigeons, the non- is in- 
cidentally denouncing all the people of the State of New York, 
for the reason’ that pigeon shooting is specifically permitted by 
the laws of the State of New York, and those laws express the 
will of the people of the State. The question suggests itself as to 
whether the several millions of citizens of the State may not 
be right and the non- wrong, or whether the non’s- condition 
of mind may be the true rule of action for the universe. 

Some of the men of the highest standing, socially, morally and 
financially, engage in pigeon shooting. If it is wrong to shoot at 
pigeons for sport, it is pari passu wrong to shoot at quail, wood- 
cock, ruffed grouse, deer, etc., because quail can be caught in 
a met or trap, ruffed grouse can be sriared, ete., methods abhor- 
rent to all true sportsmen, and which are prohibited by statute. 
Game fish can be caught painlessly by nets, etc., or killed by 
dynamite, yet again an abhorrent method is mentioned. To be 
consistent, from his point of view. The non- should. recognize 
the whole instead of a part. So Jong as man continues car- 
nivorous, just so long will it be necessary to shed the blood of the 
inferior animals. A few drops of blood from a pigeon cannot 
equal in spectacular effect the barrels shed from the larger ani- 
mals, yet all combined are eclipsed when man buckles on his 
armor to meet his fellow man in battle for glory or pelf. 

As a play to excite the sympathy, and secure the aid of the 
public, the statement has been made that the birds have their tail 
feathers pulled out, or have pins stuck into them, etc., to make 
them fly. Such things have happened years ago, but they were 
isolated cases and of rare occurrence even at that. The rules of all 
reputable clubs prohibit any form of mutilation or painful doctor- 
ing; and the reputable trapshooters would not countenance any- 
thing of the kind at all. But, granting that it has been done, is 
that a reason to abolish the whole? Because there are Raines 
law hotels, shall all hotels therefore be abolished? Because some 
banks have inflicted pain on their depositors, shall therefore all 
banks be abolished? Because there haye been those who have 
sought and obtained money in the name of humanity, without any 
real consideration for humanity, shall therefore all humanity be 
abolished, and all humanitarians be put out of a job? Years ago it 
was said that witches were hanged im Massachusetts, but it would 
not be fair to allege that the people of Massachusetts are therefore all 
witch-burners. Some farmers pluck their geese alive for the sake 
of the feathers, but all farmers are not therefore inhuman: Some 
jockeys drive their spurs deep into the sides of their mounts or raise 
great welts on their mounts’ sides with the cutting whalebone 
whip to the end that thousands of good gentlemen and ladies may 
be amused, yet all-jockeys and their accessories are not therefore 


inbyman, F A 

Vien a person follows a calling professionally for the sake of 
the reyenue it affords, there is but slight room for doubt as to 
whether such person, when asking public aid, is endeavoring to 
advertise his business and further his own cause, or to further that 
of a sentiment, and this is true, whether the person is a pro- 
fessional humanitarian or pcessinnay anything else, 

There are thousands of horses with docked tails to be seen in the 
large cities. Docking inflicts a depth of agonizing pain beside 
which death itself is painless. There are thousands of dogs with 
their ears cropped, and there are thousands of others with docked 
tails. Both such mutilated horses and dogs are oftentimes owned 
by distinguished men and women. Such mutilated dogs and horses 
may be seen on the public streets or about the houses of people 
in town, city or country. These mutilations are unlawful. And yet 
the humane agents overlook these violations of law at their very 
elbows, to journey to Albany to inveigh against a sport which is 
specifically permitted by the statutes. It is a pretty example of 
straining at a gnat and swallowing a_ camel. It is an example of 
the inefficiency of the humanitarians in practical humanitarianism, 
There are notoriety and lime-light at Albany; there are none in 
the practical enforcing of laws already on the statute books. But 
from time immemorial there have been canters who were thrifty, for 
a public crib is many times a flesh pot not unworthy of earnest 
consideration. ‘ 

Trapshooting, as pictured by the humanitarians at Albany, is not 
trapshooting at all as it really exists. Bills shot off, broken legs, 
wings, disemboweled bodies, birds gasping in bushes and _ rats 
devouring their bodies, make a sum total of raw head and bloady 
bones which may be a factor in demagogism, but which is not a 
fact as it refers to trapshooting. The crwelty is a creature of the 
imagination. The birds are gathered as promptly as possible after 
being shot. The number which escape is an exceedingly small 
percentage. The killing is but a mere incident from the pigeon 
grower to the market, where the pigeon is used for food. Both 
growers and consumers are benefited materially by the sport. 

Pigeon grounds are established in isolated places, are well in- 
closed by high board fences. There are those who object to the 
taking of any form of animal life, whether sheep, cattle, birds, etc., 
but there is always this beneficent alternative for those people— 
they do not have to kill nor be present at the killing. 

The trapshooters are not the class of men so eagerl portrayed 
by the anti-pigeon shooters, Wanderbilts; Goulds, Groh eabica? 

agouns, Keenes, etc., have shot at the traps. : Trapshooting is 


merely a recreative incident with the yast majority of trapshooters 
of the present day. It has the same beneficent effects on the wel- 
fare of mankind as am outing with rod and reel, or dog and gun. 
lf one form of the sport is wrang, all are wrong. They stand or 
fall together. Yet no man considers that inflictitg pain on fish or 
bird is amy part of the sporf. The infliction of pain likewise is no 
part of trapshooting, 1 eee 


Waco Tournament. 


Waco, Tex,, Feb. 1.—The midwinter tournament of the 
Country Club, of this eity, should have opened Jan. 27, but owing 
to the cold weather- ng shooting was déné until the 29th, when a 
2i-live-bird handicap and two 12-bird events were shot. Faurote, 
of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., won the handicap with 
24, whilé the money in the other sweeps was divided by several 
different contestants, 

In the first sweep 10 was high, and in the Second sweép two 
men killed straight. ‘Dhis ended the hye-bird shooting, and next 
came three days at targets. The programme was five 15 and five 
20 target events; entrance $1.50 in the 15-target events, with $7.50 
added; $2 to enter the 20-target events, with $10 added. To each 
event the averages were giyen for both live birds- and targets— 
$25 to first, $15 to second, and $10 each to third, fourth and fifth. 

The target shooting was done from one set of expert and one 
sel of automatic traps, 

The Country Club entertained the visiting sportsmen in fine 
shape. Among the entertainments was a badger fight. 

Mr. F. C. Whitney, of Des Moines, very ably refereed the fight 
and pulled the string, Fred says it was a hot fight, and the 
spectators enjoyed it yery much, ; 

Mr, Heikes made a new record on targets, scering 89 straight 
and 99 out of a possible 100 at 19yds., 

Fifteen entries were high in the live-bird eyents. Eighteen 
sheoters entered the first two days on targets, and eleven shot in all 
events the last day. ' 

Heikes 


Atchinson won first average, 
Burns fourth, and Jackson fiith. 
‘Téxas will be well represented at the Grand American Handicap, 
We think at least thirty shooters will attend. 
The cashier’s office was ably conducted by Mr, F. C. Whitney. 
Jan. 29.—Twenty-five-ive-bird handicap, entrance $20, birds extra: 


second, Tubby third, 


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Robt Burns, 28....... 20.00. eee eee nee eee « «2022201122202102222222022 —22 
Aichinson, 28...... Sy HehSnGhasoaanoosaasand 2222010220222202222022222—20 
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Jackson, 28.. 
W J Graber, 2 


Turner, 27... 


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2221211 202121021101101222— 27 


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Twelve live birds, entrance $10.50: A. 

BUTS = Arent ses 220222000200— 6 ‘Tucker ,......-..- 221222022200— 9 
ack SOMmerea en 200222202220— 8 Atchinson ,...... 222220222102—10 
Teikes .....eyeee> 92200100010I— 5 Sparks .,....--... 110010200020— 5 
Tabata & seus othe *, ~ 222202122200 9 Graber .,-.,--.-. 111000112210— 8 
Faurote ..,,..:...2*2020220220— 7 WVermillion ....... 2020022020w 
Horspard. se 012212120212—10 1 

Jan, 30.—Twelve live birds, entrance $10: 

ACKSOM (oh bLehie 022001110222— 8 Malone ......... ~112002000010— 5 
AVIAN Gea mbacee- 22121121201.—11 Graber .......... 014220202220— § 
Atchinson ....... 122022222022—10 Hubby .........- 222220202112—10 
iPawbaye daanmobee 222022222202—10 ‘Turmer ...,...... 112112222112—12 
ierlcesmee aegis or 011000212222— 8 Miller ,.....,..... 222222202222—11 
Burns ..,.+++++-222222222292-12 Ambold .......... 010111222110— 9 
AGT Bh ... .020201202122— 8 

Jan, 80.—Ten-target events: 

Events: 1 28 4b i td O08 Broke 
NAR COPPER Mee ranted loc . 14191418 121812819 1217 156 
ATGHInSoOD. Whe heshhnheneeeeiten 13161418 151712171419 155 
Teikesiyy.... Pee PITeeeeen eee neee eee 131712171418 12181417 152 
Hubby Pte tere tee eceeemerrennn 1818 12181018 14171219 Tl 
Tinney. +5 ee eee reencehebenie 13191219 121714171814 1 
Spatkss Ayer me, Sh ABA Aan 101414171819 13161515 146 
JeGksorra Oy tiesy ee te eee estates 1311117121712 161518 144 
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DMucker Gowekane sik ee cna Tas ~WIbIBIGT12 8111215 129 
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BPRS Vacenl doe sao aS oh ONS ALM) AL) i ee = 
arty tolepaes do epenonpeaegente ’ TL 15 10 15 14 16 14 14 7 

ge 31.—Ten target events: 

vents: 123 4 5 6 7 8 910 Broke 

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SALE aaiptide seesatae Sem anit .» 14478 15 17151915191519 166 
inner einen ehineta tamil nee - 144181418 121615191418 158 
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ASE BOs rs A ret OR rete a 118181815 1814181318 169 
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MGEr eae ee ee ont bbotas Jlib 1517141613 171418 160 
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DAE Sabres toe eed need Let eet inres W416 1215 1 IIIT WwW = «1aT 
-Hubby 2.2 13 17131714171215 1217 38147 
CHuriAtiats cenereaaie Gite . 12141016 1118131713 16 140 
IBS Taeessie freee peste 1816 121718 1914171415 149 
Maeker Waeeca.tstaned resi ~WI8WM1IZITW14 11 ~~ 187 
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BoOGKEr: A NO Ribak t9 e457 p ree SC laliwob eat kek: So a 

Horseardeien iyi e sta when) iesaes Shere 15 16 18 19 13 17 14 1s 

Feb. 1.—Ten target events: 

Events: 123 465 6 7 8 910 Broke 
WaleGx. (ca tissdis eet eet Sepa ala ita pepe trabe ty) lis 
Atchinson jis j0jeeespeseeteeeeee 1419 151714 1913 201419 1b4 
Ebi b ye dveus soe de anaes pesttet 13 20151818 1915181518 164 
Wletkese oo deUae se aye ha teen oe 12:18 138 2013 2015191317 160 
TBARS Lit. cesleere ek ed kee 15191517138 19131713 17 158 
coal O28 ON a Ey we II 1418 1518121413 791418 155 
rackone ARRSRErBEo es cee CIe 181914151415 72181118 149 

Wer tehiey + AenBABROSAHSH WHA Je. 11171818 141411191219 148 
ABT OCE es ede = ee eee 11 16 12 17 11:12 14 16 14 17 146 
AeTSISES KAR AA AAC ene ine ewe WibW1IT 9YISIZWMWW 184 
Gra bei yore. sche eben Aen Tii4313 SIOIWIHWw 7 
General Averages. 
Jan.29. Jan.30. Jan.31. WPeb.1. T’l Broke. 

AYGhIT RODE joe Ene wees lls a0 165 163 itd 512 
CULES minh peaeiserieme ect 160 162 160 508 
TENGIene oe epee aereall 161 M7 164 503 
IBUrnKsee cee eee ee ie 28 165 149 158 490) 
Jackson ...ssce scoary +2 162 165 149 485 

HAWKEYE. 


Deluth Central Gun Club. 


Dututu, Minn., Feb. 8—I am pleased to inform you that the. 


Duluth Central Gun Club held its annual meeting on Jan. 28 last, 
and that the list of officers following was the result of the bal- 


loting on that occasion: M, H. Alworth, President; Warren 
Mendenhall, Vice-President; Frank E. Berry, Treasurer; John W. 
Storey, Lieutenant; Executive 


Nelson, Field Captain; Thos, Ae : 
Committee: Theo. Frerker, Fred G. Bradbury, A. A, Farrington: 

A new Constitution and By-Laws were adopted, and the largest 
meeting in the club’s history dispersed, with expressions upon 
every hand of the keenest interest and enthusiasm. 

T tread much tending to show a lack of interest in trapshooting- 
We were troubled with something of the same sort in our own 
ranks, but the trouble was mot with trapshooting at all. If the 
enthusiast will look carefully at home for the cause which pro- 
duces an apparent lack of interest in the sport, he will much more 
than likely unearth a “family skeleton” before he proceeds very 
far with his search. He needs but to arrange a tactful funeral 
for this bony gentleman and provide his grave diggers with long 
enough spades, to accomplish wonders. This club has at present 
the brightest outlook it has ever had, and it has been by no 
means a “slow” club im the past. Fey 7 

A. A. Farrineton, Sec’y. - 


The West and the Grand American, 


Cuicdco, Il}, Peb. 15.—Mr, Charles Sylvester, one of ‘the large 
traveling family of the Winchester R. A, €o., is just back from an 
extended inp throughout the West, during which he talked with 
sportsmen ot different States in regard to the probable attendance 
at the Grand American Handicap at Kansas City in April. Mr. 
Sylvester says there will bé a big crowd of shooters going frorn 
St. Louis, and there will be in all likelihood a special car party 
made up at Omaha. A great many will come from Kansas, as need ~ 
not be said. Efforts were making ‘within the week at St. Paul 
und Minneapolis to get up a special car party to go from the 
Northwest, but at last accounts only about a dozen had signified 
their willingness to make the trip. Milwaukee ought to produce 
five or six shooters. Chicago ought to turn out at least fifty, but 


_ if there shall prove to be a dozen going from this city it will be a 


matter of surprise to those who know the shooting sentiment here, 
For some reason or other Chicago has not very many crack 
trapshooters at present. The State of Illinois, however, will offer 
greater numbers for the Rice special car party which will go from 
this city. Mr. Sylvester said that he doubted not Irby Bennett 
would have a big flock of Southern shooters on hand; probably 
among these the war horse, Tom Diyine, and his allies. There 
will be a good body of Western and Southern shooters at Kansas 
City, but no matter how many of these there may be, the total 
will not be great enough unless the East as well shall send a good 
representation, The Western men will not willingly give up the 
pleasure of meeting their Eastern brethren, but upon the contrary, 
hope that there may be a train load of the talent of the East fo 
help make things exciting and representative. 


Carroll Tournament. 


_ Interest imcreases in regard to the three days’ tournament at 

Carroll, Ia., Feb, 25-27, under charge of J. L. Forkner. This shoot 

has been mentioned earlier as an amateur affair, and is worth re 

membrance as such. Manufacturers’ agents shoet for price of 

targets only, i Hauer 
HARTFORD BuiLtninc, Chicago, Ill, 


Audubon Gun Club. 


Chicago, Feb. 15.—At Watson’s Park, Burnside Crossing, the 
Audubon Gun Club held its club shoot to-day, The event was 
an extra bird allowance by way of handicap. Gillis, with his al- 
lowance, scored 15. Following are the scores: 


MENON T ede yy eave venerie AZ0T2220100w — 
Wilcox, 2. 220*1202122012w 
Gillis, 1.... 24112221211*1212 15 
Johnson, 200222121220202w 
Amberey* 0250 ce BOE CARD A AOR a MetTer Came Moodie Ait ey 22222*22*222722 —12 
ELQWel de ossdnap tims estates eres Ree pine e heey 02120*0*1112121w 
Seven birds, #3, 60 and 40 per cent., two events: 
IM ieee Le ce eee Vieeatereereryeereein tanec 10110122—5 3 = 8=i112—-7 
Nopial. SEE weijedbale ee Soiree eben se eras a 222120.—7_ 222111 2—7 
Olyphant ....é..0004 lynn weer wravererernurbTowne ote ire-3 3578 2202111—6 1111122—7 
Barto +-.02 215 Pes errr nne tae WG one ci 1 2A22212—7 22122197 
GM GONS cies pace bow eee Kee ree! Writs a nde *000212—8 2222022—6 
ADEE alte Sherrer eter miancinnat a eae 2*02212—5 2222222—7 
Feb, 18—Match at 25 birds, $25 a side and cost of birds: 
J ON ee rca nc NON Hk OOS OOS OO 1*129212111227111111*220*—21 
fe Salinvell Peers eee cee oe cee eices ot 0201022001222002012022101—15 
; RAVELRIGC, 


Gartteld Gun Club. 


Chicago, Ill,, Feb. 15.—The appended scores were made on our 
grounds to-day om the occasion of the third trophy shoot of the 
second series. T, W. Eaton won Class A medal on 10 straight, 
while A. Marshall won B on same score. McDonald won C on §, 

The regular trophy event is a 12-bird affair, and should have 
been held to-day had we not indulged in a 6bird sweep before 
trophy event, thus using up over 100 birds, and as the attendance 
was somewhat larger than for several shoots back, our bird man 
got caught napping. The birds were an exceedingly fast lot, and 
hard to step within bounds, being mostly freshly caught homers of 
fine condition, only three birds eing shot on the ground during 
the whole shoot: 


110102-—4 


Mdimanks nessa. aoe pte ee eee .1120111201— 8 

cD onal Ve us Shae vu... ns eee ene he, oer. 1212012011— 8  210210—+4 
lobes Shea) EAS Sais sade deus adr gsbndanc 00100020w 2*2720—3 
UES ae EA ee ES aap Lee ere ee or 0002020020— 8  200*00—1 
RS WoeEertori mins lei asi panera teens 221122112110 =: 211104 
iG Whe Sita Coy rTe pene etter niet: hs ica ean eM nie ets 0*120100w o14)*0—2 
TB ely hes) eh Rs ies tin dno badntlond sobs 22*2*11121— 8 1122116 
Barra dade soe tee cee rte en 2*12201222— §  212011—5 
Stevens's pho cue eh Une tee ene eee ene 021200w 01*002—2 
Mer Sh allows.) Se pein ee ee een ne 122*121211—1)  9_-22110*—4 
Monighan .:........% . 12007lw * 121201—6 
Wounranaetve , 2201222211— 9 111220—5 
Dr Mathews . 0112121211— 9  210102—4 
Drinkwater 12000Lw 100—4 
Willie 0. candsses 2222222212 10 = 121120—6 
McFarland 122121w 101201—G 
lagerty PERL ed otee *11120w 110200—3 
Biraterel yy) FAA ale oe a en oe a ae ae ee eee 


000000—) 
Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 


Cincinnati Gun Club. 


Cincinnati, O., Feb, 12:—The third live-bird contest had twenty- 
seven contestants, and of these the two back mark men, Messrs. 
Rhoads and Clay, tied on 24 out of 25. Nine of the contestants 
had unfinished scores: : 


DESH cya 6) cr he eat eee eee ee « - 2222022232292229902222222—24 

DY Clayarclengay essere \ « «2222229222229929222220222 24 

Ie GA RU AB nh oadas: Pengretincesnseronnnn: 202222122122122221299999% 2 
CLDVS, eile pone etee re oy awe ow etee ye eee ne 2222222222(122222220112222 23 

TATICALy, 2S wcheiss ea dlalewar Sarasota aenahipasteaa 22") 22222222 2922222222922 23 

Philly SQN as ae eee reer 222222*202220222202222229 29 

Post, 29). .\ nce cunstreseewar rere rererey 222220%220212222922929%22 99 

Mim Mas (28. wee eevererecee nce eo ere nee eeeee 212202022110121221222%222 21 

Gross), (2O eet rl errr een ee 12202220101022202222292229 91 

Heritan) aiivcrcnece eco eeeast a1 ee ..» +22*2212220020211122021121 20 

Morriso0 as oe tt beseeaseesiseeeess52220022220222012222210112 20 

Re Trinibles a eee i eee 0202222222002222222222022 —20 

Osterfeld, 27...... OBC Dee tren iota ++ 1-2002022222210222022*12111 19 

Dicky (Ze ot a seer ee eee eree ee ee , -.1220*10222220022202221222 19 

Gambell’ 23S ihesewteni ieee ee ee eel. he 0*22222202022222201*22292— 14 

Bailiig: 220 is penn ee eee LTE 0121121201.002*20222220112 18 

Ahlers: BL eer err rearresreet ee 022202222*10222001*222022 17 

ROE 626, VEER rey ree eee Bene 1200000000200222220022222 13 

SHG UABIN $5. so oS Rou des HEEB BD SECC SBLECOBDODL 2222121 221222222 ; 

Periid Guede yr Mei te pensctateotctstatatstatetelarsetatctetniee 2222022022122222 

Rings FSO Wacteaairiadyllsasae ll dace 2220212292220212 

IBY Nb Ole po ppnoAn OD beGbOOLbOSbD DOD obubboe 2022012222202222 

TSC 0 Lhe PT a As mo be kas Oe oo esoonat 22221122202*010 

Airaid oe BPD OARANS OS Soe Qdots one 21200221211110* 

Ackley, (28 Josgysc issuer nee or arotes +++» -00110012220*1010 

Farry, 27....-+: oy ee e2242022220121 

Schoenger seco epee eee es Ba 5 BE aes el A pel 10000020012112 


Feb, 15.—The fourth contest of Cincinnati Gun Club’s cash prize 
series of handicaps, held to-day, resulted as follows; Squier (18) 
41, Eley (18) 41, Phil (20) 39, Ahlers (9) 38, Van Ness 38 
Gambell (8) 37, Maynard (205 37, R. Trimble (20) 36, E, Trimble 
(18) 36, Capt. (17) 36, Falk (16) 85, Faran (16) 85, Tenny (16) 33, 
Roll G7) 33, Goodman (6) 31, Thomson (5) 31, Boeh ao ati, 
Herman (18) 80, J. B. (8) 30, Corry (16) 29, Harris (la) 29, 
Boyd (15) 28, Randall (18) 28, Osterfeld (18) 27, Butts (15) 25. 


International ‘Tournament. 


Sr, THowas, Ont., Feb, 11—Please insert in your trapshooting 
fixtures that we claim March 25, 26 and 27 as dates for our inter- 
national tournament here at live birds and targets. Programmes 
will be out in a week or ten days. Copies will be furnished you. 
We are going to give a bang-up tournament here, to give the 
boys on their way to the Grand American Handicap at Kansas 
City the following week a chance to try out, Train communica- 
tion is first class, as they can leave here at night and be there 
next day at noon. 

Tos. Dontey, 
H. BD. Bates, . 
Jos. COFFEY, _ 
: (Per M. BR) 


_ All communications intended for Forest’ anp Srream should 
always be addressed ‘to the Forest and Stréami Publishing Co., and 


er ctve 


mot to any individual connected with the paper. a lt 


Grand American Handicap Programme. 


The programme of the Interstate Association’s tenth annual 
‘Grand American Handicap at Live Birds, to be held at Blue 
_ River Shooting Park, Kansas City, March $1 to April 5, is now 
feady for distribution. The main features of it are as follows: 

Conditions governing Grand American Wandicap ‘of 1902. 
| Twenty-five live birds, handicaps ranging from 25 to 83 yards, 
40 yards boundary with a dead line at the 83 yard mark, $1,500 
divided among the three highest guns—#600 to first, $500 to 
second and $400 to third, All money in the purse will be divided 
“among high guns in accordance with the number of entries re- 
ceived. Entrance money $25. $1,500 guaranteed by the Interstate 
Association, and all surplus added. In addition to the first money, 


‘Interstate Association, 

} Regular entries must be made on or before March 22, 1902, 
and must be accompanied by $10 forfeit. The remaining $15 may 
be paid up to the time the last man fires at his first bird. Entries 
mailed in envelopes bearing postmarks dated March 22 will be 

~ accepted as regular entries, . 

' Penalty entries may be made after March 22, up to the time the 

last man firés at his first bird, by paying $35. h 

' All entries must be made on application blanks, and they will 

be received at the New York office, Edward Banks, Secretary- 

Treasurer, 318 Broadway, New York, N, Y. 


The Handicap Committee, 


It can be said in all confidence that the committee appointed 
to award handicaps will ably and conscientiously perform its 
duties. It is in touch with the shooters of the present, and is 
thoroughly qualified fo judge of their individual merits. It will 
dotibtless give the best of satisfaction, and meet the approval of 
contestants generally. . , 

The Interstate ASsociation fully appreciates the kindness and 
self-denial of the committee in consenting to assume the arduous 
task intrusted to 1t—one which demands not only unbiased jude- 
ment and consummate knowledge of the delicate work, but also 
& spirit not swayed by personal or geographical considerations, 
qnaking merit the supreme test in its adjudications. j 

The committee is constituted as follows; Mr. John M, Lilly, 
Indianapolis, Ind., Chairman; Mr, C. W. Budd, Des Moines, 
Towa; Mr, Chris Gottlieb, Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. Louis Erhardt, 
Atchison, Kans.; Mr. Arthur Gambell, Cincinnati, Ohio. : 

With the utmost confidence it is predicted that this committee 
will not fall below the estimate that has been placed upon it, — 

Mr, Elmer E, Shaner, Manager of the Interstate Association, 
will be secretary to the committee; but will not have a yote in the 
handicapping of contestants. 

The Tontieen committee will meet at the Midland Hotel, Kan- 
sas City, Mo., at 9:30 A.)M., Thursday, March 27, five days after 
the closing of regular entries (Saturday, March 22), but handicaps 
will not be announced tmntil March 30. 


First Day, March 31. 


Monday, 9 o'clock sharp, Blue River “ 
Eight birds, $5 entrance—birds extra, 30 yards rise, four 
moneys, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. High guns, not 
class shooting. Ties will not be shot off, and they must divide. 

Kansas City Sweepstakes. Twelye birds, $7 entrance—birds ex- 
tra, 30 yards rise, he number of moneys into which the purse 
will be divided will be determined by the number of entries re- 
ceived, as is fully explained elsewhere in this programme. High 
guns, not class shooting. 5 ( 

This event must be finished at the close of the shooting on this 
day; therefore the Interstate Association reserves the authority 
to change the “three misses out” rule and drop all who have missed 
missed one or more birds, and also ta close the event at the end 

- of the eighth round, if, in the judgment of the management, it 
is deemed advisable to do so, ah 

Ties will not be shot off, and they must divide, 


Second Day, April 1. 


Tuesday, 9 o’clock sharp. Nitro Powder Handicap. Sixteen 
birds, $10 entrance—birds extra, handicaps 25 to $3 yards. The 
number of moneys into which the purse will be diyided will be 
determined by the number of entries received, as is fully explained 
elsewhere in this programme. The handicaps contestants receive 
for the Grand American Handicap will govern in this event. High 
guns, not class shooting. ‘ J 

This event must be finished at the close of the shooting on this 
day; therefore the Interstate Association reserves the authority 
to change the ‘three misses out” rule and drop all who have missed 
one Or more birds, and also to close the event at the end of the 
twelfth round if, in the judgment of the management, it is deemed 
adyisable to do so. hed 

Ties will not be shot off, and they must divide, ‘ 

Miss and Out. Time permitting, miss and out events will be 
arranged to suit contestants. 


Thitd Day, April 2. 


Wednesday, 9 o’clock sharp. the Grand American Handicap. 
Twenty-five birds, $25 entrance—birds extra, high guns, not class 
shooting, handicaps 25 to 83 yards, $1,500 guaranteed by the Inter- 
state Association, and all surplus added. 

sterling. aie eR ed ai to first high gun, $500 to second 
hi un, an to third high gun. / a , 

rl Teceaey in the purse in exces of $1,500 will be divided in 
accordance with the number of entries received. — . 

Regular. Fre Saturday, March 22, and must be accom- 

anied b orieit. , : 

Y For division of money in the Grand American Handicap see else- 
where in this programme, 


Fourth Day, April 3. 


Thursday, 9 o’clock sharp, the Grand American Handicap. 
Twenty-five birds, $25 entrance—birds extra, high guns, not class 
shooting, handicaps 26 to 33 yards, $1,500 guaranteed by the Inter- 
state Association, and all surplus added, 

Sterling Bre pony ad aan to first high gun, $500 to second 
high gun, an to third high gun, ° ' Hh j 

AN ae in the purse im excess of the $1,500 will be divided in 
accordance with the number of entries received. 

Regular, entries close Saturday, March 22, and must be acconi- 


panied by $10 forfeit. 
Fifth Day, April 4. 


Friday, 9 o’clock sharp. The Grand American Handicap. Ti 
not finished the previous day. a : 
Consolation Handicap, Sixteen birds, $10 entrance—birds extra, 
handicaps 25 to 38 yards, The number of mon¢ys into which 
the purse will be divided will be determined by the number of 
entries received, as is fully explained elsewhere in this programme, 
Winners cf money in the Grand American Handicap will have one 
' yard added to’their handicap. High gtms, not class shooting. | 
“Jackson County Sweepstakes. Twelve birds, $7 entrance—birds 
“extra, 30 yards rise, The number of moneys into which the purse 
“will be divided will be determined by the number of entries re- 
eeived, as is fully explained elsewhere in this programme, High 
guns, not class shooting, : “ F 
Miss and Out. Miss and out events will be arranged to suit 
contéstants, 


Park Introductory. 


A Fell Week of Shooting. 


Saturday, April 5. On Saturday, April 5, two sets of traps only 
will be used. Events as follows are provided: Z 

Missouri Sweepstakes. Eight birds, $5 entrance—birds extra, 30 
yards rise, four moneys, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. High guns, 
~ not class shooting, ; f 
- Western Sweepstakes. Twelve birds, $7 entranee—birds extra, 
~30 yards rise. The number of moneys into which the purse will 
be divided will be determined by the number of entries received, 
as is fully explained elsewhere in this programme, High gums, 
not class shooting. i : . 

Auld Lang Syne Sweepstakes. Sixteen birds, $10 entrance—birds 
extra, 80 yards rise. The number of moneys into which the purse 
will be divided will be determined by the number of entries re- 
ceived, as is fully explained elsewhere in this programme. High 
“fins, not class shooting. 


Division of Money. 


The Interstate Association guarantees $1,500 in the main event— 
the Grand American Handicap—which will be divided among the 
three highest Scores as follows: $600 to first high gun, $500 to 
second high gun, and $400 to third high gun. i 

in addition te first money, the winner of same will receive a 
sterling silver trophy, commemorative of the win, presented by 
the Interstate Association! a y 


(the winner will receive a sterling silver trophy, presented by the. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Should there be more than 60 and not exceeding 70 entrics, all 
money i the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 
$4, 383 and 33 per cent, to the 4th, Sth and 6th highest guns. 

Should there be more than 7 and not exceeding 8) entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 
18, 17, 17, 17, 16 and 16 per cent, to the 4th, Sth, 6th, 7th, 8th and 
oth highest guns. : , 

Should there be more than 80 and mot exceeditig 90 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 
1%, 12, 12, 12, 11, 10, 10, 10 and i0 per cent, to the 4th, th, 6th, 
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th ith anid 12th highest guns, _ , 

Should there be more than 90 and not exceeding 100 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 
10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8 8, 8, 8, 8 7 and 7 per cent. to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 
Sth, 9th, 1th, 1th, 12th, 18th, 14th and 1th highest guns. 

Should there be more than 100 and not exceeding 110 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 
8,7, 7, 7,7, 7; 7, 7, 7, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 and 6 per cent, to the 4th, Sth 
6ih, 7th, Sth, 9th, 10th, Ith, 1th, 13th, 1th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 
18th highest guns. 

Should there be more than 110 and not exceeding 120 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 
7, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 6,6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, & and 5 per cent. to 
the 4th, bth, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Uth, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 16th, 
17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and Zist highest guns. : 

Should thete be more than 120 and not exceeding 130 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 
7; 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 4,4, 4, 4, 4, 4 and 4 per cent. to 
the 4th, bth, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 1th, 12th, 18th, ith, 16th, 16th, 
With, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 28d and 24th highest guns, 

Should there be more than 180 and not exceeding 140 entries, all 


money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 wiil be divided 
7,6,5,4,4,4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4,44, 4,4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4. 3 and 3 per centto 
the 4th, Sth, 6th, 7th, 


) 4, 4,4, 4, 4, 4, 
Sth, 9th, 10th, 1th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 
Ith, 18th, 19th, 20th, bist, 22d, 28d, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th 
Et guns. 7 

hould there be more than 140 and not exceeding 150 entries, all 
moneys in the purse ‘in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 
7; 6, 5, 4,4, 44,4, 4,4, 4, 4, 4, 3,3, 3, 8,3, 3, 3, 8, 3, 3, 8 8, 3 and 3 oper 
cent, to the 4th, Sth, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, ith, 12th, 18th, 14th, 
16th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 28d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 
27th, 28th, 29th and 30th highest guns. 

Should there be tore than 150 and not exceeding 160 entries, all 
money itt the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 7, 6, 
5, 4, 8,3, 3, 3, 3; 3, 8, 8, 3, 3, 3,3, 8, 3, 3, 3.3, 3, 3, 8, 3, 3, 8, 8, 3 and3per 
cent. to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 1th, 12th, 13th, 14th 
15th, 16th, (7th, 1&th, 1th, 20th, 2st, 22d, 23d, 24th, 2th, 26th, 
aith, 28th, 29th, 380th, 3ist, 32d and 33d highest guns, 

Should there be more than 160 and not exceeding 170 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided, .7, 6, 5, 4 
3,8, 8,2, 2, 3.8) 8) 8) 3) 3) 8; 8, By) 8, 3,8 By OB) ay 2, 2) 2, 2 29 8 
and 2'per cent, to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, Sth, Sth, 10th, 11th, 12th, 
lath, 14th, 16th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 2st, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 
26th, 27th, 28th, 29eh, 30th, ist, 32d, 38d, 34th, 35th and 36th 
highest guns, 

Should there be more than 170 and not exceeding 180 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the SA a be tivced 7, 6, 

, 4 5 + z 5 t +) oa 2 ? , -} , ‘ J t > 5 b] 

2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 2 per cent. to 
the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 
ith, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 98d, 24th, 25th, 26th; 27th, 28th, 
29th, 380th, Bist, 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th, atth, 387th, 38th and 39th 
highest guns. 
Should there be more than 180 and not exceeding 190 entries, all 
money in the ptirse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 7, 6 
5, 4, 3; 3: 3, 3; 3,3, 8) 8, 2) 2,2) 2,2; 2,2, 2)2°9°9° 9.99 9.9. 2° 9: 
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, and 2 per cent. to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, ith, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 
ist, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, Bist, 32d, 33d, 
34th, 85th, 86th, 87th, B8th, 289th, 40th, 41st, and 42d highest gums. 

Should there be more than 190 atid not exceeding 200 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 7%, 6 
ay 7 2 7 'y ? » iy 9 ? 7 E ly 3 b 3 2 7 9 
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 22,2 1,1 and 1 per 
cent, to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, iith, 12th, 13th, 14th, 
15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 
28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32d, 38d, 44th, 35th, 86th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th, 
41st, 42d, 43d, 44th and 45th Highest guns. 

Should there be more than 200 and not exceeding 210 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 shall be divided 7%, 6, 
5, 4, 3, 3, a, 3, 3; 2, 2, 2; 2, 2, 2, 2, » 4; D 2, A, 4, y Dy 
2, 2, 2; 2, 2, 2, ay 2, 2; 2, rey in le Tali a beech sy ak get 
and 1 per cent. to the 4th, 5th, Gth, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, With, 12th, 
asth, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 2ist, 22d, 23d 24th, 25th, 
26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 80th, alst, 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th, 86th, 87th, 38th, 
89th, 40th, 41st, 42d, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th and 48th highest guns. 

Should there be more than 210 and not exceeding 220 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 7, 6 
5, 4 3, 8, 8, 8, 3, 2, 2, 2; 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,2,2,2 2 9 2 
2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 and 1 per cent. to 
the 4th, bth, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10h, 11th, 12th, 13th, 1th, 16th, 16th, 
Ith, 18th, 1th, 20th, 2ist, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 
29th, 80th, S1st, 82d, 33d, 34th, 85th, 36th, 87th, 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 
42d, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th and 5ist highest guns, 

Should there be more than 220 and not exceeding 230 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 7, 6, 
5; 4, 3, 3,°3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2,2, 2,22, 2, 2,2, 2,2,29999309 5 7, 
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,1, 1,1, 1, J, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 and 1 per cent. to 
the 4th, bth, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, With, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 
With, 18th, 19th, 20th, 2ist, 22d, 23d; 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 
29th, 30th, Bist, 32d, 33d, 34th, Bhth, 36th, 87th, 38th, 29th, 40th, 
41st, 42d, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 5ist, 52d, 53d 
and 54th highest guns. ‘ 

Should there be more than 230 and not exceeding 240 entries, all 


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money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 7, 6 
5, 4.3, 3, 3, 8, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2) 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,2, 2, 2, 2, 2,2, 2 2 2 9,1,1,1, 
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,1, 1,1, 1,1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 and 1 per cent. to 
the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 1th, 12th, 18th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 
Vth, 18th, 1th, 20th, Zist, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 
29th, 20th, 8lst, 32d, 38d, 84th, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 
42d, 48d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 52d, 58d) 54th, 
hoth, 56th and 57th highest guns. = 
Shculd there be more than 240 and not exceeding 250 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 7, 6 
5, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2% 2,2, 2. 22,2322 Dyeree alee t ely imide 
14 Tt, YA at ty, 11, 1,1, 9, 1, 1, dd, 1, Land] per 
cent, to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, $thy loth, With, 12th, 13th, 14th, 
Toth, 16th, U7th, 18th, 19th, 2th, 2ist, 22d, 23d, 24th, 28th, 26th, 
aith, 28th, 29th, 80th, 3ist, 32d, 83d, 34th, 35th, 36th, 87th, 38th, 
89th, 40th, 41st, 42d, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 5ist, 
52d, 53d, 64th, Soth, 56th, 67th, 68th, 59th and 60th highest guns, 
Should there be more than 250 and not exceeding 260 entries, all 
money in the purse in excess of the $1,500 will be divided 7, 6, 5, 
‘4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2,2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,1, 1, 1, 1, 1, J, 1, 1, 1, 
JE aly Use mie a Beth als aI ak weer ik 18 mea cea labs thereat ha 
1, 1 and 1 per cent, to the 4th, bth, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 
12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, 
25th, 26th, 2th, 28th, 29th, 80th, Bist, 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th, 86th, 87th, 
88th, 39th, 40th, 4st, 42d, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 
Sst, 52d, 538d, 54th, both, 66th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, Gist, 62d and 


_68d highest guns. 


Should there be more than 260 entries, all money in excess of 
$6,500-—that is, 260 entries at $25 each—will be divided into sixty- 
three equal parts and added to the different amounts due the sixty- 
three high guns. 

Sriefly summarizing the foregoing, it will be noted that the purse 
will be divided in accordance with the number of entries received. 
By this division three places are created for each ten entries over 
sixty. It is not possible for fourth money to exceed third, and the 
moneys would seem divided in such mantier as to be just to all, 
Por instance, if there are seventy entries fourth high gun would 
receive $85, and the sixth high gun $82.50. If 100 entries, fourth 
high gun would receive $100, and the fifteenth high gun $70. Tf 
222 entries (the number last year), fourth high gun would receive 
$288.50, and the fifty-fourth high gun $40.50. 

It should be remembered that the Grand American Handicap is 
not class shooting and high guns will win. Entries for the Grand 
American Handicap will’ be received at the New York office. 
Edward Banks, Secretary-Treasurer, 318 Broadway, New York, 


All Events High Guns. 


The Interstate Association, being familiar with the requirements 
of such an event as the Grand American Handicap Live Bird 
Tournament, has deemed it best to make all eyents high gtins to 
win, This method of dividing the purses has given such general 
satisfaction in the past, that we feel confident the decision to again 
adopt it this year will meet with the hearty approval of a great 
majority af those who contemplate taking part in the tournament. 

A careful perusal of the conditions governing each event wili 
show that everything has been prepared with great care. 
DIVISION OF MONEYS IN 12 AND 16 BIRD EVENTS. 

In the 12 and 16 bird events a system will prevail somewhat 
similar to that adopted for the Grand American -Handicap—the 
total amount of the purse being divided im accordance with the 


number of entries received, as follows: 1 to 10 -entries, two 
moneys—60 and 40 per cent.; 11 to 20 entries, four moneys—40, 30, 
2) and 10 per cént.; 21 to 30 entries, six monéys—e0, 20, 15, 13, 13 
and 10 per cent.; 31 to 40 entries, eight moneys—25, 20, 15, 12 ,10, 
8, 5 and 5 per cent.: 41 to 50 entries, ten moneys—23, 18, 14, 11, 10, 
8, 5, 5, 4, and $ per cent.; 51 to 60 entries, twelye moneys—20, 
16, 13, 10, 9, 7, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3 and 2 per cent.; 61 to 70 entries, four- 
teen moneys—18, 15, 12, 10, 9, 7, 6, 6, b, 4, 3, 2, 2 and 2 per cent.; 
71 to 80 entries, sixteen moneys—l6, 14, 11, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 5, 4, 38, 8, 3, 
2, 2 and 2 per cent.; 81 to 90 entries, eighteen moneys—15, 13, 10, 8, 
6, 7, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, and 2 per cent.; 91 to 100 entries, 
twenty moneys—14, 12,9, 8, 742, 6%, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 
2 and 2 per cent.; 101 to 110 entries, twenty-two moneys—i3, ii, 
9, 74, 7, 6, 54%, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 2, 2 and 2 per cent); 
di1_to 120 entries, twenty-four moneys—12, 101%, 844, 7, 61%, 6, bY, 
5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 8, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 14 and 1% per cent.: 121 to 
130 entries, twenty-six moneys—l1%, 10, 8 644, 6, 6, » 6, 5, 4, 
, 8, 8, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1%, 1%, 1% and 1 per cent.: 131 to 
140 entries, twenty-eight moneys—ll, 9%, 74, 614, 6, 514, B44, 6, 6, 
4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,2, 2, 2, 2, 1%, 1%, 1%, 1, I and 1 per cent,; 
141 to 150 entries, and over, thirty moneys—10%4, 9, 7, 6, 6, BY, G4, 
5, 5, 4, 3, 8, 3, 2 2, 2,2, 22, 2,2, 2 136, 144, 1, 1, 1 and 1 per 
cent, 

Briefly summarizing the foregoing, it will he noted that two 
places are created for each ten entries or fraction thereof up to 150, 
DIVISION OF MONEYS IN 8-BIRD EVENTS. 

Tn the 8-bird events it will be high guns pure and simple, the 


total amount of the purse being divided into four moneys—40, 
80, 20 and 10 per cent. 


“Grand Americans’ of the Past, : 


Below, in a condensed table, will be found a few interesting 
statist im connection with the Grand American Handicaps of 
past years. 


= 3 ‘ alti 
Sam SECA 4 Sas 
3 62 32 M2 
Contestant’s Name § 22 ae oO. 
Date, Place, and Flandicap. eae HY w aniston 
1893, Dexter Park. | 93 Se aiheae Gor! eho * 
so : ist, T W Morfey (28). 
184. Dexter Park, } 64" Cant, Mon Sy (ao), D4 4 2 ext 
1895. Willard Park} oat Faeries ee {61 58 3 10 straighe 
; . J1st,'O R Dickey (29)... | 1. 
1896, Elkwood Pk. 9 04"S Glover (30) "7109 105 0 f 
1897. Elkwood Pk, Oe a - Waa OD 146 185 1 + 
jist ulford (29) | ‘ : 
1998, Ellewood Pk. + 94° G Ww Loomis (acy, (207 187 9 28 straight. 
1899. Elkwood Pk. | aa eee Gann eae p28 262 6 88 straight. 
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< § Ast D Bates (28)... 7 
1900. Interstate Pk ) Od. ] R Malone (2 te 211 8 34 straight. 


1901, Interstate Pk J Ist, E C Griffith 8). . 200 22 


(2d, J L Morrison (29) (22? 


"In 1893 a, bird to be scored dead had to fall within 21 yards 
of the trap fromm which it came. There were four ties on 23. 

jin 1896 there were eight ties on 24; Dickey won by killing five 
Straight in the ties, : 

tin 1897 there were nine 24s, but no shoot-off for second place. 


Rules. 


The Interstate Association Trap Shooting Rules will govern 
all points not otherwise provided for. The rules have been re- 
vised, and contestants are requested to familiarize themselves 
with them, 

- Eesti of Pulford automatic traps, underground system, will 

e€ used, i 

No giins larger than 12 gauge allowed. Weight of guns limited 
to 8 pounds, 

The standard bore of the gun is No, 12, and all contestants will 
be handicapped on that basis. Contestants using guns of smaller 
bore must stand on the mark allotted to them. : 

In order to expedite the shooting, a coritestant missing three 
birds in ahy event (except the Grand American Handicap) will 
be dropped out, but will be called up to shoot in case he has a 
chance to win any portion of the purse, 

To prevent delays at Nos. 2, 8, and 4 sets of traps, a contestant 
who happens io score his third miss on either No. 1, No. 2 or 
No. 3 set of traps must finish that round of four birds irrespective 
of the fact of his having three misses to his credit. If a contestant 
drops out after starting in on a round, the unfinished shots will 
be scored as misses, and the birds will be charged to him. 

Contestants calling ‘‘no bird’ before seven balls have been 
thrown at birds slow to start will be charged for same; after 
seven balls have been thrown it is “‘no bird” at the expense of the 
marlagement. : 

Contestants must supply themselyes with ‘no bird” tickets, 
which ean be obtained at the cashier’s office. These tickets are 
also good for “byes,” or for tie birds, Unused “no bird” tickets 
are redeemable for cash at the cashier’s office. 

Winners of money in any event must apply to the compiler of 
scores for orders on the cashier for the money due them. No 
money will be"paid out by the cashier except on receipt of such 
an order, : 

Contestants who have rebates coming to them for birds not shot: 
at must apply to the compiler of scores for rebate tickets, which 
will be redeemed for cash at the cashier’s office, 

Contestants will not be permitted to gather their birds, nor 
to appoint some one to gather for them, All birds will be 
gathered in a manner designated by the Association the moment 
the bird touches the ground. 

All ties that are shot off will me ‘“‘miss and out,” and the 
original distances contestants stand at will govern. 


18 straight. 


Referees. 


_As usual, the corps of referees has been selected with all pos- 
sible care. They are Messrs. W. V. Rieger, of Kansas City, 0.5 
E. P. Frisbee, Des Moines, Towa; J. G, Smith, of Algona, Iowa, 
and Henry 5S. McDonald, of Omaha, Neb. They are all familiar 
with the rules, have had extensive experience in this particular 
line, are well known to trap shooters generally, and fully capable 
in every yespect to fill the position satisfactorily to all. Further 
the tournament being held in the West, the Asociation deemed it 
eminently fit that the referees should come from that section. 


Birds Extra, 


Birds will be extra in all events. When entering for any event, 
the contestant must pay for all birds called for in that event, ja 
addition to the entrance fee. Money will be refunded for all birds 
not shot at on application to the compiler of scores, who will 
furnish rebate tickets which will be redeemed for cash at the 
eashier’s office, 


Compiler of Scores. 


_Vhe office of compiler of scores will again be filled by Mr. 
Edward Banks. His services the last six seasons in a similar 


capacity are a sufficient guarantee of excellent results on this 
occasion, i 


The Graod American Handicap. 


_ The Interstate Association reserves the authority to postpone the 
Grand American Handicap on account of bad weather or other 
important cause if, in the judgment of the Management, such 
postponement 1s necessary. 

he order of shooting in the Grand American Handicap is de- 
termined by lot by the handicap committee, 

Phe manner of shooting the Grand American Handicap this 
year (and, in fact, all events scheduled for the tournament) is as 
follows: Contestants will be called to the firing point in turn 
shooting their first bird at No, 1 set of ttaps; as soon as a con. 
testant has shot at his first bird, he pases on to No, 2 set and 
shoots at his second bird on that set; he then passes on to No 
3 set and shoots at his. third bird on that set; he then shoots at 
another bird on No. 4 set and retires until itis time for him to 
£0 out and shoot at his fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth birds: 
tee a i 

The official score will be kept om a score sheet in vie 
contestant, After shooting at a bird it will be the duty, 3 ine 
contestant to look at the score sheet and see to it that the right 
result is recorded. In case of error it must be corrected at once 
as no appeal will be allowed after the contestant has left and 
passed on to the next set of traps, ~ 


A contestant missing five birds will be dropped ont, but wil) be 


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called up to shoot in case he has a chance to win any portion of 

the Purse. To facilitate shooting, and to prevent delays at Nos. 

2, 3; and 4 sets of traps, a contestant who happens to score his 

fifth miss on either No, 1, No, 2 or No, 3 set of traps must finish 
that round of feur birds, irrespective of the fact of his having 
five misses to his credit. If a contestant drops out after starting 
iN on a round, the unfinished shots will be scored as misses, and 
the birds will be charged to him. 

very contestant will be numbered, each entry being known 
by his number when called to firing point. A small tag will be 
athxed to each contestant’s back, giving his number on the shoot- 
ing list, and also his handicap in yards. This will enable the 
referee to see at a glance if the contestant is at His tight mark; 
and will also enable contestants, spectators and scorers to tell who 
is at the firing point by merely referring to the list of entries 
numbered in shooting order. 

Each contestant must supply himself with five “no bird” tickets. 

In case the Grand American Handicap entries are so numerous 
that it is impossible to finish in good light on April 2, the man- 
agement reserves the authority to stop the shooting at any time 
it may deem it necessary. In this case, the shooting will com- 
mence at 9 A. M. sharp, Thursday, April 3, 

Positively no entry will be taken, nor shooting up allowed, 
after the last man has shot at his first bird. 

The Interstate Association reserves the right to refuse any entry. 

It is requested that entries for the Grand American Handicap 
be made in ample time to permit the sending of receipt and ad- 
mission ticket, and for same _to reach the maker=of entry prior 
to his departure for Kansas City, - 

All entries made must be accompanied by the maker’s full name 
and address, which will be withheld from publication if desired, 
and “shooting name” only will be used. 

When making an entry by mail, remittances covering amount 
of forfeit ($10) should be made by bank check, draft, postoffice 
money-order, express money-order, or registered letter, 

Make all checks, drafts, postoffice money-orders, or express 
money-orders payable to the Interstate Asociation. 

Bank checks, drafts, or bills of exchange, will not be received 
at the cashier's office in payment for balance due on entries; nor 
will any check, draft, or bill of exchange be cashed during the 
tournament, This rule will be strictly enforced. 

An official record will be made of the make of gun, kind of 
pawees, shot and shell used by each contestant. This record will 

e.compiled by an official appointed for the purpose, and con- 
testants will be required to furnish such 
necessary. 

The Association reserves the right to select two cartridges from 
each contesant (to test the same for proper loading), the selection 
to be made, at any time, when a contestant is at the firing point. 

Contestants are requested to make stire that their guns are 
not over eight pounds in weight, as all guns will be weighed at 
the firing point. Guns will be weighed without hand hold, and 
without recoil pad that can be readily detached from the gun. 
Silver’s recoil pad, and pads of that nature, are considered part 
of the gun, 

There will not be any: lockers. Clothing and ammunition will 
be checked, but guns will not be received nor checked, The 
shooting box will contain a sufficient number of gun racks to 
meet all requirements. The Interstate Association will not be 
responsible for guns under any circumstances. The checking 
of ammunition and clothing will be done gratis, and the manage- 
ment of the Blue River Shooting Park has courteously consented 
to provide a check room similar to those in use at hotels, but the 
system will not include guns. Contestants desiring to leave guns 
at the cloak room over night may do so at their own risk, 

This announcement is made thus explicit in order that contest- 
ants may know just what to expect, and that they may avoid any 

“possible misunderstanding and disappointment. very little 
misunderstanding sometimes mars events otherwise successful and 
pleasant. 

The comfort and convenience of the contestants, as well as the 
spectators, has been looked after carefully, inasmuch as the entire 
shooting box is closed in and heated throughout. 

A warm and substantial lunch will be served each day in the 
club house for the stim of 50 cents. 

An admission fee will not be charged, but, in order to, keep 
out any undesirable element, admittance to the shooting grounds 
will be by card of admission, which can be obtained, free of charge, 
by applying to any of the subscribers to the Interstate Association, 
the secretary-treasurer, the manager, or R. S. Elliott & Co. 

To reach Blue River Park (from hotels in Kansas City), take 
Ninth street, Twelfth street, or Fifteenth street cable cars, and 
ask for transfer (at the time of paying fare) to the Independence 
electric line. The Independence electric line passes Blue River 
Park, The fare is five cents, and each of the cable lines issue 
transfers to the electric line, : 

Guns, ammunition, etc, forwarded by express must be repaid 
and sent to R. S. Elliott & Co., 807 Delaware street, Kansas 
City, Mo. 

At a meeting of the Interstate Association, held at Madison: 
Sea ie Garden, Jan. 17, 1898, the following resolution was intro- 

uced: 

“That all paid representatives, whether paid in shells, guns, 
money or otherwise, and all those connected in any way with 
companies manufacturing guns, shot, shells, powder, targets and 
traps, shall be barred from participating in sweepstakes and 
purses, but will be perfectly welcome to shoot for targets only 
and display their goods. The decision as to who such paid men 
are to be left at all times to the manager, whose _decision shall be 

nal,’ 4 

Resolved, “That the foregoing does not apply in any way to 
the Grand American Handicap Live Bird Tournament.” 

Regular entries must be made on or before March 22. Entries 
mailed in enyelopes bearing postmarks dated March 22 will be 

accepted as regular entries. All entries must be made on applica- 
tion blanks, and they’ will be received at the New York office. 
pees Banks, secretary-treasurer, 318 Broadway, New York, 

NE 


Headquarters for sportsmen during the tournament, Midland 
Hotel, Seventh street, Walnut street and Grand avenue, Kansas 
City, Mo. ; 


information as is 


The Proposed Team Match. 


Dunsarton, N. H,, Feb. 14.—The endeavor is being made to get 
up an interstate team match at targets between representative 
_ teams of the following States: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massa- 
chusetts, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. As I understand, 
each of the above can enter one or more teams of five. 

I have been asked by a_ prominent amateur-expert of Massa- 
~ chusetts to try and interest New Hampshire trapshooters. I am a 
member of but one club, that the Concord Gun Club. Knowing 
the ability of the crackerjacks of this club on other than home 
grotnds, [ should not care to advise them to enter a team. No 
doubt the team would have a good time, but some good times 
cost more than they are worth. I am told that the entrance per 
team will be $25. 

If the money is to be put into a silver, pewter, or other sterling 
trophy, we in New Hampshire, have no use for it, Arizona, in 
- the dry season, “is not in it with New Hampshire under present 
conditions. Or, if the money is to be divided by the Rose or sim- 
ilar rules, where every one expects to get something and no one 
gets anything, where would New Hampshire come in? 

Here in this State we have a fair number of trapshooters; not a 
paid expert in the lot; I do not think we could scare up a 90 
per cent. man—that is, taking his average on from 500 to 1,000 
consectitive well-trapped targets during the past season. 

In Massachusetts they have so many paid experts and. expert 
amateurs that 90 per cent. men are a drug on the market. There 
is the veteran HAE I saw him shoot a match some years sitice 
with a certain small, long-haired man in New Orleans, Buffalo 
Bill was present, and he had an abiding faith in Dickey. What a 
sort of cross-matched team they made when standing side by 
side--I mean Cody and Dickey. One tall and imposing, with 
flowing mane. The other sort of sawed off and docked all around. 
I think Cody backed both Dickey and his long-haired opponent. 
The etter, 1 believe, did mot have any money. Dickey won the 
match. ; 

As to the other States, Connecticut ought to produce two teams 
fully as_good as, if not better than, any one New Hampshire can 
show. Rhode Island is so small that we could tuck the State in 
some corner of New Hampshire and not know it; yet this State 
Stands at the head. It produced the duplicate winner of the 
handicap at both targets and pigeons. The silent man from the 
unpronouncable place did not say much (he resembles Me in this 
way. Isnt that so, Dickey?), but he thought a lot, and he got 
there. As to Vermont, we will not consider it at all, The Goncord 
ment went there once. and were nearly struck b lightning—TI 
mean the real thing. Now comes Maine. We outsiders are a little 
shy of the Pine Tree State, They may stick us with a non-resident 
hunting license, just to even things up. 

Now if New Hampshire wants to send = burnt offering to this 
team contest, I would suggest that it would be well to have a sort 
of weeding ot contest on some neutral ground, As a strictly 


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neutral ground I would suggest Manchester. Manchester is the 
largest and most active city in the State, except in trapshooting. 
It is pretty dry, and liable to burn at any time, S ould the 
Manchester men not care to entertain the prospective horde of 
shooters, Concord will do its best. The Concord club have very 
accessible grounds, with modern things. Outside of the chumps 
of the club and a few of Exeter’s experts—who had a little ex- 
perience there last September—it is a fairly neutral ground. 
Should New Hampshire conclude to enter a team in the pros- 
ective alluring contest, I hope it will use care in its selection. 
We don’t want to be tail-enders in every contest. 
C. M. Srarx, 


Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, Feb, 12.—Fine weather was surely in evidence to-day at 
the Boston Gun Club’s seventh shoot of the current series; and 
that the afternoon’s sport was enjoyed by all to the limit goes 
without saying, it being next to impossible to find it the other 
way, with conditions so fayorable, 

Again, as in our last week’s shoot, we were minus our 2lyd. 
man, but in place of him we were favored with a visit of Griffith, 
of Pascoag, R. I., who shot the programme from the 19yd, mark, 
and though apparently out of form, was never found much to the 
rear, High gun for the afternoon turned out to be Train, a new- 
comer to these grounds, but evidently quite at home on them, and 
not content with averaging high for the afternoon, shared first 
place with Wellington in the prize match, though only after a good 
deal of up-hill work. Second in the prize match was Kirkwood, 
followed by Leverett with 15, who had a Ttarget lead over Grif- 
fith, Spencer and Dennison, who shared fourth honors with 14. 

Other scores as follows: 


Events: ie See godt PE ep PO TAs e eS 

Targets: ' 10 10 10 15 10 10 W 15 40 
Wiellitatonn, slocbensieeu. skin ioatey kes 9°38 Dl! OPS Re Wey Tk 
(Cawacrid el piae (Ps pg aie ee ie gars iter Tas miafes sem O09 
Ibyerwettsoyery MEY ST eats arts e net Wi os tie Tb wise oy Ue ae 
BEG ee eS Se ae eS, J88 “Te a8y POT ey 
Riatiny 1G teats wea veekitba es ih tntas et Hae Tee AT eC 
[eee GS ct. Worep re pagel Cre cera iar she 
LERSUIIET Eh eS PE i eee owen PS sgh a Rie Sy WFR aT, 
istryfahehope tiem nse cs oye Qawd. 2 0.6. Ab a 2B eed 
DSGhed aca TOLe hw BS es A aa 285 SISIGU SS eS: See janes 
Orgs, s1G hee ee. tenes keel Sone or ee 8 eT CO Rea Gienl oe OS 
Minor Ges Sy on arenes Fr om “OL (Deen e Of 
Jpieisiahakecheg Ly Pn eRNAmee mo taki oTe On rep 3 By Ot) tee DN AS ee 
Spencer, 16.,.... ee Rg SUPE Fe my 
Fredericks, 14 rie aloe eA Ie sae 7 
Henrys) 16 0ce mT DPM acc iets Orr eh dag. ian ONS ae a WP 
Jake epiry dls ser Hee AUER One g Dae Tf pba: Be he Ke ere TD. 


Events J, 2, 4 and 7, magautrap; 3, 6, 6, 8 and 9, Sergeant. 

Merchandise match, distance handicap, 25 singles—i5 magautrap 
and 10 Sergeant: 
Wellington, 18 
Teraiirty Wl GS Sateen scan re 
ISI CE MOG, lea nani meets 
Leverett) d6. siayikslia 
Griffith, 19.... 


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+» -100110111011110 


01011111120 
1111117111—20 
1101111110—18 
1110110111—15 
1101101011—14 


Dennison, 18. --.. 1000100011111 = 0101110100 —14 
SP CUCEL a Sola tae lle eee eerie Q01011111010101 0100110101 —14 
SPUN Ei Ba al eo aan AaB Patan. 000111110100110  1001011001—13 
aavicitts;, 6c Peer ReheenGnunbooe soe 110010011011100 = §=©—. 010110001113, 
Marldawn; GlGl. Seen ante . -101017110000101  —.0001011011—13 
Bord 16..cRC epee eeeeecec teewcaerc --+-110101010001010  1101100100—12 
Relay Gta etdatcee tcl eee ee ene 100011100000111 0111010000—11 
USES LALO UA ee se ee a BR 101100010110000  1010100010—10 
Lastin.g's PR Gse rete nee Stine ean we 010000101010001 0000000000— 5 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


Ar the recent two-day tournament at Minneapolis, isan., W. H. 
Heer won the high ayerage for the entire rogramme. Other 
average winners were: First day, Wetzig, Norton and York; 
second day, Templin and O’Brien. At this meeting also H. E. 
Cawley, of Minneapolis. won the State championship from Mr. 
Heer, who formerly held the honor. Mr. Cawley, however, is not 
fo be left long in peaceful possession of his honors, as he has 
already been challenged by MacStevenson, of Salina, to a match 
for the trophy and honor, He has accepted the challenge, and 
named Feb. 26 and Salina as the date and Place for the contest, 
which must be at 50 live birds= ~ 

The Piasa Gun Club held its annual meeting and election this 
week: A. J. Howell was elected President; E. M. Gaddis. Secre- 
tary: Fred Schiess, Treasurer, and W. J. Beall, Field Captain. 
Tt was voted to hold a number of small tourmaments during the 
séason, and to practice weekly at the grounds for the A and B 
class medals. A committee was also appointed to make an effort 
to organize a central Illinois tournament league, with the object 
of holding one good, general tournament each month. 

Manager Elmer Shaner js fast organizing his office force for the 
work of the Grand American Handicap, which will be a bie. con- 
tract this year} and he is taking much of his help from the Western 
representatives of the sport. gs 

The regular contests for the Dupont and Rawlings trophies were 
held at Dupont Park, St. Louis, on the 15th inst. 

The work of organizing new gun clubs in Illinois and Missouri 
goes merrily on. New ones are reported every week. Wanda and 
Dorchester. Tll., are the latest additions to the list. 

The Washington Park Gun Club, of Kansas City, held its Feb- 
ruary medal shoot last week. Fourteen members and two visitors 
participated. The birds were an unusually good lot, and not a 
straight seore was made. Guy Little won the first medal on a 
score of 14 out of a possible 15, The tie between Rickmers, 
Clark and Jarrett for second place was not decided. The scores 
are appended: 


Rickmers ..... 11211011220221i—13 Johnson ......2*2221010111222—19 
Winieht freee 2220*%*3*2222*00— 9 Esson .....22:. 010001201000010— 5 
Glatke Soir ea? 210212212212011_15 Jarrett ...... + -112200212112111—13 
Kelley avatesst 01*102222102012 10 Hodges ....... 210002210222911—11 
Little a -22112222211*21—14 Ostertag ...... 002010221002020— 7 
Gossett 210220020102220— 9 Holmes ....... 102220000011212— § 
Berkey .. - 112111****1221*10 Beesley ......, 020101112020111—10 
Grégory 2...) 002220100118001— 7 Thomas ....... 001022201000212— g 
be F. C. Rrent. 


Shootets Abtoad. 


Av Havana, Cuba, on Feb, 3, a complimentary shoot was given 
to Messrs. Hood Waters and E. €. Ferriday, of the Laflin & 
Rand Powder Company. The gentlemen in charge were Messrs. 
Eugene Crabb and S_ Murray, of the Cienfuegos Gun Club. The 
latter club has the distinction of having in its membership the 
best of the field and trap shots of Cuba. They would be able to 
make creditable competition at any tournament in the States, 

Mr. Hood Waters distinguished himself by some excellent 
shooting. Events Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 were at 10 Singles; No. 5, 
doubles; No. 6, 15 singles: 


Events: eee 1h 6 Events: 1234656 
Hood Waters... 10 81010 814 Martinez ....... xe ebb ad 
Grabb; (Srieyss: 9 610 8 8 8 Murray ........ .. 100 37 12 
Marraredo ...:. ORS Gi. SAO ttice ees eae Hae oe 
Terry 2225-523: Ce, Pee eee Corre erat: ales nen ee 3 7 5; 


Winchester Gun Club. 


Detroit, Mich.—In spite of the rigorous weather, a full squad 
faced the trap at the regular shoot of the Winchester Gun Club, 
Feb. 8. Brodie’s holding was best, and he took the medal. Scores: 


Events: 1234 5 67 Events: 128 4 
Targets: -10 10 1010 10 10 25 argets 10 10 10 10 10 10 25 
BLO ic. sired ey Ol we cU mes titel Wa 9 q hot ae 
ron ay ieee aly QUA ee Ee ale I 
15 6 sr Hitchcock... 878 5 7 615 


D. A. Hirescocx, Sec’y-Treas. 


Betti vs. Carpon, 


Lone Riper, N. ¥., Feb. 14—A match at 25 birds, $25 a side, 
30yds. rise, between A. Betti, of Mt, Kisco, and S, L. Carpon 
took place at Long Ridge. Feb, 13. It was a very close affair. 
Each killed 23 out of 25. Each contestant was shooting in great 
form, Betti was very unfortunate in losing his second bird dead 


out. The bitds were a good lot, but the weather was very cold. 

The scores follow: 

Carport) s3.5,202e- Stet tea vases eseeceee ss 2122291 201999999009990()9 99 

ES nae Pi aes (Aes art i es a Ae 2*222022221122991 19199199 92 
Shoot-off: 

Carpon «e+ .reere+++2920222202— 9 Betti ..........2++, 122198281210 


Omaha Handicap, 


OmanHa, Neb,, Feb, 7.—On Friday the Omaha Gun Club gav 
. twenty-five live bird handicap, twenty dollars entrance, high gunt 
0 win. | 

The weather was cold with about twelve inches of snow on th 
ground. The birds were a good lot and the shooting was tite} 
difficult. B 27, Terry, Fogg and Hlafer scored 25 and drew a YoqFty 
$59 each. Loomis and Kimball killed 24 and got about $30 each, 
Eight got $7.75 for killing 23, ; 

To-morrow the team shoot between Omaha and Kansas City 
will commence at 10 A, M. The conditions are 25 live birds te) 
each contestant; ten men are on each team, losing to pay for 
birds. The scores in the 25-bird handicap follow: 


ES celyaee oh wee ey Lied eitestit of Bed elses feria » « + 2222222222022220222202299-— 4 
RGbEntS: n20i awry eee tutu mee. 22212122212102222129212 sal 
Ewa eo0 epee aun sale sity cece 2220770200900 00 29 — 5) 
Giinhinshanicd Minti satersiecennice 202222222222220299000292 94) 
Terry, 28 «4. al petletshcy ialeasetely see tees 222222 222002099.202.2292902 98 
Gil CGi eS eme elas) deateoawe eh erie te nae ree 1222222222222022212220121—2a) 
TSP ayn ORE ee iroy race ter ok Peta 2222222222229222021221022—23) 
Bubiiister, 23m grass sot seee raat enters 1012122222202211212120220—91 
ROPELTSOHL, JO Get eee eee eee ae sess 202220222202 : 
ioomis,, 304 so. Vea wirninwe one waa aati ke 2222222212222222222220212— 
Hidde sl eee tree tes. OV Ber rr bi 22212010212211212111221 99-9 
Parnielees! waa) PA aarti eee 2221220122222222022229929 931 
Borer 25. ki. is Ser Tee 2222121122222929999999992 95 
Mrawrs eid s*29; Fees a ee ee an ay ee 222220222011212220 { 
OOULLCH ec ee ener Te eens Fee 200222210 

Tsittle;, 20 Se eee ere, eens eee ee 22210122221122212200 

ASO ATE AR ces wane wl plies soos e+ 012001 

ETRE ee Se Nee rtd hed SP chet pay eerrreet 2222202002222 200220202- One 
Borkener; 295 Foose Seba reeatab ale -. -200010 

Shanley Ppocee ARO 1222:222222022222220221229 94 
Grant, 30 ....<.; fort t hate Lhe et te 1222222222112102122229012 — 
Willis; “28- teeiescat i tr rb aed ee ee «+ «0120222210 

Simpkins, 28 ..... fax iret ete: tener ss eeee020 


Kansas City vs. Omaha, 


The team shoot was called promptly at 10 o’clock Feb. 8. f 
W. Budd, of Des Moines, Ia., was chosen referee. The weather 
was cold, with a stiff wind from the northwest. The birds were’ 
a good lot. : 

Cockrill, for Kansas City, and B 27, for Omaha, were the first’ 
team called. When they had finished Kansas City was in high 
spirits, Cockrill beating his man 6 birds. ‘ 

Burke, for Omaha, and Wilson, for Kansas City, came next. 
Score, 18 for Omaha and 19 for Kansas City,’ Kafisas City now 
had a Jead of seven and it looked like Kansas City’s day. 

Little, Kansas City, and Evans, Omaha, came next, 
Little, 18; Eyans, 20. Three‘again of five for Omaha, 

Fogg, Omaha, and Hill, Kansas City, were next to the Score, | 
Foge got 20 and Hill 18. , ' 

Holmes, Kansas City, and Montmorency, 
team, and Omaha gained one bird. 

Townsend, Omaha, and Robert Elliott, Kansas City, came next. | 
Elliott got 20 to Townsend's 19. 

Grant, for Omaha, beat Bramhall, for Kansas City, two birds. 

Loomis gained one for Omaha over Berkey, of Kousas City, 

Bray beat Dave Elliott 3 birds. 

Captain Parmelee, of Omaha, and Captain Gottlieb, of Kansas 
City, came last. Each scored 24, and Omaha won by 7 birds. 

The Kansas City team and their friends were given a smoker 
by the Omaha sportsmen at Charlie Lewis’ café to-night. Captain’ 
Parmelee acted as toastmaster, and called on each sportsman 
present to say a few words. Rob. Elliott, of Kansas Gity, ex’ 
ended a hearty welcome to all the sportsmen to attend the 
Grand American Handicap at Kansas City, assuring them a 
good time and a goad lot of birds to shoot at. 

Captain Gottlieb said; “Omaha has beaten us again, but we are’ 
not going to quit yet. We will bequeath the job to our children’s 
children, and hope to win out on our merits,’ 

Mayor Moores now came in the room and was introduced by 
Captain Parmelee. In a neat little speech the Mayor welcomed 
the visiting team; invited them to come again, and said the keys 
of Omaha were at their disposal. Jf the Omaha sportsmen had’ 
votes enough we are sure Omaha’s poptlar Mayor would have a 
life lease on the mayoralty of Omaha. 

There have been six contests between Omaha and Kansas City 
teams of which Omaha has won five. The scores in detail follow: 

Kansas City: C. Cockrill 24, Herman 19, Little 18, Howe 18, 
Holmes 23, R. Elliott 20, Bramhall 22, Berkey 20, D. Elliott 21, | 
Gottlieb 24. Total, 209, : 

Omaha: Baird 18, Burke 18, Kimball 23, Fogg 21, Montmorency 
24, Townsend 19, T. Kimball 24, Loomis 21, D, Bray 24, Parmelee 
24, Total, 216, 


OCU OU TO INI tere) 35000 2221212221212122212102111—24 | 


Score, 


Omaha, made a good] 


Cockrill, C, 
cfd eee ees sae eet enhiboryAek ear 5c 2002020222220220222222202—18 
Pinko, \ se Sectaee: rh enn yey) ion (0)222222222229)22200022010—18 
Leh egy rk emery ween fe alse R ee eg gr, Myla oe 2222220022222202020222022—19 4 
ITH Cor 5 aoc ckue eT ce ee pee ae 2222102111202220102022020—18 § 
Nrabalit Seer elses eee, ieee 1 2222202229222090202220090- 93 | 
OLS BHA Pins noblest Dh ag mieiing eh ct ite 2222022012212202202211122—21 
SEO WE eee Meant int, ieee re Eee 20220201001 22021022111222—18 
[GINS  Saneeeneee es he eae eee 2201221220222229221 992112 23 
nikeyehu retard oly tg sO ER RSE. eg See gee ore eee on 2222022222200 02092920294 | 
(Rowmsendt:). 2. 0 pies eee eee 2222022222222021020222100—19 
PHLOLES Ron 2 Nee eA to och aens Pease 22:22210212212021111210002—2) 
Bramhall 14 Fi. ee tees d eae 022222220220 02092222222——22 
Himipall, Ss levnyesanagannennyen eens - - -2212221212212221112221202—24 
Loomis ...... wee cece e ees ss O202222222929220221 20122297 
Bickers wine coer ee eee ene ++. = +» +2222022222201220222220022—20 |] 
Eliott wlicee ce chewanes ta boiey Eb bree Eee 1202220212222110212120112—21 
br gl Did Siu, ede eben es aed ose 2222202222220 2000029900294 | 
IPATINELEG-aeoccorceateecne eee 2222222222292992202212092 94 
(GOT ebI 3h. eett oaths ssonaooonoceeeresarie 22:2922222972222222999999 94 


Omawa, Feb. 10.—Frank Forg, of Omaha, and F. H. Beard, of 
Herneau, shot a 50 live bird match on the Omaha Gun Club | 
grounds to-day. The conditions were $50 a side and the birds. 
Beard won by 1 bird. Score: d 


Hope. si/7steners af 211g Re ET 2pp2n2929%09%90002009009 | 
9299999999%99999999090999_46 
Bekid, gy.cocienpenenerpeceeeenee eens s+ += 2222999999999999%90990009 


22222222222 2020420222009 a7 
On Wednesday afternoon Frank Fogg and Major Roberts will 


shoot a 50 bird match for $50 a side and price of the birds. 
HIAWKEYE. 


PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 


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SIX DAY TGUR VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. 


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Old Point Comfort, Richmond and Washington via the Pennsyl- 
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March 8. 

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at Old Point Comfort, Richmond, and Washington, and catriage 
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of six days—will be sold at rate of $34 from New York, Brooklyn 
and Newark; $32,50 from Trenton; $31 from Philadelphia, and pro- 
portionate rates from other stations. 


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trip, one and three-fourths days’ board at The Hygejia or Charfi- 
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from New York; $13.50 from Trenton; $12.50 from Philadelphia, and 
proportionate rates from other points. . - 

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THE BEST THING FOR NEW YORK GAME. 


THERE is now before the New York Legislature a bill 
(Assembly 410) which provides that it shall be unlaw- 
ful at any time to sell woodcock, ruffed grouse and quail. 
This is to put into effect, so far as concerns these im- 
portant species, the ForEsT AND STREAM Platform Plank, 
and aside from the general principle of the great utility 
of such a law, there are two special reasons which 
strongly demand the adoption of the non-sale system at 
this time in this State. 

The first reason lies in the fact that the sale of game 
and its export for purpose of sale are now so generally 
prohibited throughout the other States that the rule 
may be said to be practically universal. This being so, it 
follows that there is no legitimate source of supply in 
other States from which the game dealers of New York 
may get woodcock and, grouse and quail to sell. The 
New York game market then is supplied, as to these 
species, if supplied at all, with contraband goods, and 
those who deal in game thus unlawfully supplied are 
fences, It should not be permitted under the law thus to 
constitute the markets of this State receptacles for game 
smuggled out from other States. New York should stand 
with the rest of the country with a common system to 
preserve the gate. 

The second fact deserving special consideration is, as 
‘Mr. Tallett intelligently points out in another column, 
that because of the non-export laws prevailing in other 
States and the growing difficulty of deriving game from 
those States, the market demand is more and more in- 
sistent for game from New York fields. That is to say, 
if game continues to be sold, and if it cannot be had in 
sufficient quantities elsewhere, it. will come from New 
York covers. If the markets have game it is New York 
which must supply it. For the protection of their own 
game, therefore, the people of New York must close their 
game markets by the adoption of the anti-sale law. This 
is the game protective expedient which is most needed 
to-day, and the one which will most surely prove effective 
and adequate fo accomplish the end. 

To make into a law Assembly Bill 410, to prohibit the 
sale of woodcock, ruffed grouse and quail, would be the 
best thing now practicable for New York’s game supply. 


POTOMAC FISHING. 


Tue anglers of Washington are confronted by a peculiar 
situation. For a number of years the members of the 
Fish and Game Protective Association of the District of 
Columbia have given much attention and devoted much 
effort to stocking the Potomac River with black bass and 
pike-perch; and as a direct result of the Association's 
activity, immense numbers of bass, crappies and other 
fishes have been preserved by a system of transfers from 
the canals to the river. The Association also has been suc- 
cessful in securing wise laws for the protection of the 
Potomac fish. All these public spirited undertakings of 
the Washington anglers have been for the common benefit 
of the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland; for 
the waters which have been stocked and protected lie in 
the District and in these two States. 

Now, having restored the Potomac fishing and having 
provided for its continuance under the required laws, the 
Association members find themselves threatened with ex- 
clusion from that part of the Potomac which lies in Mont- 
gomery county, Md., except upon payment of a non- 
resident license. Whatever may be the merits of the 
non-resident shooting and fishing license system in gen- 
eral, it is very clear that in this case the adoption of the 
contemplated restriction by the. Maryland Legislature 
would be nothing else than a gross injustice to the anglers 
of Washington. We print in our fishing columns the 
Fery reonveheing tetter: Wipeae ramen! yen Hep piey 


pared, His presentation of the Association’s case should 
prevail with the Maryland Legislature to defeat the pro- 
posed license imposition. 

This cool proposition of the people of Maryland to 
appropriate to their own exclusive free use the stock of 
fish which has been provided by the very non-residents 
they would discriminate against, is a piece of effrontery 
matched only by the residents of Chautauqua county, 
New York, who, having had Chautauqua Lake restocked 
with muscalonge by the State, now want a county non- 
resident license law, to compel the people of the rest of 
the State to pay for the privilege of fishing for the fish 
produced by ptiblic funds. 


THE CHANGING HABITS OF GAME. 


NorHiING is better understood by sportsmen generally 
than that wild animals are susceptible of education. The 
wildfowler of long experience knows that to-day the can- 
vasbacks fly higher and are more wary of approaching the 
battery or the blind than they were in the days of his 
youth. The upland shooter is convinced that the quail 
of to-day are better educated than those of old times. 
They come out from the swamps for a shorter time, often 
instead of walking to the feeding grounds they fly, and 
the dog is therefore unable-to find them, unless by some 
fortunate chance he passes: so close to the brood as to 
wind them. So with the pinnated grouse. In old times, 
in the treeless portions of Minnesota, it flew and alighted 
in the grass. Later it took to the corn for shelter, then 
to the windbreaks, and then to the trees of the timber 
claims. Now the birds sometimes even alight in trees; 
things that the species once *knew not of. 

With large game it is the same. Sixty or seventy years 


ago the wild sheep—now the most alert of North Amer- 


ican game animals, and the wariest—was as stupid and 
gentle as the buffalo used to be, and did not know enough 
to run away; but it has learned its lesson, though even 
row in certain sections where it is little hunted or even 
hunted not at all, it is still gentle and unsuspicious. 

But, if-game which is persecuted learns the lesson of 
self-preseryation, the converse also is true, and game 
that has’ been wild become tame, if the dangers’ which it 
has learned to fear cease to exist. The big game of the 
National Park has thus become educated. Bears—under 
most circumstances the shyest of creatures—wander con- 
tentedly among the tourists, feed close to the hotels, and 
occasionally are even enticed into the hotel office by the 
offer of a piece of pie. Antelope and mountain sheep 
understand very well that there man is not a dangerous 
animal, and there have been cases where officers driving 


along the road between Gardiner and the Hot Springs” 


have come upon sheep lying in the roadway which de- 
clined to get up so as to permit the vehicle to pass. 

The white-tailed deer which in one form or another is 
scattered over the whole of temperate North America, has 
within the past few years undergone considerable changes 
of habit in certain fairly well-settled portions of the coun- 
try. Nearly twenty years ago a writer on the deer family 
of North America said: “The keenness of the deer’s 
olfactories has become proverbial, and the experienced 
hunter when starting out always satisfies himself as to 
the direction of the wind; for a deer, when its nose has 
told it that a man is in the neighborhood, waits for no 
more definite information on the subject, does not seek 
to learn just where he is, nor how far off, but makes the 
best of its way from the spot.’ This used to be the 
fact everywhere, but in some localities the deer have 
learned new things about man. Recently an old Maine 
deer hunter, narrating his experiences of the last twenty 
years, related that in old times when hunting on the 
border between his State and Canada, he found that if 
4 deer got his wind it promptly ran away, going so far 
that it was useless to follow it. Subsequently, when 
hunting deer in the southern counties of Maine, where 
people were more numerous and the deer far less hunted, 
he discovered that there the animals had become accts- 
tomed to the scent of man, and no longer regarded it 
as a thing to be greatly alarmed at. It was a question of 
use. The same-thing, of course, has been observed on 
Long Island, where the deer, even if persons pass to 
windward of them, manifest no alarm. 

In New England of late years deer have greatly m- 
creased in number. . Maine, New Hampshire and Ver- 
mont are well supplied. Massachusetts has a few, which, 


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with protection, will increase. There are a very few in 
Connecticut and Rhode Island. Reasonable protection 
will unquestionably insure a constantly increasing supply 
of these animals, which, like others of their kind, will 
become tamer and tamer, and feeling secure will increase 
rapidly. 

The State of Connecticut, which has recently very 
wisely authorized the setting aside as game refuges of 
small tracts of land called town preserves, which are 
under the control of the Game and Fish Commission, 
has made a long step in the right direction, and one which 
might well be imitated by others of the more thickly 


settled States. While the Connecticut t. yi pr serves 
are too small to be of great importance i. ‘5 for 
deer, they still contain the germ of an idea ¥ yvorthy, 


of imitation and amplification. 

In these days of widely spreading interest in nature 
study, a large portion of the general public is beginning 
to have a new feeling for our wild thing.. for the mam- 
mals, the birds, the reptiles and the plai-ts; and in this 
newly roused interest is to be found a great hope for 
the preservation of many of our wild creatures, whic! 
have been regarded as speedily approaching extinction. 

All this has a very ditect bearing on the question, now 
becoming an active one, concerning the establishment of 
game refuges in forest reserves. 


When a person grasps a gun and pulls it toward him 
muzzle foremost, and is killed by its accidental discharge, 
we speak of his act as fatuous folly. And yet this very 
thing occurred at Atlantic City, N. J., the other day, un- 
der circumstances which leave room for no word of 
censure for the victim who thus brought death upon 
himself, Three hunters were gunning on a pond, when 
one of them broke through the ice, and floundering in 
the water extended his gun to his comrades, one of whom, 
Willard Tucket, grasped it by the muzzle to assist him 
from the water. The weapon was discharged and Tucker 


was fatally wounded. This was the one instance out of a 


thousand where the pressing necessity for instant, in- 

volutary, unthinking action left no room for ordinary 

caution. One cannot. read of the incident without the 

thought that here was a victim of this common gunning 
casualty who gave his life for another. 
® 

The growing attention given to forestry and the in- 


- creasing tendency on the part of individuals and of States 


to provide for the scientific administration of their forest 
possessions make it clear that the work of a forester is _ 
to be recognized in this country as one offering attrac- 
tions and moderate financial rewards to young men. Mr. 
Gifford Pinchot, Forester of the United States, has writ- 
ten a circular of instructions to prospective foresters, in 
which he notes that the present demand for trained forest 
experts is far in excess of the supply. There are forestry 
schools at Cornell, Yale and Biltmore, N. C., the courses 
ranging from one year to four. Mr. Pinchot’s ““Sugges- 
tions to Prospective Forest Students” may be had on 
application to the Bureau of Forestry, Department of 
Agriculture, Washington. 
2 

Mr. John W. Titcomb, for many years one of the Fish 
and Game Commissioners of Vermont, has joined the . 
United States Fish Commission and has succeeded Mr. 
Ravenal as chief of the Division of Fishculture. Mr. 
Titcomb has won national repute as one of the most 
energetic and able men of the day engaged in the work 
of fishculture, and the Forrest AND STREAM congratulates 
him upon the enlarged field which has now opened be- 
fore him at Washington. The Vermont Fish and Game 
League was of Mr. Titcomb’s creation, and we assume 
that he will continue for the present at least the direction 
of its affairs. Mr. Ravenal gave up his place in the 
Fish Commission to go to the Smithsonian Institution. 

2 

The question of Sunday fishing came up anew in the 
Massachusetts Legislature the other day, and a proposi- 
tion to repeal the law which makes fishing on Sunday 
unlawful was voted down. 


‘ z 
We have had a fine illustration this weels of the art of 
yacht launching as a gréat international sus com, 


mercial and political function. ' 


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_ [Maren 3, 1902. 


Che Sportsman Canrist. 


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The Courtship of Ebenezer Saunders 


“No, Hi, ther’ ent no use tryin’ t’ git ’roaund hit, I’m 
Junsome. I’m doggon linsome,’ Ebenezer Saunders de~ 
clared in tones of absolute conyiction. “Hit’s all ‘long 
o Satan, I reck’n. Sence that air mule hung hisseli 
hit’s been so doggon still ’raound yere I kin most hear 
myself snore at night. An’ what's” wusser, nuthin’ ever 
happens. Naow, when Satan was livin’ I never knowed 
what was goin’ t’ happen next. He was plum full of ac- 
tion from them long ears o’ hisn te his hind heels— 
specially his heels. Hi ganny! want he a kicker, tho? 
Spot here,” he indicated with a nod an homely black and 
white cur lying at his feet, “he’s the only live thing on the 
place, but he ent no more like Satan than a chipmunk 5 
like a wildcat. No, hit’s deader ’n Satan hisself taound 
yere, an’ I’m gittin’ doggon lunsome, hi ganny.” ; 

“T s’pose the old bay mare I sold you all is sort o 
too stiddy, eh?” Hiram Meeks ventured by way of condo- 
lence. . A . 

“Stiddy? She's stiddier than a blind caow, _ Saunders 
scornfully replied. “That bay mare, Hi, meanin’ no on- 
respect t’ you all, even ef y’ did git the best of me in the 
bargain, that bay mare, Hi, is too lazy t die. Don't 
hey t’ nail up no gates fer her. I jest lay daown a fence 
rail on the graound an’ she’s too lazy t’ step over hit. 
Nuthin’ but a split rail, by Godfrey Simpson Daniels, 
s’ help me, cross my heart. She makes hit lunsomer— 
sort o’ like a undertaker at a iun’ral. Nope, ther ent 
nuthin’ kin take Satan’s place. I’m off my feed, an 
tobaccer don’t taste right, an’ lastly—as the parson sez— 
somethin’s got t? be did, hi ganny.” 

They were seated on the old water-trough, Saunders’ 
favorite loafing place, and ever and anon their gaze wan- 
dered from the neglected barnyard to the most remote 
corner of the small farm where, beneath the shade of the 
trees, an unique head board, bearing a simple legend 
scrawled upon its rough face, marked the spot where 
lay all that was left of a certain black mule of quondam 
notoriety. 

“That's as fur as I ever git,’ Saunders continued, 
mourntully. “When it comes t’ doin’ somethin’ I’m plum 
flabbergasted—that’s the word, plum flabbergasted.” 

Just then the sound of a horse’s hoof beats on the 
stony roadway that passed Saunders’ gate reached their 
ears, and the two men slowly turned their heads in the 
direction of the sound. 

“Hits Sam Hawkins,” Hiram announced, as an 
horseman appeared around a turn in the road. 

Hawkins—for it was he—was astride a small, piebald 
pony. This pony seemed to have trouble in lifting its 
feet very far off the ground, consequently its progress 
was interrupted by every slight obstruction in. its path. 
It stumbled ever once in so often with persistent regu- 
larity. To add to the difficulties, the man was much too 
large for the pony and his legs depended so far on either 
side of the saddle that when the pony stumbled a little 
too far forward the man’s feet struck the ground with a 
sudden quick jolt. This gave a peculiar billowy motion 
to the rider’s progress, and nothing save long practice 
could have enabled him to retain his seat so uncon- 
cernedly. As he came opposite Saunders and Hiram, ‘he 
reined in his steed with a sharp jerk and a loud, “Whoa, 
thar, y’ little fool.” 

“Howdy, Eb! Hello, Hi!” he called out in cheerful 
tones, ‘What's the news?’” 

“Howdy, Sam,” Saunders responded. “Ther’ ent no 
news.” (“‘Ain’t never any sence Satan hung hisself,” he 
added, in an aside to Hiram.) “Won’t y’ come in an’ rest 
awhile?” 

“Don't care ef I do,” Hawkins made answer, He 
slowly dismounted, tossed the bridle rein over the branch 
of a tree nearby, and joined the other two men at the 
water-trough, 

“What you all chinnin’ *baout?” he inquired. 

“Nuthin’ much,” Saunders replied. “Jest sittin’ here 
an’ chawin.” How’s folks?” 

“O, tol’able, tol’able. We got a new kid, y’ know.” 

“So? Y’ don’t say. Which ’tis? boy or girl?” 

“Both. I meant t’ say they was twins. Come night 
‘fore last.” : 

He fumbled in his pocket and drew forth a small, dirty 
looking piece of tobacco, 

“Got any chewin’?” he asked, 
this fer on the way hum.’ 

Hiram produced a huge black “twist,” which he ten- 
dered to the other, remarking as he did’so: 

“Why don’t you all git a fresh piece t carry *raound? 
Be pert carryin’ that air one sence the Wright caounty 
aid. 

Hawkins bore this broad insinuation with unruffled 
composure. This well known weakness of his for using 
another: man’s tobacco when he could possibly save’ his 
Own was not peculiar to himself alone. 

_ The three men sat for some time with silently working 
jaws before venturing a remark. Hiram was the first 
to break the spell, 

“Say, Sam; what do you s’pose?” said he. “Eb’s. Jun- 
some. 

Hawkins stared at Satinders with newly awakened in- 
terest, as though he expected such a strange complaint 
to manifest itself by some outward, visible sion. 
eee he repeated, incredulously. “Be you all 
ee! suttenly be,” Saunders averred, trying hard to lool 
the part. “I’m lunsomer than a scare-crow in a corn 
field, hi ganny.” - 

_ What fer?” Hawkins asked, 

Fer Satan,” Hiram quickly interposed, anxious to dis: 
gla UL at Of affairs. 

“Per Satan,” Hawkins exclaimed, edeing slowly rae 
from his friend. “Eb, that comes of raient i cats 
religion. The Scripture tells 1is———? iad ByEre 

“You're barkin’ up the wrong tree, Sam,”” Hawkins in- 
terrupted. “Tent the devul, hit’s that black mul e 
ise EBs lunsome fer.” wats tare 

awkins looked relieved and asked for parti 
Saunders gladly rehearsed his woes afresh, bSyegtic ae 


“Reck’n I’d better save 


“Vou all otter git married,” Hawkins unhesitatingly 
declared, when all the facts had been laid before him. 

It was Satinders’ turn to show his amazement. 

“Wearried? Me married?” he almost gasped. “Man, 


-you're crazy. Listen to that, Hi. Sam sez I orter git 


married,” and Saunders burst into a loud guffaw, in which 
Hiram joined. 

Hawkins said nothing, but waited placidly until their 
mirth had subsided, , 

“LT know what I’m talkin’ *baout,’ he affirmed, dispas- 
sionately. “When it comes to excitement an’ stirrin 
things up a mule ent a circumstance to a woman. I got 
Scripture t’ prove hit, ef I didn’t know from my own 
*sperience. Ther’ ent but one mule specially mentioned 
in the Bible, an’ that was the mule belongin’ t’ Balaam, 
but the hull book's full o’ the onusual doin’s of women 
folks, startin’ with Eve fust. They ent no dif’rent naow 
‘n what they was then. I reck’n I orter know. Ent I 
been hitched up three times a’ready?” 

This argument had a sobering effect upon the other 
two, 

“Tf reck’n ther’s some sense in what Sam sez,’ Hiram 
at length observed. 

“Mebbe ther’ is,” Saunders rejoined, “but talk’s cheap. 


I’m over sixty year old, an’ ef J wanted t’ git married— .- 


which I ent sayin’ as I does—but ef I wanted to, who'd 
hey me? The sayin’ of hit’s easy ’nuff, but the doin’s 
difrent some, hi ganny.” ; 
“Plenty o’ women would jump at the chanct,” Hawkins 
argued. “You got yore pension, y’see, an’ could give 
‘em a comftable hum. An’ ef you choosed the meekest 


one in seven cotnties she’d make hit more interestin’ ~ 


than all the mules in the State.” ; 

“Ent y never thought *baout gittin’ married?” Hiram 
questioned, 

“Can’t say ’s I hev,” Saunders replied. ‘‘No more ’n 
t? sorter wonder how ’twould seem like, or to ask myself 
what sorter wife some woman ’d make.” i 

“Any partic’lar one?” Hawkins earnestly inquired. 

“Waal, ther’ was onct, but ther’s drawbacks, as the 
feller sez,” Saunders reluctantly admitted. 

“Meanin’ what?’ Hiram asked, 

“She’s a widder.” 

“So much the better,” Hawkins asseverated. ‘Give me 
a widder every time, by Godfrey. They got sense an’ 
*sperience ¢ boot.” 

“A widder,” Saunders reiterated, “a widder an’ three 
children,” — 

“That makes no dif’rence. 
lier,’ Hawkins urged. “You all think it over an’ call on 
me fer any pinters. An’ that makes me think, I got a 
woman t’ hum waitin’ fer me, so I’d better be movin’ 
on. S’long.” 

“S’long,” responded the two in unison. Hawkins 
slowly mounted, and with a final “S’long,” gradually got 
his pony under way and went stumbling’ down the road. 

“Vl think:’baout the widder,”’ Saunders shouted after 
him in a high, penetrating voice when he was almost out 
of hearing. Hawkins paused, wheeled his pony about, 
and began retracing his steps. 

“What say?” he shouted. 

“The widder,” Hiram bawled. (He had the loudest 
voice in the county.) “He sez he’ll think o’ the widder.” 

“O, I thought he said licker,’ Hawkins called back. 
“Don’t waste no time,” and then, with a ponderous 
salute, he again turned about and continued on his uncer- 
tain way. 

“Who’s the widder, Eb? Ef you don’t mind tellin’ her 
name,” Hiram inquired, when they had again settled down 
on the old water-trough. 

“The widder Jackson,” Saunders replied, and glanced 
at his friend to see what effect the announcement would 
produce, Hiram said nothing, but looked very wise. 

“Do you all know ’er,’ Saunders asked, with a vague 
suspicion that his companion was withholding informa- 
tion. 

“Oh, yaas, I know her,” Hiram admitted. “Y’wouldn't 
find it lunsome with her—an’ the kids.” 

“Waal, I dunno, Mebbe she mought turn out too 
doggon interestin’. What would you all do ’baout hit?” 

“Take my chances, Come t’ think on it, the widder’s 
a powerful handsome woman, as looks go ’raound yere. 
I mought try myself ef you don’t.” 

“Hit’s my fust choose,” Saunders asserted, in some 
alarm. “How had I better go *baout the business?” 

“O, I'd sorter look things over an’ spear ’raound a bit, 
an’ then I'd up an’ pop the question.” 

“Not all to onct, would you? Don’t y’ hey ¢’ sorter 
lead ’em on—sorter coax ’em like?” 

“Nope. Jest let *em see you mean business from the 
statt off,” 

“Hit don’t seem right t’ go at sech a thing that away. 
I reckon I'd better take a little time an’ go slow. Ther’ 
ent no hurry.” 

“OQ, shucks!” Hiram ejaculated, in disgust. “You 
inean you dasgsent do hit.” 

“I do dassent,” Saunders protested. 
hi ganny. I’ll do hit tomorrer.”’ 

“Ef you all want any help—’ Hiram began, - 

“No, sirree,’ Saunders hastened to decline the offer. 
“I didn’t go through the war fer nuthin’, or live with 
Satan without larhih’ a few pints, I reck’n no woman 
in Douglas county kin scare me.”’- 

“Tl come over the day arter an’ hear haow things come 
out,” said Hiram, rising to his feet. “T better be gittin’ 
on toward hum. See you later. Good luck ¥ you, 
S’long.”” 

“Good IJuck. S’long,”’ Saunders tesponded, absent 
mindedly. His thoughts were with the widow Jackson. 

He remained seated on the old water-trough, buried 
deep in thought until the lengthening shadows and a feel- 
ing of emptiness warned him that it was past his regular 
supper time. With a heavy sigh he roused himself) en- 
tered his cabin and was soon busily engaged in preparing 
his simple evening meal. His hunger appéased, he took 
down an old cracked mirror from the wall, and seating 
himself where the light from the tallow dip reflected his 
image in the glass, carefully surveyed his features, 

“T need a hair cut, an’ my whiskers orter be evened up 
some,” he reflected aloud. “I can’t do nuthin’ with the 
hair, but I kin trim up the whiskers.” So Saying he 
hunted around in all the out of the way cornérs Of the 
Toom until he ynearthed a pair of very rusty, dull looke 


Ivll be all the more live- 


“T’ll show you, 


ing scissors with which he proceeded to remedy his 
unsatisfactory appearance. The result was nothing to 


glory in, and Saunders gazed dubiously at his strangely | 


altered reflection. 

“Wish I hadn’t a-tetched hit,” he grumbled, ‘Looks 
sorter ’s ef somethin’ had’ been a-chawin’ on the blame . 
thing. Hope the widder a’n’t special fond o’ whiskers.” | 
And then he removed some of his clothing and crawled { 
into his narrow bed, 

The widow Jackson was repatching the patches of her . 
eldest son’s pantaloons from a piece of an old bed quilt | 
and wondering why children were not allowed to run 
about unadorned in the simple garb of nature, It would | 
be such a saving of time, trouble and bed quilts and | 
the like. Suddenly the owner of the garment she was 
laboring upon burst into the room. The boy was clad in 
the only remaining portion of his wardrobe—a cotton » 
blouse much too small for him. 

“A man’s comin’,” he breathlessly announced. The 
widow leaned forward and peered through the open door, | 
half doubting that she had heard aright. But the child 
had spoken the truth, for she espied the ungainly form 
of Ebenezer Saunders toiling slowly up the steep path 
that led to her cabin on the hillside. 

“Here, you Johnny, git into them pants, quick as ever 
y kin,” she cried, thrusting her needle into the un- 
finished patch and tossing the pantaloons at the head of 
her son. The child hastened to obey, while the mother 
stood in the doorway to receive her caller. She had 
known Saunders for seven years, but this was the first 
time he had ever ventured upon a visit to her home. 

Saunders was meditating upon the adyisability of an 
ainmanly tetreat, but the appearance of the widow re- 
moved all hope of escape: 

“Mawnit,’,” he said as cheerfully as his state of mind 
would permit, apparently addressing his greeting to the 
universe at large. “Purty day, ent hit?” 

“Mawnin’,” Mrs, Jackson responded. “Yes, ’tis a nice 
day, ent it? Got them pants on, Johnny?” she de- 
manded over her shoulder, 

Saunders stopped short in his tracks, and looked 
aown at his own nether garments. 

“I reck’n so,” he stammered. It was an unusual be- 
ginning, he thought; but then Hiram had said that the 
widow was interesting, 

Mrs. Jackson laughed shrilly. 

“Lawsey me!’ she exclaimed. 
my boy Johnny.” 

Saunders looked relieved. 

“T got ’em on, ma,” Johnny here announced, “but they 
won't stay up less I hold ’em.” . 

“Hold ’em, then!” his mother commanded. “Won't 
you all come in, Mr. Saunders?” 

“Don’t care ef I do,” Saunders replied, and followed 
his hostess indoors. He seated himself on the edge of a 
chair, and waited for the widow to begin the conversa- 
tion, 

Johnny was standing in the corner of the room dressed 
aiter a fashion, with one finger in his mouth and his other 
hand tightly clutching the front of his pantaloons. He 
stared at Saunders as though the latter were .some 
strange animal until Saunders became uncomfortable. 

“Is that yore kid?” he finally asked, in desperation. 

“Yep; that’s Johnny,’ Mrs. Jackson answered, in 
tones of motherly pride. “He’s jest goin’ on ’leven,” 

“What makes him stare so?” Saunders ventured, after . 
a long pause in which Johnny kept his tinwinking eyes 
fastened upon the visitor's face. 

“Johnny, quit yore starin’ at the man,” cried Mrs. 
Jackson, in a very shrill voice. ‘Kile, thar! Kile, I 
say!” This being interpreted meant, “Quail, crouch 
down! Efface yourself!” or if your were addressing a 
member of the canine family, “Charge!” Johnny tried 
to do all four at onee. Saunders’ sympathy was aroused. 

“Oh, I don’t mind hit. I was only a-wonderin’,” he 
fallaciously declared. “Come over here an’ see me, 
Johnny.” 

“Go to the man,” Mrs. Jackson ordered, and Johnny 
obediently, though hesitatingly, obeyed. 

“Waal, Johnny, you’re quite a’ little man,” said 
Saunders, awkwardly stroking the child’s tousled hair. 

“Our cat’s got kittens,’ Johnny replied, with great 
solemnity. 

“Y? don’t say. Haow many’s she got?” Saunders was 
beginning to feel a trifle at ease. Hiram was right; 
children were very interesting. 

“Oh, a lot,” answered the boy. “Most forty.” 

“The little liar,” said Saunders to himself. He laughed 
furtively at the widow, and happening to meet her eye, 
again took refuge in Johnny. ‘Come sit in my lap an’ 
tell me all *baout *em,”’ he requested, 

He lifted the boy from the floor and set him down 
rather hard upon his knee. Johnny uttered a loud howl 
ee pain and terror, and Saunders released him in a 

urry. 

“Naow, what’s the matter?” cried Mrs. Jackson, “Shet 
up yore bawlin’. The man ent goin’ ¢’ hurt you.” 

“He sticked a pin in me,” wailed the boy. 

“I never done no sech a thing,” Saunders indignantly 
denied, rising to his feet and’ edging toward the open 
door, 

“Come here, Johnny, an’ let me see,” Mrs. Jackson 
commanded. She made a brief investigation at the seat 
of trouble. “Hit’s that patch,” she announced. “T for- 
got an’ left the needle in. Do sit daown ag’in. ’Twan't 
nuthin’,”- 

But Saunders. concluded that he had done enough 
courting for one day, and as Johnny refused to be com- 
forted, he mumbled a few lame excuses and departed. 
As he hurried down the path the sound of Johnny’s 
wailing floated out upon the air with increased vol- 
ume, and mingled with it was another familiar sound 
that reminded Saunders of his own childhood days and 
a certain well-worn slipper. 

“Hi ganny!” he muttered in quivering accents. “But 
that kid’s suttenly got a voice. I ent heard as much noise 
sence Satan died, Widders: sholy keep a feller from git- 
tin’ lunsome, ” 

When Hiram Meeks called to learn what progress 
Saunders had made with his courtship he found that in- 
dividual in a most disheartened frame of mind. 

“Land. knows, hit's, excitin’? ‘nuff,’ Saunders con- 
cluded, when he had given a full account of his. visit to 
the widow Jackson’s, “Ef ’twas ? keep up that a-way 


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it “ud take a stronger tan’ that inte t stand the tacket, 
hi ganny. I'd never git to the p'int of askin’.” 

“Vou all need bracin’ tp,” Hitam declared, after due 
considération of the question, “I reck’n I'd better go 
‘long as fer as the widder’s with you next time. It'll 
keep yore nerve up. .An’ you better go arter supper. 
“Ten't as hard t’ say things i in the dark, an’ the kids 71] 
be in bed then, like’s not.’ 

“She moughtent like yore comin’ with me,” 
objected. 

*She wouldn't know anythin’ ‘baout my bein’ thar. 
Vd inde, an’ hang ’raound outside. Wouldn’t it sorter 
brace you up ef you knowed I was some whar’ ’raound?”’ 

“Yaas, ‘twould that. Let’s go to-night, an *git the 
thing over. 

“All right”? Hiram assented. “Say, what on ‘arth’s 
the matter of yore whiskers? I been wonderin’.” 

“T cut ’ém. They was too ragged like. ? 

You orten to a-done it. Makes ’em look raggeder, 
an’ makes you look squeamish- like.” 

“Can't be helped, naow,”’ Saunders replied in resigned 
tones. 

“Y? better keep yore hand over it: much as y’ kin,” 
Hiram advised. 

They arranged their plan of action and impatiently 
awaited the coming of the appointed hour. 

It was growing dusk, and Mrs. Jackson had just 
ordered Johnny to bed, when the sound of approaching 
footsteps brought her to the door, At first she was 
alarmed at the sight of two men coming toward her 
through the gathering shadows; but her fear gave 
way fo surprise, when she recognized the forms of Hiram 
Meeks and Ebenezer Saunders. She had been very 
much exercised over the latter's former visit, and now 
the repetition of it so soon afterward set her poor heart 
to fluttering strangely. It could mean but one thing. 
Saunders was going to “keep comp’ny” with her. 

“Good evenin’,’ Hiram called out. “I jest walked this 
fer with Eb. I’m goin’ on t Hawkinses.” Without 
waiting for a reply, he pushed Saunders forward, and 
with a parting, “I’ll.stop fer you on my way hum’,” 
turned about and left the two alone. But so soon as he 
“was out of sight, he made a wide detour through the 
woods, and crept cautiously up to the rear of the cabin. 
He concealed himself behind a clump of bushes until the 
darkness would permit a nearer approach. 

The waning twilight. faded into deeper gloom, the 
shadows became denser beneath the trees, and soon the 
rugged outlines of the cabin showed blurred and in- 
distinct, finally merging into the enveloping darkness. A 
faint glow of light suddenly gleamed forth from the 
open window, and Hiram breathed a sigh of relief. 

““He’s goin’ t’ stick ’er out,” he chuckled to himself. 
He crept slowly forward until he had gained a desirable 
position beneath the open window. He strained his ears 
- to catch the sound of voices, but nothing could he hear. 
Silence most profound reigned within the cabin. Raising 
himself warily, he peered into the room. Saunders was 
sitting on the edge of a chair clasping his -chin in one 
hand and nervously crossing and wuncrossing his legs. 
The widow was obviously endeavoring to encourage him 
with an occasional meaning glance, while the rocking 
chair, in which she was somewhat violently rocking her- 
self, seemed to be strangely attracted toward her visitor’s 
corner of the room. : 

After what seemed like a long, long time to the im- 
patient Hiram, Saunders cleared his throat: 

“Be you all lunsome ever?” he asked, in desperation. 

The widow coyly hung her head and twirled her 
thumbs. 

Sometimes I be,’ she faltered. “Awful lunsome.” 

“So be I,” said Saunders, edging his chair a little 
nearer in her direction. ‘“‘Mules is good fer lunsome- 
ness,” he added as an afterthought, apparently addressing 
his. boots. 

“Do tell us!” Mrs, Jackson bridled. 

“Yaas, an’ so is women. Alarmed at his own temer- 
ity, Saunders suddenly became speechless. From the 
corner of his eye he watched the stealthy approach of 
the widow’s rocking chair. Soon, unless something 
happened to prevent, their feet would touch. At the 
thought he drew his own as far back as possible on 
each side of his chair and awaited developments. 

The watchful Hiram observed every little detail of 
this scene, and he began to wax impatient with his 


friend. ; 
“The blame fool,” he whispered to himself. “Why 
Ef I only knowed haow 


don’t he hitch along clusser! 

t? stir him up,” and then he had an inspiration. “T’ll 
make him think o’ Satan, an’ mebbe tha’tll sorter git 
him started. She’s only waitin’ t be asked.” 

He raised himself a little higher, and with his huge 
hands for a speaking trumpet, bawled a_stentorian 
‘“Haw-hee! haw-hee! haw-hee!” at the top of his voice 
through the open window. The effect exceeded his 
fondest expectations. The widow screamed, and with 
a wild cry of “Save me!” threw herself bodily upon 
Saunders’ neck. Saunders clasped her in a spasmodic 
embrace, and looked wildly about for the cause of this 
awful disturbance. A deep silence followed the startling 
interruption, Presently from the black darkness out 
of doors came the sound of a well-known voice. ~ 

“Eb,” called the voice. “I say, Eb.” 

“Ts that you, Hi?’ Saunders demanded in amazement. 
_ “Yep, that’s who *tis. I done the brayin’. Thought 
you all needed rousin’ up a bit. Say, Eb, I’m goin’ 
hum. Ill see ¥) Jater. Keep tight holt on her naow y’ 
got’ er. S’long,” and the sound of his retreating foot- 
steps became fainter and fainter, and finally died away in 
the distance. 5 

“Did y’ hear what Hi done told me t’ do?” Saunders 
asked, clasping the unresisting widow tighter to his 
bosom. 

She nodded her head, 

“Waal, I’m goin’ t’ do hit, hi ganny. An’ I’m goin’ 
t’ drive over to-morrer arter you all an’ take y’ hum’ 
with me, an’ Parson Simon ’Il be waitin’ thar fer us—an’ 
we won't be lunsome ho more, narry one of us.” 

Tears stole a-down the widow’ $ careworn, face. 

“Oh, Eb,’ she |whispered. ‘That’ll be jest like 
heaven.” 

At that moment a lone aimeocevill sent forth his 
plaintive cry from out the stillness’of the night. Saun- 
ders raised a warning a 


= 


’ Saunders 


_ fast. 


FOREST AND STREAM 


“Hush!” he said in low tones. “Hark at the bird! 
The little cuss is lunsome, I reck’n, But it means good 
luck. Hit’s the fust one I’ve heard sence Satan died.” 

Fayette DuRLIN. 


A Walk Down South.—XVIIL. 


Just a word from the Adirondacks: 
“NWortHwoop, N. Y., Dec. 31, rgor. 
“This is Elgie’s birthday, but he has not had his lick- 
ing yet. 


“We had what I supposed was a rabbit dinner yester- 
“day—fried rabbit, biscuit and er avy as usual. There was 
some left and to-day I warmed it over. Mrs. Chrisman 
[a charming young widow] was here fitting some waists, 
and she was here to dinner, After we were through eat- 
ing, Mrs. C, was asking how I cooked rabbit. She had 
not eaten anything but the biscuit and gravy. So I told 
her how I soaked it over night in salt and water and par- 
boiled it in soda, etc. She thought that meat looked 
funny for rabbit. "Then Elgie told us that one of the ani- 
mals was a skunk. I have been sick to my stomach ever 
since—and Mrs. C. said it would require no effort on 
her part to vomit. I think I have cooked the last rab- 
bit or atiything else till I know what it is. Elgie had told 


_ Pop what it was, and I thought he did not eat very hearty, 
* 


I guess he nor Elgie enjoyed it very much * * 
Mama,” 
“Jan, 2—I suppose Mom told you about the fine meal 
of rabbit we had? Goll! How they praised it, while the 
insides of Pop and I just rolled. Skunk is all right, 
though i would be bully if you didn’t know what it was. 
I ate quite a lot, but by thunder it went hard. When 


THIS IS THE MAN WHO IS WALKING DOWN SOUTH. 


I skinned him there was a good breeze and I got to wind- 
ward. When the wind stopped, I stopped. Euere.” 

Same date: “This world is not alla ial denness ot woe. 

OP,’ 

I had abesiat the sun dogs, the cold, snow-crystaled 
air and the vast outdoors away up on the Ridge. Per- 
haps a tinge of pity was felt for men who put on earflops 
ten degrees before the thermometer got to zero, but when 
Squire Huffman’s man brought in a whole pine stump, 
dripping with fat, and dropped it on the oak blaze, the 
charm of the artificial fire again asserted itself. 

The school teacher, a hundred pound girl, said that her 
oldest boy was 19 years of age, six feet tall and nearly 
two hundred pounds heavy. But such pupils gave her lit- 
tle trouble. Théy are very chivalrous and moral suasion 
is sufficient to keep them in order. It reminded me of 
the Taylor boys, who would have gunned over two 
States to avenge an insult to their teacher. The historical 
text books of the Southern States vary materially from 
those used in the North, of course, for the needs are dif- 
ferent. The climate and the history have different 
aspects. 
northerner pursues his way southward. He is constantly 
reminded that there are we uns and you all in regard to 
customs and point of view, and almost as constantly 
pleased by the new ways. Here they say “come in and 
warm’ first, and afterward, “‘What’s your business?’ 

We sat by the fire for a long while that evening. I 
Was more than a little lonesome. The wind was blowing 
a skiff of snow across the bottoms, and the cold was just 
great enough to suggest the broad white flats in the 
Adirondacks, and bring to mind the balsam swamps, the 
rocky, ice-covered streams and the deep mountain forests 
of home. I longed for a snowshoe tramp up Little Black 
Creek to the Reservoir, and a rabbit hunt on four feet of 
dry snow—not on the mushy, packing southern kind. 

On Thursday morning, Dec. 11, I sat down to pot 
roasted beef, hot biscuit, coffee, “fruit” and apple butter 
for breakfast. Squire Huffman thought of riding on 
horseback to New Castle, eighteen miles away, that day, 
but the weather was pretty bad. Had it been good 
weather, his 84 years would not have deterred him: 
Lloyd Huffman’s wife poured coffee, but did not eat with 
the men—there-were five or six. The women folks sel- 
dom eat with the men when visitors are present; why, I 
don’t know, unless it is merely the custom. A girl usually 
stands by the oven to keep hot biscuit on the plates. 

The school teacher appeared for a moment aiter break- 


ice, and a slight wind was blowing: The school teacher 
had on a spotless white sunbonnet, starched and ruffled. 
The twelve-year-old daughter of the house wore as spot- 
less a pink sunbonnet. These contrasted with their dark 
heavy jackets, their thick mittens, comfortable skirts and 
clear complexions in delighting fashion. 


The novelty iricreases rather than abates as a. 


Tt was sifting snow outside, water was scaled with - 


16 ba 


A visitor from West Virginia, after some money the 

quire owed him, wore a pair of felts which excited 
much derision on account of their looks. That they were 
comfortable on horseback was a strong argument in, their 
favor. To see this migrant from the “far North” where 
I lived and hear its merits discussed im voices that ran to 
peaks made me lonesome. J was glad to start on, for 
under the pack one can rid himself of any gloom. 

This was to be a day of particular importance. 
to take me over “the divide.’ 
into the Mississippi Watershed. 

It was not very cold as I walked up Johns Creek Val- 
ley. True, there was snow on the ground, and the wind 
was a chilly one. I plodded on. Rabbit tracks were 
everywhere, The road was gradually ascending. I 
stopped to rest at a horseblock in front of a house, in- 
tending to ask my road within, Looking backward, I 
saw two men coming—familiar faces. They were Har- 
mon and Walter Taylor, It was like meeting old friends. 
They were going toward Newport, my destination, and 1 
was to have company for a dozen miles. . 

We walked on together, and turned to the left a mile 
away. Instantly the road began to ascend. Up and-up it 
went, the sweat running down my face, in spite of fre- 
quent rests. A ruffed grouse roared out of the brush at 
one place, the woods looked like good deer country all 
along—a great, steep ridge side sweeping up from the 
valley steeperand steeper to the backbone—Clover Moun- 
tain, and we were headed for Clover Gap. Once we 
stopped to drink at a spring—its waters were warm com- 
pared to the air. Many times we stopped at a rock or 
log where I could rest the bundle. The wind grew colder 
and the ice thicker in the road. Walter slipped in one 
place and wiped snow from a dozen feet of ice, The 
road led up gullies, held in place on the right side by 
logs. Wecouldlookdown on the road in places a hundred 
feet below, in others five hundred feet down. But above 
we could see little, and that was misleading. Where the 
openings seemed to indicate the top of the divide we 
found only another U or § bend in the trail—and that - 
always an up hill one till at last, after clinging for a while 
to a side hill slope we rounded a slight point—a last 
stagger up—and there the grade changed. The valleys of 
the great river were before me. It was then 12:15 o'clock. 
The wind was cold, the place exposed to the strongest 
blasts, but it was pleasant to me to be there. 

Soon we started down hill—a grade as steep as the one 
up. It was just as hard for me. I slipped. and stumbled, 
went down and rolled over three times, pack and all, 
on one slick snow-hidden ice scale. We came to a vacant 
house on the left in a gulley, a number of steep corn- 
fields, some cattle, a big, brown, scared rooster, and then 
a house. Here we stopped, and though it was ‘wash- day, 
prevailed on the wife to get us a snack. She brought a 
peck of big red apples for us to stay our appetites on. We 
ate them all. Sausage, apple satice and butter, sweet 
milk, coffee, new biscuit, and old biseuit (dipped in hot 
water and then baked over), jelly and peach sauce yan- 
ished, and more was prepared. At last we were willing 
to warm by the fire again. 

Newport was six miles away, and we had lots of time. 
We lingered until both sides had been warmed through 
and then toasted, after which we traveled on. 

Soon the first water I was to see Mississippi-bound 
came across our road. We, jumped across. Then we 
came to it again. This time we jumped further, The 
next time we crossed on a rail, and then on the ice, and 
then on the ice and a rail. Next time we built a bridge 
out of rail fence. I-led the way, pack and all, over a 
pole. At last we had to take to the fields. A dozen times 
that stream crossed the road—the rvad crossed it?—in 
a couple of miles. But at last we got shet of it and walked 
in place. It was an impressive stream to me in every 
respect. 

The boys wanted to carry my pack, and now that the 
road was not so steep nor so hard, and there was little 
danger of their breaking legs or ankles, I let them try ‘it. 
It was a new weight to them, At first it seemed easy, 
but in a mile I had the pack again,- We came to the 
forks of the road, on one of which I must go, and they 
on the other, so we parted again, 

A foot bridge suspended by two wire ropes and-a hun- 
dred feet long was before me over Sink Creek, 

“Careful now that yere’s slick,” a man said to me as: I. 
started over. I walked carefully, the bridge swaying at 
every step, but I crossed safely and soon rounded the 
point up the creek to Newport. 

I walked into the office of the hotel and deapped my 
pack to the floor, 

“Good Lord! what’s that?” asked proprietor Smith, 
with gentiine amazement. Then he hefted the pack. It 
made him grunt. 

“Jerusalem crickets! Why, Ill bet if-you’ve- got any 
fight in you at all you’d tear a man to pieces; yes sir, tear 
five or six right to pieces,” he continued. Then they all 
stood back and looked at me; guessed at my weight 
(twenty pounds too much), and wet their lips with their 
tongues when they thought of seeing me in a scrap. 

The shooting of Clarence Martin by Kemper Sybrook 
at Pembroke a few miles away the day before was a lead- 
ing topic of conversation that night in the office until 
somebody proposed poker. Then the doors were locked, 
the light put down on the bar and the catds brought out. 
The justice of peace got astride the bar, the negro stage 
driver counted the pack, Smith, Jr., watching, and a 
couple of others felt in their pockets to see how much 
money they had, A game “just to pass the time away,” 
five cent ante, twenty-five cents limit. It was interesting 
to me, because I knew that three of the players at least 
had revolvers in their pockets. Every boy of sixteen 
years or more in that place is said to carry a deadly 
weapon. Young Smith has a silver-plated, hand-engraved 
Smith & Wesson, .38 caliber. The others carried similar 
weapons, and all had a “high sense of hanor.” 

| The second night wound up with proprietor Smith 
saying: 

- “Well, I declare, if that don’t beat anything [L ever did 
see. Bet my last cent on a pair of kings and beat this 
man [stage driver] out of all his day’s earnings.” = _ 
~The buoyancy of hope and leadenness of. despair in- 
termingled at Newport, [ sat by the coal fireplace in 
my room for several hours on the zoth trying to, deter- 
mine what to do. New River, six miles away, was so 


Tt was 
Before night I would go 


full of mush ice that I couldn’t get across it save at 
Radford, sixteen miles away, where there was a railroad 
bridge. So I headed that way on Saturday morning. It 
was cold; my toad led over two mountain ranges, and 
over stteams in two valleys. It was woody for the first 
eight miles over the mountains. I ctossed the brook on 
a log and failed to find the road, but taking a compass 
course along the side hill, ascending steadily I found the 
trail again after a while. 

In the next valley a wide brook was crossed on a foot- 
bridge of boards, with a wire hold-rail. It was novel in 
that it had two-inch thick wooden spools to grasp and 
slide along the wire from post to post—a dozen posts— 
so that one did not have to grasp the cutting strand. 

I got.a ride of several miles from Price’s on and then 
I walked till I struck the railroad: This I followed for 
a ways. At sunset I sat down by the track to let a train 
go by. “It was my first look at a Southern river. Broad, 
rustling, yellow and.shallow, I watched the mush ice flow 
by till nearly plumb dark. Then, by the light of the 
moon, I tramped on toward Radford. Everywhere was 
evidence of the recent high water. In the trees were the 

_peculiar matted tufts of drift from the waters with which 

I was soon to become exceedingly familiar, for I was 
looking forward to a boat ride down the Holston to the 
Tennessee River. 

On Sunday night I took the train-to Rural Retreat, 
intending to stay there over Christmas, but found a sum- 
mer resort snowed under. I went on to Marion in the 
cars the following day, having gotten my mail at Rural 
Retreat, where I also crossed the divide between the 
New River and the Tennessee on the cars, 

A man on the train had lost his grip. He, was a stu- 
dent bound home for Christmas. He inquired: of all 
where it was, A friend pointed to my pack and-said, as 
innocently as possible, “Is that it?” 

The searcher glanced at the great basket, blanket and 
stuff. His white collar,.silk scart and great overcoat 
fairly shivered at the sight. 

“No!” the fellow almost yelled. ‘“That God d——’ 
Then he saw me out of the corner of his eyes. 

“No,” he said, quietly, “mine’s a leather grip "bout 
so long.” 

It was the prettiest bit of Southern courtesy and regard 
for a stranger’s feelings that I had seen, but typical of the 
region. RayMonpd S. SPEARS. 


Floating on the Missouri.—IlL. 


AFTER putting up the tent and getting camp in shape, 
I shouldered my rifle and started up the valley. There 
is a thin fringe of cottonwood and willow bordering ‘the 
creek and for a time I tramped along the edge of it look- 
ing for signs of game. Water was standing in pools 
here and there in the creek bed. The ranchers away up 
in the Judith Basin haye long since diverted Arrow Creek 
to irrigate their homesteads, and it is no longer a run- 
ning stream except during the June rains. Every one of 
the pools I came to was covered with ducks, mallards, 
widgeons, and teal. From the rose and buck bruck 
sharptail grouse were constantly rising ahead of me and 
lighting again after a flight of two or three hundred yards. 
And then, suddenly, a lone whitetail buck bounded ott 
of a little grove of cottonwoods and made for the hills 
as fast as he could run. I fired at him twice, and was 
about to pull the trigger a third time, when he made 
a last leap and fell dead into the bottom of a couleée. 
J did not cut his throat, for by the location of the bullet 
hole I knew that he had bled internally, and upon open- 
ing him found that I was right. Sah-né-to had heard 
my shots and joined me, and how pleased she was at my 
sticcess. 1 cut off the buck’s head, first taking the tongue, 
and then, shouldering the carcass, we returned to camp. 
It was not a large deer, only a three-year-old, but it got 
very heavy, and I had to rest often before we arrived at 
the tent. There was a convenient tree in front of it, and 
running a stick through the deer’s gambrels | hoisted it 
up to the nearest limb, clear of the ground. A hunter 
never feels just rigéht until he has hung up a piece of 
meat in camp. There may be ducks, and chickens, and 
geese galore strung around, but the feeling of absolute 
contentment never comes until a deer or an elk, a sheep 
or an antelope, sways to the breeze from a nearby limb. 
So, at least, I felt, and Sah-né-to, too; we had the “real 
food,” ni-tap-i-wak-sin, she had been longing for. And 
then, I felt rather proud of having killed the deer; for 
nineteen years I had not fired at a running animal, and 
yet I had dropped this one in two shots. Perhaps | 
owed my success to the Lyman sights, I had never be- 
fore used them, but subsequent experience leads me to 
believe that it is nearly as difficult to miss as to kill with 
them, 

Dinner was over, the dishes washed, a quantity of dry 
wood piled behind the stoye. Sah-né-to lit the lantern 
and resumed work on.a pair of moccasins she was emi- 
broidering’ with a vine-like pattern of various colored 
cut beads, “Tell me,’ I said, “why this stream is named 
Ap-si-sak-ta—the Arrow River?” 

“Tt was given that name long ago,” she replied, “by 
the ancient ones, on account of a strange, a very strange, 
thing which took place. One time in that long ago 
there was a beautiful young girl named Ah-we-kas—the 
Antelope—the daughter of a chief. She was as good 
as she was. handsome, and very industrious. No one 
tanned whiter buckskin, softer robes than she. No won- 
der, then, that all the young men were her slayes, and 
longed to make her their wife. But to all of them she 
replied, ‘No,’ and remained with her parents, doing all 
she could for their welfare and happiness, One after an- 
other the great men, the rich men of the camp, made 
offers to. the old people for her, offers of horses and other 
wealth, but always her parents would ask her if she was 
willing, and when she replied, ‘Nay,’ they did not urge 
her. So the girl grew up, year by year more and more 
beautiful, and reached womanhood. ’Tis said that her 
hair when unbraided almost swept the ground; that her 
large, soft eyes were like those of a fawn, deep and clear, 
with am expression in them—I cannot say just what— 
that made the heart of man beat furiously in his bosom. 
She was tall and slender, yet of a rounded and graceful 
figure. She could run like a deer, and swim with the 


speed of an otter, 2°. we 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


“One spring the people were camping for a time some- 
where on this river. One day there came from the camp 
of the Blackfeet, for to the north, a young man to visit 
his Piegan relatives, and that very evening he was in- 
vited by the father of Ah-we-kas to come to his lodge 
and feast. The young woman set some food before him, 
took one look at his face and hurriedly returned to her 
seat. Ele had one glimpse into her lovely eyes and was 
so distraught that he could not eat. In that one glance 
both knew that they were made for each other. After 
that the young Blackfoot came to her lodge every day 
and talked long with her father of the north country, oi 
the doings of his people—of their wars, their hunts and 
adventures. But he neyer spoke to her, nor she to him; 
but 1f they gazed at one another shyly, bashfully, as lovers 
will—well, what harm? 

“At Jast, one day, the young man informed the chief 
that on the morrow he would return to his people. ‘But,’ 


he continued, ‘I shall soon return, driving many horses, 


before me.’ 

“As he passed out of the lodge somehow his hand met 
that of the girl, and he gave it a gentle squeeze; she in 
turn pressed his, and then covered her head with her robe 
in shame of her boldness, . 

““T wonder, now, the old man mused, ‘what he meant 
by that—that he would soon return driying many horses 
before him?’ 

“‘Ah-we-kas was sure she knew, but made no reply. 

“Most importunate of all her suitors was Black bull, 
a man Of savage temper and a great warrior. He was 
tall, and broad, and heavy, of great strength, and as 
homely as he was strong. By his success in war he had 
become very rich; no one owned more horses, no one had 
a greater store of weapons, fine garments, robes and 
furs, than he. Two wives he had already, women whom 
he forced to toil incessantly, and whom he cruelly beat 
when anything went wrong. And now he wanted Ah- 
we-kas for his third wife. Almost daily he sent word 
to her father, offering this and that for her, until finally 
the messenger carried this: ‘Thus says the Black Bull: 
Take my whole herd and of the rest of my property what 
you will, and give me your daughter in return,’ 

“But, as before, the answer went back: ‘No, she ‘re- 
fuses you.’ 

“Then Black Bull became angry, beat his wives, and 
rushed madly out of his lodge and away he knew not 
where. Passing the trail to the river he met Ah-we-kas 
and raised his hand to strike her, a fearful scowl on his 
face. Then he,changed his mind and cried out: “And 
so you reftise me; know, then, that you shall yet become 
my wife, or die.’ 

“'Twas but a few days after this that the young Black- 
foot returned, driving before him, as he had said he 
would, a band of fine horses, red and white, yellow and 
white, black. and white; all of them spotted horses. And 
his relatives took the horses and tied them up about the 
lodge of the father of Ah-we-kas, and gave him the young 
man’s message. 

“ “What say you now?’ the old man asked his daughter. 
‘What word have you for this new suitor?’ 

“Burning with shame, her head bent low, she pressed 
his wrinkled hand and whispered: “You may keep the 
horses.” 

“So they were married. When Black Bull heard the 
news he cursed them and his unpropitious gods, and 
swore to have revenge. A day or two later Ah-we-kas 
went to the river for water, and as she stooped down at 
the shore Black Bull sprung upon her, bore her to the 
ground, and lifted his knife to stab her in the side, But 
eyen as the blow was descending the knife dropped from 
his hand, and with a groan he fell quivering on her 
senseless form, an arrow buried in his back. And there 
he died. The girl, recovering from her faint, shrieked 
long and loud, and people came running to her aid. They 
drew the dead man away, and noticing the arrow sticking 
in his back, withdrew it. No one had seen its like before; 
the polished shaft was black and heavy, the tip was long 
and broad, and made of some white substance neither 
bone nor stone, but most resembling bone; the feathers, 
stiff and well wrapped on were from some unknown bird, 
and had all the colors of the rainbow, The warriors 
looked long and curiously at it as twas passed from hand 
to hand, and then bethought them to search for the one 
who had owned and shot it. But Mik-sik-um, wisest of 
medicine men, stopped them. ‘Search not,’ he cried, ‘for 
'twill be of no avail; the owner of this arrow is not visible 
to mortal eyes. This man lies dead, the victim of his own 
bad heart and passions. ’Tis a judgment of the gods. 
Let his women bury him at once and get him from our 
sight,’ 

“And so,” Sah-né-to concluded, “this river got its 
namie.” 

“And the arrow?” I asked. Who 
shot it?” 

“Flow stupid you are,” she replied. “For her good- 
ness and virtue Ah-we-kas was favored by the sun. In 
her time of need he aided her. He shot the arrow, of 
course. Mik-sik-um, the medicine man, knew that as 
soon as he saw it, for he was wise in the mysteries of his 
craft.” 

“Well, anyhow, Sah-né-to,” I said, ‘“’tis a good story, 
and we will not question the truth of it. Put another 
stick in the stove for the night is chilly.” 

I lit a cigarette and after a little continue¢: “But, say, 
Sah-né-to, don’t you think the young Blackfoot might 
have shot that arrow? It was of strange material and 
make, but he might have obtained it from some far 
northern tribe, people whom the Piegans had never 


wom 


“Whence came it? 


“No,” / aa 72 


“Why?” 

“Because.” . i 

I had no more to say, and smoked my cigarette in 
silence. When a woman says “because,” a man is up 
against it. 

Somehow we were a little late in loading up the next 
morning and resuming our voyage. I didn’t regret it, 
however, as I wanted to examine a place a mile or two 
further down the river where Lewis and Clarke had found 
the remains of one hundred and twenty-six head of buf- 
falo, the animals having been decoyed over a cut bluff 
by Indians. From this find they had named Arrow Creek 
“Slaughter River.’ But the name did not stick; the 


{Marcn 1, 1902, 


voyageurs who followed them, Joseph Kipp and others, 
leatning the Indian name for it, continued to call it as 
they did, Arrow River or Arrow Créek. _,: 

We had no difficulty in locating the scene of the 
“slaughter.” A long level but narrow ridge runs south- 
watd from the edge of the valley to the water’s edge, 
where it ends abruptly with a perpendicular drop of more 
than a hundred feet. In Lewis and Clarke’s time there 
was quite a bit of shore between it and the river, but 
year by year the channel has shifted further and further 
to the north, and not only the shore but some of the bluff 
has been eaten away by the current, Landing just below 
the bluff, I chmbed up to the top of it, expecting to find 
the rows of stone piles which generally mark one of 
these “buffalo pounds,” as the old yoyageurs termed 
them. There were none on it; if I had had time to walk 
back to where the ridge left the rim of the valley, I 
might haye found them extending in V form owt on the 
plain, My climb was not without reward, however, for 
on the way back to the boat I found an obsidian arrow- 
head. It was a very small and thin one, and precisely 
like those which are found about an old “buffalo pound” 
on the Two Medicine River, near the foot of the Rocky 
Mountains. ; . 

From Artow Creek the river flows nearly due east 
for five miles. On the south side the hills rise abruptly 
from the shore; on the north side are three small sage 
brush flats. Scattering pines grow in the breaks on either 
hand. Looking eastward down this stretch we could see 
in the distance the breaks of the Judith River, dark with 
their heavy growth of pine and fir. In due time, turning 
the bend to the north, we came in sight of a wide gap in 
‘the north side of the valley, a flat four or five miles long 
through which Sage Creek flows into the river. Here we 
entered Drowned Man’s Rapids, That is an ominous 
name, but they are really the safest rapids in the river. 
The channel is very narrow here, choked in by hills on 
either side, and the water rushing through has great 
depth. Both shores are strewn with huge bouldets, and 
there must be many of them lying down on the bottom 
judging from the leaping and swirling of the rushing 
water. We went oyer the long swells all too quickly to 
suit the oarsman, who was glad to rest a bit, but it must 
be confessed that the one who held the rudder gave a sigh 
of relief when we finally glided into still water. A mile 
below the rapids we passed the point of a bare ridge 
on the right, and came in sight of the wide, long flats 
of the Judith River, opposite those of Sage Creek, I 
had been told to look for a certain grave in this flat, 
and re-mark it if hecessary. Below the point of the ridge, 
at the western edge of the first coulée, and two hundred 
yards from the river, was the place, We landed at the 
mouth of the conlée and looked long and carefully for the 
wooden cross which had marked it, but could not find - 
even 2 grass-grown mound. Time and the constant wash 
from the hills had obliterated all traces of it. So all trace 
of the last resting place of Nathaniel Crabtree, one of 
the bravest and most careless of men, is lost, It was 
here he met his fate. He and George Croff had long 
been partners in the woodyard business, in trapping, 
hunting and trading, “In 1865,” George told me, just 
before I left home for this trip, “we had a woodyard 
at the Coal Banks. Winter and summer buffalo were 
always in sight of our cabin, but just for a change and 
a little sport we used to go out to the Bearpaw Moun- 
tains once in a while and kill a wagonload of elk, deer. 
sheep, antelope and bear, using the fat of the latter ir 
lieu of lard. The Indians were always prowling around 
in those days in search of the white man’s scalp and 
horses, and one never knew when a wat party might 
jump him. So on these hutts, after supper was over, 
we used to go some distance from the fire and make our 
beds in a dark piece of woods or brush. On such occa- 
sions I would always ask Nat, where he had placed his 
rifle, and nine times out of ten he would reply: ‘Oh, 
I don’t know; it’s lying somewhere over there by the 

“Well, I'd Jecture him about his carelessness, but he 
always laughed and declared there was no danger, and I 
usually had to hunt the weapon up and lay it by his side. 
He was as good a friend and comrade as a man could 
wish for, honest, brave, good natured, a tireless worker. 
But he was careless; your good natured, easy-going men 
generally are careless. 

“Tn the fall of ‘67 we moved down to the mouth of the 
Judith and started to get out wood for the steamboats 
there, haying cut and sold all there was in the vicinity 
of the Coal Banks. We built a good sized cabin on the 
flat about two miles west of the creek’s junction with the 
Missouri. Camp Cook, a temporary post of three or four 
companies of mounted infantry, was located on this 
stream, and some four miles from us, so we felt pretty 
secure from Indian raids. Still, they used to bother us 
some, and the soldiers, too. One night a guard saw what 
he took to be an Indian sneaking up to the tarpaulin- 
covered supplies he was watching, and called out ‘Halt!’ 
a number of times. But the Indian never stopped, and 
when he got up as close as he wanted to, he leveled his old 
fuke and gave the soldier a mortal wound. Of course, 
the whole camp rushed out then, and what do you sup- 
pose the officers did? ‘They ordered their men to light 
a lot of lanterns and search the timber and brush for the 
Indians! They wete a pretty green outfit, both officers 
and men, 

We had six men in our employ cutting pine up in the 
breaks and in the hills, but one of them was always’ on 
the lookout for any sneaking war party, while the rest 
worked. Nat. and I hauled the wood to the river with 
three yokes of bulls (oxen). We had no horses, and we 
took turns going after the cattle in the morning. On the 
sth of April, ’68, I remember the date well, it was Nat’s 
turn. I got up before daylight to prepare breakfast, and 
soon afterward he started out, leaving his rifle, as ustal, 
T never went away from the cabin without mine. Well, 
daylight came, and at sun-up we had breakfast, but Nat. 
did not return. The men shouldered their axes and rifles 
and were just starting to their work when we saw the 
soldiers’ herd of horses, some four or five hundred head, 
running up the long, sloping hill on the west side of the 
valley of the Judith. And behind them, whooping, yell- 
ing and lashing, rode a lot of Indians, urging them on. 
I felt at once that something had happened to Nat., and 
we started out to look for him. After going half a mile 


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t on the flat I saw the bulls and turned toward them, 
d when near the coulée they were feeding in I saw 
7 partner rise up out of the sagebrush, stagger a few 
‘ps toward the cabin, and then fall. I hurried over to 
ere he had disappeared and found him lying face down 
the brush, three arrows sticking in his back. He had 
fainted. I called the mien, and sending one of them for 
the doctor at Catnp Cook, had the rest help me get Nat. 
to the cabin. I pulled out two of the arrows, but the 
hird one, which had struck him in the lower part of the 
ack, and was pressing against the lower part of the 
bdomen, I dared not touch. In a little while Nat. re- 
covered from his faint, and after drinking a glass of 
whisky and water, seemed his old cheerful self again, 
He had found the bulls, he said, and was going around 
behind them to drive them in, when five Indians rose 
lip out of the sage brush only a few yards behind him 
and fired five arrows into his back. He got hold of the 
upper ones and pulled them out, and then looked around 
for a club or a rock with which to defend himself. But 
there was nothing of the kind in sight, and then the pain 
became so acute that he grew dizzy, reeled and fell. The 
Indians started off toward the hills, but after going a 
short distance one of them turned back, drawing his 
knife, evidently with the intention of taking his scalp. 
But Nat's hat had fallen off, exposing his partially bald 
head, and when the Indian saw the fringe of thin locks 
he turned and hurried to rejoin his companions. 

"The doctor came after a while and extracted the re- 
maining arrow. ‘Poor fellow,’ he said, ‘I fear you're 
done for,’ and leaving a little medicine of some kind to 
lease the pain, he went away. . 

***Of course I’m done for, Nat. told me. ‘I knew that 
las soon as I was shot. But cheer up, old boy, and don’t 
fake it so hard; it can’t be helped, and we’ve just got to 
make the best of it. Yes, I know I ought to have taken 
ny rifle; if I had they would never have molested me. 
Nell, old pard, give me your hand and let me go to sleep; 
I never wake, good-bye and good luck.’ 
“Those were the last words he ever spoke. He dozed 
away into a deep sleep, from that into a stupor, quietly 
breathed his last soon after midnight, and I lost the best 
friend I ever had. I felt so badly about it that I couldn’t 
bear to stay there any longer, and leaving everything in 
charge of one of the men, took the first boat for Fort 
Benton.” 

Reluctantly giving up our search for the grave, we re- 


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to the mouth of the Judith, where our friend, Wm. 
Norris, has a large ranch, ferry and general store. We 
had not met since the buffalo days, and of course began 
to talk of old times at once. Norris waters several hun- 
dred acres of land back from the river with a ditch from 
the Judith, and some immense stacks of alfalfa showed 
‘what irrigation will do in this dry region. Beside hay, 

e has succeeded every year in raising field corn, toma- 
toes, tobacco, melons and sweet potatoes, to say nothing 
of the commoner vegetables. Looking over the place 


land “twas sundown before we knew it; so leaving the 
Good Shield tied to the ferryboat, we camped where we 
were, and were well cared for. ' 

Lewis and Clarke named this stream the Judith, after 
lsome Virginia girl they knew. The Blackfeet call it 
O-to-kwi-tuk-tai—Yellow River, on account of the 
iquantities of yellow “paint” or ochre which is found near 
its source. The large flat here at its mouth and the Sage 
Creek flat opposite, were favorite camping places with 
them, good trails leading out to the plains north and 
south, and’ the wide flats affording ample room to graze 
their herds in sight of their Jodges. It was here that 
the “Stevens” treaty of 1855 tool place between the 
Government and the Blackfeet, Crows and Assinaboines. 
Stevens brought with him a steamboat load of presents 
for the red men; among other things sacks of coffee, 
beans, rice and bacon. The Indians prized the sacks, but 
they had no tise for their contents, so they dumped the 
food out on the ground and went on their way rejoicing. 

It is over this treaty that the Indians have since been 
so angry, especially since the disappearance of the buf 
falo. ‘They claim that they merely gave the white men 
permission to make roads and travel through their coun- 
try, and that the vast territory lying between the Mis- 
souri and Yellowstone Rivers still belongs to them. 
They certainly have a good claim to it; where is the law- 
yer who will take their case upon a conditional fee? 

' APPEKUNNY. 


The Old Boathouse. 


Ovin, N. Y., Feb. 18.—Editor Forest and Stream: While 
I sit by the cozy fireside, letting the February gales work 
off their rage outside, the memory and the picture of an 
old friend keeps itself to mind. 

This’ old friend, my first boathouse, stands tinder the 
sheltering boughs of a weeping willow which, with its 
Jong, slender branches, sometimes dips into the cool water 
ef the lake below. It is a homely little structure, some- 
what longer than wide, with two doors, entirely out of 
proportion, opening to the west. A little point on the left 
shelters with its kindly sides the tree and building from 
the frequent fury of the south wind. 

The sember willow and-the dark, gloomy hemlocks on 
the high bank behind give one the impression that to this 
yutiet, secluded spot that disturbing element—man—had 
neyer come. Yet a bright red padlock on those wide 
doors and the marks of feet in the clean black sand at the 
water’s edge quickly dispel any such idea. Yes, those 
doors are often opened on pleasant September and Oc- 
tober days, for a good bass ground lies just north along 
those ‘rocks, ; 

Scoop away the sand under the doors and peer inside. 
Resting on its rollers lies a trim-built skiff, its subdued 
coloring in perfect harmony with its present environ- 
‘ment, and well adapted for the work for which it was 
designed. 

This takes up the greater part of the floor space, though 
In one corner, as if on duty, rests a small anchor, its 
-tiny flukes digging into the earth, while a tangle of rope, 

bait cans and a cushion lie near. 
_ On the cross piec2s above are two long-shanked spears, 
“whose wicked barbs tell of their cruel use. In the corner 
beneath is a pile of fat pine knots, inseparable companions 
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turned to the boat, and in fifteen or twenty minutes came, 


land talking of other days, the time passed all too quickly, . 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


of the spears above. In the end facing the Jake is a 
small sliding window some six inches square, fastened 
securely by a large hook. Empty shells beneath give the 
clue to its use, The quiet little cove in front is a favorite 
feeding ground of the timid wildfowl, and from that 
window they have seen many a fatal flash. 


Such is- the spot and the building around which pleasant © 


memories cling, while I wait for opportunity to enjoy 
them again. B. E. Biree. 


dlatuyal History. 


—g-— 
The Browsing Habit of Game. 


VERY probably a majority of those persons who make 
the pursuit of four-footed game animals, small and great, 
in the forests, ever think of the manner in which these 
quite often large beasts feed. The moose, for instance, 
lives in the deepest woods, where ordinary pasture does 
not exist; indeed, the buffaloes which swarmed over the 
Western plains found a large part of their living, not on 
the grass, but on the shrubbery along the streams, and 
at times in the occasional forests. Now, what is there in 
what we call browse which supports these animals—the 
rabbit, deer, elk, moose, and the few buffalo remaining, 
which now harbor in the deep recesses of the forests? 
Grass, we know, will supply nutriment to all herbivorous 
animals, and the common thought—I do not say belief— 
for this, I yenture to assume, is not a matter of thought 
ever considered, that somehow or other these animals 
do find grass enough to live on and survive the winters 
as well as the summers by some method of digging for 
the herbage under the deep snow. 

The fact is that the excessively nutritious character of 
the so-called browse of the woods is not a matter of 
common knowledge among sportsmen, and, indeed, some 
of the writers in the special so-called agricultural journals 
even show their unfitness for their occupation by com- 
plete ignorance of the nutritive value of what is com- 
monly called browse, but is more distinctly referred to by 
scientific writers and authors on feeding farm animals as 
leaves and twigs of trees. Just now there is one of those 
occasional revivals of public interest in goats, which 
have occtirred several times to my knowledge, and one 
of the most énticing temptations offered to those persons 
who are always seeking something new, for the géneral 
adoption of the goat as a competitor of the sheep, is that 
this hardy cousin of the sheep will gain a luxurious and 
costless living by keeping the fence rows clear of the 
quite common brush which disfigures the average farm 
fences. This, however, is only the naked truth as regards 
this frisky, athletic ‘quadruped, whose favorite roosting 
place is—if possible—on the barn roof, if it is denied the 
extra privilege of making his nightly refuge on the roof 
of the-kitchen. And, as the goat is a feeder on the twigs 
and leayes of small shrubs and trees, so is the sheep; and 
we all know how the mule will enjoy himself and get fat 
during his summer holiday on the brush and saplings of 
the wood lot, and even the cow lightens the heart of the 
farm wite by increasing the quantity of milk, but still 
more that of the butter, when it is turned—as a last re- 
source and forlorn hope to escape starvation in the bare, 
dried up meadow—into the last winter’s clearing, and 
fills herseli with the sprouts irom the new-made stumps. 

There is a reason for all things, and this for the cir- 
cumstances mentioned is this simple fact: This growth 
from the sprouts, and the young herbage of the woods 
otherwise, is more than twice as nutritiots as the best 
pasture grass, not even excepting the famed blue grass 
meadows of Kentucky and adjacent States. This know- 
ledge we owe to the German agricultural chemists, who 
followed Liebig—one of the fathers of agricultural 
chemistry—and others who worked in this line with him, 
and the best known agricultural author, Wollf, whose 
work is the standard in regard to the character of the 
foods of herbivorous animals. Wollf’s tables have never 
been questioned, and more modern agricultural chemists 
have verified his figures, so that they are now the basis 
of the science and practice of feeding animals. The fol- 
lowing figures are quoted from Wollf’s tables of the com- 
position of the yatious food substances consumed by 
domestic animals. Jt is only reasonable that a German 
chemist should include the browse of woods in his list, 
for the German forests swarm with sheep and cattle, fed 
and fattened on the undergrowth. Indeed, we know 
something of it ourselves. For our grandiathers, who 
cleared off the forests to make our now millions of farm 
homes, were in the habit of going into the woods to cut 


down a few trees—I well remember it myseli—and the 


basswood was the first chosen for its value in this respect, 
and how, by this provision, the cows gave milk the whole 
winter, kept in good shape, and reared the calves and 
came into the summer pasture unwillingly; breaking the 
fences even to get back into the woods again. Then 
I first learned the use of the pokes used to prevent the 
cows from jumping the fences to get back to the pre- 
ferred browse. But let us have the figures. 


Ky. blue 
. grass 
Composition of Leayes and Twigs? Per cent 
Protein “GHeshl f0FMVErs) es oS yeey ae cules ncrersa rss 14.6 9, 
Carbo-hydrates (fat and heat formers),.....,..0.- 06.61 44.96 


Of course, this average has extremes, and while some 
kinds of browse will be less valuable than the figures 
given, yet some will be worth more. The pines seem to 
be eaten with as much ayidity as the other kinds, as far 
as I have taken notice; the basswood, soft maple, poplar, 
and all the oaks are eaten with more avidity than other 
kinds. Sheep in the spring seem to take to the pines, 
and this choice is probably wise ier the peculiar nature 
of the resiniferous trees is decidedly healthful to the 
sheep, as an antidote to its very-numerous internal para- 
sites. 

As to the nutritiousness of this forest feeding, I can 
give one special example. When in the northern penin- 
stila of Michigan, near the Wisconsin border, and not 
far from the thousand-lake district of Wisconsin, the In- 
dians brought into our village, soon after the first snow, 
a lot of deer, which they had trapped in one of their 
V-shaped runways. There were 132 deer in the lot, small 


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and great, from_the yearlings. up to the big buck I pur- 
chased for a dollar which weighed over three hundred 
pounds. These deer were as fat as any fatted sheep I 
ever saw. My big buck had clear fat on his back an inch 
and a half thick, and they fed and were fattened in the 
dense woods of the neighborhood, mostly made up of all 
the hard woods, 

All this goes to show the value of the forest ranges to 
the sheep, cattle and horse feeders, and at the same time 
these figures should go to raise the estimate of the value 
of forest reserves, especially when brought under scien- 
tific culture and care. In fact, my observation and ex- 
perience in these dense Southern forests go-to show that 
under the right scientific management the mere feeding 
of cattle, sheep.and horses should bring in to the park 
management—if the present proposed enterprise should 
be carried through in the Appalachian mountain region— 
such an income in this direction as will pay a good inter- 
est on the investment made by the United States Govern- 


ment. HENRY STEWART, 
HiaHianps, N. C. 


Deer as’ Depredators. 


Editor Forest and, Strean:: 

I feel disposed to write a few words respecting some 
statements by Robert O. Morris in the article quoted in 
the last issue of the Forest anp STREAM. He seems 
to be. quite, ignorant of the habits of deer where they 
are found in farming sections, _ 

Speaking of deer, he says “he regrets to see a dis- 
position on the part of some farmers to prejudice people 
against this interesting and valuable animal, and some of 
the most ridiculous charges against it are made and 
published. One man claims his seckel pears to have been 
eaten by deer,” etc. And the farmer is doubtless right 
in his claim, Deer will eat any kind of fruit they can get 
at. They are especially fond of apples, and have often 
been seen eating them. Throughout the winter they visit 
apple orchards and) paw up the frozen apples on the 
ground through the snow. In the fall an old apple 
orchard is one of the best places to find deer, They 
will rear on their hindfeet and shake the fruit from the 
limbs. The supposition that a man could not tell the 
depredations of deer from the toothmarks of a red squir- 
rel is almost too silly to merit notice, Again, this writer 
says: “Another man said that deer had eaten up a field 
of cabbages,” and confidently remarks, “This is very un- 
likely. It would be contrary to their usual habits for deer 
to eat this vegetable. Neither pears nor cabbages,” he 
further infirms us, “are the favorite food of deer.” 
What wisdom is here displayed! The simple fact is 
(which can be proven over and oyer again up here in 
Vermont) deer eat, not only “pears and cabbages,” but 
turnips, beets, peas, beans, oats, wheat, corn, buckwheat 
and about everything that grows in a farmet’s field and 
garden, and will stay by such fodder until it is all eaten 
up. 

I do not write at random. JI live in a deer country, 
and know what I am talking about. Many instances of 
their destruction of gardens, oat fields and corn fields, so 
that the ground had to be replanted or resown, are too 
well known to be possibly denied, and abundant proof 
could be furnished of this fact. If anybody up here were 
told that deer would not eat and destroy vegetables like 
rabbits and worse, the informer would be laughed at, and 
with good reason. 

Farmers asa whole desire the preservation of the 
beautiful deer; at“the same time it is next to impossible 
for a farmer to get damages from the State for the de- 
struction of his oat field, which has occurred in more than 
one instance. The “natural habits” of the deer do not 
stand in the way of their eating about everything under 
the heaven in the fruit and vegetable line that grows up 
here in Vermont, as many a farmer will) testify. One 
man had to replant a field of beans three times. Another | 
had a field of beets eaten to the ground, They eat carrots 
and all kinds of garden stuff unless it be potato tops, The 
amount of damage done the farmers may not aggregate a 
great deal, but it is enough to cause considerable com- 
plaint in certain sections of our State, and would not 
exist without some grounds for it. Ten or a dozen deer in 
an oat or corn field or a pear orchard do not improve it. 
Deer are very innocent animals, but they are not saints 
or angels. 

Mr, Morris is evidently a devotee of science, but he is 
uninformed when he seeks to set up his learned opin- 
ion about what deer will and will not eat—if they get a 
chance—against what occurs or an actual fact in places 
where there are gardens and corn fields and pear or- 
chards and cabbages. W. A, REMELE, 


BRIDGEWATER, Yt. 


An Adirondack Panther 


A PANTHER appeated on Adirondack Mountain Reserve 
territory in the town of Keene last week, chasing a deer 
down the Ausable Lake road. The deer ran in the 
road, broken out for ice drawing at present, a distance 
of nearly a mile, and did not leave the road until near 
the Adirondack Mountain Reserve toll gate, which is 
just south of St. Hubert’s Inn at Keene Heights, then 
crossed the Ausable River and made for the spur of 
Wolf Jaw Mountain on the west. The panther’s track 
was on the side of the road, in deep snow, and was 
parallel to the deer’s track for about three-fourths of a 
mile. Several persons, among them J. W. Otis, game 
warden for the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, saw the 
tracks of the two animals and, judging from the won- 
derfully long jumps made by the pursuer and pursued, it 
must have been a race of “life or death” for the deer. 
Owing to the fact that the deer was somewhat tame, 
having enjoyed the protection of the reserve, and not 
afraid to run_in'a road made by man, its life no doubt 
was saved.—Elizabethtown Post.. 


When Primate Marcus G, Beresford was first appoint 

Trish living he proceeded to tramp over the glebe lands Biers his 
dog and gum; on his return he met a sour Presbyterian, tenant of 
some of the lands, who accosted him thus: “We never read your 
reverence, that apostles weht shooting this way with their dogs 
and their gins.” “Ah! yery true, my friend,” replied the rector 
with 2 humorous. twinkle in his eye, ‘but, you know, they were so 
busy with their fishing, and they could not attend to more than 
one thing at a time.”—Shooting Times, 


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Florida Rattlesnakes. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Do wish the boys would get through and quit with their 
snake tales. Other—in fact all—subjects are more in- 
teresting and less harrowing. I have held out valiantly 
against the invariable desire to chip in, and am unable to 
remain virtuous longer, 

Mine is about large rattlers, or, rather, the skins seen 
in Florida. In the year 1893, before the railroad ex- 
tended beyond Rockledge, Lake Worth was visited by a 
comparatively small number of tourists. 

Tt was the Cocoanut Grove Hotel, if I remember cor- 
rectly, that stood near the site of the world-renowned 
Royal Poinciana, on the narrow strip of land between 
Lake Vorth and the ocean beach. 

Outside of a few cleared spots, this strip was almost as 
wild and impenetrable as an African jungle. Situated a 
mile or more south of the hotel, and reached by boat or 
by a narrow path cut through the jungle, was the home 
place of a Mr. George Lanehart (as the name was called; 
I do not remember the correct spelling), and on his 
place was one of the finest specimens of the so-called 
rubber tree that grows down thére! a species probably 
of the banyan. All visitors to the lake generally made one 
or more trips to Mr. Lanehart’s place, to see this really 
wonderful tree, and probably many of the readers of 
FOREST AND STREAM have visited it, and may perhaps 
have seen, as did the writer, the skins of two enormous 
rattlesnakes that- were killed on the place. 

Making it a rule to learn as little as possible about 
snakes, and to forget that little without delay, I can only 
give a vague outline of. the story told me about the two 
in question, together with a fairly definite idea of their 
size, They were said to have been the largest rattlers 
ever seen in that country, which was famous among the 
scattered settlers for large snakes. They were both killed 
near the house, one being discovered within a few feet 
of the front door, apparently engaged in leisurely select- 
ing a chicken from among the flock which had come 
around him, 

The skins were roughly tanned, with heads and tails 
cut off, and were hanging from nails on the walls of the 
workshop near the house. 

By estimation, I should say they were at least 7 feet 
long, and 18 inches across in the widest part. A gentle- 
man in our party, 5 feet 8 inches in height, and weighing 
140 pounds, stood erect against the skin, as it hung from 
the wall to within an inch or so of the floor, and the edges 
of the skin extended in plain view on either side of his 
body at the widest part, while at least’ 12 to 14 inches of 
it extended above the top of his head. 

Ii any of the bulky skin was lost in tanning, as I un- 
derstand is ustially the case, that interesting pair of rep- 
tiles must have had a waist measure of from 7 to 9 
inches in diameter. 

This is not very exact, but is authentic so far as it 
goes, and may remind some of the boys who saw them 
and- took measurements. J can most emphatically and 
truthfully say that it is more exact and authentic as thus 
vaguely set forth after a survey of the tanned pelts, than 
it would have been had it been detailed trom observations 
made when Mr, and Mrs. Rattler were still wearing them. 
Lewis Horxtns. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forrsr Anp STREAM. 


The Boston Show. 


Boston, Feb. 24.—The Boston Sportsmen’s Show is 
again open to the public. The opening night, an invita- 
tion affair, Friday evening, was well attended, considering 
that a snowstorin was raging outside. Amn attendance of 
over 5,000 showed that invitations had been liberal, and 
included most of the first society people of the Hub. 
Neither had the guides nor backwoodsmen been omitted, 
for they were there in good numbers. It was a “full- 
dress” affair for the gentlemen and ladies, and some of 
the. “rigs” would vie with those of any Back Bay or 
Beacon Hill first-class affair. To some of the guides this 
feature was novel, and they found difficulty in recognizing 
some of the men and women they have guided and 
paddled in the woods dresesd in corduroy and homespun. 
Not so the men and women. They had no difficulty in 
recognizing Tim, or Billy, or John, or Charley, who did 
so mutch to make last season’s fishing or hunting trip 
enjoyable. It was a good illustration of what water and 
forest sports are doing, especially for women, to see 
gaily dressed ladies accosting guides, evidently with 
pleasure. The opinion of the guides was quite forcibly 


expressed in the remark of one guide to another, after 


he had had the pleasure of escorting a lady about the 
show: “Gracious, hain’t she a stunner. J paddled her 
four days on —— Lake last summer, and she caught 
trout and salmon, too, though new at the business. I 
was aware that she is nice and agreeable, but that rig 
knocks me!” : 

The duck exhibit is one of the best of the show, includ- 
ing over 150 wild ducks and a couple of dozen, wild geese. 
These birds take to the occasion; only give them water 
enough to swim in, and they afford a great deal of 
entertainment, A cage of ruffed prouse has again been 
undertaken, but their wildness is almost painful. About 
thirty of them in a wooded pen gives some chance to 
wateh these birds, although determined to keep out of 
sight as much as possible. The “woods full of ’coons’’ is 
as good as ever, the little fellows keeping in the trees in 
all-sorts of positions. A yard of Maine deer-is attractive, 
especially the one almost white. The ell exhibit is better 
than:ever, while the buffalo are a new feature in Boston 
sportsmen’s. shows. Atistin Corbin’s game.preserye has 
furnished another new feature this time—a “wild boar 


sow, with a litter of pigs.. The beaver are again ‘on 


hand, in a more copious tank, with plenty of wood for 
dam building. The little fellows are eagerly watched, but 


Yhey seem to succeed only in ‘cutting 4 little wood. A ~ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


cage of prairie dogs ate furnished with an abundance of 
sand for burrowing, but the sand is too loose, and falls 
back, leaving only a little nest. The common remark 
was, “Why do they dig, dig, all the time?” Unthinking 
people and persons not up in natural history ask such 
questions. ; 

The fish and fisheries exhibit is a stronger:feature than 
ever) Mr, Richard O. Harding has had much to do with 
perfecting this exhibit. In a grotto, apparently under 
ground, the exhibit is seen at its best, the light coming 
from above. Great trout and salmon swim the tanks, 
with angel fish and other curious features. The exhibit 
of over 100 tropical fish leads to much wonder and de- 
light, on account of the beautiful colors of the individual 
classes, The fish are inhabitants of the waters of the 
West Indies. The still life display upstairs is good; the 
Eskimo settlement and other features of the frozen north. 
The gun exhibit is a rare one. The collection is admitted 
to be the finest in the world of what might be termed 
sporting arms. Here are old guns and new guns from 
several ages of the world. A part of the exhibit was 
once the famous Brooks collection of guns. Here are 
cross-bow guns, match locks, wheel locks, flint locks, per- 
cussion locks, down to the finest hammerless of the 
present day. ; 

On the whole, the show is the best ever given here, and 
that is saying a good deal, from the standpoint of sports- 
men. Its setting is exceedingly “woodsy,” and one almost 
feels that if he should turn off the lights and let an owl 
or two hoot, he could be in the Maine woods again. The 
aquatic and athletic sports have been much improved 
upon, and will draw great crowds, while more room will 
be left to the students of natural history to study quadru- 
ped, bird and fish. : 

There has been an addition to the deer exhibit at the 
Sportsmen’s Show. It is a baby hog deer, born eight or 
ten days ago. Its mother was imported from Africa by 
the managers of the show. It seems that the breeding 
of African deer has received some attention in this coun- 
try, but that nothing had ever been accomplished in that 
direction till a fawn was produced from breeding a doe 
and a buck, shown here at the Sportsmen’s Show of 1898. 
There seems to be little doubt that the hog deer is 


rightly constituted for breeding in this country, since the 


fawn produced has grown well and is now a fine buck. 
Several newly captured deer from the wilds of Maine 
have lately been added to the herd of Virginia deer that 
are in the show. One, a handsome buck, as wild as the 
woods from which he came, was in serious trouble when 
first liberated in the deer park. He is graceful and agile, 
and at first seemed untamable. But all at once he seemed 
to make up his mind that nothing was to harm him, and 
now the wild deer is one of the first to run to the game 
keeper when he approaches and ask for_some choice 
morsel, such as his native wilds near Mt. Katahdin, did 
not afford. SPECIAL. 


A Snap Shot. 


A GooD many moons ago, before Texas had as many 


-Tailroads as she now has, most of the mails there were 


carried by stage, those in the western part of the State 
generally being carried in buckboard wagons that were 
drawn by two mules each. 

There was one of these star routes that extended from 
Fort Hill in the north clear to Fort Concho in south- 
western Texas. Along this route about every thirty miles 
was a relay station, a small corral and a cabin, both 
having loopholes in them to shoot Indians through, for 
the Indians would call here now and again, Only a 
single man was to be found at one of these stations, un- 
less one of us who acted as escorts for the mail should 
happen to be here. I was in this escort then, and my 


favorite stopping place, when not on duty, was at the 


station at “Mountain Pass,” half way between Fort 
Griffin and the Concho. 

I was here a few days at one time in the summer of 
1860, and one day when examining the mules that the 
station keeper had here I found one of them sick; he ap- 
peared to have the distemper and we got him out of the 
stable right away, turning him loose in the chaparral 
back of the station. It rained that night, and the follow- 
ing morning the mule was missing, so I offered to go 
and look him up. 

It was still raining a little, but I wanted to hunt any- 
how, so taking my Spencer carbine with the magazine 
full and a load in the chamber, I started. The ground 
back of the station here was covered with a thick growth 
of mesquit, which looks something like young peach trees 
when you first see it. I carried my gun under my right 
arm with the muzzle pointed down to keep the inside of 
the barrel dry, and was walking along slowly, looking at 
the ground hard, trying to find the mule’s trail, when 
suddenly a large doe (1 have neyer seen but one that was 
larger) jumped up right in front of me. She had been 
lying at the foot of a bush trying to keep out of the wet, 
probably, and when she got up she was not ten yards 
from: me. There was plenty of time yet for me to raise 
my gtin and take aim properly, but I did not do it; but 
taking hold of the barrel half-way back from the muzzle 
with my left hand, I swung the gun out, holding it still 
on a level with my side, and pulling back the hammer, 
fired, just as the deer had begun to run from me; I had 
the gun pointed at her, of course, but had taken no aim, 

She jumped clear off the ground, then throwing herself 
backward fell and lay still. , 

I walked up to her and found that I had hit her in the 
neck, just where it joined her head; the ball had passed 
clear through her head and out between her eyes. 

I stood here a minute or two looking at her. I had 
always made it a rule never to shoet a doe if I could 
aim at a buck, and never to shoot either with a shotgun. 
I have stood to one side and let a doe go ‘when I could 
have blown her all to pieces with a shotgun. I was after 
turkeys, then, not deer. 

I was*rather sorry now that'I had not missed this one. 
I might try this trick a hundred times again, though, and 
miss every time. 

Leaving that mule to hunt himself now if he wanted to 
I took hold of the deer and began to drag it home, but 
having my gun to carry made slow time and had not gone 
far when the station keeper met me; he had heard my 


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‘shot, and a shot out here getierally means Indians, so 
he had -lost no time in getting to me. 
He handed me his gun, then tried to lift the deer to 


carry it. He could not, though, and had to drag it all 
the way home. We hung the deer up and after dress- 
ing her I started to look for the mule again, it having 
cleared off in the meantime. I found the mule several 
miles from the station, still going west; had he kept on 
west the Comanches would likely have found him; they 
were the Indians we used to hold shooting matches with 
every once in so often out here, CABIA BLANCO. 


Camp-Fire Stories from Canadian ° 
: Woods, 


Vi.—Deer Hunting on the Madawaska. 


In the northern part of Central Ontario exists a vast 
region unknown until recent years to the tenderfoot or 
even to the ordinary hunter. Here, situated upon the 
headwaters of the rivers running northeast, south and 
west, is located the “Algonquin Park.” This region, a 
veritable sportsman’s paradise, has been rendered accéssi- 
ble by the building of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry 
Sound railway, afterward incorporated into the Canada 
Atlantic System, which has been recently sold to Dr. 
Webb and his New York syndicate. 

For years I had anticipated an outing in this country, 
but so often as I had commenced to lay my plans, just 
so often something turned up to upset my calculations. 
But, as things always come to those who wait, at last my 
desire was gratified, - 

In the fall of 1892 an invitation to join in a deer hunt 

at the “Egan estate depot” on the upper Madawaska was 
kindly extended by the agent to myself and friend, “N,” 
who was, by the way, a newspaper man and a “tender- 
foot.” A cordial invitation to partake of the hospitalities 
of a lumber depot, with a deer hunt thrown in, was not 
to be slightly treated. Therefore during the last days of 
October we repaired by an uneventful journey to May- 
nooth. Now, this place, situated in the northerly part of 
the county of Hastings, one hundred and twenty miles 
from the frontier town, is not to be confounded with Ire- 
land’s “Parnassus,” but is the name of a small village 
comprising about a dozen or so houses, scattered along 
a country road, which does not possess the dignity, im- 
portance or modern improyements sufficient to be called 
a street. It was, however, prior to the building of the 
railway up the Madawaska valley about thirty miles be- 
yond, the entrepot for the great lumber region lying to 
the north, and a brisk trade was carried on here during 
the lumbering season. It was the extreme limit of com- 
fort and civilization in this part of the Province. For a 
few miles out there were settlements, and then, extending 
away northerly to the shores of Lake Nipissing lay a vast 
unbroken wilderness. 
_ Here we engaged a conveyance to carry us the remain- 
ing thirty miles of our journey, and it was here our ex- 
perience began, That luckless spring wagon; far better 
would it haye been for us had we packed our dunnage in 
a bag, and, shouldering our “turkey” and other outfit, 
trudged along on foot in the manner of shantymen. 

The last fair day of the season was spent by the driver 
in tinkering his wagon, and, had we taken advantage of 
it by an early start, we could easily have walked to our 
destination. We started, however, on the following 
morning, and it began to snow. 

For two miserable days of storm, rain and snow;-after 
breaking down and sundry other mishaps; after exchang- 
ing our spring wagon for a “‘cadgers;” after spending a 
night in a miserable “stopping place,” and after walking 
a larger part of the way through mud and snow, we 
reached the depot, tired, drenched to the skin, and 
heartily disgusted. 

No pen picture can adequately convey an idea of those 
roads; they must be experienced in order that they may 
be appreciated. Five or six hundred weight is a fair 
load for a team with wagon. Riding up steep hills and 
then down almost perpendicular declivities is quite a 
“hair raising” experience to one not accustomed to it; 
while jolting and bounding into deep ruts and mud holes, 
over boulders, or long stretches of “coy-du-roy” trans- 
form, without much stretch of the imagination, the spring 
seat of a cadger’s wagon into a bucking bronco. 

The colonization roads, as they are called, in all the 
newly settled districts of this Province afford a fruitful 
source of patronage to the Proyincial Government, An- 
nually about $100,000, and in the year preceding an elec- 
tion, a much larger sum is expended upon these roads, 

The plan is to furnish sums varying from $100 to $1,000 
to supporters of the Government to be expended in im- 
proving or making certain pieces of roads throughout all 
the newly settled townships. Each road-boss respectively 
engages men and teams to perform the work under. his 
supervision. Supplies must be purchased and other in- 
cidental expenses incurred and all the money generally 
goes to Government supporters, so that the farmer, the 
laborer, the merchant, and the mechanic all participate 
in this species of patronage. When we consider the 
hundreds of road-bosses, the thousands of. employes, and 
the numbers of tradesmen and mechanics, almost all of 
them composed of poor and struggling settlers in this 
rocky and ungenerous region, to whom a few dollars 
means a great deal, the effect of such patronage may be 
easily imagined. It is not at all surprising that the op- 
position should view with suspicion and characterize the 
annual appropriation for colonization roads as a huge 
electioneering fund, 

In the more densely settled localities the work is en- 
trusted to local men, who, as a rule, honestly expend the 
money, but where the settlers are few, jobs are too fre- 
quently given to needy politicians living miles away who 
have no interest in the localities where improvements 
are to be made, and, in these cases, there is perhaps 
too much force in the settlers’ complaints that the money 
is not honestly applied. se ay } 

In all this region there is no “till,” or hard-pan beneath 
the mold to support a good. roadbed, but the light, 
ocherous soil-extends downward to the rock, and the 
waters from the rains and melting snow rush down the 
montainsides like a mill race, leaying the roadway strewn — 


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with rocks and boulders like the bed of a dried up 
stream, ’ ; 

Kennan, in his work upon Siberia, gives a graphic 
description of the “post station” or roadside hostelry in 
the Trans Baikal, which description, somewhat toned 


_ down, will give a fair idea of a “stopping place.” In this 


sparsely settled country no hotel or tavern could exist. 


_ The long stretches of lonely road, however, make some 


place of shelter or rest a necessity, and, upon roads 
leading to the lumber camps, the lonely settler enlarges 
his log shanty and stables so as to afford accommodation 
for man and beast during the busy season. The com- 
forts of these stopping places are rendered endurable only 
by absolute necessity. Mine host is invariably a hunter 
as well as a farmer, and his table is generally supplied 
with all kinds of game, but not always served up to the 
“queen’s taste.’ You would prefer to do your own 
cooking, but that is not always practicable. Doubtless, 
however, on a dark and stormy winter’s night the friendly 
light of a stopping place gladdens the heart of both driver 
and team, and some of these places are all that could 
be desired, and possess that air of tidy cleanliness and 
comfort so welcome to the tired traveler. 

The road from Maynooth to the Madawaska abounds 
with ever varying scenes of beauty.and grandeur peculiar 
to the Latirentian region. At one time you are traveling 
over a range of mountains trending off to the south and 
west and northeasterly, with wooded hills rolling away 
like billows upon your vision, here and there broken 
by the sheen of some pretty lake; at another you come 
upon some sylvan lake surrounded by evergreen hills 
and dotted with wooded islands, all mirrored upon the 
dark green surface. Here and there is heard the babble 
of motintain brooklets as they speed their gleeful course 
toward the placid water, and the fitful soughing of the 
gentle breeze through the towering pines—sounds so 
pleasing to the ear, so lulling to the senses, that you 
in fancy hear some fair wood-nymph, apprized of your 
approach and wooing you to her enchanted grotto in 
dulcet, mellow cadence— 


“Come with me and be my love.” 


You would fain linger and listen or take your rod and 
try your flies upon the trout splashing and rippling the 
glassy waters. Again passing through some dark laby- 
rinth of virgin forest where the air is laden with resinous 
odors from the pines and balsams, and where at every 
breath the lungs take in health and vigor. 

We, however, were not permitted to enjoy the beautiful 
scenery, not were we in a mood to indulge in poetic 
Traveling in this country after the stormy sea- 
son has once set in is rather more prosy than poetic. 
Mists or blinding snow contracted our vision. Clamber- 
ing over boulders or wading through slush occupied our 
attention, while the possibility of having, at any minute, 
‘% tree or a limb come crashing down upon our heads 
gave us a lively sense of our position. 

1 : E. B. FRALECK, 
[ro BE CONTINUED. | 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST 


The New Brunswick Moose Record. 


The largest New Brunswick moose head of the season 
was killed by a Boston man, Mr. Edwin B. Holmes, on 
the northwest Miramichi, Mr. Arthur Pringle, of Stan- 
ley, being his guide. The antlers were shapely and had 
a spread of 62% inches. Mr, R. H. Armstrong, of New 


Castle, killed a moose of 62 inches spread, this being one 


of the heads which will appear at the Boston show. 
Non-resident hunters killed more than 300 moose in New 
Brunswick last fall. An exact list is difficult to-compile, 
but there may, perhaps, be a certain interest attached to 


- the appended partial records of sportsmen who visited 


New Brunswick. It may be seen that the greatest num- 
ber of sportsmen who go into New Brunswick are resi- 
dents of the East, Western sportsmen not having yet 
fully realized the full extent of the game resources of this 
old but still unexploited wilderness. 


F. M. Smith, San Francisco, Cal., 1 moose. 

€. B. Zabriskie, New York, 1 moose. a 

F. E, Benjamin, Malden, Mass, 1 moose. ‘ 

. H. Hewitt, Cambridge, Mass., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
D, J. Flanders, Boston, Mass., 1 moose. 

Charles Fox, Boston, Mass, 1 moose, 

Dr. E. B. Holmes, Boston, Mass., 1 moose, 1 caribou, 1 bear, 1 


eer. 

EB, A. Slack, Boston, Mass., 1 moose, 1 caribou, 1 bear, 1 deer. 

Dr. F. W. Whidden, Portland, Me., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

Eugene Warren, New York, 1 moose. 

Eugene Sykes, New York, T caribou. 

Alfred Weed, Providence, R. I., 1 moose, 1 caribou, 1 deer. 
ohn McIntyre, Dayton, O., 1 moose, 1 caribou, i deer. 
tr. J. D. Lance, Providence, 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

Charles E. Mann, Providence, R. I., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

Edwin McKisson, New York, 1 moose, i caribou, 1 deer, 

H. K. McKirkland, New York, 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

I, W. Morton, St. Louis, Mo., 1 moose. 

Miss Alice Morton, St. Louis, Mo., 1 moose. 

Count Von Arnim, Washington, D. C., 1 moose. 

W. M. Kidder, New York, 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

orolee D. Pratt, New York, 1 moose, 1 caribou, 

Dr. D. W. Greene, Dayton, O., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

}. R. King, Dayton, O., 1 moose. 
ambert Sydnam, Jr., New York, 1 moose. 

NWN. T. Depauw, New Albany, Ind., 1 moose. 

F, E. Hutchinson, New York, 1 bear. 4 

Lyman Bass, Buffalo, N, Y., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

Evan Hollister, Buffalo, N. Y., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

C. W. Feigenspan, Newark, N. J., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

Dr. F. Schavoir, Stanton, Conn., 1 moose. 

Mrs. F. Schavoir, Stanton, Conn., 1 moose. 

George T. Bee Cleveland, O., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 

Owen Scoiten, Detroit, Mich., 1 moose, 

Fred Irland, Washington, O., 1 moose. 

Chas, W. Small, Por and, Me., 1 moose. 

Emerson Hough, Chicago, Ill., 1 moose. 

B. R. Houghton, Boston, 1 moose. 

William Angel, Detroit, Mich., 1 moose. 

Eward Ward, Worcester, Mass., 1 moose. 


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d 


* WNW. C. Nash, Boston, 1 moose. = 


Major Hinman, Boston, 1 moose, = 
Dr, G. A. Robison, Sayville, N. Y., 1 moose. 

Major John Dunlap, Hackensack, N. J., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Charles Wade, Knoxville, Tenn., 1 moose. 


The Shrinking of Sheep Horns. 
If anyone is desirous of establishing a record for size 


in mountain sheep horns, it may be well for him todo | 


_ his measuring as soon after the death of his specimen as 
possible. While I am not ready to say that ordinary do- 
mestic conditions. will dry out the horn and reduce its 
flimensions, | can affirm that steam heat such as is cus- 


. : 


_ times of the year. 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


tomarily found in a city residence, will effect a pro- 
nounced change in the horns of the bighorn shep. 

It may be, perhaps, borne in mind by a few that, at the 
New York sportsmen’s show of 1897, there appeared the 
largest bighorn head which anyone present had ever 
seen, and which was called by the measuring committee 
quite the largest specimen ever recorded to their know- 
ledge. My recollection is that the committee was com- 
posed of Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell, 
of New York, and Thomas Fraine, of Rochester, N. Y. 
Tt is difficult to measure the horn of a bighorn exactly, 
and if memory serves correctly, the committee did mot ex- 
actly agree upon the measurements of this specimen. 
Billy Jackson, the Piegan half-breed who brought the 
head from’ the St. Mary’s country of Montana, stated 
that he and the hunter Norris, who probably killed the 
animal, made out the horns to be 20 inches. The com- 
mittee could not make it so much, Mr. Fraine measured 
it to be slightly over 1834 inches, and declared that he 
was Satisfied to call it a 19-inch head. I do not recollect 
the measurements of either of the other two gentlemen 
of the committee, but believe that one set the figure at 
18% inches. The horns of this specimen were very mas- 
sive, indeed, measuring even now 17 inches clean without 
following the curve of the base, and 16 inches clean well 
out toward the curve of the horn. Much broken at the 
ends as these horns are, they measure to-day 40 inches 


ir. 

Billy Jackson gave me the above head and it was 
mounted by Fraine, of Rochester, and has since remained 
one of my much prized possessions. Seeing recently a 
statement that the record bighorn head was 1634 inches, 
I bethought myself this week to measure the old ram’s 
head once more. In this I was assisted by J. B. Monroe, 
of the Blackfoot reservation, who was of the Montana 
party at the New York show five years ago. We did not 
remove the head from the wall, and therefore could not 
make so perfect a measurement as we desired. Jack Mon- 
roe held the tape, and with two measurements he checked 
on the circumference at 1734 inches, or fully one inch less 
than the same head measured five years ago. Jack told 
me then that he knew these horns would shrink when 
continually exposed to dry air. We, perhaps, did not 
quite do justice to this mammoth head in our crude meas- 
urements, as we could not get down under the hair, and 
hence could not follow the curves of the horn at the 
base, yet we were both satisfied that the measurement to- 
day is much less than it was at the time this specimen was 
in the hands of the committee at New York. Even so, 
this head maintains a supremacy of a good strong inch 
over that recorded as record size. 

Fremont, in his second expedition across the Rockies, 
speaks of seeing mountain sheep, but does not write as 
though his statements were the results of exact measure- 
ments. He says the horns are ‘often 17 inches about 
the base, and three feet long.” If anyone has ever seen 
a 21-inch or indeed a 20-inch bighorn head he has seen 
something that is not authentically recorded anywhere, 
I have always believed and still believe that the record 
bighorn head of America is in my own possession. 


Wishintnnes will Organize, 


The Wishininne Club of Chicago sportsmen, about the 
busiest club of its size, ] imagine, that may be found in 
the length and breadth of the land, held a warm session 
to-day. It was decided that the club should adopt a pin 
or badge consisting of a* miniature of the skull of old 
Chief Wishininne, the Sioux warrior. There were 
originally only five members of the Wishininne Club, but 
it was. decided to increase the number of badges to ten. 
There was where the trouble began. The club is gen- 
erous with its invitations, and matiy sportsmen who have 
sat at the Wishininne table for some months are covet- 
ous of owning one of these club badges. The president 
of the club says ten are to be made, no more, no less. 
The waiting list beyond that is a large one, and will con- 
tinue to be large. Just who the lucky ten will be can- 
not, at this writing, be stated. One of the original five 
is no longer in the club, and his place will be filled with 
one friend to be chosen by each of the charter members. 
There will be great doings when the club badge is ready, 
and the membership will then be announced. 

The Wishininne Club, to the extent of nine members, 
attended the sportsmen’s show Thursday evening of this 
week, and enjoyed themselves very much, Mr. W. B. 
Mershon, of Saginaw, Mich., was another distinguished 
sportsman to honor the entertainment with his presence 
on the same evening. 


Lake County Quail Stock. 


A few sportsmen of Waukegan, IIl., are endeavoring to 
stock Lake County, Ill., with Bob White quail. A fund 
of more than $100 has been raised, and early this spring 
there will be 300 or 400 birds put down, in the hope that 
they will flourish and take the place of the quail which 
were formerly found there, but have been gathered to 
their ancestors. 


Hard to Tell. 


Mr. J. Garry Waltemeyer asks for a trapping country. 
I should dislike the responsibility of advising him if he 
expected to make a living for four persons, There is 
some trapping country in Arkansas, for instance on the 
White River, but one would need to be careful about go- 
ing there, and he would not find the region heathy at ail 
Parts of the Rocky Mountains, of 
course, still have some fur-bearing animals, and in Mich- 
igan and Wisconsin, near the dividing line between those 


two States, the trappers manage to pick up a little fur | 


every winter. It is a far call, however, from Maryland to 

those localities, and the undertaking is so risky nowa- 

days that I should not like to counsel Mr. Waltemeyer 

a undertake to live chiefly by hunting and fishing in the 
est. 


Buffalo Jones and the Musk-Ox. 
Buffalo Jones passed through Chicago yesterday on his 


way to Topeka, Kas., after a visit of some days at Wash- 
ington, D. C. Mr. Jones, as may perhaps be not gen- 


- erally known, is the holder of a permit from the Can- 


adian Government to go into the Arctic and sub-Arctic 
country and to bring out 20 musk-ox and 20 wood bison. 
Tt is stated that this permit has not been granted to any 


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other petson, and certainly there is no other person who 
would be able to handle it with the same success as 
Buffzlo Jones. himself. I understand that Buffalo Jones 
ig making arrangements for another expedition, and if so 
we may look forward to a record of complete sticcess. 


Alaska Traveler Interviewed. 


I had! the privilege of a long interview with Mr. Chas. 
A. Woodruff, formerly of Chicago, and now owner of a 
number of claims in Alaska located near the Forty-Mile 
district in the lower Yukon. Asked as to the game on 
the Yukon River, Mr. Woodruff stated that there was 
very little there, but that the hunter must go up the side 
strearts such as the Pelly or the Stewart, which make 
hack 78 or 100 miles behind the high plateaus. The 
Yukon itself is a dead country, so far as gatne is con- 
cerned. Mr. Woodruff says that better shooting can be 
had on the Pacific Coast. He says that Barinoff Island 
is almost unexplored, and that only one or two miners 
have crossed its interior. He says that the Taku Inlet 
is another good game country. All this western slope 
of Alaska is hard to get through, but when one has once 
gotten: over it to the east side of the big mountains it 
is easier traveling. Mr, Woodruff says that within twleve 
miles of Juneau there is good shooting on sheep and 
goats. The biggest bear, he says, are to be found up in 
the mountains near the glacier regions, and he says the 
Muir Glacier, easily accessible by steamship, is not far 
from good bear country. He declares that there is no 
slaughter of game being made in interior Alaska. Bill 
Lee, a government corral man, on Oct, 12, 1901, killed 
106 caribou in one day, and did not go out of his steps 
more than 500 yatds. He was killing for meat. This 
was near Eagle City, about 150 miles from Dawson. 
Meat is worth 50 cents a pound, but it is hard to pack, 
and moreover cartridges cost too much to be wasted. 

Mr. Woodruff killed one fine moose near the head of 
the Forty-Mile River, and he brought out the antlers 
600 miles by dog team. -They were worth it, for the 
spread is 6914 inches. 

Asked what a dog team could do, Mr. Woodruff stated 
that he and his companion averaged 42 miles a day on 
their way out to the Pacific Coast. They both rode in 
their sled, and the weight of the load carried averaged 
600 potinds. The sledge used was eight feet long and 
shod with iron shoes. Mr. Woodruff says the brass 
shoes wear out too easily. Mr. Woodruff says that Sitka 
is a good country for grizzly, bald faced, blue or brown 
bear. That is to say, one can get into good bear country 
from that point. ; 

Contrary to the popular opinion; Mr. Woodruff says 
that the interior of Alaska does not have a very heavy 
snow fall, not over two feet on the average. The ther- 
mometer, however, goes very low. January 16, I901, 
showed the thermometer at 76 degrees below zero at his 
camp, and there were 16.days when the thermometer was 
never above 47 degrees below zero. He says the old- 
timers have a rule that when the thermometer freezes it 
is better to stay indoors, and he thinks it is a good rule 
to follow. As to provisions, a year ago Mr. Woodruff 
paid $2 for four cans of milk, with other supplies in about 
the same ratio. He paid $2.50 for a pound of tobacco, 
$4 for a sack of flour, and $1-05 for three pounds of beans. _ 
Grub is taken into his camp by means of Indians and 
dogs, the Indians putting about 25 pounds in each dog 
pack. Fora distance of 85 miles Mr. Woodruff paid 
$168 carrying charges, on grub which had originally cost 
him $118, He says Alaska is an expensive country to live 
in, but that there is plenty to do, and he believes the 
countty will be better ten years from now than it is to- 
day. E. Hove, 

Hartrorp Buirpine, Chicago, Il. 


That New York Law Again. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The discussion in your paper concerning the construc- 
tien of Section 33 of the Forest, Fish and Game law, in 
the storage case, by Judge O’Gorman, has been of inter- 
est to me, and as | have formed an opinion as to how 
that section should be construed, and as it seems too bad 
to have gone to the trouble of forming an opinion and 
then not. be able to do anything with it, I have been 
moved to inflict it upon you. 

The correctness of the following proposition will prob- 
ably be conceded, i. e., “All wild birds have an open 
season. the year around, except as such season has been 
restricted by legislation.” 

Now, Sections 20-32, both inclusive, of the game law 
provide for certain close seasons, but those sections still 
leave all wild birds an open season, except that there is no 
such season for quail, grouse and woodcock in certain 
counties until 1903, and for pheasants until 1905. 

We come to the constructiin of Section 33, therefore, 
with this proposition still in mind, i. e., that all wild 
birds have an open season, except quail, grouse, wood- 
cock and pheasants in certain counties. _ 

Section 33. “Wild birds other than the English spar- 
row, crow, hawk, raven, crow-blackbird, common black- 
bird, kingfisher, and birds for which there is no open 
season, shall not be taken or possessed at any time, dead 
or alive, except under. the authority of a certificate issued 
under this act. * * *” : : 

As I understand it, the intent of the lawmakers must 
be gathered from the context, if possible, and stich a 
construction should be ptt upon the statute as will carry 
into effect that intent, unless such construction is in 
plain violation of the ordinary meaning of the language 
employed. — 

Let us look first at this construction, “Wild birds (other 
than the English sparrow, * * and birds for which 
there is no open season), shall not be taken or possessed 
at amy time, dead or alive,” etc. ; 

Under that construction no wild bird could be taken or 
possessed at any time, alive or dead, except the birds 
enumerated in said Section 33 and birds for which there 
is no open season. 

Im other words, all of Sections 20-31 would be ren- 
dered utterly. meaningless and tseless. Birds which the 
Legislature had provided might be killed and possessed 
during: part of the year could not be taken or possessed 
at any time, while birds which it had been the special 


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care of the Legislature to protect at all times would have 
no protection whatever. ‘ 

Now, let us look at the other construction: “Wild 
birds (other than the English sparrow, etc.) ,and birds 
for which there is no open season shall not be taken and 
possessed at any time,” etc. 

Is not that manifestly the intent of the Legislature? 
Such construction leaves all of the preceding sections 
with a meaning and a mission. It protects all song and 
insectiyorous birds and also prevents the taking and pos- 
session of the birds for which there is no open season and 
for which taking and possession no previous provision had 
been made, And at the same time it does no violence to 
the language employed, except-perhaps in the omission 
of the word “and” between the words blackbird and 


kingfisher, or in the displacement of a comma, both ~ 


matters too insignificant to be allowed to stand in the 
light of a fair enforcement of legislative intent. 

Neither do I believe that the return to the Section 33 
of 1900, where the word “an” was used instead of the 
word “no’ would be an improvement. On the con- 
trary, I believe that. that section cotild not be construed 
so as to effect the intent of the Legislature. 

Let us see, always remembering that all wild birds 
have open seasons, except quail, grouse; woodcock and 
pheasants in certain counties. 

“Wild birds (other than the English sparrows, etc., 
and birds for which there is an open season), shall not 
be taken or possessed, etc.” But we hav seen that all 
birds have an open season except quail, grouse, woodcock 
and pheasants in certain counties, and by substitution 
we would have something like this: “Wild birds (other 
than all wild birds, except quail, grouse and woodcock 
and pheasants in certain counties) shall not be taken 
and possessed, etc.’ In other words, no birds would be 
protected under that section except quail, grouse, wood- 
cock and pheasants in certain counties, thus leaving song 
and insectivorous birds wholly without protection. 

Or this: “Wild birds (other than the English sparrow, 
etc.) and birds for which there is an open season, shall 
not be taken or possessed, etc.” Of course, no one will 
contend for this construction. 

Perhaps this is a case of reductio ad absurdum, but it 
ismy honest opinion that the construction “Wild birds 
(other than the English sparrow, etc.) and birds for 
which there is no.open season, shall not be,” etc., is the 
one intended by the Legislature, is the only reasonable 
one and the only one which can be adopted without shat- 
tering the whole game protective system, so far as it con- 
cerns wild birds. 

Be it understood that I speak wholly without authority 
in this matter, and perhaps unwisely, but certainly from 
a personal conviction based upon some study of the sec- 
tions referred to. : Ha ACuG: 


Non-Resident Licenses. 


ASHEVILLE, N. C., Feb. 17.W—Editor Forest and Stream: 
The articles which have recently appeared in Forest 
AND STREAM regarding the “non-resident license” have, 
with the exception of the article this week by Lexden, 
been written by hunters who believe only in the present 
and do not look into the future. Why not consider this 
question as a business proposition? Why not face it 
fairly, and solve it in a way that promises us both im- 
mediate returns and also provides for the boy now com- 
_ing on? 

“Laws and religion must change to suit the times.” 

We all understand how the abundance of game in 
years gone by made unnecessary any laws regarding 
non-resident license, but what of the future? The in- 
crease in the number of hunters, cheap guns, cheap am- 
munition, cheap transportation, the small bore, the 
pump gun, innovations and inventions, have, in the hands 
of selfish \game-destroyers (not sportsmen), brought 
about a condition that must be met, or the coming gen- 
eration will have but little to go afield for, so far as 
game is concerned, ; 

We all have boys coming on. Shall we not consider 
them? Near all our cities game has practically disap- 
peared. The same is true practically of some of our 
States. What is the result? Cheap transportation allows 
the hunter of the State or city where game has disap- 
peared to quickly reach a territory where game can still 
be found, The fact that game has disappeared arotund the 
city or in a State means that this region is one of “ciy- 
ilization” or “agricultural perfection.’ This means 
wealth. The party who can afford to go to a distant 
State to hunt, should, from his better chances for making 
money, be perfectly willing to pay a moderate license for 
such a privilege. The residents of a game country are 
as a tule poor or in moderate means. Their game should 
be a means of income. Is, in fact, from the city hunter- 
boarder; but how about the city hunter who has no re- 
striction on him? Too often he kills more than a decent, 
thoughtful man should. He‘helped to devastate his own 
State, and now he would do the same by his neighbor. 

Some have said that a license would keep a poor man 
from going into a neighboring State to hunt. Person- 
ally, I do not believe this, and again, if any man is too 
poor to pay a small license, he has no business in spend- 
ing his time hunting. 

A fair sample of what happens in a no-license State is 
found here around Asheville, Ten or fifteen years ago 
we had plenty of deer a few miles from Asheville. To- 
day they are gone, and yet we have millions upon mil- 
lions of acres of virgin forests all around us to-day. A 
country which, if protected by the State in close seasons 
and by license, would have had plenty of deer to-day for 
us and also for our boys in years to come. 

We have a hundred thousand tourists in Asheville a 
year. One-third the trunks that come here contain gins, 
Result: Even our song birds have disappeared, where 
a few years ago they were here by the thousand. Our 
_ deer are gone. To-day the visiting hunters are after the 
birds. Ten years more and our birds’ will be gone with 
the deer. I to-day know of one individual who has spent 
the winter here with his dogs and gun. Ihave recently 
heard him say that he had killed"a thousand quail this 
winter. Is it right? Is it fair that, after kifling all’ the 
game in their own country in’ such butchery, ‘he should 
come into our fields and do the same? Yes, tax him! 


FOREST AND STREAMS 


and I would to God that I had the power not only to tax 
him but also to fine him, 

Comparatively poor as I am, I take a trip every falt 
to either the West or Canada. Where do I go? Always 
to the State or Province where they have a license. Why? 
Because at such places I am sure to find game. I have 
jaid $40 in Wyoming and my $30 in New Brunswick 
with pleasure. It’s well worth it. [I want to go for years 
ta come. If they take off this license I am well satisfied 
my boys now coming on will never visit these States on 
a hunting trip. There will be nothing to hunt. ~ 

The man who can afford to hunt to-day can afford to 
pay his hunting tax. 

If we don’t think of to-morrow our boys will censure 
us as long as they live. 

We provide for their future otherwise, why not here? 

As I wrote to the editor of Outdoor Life in Denver a 
few months ago, “If the man of to-day cannot afford 
this tax let him stay at home. 
go later on.” 

It has been my experience that the kicker against the 
license, like the party who pays no attention to posted 
land, is invariably the man who has no limit to his game 
bag. His game bag;is like his nature. He wants the 
eatth, and wants it now. He thinks not of the future. 

Every person whom I haye heard kick against the non- 
resident tax has invariably lived where game has ceased 
to exist. In his own community he has killed the goose 
that laid the golden egg, and now he would kill ours. 

Every State should have its own license, and should 
spend such money derived in protecting its game and 
stocking its streams, 

I trust that Wyoming and New Brunswick (and all 
States that to-day have a license law) will retain them. 
I want my boys and their boys to have the privilege of 
paying that license. (They will get game if they do, 
too.) Yes, and I trust that they will have_to pay a State 
license at home for every firearm they own, 

License the non-resident. Tax every sort of firearm. 
Put a thousand dollar tax on every firearm dealer; make 
him report every sale, and we will have fewer murders, 
less crime, less lynching, less hanging and more game 
and more song birds. C. P. AMBLER, 


Revere, Mass., Feb. 10.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
My boyhood days were spent in the stifling atmosphere 
and crowded streets of New York city. The only taste 
of country life I ever enjoyed was an occasional visit to 
Jones’ Woods and Central Park, A-love of trees and 
fields and running brooks developed in my youthful heart 
in those days, and time has failed to obliterate or weaken 
that. love. I am never so supremely happy as when I 
am in the silent depths of a pine forest. No jarring noise 
or discordant note ever reaches one there; all is beauti- 
ful and harmonious. For the best part of a year I am 
satisfied to toil from sunrise till sunset, buoyed up by 
the refreshing thought that I will have two weeks’ vaca- 

“tion in the woods of Maine. 

It is the only form of recreation that affords me relief 
from the daily vexations of this busy life, and not being 
a “wealthy sportsman,” I am often compelled to make 
many sacrifices to enable me to take my cherished outing. 
If the proposed scheme of taxing non-residents goes into 
effect, it will be an added hardship for us “duffers” who 
are not wealthy. 

I have made trips to Maine for the past two seasons, 
and have been compelled to,be very careful in my. ex- 


penditures. It costs quite a bit to go fo Maine, as the 
following list will show. 
Railroad fare! for Found pipsseesssieeed sea ake <Back ies viet $15 50 
Two weeks} board Dill ccd etek tba taeatebentessicnaesagaencny 15 00 
Mounting one heady cadet ccs cline s fot Eke neat paigadt amrnne oat 10 00 
‘Two Weeks pay" lost a itstvecsmwcnssecsbc sete sana phen ee ieee 30 00 
Running home expenses during absence, ....:sseseeresesssses 50 00 
TAGUOrS! ANAELODACCGN 4 c, metiseee ee teeta ie pasa eee 4 50 
Moccasins and hose bought in Maine.,..., 2 25 
Compass, knife and axeé.,....0...2.,-0;050:- Me 3 00 
Freight to American Express on one deer.,.......21..--..-.. 2 00 
Team from depot to woods and return......scecssevessesseee- 1 00 
Hauling out one deer..................... 2 tu dana CAanioneliielete 1 00 
Rifle hire, and ammunition for gun and rifle.................. 6 50 
maps to folks*atecamps ss. mace essen hk eee cubes 555 4458545 10 00 
Lunch at various railroad stops...............-c cece eee cence i 
$1381 75 
Quite a bit of money for a fellow to put out. If the 


Maine Legislature sees fit to afhx a tax of $20 upon us 
folks, why we will refrain. from going to Maine, and the 
widow at whose house we stop will then be deprived of the 
means of lifting the cumbersome mortgage that now rests 
upon some woodland property she is trying to own. 

Jay PEs. 


Wild Geese on the Arkansas. 


It is not often that we of Western Arkansas can get 
any of that most fascinating sport, shooting wild geese, 
but the past cold snap was an exception, and when the 
news came to town that along the Arkansas River, some 
eight miles south of town, thousands of geese were con- 
gregated, I lost no time getting in shape to give them a 
round. Taking my shotgun, a T2 gauge, and I know I 
will be called a has-been in regard to guns when I say 
that in all my hunting the past five years I have never 
found a gun with the killing powers of this little 7-pound 
arm. I have killed a hawk one hundred yards with No. 
6 shot, and at 80 yards sent seven No. 6 through a gray 
squirrel. I also took a small rifle, a single shot breech- 
loading Remington, and plenty of shells for the shotgun 
and a lot of cartridges for the rifle. I hitched John, my 
faithful hunting horse, to the buggy and soon was in the 
Jand of the honkers, And such a sight! It sent the 
blood tingling through my veins, when nearing the field 
of rye I saw in the middle of the field on a slight eleya- 
tion at least one thousand geese. 

It was late in the evening, and to get a shot at these 
was impossible; so I put my horse in a friendly barn, en- 
gaged a couple of darkies to aid me at night, and then 
went down on the river and waited for any stray goose 
that might come along. Hundreds of them were flying 
up and down stream. Occasionally I would hear the re- 
port of a gtn, and finally I saw a bunch coming in to 
the river low down and coming direct for my hiding 
place. Cocking my gun I waited until they had passed 
over me, when I gave them the right barrel-and then the 
left and down ‘came one old gander with a broken wing; 


His son may be able to 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


~ [Marca 1, 1002. 


and when they had gone some three hundred yards F.. 
old goose let go and struck the sand bar with a thud, 
stone dead, I reloaded, and with my little rifle-finished 
the gander, and waited, but got only some long shots 
until dark and only succeeded in getting the two out of 
the first bunch, After a good supper, I took my two 
helpers and a spade and soon, under cover of the-dark- 
ness, had a pit sunk in that rye field, covered over 
with cornstalks, and was ready to meet them in the 
morning. At 4 o’clock in the morning I was out of-bed, 
and after a hearty breakfast made for the blind, and was 
soon in it. I could hear some geese in the darkness 
that had come in late at night, and remained in the field. 
Soon a gray line began to show in the east, and away 
down the river I heard the honk, honk of the coming 
geese. Directly a shotgun boomed up the river and the 
whole world seemed alive with flying geese, and -ere the 
light was so I could see to shoot the rustle of wings told 
me they were circling over the rye field; and in a few 
minutes I saw a large bunch coming direct to the blind. 
Waiting until they curved their’ wings to light, not forty 
yards away, I rose and gave them both barrels, and then 
sank back to load. They seemed not to know what to 
do, and kept on coming in and. passing over my blind 
until away after sun up, when finally the flight ceased, 
after I had used a whole bag of shells. I got out of my 
cramped position, cold and stiff, but happy, and in that 
field I got nineteen geese dead and wounded. I piled 
them up, went and got John to the buggy, and drove 
out and got the finest lot of wild geese ever killed in this 
part of the country in one morning, Then I left for 
home, but I am going back again this week, and will tell 
the Forest AND STREAM family of my luck at some other 
time, J. E. Loupon, 
AimA Ark,, February, 


Hunting Rifles. 


I srenr a couple of weeks this fall moose hunting in 
the calling season. The weather was wintry, making it 
unfavorable to call. 

We had only two good mornings to call during the 
two weeks. The first was Oct. 7. My guide called just 
about dawn of day. He had not callel over ten mintites 
when we heard a moose answer. The moose was about 
a mile away, the guide judged. The moose kept answer- 
ing every few yards. He did not stop but once, and that 
was just before coming out on the bog. My guide gave 
a low call or whine, and the moose came out-on the run. 
He stopped about 125 yards from us. I gave him one shot 
with my Savage .303 back of the left foreleg. He reared 
up on his hindlegs and fell over, a dead moose. He wasa 
fine large animal,‘and in prime condition. 

We tried another morning, but got no answer, We 
saw signs of very many moose, The bogs were completely 
cut up with tracks. I also shot two black bears; one 
weighed about 300 pounds. One shot each was all they 
could carry. 

I had for a caller and guide W. T. Crooker, of North 
Brookfield, Queens county, Nova Scotia—a good caller 
and a good guide. One who has his services may feel 
fairly sure of bringing home moose. I engaged him 
very early in the season, He has tents, canoe and teams. 
All the sportsman needs to carry with him is his rifle, 

I have hunted in Maine and New Brunswick, but for 
moose I think Nova Scotia far ahead of either. Of 
course, the license is high, but when you buy it you have 
all the privileges of the residents. You do not have to 
pay $50 for a shot at a moose.and $100 to get him out 
of the woods, which seem to be the prevailing rates of 
Maine, 

Now, in Forrest anp STREAM ef Dec. 21, 190r, Mr. 
Hardy, of Brewer, Me., claims the .45 caliber rifle the 
best for big game. But my experience has been, since 
using the .38-55 and .45-70 caliber rifle, beside several 
others, that the .303, with the expanding bullet, is far 
ahead of any black powder rifle. Since I owned this rifle 
I have killed eleven deer, one moose and two bears: 
killed them with one shot each, and never had any of 
the animals go 25 yards after being hit, This does not 
speak too bad for the small bore. 

I think that any sportsman that will take good steady 
aim at his game with a small-bore rifle will be perfectly 
satisfied with the killing power, and in the future use no 
other. j 

Here is a trick that .45-7o men have to do after shoot- 
ing at game—run 25 yards to get ahead of the cloud ‘of 
smoke made by the rifle in order to see whether they 
got the game or to fire another shot at it, while with 
the small-bore, smokeless powder rifle, you can stand in 
one place and fire a hundred shots. W. G. MILter, 


West Mepway, Mass, 


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Something over a year ago the writer purchased a 
new .30-30 smokeless rifle, and during last summer its 
killing qualities were tested, principally on the festive 
woodchuck and other small game in the vicinity. There 
seemed to be no discount on its accuracy, and the par- 
alyzing power on small game was amazing. The Soft- 
nose bullet upon striking a chuck would, before its exit, 
upset to double its former capacity, dealing instant death 
to its victims. : : 

The first of November came and found the narrator up 
in Herkimer country with the .30-30 to be first tried on 
deer. The first week was spent in getting located in 
camp and looking up sign on bare ground and dry 
leaves. During the second week snow fell and we struck 
a fine buck track one afternoon, and had not followed 
it far till we discovered him standing broadside at about 
60 yards distant, with head and shoulders hid by a 
bush. The sights were placed on him, and at the report 
we expected to see him drop, Not so, however, as he 


_ didn’t paralyze worth a cent, but was up and off in a 


hurry. Upon reaching where he. stood there could be 
seen a few hairs scattered on the snow. Taking the trail, 
we hoticed now and then a drop of blood scattered. on the 
snow, not-enough to be of any avail in tracking had the 
ground been bare. After following for a good half mile, 
we discovered’ him standing back of a fallen spruce tree- 
top, when a second shot through the neck brought him 
down. Upon dressing out #¢ carcass, the first ball we 


- Marce 1, 1902,] 


found lodged against the hide on the further side, having 
gone through the lights in its course, upset as usual, 
with copper casing attached. Do you wonder that my. 
faith in the killing power of small calibers fell several 
degrees that afternoon while following and looking for 
a mere trace of blood along the trail? I am conyinced 
that had the ground been bare of snow, I could not haye 
followed the trail one-half the distance without losing it, 
and perhaps would have been ctrsing myself for such 
foolish shooting as to miss a deer at that distance or 
carelessly hit a staddle in range that I did not see. 

No, give me a caliber of .40, with at least 70 grains of 
powder behind the bullet for hunting deer. I would not 
care to pattern after Mr. Braithwaite, with a rifle of 577 
caliber, taking 160 grains of powder and ball of 500 
grains, as I think that is unnecessary, even for moose. 

The present craze for smokeless small bores to hunt 
large game will have its day, After the hunter has puz- 
zled his brain following up on bare ground several 
wounded deer which are only to be lost in the end, his 
faith in a .30-30 will gradually cease. The bullet is alto- 
gether too light, and the striking surface too small to be 
of practical value in letting blood flow sufficiently to aid 
the hunter on bare ground in tracing up wounded game. 

A flat trajectory is quite desirable in a hunting rifle. 
But it will not do to sacrifice a good-sized bullet, with 
heft enotigh to secure sufficient penetration, for the sake 
of cutting down trajectory. , 

I may add that one other of our party, while out the 
first week on bare ground, came up to within 100 feet 
of a nice buck, with head down, picking up beechnuts, 
Our friend drew his .30-30 on to the deer and fired, 
when to his amazement the buck ran away. He followed 
the trail some distatice, lost it, and after reconnoitering 
for some time, gave it up as an unaccountable. After 
breakfast next morning he shouldered his rifle, and 
remarked, that if he could not kill a deer at that distance 
he would not shoot at another, and left for home. 

Now I did not do that; but I did say that if I ever went 
hunting for deer again that my old ,40-7o rifle would ac- 
company me. OLn SHEKARRY, 

Jamestown, N. Y. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have noticed with a good deal of interest the discus- 
sion going on in your paper as to the killing qtalifica- 
tions of the small-bore rifle, with special reference to the 
30-30. The article in the Forest AND STREAM of the 
15th inst, by Mr. Frederic Irland is to the point, and 
Carries conviction in favor of the large-bore rifles. 

Let me add my quota of evidence on behalf of Mr. 
Irland’s argument. Last fall, while hunting moose on 
the Tobique River, I used a .g0-30, much against my 
better judgment, 

Early one morning (the light was good) a large bull 
moose came out about zoo yards distant. I fired three 
shots,- The third one hit. He fell full length on his side. 
A distinct impression was left in the mud, and he laid 
there for at least two minutes, got up, fell a second time 
full length each time, got up, fell a third time on his 
knees, then off, ‘ 

We hunted carefully for traces of blood, but none 


were to be found. I am convinced, with a large-bore rifle _ 


IT would have had my moose, 
J. W. Y. Situ. 


New York Game Legislation. 


Up to Jan. 30 forty proposed amendments to the fish 
aud game law had been introduced in the Assembly and 
twelve in the Senate. A large number of these are county 
bills, and it is very gratifying to note that, with two or 
three exceptions, these bills ask for a shorter open season 
for the better protection of fish and game. Among the 
‘bills which apply to the State at large, and which every 
sportsman shculd urge their representatives to support 
are: 

Assembly bill No, 410, “Forest AND STREAM plank.” 
To stop the sale of woodcock, ruffed grouse and quail at 
any time or place throughout the State. : 

Assembly bill No. 598 provides that grouse killed in this 
State shall not be sold or offered for sale at any time 
or place throughout the State, and possession of the same 
shall be presumptive evidence that the same was killed 
in this State. : ; 

Assembly bill No. 454. Amending section 52, adding 
the words, acids, sludge, injurious to the life of fish or 
fish spawn or destructive of the natural spawning beds 
or feeding places of fish, or otherwise disturbing the 
habits of ish inhabiting the same, and striking out the 
ie [in quantities destructive of fish inhabiting the 
same], 

Assembly bill No. 403, amending section 30, making 
close season for plover and other birds Jan. 1 to Aug. 31. 

Asseinbly bill No. 255, amending section 6 by striking 
out [before August 15, 1902]. 

Assembly bill 246, making the close season for wood- 
cock and grouse December 1 to Septeniber 15. 

Assembly bili No. 212, asking for twelve additionai 
protectors. (This bill has passed the Assembly.) = 

Senate bill No. 167 making the close season for grouse 
and woodcock December 1 to September 15. 

Senate bill No. 243, amending section 173 relating to 
the powers of game protectors by striking out the words 
[except the counties of New York and Kings]. 

Senate bill No. 338, making the close season for deer 
November 1 to August 31. 

Senate bill No. 339, amending section 6 by striking 
out [before August 15, 1902]. : 

Assemblyman Day, of Jefferson, has introduced a bill 
making the close season for black and gray squirrels 
December 16 to September 15. 

I hope that this bill making the opening day the same 
for grouse, woodcock and squirrels will meet the ap- 
proval of the sportsmen of the State. — 

For those who believe in a non-resident license, Assem- 
bly bill No. 253 provides that every non-resident of this 
State shall pay a fee of ten dollars, one hal to go to the 
county in which the license is paid, and one half to the 
State treasury. ¢ ; 

The local or county bills which may interest the resi- 
dent sportsmen are; 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Assembly bill No. 38, which amends sections 82-83, 
making the law in regard to fishing and spearing muscal- 
longe and billfish apply to Chautauqua and Cassadaga 

akes, 

Assembly bill No. 39 requiring a license fee of ten dol- 
lars from non-residents of the State to spear in these 
waters, 

Assembly bill No. 128, amending section 80, allowing 
fds to be used in Seneca Lake from May 1 to Septem- 

er 30. 

Assembly bill No. 38, 288, amends section 82-83, mak- 
ing the law in regard to fishing and spearing muscallonge 
ae billfish apply to Chautauqua, Cassadaga and Beat 

akes. 

Assembly bill No, 307 amending section 21, so as to 
permit the shooting of ducks from a battery with or with- 
out decoys on any part of Cayuga Lake during the day- 
time on Wednesday of each week from the first day of 
October to the 3rst of March. W. H. TALLeErr, 
WATERTOWN, N, ¥., Feb. 6. ’ 


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Editor Forest and Stream: 

The awakening of friends of the Adirondacks, as shown 
by the exposure in your last issue, of the scheme to let 
in the lumbermen, did my old North Woods heart good. 

But why is: there not an awakening among the honest 
sportsmen? I have ‘been looking over the bills now slip- 
ping through to amend the fish and game law, and I 
tell you there is the worst lot of them that ever was 
seen. And they seem to be booked to go through, Our 
member who is on the committee says that you can get 
anything voted out “if you are right.” I asked him if 
the Commission approved such legislation, and he said: 
“We don’t have to ask them.” I asked him if they had 
many sportsmen come before the committee, and he said: 

All we want of them. They are mostly cranks.” I 
wanted to oppose some of the bills, and asked him about 
it, but he said it would do no good and would be a waste 
of time. He said the members that had the right backing 
could get anything out, no matter who opposed. He 
said the committee knew some of the bills were bad, but 
had to let them out if they wanted to get any legislation, 
as the Speaker wanted to be nominated for Lieutenant- 
Governor, and was looking for friends in every county. 
That is why I appeal to you to let the public—that is, the 
sporting public—know what is going on. — 

I was told also that the first fish law amendment signed 
by the Governor the last of the past week was one to 
which the Commission had filed strong objections. It 
was Assemblyman Fowlet’s bill legalizing fishing through 
the ice in Bear and Cassadaga lakes in Chautauqua county, 
One of the old Fish Commissioners told me that there 
had been a lot of brown trout put into Cassadaga Lake 
and many thousands of muscallonge had been planted in 
both bodies of water. I also learned that there are 
thousands of little houses on Chautauqua Lake where the 
men sit to Spear fish, and that there is a bill gone through 
that makes a license fee for non-resident fishermen in the 
county waters. But the Speaker is from that county, and 
heisambitious, as Thave said, they say. He is the man also 
who is the bosom friend of the Deputy Comptroller of the 
State, Gilman, who is called Quiggs’ man in New York, 
and who in Albany is called the head of the cold-storage 
combination to beat any legislation aimed to regulate 
the cold-storage places, such as those where a protector 
recently seized so many thousand birds illegally kept 
there. I do not know what has become of that case, but 
heard it was in the hands of a political law firm and would 
be buried. E. Witson Satters, 

Brooxiyn, Keb, 28. 


The Plank for New York. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Assembly Bill 410 provides fot the adoption in New 
York of the Forest aNp StrEAM’s Platform Plank so far 
as to stop the sale of woodcock, ruffed grouse and quail 
at any time or place throughout the State. If you want 
it, ask your representative to support Assembly Bill No. 
410. I am in receipt of reliable information from Albany 
that unless there fs a great change of sentiment in our 
legislators, especially those from Greater New ‘York, this 
bill cannot pass at this session. 

It seems to me that the question is not fully under- 
stood by the people or their representatives. And that 
the vital importance of the passage of the bill is not 
appreciated. 

The danger of extermination of the small game of this 
State is imminent. The time has come when this bill must 
pass or our woodcock, ruffed grouse and quail are 
doomed. Few of us are aware of the immense quantities 
of game that the markets of this State demand each 
year, and that this supply must in the future come from 
the State itself, for the reason that neatly every State in 
the Union forbids the export of game, and the Lacy 
act, passed by Congress in ro00, has made the enforcement 
of these laws so easy and sure that it has cut off all 
those vast supplies of game that used to come from 
other States. This is the question that confronts the 
people of this State to-day. How long will the game of 
this State supply our markets? 

This danger, which threatens the game interests of 
New Yori threatens every State in the Union as well, 
and many of them have been quick to see and guard 
against it by passing such laws as will preserve the game 
for the people to whom it rightfully belongs. 

Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, 
Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, California, 
Alabama, Kansas, Nevada, Missouri, North Dakota, 
Texas and Washington, have already passed laws which 
forbid the sale of game at any time or place through- 
out the State, and in nearly every other State similar 
bills are pending. Are our representatives at Albany 
so blind or indifferent to the interests of the people as to 
permit by their neglect the certain extinction of the 
small game of this State? W. H. Taueerr 

Watertown, N. ¥., Feb 21. 


All communications intended for Forest anp Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any tidividual connected with the paper, 


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A Plea for Spring Shooting. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Ag one of the great marty poor devils who are com- 
pelled on account of their business to take their vacation 
in thé spring of the year, I protest most heartily against 
the new proposed law just sent up to Albany prohibiting 


the shooting of wildfowl in the spring of the year. 
cannot understand how spring shooting in New York 


- of wildfowl will decimate them any quicker than fail 


shooting, and even not as mitch, as the young birds are 
flying southward, and are surely not as able to take care 
of themselves as when on the northward journey. 

Laws are being formed year after year in the interest 
of the wealthy sportsman and their game preserves, 
where they are allowed to shoot and kill to their hearts’ 
content, and in some places out of season. 

As an illustration, take the’ Currituck Sound. It is 
mostly divided up into game preseryes, and the State 
laws are such as to make it impossible for a poor man or 
one in moderate circumstances to go down there for a 
short shooting trip without a big bank roll; and where 
are we going to get the roll? 

We hear almost every week where some poor devil is 
arrested for illegal shooting; but who ever arrésts the 
wealthy man for doing the same thing? 

We have a goodly number of sportsmen in this vicinity 
who work from thirteen to fifteen: hours a day, and who 
can only get a vacation in the spring of the year, Now, 
the only shooting left us is the wildfowl, and now the 
wealthy sporting associations propose taking that from 
us. If they are sincere, and as they have had lots of 
sport all the fall and winter and have killed their share 
and also somebody else’s, let them put up their guns 
until the following fall, but don’t prevent us from hay- 
ing a little sport in the spring on the wildfowl. 

There are two classes who are killing off the game 
so-rapidly, and they are the pot-hunter and his prototype 
the wealthy sportsman. 

There is no finer sport in the world than taking a 
sood dog and tramping the fields for quail and partridge, 
but we thirteen-hour men never expect to get any of this 
shooting. Even if we should get a day off, where can 
we go? The well-to-do commuter living in the country 
around the large cities has compelled the farmer to post 
his land so that the aforesaid commuter can have it all 
to himself; and if the farmer protests, why, the com- 
muter refuses to purchase the farmer’s produce. Then an 
association is formed, purchases a couple of dozen birds, 
posts all the land for miles around, and then cleans off 
all the game after the season opens after the first week 
or two. 

Now, I will guarantee, out of every one hundred small 
business men I can get seventy-five per cent. to sign the 
above statement of facts. 

Now, Mr, Editor, a good, common-sense law would 
be “Abolish the sale of all game and game birds.” The 
poor can’t afford to purchase them; so the only ones put 
out will be the pot-hunter and the wéalthy man, who are 
in a very great minority, Lov. H. JoHnson. 

New Yor. 


Wolves in Wyoming and Colorado. 


Morcantown, W. Va.—Editor Forest and Stream: The 
following are some items from the Saratoga Sun, of 
Saratoga, Wyo., and the! North Park Union, of North 
Park, Colo., of recent date, which may interest those 
who are interested in knowing where some of the wild 
creatures still exist and afford some of the topics for 
local mention. From the Saratoga Sun we quote: 

“Gray wolyes are troubling the Brush Creek stock 
men this winter. They killed four -head of cattle for 
Caleb A. Cook some weeks ago, and have done much 
damage in other parts. There has been a number of 
these pests seen on that creek the past two or three 
months. Last week William Turnbull took his pack of 
hounds up there, and he and Jesse Barkhurst and the 
ranchmen engaged in a two days’ hunt.for the vicious 
brutes. They saw four wolves, but were not successful 
in catching any. The only results of the trip was a bob- 
Cate 

“Tt is stated that a great quantity of elk, deer and an- | 
telope hides are shipped from Rawlins that have been 
taken in Colorado, contrary to law.” 

From the North Park Union we-quote: “Notice is 
hereby given by the subscribers to the Wolf Bounty 
Fund that a bounty of $35 will be paid on each adult gray 
wolf, and $10 on each gray wolf pup, killed within the 
boundaries of North Park during the current year. Par- 
ties claiming said bounties will present the pelts to W. J. 
Dawson, of Walden, together with cértificates from two 
responsible stock men, certifying the time and place of 
being killed, 

“Now that the Stock Association has made ample 
provision for a bounty on gray wolves, let our nimrods 
and sporting men get out and annihilate the droves of 
destructive beasts that roam over the park. A lively 
hunter or trapper can pick up a hundred dollars a week 
easy enough at the present price, $35 per scalp.” 

EMERSON CARNEY. 


American Duck Shooting. 


Editor Forest aud Stream: 

T beg to acknowledge receipt from you of Mr. Grinnell’s 
book on “American Duck Shooting.” 

I have not had time to read it carefully, but I have 
looked over it enough to be able te assure you that I 
am delighted with it. I am very fond of all field sports, 
more especially those which come under the heads that 
are treated in Mr. Grinnell’s book. It is a great pleasure 
to me to read his accounts of personal experiences and 
his explanations of many peculiar traits-of the different 
species which ate the result of his extremely close ob- 
servation. His quotations are also very aptly chosen, and 
in lovers of duck shooting are interesting in the highest 

egree. ' 

It is iseless for me to say all that [ think of this book; 
I doubt if there are many as enthusiastic as I am on such 
subjects. I should think that one who knew nothing of 
duck shooting, after reading it, would speedily become a 
deyotee of the sport if he had any natural inclination 
that way,  .  Eowin F, DANIELS, 


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Iifinois, Pratrie} Chicken. 

' Macomp, - Ill, Feb. 18.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
No time in twenty-five years have the praririe chickens 
been so plentiful in McDonough county as they have been 
this winter. Large flocks from twenty to fifty have been 
seen in all parts of the county. I can only account for this 
by the fact that seyeral years ago the Legislature passed a 
law making its open season Sept. 1, and through the mis- 
take of the engrossing clerk it was made Sept. 15. By 
this time the weeds got so high and the birds got so strong 
it was almost impossible for the hunters to kill them. 
The late law has been Sept. 1, and the dry weather has 
been very beneficial for nesting in the sloughs, where 
the high wild grass grows the last two years. In the wet 
seasons many of the eggs ate washed out of the nest 
when the heavy rains fall. There were very few killed 
last season. The weather was so dry and the cover was 
so slim they took to the cornfields. and all hunters know 
the trouble to kill them there... I believe that if we pass 
a law preventing killing them for five years we would 
have old-time shooting again, as we had thirty years ago. 
On my way to Chicago last week I saw many, and a large 
flock between Aurora and Chicago. 

This has been a grand winter for quail. None have 
been lost by deep snow, as the snow has not been more 
than three or four inches deep, and undoubtedly we will 
have fine shooting among them another year. 

1 W. O. BLatspett. 


Transporting Quail. 


St. Aucustine, Feb. 16—Editor Forest and Stream: 
There is some doubt lurking in my mind about climate 
changing pigmies into giants. Hundreds, if not more, 
small men have been known to migrate from the sunny 
south to the frigid north, and the first case 1s yet to be 
reported of a small man being turned into a six-footer by 
the change of climate; and, moreover, if such a thing 
did happen, the rule ought to work both ways, and the 
giant on going back to the south ought to dwindle down 
to his original proportions. I admit that if a squad of 
Florida quail just out of the eggs were taken to the 
north they might lose their bearings and grow into 
eight-ouncers; but I see no way of proving that their 
fathers and mothers would. 

I confess to harboring doubts whether our little brats 
-could stand the Northern winters unless protected, and 
that ought to be done for your own birds wherever 
practicable. 

A shelter could easily be made late in the fall by driving 
forked stakes in the ground at four corners, then laying 
poles across and covering the whole over with brush. 
Then, if wheat or buckwheat is thrown inside by a little 
cleared path scraped off each side and sprinkled with 
grain, they would soon find it and live there through the 
winter. DipYMUS. 


Emperor William’s Hunting. 


Tue New York Staats Zeitung of recent date prints a 
report of a hunt by the German Kaiser in the Grunewald, 
situated between Potsdam and Berlin. The Kaiser had 
as his guest on this occasion the Russian Prince Michael. 

The game was driven into a small corner of the park 
by a detachment of soldiers, and surrounded so that 
none could escape. Then at a certain signal the game 
was permitted to go, and the shooting began. In two 
hours’ time, between the hours oi 11:30 A. M. and 1;30 
P. M., the royal party killed not less than 730 fallow 
deer, of which 502 were does. Of this number 39 large 
bucks fell to the Kaiser’s gun.- There are estimated to 
be still 2,000 fallow deer left in the park. 

On another hunt, two of the rare and almost extinct 
auer oxen were driven to the Kaiser and killed by him, 
as were also 45 wild boars and stags’ and a great quantity 
of smaller game. 

On still another occasion the Kaiser and his party 
killed in the space of five and one-half hours, 6,256 
pheasants, 159 hares and 13 rabbits, of which the Kaiser 
bagged 9040 pheasants and 12 hares. 

These figures are an indication of an almost perfect 
system of stocking and protection, for, in spite of this 
wholesale slaughter, there still remains in the Grunewald 
an enormous quantity of game, 


Exposition of Sportsmanship at St. Petersburg. 


Consut-GEneERAL Holloway writes from St. Petersburg, 
Jan. 18, that an international exposition of sportsmanship 
will be held at St. Petersburg during May, 1902. There 
will be sections devoted to automobiles, bicycles, aéronau- 
tics, rowing, horsemanship, athletics and games, hunting, 
sailing and photography. The exposition will be held 
under the auspices of the benevolent society having charge 
of the Labor House for Cripples. 


The death of J. M. French, one of the veteran showmen 
of America, recalls the experience of the United States 
Government with camels just after the war. The Govern- 
ment imported from Asia a large number of camels and 
dromedaries, with the purpose of establishing a mail line 
from San Antonio to the Pacific coast. The venture 
failing, Mr, French bought a large number of the camels 
and made quite a famous show feature out of them. 
Those that he did not take were turned loose in the 
Arizona desert, where, it is said. a considerable drove of 
wild camels still exists —Springfield Republican. 


Written spon a Blank Leaf tn “The Complete 
| Angler.” 
While flowing rivers yield a blameless sport, 
Shall live the name of Walton: Sage benign! 
Whose pen, the mysteries of the rod and line 
Unfolding, did not fruitless exhort 
To reverend watching of sach still report 
That Nature utters from her rural shrine. 
Meek, pes versed in simple discipline, 
_He found the longest summer day too shert, 
To-his loved pastime given by sedgy Lea,- 
Or down the tempting maze of Shawford Brook. 
Fairer than life itself, in this sweet Book, 
The cowslip bank. and shady. willow tree: 
- And the fresh meads, where flowed, from every nook 
Of hie fall bosom, gludsome Piety}! ~~ ; 
wine "= Wordswarth, 


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FOREST AND. STREAM: 


Sea and River Hishing é | 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forrest anpD STREAM. 3 


Black Bass of the Gétisneood: 


_ApBouT 150 miles southwest of Kansas City as the crow 
flies, on the line of the Santa Fe railroad; is the town of 
Cottonwood Falls, the Cottonwood River, and the best 
fishing for big-mouthed gamy black bass in the State of 
Kansas. The Cottonwood is a stream of perhaps 150 
yards in width, fed by smaller creeks and springs from the 
surrounding hills. Its waters are deep and clear as crys- 
tal, and bountifully stocked with the above mentioned 
members of the finny tribe, ranging from one: to six 
pounds in weight. And they are gamy enough to give 
the fisherman his money’s worth before he succeeds in 
landing: them. 

Every fallIl go down from Topeka, and rousting out my 
lawyer friend, Judge Rightmire, from his law office 
duties, we hie away to the-river for hours of rare sport 
with rod and gun. ' 

Our last effort was on a glorious day in October, and 
the sun had just tipped the tree tops when we pushed 
the little boat from the bank, and with long steady strokes 
passed cheerily down the stream toward. some favorite 
pools. Underneath one seat was a basket of hinch and 
nearby a bucket of live minnows and crawfish, which 
occasionally required a change of water. This duty fell 
to me while the Judge did the rowing. I was also ex- 
pected to keep my eyes open for a red fox squirrel or 
two, many of which made their homes along the banks 
in the hackberry and cottonwood trees. Notwithstanding 
that the Judge was rowing and sending great clouds of 
smoke in front of his vision from an ancient briar pipe, 
he espied a shot quicker than myself. The little animal 
was far up in the top of a cottonwood on the opposite 
shore. A quick glance along the sights,-and without a 
struggle a plump cornfed specimen came tumbling down 
through the branches to the ground below. It was the 
work of a moment to beach the boat, secure the game, 
and pull on toward our goal. 

A quarter of a mile was traversed before I caught sight 
of a “patch of red,” which indicated that the owner of 


the frowsy tail-was lying outstretched on a limb getting 


the benefit of the morning sun. How fo get at the little 
rascal was a problem, for not a portion of his body big 
enough to hold a bullet was visible. After a brief consul- 
tation, the Judge drove the boat to fand and I softly 
stepped up the bank and worked quietly out from the 
tree, while the Judge, with gun in hand, let the boat 
drift back toward the center of the stream. The squirrel 
hearing me walk among the dead leaves, scented danger, 
and began working around the limb toward the water 
side. In a moment more the Judge’s gun cracked and 
down tumbled Mr, Squirrel, as fine a specimen as the 
other, but a trifle older. This proved to be our last squir- 


‘rel of the day. Several more were noted, but they were 


back in the woods, beunding from limb to limb, too rap- 
idly for a successful shot. ; 

The Cottonwood is a tortuous, crooked stream, and i 
was nearly ten o’clock before we reached the place de- 
sired, which we could have made in an half hour’s brisk 
walk “afoot and across lots.” 


Letting the boat float idly along we dug up our cane. 


poles, of which we had four, unwound the lines and pre- 
pared for business. Now, a bass is a peculiar chap and 
somewhat of an epicure. Some days his appetite craves 
a ctawfish or a young catfish, while other days he wants 
nothing and will take nothing but a lively “chub” min- 
now. Knowing this, we baited our hook with samples of 
each, placed our corks about five feet up, tossed the lines 
overboard, and settled down patiently for a bite. 

To one cooped up in an office fifty weeks in a year, the 
hour and the surroundings were of the tttmost pleasure. 
Nature was on her best behavior, and the day as per- 
fect as is often given mortals here below to enjoy. The 
silence was so intense that the fluttering fall of leaves on 
the water was as dripping eaves after a summer shower. 
The softening cries of a circling flock of cranes floated 
down through the hazy air, and nearer by a saticy jay 
sat scolding its mate. The first frost had turned the 
sumac to tints of brown and scarlet, and from the vines 
along the drooping willows hung hundreds of ripened, 
purple grapes. Under such arcadian conditions worldly 
cares and the fishing lines were both forgotten. 

But a kick on the shins from the Judge brought me 
back from my day dreams just in time to see one of my 
corks disappearing at an express train speed, and the tip 
of the pole bending to the water surface in close pur- 
suit. Now, a bass should be given a good start, and it’s 
a mistake to jerk too soon, but that is just what I did. 
Oftentimes the fish makes a friendly tackle of the bait 
in the preliminary skirmish, and seizes it in dead earnest 
in the second round. This proved the case in this in- 
stance. With a quick side jerk to hook him I swung the 
pole upward, but met with strong opposition and a fran- 
tic. sideplay of the line, which indicated a “big one.” 
After a few seconds’ play there came a flash of a silvery 
side at the top of the water, a glimpse of an enormous 
mouth, and an empty line told the tale of preliminary 
eagerness. “Great Heavens!” shouted the Judge, “what 
a whale; but you pulled too soon,” and with a smothered 
ejaculation that wouldn’t look well in print, I added, 
“T guess you're right.” ; 

The bait taken, as I remembered, was a crawfish, so 
another was quickly attached to the hook and cast im, the 
same vicinity. One, two, three, four, five, ten; fifteen 
minutes, at least, passed without the sign of a nibble. 
With a disgusted snort, the Judge dipped the oars and 
slowly propelled the boat around over the pool. Hardly 
had we moved twenty feet when he dropped the oars and 
grabbed the pole on the right. The fish had made the 
strike close to the boat and started deep under toward 
the other side. When I first noticed the pole it was. bent 
nearly double and I knew that a veteran was hooked. For 
a time the catch remained almost stationary, with the 
Judge working cautiously to-avoid-a break in. pole .or 
hook, In the meantime I had gotten a paddlé-in action 


and gently shoyed the rear-end of the boat toward the 


ahead. And there was. 


[Marcu I, 1902. — 


fish. And now ensued a battle royal. The fish used 
every effort to escape, darting this way and that, at times 
jumping clear from the water, then again back under the 
boat with a rush. But the “ancient mariner” at the butt 
end of the pole played his opponent finely, and after at 
leasta five minutes’ contest, began working the thoroughly 
exhausted fish toward port, and finally, with an adroit 
swing, landed the prize in the bottom of the boat. It was 
one of the finest black bass it has ever been my good 
fortune to have been in at the death of, and afterward, 
when weighed, forced the scales up to six pounds. | 

The safe capture of this big fellow so pleased us both 
that we heartily grasped hands, and the Judge, as heavy 
a man as he is, gave a spirited “Highland Fling,” until 
the rocking of the boat warned him to. desist. 

For another quarter of an hour we rowed around 
trolling for a catch, but unsuccessfully, so decided to 
move further down stream to another favorite spot. 

Lifting in the minnow bucket and stowing away the 
poles we started for “the island,’ a long, narrow strip 
of land down the river, where we intended to cook our 
dinner and rest through the noon hour, as the bass are 
not so apt to bite during the middle ofthe day. 

In the wake of the canoe sleepily churned the waters . 
for a moment, then settled back to a dead repose, while 
the prow, swiftly, yet silently, split a path through the 
sodden leaves. As we rounded a bend, drawing near to 
the island, a great blue crane arose awkwardly from a 
shallow rift and flapped its. solitary way beyond our 
vision, doubtless to some other haven of qitiet refuge. At 
the landing the Judge grounded the boat, produced a 
broiler, and started a fire, while I took a bucket, climbed 
the bank and passed through some woods to a farm house 
for fresh well water. The squirrels were skinned and 
ready for cooking when I rturned, and by the time I had 
gotten the bread and butter, some cheese, pickles and a 
pie out and spread on a newspaper, the game was “done 
to a turn.” Of course we had to take “a wee nippie,” as 
an appetizer, but from that standpoint it was entirely un- 
necessary, becatise we were both ravenously hungry with- 
out the application of false stimulants. And how we did 
eat, sitting there in the autumn sunshine, with an occa- 
sional ant crawling over the tablecloth and not the sign 
of a knife or a fork, A light breeze would frequently send 
a rift of cinders from the dying embers among the victtals 
and into the water, but what mattered these trifles. No | 
banquet at home had seemed so thoroughly enjoyable. 
For an hour or more we loitered at the improvised table, 
making merry with our lunch and tales of former fishing 
trips. Then I, acting as Bridget, with one fell swoop, 
cast “tablecloth, dishes and all” into the fire, and 
quenched the flames with a dash of water. 

Below the island about a half mile a little narrow stream 
known as Buck Creek empties into the Cottonwood, and 
after an hour’s smoky siesta at the dinner camp we de- 
cided to try our luck in that vicinity, and accordingly 
weighed anchor for the spot. On the way down I was 
fortunate enough to land a couple of crappie of regula- 
tion size. The crappie are a splendid table fish, sweet 
and toothsome, but do not put tip a fight worth a cent. 
The minute one is hooked it “throws up the sponge,” 
figuratively speaking, and allows itself to be landed with- 
out a protest. As a rule, they travel in schools, and 
when the fisherman strikes a school he ts liable to get a 
boatload. How I did that once I may relate some other 
time. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. And again 
the Judge is opposed to fishing for anything save black 
bass, so we did not tarry long trying to-coax the crappie 
from their lair. ; 3 

“Tf we can’t yank some speckled boys out of here,” re- 
marked the Judge, as we dropped anchor at the mouth 
of Buck Creek, “we might as well fly our kites for home, 
for the conditions ate certainly most favorable. Just 
see the clear, cold water pouring in here. The fish 
should swarm arotind such a place.” And he was right. 
For when we left at dark and struck across country for, 
home, we had a string of twenty-three as fine fish “to 
tote” as one would care to see. But to return to the 
thread of the narrative. 

We had scarcely struck the mouth of the creek when 
the trouble began. All four of the lines were out, and at 
periods we were getting bites on all at the same time, 
And we had the best of lick capturing the majority of our 
strikes. 


There were none, however, as large as the early catch 
of the Judge. The greater portion averaged from two 
to three pounds in weight. Once I actually had a fietce 
bite on each hook at the same moment while the Judge 
was wrestling with a three pounder on one of his-ines. 
And the best part of all was that we saved all of them 
from escaping. The next largest catch of the day fell to 
my lot “just as the sun went down.”’ I happened to be 
awake this time, and was shown a strenuous time. It was 
easily the most rebellious four pounder that I have ever 
had the pleasure of enticing from the waters. 

We had early discovered that the bass in this particular 
vicinity hankered after the small yellow catfish rather 
than the crawfish or chubs, so catfish they were getting 
I had just placed a particularly tempting bait overboard 
when, like a flash, a strike was made and the cork started 
under the water at race horse speed. Remembering my 
eatly failure because of jerking too soon, I gave the 
line plenty of play. Although I was simply wild to yank 
the fish into the boat at one swift rush I managed to con- 
trol myself. And when I did hook the game, with a swift 
side play, I knew from the resistance that there was fun 
For, without any sense of the 
proprieties of the occasion, his nibs made a rapid sprint 
back undér the boat and became entangled with my 
other line. This made matters decidedly frisky for me, 
and the Judge, too, became interested. Now, I am not left 
handed, and was never very dextrous with the member 
on that side of my body. But the way I swung the pole 
in that hand in rhythmic concert with the one in the right 
was a caution. The Judge remarked, “after the battle was 
over,” that I did it so gracefully_that he. was actually 
proud of me. Just how. long the struggle lasted, or as to 
the details, I am unprepared to state at this writing. It 
all seems like a hazy dream as I. sit scribbling away at 
this distant date. . “But,” quoth the Judge, “it was a 
famous victory,” and-worthy of taking. something on, 


and, if my memory serves. me: right, we did, By this 
time it had grown so dark ‘that we were reluctantly coms 


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elled to abandon our sport, as we could no longer see 
hen we had a bite. ~ i 

_ Our afternoon's sport seemed so good to us that we de- 
‘cided to try it again the next day, and concluded to hide 
the boat up. in the mouth of the creek, bury our minnows 
“and walk to town. The plans were quickly carried into 
execution, and with a long sigh of regret we climbed the 
bank and struck off through the patch of woods for town 
‘and supper. A brisk walk of an half hour's duration 
brought is to the lights of the little village, and soon we 
had our feet under the table while a colored boy was 
cleaning and salting down our fish. E. W. Extits. 

Torexa, Kansas, Feb, 11, 


Fish and Fishing. 


The Halifax Fishery Award, 


Many readers of Forest Anp STREAM will recall the 
fact that on the 21st of November, 1878, the United 
States paid over to the government of Great Britain 
the stim of $5,500,000, being the amount of the award of 
the Halifax International Fishery Cotmmission for the 
fishing rights exercised for twelve years by American 
fishermen in Canadian waters. The Imperial Government 
turned over $4,400,882.64 of this amount to the Dominion 
of Canada, and now there promises to be a pretty kettle 
of fish over the disposal of the funds. The Provinces of 
Ontario, Manitoba, and the others farther west, had no 
interest, of course, in the Atlantic fisheries, and the 
eastern Provinces are consequently claiming possession 
of the whole sum received by the Dominion Government 
from that of the United States, together with interest. 
The Province of Quebéc claims $1,425,855 for its share 
of the principal, and including interest asks $3,393,531, 
for which amount a demand has been sent to Ottawa. 

_ The federal government will probably contest payment of 
the claim, on the ground that it has been employing the 
reventie of the award in the payment of fishing bounties, 
and in this event there will doubtless be a pretty case for 
the determination of the law courts. The provisional 

claims are largely based upon the recent decision of the 
Imperial Privy Council, declaring that the fisheries are 
the property, not of the Dominion, but of the different 
Provinces. Hence the Province of Quebec is also asking 

_ the federal government to hand over to it the sum of 
$490,000, which it has collected from time to time for 
fishing leases and licenses. These figures are interesting, 
if for no other purpose than to indicate the valuable 
character of the fishing rights owned or controlled by the 
Proyince of Quebec. 


Net-Fishing in Lake Champlain, 


Thanks principally to the efforts of the North Ameri- 
can Fish and Game Protective Association, it is be- 
lived that a final death blew has been dealt to the suicidal 
policy of netting the pike-perch of Lake Champlain upon 
their spawning beds. The officials of Vermont, of New 
York and of Quebec have tried repeatedly, and in vain, 
for some years past, to stop the nefarious habit. New 
York was anxious to put an end to it, for it was visibly 
decreasing the fish life of the lake. Vermont was just as 
anxious, but permitted her netters to fish because Quebec 
did the same. Quebec has only six miles of the lake, 
but in these six miles the pike-perch come to spawn, and 
in the spawning season they have been_ ruthlessly 
destroyed by the netters licensed by the Province of 
Quebec. Vermont sent ‘a deputation to Quebec to ask 
the government there to act the part of good neighbors 
and withdraw the netting licenses. But with this deputa- 
tion there went to Quebec representatives of the Vermont 
netting industry to negative the good. work attempted 
by the others, and the Quebec authorities, worried with 
conflicting demands from the same State, did nothing at 
all. 

At the recent annual meeting of the North American 
Fish and Game Protective Association, however, held at 
Burlitigton, Vermont, brave and successful efforts were 
made to bring the conflicting interests into accord. Mr. 
J, W. Titcomb, then president of the association, repre- 
senting Vermont, Mr. C.’H. Wilson, of Glens Falls, 
representing New York, and Mr. L. Z. Joncas, of Quebec, 
threshed the whole matter out very thoroughly, assisted 
by. ex-Lt. Governor Nelson Fisk, and others, of Ver- 
mont, and it was plainly shown that Quebec’s refusal to 
act was due to the conflicting representations from Ver- 
mont. The Vermont Fish and Game League met in Bur- 
lington at the same time as the North American Fish 
and Game Protective Association, and placed the de- 
mands of Vermont before the latter in a manner that 
leit no possible room for misunderstanding in the minds 
of the Canadians present at the meeting. United action 
was at once agreed upon. A depttation from Vermont 
and New York went to Ottawa to interest the Depart- 
ment of Fisheries there in the matter, for that department, 
though it cannot issue licenses itself, can close any 
waters that it chooses to netting. It was easier for Que- 
bec to ask the federal authorities to prohibit netting in 
Missisquoi Bay of Lake Champlain than to withstand 
the political pressure brought to bear upon it for the 
issue of netting licenses. So the Fisheries Department 
at Ottawa has placed the necessary prohibition upon net- 
ting in Canadian waters bordering upon the United 
States and the Province of Quebec, and this difficult 
question has been satisfactorily adjusted, mainly through 
the efforts of members of the North American Fish and 
Game Protective Association, Surely this association is 
entitled to the assistance and stipport of every sportsman 
interested in the protection of the game and game fish of 
the eastern Provinces of British North America, and of 
the neighboring States. 


Me. Titcomb’s Appointment. 


The members of the association are much flattered, and 
with good reason, at the appointment of their worthy ex- 
president, Mr. Titcemb, to be Chief of the Division of 
Fish Culture at Washington, in place of Mr. Ravenal, re- 
signed, and if zeal and ability can command success, the 
fishery industry of the United States has reason, indeed, 
to be ears tales upon Mr. Titcomb’s appointment. 

In this connection, it may be mentioned. that-the North 
American Astociation ig taking an active interest in the 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


application of another of its members to be appointed 


Fish Culturist of New: York. I fefer fo Mr. C. H. Wil 
son, of Glens Falls, vice-president of the association for 
the State of New York, and the atithor of the paper on 
the spawning and hatching of the pilce-perch, published 
in FOREST AND STREAM of the 1st of February instant. 


British Appreciation of Ametican Methods. 


Tt is interesting to note the frankness of British testi- 
mony to the superiority of American methods in the 
deyelopment and preservation of national and State fish- 
eries, A paper by Mr. R, B. Marston, of London, in 
one of the leading reyiews, attracted my notice the other 
day, and it occurred to me that all the national and State 
authorities on this side of the Atlantic ought, for their 
encouragement, to read the author's thoughtful com- 
mendation of their work in fishery matters, Mr. Marston 
says: “No one who knows the benefits which the 
United States of America derive from the great national 
and State fisheries departments but mist regret that the 
United Kingdom does practically nothing in this way be- 
yond providing a gunboat or two for police duty,” He 
further places on record his belief in “a wise national 
development of our natural resources; such a policy, in 
fact, as has placed America first among the nations.” 


A Fish Story. 


A friend sends me the following fish story, printed in 
one of the early years of the last century by a Dr, Barlase, 
who claims to have had it from “a clergyman of veracity,” 
in illustration of “the patience and sagacity of the lob- 
ster:” “A lobster made several attempts to get at an 
oyster, but the latter promptly closed his shell at the 
former's approach, At length the lobster, having waited 
with great patience until the oyster opened again, con- 


trived to throw a stone between its gaping shells, when _ 


he sprang upon his prey and devoured it.” 
E. T. D. CHAMBERS. 


Drum Fishing off Barnegat. 
from @ letier to a friend and fishing conipanion. 


My Dear W.: 

I did not get your note till after my return home, and 

then what, with settling in our new home (you know 
we had just been married), and the constant and indeed 
almost incessant demands made upon me by my business, 
I have not found time to answer your note as I meant to, 
but I have kept it lying upon my desk waiting for the 
time to come when I could find time to write you, for 
I have wanted to tell you of my experience with the 
drum, 
I arranged with John Adams to take my chum and go 
out to the inlet, anchor there, start chumming and get 
things started. I was to come down with Captain 
Sprague in the Lively Polly, fish for a while and then re- 
turn, I only took my big surf rod and Vom Hofe reel 
with me and a tarpon hook with piano wire snell. Cap- 
tain Sprague brought his boat around alongside- John 
Adams’ big bank skiff so handsomely that I sprang from 
one boat to the other without the Captain’s having. to 
check the speed of the Lively Polly. I was eager for the 
fray. I felt in my bones I would get a drim—and I ‘did. 
I baited with a bit of menhaden which Adams cuts so 
nicely from the back of the fish, making a bait that looks 
almost good enough for a man to eat, let alone a fish. 
I had not been there over ten minutes before John, who 
was fishing for bluefish with a hand line, struck a drum. 
He handed his line to me and held my pole while he 
watched the fun. We could see the fellow plainly. He 
was a red drum, I should think he weighed about 25 
pounds. He made very little resistance, coming along 
not easily, but still not fighting. I expected him to make 
a rush every moment, and so hauled him in slowly and 
warily. hand over hand, keeping my hand at right angles 
to the line so as to be prepared for him when he broke. 
He came up this way to say within fifteen feet of the 
boat, then suddenly he seemed to realize his danger, and 
as he slid down the side of a wave he threw his whole 
strength into one sudden lunge and the line parted just 
above the snell, and he was gone. While John repaired 
his line I took up my own rod and reel and in a few 
moments I had hooked a fish; what it was I never found 
out. I had out perhaps a hundred and twenty-five feet 
of line. The fish never once came to the surface, but 
at apparently one burst of speed, reeled out another hun- 
dred feet of line. The handle of the reel flew out of my 
fingers, rapping my knuckles till they bled. The line run- 
ning out fairly burnt my thumb, for I had left my thumb 
stall in the Lively Polly. I tried my best to check the 
fellow and thought I had succeeded, but only for an in- 
stant; then he was off again. I was using a No. 15 
Cuttyhunk line, that I got from Mr. Chandler, one of the 
finest and lightest lines of the kind I ever saw. I had 
taken off the old heavy Cuttyhunk line I had on my-reel, 
which I was using the day we tried for striped bass over 
on the North Beach. I had only 300 feet of it and was 
afraid it would not hold him, and it did not. When he 
started with apparently undiminished vigor the third 
time, the line parted, and I never knew what it was I 
had hold of. It felt as though it might have been the 
sibmerged torpedo boat Holland. 

While John was bending a new snell on my line, I 
took his line and in a few moments was fast to a black 
drum. I knew him in a moment by his actions. He 
bored down to the bottom persistently, head down, tail 
up. Again and again I raised him, only to have him 
slowly and sullenly bore his head down again as though 
he were beund to have one more clam before he gave 
up the fght. Gradually he came to the boat, but within 
about six fee. of it the hook pulled out of his mouth, and 
he sank for the last time to our gaze, in search, probabiy, 
of that lost clam. 

This made three fish I had lost, and Pete, the chummer, 
told me if I didn’t catch the next one he’d spatter me with 
a handful of chum. (I had told him if he got any chum 
on me that day I’d take an oar to him, for I had just 
had my flannel shirt washed, preparatory to going home.) 

When John got my line fixed I soon had it out again. 
Then I caught a few bluefish, which I regarded as al- 
most fingerlings, I was not out after bluefish.’ Presently. 


Thad q- bite that I knew meant business. I gave him 


time, until I felt he was fairly mine, then set the hook 
and commenced catitiausly to pull him in. I wasn’t go- 
mg to lose that fish if I could help myself. He started 
to fight from the word go, but I felt my tackle hold him 
even in his wildest rushes, and then I felt, barring acci- 
dents, he was mine. Foot by foot, fighting every inch of 
the way, he came closer and closer to the boat, always 
on top of the water; we could see him from the time he 
was hooked, a hundred and fifty feet off, till gradually he 
came within ten feet of the boat, John, stooping low over 
the gunwale, his eyes fired with excitement, was wild to 
gaff him. “Steady, John, steady,” I said. “Don’t touch 
him till I give you the word, and-that won’t be till I bring 
him up the third time.” I swung him back and forth as 
youwouldswingabass when you are playing him, and the 
third time as I brought him up he turned slightly on his 
side, and if an instant theré was a flash of steel and John 
had the ‘gaff in his gills and hauled him aboard. He was 
a beauty, weighed 32 pounds, and I didn’t get spattered 
with chum, I wished ever so much you had been there, © 
I know you would have enjoyed it so much, 

At five o'clock I was back at Barnegat. In two hours 
—indeed, in much less than two hours—I had been fast 
to three drums and a Mother Hubbard engine, lost three 
and captured one. It was a fitting close to a delightful 
two. weeks” trip. : J. H. FisHer. 

PENNSYLVANIA. née 


r a s 
Potomac Fishing. 

Memeers of the Fish and Game Protective Association 
of the District of €Columbia are displaying some anxiety 
concerning the proposed amendment to the Maryland fish 
law so far as Montgomery county is concerned, reports 
the Washington Star. The amendment pending before 
the Legislature provides that persons who fish or hunt 
within the county mentioned must first take out a license. 
Particular attention is being paid by the local association 
to the question of angling. It is claimed that the pro- 
posed amendment is the work of anglers who live in and 
about Rockville, and that its enactment will deprive many 
Washingtonians of legitimate pleasure after they have 
Meas kee hard to stock the river and canal with game 

Syd © 
The matter is one which also appeals to the keepers 
of hotels and boarding houses along the Potomac River 
from the Chain bridge to Washington Junction, as many 
of these people depend almost wholly upon Washington 
anglers for support. Admiral Robley D. Evans, presi- 
dent, and Dr, William P. Young, secretary, of the local 
association, have prepared a circular letter concerning the 
subject, which is of interest to all anglers in this city who 
visit the upper Potomac. 

The letter is as follows: 

“The Game and Fish Protective Association views with 
alarm the suggested amendments to the Maryland fish 
and game law, which proposes to require persons who fish - 
or hunt within Montgomery county to take out a license. 
The members of the Game and Fish Protective Associa- 
tion of the District of Columbia originated the agitation 
which resulted in the enactmént of the tri-state Potomac 
River fish and protective law, and expended consider- 
able money and energy in securing the passage of that 
act, j 

“This Association instigated the movement to seine the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the winter after the water 
had been drawn off, and paid the expenses for the seining, 
assisted by contributions of the angling fraternity in the 
District, and thereby saved thousands of bass, crappie 
and other fishes, which would otherwise certainly have 
perished as soon as a heavy freeze occurred. All these 
fish were put in the Potomac River, which practically 
restocked the stream. Our Association did this two 
seasons at a large expenditure of money. 

“In the fall of 1890, through the efforts of this Asso- 
ciation, nineteen cans of black bass iry were placed in 
the Potomac River between Little Falls and Great Falls, 
all within Montgomery county: During the year just 
passed this Association made requisition for, ‘and had 
placed in the Potomac River, 1,750,000 pike-perch, other- 
wise known as wall-eyed pike, or Susquehanna salmon. 
This plant was made above Little Falls in Montgomery 
county, Individual members of this Association have 
also stocked the Potomac River at various times with 
crappie, and yery recently the Association had placed in 
the mouth of one of the creeks a large consignment of 
rock bass. 

“This is some of the work which has been accomplished 
by an Association composed of as conscientious sports- 
men as ever organized, with the reasonable expectation 
that they would derive in part the pleasures and benefits 
acerting from their efforts, and now that these great 
ends haves been accomplished, it is but natural that we 
should be alarmed at threatened legislation which would 
practically debar us from reaping any of the fruits of 
our labors. 

“Aside from the foregoing, the Anglers’ Club is located 
on the river in Montgomery county, possessing a very 
valiiable property there, improved and established at a 
large cost, the members of which are mostly citizens of 
the District of Columbia. The purpose for which this 
club was organized was that the members might haye a 
quiet and retired place where they might go from time 
to time for rest and recreation. They are all true and 
law-abiding anglers, who never violate a game or fish 
Jaw, and their presence tends to restrain others who in- 
cline to disregard those laws. The enactment of the 
proposed law wotild largely destroy the usefulness of this 
club becatise of the increase in the cost of the pleasure. 

“The Montgomery County Sycamore Island Club is an 
incorporated body composed of anglers, which has bought 
and improved the island whose name it bears. Many of 
the members of that club, like those of the Anglers’ Club, 
are citizens of the District of Columbia. They, too, ob- 
serve the fish protective laws and jealously guard the 
waters which surround their island against violations 
of the fishing laws. The moral support of both these | 
clubs has been thrown with that of the Fish and Game 


‘Protective Association in the matter of restocking the 


river, as well as protecting the fishes from vandalism. 
Citizens of Montgomery county have been in no way dis- 
disturbed because of these organizations, as they have 
created conditions which gre desirable rather than ynde- 


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sirable, and it might be reasonable to expect a feeling of 
appreciation rather than an unkindly one, ; 

“Still another phase of this subject presents itself. 
There are ‘many persons in the District who cannot 
afford to pay a license for the privilege of fishing, and 
the proposed law would consequently debar them from 
one of their most pleasant, healthful and innocent 
pastimes. Hundreds of residents of Washington spend 
their summer season in Montgomery county, drawn there 
because of the fishing attractions, spending money freely 
among the inhabitants for board, boats, bait, livery, etc., 
and such a law as is under discussion would cut off that 
source of revenue from the residents of that county. 

“Taking all the foregoing facts into consideration, we 
feel that the enactment of the law as proposed would work 
a great injustice upon many worthy persons, and we 
earnestly ask you to exercise your influence-against a bill, 
the enactment of which would deprive so many people of 
a legitimate pleasure.” , 

Copies of the letter will be sent to members of the 
Maryland Legislature and others who are interested in 
the subject, and every effort possible will be made to 
defeat the proposed amendment. 


Fly-Casting at the New York Show 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

From present indications one of the most popular fea- 
tures at the coming New York Sportsmen’s Show will 
be the fly and bait casting competitions to be held on the 
stream stirrounding the big wooded island that will this 
year occupy the center of the amphitheater. As the stretch, 
including the back cast, will be nearly 240 feet in Tength, by 
from 14 to 16 feet in width, there will be ample facilities 
for the most expert among amateur casters to show their 
skill, The contests will be confined to amateurs only, and 
as events have been arranged for schoolboys, schoolgirls 
and women, as well as men, interest in the competitions 
will be much wider than at any similar series of events 
yet held about New York. 

The Fly-Casting Committee of the show has been hard 
at work for some time past, and has intérested nearly 
évery prominent amateur about New York as probable 
competitors in the events, while Toledo, Cleveland, Syra- 
cuse, Providence. Boston and Philadelphia will, with little 
doubt, send on their representative casters. Following is 
the committee, together with the essential points in the 
rules governing competition, and the programme as ar- 
ranged for the several days of the show: 

Committee—Ezra H. Fitch, F. K. Tuthill, George H. 
Johnson, W. K. Park, Charles H. Stonebridge, Clarence 
W. Alling, C. C. Curtis, George B. Hayes, W. F. Kimber, 
H. L. Cadmus. D. T. Abercrombie, chairman; Harry 
Palmer, secretary. 


Roles. 


Contest for amateurs only; guides, dealers and other 
professionals not eligible, except in such eyents as may be 
especially opened to them. Entrance fee, $1. Two judges 
and a referee. Casting to begin at 2°P. M, daily. Com- 
petitors to cast according to entry, those not at hand when 
called to lose turn. 

Distance—Time to be taken at call of the word 
“Ready” ; longest cast in five minutes to count. 

Accuracy—Trial to commence on call of the word 
“Count”; casting to be at buoy, six feet in diameter and 
level with water; to be marked by concentric circles ; 
spaces marked, 10, 9, 8, etc., down to 5. Highest score in 
five casts wins. ‘ 

Rear Obstacle—To consist of net 30 feet high, placed 
18 feet back of caster. Time to cotint from word “Ready” ; 
longest cast within five minutes to count. 

Forward Obstacle—Horizontal tape 7 feet above water; 
longest cast under tape to count. | 

Accuracy and Delicacy—Semi-circular buoy to be placed 
against bank of stream, under overhanging bush, 3 feet 
above water. Count same as for accuracy. 

Bait Contest—Bait furnished by judges; no allowance 
for accident; rod in one hand not to exceed 1144 feet; 
single gut leader, not less than 6 nor more than 9 feet; 
hook not smaller than No. 12 nor larger than No, 8, usual 
professor style, barb and point removed. 

Prizes to be gold, silver and bronze medals. 
open for practice from 10 A. M, to 1:30 P. M. 


Course 


Programme. 


Thursday, March 6—Fly-cast for distance; only those 
who have never cast over 75 feet in contest eligible;. 6- 
ounce rods or less. 

Friday, March 7—Fly-cast for accuracy, distance 60 
feet. 

Saturday, March 8—Fly-cast for distance; youths only 
(under 20 years). 

Monday, March 1o—Fly-cast for distance; guides only; 
no entrance fee. 

Tuesday, March 11—Bait-cast for distance. 

Wednesday, March t2—Fly-cast for distance; girls 
only; no entrance fee. 

Thursday, March 13—Fly-cast for distance, open fo all; 
rods 414 ounces. 

Friday, March 14—Fly-cast; rear obstacle. 

Saturday, March 15—Fly-cast for distance; open only 
to women; no entrance fee. 

Monday, March 17—Fly-cast, forward obstacle. 

Tuesday, March 18—HFly-cast for accuracy and deli- 
cacy; distance, 30 feet. 

Wednesday, March 19—Bass fly-cast for distance; open 
to those who have not cast over 75 feet; fly supplied by 
judges. 


Is Angling a Cruel Sport? 


Tuis is a big question. Its answer, to carry weight, 
must come from an all-round angler with wider experience 
and more patient observation than have been given to 
me, I, do not myself impale wriggling worms, or use 
half-asphyxiated and struggling livebait, but in my ignor- 
ance as to the amount of suffering inflicted thereby I 
do not blame those that do. Every fact, however limited 
though it may be in its application, that tends to show 
how little pain, or even inconvenience, is caused by the 
penetration and presence of a hook in a cold-blooded 
animal, cannot fail to be useful in the inquiry hereby sug- 


gested, and that must be my excuse for recording a 
trifling incident, otherwise of no interest to anglers. 
The wind fitful, wayward and gusty, the scene a small 
back stream overhung by a tangled growth of wild brier 
and hawthorn, pictorially inviting, but piscatorially irri- 
tating. Not once, not twice, but many a time my min- 
now gleamed in the sunshine, as it swung to and fro, pen- 
dent from branches, now kissing the dimpled face of the 
water, now high as the most coveted gift on a Christmas 
tree. Worthy of study were the various knots and hitches 
improvised by the playful wind, and serious the scars in- 
flicted on my fine gut footlink by the fierce embrace of 
thorn ‘and brier. At last the minnow was coaxed into 


a dark hole where the stream eddied under the red fibrous - 


roots of a stunted but patriarchal sallow. One flash of 
sunbeam reflected from its golden side as it glides from 
light to shadow, and it is lost to sight—to htman sight, 
that is—for the sudden shortening by a few inches of the 
slack reel line in the water shows it has been seen and 
seized. An axious pause of some few seconds, a firm but 
respectful reply, and, confound the thorns! the line and 
foot-link fly back in my face, but where, oh! where is my 
dip-hook? 

A few minutes are consumed in reciting poetry and 
rigging up and baiting fresh tackle. A plump minnow, 
freighted with lead and steel, shapes the same course as 
the lost liner, and is captured at the same spot; but this 
time the gear stands the strain, and a fine perch is landed 
with two dip-hooks firmly imbedded in its gullet! And 
this within five minutes of his having pouched the first 
bait! I trust this story (for the truth whereof I youch) 
may comfort all anglers of tender conscience as it did 
comfort me. And I tell it not to encourage gorge bait 
fishing, which ultimately kills most fish, and certainly all 
small fish that pouch the bait; but I merely record a fact 
that may be prayed in aid of the proposition that fish feel 
but little pain from the penetration and presence of a 
hook, even when loaded with nearly a quarter of an ounce 
of lead, BASIL FIELD. — 


San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 


Mepar contests, series 19002, Sunday, contest No. 1, 
held at Stow Lake, Feb. 16. Wind, west; weather, 


cloudy: 
Event Event Event 
No, 1, No, 2, ’ R No, 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, ————Eveut No. 8————, _ Lure 
Feet, Percent. Acc. % Del. # Net % Casting % 
T C Kierliff.. 80 91.8 os oJ aa 
EhpRattite <u. 90 92.4 88.8 15 81.10 70.7 
H F Muller.. 105 88.4 91 79.2 8h. 1 va 
W E Brooks... 107 93.4 88.8 75.10 82.3 
K Charles.... 8&1 76.8 $2.4 73.4 77.10 
FM Haight... ... 91 87.8 72.6 80.1 y 
T Brotherton..1171% 94.4 91.8 81.8 86.8 2.6 
E A Mocker. 101 85 92 7a 83.6 46 
Jeaitirner. 2.2. 9 , 93.4 83.4 74.2 78.9 a 
F Daverkosen.110 89.1 83.8 76.8 80.2 
CG Noung. alae 96 91 74.2 82.7 
A M Blade 90 &T 79.8 72.6 76.1 a 
C Kenniff, 110 86.8 90.4 75 82.8 97.9 
J Kenniff.,... 114 93 87 15 81 93.8 
W Mansfield.,... 91.4 92.8 86.8 89.8 92.3 
H C Golcher. 129 91 81.4 Ta 78.2 5. 


Saturday, Feb, 15, contest postponed one week on ac- 
count of the weather. 

Judges, Mansfield and Daverkosen; referee, Turner; 
clerk, Wilson. : 


Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 


Cuicaco, Ill., Feb. 15.—At the annual meeting of the 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club, Feb. 10, the following officers 
were elected for the ensuing year: President, H. C. Has- 
call; Wice-President, A. C. Smith; Secretary-Treasurer, 
E, R. Letterman; Captain, Geo. A. Murrell; member of 
the Executive Committee for a three years’ term, William 
T. Church. 

The matter of sending delegates to California to attend 
the tournament to be given during the coming summer 
was discussed, and referred to the Executive Committee 
for action, and a decision will be made at the next Execu- 
tive Committee meeting, to be held within the coming 
week. FE, R, LetrermMan, Sec.-Treas. 


Che Kennel. 
SE 
The New York Show. 


THE twenty-sixth annual dog show of the Westminster 
Kennel Club, held in Madison Square Garden, New York, 
on Feb, 19, 20. 21 and 22, was greater even than its pre- 
decessors in the number of entries, and it is fair to assume 
that as a whole the show was stiperior in quality to its 
predecessors. 

The benching arrangements were planned with excellent 
skill. The galleries were utilized for the pet and some 
of the smaller dogs, ample space being left in front of the 
cages for the visitors. The front of the galleries, next 
the main floor, were draped in cloth of simple yet pleas- 
ing color effect. Here and there in different places on 
the main floor were cases containing the beautiful trophies 
of the different specialty clubs. Many of them were beau- 
tiful as works of art, and of great intrinsic value from 
the great weight and massive size. They were of great 
interest in themselves, both from their beauty and as 
an index of what they represent in the way of enthusiasm 
and earnest effort. 

The judges worked industriously, yet the greater part 
of the four days was occupied in determining the awards. 
The catalogue had 1,678 dogs enumerated, and as there 
were several hundred re-entries, it is self-evident that the 
judges had a mammoth task: Beside the regular prizes, 
there were an infinity of spcial prizes to award, and, so 
close is the competition for these, often times the judging 
of therm requires more time and greater care than in that 
in the regular classes. The classes and their judges were 
as follows: 


foxhounds (Eng.), Mr. W. Rutherfurd, New York; 
pointers, Mr. Fred J. Lenoir, Greenwood, Mass, ; all set- 
ters, foxhounds (Amer.) and Chesapeake Bay dogs, Mr, 


St. Bernards, Mr. John Keevanh, Brooklyn, 
N. Y.; Great Danes, Mr. J, Blackburn Miller, New York; 


Wm. Tallman, Greensboro, N. C.: sporting spaniels and 
poodles, Mr. H, K. Bloodgood, New York; collies, Mr. 
John Black, Harrisburg, Pa.; Bulldogs and Boston ter- 
riers, Mr. W, C. Codman, Providence, R. I.; French 
bulldogs, Mr. Francis G. Lloyd, New York; beagles, Mr. 
George B. Post, Jr., New York; dachshunde, Mr. Jos. 
Graefie, New York; fox terriers, Mr. Jas. A. Caldwell, 
Jr., Penllyn, Pa.; Irish terriers, Mr. S. Wan Schaick, 
New York; Scottish terriers, Mr. W. P, Fraser, Toronto, 
Can.; Newfoundlands, greyhounds, whippets, bull terriers, 
Dalmatians, Skye terriers, black and tan, Bedlington, 
Yorkshine and toy terriers, and Pomeranians, Mr. T. S. 
Bellin, Minneapolis, Minn.; Rusian wolfhounds, blood- 
hounds, mastiffs, deerhounds, Griffons, old English sheep- 
dogs, Basset hounds, Airedale terriers, Welsh terriers, toy 
spaniels, pugs and miscellaneous classes, Mr, R. F. May- 
hew, Clinton, N. Y. 

The inspection of the dogs on their arrival and the 
medical care of them during the show was done by the 
eminent veterinarian, Dr. H. Clay Glover, of New York, 
who was the official veterinarian of the W. K. C., and 
indeed has held that very responsible office for many 
years. 

The dogs were benched and fed most efficiently and 
satisfactorily by the well-known firm, Spratts Patent 
(American), Limited, Newark, N. J. : 

The show was under the superintendence of Mr, James 
Mortimer, which in itself is a guarantee of the thor- 
oughly efficient manner in which all the details were 
managed. 

The field dogs were out in force, the pointers in par- 
ticular being in evidence in large numbers and good 
quality. They were superior to the setters, both in num- 
ber and quality. They numbered 184. There was one, 
however, whose name was mighty in the annals of the 
New York and other shows, now numbered with the 
absent, Mr. George Jarvis’ Lad of Kent. He died on 
Jan. 27, aged twelve years and ten months, an age which 
may be termed exceedingly old in respect to the bench 
show dog. Mr. Jarvis buried the old hero in his yard. 
In pointer puppies, dogs, George Jarvis’ Chappie of Kent 
won first.. In novice dogs, fifteen entries, Westlake 
Pointer Kennels’ Blackstone, a trimly built large dog of 
excellent quality, took first. He has a cleanly cut, shapely 
head, neck lean and well set; a smoothly turned body: 
excellent legs and feet; spirited carriage, and superior 
pointer quality. R, Compton’s Dan Woodstock, a well- 
made, symmetrical dog, was second. In limit dogs under 
55 pounds, Fairbairn & Wilcox’s Fair Acre Puzzle had 
a heavy, though well-shaped, head, and while being 
smooth turned, he might be better in front. Second went 
to Fair Acre Bonnie, tather coarse headed, yet fairly 
well built. Third went to Blackstone, already noticed, 
There were fourteen entries in this class. Limit dogs, 
55 potinds and over, there were ten entries, and of these 
Dan Woodstock won first, second going to Young Flint, 
third to Tioga Sam. In open dogs, under 55 pounds, 
there were eleven etitries, and of these Lansdowne Malt, 
a bit throaty and heavy in shoulders, was first, second 
going to Princes Boy, a good dog, somewhat out at 
elbows, while third was won by Shotaway. Open dogs, 
55 pounds and over, had twelve entries, of which one, Ace 
of Clubs, was absent. The winner, King William, is 
coatse in head. There was close competition between 
him and Dustaway, the latter shown in the pink of con- 
dition. Dan Woodstock was third. Lansdown Malt was 
first in winners’ class, dogs. Bitch puppies had five en- 
tries. Fair Acre Anna, somewhat lathy, yet showing 
promise and quality, was first. In novice bitches there 
were twelve entries. Fair Acre Jady won fitst; she is a 
nicely formed bitch of stiperior quality. Second .and 
third were respectively Miss Westlake and Ruth of Kent, 
There were eleven limit bitches under 50 pounds. Of 
these, Prince’s Alice, a good bitch, was first. Westlake 
Surprise, second, has a light muzzle and thin in flesh; 
good body, legs, feet and symmetry. Lass O’ Yoka was 
third. Limit bitches, 50 pounds and over, had five en- 
tries. First was won by Westlake Ornament, a superior 
bitch, nicely formed; second was won by May Hobson, 
light in head, good in back, loin, quarters and trimly 
made. Linden Bess was third. Open bitches, under 50 
pounds, had five entries. Champion Westlake Startle was 
first; Miss Westlake, second, and Bessie Bang IT., was 
third. There were four in the open class for bitches, 50 
pounds and over. Belle Westlake, a good bitch, was first: 
May Hobson, second; Daisy Steen, third. Belle West- 
lake also won first In the winners’ class for bitches. In 
the class for dogs and bitches that had been placed 
in any field trials in the United States or Canada. there 
were five entries, and the winners were: First, W. A. 
Austin’s Tioga Sam; second, Westlake Pointer Kennels’ 
Blackstone; third, Prince Lad’s Lassie. The kennel prize 
for best four was won by Westlake Kennels; reserve, 
Geo. S. Mott’s kennels. There was a profuse allowance 
Gi Vie de Cs Ae tceand iG. se 

English setters were a mixed lot as to quality, some 
being excellent, while there was a yariatign from that 
down to very commonplace. There were fourteen con- 
testants in the dog puppy class. They were a fair lot 
only. The novice class for dogs had eleven entries. The 
winner of first, Fred’s Boy, is heavy in skull; otherwise 
he is quite well made, Second went to Fleet Highland, a 
lightly built, symmetrical dog, very pretty and rather 
delicate in form; nice coat and feathering. There were 
eight entries in limit dogs, and of these Mallwyd Sirdar 
won first; Bracken O’Leck, second; Deceit, third. There 
were eight in the open dog class; first was won by Barton 
Tory, a well-known winner; second went to Sirdar and 
third to Bracken O’Leck. Champion Barton Tory won 
also in the winners’ class for dogs. There were- ten 
in the bitch puppy class. First went to Blue Bess, neatly 
made, alert in carriage and of good setter character. Her 
litter sister, Pauline B., a symmetrical bitch, won second. 
Fairy D. was third. Her litter brothers, Roderigo D, - 
and Mike D., were second and third respectively in dog 
puppies. There were fourteen novice bitches, of which 
first went to Fan, O’Leck, well shaped in head; second 
went to Beatrice of Salop; third to Nellie Allis, a tim 
bilch, so much’ so, indeed, that she did not show her full 


- merit. In limit, bitches, seven entries, Mallwyd Queen 


was first; she is Jong cast, yet symmetrical ; has good legs 
and feet, a shapely neck, clean cut head, and 
good general quality, Fan O’Leck was second 


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Pride was second, and Queen's Pride, good in 
head, legs and feet, was third. Mallwyd Queen 
was also first in winters, bitches. W. B. Meares’ 


Tar Heel was first in the class for dogs and bitches which 
had been placed in any public field trial in the United 
States or Canada. 
_ Trish setters numbered thirty-one. There were only 
three puppies in their class for dogs and bitches. There 
Were nine novice dogs. First was won by Toronto 
Blaney, good in head, heavy in shoulders and light in 
forearm. _ Barrack’s Finelcho was second; is light in 
short ribs, good head, legs and feet. Timothy More was 
third; he has a heavy but well-shaped head; flat in ribs, 
Limit dogs numbered twelve. First went to Rockwood, 
Jr., a well-made dog; second to Rory O’More, light in 
mtizzle, yery good otherwise; third to Toronto Blaney. 
Open dogs numbered eight, First, Rockwood, Jr.; sec- 
ond, Rory O’More; third, to Prince Victor. Rockwood, 
Jr., was also first in the winners’ class. Novice, bitches, 
numbered three.. Limit, bitches, numbered seven. St. 
Lambert Mollie was first; she is flat in ribs, is good in 
head and well made otherwise. Signal Bess, second, is 
pinched in nose, but is finely symmetrical. Lady May 
Finglas was third. 

Gordon setters numbered fourteen all told. There were 
no puppies. They yaried in quality a great deal. 

Following is a list of the winners of the pointer and 
setter classes: 

POINTERS.—Puppies—Dogs: Ist, G. Jarvis’ Chappie of Kent; 
2d, Fairbairn & Whricox’s Fair Acre Hector; 3d. F. W. Fellows’ 
Mark’s Rush; res, S. Raynor’s Brownie. Bitches: ist, Fair- 


G, 
bairn & Wilcox’s Fair Acre Anna; 2d, G.. S. Mott’s Granny; 3d, 
M, F, TPhrockmorton’s Woolton Girl; res., W. D. Buckner’s 


Mrs. 
Quito. Novice—Dogs; Ist, Westlake Pointer Kennels’ Black- 
stone; 2d, R. Crompton’s Dan Woodstock; 8d, H. H. Peck’s 


Lumber Boy;_res., Fairbairn & Wilcox’s Fair Acre Trinket. 
Bitches: ist, Fairbairn & Wilcox’s Fair Acre Jady; 2d, H, W. 
Richardson’s Miss Westlake; 3d, Geo. Jarvis’ Ruth of Kent; res., 
A. D. Keim’s Linden Bess. Dogs under 55lbs.: dst and 2d, Fair- 
bairn & Wilcox’s Fair Acre Puzzle and Fair Acre Bonnie; 3d, 
Westlake Kennels’ Blackstone; res., M, T. Mason’s Flynt’s Boy; 
5olbs. and under: Ist, R. Crompton’s Dan Woodstock; 2d, M. T, 
Mason’s Young Flynt; 8d, W. P. Austin’s Tioga Sam; res,, West- 
lake Pointer Kennels’ Sam’s Mars. Bitches under 50lbs.: Ist, G. 
S. Mott’s Prince’s Alice; 2d, Westlake Pointer Kennels’ Westlake 
Surprise; 8d, Fairbairn & Wilcox’s Lass o’Yoka; res., G. B. Wal- 
ton’s Bessie Bang IJ. Over 50lbs.: Ist Westlake Pointer Kennels’ 
Westlake Ornament; 2d, R. Crompton’s May Hobson; 3d, A, D. 
Keim’s Linden Bess; res., F J. Rockwell’s Nellie I1T—OQpen.— 
Dogs under 55ibs.: ist, J. H. Ogden’s Lansdowne Malt; 2d and 
3d, G. S. Mott’s Prince’s Boy and Stowaway; res., Westlake 
Pointer Kennels’ Blackstone; 55lbs. and over: Ist, W. Ferguson, 
Jr.ts, King William;“2d, Swift Brook Kennels’ Dustaway; 3d, R 
Crompton’s Dan Woodstock; res. M. T. Mason’s Young Flynt. 
Bitches under 50lbs.: Ist, Westlake Pointer Kennels’ Westlake 
Startle; 2d, H. W. Richardson, Jr.’s, Miss Westlake; 3d, G. B 
Walton’s Bessie Bang IJ.; res., Dr. A. t 
Lassie. 50lbs. and over: Ist, Westlake Pointer Kennels’ Belle 
Westlake; 2d, R. Crompton’s May Hobson; 3d, J. 5. Williams’ 
Daisy Steen. Winners.—Dogs: Ist, J. H. Ogden’s Lansdowne 
Malt; res., G. S. Mott’s Prince’s Boy. Bitches: 1st, Westlake 
Pointer Kennels’ Belle Westlake; res., G. 5. Mott’s Prince’s Alice. 
Field Trial Class.—Dogs and bitches: ist, W. A. Austin’s Tioga 
Sam; 2d, Westlake Pointer Kennels’ Blackstone; 3d, Dr. Allen 
Fitch’s Prince’s Lad’s Lassie. 

ENGLISH SETTERS.—Puppies.—Dogs: Ist, Joe Lewis’ Real 
John; 2d, J. E. Daniels’ Roderigo D.; 3d, J. E. Daniels’ Mike D.; 
res., F, E. Conlon’s Queen’s Patch. Bitches: 1st and 2d, H. A, 
Belcher’s Blue Bess and Pauline B.; 3d and res., J. E. Daniels’ 
Fairy D. and Flirt D. Novice—Dogs: Ist, F. Herroder’s Fred's 
Boy; 2d, -E.-F. Powers’ Fleet Highland; 3d, Windholme Kennels’ 
Windholme Woodchuck; res., J. S. O’Neil’s Monk’s Spot. 
Bitches: 1st, Vancroft Kennels’ Fan Q’Leck; 2d, G. P. Finnigan's 
Empress of China; 3d, W. W. McCain’s Nellie Allis; res., J. O, 
Bourne’s Locksley Clip. Limit—Dogs: 1st, G. C. Thomas’ Mall- 
wyd Sirdar; 2d, Vancroft Kennels’ Bracken O’Leck; 3d, R. P. 
Cushman’s Deceit; res., G. C. Thomas, Jr.’s, Stylish Sergeant. 
Bitches: Ist, Joe Lewis’ Mallwyd Otueen; 2d and 8d, Vancroft 
Kennels’ Fan O*Leck and Queen’s Paragon; res., G. C. Thomas, 
Jr.’s, Pera. Open.—Dogs: ist Vancroft Kennels’ Champion Bar- 
ton Tory; 2d, Geo. C, Thomas, Jr.’s, Mallwyd Sirdar; 3d, VWan- 
croft Kennels’ Bracken O’Leck; res., R, P, Cushman’s Deceit. 
Bitches: 1st, J. Lewis’ Mallwyd Queen; 2d, Vancroft Kennels’ 
ppeeens Place Pride; 3d and _ res., Vancroft Kennels’ Queen’s 

ride and Queen’s Paragon. Winners.—Dogs: ist Vancroft Ken- 
G. C. Thomas, Jr.’s, Mallwyd 


nels’ champion Barton Tory; res., 


Sirdar, Bitches: Ist, J. Lewis’ Mallwyd Queen; res., Vancroft 
Kennels’ Queen’s Place Pride. Field Trial Class—Dogs and 
Bitches: Ist, W. B. Meares’ Tar Heel; res., G. C. Thomas, Jr.’s, 


Sport Solomon, : 

TRISH SETTERS.—Puppies.—Dogs and bitches: ist, St. 
Cloud Kennels’ Dermond; 2d, and 3d, Coulson & Ward’s St. 
Simon and St. Lambert Kathleen. Novice.—Dogs: Ist, Coulson 
& Ward’s Toronto Blaney; 2d, J. S. Lacock’s Barracks Finelcho; 
3d, Mrs. L. Fitzgerald’s Timothy O’More; res., H. A. Smith's 
Duke of Essex. Bitches: Ist, Coulson & Ward’s St. Lambert 
Worah; 2d, E. G. Harder’s Belle of Newark; 8d, Woodbury Ken- 
nels’ May Rockwood. Limit.—Dogs: ist, B. B. Lathbury’s 
Rockwood, Jr.; 2d, and 3d, Coulson & Ward's Rory O’More and 
Toronto Blaney; res., J. S. Lacoek’s Barrack’s Finelcho. Bitches: 
ist,.Coulson & Ward’s St, Lambert Mollie; 2d and 3d, Vancroft 
Kennels’ Signal Bess and Lady May Finglas; res., B. B. Lath- 
bury’s Trilby Girl II. Open.—Dogs: Ist, B, B. Lathbury, Jr.’s, 
Rockwood, Wes 2d, Coulson & Ward's Rory O’More; 3d and res., 
Vancroft Kennels’ Prince Victor and Toronto Blaney. Bitches: 
Ist, H. B. Lathbury’s Trilby Girl IL.; 2d, Vancroft Kennels’ 
Heather Pet; 38d. J. Lewis’ Red Rose I1J.; res. Mrs. H. N. Ran- 
som’s Rockwood Queen. Winners.—Dogs: ist, B. B. Lathbury, 

r.’s, Rockwood, Jr.; res., Coulson & Ward's Toronto Blaney. 

itches: 1st and res., Coulson & Ward’s St. Lambert Mollie and 
St. Lambert Norah. ; 

GORDON SETTERS.—Novice—Dogs and bitches: ist, W. G. 
Kugler’s Echo Clinton II.; 2d, W. C, Allison’s Heather Crack; 
3d, R. Schimp’s Ned S.; res., Luck Kennels’ Lad O’Luck. Limit, 
—Dogs and Bitches: ist, Yaneroft Kennels’ Downham Victor; 
2d, W. G. Kugler’s Echo Clinton II.; 8d, Wancroft Kennels’ 
Heather Charm; res., W. C. Allison’s Heather Charm. Open.— 
Dogs: ist, Vancroft Kennels’ Downham Victor; 2d, Miss Mignon- 
Morrogh Shannon’s Duke; 3d, W. G. Kugler’s Echo Clinton; 
res., W, C. Allison’s Heather Crack. Bitches: Ist, VWancroft 
Kennels’ Heather Charm; 2d, Vancroft Kennels’ Heather Twinkle; 

, W.-C. Kugier’s Winona Clinton; res., J. Fearnley’s Gordon’s 
Pride. Winners.—Dogs and Bitches: Ist, Vancroft Kennels’ 
Downham Victor; res., W. G.’ Kugler’s Echo Clinton IT, 


Atlantic City Kennel Club. 


THE list of judges of the Atlantic City show follows: 

Mr, James Mortimer, bloodhounds, mastiffs, St. Ber- 
nards, spaniels, Boston terriers and whippets. 

Mr. Ronald H. Barlow, Great Danes, Russian ;wolf- 
hounds, deerhounds, greyhounds, bulldogs, French _bull- 
dogs,’ Airedale terriers, Welsh terriers and poodles. - 

Mr, G. Muss-Arnolt, pointers, setters and dachshunde. 

Mr. A. D. Lewis, collies. 

Mr. W. G. Rockefeller, beagles. 

Mr, Frank-H. Croker, bull terriers. 

Mr. W-W. Caswell, Irish terriers, 

Mr, R. F. Mayhew, fox terriers, Old English sheep 
dogs, Scottish terriers, black and tan terriers, Pomer- 
anians, Yorkshire terriers, toy terriers, toy spaniels and 
miscellaneous. _ 

The premium list is a liberal one. Entries close March 
10, Mr. James Mortimer will superintend the show. 
For premium lists, etc., address the Secretary, Mr, T, H, 
Terry, Atlantic City, N. J, er 


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Vitch’s Prince’s Lad’s- 


Points and Flushes. 


The ntimber of entries at the recent New York show 
was a record breaker for American bench shows, There 
were 2,366, though, of course, this does not indicate the 
number of dogs, as some wére entered more than once in 
the different classes. 


The championship field trial had two entries, and was 
ttin the latter part of last week. Of the two, Mr. H. B. 
Duryea’s Sioux won; her competitor Clip Windem, quit 
before the expiration of the time limit. The judges were 
Messrs, Hobart Ames, C, E. Buckle and H. S. Bevan, . 


Canaging. 


———— 
Down the Danube in a Canadian 


Canoe.—IV. 


7° - . * 
(From Macmillan’'s Magazine.) 


Next day the river grew wider, swiiter.and even more 
deserted, At Korteljes we landed to buy provisions, 
though only the watchman’s hut was in sight, As we 
stepped on shore my hat blew off and floated down 
stream. At once the man (who spoke a little German) 
went into his hut and produced one of his own, which he 
begged me to wear; it was a greasy, wide-brimmed felt, 
but I could not refttse it, and he seemed delighted. He 
directed us to a farm a mile inland for milk and eggs, and 
gave us the correct pronunciation of the necessary words, 
The farm stood on the broad plain in a grove of acacia 
trees, with snow-white walls and overhanging thatched 
roofs, forming a square, within which were oxen, 
buffaloes, pigs, geese and romping children in brilliant 
skirts. The older girls had yellow kerchiefs on their 
heads; one little girl, in flaming colors, was chasing a 
chicken in and out among the trees and oxen; all stopped 
to stare as we approached, swinging an empty milk can. 
Through the farmhouse door I got a glimpse into a spot- 
less kitchen, and a most courteous woman with brilliant 
dark eyes sold us what we required very cheaply. I took 
off my new greasy hat to them when we left, and the 
children followed tis to the river, a motley escort. 

On we went down the great rushing stream, ever 
flanked by a sea of silvery willows swaying and bending 
in the wind, reed beds, roft. high, alternating with 
stretches of gray shingle. Between the wooded islands 
vistas opened in all directions; narrow glades where the 
fiver sent out new arms in patches of sunshine with the 
faint sound of water tumbling over distant shallows; while 
down some far blue reach, filled with the afternoon 
shadows. we could see immense herds of cattle, swine and 
flocks of geese, feeding’ in meadows lined with poplars 
and birch trees. Horses in vast quantities roamed along 
fhe banks, watched by herdsmen who wore cool white 
skirts instead of trousers. “Often, in the backwaters, oxen, 
horses, buffalo, pigs and geese were all crowded to- 
gether trying to keep cool in the great heat. 

At Komorn, rising with its fortress just above the dead 
level of the plain, we laid in provisions. The grocer was 
inquisitive: “Where have you come from? Where are 
you going to? How do you cook? Where do you sleep? 
Are you not afraid of grasshoppers and snakes? What 
an awiul distance yott have come—the source of the 
Danube, where is it? You are both quite young, aren't 
you? But you are so enormous’ —and so on, and so on. 

From here we saw the blue mountains that encircle 
Budapest—not mote than forty miles away as a crow 
would fly it, but a splendid loop of sixty-five miles by the 
river, Budapest draws one like a magnet. There is a 
suggestion of delicious wildness about it born of I know 
not what. The very name seems set to some flying frag- 
ment of the wild national music—a bar of the csardas, or 
of the wailing Hungarian songs that thrill with such it- 
tense virility. The west, too, sinks lower on the horizon 
when Budapest is reached, and the Danube sweeps you 
on through the Iron Gates to Turkey and the Fekete 
Tengerig (Black Sea). 

Willows, reeds, and islands have all vanished now, and 
there were no stidden whirlpools in midstream. With 
majestic dignity that disguised the real speed, the mass of 
water, a mile to a mile and a half wide, swept steadily 
down under that fieree heat toward the mountain. We 
kept to midstream and were never tired of watching the 
banks slip by with their ever-changing pictures: open 
shore; fields with barley standing in sheaves; vineyards 
coming down to the water’s edge; cottages with thick 
thatch and white walls; villages full of wild, over-grown 
gardens, and groves of acacia trees of brilhant washed 
green. We landed for milk at a farmhouse on the right 
‘bank and fotind that the proprietor spoke English and 


had traveled in England and Norway and studied in 


Vienna. “It’s only twenty-six kilometers to Budapest,” 
he told us. Later on we overtook some peasants in a boat 
full of vegetables, and kept pace with them for a little 
while we chatted in German. “It’s a little over forty 
kilometers to Pest,’ they said. Boats became frequent 
after this, broad, flat-bottomed, laden with farm produce, 
and rowed by men and women who took their hats off to 
us and asked many questions in bad German. All agreed 
on one thing—that the Austrians were a poor lot of peo- 
ple compared with the Hungarians; and all differed on 
another thing—the distance to Budapest. It varied with 
every boat, and at length we became so confused with the 
arguments of the spokesman in German and ‘the mock- 
ing chorus of the rest in Hungarian, that we almost ex- 
pected to hear that we had already passed it, or were 
perhaps on the wrong river altogether. 

‘To avoid calamities we increased otir speed and left 
the string of boats behind. In the afterttoon we came to 


“Gran. The dome of its huge Italian basilica dominates 


for miles the plain we had just traversed, but looks like 


‘a round gleamine pebble beside the mowntains that rise 


behind it. The charms of this quaint little town made us 
realize that time is after all but a form of! thought; in 
other words, we stayed too long. . At half-past-six we 
entered the wide deep valley of these magical mountains 
hoping to find a camping place so soon’as we were beyond 
the town. The sun was hidden; the mountains stood out- 
lined in purple against a wonderful.sky, with long thin 
clouds just touching some of the higher peaks; the water 


the river as across a wide lake. 


glowed as thotigh fires burned beneath the waves. Mile 
after mile we followed the windings of the valley, the hills 
folding up behind us, but opening even in front again into 
new and darker distances. But no camping: place ap- 
peared; one side was too steep, the other treeless. The 
shadows lengthened and grew deeper; the hills changed 
from purple to black; the lights of villages twinkled across 
They fairly lined the 
base of the hills, and secluded camping spots were evi- 
dently things of the past; there was not even an island. | 

Eight, nine o’clock passed; it became too dark to cross 
or recross with safety. We hugged the left bank, eagerly 
scanning the shore under the steep hills and waiting 
for the moon to rise. It was 10 o’clock when the moon 
topped the mountains of the other shore and filled the 
valley with silver. We found a level yard or two below 
some vineyards, unpleasantly close to the abode of the 
proprietor, and there made a small fire and dined late off 
eggs and cocoa. The scenery was more thrilling than the 
meal: the dim hills rising through the moonlight; the 
white river filling the space between as if the whole valley 
were sliding noiselessly past, the fragrant air, warm and 
still, shot here and there with fire fies—and Hungary— 
wild, musical, enchanted Hungary! The fire had died 
down and we were smoking at the mouth of the tent 
when sounds of music floated to our ears, and presently 
a barge of peasants towed by three men along the shore 
came slowly up the stream. Cymbals and violins were 
playing a national air and a few low voices were singing. 
The barge floated past as if no one had seen us, and 
the music died away in the distance, 


And on the mere the wailing died away. 


A man fishing woke us early and asked if the W’ein- 
huter (watchman of vineyards) had not disturbed us, 
Luckily, he had not, “That's becattse it’s Sunday and he’s 
overslept himself.” In spite of this warning we break- 
fasted leisurely, and then paddling down stream in blazing 
sunshine landed a mile below at Visegrad on the opposite 
bank. This little town, with its ruined castle, and fortress 
destroyed by the Atistrians, nestles among the mountains, 
and here the good folk of Budapest come in summer to 
their villas among the-acacia trees. Everybody spoke to 
us, helped to pull up the canoe, told us what to see, where 
to get good coffee or cooling drinks, described (with 
painful detail) the remaining twenty miles to Budapest, 
and showed themselves in all ways most courteous and 
obliging, Gipsy music sounded everywhere among the 
trees, and the peasants in bright Sunday costumes lent 
color to the scene. 4 

Below Visegrad, which we left with much reluctance, 


_begins an island which stretches the whole twenty miles 


to Budapest. Taking the inner channel, we paddled 
peacefully all day under bliie mountains in a haze of 
delicious heat, past villages, ferries, churches, castles, pri- 
vate villas, acres of vineyards over the slopes of the hills, 
and vast herds of horses and oxen standing in the water, 
till we camped at sunset on a treeless bit of plain at the 
extreme point of the island, only a mile from Budapest. - 
Tt was like camping on the Brighton downs. With diffi- 
culty we collected scraps of wood enough to make a fire 
that would boil water. It was a windless night. and our 
candle stood tied to a stick in the open air with a mo- 
tionless flame. The moon, rising late, showed rounded 
curves of bare hills behind us—and then, two figures ap- 
proached us cautiously from the river. They came to the 
outside of the firelight circle and stopped; but at our in- 
vitation they came within and smoked the last of our 
noblesse cigars—poor fellows! Night fishermen they 
were, short, thick-set, dark-faced Huns, They drank our 
cocoa and explained their strange-looking nets to us 
while waiting for the moon to rise higher. All night long 
they fished, and on their way home to bed at 5 next morn- 
ing they looked in to give us a hearty good morning and 
the information that the cows were coming. . 

_ The thunder of hoofs confirmed this, and we got up in 
time to protect the tent from a herd of several hundred 
cattle. A herder followed them, a dwarf-like creature 
with a pole axe as big as himself, and a badge which 
proclaimed him Government keeper of the plain (Crown- 
land) where all men’s cattle might feed on certain condi- 
tions. He spoke no German, but he understood the mean- 
ing of a plate of veal, and he finished our meat (two 
pounds) in about ten minutes. Then he drank some cocoa, 
asking, with a wry face, if it were paprika (Hungarian 


pepper), 


It was piping hot on the treeless plain, and Budapest lay 
waiting for us. We shaved and donned our town suits. 
The herder, grateful’ for his meal, helped to carry our 
things to the canoe, and, long after we were off, stood 
shading his eyes with his hand and staring after us. We 
drifted lazily down another mile of steaming hot river 
and landed at the wharf of the Hunnia Rowing Club on 
the right bank—nearly a thousand miles from the sleepy 
little village in the Black Forest where we had embarked 
six weeks before, ALGERNON BLAcKwoop. 


Till the Sea Gives up Its Dead. 


trom the London Fishing Gazette. 


The boats sailed into the eye of the sun, 
Into the eye of the sun they sailed; 
The women sat by the door and spun— - 
Spun till the daylight failed. { 
There was blue-eyed Otto betrothed to Kate, 
But Jack was betrothed to me; 4 
And I'thought of Jack, and ‘she of his mate, 
That night by the brooding’ sea, 


“Oh! the sea takes all,” the old crone said, 
Bent. low to the driftwood fire— 

“The young, the old, and the newly wed, 
The son, and the gallant sire. 

Some come ashore when the tide is neap, 
But the waves be deep,” she said: 

“And them ye weep will wake from sleep 
When the sea gives up its dead,” 


The boats sailed into the eye of the sun, 
Into the eye of the sun they sailed; 

We heard the throb of the signal gun, 
But never the hulks were hailed. 

There wag blue-eyed Otto, betrothed to Kate, 
And Jack, who was pledged to me, 

Came hack, each fast in the arms of his mate, 
Cast up by the thundering sea. 


“Oh! the sea takes all,” the old crone said, q 
_ Grouched over the dying fire— y “f 
“The young, the old, and the newly wed, y 
The son, and the gallant sire. 
S Some come ashore when the tide is neap,_ 
But He rules the deep,” she said: 
“And them ye weep secure will sleep 
Till the sea gives up its dead,” 


174. | FOREST AND STREAM, [Manes 1, 1902, 


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In view of the continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 


columns of Forest AND STREAM. In America the yacht- 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and such a com- 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu- P 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months. ul 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers. Three prizes will be given for the best de- \ 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions: 
I. A pole mast sloop. \ 

II. 25ft. load waterline ! : 

III. Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). "oh \ \ 

IV. At least 50 per cent. of ballast outside on keel. 

V. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 

All abnormal features must be studiously avorded in 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plans j 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea in & NM \ 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them . 


simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 7 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished to 
produce a.safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or | 


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three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 


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board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- \ \ : / Ye ; 
board: boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 
type. 
DRAWINGS REQUIRED. 
I. Sheer plan, scale tin. = 1ft—showing center of 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. 

Il. Half breadth, scale tin. = rit. 
Ill. Body plan, scaie tin = rift. ; eal) 
IV. Cabin plan, scale tin. = rft. ag | 

V. Sail plan, “Yin. = 1ft., showing center of effort. : | 

The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 
A table of offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made “- I | 
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on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 


wine 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must LT 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must be ey 

given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, the 

designer ‘should inclose his own name and address, to- A [A an 


gether with his nom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later than 
Feb. 28, 1902. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 

The Forest AND STREAM reserves the right to publish 
any orall the designs. 

The prizes offered are as follows: 1st prize, $25.00; 
ad prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable -mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. 

Mr. Clinton H. Crane. of the firm of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane. has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane’s professional 
standing is so high that he needs no introduction, and 
every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness. 


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signing competition have already been received at this 
office. All plans must be in our hands by Friday, Feb. 

28, and it is to be hoped that all intending competitors will 
-send their drawings in time to reach us on that day. 


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An 18-Foot Waterline Racing Sloop. 


We publish in this issue the lines, construction, deck 
and sail plans of an 18ft. waterline racing sloop that was 
designed by Mr. Charles D. Mower for Mr. W. H. 
Childs. It was Mr. Childs’ idea to race the boat on 
Long Island Sound and Gravesend Bay, but when the 
Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound adopted the new meas- 
urement rule last fall, it was found that the boat would 
measure over the 21ft. sloop class, for which she was 
designed, and in consequence Mr. Childs gave up the 
idea of building for a year at. least. 

The design shows a boat very much like the Massa- 
chusetts Y. R. A. 18-footers, the boats that have been 
so popular down east for the past two seasons. The 
boat should have been easily driyen by her moderate 
sail plan, and would have made an excellent craft for 
day sailing single-handed, and the roomy open cockpit 
gives ample space to take a large number of persons 
without crowding. 

A coach roof is arranged over the forward end of the 
cockpit, which gives a place to keep light sails, etc., and a 
place on top on which to place cleats for halyards, etc. 

There will be a thousand pounds of outside ballast, and 
the boat would be non-capsizable. Her dimensions are as 
follows: 

Length— 
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FIGHTEEN-FOOT RACING SLOOP—CONSTRUCTION AND DECK PLANS. 


Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, Feb. 24.—Already the yacht clubs in the 
vicinity of Boston are making active preparations for the 
coming racing season. The Corinthian Y. C., of Marble- 
head, is always early in the matter of arranging racing 
dates, and this year there was no exception to the 
general rule. A schedule for the season was arranged 
soon after the annual mageting. This has been published 
in FOREST AND STREAM. It is a temporary schedule, but 
all of the dates given will be kept. The only changes 
that will be made will be in the addition of races. It is 
because the Corinthian Club has always been early in the 
arrangement of its dates that it has had success with its 
club events. This rule generally prevails, When the 
programmes for the season are arranged long before the 
season opens, there are always opportunities of changing 
the dates when there is possibility of confliction. With 
the programmes arranged early there is less trouble in 
making changes, that may become necessary, than when 
everything is left until the last minute. 

The Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. is another one of the 
early birds. Last year and the year before the pro- 
gramme for the season was laid out long before the snow 
had left the ground. This year the racing dates have 
been made early, and a fine programme has been made 
by the Regatta Committee. The committee has organized 
with the following officers: John Taylor Humphrey, 
chairman; C. W. Cole, secretary; Louis M. Clark, Foster 
Hooper and C. C. Clapp. There will be only two mem- 
bers regularly constituting the board of judges, Charles 
A. Cooley, chairman, and Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., secre- 
tary. The members of the Regatta Committee will, how- 
ever, when present at the races, help in the matter of 
judging. 

The racing programme, which has been arranged so 
far, is as follows: 

June 14, Saturday—Club race, — 

June 17, Tuesday—Y. R. A. open. 

June 28, Saturday—Club race. 

July 5, Saturday—Club race. 

July 12, Saturday—Club race. 

July 24, 25 and 26, Thursday, Friday and Saturday— 
Midsummer series of ¥. R. A. open races. 

Aug. 16, Saturday—Club race. 

Aug. 30, Saturday—Club race. 

Sept. 6, Saturday—Club race. 

This year, as in the two preceding years, champion- 
ships will be offered in the different classes. There is 
sure #c be.a good flock of Y. R. A. 21-footers in the 
field, aed it is likely that many of them will race at 
Hull. In this class a championship cup will be offered 
for the best season’s work, and there will also be cash 
prizes offered for eacH race. There will also be a big 
bunch of 18-footers, knockabouts, old and new. Most of 
those -which have been built to sail in the waters of 
Boston and vicinity, are owned by members of the Hull- 
Massachusetts Y. C. Last year the club fostered this 
class and adopted the restrictions of the Eighteen-foot 
Knockabout Association, and the result was that many 
boats were built. The attendance at the club races was 
very good. With the addition of several new boats, it is 
expected that the class will be much larger this year. 
For this class there will also be a championship prize 
for the best average work, and also cash prizes for every 
race. It is a little uncertain as to how well the Y. R. A. 
25-footers will show up in the Hull Club. Flirt and 
Chewink have been sold, and are expected to race at 
Islesboro and Bar Harbor. It may be that both of these 
boats will linger in Massachusetts Bay to take a try at 
the championship before going east. There are several 
new boats being built, and if they are out for racing, the 
Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. is likely to get their attend- 


-ance. If there should be a sufficient number of 25- 


footers to warrant it, a championship prize will also be 
given in this class, as well as cash prizes for every race. 
The prizes offered by this club are always most gener- 
ous. Every inducement is offered for the yachtsmen to 
race, and it is not likely that they will want to let the 
opportunity of getting these prizes go by. J 

Tt will be noticed that this year the club has scheduled 
fewer club dates than it did last year. This is because 
last year there were some complaints made about the 
club taking every Saturday for club races. While this 
was partly true, a sweeping statement of that nature 
would be doing the club and its Regatta Committee an 
injustice. It is true that the- club scheduled as many 
club races as it could. It is only natural that the club 
which is the most active south of Boston and has the 
largest racing membership should dd so. But last year, 
when there was an open race scheduled for the popular 
classes, this club cut those classes out of its regular 
scheduled club races so that the Y. R, A. boats might 
attend the open races of the other clubs. In this feature 
the club has always been consistent. It wants all the 
races it can get for its members, but it does not by any 
means want to “hog” the races, and is always willing to 
give way to such an extent that the smaller clubs’ can 
have the attendance of all of the Y. R. A. boats at their 
open races. Already the Regatta Committee has con- 
sulted with the committees of three of the clubs that will 
figure most in club events, so that there will be no 
conflicting of dates. The Y. R, A. schedule has not yet 
been made out, but when the time comes, this club will 
also give way, in the interest of racing, to such clubs 
as can only hold their open races on certain dates, be- 
cause of the depth of water or other sufficient reasons. 

This year four Y. R. A. open races have been scheduled. 
The first of these is on June 17. This date belongs to the 
Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. club by right of precedent. It 
has had this date for some years, and nobody thinks of 
contesting it. ‘Last year, for the first time, there was a 
midsummer series of invitation races. For the first ven- 
ture, these races were very well attended. it is desired 
this year to make the attendance even greater, and to 


“encourage racing in the popular classes, the Regatta Com- 


mittee has decided. to make the midsummer, series Y. R. 
A. open races. As the object is a good one, and by the 
arrangement the club will put a big benefit in the way of 
yacht racing in Massachusetts Bay, it is not likely that 
any other clubs will put anything in the way of having 
these races held as scheduled. The Regatta Committee 
also is desirous of encouraging handicap racing among 


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the club boats, and will offer every inducement to those 
who wish to race in these classes. It has been found 
that the courses which have been given the 18ft. knock- 
abouts have been too long, requiring the greater part of 
the afternoon to get ready, sail over them and clean up 
after the races were finished. This year the courses for 
these boats will be reduced to about seven or eight miles. 

Last Friday evening the reception and banquet of the 
Boston Y. C. was held at the Parker House.. The banquet 
was well attended by the members of the club and their 
friends, who were treated to talks upon yachting and 
other entertainment during the evening. Thomas Fleming 
Day spoke at length upon the measurement rules in 
New York. Mr. Louis M. Clark told of the evolution of 
the racing yacht. This is a subject with which Mr. Clark 
- is very familiar, and he had some interesting things) to tell. 
Among other things, he recommended a national yacht 
racing association, with delegates from all clubs, to meet 
every year and frame rules to meet the demands of the 
racing men. This proposition of Mr. Clark’s is one that 


well might be enlarged upon. Mr. Charles E. Russ told of... 


the founding of the Boston Y. C., and Mr. W. D. Turner 
told of the club’s official life. Mr. Odin B. Roberts, a 
former member of the Boston Y. C., represented the East- 
ern Y. C. The Eastern Y. C. sprung from the member- 
ship of the Boston Y. C., and the greeting sent by the 
younger club was one of the features of the evening. Dur- 


ing the banquet, about the second leg of the course, a. 


waiter hove in sight with a large magnum of champagne, 
which -was anchored in front of Vice-Com.. Walter 


Burgess, presiding in the absence of Com. B. P. Cheney, . 


who was called to New York suddenly. This was an 
object of much curiosity among the company, until Vice- 


EIGHTEEN-FOOT RACING SLOOP—SAIL PLAN, 


Com. Burgess atose and read the followitig stanza, the 
greeting from the Eastern Y. C.: 


“Like sunshine, greeting comes frofn out the East, 
The Eastern sends this token to your feast 

Of healthy fellowship and loyalty, 

Of seamen’s cheet and_jollity. 

Drink deep and long, it is the tribute sent 

To mother, with affectionate compliment.” 


Then the magnum was started upon a cfitise aroutd 
the tables, giving a little of its good cheer to each on 
the way; and when the coutse had been covered, all arose 


and drank the health of the Eastern Y. C.—the child of 


the Boston Y. C. 

Last week Frank N. Tandy sold for C. H. Jones, of 
Boston, the 7oft. centerboard schooner Attaquin, to: Mr. 
Durbin Horne, of Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Horne summers at 
Provincetown, and this season will cruise in Massachu- 
setts Bay and along the coast of Maine in Attaquin. 
also owns the 18ft. knockabout, which was built by Law- 
ley for*Mr. Tandy last winter. Attaquin is a fine cruising 
schooner. She was designed by B. B. ‘Crowninshield 
especially for the shoal waters of the South. She was 
built by Frisbie, of Salem, in 1899. Mr. Jones’-eruise in 
her to Southern waters in the fall of that year proved her 
an excellent craft. Although she is of extremely light 


draft for a yacht of her waterline length, ‘she. is. well. 


laid out below, and there is full headroom. She carries 
two centerboards. 


Small Bros. have an.order for a 27ft. waterline cruis- 


ing yawl for Alfred Rowell, of New York. She will have 
moderate overhangs and a good: bulk of-hull, =. 
At Lawley’s the Lippit 60-rater-is in-frame:—In the 


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same shop a 46-footer, designed by Binney; is partly 
framed. The Morse 35-footer is planked, and the deck 
is being laid on the Adams 21-footer. The 33ft. yawl for 
Foss and Gunnison is planked, ~ eS 
Joun -B. K1Lteen. 


Our English Letter. 


Ir appears that Bona is not to be raced in the first-class 
open matches this season, but will make a show in the 
handicap races about the Clyde, and may come south 
later on. No new yachts for racing are being built above 
52 rating, though there may be good sport in the smaller 
classes. The handicap classes year by year come into 
greater favor, and this shows there is room. for cruiser- 
racer classes, such as they have in Germany, with limita- 
tions on the number of paid hands, for it is this, more 

__than any other cause, that operates against racing in 
~“the open classes. The Yacht Racing Association is, in- 
troducing quite a variety of specifications as to the size 
of sideboards, beds and so forth, in racing yachts, hopin 
by this means to render them (the yachts, not the Betis) 
-..more popular. Until the South African trouble-is over 
no amount of legislation will have any effect. The de- 
scription of the German Emperor’s new schooner has 
excited considerable interest over here, for there is-a 
decided boom in schooner building. None of these large 
vessels are, however, built for racing, that having long 
since been killed by the practice of mixing up schooners, 
yawls and cutters together. The schooners managed 
well enough for a time, simply because they were lagger, 
but as the cutters and yawls increased in size, the 


Mancit 1, 1902] ¥ 


FORESI AND STREAM. 


OUTBOARD PROFILE AND SAIL PLAN OF SEAWANHAKA TRIAL BOAT. OWNED BY 


schooners collapsed, and the clubs never sought to en- 
courage them by giving separate races for this rig. 

- One of the most notable boats now building is a fine 
schooner for Mr. Cecil Quentin. She is designed by 
Fife and is being built by Messrs. Fay & Co., of South- 
ampton.. Though she is being built regardless of racing 
and to. Lloyds’ highest class, she will be all there when 
paced against any other schooner. One highly signifi- 
cant feature of the ship is that the deadwood aft is being 
left sufficiently thick to admit of a motor engine being 
fitted later on. Given a good motor, this spells the begin- 
ning of the end of the moderate-sized steam yacht. Very 
few yachtsmen go into steam without a twinge of con- 
science, and fewer still will take the plunge when they 
find that all the advantages of steam are at their dis- 
posal, together with those of sail, at half the cost, both 
running and initial. 

Mr. W. P. Burton, who is having a new 52-footer 
built, is trying to have our luffing rule altered. He wants 
to avoid an overtaken yacht waiting until the other gets 
abeam to windward, and then luffing into her. Of course 
it is very unpleasant when this happens—for the overtak- 
ing boat—but it is also very unpleasant to have another 
vessel planted bang between you and the wind. Nothing 
is likely to come of the idea, for it is worded in a shock- 
ingly vague way. 

Kariad arrived at Marseilles on Jan. 30. She was be- 
ing towed by her tender before Gibraltar was reached 
and the rope broke. Both vessel then made for the port 
“on their own,” and Kariad got there first. Sybarita 
made the passage from Falmouth to the Rocks in five 
days. Sir ‘Thomas Lipton’s steam yacht Erin is being 
put in order for a spring commission. At Messrs. Sum- 
mers & Payne’s yard, Southampton, a very bad fire broke 
‘out on Mr, Albert Brassey’s fine steam yacht Czarina. 
She was having new decks, etc., and the fire broke out 
through the explosion of a paraffin lamp. The damage 
to the yacht herself is considerable, but it did not 
spread beyond her. 

The captain of the steamer Ban Righ (Libertador, she 
is called now) is Capt. Willis, of Southampton. He 
was for years the sailing master of the big yawl Lethe, 
and sailed her remarkably well. He is a fine sailor, but 
nobody suspected him of such bellicose proclivities. He 
took out an English crew of yachtsmen, some from 
Southampton and some from the neighborhood of the 
Colne, Essex. When they got out to South America the 


Essex men came home, but the Southampton men thought ~ 


they would go through with it. Probably the Essex men 
chose the better part, but the experience of our yachts- 
men points to the desirability of having the deep-sea 


sailor or fisherman as a paid hand, rather than his coast- 
wise brother. 

No doubt your readers have heard that there will be 
a great motor exhibition at Berlin next summer. This 
ought to be a good opportunity for motor makers to 
exhibit their engines in Europe. Of course, they will 
be copied at once, but they need hardly fear the German 
imitation. A canoeist who has returned from a trip in a 
canoé-yawl through the French canals to the, Mediter- 
ranean, tells me that he wanted to buy a Primus cooking: 
stove en route. The dealer showed him three, and‘ ex- 
plained that one was the real Primus, the second a 
French adaptation and the third a German imitation of 
the French make. The prices were graduated, in the 
above order, from high to low, and the dealer explained 
that the French stoye would work fairly well, and so 
would the German imitation, but that after a time it would 
explode! That fairly well represents the methods of 
both countries. By the way, a trip through the French 
canals is’an ideal holiday, but for some reason the jacks- 
in-office at the British Embassy and Consulate in Paris 
appear to put all manner of impediments in the way of 
their countrymen. There must be some reason for it, but 


the French themselves are delightful. 
E. H. Hamirton. 


Seawanhaka Cup News. 


As the season progresses, more interest is manifested 
in the trial races to be held by the Bridgeport Y. C. for 
the selection of challenger for the Seawanhaka Cup. Four 
boats have been ordered and the work has been started 
on all of them. 

The syndicate at Bridgeport headed by Mr. T. H. 
Macdonald will have two boats, one of which is to be 
designed by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield, of Boston, and 
built by Mr. Wm. B: Smith, of Quincy Point, Mass., and 
the other is to be designed and built by Messrs. Jones 
& La Borde, of Oshkosh, Wis. Messrs. C. Barnum Seely 
and Wilson Marshall will have a boat that will be de- 
signed and built by Mr. L. D. Huntington, of New 
Rochelle, and the fourth boat was designed by Mr. 
Charles D. Mower and is now building by Mr. Thomas 
Smith, at Bayonne, N. J. The Hanley boat has-been 
abandoned. - 

The four boats thus far ordered come from the boards 
of men who have had more or less experience with this 
type of boat before. Mr. B. B. Crowninshield’s first at- 
tempt at this type of boat was when he turned: ont’ the 
Nahant splasher dories. These boats were of light con- 


MESSRS. MOWER AND HUNT. 


struction and carried about 500 square feet of sail, and 
they proved very satisfactory, as they showed consider- 
able speed. In 1899 Thelma and Algonquin came out; 
both were from Mr. Crowinshield’s design. Thelma was 
designed to have a try for the Quincy cup and was a 
very slick looking craft. She did not show up very well, 
and it has always been a matter of surprise because she 
did not develop more speed. Algonquin’s failure to win 
out in the Seawanhaka cup trial races was due solely 
to her poor handling. She was a very fast boat, and did 
not do better as her crew sadly lacked practice and ex- 
perience in that type of boat. Mr. Crowninshield also 
designed the Marblehead 16-footers. These boats are 
extreme fin keel scows with restricted sail area and have 
shown great speed. Mr. Smith, who will build the 
Crowninshield boat, is a clever workman, and in addition 
to this was the builder of Hostess, the Quincy cup win- 
ner, and has excellent ideas about the designing and con- 
struction of these boats. The Crowninshield-Smith com- 
bination is undoubtedly a strong one. 

For several years past the championships of the Inland. 
Lake Yachting Asociation have been won by boats de- 
signed and built by Messrs. Jones and La Borde. Their 
boats are all of the extreme scow type; and have proven 
wonderfully fast. Up to a short time ago this firm was 
little known in the East, but the recent successes of their 
productions have placed them in the front rank of de- 
signers of fast racing craft. Milwaukee (the Canada cup 
trial boat), Emanon, Anita, and Caroline were designed 
by this firm. 

None of the men who are designing trial boats for the 
Seawanhaka cup races this year is better qualified to 
undertake the work than Mr. L. D. Huntington. From 
the time Mr. Huntington turned out the famous 15- 
footer, Question, the pioneer of the scow type of boat, 
his name has been associated with fast racing craft. Fol- 
lowing Question came Paprica, and after her Mr. Hunt- 
ington turned out Keneu and Skate. The year following 
he built Akabo, which proved to be the fastest craft he. 
had yet produced, and had she been well sailed would 
have unquestionably won out in the Seawanhaka trial 
races. After Akabo Mr, Huntington designed and built 
Palm, his first fin boat, and she was not a success. How- 
ever, he is satisfied that there is speed in the fin boats, 
for the craft he is now building is of that type. With the 
exception of Palm, all his boats have proven very fast, 
and generally at their best in strong breezes. As Mr. 
Huntington is to sail his own production this year he 
will be able to bring out all there is in her, and she should 
make a formidable competitor. 

The first boat of note turned out by Mr, Charles: Dy 


Mower was Vitesse, and from the year she was launched, 
1807, up to the present year, she has taken the champion- 
ship in her class in the Massachusetts Y, R. A. She is 
really a remarkable boat, and although many craft have 
been designed solely to beat her, up to the present time 
none has succeeded in doing so. \ 
prize as long as she was sailed by her designer. In 1898 
Mr. Mower turned out Gaboo for the Annisquam Y. Cis 
half‘rater class, and she won the championship, defeating 
the Duggan designed boats. In 1898 Mr. Mower brought 
out Duchess, a very smart little boat that took the cham- 
‘pionship in the 18ft. class that year. In 1899 Mr. 
Mower built Heiress from his own design. She was the 
largest boat he had built, and she, too, won the champion- 
ship in the 2rft. class. At the end of that season Mr. 
Mower moved to New York and has devoted his atten- 
tion to racing in New York and vicinity. Last season 
Don, a production of Mr. Mower’s, won the championship 
in the 25ft. class on Long Island Sound. For the past 
two years Mr. Mower has followed the racing of the 
Seawanhaka boats and the Inland Lake craft very closely, 
and is conversant with all the details, both of the designs 
of all the boats and of the weather conditions that exist 
in the several places where the boats are raced, as well. 
Word is received from Canada that the Royal Can- 
adians are not to build any new boats this year. It is 
also stated that Mr. Duggan will not be so closely identi- 
fied with the racing as heretofore, owing to press of 
business matters. At present it looks as if the cup would 
be defended by Senneville, and that the boat would be 
sailed by either Mr. Charles Routh or Mr. Fred Shear- 
wood. Mr. Routh sailed Red Coat in the trial races for 
the selection of a defender last year and Mr. Shearwood 
has been in every race with the exception of one that the 
Canadians sailed either in winning or defending the cup. 


The German Empetor’s Yacht Meteor Launched. 


No more successful launching ever took place than 
that of the German Emperor’s schooner Meteor, that 
went overboard from the yard of the Townsend & Downey 
Co, at Shooter’s Island on Tuesday, Feb. 25. 

The affair was a brilliant sticcess in every way, and the 
drizzling rain marred but little the occasion. The yacht 
was launched without a hitch. The arrangements for 
handling the large number of spectators were excellent— 
for there were over two thousand persons present, in 
addition to the police, marines, soldiers and the workmen 
employed in the yard. 

The yacht was christened Meteor in the name of the 
German Emperor by Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter 
of the President. After breaking the bottle of champagne 
against the vessel’s bows, Miss Roosevelt severed the 
rope which allowed heavy weights to fall on the ends of 
the dog shores, which released the yacht and permitted 
her to slide down the ways. The vessel moved slowly 
at first, but gained more headway as she moved, and 
finally stopped when about half way over to the Staten 
Island shore. 

The Kill had been cleared of icé by the tow boats, and 
Government vessels kept the surrounding water free of all 
craft not directly interested in the launching. 

The presence of the President and Prince Henry added 
much to the interest of -the-occasion. In addition to 
members of the Cabinet and a number of German and 
American army and naval officers, there were many repre- 
FOREST AND STREAM 

The Staten Island shore, which is but a short distance 
from Shooter's Island, was black with people, thousands 
haying ‘turned out to see the iaunching. 

Meteor is 120ft. on the waterline, 16rft. over all, 27ft. 


breadth and draft 15ft. The least freeboard is 6ft., free" 
board forward i1ft., and freeboard aft Sift. 
hang forward is 18ft., and overhang aft is 23ft. 
sail area is just under 12,000 sq. ft. 


The over-; 
The 


Bridgeport Y. C, 


_ Bripcerort, Conn., Feb. 18—At the annual meéting 
of the Bridgeport Y. C,, held Tuesday evening, Feb. 18, 
in Bridgeport, Conn., the following officers were elected: 
Com., 1’;-H. Macdonald; Vice-Com., Walter A. Wilmot; 
Rear-Com,, E. D. Chittenden; Sec’y, H. A. Hill; Treas., 
Thomas Fish. Members of the Board of Governors for 
three years: J. Percy Bartram and George C. Edwards. 

The committee on building Seawanhaka cup challenger 
reported that four boats were in process of construction— 
the first being by Jones & La Borde, of Oshkosh, Wis.; 
the second by C. D. Mower, of the Rudder, New York; 
the third by L. D: Huntington, of New Rochelle, and 
the fourth by B. B. Crowninshield, of Boston, Mass, The 
Western boat and the Crowninshield boat will be owned 
by the same syndicate in the Bridgeport Y. C.; the 
Huntington boat will be “owned by Wilson Marshall, 
vice-commodore of the Larchmont Club, and Clinton 
Barnum Seeley; the Mower boat will be owned by C, D. 
Mower, the designer, and Albert Hunt, yachting editor of 
FOREST AND STREAM ; . 

In scattering the orders thus widely, the builders hope 
to obtain the advantages of the various ideas upon this 
type of boat in different sections of the country. The 
club is enthusiastic in the progression of the challenger, 
and a season of exciting racing may be looked forward 
to. - T. Hi Macponatp. 


‘All communications intended for Forest anp Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper, 


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"Cresson Gun Club. A, B, Earhart, S 


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Yacht Club Notes. 


_At the annual meeting of the Bridgeport Y. C., held on 
Tuesday evening, Feb. 18, the following officers were 
elected: Com., T. H. Macdonald; WVice-Com., Walter 
A. Wilmot; Rear-Com., E, D, Chittenden; Sec’y, H. A. 
Hill; Treas., Thomas Fish; members of the Board of 
Governors for three years, J. Percy Bartram and George 
C. Edwards. : 
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The annual meeting of the Bergen Beach Y, C. was 
held a few days ago at Colonial Hall, Flatbush avenue, 
Brooklyn. The following were elected to serve during 
the ensuing year: Com., Geo. E. Fitzmorris; Vice-Com., 
W. E. C. Vens; Treas., Edward A. Clapham; Record. 
See’y, T. L. Dennis; Finan. Sec’y, A. Miller; Treas., A. 
McDougall. Trustees: Dr. George Cooper, J. H. 
Green, E. A. H, Frohme, Dr. Everson, G. T. Buyers. 


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The annual meeting of the Larchmont Y. C. was held at 
Delmonico’s, New York city, on Wednesday, Feb, 10, and 
a large number of members were present: The follow- 
ing officers were elected: Com., Frederick T. Adams, 
schooner Sachem; Vice-Com., Wilson Marshall, schooner 
Atlantic; -Rear-Com., Frederick M. Hoyt, sloop Isolde; 
See’y, A. Bryan Alley; Treas., William Murray; Meas., 
John Hyslop; Trustees (to serve three years), Francis 
M. Scott and Eugene L. Bushe. The membership now 
consists of 634 regular members, 60 life members and 19 
army andinayy members, a total of 713, which is an in- 
crease of|81 over last year, The fleet consists of 47 
schooners, 5 auxiliary schooners, 107 sloops, cutters and 
yawls, and 8 mainsail cabin yachts, 23 jib and mainsail 
open boats, 21 mainsail open boats, 72 steamers, and 42 
launches, a total of 323 vessels, an increase of 25 vessels 
during the year. The Getman Emperor and Prince 
Henry were elected honorary members of the club, 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


The American Power and Construction Company has 
sold the following yachts: Yawl Taormina for Count 
Von Colleado Mansfield to Col. Cornelius McLean. The 
yacht will be rerigged as a schooner, Steam launch Elec- 
tra to Salem Davidson, of Albany; schooner yacht Senti- 
nel to Raymond B. Gilchrist, of Chicago; yawl Active 
to A. H. Dayton, of Naugatuck, Conn.; sloop yacht 
Avoca to James R. Taylor, of Barnegat, N. J. 


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Mr. Anthony J.-Drexel has chartered his steam yacht 
Margarita to Mr. C. B. Alexander for two years. 


Grapshooting. 
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If you want your shoot to be announced here send a 
notice like the following: 


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Fixtures, 


March 45.—Concordia, Kans.—First tournament of the Con- 
cordia Blue Ribbon Gun Club. F. W. Olney, sate 

March 6.—Omaha, Neb.—Contest at 100 live birds for Hazard 
trophy between. C, W. Budd, holder, and Russell Klein, chal- 
lenger, at 2 P. M. 7 
_ March 8.—Fairview, N. J.—Open target shoot of the Fairview 
Gin Club. _ 

ee 8—Carlstadt, IN. J.—Invitation shoot of the Carlstadt Gun 
Club. : 

March 11.—Interstate Park, L. I.—Live-bird event, 25 live birds, 
$10. entrance, birds included; class shooting, four moneys, handi- 
caps’ 25 to %3yds., optional sweeps; other events, Shooting com- 
mences at 10 o’clock, 

March 12413.—Junction City, 
tion City Gun Club. 

, _March 17,—Cresson, Pa,—Third annual live-bird handicap ‘of the 
ec’y. 

, March 19-21.—Indianapolis, Ind.—Annual Grand Central Handi- 
‘cap tournament; first two days, targets; third day, 25 live birds, 
$25 entrance. Bert A. Adams, Sec’y. ; 

March 31-April 5,—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds. Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York, 

April 8-11.—Olathe, Kan,—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament. 

April 15-17.—Asheville, N. C.—Target tournament given by Col, 
E. P. McKissick, 

April 15-17—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Aniateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F, B. Cunningham, Sec’y. 

April 19.—Haverhill, Mass.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill 


Gun Club. 

April 22-25—QOmaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Mc- 
Donald, Sec’y. 

April 29-30—Greenville, O.—Annual tournament of the Greenville 
Gun Club. H, A. McCaughey, Sec’y. 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L. 1.—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. 

May 13-14—KEnid, Oklahoma Territory—Oklahoma ‘Territorial 
Sportsmen’s Association tournament, 

May 13-16—Oi City, Pa.—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club, F. S. Bates, Cor, Sec’y. 

May 14-16.—Charleston, S. C.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W. G. Jeffords, Jr., Sec’y. 

May 20-22.—Ottumwa, la.—Iowa State Sportsmen's tournament. 

May 20-22.—Elwood, Ind.——Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 


Kans.—Tournament of the Junc- 


‘and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind, 


May 20-22,—Wheeling, W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec'y, Wheeling, W. Va. ; 

May 21-22.—Baltimore, Md.—Maryland county shoot for amateurs. 

May 21-23.—Springfield, S. D—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s. 
Association tournament. 

May 26-1—Lincoln, Neb.—Grand Interstate tournamemt: three 
days shooting; three days golf; three days tennis. Hi. C Young, 
Mia 30-—Schenectady, N | 

ay_30.—Schenectady, N, ¥,—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club. E. L. Aiken, Sec’y. ; 

_May 30:—Ossining, N: Y.—Holiday -shoot- of the Westchester 
County Trapshooters’ League. J, Curry Barlow, Sec’y. 

May 30-31—Union. City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club, O. E. Fouts, Sec’y. 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters” 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. - 

June 46.—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s tourne- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun “Giub. 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N. ¥.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
ae New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 


at 10 birds, $5, a hammerless gun to 


[Starner 2, tg0d: 


June 10-11.—Siotix Ce Ja.—Eighth annual amateur tournament | 
of the Soo Gun Club. . B, Dutean, Sec’y. in| 
June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual | 
tournament. . 
June 17-20,—Warm Springs, Ga.—Annual Interstate tournament, 
June 18-19.—Bellefontaine, O,—Silver Lake Gun Club’s annual 
tournament. Geo. E, Maison, Sec’y. Fs ? 
June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. C.—The Interstate Association’s tourna: 
en under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club. Jas. I. John- | 
son, Sec’y. ; | 
July 16-18.—Titusville, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna. | 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club, T. L. | 
Andrews, Sec’y. 
Aug, 6-7.—Marietta, O.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- | 
ment, under the auspices of the Columbian Gun Club. Chas. | 
Bailey, Sec’y, : 

Aug, 13-14.—Brunswick, Me,—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L. C. 
Whitmore, Sec’y. 

Aug. 27-28.—Haverhill, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under. the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Club. S, G 
Miller, Sec’y. 

Sept. 3-4—Nappanee, Ind.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 


Sete under the auspices of the Nappanee Gun Club. B. B. Maust, 


ec’y. 
Sept. 24-25,—Lewistown, Ill—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Lewistown Gun Club. 
McCumber, Sec’y. 

Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
¢ y afternoon. 
~hicago, Ill.—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy shoots, first 
d third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
d Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y, 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Interstate Park, Queens, L. I—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
. I. R. R. Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 
i1ooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 

_factice, Café and hotel accommodations, 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York. ' 


We have received the following communication: ‘The Cresson 
Gun Club, Cresson, Pa., will hold its third annual live-bird handi- 
cap on St. Patrick’s Day, Monday, March 17. There will be two 
events, The first at 5 birds and the second at 15. The entrance 
fees will be $4 and $10 respectively, three moneys, class shooting. 
The price of the birds is included in each eyent. There will be 
sufficient birds on the grounds to permit extra eyents if they are 
desired. The handicap committee is G. G. Zeth, Altoona; P. J. 
Trego, South Fork; Dr, F. M. Christy, Altoona; D. D. Stine, 
Tyrone, and C. Wenderoth, Cresson, The handicaps will be from 
2oyds. up. Headquarters will be at the Anderson House, and 
shells, etc., shipped there will be delivered to the grounds free. 
Hor further intormation, address the secretary, A, B. Harhart, 
Cresson, Pa.” e 


Pastime, of San Francisco, has the following to say of a charm- 
ing gentleman: “Harvey McMurchy, the well-known and popular 
representative of the Hunter Arms Company, dropped into town 
Monday last unannounced and unheralded, but this fact did not 
affect the warmth of his greeting from his many friends in this 
city, No more popular traveler is on the road than genial Mc- 
Murchy, and it is needless -to say that his success is second to 
none. Given a good gun and a good man to sell it, and success is 
sure to follow. McMurchy reports splendid sales, good times and 
more orders in the factory than can be filled. He will be here 
for some time, and hopes to enjoy some wild goose shooting, and 
if his time will permit, he will whip some of the California trout 
streams before departing.” = 


Feb, 22 was an active day on the grounds of the Crescent 
Athletic Club, at Bay Ridge, Long Island. Dr. J. J. Keyes won 
the President’s cup, his four high scores aggregating 179 points. 
Mr. G, Stevenson won the State trophy with a score oi 27, Mr, H 
Vanderveer won the Washington’s Hirthday cup with a score of 46. 
Mr. H. .M. Brigham won the February cup. Im the team race 
Messrs. Brigham and Keyes won the Sykes cup with a score of 41. 
Messrs. Brigham and Sykes won respectively in other trophy 
events. ‘The first shoot for the March cup will take place on 
Saturday of this week, ~ 


The Concordia Blue Ribbon Gun Club has claimed March 4 and 
5 as the dates for its first tournament, Concordia, Kans, A magau- 


’ trap and bluerocks will be used. The programme is alike for each 


day, namely, twelve target events at 10, 15 and 20 targets, entrance 
based on 10 cents per target. In all, 200 targets; $20 entrance. On 
the second day there will be a five-man team race, 25 targets per 
man, $2,50 entrance per man; money divided 60 and 40. Rose 
system, 7, 5, 4 and 3, Shooting commences at 9:30, Highest three 
averages, $5, $3 and $2. All are invited. 


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The Carteret atnateur championship, an event at 100 live birds, 
$100 entrance, was shot on the club grounds at Garden City, L. L., 
on Friday and Saturday of last week. ‘There were eight contest- 
ants. Dr, F, C. Wilson, of Savannah, Ga., won with a score of 
%6, killing his first 62 straight. Messrs: H, D. Kirkoyer and 
D, 1. Bradley tied on 93 and took second and third. “Stanley” 
was fourth with 91. The weather was something phenomenal in 
the way of badness, » 


On Thursday of this week there will be a live-bird shoot on the 
grounds of the Bound Brook Gun Club, Bound Brook, N. J. 
Take C. R. R, of N. J. There are two events, No. 1, handicap 

to first, and surplus divided, 50) 
30 and 20 per cent. No. 2, handicap, at 10 birds, $5, high guns. 
Also sweepstake shooting. Trains leave New York at 9, 9:1 , 10, 
12 and 1 o'clock. Leave Trenton at 10:10 and 12:05, U. G 
Tingley, Manager. » 


Mr. W. S. Stein, Secretary, Lincoln, Neb., writes us as follows: 
“We should like very much to have this notice appear in your 
‘coming shooting events’ column: Grand Interstate tournament, 
Lincoln, Neb.; three days’ shooting, three days golf, two days 
tennis._ May 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31. H. C, Young is manager.” 


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If pigeon shooting is not legally prohibited, Mr. J. S. Wright 
will give a live-bird shoot at Interstate Park in the near [u ure. If. 
it is prohibited, he will give a target shoot instead, In either 
event, he will give in added prizes, $17.50 in gold, $10, $5 and 
$2,50, first, second and third respectively, 


The Oceanic Rod and Gun Club will hold its next shoot on 
March 2, at Rockaway Park, L. Trains leave Thirty-fourth 
street and Flatbush stations of L. I, R. R. at 9 and 11 o’clock 
A. M. Targets, 14 cents, 


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Mr. E. D. Fulford, of Utica, N. Y., has perfected and put on 
the market his patent single trigger, a most ingenious and per- 
fect deyice. He warrants it to wear out the gun without a double 
blank or balk, Write to him for a description, 


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June 10 and 11 are the dates claimed for the ae annual am- 
ateur Rousrament of the Soo Gun Club. Mr, W. F, Duncan is the 
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The weather in this vicinity on Friday.and Saturday of last week 
‘was of mixed storminess, rain, snow.and sleet, As a consequence, 
several shoots suffered, and some were not held at all, f the 
Jatter was that of the Fulton Gun Club, of Brooklyn, whose 
grounds were more or less overflowed. On the other hand, some 
clubs were gainers in attendance, The question of bad weather 
with the enthusiastic tirapshooter arises only when he has not 
whereon to place his feet. 


Mr. Ed Rike, of Dayton, O,, was a visitor in New York this 
week, He reports that his side partner, Mr, R. ©. Heikes, is not 
conyalescing so rapidly as could be desired since his illness, of 
some weeks ago. he latter is now in® Texas, enjoying the rela- 
tively balmy climate of that section, and it is to be fervently 
hoped that good health is quickly coming to him. 


It is expected that the Legislature of New York will settle the 
fate of the anti-pigeon shooting bill this week one way or the 
‘other. At present the indications are that most of the New York 
shooters will do their live-bird trapshooting im the neighborly 
State of New Jersey, in which New Yorkers have the privileges 
of the open door and of a most fayored nation. 


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Mr. Tom Donley, of St. Thomas, Ont., writes us as follows: 
“T am sorry to say we have been obliged to call off the shoot 
which we had arranged’ for March 25, 26 and 27, as we found it 
impossible to procure the pigeons, kindly cancel notice in your 
“Fixtures’ column.’ 


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We are informed that the matter of a match for the Cast Tron 
Medal is being agitated, the contestants of which will be Messrs. 
W. R. Crosby and J. A. R. Elliott. If it is arranged, it probably 
will take place at Kansas City, Mo., March 29, the Saturday before 
the Grand American Handicap. 


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A main event at 25 live birds, $10 entrance, birds included, class 
shooting, four moneys, handicaps 25 to 33yds., will be shot at 
Interstate Park, L. I., on March 11. There will be other events. 
Shooting commences at 10 o’clock. Plenty of birds are on hand. 


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Capt. J. A. H. Dressel, president of the Interstate Association, 
informs us that he has added two more gentlemen to the G. A. H. 
Handicapping Committee, namely, Messrs. Tom A, Diyine, of 
Memphis, Tenn., and Walter Hallowell, of Kansas City, Mo. 


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The New Jersey Legislature is considering a bill whose tenor is 
the prohibition of pigeon shooting. It may be well for those who 
are short of a supply of pigeon shooting to lay in a stock sufh- 
cient to Jast some weeks to come. 


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The second of the series of matches between the Fairview, and 
Carlstadt gun clubs, of New Jersey, fixed to take place last Sat- 
urday, on the grotinds of the latter, was prevented by the fierce 
storm, March 8 is now fixed for it. 


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Mr. J. Mowell Hawkins, of Baltimore, informs us that he has 
fixed upon May 21 and 22 for the Maryland county shoot for 
amateurs, ‘ 

Bernarp WATERS. 


Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, Feb, 19:—The eighth serial prize shoot of the Boston 
Gun Club, held on their Wellington grounds to-day, while not 
haying the usual attendance, was not one whit the less enjoyable 
according to one of the older gunners present, and another shoot 
of just this kind will be looked forward to by the majority. Only 
one straight score was the result of the afternoon’s shooting, and 
the credit -of that belongs to the club’s oldest regular, Woodruff, 
who has been a constant attendant for at least fourteen years, and 
even now can make the majority of the younger shots look like 
the usual amount of 30 cents; but never without the usual good 
word to every one. f J . 

In the prize match, where the interest lay naturally, the rep- 
resentative of the Birch Brook Gun Club, Frank, was the leader, 
having 20 breaks on his ledger to 19 on the books for the next 
man in line, Leroy, the latter shooting from his usual handicap 
of 2lyds., and the former from the 18yd. mark. Woodruff held 
third position with 17, just one target ahead of Leverett with 16. 
Other’ scores as follows: 


Events: Th bls Ge nS Ai Site re Gh St) 

Targets 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 15 10 10 

TOV sweet e e ope e's aisles Tink bi atiele Sy dite ita, HR gadis pei EE 1G) 
Woodruff, 17...-...teeeeeee eee He sg Malle Gb a OE Sb 
Hawkins, 16,.,.-.e0¢----++-+--- Fhe ee She ayy Tebt ety eo. ata 
Meyenrett: wiGis. eceuhierpe ses WE eects in Mee iL Seas 
IBrati a shot yee hs eae tare y UMN Bare Sil re DLT etl et ee Ace as 
DViebsterssulOtssevetepeeaueseee Ame Ste SS Wa ann tin Ty 
ilieiolsy OC a eee Ay, Bie EAS Fall in tet oo 
HANS eet INT 8 AOD ad Oesoe Se ee pee A ee ie Ge OM Ba at 
Fredericks, 14......... Thee Se ee te Setter o Mins 
OWallitms py ekO tee evicetioemisysie6 fee, Oy te wae NOT LAO Te 10 139 oo 
Hartly ghee aitsye soshTeRmeor ieee pea ST, ae 4k 

Events Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7,,8 and 9, magautrap; Nos. 2, 4, and 6, 


Sergeant system, p 
erchandise match, 25 singles—15 magautrap, 10 Sergeant system 
—distance handicap: 


111111110020 
1111111100—19 
111111011117 
{01101111116 
110011101115 
0010001101—14 
1011101000—10 


--000111010101101 
-»110011000110110 
. .011011100010110 
. .011010011711910 
Hawkins, 16... « -010000010001101 
Webster, 16........ opaonber conceal! » 4+ eL111111010.w 

Siri) Tole a ed oan ededadtecaeessoqcse! 000011100000010 


Leverett, 16.. 
North, 16... 
Williams, 16... 


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SECRETARY. 


‘The New England Interstate Team Match. 


Boston, Mass.—The Chamberlin Cartridge and Target Company, 
through Paul North, has very kindly given $100, to be used as 
added money in the above-mentioned match. As ithe gift was 
entirely unsolicited and made without restrictions or conditions, 
the thanks of the trapshooters of New England are hereby ex- 
tended to the Chamberlin Company and Mr. North, by the com- 
mittee haying the matter in charge. 

Now, as to the match itself. Without wishing to assume abso- 
lute authority, somebody has got to suggest conditions under which 
the match can be made and shot. As Leroy, Dickey and I started 
the project in your columns, and-have done an endless amount of 
talking to and writing to shooters all over New England, it cer- 
tainly will not appear an unnatural exercise of authority, after our 


efforts, to suggest the following conditions, and ask that they be, 


considered as binding, until the representatives of the States which 
enter a team shall meet and either ratify or modify them: 

1. Each New England State to be entitled to enter one team of 
five men, bona fide residents, and unlimited substitutes allowed. 

2. Entrance fee, $25 per team, to be paid before April 1, 1902. 

3. The contest to consist of a shoot in each State which enters 
ateam, Each State to name the time and place for its shoot. 

4, Each member of the respective téams to shoot at 100 birds 
at unknown angles at each shoot. 

5) The aggregate of the birds broken in all the shoots to de- 
termine the winners. 

6, Entrance fees and all added money to be divided among the 
teams on the high-gun system, as follows: (a) If six teams, 50, 30 
and 20 per cent. (6) Ti less than six teams and more that three, 
40 and 40 per cent. (c) If three teams or Jess, one momfiey. 

7, Each State which enters a team to select one of its number 
fo act as its representative in arranging ail details of the shoots, 
the action of said representative to be absolutely binding on the 
feam he represents. 

8, Said representatives shall on or before April 15, 1902, arrange 
all conditions and details for the match, 

Now, boys, get together, select your teams and make your en- 
tries, Rhode Island and Massachusetts have entered. Dickey and 
Leroy have requested me to attend to all the correspondence, so 
that hereafter address all letters to me and they will receive 
prompt attention. I will also receive entrance fees and act as 
stakeholder until your representatives meet. 

.  Herpert M, Feperuen, Jr. 


£58 Columbus: Avenue, 


ON LONG ISLAND. 


Emerald Gun Club. 


Brooklyn, L, 1.—There was an unusually small attendance at the 
shoot of the Emerald Gun Club to-day. The ground was covered 
with snow, and consequently the shooting Was trying to the eyes. 
This is the last shoot of the season. Schorty won with 92 per 
cent.; Schoyerling 90 per cent. The scores: 


Tee SHOnte aes 4-1 .11*1021200— 6 Dr Stillman, 28...,2112022*21— 8 
F Kall; 25..........220220"121— 7 R May, 28.,.......: 2101222022— 8 
E J Roberts, 28....21022111*— 8 © Brown, 25....... 0210112012— 7 
Dr Hudson, 28....1*11012412— 7 u Rathjen, 28.,....020*001112— 5 
A Schoverling, 28,.2222220222— 9 W Catton, 28...... 2110111120— 8 

QBvevevssLI10012"I— 7 R Regan, 25....... 101200110*— 5 


oore, 

Ww Corbett, 25, ..*10102112*— 6 
W Joerger, 28.,,,.121%222000— 6 
H Ouinn, 28,..,....*12120120"— 6 


New Utrecht Gun Club. 


Interstate Park, L. [., eb. 22—There was a strong wind, which 
blew im the faces of the shooters, The birds were a yery good lof. 
A great many of the lost birds were carried out of bound® by the 
wind, although killed well inside of the boundary. There was 
some excellent shooting nevertheless, as the appended scores will 


show: 
No, 1, 25-bird match; 


Capt Dyens, 28..... 2*12120102— 7 
TF Hansmann, 25...00"210"120— 4 


DUANE Bio beneie CHM Be Pah Obcatoopnonrrere ras 2220222022202022121,0222*2—19 

BD SGreaimter, |2are o nceiers este alee! teje oieeie eee 4174411*022141112121**1111—20 

EG) Griththy 30tr. sees sees ae aed eos 0" 21222222122921"21121112—22 
No. 2, miss-and-out: 


TI W Morfey. 30..,..222222222-9 If © Griffith, 2 
F D Creamer, 28.,,..111122110—8 


Noa. 3, 7 birds, for prize, Ramapo won, 


ee 21111* 


C A ‘Ramapo, 28........ 21111217 FL P Fessender, 29..... 20222025 
EF D Creamer, 28....,...1"°1120w W J Lurgan, 28......- 1212220—6 
*E C Griffith, 30...... 21121217 

No. 4, 25 birds, for cup: 
LE WaeliOnrey mouse chat tetas ees ce ten sel 2220212222222*222092921 222 —23 
WV aes PaaS Ss anni ened ben tee gat 222***022220"222*21 212221 —19 
Fr Creamer, 28........ eee manne peor oe «1221217211 20222112111111—23 
© A Ramapo, 28..... aaectaeerat sed phe pple alee 221.212122222212112220919% 24 
Ei Geeites Sendeiy 20a ru martes eancet tee 2222222222222202222222*2*—22, 
{AP AR RV Ateat sot en mote rn bea nee eases e22222022202212222202"0w. 

No. 5, 15 birds, for cup: 

SEP WeWMOrteyy BU: ae raat 3 <0 Ueuneachoomeau ran stele 122220222020222—12 
GUA BRATMAN ORAS. wate dna Abeta cin Wine cenbie es » «2022222221222 12 
HP Fessenden, 29.......... Cas Dowie Teed dup devs. es 222222222222022—14. 
fe Poke VN A ea aaa OSE EEE ERR RbRee 64 222020222122210—_12 
ES MViaie Aled GUuMire ie dey reels ie chee hie ileeatsictee .t 222922222299292 15 
RM Cw EHTEL a OU aac shelgls static wile et enti tes eioiclelese ciate lei oteiecs 222121222022222—14 

Sie MURA EET tLe Dota c rap asetsldica anc om atiaste te oeeelt nienie te 000222202222002— 9 

JE STERIC OTi eae tbaG si sero ne Pate eee ee a en 1122*2022"11120—11 

*Guests, 

No. 6, miss-and-out: 
C A Ramapo, 28........4..211220 E C Griffith, 30............- 122212 
S Var Allen, 30....-...2... 23220 | 


Brooklyn Gtn Club, 


Brooklyn, L. J., Feb. 22.—The shoot held on Washington’s Birth- 
day, under the management of John S. Wright, was an eminent 
success, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. There was 
a larger number of shooters present than were gathered there in 
many a day, Shooting progressed actively and about 4,000 targets 
were thrown during the day. The weather conditions were un- 
favorable for good scores, and some of the best shootets fell off in 
their penlonrence in consequence. Mr. Wright will give a live- 


bird shoot in the near future if that sport is not prohibited in the 
meantime, or he will give a target shoot, $17.50 in gold as prizes: 
Events: deg Se Mtl Ny Sy A aly 
Targets: 10 15 10 25 15 20 10 20 15 10 
Welles sco So pamen eyed ss eh ae ete 8 RRR ey eee UB) ae) ali SEP ae 
TOTAL CFs wep ti ee tokens oats bee cieletatote ate se alee Mie tah) Rs ate 115) le Re 3 
Schnerden vitiatscsis cece Bern All) Bile re etPAT alte Th Ms wTO RG 
Rrelstaptay! Qoodnec ene ane cetera cote Oe ae core La ES: Omid s 
Pred O ee Sry es bee eRe case cet Se eA Ee Se Os Fe ae ess 
a eR Sapa tres Jsidesbarse bane he TES saree ee eels 6 
WILZLOTE Memae te nathn ciitafe Seas besiege RP dae SCE aye Bh (ee Se 3 
[Grong oer eae eae cit ene (sh eal ype Sabys Ziad 7 4 
IEEE OM rink Tenor SOOM Sep ectar os Bi ORSt Sign. wecielor AY acca o 
IPOtEeES Who ta tes da tee eae sires vos SEK Gh bee hoe bee Op titra e la iy 
Weller, Alithes sot sos boeet nessa eS: PO) ce Le ole eth: Tae SUNG 
ATO WSIEIEB) goon sesrpe fies sas om % OSES Ma Rae oie IRE oe 8 
VET Ctian Uomarssasiet abe hee ge dws . DO ae va 
PEM CEliy 2.2 :55.n52 ys oslo e tno sly ees a RO Ra Ber oe a SUPT co 
SUISSE Goteos wWoones- canons Gon Coot am of Ue a eb GS SRE wel aa 
WiaGds) se aiiuued aaa Pee one Q Oho ee rh allie eee als) 3 
AVE CEr Suess starsta.s ee aratataldereTa ere oho 3 8 ar os a 13) 3S 10 - 
BBA Feo. SG HESEE LC oOeE Mec tes ¢ 3 UO aps ar Bee, 
STAI Gan slesie nile cicueiadie save nlalace betes 4 ° seer ee ae eye “ 
SMiCOMNS Ananaags eres ceeenon : - es (Uh ee ee 
OMESEleNieetenaren riser e coreersictenstels “5. 281g oe eee US atta eth, 
Webrsnath Jeoaiy we soy easy Parte PO A i Spier ere iey 9 Se 
intchcocks seicsmaen. oeeeetere wey ee ee a Se ee He ao li Ay 
(BiG SUM aesighttarees ste misuse tees Rice onde JS. coe OSS ah ak 
all ebEatrdt trees Sone eee aerate Tea Od Oty Oo A ie ee et 
MERWE! fa A eeOoseee oe : ot Se oe om 
Toward Weserarssccaass enters ir gs diet, tt 6 


Richmond Gun Club, 


Srirver LaAxe, Staten Island, Feb. 22.—There was a high north- 
east wind. There was a fall of snow, sleet and hail. The next 
shoot of the Richmond Gun Club will be held on March 8, com- 
mencing at 2 P. M. All are welcome: 


Events: : AT ey oe poe Oe Sa 8s a9 
Targets: ; 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 25 
Am AN SCHOVenith oaterneatttaneer ates 5 bh tr ee math op EE eT ke 
G Bechtel cheryes-amer sn yeiehcle ee OO. Boolean Soi 1G 
F W Schoverling.........s0.+ss0s GeotP Ge al Tt eee fe Ye AGP ais 
M Riersen ........ Se ee gre Pilg iy epee 4 9 
Bradleys Meats ceces cents eevee santas Te ee a EPS 20 
a SCHOEN (oipen et eamemns maemewsens Ze Geos Teas as a ahs 
Nip Ory Staller yee wtase si ctete toronen ALL Ari wee Rese TPT A TAR cae Ht 
Ten live birds, all 28yds,, $4 entrance: 
(Si Lewis... 2-4 -< *421202121— 8 M Rierseti..,.-..... 1112020102— 7 
A A Schoverling..2022202022— 7 Ji Schoen .,........ 2010222100— 6 
EF W Schoverling..1010021012— 7 Bradley ............ 2221212012— 9 
G. Bechtel ...-..... 0011200212— 6 : 
Miss-and-outs, $1: 
. No.1 Wo. 2. No.3. No.4. No.5. No.6. 
A A Schoverling...... 22220 20 0 0 120 ey 
F W Schoverling..... 1222 10 foe Sac. nite eee 
G Bechtel.............. 11120 dhoadr Gea aah abl aah) 
M Riersen............. 0 21222 0 - 1200 10 1210 
Schoen............ Ade cheaboo A bbe iden aa bes cats 
radley....2...., AS SAA pCR C One “oueo  “alal) 20 wate 
J S Dewis............-.221222221 6 220 0. ae, 


Westchester League. 


Ossintnc, N. Y., Feb. 23.—Kindly insert the inclosed in your 
‘Fixtures’ column, with notice: 

May 30.—Ossining, N. Y.—Clay bird shoot of the Westchester 
County Trapshooters League, Decoration Day, May 30. JLunch, 
loaded shells, etc., furnished at lowest prices. Trolley direct to 
grounds. Ossining is on the New York Central & Hudson River Rail- 
road, thirty miles from New York city. The League is formed of 
five gun clubs, which are under forfeit to send three representatives 
to all shoots held under-direction of the League. The programme 
will consist of twelve events of 15 targets each, $1.30 entrance, tar- 
gets included. Money divided Rose system. Five dollars to first 
general ayerage; $3 to second for those who shoot through the 
entire programme. Trade representatives are invited to shoot for 
targets only, at 1 cent each, 

For programmes address J. Curry Barlow, See’y Westchester 
County Trapshooters’ League, or Chas. G. Blandford, Capt. Os- 
sining Gun Club, Ossining, N. Y 


es Innocent—What did you enjoy most about your fishing trip, 
dear 
‘ Mr. Innocent—I got most excited when I was reeling in, my 
love, 


Mrs, Innocent (bursting into tears)—And to—to—th-think, you 
promised me y-you wouldn't drink a drop—Harlem Life, 


‘Hatch, Lockwood and Follansbee, of Amesbury; 


Birch Brook Gun Club. 


Lyny, Mass., Feb, 22,—Well! We held our Washington's. Birth- 
day shoot, all right, with the help of twenty-seven (dost just 
know what to call them, but they were game) shooters. We used 
a large part of the week removing the snow from about the 
grounds, and had gotten everything in capital order, but some- 
thing above us broke loose on Friday night, and when our skirmish 
line, composed of that faithful few which every gun club pos- 
sesses, and who do all the hard work, reached the grounds, they 
saw about eight inches of heavy snow to clear away, covering an 
acre—imore or less. 

The scores of the wotking squad tell the story of relaxed 
muscles and aching backs more eloquently than mere, words. 

Railroad traing and street cars were late, and shooters dropped 
in on us by ones and twos until 2:30 P. M., thereby causing de- 
lay; but the shooting appetite they brought with them was good 
to behold, Had we carried all the extra events they shot to. the 
inclosed summary sheet, there would have been an extra edition 
from, lack of space. i 

As is usually the case, our out-of-town contingent made our 
shoot fairly successful. There were Le Roy and Baker, of Brock- 
ton, the former shooting from the 2lyd, mark in the prize events: 
EF illiams and 
Horace Kirkwood, from Boston; Charlie North, of Cleveland, O.; 
Hebbard, Dr. Judkins (Mason), and Collins (Munroe) of the 
Lynn Fish and Game Protective Association; Bancroft (Phillips) 
and Hillard (Everett), of the Harvard Gun Club, and Tozier, of 
Eayerhill, Mass. Nearly forgot Miller, of Hayerhill, but he was 
With os, although Tozier declared that he did not see Miller until 
too late, 

In the prize eyent, 50 targets, Events Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the 
programme, distance handicap, Frank, 19yds., won first, sole 
leather gun case, with a score of 44; Horace, 19yds., second, 
Thurman blouse, seore 438; North, 16yds., and Phillips, i4yds., 
won third, Powers’ cleaning rod, score 42. 

Horace donated his prize to the club for further competition 
under same condition, Everett, 18yds., and Miller, lhyds,, tieing, 
with Everett winning on the shoot-off, by annexing the whole 
number of 15, | 

The handicapping was based largely on the results of the first 
six events, and a glance at the scores will show how trustiul we 
were, and the cruel blow at‘our conceit. 

The scores below are really better than they look, the weather 
conditions being of the worst. 

We trapped over 4,000 targets, the magautrap working exceed- 
ingly well, that being used exclusively. We are expecting an 
invitation to visit Haverhill, April 19, but shall go if we receive 


none. The scores: ; 

Events: 123 45 6 7 8 9101112 13 

Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 5p 10 10 15 15 5p 15 15 
We MRO VNibe prevdsdenidebe tyr ot 14 14 13 15 14 6 61413 8 15 12 
Balecks Bee cens des Cede eee 131113 913 7 6 7 812 61310 
EROPACEW aati cantt oleate yee wee 91215 915 4 9 81412 6 9 9 
Wail lia trae eeenne SA eacaaitte nels 111 1 alt 6 4 91242". 95. 
INIGEETN heanaelnniines ct cmeb steele, iche 87479 4 9 81114 51312 
Straw) 282 5<.0 AS aa osuddena. 911 9 8 4 6 81011 6 710 
sri; peeinensetaset Si Fra ac ee 1314131111 6 6 81113 5 10 12 
Visita phe ah ihede ent multimers berber ee be oa sr eG pt rele ee 
STAtGG SIRE Lise eae setenioeines 109 6 811 27 7 910 61071 
Jed italln) stele a utooed cnt Bobr 1812151211 6 7 8 912 71110 
IN BI Aer Berta tladecrinniobe ne ic 614 91811 3 6 91212 510 18 
TZICre Re tee lhinshionsess oo aeee 91012 611 5 6 414 9 2.... 
Te Gaye tees eieteias ee ableletr eiseedainiees Bel Gen Tee OR Ae ole hee eC ace 6 
Currier ......: ee tes ear SUS HINER eee res GO Cone tke ews cutter csi.a 9S 
[DION Budheeatee tee eeu a oneipies teen neese 4h COU adie Free toad Ys 
IVLOS GaN bln aarts can re de aero as els) nse ee eae 10 4691210 8 9., 
Rowe ...... hatineme tie eat Ronnie ia, st 677 8 812 5 8 10 
[Eleb hand une cota sat aise aes 73 98 9 6 721 
LEAN hee ROBO. 6 COM OONY AROARA MERE BE tq Idi i on S Rele I oeiGens ne 
MH GEwood. | AeaatQyasdweeeneciens ShstGeck Pay ee 4 7 71210 611 12 
Hollansbeesscetaceerecrtrciiciciacde acl: seuss. or DE OTA Ot OF 
LOCATORS, CO otirvceeemin ts a45eddee tc FS oe OG Wee oetelsetia Saran 
ibdrrelta) 5 saa AN AAS A Sceee os MA EG od beer 9 71414 8 1310 
INEASOTEp vltewcletelaiveat Gabel statdttetater ate steie ~ © 3 ee oe 20 14 98) S42 
IVETE ONC gov vm Seto. a sivtelstefetargie ts pera stiees-6 basse a et 511 4 8 6 
IBC EST pacreisiirenie tate easatscate al oo Nas jos Beas pea slek PCE bal ptea on he 
JDM bere vce Core futve a es 5 oo ao Ab 38 ates ioe ao TE 

Car se: 


Watertown Gun Club, 


Watertown, Mass., Feb, 22.—The first rize shoot of the Water- 
town Gun Club’s 1902 spring series was held to-day, and a more 


disagreeable day could not be imagined. Wath a stiff 12 o’clock 
gale, accompanied by snow, sixteen shooters lined up, and when 
the score sheet was examined it appeared like the 
loading block. 


; jagram of a 
The scores were as follows: 


Events: eee eGs aie po" TORR tO 
Targets: 10 10 10 30 30 15 0 10 10 5: 
CePhilbrookSerse. ss - socexs. {ff aliy GUY Weis WA Wie 
Bb 5° 8 6 16" v6 6 i 6b 65 
2 6 617 14 ll 5 6 4 5 
et Weel ane es Fe ie, 
pee PA iy oD le Tbe eb Ries 
SIVA 6s 1S TTS 4. 
Seen ae SOME COM Li wee Sige. 
2 14 3847 cr Bo ote de 
SA. ote Ct OE OUT te re i ees 
I 2h 48 AON pe Fer ety 
By ale <6e Senn. eee et ee 
pit ete mens) RGm Gye Sure ain oe 
Ag Soe 16 es A Peay a 
ey TR he ecke a tN ge EAR 
Spee? oe He a eae Ee 54 
So i IE ee Te bs 
Merchandise match, bird handicap: 
APG te aeetaenssties BAC SO Rome an 111110110111011101110010010110—28 
Nodes ee eee ar aorta AAS Ar oy +s ~-100011011111011110101011010000—24 
C Philbrook, 6..660+.++-+0: che peree 110100111101111010000000111101—23 
ColeQioe ete TELE. Seer tines eae 110011100110100001111100110101—23 
ATWOGOM Os, erniartd de sens cstsedi eee uter ss 100011011110011100010011311111—22 
(EEN) G3 joaeenor or det CConrenAAgT Ss jai 110011000010101101011011011001—21 
TePhn brOOky (ees sp sas 20y seemed 01000011111.0001010000110011001—20 
RizinbasiesMOe ene mete se Sepr ere e ate 110001010000001101001111010100—19 
Wonesy LO wuss Prat acne haute eersale 00000010111.0000000100010100100—18 
iedsdony Tie icles. Pete ehe trance’ 000010106100000010010101000010—15 
Motganh TOMS eit beetsews ees tratlsleccn 110011000101110110000100110010—14 
Ae Pe ce crcnpocmathy ne adders 100000000100000000100000000000—13 
CANETIA ON TRa eee eee ed 01:101001010110001001 —i1 
Merchandise match, bird handicap: 
Wright, 8:....,-.6-.. GUCCI SAAD 110110010010111110011000011110—25 
Se hiro k. lO. wearin « -.00111101017100100111.0011110011— 34 
Bullard, 7....... -010111010011111011100001000000—21 
IBee geo) aera: -100101111111001100000111101000—21 
H Philbrook, 7.. + .001101001101110101101000000010—20 
Fairbanks, 6..... « « -10110000000000010010161111.0010—17 
Iukereeeral UA AAG BARRA DR Oe Use eas 001011701110111110000000111 000—15 
vast Viste neko ee eee 00000000011.0000000101110001000—14 
Tie shoot-off won by Bullard. 
CA Rhalhraoks pesisehntn tguend ten ak iuwaeane ind sete 111014111011 11—13 
LexvIN ERA! Wasp omrnencd eae ts kek eyeeeotanteees \% OSes pes 110149911100110—11 
Hig Etnl pro ken. sth atesanaanias sates omosneae, seen e 2 0000101111 0000— 6 
Bes Ponce eee el een vere eats ta eae eee an +» -000001010110110— 6 
HMiersoh fesse ste diseases Sear tenee esneaeic eseeeveees sL11010101000000— 6 
Gooch: Winners besa een eae APoh ois Sisieeipleleataee 100000110001101— 6 
SECRETARY. 


Maryland County Shoot. 


Mr. J. Mowrit HAwxins, manager, has issued the following 
circular notice: 

Baltimore, Feb. 20,—It is my intention to hold the Maryland 
county shoot for amateurs again this spring, and I have. selected 
May 21 and 22 as the dates most suitable for the county shooters 
throughout the State. 

I do not think it necessary to give an explanaticn here of the 
conditions of the shoot, as they will be exactly the same as last 
year, with more prizes, and will be given in full in the programme 
which will be out by May 1, ‘ 

I would like to make up a team of three men from residents of 
your county and send in the names and entrance, which will be 
$3_per team only, so that I can get the names in the programme. 

You will confer a great favor upon me if you will try to interest 
all Shooters in your- vicinity and send me names, as soon as S- 
sible, of all those who would like to have a programme mailed to 
them. For further information, address J.. Mowell Hawkins, Man- 
ager, 1626 John street. ‘ 


All communications intended for Forest ann Srezau should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., ang 
not to any individual connected: with the paper, : 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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[Mace 1, 1902. 


SS eee 


The Hamilton Gun Club. 


_ Hamiztton, Can., Feb. 20.—Inclosed please find scores of shoot- 
ing done over the Hamilton Gun Club iraps on Feb. 15 and 20, 
which may prove of interest to our ftiends, as they shot the com- 
petition of scores in the first round for the Peters Cartridge Com- 
pany trophy. 

The trophy presented to the Hamilton Gun Club by the Peters 
Carrtidge Company is a very handsome loving cup, and it is being 
shot for under the following conditions and handicaps: 
nies Re cup is to be known as the Peters Cartridge Company 

rophy. : 

2 The first shoot for this cup will be held on Feb. 15 and Feb. 
20, and on each alternate Saturday and Thursday following. 

3. The trophy is to be shot for sixteen times, and the aggregate 
of the twelve highest scores to count; 25 targets per man and 
each competitor must shoot twelve times to entitle him to an 
aggregate score, - 

4, The trophy is to‘ become the property of the winner. 

5. Each competitor must state whether he intends to shaot on 
Saturdays or on Thursdays. 

6. Each competitor scoring oyer 80 per cent. to go back lyd., and 
up iyd, if less than 80 per cent. 

%. If any competitor with a dead bird allowance should exceed 
90 per cent., 1 bird will be dediucted from His allowance, and so 
on, until his allowance is exhausted. 

We have in our club a number of good members whose business 
prevents their attendance at our regular Satirday semi-monthly 
shoots; hence, the arrangement of a regular shoot on some other 
day than Saturday that no one may be barred from participating 
in the contest. for the Peters Cartridge Company’s trophy, and in 
the small yoluntary sweep connected With this event. 

We ‘had the pleasure of a yisit from Mr, N. P. Leach, of the 
Robin Hood Powder Company, to-day, and regret that their ab- 
sence from the city depriyed many of his friends of haying the 
pleasure of renewing their acquaintanceship with a sportsman whose 
reputation is too well known to require any further reference on 


our part than that we were glad to see him and hope that he may- 


soon return to place his name again on the score of the Hamilton 
Gun Club. 

The Hamilton Gun Club will go to Toronto on Saturday to 
shoot a match with the Stanley Gun Club. Every ayailable member 
will be taken along, just for reyenge, this being the rubber in a 
series of three matches in which each club has won their home 
match. 

There will be a meeting of the executive committee of the 
Dominion Trapshooling and Game Profective Association in 
Toronto on Feb. 22, and reports will be duly forwarded to you. 


Events: 1-2 3 4 Events: IRs Sar 35 
Targets: 10 15 25 i0 * Targets: 10.15 2510 * 
President’s Team. Vice-President’s Team. 
T Upton, 19...... 7122110 .. M E Pletcher, 20. .. 1017... .. 
C Brigger, 19..... 10 18 22 5 Dr Wilson, 20..... Razed se 
Dr Hunt, 18...... 61019 8 J Hunter, 19....... 91212 8.. 
H Graham, 18.... .. 12 21 ANeBatesiael tentemte CPU BREME coy 52s 
J Crooks, 18...... 5 11 20 Cliftordyal Ta 6 13 23 ric 
Fitch, 16....... 9 §19 Waterbury, 16..... ile tedes BY 
Benydt tse ee 91218 .. 4 ‘W Work, 15...... 7 S818-., 4 
Bs Ole: G6 Ma esse Me Ee ep ae Ee eign alae ao G ofees 
Murdock, 16......- 6 714... 4 Crawford, 16.,.... T1118 $8 2 
88 90 


No. 2 was the team shoot. . 
*Dead-bird allowance to be added to the scores in No, 3. 
The first round of the Peters Cartridge Company. trophy. follows: 


Targets: 10 10 25 Targets: 10 10 25 
WTA WLOLGe hea see bae eer see 5 3208 "Geo. Stroud, Tas----,. 6 6 8 
N P Leach..... see © O17 “Reardon, 18......24.-» 8 9 16 
*Langhorn, 17.. PU Sh H lar: 285] 


*Competiters in trophy race. 
Mississippi Valley Notes. 


Trap at St. Louis. 


TWENTY shooters faced the traps in the Dupont medal contest at 
Dupont Park on the 16th inst, The birds were a very fast lat, and 
the contest was one of the most interesting held on this ground in 
many days. Counting the handicaps, twelve contestants finished 
with 8 straight kills to their credit, and then began a shoot-off in 
which 8 more birds wete_ shot. After this, Bowman, Lambert, 
O’Neill, Dr. Spencer and John Cabanne concluded to decide the 
winner by lot, and the honor finally went to Lambert, 

Two target sweepstakes of 15 singles and 5 pairs were then 
shot, in which Harold Money made the excellent score of 25 
straight, Frank Orvis coming next with 24. hab, J 

Many spectators were present during the day, evincing a grow- 
ing interest in the sport. Q 

The scores in the preliminary Dupont Handicap are appended: 

Total. Score. Total. Score. 
White, 29...... 11101110—6 7 O’ Neill, 29........21102211—7 
J Bowmal 29. .21001220—5 Clay, 30....-.-.12001100—4 


Bowman, 28.11220112—7 Jonah, 28.....:. 01010012—4 
ughes, 28... .12112200—6 Dr Spencer, 28.22122122—8 
Cummings, 29.10220010—4 Melone, . 28... ..02221122—7 


Dr Cum- Hi Spencer, 28.21101111—7 
mings, 29... .12122121—8 Caudle, 28...... 00010221—4 
Orvis, 28.,....- 00210221—5 Cornell, 28......- 10222222—7 


AAINt, monn 
09 90 GO 1 60.00 COST Hs CO 


Kenyon, 29....20111110—6 J Cabanne, 28.22122222—8 
Lambert, 28..,20221120—6 _ Barker, 28...-.. 22292191 —8 
John Cabanne-and Dr. Spencer, who each killed 16 straight, shot 
in splendid form, and appear to be in fine feather for the work at 
Kansas City, . ae ances . 

In fact, the entire St. Louis contingent is doing exceptionally 
ood work, and they who reckon with this talent as one of the 
ormidable features in the big contest will make no mistake. 

And still there are mew names being, added to the list. The 
shooting game in St. Louis never promised more interest or better 
work than at the present time, P 

A one-day shooting tournament was held Wednesday of this week 
at Salina, Kans. ; 

The Junction City Gun Club, Junction City, Kans., annotinces 
a two-day tournament on March 12 and 13. There will be ten 
events daily, with $75 added money. It is understood that the 
shoot will be open, and the club boys say they will have a splendid 
meet, ‘ 4a ts 

Amateur sportsmen of Linco'n. Neb., have conceived a novel 
plan for a general meet of all field sports to be held in that city 
about. the last week in May. They mean to raise plenty of money 
and devote a week to all field sports, with shooting in the fore- 
ground, and invitations will be scattered broadcast throughout the 
Middle States. , ; ; 

The programme for the G. Ai H. as published in the current 
sportsmen’s papers is thoroughly approved here in the West, and 
there is every promise of the big attendance that was first pre- 
dicted. The appointment of Westerh men in confection with the 
management of the tourney is especially gratifying to the sports- 
men oi the yalley. 

The heavy snows of the past six weeks throughout the central 
Northwest have relieved the dronth of the country thoroughly, and 
at least reasonably high water is predicted when-the warm rains 
take away the snow. This will put water back in the lakes of the 
big river bottoms, and insure good duck shooting. ; 

F. E. Chappel and Emil Tonsenberg will shoot a mateh at 60 
live birds for $50 a side, at Jerseyville, on or about. March 1. 

-F, C. Rent, 


Pleasant Hill Gun Club, 


PLEASANT Hitt, Mo.—I have just received a letter from Mr. 
Jas. S. Nuttall, brother to the late Ed’R, Nuttall, holder of the 
colored championship challenge trophy, emblematic of the colored 
champion wing shot, notifying me of the 'sad news of his death, 
which occurred at his home in Ohiowa, Neb:, Jan. 30, the cause 
of which was pneumonia. His death is greatly mourned by all 
colored shooters who knew him. 

Mr, Nuttall won this trophy at the fifth annual merchandise and 
sweepstake shoot of the colored shooters at Pleasant Hill, Mo.. 
last August, in the opening contest by scoring 23 out of 25 with 1 
dead out of bounds, and was justly conceded to be the champion 
of his race by all who knew him. 

Under the conditions governing the trophy, ‘If holder of trophy 
die while in possession of it, it will revert back to donors of same, 
and again be put up in open competition; hence the Pleasant Hill 
Colored Gun Club now has possessicn of it, and desires any in- 
formation or suggestion from any colored aspirant for said honor, 
and if it is not called for by any one for another open contest be- 
fore that time, it will again be put up in open competition at the 

ixth annual merchandise and sweepstake shoot in August, with 
greater inducements to draw all colored ‘aspirants to this great 
annual gathering-of colored shooters of the scatter gim. 
iT Ai ie = peer T, H. Conzon, Sec’y. 


WESTERN TRAPS. 


Barto Wins Good Sweep, 


Curcaco, Ill., Feb. 22.—A hot little sweep was shot at Watson’s 
this afternoon between J, B; Barto, of Chicago; Geo. Roll, of Blue 
Island; C. R, Steyens, of Moline, Ill; A. DBD. Sperry, of Rock 
Island, and H. S. Blake, of Racine, Wis. The terms were $25 
a_corner, 25 birds, 60 and 40 per cent. Barto won with 25 straight, 
He drew 17 incomers, and would seem to have the luck of the 
ae Blake, of Racine, was second, with 24, and one dead out of 

ounds. 


Chicago and the Handicap, - 


An estimate to-day places the number of the Chicago party which 
will start for the Grand American Handicap at oreas City at 
about thirty, including Chicago and immediate vicinity. “The 
special car will no doubt carry many more than that number. 


Better. , 


Mr. Oswald Von Lengerke, who was at home ill nearly all of 


last week, is out this week, and although not yet a well man is 


pursuing his duties as usual, Houcs. 
HartFrorD BuILpInG, Chicago, Il. 
Trap at Watson’s Park, AaMA!S 


Burnside Crossing, IJll., Feb. 22—A special event at 25 live 
birds, $30 entrance birds included, was shot to-day. It was a high- 
gun competition, 60 and 40 per cent. division of the moneys. J. B. 
Barto was first with a straight score, and won $75. H.-S. Blacke 
was second with one bird less to his credit, and won $50, 


Geor Dols, +.s.<sepetre Se ee ran Senne ae 22122210222221222911*1212—23 
AVA)” Sp eurvereilsssies cele ee ee ene 2222222121221 222020221199 
Tee tS eB lac kee anvercpyetebsteltsise a vhncore de Ginnie too 122222%292929999999999919 94 
CRY Step ens iitsts sige tices ens a sae ss izaley 2222222299202*22229022002—19 
iP OD fey han, oboccatlconeyiyyeroen eon 12 o «2222122121122222191 2191 29-95, 

Seven birds, $3; 60 and 40 per cent.; high guns. Straights 


divided; to catch train: 


PNPM EC Ran es dooge dooce: Q111212—6 = Myrick .....,............ 111110w 
SERch LED a Aeace N tae actcenee erate ot 1221121—7 * J Gratiatiiea. eee eee 
@lipharity seer belles 12211127 Ed Graham............. 2222222—7 
Int tenia rene 1211010—5 


Nonpareil Gun Club, 


Watson’s Park, Burnside Crossing, Tll., Feb. 22—Phe WNon- 
pareil Gun Club held a club shoot to-day. It was a high-gun 
event, money divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent. Roll was first, 
Graham second, Kuss third. The scores: 


Shaw os......-s 222022221221112 14 J R Graham.,1122*2222229999 14 
TROL erste eye 221122211221112—15 Leff .:-....... 121221120221222—14 
Slephens, sacs 212010111111112—14 Rice .,........ 0**2102w 

INOS Sooo ony 222212222122122 15 Myrick ....,-..000000222211000— 6 
TEEN G RO Sooooe 221221222111211 15 Dr Miller ..... 012112000001111— § 
Blakey pe nensne 222222020*22222-12 Amberg ...... 121110121121211—14 


Ed Graham... ,222222222222222 15 
Ties on 15, miss-and-out, for first, second and third: 


TR GELS ARS AAD ARM aa th ete) Sayalemsior ny Ht Ane, 1111112222293912112 19 

KASS. Bos pelted eens Agape a dione ecco 2290992290220 

Ianto, eeeeuede Nell eAaern tace AAA AAR anes e eas 211121210 

Ed Graham Nrare sare igsatatabehareiary Gaulle epee Gay Seat oe 2222222229292229220 18 
RAVELRIGG. 


IN NEW JERSEY 


Carlstadt Gun Club. 


Carlstadt, N. J., Feb. 22,—The bad weather overhead and under 
foot was no bar to the attendance of the Carlstadt Gun Club 
members, as the appended list of shooters and scores will show. 
The weather was exceedingly stormy. During the flooded state 
of the roads, the trolley cars did not run, which will explain the 
absence of the Fairview Gun Club and the failure to shoot the 


match. Tt will be shot on March 8: 
123 45 6 7 8 91047 12 
25 15 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 
wnbal Urs Gop tar Uy ie eyes 
13 10 Bec oO: My Shee aor 
J AO." 6: he 4 be S45 Rs, Oe 
1S ll Siw) (ke are hiner sere tuner ante. 2040 19.63... 7 G bo 87 
TAT CLI CE tates teens tence sear pC oe ee ee ae ee ee 
(FEMI PDa ws isl canteeleeane a Rett mean mat. Heer pn Heep saey is elses “it 
Wr Rasmiusefaernetad teste e eee an ee nee Bey Oe Pf Beow ad we rt 
PURAsmi1s saseatranes oes 7 Saat te ee atta ceo ele ow ined de Rie 43): ree 4 
G! Frank .5<<572<5 (sole aapwen sows oe 6 32 39a aor) ae 
W Johnson. a terrterinttnrers ors TNE A YA time ea ah 
Wi Sly Pert: Sede se tess asa Vea 10: A ae se aie aa ed 
fie Mohs SLA Abt Wenona ley pi nite 45 4 7 a) te 


The New England Intetstate Team Match. 


Boston, Mass.—My friend Stark, from New Hampshire, in his 
usual breezy style, has started the shooters of that State 
in motion by his letter in your last issue. He has spoken of the 
division of the entrance money and expressed a wish that whatever 
money there is may not be wasted in the purchase of pewter, etc. 
While all such matters are to be settled by mutual agreement, I 
think Brother Stark need have no fear that anything but the coin 
of the realm will pass into the hands of the winning team or teams. 
New Hampshire, if she wins, will not receive any gold bricks, even 
if there be still a market for them in that enterprising State. 

His attack upon the Rose system appears to me to be a little 
hasty. Jf it was agreed that thete should be three moneys in the 
contest, the same amount would be paid the winning teams, 
whether the money was divided high guns, class shooting or Rose 
system, in case there were no ties. I am personally in favor of 
high gums in anv kind of a contest, but nevertheless I regard the 
Rose system as the most honest, most equtable and most attractive 
system ever adopted for shooters taking them as a whole. The 
objections te the class system are numerous and weighty. The 
single fact that a man shooting poorly enough te Jand in fourth 
place may win more than the man wha shoots well enough to 
Jand in first place, should condemn it. -The system is utterly bad 
and illogical. 

My friend Stark appears to think that some of the States ean 
put in better teams than New Hampshire can. Now, all the 
teams cannot win; that is a certainty. The New England States 
have never met in a team contest, and the supremacy of any State 
is an open question; so that it was to decide that question, as well 
as to promote the interest in trapshooting, that a few of us in 
Massachusetts had the temerity to propose the match, 

New Hampshire certainly will not acknowledge defeat before it 
comes, but enter the contest and accept victory or defeat in a 
sportsmanlike manner. J am acquainted with many of the New 
Hampshire shooters, and have always found them spottsmen of the 
first water, and am fully satisfied that they will live up to their 
reputation in this match, 

_ The contest will afford an opportunity for the shooters of the 
New England States to meet both away from home and at home in 
friendly rivalry, and the result cannot be other than a desire to 
improve on the part of the weaker teams and a constant evenines 
up of strength in contests of the future. May the best team win! 


«Rifle Bange and Gallery. 
5 pat ee 


Columbia Pistol and Rifle"Club.7°™ 


Tue tenth annual programme of the Columbia Pistol and Rifle 
Club. of San Francisco, follows: 

The range is at Harbor View, San Francisco. Shoots are held 
on the first and third Sundays, 9:30 to 5:30. Intermission, 12:30 


to 1. , 

All matches are re-entry on the Columbia target. The ten best 
scores of the year count. All shooting off-hand. Prizes, bars and 
medals are awarded at the annual banquet in December, 1902, after 
the final shoot. Classification for bars and prizes on ten best 10- 
shot scores: : ; 

Rifle, 200yds., 15 cents per 10 shots; one-half cash returned to 


bea fei in 50, 30 and 20 per cent, prizes; prizes also donated to 
atch; 


Gold Bar, Silver Bar. Bronze Bar. 
-420 500 559 


ELA DOMUSMUP EE Peps preset tom ten pba: 

SHAMPSHGGtersa “levi puet rors se semegeee , 700 750 
Maresnrenme wees uo eEEeceey ett 6.800 $00 1000 
_, Pistol, Slyds, Conditions same as rifle, above: 

Experts ...,. ieee Main cee rit fort 350 400 459 
SharpSHOOterS secse.iuonasesgecces ,--500 550 600 
Marksmen yyyecis.s.... SSGABAN BRE bate 650 750 850 

.22 and .25 rifle, 50yds. Conditions same as rifle, above: 

Peri Pee eek ee Tac atu oes 180 190 200 
Sat pPRHOGLErSal meee wesctilnl melee 220 240 260 
Marksmen ....... Pane ees 280 300 350 


AAS H0yds., same classification and conditions as rifle, 
above. 

Military and repeating rifle, 200yds., Creedmoor count, 10-shots, 
10 cents, Prizes donated. No cash returns: Experts’ gold bar, 
470; sharpshooters’ silver bar, 440; marksmen’s bronze bar, 420. 

Columbia gold medal is given with the first bar won with either 
rifle or pistol in the above classification. It consists of a winged 
billet and scroll from which the bars are suspended. 

Bars are won by members only and on 10-shot scores, as above 
classified. Each member may win one bar in each match, or five 
bars during the year. 

Cash prizes of classes consist of one-half of the cash shot in by 
the shooters that are in the respective classes at the end of the year, 
and it is divided into 50, 30 and 20 per cent. prizes in each class, 

Prize donations may be placed by the donors, otherwise by 
prize committee on the matches. First choice of cash or trophies 
shall be given to the contestant entitled to the highest cash prize 
in any class. Second choice cash or trophies shall be given to con- 
festant entitled to second highest cash prize in any class, etc. 

The all-round champion diploma shall be given to the shooter 
making the best score in the above five matches, counting his best 


_two scores in each match, ring count 


_, Phree-shot rifle, 200yds., open to all comers; 10 cents per score. 
Phree prizes guaranteed, $15, $10, $5 and donated prizes, 
_Three-shot pistol, 50yds., open to all comers, 10 cents per score, 
(me-half cash received divided into 50, 30 and 20 per cent. prizes. 

All comers may shoot for cash prizes and trophies in the 10-shot 
matches only in the expert classes. , 

_Rules.—Military rifles, trigger pull not under 6lbs., regulation 
sights; repeating rifles, allowed 3lbs, pull of trigger, Lyman rear 
sight, open front sight; fine fifle allowed any sights and trigger 
pull, and same rule with .22 and .25 rifles. Revolver, not under 
2lbs. trigger pull, open sights; pistol, not under 2lbs. ttigger 
pull, open sights. 

When starting any score contestant must designate on what 
inateh it counts, and after the score begins, every shot fired in the 
stand shall count, Each contestant must see that his shot is prop- 
erly recorded. 

All disputes, over marking or recording of shots shall be decided 
by the shooting master. An appeal can be taken to the executive 
committee. 

_ Any aggrieved contestant must present the question in dispute 
immediately upon its occurrence, or it will receive no considera- 
tion. 

Ttes for cash prizes shall be divided equally, and for other prizes 
they shall be decided by the worst shot in the winning score or 
scores, and if still a tie, by the next worst, ete. ; , 

The club is to be congratulated on being able to claim a larger 
membership than eyer; better and more modern range facilities; 
more equality in the matches, and last, but not least, the great 
shooting records that haye been made. The Walnut Hill system of 
clean targets has been adopted at the 5fyd. range, and each member 
now shoots his score on a clean farget, which is verified and siven 
to the shooter, thus insuring a correct count at and on the target, 
and preserving the shooter's record beyond dispute. The club is 
contemplating the introduction of the same system at 290yds. 

We thank the donors of the many prizes to this Club. They 
have stimulated the members and sport at large, and have not siven 
in vain, since they are not only encouraging this sport of all 
sports, but are aiding the younger generation to acquire skill in 
the use of the weapons which are used for self and national defense. 

Committee: 4 Brannagan, president; G. M. Barley, C. M. 
Daiss, W. G. Hoffman, F, O, Young, 

Secretary’s address: Fred 0, Young, 40 Ellis street, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 


San Francisco, Feb. 16.—Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club had 
hurricane conditions to-day, the worst storm of the year. r 
Hoffman tried for a 100-shot rifle record and made a fine showing, 
for conditions. He had a run of 34 in 10 shots, all in the 4in. ring, 
but one shot, a 7—and he was high with the fine score of 48. He 
had 98 shots in the 12in, bull, He shot FFF semi-smokeless, 
primed with King’s No. 8 Smokeless. A. J. Brannagan led with 
the revolver, Dr. Twist with the .22' rifle, and P. Becker in military 
match. Scores, off-hand on Columbia target, range, 200yds.: 

Rifle: W. G. Hoffman, 57, 61, 56, 77, 438, 61, 60, 82, 74, 74—645, or 
6.45in., ring average; A. B. Dorrell, 63, 57, 63, 53; F. O, Young, 
56,70, Td, 72, 19: Al HGady 57, 73) 75. iy. 

Three-shot rifle; A, B. Dorrell 15, A 

Military and repeating rifles, Creedmoor count: P. Becker 44, 44 
(80-30 Winchester Carbine). 

Fifty-yard range: 

Revolver: A, J. Brannagan, 47, 49, 54, 58; F. O. Young, 54; W, 
G. Hoffman, 62; W. R. Proll, 64 88; Dr. Twist, 78, $2, Ss. 

.22 rifle: Dr. J, F. Twist, 21, 24, 28, 30; Kd Hovey, 25, 27, 30; 
Gimmel, 29, 39, 49; E. A. Allen, 37; H. A. Baker, 44) 51. 

Pistol: F. O, Young, 50, 52, 57; H. A. Baker, 66. 

Frep. O. Youne, Sec’y, 


PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 


Last Florida Tout. 


VIA PENNSYLVANIA PAILROAD, 


Tue last Pennsylvania Railroad tour of the season .to Jackson- 
ville, allowing almost three months in Florida, will leave New York 
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, March 4. 

Exeursion tickets, including railway transportation, Pullman 
accommedations, one berth, and meals en route while going on 
the special train, will be sold at the following rates; New York, 
$50; Philadelphia. Harrisburg, Baltimore and Washington, $48; 
Pittsburg, $53, and at proportionate rates from other points, Re- 
turning passengers will use regular trains until May 31, 1902. 
Tickets admit of a stop-off at Charleston Exposition on return trip. 

For tickets, itineraries, and other information apply to ticket 
agents, or to Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, 
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.—Adv, 


’ Cheap Colonist Rates to the Northwest. 


To Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Northwest 
Wyoming the Burlington Route will sell very cheap tickets every 
day during March and April from Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis. 

If you want to get there in quick time, comfortably, yet with 
the least expense, ask your ticket agent about our chair car and 
tourist sleeping car service, or write me for our colonist folder, 
which tells all about it, P. S. Eustis, General Passenger Agent 
C., B. & Q. Ry., Chicago.—Adv. 


The exhibition of the Racine Boat Manufacturing Company, of 
Racine, Wis., will be one of the features of the New York Sports- 
man’s show, which opens next week, This concern, from small 
beginnings, has so grown, that it now manufactures yachts, boats, 
launches and canoes, together with engines, boilers and electro- 
vapor motors. It has no less than twelve agencies in the United 
States, and eleven in foreign countries, including Great Britain, 
France, Germany, Austria, and Russia, beside Australia. The cuts 
siven in the advertisement printed on another page will convey 
to those who are interested a clear idea of the very great yariety 
of craft manufactured and for sale by this successful concern.— 
Adv, 


The question of a camp-fire for cooking his food is a burning 
one for many a man. The Khotal, a camp range, biirning vapor- 
ized kerosene, is said to have many advantages. Tf it is “small 
enough to pack in your canoe” and “powerful enough to keep your 
tent warm,”’ if is something that the axeeaes camper ought to in- 
vestigate, when one can learn all about it by sending a stamp for 
illustrated catalogue to the advertiser, that seems worth doing.— 

ie 

As-uisnal at this season, Messrs. Wilbur & Wheeloek, of Clayton, 
NW. Y., call Sttention to their St. Lawrence River skiffs and canoes 
built of cedar. The merits of these craft are described in the 
firm’s catalogue, which will be sent on receipt of stamp.—Ady, 

i y) ei ee We AO Te ee War 


OREST AND STREAM. 


A WEEKLY J ournat or THE Rop ann Gun. 


Copyricut, 1902, sy Forest anp STREAM Pusiisuine Co. 


TERMS, $4 Year. 10 Crs. a Copy, [| 
Srx Montus, $2. if 


NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1902. 


VOL. LVIII.—No. 10. 
| No, 346 Broapway, New Yorr 


WOOD DUCK AND WOODCOCK. 


In 1890 the Legislature of Ontario enacted a law pro- 
viding that “if at any time it shall appear that any mi- 
gratory game bird is in danger of extinction, and that the 
shooting and sale thereof has been forbidden in any two 
or more of the States lying to the south of Ontario, one 
of such States being New York or Pennsylvania or Michi- 
gan, ,the Lieutenant-Goyernor-in-Council may protect 
such bird in Ontario for the period in which it is pro- 
tected in the States.’ With a view to making this 
effective with respect to the two species of wood duck 
and woodcock, the Game Commissioners in May of last 
year, directed Chief Warden Tinsley to correspond with 
the sportsmen’s associations in the States concerned to 
learn their attitude toward a close time for this game. 
Mr. Tinsley also, through the Forest AND STREAM, in- 
vited correspondence on the subject. 

The result of this request is given in the current report. 
Mr. Tinsley received responses from representative sports- 
men in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, New York and Dela- 
ware, expressing the generally held conviction that im- 
mediate steps should be taken for the protection of the 
two species. The testimony adduced is to the effect 
that the wood duck in the territory concerned is a vanish- 
ing species. Mr. C. T. Bodfield, Secretary of the Ohio 
Sportsmen’s Protective Association, says “the wood duck 
is almost unknown to our hunters in this State, and very 
few are seen each year.» Mr. W. B. Mershon writes 
trom Saginaw, “Wood ducks, I think, are practically ex- 
tinct here. I have not seen one for years, and our little 
streams used to be full of them.” , 

Whatever may be the immediate result of the agitation 
for protection of this duck—one of the most beautiful 
and valuable of all the feathered tribe—antl one cannot 
hope for any speedy result, the efforts of Mr. Tinsley. 
and his associates have at least served to direct atten- 
tion to the subject and have awakened interest in it; 
and if the discussion shall be kept up, there is reason- 
able ground of confidence that Ontario and the States 
concerned ‘may in the near future have uniform laws 
which will accomplish the desired end. 


+. 


OUR FOREST RESERVES. 


ALTHOUGH it is well known that forest reserves have 
been established by the United States, and their area has 
often been stated, the general public has little or no 
specific knowledge of where they are situated, the extent 
of each or the character of the country within their 
botindaries. These details should be known. The table 
published this week gives mtich of this information. 
The only point untouched is as to the character of the 
country embraced in the different reserves. On the other 
hand, the table is a historical document which shows the 
date at which each reservation was set aside and at which 
each has been added to or diminished. All this informa- 
tion is of great value to every citizen. 

When these reserves were set aside by Presidential 
proclamation, their precise permanent geographical limits 
were not known, nor was it known whether the whole 
tract set aside was public domain or was in part occupied 
by settlers who had claims or titles within the boundaries 
established. To have waited until the tracts decided on 
as suitable for reservations should be surveyed would 
have postponed the establishment of the reserves for very 
many years, during which the work of destruction of the 
forests would have continued without let or hindrance, to 
the yery great injury of the inhabitants of the Western 
country. It was very wisely determined to establish the 
reserves’ boundaries by straight lines then, and to survey 
them afterward, and when their proper limits had been 
learned, to correct errors by subsequent proclamations. The 
work of surveying and of correction is now going on, and 
the table shows a number of cases where large areas have 
been subtracted from certain of the reserves as originally 
established, and are now restored to the public domain. 

Of the character of the country in all these reserves 
no one person is thoroughly informed. Yet some of the 
most competent men in the United States have journeyed 
over most of them, and as time goes on we may expect 
full reports on all. One such report—that on the Black 
Mesa Forest Reserye—is now in our hands, and will soon 
be published. What we do know about these reserves 1s 
that in the past they have been the homes of almost all 
the species of big game native to temperate America. In 


i 


the northern central reserves, or in some of them, are 
still found a few elk, moose and sheep, and a greater num- 
ber of bears, goats, deer of two species, and perhaps a 
few antelope. Jn this same country the buffalo once 
ranged. To the west of the Rocky Mountains in the 
north are deer of three species, a few elk and moose, 
many goats, some sheep and bears, and possibly ‘still a few 
caribou. Again, to the southward, there are sheep and 
deer, while still further south there are sheep, deer, a 
few antelope and the almost extinct Merriam’s elk, if any 
of that species still survive. 

The unanimous voice of the nature lovers and sports- 
men of the United States calls for the setting aside as 
speedily as possible of these forest reserves, in part at 
least, as game refuges, where no hunting whatever shall 
be permitted, but where the game shall be allowed to 
live and to increase undisturbed. If this shall be done, 
and done soon, the results will be such that the wisdom 
of the action will soon be apparent to every one. ‘The 
rapidity with which game increases when protected is well 
known and has been nowhere better shown than in the 
Yellowstone National Park. There is no reason why 
we should not have scattered over the Western country a 
dozen or twenty great areas similar to the National Park, 


all swarming with big game, which would overflow into 


the stirrounding country. To the borders of such refuges 
hunters would come from all parts of the world, each 
anxious to secure specimens of the great game now so 
hard to fnd, and each visiting hunter would leave among 
the guides and ranchmen hundreds of dollars, paid out 
for services, supplies and’ horse hire. From the same 
overflow the settlers round about could kill their winter’s 
meat and would thus receive a double benefit. Indeed, no 
one would be so greatly profited by the establishment of 
such refuges as the settlers living near them. One would 
suppose that from the States in which these forest re- 
seryes lie there would come a united demand for the 
action suggested, for it is these States that will recetve 
all the money benefit from the refuges. 


PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DUCKING WAYS. 


We spoke last week of the way in which various species 
of game became educated tnder new conditions of rela- 
tionship with the human race. A noteworthy example 
of this is referred to in the current report of the Ontario 
Game Commission, in which attention is directed to the 
fact that the wildfowl are coming more and more to fre- 
quent the marshes controlled by wildfowl preserves. At 


- the first blush it might appear an anomaly that the game 


should seek refuge and security on the very grounds 
dedicated to their destruction; but there is a very good 
reason for their action, and the security which they seek 
is in latge measure given them. This is due, as Commis- 
sioner MacCallum, who writes the report, points out, to 
the fact that on the club grounds it is in many cases with 
Ontario preserves the rule that shooting does not begin 
promptly with the opening of the season on the first of 
September, bit later, and often not until late as October. 
With shooting elsewhere from the first day continuously, 
it is a matter of course that the fowl should seek harbor 
on the marshes where there are no deadly guns. Again, 
on the preserves, when shooting actually is in progress, 
none is practiced before 8 o’clock in the morning and 
after sundown in the evening; and as nothing tends to 
drive ducks from their feedings grounds moré certainly 
than shooting before sunrise and after sunset, it is not 
strange that the club marshes should have game while 
other territory is abandoned. j 

For this reason the club preserves are preserves in 
fact, and the benefit of them is by no means confined to 
the club members, but in a general way extends to the 
public at large. 

This is another illustration of the great truth that 
public business should be conducted on the lines approved 
and practiced in private business affairs; and those prin- 
ciples of game protection which govern in private pre- 
serves should be adopted also for the vast preserve of 
which the public is owner and user. If our game laws 
were a transcript of the rules of a game club, and if 
our fishing laws were copied from the rules of a fishing 
preserve, and our general practice with respect to re- 
plenishing the supply and limiting the take should follow 
those of the club. organizations, the ideal theory and 
practice of game and -fish protection would bein a fair 
way of attainment, } 


It is to be noted that a club which owns a fishing or 
shooting privilege which has cost it something to 
acquire, does not this year proceed recklessly to use up 
and exhaust its resources without thought of next year. 
On the contrary, it considers carefully the question of 
how to provide a new stock of fish or to leave a parent 
stock of game for the fishing and shooting of another 
season. It drafts rules to govern its members and to 
control their action with a view to this conserving of 
the common stock for the common enjoyment of all. No 
club member in these days is allowed to kill indiscrimi- 
nately and without limit the fish or game of the club; he 
is strictly bound by club rules. It is only the individual 
who is taking the public fish or game who considers that 
he has license to get all he can. The legal limitations 
on numbers of fish taken in a day or of birds killed in a 
day, are nothing more than an incorporation into the 
laws governing shooters in general of the rules of demand 
and supply which the clubs have voluntarily adopted for 
themselves. That State to-day has the best game and 
fish laws which in its statutes has approached most closely 
the club rules of a preserve. 


THE STORM AND THE BIRDS. 


THE storm of two weeks ago was of the destructive 
kind which imperils in vast areas the lives of the game 
birds, and the kind which, in the mind of sportsmen, 
arouses forebodings of an open season devoid of birds 
and therefore devoid of sport. The experience of previous 
years in respect to similar storms affords good grounds 
for apprehension of grave disaster. 

The storm followed a spell of pleasant weather. It 
was a heavy downfall, ample in volume to cover up the 
Jevies which sought shelter from it in the fence corners 
or fallen tree tops, or hollow logs. A boisterously fierce 
wind set in, drifting the snow thoroughly and thereby 
adding further to the dangerous situation of the game 
birds. In the night the storm changed to mingled rain 
and sleet, which froze on everything with which it came 
in contact. Daylight brought to view a beautiful sight 
of glistening perspective. Every branch of tree, twig, 
telegraph wire, as well as larger objects, were heavily 
coated with firm ice, enchanting to behold. So heavy, 
indeed, was the encrusted ice, that many trees were more 
or less wrecked by the weight of it. 

The ice, formed by the sleet and cold, was the final 
touch which endangered the life of the game birds. The 
snow covered them and the icy crust imprisoned them. 
When thus covered over with snow, over which an icy 
ertist is formed, quail are as firmly imprisoned as if 
they were within irom walls, and death comes to them 
from starvation ot slow suffocation, or both. Whole 
bevies dead imthe spot where they sought shelter are the 
common results to be seen after the snow has melted 
away, over the whole area affected by stich a storm. The 
full consequences, however, cannot be known for weeks 
to come. Farmers, when the plowing season comes, may 
report finding the remains of many bevies here and 
there in their fields; the whistle of Bob White will be 
seldom heard in the spring season, and when the open 
season comes there will be a dearth of birds, and by 
such, if it happen, the sportsman will know that this 
great storm of February, 1902, brought great loss to bird 
life and wholesome sport. 

And yet, often as the lesson of the storm has been 
driven home by disaster, there is seldom any precaution 
taken to protect game bird life against a possible recur- 
rence of the disaster. Birds are imported, turned out 
in the denuded grounds, and, as a rule, the rest is left 
to Providence. A few rough shelters here and there in 
their haunts, to which they could safely retreat in case 
of destructive storms, a few bushels of grain scattered 
‘about in the season of winter’s dearth, and the worst 
storms could be safely passed through without loss. 
The lesson of the storm, however often taught as it con- 
cerns the game birds, seems to be one which is taught 
only to be forgotten. i 


Rev. Percy F. Grant, of the Church of the Ascension, 
New Vork city, in a Lenten sermon the other Sunday, 
exhorted his congregation during the forty days of Lent 
to “eat as few birds as possible, particularly pigeons and 
song birds.” That is pretty good advice as to song birds 
for the year around, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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[Marce 8, 1902. 


Che Sportsman 


Counrist. 
——_ 


The Toter’s Gun. 


“SHE'S pooty good o’ gon yet, anyway. Maybe I keel 
heem one bock some day bimeby.” 

“Got any ammunition, Pete?” asked a young and ten- 
der sportsman who stood beside the jumper, his new 
woven cartridge belt bristling with the deadly ,30-30., 

“Oui, I got heem in my pawket,’ and old Pete, the 
toter, shoved a grimy hand in the pocket of his sawed-off 
trousers and dug up a highly polished .38-40 cartridge. 

“Maybe I see one to-day, maybe so; maybe pas d’un 
bock te-night.” And Pete gravely returned his ammuni- 
tion to his pocket where he deftly exchanged it for a 
piece of spear-head. He weighed the tobacco mentally 
with one eye closed and bit off just enough to leave two 
chews for the trail and one for the river crossing, Then 
Pete took his archaic weapon, tied it carefully on the 
stakes of his jumper, and prepared to hit the trail. The 
rifle was an 1873 model, full magazine and full stock, 
rusted outside, and the top slide and butt-plate were 
missing. 

“Aren't you afraid it will blow back and hurt you 
some day?” asked the “sport.” 

“Sapré non, not dis gon, He shoots out by dis end,” 
said Pete, placing his finger argumentatively on the muz- 
zle of his rusty rifle. 

“By gat, I guess maybe I sleep hout on trail to-night,” 
he added. “Gee dap, you new hoss. What you know 
“bout jumpers?” Then the toter, balancing himself on a 
thin rope stretched across the standards of his rude 
jumper, wended his squeaky way down the trail. 

At the camp the cook stood in the doorway waiting for 
Pete and his jumper load_of provisions. He waited till 
Pete rose stiffly from his seat of torture and stepped in 
toward the cook room door. Johnny was eyeing the 
toter sharply. 

“Pierre, avez vous tuez un gros bock?” 

Peter made no reply, but sniffed theair of the cook 
room hungrily. It was his habit to force the cook to 
speak English and then he would make his reply in the 
French of the North woods. 

Johnny grew impatient. “Did you keel one big bock, 
Pete? You only gat one days lef for keel him, you 
*member dat.” 

“Go on wid your soupai, boy. I don’ need but one 
leetle part one days for keel one bock when I get ready 
for heem,” 

“Pas d'un bock,” shouted the cook, and he executed a 
nimble step on the cook room floor. 

“Bien, mon oncle, you lose two pouns la belle spear- 
head and buy your own ammunition. Honly, by gar, you 
don’ need heem, You got mos’ nuff do you hall winter 
less you keel one hedge peeg,” and the young chef de 
cuisine of the Burnt Lands camp went about his cooking 
singing a merry chanson of the river. 

After supper, while a group of sportsmen were gathered 
around a table in the big camp, Johnny and Pete sat on 
the bunk in the cook room. Pete smoked in silence and 
Johnny looked long into the glowing embers. The sub- 
ject of the younger man’s thoughts was probably several 
days’ snowshoe journey to the northward, where an 
apple-cheeked maiden was also cotinting the days until 
the hunting season should close and Jean should return 
to the settlement to be snubbed and petted, frozen and 
smothered according to her caprice. 

Finally Johnny slid off the bunk and took from over 
the door the log book in which the guides made from 
time to time rudely inscribed entries of events of moment 
to the gens des bois. After carefully sharpening a stubby 
pencil he rode it laboriously across the page four times, 
his tongue between his teeth and a look of agony on his 
handsome, boyish face. Then he laughed softly, and 
looked at old Pete, whose stolid countenance showed no 
sign of interest in the procedure. Ii Pete had been able 
to read writing the page might have told him that: 

“Jean Bateese Badeau win two poun’ speerhead tabac 
de P. Rosignol, 7 octobre, parce que Pierre don’ keel him 
no bock between 1 octobre to 7 octobre, 1901.” 

But Pete had had no bright-eyed Louise to teach him 
to write the English during the long winter evenings 
at the settlement, and he slept none the less soundly on 
that night of October 6. 

The next morning the-young and tender “sport” was 
going out.- His wangan was all packed and lashed on the 
buckboard. A white choker had replaced the blue flannel 
shirt and the bristling cartridge belt was far down in his 
box below most of his clothing. 

The young “sport” had won old Pete’s gratitude by 
reading to him Johnny’s entry in the log book, dated 
one day too soon. 

“T’ll clean heem out once,” said Pete, as he shoved an 
oily rag down the rusty throat of his old rifle. 
got to keel me one bock dis morny, ‘cause I need some 
tabac an’ when I shoot dis ones I need him some cat- 
ridge, too.” 

The goddess of the hunt arranged things nicely for the 
toter that morning, probably for the same reason she 
sends a big buck down back of the camp for the Mexican 
moso who can shoot and who needs but three cartridges 
for a week’s hunt. — 

Old Pete was walking ahead of his horses over the 
well worn river trail. His lively gait, the noise of the 
rattling buckboard and the fact that the “sport” was insist- 
ently whistling a jerky if merry tune, did not keep the 
toter from looking ahead on every turn of the trail, or 
from placing his bots sauvage carefully at every step. 
It was a habit of long standing. Your true woodsman 
neyer makes an tinnecessary noise on the trail or in the 
woods. 

Suddenly Pete stopped, wheeled and held his hands up 
before the horses’ heads so that they were checked so 
quickly that the young sportsman nearly pitched over the 
front of the buckboard. Against all customs of the 
woods, and against all traditions, a handsome buck stood 
on the open ridge, 75 yards from the trail, looking in- 
tently at the horses. ; 

Pete trotted quickly and noiselessly back beside the 
buckboard, keeping the horses between himseli and the 
deer. He cast loose the spun yarn that lashed the old 


“She’s | 


rifle to the side of the buckboard seat, dropped the lever, 
slipped his shiny cartridge into the chamber and closed 
the action quickly and noiselessly. The young man on 
the seat saw the deer and reached nervously for his rifle 
case, and then remembered that all his cartridges were in 
the belt far down in the box, and he sank back on the 
seat and watched the buck which was walking slowly 
along the ridge still gazing at the horses. 

Old Pete’s aim was long and steady. Then the .38-40 
spoke sharply, and the buck gave a great bound and dis- 
appeared behind a little patch of undergrowth. Pete 
turned and was replacing the rifle on the buckboard, 


There was to be no wild pumping of shells in this hunt- 


ing. 

“You hit him, Peter, you hit him!” shouted the young 
man, wildly, as he leaped noisily to the ground. 

Pete caught his arm. “Prenez garde,” whispered the 
toter, ‘‘maybe she’s lay down in a minute. She's got a 
shoulders broke down,’ he added, as he took his short- 
handled ax out of the seat box. He moved silently up 
and over the ridge, not a sound coming from beneath his 
careijully placed moccasins. 

After waiting and listening, ten minutes the sportsman 
again climbed down from the buckboard, and 150 yards 
rem the trail he found the driver dressing out a fine 
buck. 

When the toter’s team returned to the camp on the 
lake, Johnny again stood in the doorway, arrayed in a 
long and loud pair of lawn tennis trousers, a present from 
the young “sport.” 

Pete climbed slowly down fram his seat and unhitched 
his horses. Not a word was spoken, and a look of confi- 
dence sat on the boyish features of the young cook as he 
turned to his duties in the cook house. ~ 

Pete returned from the “hovel’’ after caring for his 
horses, and with a fine display of carelessness tossed a 
bright and shiny empty .38-40 shell to his nephew, and 
taking down a rod from the gunhook on an overhead 
beam began to clean his “longue carabine” with some 
ostentation. 

“Vous avez tuez,’ Johnny began, with a gasp of sur- 
prise. “You keel one, Oncle Peter Where is she?’ — 

“T got heem een ma pawket,” replied Pete, slapping his 
lez and bringing forth a muffled jingle. 

Sunday Johnny walked twelve miles over the trail to 
the river camp and returned with two big plugs of spear- 
head tobacco and six .38-40 cartridges. 

Once more by the ruddy glow of the firelight the 
young woodsman rode the stubby pencil across the page 
of the log book, and when he finally arose from his task 
the page showed a new entry beneath the one canceled 
by two black lines. 

He read it to Pete: J =P 

“> octobre. Pierre Jacques Rosignol’ win 2 pouns 
specr-head and some catridge de J Badeau. Pierre keel 
his bock alright.” FRANK E. WOLFE. 


Wild Horses. 


Editor Forest and Stream; . 

Several weeks ago there was an article in the Forest 
AND STREAM about “Wild Horses.” I have in my library 
a book entitled “Trip to the West and Texas,” comprising 
a journey of eight thousand miles through New York, 
Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas in the 
winter of 1834-5 by A. A. Parker, The book was pub- 
lished by William White, Concord, N. H., in 1836. 

The picture of a wild horse that your correspondent 
says he saw in one of the school readers when he was a 


_ boy is in this book, 


The author gives his personal experience of the wild 
horse. I quote from page 160: sa 

“The scenes of Texas have so much fascination about 
them, that one is disinclined to come down to the details 
of a commonplace description of the country. But the 
whole truth must be told. The public have a right, and 
in fairness ought to know the true state of the case. The 
emigrant cannot liye on air, or by admiring the beauties 


-of the country. It is of importance to him to know what 


facilities the country offers, for obtaining the mneces- 
saries and conveniences of life, and what the prospect 
may be of enjoying them when obtained. A 

“In the first place, I shall strike off from the list of 
the resources of the country, ‘the immense herds of 
buffalo and wild horses.’ They are often paraded in 
the many published descriptions of Texas, as a most 
prominent feature in the bright picture exhibited, and 
as one of the many inducements to the emigrants to re- 
move thither. They are no sort of benefit to the settler 
at all. They generally keep ahead of poptlation, some 
small herds only are ever seen near the settlements, and 
there is not inducement enough for the husbandman to 
leave his farm and go far into the interior, to catch the 
wild horse and kill the buffalo among the tribes of hostile 
Indians, as the prospect of gain would not equal the hard- 
ship, risk and expense. The wild horse is an animal hard 
to catch, and when caught, it is difficult and troublesome 
to tame him, and render him gentle and kind in harness 
and under the saddle. It would be as well for the 
farmer if the fact of their existence were not known, as 
it is easier to raise the animal in this country of ever- 
green pasture, than to catch and tame the wild one. 
There is one point of view, in which a knowledge of 
the existence of these animals may be of some im- 
portance to the emigrant; it is proof positive of the 
natural luxuriance of the soil, and of the mildness of the 


. climate. 


“The wild horses are called by the Spaniards, mustangs. 
I saw some small herds of them prancing at random 
over the plains. They.are quite wild; you can seldom 
approach very near them. They are of various colors and 
of tather smaller size than the American horse. The 
Spaniards are fond of good horses, and are good horse- 
men. Some of them make a business of catching and 
breaking the mustangs. This is. done by building a fence 
in the shape of a harrow, with a long pen at the small 
end, and driving them into it; or mounting a fleet horse, 
get as near as they can unperceived, then start after them 
at full speed, throw a rope with a slip noose at one 
end, and the other fastened to the saddle, around the 
neck, hal out at right angles with their course, and 
choke them down, When caught, they put the bridle on, 
take them into a large, soft prairie, mount them at once, 


flog them with the greenhide, and let them plunge 
and rear until they become fatigued and subdued. After 
undergoing a few more operations of this kind, they~ 
are ‘fit for use.” They are sold at various prices, from six 
to twelve dollars; but unless they are caught when young 
they meyer become gentle as other horses.” 

TERRY SMITH. 


A Walk Down South.—XIX. . 


On the morning of Christmas Eye I ate breakfast in 
Marion, and then headed down the road for Seven Mile 
Ford and Saltyille. The snow was three inches deep, and 
the mud underneath about the-same. It was neither cold 
nor warm, a damp day on which one could neither shiver 
nor sweat, though it seemed as if 1 would do both. My 
shoulders ached, and the pack drew down insistently. 
The first two miles were miserable, then-the tegion as- 
serted itself. The valley was broken with nubs and knolls, 
and there were patches of brushy woods. 

My trail- was along the railroad track, and I- walked 
on the ties. Too close together for me to step on every 
one, they were still too far apart to skip every other one. 
I forgot the disagreeable features of the atmosphere in my 
study of the railroad track. 

Pretty soon a little man overtook me. His shoulders 
were covered with wheat straw and chaff. His brown 
whiskers, likewise, had straw in them. He wore a blue 
blouse and blue overalls, and shoes that let in a good deal 
of the weather from above, and of the slushy snow from 
beneath. 

He was piking it southwatd, too; what part he didn’t 
know or care. He had started late, and that weather 
overtook him; he didn’t like it. He was ina hurry, He 
didn’t like to talk—what was the use? His voice was 
clear, his eye bright, his words were well pronounced— 
better than my own, in fact—yet he was a plain tramp, a 
hobo wanderer, used to the ties, for he stepped on every 
one, which I found to be the best way after a bit. 

We met a freight train, and a big brakeman in the 
caboose whom I had met at Radford waved a greeting 
at me and took a second look at my companion. In a 
rock at a curve I saw a railroad watchman’s house. Two 
men have been kept there for thirty years to warn trains 
in case a rock rolls down into the cut. The cost of 
removing the rocks would be less than the cost of keeping 
the men there two years. ’ 

I reached Seven Mile Ford and ate dinner. It was 
good. One feature was a seven-story chocolate layer 
cake; there was the usual abundance of fruits. 

-When I started on for Saltville, twelve miles away, the 
snow was melting and the walking slippery. I wanted to 
reach Saltville, but I had my doubts about doing it in 
such walking. I leaned to my pack, however, and plodded 
on, up the middle of the road, turning aside only when 
the water actually covered the mud and snow, ankle or 
more deep all the while. 

Three miles down the main road I turned to the right 
and started up a brook-side road. On a hill to the right 
was a clump of trees, with scores of buzzards among and 
over them, They seemed to take turns in circling around 
through the air, perhaps in a kind of grace contest. They 
alighted with more ease and less fuss than any bird I ever 
saw. Some came down on the branches and some swept 
up to them, but they all alighted with widespread wings 
and closed them without the awkward balancing which 
characterizes the hawks and crows, for instance. 

I met a couple of young fellows on horseback, who 
‘lowed to have some fun with me, I reckon. They wanted 
to swap a shotgun for my rifle, they said. But I wasn’t 
trading. The jeering note in the tones of their voices 
gaye way after a bit, but I came away, not having time to 
satisfy their curiosity there, for I was pressed for time, 

A couple of miles further on I saw a flock of twelve or 
fourteen quail in an orchard, proud little dandies with a 
pert way of tossing their heads and le@oking as if flirting 
with one another. A few rods beyond I found a dead 
rabbit in the middle of the road, but could not determine 
the cause of its death. There were no shot marks that 
I could see. 

There was a gap in the first ridge of the mountain on 
the south side of the north fork of the Holston River, As 
I entered it the woods were rich velvety in appearance, 
caused by the rich hues of dark-barked trees and the 
sun spreading a pink glow over the cloudy sky. It was 
then sunset. s 

The grade was long and up all the time, as the road 
scught a gap in the next ridge. I saw quail and rabbit 
tracks at intervals in the snow. I reached the crest at 
last in time to see the last red coal of the sunset, and then 
I went down into the still gloom of a valley. I came 
to a log cabin. An old woman was washing a red sock at 
a roadside spring there. She turned on me with a keen, 
repulsing voice to say that she didn’t know how far it 
was to Saltville. A girl of twelve years or less was 


~ chopping wood in the snow beside the cabin. On one of 


her feet was a shoe, with water oozing in and out of the 
holes, Her other foot was perfectly bare, and halfburied 
in the lead-colored slush. She stopped her work and 
drew in her head as she looked at me, her lips curling 
and her ball-eyes starting. I came on down the hill a 
ways and met a ten-year-old boy with the same kind of 
eyes, the same long tawny hair, carrying a sack of meal as 
big as his body. He passed me with the expression that 
ao ee vgs dog has, an expectant side-long look at my 
eels. 

Down in the sully I came to a cluster of cabins, from 
one of which came the strains of banjo picking and a 
song, cheerful in the falling gloom. 

I went down to the door, and one of several colored 
young people came to tell me the road to Saltville. It was 
a short cut through the pasture bars, across yon corn- 
field, through the woods and then down the road, 

With night had come a frosty cold, much pleasanter 
than the shivery warmth of the day. <A crackly crust 
formed on the snow, and, by the light of the moon, I 
neared the end of the longest and hardest day’s tramp I 
had ever taken. It had begun with a miserable feeling 
of doubt and weariness, but toward the last I whistled a 
march tune, stepping buoyantly, forgetful of the pack and 
miles hehind me. 

Before I cleared the patch of woods I saw, far below 
me off across a flat, an electric light. Slipping, scram- 
bling and jumping, I plunged down the road, leaving long 


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lines in the snow where my feet plowed in the hillside. 

-I came into a sidehill cow pasture with a big hulk, 
where an overhead wire tram got its buckets filled, There 
I lost the road, but by the big electric light and the many 
yellow house lights, I succeeded in finding my way along 

a Z-route to the Palmer Inn, guided by a big darky who 
was going that way, but hesitated to walk beside me for 
fear he might be rebuked. But he was a good darky, 
named*Henry Johnson, and the mile-long walk with him 
down the railroad track in a drizzly rain, past a hillside 
row of houses, located by their yellow, comfortable-look- 
ing lights, was not the least interesting of the miles I’ve 
come, 

Tt was toward the close of the supper hour when I 
came dripping up the hotel steps and dropped my pack 
with a thump at the feet of a plump young lady, Miss 
America Farris, and asked could I get something to eat? 

I ate; then listened to a disctission about mesmerism, 
hypnotism and some of the —ologies, which I could keep 
track of, though it was mighty interesting. Then the 
negro question came in for its share of motion and emo- 
tion. One young man said he hoped that when the time 
came to kill off the black men, that he’d be there with a 
double-barreled shotgun. ; 

One man in the office was exceedingly attractive. He 
was very broad in the shoulders, erect, brown-eyed, 
black-haired, and black-mustached. His skin looked soft, 
rendered pliable by many climates. There was something 
in the bearing of the man that showed he was not like 
the others there in most respects. It was Christmas eve, 
and in spite of the rain there were fireworks being set 
off—Roman candles, skyrockets and giant firecrackers. 
When one of the latter went off with a bang unexpectedly 
many of those in the room—some professed fire-eaters— 
jumped and looked behind them. This man’s eye light- 
ened a little, but that was all the sign he gave. 

I answered a few questions on the following day, and 
samebody pointed to the man whom I had noticed on 
the previous evening to say: 

“There’s a man who's traveled everywhere. He’s been 
all over the world. His name is Backley.” 

We passed a ‘Good morning,” and then Backley and 
I became acquainted. It was a dismal Christmas so far 
as the weather was concerned; a hatsh mist came down 
intermittently, all the while the clouds hung leaden-hued 
at the tops of the fort-crowned ridges around Saltville— 
fortified because the salt wells there were very important 
to the Confederacy during the Civil War. A mile above 
town was a battle ground. It was hard for me to be 800 
or so miles from home on that day, and Backley was 
not more cheerful than I. ; 

Backley had been in New Zealand and Australia for 
many years. -He was longing for that land of moderation, 
as 1 was longing for the deep snow and teethed winds of 

the Adirondacks, We could, at least, tell of those lands 

_ we could think of only with quickening pulse and lifting 
chests, 

His room had‘a fire in it, so we went there. He had 
“camped down” by many streams, on many trails. Once 
he and a parduer were coming down a New Zealand river 
jn a canvas canoe with 2,000 ounces of gold; a sharp rock 
split the craft in a rapid and the men were glad to escape 
with their lives. He had rolled the dough of his baking 
powder bread round a two-foot long stick and turned it 
over and over a blaze made out of dry grass for fuel. 
While-his pardner fed the fire and pulled grass the roly- 
poly was kept as close to the heat as was best, He had 
seen the Yagans at Cape Horn, and the Indians of 
Canada. He had been a United States Navy sailor, a 
cowman in Australia, and had dug the vegetable cater- 


pillar under the rata tree, He had been from New York 


to California, from Egypt to Australia; he could sympa- 
thize with the foot-sore and travel-stained more than any- 
one I had seen before: So I got out my French harp 
(harmonica) and he took down his banjo, and we went 
at it with a quiver and a twang. 
“Did you ever step into 
An Trishman’s shanty, 
Where the boys and the girls 
Are always in plenty, . 
And the door of the shanty . 2) 
Was locked with a latch?” 5 


“Oh, round town gals, 
Can you come out to-night? 
Can you come out to-night?’ 
Can you come out to-night? 
And dance by the light of the moon?” 


These and other tunes followed one another in rapid 
melodious progression till even Christmas was bearable 
far from home. 

Backley had a knife—one of those 9-inch bladed, bone- 
handled, pound-and-a-half affairs. His pardner had car- 
ried it through British India to Australia, where on some 
wallaby trail Backley met him. After a while Backley 
received the knife as a gilt, and he carried it through 
France, Egypt and the Australasia wilds. Far up in the 
mountains of Southwest Virginia, at a little town where 
they make caustic soda, alkalies and salt, Backley and I 
met, be 

“Vou're started now,” said Backley, when he heard that 
I was inexperienced. “I’m afraid there’s no, telling when 
you'll stop. Take this knife; you'll find it useful.” 

TI took it and then looked through the window at the 
hills beyond the oil-well-like salt derricks. 

For days Backley and I kept the music or the memory 
going. Others heard us at the music. One night -we had 
a dance. The three fast jigs I knew were just right. 
Many of the changes in the square dances were familiar 
ones, but some were new, and some had novel names. 
We of the Adirondacks call “Cut that figure eight,” 
where the Virginian called out “Now chase the squirrel.” 
“Swing through” means balance to the rear; “Shoo-fly” 
is just “Cut ’er down.” 

Backley and I-were astonished when we tried some 
waltzes and two-steps on the dancers. There was not one 


present among them who could go through the round 


dances. 

The rain fell steadily most of the time I was at Saltville. 
But Backley and I got out our cameras and took photo- 
graphs in spite of the weather. We were equally enter- 
tained by the accounts Ed Eulis gave of his experiences. 
He had shot a man in self-defense, “rocked niggers,” 
seen men shot and stabbed. He knew of a West End 


FOREST AND STREAM 


Radford (Virginia) boy who went to see an East End 
Radford girl, greatly to the dislike of the East End boys. 
The East End boys tried to run the West Ender out. The 
West Enders came to the rescue. There were thirty-two 
shots, fired, and four boys hurt, - 
Meantime I learned that it would be a good plan to get 
a boat and go down the Little (North Fork) Holston 
after | got down the river a ways. The days of my pack 
carrying seemed to be drawing to a close, and, all rose- 
hued and lovely, loomed before me the idea of a skiff 
tide down the Holston to the Tennessee, and down the 
Tennessee to—where? | 
RaymonpD S. SPrArs. 


Floating on the Missouri.—IV. 


Our friend Norris had said that the prairie chickens 
were not nearly so numerous as they had been the previous 
season. In the spring great numbers of them had nested 
in his hay fields, and their nests and young had been 
destroyed by irrigation. When I stepped out shortly 
after sunrise, 1 wondered what the number of the birds 
could have been the year before, for here they were on 
every hand in the haystacks, the barn roof, in the trees 
around, and coyey after coyey was in the air. Large 
flocks of ducks were also on the wing, flying up and down 
the course of the Judith, and geese were honking here and 
there from their roosts in the sandbars of the river. This 
was surely an ideal place for sport with gun and dog. 

After an early breakfast we boarded the Good Shield 
and resumed-our voyage. A mile below Norris’ place we 
passed a ranch on the opposite side of the river, which 
depended upon a wheel for irrigation. It was an immense 
affair of wood and steel rods, sixty feet in diameter, and 
revolving ‘by the foree of the current against its broad 
blades. -Large, deep troughs, or buckets, took up the 
water and poured it into a long flume extending to the 
irrigated land. It kept up a constant stream of more than 
100 inches, and ‘that quantity will water a very large 
acreage. | 

Passing Council Island, so named from the Council or 
Treaty of 1855, we shot through the rapids and entered the 
country Lewis and Clarke named the Dark Hills, the high- 
est elevations on the whole course of the river below Great 
Falls. The formation is brown clay and decomposed 
pummice stone, in places wholly devoid of verdure. Some 
of these butts have sharp summits, others are table-topped 
and support a crown of pine and fir. In places they rise 
abruptly from the river's edge, and again there are wide 
sagebrtsh flats at their base.. There is no: place along 
the river where the sagebrush grows so luxuriantly as in 
these flats. We startled a couple of mule deer which 
were browsing along the shore, and they were lost to view 
as soon as they entered its shelter. But in any case they 
were safe, as we still had a portion of the buck we had 
killed at Arrow Creek. The larger part of it had found 
its way into the larder of our Judith friends, and right 
glad we were to dispose of it, as we then had an excise 
to kill another one in the near future. 

The swiitest part of the navigable Missouri is a twenty- 
six-mile stretch east from the Judith; the water is all 
swift, and’ there are thirteen rapids in the course. We 
found well-defined channels of deep water through the 
Birch, Holmes, McKeeyers, Gallatin, Bear and Little Dog 
rapids, and then drew near the Dauphin Rapids, which I 
had been worrying about ever since our start from Fort 
Benton. Years before the Goyernment.engineers had run 
a long wing dam out rom the south shore at this point, 
throwing all the water into one narrow, deep channel. 
But the ice had battered it season after season, wearing 
it away, and as I looked now I could see only a line of 


white foam where it had once stood. The roar of the - 
.-water was sullen and menacing. On the flat near by 


some inén were building a cabin, and rowing ashore I 
walked over to them, “Are you building a sheep ranch?” 
I asked. , 

“Not on your life!’ one of them replied. “We've got 
a little bunch of cattle; the sheep men run us out where 
we were located over on the railroad, and we've found a 
good range here: The first blankety blank sheep man 
that shows up in this vicinity with his flocks had better 
come heeled, for we'll stire fight.” 

I sympathized ‘with them. The sheep men are, with- 
out doubt, “killing the golden goose”; the luxuriant range 
which would have lasted fotever 1f stocked with cattle 
only, is being rapidly rttined by them. And then, what 
will our children do? There is no great West for them to 


~explore and exploit. 


The cattlemen were very sociable. They pointed to a 
cellar they had dug, about five feet in depth, and said 
that at the bottom of it their shovels had uncovered the 
remains of a fire, some .44-caliber cartridge shells and 
some human bones. There were no cartridges of that 
kind used in this country until 1866, so in thirty-five years 
or less the wash from the hills had deposited five feet of 
soil upon the bottom. How I wished I could know the 
tragedy which had here. taken place. Most likely the 
bones were the remains of some white men, surprised and 
murdered by Indians. 

Game, especially mule deer, the cattlemen said, was 
fairly abundant. The day before one of them had seen 
two good-sized bunches of mountain sheep back in the 
hills, ‘But,’ he continued, with a sly wink, “of course 
T didn’t shoot at them, as the game law prohibits the 
killing of them at any season of the year.” 

I asked about the rapids, and was informed that the 
main channel was full of bowlders, two boats having been 
wrecked on them that season. This was not encouraging, 
so I decided to investigate a gap I had seen in the wing 
dam near the south shore. Crossing over, I put on the 
waders, and staff in hand, ventured out step by step to 
the center of the opening, finding eighteen inches of water 
in the shallowest place. Below the gap that part of the 
stream narrowed considerably, and while it was too swiit 
to be sounded afoot, it looked to have plenty of depth, so I 
waded back to the boat and determined to try it. We 
started slowly, with just enough speed to afford steering 
way. Sah-ne-to was frightened and confused by the 
leaping, foaming, roaring water off to the left, so I bade 
her let go of the tiller, and steered with the oars. We 
glided over the shallow place and through the gap with- 
out a bump or scrape, and then into the narrow channel: 
here’ I could not touch bottom with the oars, and felt 
sure I had solved the problem of the dreaded rapids. And 


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so I had, for in a minute or two we ran safely into the 
main channel at the foot of them. 

haye been unable to learn much about “old man” 
Dauphin, for whom these rapids were named. He was a 
French Creole, born in St.. Charles, Mo., and was long 
an employe of the American Fur Company. In 1857 he 
resigned from their service and became a “freeman,” or 
free trapper. Employes were known as “company men.” 
In the winter of. 1857-8, Dauphin made his headquarters 
at the mouth of Milk River, trapping for some distance up 
that stream and on the Missouri. Whueti spring came he 
made four large, long dugouts, lashed them together, and 
then piling his beaver skins on them drifted down to St. 
Louis with the current, nineteen hundred and fifty miles 
by the channel of the river. What a large number of 
the flat-tails he must have had, 

Below these rapids the hills are lower, the valley wider, 
the pine groves on the slopes more frequent. Five miles 
further down we passed a rock chimney, sole remnant 
of a once comfortable woodhawk’s cabin. I remembered 
taking refuge in it once, on a trip up the river on the ice. 
It was bitterly cold, night was coming on, the horses 
were tired, and we were looking for a sheltered place to 
camp when we sighted the cabin. No one was at home, 
but the latch string hung out, and we tool possession of 
it after unharnessing the horses and picketing them. My 
half-breed companion built a roaring fire in the broad 
fireplace and we had some meat roasting, the coffee pot 
boiling, in short order. Many and many a time since I 
have thought of the unique chair which stood in front of 
the hearth. The framework was of large pine poles, over 
which had been stretched a green buffalo hide, dark and 
glossy, and heavy furred, the head, where the hair was 
longest and thickest, forming the seat, the rest of it the 
long, sloping back. Used day after day as the hide dried, 
it had shrunk here and given away there, until when it 
finally set, it fitted every curve of one’s body. It was 
the most comfortable chair I ever sat in, and I determined 
to make one like it as soon as I got back to our trading 
post. But one thing or another always prevented, and at 
last the buffalo were exterminated, and then there was 
no more of the required material to be had. 

The Lone Pine Rapids were met; by the time we came 
to them a fierce, hot, gusty wind was roaring down the 
valley and tossing the’ water so, that I could mot make 
out the channel. However, from the lay of the shores we 
thought the deep water was next the north side, and 
chancéd it, running through without touching bottom. 
Then we came in sight of Castle Bluff, a bold, high, white 
sandstone promontory on the south side of the river, 
On its rim are all sorts of fantastic carvings of the soft 
stone by Mother Nature and Father Time, turrets, 
minarets, escarpments and bastions, all capped by the 
usual portion of dark, hard-stone, The bluff was well 
named, Opposite it are Castle Bluff Rapids, and below 
them a short distance the Magpie Rapids, through bath 
of which the channel is next to the north shore. We 
went through them with water to spare, then through a 
nameless piece of swift water,and finally came to the head of 
the last one, the Bird Rapids. Just above them on ihe 
south side there is a fine grove of cottonwoods, and as 
the wind was blowing unpleasantly hard, bringing with it 
occasional squalls of rain, we decided to camp in their 
shelter. We tied up, and digging a trail to the top of 
the bank with a pickax, set out to find a clear place 
among the willows and buck brush for the tent. Not 
twenty yards from the shore five whitetail deer broke 
cover and ran for the hills, on their way starting four 
more, which ran up the valley, There was no grassy place 
in the timber, and pon coming to its outer edge we saw 
something which made us think that we did not care to 
camp there after all. In the center of the wide flat just 
above was a deserted woodhawk’s cabin, windowless and 
doorless, and in front of it stood two men watching the 
deer which had run up that way. Then they turned and 
looked in our direction long and carefully, With my 
glass I could see that their faces were covered witlr beard 
and that beside their rifles, they- each had two revolvers 
at their belts, . 

Before leaving Fort Benton I had heard that a certain 
desperado named Larson, who had escaped from the 
Canadian mounted police and from the Montana atthori- 
ties, was in hiding somewhere on the river. At the Judith 
it was claimed that he had been seen near Cow Island. 
Also, it was surmised that the Kid Curry gang, murderers 
and robbers of the Great Northern express car, were still 
hiding somewhere in these bad lands. 

Now Sah-né-to knew nothing of this, as she dues not 
understand English, and I had thought best to say noth- 
ing about it; but as soon as she saw the men near the 
deserted cabin, their horses picketed nearby, her suspi- 
cions were aroused. “Surely,” she said, “these men are 
not of good heart; let us go on,” 

And we went. They saw us and hurried toward their 
horses; we rushed to the boat and pulled across to the 
north side, where the channel is, and shot down through 
the rapids. Just below them, at the bend, cut coulées 
and a high bluff precluded any possibility of their follow- 
ing us horseback if they felt so inclined, but we saw no 
more of them, Likely they had been badly scared. I 
hoisted a part of the sail and we fairly flew for about four 
miles before the fierce wind, landing finally on Sturgeon 
Island for the night. Its broad, sandy shore was dotted 
with tracks, fresh and old, of both whitetail and mule 
deer, and when we came to put up our tent in the shelter 
of a few cottonwoods, we found their trails and beds 
everywhere in the tall grass. While unloading the boat 
two men passed us in a long, narrow scow, They had 
up an immense square sail and the-crafit went with the 
speed of-a steam launch, piling up a roll of foaming water. 
at the bow. -In answer to my hail they shouted that 
they were-from Fort Benton, and bound for *St, Louis 
or bust.” They were undoubtedly frozen in somewhere 
in the Dacotahs. 

Beside deer sign, we had noticed many wolf tracks 
along the shore of the island, and shortly after dark, as 
we sat down to dinner, a band of the animals serenaded 
us from the nearby hills. The wind had ceased and their 
long and melancholy wails filled the silent valley with 
vibrant sound. It was pleasant to hear, bringing back 
many memories to both of us of other days we had spent 
along the river and upon the adjacent plains. 

Sah-né-to had lost her bearings during our devious - 
windings through the dark hills. FE explained that we 
were a short run above the mouth of Cow Creek, the 


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Middle Creek of her people, so named because it flows 
through the center of the gap between the Bear Paw and 
Wolf Mountains (Little Rockies), on its way southwar 
to the Missouri. : “ , 

Mention af the creek reminded her of many. incidents 
of her childhood in this locality. She told of the immense 
herds of buffalo which once covered the nearby plains; 
of the numberless bands of elk and deer and antelope 
along the foothills of the mountains and the valleys. 
“How many years ago was it,’ she asked, “that Big 
Eared White Man [an old trader named Upham] traveled 
with us and kept the camp supplied with cartridges, to- 
bacco and sugar?” 

I thought a little and replied that it was exactly twenty- 
four. 

“That was the winter,” she said, “we tost my cousin, 
Wease! Moccasin, bravest, kindest, most generous of 
men. We had camped at the lower south end of the 
Bear Paws for a long time, and the daily hunting had 
finally driven the game away for some distance in every 
direction, So one morning my cousin announced that he 
would go eastward to the Wolf Mountains for a few 
days’ hunt, A number joined him with their wives, tak- 
ing a few lodges and many pack and travois horses with 
which to bring back the meat and hides. The next after- 
noon they came to the buffalo, herd after herd, and 
camped on a little creek putting out from the mountains. 
There for some days they had good success. the hunters 
killing fat cows faster than the women could biuuie 
then, : 

“One evening Weasel Moccasin stood outside the 
lodge; the sun was setting, and just before it went down 
it seemed to split into a thousand parts, sending bright 
colored rays flashing in every direction, ‘It ts a sign, 
he said aloud, ‘that to-morrow I shall meet my death. 
Somewhere on the plain, in some way, I know not how, 
my body will grow cold before the sun goes down again. 

“His aunt, busy inside preparing the evening meal, 
heard his words, came out and scolded him: ‘Go in at 
once and sit down,’ she said. ‘You have no right to 
think such things; you are not well. This very night 1 
will prepare some of my herb water, and you shall drink 
hey 

“*T need it not,’ he replied. ‘I am not sick. Pay nu 
heed to my words. I know not why I said it, and yet, 
surely that is a sign of approaching death.’ 

“«-Trne.” said his aunt, ‘it is the sign, but why for you 
any more than for any oi the rest of us here, or for some 
one back in the main camp? Come in now, and eat. — 

“Early the next morning ‘he hunters started out again, 
riding eastward and some distance before they sighted a 
herd of buffalo. Then they separated to surround it, 
Weasel Moccasin riding ahead slowly with his uncle, 
Big Plume, in order to give the others time to make the 
circle. Stiddenly, from a knoll ahead of them, four Assin- 
aboines jumped up and ran for a coulée further on. My 
cousin had a swiit horse, the fastest of all our people’s 
herds, and in no time he was upon them. Twice he fired, 
and each time one of the enemy fell dead. The other two 
had separated, and he rode down upon one of them re- 
gardless of the bullets which were whizzing by him. Sud- 
denly the Assinaboine ceased firing, his cartridges oe 
parently all expended, and disdaining to shoot, Wease 
Moccasin raised his gun as a club, to brain the enemy. 
Alas! At that very moment the Assinaboine drew an old 
pistol and shot him through the body. The next instant 
he was felled by my cousin's blow, and his shadow moe 
to join those of his companions along their dreary trat seh 

“Big Plume came Bee ee up, as A a aot 
am shot,’ said the warrior; ‘help me ge np. } 
acs ie got up behind and supported him, and the 
ittle party started for om : s 
see i follow and kill the remaining Assinaboine, but 
the wounded man forbade it. ‘Let him return to eee 
ple’, he said, ‘and tell them that the Piegans killed his 

nions.’ : : 
Pr ey slowly they rode toward camp, and ce ae 
were heavy, The wounded one became wea tay: 
weaker; blood cozed from his lips; he reeled to ae fs) ia 
his uncle’s strong arms. They came to a deep See: an 
were sheltered from the wind. ‘Help me down,’ he said, 
‘TL am. dying.” ' eae 
See they laid him down, spreading ‘their OE 
blankets for his couch, and saying to his we me) 
and vare for my family,’ he breathed his last. ? is words 
had come true: the sign had foretold his death. cae 

“Well do I remember the hunting party Sa Cy 
came riding slowly and silently over the hill, a we a 

d by our lodges instead of running to meet them, 10 
we felt that they brought sad news. We saw that their 
faces were painted black, their hair unbound ang ae i 
ing in the wind. Then presently the word pRLere no en 
camp, ‘Weasel Moccasin 1s dead; but popes ei e ie 
killed three Assinaboines. The women waile 7 t 1€ y 

i houted his name in praise, and for a ong, ong 
aeraee ad. They had brought his 
time the whole camp mourned. y. aca een 
body, and that day os buried ain etek eee ae 
robes and lashing him on a pJatto ey eee 
A Il his weapons by his side. And near a an th 

eerie Tipiees were shot, vias Ae stot te 
pee a SSRs Aon tet a moved south- 
act. te Middle Creek, But the people sorrowed; ay 
could not forget his untimely end, All that long winter 


a ” 
eee sagt Bute bad p. 

rhere W re dancing nor singing m1 the camp 
there was no more da g : viene 


=. Chippewa Words. 


wp Rapips, Mich., Jan. 28.—In Fayette Durlin’s in- 
eae article, “The Old Logging Camp,” in your She 
of Jan. 25, he refers to the unintelligible Indian words, 
and wonders if there was really any actual meaning at- 
tached to them. My knowledge of the Chippewa lan- 
guage is exceedingly limited. _,lowever, T recognize 
“Cowin” as “No,” and “Nischin yas Good,” hence the 
combination would be “No good. Bye 


“Uncle Lisha’s Shop.” 


“Uncie LisHa’s SHor” is temporarily out of print, A 
new edition is in press, to be ready soon. It will have 
as frontispiece am excellent portrait of Mr. Robinson, 


The price will be $1.25. 


the camp. Some of the others were ~ 


~tion ‘of greaser, Yaqui or wanderin 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 
“The Hole.” 


Eu Paso, Texas —What is “the Hole’? Ask this ques- 
prospector in the 
mountainous regions of that section where the Chihuahua- 
Sonora state line and the Continental Divide are one and 
the same, and from each you will get a different answer. 
The_Mexican piously crosses himself as he declares to you 
that it is the abode of witches and devils, and exists only 
to be avoided. The Yaqui has no such superstitious 
fears, but says it is a wonderful, deep, inaccessible canon 
—a place formed by the gods of his fathers in the long 
ago as a place of refuge in time of peril, a place where 
game is plentiful and easily taken, and where none but 
the Yaqui can enter. 
he is obliged to confess that he has never entered its 
sacred precincts. Disappointed, you turn to your own 
race of people, and ask some grizzled old prospector about 
it, and after pondering the question a full minute, he 
tells you that it is a deep, inaccessible cation, which has 
its head near the Continental Divide, and runs south- 
west for twenty-five or thirty miles, and empties into the 
Goviland, a headwater stream of the Yaqui. But when 
you come-to inquire closely, you find that he, too, is dis- 
appointing, and, like Moses and the Promised Land, he 
has viewed it from afar. 

With three companions, a guide and moso, I was in 
that region hunting last October, and being camped near 
the head of the canon, I climbed a peak and got a birds- 
eye view of it. The sides are almost perpendicular, and at 
least 3.000 feet deep, inclosing quite a little valley, widen- 
ing out in one place seven or eight miles; but nowhere 
could the powerful binoeulors which I carried discover a 
trail by which a descent could be made. At the lower 
end where the stream which flows through empiies 
into the Goviland, the rocky walls come close in, forming 
a narrow, deep gorge, through which nothing unprovided 
with wings can pass, Thus it is that it remains a ferru 
imcogmita, but evidently a region rich in archeological 
treasure, as several cliff houses were to be seen, and this 
is a region of cliff house ruins, as well as other evi- 
dences of occupation by a prehistoric people. But it is 
to-day a paradise for sportsmen, and one of the most 
beautiful countries for camping out in I ever saw, 

I am determined to explore the “Hole” next time 
visit that section, There is said to be a secret trail en- 
tering it, and I am determined to invade its sanctity armed 
with rifle and camera, and hope ere another year rolls 
around to tell the readers of Forest any StrEAM what I 
saw therein. I, J. Busn, 


Woodcock and Watermelons. 


As a reward for standing well in my class, I received 
from my father a double barreled miuzzleloading gun, 3 
was very proud of the gift, because I thought no better 
or finer gun had ever been turned out of the gunsmith’s 
shop. It had been made to order for Commodore 
Chauncey by one Blissert, of Liverpool. It was a master- 
piece, and I have it to this day stowed away in its brass- 
trimmed, mahogany, green baize-lined case, a memento 
of my first shooting days. 

And following quickly upon the gift of this gun came 
an invitation to try it on some woodcock, two gentlemei 
inviting me to accompany them to Huntington, L. I., 
and become initiated into the art of wing shooting. It 
was a great day of preparation; wads and caps were 
stowed away in my shooting coat (bought for the occa- 
sion), and pocket flask and‘shot pouch filled to the neck 
—a reserve of powder and shot being stowed in my grip. 

How I enjoyed the ride in the baggage car surrounded 
by the pointer dogs and listening to the stories told by 
my hosts! I certainly drank in long draughts of anticipa- 
tion and inspiration. 

We were bound for Abner Chichester’s farm, and, if I 
remember correctly, it was perched on the steepest hill 
in the village of Huntington. The horses seemed to 
climb and keep a climbing ever since they left the depot. 
But in time we got there, and the last thing to be re- 
moyed from the -wagon was a huge watermelon, the 
largest to be found in Fulton market. It was forthwith 
placed in the tub-encircled spring under the old oak, and 
was to be leit there until we came in from our afternoon’s 
Fourth of July shoot the next day, hot and parched, and 


. in the right mood to cut a melon. 


We were off early in the morning to a neighboring 
grove, where the trees grew so closely together as ta 
almost perfectly keep out the sun’s rays except during 
the middle of the day. 

Whether it was because I missed or was not quick 
enough or what, or was perhaps in the way, I dd not 
know, but I soon let my friends hunt with the dogs by 
themselves, and I wandered here and there where the 
skunk cabbage indicated a wet spot where the longbills 


-could bore. 


There were plenty of birds, and I walked up bird after 


bird. Of course, I missed and missed, and missed again, 


but now and then the birds would fly into it and I would 
get one. How excited I became when I heard my bird 
drop to earth and saw the floating feathers drift slowly 
toward the ground! J knew I fired many shots, and as 
a result my shot pouch was much lighter than when I 
started out, and when at noon we sat beside a spring-fed 
brook and laid out our game upon the moss-covered 


estone, I thought my four birds made a brave showing 


against the score or two heaped up beside them. We 


talked and dozed for a couple of hours under the cool 


shadows of the trees and I listened to much valuable ad- 
vice on wing shooting. My friends were so engrossed 
in their morning’s sport that they did not heed my ab- 
sence, knowing that there was no danger of my getting 
lost, the grove not being more than a mile square. They, 
however, had enjoyed such good luck and the birds were 
so abundant—the weather had been hot and sultry for 
days, driving the birds into this spring-fed and shaded 
cover—that they insisted that I should during the after- 
noon shoot over the dogs and have the first shot at the 
tising birds. Of ‘course I missed and got my “eye 
wiped” by my two friends repeatedly, yet I seemed to do 
beiter, and now: and then got my bird, once or twice, 
they told me, making a clean and difficult kill. This, of 
course, by way of encouragement. By three o’clock we 


yoted that we had had enough, and we wended our way - 


Nevertheless, 1f you pin him down _ 


darkies all bought. 


back to Abner’s, It was a hot, dusty walk, and we were 
pleased when, after drawing the caps from our guns, we 
laid them up against. the milk house close to.the spring. 

We sat under the friendly oak around the spring. 
Abner deftly lifted out the melon, fresh and green and 
sweating at every pore, I can hear even now the crack~ 
ling sound of Abner’s jackknife as it plowed its way 


‘through the chilled rind of that melon. And as the melon 


parted the sight was one that a parched and thirsty man 
would never iorget, 

Well, suffice it to say there was enough of that melon 
and yet some to spare. It certainly was a case in nature 
where excellence and bigness were combined with exact 
mathematical precision. : 


Years afterward I stood one Saturday afternoon on the » 


porch of a Luray, Va., hotel and saw file past a hundred 
or more darkies returning from work, each and everyone 
of them catrying a “watermillion” under his arm. They 
had been paid off, and a convenient farm wagon loaded 
with melons happened to pass as they filed along and the 

One young buck, after hugging that melon for several 
blocks, “just couldn’t stand it no longer,” and without ado 
sat down upon the curb and in the absence of a jackknife 
he deftly tapped the melon against the edge of the curb 
until it broke asunder. Mansfield, in transiotming his 
Jekyl face into that of Hyde upon the stage, never 
equalled the lightning change of countenance exhibited 
by that darky. One moment his eyes bulged, his mouth 
distorted, his teeth glistened and his face fairly glowed 
with pleasurable expectancy, and in the tw.nkling of an 
eye, when the parted halyes of that unripe and white- 
seeded melon fell from his palsied hands, his eyes con- 
tracted to mere slits, showing an angry, snake-.ike red, 
his face became of an ashen htte—call it pale, if you will 
—and through his slightly parted lips like a devil incar- 
nate he hissed out imprecation afer imprecation upon 
the farmer, showing the fact clearly that the disappointed 
one was a past grand master in the art of profanity. 

But. 1 started writing about woodcock and have di- 
gressed into melons—so au revoir, 

CHARLES CRISTADORO. 


datujal History. 


—— 


Nature at Boston. 


Boston, March 3.—At the Sportsmen’s Show the at- 
tendance is large, and spite of the attractions in the main 
hall, the swimming tank, the high diving, hundreds will 
be found walking about to get a better view of the 
natural history attractions, The cage of armadillo, near 
the lower entrance, excites considerable comment. Said 
a fellow to his companion: “Box ttrtles. I’ve seen 
enough of them; not just that color, though.” His com- 
panion looked to the cage label and réad, “A-r-m-a- 
d-i-l-l-o,” “Oh, that’s only another name for them, Why 
not call them box turtles and be done with it. Don’t 
you see their shells?’ But wise youngster No, 2 beat 
them all. “I tell you, they are sweet potato bugs. They're 
larger than the ordinary kind.” Dr, Heber Bishop's 
dogs are worth more than a passing notice, and there is 
a crowd in front of their’compattment. Robbie Burns 
and Lady Montell and their progeny, a litter of seven. 
Robbie has a pedigree dating back to 1836, and Lady 
Montell back to the Seminole Indians of Florida. “One 
of the pups,” the doctor says, “is the most affectionate 
dog in the world,” and everybedy agrees with him. 
The obedience and intelligence of the whole seven is 
remarkable. Here is a cage of barred owls. The turn of 
their heads, in pivoted necks, makes everybody latigh, 
One wise man remarked to a lady, “That's well done, 
don’t see how they made them look so natural. But there, 
anybody can see that their necks are only a hinge.” A 
couple of great horned owls makes a fine exhibit; plumage 


almost perfect, with black tufts of feathers, smooth and - 


exactly like horns. The black timber wolf is a noble“speci- 
men, and said to be a yery valuable animal. The wise 
man comes in here also with the remark, “I don’t like 
those collie dogs very well, especially .the black ones.” 
Curious, but the wise ones don’t seem to read the cage 
labels. Here is a good specimen of cinnamon bear, seen in 
almost any menagerie. The two mountain lions that 
President Roosevilt did not shoot are good specimens, 
though both females. The ocelot (Felis pardalis) from 
Mexico is a good specimen, Here the wise man comes 
up again. He will not down, 
tomcat!” The bay lynx are wild and almost untamable; 
at least they snarl and. growl at the keepers, even. As 
for deer, the show is simply full of them. One runs on 


to herds of them at every odd turn; so surrounded w’th, 


trees and evergreens that they scarcely appear to be inside 
of wire fences, 
east side of the building is made up of some fine speci- 
mens; sleek and bright-colored, “All does,” remarks our 
wise man again. “Why don’t they show a buck or two?” 
To the lady beside him he further remarks: “TI am dis- 
appointed. I wanted you to see a buck with fine antlers.’ 
He doubtless would have felt a little chagrin to have 
been told that the very deer he was looking at were more 
than half bucks, and that the sears of their last antlers 
were yet plain on the heads of several, It is not easy to 
make unthinking people believe that moose, deer and elk 
shed their antlers every winter. The herd cf antelope is 
good. “White deer,” is the common remark. But to 
the sportsmgn of the plains they convey more of an idea. 
They seem to thrive well in confinement, and several 
approach the front of their compartment to be fed or 
petted. Peanuts they take with avidity. The little fawn 


-of the India deer, not bigger than a cat, with its mother, 


attracts a good deal of attention. This little fellow was 
born since its mother came to Boston this time. Tt is 
the second one born in captivity in this country; the buck 
in the next cage being the first. This buck was bred at 
the Boston Sportsmen’s Shdw two years ago. The herd 
of twenty elk is a good exhibit, Only one bull has his 
antlers, and these very small and poor specimens, douht- 
less dwarfed, and hence slow about coming off. The 
American bison, from Austin Corbin’s New Hampshire 
game park, are fine specimens of the king of game ani- 


A handsome herd of Maine deer on the 


“A good specimen of , 


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c es Chronological Table of United States Government Forest Rowe 


j Prepared by the Bureau of Forestry.; | 2 
, Nos, of Proclama- Area of Reserve 
> Proclamations 


mals, a race that would be extinct but for the efforts 
of such men as was Mr. Corbin. The beaver are here, 
three ‘of them. They are the property of Mr. C. W. 
‘Dimick. He bought them in Canada just previous to the 
Sportsmen’s Show two years ago. They cut wood, and 
eat poplar bark with evident satisfaction. Their swim- 
ming and diving is a source of delight to the crowd in 
front of their compartment. Their efforts at dam con- 
structing are scarcely successful. They can cut the wood 
into lengths, but somehow they cannot make it stay on 
the bottom, as on the running, natural streams they de- 
sire to convert into ponds. A pair of swift foxes is a 
new feature in animal exhibits; little gray fellows, smaller 
than the red fox, but evidently rightly named, from their 
length of limb and sharpness of contour. The cage of 
South American peccary, with their spindle legs, long 
snouts and skins of bluish brown, shows “another kind 
of hog” to the wise man. He remarked Saturday even- 
ing. that he considered them no good. Well, perhaps 
not, but a friend, who has hunted in the country of the 
, Amazon, tells me that they burrow along in the “duff, 
‘or aluvium, so deep in that part of the world, with their 
“backs barely out in sight. Startled by the hunter, they 
“commence to move forward, giving the impression that 
the whole surface of the ground is in motion. The com- 
partments of squirrels are a delight. Whole high trees are 
‘surrounded with netting. In one there are less than a 
“million gray and fox squirrels. The little red squirrels 
take well to captivity. Saturday evening they were evident- 
ly trying. to catch a little sleep under the glare of the elec- 
tric 'ghts. Their zinc water tank has a drirfking place in 
‘ont and a cover and a flat bail. Two or three_were 
cuddled upsunder this bail; it shaded their eyes. Others 
ted the position, and there were frequent squabbles. 
Some had curled down in a corner, where the frame 


Present grand total, 46,327,969 acres. 


afforded a shade. The little prairie dogs have given up dig- 
ging in the sand as a hopeless task; it falls right back 
and makes no sort of a burrow. The wise man ‘“‘can’t 
see much of a dog about them,” but he probably has not 
heard them bark. The little flying squirrels are here in 
good numbers, bright. and cheerful.- It was something of 
a delight to hear a lady instructing a school girl that 
“they really cannot fly, but run up a tree, and with wing- 
skin feet and broad tail spread, are able to make tremen- 
dous leaps, partly sustained by the air.”” A couple of little 
weasels have scarcely forgotten to turn white, though 
they have not been out in the snow this winter. Out of 
doors they turn white, all but the tips of their tails and 
a little black about their heads, every winter. 

“The Happy Family” is one of the features of the 
show. In a single compartment is a man—an old man 
with snowy locks—a bear, a peccary, a skunk, a silver 
gray fox, a civet cat, an albino coon and an anteater. 
The old gentleman loves animals. “I live with them.’ 
he remarks, “and study their wants and their habits. I 
sleep here, and if there is any trouble I get up and 
quiet them. Here, there, si-cat’—short for civet cat—‘I 
want you.’ In response to any of his pet names, the ani- 
mal immediately comes forward to be fondled. The pec- 
cary he calls “a pigareene.” He takes the little beast up 
in his arms, and the creature lays his head and long 
snout up against the old gentleman’s shoulder and grunts 
with satisfaction. “This is a skunk”—and by the time 
the words are half oft, everybody has stood off. “He’s 
perfectly well-behaved,’ and the funny little face and 
little beads of black eyes are tip beside the face of the 
keeper for a kiss, which ‘both apparently get. -The skunk 


has a history. The favorite cat of the household of a 


Newton doctor had kittens a year ago last summer. They 
were not wanted, and all were promptly drowned. The 


tions and Execu- ‘Dates of Under Each : 
iS and Executive tive Orders in Proclamations Proclamation Present Areas 
MaOrders tor kach | colte Chronological and Execu- and Executive of Reserves 
ao Reserve. State. Reserves Created Under Administration-of Order. tive Orders, Order, Acres. in Acres. Remarks, 
PRESIDENT HARRISON, | 
1 12 Wyoming .............% sree Timber Land Reserve, Yellowstone Park...... er Seen ti test t 1,239,040 1,239,040. Proclamation revised. 
hy Coloration pare rhenneeeca oes . Timber Land Reserve, White River Plateau..... a Oct. 16, 1891 1,198,080 15,198,080 
3, 4, 36, 37 New Mexico,..... sascenssees Pecos River Forest Reserve.....-.0+-sseeeee ate Matt 11, 189 311,040 430,880 See Proclamation No. 36. 
4. 6,6 Colorado ..,...+. cosceeseeoeoe Limber Land Reserve, Pike’s Peak,.......+-.- ; ‘ aa tent 184,320 184,320 Proclamation revised. 
7 CITES OTE faiscietate ae st sant fe Timber Land Reserve, Bull Run...............+ hs June 17, 1892 142,080 142,080 
6. 8 MeMlOKAUG) eens herr east vitae were rs Timber Land Reserve, Plum Creek......... tages June 23, 1892 179,200 179,200 
m9 Gerlorgloe oo Seok RattCey: South Platte Forest Reserve...... oor tar ich 3 ) Dec, 9, 1892 683,520 683,520 
8. Hi ei peers Sraptterisa, (eit-3 erat ahs poe reer rate: ea Gabriel..........0% het ae at ae aia Rea 
Sie UOTE AGO est 6 eet ee bese = attlement Mesa Porest KeServe. ......cscccsnine> ec 5 H Ss E ti Ord No, 6 
10. 12 A iaciabe eee Tee fc Afognak Forest and Fishculture Reserve......... LR Dec. 24, 1892 403,640 403,640 ee Oe Ca 
1. GaltOrmiates osc seeks sea eae Sierra Forest Reserve.......c0.c.cseeesves ep 3 Feb, 14, 1893 4,096,000 4,096,000 
Washington ......cssseeeneee Pacific Forest Reserve........++.-++ PA Pe OE 14 Feb, 20, 1893 967,680 967,680 See Proclamation No. 28. 
PATI ZO ACI es Sisletae shee bs, bisie tarot Grand Cafion Forest Reserye.......:..:0006 Bak onan ty Feb, 20, 1893 1,851,520 1,851,520 y 
California ..... wae alent ene San Bernardino Forest Reserve.....c<s++ee> Pea ee OG, Feb. 25, 1893 737, 137,280 ’ 
(eal Ponniae Peeler eeeene seen es Trabuco Cafion Forest Reserve. ......-+++--++++++ 7 . Feb. 25,1893 =< 49,920 109,920 See Proclamation No. 42. 
Total ....e0+0+0+0018,457,080 Acres, 
‘ PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. 
Me. 18, 34, 46, 56, 57,. Oregon .......ececsessssesees Cascade Range Forest Reserve. -d8 Sept. 28, 1893 4,492,800 4,577,120 See Executive Order No, 34. 
itt. 19 CEEOL eer Cae eas k, ..» Ashland Forest Reserve.... +. 19 Sept, 28, 1893 18,560 18,560 3 v4 
18. 20 Calitornia 2... Se eed hte Stanislaus Forest Reserve... eee 20 Feb. 22, 1897 691,200 691,200 
19. 21, 62 GahitOrmidd «a04+..2ctinses> ses -San Jacinto Forest Reserve... ural Feb, 22, 1897 737,280 668,160 See Executive Order No. 62. 
0, 22 Idaho and Montana........ . Bitter Root Forest Reserve... ee Feb. 22, 1897 4,147,200 4,147,200 
21. 23. Idaho and Washington...... Priest River Forest Reserve... - 28 Feb, 22, 1897 645,120 645,120 
29, 24, 41 So, Dakota and Wyoming... Black Hills Forest Reserve... 24 Feb, 22, 1897 967,680 1,211,680 See Proclamation No, 41, 
23, 25 NIPAne sagas ceeeseaiet RL adtleesarsl ante Uintah Forest Reserve...... 25 Feb. 22, 1897 875,520 75,520 
4: 26,53 Washington: iiseicveacsseean . Washington Forest Reserve... +»- 26 Feb, 22, 1897 8,594,240 3,426,400 See Proclamation No, 53. 
a. 21550, 59 AAG HITT OLOMS iy einer ete et 6 Olympic Forest Reserve... ivee.cccsscseceees+ nner 27 - Feb. 22, 1897 2,188,800 1,466,386 See Proclamation No. 50, 
(The title: “The Pacific Forest Reserve,” aban: 
2. 14, 28, A.C. Washington ......csesesssees Mount Rainier Forest Reserve.........+s+cee0+:- 28 Feb. 22, 1897 1,267,200 2,027,520 4 ROHS Crag anenve now included in “The Mount 
| Sait ee 2 ene Reserve. See Proclamation 
29, 51, 54, 55 Wyoming .. vecsesssesee Big Horn Forest Reserve....... ened ie aeislc este 29 Feb, 22, 1897 1,127,680 1,147,840 ‘See Proclamation No. 51. 
30 Wyoming . vessseossee Deton Horest Reserve.....:..... : «30 Feb, 22, 1897 829,440 829,440 abeusNess 
. 31 WRONG hE or. eee Genet Ee Oo Flathead Forest Reserve.....,.... at Feb. 22, 1897 1,382,400 1,382,400 
32 Whonttia = moet e seo en ver ae eae Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve ite Feb, 22, 1897 2,926,080 2,926,080 
Total. ....++0++++425,891,200 Acres, 
PRESIDENT McKINLEY. 
30. 33, 38 Galisoriinene Adadde eee oe ..csue» Pine Mountain and Zaca Laké Forest Reserve... 33 Mar, 2, 1898, 1,144,594 1,644,594. eee P parma No, 38, ; 
16. 18, 34, 46, 56,57 Oregon .......+5 waveveveveves Cascade Range Forest Reserve.....-ssserecssears 34 April 20, 1898 —11,520 4,577,120 Nees See ee : pee hs by 11,520 
31. 35, 49 PATI ZOMAY its nes 5 re eseneeoees Prescott Forest Reserye....,,.--+--se0=* May 10, 1898 10,240 423,680 See Proclamation No: 49. 
“3. 4, 36, 37 New Mexico........ BN orvee Pecos River Forest Reserve........-...2.000++008 36 May 27, 1898 120,000 430,880 Se Fyecamation, No. 4 & Exec. Order No, 87. 
3. 4, 86, 37 New Mexico.......2..065 .»-- Pecos River Forest Reserve.....-...--+0eeeeeeees Tune 2, 1898 —16) 430,880 | Peet tie No: den d ue Exec. Order. See 
30. 33, 38 California Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake Forest Reserve.. 38 June 29, 1898 500,000 1,644,594 See Proclamation No, 33. 
32. 39 Arizona San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserves.......39 Aug. 17, 1898 975,360 ‘975,360 Only even-numbered sections reserved, 
38. 40 IZ Cra Oe cere erchsarals. dlerziaists nie Black Mesa Forest Reéserve..........cceevssseees 4p Aug. 17, 1898 1,658,880 1,658,880 , 
22. 24, 21 So. Dakota and Wyoming.. Black Hills Forest Reserve......-..s.ssecers0+s+2 41 Sept, 19, 1898 244,000 1,211,680 See Proclamation No. 24. 
‘dh. 17, 42 California ike + caette ae Trabuco Cafion Forest Reserve...csc.s.ss-2:s+eee 42, Jan. 30, 1899 i 109,920 See Proclamation No. 17. 
34. 43 = JURE Gade sdasaae sean s 82 Bish Leake Forest Reserves... c...s2c. cess eeeeae Feb, 10, 1899 67,846 67,840 
25. 44 Montana ... seoee. Gallatin Forest Reservés.......-«+ Bee eae des 44 Feb. 10, 1899 40,320 - 40,320 Only even-numbered sections reserved, 
36. 45 New Mexico. soaeeee Gila River Forest Reserve........css-vacceen ees 45 Mar, 2, 1899 2,327,040 2,327,040 
f act of peer os oa eresoue star he Mount 
} . ra : ; a 7 ainier Nationa ark” reduces “The Mo 
Pig. 14, 28, A. C. Washington ...sssessceeee+ss Mount Rainier Forest Reserve..........0ccsenees A.C. Mar. 2, 1899 207,360 2,027,520 | Rainier Forest. Reserve’ by 207,360 acres. See 
' - ee tee No. 28 and 14, 
P16. 18, 24,46, 56,57 Oregor ..c.ccceeeeereneeeeees Cascade Range Forest Reserve.s....+.0.0.0s0000- 46 April 6, 1899 —160 4,577,120 , eetisaeie Te renes ne Executive Order. See 
B27. 47 (Cribttaonts yeegine conor AS qeaceS Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve.........cs:csseeseeee 47 April 13, 1899 136,335 136,335 
38. 48 California seoveee anta Ynez Forest ReServe......cccccssccscccear 48 Oct. 2, 1899 145,000 145,000 
“81. 35, 49 Arizona PRA ASAE Weckea hobssseie Prescott Forest Reserve......:.....-..5.- especies 49 Oct. 21, 1899 413,440 423,680 See Proclamation No, 35. : i 
25. 27, 50, 59 Washington ...+...s-«: sees Olympic Forest Reserve............ + eee Relais Bertie 50 April 7, 1900 —264,960 1,466,880 hoe sere mecuce by 264,960 acres. See Proc- 
26. 29,51, 54,55 Wyoming ...... ceseceseseese Big Horn Forest Reserve...cc...cccgbseeseeeees 51 June 29, 1900 53,220 1,147,910 1 See Exclamation No. 29 and Executive) Order 
49. 52 Wyoming ......-...0csers .».» Crow Creek Forest Reserve........- Ape at Gdee 52 Oct, 10, 1900 56,320 56,320 a” 
'24. 26, 53 Washington ...---.-----+++s: Washington Forest Reserve.......s+sececsesseee> 3 _ April 3, 1901 —167,840 3,426,400 : erat a uae by 167,840 acres. See Proc- 
? ; Reduction of 6,440 acres by Exec. Order, 
‘26. 29, 51, 54, 55 Wyoming 22. 26..cise. ss Big Horn Forest Reserve.........-+. weaa eae. . 54 April 15, 1901 —5,440 1,147,840 : Proclamation No. 29. EI, ae Bee a8 rae eee 
: o, 5b, 
h Reduction of 27,520 acres by E ti Order, 
26. 29, 51, 54, 65 Wyoming .......cceet eevee Big Horn Forest Reserve........5scscesse-eeesee 5b June 25, 1901 —27,520 1,147,840 ; ae Proclamation No. 29, 61, sae RS 
, rder No, 64. 
16. 18, 34, 46, sy ORG eal Aaa assdeerrecoonmoteets Cascade Range Forest Reserve...........--. pene e560 June 20, 1901 —46,080 4,577,120 | CCHS metal Gee by Executive Order, 
U6. 18, 34, 46, 56,57 Oregon ....c.cseeeeeeeeeeeeee Cascade Range Forest Reserve....cseseceeeveeees 57 July 1, 1901 142,080 4,577,120 aE EeUe ears No, 56, 46, 34, and Proc-” 
40. ee) ' ©klahoma Territory..... ..-. Wichita Forest Reserve... ..ccsccsvcsecsscosesees 58 July 4, 1901 57,120 57,120 : : 
“25. 27, 50, 69 Washington ...seseeees ree, Olympic Forest Reserve.......... Fe, ys SOS . 59 July 15, 1901 —456,960 1,466,880 joe coe Pree acy acres. See Proclamation 
a. 60 SEAT ons weee cee bit acire poy tpn cat oma . Payson Forest Reserve....-...2.2++s-2+- $ Peietais see. 60 Aug, 8, 1901 86,400 86,400 nt ee 
; Sheil Beast on pelee 7,050,089 Acres. 
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. 
y. 1, 61 Colorado ....es-seseees seers . Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve.......- states Oct. 7, 1901 —1,280 856,960 | a See, Proclamation No ii. by Executive. Order. 
“49. 21, 62 Galifocnia mince cers see ; San Jacinto Forest Reserve.....-.... apart ae? Oct. 17, 1901 —69,120 668,160 | Sen CROn obi ets fetes, by Executive Order. 


next day the old cat brought in a baby skunk, doubtless 
to take the place of her departed offspring. This would 
never do. The doctor decided on a surgical operation, 
and the little skunk was promptly deprived of the scent 
glands, hence his appearance at the Sportsmen’s Show. 
Ladies stopping in front of the compartment and admiring 
the animals are promptly accosted by the old gentleman 
with, “Are you fond of pets?’ ‘The answer is generally 
yes, and then the keeper sizes his victim up. “Will her 
dress be spoiled? Does she care more for her dress than 
all the animals in a whole menagerie?” If his impression 


‘is favorable, he opens the compartment door and says, 
“Come right in here.” 


If the lady hesitates, he says, “TI 
will guarantee that nothing will harm you in the least.” 
The lady comes in. Seated on a rude stool, the silver 
gray fox is passed to her, and the little fellow is as 
pleased as a pet kitten. The little skunk is next brought 
forward. Does the lady hesitate again? “He is per- 
fectly well-behaved,” remarks the old gentleman, and the 
skunk, too, is in the lady’s lap. But when it comes 
to taking the peccary up in her arms, the lady generally 
politely declines, though the civet cat and the anteater 
are not neglected, both running up to be petted. 

The ducks. What shall we say of them? There are 
nearly 200, individual birds in the duck and geese compart- 
ments. , They scarcely seem to mind the confinement at 
all. They swim races around the big circular tank, with 
the old wild goose gander for starter. In the main tank 
are many varieties. Some of the finest specimens of 
black or dusky ducks are to be seen. The wood ducks 
are always the same attractive little fellows, especially 
the drakes, and they.seem almost conscious of the im- 
portance their brilliant plumage gives them. The little 
mandarins over in the square duck compartment can dis- 
tance them in the way of dress, however. Canvasbacks 


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are not often seen in captivity, but here is a good number 
of fine specimens. There are also ruddy ducks, lesser 
scaup, American widgeon, European widgeon, shovelers, 
gadwall, redheads, ~sprigtails, American green-wing teal, 
Eprepean green-wing teal, gargany teal and blue-wing 
teal. ; 

The partridge show is most remarkable and near to the 
sportsman’s heart. The ruffed grouse have already been 
described at considerable length in this paper. Then 
come the English partridges in a large compartment, some 
twenty-five or thirty of them, They seem to bear con- 
finement well. The French partridges come next. To 
already a goodly number, Mr. Dimick received an addition 
of ten on Saturday. The Hungarian partridges are rare 
birds in this part of the world. Most of these birds will 
be subject to a trial for breeding in confinement, when 
the Sportsmen’s Show is over. The Virginia quail are 
sprightly little fellows, and readily breed under fair con- 
ditions. Commissioner Brackett is breught,to mind by 
thereced showing of Mongolian pheasants, very attractive 

irds. 

The fish exhibit is simply remarkable. Commissioner 
Nathaniel Wentworth, of the New Hampshire Board, is 
proud of what his State shows here, and he has good 
reason to be. His tank of lake trout is one of the best 
ever shown, with individual fish up to nearly 15 pounds. 
Taken right off the spawning beds, he has been able to 
move them to Boston without a scar, and so far they have 
not shown a particle of fungus. His Sunapee trout 
(Aureolus or seibling) are most beautiful fish. Behind 
the scenes one was dipped up in’a net for me to see. 
It was truly a beautiful fish, and rightly named from the 
brilliancy of its colorings. Mr. Wentworth has succeeded 
in crossing the seibling with the brook trout, and shows a 
fine result of this crossing. The question is, Is it a mule 
fish? Mr. Wentworth thinks not, for the cross seeks the 
spawning beds with the other fish. The seibling are found 
originally in Lake Sunapee, Dan Hole Pond, in New 
Hampshire, and the Avery ponds in Avery, Vt. Mr. 
Wentworth thinks that they also exist in other waters of 
Maine and New Hampshire, though not yet established. 
The tank of brook trout from the Diamond Ponds, New 
Hampshire, is excellent, with fish ranging from 1 to 2 
pounds, These fish are also beautiful specimens. Right 
from the spawning beds, they are perfectly natural, with- 
out fungus or defect, so common with artificially reared 
and fed trout. The exhibit of landlocked salmon includes 
only small fish, I to 1% pounds. It has been found to be 
no easy task to transport the larger of these fish without 
scar and fungus, so great is their power and ability. The 
Massachusetts exhibit includes some fine specimens of 
large and small trout and salmon: Maine has no fisheries 
exhibit at this show. The show of tropical fish is a 
wonder and a delight, and will be likely to be greatly 
enlarged at future shows. The angel fish and the trunk 
fish are sufficiently wonderful to cause our friend the 
wise man to declare that “they are not fish at all; only 
automatas, put into the water and propelled by some 
sort of machinery.’ He says further, “I for one can’t 
see why they can’t get up a sportsmen’s show and give 
us more.of the real thing, without adding so much cheap 
trash? Just a catch-penny game.’ Well, it takes all sorts 
of people to make up a world. Give some people a good 
deal of reality and they will cry sham. 

SPECIAL. 


Rutfed Grouse in Confinement. 


Bosron, March 1.—It has been done. Partridges or 
ruffed grouse are being shown in confinement, without 
that terrible fear of man and everything else that has here- 
tofore rendered such exhibitions almost painful. Mr. C. 
W. Dimick has once or twice failed in exhibiting these 
birds in former sportsmen’s shows. The birds have re- 
fused to eat, and have evidently died of starvation. But 
a thing that is dificult has a particular attraction for him, 
especially if it concerns birds or animals. Last year he 
made up his mind to try again. He obtained, several 
months ago, permission to trap or snare partridges alive 
in both Massachusetts and Maine. He made known his 
wishes -to several men, and two of them claimed that 
they could trap partridges without destroying their lives. 
These two he engaged; the others all backing out. The 
two men employed were soon reduced to one, the other 
writing Mr. Dimick that he could trap no birds. The 
last one finally sent him one bird, which soon died of 
fright or starvation. At last the other man gave up in 
discouragement. Still other men applied for the job, but 
after hearing what the others had gone through and 
failed, they were ready to abandon the tdea. Out of all 
the applications one or two were secured who succeeded 
in catching a few partridges, which were forwared to Mr. 
Dimick. Experience seemed to teach the trappers, and 
they soon secured over twenty partridges, and Mr. Dim- 
ick had them in an inclosure. Wild was no name for the 
state they were in. ; 

Now the problem was begun. Mr. Dimick and his son, 
a boy of 18, who loyes birds and animals as well as his 
father, made a great study of the subject. They put the 
birds in an inclosure, padded with cloth of a dun or dead 
leaf color. The windows, large and capable of great ven- 
tilation, were covered with mosquito netting that the birds 
could fly against and not cling to or injure themselves. 
The floor was of earth, and covered with leaves and moss. 


Green boughs were supplied in plenty, with plenty of hid- ' 


ing places. But the greatest difficulty was yet to over- 
come, They had already lost a number of birds, evidently 
through starvation induced by fright. What was to be 
done? The poor partridges would only crowd into a 
corner, and refused to eat. Mr. Dimick reasoned that 
they were’ actually made sick by fright. If a man were 
sick from fear, something must be done to quiet his fear 
-and ‘tempt his appetite, and it must be a natural, most 
tempting and stimulating food. What must be obtained 
for the frightened partridges? They studied further when 
almost everything had failed. At last they thought of 
ant eggs or lave. L 
and ‘decayed wood. They were tried. The partridges 
eyed them, Soon one “grabbed for them.” The others 
followed. From that forward the birds began to mend— 
began to eat; and the thing was done. But their wildness 
was improved but a little bit. Here was another knotty 
_problem; how could the wildness, a part_of the nature of 
the ruffed grouse, be overcome? Mr. Dimick made up 


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his mind that it was best to enter the inclosure where 
the birds were with as little motion as possible. At first 
he would be several minutes in moving a few feet toward 
the birds; moving yery slowly, with hands down and 
without motion of his head. If the birds showed ex- 
treme fear, he stopped—remaining motionless till they 
were more quiet, For a long time he would not raise 
his arm, or even move his hand, if he thought it increased 
the alarm of the partridges, huddled together under the 
brush in an extreme corner of the inclosure. Gradually 
they seemed to lose their fear. Now he enters their in- 
closure and they-do not manifest the least alarm. 

The opening night of the Sportsmen's Show they were 
greatly frightened. They were in a new inclosure, with 
hundreds of eyes staring at them; moving people in all 
sorts of dress. Mr. Dimick noticed that it seemed to 
calm their fears somewhat when he or his son came along 
with others. The next morning early he came into the 
Mechanics’ building, and the first place he visited was the 
partridge compartment. There they were, huddled in the 
corner the same as the night before. They had not moved 
from the position first taken. Hie entered the compart- 
ment, crawling flat on the floor. so as not to frighten 
them’ more by his standing height. Very carefully he ap- 
proached the crouching birds. He worked his hands 
under one, at the same time making a soothing whistle 
or chirp which he and his son have learned that the 
grouse make to one another, The birds seemed to begin 
to lose their fears. Cautiously he pushed one bird fqr- 
ward toward the other end of the inclosure, the others 
followed. Others were moved still further ahead, and 
within a half hour Mr. Dimick had the whole brood of 
23 partridges moving about the inclosure. Since that time 
they seem to enjoy running about in and out of the little 
hiding places made for their comfort. They show little 
or no fear, jump or skip over the little logs of wood and 
artificial stones with all the beautiful dexterity and grace 
of motion that the hunter loves so well.. The male birds 
are particularly beautiful. One of them, Mr, Dimick 
says, already begins to strut, and then hops on to a little 
log. “I will have that fellow drumming on that log be- 
fore the show is over,” says Mr. Dimick. That will be 
a sight worth seeing, He will surely try to breed them, 
and has good reason for hope of success. 

Mr. Seaton-Thompson, the author, has seen the grouse 
and seen one of them come down and drink, He says 
that the sight has given him great satisfaction. Later it 
is possible that he may see the male bird drumming and 
the female on her nest. Mr. W. H. Weld, a gentleman 
of means, with a big place on Cape Cod, is desirous of 
trying some of Mr. Dimick’s partridges in the way of 
breeding them. He will be allowed a few, and if he suc- 
ceeds in getting them started in good shape; that is, does 
not get them frightened and lose them, others will be put 
in his keeping. Both gentlemen will do all in their power 
to breed partridges in confinement. Their operations will 
be watched with a great deal of interest. Both will do 
everything that can be done in the. way of inclosures 
and attendance. Men will be put in charge who are bird 
lovers and haye shown some adaptability for the work. 
At present the birds are being fed regularly on white birch 
buds, brought in fresh every day. They are also particu- 
larly fond of apple tree buds, and are treated with the 
same. Wild rose buds and the dried berries of several 
species of blueberry, etc., are given to them. Mr. Dimick 
will have about a dozen more partridges to add to his 
coop when the show is over. It is more than probable 
that the great problem of raising ruffed grouse in confine- 
ment is to be solved, and hence the depleted game covers 
restocked. SPECIAL. 


Foreign Game Birds. 


Macoms, Ill, Feb. 26.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
The picture of the Armenian partridge in your last num- 
ber of the Forrest AnD STREAM is nothing more or less 
than the Caccabis chukor partridge I imported from 
Karachi, India, some nine years ago, These birds will 
stand any New England climate. I raised some here 
that stood 28 degrees below zero. They are a strong 
bird, and will fight like a game cock, They will fly as 
fast as a quail, and can be introduced into the country. 
The young cannot be held in confinement. If so, they 
will die by the time they are one week old. They must 
have their liberty and have animal food. The best way 
to hatch the eggs is under bantams, and turn them loose 
and they will take care of themselves. I turned a bantam 
loose in a field with six young chicks one mile from a 
house, and in eight weeks she found the way to a farm- 
house with the brood, and they roosted with the other 
chickens all winter. They weigh about 274 pounds, and 
are fine eating, Col. Ramsdale, of the English army in In- 
dia, wrote to me that they would stand any climate on the 
face of the globe. He had shot them on the higher moun- 
tains covered with snow, and he had shot them on the 
burning sand in the valleys. 

I have my doubts about raising the California quail in 
New England. Some twenty years ago I imported four 
dozen of the valley quail from Knight's Landing, on the 
Sacramento River, to this city, about the first of April. 
I turned them all loose on a man’s farm about two miles 
from this city. They laid and hatched large broods, and 
sometimes we would see twenty in a flock, We were 
more than delighted over our success. They did not sing 
“Bob White,” but they had a song of their own, and made 
the music lively till about the first of October. Not a 
voice could be heard after this. We took our dogs and 
hunted the country for miles atound, and not a bird 
could be found, and not one was ever seen after this. 
The next spring the Smithsonian Institution had a man 
in Kansas hunting birds for the institution, He came 
across a large flock of California valley quail. He said 
in his report that this was the first time he ever knew 
that there were any of these quail this side of the Rocky 


* Mountains. We believed that those quail were ours, and 


were moving in the direction of a warmer climate. 
W. O. BLAISDELL. 

[The birds figured in last week’s Forest anp STREAM 
are forms of the widely distributed Old World partridge 
(Perdix), and its near relatives, found under many names 
in many localities, and adapted to many different climatic 
conditions. Obviously, for the severe climate of the 
northern United States, such birds, when imported, should 
come from regions having cold winters. 


was momentarily irresistible, and, in consequence, my! 


- seen either man or horse, I contend that it was courage— 


hawk was found in the town of Marblehead, Mass., on 


If given opportunity, the porcupine will climb a tree or 


[Marcr 8, 1902, 


It is hardly to be wondered at that the valley quail has 
not done well in New England, since they are not adapted 
to so severe a climate, It is quite possible that the moun 
tain quail of California, or plumed partridge, might have 
done better. In Vancouver [sland—well to the north, but 
on the other hand with a mild climate, where the grass) 
remains green throughout the wintér—the valley quail 
have done fairly well.] a 

A Mother Grouse. 

Kertte Faris, Wash. Feb. 24.—Editor Forest a d 
Stream: I note in the issue of Feb. 22 the statement, 
made by Jay Pee that the partridge displays no courage im 
defense of her young! 4 | 

By the word partridge I understand him to mean. the 
ruffed grouse, and in reply to his statement I want toy 
bear testimony to the courage of at least one of these 
faithful little mother birds, i 

When first 1 came to the Territory of Washington, the) 
desire to explore the mountains to the west of my home’ 
near Valley grew upon me, and at the first opportu- 
nity, taking ponies and blankets, and accompanied by! 
my eldest son, a lad of seventeen, set out on a four-day : 
trip into the new wonderland. J i 

The summit of the range was reached on the second) 
day, at a point entirely out of the line of travel of either 
Indians or whites, and when almost at the summit, just, 
as we were passing a clump of bushes, on June 6, 1884, we} 
ran into a brood of little ruffed grotise- 4 

My boy was riding in front a couple of rods in advance, 
and the first move of the mother pird seemed to be to 
hustle her babies away from his horse’s feet, and just asi 
he rode past she rose in the air and flew directly toward) 


i 


me. ; 

I pulled up my pony instantly, and as I sat still she 
flew straight for my head, rising just above it as she 
came, and suddenly the boy cried out, “She is going to) 
alight on your head.” 

It was true, and to the day of my death I shall regret! 
that the unexpected sound of the fluttering of her wings) 
as she settled toward my head for an instant startled me! 
from my composure, and the temptation te glance upward! 


slightly tilting hat brim frightened her while just in the 
act of setting her feet upon my head, and swerving lightl 
to her left, she swung round and settled on the rump o 
the tired pony under mé, The pony stood perfectly still, 
and slowly—very slowly—I turned my head and looked) 
at her. Beginning in a very low tone and gradually 
raising my voice, I talked to her and to my boy about her 
for a minute or two before she fluttered away in search o 
her babies. i 

Telling her what a graceful little beauty she was, and 
how we had no thought of hurting either her or het 
babies, I cajoled her into listening for quite a time, and) 
though I am well persuaded that she had never before! 


pure and simple—which prompted her to fly in the face of 
so formidable an apparition in defense of her little ofies. 
Ortw BELKNAP. 


Hawk Killed by a Bone. 
Editor Forest and Stream: | 
I send you herewith a bone—commonly called wish- 
bone—which has a rather interesting history, inasmuch as9 
it appears to have demonstrated the fact that predaceous: 
birds may sometimes suffer death in a peculiar manner. 
This bone, which has been assumed to be the wishbone 
of a quail, caused the death of a rough-legged hawk. The) 


Jan. 18. 1902, by Mr. T. Kenney, of that town, and if 
had apparently died as a result of the bone being in its 
throat, where it had become so firmly fixed that parts} 
of it protruded through the skin of the hawk’s neck, 

The hawk was taken to Mr. George O. Welsh, the well- 
known taxidermist at Salem, for the purpose of having its 
skin mounted. Mr. Welsh gave the bone to Mr. Thomas: 
I, Burney, president of the Lynn Fish and Game Club, 
and he handed it to me, together with the facts above 
stated, J. W, Cotrins. | 

[The occurrence noted by Capt. Collins is an interesting 
one. We fancy that birds are killed by eating more fre- 
quently than is generally supposed. We recall once catch- 
ing, with a landing net in a small fresh-water pond, a 
broadbill duck which had a mussel firmly clamped to the 
root of the tongue, The hinge of the mussel was toward 
the throat, and the partly opened valves directed forward." 
The bird had evidently seized the open mussel and at- 
tempted to swallow it, and the shellfish had closed onj 
the tongue so firmly that it could not be moved, That; 
this had taken place some time before was made evident 
by the fact that all the flesh of the mussel had disappeared. | 
Stories are frequently told of ducks caught by the bill 
by shellfish which were open. | | 


The Porcupine’s Quills. 


CartHace, Ohio.—Lditor Forest and Stream: My! 
attention has just been called to Stanstead’s query 
in a recent nuimber of our paper. I have met and killed 
quite a number of these pests of the woods, and have) 
observed their action when attacked by a dog, as well as 
when purstied by a-man with a club, and | have never 
as yet seen any flinging of quills. A fayorite spaniel that 
I had in the Adirondacks was intent on rushing at every 
quill pig that he saw. notwithstanding a number of ex- 
periences when his nose and mouth were filled with the 
quills (and which would take an hour's work to remove 
with tweezers), and on several occasions I was so near as 
to observe the procedure. The porcupine would run, but 
when about overtaken (by either dog or man) would stop 
and turn his nose down, apparently between his forelegs, 
and thus in the shape of a ball, with quills erect, await the | 
attack, and the dog that touched or nabbed him was! 
glad to let go at once with a muzzle filled to repletion. 


seek refuge under roots or in holes in rocks, 
E. S. WaIrAKker. 


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The Strenuous Life. 

Morcantown, W. Va.—Editor Forest and Stream; In 
ho pursuit of life can disappointment be recalled, the 
recollection of which can be termed a pleasure, except 
that of a sportsman. Disappointments of sportsmen are 
anything but pleasurable for the time being; but who 
cannot recall, now that it is all past, instahces of exces- 
sive toil, long tramps after dark through rough woods to 
reach camp, or perchance hugging a little smouldering 
fire all night in the woods to keep from freezing when 
camp could not be reached, and the scores of disappoint- 
ments and blank days, and take a certain pleasure in 
thinking and telling it all over, even as we do of our 
successes. The experience of any who have lived much 
of their life in the woods, and hunted the inhabitants 
therein, if written out in full, would show a surprising 
Proportion of its pages dealing with that which passed 
vat the time 4s disappointments and failures, but which 
in reality were not such, inasmuch as they furnish us food 
tor pleasant reverie, long years aiter they are past. 

_ Naturally the idea comes to the uniniatiated that there 
is a certainty of getting game at some stage of the hunt, 
the reason for this natural belief being that in nearly all 
accounts of hunts, whether written or told, it is the suc- 


cessful days which are recorded at length, while the ~ 


unsuccessful ones, which far outnumber those bringing 
success (referring to big-game hunting) are scarcely men- 
tioned. A man goes off for a two weeks’ hunt (or a 
woman either, if she chooses) and perhaps hunts ten 
days, nine of which are blanks so far as concerns killing 
anything; but no mention is made of them, save passing 
over-them lightly, like the preacher who annotinced to his 
flock that he wished fo preach to them on the world, the 
flesh and the devil, and began by saying: “As I desire 
to be brief, I will dwell for a very short time on the 
world, pass lightly over the flesh and*hasten on to the 
devil” The one day, the bright day of the trip, fur- 
nishes the material for the story. Thus the inexperienced 
are always having the bright side dished up to them, from 
which they must form incorrect ideas which are only 
cerrected by hard personal experience. 

Trite, the rough and trying parts of camp life are often 
set forth vividly by narrators, but notice that almost in- 
variably the supreme moment at last arrives which brings 
compensation—that is, when we read it—for how rarely 
are accounts written of hunting trips in which absolutely 
no game was secured; but how tany hundreds go out 
each year for big gatne and come home without having 
So much as seeti any? f 

In the Dec. 14 issue of Forest anp STREAM we have 
a gtateful departure from the gentral rule of hunting 
experiences by “H.” in “My Vacation for 1901,” and by 
C. M, Stark in “New Hampshire Deer Hunting,” in each 
at which we have the refreshing novelty of reading hunt- 
ing experiehtes in which the writers killed nothing during 
the “entire trip. I say refreshing, because it harmonizes 
so well with many of the trips which we may have made 
ourselves with the same result, and helps us to see some 
of the aes which may be.obtaned from such a trip, 
even if we do come home without trophies. 

ulman nature is averse to exposing its failures to 
the public or even to friends; especially where the fail- 
ure has come through carelessness or inability of their 
own}; and it has been my fiendish delight to spend many 
an hour shadowing such tnfortunates, just for fun, to 
see how their report would correspond with the facts. 

I had been out for an hour’s hunt one evening, trying 
to’ get Some meat, and was coming home empty. Just as 
the last rays of the sun had ceased to shine on the moun- 
tain tops, I emerged from the woods at the upper end of 
my meadow, and naturally stopped just before coming 
out into the open to look over the meadow. I saw my 
near neighbor, “Old Elick,” coming stealthily out on to 
a high rocky point, half a mile away, overlooking some 
meadow land, where he had built himself a little cover 
of pine*boughs, where he could hide and watch for deer. 
I settled myseli to watch his performance, as he was gen- 
erally one of the unlucky sort. 

Hie crawled into his blind, and was scarcely out of sight 

when I saw a deer coming out of the woods about roo 
rods from him, and go directly toward him, 

Tt went right along without much delay, but stopping 
every few rods to look and listen. 
about 75 yards of*him and directly opposite him and 
stopped; being broadside to him and standing perfectly 
still, it offered an easy mark. A puff of smoke shot out 
from the blind, and after it there came to me the report of 
the gun, but the deer never moved. Directly another puff 
of smoke and the deer made a wild jump and started back 
for the timber, and I could see that one fore leg was 
broken. Old Elick jumped out of his blind and started 
after it, running and shooting, — 

I always had_a horror ef seeing wounded game get 
away, and would sacrifice any amount of time and labor 
to prevent it. There was an open, rocky knoll nearly a 
half mile from me, which I believed it would cross, aiter 
first going through a belt of green timber, and I felt 
sure that the only hope of getting it was for me to out- 
run it and get there in time to intercept it, as a deer with 
a broken leg, when it once gets beyond reach, where it 
has to be trailed, is about the hardset wounded game 
there is to capture. Between me and that point flowed 
-a good sized creek, with a thick growth of willows spread 
out on either side of nearly a hundred yards in width. 
When I started, the deer had scarcely two-thirds of the 
distance to go that I had to reach the objective point, 
but I judged it would slacken its speed when once in the 
woods, if Elick didn’t chase it too hard. I started on the 
race as if the prize was a hundred, and a xold medal, I 
found an open spot through the willows to approach the 
creek, dashed into the ice-cold water up to the knees, 
and raced through, but unfortunately struck a dense 

rowth of willows on the other side; there was no time 
or hunting a better place, and by just throwing myself 
against them, TI forced my way over and through them, 


-the agency of the limit. 


It finally got within | 


_ affords a fine panorama of mountain and vale. 


ot being able to see a step ahead. During a freshet, or 


rather a high water from melting snows, which was the 
only source of high waters there, the water would spread 
out through these willows, and in places would wash out 
deep holes. Well, there was one stich directly on my 
course, and there was such a dense growth of willows 
up to its very brink that I had not the slightest chance 
to escape it. Madly bursting my way through the tangled 
mass of willows, I plunged headlong into this hole, which 
was about four feet deep with two feet of water in it, Of 
course there was no half-way business about it; I jrst 
went in all over, and the only thing left dry was my rifle, 
which I instinctively held up in one hand. 
Coming up spouting like a whale I tarried not, but 
rushed on out into and across the open meadow, and 
with a mighty effort reached the foot of the knoll just 
as the deer was passing through a little open space on 
the knoll, about 40 yards ahead. I shot toward it, hardly 
knowing where I might hit, so “tuckered ont’ was I. 
Seeing and hearing nothing after the shot, except some 
comanche yells from Old Elick, I made my way up as 


fast as I could, and was well rewarded by finding the deer © 


lying dead where I had shot it. 

I just tumbled on the ground and lay there till Elick 
cate up and dressed the deer, then we slung it between 
us on a pole and packed it to his house; but not for 
séveral hours afterward did I feel in normal condition 
again, Emerson CARNEY, 


Camp-Fire Stories from Canadian 


Woods. 


Vil.—Deer Hunting on the Madawaska. 


THE lumber depot is the headquarters for all operations 
upon the limit, and is, in its way, a small village. First, 
there is the farmhouse or dwelling for the agent and’ 
farm foreman and his family. Second, dormitory for the 
men as they come and go to the various lumber camps. 
Third, the office.and store, in the latter of which all man- 
ner of supplies connected with the business are kept in 
stock, from a box of pills to a jobber’s outfit. Fourth, 
there are several large storehouses. Fifth, blacksmith’s 
shop. Sixth, carpenter’s shop, and lastly, vast barns and 
stables and other outbuildings of an extensive character. 

The depot farm consists generally of from five to seven 
hundted acres of cleared land, cultivated where practica- 
ble. From seventy to eighty Percheron and Clydesdale 
horses are pastuted over the summer, andi in the fall are 


fitted for work in the various catnps, and drawing sup- ’ 


plies. Also, about one hundred head of cattle, of which 
there are a number of milch cows, the remainder being 
“stockers’” growing into beef for the winter’s use. It is 
the object of the foreman to grow large quantities of 
hay and oats, and other supplies for lumbermen’s use. 

The agent is a “Czar” in a way on the limits over 
which he is sent to manage. Generally, the discerning 
eyes of the proprietors select a young man of promise 
at headquarters, who, after an apprenticeship under the 
eyes of his superiors, is sent out to the depot as clerk or 
bookkeeper, and, after years of training, is advanced to 
It is the duty of the agent to 
look after the purchase and distribution of supplies, and 
generally to supervise all the work going on in the 
various camps. In the spring he must look after all the 
different drives of logs on their way to their destination. 
In fact, he is the one man responsible for the carrying 
on of all lumbering operations upon his limit until the 
logs are safely secured within the booms at the great 
mills. 

The foreman of a camp is selected for his ability to plan 
his work methodically and handle men, He must ex- 
plore and blaze out all log-roads with a view to their 
facility and distance. A camp in full operation consists 
of from sixty to one hundred men, and it requires no 
small ability and forethought to make the proper requisi- 
tion for supplies upon the depot authorities, and see 
that every man and team perform their proper share of 
duties, and that those duties are assigned and carried 
out to the best advantage. On another occasion the lum- 
ber camp will be described as well as the life and charac- 
teristics of the typical lumberman. 

The “Egan Estate’ depot buildings had been reared 
out of the monarchs of the forest which stood upon the 
spot. The skillful hewers had performed their work well, 
and the walls displayed the evenness and regularity of 
master workmen. Miles irom any mill where lumber 
could be manufactured, all boards had been made in the 
primitive ways of our ancestors. Four upright posts with 
cross pieces and platform on top upon which are two 
bed pieces to hold the log in its place, and upon which 
the log is rolled and fastened; then a man at each end of 
the saw, one above and the other below, supply the mo- 
tive power. -With this appliance two men will saw from 
two to three hundred feet per day. ’ 

Prior to the building of the railway, all supplies were 
brought in by sleighs during the winter season, and a 
sufficient store conserved. to last until sleighing again. 

In summer the depot is deserted, with the exception of 
the farm hands, but during the winter season the arrival 
of teams with supplies from without, the departure of 
others distributing them to the various camps, the in- 
coming of the men and their dispersion to the different 
shanties, form a lively scene among these eternal soli- 
tudes. 

The depot is situated in the township of Murchison, 
upon the upper Madawaska, and is owned by Mr. John 
R. Booth, the lumber king of Ottawa. . Mr. Booth is a 
self-made man, and worked in some of the mills at Ot 
tawa as millwright. Many lumber millionaires have risen 
from the ranks of the ordinary workingman. Quite a few 
have walked into camps with their ax on their shoulders 
and left millions to their families, 

-From the depot the valley of the Madawaska, circling 
if majestic sweep to the south and east and expanding 
into the waters of Bark Lake, some twenty fea: 

oO the 
north lie the hills of Victoria Lake, while a little to the 
northwest giant hills rear their smoky heads miles away 
in the direction of the Great Opeongo. The plateau upon 
which the depot is situated, rising by a gentle slope for 
‘some two or three miles from the river bed, and about 


fifteen hundred feet above the same, forms a vast amphi- 
theatre in which one would imagine giants of old were 
wont to meet in grand conclave, 

This limit was originally taken up by Mr, Egan, a 
wealthy lumberman of Aylmer, near Ottawa, in the early 
fifties, and a large part of the buildings were erected by 
him. Considerable clearings (now grown up to bush) 
were made, with a view of growing supplies for the lum- 
ber camp. In those days sveryHiae had to be brought 
by team from Ottawa, a distance of nearly one hundred 
and fifty miles. Some idea of the difficulties and expense 
of transportation may be had from the prices of supplies 
in those days.. Hay was $60 per ton; oats, $2 per bushel; 
flour, $30, and pork, $50 per barrel. 

An attempt was made to grow wheat; a small flour 
mill was built a few miles west of the depot, the tuins 
of which at this time, along with some broken machinery, 
might have been seen, Considerable flour was made here, 
and Mr, Egan, who was very enterprising, with a view 
of advettising the capabilities of this north land, sent 
several barrels of the same to the Inter-Colonial Exhibi- 


-tion held in London in 1862, But this whole region was 


never intended by nature for an agricultural country, and 
never can be made so by the hand of man. 
E, B, FRALECK. 


Some lowa Facts and Notions. 


MarsHatttown, Feb. 27.—If the recent crusted snow 
and. cold weather does not destroy too many, lowas 
quail shooting for the next seasor will break the record 
for excellence. When the season closed, Jan. 1, there 


- were coveys that had never been disturbed by hunters, and 


the seed left over was sufficient to stock the next year’s 
coveys bountifully. This, together with the strenuous 
effort now making to perfect or improve the game laws, 
give hope that the game supply in lowa may be kept up. 
The arrest and subsequent fining to the full extent of a 
Cedar Falls poacher is matter for congratulation to every 
sportsman and advocate of game protection in Towa. In 
this case, which was tried last week before a Black Hawk 
county justice, the delinquent had been caught in flagrante 
delictu. He had been seen in the act of killing, and was 
in possession of six quail, prima facie evidence of guilt. 
His attorney set up a plea for special privilege, claiming 
the violator of the law to be a taxidermist, and that the 
six quail were killed for scientific purposes. He failed to 
make good before the very sensible court, however, and 
his client was mulcted $131 in costs and penalties. The 
case will be appealed. . 

If by mistake there is law in Iowa to allow for any 
purposes the killing of protected birds during the close 
season, such law is bad and should be repealed. Pro- 
fessional taxidermists are taxidermists because there ts 
money .in it, and the zone of demarcation between the 
professional taxidermist and the market-shooter grows 
narrow when each sees cash in perspective over the gun 
barrel. Whether the birds are to be killed for the scien- 
tific purpose of being stuck up out of all proportion in a 
dusty glass case, or that other scientific purpose of adorn- 
ing an Easter hat, comes to the same thing: Both work 
havoc among the birds, And when a quasi taxidermist 
who has shot game birds in January, when the previous 
two months are an open season with the’ birds in full 
plumage and splendid condition, puts up a plea of special 
privilege, it is most refreshing to find a justice wha calmly 
metes out the fines and trimmings provided for such dere- 
lictions. a, 

Speaking of special privileges, some fellow up in 
northwestern Iowa is asking permisison to trap quail. He 


wants to capture a dozen and rear in captivity multitudes 


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of their progeny. It is to be hoped that all requests of 
this nature may be firmly and decidedly sat upon. A law 
permitting the trapping of game birds would be a cala- 
mity. Traps designed for the capture of quail for pur- 
poses of domestication would multiply and quail grow 
correspondingly scarce in the covers, and plenty in the 
meat markets and country kitchens. There is but one 
method of protecting game, and that is to make the game 
laws water tight against privileges that are susceptible of 
abuse. Stop the capture of game birds in every way but 
by shooting. Absolutely prohibit their sale im or out the 
close season. Hire and pay the warden under bond to 
prosecute all violations of stich provisions, and game 
birds will increase in Iowa against the gun. 

The trouble is at present as much with the warden as 
with the poacher. While many of them are capable, 
honest and perhaps commendably efficient, most of them 
are notably deaf to the shooting going on by their neigh- 
bors through August. In fact, many of the wardens 
themselves rest under the imputation of being rank 
poachers—and deserve it. If a'stranger with a dog shows 
up in town a day or two previous to the opening, this 
sort of warden becomes active and vigilant to a degree. 
I once had one follow me thirty miles from Burt to 
Dolliver on the zoth of August, in hope of a $10 fee, 
paying his railroad fare and being sadly disappointed and 
out of pocket in the outcome. This fellow at home had 
the reputation of a poacher, and it was said by the owner 
of the farm he lived on that he cleaned out every covey 
in reach by August 15. It is hard to get a reputable and 
efficient man to take the position under the present sys- 
tem. If wardens were made State officers under salaries 
from August 1 to Jan. 1, and oblixed to give sufficient 
bond to investigate and prosecute violators, a better class 
of wardens might be obtainable and better results secured, 
The office of State warden should not be a reward for 
political services, and the salary thus indirectly made to 
swell the campaign fund of any partisan political organ- 
ization. . 

The idea of a $1 gun license, while it will be favored 
by city sportsmen, will meet with determined opposition 
in the country. The farmer with a half dozen bovs who 
hunt on rainy days and at other times when a day oif 
from farm duties may be secured will not take kindly to 
a law requiring payment for the privilege of hunting on 
his own or neighbors’ premises, The license fee of $r 
will multiply in his case to a $5 bill, and the average 
farmer does not part with these in any reckless and un- 
thinking manner. Then it would have no effect in cut- 
ting down the undesirable class of shooters. The ability 
to pay a license fee, whether it is $1 or $100, does not 
constitute a sportsman, In fact, it sometimes acts the 
opposite way, 


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Not very long ago, at the opening season, I landed at 
an lowa town two days in advance of Sept. 1. In that 
neighborhood a millionaire land owner has an extensive 
tanch and had been shooting for several days with a party 
of friends.. No one had bothered’ him and he had an- 
nounced his willingness to settle all fines promptly if such 
a necessity should arise, In fact, he had deliberately 
counted the cost of an infraction of the written and un- 
written law and was willing to pay the price. Two 
prominent judges of lowa, twenty miles from this place, 
were arrested for illegal shooting and paid out. 

If the question of fines might be eliminated from the 
game laws and each violation punished by imprisonment 
with no loop holes to escape, no chance to pay. out, a 
half dozen examples would settle the entire business. 
Many a man will take the chance of a fine who would 
be slow to run the risk of ten days in jail. The wealthy 
shooter who means to pay out if caught and the minor 
Jaw breaker who knows the neighbors won't give him 
away would pass up the illicit sport that carried with it 
incarceration and imprisonment. Moscrip, 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


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Wisconsin Waking Up. 


Curcaco, IIL, Feb. 27—The formation of the Kosh- 
kenong Fish and Game League, at Fort Atkinson, seems 
. to be the result of a determined effort to put a stop to 
certain abtises, and such is the resolution shown that one 
is disposed to believe that this is not going to b= simply 
another instance of all cry and no wool. The undertaking 
is backed by all the clubs in and around Lake Kosh- 
konong, and the press of the ‘vicinity is taking a very 
tational and commendable attitude in the matter; quite 
different from the old senseless outcry against the “city 
sport.” The bulk of the money invested in sportsmen’s 
clubs at Koshkonong is that of non-resident members, and 
it is at- last admitted that these do not all have cloven 
hoofs, and that some of the wanton destruction of the 
fish and fowl of Koshkonong may have been attributable 
to local and not non-resident causes, 

It need not be said that the money of these non-resident 
men will be as freely offered as that of any dweller of 
the State, though in the nature of things the non-resident 
member of sucha club as the Blackhawk Club, for in- 
stance, cannot avail himself so freely of his club privileges 
as_those living nearer to the shooting preserves. Mr. 
J. V. Clarke and other Chicago members of the Blackhawk 
Club express their unqualified approval of the purposes 
of the League, and their intention of giving it support in 
all possible ways. The League is putting out little 
folders, giving a resumé of the situation as below: 

“There is a movement in many parts of the State, in- 
cluding Beloit, to join the Fort Atkinson sportsmen in 
their efforts in a reasonable and just cause. One of 
Milwaukee’s best known sporting men, writing on the 
subject, has the following to say: 

“Having hunted and fished in this State for more than 
thirty years, I fee] a somewhat natural interest in this 
subject. I can remember when the first flocks of canvas- 
back ducks made their appearance upon Lake Koshkonong, 


and while that noble game bird greatly increased in ’ 


numbers for a number of years, many other varieties are 

in danger of utter extinction and the pot-hunters and 

market-shooters have done their best to exterminate all 

aes of game birds, as well as the large game of the 
tate. 

“Tt is no secret that for more than twenty-five years 
past there have been shipped from Lake Koshkonong 
many tons of fish every winter; nearly all of them caught 
through the ice by unlawful means, and the wonder is 
that a game fish remains within its waters. 

“All the game and fish laws depend for their value 
upon public opinion, and it is good to see the people of 
Fort Atkinson and other cities and towns in the vicinity 
of Lake Koshkonong waking up to the fact that not only 
good citizenship, but their own interests, demand the 
enforcement of the fish and game laws. One visiting 
sportsman from Milwaukee or Chicago is of more value 
financially, to the citizens of Fort Atkinson, than all the 
pot-hunters that disgrace the neighborhood, and the 
people are beginning to realize that fact. 

““The Koshkonong Fish and Game League intends to 
stop illegal fishing and hunting wpon Koshkonong and in 
its vicinity. The Leagtie already has a large member- 
ship, and it is growing with great rapidity, and every 
member is pledged to report every violation of the game 
and fish laws which shall come to his knowledge, and to 
aid in all possible ways in the conviction of the offender. 

“Tt should be noted that the destruction of our game 
and fish is caused by the wantonness and greediness of 
our own people, the residents of Wisconsin, and the cry 
against foreign hunters, non-resident clubmen, etc., is 
the sheerest nonsense, and every one posted upon the 
subject is well aware that, though the law prohibits spring 
shooting, every spring you can hear the boom of the shot- 
gun upon almost every lake and marsh in the State, but 
no non-resident can be found violating the law. It is 
the citizens of Wisconsin, residing in the deer country, 
that slaughter the deer out of season; it is not the non- 
resident that is guilty of this iniquity,’ ” ; 


Big Cities and Non-Resident License Laws. 


Hon. Hempstead Washburne, formerly mayor of Chi- 
cago, and a sportsman of much experience afield, as well 
as in the legislative halls, when asked to-day what he 
thought of the Indiana license law, replied, “I don’t 
altogether like it, of course, but at the same time I can 
see the other side of it. For instance, if the license de- 
manded of tis Chicago people were $10 instead of $25, I 

would go there, and I might also take my young son 
there, who is now just learning to shoot. But at $25 
each, when we could not both go there more than three 
or four times in the season, I consider the luxury as hav- 
ing a shade too high a price attached to it. I think the 
idea is right, and its virtues may be seen by any one who 
will consult the local gun dealers, who rent guns and sell 
ammunition. They will tell you the non-resident law cut 
down the numbers of city shooters ‘going to Indiana by 
more than one-half. If that is true, the birds of Indiana 
must have profited to that extent, and, of course, the main 
thing is to realize that there are now birds enough to 
go on in the same old way. 


FOREST AND STREAM: 


“There is one point in this question which I have never 
seen taken up, yet I consider it should be a great factor in 
the discussion as applied to this State, or rather this 
vicinity of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. This is the 
matter of the great concentrations of population at or 
near the edge of a shooting country. Take the State 
of Illinois, for instance, with Chicago at one end of it 
and St. Louis at the other, just across its border—no 
State could furnish game enough for free and unrestricted 
shooting for all the dwellers of these two Cities who might 
want to go ont shooting. It was plain enough that St. 
Louis was cleaning out the game in the lower part of 
this State. It was not a theory or a supposition, but a 
condition and a fact. So I think the Illinois license of 
$10 for all St, Louis and all other non-resident shooters is 
not only just, but wise and necessary. 

“If there were no cities in any of this group of States 
with more than 25,000 inhabitants, I would not favor a 
non-resident law, for it would not be necessary. Certainly 
I do not think it necessary to protect Illinois against St. 
Louis, Indiana against Chicago and Wisconsin against 
Chicago. We had to take our choice of no license or no 
game, in all this group of States, and I take it to be 
largely because the big cities furnish many guns in these 
days. But I don’t think it necessary or right to put the 
license so high as $25 as is done in Indiana. The Wis- 
consin bird license of $10 is high enough in my opinion, 
and I think the license is a good thing. 

“This shooting country in the West is not as big as it 
once was. It is growing smaller every year, while on 
the other hand the shooting population is getting bigger 
and bigger every year, multiplying out of all proportion to 
the extent of game cotntry, just as well as itis frue that 
the readiness with which this population can get into the 
shooting couritry is increasing every year. To that extent 
the cry against the city sportsman is, in my opinion, a 
just one. It is not a question of quality, but of quan- 
tity, The city sportsman is a good fellow, but there are 
too many of him for the shooting offered. Naturally the 
city man wants his shooting as close home as possible. 


_ This has meant lower Illinois for St. Lottis, Wisconsin and 


Indiana for Chicago, I don’t blame the local men for 
objecting in any one of these three cases. The man who 
can't afford a small license won’t break anybody’s heart 
by staying home. [ should not be surprised to see the 
day when there is a movement fora resident shooting 
license in this State, and the money turned in part for 
the purposes of a game farm. We can’t tell where these 
questions. will run nowadays, but there is a tendency to 
swift and radical measures, on the belief that something 
has got to be done mighty quick if it is going to do any 
good,” E. Hoven. 
Harrrorp Burrpine, Chicago, Ill. : 


Mountain Sheep. 


Yuma, Ariz.—Editor Forest and Stream: Some time 
since the writer of these notes addressed a letter to Mr. 
R, A. Hume, Chief of Police at Lillooit, British Columbia, 
on the possibility of securing alive a few of the big-horn 
sheep and wild goats to be found in that section of coun- 
try. His reply, under date of Feb. 4, is far from en- 
coutaging. He says: 

"Regarding the big-horn sheep and goats of which you 
wrote me, I may say that their home is in the Lillooit 
district, and some of the finest specimens in the world 
are to be had within twenty-five miles of this town. We 
are entirely surrounded by a double range of moun- 
tains, varying in height from 4,000 to 8,000 feet, and on 
their summits is to be found the game in question, but to 
captiire and deliver any of them alive is too stupendous 
a task for any hunter in this section. To trap or snare 
one or more of them is within the bounds of possibility, 
but to deliver them alive is not. The mountains are 
rough and precipitous, and as the range of the sheep is 
ever in the most dangerous spots, one might as well try 
to lead down a wild bull as a big-horn. Beside these 
sheep, so far as known here, will not live in a low alti- 
tude, From one year’s end to the other they are always 
close to the snow, their food being the young grass always 
to be found between the black and white lines. Therefore, 
the only practical way to establish a zoological garden in 
the interest of the big-horn is to do it on the sheep’s own 
ground, and as this particular spot is a long way up- 
hill, it means a big climb, and sometimes a very cold 
job, Last year there were some very fine heads taken in 
this vicinity. One pair meastuted 17 inches in circumfer- 
ence and over a dozen others measured. between 15 and 
16 inches. 

“Goats are less difficult to obtain, but like sheep they 
will not thrive in captivity. Their natural food is not to 
be found at a low altitude, and they pine away like a 
disappointed Democrat after a Republican victory. There 
are two species of them in British Columbia. Near the 
coast line they are small of size and decidedly rank of 
flesh. They sometimes weigh about 150 pounds, but in 
the interior of the country I have seen them weigh over 
300 pounds, and, in season. they are really fine eating. 

“British Columbia is, without doubt, the best hunting 
eround on the American continent—hblack, brown, silver- 
tip and prizzly bear; three species of deer, and nearly 
all the fur-bearing animals known to northern America 
can be found, But for big-horn, the greatest and most 
cunning of its kind, the district of Lillooit is without 
equal in the world. Quite a number of Americans visited 
us last summer, some from as far east as Philadelphia, 
and several parties came all the way from England. All 
non-resident hunters are required to pay a license tax of 
$50, and as it is a part of my duty to collect this trifle, T 
occasionally hear some oddly shaped language.” 

While on the subject of big-horns, it, perhaps, will 
not be amiss to say something of them nearer home. 
Formerly they had a wide distribution in Arizona, but in 
many of our mountain ranges they are now little more 
than a memory. The mountains of southwestern Sonera 
are still blest with a goodly number of them, but the hand- 
writing of their undoing ts already on the wall. 
sionally I hear of them being taken alive, but they do 
not liye long in captivity. When food becomes scarce 
they migrate from one range to another, generally cover- 
ing the interyening distance during the night, but at 
long intervals daylight finds them still on the plains, where 
they are run down and roped by the vaquetos. Again, 


they are caught on the detached spurs of an adjacent 


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range, are driven to the plains, where vaqueros have been: 
stationed in waiting, and then the fun-begins, It is an) 
old story in this country that, if necessary, a good 
vaquero will kill a horse to catch a calf, and he will 
surely do it, if needful, to catch a big-horn, Under the 
laws of Arizona, mountain sheep are supposed to be pro- 
tected, but the law is effective only so far as it can be felt, 
It does, however, prevent the public marketing of their 

hides and flesh, and this of itself is no little virtue. 
Referring to the big game of Arizona and to the 
various catises that are now leading to its material de- 
crease, if not final extinction within its borders, ther 
comes up one against which no bar can be raised. Oddly 
enough, the mineral resources of the Territory point to} 
and conspire at the destruction of game. The ubiquitous/ 
prospector, lured on by the glitter of gold, appals at no 
obstacle, shrinks at no danger and would, if it were) 
possible, explore heaven and hell with equiformity in 
the omnipresent hope of “striking it rich.” The desert: 
places of the earth are his; no mountain is too rugged or} 
too high for him to climb, no cation too deep or too dark: 
to explore, and no desert toa dry or forbidding to cross. 
At the beck of a fourteen-carat prospect he will take 
death by the beard and laughingly walk in. Against him 
there can be no contention. Settlements follow his dis- 
coveries, camps and towns spring up and the remotest’ 
wilds are robbed of their isolation. His very presence 
With the boom | 
of the rock-rending blast and powder-tainted air, the time 
comes fot them to be off. In a few more: years, with an’ 
extensive development of the mineral interests of the’ 
Territory, the big-horn and all big game will practically 
disappear, In the meantime they should be saved from | 
the butchers, and a good thing made as lasting as ness 
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Non-Resident Licenses. 


Boston, Feb. 27.—Editor Forest and Stream: I have 
heen very much interested in the many letters from all J 
over the country in the question of the proposed tax on 
non-resident hunters in the State of Maine, and I do not 
recall that many of the writers of these letters have } 
favored the proposition. Aft any tate, the great majority ” 
have been against it. Now it seems to me that there are 
distinctly two sides to this question, and although I do | 
not favor Mr. Carleton’s plan, I am convinced that he 
is working on the right lines, If some strong measures 
are not taken to insure better protection against -the 
market-hunters and hiinters that kill in and out of sea- 
son for sport and to supply meat for sporting camps, as 
well as for lumber crews, history will, I firmly believe, re- 
peat itself in the woods of Maine, as it has in the forests 
of other States that in years past had the moose and deer | 
as plentiful as they are in the State of Maine to-day, 
They will go as the buffalo went. It will take some time, , 
I know, but it will be only»a question of time, and then 
when the game is scarce and hard to get, we will realize 
what we have lost, and that we have lost what cannot 
bé replaced. 

The reason why I do hot favor Mr. Carleton’s plan is » 
because I do not think that it is a fair one to the non- 
resident hunters. J favor his plan as far as it goes, but 
if, as has been shown, the resident huriters do the larger | 
proportion of the killing of the game, why should the 
non-resident hunters be asked to take out-all the haunting 
licenses to furnish money to protect the game of which 
they are killing probably not over 20 per cent? I have 
not forgotten the fact that the non-resident hunters pa 
no taxes in the State of Maine, but the millions of dol- 
lars that they spend on their trips into the woods will, 
J claim, more than make up for this, However, I am 
going to favor the resident hunter and not propose an | 
even break, My idea is that if it is necessary to raise 
additional funds for game protection (and I am sure it is) 
that the resident as well as the non-resident hunters 
should be taxed, but only a part of what the non-resident — 
hunter is taxed. If every non-resident hunter would pay 
a license of five or six dollars, and every resident hunter 
one or two dollars, I am sure that enough money would 
be raised to answer the purpose for which the Commis- 
sioners want to tse it, 

IT am aware that Mr, Carleton has had a good many 
hard knocks on this license qtiestion, but I am stire that 
he believes that unless we provide for our own no one 
else will, That he intends to do all in his power tor the 
good of the fish and game of Maine I am thoroughly 
convinced. 

There is one other way fo protect the game, and that 
is to stop its sale. When that is done the pot-hunters and 
market-hunters will stay at home, where they are most 
appreciated, no doubt. Now I presume some old Forest 
AND STREAM crank will say, that feller has either sot lots 
of stuff or else he doesn’t do any hunting. Well, he’s 
right and wrong, too, for I don’t do any hunting, and 
havenevertakenagtn to the Maine woods yet, simply be- 
cause I never have been there in hunting season, and I 
prefer the rod: but I would be willing to chip in with the 
rest to help along the cause, and he can call my hand 
in turn. O, CRANE, 


American Duck Shooting. 


Curcaco, Feb, 8.—Editor Forest and Siream; I have 
read the book carefully and with much pleasure. It’s the 
best book of the kind I have ever seen or read, and I 
shall certainly advise all my friends to get a copy. I 
have shot ducks for forty years, and really thought there 
was little I did not know of ducks and their habits, but I 
find I have another “thought coming,” for I find many 
new ideas in the book. s 

Tn the last article, “What shall be done?’ I see the 
writer advocates Limiting the Size of Bags, Forbidding the 
Sale of Game and the Prohibition of Spring Shooting, all 
of which I believe in. Would make it in a way stronger 
by prohibiting cold storage houses from handling game 
of any description, If such a law could be passed by the 
different States, the business of shooting for the market 
would soon be a thing of the past, and unless stringent 
laws of this kind are soon adopted, our duck shooting will 
be gone. Really, the two evils and cause of disappearance 
of game in this country are cold storage warehouses 
and cheap guns, E. W. BAnes. 


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The Adirondack: Forests. 


Editor Forest and Stream: =~ ; 

_ Were it not, that the article written by me, favoring 
the introduction of “scientific forestry” into the Adiron- 
dacks, to judge from various communications which have 
reached me, had produced a misunderstanding and mis- 
conception in the minds of a few, I probably would have 
considered the argument closed. But, since the latter is 
the case, I ask Forest AND STREAM in justice to the good 
cause to give me a little more space for a few words of 
enlightenment upon the subject. 

I wish to have it distinctly understood that nothing but 
honest conviction, that the time has come to. é 
thing to improve the forest conditions existing in the 
Adirondacks, has induced me to come to the defense of 
“ccientinc forestry’ and its introduction there. To 
short in expressing what should not be done and what 
ought to be done to better these conditions, permit me to 
sum up as follows: ; 
+. Liimbermen should never be permitted upon a public 
preserve. 

2. The leasing of any part thereof should be pro- 
hibited for all times to come. J 

These are matters which should never be permitted. 

Following is what ought to be done: 

The superintendency of the presetve ought by common 
sense be in the hands of a trained and politically inde- 
pendent “forester,” but not a layman. We, in ott busi- 
ness enterprises, demand from every superintendent or 
foreman, that he mst be trained in the work whose execu- 
tion he is to oversee. 

Why on earth should we not demand that the very same 
business principle be applied to the administration of our 
public preserve? Well, we all know the “why not’ too 
well, you, dear reader, as well as myself. 

One thing is sure, and that is this, neither Governor 
Odell’s nor Colonel Fox’s recommendations to admit the 
lumbermen into the preserve have sprung from their 
“over Jove’ for the people, neither has the ill-gotten ad- 
vise to which they have lent an entirely too willing ear 
come from the citizens of the Empire State. It was bred 
outside the State by the yery man who has declared over 
and over again, that German forestry methods were not 
adapted for our country, but who all of a sudden feels 
called upon to prescribe a “-otation” of 70-80 years, the 
cutting of all spruces of 14 inches and even down to 10 
inches in the management of the preserve for the benefit 
of the people. 

Our State officials will have a hard time to defend their 
own recommendations; they will have to go to Washing- 
ton, I am afraid, for further enlightenment, although 
there is enough talent right here in our own State which 
may be had for the asking. Think of the spectacle. The 
management of the Empire State’s forest preserve in the 
hands-of a Federal employe. These recommendations 
ate the result of having a layman at the wheel to guide 
the ship, and the captain down below to fire the engines. 

This is a most important matter, and the very first 
one, which ought to have due‘consideration at the hands 
of those who honestly stand for the best interest of the 
people’s property. 

The second one is the introduction of scientific forestry 
into their property by increasing the safeguard they have 
put around it. This means better protection against losses 
of timber by fire, insects and fungi. Furthermore, dead, 
dying and diseased trees ought to be removed by the 
State for the benefit of other trees, because the former 
are breeding places of such forest-destroying insects and 
fungi. 

The “selection system,” as embodied and understood by 
the science of forestry. ought not to be bodily introduced 
as it is practiced in Germany, where the forests for al- 
mosttwocenturieshave been under scientific management. 
There, the soil having become impoverished by too 
heavy demands made upon it, the rotation has graduall 
shrunk from 120 to 60 years, at the latter age of whic 
the spruce has been found to be at its prime as far as the 
financial rotation is concerned, the owner’s pocketbook, 
but not in regard to the trees. 

The selection system ought to be introduced into the 
preserve only in regard fo the removal of such trees which 
show disease or give signs of an early death, 18 inches on 
an average to prevent their entire loss, Actual lumbering 
operations though should never be permitted. 

This is perfectly feasible, and if carried out by the State 
would turn thousands of dollars into the treasury from 
the sale of the material, which at present is an entire loss. 
See Bulletin 30, Department Agriculture, yearly loss $23,- 
605- ; 

Natural and artificial regeneration combined, as well as 
the reforestation of denuded lands, are other important 
items. 

All these together are matters which I have referred to 
above “ought to be done” by the State for the owners of 
the Adirondack preserve—the people. This is the kind of 
scientific forestry the citizens want, and no other. 

Mr. John’R, Spears, in your last issue, rightly quotes 


Bulletin 30, Department of Agriculture, in which it says” 


that sprtices of 10 inches in diameter increase 0.126 inch 
in size per year, and those of 18 inches 0.1725 of an inch 
per year. In the face of this, he says the Commission “call 
a 14-inch tree mature.” Does he know who this Com- 
mission is? Who is behind it? 

_ Although Bulletin 30 bears a well-sounding title, viz., 
“Working Plan,’ a “plan” by which any layman may go 
to work the Adirondack forests, it is nothing more than 
a statistical gathering of such confusion and so full of 
misleading statements that I am afraid the man must yet 
be born who could “‘work’’ by it. 

To obtain these scientific statistics, our Legislature ap- 
propriated $5,000, which amount is brought back to us 
with interest in the recommendations to introduce a 70-80 
year rotation for the preserve, to cut every spruce that 
has grown to a diameter of Io inches, which means the 
sae What a poor showing and proposition for a “virgin 
orest!’ 

Indeed, we can do better; a one-hundred-year rotation 
would not even do when, in fact, we do not require any 

‘“fnancial rotation” whatever, only a “‘physical one,” as 
our citizens will never give their consent to a clear cut 
policy on their property. 

Before closing, I wish to say one word regarding the 
term “mature,” as used in reference to trees. Ina gen- 


etal sense, trees are called “mature” when. they have 


do some 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


reached the power to produce germinable seeds, which, 
with spruces, falls between the fiftieth and sixtieth year— 
rater later than earlier)’ As it‘has been used’in the! recom- 
mendations by Governor Odell and Colonel Fox, though, 
the word “mature” is used in reference to the “wood,” 
meaning with other words, that the ‘wood of a spruce 
with a diameter of 10 inches is at its prime. and that 
thereafter it loses its quality. It does mot take a very 
scientific man to! discover what absurd and poor advice 
they must have had to recommend the cutting of spruces 
10 or 14 inches in diameter, or, with other words, when 
the latter just have reached the age to reproduce them- 
selves by germinable seed, and telling us at the same time 
that the wood also must be in its prime. I need not go 
into any lengthy discussion about this “maturity.” Every 
layman knows’ from school that maturity for reproduction 


and quality of wood do not go hand in hand. 


Some species of trees reach the point of maturity— 
to reproduce themselyes by fertile seeds—already with 
the twenty-fifth, thirtieth and fortieth year, dependent 
upon local conditions, whereas their wood is not consid- 
éred in its prime until decades later. Why, then, should 
a spruce of ro, 12 of 14 inches in diameter be removed 
when its power of reproduction is at its height? When, 
in fact, “seed years” don’t occur every 5-8 years at 
intervals? 

Were it not better to remove them when this power 
is on its wane, when the tree is 100 to 120 years old, of a 
diameter of 18 inches and over? And only then ought 
they be removed, when their natural death, representing 
4 total loss, may safely be predicted by a practiced eye. 

In closing, let me appeal to every lover of our preserve 
to “stand by the forests.” Let us have scientific forestry 


by increasing the safeguard put around them in the right _ 


direction by the people and for the peoonle. 
F. von’ Horrmawn, Forest Engineer. 


“"Thinks?Game Should Not be Eaten, 


Toronto, Ont—Editor Forest and Stream: 1 belong to 
that very large and constantly growing class who love to 
za down to the water front and see thousands of wild 
duck, geese and swans disporting themselves in the water. 
T love to go out in the woods and hear the partridge 
whirl: the thump, thump of the white hare; hear the twigs 
crackle under the feet of the harmless, much-abused 
black bear; the twitter of the coon un the creek; see the 
swift flight of Bob White, and hear his delightful grass- 
hopner-eating music: see the graceful movements of the 
black and gray squirrels, Therefore, I ask you to help 
me say a word for the bird and animal life of America, 


(1) because they are weak; (2) becatise they are Beau- — 


tiful; (3) because they are useftil; (4) because their 
presence is a source of very great joy and comfort to 
man; (§) because their absence makes the world feel de- 
serted: (6) because they are common propertv. and the 
man with the eun has absolutely no right to murder them; 
(7) becatise fruit and nuts are the natural food of man, 
and all game is very inferior food. Let the good old days, 
in fact, better days, come hack when the swarms of 
geese, widgeon, teal and ducks will fly from Florida to 
Alaska. Let the song birds be again allowed their natural 
occupation of insect eating instead of adorninge some 
woman's hat. For these things I pray: therefore. I 
would ask that a law be enacted in every State and Prov- 
ince making it a punishable offense to carry a gin at any 
season, G. H. Corsan, 


fi*{The: Eider’ Duck on the Great Lakes. 


Green Bay, Wis., Feb, 24.—Edtior Forest and Stream: 
I would like to know if any eider ducks have been seen 
on Lake Michigan during this last season. 

During the past week there have been on this bay a 
flock of ducks of very large size, white and black 
feathered, with black above the eyes and bill, and from 
Mr. Grinnell’s book the description of the kimg eider 
comes near to what these birds on this bay are. 

The flock is composed of seven birds, and have been 
seen at a distance of less than forty yards, both flying 
and sitting, and are a duck never seen here before. 

Everything is ice here yet, excepting a few holes in 


the ice, made by fishermen, but the birds ga east to Lake _ 


Michigan, a distance of about twenty-eight miles, to open 
water, I suppose, at night. The gulls go across to the 
lake every day. 

As this duck is a stranger here, I thought it should be 
reported, The gentleman who saw the birds knows ducks 
of all kinds killed on Lake Michigan or this bay, and 
from the pictures of ducks takes it to be an eider duck. 
Are these birds in the habit of staying this far north in 
the winter? A. G, H. 

[Reports from gunners about the Great Lakes in re- 
sponse to the question asked by our correspondent, will 
be very welcome to him and to all duck shooters. As 
stated in “American Duck Shooting,” the king eider has 
been taken on a number of occasions on Lake Erie, Lake 
Michigan and the Illinois River. Of course, it is im- 
possible to tell from any general description what the 
birds seen were, but it should not be difficult to have 
a specimen identified in case one should be taken. We 
are very stire that Mr. Ruthven Deane, of 504 N. State 
street, Chicago, Ill, would be glad to examine specimens 
and name them. ] 


—New Hampshire Deer and Dogs. 


WincHester, N. H., Feb. 27—Editor Forest and 
Stream: 1 notice a number of articles in your paper in 
regard to New Hampshire deer. Winchester is located at 
the lower end of the State, joining the Massachusetts 
line. The deer here are getting to be quite plenty; we 
hear of their being seen almost every day. The dogs are 
disturbing them very badly in this section; a large buck 
was run down and killed by three dogs a few days ago. 
A nice doe was tun over on the railroad last week and 
killed; it had been driven out by dogs. 

Not over ten years ago deer were all gone, and we 
never heard of their being seen; but now they are getting 
quite plenty, A number of yards of them were heard of 
early in the winter, but these have been badly broken up 
by dogs. The dogs are going to drive them all out unless 
something is done to prevent so many dogs running at 
large. Fox hunters must take better care of their hounds 
if we want to keep the handsome deer with us, I ama 


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great lover of outdoor sports with the gun, and take 
great interest! in’ protecting our game birds and ani- 
mals. What shall be done, go without the deer and let 
dogs run‘at large, my brother htinters, or shall we take 
eate of our dogs and have both? 

' L. R. Netson. 


Possession of Mounted Fawn. 


_A curRtous and rather interesting trial took place not 
long ago on Long Island, where Game Protector Over- 
ton prosecuted two men at Riverhead before a local jus- 
tice and jury for having in possession part of a spotted 
fawn—a mounted specimen. 

The defendants, John Ginnochio and Chas. Murdock, 
were represented by attorneys Timothy F. Grithng and 
Geo. H. Furman, two of Long Island’s shrewdest lawyers. 
An effort was made to induce the jury to believe that the 
animal in question was only a small, or stunted, deer, or 
if a fawn at all had been killed three years or more ago 
in the Adirondacks by some person other than them- 
selves, but by just whom they seemed somewhat uncer- 
tain. 

The taxidermist who mounted the skin sent a man to 
the trial as a witness for the defendant, but he declined 
to swear that the skin was not a fawn. 

Hon. B. Frank Wood, Superintendent of Shell Fish- 
eries, appeared. im behalf of the Game and Fish Commis- 
sion, and held that the plaintiff had proved the animal 
to be a fawn—still in the spotted coat—and inasmuch 
as the law says that ‘no patt of a fawn shall be taken or 
possessed,” that the defendants were clearly liable, The 
jury held this contention to be the fact, and the justice 
gave judgment for $100 and costs. 

This decision is worth remembering by taxidermists 
and all others, as showing that it is unsafe to possess a 
fawn in any condition. 


Illicit Venison® in‘ Maine Camps. 


New York, Feb. 28—Editor Forest and Stream: Al- 
though a very young man, I have spent fourteen vaca- 
tions in Maite and have, during trips varying in length 
of time from one to five months, visited a great many 
hotels and sporting camps. These camps, with few ex- 
ceptions, serve venison on their tables during the suim- 
mer months. Deer carcasses are regularly left in unlocked 
meat houses of the camps, and are seldom troubled by 
passing game wardens. They as a rule visit each camp 
once or twice a year, and after taking a meal or spending 
the night, pass on to the next place. This is simply diane 
in order to send in a decent report. Searches of camps 
are seldom made unless a complaint of illegal killing has 
been made against the camp. which is seldom done, If 
Mr. Carleton would stop cry’ng fot more money and 
mote wardens and see that the wardens now employed 
were doing their duty instead of hanging around village 
hotel bars for weeks at a time and charging their ex- 
penses up to the Commission, I think he would save con- 
siderable time. mcney and game. 

The illegal killing is mostly done by the employes of 
camp proprietors, of guides staying at sporting camps, as 
well as occasionally by the sportsmen, but I see no reason 
why I, as 2 non-resident, should pay for their misdeeds. 

GrorcE M. PETE. 


A Stray Doe. 


Sauouoir, N. Y., Feb. 20.—When we who read Forest 
AND STREAM think of deer, we usually, and with good 
reason, think that to get sight of one we will have to take 
lone drives and long tramps, and sometimes even after 
At least such has been the experi- 
ence of us who live ten miles south of Utica, and Alty 
miles from deer country. The least expected, though. usu- 
ally happens in all things connected with deer. This 
winter when the report first came that a deer had been 
seen within two miles of us, and in a country with not 
much cover, we smiled. Since then so many peaple have 
seen it, we believe. It is a small doe, and when first 
heard of a man was on the track with a rifle, hut he 
soon quit when informed of the $100 part of it. Since then 
we have heard of her a number of times. usually with a 
dog chasing her. She seems to have chosen a stopping: 
place within a radius of three miles from Glayville. We 
heard a day or two since she ran through Clayville, stop- 
ping at the back door of one of the houses on the principal 
street, a dog having chased her. Then again, we hear 
that she visits the came farm buildings nearly every day, 
probably to feed. Should every one do as the last named, 
she would live to a ripe old age, just as we wish, and be 
the mother of the biggest buck extant. 

SAGHDAQUADA. 


The Scooter for Ducks. 


New York, March 1.—Hditor Forest and Stream: 
It may be of interest to you to know that at the New 
York Sportsmen’s Show there will be exhibited a snk 
box (or battery) and a scooter, the uses of which and 
method of handling will be fully explained and demon- 
strated by experienced guides who have handled traps 
for years. 

The sink box is used for duck shooting. where bodies 
of water are too wide for point work, and it is a feature 
of Long Island. 

The scooter is used in the ice in the same manner as 
a punty or sneak box on the point, being thatched with 
snow or ice, and also as a pleasure yacht, being equal 
to the ice boat in speed and unsurpassed for safety, as it 
sails as well through water as it glides over the frozen 
surface. H. K. Frank. 


Efectro-Magnetic Cannon in Sweden.’ 


Unover date of Christiania, Jan. 25. 1902, Consul-General 
Bordewich reports: Prof. Birkeland (who two years ago 
was sent by the Government to northern Norway to study 
magnetism, the aurora borealis and cloud formations) is 
engaged in the constructicn of a cannon with electro- 
magnetism as the motive power in place of explosives, A 
small model of the invention throws projectiles weighing 
a pound with great force. 


1199 Td oS 


FORESL AND STREAM. 


[Marer 8 1908. 


Railroad Conductors as Quail! Dealets. | 


I HAveE a complaint to make against the conductors and 
trainmen on the Southern and the Atlantic Coast Line 
railroads. These men make a business of buying .quail. 


at small stations along their routes for ten cents apiece and.. 
selling them to marketmen in Washington arid Richmond 


and other large cities for twelve and a half cents apiece. 
This business is carried on very extensively, sometimes 
carrying from two to five hundred birds-and seldom less 
than one hundred. I hardly think that such traffic will 
further the best interests of the roads as far as keeping 
up the game supply along the roads is concerned. 
Grorce M. PETE. 


All communications intended for Foresr anp Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


Cany-Sfive Slickerings. 
———_—. - 


“That reminds me.” 


The Red Badge of Courage. 


SPEAKING of pluck! The fact has been fully established, 
to my own satisfaction, at least, that_a ferret, small as he 
is, 1s susceptible of putting up a pluckier, more persistent 
fight against overwhelming odds than any other animal 
now living, without allowance for age, weight or size. 
I have the highest authority for this claim, and for my be- 
Hef in the same, which is none other than that well- 
known big-game exterminator and all round expert in 
matters pertaining to the strength and weakness of every- 
thing that wears fur, feathers or scales, Charles Ste. 
Claire Lennebacker. Everybody knows Charles: when 
nat engaged in terrifying the biggest game in Michigan, 
he may uniformly be found successfully engaged in the 
less dangerous pursuit of convincing the traveling public 
that there is but one hotel in Detroit for the self-respect- 


foul 


ing class to expect all the enjoyments, comforts and ex-- 


citements of home, and that is the Ste. Claire. Charles is 
a mind-reader withal, which is a mighty useful as well as 
ornamental gift, worth untold money to a hotel clerk 
when discreetly used, but few there be that possess it. 
It is almost as good as hypnotism. The moment a newly 
arrived traveler makes his appearance in the spacious 
marble and onyx lobby of the Ste. Claire, this mind- 
reader aforesaid casts his eagle eye over his left shoulder, 
looking due south by east toward the room assignment 
tack, makes some sort of a cabalistic sign to some un- 
seen confederate, and before the approaching guest 
reaches the register has him located, his suit case and 
grip sent up to his room, electric lights on, a pitcher of 
ice water on the inlaid mahogany, together with 
writing materials on the carved desk, and the guest's 
mail and telegrams are: properly placed; also, just as 
likely as not, there will be a copy of Forest AND STREAM 


and a sherry flip on the table within easy reach. This. 


simplifies matters for the guest very much, and though 
somewhat mystifying at first, one gets used to these 
things. 

Should a person approach and express a hankering for 
a room with a bath, he is told with that guileless air so fa- 
miliar to many of us, that the last room with a bath was 
given out the day before yesterday, but that a room with a 
beautiful folding bed as well as a charming mahogany 
wardrobe with a beveled plate glass mirror forming the 
panel in the door is quite at his disposal, which causes 
such extreme elation on the part of the guest that he for- 
gets temporarily having had his pocket picked on the 
train, and other troubles, and endeavors to hang up his 
apparel on the folding bed and retire to rest in the ward- 
robe, which he has pulled over for that purpose. 

This, however, is a digression, and inserted, primarily, 
to show that I am at least partially justified in my belief 
in the trustworthiness of my authority on the bravery of 
ferrets, as well as to illustrate the fact that with such 
a man as arbiter of one’s hotel destinies, hotel life is one 
giddy round of pleasure and excitement of one kind or 
another, especially if my friend Sutton, the steward, is 
feeling as well as usual, and the market is reasonably 
well supplied with the good things of life and other deli- 
cacies of the season. 

Now, my friend Sutton is not the largest of his species, 
any more than the ferret is the largest of his, but size 
counts for nothing in this world if one only has the cour- 
age of his convictions and is given half a chance. Here 
is a peculiar paradox in the Hotel Ste. Claire: Usually, 
you understand, the steward is the one who does the pur- 
chasing, but, although Mr. Sutton is the steward and a 
partner in the firm, the other partner is the Beyer. 
(That ought to be good for at least one ham sandwich.) 
There is also to be noticed that the young gentlemen 
who respond to the calls of the annunciator, unlike some 
others, reach the proper room some time before sunset 
the following day, and when they courteously make their 
salaam with “Good night, sir; anything more, sir?” they 
do not surreptitiously look back to discover if perchance 
there ts a dime or a nickel suspended in the air; yet they 
are quite excusable for stopping at the door to ascertain 
if the key is on the right side and casting a business eye 
to windward. 

Where does that ferret business come in? 

Right here. 

What Charles Lennebacker said in regard thereto, per- 
tinent and impertinent, was as follows, to wit: (Having 
just returned from a short vacation spent amid the wilds 
of Macomb county, he is not under oath.) 

“Tt was an ideal rabbit morning, a light snow had fallen 
over night (without injury), the January air was keen and 
exhilarating. (It being the month of January of course 
we could not expect any April or August air.) Rabbit 
tracks were plentiful, even to the most casual observer; 
the winter landscape was fine, and even without a gum that 
tramp through the fields would have been a most enjoy- 
able experience,as such experiences always are to hifa who 
hath ears to see and eyes to hear. As for me I would a 
little rather have a gun along than not. The path, or what 
would haye been a path had there been one, skirted along 


the east side of a thicket of alders and hazel for a distance - 


of eighty rods or more, while just beyond were groves 
of second growth oak and poplar. Scatteréd here and 
there were a few remaining relics of the grand old white 
oak and walnut forests once the glory of this region, but 
which have long since disappeared before the wood- 
man’s ax, the pioneer of civilization. 

“Wrapped in the thoughts which these things, sug- 
gested and engrossed in the intense enjoyment of the 


. perfect winter day I approached the thicket and soon dis- 


covered in the snow the evidence that Bunnie had been’ 
on moying parade, and that he was not very far away. 
Crashing through the thick brush, I had not made much 
headway, but now stopped stiddenly, as a streak of gray 
flashed across the open, some’ fifty feet away. 


this connection; but it usudlly occurs when one is creep- 
ing under low hanging branches, and, as in this case, the 
flash of gray passed’ on unchecked and unharmed. My 
new 12-gauge Parker had no significance whatever under 
these circumstances, but moving more cautiously and 
searching the myriad tracks over the snow, I was quickly. 
aware of the near presence of a tuft of gray fur, a long 
pair of ears laid backward, and those large, round, wide 
open eyes of a dozing rabbit. (I know of no other ani- 
mal that sleeps ‘with its eyes open.) The sharp snapping 
of a dry twig under my foot started the sleeper mighty 
suddenly, but modestly as [ try ta say it, his flight was 
stopped as suddenly, simultaneously with the gun’s re- 
port. 

“The sentiment that prevents hypersensitive persons 
from rabbit killing on the score of inhumanity toward ‘the 
delicate, harmless, ‘timid little things,’ etc., is no doubt 
creditable to such persons’ teriderness of heart and gen- 
eral ‘feller feelin,’ ’ but somewhat a misfit up here or any- 
where in the midst of highly cultivated fields of small 
fruits, to say-nothing of young orchards representing in- 
vestments of thousands of dollars and days of toil and 
care which are at the mercy of these same little ‘inno- 
cents, to whom the temptations. of the succulent tender 
bark of the young trees overcome all scruples of justice 
or consideration for the owners therof—even of common 
prudence in guarding against inevitable dangers to the 
depredators. j ; 

“Bre'r Rabbit is much like humans—when he sets his 


heart on the gratification of a pet desire he is apt to take: 


long chances on the consequences. Soon the conse- 
quences in this particular case became yery much in eyi- 
dence, and a half dozen of the too reckless chaps were 
dangling by the heels: Rabbit signs’ were abundant, and 
every clump of hazel brush was tolerably sure to harbor 
or or more of the little chaps peering out through the 
branches to estimate the probable amount of danger to be 
feared from this intrusive stranger. 

“Down a lane which ran’ between the next fields ahead 


came Joe Barker, a native. He was a rabbit hunter, too,. 


and he stopped to exchange a fraternal greeting and a 
remark or two on the auspicious nature of the day, the 
weather and. the abundance of rabbits and partridges. 
Joe had a shotgun on his shoulder, and a disreputable old 
firearm. it was. But Joe had acquired a reputation for 
hunting rabbits with other weapons than guns, to wit, fer- 
tets, having not the fear of the law nor the game warden 
before his eyes. Just as we met there was a scurrying 
among the bushes in the angles of the fence, and two 
exceedingly animate things made off toward a fallen 
tree, which had lain there so long that its interior was 
well rotted away. It was hollow for some distance from 
the opening. 

“Tt was the consenstis of opinion that at least one of 
the rabbits had gone for the log, but this was open to 
doubt, because tracks led not only to the entrance, but 
past it, and on both sides; further search showed quite 
plainly that one had gone into a very handily situated hole, 
which was probably the little chap’s family abode, or 
bachelor’s quarters, as the case might be. Ways and 
means were discussed for dislodging the rabbits. 

“Joe was wary, and evidently had something on his 
mind. Finally, he took courage, and, evidently impressed 
by the conviction that he could trust me, cast a cautious 
glance around and said: ‘If you not tell nobody, I show 
you way for git two rabbit ver’ quick, you bet; but you 
nus’ sware you be mum, you hunderstan’ ?’ 

“The necessary convincing assurance was given that 
his confidence would be respected. Then in a twinkling 
Joe produced a ferret from one of the capacious pockets 
of his old reefer. This interesting addition to our hunt- 
ing force was intimate with his job in ten seconds, 
theoretically at least, though there were destined fo be 
some surprises. After one or two preliminary skirmishes, 
the ferret made a dash for the interior of the log. He 
was gone about thirty second; when he emerged, he was 
accompanied by an odor that filled three townships. I 
have smelled that variety of smell before, at close range, 
too, but I never had the misfortune to encounter anything 
to match this for density and all-pervading powers— 
never. Nothing like it ever assailed the human olfac- 
tories. That skunk was simply a sixty-horse-power skunk 
with triple-expansion-compound-condensing engines oper- 
ating under a pressure of not less than three hundred 
pounds to the square inch, with all valves open! 

“The ferret shook his head viciously, gave two or 
three emphatic sniffs of disgust, and immediately re- 
entered the lair of the loud-smelling beast. Here is 
where the ferret’s philosophy, reasoning, pluck and in- 
stinct showed themselves with the greatest strength and 
brilliancy, especially the instinct; he rightly judged that 
there could be nothing worse in store for him in the 
way of smells—he had run up against the limit in that 
line—and now. there was a little score of revenge to be 
settled, so in he dashed again. _ 

“He was absent about a minute this round, but re- 
appeared minus his enthusiasm and more or less of his 
fur. Nothing daunted, however, he took a deep, long 
breath of fresh air, of which he evidently stood in need, 
and made another sortie. Once more he made a mad 
dash to seek his enemy.. He found him still doing busi- 
ness at the old stand. Heavens and earth, what a smell! 
The stink pots of Egypt were as violets compared with 
this—that old log could give them cards and spades and 


still have margin enough to supply the nations of the 


earth. 1 
“This last dash of the ferret was, to my mind, impru- 
dent and superfluous, not to say risky, but i¢ proved a 


No ex-: 
planation of this phenomenom ts: considered necessary in 


howling success.* This time he had with him upon 
emerging the entire perfumery factory, and as he laid the 
fragrant trophy proudly at—my feet? No, thanks, not 
by a large majority. I was thence in rapid hut disorderly 
flight—whew! Many of the inhabitants flocked to the 
scene, aroused ‘by the volumes of odor, under the im- 
pression that a mineral well like the Mt. Clemens variety 
had been struck on Duncari’s farm. That ferret just 
strutted up and down with unutterable pride mingling 
with the smoke of battle, cocking his little red eye up 
with the unmistakable expression: ‘Well, I won out 
all right, boys, on this deal. but if you’ve got any more 
rabbit holes to explore with skunk annexes, you can 
get some other chap to take the job beside yours truly.’ 
“About this time a cutter hove in sight with two or 
three of the natives, who, recognizing Joe about the same 


_ time they did the smell, called out: ‘Joe, it’s a dead give 


away;'a blind man could tell what game you are hunting 
to-day.’ ” KEUKA. 


*The remarkable thing about this incident is the well-known 
fact that a ferret will not stand for a second within sight of a 
shrunk, much less attack one anywhere. He will not even drag 
a rabbit from @ hole; where he has tracked him, but will fasten 
his teeth into the back of the rabbit’s neck and suck his blood 
until the victim passes in his checks. The rabbit hole is a very 
nice, warm, comfortable place for the ferret, and as likely as not he 
will curl himself up after his rich meal of rabbit’s blood and stay 
there, dozing for hours, while the hunter remains outside on the 
surface, guessing and freezing. : 


Sea and River Sishing. 
———— 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest anp STREAM. ’ 


Chautauqua Lake Ice Fishing. 
from the Famestown, N. Y.. Bevening Fournal, feb. 7. 


Ir is probable that every muscallonge in Chautauqua 
Lake that made a move Thursday found himself flop- 
ping helplessly on the ice in less than ten minutes from 
the time he started. 

This theory is justified from a careful inspection of the 
lake Thursday morning, for, from the outlet to the inlet 
the broad expanse of ice was covered so thickly with 
fish coops that it made one think of a long level meadow 
covered with haycocks. 

Thursday was really the opening of the fishing season. 
Tt was one of the days the fishermen will hereafter date 
time from. Long before the first beams of the morning 
sun had lighted up the eastern horizon the hosts of en- 
thusiastic fishermen could be seen on the shores of the 
lake making preparations for the coming day. By sun- 
rise the lake yiew from the surrounding hills looked like 
an immense ant heap. As far as the eye could reach in 
every direction could be seen moving specks on the 
white snow covered surface. These specks were the men 
putting their coops in position for the day. They were 
everywhere. Between Celoron and Greenhurst there was 
a colony that fairly honeycombed the ice with fish holes. 
Opposite Lakewood there was another large colony, and 
above in Ashville Bay the coops were huddled as close 
as tenement houses in the slums of a city, 

From the Ashville Bay colony to Stow there were in- 
tervals of unbroken ice, but these intervals were not far 
apart. Cheneys Point had a number of coops and there 
were individual coops all the way between. 

The bay south of Bemus Point was another favorite 
spot for the fishermen. Fully 100 coops were set within 
the radius of a mile from the shore at Phillips Mills. 
Another colony was located in the lake between Bemus 
Point and Long Point, and still another above Long 
Point. Dewittville Bay was filled with fishermen and the 
lake space between Point Chautauqua and Mayville con- 
tained coops enough to catch every fish that dared to 
roam from his winter home. Altogether it is safe to say 
that there were fully 20 per cent. more coops on the lake 
than ever before and that the fishing~is iully 20 per cent. 
better than that of some of the preceding seasons. 

Of course every professional fisherman in Chautauqua 
county 1s out on these fishing days. In ice fishing it is 
difficult to draw the line of demarcation between the pro- 
fessional and the amateur, so great is the fascination of 
the sport to all who engage in it, but in a general way 
the professional is this year outclassed in numbers by the 
amateurs. These amateurs come from every section of 
Chautauqua county and from western Pennsylvania as 
well. Jamestown is represented on the lake by two or 
three hundred enterprising amateurs and not a few 
strictly professional fshermen, and it will therefore be 
readily seen that the native—the man who resides on the 
shore of the lake 365 days in the year—is greatly out- 
numbered. 

In the olden times this crowd af foreign fishermen 
would not have amounted to much. The superior skill 
and unflagging patience of the resident would have out- 
weighed superior numbers in the matter of making 
catches, but now all is changed. The foreign fishermen 
know all there is to know about this fishing game. They 
have studied it in all its aspects. Some of them have 
read up on the habits of the muscallonge until they seem 
to have developed a special sense that instinctively leads 
them to the best spot to capture the largest and Itveliest 
fish. The local fisherman, however, holds his own pretty 
well. He can crawl out cf bed at 5-o’clock in the morn- 
ing, haul his coop out on the ice, chop a hole, set the 
coop, build a rousing fire inside, eat a hurried breakfast, 
and then climb inside the coop and sit as silent as a statue 
from daylight until dark, moving only when some fish 
pokes an inquisitive nose in the hole. 

The average amateur 1s hardly up to this kind of a per- 
formance. He is too restless. If he doesn’t see a fish in 
15 minutes he wearies of the task and gets outside to look 
around. If in an hour or so there is nothing done he 
hunts a new hole and thus misses the 4o pounder that 
passed over the route ten minutes after he left. | 
he finally gives up empty handed and hauls his coop off 
the ice he frequently wonders why Jim Blank who had 
the hole next to his made such a magnificent catch, while 
he never saw a fish, and says things about the luck some 
people have, ee vn Ne 


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The real amateur, though, who is drilled in the game, 

oes after the fish in the same business-like way as his 
professional friend. If he lives in Jamestown he sets his 
‘alarm clock at 5, or else hires a policeman to ring his 
door bell at that hour. By 5:30 or 6 o’clock he is on 
his way up the lake. An hour later you will see him 
working like a pack horse on a Rocky Mountain trail, 
-and as the first beams of the rising sun sparkle across the 
ice his coop door closes behind him, and that is the last 
you see of him until nightfall, when he crawls out and 
“compares notes with his neighbors, and then hies his way 
homeward with the day’s catch strung proudly on his 
‘back with the tails snapping on his boot tops. 

Henry Tiles, of Mayville, is one of the last*mentioned 
¢lass of amateurs. He went out last Thursday morning 
and advices teceived tip town at 4 o’clock in the after- 

noon were to the effect that he had caught one 30 
pounder and two smaller fish, which would bring the total 
catch of the day up to at least 60 pounds. 

Dewittville Bay was covered with coops. In all 53 
fish were caught during the day, the weight of the catch 
figuring up to 185 potinds, making an average weight of 
three pounds and a half per fish, It will thus be seen 
that numerous small fry were taken out, especially when 
the fact is taken in consideration that several large 
catches were reported. One weighed 35 pounds and an- 
other which was caught by Reuben McCotil weighed 21 
pounds. A young man named Aikens caught 11 fish 
which numerically was the largest catch at Dewittville. 

West Frank, of Celoron, made the champion catch of 
the day. He went out bright and early in the morning 
and set his coop in the vicinity of Grass Island, and en- 
sconcing himself snugly inside, patiently awaited the com- 
ing of the fish, He did not have long to wait, Soon a little 
fellow flopped merrily into the hole and was speedily cap- 
tured by Mr, Frank. -The first fish was small, but the 
fisherman consoled himself with the thought that the 
next would be larger, and so it was—a half pound or so, 
Mr. Frank remained in his coop spearing fish until the 
sport became as monotonous as pitching hay. When he 
finally coneluded to quit he had depopulated the lake of 
17 muscallonge, all of which, however, were small. 

Joseph Gould, of this city, went in for variety. After 
spearing a nice fat muscallonge, he captured six bull- 
heads and then concluded to quit. Bullheads are pretty 
fair eating, 

Albert Shildmacher was fortunate enough to spear four 
fish, the whole of which averaged about 20 pounds. 
es that came his way was also removed from the 

€, 

Frank Cheney, the veteran fisherman, who has studied 
the habits and haunts of the muscallonge so carefully 
that he almost knows the ‘longe language, was up the 
lake and when he had nothing else to do he counted fish 
coops. 

“Between Bellview and Celoron,” said he, “including 
both shores of the lake, there were 360 coops.” 

Mr. White, of Lakewood, captured a fine 25-pounder, 
and was naturally elated over his success, 

Harry Seymour, of Bemus Point, made the champion 
catch of the day at that place. The fish weighed 38 
pounds. 

Tt was also reported at Bemus Point that an 11-year-old 
boy named John Carlson, from Ellery Center, madé the 
next best catch, his fish weighing an even 30 pounds. 
Other Bemus Point catches reported are a 15 pounder by 
Ira Brown, a 23 pounder by Taft. and smaller catches by 
Mark and Morris Cheney. 

At Mayville the.list of catches may be summarized as 
followed: Will Tyler, o fish aggregating 45 pounds; EI- 
ton Miller, one, 25 pounds; A. Sackett, five, the largest 
being 22 pounds. 

Ed. Irwin is reported to have caught a 25 pounder near 
Chautauqua and Mr. Wilcox a 20 pounder at the upper 
end of the lake. 

District Attorney Green has a fish coop at Mayville, 
and as soon as court adjourned he disappeared from view 
in the direction of the lake. His catch has not yet been 
reported, but it is rumored that there was wild commotion 
among the leaders of the muscallonge. tribe as soon as 
the story was circulated by submarine telephone that the 
district attorney of Chautauqua county was on the lake. 
Mr. Green remained in Mayville over night, and, if he 
is as persistent in pursuing piscatorial prey as he is in 
chasing criminals, there will be little left for the other 
fishermen. 

J. F. Taylor, of Stow, caught over 100 pounds of fish 
during the day. The largest weighed 33 pounds. Mr. 
Morton, of Stow, also brought in a 20 pounder. Another 
gentleman, whose name was not learned, brought in a 
35 pound fish. 

The dealers are paying from 10 to 12% cents per 
pound for muscallonge, and selling the same at retail 
at fram 15 to 18 cents per pound, according to size. The 
large ones, of course, are sold cheaper than the smaller. 

E. L. Underwood spent Thursday in his fish coop near 
Midway, and came home in the evening with three nice 
muscallonge as a result of his day’s work. 


San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 


MEDAL contests, series 1902, Saturday, contest No. 1, 
held at Stow Lake, Feb. 22. Wind, west; weather, good: 


Event Event Event 
No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, ————Eyeut No. 8——,__ Lure 
Feet. Percent. Acc. £ Del. ¢ Nets Casting % 
J B Kenniff..... 109 92 92.8 77.6 §5.1 95.5 
HE Skinner.. ... 91.8 Ol 79.2 85.1 Le 
H Brownie..,.,. 89 91.8 87.8 77.6 82.7 57.5 
E A Mocker... 93 82.4 92.4 77.6 84.11 85. 
W Mansfield.... ... 93.8 92.4 82.6 87.5 90.8 
T Brotherton... 98 91.8 91 78.4 $4.8 86.2 
C Kenniff..,. 104 92 76 70 3 95.8 
T C Kierulff.... 79 81.4 72.6 76.3 Ac 
C F Grant...... I 90 88.4 76.8 82.6 7, 
ie Kierulfi... 77 79,4 74 75 74.6 : 
c Young.... -., 93.4 91,4 $5.10 88.6 ae 
H C Golcher,., 15 92 88.4 80.10 84.7 7 
W E Brooks... 101 94 83.8 76.8 83.2 oe 
H F Muller... 100 94.4 88.8 81.8 85.2 aS 
GH Foulks... 87 a 76.8 81.4 : 
sa wae eae IT 4.2 76.7 57 
Bellet sis eae a 74. : 57.8 
Blade daseveres aoe oe Be at. 3 + 
and Muller; referee, Grant; clerk, 


Wilbon” Mansfeld 


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FOREST AND STREAM: 


IThe Old Shad Fishing,,Piers. 


i: From the Hartford Times. 3> ~ 


Encouracep by the unusually large catch of shad in 
the Connecticut River last season, the fishermen of the 
down the river towns from the Haddams to the Sound are 
making more extensive preparations for the spring fish- 
ing than they have ventured into within the past quarter 
of a century. From present indications it is safe to 
predict that when the dogwood trees burst into their 
spring raiment of shad blossoms (the fisherman's infalli- 
ble sign that the proper time to string his nets has ar- 
rived) the shores of every reach along the river banks wil! 
be dotted with the huge net reels. 

Tt is also understood that the owners of many of the 
old fishing piers located below the Shore Line railroad 
bridge are considering the advisability of putting them in 
running order and try their luck for the season. The 
demand for Connecticut River shad, the Simon-pure arti- 
cle, has for several years been considerably larger than 
the supply, and with a fair season’s catch the pier fisheries 
would be certain to pay a high dividend. Forty years 
ago it was not uncommon for the “hand shares” or “lays 
on the piers to amount at the close of the season to 
several hundreds of dollars. Opportunities to ship on 
the fishing crews were eagerly sought for and often a 
large bonus would be paid. ‘ 

The first shad fishing pier eyer operated on the Con- 
necticut, as far as can be traced, was located at the mouth 
of Ragged Rock Creek, at a point a few rods below 
the Shore Line bridge, on the west side of the river. 
Capt. David Ingraham was the leading spirit in the con- 
striction of the pier, and for many years he was the 
acknowledged “boss” of operations there, The pier was 
built of huge logs floated down from Lyme and placed 
one above the other, forming an immense oblong box, 
the interior of which was filled with stones brought in 
scows from the Sound shore, several miles below. In 
the center of the pier stood the great capstan reels, with 
their tremendous barrels, to which were attached the long 
‘hauling lines running to the shore and hauling arms of 
the net. The fishing gang usually worked the reel which 
brought in the shore arm, but the hauling arm, which had 
to be towed shoreward against the strength of the swift 
and powerful ebb tide was reeled in by horse-power. At 
this pier Some large catches were made. The pier was 
called Jamaica bjy its owners, and even at this day traces 
of it can be seen. 


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Going northward from the mouth of the river, the first © 


fishing pier was located just north of the lighthouse. It 

“was known as Pavement, taking its name because of the 
hard stone bottom that stretched out from the shore to 
the bank of the river channel. The greatest day’s catch 
recorded at the pier was 4000, some 1700 being taken in 
the second hauling of the net. North of Payement very 
near to the present location of the pretty quarters of the 
Hartford Yacht Club was Folly pier, so named because 
the pier was erected against the judgment of experienced 
fishermen, who predicted that owing to a strong eddy 
which continually threw back in a tangled mass upon the 
shore the nets as fast as they were set it would be a 
failure, and so it proved. 

Cooteborough pier lay northerly from the lighthouse. 
It was owned and operated by people from Pettipaug 
(now Essex), and its peculiar appellation was a derisive 
reflection upon the bravery of their up-the-river neigh- 
bors during the British raid in 1814 at Essex. The Eng- 
lish commander was Lieut. Coote, and as the inhabitants 
deserted their homes and fled like sheep to the hills in the 
rear of the town on his landing at the river front, they 
for years were laughed at by the people of sister towns. 

Next in order came Knock-em-Stiff, a pier where only 
one haul wase ever attempted. That one was never com- 
pleted, as drifting into a strong and powerful eddy, the 
net became unmanageable and in spite of the most 
strenuous efforts of the men at the capstan, the latter be- 
gan to revolve rapidly backward and finally threw several 
men to the ground so forcibly that a physician had to be 
brought by boat to the pier to dress their injuries. No 
further attempts to fish it were ever made. — 

Under the long wharf that runs out from the front 
of the Pease house are the remains of the Fort Fishery. 
A few rods above it stand the old Saybrook fort, which 
for many years in the early history of the colony and 
State was kept continually garrisoned. 

As a means of raising funds for the support of the 
church, the members of Saybrook Congrégational So- 
ciety, early in the last century, erected a pier at the 
mouth of the North cove and for a number of years it 
was considered one of the most successful on the river, 
and added many dollars to the church treasury. It is an 
old tradition, perhaps an untrustworthy one, that one 
season, when the shad were running in untsually large 
numbers, the crew of the Parsonage pier could not resist 
making a haul on Sunday, and to the dismay of the rigid 
Sabbath day observers of the vicinity, it proved the 
largest of the season. 

Directly opposite the lighthouse, on the east shore 
oi the river, was a famous pier, known as Sodom, but 
which early in the *50s was nearly washed away by the 
changing of the river channel. With that liking for 
biblical names which was characteristic of the pious in- 
habitants of Lyme, the owners of the pier when they 
moved to another location a few rods northerly called 
the new pier Zoar, for, said they: ‘Did not Lot flee 
from Sodom to Zoar?e” Then came the two Griswold 
piers, Gibraltar, so named from the fact that it was at 
the foot of a rocky eminence, and two piers known as 
Sanford’s and St. John’s, On the same side above the 
bridge was the Calves’ island, the lower, middle and 
upper-end piers upon Nott’s island, located directly 
across from the Essex steamboat wharf. 

Some idea of the number of shad caught in olden days 
cai be gained from a record taken from the note-book of 
an old-time fisherman, which states that in 1817 the 26 
Saybrook piers salted 2,194 barrels; 17 Haddam piers, 146 
barrels, and the five East Haddam piers 169 barrels. 


While the life of the pier fisherman demanded much ° 


hard and oftentimes uncomfortable labor, it had its 
pleasures as well. In every fish-house there was some 
inmate, usually the cook, and he was a high and mighty 
personage, tee, with whom cach member did his best to 


ingratiate himself, who could play the violin, and nightly, 
after the day’s catch had been dressed, salted and packed, 
out over the water would drift the strains of lively music 
and the echoes of tapping boot-heels on the floor, The 
great holiday of the fishing season was the spring election 
day, when a grand supper was given, to which all the 
wives and sweethearts of the crews were invited. The 
menu was an elaborate one, the piece de resistance being 
bass chowder, broiled sturgeon and planked shad, and 
they were washed down by copious draughts of hard 
cider, a few barrels of that beverage being a customary 
and important portion of the outfit of each fishing pier, 

The first pound nets, which of late years have caught 
nearly all the shad that have been shipped from this sec- 
tion, were introduced by Frederick Kirtland in 1858. 
Several years later Mr, Kirtland was induced, by a large 
salary, to visit Lake Ontario, and instruct the fishermen 
of those waters in the methods of manufacturing, setting 
and fishing pound nets. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST 


Destruction of Western Fish, 


Cuicaco, Ill., Feb. 27,—During the past week there has 
been observed in the Desplaines River, just west of this 
city, the greatest number of dead fish ever recorded there, 
the shores being in some localities lined with the dead fish 
to stich extent as fairly to constitute a nuisance. It was 
hardly supposed that this highly civilized and not very 
much valued stream had so many fish left in it as it has 
produced, albeit in a condition quite past all surgery. 
Refuse from mills is the cause assigned. Nobody to 
blame, not in the least, and nobody gets the worst of it 
except the fish, or possibly those who might some day 
have had an interest in them. 

Similar destruction of fish for some more or less mys- 
terious cause is also reported this week from the Calumet 
River, which flows into Lake Michigan at South Chicago. 
The dirty little stream was yesterday so full of dead fish 
that. fear was expressed lest the water supply at the lake 
cribs might be polluted. Never mind. It is nobody’s 
fault. If the water is bad, never mind. Take your 
medicine. 

Still another case of stream pollution and great loss of 
fish life is reported to-day by Mr. John Melbourne, of 
Saginaw, Mich., occurring in the Cass and Saginaw 
rivers, the cause being the refuse from the beet sugar 
factories. Mr. Melbourne says, “There is no stream in 
the State which had such variety and such numbers of fish 
as the Saginaw, but as the sugar factories are on the 
increase, it looks as though the fish would have to go.” 
The Saginaw News prints a report from Vassar, on the 
Cass River, as below: 

“A few weeks ago the dam in the Cass River was 
blocked by a mass of fish which had collected there as a 
result of the slaughter caused by the emptying of the 
refuse from the Caro factory into the river above. He 
said that it was a sight never before witnessed by the 
residents of that village. The authorities there took the 
matter in hand and men with rakes were put to work 
cleaning out the dead and decaying mass, and it is 
claimed that thirty-five teams were used in hauling away 
the refuse and that many tons of fish were taken out and 
buried. The mass contained everything in the fish line, 
from the smallest minnows to grass pike over three feet 
in length. The citizens of Vassar, it is said, intend to 
appeal to Governor Bliss to have a State Fish Commis- 
sioner sent there to investigate and steps taken toward 
the abatement of the nuisance. : 

“The Cass River between Caro and Vassar is com- 
paratively narrow and shallow, so that the contamination 
is much more than in the Saginaw River, which is fed 
with much fresh water from the Tittabawassee and Shia- 
wassee, thus accounting for the comparative freedom 
from injury to fish in this river. The large volume of 
water here, it is claimed so dilutes the refuse from the 
factory that it is rendered practically harmless. Reports 
from the mouth of the river at Bay City are to the 
effect that many fish are killed there, but the amount of 
refuse poured into the river there is much larger, making 
the contamination of the water so much stronger. 

“Governor Bliss was asked by the News this morning 
what report, if any, he had received of the matter, and 
he stated that no word had come to him at this time. 
He stated that when the factories were running last sea- 
son a similar complaint was received from that locality 
and that he sent the game warden to investigate. The 
report which came back to him at that time was that 
the factories had provided a way in which to get rid of 
their refuse without turning it into the river and that 
the trouble had been corrected. He says that when he 
has any further complaint he will take such action as 
seems best.” 


Market Firm Fined, 


The Booth Packing Company, of Chicago, was fined at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., last Tuesday, the fine being $75 
and costs, for fishing in waters of Lake Michigan near 
St. Joseph during the close season. This is one of the 
cases brought against market-fishers by Deputy Brewster 
last fall, and it is pleasing to see that he is making the 
cases stick. Appeal was taken by defendants, the case 
being hotly contested on both sides. ‘ 


: E, Hover, 
Hartrorp Buripine, Chicago, Ill. 


Senate Bill No. 367 in the New York Legislature pro- 
vides that wherever in the law the possession of fish or 
game is forbidden, “reference is had equally to such 
fish, game or flesh coming from without the State or to 
that taken within the State.’ This is a most important 
provision, and is designed to remove any possible ground 
of evasion of the laws against the possession and sale 
of game under the plea that it is of foreign origin, and 
not subject to the law. The bill also provides that dealers 
may hold in stock during the close season game and fish 
on hand at the close of the open season. This provision, 
we undérstand, has the sanction of the Fish and Game 
Commissioners, and Protector Pond is of opinion that it 
would render more practicable surveillance of the markets, 


Che Fennel. 
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Fixtures. 


. BENCH SHOWS. 
March 5-8.—Pittsburg.—Duaquesne Kennel Club’s bench show. 
F. S. Stedman, Sec’y, rl 
"March 12-15.—Chicago.—Chicago Kennel Club’s show. D, E, 
Gardner, Sec’y. _ 
‘March 20-22-Winnipeg, Man.—Western Canada Kennel Club’s 
-bench show. A, H. M. Clark, Sec’y. ‘ 
- March 18-21—Uhrichsville, O.—Twin City Kennel Club’s bench 
show. C. S, Walker, Sec'y. : 
March 26-29.—Atlantic City, N, J.—Atlantic City Kennel Club's 
show. Thos, H. Terry, ‘Sec’y. ‘ ‘ 
April 1-4—Boston._New England Kennel Club's eighteenth 
anntial show. Wm, B, Emery, Sec’y. _ 
April 912,—Seattle, Wash.—Seattle Kennel Club’s annual show. 
H. S. Jordan, Sec’y. : : 
Oct, 7-9.—Danbury, Conn.—Danbury Agricultural Society’s show, 
John W. Bacon, Treas. 
~ Oct. 21-24—New York.—Ladies’ Kennel Association of America’s 


show. Miss M. K. Bird, Westbury, L. I., Hon. Sec’y, «3 
Nov. 26-29.—Philadelphia Philadelphia Dog Show Association’s 
show. M, A. Viti, Sec’y. 


FIELD TRIALS. 

Aug, 26.—Salem, S; D.—South Dakota Field Trial Association’s 
third annual trials. FE. H. Gregory, Sec’y. f 

Aug. O'Neill, Neb.—Nebraska Field Trial 
inaugural chicken trials. M. H. McCarthy, Sec’y. ’ / 

Oct. 12.—Ruthven, Ont.—North American Field Trial Club's 
fourth annual trials. Richard: Bangham, Sec’y. vn 

Oct. 20.— Mich.—Michigan Field Trial Association’s 
fifth annual trials. C. D. Stuart, Sec’y. ¥S 4 

Oct. 27, Mo.— Missouri Field Trial Association’s sixth 


2 al, 


Association’s 


annual trials. L. S. Eddins, Sec’y. ‘ ‘ 

Oct. 27.._——_—,. Pa.—Monongahela Field Trial Club’s field 
trials. A. C. Paterson, Sec’y-. -) 

Nov. 3.—Robinson, Ill,—Illinois Field Trial Association’s fourth 


annual trials. 
Nov. 24.—Washington _C. H., O 
fifth annual trials. ©. E. Baughn, Sec’y, f ' ‘ ; 
Dec. 1. _ — ——Interstate Championship Field Trial 
Agsociation’s second annual trials. C. D. Cooke, Sec’y._ 
__ Western Field Trial Association’s sec- 


ond annual trials. "CW. Buttles, Sec’y. 


Field Trial and Bench Show Judging 


PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 27,—With each recurring year 
the field sportsman, or rather the practical sportsman, who 
believes that setters, pointers and spaniels are pre-eminent- 
ly workers rather than house or pet dogs, on his visit to 
the bench shows deplores the utter disregard of the work— 
ing features of these dogs as they refer to his powets of 
motion, and, indeed, the judge is likely to impose a 
penalty for visible signs of work, such as shown by a 
ragged, faded, mud-stained coat, featherless legs and 
stern, rough feet, and a general appearance of the veteran 
field campaigner. When placed in contrast with the 
smoothly groomed, even-haired, full-coated dog of leisure, 
with colors brought out in perfection, and each hair 
groomed to perfect cleanliness, the field dog, though pos-; 
sibly of incomparably better physique, has not a possible 
show of winning. It has these many years been the 
plea of the practical field man that this should not be so. 
He unyieldingly maintains that show type should be field 
type, and vice vetsa. To him the setter, the pointer and 
the spaniel should be the same everywhere, whether on 
bench or field. It is a comfortable theory, but it is not a 
success in practice. It is of the ideal world and not of 
the practical. It is a belief that would best be abandoned. 

If we consider the matter apart from one’s special 
prejudices, we find that the bench show and the field trial 
or field work features are irreconcilable. There is no 
relation between the two in a way to be recognizable in a 
competition. A field dog, fresh from a season’s work, is 
not in a condition to take part in a beauty show any more 
than his master in soiled field costume is fit to appear in 
an opera box among gentlemen and ladies in eyening 
dress. The master can change his coat, however, and the 
dog cannot. It is quite time to recognize that bench 
shows and field work are two distinct and separte fields of 
effort, so different in purpose that one is not essentially a 
part of the other, They are as distinct in a way as the 
mimic stage of the theater and the stage of real life. How 
a dog looks at rest and how a dog acts in serious work 
are two distinct matters. 

It has been said that there ate bench judges so wise 
that they could judge of a dog’s field ability by his form. 
Is it not strange that judges of such abnormal acumen 
could not judge a field trial by looking the dogs over 
and deciding their merits without actual competition. 

The preparation of the dog for a bench show is neces- 
sarily different from that of the field. He is judged by 
a different scale. His bench show merit is one of physique 
and type; his field merit is one of work. No theory can 
reconcile the two specialties. The practice negatives the 
theory every time. No bench show judge can judge of 
type and beauty on a basis of worn or absent coat, faded 
colorsand a scarred skin, etc. Conversely, no judge can 
judge of field merit by a clean coat, full grown and richly 
colored. Let us abandon our bench-field delusions. 


Some Ancient Classification. 


Some very funny ideas as to dogs prevailed in Eng- 
land even so recently as 300 years ago. In Topsell’s trans- 
lation-of Gemer’s Natural History a peculiarly quaint 
list of “dogges” is given, of which the following is..an 


epitome: The harier (leverarius) heads the list, followed 
by the terrar (terrarius), the bloudhound (sangui- 
narius), the gasehound (agasaeus), the greyhound - 


(leporarius), the Lyemmer (lorarius), the tumbler (ver- 


_. tagus), the theevish dogge (Canis furax), the spaniell 


(hispaniolus), the setter (index), the water spaniell or 
finder (aquaticus), the fisher (Canis piscator), the spaniell 
gentle (melitaeus) or fotor, also called comforter, the 
shepherd’s dog -(C. pastoralis), the mastive or -bandog 
(villaticus or. cathenarius). After this follow the “Curres 
of the Mungrell and rascall sort,” headed by the wappe or 
warner, the turnspete, the dauncer, and ending with three 
very remarkable crosses with the wolf, fox, and béare. Of 
the first ofthese crosses Topsell says:* “Wechave.none 
naturally bred within the borders of England, the reason 
is for the want of wolves without whome so such deg can 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


be ingendred.” “Of the second we are not utterly voide 
of some.” * * ‘The thirde, which is bred of a beare 
and a bandog we want not heere in England.” To re- 
turn to the bandog, Topsell says it is “‘vaste, huge, stub- 
borne, ougly, and eager, of a hevy and bourthenous body, 
terrible, and frightfull to behold, and more fierce and fell 
than Arcadian cur, notwithstanding they are said to 
have their generation of the violent lion.” Such was our 
knowledge of the dog A. D. 1607, which is the date of the 
first edition of Topsell’s translation—London Field. 


Hachting. 
—O—— 


Designing Competition. 


First prize, $25, and special prize offered by Mr, Theo- 
dore Zerega, for the best cabin plans, $10, won by 
Mr. Morcan Barney, New York City. 
Second prize, $15, won by 
Mr. Cartes H, Hatt, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Third prize, $10, won b 
Mr. Harotp W. PAtrerson, New York City, 

The time limit of the Forest AND StreAM’s designing 
competition expired on Friday, Feb, 28, and twenty-six 
drawings were received up to that day. The competition 
was thus a great success, both in point of numbers, and it 
was So too in the excellence of the work, only one design 
being thrown aside, as it was too badly drawn for con- 
sideration. " 

Mr. Clinton H.. Crane, who judged the drawings, 
reached his conclusions with much difficulty, because of 
the large number of designs submitted. One tinfortunate 
feature of the competition was the fact that several of 
the competitors made the mistake of drawing their plans 
to the wrong scale, thus disqualifying them on the start. 
An undoubted prize winner was thus shut out. This 
plan was submitted by Trysail (Mr. Charles D. Mower, 
of New York city). 

Other designs just missed a prize because of some 
important technical error—poor arrangement of center- 
board, faulty overhangs, too large plans, etc. 

It is our intention to publish not only the plans of the 
winners, but also to use a number of others, for while 
not considered quite so good as the first three, still a 
number of them would make really excellent craft. 

Before awarding the prizes, Mr. Crane had gone overt 
all the drawings and checked up the calculations on each 
to see that they were correct. Thus every boat receiving 
a prize is a practical craft in every way, and not only 
are the lines fair, but the boat will float on her designed 
waterline, and carry the sail shown in the plans. Mr. 
Crane has also found that the cabin accommodation would 
really exist if the boat was built as shown on paper. 

When laying out the conditions governing the compe- 
tition, it was not realized that such splendid boats would 
be produced under them. The drawings of the prize 
winners show cruising boats of 25ft. waterline length 
which are as fine as exist anywhere. 

Mr, Crane has very kindly consented to give a short 
criticism on all the drawings sent in, and we shall pub- 
lish this in our next issue. A criticism from one of Mr, 
Crane’s ability will be of very great value to those who 
wish to improve the standard of their work. While the 
criticisms will necessarily be short, owing to the large num- 
ber of drawings, still they will cover the main points in each. 
Several of the designs -will be very highly commended. 
Four sets of plans were received from England, and the 
work on each of these was of a high order, and had the 
authors been familiar with the weather conditions existing 
over here, and could they have made their designs con- 
form to these conditions, they, too, might have been among 
the prize winners. 

It is proposed to put all the drawings on exhibition for 
inspection and comparison by those who are ‘interested. 
Mr. Crane suggests that this will be of unquestionable 
benefit and interest to all the competitors, and might also 
attract many outsiders interested in yachting matters. 
Competitors will not receive their drawings for some little 
time yet, if they are to be exhibited, for it will mean a 
delay, and, in some cases, where the drawings are to be 
published, there will be further delay in making the 
engravings. : 


The Theory of Measurement Rules. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

There is so much sound sense, so lucidly and cogently 
expressed, in the article of Mr. William Q, Phillips on 
yacht measurement in Forest AND STREAM of Dec. 21, 
1901, that one hesitates to take issue with the author on 
some points. His three statements following go to the 
root of the mischief that arises from the current type of 
measurement formulas; 

(1) “The prime function of a measurement rule is 
simply to meastire the size of a yacht.’ [In terms of 
speed. | \ 

(2) “Restrictions on form or proportions are a sepa- 
rate and distinct consideration, and should not be em- 
bodied in the measurement formula unless it is entirely 
convenient to do so.” 

(3) “We have got into the habit of thinking that re- 
striction gained by an elaborate formula is proper, scien- 
tific and right, while the same end attained by plain 
figures is empirical and wrong.” j 

These propositions, if true. prove that the current type 
of measurement formulas is illogical and mischievous. 
The advocate of such formulas have repeatedly been chal- 
lenged to show any error in these three statements of 
the fundamental principles governing yacht measurement; 
but they have never attempted it to the writet’s knowl- 
edge. 

The words supplied by the writer in brackets in the 
foregoing proposition (1) are implied in Mr. Phillips’ 
conclusion, though not stated by him; and they serve to 
gluminess the question raised by his correspondents, 
Thalassa and another, who disagree whether the old Sea- 
wanhaka rule measures speed-ar' size. “ ~~ ‘ 

This formula, and all other so-called measurement for- 
inulas ised for measuring racing yachts, are, if logical, 
attempts to express the size of yachts in terms of speed— 
to express the speed-size, the speed of the yachts being 


[Marcir 8, 1002. | 
supposed fo vary as their size expressed in units of the | 
measttting or rating rule—i. ©, speed-size units. — 

Whether a formitla be a measure of mere size, or of | 
speed-size or of something else, depends-upon what fac- — 
tors compose it. If the factors are units of dimension — 
which have definite numerical relations to speed, and their — 
coefficients are so fixed that the speed will be propor-— 
tioned to the number of such speed-size units, and that — 
the relative speed of yachts of different dimensions can 
be calculated by means of the formula, it will be a meas- 
ure of speed in terms of size—i. e., of speed-size. / 

lf a formula is made up of factors whose sum is pro- 
portioned to cargo-carrying power, it is a measure of 
tonnage size. If made up of_dimensions in such rela- 
tions as are necessary for good performance in a sea- 
way, the formula is a measure of seaworthiness. If 
composed of cabin dimensions, it measures what Thalassa 
calls “hotel accommodations,” 

Ti all of these elements are included, the hybrid com- 
pound measures—makers of formulas of the current type 
may state what. \ 

Obviously but one of these formulas would be suitable 
for measuring racing yachts for speed contests—viz., the 
one expressing size in terms of speed alone, racing length 
or rating, which’ is proportional to speed. 

The only dimension of a yacht that is a true speed fac- 


. tor is S; and this therefore should be the only factor in 


a speed formula. 2 
Here we regret to find ourselves at odds with Mr. Phil- 
: ag 
He thinks the a 
ure of speed; though it is not entirely clear from his 
article why he holds this opinion. He accepts the theory 
of nayal architects that the possibilities of speed vary as 


Vets 

If this means sail spread being ‘constant, there can be 
no more fallacious statement. Other dimensions con- 
stant, length is a hindrance to speed. This may be 
demonstrated by increasing the length of a well-designed 
yacht, leaving the sails of the same size. The amount 
of sail (to which speed is due) carried by sailing vessels 
is roughly proportional to length; and this probably ac- 
counts for the use L, as a measure of speed. Mr. George 
Hill, who has contributed many valuable articles to 
Forest AND STREAM on yacht measurement, once pointed 
out in these columns that if the possibilities of speed 


lips. formula is a logical meas- 


varied as, YL, it would be possible by merely increasing 
length to get any degree of speed. 

Mr. Phillips says further: “The necessity of taking 
into account other factors of size. beside length, led up to 
the measurement of sail area which is not itself a factor 
of size, *" He does not state what the necessity 
was that led to this step, though he mantains that the 


makers of the ——_—_ rule, did not insert “S in order 
to influence design. 


If "S is not a factor of speed-size (as he says, it 


clearly does not belong in a measurement formula. The 


writer has always supposed that “ S was introduced into 


the length formula for. the express purpose of influencing 
design—namely, in order that length might be exchanged 
for sail—i. ¢., increased at the expense of sail area with- 
out enlarging racing length. If speed is assumed to 


vary as the “L, there would seem to be no reason for 
adding “ S to a pure speed formula. 


L+V¥s 
ce 


In the restricted classes 5 does not vary largely 


from ‘S; and therefore the old Seawanhaka formula 
may be used as an approximate practical measure of 
speed; but it is not a logical measure of speed, 

SEXTANT. 


Thalassa’s Measurement Rule. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of Dec. 7, 1901, Thalassa asked if it is not 
evident that any logical rating rule for yacht racing should 
tax the “three speed producers” S$, L and D. To ‘which 
the writer suggested (1) that L and D are not speed 
producers, and (2) that it is futile to try to rate fairly in 
a rule the effect of D and L upon speed. because the 
complex relations of D and L'to speed cannot be quanti- 
tatively stated. : 

In his reply (Forest AND StREAM, Jan. 11), Thalassa 
confines his remarks to (1), and does not mention ob- 
jection (2) which would be fatal to the proposed type of 
rules even if objection (1) were not valid. 

Will Thalassa, for instance, state how he arrived at the 


conclusion that “5 and L are of equal effect in producing 
speed? Also how he ascertained that 16 should be the 


. ee 
coefficient of *D, and how certain he is that 14 or 18 


or some other number would not more truly represent the 
relations of D to S and L in the matter of speed? And 
will he state whether in his opinion the coefficient 16 
fairly represents these relations for all speeds or for an 
average of the speeds made by large and small yachts, 
say from 3 to 13 knots? If it represents an average, like 
8 knots, how mttch is the mean valtte of coefficient 16 in 
error for the extreme speeds 3 and 13 knots? 
Concerning the objection that L and D should not be 
included in the formula because they.are not speed pro- 
ducers, his réply is in stibstance, that.L and D should 
not be omitted from the formula, because taxing S alone 
would be like taxing racing steam yachts on horse power 
only; whereas (he alleges), “we all know that a rating 
rule for steam yachts should certainly acknowledge the 
weight driven at speed.’ On this point he says again: ~ 
“Tn yacht racing the rating rules should be a measure 
of the yacht’s speed efficiency, and consequently must 
desl with some other elements than sail alone.” 
It is not quite clear what this means. These two 
quotations taken by themselyes would seem to mean that, 
so far as resistance is due to weight, the performance of a 
yacht catised by sail power should be measured by the 
weight carried per mile per hour, instead of by" speed 


‘alone. In other words, speed would vary inversely as 
the weight, and time allowance should be directly as the 
weight, so that, for example, two tons carried a mile in 
two houts would be as meritorious a performance as one 
ton moved a mile in one hour. And for racing pur- 
poses these two finishes would be deemied a tie, the light- 
displacement yacht giving the heavy yacht one hour allow- 
arice. 

That is to say, Thalassa does not consider yacht 
races to be speed contests, but contests of speed efficiency 
in moving weights. 

To this, there are two answers: (a) This reasoning 
does not justify the retention of +L in the formula, but 
would seem to require its exclusion for, other dimen- 
sions (including sail) remaining the same, increase of 
L reduces speed by increase of skin friction due to added 
weight, which under this scheme is not to be taxed, but re- 
warded. 

(b) If by inserting —D in a measurement formula 
racing length were to be redticed in proportion to increase 
of resistance catised by added displacement and thereby a 
proportional time allowance given, then tug boats with 
tows, and merchant vessels with cargoes, could compete 
successfully in races with steam and sailing yachts, mak- 
ing up for loss of speed by amount of load carried. 

But in his discussion with Mr. Phillips (Forest AND 
STREAM, Jan. 18), Thalassa takes just the opposite posi- 
tion, and says: “Now, our rating rule is a measure of 
speed. * * We no longer race with cart horses, but 
with thoroughbreds.’ This is inconsistent with his 
“weight driven at speed” measure of efficiency for racing 
yachts. 

Yacht races are prestmed by the writer to be speed con- 
tests pure and simple, the test of excellence being speed 
alone. That this is also the view generally entertained 
by yachtsmen seems evident from the fact that in racing 
rtiles, credit has not usttally been given for the amount 
of weight carried. 

In speed contests, pri 
not for worl: efficiency. The load is reduced as much 
as possible, and all the available energy is used to pro- 
duce speed. The minimum load to be carried is, for 
expedient reasons, often fixed by rte, No one is obliged 
to carty more than this, and the contestants are thus put 
on even terms with respect to the weight carried, If 
any one waste his energy by carrying more, and lose 
speed thereby, it is his own fault, and is not to be re- 
warded. 

In yacht racing the separation of the yachts into classes, 
the taxation of any important element of size as S or 
L, the penalty of lost speed for excessive weight, and the 
natural limitations to light construction, tend to insure 
substantial uniformity in the load carried by competing 
yachts, But, if desirable, with a measurement, formula 
containing S only, it is easy to fix a minimum displace- 

-ment for each class. = 


S72 
If the factor, —16 “D, in Thalassa’s proposed for- 


mula does not instire a time allowance that is sufficient 
to exactly compensate for loss of speed due to burden, 
then instead of being a logical measurement formula, it 
becomes what Thalassa pronounces a “pernicious shape 
rule.’ And in any case it is not a logical measure of 
speed. i : 

Whatever amottnt of D is deemed desirable in racing 
yachts may better be secured by a special regulation 
made for that purpose only, than by putting a factor —D 
into the measurement formula, thereby making cargo 
carrying, in some measure, equivalent to speed. Thalassa 
gives tinqualified approval to restricted classes for local 
racing. It is not apparent why they are not equally suit- 
able for international- races. They have been used with 
satisfaction in the Seawanhaka international cup races, 
and they would make the races for the America’s Cup 
more interesting and instructive than the last two races, 
which have been largely contests in mechanical engi- 
neering. SEXTANT. 


Remarks on The New: Rating Rule. 


My remarks on the rating rules, published in Forest 
AND STREAM of Nov. 30 last, were scarcely complete from 
the point of view of American yachtsmen, because no 
mention was tnade of the rule recently adopted by the 
racing asscciation of yacht clubs on Long Island Sound. 
The omission was intentional and was mainly due to the 
writer's ighorance concerning the said rating rule now 
generally known as Mr. Hyslop’s rule. Since November, 
however, the report of the Committee on Measurement, 
February, 1901 (published by the Seawanhaka Corinthian 
Y.C.), has been received with a request to analyze the 
rule and write an article upon it; by no means an easy 
task, as the rule is extremely complicated. Any de- 
signet who has to build to the rule will probably agree in 
this. To half the waterline length is added half the 
square root of the sail area, and to this is added a term 
called L, an ill-advised nomenclature, because it has for 
so long been employed to signify length of hull on water- 
line, not only in America, but in all countries where yacht 
racing has been introduced as a sport. 

I shall, therefore, for the sake of clearness and sim- 
plicity, venture to express Mr. Hyslop’s formula in its 
mote rational terms, and avoid the employment of his 
very confusing “L.” It then becomes: 


1.1 (Linear Rating) = 4EL+% VS+C+4+8E, 


using his own letters C and E, although C is also a bad 
letter to employ, because it has hitherto been frequently 
used t6 represent the constant multiplier. 

There is no conceivable reason for introducing the frac- 
tional coefficients in connection with the two principal 
items of the formula, and inastnuch as the old Seawanhaka 
rule: used unity for these coefficients, it will be better to 
state the formula in that way. It then becomes: 

’ 2.2(L R)=(L+ ¥8)4+2(C+ 8), 
which collects the Seawanhaka old measurements and Mr. 


Hyslop’s new taxes into two items—the first term, so to 
speak, comparing with the old Seawanhaka rule, wherein 


2(LR)=L4+ V5 


is the ratio of 2 to-2.2, or of 10 to 11, Hence, in all.cases 


zes are given for speed alone and 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


such as those of Lasca, Iroquois, Volunteer, Titania, 
Katrina, Minerva, Nymph, Kathleen, etc, where 
C+E=0, their linear rating by Mr. Hyslop’s rule would 
be only to-11ths of their. rating by the old Seawanhaka 
rule. Thus, Volunteer’s old rating was 01.08, and ro-11ths 
of this is 82,80, her new rating, ; 

Kathleen’s old rating was 37.44, and t1o--11ths of this 
is 34.04, her new rating. And so on with the others, But 
the main point-to investigate is the effect of the new rule 
on design, In other words, the evolution of new boats 
under the rule. 

It causes the waterline plane to be measured for beam 
in three places: 

B at one-eighth of L.W.L., fore end. 

B’ at one-eighth of L.W.L., after end. 

B”, greatest beam. . 

Then C=B+B’—B”, with the proviso that C is only 
used as a positive quantity, and consequently this tax is 
in the nature of a limitation at a definite point, and any- 
thing of this kind is bad style for a rating rule which 
should never tead to limit design at any particular point. 

If it be advantageous to design yachts with a scow-like 
water plane, the formula tells the designer he may do so 
up to the limit of B+B’=B” without tax. This is like 
telling a man that baccy is bad for him, but he may 
have four pipes a day. 

It seems to me that if the Seawanhaka Y. €. wish to 
tax the scow-like water plane in a mathematical and 
reasonable manner, it could be done far better by new 
measurements of LL rather than of B. Thus, let 
L=(LWL-+21), one-third 1] being the length of waterline 
plane meastired at one-quarter beam of waterline plane at 
the MSS (midship section)—or at the 0.6 LWL section 
adopted by the British Y. R, A. in preference to the MSS. 
Then, the actual L used for rating would be the mean 
value between 2] and LWL, and the scow would be 
sufficiently hard hit, I think. Moreover, all scow-like 
forms would be proportionally taxed according to the 
amount of their scow-like tendency. In other words, it 
would, as it were, tend to make even one pipe of baccy 
distasteful to the inveterate smoker. 

Mr. Hyslop’s second tax, E, is very much of the same 
nature as C. It is a limitation aimed at securing a fair 
amount of submerged area of MSS as compared with the 
area of the inclosing rectaiigle of (B”) multiplied by 
(D) draft at that MSS, “plus two-fifths of any greater 
draft aft’ (which is bad English, as I presume two-fifths 
of any excess of draft aft is really intended; “and all of 
any greater draft forward” by, which I presume all of any 
excess of draft forward is intended. The actual algebraic 


form of tax for E is any excess of B’-+D over 3) YM, 
M being the immersed area of MSS (midship section). 
Then, E= B"+- D — 18 VM 


E only being used as a positive quantity, and therefore 
here again we find a limitation of something regarded as 
undesirable. 

From this point of view it would be better if the 
Hyslop rule were altered so that (C) and (E) might be 
used not only as positive, but as negative quantities. 

Instead of playing the tune on one octave, the whole 
gamut could then be usefully employed. | 

The rule would remain unaltered in form, but the taxes 
(C) and (E) would be used as either positive or negative 
quantities as derived from the equations: 

C=B-+B’—B' 
E=B'+D—10 1M 


But, just as I thought a revised method of measuring L 
would be preferable to the complication (C); so, I think, 
the simple measurement of (d) the depth of immersed hull 
of MSS at its quarter B (waterline) would be found quite 
as effective as the complex proviso marked (EB) in Mr. 


Hyslop’s rule. But before I proceed to elaborate this 
idea, a rather ctrrious algebraic fact connected with Mr. 
Hyslop’s rule should be noted. Ii the two equations for 
C and E be examined, B” is found in each, but positive 
in E, and negative in C, consequently when C and E 
are added together as they are in the rating formula, 
B” yanishes, and we find 


C+E=B+B’+D—19 YM. 


Hence, a designer may make maximum beam on water- 
Jine anything he likes (other taxable things remaining 
unchanged) without altering the rating. A flat surface, 
four nails, one pegged at each end of the LWL and one 
at each end of B and B’, and a pliable batten will prove 
that they do not by any means fix the dimension B” which 
can be varied within certain limits quite easily—and—as 
the total displacement of the yacht should not increase 


with increase of B”, the section would require reduction | 


in immersed depth and its area might remain unaffected. 

In any case I think the Hyslop rule’ might be more 
conveniently stated if B” were unmentioned and the rest 
stated thus: 


Linear Rating = 1? (Seawanhaka + Hyslop’s tax) 


L+“S 
=H (+8) 
andH =B+B’+D—(0 VM 


but only used if positive. 

The measurement of (d) must be done when yacht is 
hauled up or beached, and both sides would require meas- 
urement, not only in order to check any discrepancy due 
to the yacht’s hull being slightly out of plumb. but also 
because the two sides of a yacht bottom are not invariably 
exactly alike. The (d) in each side being found, and the 
mean value used as the true (d), the rule I would 
then suggest to employ, as having the same tendency as 
Mr. Hyslop’s, but being far simpler for designers to work 


i‘ : 1h, eS 
Linear rating =——q 


to, is: divided by a constant; 
say 15. Applying this rule to Minerva, as shown in Dixon 
Kemp’s “Yacht Architecture” and to a small fast 
cruiser by Linton. Hope of 24 linear rating by the present 
Y. R. A. British rule (published in Yachtsman .of May, 


Igor), we find: 


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Linton Hope’s 

Minerva. Cruiser. 

TS\Wilotetets, tc eas SALE hares ae test »-» 40,50 22.50 

rate Sy Deant.n wens dures ae EP By 27525 17.90 

a725 17.90 

Ditade byes sons deine «beak eae ee ees 95.00: 58.30 
hse et eae Poke Se Oe deeehesen oO? 19.43. 

VS, multiply ....csceeesseereeees 36:50 24.80 

Drdivide 252. eo ory “ays oh the Lee 21g0 1.30 

Result Prides iets say Hag iek rete euts, OLZO2 370.70 


Divide by 15 and linear rating.... 41.14 24.91 

In the “illustration” showing the sections “chargeable” 
under the Hyslop rule, the centerboard is shown with its 
board hoisted. Of course, this would give centerboard boats 
a tremendous advantage under the E tax of the formula, if 
such tax were continuous into negative quantities. It 
may be that this is a reason for the non-continuity of the 
rule, and for its limitations. If continuous and with- 
out limitations, the section chargeable for centerboarts 
would evidently in all fairness have to include the draft 


. when board is dropped to full extent, and if this were 


done, the proviso as to the board’s specific gravity and all 
restriction of the kind could be omitted. 

As one of your correspondents very truly pointed 
out quite recently, a rating rule should not require any 
additional restrictions. It should be automatic, and the 
type evolved from its action should be untrammeled by 
anything outside the rule. 

Speaking generally, the great defects of Mr. Hyslop’s 
rule are the introduction of limitations, converting it into 
a restriction rule rather than a rating rule, but the 
tendency of the rule so far as one can foresee at present 
appears to be healthy, and it certainly compares favorably 
in this respect with the wretched production of the British 
Y. R. A—a rating rule that destroys the-seaworthiness of 
all small yachts built to fit it. 

Poot Jittle boats! 
It cuts off their keels with a Y, R. A. knife, 
“You never saw such a thing in your life,” 


The Y. R. A. Council has caused all the strife; 
Poor little yachts! 


_ Reverting to the rating rule which I have suggested, 
Vil asec % 


bd . 


Tt can, of course, be used in the plus and minus form, 
when it may be expressed thus: 


LR=L+ VS —ibd 
Linton Hope’s 


Examples Minerva. Cruiser. 
LEAR Le Sa ne onetins ites ocala src +e» 40,50 22.50 
Nid (PER ALR eer Ae ee eye Ae ere - 54.50 35.80 
CS PR obec ie oe RR stitch CE OT ea ee taney 30.67 19.43 
af Py BAe ah Wee ee PAP re Red: 56.50 24.80 
pele COUCH A ot. cat Meine oer He 88.17 44.23 

‘ 43.50 19.50 
VSMC TerheUl Tl Saee sn ok, Pac cto leuivetr Ret ee .67 24.73 


44 
A rough sketch of the waterline plane is given on 
Figs. 1 and 2, showing the positions of 1 and d. PQR 
is the central length of WL plane; RQ is 0.6 LWL meas- 
ured from the fore end R. 


Both d and | should be measured on the port and on 
the starboard side, as the two sides of a yacht always 
differ a little, and sometimes a good deal. d can be 
‘found by using a heavy plumb line from W, and a square’ 
w:th its horizontal leg equal in length to OW. The meas- 
urement WX (Fig. 2) then gives d. This measurement 
must be taken when the yacht is ashore, and standing as 
nearly upright as possible. d ‘must be taken both on the 
port and starboard side, and the mean value adopted. 1 
can be found by using a square adjusted so that ZP=O0 
or OW. Then ZV and ZU; similarly found at the fore 
end, added together and deducted from the LWL, will 
give 1. This measurement can be taken either afloat or 
ashore, the latter preferred. in which case the waterline 
must previously be carefully marked on the hull from 
P to and slightly beyond V, and from R to and slightly 
beyond U. ' : 

No difficulty can possibly arise in making these meas- 
urements, d and 1, and no one can deny that the rating 
formula connected with them, whether the multiplying 
form or the plus and minus form be used, is far simpler 
than any of the rating rules now in vogue. I still 
think that a premium on displacement by a similar rating 
rule as I have already described in your columns js : 
superior to a premium on ‘depth at quarter beam—but 
so few racing men like the idea of weighing their yachts 


for a rating rule [N. B.—the German Emperor is ‘a 


brilliant exception, as H. I. M. has adopted the principle 
in connection with his small restricted classes for the 
coming season], that it seems necessary to bring to their 


‘notice the substitution of depth at quarter beam of MSS. 


The only fear is the possibility of such a rule again 
encouraging the type of narrow and- deep hulls. But I 
remember. the remarlc once made to me by one of our 
first designers, that he had no fear -of the plank on edge 
type being again successfully employed: as a racing yacht. 
Tf this be a-correct view, as it probably is, the employ- 
ment of depth of immersed MSS at one-quarter beam may 
be employed in a rating formula without misgiving, and it 


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certainly forms a very convenient dimension for the 
designer to manipulate in his draughtsman’s: office. 

Of late there has been a marked tendency to elaborate 
rating “rules until they become a nuisance by their com- 
plications and intricacies. Depend upon it.-that the 
simpler a rating rule can be made the better will it be 
for all concerned in the sport of racing yachts. For 
this reason I should almost prefer a simple length of 
hull rating, L being found as herein suggested, viz., 
‘ (LWL-+2!), 1 being waterline length at one-quarter 
beam—and an allotment of sail area in accordance with 
the yacht’s displacement. THALASSA, 


German Emperor’s New Schooner. 


The Launching. 


Meteor III., the German Emperor's new schooner 
yacht, was launched on Tuesday, Feb. 25, from the yard 
of the builders at Shooter’s Island. The occasion was 
a brilliant one, and the affair was a great success. 

Several thousand persons occupied the special stands 
built for them at the yard, and the Staten Island shore 
* was lined with spectators. The launching took place at 
10:30 A. M., and Prince Henry and President Roosevelt 
arrived with the official party about a quarter of an hour 
before that time. As the Prince and the President came 
ashore from the boat that had brought them to the island, 
a salute of twenty-one gtins was fired. The Primce wore 
the uniformrof a German admiral. 

As the official party passed through the lines of Naval 
Reserves from where they landed to the shed where the 
yacht was, they were greeted with hearty cheers. 

A grand stand had been built under Meteor’s bows for 
those who were directly interested in the launching. On 
the platform were Prince Henry, President and Mrs. 
Roosevelt.’ Miss Alice Roosevelt, Secretary and Mrs. 
Root, Baron von Holleben, Admiral von Batdissin, Rear- 
Admiral Evans, Adjutant-General Corbin and A. Cary 
Smith, the designer of the yacht. On board Meteor. in 
addition to the workmen, were Captains Ben and Dan 
Parker, Lieut. R. H. Parmley, U. S. N., and Capt. 
Berthold. 

Hanging at the vort bow of the yacht was a bottle of 
champagne, covered with a silver net work. On the neck 
of the bottle was tied the German colors, and the bottle 
also bore the German coat of arms, as well as the coat 
of arms of the United States. 


Shortly after 10:30 a whistle was blown, and the work-. 


men began driving in the wedges and knocking out the 
shores’ under the vessel’s bottom, leaving only the two 
dog shores. 


At a signal from Mr, Downey, one of the builders. of 


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the yacht, Miss Roosevelt stepped forward and grasped 


the bottle of champagne. “In the name of the German 
Emperor I christen this yacht Meteor,’ said Miss Roose- 
velt, and swung the bottle against the yacht’s bow with a 
sharp blow. Miss Roosevelt then took a silver hatchet 
and severed the line in the box on the platform, which 
released two wire ropes that held heavy weights, allowing 
them to fall on the dog shores.. The yacht began to 
move at once. In a moment there was an uproar, the 
whistles on vessels, guns booming and every one cheer- 
ing, made a great racket. As the yacht slid down the 
ways two short masts were raised on her. On the fore 
was an American flag, and a German flag flew at the main, 
surmounted by the Emperor’s racing flag. Over the taff- 
rail hung another American flag. A tow boat brought the 
yacht back to one of the docks. 


While the yacht moved down the ways the Prince and - 


his staff stood at.salute, while the President and his asso- 
ciates stood with hats off. 

After congratulations had been offered all around, the 
President, the Prince and Miss Roosevelt were roundly 
cheered. After the yacht went overboard Prince Henry 
sent a cable to his brother, the Emperor, notifying him 
of the successful launching. - 

A luncheon was setved in the mould loft, which was 
decorated with bunting, after the launching. The Prince, 
the President and Miss Roosevelt drank each other's 
health. The spectators distinguished themselves by fight- 
ing for the souvenir plates that were given away. 

After a short stay the President, his royal guest and 
the official party were taken aboard the royal yacht 
Hohenzollern, where the Prince entertained them at 
luncheon, 


Description of the Yacht. 


From. the time the German Emperor purchased Thistle, 
the unsticcessful America’s Cup challenger of 1887, he has 
been much devoted to yachting. Thistle’s name was 
changed to Meteor when he became her owner. Meteor 
II., the Emperor’s next yacht, also came from the board 
of Mr. Geo. L. Watson. She was a composite vessel, and 
was quite successful in the English and German regattas. 
From Meteor II., a racing craft, although a wonderfully 
fine sea boat, the Emperor’s next venture in the way of 
a yacht was to the very wholesome cruising schooner 
Yampa. This yacht had been used more or less abroad 
and was greatly admired by the German Emperor, and 
finally came into his possession, and her name was 
changed to Iduna. Yampa was designed by Mr. A. Cary 
Smith, and proved herself to be stich a fine vessel in 
every particular that her royal owner was prompted to 
order a larger yacht from the same designer. Mr. A. 
Cary Smith is one of the most practical of the American 
yacht designers, and his productions have earned for 


ane Windlass Co., of Providence, R. I 


him a well-deserved reputation for turning out cruising 
and racing yachts. ' : 

Mr. Smith has embodied all the good points of Lasca, 
Yampa and Genesee in Meteor IIL’s design, and his 
experience in turning out cruising vessels from 80 to 
rroft. waterline length has stood him in good stead in 
this instance, and Meteor III. will undoubtedly prove a 
splendid boat in every particular. 

Her dimensions are as follows: 


Length— , 
(Ghizehiwe lll: 08 sf Walle sais SBE BA TA 161ft. oi. 
SAR ee As eee a ees Ae Bien RL ~12oft. oin. 
Overhang— ’ 
Tonio Nee, coped wenn apron b et ba doy, 18ft. oin. 
Ar rere eh UN A eR Tay i 
Freeboard to Top of Rail— 
IDfonayeeeGl 8, Geis pote cme | cutonce hee e ep trait. oin. 
Fier See Ha hake Dh eee) ene, ON ee A ea 8ft. oin. 
TD eeerstin eiceay st Akutan ee, ors Monee 48 etal tien Be Se 6ft. oin. 
a SET PNGKHOD Mer Seer EPI AP cy tt Se Gey Pep a 27it. oin. 
PE Ceres eee NL AM (tree CO Sk Serge OS I5it. oin. 
Depth. Gf hold, 554-9 ~.0 st atck tata ae ee pene 18ft. Bin. 
IDhisioveresvnats By An Aon A SANs So Beh pase 315 tons 
Ballast, Weadieen ea este teen yk t mena pred He tleets 120 tons 


All extreme features have been eliminated from the 
yacht’s design. Her overhangs are of moderate length 
and are rather fine. From the heel of the stern post, 
which rakes at an angle of 33 degrees, the keel runs 
along almost straight for about s5oft.; from there up to 
the turn of the forefoot there is an almost continuous 
sweep, and from the forefoot on the line runs above water 
to a clipper bow. At the end of the stem just under the 
bowsprit is a figurehead which represents an eagle’s head, 
which measures 18in. in diameter. The head and feathers 
will be in relief, while the scroll will be cut in. The S 
section is rather full below, with a sharp floor and easy 
bilge. The boat is beautifully fair throughout. The 
forward waterlines show considerable hollow, a rather 
unusual feature in these,days. The freeboard is liberal 
and there is a bulwark 2ft. 4in. high. One is impressed 
by the boat as being an exceptionally fine and well-turned 
vessel in every way. The graceful sheer, well-balanced 
ends and the high side all tend to give the yacht a very 
shippy appearance, 

Meteor is constructed of steel. The frames are steel 
angles 2in. by 3in. and the plating is of the in and out 
pattern. The lead ballast is run in the trough keel. The 
rail, hatches, companionways, waterways and in fact all 
the deck fittings are of teak. The capstans, winches, etc., 
will be of bronze. The windlass is of the vertical type, 
and was made especially for the yacht by the American 


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_ The steering gear was made by the Edson Manufactur- 
ing Co., of Baston, and was constructed with the great: 


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est care. The screw of the gear is placed over the center 
of the rudder post, one-half of the screw being for- 
ward of the post and one-half aft of it. The ball-bearing 
supports for the rudder post rest on thirty-two. steel 
balls, running on steel plates, provision being made. for 
the strain on the rudder pintles. The wheel itself is 54in. 
in diameter, and is made of rosewood, and has ten spokes. 
On the king spoke there is a miniature German crown 
made of silver, It takes five and one-half turns of the 
wheel to put the rudder from hard up to hard down. 

The sail plan was laid out with great care, and the 
vessel was given sufficient sail to drive her at a good 
rate of speed, still she is in no way oversparred. “The 
Boston sailmakers, Messrs. Wilon & Silbee, are making 
the suit, which will be used on the passage across, while 
Messrs, Ratsey & Lapthorne are making the sails that 
she will use on the other side, The sail area, measured 
under the New York Y. C.’s rules, is just under 12,000 
sq. ft. a: 

The following figures give the area of sails and dimen- 
sions of spars: 


Sail Area— 
ITE We USE TUTTE yest Panty eA Ee A ao entre 4,048 sq. ft. 
IOVS ENE ale dea h ie ee As RAN ee We sy, 2,450 sq. ft. 
Stavsaile wes ene. whe, et AD Mid anit? 896 sq. it. 
Afra a Ae Stender nar are ble Pegale lyny, 1,470 sq. ft. 
Total area lower sails (actual)..... 8,864 sq. ft. 
Foremast (20in. in diameter )— 
From forward end of L.W.L...... 2oit. 
DEC te GAPE Fees, streets syria hennds Oe Sisioie 
© OGEECODEIASEL fares. ditiesteeisisearctiasicle: vetrsse 57it. 
Q st Hee chaecttleps ccvsieeavact svarteemery s Ade. a I5ft. 
= HOGEDOOM aves ey peleicd Rota hd obs sth otc 36ft. 
= ORCA gr «aah or a trip prciate St iy wae 36ft. 
S Mainmast (21in. in diameter)— 
From forward end of L.W.L........ 68ft. 
Deck to cap....scceveare Wye Were tere 8oft. 
Main’ topmiast: ay). agen rhe ser ten leeoen soft. 
Wierstieacdec a" ex, ae tee) oo Wg eats 17it. 
UMha'tiy= GCIs Aa ot «stale, efits apices g aces S2ft. 
Miainipcatiqnns tras techs tot set sehen fateh 8 Wune AGLt: 
Bowsprit—Outboard ........-.cesecevsees» 24 ff. 


Meteor’s great length, liberal breadth and high free- 
board give an unusually large amount of room below 
decks. The cabins are reached from a small steel deck 
house aft, which is covered with teak. ‘his house is’ 
arranged very much the same as was the one on Genesee, 
and serves as a shelter in bad weather, and gives ample 
room to get up and down the companionway stairs at any 
time. The windows in this house are placed high enough 
so that a clear view is obtained over the rail. mS 

Arriving at the foot of the companionway steps one 
reaches a sort of vestibule or steerage, in which is located 
a wide sofa, back of which are lockers. Aft of the steer- 
age 1s the ladies’ cabin, which is 11ft. long and runs the 
full width of the yacht. This-cabin is very large and is 
lighted by a skylight overhead and port holes in thé 
sides, On each side is a wide berth and comfortable tran- 
soms. On each side aft are roomy lockers, and, set in the’ 
after bulkhead, is a wash basin and closet for bottles, 
etc, Forward of, and connecting .with the ladies’ cabin 
on the starboard side, is a bathroom 5ft. long and oft. 
wide, and there is a porcelain tub and a patent closet. 

Forward of the steerage, or vestibule, on the port side, 

- is a Stateroom 6ft. 6in. long, with a wide berth, wash 
basin, hanging locker, etc. Still forward is another 
stateroom of larger size, fitted up very much the same 
as the one just mentioned. Forward of this room is a 
bath room 5it. wide, and forward of the bathroom is 
another stateroom of good size, fitted with bureau, locker, 
transom and wash basin. 

Opposite these rooms on the starboard side is a valet’s 
room, which contains unusually large wardrobes, hanging 
lockers and drawers. Between the valet’s room and the 
owner’s cabin is a roomy bathroom, equipped with a 
large porcelain tub, set marble basin and closet. The 
owner's cabin is about 13ft. square; here there will be a 
brass bedstead, wide sofas, writing and dressing tables, . 
hanging lockers; in. fact, everything possible to make | 
the room complete, . 

In the passageway leading from the steerage forward . 
to the main saloon there are lockers for oilskins, ete. 
Charts, navigating instruments, etc., are kept in the 
lockers in the steerage. : 

The main saloon, which is just forward of the owner’s 
room, is 18ft. long and extends the full width of the 
yacht. On each side are wide sofas. In the center of the 
room is an extension table, which will seat twenty-four 
people. In the center of the forward bulkhead is a 
fireplace. In addition to the usual sideboards, lockers, 
etc., there is an upright piano. The mainmast cuts 
through the after end of the main saloon. 

Separated from the main saloon by a heavy bulkhead is 
the owner’s galley, which is 13ft. long, on the port side 
of which are two staterooms. Two stewards will occupy 

: one of these rooms, and two cooks the other. On the 
starboard side of the galley is a very large ice box and 
a sink with drainer, back of which are lockers. On the 
after bulkhead is a dresser and serving table, while the 
range is opposite, backing against the forward bulkhead. 
Forward of the owner’s galley is the crew’s galley, in 
which the food for the officers and crew will be prepared. 
On the port side of the crew’s galley is the captain’s cabin, 
while on the port side is a room for the mate and boat- 
swain, and the officers’ water closet. 

Forward of the crew’s galley is the forecastle and mess 
room. The forecastle has accommodations for twenty 
men. In the forepeak is the crew’s water closet and 
lockers for boatswain’s stores. | 

All the quarters of the vessel are unusually well venti- 
lated, almost all the cabins having skylights overhead. 
The ventilators used on the yacht are of the mushroom 
pattern, and were made after the Emperor’s own ideas. 

The cabins will be finished by Messrs, Waring & Co., an 
English firm, after the yacht arrives at Southampton. 
The interior work will be quite simple, the general scheme 

Ss being to paint most all the woodwork an ivory white, and ‘ 

have the doors and some of the trim of mahogany..,’ ti 

Meteor will carry three boats on the davits. A launch 

26ft. long, which is being constructed by the Gas ‘Engine 
and Power Co. and the Chas. L. Seabury Co., at Morris~ 

Heights, N. Y,; a gig 26ft. long, and a 14ft. market boat; 

f the latter two boats are being built by the Spalding 


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St. Lawrence Boat Co. at Ogdensbury, N. Y. All three 
of the boats ate of mahogany. | 

Meteor will bein command of Messrs. Ben and Dan 
Parker, the well-known English yacht skippers. Their 
crew will be made up of twenty men, taken from the 
Emperor’s racing yawl Meteor. 


Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, March 3.—Boston is to send another boat to 
compete in the trial races of the Bridgeport Y.C, to select 
a challenger for the Seawanhaka cup. This boat will be 
owned and raced by a syndicate of Boston yachtsmen. 
She will.be built by some Massachusetts man. The de- 
signer of the new candidate is W. Starling Burgess. She 
will be of the usual scow type which is employed in races 
for this cup. Her dimensions have not yet been iully 
decided upon, but it is very likely that her oyerhangs will 
not be abnormally long. Burgess is one of the youngest 
designers in the business, and it will mean much to him 
if he is successful in this latest venture: He has started 
in the business at a time when skimming dish racers are 
not so prevalent as they were ten or fifteen years ago. 
He is, however, a great student and has much valuable 
data which will help him out. Although he has not had 
a chance at the Seawanhaka cup befofe, or even the 
Quincy cup, this will not be his first venture in the line 
of turning out a “sled.” Last year he tiirned out a 15{t. 
scow with extreme overhangs, which got the best ot 
everything she went up against. He has turned out an- 
other of the same type this winter, which he expects to 
be much faster. But the conditions governing the con- 
struction of boats to compete for the Seawanhaka cup 
are so peculiar that the designing of boats which will 
prove winners is one of the hardest. yacht designing nuts 
to crack that has yet confronted the: talent. They are 
guite a little different from the usual scow boat of the 
East, and the designer has to govern himself accordingly. 
Burgess will carefully study his subject before he draws 
a line, and when he gets all the information he wants 
there is no doubt that he will turn out a fast one. ~ 

The Boston Y. C. is another of the early birds in get- 
ting ready its racing programme for the coming season, 
and this year it has a very fine one. The programme, as 
arranged so far, was announced by the regatta committee 
last week. The first event will be a club cruise. As June 
17, Bunker Hill day, falls on Tuesday, an opportunity 1s 
offered for a cruise of four days and the regatta com- 
mittee was quick to perceive its yalue. By this means 
the boats of the club, new and old, will be gathered to- 
gether sooner and the club will benefit by it. The last 
run on this cruise will be from Marblehead to Hull, on 
June 17, where the racing boats of the fleet will enter 
the Y. R. A. open races of the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. 
The establishment of a station at Marblehead is already 
proving to be valuable to the club. Since the annual 
meeting many candidates haye been proposed for mem- 
bership, most of whom are boat owners. This elub will 
show an enrollment of more Y: R. A. boats at the open- 
ing of the season than any other club in Massachusetts 
Bay. The following is the programme so far arranged 
by the regatta committee for the coming season: ; 

June 14, Saturday.—Beginning of club cruise; racing 
run, Marblehead, City Point to Marblehead. 

June 15, Sunday.—Racing run, Marblehead to Glou- 
cester. 

June 16, Monday.—Racing run, Gloucester to Marble- 
head. 

June 17, Tuesday.—Racing run, Marblehead to Hull. 

June 28, Saturday.—Y. R. A. open, City Point. 

uly 28, Monday.—Y. R. A. open, Marblehead. 

tak, 29, Tuesday—Y. R. A. open, Marblehead. 

Sept. 6, Saturday.—Club races for cups presented by 
Com. B. P. Cheney. 

At a special meeting of the Beverly Y. C., held at the 
office of Com. Geo. H. Richards, last Wednesday, it was 
voted to abolish time allowance in the regular races of 
the club, including championship races. In all other 
events the matter of time allowance is left to the discre- 
tion of the regatta committee. This action was not unex- 
pected, and, as-a matter of fact, the regular classes of the 
club have been racing without time allowance for some 
time. This is a feature which is growing stronger in 
Massachusetts Bay, and it now seems only a matter of 
time when all of the racing classes will race without time 
allowance. At the time that the Yacht Racing Associa- 
tion of Massachusetts formed the present restricted 
classes and abolished time allowance, there were many 
who objected yery strongly, but it has turned out that 
the officers of the association who drew up the rules were 
looking well ahead and had foreseen that racing boats 
up to the waterline limits of the various classes, without 
time allowance, would sooner or later be the rule. The 
Corinthian Y, C., which has been opposed to the associa- 
. tion, has been racing its classes without time allowance, 
except where handicap classes were provided; and it is 
likely. that it will continue this feature in connection with 
the Y. R. A. 25ft. and 2r1ft. classes, and the 18it. knock- 
abouts, which it has adopted. 

The work of plating is progressing at Lawley’s on the 
bronze 60-rater, designed by Gardner and Cox for Mr, 
H. F. Lippitt. The east shop is full of boats in various 
stages of construction, and the west shop will be filled 
before the season opens. 


Crosby, of Osterville, has built a 2rft. cat for Mr. 


Alfred McKessen, of Woods Hole; a 17it. cat for Dr. 
Gorham Bacon; a 23it. cat for E. W. Swett, of Boston; 
a 2tft. knockabout and a 24ft. knockabout for Mr. George 
W. Brown, of Boston. 

Howard Linnell, of Savin Hill, is building two 18it. 
knockabouts,. one for C. C. Clapp, designed by Fred 
Lawley, and the other for Goodspeed Bros., designed by 
Crowninshield. He is also at work on the Y. R. A, 21- 
footer designed by Jefferson Borden for J. E. Robinson, 
of the Savin Hill Y. C. He has built a 1oft. auxiliary 
cat for N. Silsbee, Jr., which will carry a three horse- 
power motor. He has built two 18ft. gasoline launches, 


and another will soon be set up. Repairs have been made | 
~ F, Olney; Vice-Com., Dr. 


on the yachts Marguerite and Wideawake. There are 
about 60 boats hauled out in the yard. 

Jensen, at the Cape Ann yacht yard, is to build a ar- 
footer for Mr. George R. Peare, of the Columbia Y. C., 
of Chicago. She will race in the M. R. Y. A, class that 


has been recently adopted on Lake Michigan. Jensen 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


designed this boat. He has nearly completed the Y. R. 
A. 21-footer designed by Crowninshield for Richard 
Hutchinson, of Boston. Joun B. KILveen. 


Another Race Between Shamrock II. and 
Columbia? 


_ Mr. C, VY. Post. of Battle Creek, Mich., sent the follow- 
ing letter to Sir Thomas Lipton: , 

Fifth Avenue Hotel, Madison Square, New York, Jan. 

31, 1902,—Sir Thomas Lipton, London, England. Dear 
Sir; <A feeling exists in America that the barrier which 
prevents the removal of the yacht Cup is to be found in 
the Yankee yachtsman, and not in the yacht itself, 
_ lo demonstrate the facts, 1 beg to place before you the 
following proposition: I will charter Shamrock IT, Gt 
it meets with your wishes), paying therefor $10,000, or 
such sum as is a proper charter price for the yacht in 
condition, and man her with an American crew, you to 
man Columbia with a crew from Great Britain, and dur- 
ing the coming season test the relative merits of the men 
under these changed conditions, the final details subject 
to careful consideration and approval. I will provide a 
suitable cup to be contested for, and hereafter known as 
the Yachtsman’s cup. 

With renewed assurances of the high esteem in which 
you are held by all Americans, I beg to subscribe myself, 
very respectfully, C. V. Post. 

Sir Thomas Lipton’s reply, dated Feb. 18, is as follows: 

My Dear Sir: I have to acknowledge receipt of your 
letter of the 31st. ult., conveying your offer to charter 
Shamrock II, for $10,000 during the coming season, and 
to give a presentation cup for competition by Shamrock 
II. and Columbia, Shamrock IT. to be manned by an 
American skipper and crew, and Columbia to be manned 
by a British skipper and crew provided by myself. 

In the first place, I do not know whether or not Co- 
lumbia will be in commission this season, but if so, it 
would, in my opinion, be a far better test to race Sham- 
rock IT. against Columbia with the latter vessel’s own 
skipper and crew of Americans, and if you wish to do 
this, I will not accept a charter of Shamrock II., as you so 
kindly offer, but I will let you have the use of her during 
the coming season without charge, on condition that you 
fit her out in racing trim and pay all expenses for the 
racing season. | . 

T do not wish to discourage you, but I feel certain that 
Columbia would lick you. J am yours faithfully, 

é THomas J. Lipron. 

Mr. Post has signified his willingness to send a repre- 
sentative to London to arrange the details of such a race 
as mentioned in the letters. 

Tt is doubtful if Mr. J. P. Morgan, the owner of Co- 
lumbia, would consent to the boat being raced under any 
such arrangement. Capt. Charlie Barr has already been 
engaged by Mr, August Belmont to sail Mineola next 
season, so that it is not probable that his services could 


be secured. a | |, | 


The Handling of Algonquin in the Seawanhaka 
Trial Races in 1899. 


In our last issue a statement was made to the effect 
that Algonquin, the boat representing the Bridgeport Y. C. 
at the Seawanhaka trial races at Oyster Bay, in 1899, did 
not win out on account of being poorly handled. 

Mr, Thomas H. Macdonald, the owner of the boat, has 
kindly called our attention to the fact that this was in- 
correct. We find in looking further into the matter, 
that the reason the boat did not do better was owing to 


‘her poor windward qualities, and not to poor handling. 


We are very glad to state the facts as they existed, because 
of the general impression that the boat lost on account 
of bad management. In justice to Mr. Herbert Jennings, 
her helmsman, who is rated as one of the cleverest ama- 
teurs on the Sound, it should be said that he certainly 
got the best there was out of her. 

While Algonquin was strong in reaching and running, 
she was so defictent in windward qualities that what she 
gained over Constance with started sheets she soon lost 
when hauled on the wind, 


Western Yachts. 


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Milwaukee Accepts Chicago Y, C, Invitation. 


Cuicaco, Ill., March 1.—Milwaukee Y. C. yesterday 
accepted the invitation to join Chicago Y. C. at its annual 
regatta, July 4, and it is announced that at least ten 
boats will come down from the Cream City to meet the 
Chicago fleet on the national day. This group will be 
headed by Com, Vilas’ Thistle. The invitation of Chicago 
Y. C. was accepted by the Milwaukee boys just 1m time 
to shut out the invitation of the Columbia Y. C., ex- 
tended for the same regatta date, 


Seawanhaka Cup Challenger. 


The rumor, not an unusual one, by the way, comes up 
again this year that a Western boat will appear at Bridge- 
port in the Seawanhaka trials. Jones and Laborde, of 
Oshkosh, are reported to be designing a challenger, and 
there is a deep, dark and mysterious hint_out to the 
effect that yet another boat will go from Chicago. Tn 
point of view of earlier rumors of this sort, it is safest to 
say in regard to the present one that we shall see what 
we shall see. 


Chicago Y. C. Type. 


Chicago Y. C.'is to have a boat after its own design. 
Messrs. John B, Berriman and Ed. Rosing are at work 
on a design for a 25-footer fin-keel. It is said that six 
of these boats will be built this spring. E. Houex. 


Yacht Club Notes. — 


The Rhode Island Y. C. have elected the following 
officers to serve during the ensuing year: 1. 
W. P. Church; Rear Com. 
James E. Dawson; Sec., Charles G. Easton; Treas., Jesse 
B. Sweet, Jr.; Race Committee, H. A. Grimwood, Jr., 


E. C. Law, E. A. Robinson, W, F. Boon, D. W. Reeves, 


Jr.; Committee on Admissions, Ernest L. Fuller, Gusta- 
yus Taylor, Walter R. Taft, Nathan B, Horton, Henry A. 


Com., Frank - 


American Handicap at Targets. 


Monroe, Charles E. Holmes, Samuel Whiteley, E. M. 
Clarke and Charles J. Davol, - 
, mme 
_ The annual meeting of the Excelsior Y. C. was held at 
its club house in Brooklyn on Thursday evening, Feb. 
27, and the following officers were elected: Com., Lewis 
Lawson; Vice Com., Olaf Harrison; Rear Com., Frank 
Boyvick; Treas., George W. Daniels; Finan. Sec’y, Wil- 
ham R. Murray; Record. See’y, John M. Russell; Meas., 
Richard Stapleton; Surgeon, Dr. Thomas Johnson. 
Trustees: R. Heinke, L. Lawson, E. De Vos, A. Jarroch 
and Thomas Johnson, j 
aR ER 


The annual meeting of the San Francisco Y. C. was 
held on Wednesday, Feb. 12, and the following officers 
were elected: Com., R. 8. Bridgman; Vice-Com., A. C. 
Lee; Sec., W. M. Edgell; Finan. Sec., A. G. A. Mueller; 
Treas., R. M. Welch; Port Captain, F. A. Robbins; 
Meas., A. L. Dennison. ~~ 

The club now has 130 members. 

The boat being built from Mr. B, B. Crowninshield’s 
design for the club syndicate has been completed. 


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At the annual meeting of the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C., 
of Montreal, held on Feb, 3, the following officers were 
elected: Hon. Coms., the Right Hon, Lord Strathcona 
and Mount Royal and Mr. James Ross.; Com., the Hon. ~ 
Mr. Justice Davidson; Vice-Com,, Mr. Wm. C. Finlay; 
Rear-Com., Mr. Wm. A. Angus; Hon, Sec’y, Mr. J. J. 
Riley, Jr.; Measurers, Prof. R. J. Durley, Fred L. Barlow, 
Fred P.. Sherwood, 


- Rifle Range and Gallery. 
— 


Enickerbocker Athletic Club Tournament, 


New York, Feb, 28.—A shooting tournament will be held in the 
theater of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club on Wednesday, Thurs- 
day gnd Friday, March 12, 18, and 14, from 1 until 10 o’clock, 
which will be open to all. There will bé a revolver match at a 
distance of 20yds., on the Standard American target, with a 
bullseye 2%in. in diameter; entries, unlimited, 50 cents each; 
targets of three for $1, if taken at one time. Six shots on a target: 
hye targets to count for prizes; five prizes; any revolyer with 
barel not over Sin. in length, with open sights in front of ham- 
mer, and trigger pull of not less than 244lbs, Ammunition must 
be loaded with smokeless powder and a gallery load. Contestants 


‘may furnish their own ammunition, which must be approved by 


the shooting committee of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club. 

There will also be a pistol match at the same distance under 
the same conditions, open to any .22cal. single shot pistol whose 
barrel is not over iin. in length with plain open sights in front 
of the hammer and with a trigger pull not less than 2lbs. Am- 
munition must be loaded with smokeless powder and submitted 
to the shooting committee of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club for 
approval. Revolvers and pistols, as well as ammunition, can be 
procured at the range. 

At this same meeting the Indoor Pistol and Reyolyer champion- 
ships of the United States Revolyer Association will be held 
under the rules of this Association, the distance and targets being 
the same as in the previeotts matches, 50 consecutive shots in an 
hour or less, entrance fee $5, no re-entry. First prize, the cham- 
pionship cup, to be held by the winner for one year, and a gold 
medal; second prize, a silver medal; third prize, a bronze medal. 

There will be six ranges, so that ample facilities will be afforded 
contestants, While the seats for the accommodation of spectators 
Paine. arranged in tiers will permit an unobstructed view of the 
match. : 

_This departure of the Knickerbocker Athletic. Club from the 
limits which are usually supposed to encompass athletics is by no 
means recent, a series of revolver matches haying been shot by 
its members some years ago with a feaim representing the Boston 
Athletic Association; hut this is the first time that arrangements 
have been made to conduct a shooting match on so extensive a 
scale, except when held in connection with the Sportsmen’s As- 
sociation, 

The arrangements of the shooting galleries of Paris have long 
been admired by the Americans who haye visited them, and the 
present match will afford those who are interested in this fascinat- 
ing pastime an opportunity for taking part in it under conditions 
which will be much more favorable than have yet been. offered 
in this country, A, M. LEmweErcier 
Chairman Shooting Committee, K A, C 


Grapshoating. 
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If you want your shoot to be announced hete send a 
notice like the following: ( 


Fixtures. 


March 6—Newark, N. J—Smith Brothers’ annual sportsmen’s 
live-bird handicap, on East Side shooting grounds, Ferry and 
Foundry streets. : 

March 6.—Omaha, Neb.—Contest at 100 live birds for Hazard 
trophy between €. W. Budd, holder, and Russell Klein, chal- 
lenger, at 2 P. M, 

March 8.—Fairview, N. J.—Open target shoot of the Fairview 
Gun Club. | 
eres 8.—Carlstadt, N. J.—Inyitation shoot of the Carlstadt Gun 

ub, 

March 12-13.—Junction City, Kans.—Tournament of the June- 
tion City Gun Club. 

Mareh 15,—Armonk, N. Y.—Postponed tournament of the West- 
chester County Shooting League. T,. Wayne, Sec’y. rf 
~» March 17.—Cresson, Pa-—Third annual live-bird handicap of the 
Cresson Gun Club. A, B, Earhart, Sec’y. 

March 19-21.—Indianapolis, Ind.—Annual Grand Central Handi- 
cap tournament; first two days, targets; third day, 25 live birds, 
$25 entrance. Bert A. Adams, See’y. : 

March 23.—Brooklyn, L. I.— Club shoot of Fulton Gun Club; 
cup event, handicap. 

March 31-April 5.—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds, Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 

April 8-11.—Olathe, Kan.—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament. 

April 10.—Marietta, O—One-day target tournament of the Co- 
lumbian Gun Club. (Chas, Bailey, Sec’y. ; 

April 15-17.—Asheville, N. €.—Terget tournament given by Col. 
E. P. McKissick. . F 

April 15-17.—St.. Joseph, Mo—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F. B. Cunningham, Sec’y. 

Be eek Ty che eke Mass.—Paitriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill 
un Club. 

April 22-25—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Me- 
Donald, Sec’y, . : 

April 29-30.—Greenyille, O.—Annual tournament of the Greenville 
Gun Club. H. A. MeCanghey, Sec’y, 

April 30.—Wellington, Mass.—Third annual team shoot of the 
Boston Gun Club. “Horace C. Kirkwood, Sec’y. : 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L, 1.—Interstate Association’s Grand 

Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Mana 


ger. LS 
May 1314.—Enid, Oklahoma Territory—Oklahoma Territorial 
Sportsmen’s Association tournament. 5 
May 13-16.—Oil City, Pa.—Annual meeting of the Pennsylyania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F, 5, Bates, Cor. Sec’y. 


May 14-16—Charleston, S. C.—The Interstate Association's tour- 
ament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 


._G, Jeffords, Jr., Sec’y. ee 
WS aan i ©.—Sherbrooke Gun Club’s inanimate 


target totirnament. C. H, Foss, Sec’yi - j 

May 20-22.—Ottumwa, Ia.—lowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 
‘May 20-22.—Elwood, Ind.—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 

and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind. 
May 20-22, Wheelin Fl W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 

West Virginia State Seer ations Association; added money and 


prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W- Va. 
4 May 20-23-—————_, _ ——New Jersey State Sportsmen’s As- 
sociation, 


May 21-22,—Baltimore, Md.—Maryiand county shoot for amateurs. 

May 21-23—Springfield, 5. D—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s 
Association tournament, 
May 26-31.—Lincoln, Neb.—Grand Interstate tournament; three 
ANG shooting; three days golf; three days tennis. H, C Young. 
Manager. 

May, 30.—Schenectady, N. Y.—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club. E, L. Aiken, Sec’y. 

May 30.—Ossining, N. ¥.—Holiday shoot of the Westchester 
County Trapshooters’ League. J, Curry Barlow, Sec’y, 

May 30-31.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
‘Grove Gun Club, O. E. Fouts, Sec’y. ; A 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament’ of the Ohio Trapshoofers 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. — 

June 4-6.—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the perp at Gun Club. 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N. Y.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 


me, 
une 10-11.—Sicux City, la.—Eighth annual amateur tournament 
‘of the Soo Gun Club. W. F, Duncan, Sec'y, 4 i . 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual 
tournament. 

une 17-20.—Warm Springs, Ga.—Annual Interstate tournament, 

jane 18-19.—Bellefontaine, O.—Silver Lake Gun Club’s annual 
tournament. Geo. E, Maison, Seéc'y. x. 

June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. C—The Interstate Assaciation’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club. Jas. I. John- 
son, Sec’y. As ue 
- july 1618.—Titusville, Pa.—The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club, T. L. 
Andrews, Sec’y, _ 

Aug. 6-7.—Marietta, ; 
ment, under the auspices of the Columbian Gun Club, 
Bailey, Sec’y. wee 

Aug. 13-14—Brunswick, Me—The Interstate Association's tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L. C. 
Whitmore, Sec’*y. hae a 

Aug. 27-28.—Haverhill, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Club. 5. G. 
Miller, Sec’y, Hr x, 

Sept. 3-4——Nappanee, Ind.—The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Nappanee Gun Club. B. B, Maust, 


O.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
Chas, 


ec’y. 

Sent: 24-25.—Lewistown, Il]—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Lewistown Gun Club. H. H. 
McCumber, Sec’y. 

Nepatle, N; J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
1 aitermoon. : 

Chicago, Ill.—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy shoots, first 

d third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe ‘street 

d Fiftv-secand avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. | 

First Saturday of each month for a year, Burnside.—Contest for 
the Troisdorf live-bird and target medals; 10 live birds; 25 targets; 
open to all, ‘ First contest, March 1. 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


March 13.—Interstate Park.—Target shoot of the Brooklyn Gun 
Club. J. S. Wright, Manager. er . 
Interstate Park, Queens, 1. L—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
. 1. R. R Trains direct to grounds, Completely appointed 
Yooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
ractice. Café and hotel accommodations. 


The Interstate Association Trapshooting Rules. 


Targets and Live Birds, 


DEFINITION OF TERMS. 


Broken Target.—A broken target.is one which has at least a 
visible piece or pieces broken from it, or which is completely re- 
duced to dust, or which has a visible section broken from it, even 
though such section be broken into dust by the contestant’s shot. 

Dusted TargetA dusted target is one irom which more or less 


dust is knocked by the contestant’s shot, but which shows no yis- 


ible diminution in size therefrom. A dusted target is not a broken 
target, 

Duly Notified—aA contestant is duly notified to compete when 
“his name is called out by the referee, scorer or other person author- 
ized to do so by the management. If a squad hustler is furnished, 
jt is a matter of courtesy only, and does not in the least relieve 
the contestant from responsibility. It is the duty of each and 
éyery contestant to be promptly on hand, to compete when called 
to do so. Failing therein, each contestant is responsible for his 
acts of négligence. 

Pull.—Besides. being a command to the puller, the command 
“Pull” isa declaration by the contestant that he is in the com- 
petition, and thereafter he must abide by the result. t 

Balk.i—Any occurrence, not chargeable to the contestant, which 
directly and materially interferes with him and the equity of the 
competition after he calls “Pull,” constitutes a balk, if it deters 
him from shooting or if it coincidentally interferes with him when 
he actually shoots; but if he shoots after the balk occurs, he must 
abide by the result. The referee shall alone decide on a claim of 
balk, and the claim can be made only by the party directly inter- 
ested. Misfires, a half-opened trap, etc., are considered as balks. 
A balk, when allowed, restores the contestant to a complete new 
inning, 

ipienuaithes ion -obisdneliiication carries with it a forfeiture of 
all entrance money and rights in the competition to which it 
relates. 

Jarring Back.—Jarring back is a term which denotes that from 
the concussion of the first barrel the safety has been jarred back 
to safe. The slipping back is not infrequently caused by the thumb 
of the shooter, but whatever may be the cause, the contestant 
must abide by the result. " 

Walk Around.—Walk around denotes that, after shooting, each 
contesatnt walks to the next consecutive fring point to shoot again. 
After shooting at No. 5, the contestant next shoots at No. 1. 

No Bird or No Target.—Aiter the referee declares a ‘‘no bird” 
or a “no target,’ such bird or target is thereafter no part of 
the competition, and is irrelevant to it. ; 

Widely Different Angle—When a target varies more than thirty 
degrees either way, in shooting at known angles, it may be refused 
by the contestant, but he does so subject to the decision of the 
referee as to whether it was a legal angle or not. 

Simultaneous Discharge—A simultaneoms discharge is one 
wheréin both barrels are discharged together, or nearly together, 
from any cause, » 

Dead Bird—A bird is scored as being dead if it is gathered 
legally; and legally is according to the requirements of the rules. 

Lost Bird.—A bird is lost when it escapes beyond the boundary, 
even though it be killed, 

Pivot Man.—In squads of six, the system of shooting is “‘walk 
around,” and, five men at the firing points, the man in waiting 
is the pivot man, When No. 1 shoots, the pivot man takes his 
place at No, 1 firing point, and, each contestant moving to the 
next place, No. 5, after shooting thereafter, is the pivot man. 

Inning.—The term “inning”? denotes a contestant’s time at the 
firing point, commencing with the call of ‘Pull’ and ending ac- 
cordingly, as specified in these rules, 


‘Targets, 


RULE 1—THE MANAGEMENT. 

Section 1, The management of the Interstate Association reserves 
the authority to reject any entry without giving any reason there- 
for, and to disqualify, in whole or in part, any cdntestant who 
acts ungentlemanly or disorderly, or who handles his gun dan- 
gzerously. 4 ; 

Section 2. The management or its authorized representative shall 
appoint a referee or referees, or a referee and judges, and a 
scorer or scorers, and a trap puller or trap pullers, and such other 
assistants as it may deem to be necessary, 


RULE.2,—THE REFEREE. 


Besides attending to the special duties as set forth hereinafter, 
the referee shall adjudicate’ the’ competition. He shall distinctly 
announce-the result of each shot by calling out “dead” or “broke' 


when the farget Me rater and “Tost” when the target is un- 


broken. - He shall decide all: other issues which*-arise -in relation 


to the direct competition. His decision in all cases shall be final. 


RULE. 3—THE REFEREE AND JUDGES. 

Whenever a referee and judges are appointed, the referee's sole 
duty shall be to decide any and all disagreements between the 
judges, and, pending the issue thereof and the referee's decision 
thereon, there shall be no competition. The judges shall assume 
the responsibilities and are vested with the authority set forth in 
Rule 2 concerning the referee, except that, in case of any dis- 
agreement between them, they shall forthwith submit it to the 
referee, and his decision thereon shall be final. 


RULE 4.—THE SCORER. 


The scorer shall keep an accurate record of each shot of each 
centestant, Accordingly as the referee calls “‘dead,”’ “broke” or 
“lost,” the seorer shall promptly respond with the call “dead,” 
‘broke’? or “‘lost.*’ He shall mark the figure 1 for “dead” or 
“broke,” and a0 cipher for “lost.’? The scorer’s record of the 
competition so kept shall be the official score, and it shall govern 
all] awards and records of such competition. When possible to da 
so, the scorer shall keep the scores on a blackboard, plainly placed 
in view of the edntestants. He shall announce the total of each 
comtestant’s score at its close, 


RULE 5—THE PULLER, 


Section 1, The puller shall have charge of springing the traps. 
He shall spring the trap or traps instantly in response to the con- 
testant’s call of “Pull.” 

Section 2 The puller shal] haye an unobstructed view of the 
contestants at the firing points, - / 

Section 3. When a mechanical device is used to determine which 
trap shall be sprung, the puller shall be so placed and shall so act 


that ahy contestant at the firing point cannot know in advance - 


which trap is to be sprung. - . 

Section 4. The management may appoint an assistant puller to 
take charge of the mechanical device, and to require that the traps 
be sprung accordingly as determined by it. 

Section 5. If the puller springs the traps so negligently or so 
irregularly as to impair the equity of the competition, the manage- 
ment may forthwith remove him, 


RULE 6—CONTESTANT,. 


Section 1. A contestant is prohibited from loading his gun at any 
time other than when he is at the firing point. In single target 
shooting, he shall place only one cartridge in his gun, and he 
shal] open it and remove therefrom the cartridge or empty shell 
before turning from or leaving the firing point, Should any con- 
testant willfully violate this section of this rule, or violate it after 
having been warned, the referee or the management may fine him 
from $1 to $5, or may disqualify him. 

Section 2. When at the firing point, ready for competition, the 
contestant shall give distinctly the command “Full” to the puller, 
and after giving such command, such contestant is unqualifiedly in 
the competition. 

Section 3. All claims of error must be made before or imme- 
diately after the close of a score by the contestant, or the con- 
testants, directly interested in it; otherwise amy claim of error 
shall not be considered. 4 

Section 4. A contestant may hold his gun in any position. 

Section 5, A contestant must be at the firing point within three 
minutes after having been duly notified to contest: failing therein, 
he may be fined $1 by the referee or the management, or may be 
disqualified. However, when so requested by a contestant, the 
referee may grant a reasonable delay to him. 

Section 6. Shooting on the grounds in any place other than at the 
firing points is prohibited. 


RULE 7.-CHALLENGE. 


A contestant may challenge the load of any other contestant, 
under Section 2 of Rule 9. Such challenge must be in writing, 
and signed by the challenger, and must have $6 forfeit posted 
therewith in the hands of the management. On receipt of such 
challenge, the management shall obtain a cartridge or cartridges 
from the challengee when he is at the firing point, and if, after 
public examination of the cartridge or cartridges so obtained, the 
management finds that the challengee was violating Section 2 of 
Rule 9, he may be disqualified or not, accordingly as the manage- 
ment deems the offense to have been willfully committed or other- 
wise. In case the challengee is wholly innocent of any violation 
of Section 2 of Rule 9, the $5 forfeit shall be paid to him; other- 
wise it shall be returned to the challenger. 


RULE 8—TARGETS. 


Section 1, If a contestant does not shoot in any of the instances 
herewith specified, the referee or judge shall declare a “no target,” 
but if the contestant shoots, the result shall be scored, respectively. 

(a) when the trap is sprung at a material interval of time before 
or after fhe call of “‘Pull’; 

(b) when the trap is sprung without any call of “Pull’’; 

(c) when a target which should be thrown at a known angle is 
thrown at a widely different angle; 

(d) when, in single target shooting, two targets are thrown at 
the same time; : 

(e) when, fiye known traps being used, a target is thrown from 
any trap other than the one which corresponds in number to that 
of the firing point at which stands the contestant whose turn it is 
to shoot, ’ 

Section 2. It is a “‘no target,’’ and the referee shall allow another 
target or targets (b), respectively. 

(a) when a contestant shoots out of turn; 

(b) when in double shooting both barrels of the contestant's 
gun are discharged simultaneously. 

(c), when two contestants, or when a contestant and a non- 
eontestant, shoot at the same target; 

(d) ‘when there is a misfire of the contestant’s gun or cartridge, 
A contestant who uses a gun or cartridge which has once misfired 
in the competition must abide by the results if he knowingly uses 
either in the competition thereafter; 

(e) when a broken target is thrown. It is a “no target,’ whether 
hit or missed; 

(f) when a contestant is balked, 

(g) when there is any other reason not provided for in these 
rules, if, in the opinion of the referee, it materially affects the 
equity of the competition. 

Section 3. In double-target shooting, if the contestant does not 
shoot, the referee shall allow him another pair when 6ne target 
follows the other after a material interyal of time, instead of 
taking flight simultaneously. 

Section 4. In double-target shooting, the, referee shall declare 
“no targets,” whether the contestant shoots or not, respectively, 

(a) when only one target is thrown; 

(b) when both targets are broken by one shot; 

(c) when one target is a piece or both targets are pieces 

Section 5. When, in double-target shooting, the contestant usés 
a Magazine gun, it is “no targets,’ and the referee shall allow 
another pair, respectively, i. 

(a) when, in the attempt to eject the empty shell, the head of 
it is pulled off, thereby leaving an obstruction in the chamber of 
fhe gun and preventing the reloading for the second shat; 

‘(b) when, after the first shot is fred and the gun is opened 
properly, the extractor fails to extract the empty shell, 

Section 6. When, in double-target shooting, the contestant uses 
a Magazine gun, it is not “no targets,” and the referee shall not 
allow another pair, respectively, 

(a) when, after the first shot, the empty shell, although it be 
extracted from the chamber, is not ejected from the gun, thereby 
preventing the reloading for the second shot; } 

' (b) when there is any failure to shoot, caused by a cartridge 
too thick or too long, or any failure whatsoever caused by 4 re- 
loaded cartridge. : 


RULE 9—LOST TARGET. 


Except in cases otherwise provided im these rules, the referee 
shall declare the target “‘lost,” respectively, 

(a) when a contestant fails to break the target; 

(b) when the contestant fails to fire because his gun was un- 
loaded or uncocked, or because the -safety was faultily adjusted, 
whether from his own oversight or not; or when he fails to shoat 
from any other cause chargeable to his own oversight or neglect. 


RULE 10,—BROKE. ; 


The referee or judge shall declare the target ‘broke’ or “dead” 
when it is broken in the air under the conditions prescribed by 
these rules. A dusted target is not a broken target. Shot marks 
in a “‘pick up” shall not be considered as evidence of a broken 


target. 
RULE 11—GUNS AND LOADS. 
Section 1. No contestant shall use a gun whose bore is larger 
than: a Lee wh we 
Section 2. No contestant shall use any load of Slot greater than 
one and one-quarter ounce, any standard measure, struck, 


Section 3. Any contestant who uses reloaded ammunition must 
abide by the results, See Rule 9 (b). ; ; 


‘RULE 12—TRAPS, SCREENS, FIRING POINTS. 


For the competition, the management shall provide five traps, or 
three traps Sergeant system. - Fo Pay 
Five Traps,—The five traps shall be numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, fram 
left. to right, consecutively. In competition, the traps may. be 
pulled from left to right, or from right to left, as may be deter. 
mined by the management, Each trap shall have sufficient power 
and adjustment to throw the targets not less than 40 yards, nor 
more than 60 yards, and with a flight not less than 6 feet nor more 
than 12 feet at a point 10 yards from the trap. The traps shall 
be set approximately level, equi-distant from each other, three or 
five yards apart, and placed in a Straight line. (See Diagram I.) 


PITS OR SCREENS, 


Section 1. Pits or screens shall be used to protect the trappers. 
‘Lhe screens shall not be higher than is necessary for such protee- 
tion, 

Section 2. The management shall see that the traps are properly 
set and adjusted at the beginning of the competition, and so kept 
to_the finish thereof. j 

Section 3. The firing points shall be in a straight line, parallel 
with the line of the traps. They shall be 16 yards therefrom in 
single-target shooting other than handicaps. (See Rule 20 for 
double-target shooting.) 

Firing Points.—The firing points shall be numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 
from left to right, and shall be three or fiye yards apart, accord- 
ingly as the traps are three or fiye yards apart. (See Diagram 1.) 


RULE 13.—SQUADS. 


Section 1. Contestants shall shoot in squads of 5, except in case 
of Section 2 of this rule, In 10-target events, each contestant shall 
shoot at 2 targets at each firing point, consecutively. In 15-target 
events, each contestant shall shoot at 3 targets at each firing point, 
consecutively. In 20-target events, each contestant shall shoot at 
4 targets at each firing point, consecutively. In 25-target events, 
each contestant shall shoot at 5 targets at each firing point, con- 
secutively, ; 

Section 2, In case the management deems it best for the contest- 
ants to compete in squads of 6, it shall be after the manner called 
“walk around,”’ 

RULE 14-—FLIGHTS, KNOWN TRAPS, KNOWN ANGLES. 

The flight of targets shall be: Nos. 1 and 4 shall throw right- 
quartering targets; Nos. 2 and 6 left-quartering targets; No. 3, a 
straight-away; the flights from Nos. 1 and 5 shall cross that of No. 
eciaeel point not less than ten yards nor more than twenty yards 
from No. 3; the flight of No. 2 shall cross that of No. 1 at a point 
not Jess than five yards nor more than ten yards from No. 1; the 
flight of No, 4 shall cross that of No. 5 at a point not less than 
five yards nor more than ten yards from No, 5. (See Diagram I.) 


RULE 15—KNOWN TRAPS, UNKNOWN ANGLES. 
When shooting is at unknown angles from known traps, the 
contestant shall know which trap is to be sprung, but shall not 


know the flight of the target, The management shall require the 
trappers to change the flights frequently. 


RULE 16.—UNKNOWN TRAPS, KNOWN ANGLES 
(CALLED EXPERT RULES, ONE MAN UP). 


Section 1, The contestant shall stand at No. 3 firing point. The 
traps (except the last), shall be sprung as determined by an indi- 
cator or other device. The contestant in an inning shall shoot at 
ANE targets, one from each of the five traps, always knowing his 
ast trap. 

Section 2. In case of a broken target, the trap throwing such 
arget shall be reloaded, and for it, and the remaining unsprung 
traps, the puller shall determine by the device a new combination, 
the previously sprung traps béing omitted in this new combination. 


‘RULE 17.-UNKNOWN TRAPS, UNKNOWN ANGLES. 


_When unknown traps and unknown angies are used, the competi- 
tion is conducted precisely as set forth in Rule 16, except that the 
angles are unknown. 


RULE 18.—REVERSED ORDER. 


The contestant shall shoot in squads of five. Contestant No. 1 
has a target from No.6 trap; contestant No.2 has a target from Wo. 
4 trap; contestant No. 3 has a target from No. 3 trap; contestant 
No. 4 has a target from No, 2 trap; contestant No. 6 has a target 
from No, 1 trap. Then continue as set forth in Rule-12, Section 1. 


RULE 19.—EXPERT RULE, RAPID FIRE. 


Contestants shoot in squads of six, “walk around.’ An indi- 
cator or other device shall be used to determine the order in which 
the traps shall be sprung. No. 1 shoots at a target to be thrown 
from any one of the five traps; thereafter, as determined by the 
deyice, each contestant, in turn, shoots at a target from any one 
of the traps which remain filled; thus, for No. 1 there are five 
filled; for No, 2, there are four filled, and so on to No. 5, who 
has one filled, and that one is known. The sixth man is the pivot 
man. In case of a broken target or balk, the puller will observe 
the same procedure as in Rule 16, Section 2, except that the 
angles are unknown, A 

RULE 20.—SHOOTING AT DOUBLE TARGETS. 

Section 1. In shooting at double targets it may be one man up, 
at 14 yards, or squads at 16 yards. Three traps shall be used. The 
management will use Nos. 1, 2, 3, or Nos. 2, 3, 4, or Nos. 2. 4, 6, 
of a set of five traps. The first trap shall throw a left-quarterer, the 
second trap a egesees oe the third trap a right-quarterer. 
_Section 2, The pairs shall be sprung in the following order: 
First pair from Nos. 1 and 2; second pair from Nos. 2 and 3: 
third pair from Nos, 1 and 8; fourth pair from Nos. 1 and 2: 
fifth pair from No. 2 and 3, and so on in this order to the finish 
of the event. For each pair, the traps must be pulled simultane- 
ously. (See Diagram I.) 


RULE 21.-SERGEANT SYSTEM. 

Section 1. In the Sergeant system, three traps placed 4 feet apart 
in a straight line shall be used. aoe ar ee 

Section 2. The firing points shall be in the segment of a circle 
whose radii are 16 yards, é 
Section 3. The firing points shall be 3 or 5 yards apart, between 
Nos, 1 to 5, consecutively, (See Diagram II.) 

Section 4. The flights shall be unknown angles, 

Section 5, The targets shall be from known traps. 


RULE 22—CLASS SHOOTING, 
Class shooting signifies that the contestants who tie for first, 
second, third, etc, have won the money allotted to their re. 


spective classes, They shall shoot off or divide the tie, as the 
management shall elect. 
RULE 23.—HIGH GUNS, HIGH SCORES. 

High guns or high scores signify that the contestants making 
the high scores take in the order-of superiority all the cash or 
prizes. In case of ties, the high guns are determined by shooting 
off, miss-and-out. The gun which stays the longest is first; the 
one which stays the next longest is second, and so on, until the 
lists of money division or prizes is covered. 

RULE 24.—TIES. 

The ties shall be shot off at the original distance, and at one- 
fifth the number of targets in the event to which the tie refers. 

Note.—The conditions governing the use of a magazine trap are 
precisely the same as those governing in the Sergeant system, in 
Sections 2, 3 and 4. . u 


Live Birds. 
RULE 1.—THE MANAGEMENT. 

Section 1. The management of the Interstate Association re- 
serves the authority to reject any entry without giving any reason 
therefor, and to disqualify, in whole or in part, any contestant who 
acts ungentlemanly or disorderly, or who handlés his gun dan- 
gerously. i, r 

Section 2. The management or its authorized representative shall 
appoint a referee or referees and a scorer or scorers, and a trap 
puller or trap pullers, and such other assistants as it may’ deem 
to be necessary. F 

RULE 2.—THE REFEREE. 


Besides attending to the special duties as set forth hereinaf 
the referee shall adjudicate the competition. He shall distance 
announce the result of each contestant’s shot or shots by calling 
out “dead” when the bird is gathered, according to rule, and 
“lost? when the bird escapes beyond the boundary, except as 
provided in Section 1 (d) of Rule 9, and in Section 8 of Rule 12. 
He shall decide-all other issues which may arise in relation to the 
direct competition. His decision in all cases shall be final, 


-RULE 3.—THE- SCORER. : ; 
The scorer shall keep an accurate record of the shot or shots of 


each contestant. Accordingly as the referee calls “dead” or “lost,” 
the scorer shall promptly respond with the call ‘dead’? or “lost,” 

n keeping a contestant’s score, the scorer shall use the figure 1 

to denote that one barrel was used to effect the kill; the figure 2 

to denote that two barrels were used to effect a kill, and a 0 
‘to denote that the bird was lost. The scorer’s record of the com- 
petition, so kept, shall be the official score, and it shall govern 
all awards and records of such competition, -At the close of each 
ponte ts Score, the scorer shall distinctly announce the total 
Of it: : : a a 2 : 
RULE 4—PULLER, : 

Section 1, The puller shall have charge of springing the traps. 
He shall spring a trap instantly in response to the contestant’s 
call of “Pull.?? 

Section 2. The puller shall have an unobstructed view of the con- 
testant at the firing points. 

Section 3. When a mechanical device is used to determine which 
trap shall be sprung, the puller shall be so placed and shall so act 
that any contestant who is at the firing point cannot know in 
advance which trap is to be sprung for him. 

section 4, The managemient may appoint an assistant puller to 
take charge of the mechanical device and to require that the traps 
be sprung accordingly as determined by it, 

Section 5. If the puller springs the traps so irregularly or so 
negligently as to impair the cquity of the competition, the man- 
agement may forthwith remove him. 


RULE 5.—CONTESTANT. 


Section 1, A contestant is prohibited from loading his gun -at 
any fime other than when he is ut the firing point, and he shall 
open it and remove therefrom all cartridges Gr empty shells before 
turning irom or leaving the firing point. Should any contestant 
willfully violate this section of this rule, or violate it after having 
been warned, the referee or the management may fine him from 
$1 to $5, or may disqualify him. 

Section 2. When at the firing point, ready for competition, the 
contestant shall to the puller distinctly call out “Are you ready?” 
When the puller responds, “Ready,” he thereby signifies that he 
is ready to spring the trap promptly to the contestant’s command. 
When ready for the bird, the contestant shall distinctly give the 
command, “Pull,” and ‘thereafter he is unqualifiedly in the com- 
petition, 

Section 3. A contestant may hold his gun in any position. 

Section 4. A contestant must be at the firing point within two 
Minutes after having been duly notified to compete; failing therein, 
he may be fined $1 by the referee or the management, or the 
Management may disqualify him. However, the management, if 
good cause is shown for it, may grant a reasonable delay to a 
contestant, as for instance, when his guns breaks dawn, etc. 

Section 5. After a contestant fires his first barrel, he must fire 
his second barrel immediately or leaye the firing point. 

Section 6. If a contestant has a misfire or apparent misfire, he 
shall forthwith hand his gun, unopened, to the referee for inspec- 
tion. It shall thereupon be the referee’s duty to try both triggers 


if the gun has double triggers, or the trigger if the gun has only _ 


one trigger, before opening the gun or cocking it, Should the 

cartridge which has misfired or apparently misfired be exploded 

when thus tried, the referee shall declare the bird “lost.” Tf in 

the case of a misfire or apparent misfire the contestant opens his 

gun before handing it to the referee the bird shall be declared 

pueetoty Noe Rule 9, Section 1, (0) and (p), Rule 14, Sections 
and 4. : 

Section 7, A contestant may stand back of the mark asigned to 
him at thé firing point if he chooses to do so, but the mark as- 
Signed to him shall be the official mark. 

Section 8. When firing, the contestant’s feet shall be behind the 
firing mark assigned to him, . J 

Section 9. Shooting on the grounds in any place other than at 
the firing point is strictly prohibited. ! 


RULE 6:—CHALLENGE. 


Any contestant may challenge the load of any other contestant 
under Section 2.0f Rule 14. challenge must be in writing and 
signed by the, challenger, and must have $5 forfeit postéd there- 
with in the hands of the management. On receipt of such chal- 
lenge, the management will obtain a cartridge or cartridges from 
the challengee when he is at the firing point, and if, after public 
examination of the cartridge or cartridges so obtained, the manage- 
ment finds that the challengee violated Section 2 of Rule 14, he 
may be disqualified or not, accordingly as the management deems 
the offense wilful or otherwise. In the case that the -challengee is 
wholly innocent, the forfeit aforementioned shall be paid to him; 
otherwise it shall be returned to the challenger. 


RULE 7.—DEAD BIRD. 


The referee shall declare the ‘bird “dead,” when it is gathered 
within bounds tinder the conditions enjoined by these rules. (See 
Rule 9, Section. (b) ). : 


RULE 8&—LOST BIRD, 


The referee shall declare the bird “lost” after the call of “Pull,” 
respectively, 2, : 

(a) when thesbird is once outside of the boundary, except as 
provided in Section 1 (d) of Rule 9, and in Section 8 of Rule 12: 

(b) when the bird dwells, even for the briefest moment, on the 
top of the boundary enclosure, whether it perches thereon on not; 

Re) when the contesant fails to fire because his gun was unloaded 
or tincocked, or because the safety was faultily adjusted, or because 
of any other reason chargeable to his own oversight or neglect; 

(d) when the contestant, after leaving the firing point; returns 
and shoots again at the same bird, or when, after fring one shot, 
he opens and closes his sun, and shoots again at the same bird. 


RULE 9$—NO BIRD. 


When the referee declares “no bird,” it gives the contestant 
another inning, with the use of both barrels. 
ection 1. The referee shall declare “no bird,” and shall allow 
another bird, respectively, 
(a) when, in his opinion, the bird, being on the ground and not 


having been shot at, cannot fly properly, whether it has been on 


the wing or not; 

(b) when a bird is on the ground when the contestant fires his 
first barrel, if the bird is afterward gathered within bounds. If 
a_ bird is on the wing when the first barrel is fred, and it is 
killed on the ground with the second barrel, it is a dead bird; 

(c) when the~bird walks in one yard from the traps, or when, 
after having been on the wing and still being unshot at, it alights 
between the traps and the dead line, and thereafter walks toward 
the contestant at all (see Diagram IT); 

(d) when the bird, after being shot at, escapes through any open- 
ing in the boundary, the same being permanent or not, if, in the 
opinion of the referee, it could not have escaped otherwise; 

(e) When the bird is shot at also by some one other than the 
contestant, if, in the opinion of the referee, the bird could have 
been gathered had there been no such interference, or if he con- 
siders that such interference constituted a balk: 

() when a contestant, through his own fault, shoots and kills 
from a mark which is nearer than the one assigned to him. If he 
misses, the ‘bird’is lost; : 

(g) when both barrels of the contestant’s gun are discharged 
simultaneously ;’ i 

(h) when a contestant’s gun or cartridge misfires from an imper- 
fection of either (Rule 8, c.); 

(i) when the contestant, to avoid endangering life or property, 
does not shoot; : 

(j) when seven balls haye been thrown at a bird, whether it 
has been on the wing or not; : 

(k) when the contestant is balked. Whether the interference 
constitutes a balk or not, is for the referee alone to decide. In 
case a claim of balk is allowed to a contestant, it gives him a right 
to a new inning and the use of both’ barrels; 

(1) when the trap is not sprung with reasonable promptness to 
the command “Pull,” or when the bird, not haying been on the 
wing, refuses to fly after the trap has been sprung, if in either 
instance the contestant declares “‘no bird;’’ 

(m) when the bird is caught in the trap and there held long 
enough for the contestant to cover such trap before the bird 
can take wing; 

(n) when the bird is hit by a missile; 

(o) when a contestant has a misfire with the first barrel, if -he 
does not fire the second (except as provided in Rule 14, Section 4); 

(p) when, after firing his first batrel, he has a misfiré with his 
‘second barrel if he does not kill the bird with the first barrel 
(except as provided in Rule 14, Section 4); 

(q) when he has.a misfire with both barrels. (except as pro- 
vided in Rule 14, Section 4); 

(r) when, the overground system being used, a trap or traps 
are unfilled before the contestdnt shoots, J 

(s) See Section 8 of Rule 12; 

“No birds,” in case of b, f, g, h, 1, 0, p and q, shall be paid for 
by_the contestant. : 

Section 2. In case the contestant uses a magazine gun, it is ‘‘no 
bird,” and the referee shall allow another bird, respectively, 

(a) when the head of the empty shell is pulled off in the attempt 


to eject it, thereby obstructing the chamber of the gun and pre- 
venting the reloading of it for the second shot; . 

(b) when, after the first shot is fired and the gun is opened 
properly, the extractor has failed to extract the empty shell. 

att birds,” in the case of a and b, shall be paid for by the con- 
testant. 

Section 3. In case the contestant uses a Magazine gun, it is 
not a “no bird,” and the referee shall not allow another bird, 
Tespectively, A ad ’ 

(a) when, after the first shot, the empty shell, although it be 
extracted from the chamber, is not ejected from the gun, thereby 
preyenting the reloading of it for the second shot; 

(b) when there is any failure to shoot caused by a cartridge 
which is too thick er too long, or by any other failure of any kind 
whatsoever, caused by a reloaded shell. 


RULE 10.—NO BIRD, IF REFUSED. 


If a contestant refuses to shoot under any of the following cir- 
cumstances, the referee shall declare “no bird,” and shall allow 
another bird; but if the contestant shoots, the result shall be 
scored, respectively, 

(a) when the contestant has not given the order to “Pull” and 
the trap is pulled nevertheless; 

(b) when, in single-bird shooting, two or more birds are liber- 
ated at the same time. If a contestant shoots at both birds, he 
shall be required to pay for both, and shall also be fined $1 by 
the management. The first bird shot at is the only one which can 
be scored dead or lost under these circumstances. 


RULE 11—REFUSAL TO FLY. 


Section 1. When, on the trap being properly pulled, the bird 
Tefuses to fly, the referee shall forthwith order to be exercised 
such means as are provided by the management to make such bird 
fly, A bird, hit by a ball or pushed by a flush rope, shall be gov- 
erned by Rule 9, Section 1 (mu). A contestant cannot call a “‘no 
bird”’ after the bird has been on the wing, but if he desires to 
make such bird a “no bird,” he may shoot it on the ground, in 
which case it will be governed by Section 1 (b) of Rule 9, 

Section 2, In case of possible doubt as to whether a bird has 
been “on the wing’ or not when it has flipped up, the referee shall 
declare it “on the wing” when in his opinion it was so, and shall 
promptly so inform the contestant by calling out “on the wing.’’ 


- RULE 12.—GATHERING, 


Section 1. To be scored dead, the bird must be gathered within 
two minutes after it falls to the ground or is legally killed on the 
ground, excepting as provided in Section 4 of this rule, The 
Management may appoint or may permit the contestant to appoint 
some one-to gather the bird, or a dog may be used for that pur- 
pose. The moment that the bird touches the ground, the referee 
shall order it gathered, , 

Section 2, Only one man or one dog may be used at a time to 
gather any one bird. 

Section. 3. When the gatherer does not know the whereabouts of 
the bird, the referee or some one else appointed by him may give 
the gatherer such information as may be necessary to aid him in 
respect to it, but no one, other than the referee, shall be allowed to 
accompany the gatherer. 

Section 4, When a dog is used to gather a bird and he cannot 
find it, in such case the time limit shall not apply. Such dog 
shall be called in, and after he is in control, the referee shall ap- 
point some one to gather the bird, whereupon the time limit shall 
apply. 

TE tion 5. In case of a dog pointing when gathering, the time 
lost by such act shall not count as a part of the time limit, The 
teferee may send someone to urge the dog off the point, or he 
may direct that the dog be called in, after which the referee will 
proceed under Section 4 of this rule. 

Section 6. The bird, when once within the grasp of the gatherer’s 
hand, if the gatherer be a person, or within the grasp of the 
gatherer’s mouth, if the gatherer be a dog, shall be scored as 
dead. 

Section 7. The gatherer, whether man or dog, should go 
directly to the bird without any prejudice whatever to any con- 
testant’s interests. It deyolves upon each contestant to so kill 
his birds that they can be gathered without any extraordinary 
strategy or effort. / 

Section 8. Should the dog break away or be liberated to gather 
the bird before it has touched the ground, and, while chasing the 
bird, it passes beyond the boundary, the referee may allow the 
contestant another bird, provided that the referee is of the opin- 
ion that the bird would have been gathered within the time limit 
if the dog had not interfered. 3 ‘ 

Section 9. The puller shall not spring the trap until the trapper 
and retrievers are back in their places, even though the con- 
testant calls “Pull.” 


RULE 13.—MUTILATION, 


The muftlation of birds is prohibited. Any contestant who is 
convicted of violating this rule or of conniving at its yiolation, 
shall forfeit all rights in the contest. 


RULE 144.—GUNS AND LOADS, 


Section 1. In the Grand American Handicap tournament no con- 
testant shall use a gun whose bore is larger than a 12-gauge, nor 
whose weight is over 8 pounds; nor use in any other competition 
a gun whose bore is larger than a 10-gauge. : 

Section 2, No contestant shall use any load of shot, exceeding 
144 ounces, any standard measure, struck. he 

Section 3, Any contestant who uses reloaded ammunition must 
abide by the results. (Rule 8, (c). : 

Section 4.—Any contestant who knowingly uses a gun or car- 
tridge which has once misfired in the competition must abide by 
the results. 


RULE 15—SHOOTING OUT OF TURN. 


Whenever the referee deems it necessary to do so, for the pur- 
pose of saving time, etc., he may require any contestant to com- 
pete, whether it is such contestant’s turn to compete or not. 
Shooting out of turn does not affect the competitive standing of 
any contestant. 


RULE 16.—TRAPS. 


Section 1, In all competition there shall be used five ground 
traps, placed 5 yards apart, in the segment of a circle whose radii 
are 30 yards, the center of which circle is the center of the 30- 
yard firing point. A straight line drawn through this center, and 
the center of the boundary should pass through the center of all 
the other firing points, whether more or less than 80 yards, The 
traps are designated by numbers from left to right, namely, No. 1, 
No. 2, Ne. 3, No. 4, No. 6, (See Diagram I). The management 
shall see that the traps are in working order and so kept during 


the competition, 


Section 2, When the overground system of trapping is used, the 
referee will require that each of the five traps contains a bird 
when the contestant is at the firing point, When the underground 
system is used, the trappers are required to exercise their best 
endeavor to keep the traps filled. 


RULE 17.—BOUNDARY. 


Section 1. The boundary shall be a dead line and a segment of 
a circle whose radii are 50 yards, and whose center is No, 3 trap. 
The dead line is the chord of the-circle, and its cenler is bisected 
by a line drawn from the center of No. 6 trap through the center 
of the firing points. The center of the dead line is 33 yards from 
the center of No. 3 trap. (See Diagram.) The management 
réserves the right to change the boundary when occasion requires. 

Section 2. When the boundary is marked by stakes, or anything 


.else which does not show the continuous are of the circle, the 
‘boundary shall be straight lines from stake to stake, etc., con- 


secutively, In case such boundary is used, a bird, lying on the 
line or touching it when gathered, is a dead bird. 


RULE 18.—DIVISION OF MONEYS. 
Unless otherwise provided, the moneys of the competition shall 
in the division be governed by class shooting = 
RULE 19,—TIES. 


Should there be any ties in a contest, they will be shot off as 
soon as possible after the contest is finished; under the same con- 


_ditions of handicaps, etc., excepting the number of birds, which 


will be as follows: In 10-bird events, or Jess, 3 birds; 11 to 25 
birds, inelusive, 5 birds} 26 to 50 birds, inclusive, 10 birds; 51 to 
100 birds, inclusive, 25 birds. Any contestant in any tie may be 
paid on demand his pro rata share of the money, unless the con- 
difions prescribe that all ties shall be shot off. 


“RULE 20,—UNFINISHED COMPETITION, 


In case that darkness or bad weather stops the competition, such 
competition shall be postponed to a date not later than two weeks 
thereafter. Should the contestants fail to agree on a time and 
place, the management will name the time and place to hold such 
unfinished competition, Any contestant who fails to appear in any 
contest at the time and place set for it, loses by default and for- 
feits all his rights therein. 


RULE 21.—PROTESTS. : 


All protests or claims of any nature whatsoever, concerning the 
competition of a competitor, must be made before the next com- 
petitor shoots, The referee’s decision is final. 4 


RULE 22—CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS. 


The management reserves the right fo make any alterations and 
amendments to these rules whenever it deems it for the best ins 
terests of all concerned ta do so. : F 


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Powder Makers and Pigeon Guns. 


_. UnpeR the above caption, the following is presented in the prac- - 
eee “Experts on Guns and Shooting,” by G. T. Teasdale 
uckell; ; i 
There has of late arisen a curious competition between gun pow: | 
der makers for the patronage of pigeon shots, under the false im- | 
Pression, a5 it seems to us, that what pigeon shooters use to-day ‘ 
game shooters will use to-morrow. We have discussed this ques- 
tien latterly with various powder makers, and with gun makers | 
who supply pigeon shooters with their guns and cartridges, and we 
have heard the opinions of the competitors themselves, and we | 
Propose to set forth the yiews of all three classes as clearly as we | 
are able. First of all, the powder and gun makers are very well 
aware that the supplying of pigeon shooters themselves is tao i 
insignificant a business to cultivate; but some of them believe that 
game shooters follow as a guide to themselyes what the pigeon 
shooters do, and that, therefore, the advertisement is worth having — 
when their powder wins prizes, We grant that there was a time | 
when this was the case, but that was twenty to twenty-five years 
ago, and before powder makers hit upon the idea of “running” 
pigeon shooters as their adyertisement. This they practically do — 
now; it is done in various ways, but the most fayored just now is 
the doubling of the prizes by certain powder makers when ‘they 
happen to be won by the use throughout the contest of the particu- | 
lar powder made by these manufacturers, In the first place, this 
liberality is jumped at by some of the shooters, some of whom are | 
heard to confess that there must be something wrong with the 
pte if such advertisement is wanted by the mantfacturers of it. 
he obvious reply to that would be that, if the pigeon shooters 
really thought there was anything wrong in the powder they would 
be the last to use a bad article when shooting for prizes. That, 
however, is of the character of the all too obvious—too apparent not 
to have a weak place in it. No two powders made differ so much 
as to double or halve the chances of the shooters; yet some of the 
powder makers double the former’s chances for them by the simple 
process of doubling the prize money when a particular powder is 
used, As the above remarks were written in May, 1898, there may 
have been a change for the better since. j 

But it is obvious that the worst powder in the market could soon _ 
obtain the best advertisement on such lines as these, because, as 
most of the events are handicaps, the worse the powder-2a man 
habitually shoots with, the nearer he will be put to the traps, and ~ 
whether he shoots at 24yds, or seyds,, he claims the double prize 
on the assumption that he has influenced the public judgment by 
shooting with a particular gun powder. We have an opinion that 
the powder maker-is making a mistake in that he does not credit 
shooting men with common intelligence, and he is misinformed in 
thinking that the average game shooter is a big fool, 

For our part, we thought it wise to drop reports in Land and 
Water of pigeon shooting at Iurlingham, and the Gun Club years 
ago, when most men fitst discoyered that they preferred not to 
shoot in their own names. [We are pleased ta see that assumed 
names are now gradually dropping out again.}] Of course, we make 
exception of the international week, which has always attracted a 
large number of shooters who are careless, who know what they 
do, If anything connected with pigeon shooting would Point to. 
the makers 6f the best guns and the best powders, the jnternational 
week would do it, provided gun makers and powder makers would 
leave shooters alone to choose the guns and powders, they prefer. 
As a matter of fact, this is not done, and if a man is a Particu- 
larly good shot he will probably obtain’ both his cartridges 
and his guns for nothing, and pay the gun maker and powder 
maker with no thanks and less money for providing them. Jf there 
are game shots who do not know all this, we think that the time 
has arrived when they should do so, for it appears to us that a 
sport has gone yery far indeed in the wrong direction when most 
of the best horses are nobbled and the rest are not worth getting 
at. There is clearly nothing dishonest in the nobbled, nor in the 
nobblers; nevertheless, it hardly accords with British ideas of 
sport when men willingly handicap themselves in order to double 
their winnings. It savors slightly of professionalism. It is quite 
as unsportsmanlike as pulling a horse, and the only difference, as 
it seems to us, is that it is not dishonest, We cannot understand 
why it has been countenanced at the clubs, for assuredly their 
members can do without these doubled prizes. 

To the game shooter the records of pigeon shooting as now car- 
tied on, can be of no possible value unless he can tell what passes 
behind the scenes. If he happen to be a crack pigeon shooter 
himself, he may have discovered that all the possible Winnings are 
nat publicly advertised, and when once this is discovered, he will 
pay very little attention to the records and the prizes won as to 
what powder or cartridges or guns are used, and will not settle 
his own practice in imitation of pigeon shooters, 

Another thing he should know is that the very men who shoot 
with a particular powder at pigeons frequently use something else 
at game. 

We never thought that it was much of an advertisement for 
either gun or powder makers when the winners had a six or eight 
yards’ allowance, as frequently happens in the handicap shooting, 
and when, in addition to shooting at distance at which it is ho 
credit to kill, the competitors are bribed to use a particular kind of 
powder that they would not otherwise use, it only has to be pub- 
licly known to be regarded as a very costly method of advertising 
a bad or modérate performance. 

We do not wish our remarks to be applied to pigeon shooting 
in the past, for it is only very lately that the objectionable practice 
of converting Hurlingham and the Gun Club into a powder makers’ 
advertisement has grown up, and we would suggest to those con- 
cerned that unless they wish to kill the credit of pigeon’ shooting 
altogether and “blow upon” their productions, it would be wise 
to allow all the competitors to revert to their own normal state of 
free choice, 

Be that as it may, we are sure that the present system cannot go 
on for very long. First of all, pigeon shuoting, in the partial ab- 
sence of shooters’ names, is of no interest whatever to the public, 
except as a competition between gun makers and powder makers, 
and we would ask whether, when the results are, like Dickon, of 
Jockey of Norfolk fame, both bought and sold, by doubling prizes, 
the press can long go on publishing the records. It is, in fact, 
the press that is the worst evildoer in the matter, Without it the 
abuse would not exist, for the advertisement would not be worth 
paying for without it was reported. The records of pigeon shoot 
ing have by process of time become a mechanical record, without 
any attempt at real explanation or analysis. If they were accom- 
panied by the information as to the reasons, well known upon the 
ground, for using the powders and the guns of makers, we should 
have nothing to say, but at the present moment they are abso- 
lutely misleading as free advertisement, and as records of sport 
they do not exist; that is, some of the competitors take the great- 
est care that their names shall not appear in print. How the 
capital sportsmen who manage these things can have allowed such 
practices to grow up in the fashionable clubs we cannot say; but 
can only assume that the growth has been too slow and’ too grad- 
ual to startle them into observing to what it tends. As these com- 
petitions take place at private clubs, it would be easy to stop all 
publication of the results, That would be far preferable to the use 
of assumed names. The tise of the latter, coupled with the culti- 
vation of reporting in the press, is at first sight inexplicab e, but 
as a good many members ate interested in the gun trade—and 
some are, we believe, proprietors of gun busfmesses—it becomes 
easier to understand why publicity should be cultivated for the 
guns and the powders used, and why the personal element should 
observe that modesty that is only eqtaled and rarely exceeded by 
the alias-lovers generally, , 

We have nothing whatever to say against pigeon shooting as 
such, and against pigeon shooting as it is carried on we could not 
say half as much as some shooters themsclyes say when they shoot 
under assumed names. If anybody should know whether it is. 
worthy to associate their names with, it is they themselves, In 
making this observation we do not for a momient hint at anything 
that we have not said. The worst charge that can be brought 
against it is that it is professional, or at the very least that it is 
conducted on the principle of the makers’ amateur by many of 
the shooters. We haye nothing-to say against the maker; nothing 
again the makers’ amateur; but we have a good deal to say about 
publishing the records as guides to Fei without observing 
as to how they are got, when it is well kiOwn on the ground that 
men do not shoot with that which they like best, but with that 
which it pays best to use, 

. [vo ax commmrvan.) 


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DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to. send their scores for pub- 
lication in these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company,.346 Broad- 
way, New York. 


The programme of the fifth annual Grand Central handicap 
tournament of the Limited Gun Club, Indianapolis, Ind., to be 
‘held March 19 to-21, inclusive, may be obtained on application to 
the secretary, Mr. Bert B. Adams, The competition is open to all. 
The* programme is alike for each of the first two days, namely, 
fourteen events at 15 targets, $1.50 entrance, in each event. n 
the third day the fifth Grand Central handicap will take place, 
Conditions, 25 pigeons, $25 entrance, birds included. The pro- 
gramme ftrther contains the following rules and conditions: 
Target shooting will begin at 9:30 A. M, Ten-gauge guns and 
black powder barred, All stand at l6yds. Magautrap rules. 
Targets, 2 cents, Purses divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Live 
bird purses diyided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Distance handicap, 
96 to 32yds. Entries will close with the firing of the first gun of 
the second round, unless unanimously extended. Handicapping 
committee for grand event: Messrs, Geo, C. Black, Indianapolis; 
Thomas A, Marshall, Keithsburg, Il.; Emil Werk, Cincinuati, 
Ohio. Goods shipped to the secretary will be delivered to the 
grounds, free, » 


The Brooklyn Gun Club will hold at Interstate Park, March 13, 
an all-day target shoot. Sweepstakes commence at 10 A. M. 


Events to suit the shooters both before and after the main event, | 


which will be at 100 targets, handicap by distance, the handicaps 
being awatded by a committee composed as follows: Messrs. B. 
Waters, W. R. Hobart and M. Herrington. Conditions: 100 tar- 
gets, unknown angles, Sergeant system, entrance $4, including 
price of targets at 2 cents each, High guns, according to number 
of entries. One money for every three entries. Added money 
as follows: To manufacturer’s agent making highest score, $9; 
second highest score, $3, To amateur making highest score, $5; 
second highest score, $3; third highest score, $1,50. Two sets of 
traps. All moneys, except in handicap event, will be divided 
Rose system. Main eyent starts promptly at 1 P. M. John §, 
Wright is manager. i. 


The World, one of the most immoderate of organs in its oppo- 
sition to the interests of trapshooters, recently published the fol- 
Jowing: “Bound Brook, N. J., Feb. 28.—Twelve of the crack live- 
bird shots of New York paid a visit to the Bound Brook Gun Club 
yesterday and participated in a live-bird shoot for a $50 gun, It 
was impossible to learn all of their names, but \two were identified, 
they having shot here before, Capt. Money and Jack Fanning. It 
is understood the men visited Bound Brook with the intention of 
looking around for ground, as the bill forbidding pigeon shooting 
in New York has just become a law.” First of all, it is a fair 
inference that the shoot was their own affair; that furnishing 
their names to every wild-eyed sensationalist was not necessarily 
a duty, and that a visit to one State by the citizens of another is 
not an “inyasion.” » 


On Wednesday of last week Goy. Odell signed the pigeon hill, 
repealing the special law which legalizes the shooting of pigeons 
at the traps in the State of New York. It will be Chapter 61 of 
this year’s laws. The sportsmen take the prohibition quite 
philosophically, and will recognize and obey the laws, as good 
citizens should. ‘There is yet an open question whether or not 
pigeon shooting at the traps is cruel, as there is no law specifically 
prohibiting it. There is now only the general Jaw concerning 
cruelty, In several of the States, under a similar law, it was 
judicially held that pigeon shooting was not cruel, but in this 
State it was held, so far’as it was carried judicially, that it was 
cruel, though we think it neyer was carried to the higher courts. 


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Mr. Harold Money, who has been in St. Louis, Mo., during the 
Past year or more, filling an engagement with the Western Car- 
tridge Company, arrived in New York on Saturday of last week, 
He was in fine health and spirits. He has accepted a position with 
the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, and will travel for that 
great house as a representative in the Middle West. He will 
shoot a Winchester repeating shotgun, and as Mr. Money was 
acknowledged to be in the first flight of skillful shots, either at 
targets or live. birds, he is a valuable aquisition to the strong 
talent already with the W. R. A. 


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Mr, Bert B. Adams, secretary-treasuter of the Limited Gun 
Club, of Indianapolis, Ind., writes us as follows: “By the amouut 
of correspondence received, we feel safe in saying that our shoot, 
March 19, 20 and 21 will be the second largest of the year, as of 
course, the Grand American will be the main event. We know 
of quite a number of Eastern shooters who will stop over here and 
take advantage of our special railroad rates from Indianapolis to 
Kansas City and return.” ® 


In the first contest for the two Troisdorf gold medals, one for 
live-bird, the other for target competition, at Watson’s Park, 
Chicago, on March i, Dr. Miller scored the first win on the live- 
bird medal with a straight score of 10 and 8 more in the tie. The 
first win on the target medal was scored by Dr. Carson. Condi- 
tions, 10 birds for the live-bird medal, and 25 targets for the tar- 
get medal, on the first Saturday of each month; open to all. Five 
shoots necessaty to qualify. 


"Mr. P, Sullivan announces a live-bird shoot to take place at 
Guttenburg Race Track, N. J., on March 11, commencing at 10 
o’elock, There will be events as follows: One at 7 birds, $5, 
high guns. Main event commences at 1 o’clock; 20 birds, $10, 
birds included, class shooting, four moneys, handicaps 25 to 88yds. 
The race track can be reaehed by trofley from Jersey City. 
Restaurant on grounds. » 


The Columbian Gun Club, of Marietta, O., announces a target 
tournament to take place on April 10. There are fourteen events 


on the programme, two of which are at 10 targets, each of the 


remainder at 15, entrance based on 10 cents per target. Four 
moneys in 15, three in 10 target events; 40, 30, 20 and 10, and 50, 
20 and 20 per cent. Shooting commences at 9 o’clock. Magautrap 
and bluerocks. Chas, Bailey is the secretary. 


Smith Brothers announce their annual sportsmen’s_live-bird 
handicap, March 6, commencing at 10 o’clock, on the East Side 
shooting grounds, Ferry and Foundry streets, Newark, N. J. 
There are three events on the programme. No. 1, a miss-and-out, 
$2 entrance; No. 2, 25 live birds, $5 entrance. Birds extra at 25 
cents. Four moneys, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent.; class shooting. 


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The Fulton Gun Club of Brooklyn, L, I., owing to the over- 
whelming storm of Feb. 22, postponed its cup shoot to March 23. 
This is to be an event of exceptional interest, and the friends of 
the club are expected to turn out to make the meeting of special 
interest, and to have an enjoyable day. Sweepstake and other 
events will be also on the programme. 


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The New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association held a meeting 
recently. The matter of a tournament was considered. Messrs. 
R. A. Ellis, of Freehold; H. H. Stevens, of New Brunswick, and 
Geo. Smith, of Newark, were appointed a committee on grounds, 
and were requested to report as soon as possible. 


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Mr. R. A. Welch, of ;New York, the famotis trapshooter, has 
been spending several. weeks: duck shooting on the Texas coast. 
He returned to New York last week, and reported an enjoyable 
and successful outing. * 


Messrs. Schoyerling, Daly & Gales, 302 Broadway, New York, 
inform us that the Grand Prix of Monte Carlo this year was won 
with Walsrode powder, ul 


At Gorgas Station, Pa., on March 1, the postponed shoot of the 
Mighland Gun Club took place: The main event was a six-man . 
team race. Six teams were entered, of which the Highland Club 
had three. Each man shot at 25 targets, Frankford won with-a 
score of 125. The other teams and scores were: Highland Nos. 
i, 2 and 3, respectively, 128, 114 and 110; Norristown 121, 5, 5S. 
White team 96, : 


A match for the championship of New Jersey, the E. C, cup 
being the prize thereof, has been arranged to take place in the 
near future between Capt. A. W. Money, holder, and Mr. H. H. 
Stevens, of New Brunswick, The contest will take place at Jack- 
son Park, Paterson. 


At Oradell, N. J., on March 1 a team shoot took place between 
renowned trapshooters, Capt. A, Money and Mr, Frank N, 
Butler against Mrs. Frank Butler (Annie Oakley) and Mr. A. H, 
Hoffman, The latter team won by a score of 43 to 41. All stood 
at 30yds, x 


Mr. J. A. R. Elliott, who has been tarrying in New York for 
some weeks past, journeys to Hot Springs, Ark., where he con- 
templates shooting the postponed match with Mr, R. O, Heikes 
for the Review cup. The match will take place on March 15 or 22, 


od 
The postponed shoot of the Westchester County League will be 
held at Armonk, N. Y., on March 15, Mr.’ H. T. Wayne is the 
secretary, Shooting commences at 10 o’clock. Loaded shells and 
dinner can be obtained on the grounds, 


Keep in mind that entries to the Grand American Handicap at 
Live Birds close on March 22, Blank forms, which are essential 
m making entries, are obtainable of the secretary, Mr. Edward 
Banks, 318 Broadway, New York. 


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In our trap columns this week we publish the revised rules of 
the Interstate Association. The diagrams, being well known, are 
omitted, but the references to them are a part of the rules, and 
therefore are published, ® 


The Sherbrooke Gun Club’s annual tournament will be held on 
May 18, at inanimate targets. Programmes will be ready in due 
time, » 


The Boston Gun Club's tournament will take place April 30, on 
the club grounds at Wellington, Mass. 
BERNARD WATERS, 


Schenectady Gun Club, 


'ScuenectApy, N. Y., March 1.—A strong southeast wind blew 
toward the back of the shooters, keeping the targets low, but 
otherwise a bright sunny day, were the weather conditions. In the 
three last races Mr. De Land took the place of Mr. Hull, and in 
the third race Mr, Doremus was separated from Valentine, which 
kept up the excitement, and the final shots of the second and third 
races where there was but one target difference were intensely 
interesting. The feature of the day was the 58 straight of Mr. 
Doremus, whose faith in L, & R, “Infallible” was doubly clinched. 

Team race, first match: 7 


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SESS! ey horse Bobet aod Had bisa 1091091.11111011117111—23 
Wallburg ......... Ages. eeoes LLOOTIILOIIONIIINI 1 — 21 
(GTITTOS Pe wielacecometevre sre sine ee sleidc 0111111000111100111111010 17 
Gans Pasecemeecte watomagay theo sha 1110001111111001110101101—17— 97 
Team race, second match: 
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TRS, She etc Conciente 141.0111111110111111111101—22 
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Coons -10110191.11100100111011101—17—110 
Green .... -1110011111111111011111111—22, 
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Grimes ..-..+ « -100111110111101111011171—_ 20 
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Team race, third match: 
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Jackson ...... lndadtradetdadeteaadacae 1410110011991 —22, 
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Team race, fourth match: 
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(Teenie soasaee eaatsta pitas SEA Sea 1110111111101 24 
Wacksormeniesescns Musee a kes treet r ates 1011411011010111000010111—16 
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COE. ARR AR Ee aneenidghotanead ae 014100111001111110111010 17102 
Doremus ....... Sad Reset ue Pee 110119111011971111110111_ 22 
Sanders ...... AO aH an chests ters 19111111110199110111111111_28 
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V. WaLipureG, Capt. 


Chesapeake Gun Club, © 


Newport News, Va., March 1.—The Chesapeake Gun Club 
took advantage of the splendid weather to-day and held the first 
shoot of the spring season at the Riverview grounds. A number 
of the enthusiasts of the game were out and some very good shoot- 
ing was done. 2 

Considering the fact that this was the first opportunity that 
some of the members had had for several months to shoot, their 
scores are exceptionally good. Hardly any of the men were in 
practice, but should thé weather continue as it was yesterday, it 
will not be long before they are back in form. 

Mr. Fred Palmer was out and took part in several of the events, 
and considering that it was the first time that he had ever shot 
over traps, he made an excellent score. The following are the 
scores, all matches being at 25 targets: 


Events: 1m 3 4 5 Events: abe 6) eh 
T F Stearnes..... 22 22 22 283 24 F Palmer ,....,... 15 20 20 20 14 
Dr J Charles...... 19 17 20 22 21 G B James..-..:... A eae Ss 
B B Semmes...... AS19220 20.18 MO Bargamine.. isis 20) ss 42 2) ce 
E S Robinson..... MBAR Ss saecta UY IUpra verry pho Ce v} ia Ss 


Although nothing has been done as yet about the erection of a 
club house by the club, the project is not dead by a great deal. 
It seems that the matter has been allowed to drag, through the 
fault of no one in particular, but every one in general. 

One of the most interested and enthusiastic members of the club 
stated yesterday that the club house will certainly be built and the 
grounds fixed up, as was announced some time ago, Now that the 
weather seems to have opened up for the shooters, the interest is 
expected to revive, and little trouble is anticipated in getting the 
members to attend meetings, 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


Secretary H. W. Kooxer, of the Kansas State Sportsmen’s 
Association, calls attention to the fact that the Rochester medal, 
recently shot for in that State, is an independent trophy, and not 
the original State championship badge. The latter, he says, is 
wholly under the control of the State Association, and is up for 
competition annually at the regular tournament of the Associa- 
tion. The Rochester trophy is also called a State championship 
medal, and signifies perhaps just as much, but is nevertheless 
wholly independent of the established State medal. 

At the tournament of the Salina, Kans., Gun Club on Feb. 26, 
the Rochester medal was under challenge between H.-E. Cawley, 
holder, and Mac Stevenson, of Salina, challenger, Cawley shot a 
great race, and easily defended the medal, scoring 47 kills out of 50 
shots, to his opponent's 42. Twenty well-known Western shots 
attended the open tournament incidental to the above race. The 
programme carried 165 targets, and Ed O’Erien, of Florence, won 


first average, with 155 kills. 
place for the day with 153. J 

At the contest for the Arkansas State championship at live 
birds, held at Little Rock, on Feb, 26, John J. Sumpter, of Hot 
Springs, carried off the honor. Twenty shooters competed, and 
Sumpter and C, E. De Long tied for the top score with 21. In 
the shoot-off, De Long missed his eighth bird, giving the race 
and the trophy to Sumpter. Immediately upon the announcement 
of the result, De Long challenged the winner for a contest for 
zie DIDS and the match will be held at an early date at Hot 

prings, 

The members of the Lewistown, Ill,, Gun Club are much 
elated over haying secured a tournament under the management 
of the Interstate Association. This is one of the most flourishing 
shooting clubs in the State, and the boys are already making ar- 
rangements fot their big meet in September, , 

The ice went out of the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers 
last week, and the spring flight of wildfowl to the north has fairly 
begun, Some good shooting is already reported. 

The regular contests for the Dupont trophy and Rawlings medal 
were held at Dupont Park, St. Louis, Mo., March 2 

FP, C. Ries. 


ON LONG ISLAND. 


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Crescent Athletic Club, 


_ Bay Ridge, L, I., March 1.—There were three distinguished vis- 
itors at the Crescent Club’s shoot to-day, namely, Messrs. H, D. 
Iirkover, J. S. Fanning and J. T. Skelley. A part of the daily 
press referred to Mr, Kirkover as a professional, which is a. mis- 
take, as he is an amateur, and a high-class one also. The scores: 
March cup, 50 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added: 


Dave Elliott, of Kansas, got second 


. = SBirst2b) © Second 25, Grand 

‘ . Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdcp. Brk. Total. Total. 
L € HMopkins........ preteens 66 «68 24 Grd" R25 49 
We WeiMarshall Sch eecrece Go 2-205 25 5 18 28 48 
H L O’Brien..... oO en bite bo ig 24 5 9 2H 48 
TOW Stakes ey ee fiapk a Be ce Fi yal 46 
F B Stephenson..... Serer eZ ie e tho BaP Bu 46 
A EB Corlies Patani cures ee 6 Ds 24 lie lig Yat 45 
JS) Fanning... 00... OR 225 a2 09 2a anes 45 
At ‘Kirkover ,......... Mende OF FOR 025 QF “Zs. 23 45 
WP WANSEGC yer atitescetiaces0 “246 D4) OR 2202 20) 44 
 OALGeorg elses peer 2h 199 sot 2-20; 2) 43 
T_T Reyes.vyennewceesceeee: ~2 2 22 a Oe aa 43 
G G Stephenson, Jr........ Te 15-9 20: i 20 22 42 
@ ArySykest weaeeet 4° 9, 123 4 15 19 42 
F T Bedford, Jr. sR (Re VIS a 2 38 4g 
W J McConvyill.. toe oy 202 cane Epes 40 
H M Brigham.... Det 18h Ss: Gy 20. 20 38 
H B Vanderveer........... Boe & 22 15 35 


Brigham trophy, 50 targets, expert traps, all scratch; 
Ist 25, 2d 25. Total. Ist 25. 2d 25. Total. 
ude cect aly) 


Brigham ....,,...25 238 48 Stake 36 
Fanning .. 2.24 23 47 Sykes calf 17 «684 
Skelley .... 4 #23 AT Bedford 1S) 15. 33 
F Stephenson....24 22 46 Cored te aslbe | ATe) Bae 
Karkover Sanger ee abs 46 McConvill .....-.16 15 31 
G Stephenson, Jr.20 21 41 Vanderveer ,.....13 14 27 
George .evvecews Bey Al 20 41 Chapa ecstes sO) elven aT 
Keyes <i2.cce100020 19 39 

sgoeolanon cup, 25 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances 
added: : 

Hdep, Brk. Total, Hdep. Bri, ; 

WEEN! nee bie 2a 25 O2Beien ea kintes ef 12 Rat 
Stake! 222th nnee 6 2a) 25 Blakes e255, 5) ++ +10 6 16 
Sykesu sei taseteses 4 15 60-19 Gearve vy sce Soe ell 18 

Ties shot off, same conditions: 
MarsHaMee sais oen GOOF 25 Staketceceses ova SAGE ie 4) 


G, Stephenson, Jr.’s, trophy, 10 pairs, expert traps, handicap al- 
lowances added: F 
ANGINE Sys sce ee 16 6.16 Skelley ..,....-.. (iy ake 
BLS MAnI es yee ale Si ap Sis ever. Lonnele eases sa 9 G 
ne piepbenren +22 in 2 pease L bee sic 3 ee” 
akel vtecnesete Santee 
Bediord) -evseeetoe tle | 4 aie g a 
pee shot off, Sane conditions: 
Licht erees 15 15 F Steph Sev 
eStake sce ueacsaseD tT 2 Piet oe ee 
F. B. Stephenson , 10 pai x i w= 
ances yaar cup Pairs, expert traps, handicap allow. 
cConvill ..... fs PIS LT. Hopkins ......... 5 7 
Hanmine atessese Ol LT TF yes Son eeneyee 3 = i 
G Stephenson, Jr1 4 15 Chapman ,...c.c... 5 7 12 
KATKOVET besee han Wat ah Marshall .....+-.. 3 7 10 
COLE GRE sass tecce ee ee eed Corliés) fivvawests 4 6 10 
Bedford .....:... Ss 10 413 Skelléy, .2)020..,- 0 10 10 
Brigham ..... pele aR: 3°  Wanderveer ...... 4 3 7 


eee Bence an - SO eS sea Se de 21Sa 320) 
Marchal Che 98 25 a ai ae 
Palmer 22.6.5. 2 16 # £18—43 


Brooklyn Gun Club, 


Brooklyn, N. Y., March 1—There was a good attendance of 
shooters and keen competition at the shoot of the Brooklyn Gun 
Club to-day, The light was poor. There was a mild wind, and the 
targets were thrown fast. The scores, therefore, were vety credit- 


The peeae 3 and 9 were. at 10 pairs; the rest at single targets. 
vents: 1234567 8 91011122 
Targets: 10 15 20 25 15 20 15 15 20 10 25 15 
Capt Borland hunters eA ee sae He LOR Opel (ae Tadic 1a ee ey clr 
IMeérshalll mien ee cs area oe SES 4b 1G ae See ela 
uudley Sage oes oe 914 15 2113191515 .. .. .. .> 
Godse Mn oon aL een eich alee eee Ln 61113 .. 1217101211 ., 15 9 
LOM CTES Petra slect sty nretore she hr te nee gh kee 1015 20 2215 19 1414... 8.... 
Wright . pores ole a ai tae Me ens Le 
Wictlasw teeta Poop te th Micon en” 10 13 18 24 15 19 15 12 18 8 2. 
Peo iaas Bale sient tee $13 18 21 121715141410... .. 
AULA "slbigstcl Acinete ihe cie stance eee aie Neen ee Te avian » 1011 
Selneider wy acc ie th RePPL eae cs 1213 6 11 12 
Highchicock: weassoten sense. NN £ yiiek ee 143.... 1. 937 
WEWTOTHE Sita F ase tan as tr) A acuine. Mi Bit oad 618... .. x 
COLA, By eee Case Ela CG ne oe ee SUSES Le Pipes 
Wits Thanh iemiced s acare ees Hae ee Wk ICEL I SA ae ole 
Tae 0 eenguntanpocesopebt ns tise, ao qe sas pple ol wu ROIS DRS e aaee 
OStenhomtimn: crecaee ners eh nee Sf sg eee g 10 
Oceanic Rod and Gun Club. 
‘Rockaway Park, L. I., March 93,—The scores made at the 


Oceanic Club’s shoot to-day were made in a high wind: 


Events: 20) ete Daa, Events: 123 4 

Targets: 25°25 25 25 25 25 95 Targets: 28 25 25 25 2 a 4 
Mathewson.. 241919 19 18 2217 Keim ....... Naso Kise 8) a PN 
Jones hae 18 2 1 1219 a Barber ...... ...... 12... 910 

aters <....- f 118... B Lae 
Diffley~...... Wii.) pluke cides peas 


IN NEW JERSEY 


Match at Oradell. 


Oradell, N. J., March 1—A team match betwe 
Money and Mr, Frank Butler on the one side, ne x 
Hoffman and Mrs, Frank Butler (Annie Oakley). on the other 
was shot here to-day. The former team scored 41 to 43 losing 
by two birds. All stood at 30yds. The scores: ® 


Capt Meee 3 3979999 ee (1222111212110221224120*29 91 
LET Utube PRR OR Bheaha weet be eee 12011*12212122*1120021192 —20—41 
WE crlottiiati.., deupeehekees s anne 102221112*222119221 21912993 


Hudson Gun Club. 


Jetsey City, N. J-—The shoot of the Hudson Gun Club, held 
on Feb.' 23, at Jersey City, was as follows, . Th i ie 
and the snow deep. The scores: pee NE Ie 


Events: 1234567 Eyent 
Van Dyne... 1012 7 71446., Banta EA 10 Bi 2 1" = ¥ 
Wild s.r 8 4417 Gare Fee sisessooy 6 2 BIL 812 4% 


200 


WESTERN TRAPS. 


The Ttroisdort Medal, 


Gutcaco, Ill, March 1.—To-day at Watson’s Park there will be 
held the first of the series of contests for the Troisdori medals, 
which haye been offered to the shooters of Chicago by the firm. 
There are two of these medals or badges; one for the target and 
one for the live-bird contest, each of gold, about the size of a 
fifty-cent piece, and suitably engraved, The conditions are that 
the shooting shall be at Watson’s the first Saturday of each month 
for a year, at the end of which time all who have won either 
trophy one or more times shall shoot at 25 live birds and 50 targets for 
final possession of one of the trophies, no one shooter to be allowed 
to hold both. The contests are at 10 live birds and at 25 targets, 
handicap for distance in live birds; and for the Troisdorf trophy 
the contest to be one man up, three unknown traps, unknown 
angles. John Watson does the handicapping. There is no re- 
striction as to the kind of powder to be used. The man winning 
either trophy at a monthly shoot will be given a number of Trois- 
dorf shells. It is to be determined yet how freely the Chicago 
boys will turn out for winter medal shoots, but we certainly need 
something to, stir up the interest here. The conditions of this 
series ate liberal enough, excepting perhaps that the man who wins 
once in the twelve shoots has just as good a chance in the finals 
as one who has won out perhaps four or five. times. 


The Handicap. 


Nearly all the traveling men who have been here this week 
report prospects of big crowds from all sections for the Handicap. 
Letters from Tom Divine, of Memphis; Oscar Guessaz, of San 
Antonio, and other well-known Southern sportsmen, indicate that 
the South will be especially well represented. 

E. Hove. 


Hartrorp Buirpinec, Chicago, Ill. 


Garfield Gun Club. 


Chicago, Ill., March 1.—The appended scores were made on our 
grounds to-day, on the occasion of the fourth trophy shoot of the 
second series. A, D. Dorman earried off the honors of the day 
and incidentally Class A medal_on a score of 11 out of 12, No 
Class B shooter on ground. McDonald won Class C trophy on a 
score of 6 out of 12. < : 2 

A strong cold wind blew from the rear, making the birds mostly 
outgoers, and screamers at that. I firmly believe the birds, taken 
as a whole, were the fastest lot I ever saw trapped, as the large 
number which escaped testihes: 


C HW Kehl......--....-.-....210200012*#0— 5 100012—3  001006—1 
J McDonald.....- Revert geare 000221721001 6 011*11—4 0200022 
HL MOrrisiscee espe neers essere 0*007021002— 8  000**0—0  102000—2 
Dr Mee 6c. Feereee ee on erans 10221*110001— 7 1221*1—5 1021*2 4 
Hagerty «2.24 Ate ec QO00001Z10T20— 5, , w= 001212—4 
TWoabaton 004s uentesaetee oe 211222202020— 9  210200—3  001002—2 
Worman sy cee es ean ss 0211112111124, 1000*2 2... - 
Dr Mathews ..-----.--.03..0. Q12*20072120— & wns. sewn es 
WiGUTig 6 ys5 de eagsspnder issn: 211020001002— 6  O11*1i—4 ...... 


Dr. J. W: MEEK, Sec’y. 
Troisdorf Medal Contests. 


Watson’s Park, Burnside Crossing, March 1—The first contest 
for the Troisdort live-bird medals, at Watson’s Park, to-day, drew 
a_good support. The competition was close. Dr. Miller won the 
first victory on the live-bird medal, killing 10 straight in the main 
event and 8 more in the shoot-off. 

These two medals will be shot for at Watson’s Park on the first 
Saturday of each month, 10 live birds for the live-bird medal, and 
25 targets for the target medal; ties shot off miss-and-out, open 


to all. Contestant must participate in five shoots in order to 
qualify. Entrance, price of birds only. Shooting starts at 1 
o'clock. No contestant can win both medals, 


First contest for the Troisdorf live-bird medal, presented by the 
Troisdori Powder Company: 


Harrison, 30.......212122*112—9 Dr Miller, 28..-... 121121222210 
ID fareey erties ae meen 10*1122102— 7 Amberg, 29........ ,.222*202211— 8 
Sliaws 028 -u-eesssss 1222701101 — 8 Steck, 29-.......... 2102212*02— 7 
Ricey PAN tener ena as Ions er aonce: 21002#2012— 6 
Cop, 28) -220...5.6042 Northcott, 26...... 0212122022— 8 
Weber, 27-.-++---+- 0 Mack, 26..........: 2020111000— 5 
MUG yekets eR Ron Oe oss 22 ; Dr ‘Carson, 27...... 2102022222— 8 
Clinton, 26 ...-.... 122*02222*— 7 Leffingwell, 28..... 202**12122— 7 
McFarland, 27...... 122111221310 Barto, 30..........-. 2101122100— 7 

Ties on 10, miss-and-out; Dr. Miller won: 

ChTTg es oe eee wFeltstel 4} pate) a McParland, 3... 2)......05 an 
Wale crsn.cns nS AABMS OOS 22200220) Or Miller of iiss .t) oy 11121222 

Seven birds, $3, high guns: 
Kuss if. Prater ; Le 3 APPR E Mieyeis Pek Bppsonsads ieeeral re 
Daesvawi «+ ade sees 0122222—6 Steck .......... nim anes 1122122—7 
PATEL Eee eee ieee eae 2222202—6 Northcott -.-.......... 1022222—6 
Bartow e eee ae 21211127 Wade .......2+-eerees- 2122122 —7 
Leffingwell ........... 20011204 Dr Miller .,...-...3..: 2002202—4 
NGI TPORI ge erst fais alah 2100222—5 


Troisdorf target medal, donated by the Troisdorf Powder Com- 
pany, 25 targets per man; Dr. Carson won: 


iPeieinten ofS Kt ae = see eae bas Steed EE 11.01101910111011101111011—18 
Giarnison’ Osos. she Epeeee-bi-E CEE Ebert pt 011101010110w 

Gra Srtal a gee ese are wel’ A SA A 1001111010111100011101101—16 
Dep S trivia wl eee erie ae CaLensendcatesas 0011100111101101011011101—16 
(Gosiiy II Sank Seon dora ke oekreeniecens 101110119711001017191171111—_20 
Wh et tle Sevimeenryie crepes pe torianie ee ees 11.011010011111.00101111111—18 
Niaicleas LG: Meneinemerdt et rier ise oe bataleraiboe 1110111111100100010011101—19 
Clnish tate Clipe eae assoc Rada Pag: 1101110111110010001011111—17 
IDbe My GTS lA sors Ap ob ob btUb OE pO tupe ics 1011110110010111101011100—16 
Teaty IGE enor e Onsare corre cooly k ete, 111111001101w 

ier eee Bane aeese bees ote ee dese t 100000010100w 

Stoclen lor erage tevy dus seats pe a uscmes nee 0100110111110111001110111—17 
Dneanson MAOrH Ss consste ih. do seater ce 41911101. 0 122 

Feb. 28—Twenty-five bird match: 
lBkergtl th te AE ASME CODE COSULEE EEE Sea EM 2202122120112202020222020—18 
Mi Gitele yar sty Go saryaesurcrnes 2121020012111121100200102—17 
IMemickt Ee hber ts; tasdodiesecuaes rus pe , -«-092112200220222220021222218 
IBEVCOW Abeba pods) Die treet heck bee het eee 0011110002102121222210110—17 
Clinton \..... ates ere ee icy tlt me Matt 22100121201122*1220211212—20 
Ten-bird sweep: 
Warden ei scs sacs ack 2201200120—-6. Clinton .........:... 0211010111—7 
Beiotstl mews aiearns iaraernces 2120121111—9 : 
RAVELRIGG. 


Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, Feb. 26.—The ninth serial shoot of the Boston Gun 
Club was held on the club grounds at Wellington, and between 
drops some ten events were shot. But even then with the result 
that all were pretty well wet through at the end of the afternoon. 

One of the pleasing features of this shoot was the appearance 
of the club’s oldest attendant who braved the decidedly bad 
weather with just as mtich enthusiasm as of old, and though some 
seventy summers have passed, the same enthusiasm is evident 
when handling a shotgun at the traps. . 

The prize match, though shot under the adverse conditions, 
was as usual, interesting to say the least, and after the fun was 
over Kirkwood was in first place, though second place was taken 
care of by Dennis, to whom the honors of the afternoon really 
belong. Third place had three occupants, who, it seemed, were 
unable to shake each other, and had just 15 targets to their credit. 
Other scores as follows: 


Events: dk he Bi ch ae OG gh pS Weel) 

Targets: 10 10 5p 5p 10 10 10 15 10 10 
IDYesiholtstovaky Mise See Soy eee oh mete OM ith Tate eh a3 
Sadler, 16 G53 75> STS lh SG Bb: 
TET OR tol oe ced n esl = cst ea 4S S6S IRR ely ao eta ot 
Lane, 16 Bee BU 8) AGT rod tae O a 
Hawkins, 16,.. Gl Si-O. MS BelEaee aol art trast eet 
Nichols, 14 6 (fe ee ee ee L 
Allen, 16 See eee PS Ge 
Teiricwo den alesse spas maenus eat ee rer see nok tt (ju ak Sr 
Brederieks > lay poe ye es 3. (cs. RSS PL ee 
Elen eel ee ee Le a ese eas - =, see « be 


Events 1, 5, 6, 9 and 10, Sergeant; events 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 mazau- 


rap. : . 
Merchandise match, 25 


singles—15 magautrap, 10 Sergeant sys- 
tem—distance “handicap = : 


Raglevoodin 1S: aah har twee eden co cs 011110011111916 101110112119 
DeMMISGH, 1S ue morierel titel terse seem ers 011111110101011 —-1011001100—i¢ 
Sadler, 16 -..... RAN Phe! rete WOON M0L 110007010015 
Gsm, A6i vos cy pete eee terete SOTOLOO LOL OTT W11011001—15, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Hawkins, 16,.....-... 
Nichols, 14... 


reveccorcsoeese OOLOOIONIIOINIT  0117110011—15 
---00001100010000- _ -w 


Allen, GAR NN fat ak cus neces ++e+ee-=,000101000000000 0000710000— 4 
Bent, 16........ pe oet etter ise dete 000010000000000 + 1001000001— 4 
Two-man team match, 20 targets per man: 
DYSTIAISOM LS, vclee suite eee tee ees 191411011011911111—18 
Sadlefe Uhiwy seek. ne ee) - ade eaeeeeee Dees 0000100090100011010i— 6—24 
ATTEN TG2 cee ep sat cs co cian ES Be Aobaer es 01100100001101011100— 9 
Kirkwood, LS .cappae epee tatneceen eee 0001111 ¥101011110111—14—23 
BEE role Alive we awry ewes 14 ie areas dct . --10011111000001001100— 9 
Bendy MIG ds! Re her eee ee ores 00001000000100110000— 4—13 
SECRETARY. 


Arkansas Pigeon Championship. 


_ Litrie Rock, Ark., Feb..27,—The first bona fide contest for the 
individual live-bird championship of the State and the elegant 
trophy donated by the Peters Cartridge Company indicative of the 
honor was decided here Feb. 26 on what is known as Camp Dodge 
grounds, in the eastern part of the city, an admirable place for 
this purpose, situated on an elevation where the wind has full 
scope, and on this occasion it was blowing a howling gale all day. 

The conditions of the match call for 25 birds per man, 30yds. rise. 
There were twenty-one participants from various parts of the 
State, and the contest was exciting throughout, though it soon 
narrowed down to two, Sumpter and De Long, and was finally won 
by the former in the shoot-off, as De Long and he had tied with 
a total of 21. An effort was made to decide the tie by shooting 
off at 5 birds, but the result remained the same, as each scored 4; 
Sumpter’s lost bird being dead out of bounds. THe next trial 
decided matters, and showed Sumpter a winner by 4 to 3. 

Thus for the present he is champion, but how long he will re- 
tain the honor remains to be seen, as De Long immediately chal- 
pete him, and the race will be shot at Hot Springs in the near 
uture, 7 

Of the other participants, young Gibson Thibault, a novice, 
made the best showing, and for a time actually set the pace; but 
lack of experience was his greatest handicap, and he gradually 
fell behind, finishing with 19, a very good score for his first at- 
tempt, ; 

The birds were an exceptionally fine, strong, active lot, and 
aided by the gale, were entirely too hard a proposition for the 
majority of the principals. Thus, while the winner’s total is not 
high, it is well to remember the conditions, and to appreciate the 
fact that it took rare skill and judgment to cope with the problem, 
The velocity of the wind was so great that a number of birds 
killed in the air were carried out of bounds. Sumpter experienced 
this on his twenty-third, a high towerer. 

The new emblem is a handsome solid gold watch-charm, on one 
side of which is represented a pigeon in raised gold in full fight, 
while the inscription reads: “Arkansas Champion,’ On the re- 
verse side is an exact reproduction of an Ideal shell in reduced 
size, and the inscription is “Peters Cartridge Co, Trophy.” 

The conditions governing this is as follows: 

All contests must be at 25 live pigeons, a0yds. rise, Interstate 
rules, ground traps. 

There will be an open contest for it once annually, and this can 
occur at any time except during the months of June, July or 
August. J 

Holder of the trophy will be subject to challenge and must de- 
fend the trophy every thirty days if required to do so, except 
during the above specified time, 

All challenges must be sent to the secretary of the Association 
and must be accompanied by a forfeit of $10 as an evidence of good 
faith. Winner of such contest will take the emblem, and loser 
pay for the birds. 

On receipt of challenge, the secretary will immediately notify 
the holder, and the latter will have thirty days in which to accept 
the same and name the late of contest. 

Should the holder at any time leave the State for an indefinite 
length of time, he must surrender the trophy to the Association, 

After the main event was decided several miss-and-outs were 
shot. The first of these was won by Coles and netted him $26. 
Balle won the next, and the final was won by Bragg, who was 


‘deaf to all propositions to compromise, and would entertain no 


proposition to divide, and despite the growing darkness shot out 
everybody else. ' 

All the participants were highly pleased with the manner in 
which the shoot was conducted, and all enjoyed the elegant lunch 
that was served gratis. 

The visiting shooters present were I. J. Vick, H. Cromvell, 
E, M. Robinson, J, A, Coles, J, T. Loyd and Dr. H. BE. Williams, 


- Pine Bluff; John J, Sumpter and C. E. De Long, Hot Springs; 


J. E. Balle, Stuttgart; L. E. Knott, Arkadelphia. In addition to 
the State shooters, there were Herbert Taylor, St. Louis; H. B, 
Morgan, Chicago, and Geo, Hillman, Memphis, 
Sumpter, the winner, shot a Smith gun, Dupont powder in 
ge! shells, and Peters shot, loaded by the Peters Cartridge Co. 
cores: - 


SHUI CER Wedded ec s = ealeehecte earclerr otter ln tn + 22222200 22222292 9999222*0—O1 
De Woy 6: Sees o eiciibelntaletatee pitt ek sine 021222212022222%222222220—21 
THIBauleROan ho inscttioelelcce on olor bbe 4 «4 22211122202*10022221*2210—19 
wit Sees eee te ae Se selene eee aes ect eae 0020020121211211020021200—17 
aby OL nas it eget ee tee nila weet tytiaetain eee ~ »-0220000120221122101111022 17 
Duley .......... pipe Atal staieta: shale eidvelevented aerate BEND 22011120011*2022020110211—17 
Tiehow. Scere ea ueullnctessieaa ta searched 102002**22211111220000011—15 
Matzke’. Tec ndadaadadatee ee eeeore en iine 220022*02200220022002212*—14 
(SUI Gendeeat Acti” 0210202000022020*22223001—14 
Brizzolara +. .21200200210020200122222*0—14 
Viele: CoN inert Salas eran teas 020222910*1010202110*212*—14 
Robinson 020021010012022210*10*202—13 
Wrebtarlitin Bi tiailattasiraekde seleeine sees e+e ys +L01000110*2*00222111001#2—13 
ColesrMinit PeyeiSeae esa uren asses eter . .222020207000020*022022002—12 
LESiare CEB AHBHboUoobe eicdorsy ss 544 580ne tt; 02100011200020220*201*210—12 
KSHOLE eee le toe Mere niet Lives ieieteistelctulectierst serciies 200000102*210021110020220—12 
Crpmiwelli rr nee. netatnclalctstee ater ttre ne pie 0002002226012002021022402—12 
Mons gone ceee ti tec fones Peet ates enn s . ..001000*000212011000001010— 8 
WVEOL SAT secale aitamupatata stata eisteciciemiitele meneienan 222010*22020*20220012"2 —13 
Floyd aasenedasecs oe Teor ean non dc 22002222022021*222"2 —13 
Wilhans aeeenuess 4 dees hd Wend oes pe ee eres 1220120022020102212* —13 
Paut R. LitzKe. 
Winchester Gan Club. 


Derroit, Mich.—Perfect weather, added to the pleasure and 
success of the regular bi-monthly shoot of the Winchester Club, 
Feb, 22. Brodie successfully defended the Class A medal, and 
Warner won easily in B 

Among other welcome guests were Mr. C. B. Kelsey, president 
Consolidated Sportsmen’s Asscciation of Grand Rapids, and Mr. 
J. L. Head, the genial and popular representative of the U. M. C., 
Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Head’s performance, which would have 
been better but for the balkiness of the trap, was a pleasure to 
witness, and Mr. Kelsey, with a strange gun and a frock coat, 
was not far behind. THe scores: 


Events: eee oe li era 

Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 15 25 25 
Head ase eee Bea te ibe a Seti le a 
Telsey: Stews see = Ce et RL ee 
IM Gao, Aes inan ule ans Ve 9) fio to 
Haishet *s.ien eee eee eats > a (iS ceed sy SP et 
TOU NG conte ey peach tells Bite SES Ake 8 
AN Reid) SOTA ee salaries te eee eet VS ONS 
Braditelvclccsrs scuubedunenihaass Sessa OO eo Ole haa, 22, 
AVR Til yn BBA ARE RAAB BC OE Ae Ay Te cat “TPE Sit 
Shiela vere eee Dai tddadadsens ates phe th a Agw PL! 
Wicd) poe nk = etnies eens anes ie terietetane ve 8 8 8 & 6 IS .. 20 
Jaeyis eee race Sates cee ete be lrechtee cites Sere. ef Ly 6 Gea five 
Girthard eva cs copoe ccs een eamiewialelats LS) CP alr aS agg REE a l55 
Warner ..... Ponb, Soe Harassosebooescct Te, ae OR eens 
Hitchcacks gusset anste adres loot ate ds - a Ai ahi 


Chicago to Kansas City—G. A. H. 


Cxurcaco, Ill., March 1.—The Chicago party to the Grand Ameri- 
can handicap will travel by special train, composed of baggage, 
chair cars, a diner, with a2 director’s private car, for the comfort 
and accommodation of ladies who may accompany their husbands. 

This train, perfectly equipped and first class in every particular, 
together with first-class service, will be supplied by the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, leaving Chicago at 8 
o’clock Sunday morning, March 30 ; 

The special train will make the following stops for the accom- 
modation of many who propose joining us en route: 

Aurora, 9 A. M.; Mendota, 9:55 A. M.; Galva, 11:15 A. M_; Gales- 
burg, 11:55 A. M.; Bushnell, 12:35 P. M.; Quincey, 2:30 P. M.. 
arriving at Kansas City, 9:30 P. M_ ‘ 

T feel perfectly safe’ in pledgivig, as the result of my personal 
efforts, fiity entries in the Grarid American Handicap, and will 
wager that the Chicago ‘special train will carry a number nearer 
one hundred and thirty sportsmen into Kansas City on the even- 


ing of March 20. E. 8, Rycz. 


~ American, Hon. 


| summer's use, and the pro 


[TMarcx 8, 1902. 


Ossining Gun Club. 


Osstntnc, N. Y,, March 1.—The spring thaw has had some effect 
on the shooters hereabouts. We were to have had a live-bird 


shoot, but ——, Nineteen shooters took a try at the saucers, and 
the magautrap was working at its best. 

Events ah ae Boe A Sy GU = The Ge Oe eld 

Targets: - 10 10 10 15 15 15 15 5p. 10 10 10 
AMBeCel et Rriae nce tees Wim Ss. aul e Wray cre i Delve sts re. 
IEL SBassittonyy anissokaes persiecee 40795) cyte Peis CESS Gee 
DIC onions se {ih 5 CEPROSE nto ot, eon MS 
Wie sGrotherroia: a5 Sel apo sean (UP PP REA § 9 10 
CEBndiouds ean aes ee oP anes, 44a GSS eee ee 
DUMB Shechstibysidth Woon ea Ae EZ Nar lgei eles | otis fT 1 
We Clicks es Napoeerree rs = \G MG Sat. bee Be en ae 
SIPS oars AG eo ites I Ce Bie) dee omy Oe ny eae ete 
Ji UB OLE eeeeres une ery ee ve VO Fe, 6 6 6 
PSV rerstpy screens seems eee wre eee 1 ET a oe be 
PASE GR Tg erie aye cemteeaeed SY Steer So te te od) Ge ak we 
Rk Kromer, Jr.... t a a nie A Bs 5 
W “Hall seis ee oes Go IMR ahh ahhh we Sh a 
[Da SILO We penta eee err. a 3 a ee es ey, a 
VEN yickunt trian ne sete ene an Se SR ei Rie oF 
{G IVICIGITCLHE setae a ereeaernere SNe Ses ses ee) SLI ee eS 
ie aelcad) weeenen a A area PSgNBDe en pny oe ys he Be 
Aeprane Se ae Cae Sree eR i ane or Es 
NAC ete Takedh liter eects ny fae Er Epi gta tae oy cts eee Ee 

CGB 


New York to Kansas City—G. A. H. 


Tue following communication has been received for publication: 

Jt has been practically arranged that a special car for Kansas 
City will leave New York at 2:45 P. M., Saturday afternoon, 
March 29, via the West Shore and Wabash railroads, 

Efforts have been made to obtain a cheaper rate than ordinary 
fare oyer the lines of the Trunk Line Association, but the re- 
quests made for such reduced fare haye been refused, 

For the information therefore of those who wish to join the party 
from New York the following figures are given: Round trip, 
New York to St. Louis, $39.30; St. Louis to Kansas City, one 
fare for the round trip, $7.50; sleeping car, New York to Kansas 
City and return, not including meals, $15; total, $61.80. 

The party will reach Kansas City at 7 A, M. on the morning of 
March 31, being thus in plenty of time to commence the weeck’s 
shooting, , 

The return trip would e made, leaving Kansas City Saturday 
evening, April 5, and reaching New York Monday morning, April 
7, about 7:30. 

All those who wish to join the above party should write to 
either Mr. J. A. H. Dressel, 318 Broadway, New York, or to Mr. 
Edward Banks, 318 Broadway, New York, inclosing check for $25, 
la secure accommodation on the special car, check being made 
payable to J. A, H. Dressel. 

Application should be made early, in order to ayoid disappoint- 
ment. ; 


Westchester County Shooting League. 


Armowr, N. Y., Feb. 24—On account of the sevete weather of 
Feb. 22, the Westchester County Shooting League have decided to 
postpone the first shooting tournament under the auspices of the 
Armonk Gun Club until the middle of March. Programmes and 
further particulars will be sent to the shooters as soon as printed. 

The only shooters who were able to reach Armonk were S. 
Glover, H. Thompson, Veriann, O’Rourke and Carpenter, and 
several other shooters came as far as White Plains, but could 
not go any further. H. T, Wayng,  - 
Sec’y Armonk Gun Club: 


PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 


Washington, 
THREE-BAY PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED TOUR VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, 


THE next Pennsylvania Railroad Personally-Conducted Tour to 
Washington leaves Thursday, March 6. Rate, covering railroad 
transportation for the round trip, hotel accommodations and 
guides, $14.50 from New York, $13 from Trenton, and #11.50 from 
Philadelphia. These rates cover accommodations for two days 
at the Arlington, Normandie, Riggs, or Ebbit House. For 
accommodations at Regent, Metropolitan, or National Hotel, $2.50 
less, Special side trip to Mt. Vernon, 

All tickets good for ten days, with special hotel rates after ex- 
piration of hotel coupons. 

For itineraries and full information apply to ticket agents; Tour- 
ist Agent, 1196 Broadway, New York; 4 Court street, Brooklyn; 
789 Broad street, Newark, N. J.; or address Geo. W. Boyd, As- 
see ener Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadel- 
phia.—A4 dv, - 


Cheap Colonist Rates to the Northwest. 


To Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Northwest 
Wyoming the Burlington Route will sell very cheap tickets- every 
day during March and April from Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis. 

lf you want to get there in quick time, comfortably, yet with 
the least expense, ask your ticket agent about our chair car and 
tourist sleeping car service, or write me for our colonist folder, 
which tells all about it. P. S. Eustis, General Passenger Agent 
C., B. & O. Ry., Chicago.—Adv. 


“Forest and) Stream” Sells Gcods the World Around, 


WNevaApa, Mo.—I will commence my advertisement in the Forrst 
AND STREAM next month. I find that the Forrest anp STREAM 
is a good medium, and have sold reels in New Zealand and 
Australia through it. I do not get as many postal card requests 
from your medium as others, but it gives me a class of trade that 
counts. W. H. Tatrsor. 


People are constantly asking what is the best rifle for big game, 
and among the arms inquired about the name Mannlicher is often 
mentioned. This, we believe, was tke rifle carried by that sturdy 
W. A. Chandler, during his exploration in Africa, 
and he found it a‘most efficient weapon, whether against wild game 
or savage men. Mannlichet rifles, as well as Luger Automatic pis- 
tols are sold by A. H. Funke, of 101 Duane street, New York,— 
Adu. 


The Brighton Silk Garter for men, which is manufactured by the 
Pioneer Suspender Co., of Philadelphia, is said to haye many 
advantages over other garters. We all know how much one’s com- 
fort depends on the clothing one wears, and that if there is some- 
thing moving about, even the smallest article, it becomes a per- 
petual annoyance. It costs yery little to try a pair of the Brighton 
garters.—A dv. 


Every one who has occasion to ship a dog knows how laborious 
it is to make a crate for it, and how comfortless for the animal 
such a home-made crate usually is. The Backus Dog Crates, sold 
by the Excelsior Wire and Poultry Supply Co., are always ready, 
and we are told that they combine comfort, lightness, strength and 
durability. The same company sell all sorts of kennel and poultry 
supplies, and will send their catalogue on application —Ady. 


The claims for the new Troisdorf Smokeless Shotgun Powder 
have a very attractive sound. A-powder that is clean, uniform, 
quick and reliable, and not affected by any climate, is of course 
just the one that all trap and field shooters desire to use. This 
is the day of improved nitro powders, and no doubt there is room 
enough for all of them.—Adv. 


The Lozier Motor Co., whose works are situated at Plattsburg. 
N. Y., are manufacturers of gas engine launches, and have a large 
and varied stock on-hand, ready for immediate delivery, People 
are now beginning to) supply themselves with dep oobes fh the 
aac of the Lorier Motor Co. is. worth 
jeckiig op 497, ee ee 


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A WeEEKLy JournaL oF THE Rop anp Gun. 


Copyricnt, 1902, sy Foresr anpD STREAM PuBLISHING Co. 


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GAME FOODS AND FLAVORS. 


Many of the readers of Forest AND STREAM are old 
enough to recall the heated arguments which appeared 
in the sportsman’s literature years ago, between those 
persons who declared that the canvasback in his excel- 
lence was found nowhere except in Chesapeake Bay, and 
their opponents who said that canvasbacks were found all 
over the country and were equally good everywhere. The 
‘first party based their contention on the premise that 
the wild celery was found only in the Chesapeake Bay, 
and declared that except when fattened on a diet of wild 
celery the canvasback was no better than a coot. Of 
course we know to-day that both these parties were 
wrong and both were right, and the quarrel between them 
has long been one of those dead issues. which has been 
laid away with a thousand others, to sleep the sleep that 
knows no waking. It has always been known that the 
food on which an animal subsists has a great deal to do 
with the flavor of its flesh. If the coot and the old squaw 
are poor eating, it is because they subsist almost altogether 
on a diet of clams and other shell fish. The grain-fed 
whistler is as good to eat-as his fish-fed brother of the 
sea coast is worthless. 

But while there are a great many familiar facts bearing 
on this subject which are known to every one, there are 
also some others that are unknown, and that are curious 
and interesting. 


Nothing is more common to country dwellers than to 
find in the early spring the milk of the cows tainted with 
garlic. The wild leek, being one of the first green things 
to appear in the spring, is greedily devoured by the cows 
newly turned out to pasture, passes from the food into the 
circulation, and so taints the milk. No doubt if a cow 
yielding this milk were to be butchered and her flesh 
cooked, it would be found both to taste and smell of 
garlic, 

It may not be so generally known that in early spring 
the wild sheep of the Rocky Mountains, like domestic 
cattle, nibble with relish the new springing wild onions, 
and if killed at this season the flesh tastes strongly of 
the plant. Who knows whether the flesh of the deer and 
elk may not be similarly affected by this or some other 
plant. 
the spring. ' 


The Indians of portions of California declare that in 
early spring the quail eat the leaves of the wild onion, 
and that their flesh becomes worthless for food at this 
season because of the strong odor of onions which per- 
vades it. 

It is a well-known fact that the flesh of the spruce 
grouse and of Franklin’s grouse in the winter season, 
when the ground is snow covered and their food is 
largely the buds and leaves of spruce and pine, acquires a 


strongly resinous taste which is at first unpleasant, though | 


one readily becomes used to it. More familiar still is the 
fact that the ruffed grouse which has fed on the buds and 
leaves of the laurel often acquires a strongly bitter taste. 
On the other hand, it may well be that in this last case 
the taste of the flesh may come merely from absorption 
by the muscles of the flavor of the stomach contents of 
birds that have hung long without dressing. yas 
Old trappers know very well that the flesh of the beaver 
has a strong taste of willow and cottonwood bark, and 
no one who has ever eaten much beaver could be in 


doubt as to.the food that he was masticating, even though . 


his eyes were blindfolded a hundred times. 


To come back to more familiar and homely examples, 
it. has often happened: that the eggs of hens’ in Florida 
were pervaded by a-strangely bitter taste which the owners 
of the fowls were quite unable to account for, and it has 


Happily, not many of these animals are killed in 


- without! warrant, 


taken a long investigation to learn that this taste came 
from the fact that the hens were eating orange seeds. 
When they were prevented from consuming this food, the 
taste of the eggs became normal. 

In bygone years—and: very likely to the present day— 
near some of the salmon rivers of the Northwest coast, 
hens’ eggs during a patt of the salmon run were uneatable, 
for the reason that the chickens fed so freely on dead 
salmon thrown out of the streams that eggs and flesh 
alike became tainted. It is also a notorious fact that on 
portions of the coast and on certain streams in the 
Northwest hogs can not be killed during the salmon 
run because their flesh is too fishy to be eaten. The 
flesh of bears at certain points on the same coast is re- 
ported to be so fishy at the close of the salmon run that 
even the natives will not eat it. On the other hand, years 
ago there used to be special brands of hams sold in Cin- 
cinnati which purported to be of rare excellence because 
the hogs from which they were taken had fed on chest- 
nuts or other mast. 


All of which shows that the illness from which the 
King of the Cannibal Islands suffered after partaking of 
an old sailor, whose diet for many years had consisted of 
tobacco, salt horse and rum, may not have been due 
entirely to His Majesty’s imagination. 


THE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 


Tue New York Board of Trade and Transportation, 
which gaye most valuable service to defeating the Adiron- 
dack forest grab measure in 1896, has now through its 
Forestry Committee addressed a memorial to the Legisla- 
ttire protesting against the enactment of the Davis bill 
to turn the State forests over to the pulp men and the 
camp site occupants. The people of this State, says the 
memorial, have twice passed upon ‘this question and by 
an overwhelming vote at ‘the polls registered their de- 
termination to keep their forest possessions intact. They 
are not likely to be deceived in this new attack. If the 
question shall come before them they will defeat it again. 
But the defeat should come now and at Albany. The 


Davis bill should be. killed. 


TO PROTECT ALASKA GAME. 


THERE was introduced last month in the House of 
Representatives by Mr. John F. Lacey, of Iowa, a bill for 
the protection of game in the District of Alaska and for 
other purposes, which should receive favorable action by 
Congress. Recent years have witnessed a terrible de- 
struction of big game in that country, and persons who 
have investigated the matter tell us that the great bears 
of Kadiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula, the giant 
moose, the white sheep and certain forms of caribou are 
rapidly passing away, partly through the killing for food, 
but also largely through killing for hides and, to a less 
extent, for heads to be sold to taxidermists. 

By the present bill wanton destruction of birds other 


than game or of game animals is prohibited, and game ani- 
Close seasons are estab-. 


mals and birds are defined. 
lished for certain wild animals and wild birds, and it is 
further provided that whenever the Secretary of Agri- 
culture shall deem it necessary for the preservation of 
game birds or animals, he shall make rules and regula- 
tions modifying these close seasons, or providing differ- 
ent close seasons for different parts of Alaska, or may 
further restrict the limit of killing, or may entirely pro- 
hibit such killing for a period fhot exceeding five years 
for any locality. 

The killing of females or yearlings of moose, caribou. 
deer or sheep is forbidden, and the number of game ani- 
mals that any one person may kill within a year is defined. 
Hunting with hounds and the use of steam launches is 
prohibited: The selling of hides, skins, or heads of game 
animals or birds, and the shipping of such hides or car- 
casses is forbidden, except for scientific purposes. Penal- 
ties are established for violations of this act, and it is 
made the duty of certain Federal officials, marshals and 
their deputies, collectors of customs and their deputies, 
and officers of revenue cutters, to assist in the enforce- 
ment of the act. 


Obviously the two important provisions of the. act are 
those which probib&t the sale and export of hides and 


They may arrest persons violating it. 


which give to the Secretary of Agriculture the authority 
to divide Alaska into districts and to frame regulations 
adapted to each. 

A hearing was had by the sub-committee having the 
bill in charge on Friday, March 7, and the matter having 
been very fully explained, all the members were in favor 
of the passage of the bill, with certain amendments, which 
are shown in the copy printed elsewhere. 

It is very fitting that the work of protecting Alaskan 
game should have been taken up by one who has done so 
much for game protection in the United States. Mr. 
Lacey’s bill is a beginning of care for the wild creatures 
of this northern domain. When it has become law further 
steps may be taken looking in the same direction, 


INDIAN TERRITORY GAME. 


Tue bill in the United States Senate, introduced by 
Senator Quarles, provides a close season for the game 
of Indian Territory, and forbids hunting within the Ter- 
ritorial limits by non-residents except with a license to be 
issued by the United States Indian agent at Union 
Agency upon the payment by the applicant of a fee of 
$2.50 per day for each day’s hunting, the time permitted 
not to exceed ten days. The moneys thus collected are 
to constitute a fund for rewards for information leading 
to the conviction of game law violators. 

The provision of the Quarles bill which concerns the 
sportsmen of the country at large is a prohibition of 
netting any birds in the Territory at any time, and the 
taking of any game for purposes of export. This -will 
effectually put a stop to the export of live quail from the 
Indian Territory for stocking other covers. Many in- 
dividuals, clubs and associations have hitherto derived 
their supplies of live game from this source; the new 
order will cut off this supply. The Indian’ Territory quail 
no longer being available, the work of restocking will of 
necessity cease. This means a distinct deprivation, and 
one for which there can be no justification other than 
an unwise diminution of the Territory quail supply. If 
the stock of quail in the Territory is such that it may be 
drawn tpon by exporters of live birds for stocking pur- 
poses, without menacing the home supply, Congress 
should not interfere to prevent this industry. 

There is ground for believing that the: export of live 
quail from the Indian Territory might be conducted un- 
der some system of regulation by the authorities which 
would protect the interests of the Territory and at the 
same time serve the interests of the country at large by 
supplying the material for replenishing exhausted covers. 
The Territory is so fertile in game, so admirably adapted 
by climate, food resources and other natural conditions 
to producing quail in exhaustless supply, that Congress 
would more truly be serving the inierests of the coun- 
try if instead of cutting off the quail export it made 
provision for its continuance under proper safeguarding. 


In recent years we have heard much of German forestry 
and German forest methods, but most American students 
of this science know little about it that is practical. This 
spring an opportunity is offered to sttidents by the Bilt- 
more Forest School, which is in charge of Dr. C. A. 
Schenck, to see during the coming summer something of 
German forestry arid its methods, Under the guidance 
of Dr, Schenck a party will leave New York April 10 
and return July 8, going both ways by steamer of the 
North German Lloyd. The students of the party will 
begin in the Rhine Valley, where the types of European 
forestry will be investigated. Portions of Germany, the 
Bavarian Alps, the Tyrol, Hungary and Roumania will 


be passed over. Large stretches of forest will be traversed 


on foot, so that those making the trip will require good 
walking outfits. The total expense of the entire tour 
will not exceed $500, which includes tuition fee and 
steamer fares to and from New York, Meinbers of for- 
estry associations, lumbermen and other friends of for- 
estry are invited to take part in this tour, which cannot 
fail to be of great interest. 


R 


That is a touching record we print to-day from the 
pen of Rowland E. Robinson. But how there. glow 
through it all the high courage and cheerfulness of tha 
strong heart whicit was his, : Edda 


med 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Marc 38, 2902. 


Che Sportsman Courist. 
——6—t F 
An Unseen Year. 


BY ROWLAND E, ROBINSON. 


A DOMED wall of darkness, intangible yet impenetrable, 
shuts me in from sky, fields, winds and waters so con- 
tinually that the brightness of the sunniest day and the 
gloom of the blackest night are indistinguishable. 

Yet the voices of nature come to my ears, its breath, 
laden with divers odors, to my nostrils, her touch makes 
response to mine; and so | have a notion, a New Year’s 
one, that is likely enough to be abandoned in a Kittle 
while, to make note of the year’s passage by such signs 
as are youchsafed me. It will serve to amuse me for 
awhile at least, and perhaps sometime interest some one 
else to know how the world goes with one who is in 
perpetual nighi. 

Jan. 1, 1898.—I happened to be awake at midnight when 
the old year went out with a roar of the north wind’s 
trumpet and with banners of snow flying;_and with like 
pomp the new year came in. Here amid the open fields 
there was such a tumult of sound that the roar and 
shriek of passing trains wete swallowed up in it. How 
much greater it must have been in the woods, a countless 
host of trees lifting up their voices in a mighty chorus and 
clashing their branches and booming downfalls like an 
irregular cannonade. Or along the lake with waves 
crashing and thundering on rocks and level shores, torn 
crests hissing and seething over miles of surface, the 
winds shrieking through the bent cedars and clashing 
their icy branches at the upturned sprawls of juniper. 
Through the straight-blown mist of snow and spray, Split 
Rock Light is shining for the last night of this winter 
on the leaping pillar of foam at the end of the point and 
on the racing waves. The wind whines and moans in the 
chimney as I used to hear it fifty-odd years ago in the 
old Friends’ meeting hotise on First days and Fifth days, 
while we were waiting. for the spirit to move some 
ministering friend. I remember far more distinctly the 
solemn plaint of the wind, the murmur of the stove’s 
draft and the singing of the sappy wood, than the weighty 
testimonies of the elders, though their venerable forms, 
long since departed, still arise before me, benign ghosts. 
The storm raged all day, and few passing teams were 
reported. 

Jan. 2 began in calm and with a clear sky. The last is 
evident to me as the first, when the sun rose and shone 
warm through the windows, though the mercury was 
twelve degrees below in the early morning. By and bye 
the wind arose out of the north and was blowing half a 
gale at nightfall. 

Jan. 3—So it continues this morning, with a snow 
squall and then sunshine. (I now forefeel that this record 
will be short-lived, for handicapped as I must be there 
will be little of nature’s doings made manifest to me.) 
A loud, deep,,solemn monotone of wind in the trees: 
amid it rather than above it,-though higher pitched, the 
harping of the telegraph wires. Why do none of the 
wise men tell us the causes of this harping? Is it the 
wind, the electric current or the contracting of the wires 
by the lowering of the temperature? 

Jan. 4—Night and morning a frozen silence, not broken 
by a note of the telegraph wires nor the cracking of the 
trees. This reminds me that in a thunderstorm last 
summer I heard the lightning strike the great elm near 
the “Polly house,” and the sound coming just before the 
crash of thunder was just like that of a tree cracking 
with stress of frost. I hear no birds nor anything to 
make note of. At evening they tell me of the setting 
sun and rising moon, both casting shadows, : 

Jan. 5—Must copy the boy’s diary. “Forgot what did.” 
Shall haye to abandon my plan and record only the note- 
worthy days. 

Jan. 6—The softening south wind portends a thaw,. 
which the afternoon brings, and at night a few wind- 


wage; En 
a 


blown raindrops fall upon my face as I go out, I hear 


the drip of the eaves all night, and twice the thud of 
snow sliding from the roof. 

Jan. 7—Light breeze from the north, increasing toward 
noon. A partial eclipse of the moon this evening, which 
our folks were all greatly interested to see because it is a 
rare sight. The moon rising behind a mountain peak or a 
Pine tree, or with a cloud passing over it is as beautiful, 
yet so common a sight as to attract no particular atten- 
tion. 

Jan. 8—South wind, softening the snow. Some sleighs 
passing with bells jingling, slow teams and runners grind- 
ing a dismal accompaniment; but it is sleighing. 

Jan. 9—A good, wholesome air of northern flavor. 

Jan. 10—The wind south again, and how quickly the 
temperature responds, though we can catch no savor of 
the sea nor of the green fields over which this wind so 
lately blew. Neither does the north wind bring us the 
odor of the Esquimaux igloos, but it does blow down to 
us now and then a snowy owl and flurries of snow 
buntings and Arctic grosbeaks like showers of red snow. 

Jan. 15—Snow falling nearly all day, but in all only 
four or five inches. George drawing wood from the 
mountain, and says there are no fox tracks to be seen. 
They have probably made a partial migration to the 
lake shore or the back hills. I must ask people of both 
regions. Joe tells of pheasant tracks back side of Shell- 
house Mountain. 

Jan. 16—A fine, quiet winter day. 

Jan. 19—To-day, coming up our road, the familiar path 
tinder snow is strange to my feet and staff, and I zo 
astray. Then I hear a nuthach, and think I locate the tree 
he is on, and so myself, but am mistaken and bring up 


_ :against the front porch instead of the kitchen stoop, which 


I thought myself near. Rachael makes a trip to the moun- 
tain on the wood sled without discoveries, unless of hints 
for pictures. — 

Jan. 20—Snow falling this morning. I feel it drifting in 
my face from the south. Afternoon it turns to rain, fall- 
ing noiselessly on the snow, and a flat, unmusical drip 
from the eaves. 

Jan, 21—The north wind is roaring in the- woods ‘and 
whining and moaning in the chimneys, 
to the old Friends’ meeting house. I:remember as-if it 
were yesterday, the moaning of the wind at the funeral 


I 4m carried again . 


when I gained my first acquaintance with the awful 
mystery of death. I can distinctly recall the solemnity of 
the scene; the venerable forms'of the white-haired minis- 
ters and elders, sitting motionless, in silence on the high 
seats; the hushed congregation, the awe with which it all 
filled me, especially that central object, the plain pine 
coffin, unadorned by a single flower, but with a bunch 
of tansy on the lid, diffusing its pungent, bitter odor, ever 
after associated in my mind with funerals. 

Jan. 28—The men go to the mountains to cut timber, 
and report a little more than two feet of snow in the 
woods. The boy goes with them to chop, and proves him- 
self in some measure a chip of the old block, his pioneer 
great-grandfather Stevens, taking handily to the ax. 

Jan. 30—Twenty degrees below zero. I hear wood- 
peckers, chickadees and jays out at the meat placed on 
the tree for them. 

Feb. 3—Our folks report a new pensioner taking his 
dole from the meat, a forlorn little crow, so small that he 
was not easily recognizable. He was driven away by a 
female downy. A stranger asked if he might bait his 
tired horse in our “ba’n.” I knew before he told me that 
he came from “over the mountain.’ You can tell an 
eastern Vetmonter by the softening or the dropping of his 
r's, as 10 born western Vermonter does, unless he has 
cultivated elegance of diction, The treatment of the Jet- 
ter by our eastern brethren, who flatten and twist the 
fourth vowel as ruthlessly as we do, is as marked as that 
of our common hereditary enemies, the Yorkers, yet with 
a difference. It is a curious fact that the “height of land” 
is a dividing line of dialects of a people having the same 
colonial ancestry. This is not more curious than the 
fact that it is unconsciously spoken by inhabitants of 
one region, while they are quite aware of the peculiarities 
of speech in the pople of another. The New Yorker 
sneets at me when I tell of my “caow,” while I wonder 
to what sort of a landing he brought his craft when he 
“droved her up to the whauf.” Each is unaware that 
he is not speaking good English. 

Feb. 8—One day follows another, of which I find 
nothing to report more than would a frog encased in a 
rock or tree, aware of a difference in temperature, hearing 
the noises of day and noting the stillness of night in the 
constant unvarying darkness. 


Feb, 12—It has thawed for four days and spoiled the- 


sleighing. I am compensated in hearing the distant 
brooks whisper of spring. This long thaw is remarkable 
for the absence of rain. 
a flood. 

March 6—Last night there was the perfect stillness of 
winter nights, now and then broken by the crack of a 
frosty tree like a blow struck on resonant wood. 

March 10—I hear spring-like sounds in the daytime: 
the hammering of a woodpecker and the soft nasal piping 
of the nuthatches; in the night, the south winds sighing 
among the trees and the dripping of the eaves. 


The North Country. 


OI.—A Moraiag’s Call, 


Ir was just before dawn that Karl called me, and after 
stumbling about the little cabin, lit our invaluable lantern 
and started a few sticks in the stove. This early hour, 
before the birds are awake, is the coldest of the twenty- 
four, and one can easily understand that, although all 
the chinks of our hotise were well stuffed with moss, it 
still leaked enough to make one want to bury one’s nose 
in the blankets. But we soon had a fire going and a pot 
of coffee boiling. Then I rolled out and performed the 
formalties of rising outside, with a tooth brush and a 
little—a very little——soap and water. The stars shivered 
in the velvety sky through the trees, and thin ice skim- 
mered the pail. <A “‘cat’s lick,” as my old nurse used-to 
call my boyish attempts at cleanliness, was all the atmos- 
phere encouraged. A moment found me indoors again: 
then, before the fire, came a gulp of coffee and a biscuit 
pocketed to carry along with me. I took my rifle, five 
extra shells, and behold, we were out in the quiet breath- 
the night again, climbing the hill through the mysterious 
and shifting morning gloom of the woods toward the 
water—one short mile away. How majestic the great 
trees loom’ in the dark! How bright stand the birches 
aud how gloomy the thickets! But the stars were paling, 
night. was rapidly passing over the hills, and before we 
came to the end of the trail had slipped away from be- 
fore the day. 

Ti some of the peaked-faced men and women one 
meets at balls would only try the other end of night for 
their festivities, and hold. them out of doors, as we 
hunters do, would it not make them better men and 
women, as well as healthier? 

Everything was crisp with frost. It made swords of 
every grass blade, and a broken twig cracked sharply in 
the stillness, Near the lake a flock of spruce partridges 
rose noisily into a clump of pines, but we could not stop 
for them. Mists rose from the water, a cloud of airy 
white spectres that floated away with the lightest air 
making room for new ones to arise, Aphrodite-like, and 
weave rings and spirals with all the grace of nature. We 
took one long look, and then, “Nobody!” whispered Karl, 
so we crept along by the old blind where I had killed the 
caribou, and over toward a long deserted beaver house. 
Here the bushes made fine cover, and it had the double 
advantage of standing well out from the shore. To 
reach it one had to jump from a bunch of swamp grass, 
and, as luck would havé it, my moccasins slipped, and 
down I fell into a good three feet of cold mud and water. 
Tt Karl had not leaned forward and caught me, I might 
be still sinking, so oozy was the black, ill-smelling slime. 
In such bright, frosty air it does not take long to get 
chilled, but Karl, the far-seeing, had a blanket to wrap 
round me. Into this I sat me down and tried to dry my 
wet trousers from the inside out. Any one who has 
tried this knows it is a tedious operation, and so I 
found it. ; 

The morning was ideal, still and cold—the morning a 
caller loves. The yellow horn; a new one, wider a trifle 
than the last, gave forth a bugle note that floated off 
lightly over the tree tops. You could hear the echoes 


roll over the hills and Search out every nook and thicket” 


for a mile and a half. We waited patiently, but no an- 
.-swer, Again Karl called, beginning clear, and after a 
long sustained note, ending with the grunt we all know. 


Otherwise, we would have had. 


No answer, Twenty minutes went by. -I shifted once 
or twice in.my wet clothes to see if they were any dryer, 
but they were only colder. The sun was now changing 
the pine tops to gold. Very slowly it came, and it was 
a surprise to find that it finally was up after all, and yet 
it seemed as if it had jumped up suddenlv, and with it 
came the morning breeze. . ~* 

few minutes more and the horn was raised to try 
again, when Karl suddenly dropped it, and away off 
over the forest came the faint but distinct grunt of the 
bull. Again came the answer, and then, after a few 
moments of silence, Karl raised his hand for attention. 
“Hark!” said he, and we heard the call of the cow. “She 
won't leave him go,” said he, “but we'll see’ And the 
horn again woke the echoes, lower this time and more 
pleadingly, if possible. We hardly dared breathe now as 
the moments went silently by. Squirrels chirruped and 
jays screamed in the woods, and at each break im the 
quiet I thought the owner of the voice had been startled 
by the approaching moose. How quiet the woods can be 
of a morning, and yet what a bustle there is of awaken- 
ing life! A bird whistles, a squirrel scolds, the wind 


rustles the trees, and a duck flaps around in the water — 


as if it was his first bath of the season. A song sparrow 
hopped out on a branch some ten feet away, and late as 
was the season, poured out his little thankful heart in a 
melody of praise. There was no motion.or sound on 
the beaver house except the chattering of our teeth, loud 
enough to frighten an army, it seemed, but we concluded 
afterward that we were not so much scared as cold, 
After a half-hour of silence, and that intense listening 
which strains the ear and the imagination, and after a 
low grunt from the yellow horn and another long spell 
of watching the shores, suddenly there was a great crash- 
ing of sticks on the hillside near the lake. My rifle 
automatically came to the ready and Karl beat the bushes 
with his horn. Every moment we expected to see his 
black bride burst into the light, but no moose was forth- 
coming. We waited and waited, but waited in vain. 

I hope he returned to the fair one he had deserted and 
quieted her sobs and made it all up, for certainly her 
bawls denoted a most distressed state of mind, and I’m 
sure one of her remarks referred to Karl as “that for- 
ward hussy,’ which had more poetical than actual justice 
in it. We decided that night, on talking over the an- 
noying affair, while discussing also the best of suppers— 
which I must stop to tell you I prepared myself of boiled 
rice and a can of tomatoes heated in the fry pan—we de- 
cided, I repeat, that the light breeze must have carried the 
scent of the carcass of the Doctor’s moose to his brother 
on the hill, or, possibly, a whiff of the human taint 
reached him, but in any case he gaye us a glorious thrill, 
quite worth a wetting. Grorce F. Dominick, Jr. 

[TO BE CONTINUED. ] 


A Walk Down South.—XX. 


I was in Saltville until Tuesday, December 31. TI tried 
to go through the salt works, but the company thought I 
was after the secrets of its trade—thought I was a chemist 
sent to Saltville by a rival company to learn the process— 
so they shut me out, I told them that it was the first 
time I’d been regarded as a sneak thief. 

On Tuesday morning the sun shone, and after a good- 
bye to the folks in general, I started down the railroad 
track with Backley for company. Neither one of us 
Was anxious to part from the other. We could not tell 
whether we would ever meet again or not. One day he 
had said: ‘ 

“The man who gave me this corkscrew died of thirst 
on an Australian desert.” 

Again: ; 

“Here is half of a penny. The man who has the other 
half I don’t know where he is.” 

A letter Backley got from New Zealand one day while 
I was there told of the death of one of his friends on an 
African battlefield. These things made partings hard 
for him—and the same for me. 

Three miles down the railroad we climbed a hill, and 
on top of it beside the road we looked at a snow-covered 
mountain miles away. We saw a little river boiling full 
crossing the road at the foot of the ridge, and Backley 
went down to help me across the rail that served as a 
bridge. Then it was “good-bye.” Few days have been 
so hard as that “evening” when I plodded down the 
middle of a road ankle deep with red mud that stuck to 
my shoes by the pounds. ; 

That night I stopped at the Rev. Mr. Buck’s. I was 
tired, weary and wet with sweat, At an early hour I 
went to bed, rolled up in my thick woolen blanket, under 
the ample covering hoping to stave off a cold that was 
coming on. The sleep was good and the cold was beaten, 
In the morning it was frosty and very “‘fresh,”’ or cold. It 
was New Year's Day. 

“T hope you'll remember the hereafter,” the good parson 
said on parting. : 

The road grew worse every mile, The frost had not 
frozen deep enotigh to make the mud substantial. Some- 
times J slid off the hummocks, sometimes I sank into 
them. A brook ran down the center of the way in one 
place for several rods. It was a long valley, just over 
the ridge from the Holston. A grazing land, there were 
some fine red cattle here and there along it. _ 

I stopped at a little village, Glenford, Va., early in 
the afternoon. My shoes needed soling. I learned that 
there was no water a boatman need fear on the Little 
Holston. There were some dams, but I could get over 
most of them, and pull around those I- couldnt run. On 
the second of January I reached Hughes’ Ford, two miles 
from Glenford. A carpenter was on the opposite bank 
where I landed. and he agreed to build me a boat then 
and there. | ? ' as . 

On the following day I went up to a little sawmill 
and got an 8-foot piece of white oak plank, green, but 
clear of knots, for a paddle. I drew a plan on the board. 
Tt was six inches wide for the blade and two inches wide 
for the handle, five feet three inches over all. The blade 
was two feet four inches long from the foot of the grip 
to the point. bs 

I made the paddle of a shape Backley had recom- 
mended—the Maori blade. The’ sidés are parallel for 
sixteen inches, then at each end it tapers one’ to a point 
and the other into the handle. One side is rounded, the 
other hollowed to a depth of nearly a quarter of an 


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SESS Se, 


iach. I sawed it to the tough shape and thet: gouged it 


out with a draw plate, a lathe plane and glass. I 
stnoothed it with sandpaper, leaving a thickening tear the 
tip for strength, and another near the handle in the slope 
for the same purpose. The blade is nearly half an inch 
thick down the-center, and a little more than an eighth 
at the edges. The handle has the usual shape, a grip 
at the top, a bulge in the middle and a small handful 
at the blade. It balances where the little finger of the 
right hand gtips it. 

As I worked it down, the rivermen agreed that it was 
a good one, but they shook their heads when I shaved the 
blade so “thin.” One said the handle was too short, and 
that I’d have to sit down to use it. He did not know 
that was what I intended to do. ; 

I noticed that one of the men who was around con- 
siderable did not seem very frisky—had a sort of a halt 
to his walk, a lack of ginger in his arm motions. I 
overtook him on my: way to the store on the 4th and 
remarked that he seemed to be a bit under the weather. 

“Vas-s,’ he replied. “I got into a little racket last 
August up on Tug River, West Virginia. Two bullets hit 
me im the left arm, one in the right and two in the body. 
Ff it hadn’t been for this yer suspender buckle he’d got 
me sure.” 


In the right suspender buckle was a .38 bullet hole. 
They “had a little falling out two-three times,’ and Ruble 
got the best of it; then “he” shot Ruble when Ruble 
thought “he” was “friendly” again. 

The boat was done in a couple of days. It looked well, 
but this man and that man said something had been done 
that oughtn’t to be, and that other things were wrong. It 
was dead log poplar, 14 feet long, 3 feet 10 inches. wide 
and the perpendicular sides were a foot high in the 
middle. It was “sharp” at one end and “square” at the 
other. One man said it ought to have two more inches 
of take forward. But I was satisfied. 

T left it out in the wind all night; in the morning I 
could see through the bottom. I ran it down to the ford 
and had the old river man, Hughes, caulk it up, and then 
I put it into the stream to soak. 

That night I listened to Jimmy Hughes, play the 
“Hounds Runnings” on the banjo. It was a stirring piece. 
The old dogs bellowed along, and the little dogs yelped 
along, round the hills, now faintly, again loudly, now 
with bursts of joy, again with baffled yells, as they 
lost the scent. It was worth a long delay and a lot of 
trouble to hear that mtisic. In the Holston store I heard 
a florid, 250-potnd storekeeper and Wiry, bony trapper 


with black whiskers play a violin and a banjo together.’ 


That, too, was stirring. 

In the morning the mush ice was running too thick 
to start early. I was sitting by the fireplace waiting for 
the day to warm up a bit, when I heard giggles among 
the Hughes girls, while the boys grinned. Then I de- 
tected the odor of my tooth wash. A little observing 
showed that Will had mistaken the pretty red stuff for 
perfumery and had taken some of it for his handkerchief. 
They enjoyed it, and so did I. 

On Monday morning, Jan. 6, at 10:50 o’clock A. M., my 
stuff being all in the boat, 1 sat down on the stern seat 
and was pushed off by Jimmy Hughes. A wave of the 
hands_and away I went. A mill dam was half a mile 
below. It was built of cobblestones and tree branches— 
a mere stone fence tossed across the river slantwise to 
shunt the water into an undershot wheel. JI grounded 


on it, but pried myself over with an oar. A little rapid - 


below ran me toward a stone cliff fifty feet high, but the 
Maori paddle saved mé, and away I went round the bend, 
south-bound again. — - 

‘I had to watch out for fish trap dams and mill dams, 
but I had a list of them and felt reasonably safe, though 
the novelty of the situation made me cringe a little, and 
eye the water ahead nervously. 

I was in shoals of mush ice which melted slowly, but 
the sun was warm and bright. Altogether, few days 
have been more pleasing to me than this one. I need 
paddle only a little at intervals if I wished, and yet I 
was moving along constantly into and out of the shadows 
of the hills, through countless clear reflections. 

A moment of excitement was when I saw a fall ahead— 
one over a ledge a foot high, but not quite ‘perpendi- 
cular, A pair of black ducks jumped out of the water 
ahead. Then over another little ledge of rocks I went, tip- 
ping a little on a hidden rock. The scenes changed— 
rocky ledges and cliffs, tree-grown banks and glimpses of 
cornfields and houses. Two men hailed me to be “put 
across,” and I accommodated them, receiving some valu- 
able information in return. That was some six miles 
below Holston. 

I ate my “snack” which Mrs. Hughes had put up for 
me—cold biscuit, cold fried pork, jam and apple butter 
sandwiches—floating along on an eddy. Such luxury! I 
could eat, sit and see the land loom up before me, drift 
past me and fade away behind me. ’ 

It was a study in itself to see the drift lodged in the 
trees, grass tufts, twigs, corn shocks, boards, split rails, 
even logs, were in the tree branches ten. feet above the 
water, all of them, save the heavier sticks, in matted 
tufts so tightly woven that they could be thrown, if one 
could release them from the support. tent 

I stopped some little leaks with putty. Ordinarily 
leaks in such a place would have worried me, but now 
they scarcely disturbed me. I received some friendly 
greetings from the dwellers along the higher parts of the 
banks, One man yelled: p 

“T reckon you all’s going west?” 

Lsatd “Yes.” : ; . 

How far I was going. was a qttestion that I scarcely 
thought of then. “Down the Tennessee’ was the gen- 
eral idea I had in mind. 

IT traveled only six hours, yet I was more than twelve 
miles from my starting point, when I went up the bank 
at a landing and across the bottom to a white house. I 
expected to sleep in my boat when I made calculations 
for the ride, but I was told that it would be best not 
to till I got to the Big Holston, because of the cold, and 
the chances of rheumatism. After some of my wet walks 
I had felt a new sort of ache in my finger joints and in 
my knees. I decided to not take any chances in that 
regard. ' . 

It was the Raven's Nest locality where I landed; 
Thomas B. Hendricks was the man’s name—an old, white- 


FOREST AND STREAM 


bearded inan, who had bought more latid than he could 
sWing to comfortably when it cathe to meeting interest 


atid payments, He had not beet satished with a mere 
300 acres; some of his neighbors had larger places, so 
he got another adjoining farm, and now thé burden of 
a $2,500 mortgage has drawn his lips, pitched his voice 
and inflicted a secret wound in his pride, : 

I had to wait for the mush ice again on the following 
morning. The river was oppressively quiet after I bade 
good-bye to Hendricks, his wife and children at the Jand- 
ing place. The flakes and splinters of ice which rustled 
and cracked along the banks or against occasional mid- 
stream obstfuctions, were very interesting that morning. 
“Mush ice” I had never seen before. Now the puddings 
hung to the side of my boat, softer than the solid cakes, 
yielding to the touch, yet bearing one’s craft along in 
its grasp. It held the boat end-on if one went to the 
center of a “cake.” It resisted efforts to split it and often 
refused to be dodged. In the ripples the ice particles all 
separated and glimmered and gleamed, casting a thousand 
sparkles of light in every direction—confusing one’s eye- 
sight and making one forgetful of possible rocks. Below 
the ripple the scattered fleet made haste to swarm to- 
gether again, and floated on in shapely masses four or 
five inches thick, some of the flakes clear of the water 
by a half inch, others far below the surface, crowded 
down by the upper bits. 

When I reached Flennor’s Dam I got out of the boat 
to take a look at it. Water oozed over the cobbles clean 
across it. There was only one place where I could run 
it, and that was close to the west bank. The water 
dragged cyer there and broke into a tumult of quick 
water just below, bending sharply to the left. In the 
bend was an ugly rock head. I feared an upset, so I 
earried all my stuff to a good landing below the riffle or 
shoal. Then I got into my boat, shoved off and headed 
for the chute. J went a-zipping. I tried to go outside 
the rocks, but saw that I couldn’t, so I shoved inside of 
it. The boat was too wide and wedged between the tock 
and the bank. I pried loose, however, safely made the 
landing place, loaded up and went on. Flennor’s Dam 
was one of the “bad places.” 

Whether I was lazy or industrious, whether I paddled 
or not, the land went sliding by, a long procession of 
cliffs, corn bottoms, sycamores and woods, It was a 
kind of play. It did not seem as if I had anything to 
do with it, I felt like the boy looks who says he isn’t 
doing anything. What right had I to be carried along 
like that without doing anything, without even walking? 
I felt as though I was stealing a ride, getting something 
for nothing. I wanted to repay the river for its kindness, 
It was the feeling that moved the Indians when-they cast 
the feathers of the bluejay, the cardinal and the reed bird 
into the gentle current. It must needs be a beautiful 
offering; for such the river shows its appreciation. It 
was a good Indian who said: 

“Be kind, oh, traveler, to the spirits which see thee 
on thy way, Pay thy respects to the tree spirit, to the 
rock spirit, to the wind that may caress thee, to the river 
that carries thy canoe,” 

With all reverence, I tried to do as the Indians did, 
tried to see as they would have seen. 

The afternoon of the seventh passed slowly by. At 
2 o'clock I stopped to mail a letter at Mandota, and at 
3:15 o'clock a mile below I came to another dam. Thirty 
feet had been washed out at the center, through which the 
water poured ina wide, crinkly waye, to break into danc- 
ing white and spread over a fan-like shoal, rock studded 
and fearsome below. I carried my pack around the dam 
and then took to the wave in the center, and went 
through with my mouth open and my paddle dipping 
cleverly enough. A couple of miles below I thought to find 
a house to sleep in, but the region was suffering from 
smallpox and other scares. At plumb dark I went to a 
house across a field, I could stay in a little house down 
the road, a yotine man said. I went to the house, pack 
and all, by the light of my little lantern, but the youth 
and his mother had changed their minds, so the hired 
man and the son came down to the shanty. The boy had 
a reyolver in his right-hand trouser’s pocket, and the 
gree man had a double-barreled shotgun. The son 
said: 

“T neveh said you all could stay yere. 
no seh, no seh, I didn’t.” 

IT had to laugh at the situation. When I stamped my 
foot into my shoes (I had taken them off), both men 
jumped three inches into the air. I prepared to start 
leisurely enough, 

“Ef you all don’t hurry up, theyll be to bed deown 
the rivah,”’ the son said in a tone of voice that made 
me pity him. With a revolver in one hand and a man 
to back him, with a double-barreled shotgun, he was so 
frightened at one man that his voice shook and broke 
with a whine. 

My pack fixed to my satisfaction, my lantern in one 
hand and cased rifle in the other, I started for my boat. 
I fastened the pack in the bow, so that it would stay with 
the boat in case of an upset, then shoved out into the 
tiver and headed down stream in the night under a 
cloudy sky. I could hear the roar of a rapid ahead, sound- 
ing loud in the gloom. It was now my turn to be scared, 

Raymonnd S. SPEARS. 


a 
I neveh did, seh; 


A Snake as Sign of Gentle Spring. 


New Bern, N. C., March 4.—Signs of spring are not 
wanting here. Robins and purple grackles have gone 
north. English snipe are coming in from the south. 
Frogs are piping on the marshy edges of the ponds. Last 


week a hand organ delighted the little “coons, and on 


Siinday girls in white muslin shirtwaists were sitting 
bareheaded on the porches. To-day I saw a swallow 
darting oyer a plowed field. And it these facts be not 
sufficiently convincing, I may add that on Saturday B. B. 
Mallison, of Pine Grové, about fifteen miles east of this 


town, brought in the skin of a rattlesnake which he had . 


killed on Wednesday. It is four inches in diameter and 
six feet long, exclusive of the rattles, of which there are 
eighteen. 


to kill it, being afraid to use a six-foot stick he had. 


' 


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of feathers each upon his perch. 


The snake showed so much fight and was so ~ 
aggressive that Mallison had to use a twelve-foot pole 


Slatuyal History. 


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Where Sparrows Sleep. 


Av the first touch of autumn the careful man dons a 
heavier suit of underwear and a light overcoat, and when 
winter begins to show his teeth, the woolens and the 
ulster are hauled out for service. Not only this, the 
furnace is started and the house made generally coni- 
fortable and a richer quality and more generous quantity 
of food indulged in. 

_With the birds of the air no such precautions are pos- 
sible, and as if conscious of this, the vast majority of 
them solve the problem by simply betaking themselves to 
a more genial climate. Why do the few remain? That 
1s a question that no naturalist can answer. 

We see the ptarmigan choosing to brave the terrors of 
the Arctic winter, and at every degree south some other 
variety choosing to put up with more or less cold and 
hunger when a flight of a few days might take them to 
comfort and plenty. Do they enjoy the cold? It would 
seem absurd to think so. Have they not intelligence 
enough to tell them that they can get away ftom it? 
That seems not at all probable in view of what we know 
of other birds. 

But the fact is, this whole question of migration or non- 


migration is very much of a mystery. If one bird changes 


its habitat with the seasons, why does not another? 
Doubtless the habits of birds in this regard were acquired 
millions of years ago, when conditions were very different 
from what they are now, but having no precise data as to 
these conditions, we cannot form an accurate opinion. 
The researches of science may some day throw light on 
the question, though it is hardly likely. 

_ However, what I wish to speak of now is the wonder- 
ful endurance of one familiar variety which remains with 
us during the winter. I refer to the house sparrow 
(Passer domesticus), erroneously called here the “Eng- 
lish” sparrow, it being, in fact, common to all Europe. 

_ For seven or eight months of the year this pervasive 
importation finds life generally very pleasant and easy, but 
one day in late November it begins to snow, and there- 
after with but few intermissions the winter is on the 
warpath with a vengeance. But P. domesticus does not 
lose heart. He faces the situation bravely and even cheer- 
fully. And remember what he has to do: he has to adapt 
himself physically without any additional covering or 
any more food—nay, much less—and without any more 
sheltered place to sleep, I say withottt any of these he 


has to adapt himself within a week or two to a fall of pos- 


sibly forty or fifty degrees in the temperature of the air. 
Why doesn’t he freeze up and die in a night? That is 
the wonder. , 
_ Far from succumbing to the sudden cold, he seems 
just as brisk and cheery as during the halcyon days of 
summer. He is about at the first peep of dawn. You 
will see him in the streets, in the back yards, on the 
decks of ferry boats—plowing through a snow heap, 
hopping in the frozen gutter, half-buried in an ash can— 
anywhere and everywhere, in fact, that there is a chance - 
of picking up a living. Let a boy fancying that he has 
grown tame with the cold and hunger, try to catch him 
and you will see what a fool he will make of that boy- 
Having satisfied his hunger (though this is by no means 
always possible), he will seek out some sunny or sheltered 
spot in the afternoon and sit there with a number of 
companions, preening himself and gossiping for an hour 
or more. He has always an eye out for his mortal enemy, 
the cat, and when he sees one he utters loud netes of 
alarm and defiance. , 
At the approach of night he is to be seen fitting hither 
and thither in search of a lodging. Perhaps the ther- 
mometer is not yery much above zero, and it excites one’s 
pity to think of the only lodging procurable by the anxious 
seeker. The eaves of a roof, the hole in a cornice, the 
opening over a porch, a crevice in a wall, a leafless vine 
or tuft of shrubbery—in some one of these must the night 
be passed. Let the man who raises such a storm because 
there is not enough heat in his room or his bed lacks 
sufficient covering just imagine P. domesticus sitting all 
night in one of the places mentioned. And then let him 
imagine him waking up to find no breakfast ready and 
perhaps half a foot of new-tfallen snow on the ground. 
Although P. domesticus is a canny bird, it would appear 
as if he lacked intelligence to do the best possible for his 
eomfort; otherwise his love of a certaiti roost niust be 
stronger than his love of comfort. In evidence of this, I 
may state a couple of facts with which I am familiar, 
On Brooklyn Heights there is what I may eall an alley- 
way made by two houses built close together, but not join- 
ing. It is completely exposed to the bay, and when it 
blows there is a perfect hurricane in the alley. while the 
cold, if it be winter, must be something terrific. Yet 
among the overspreading yines on one of the houses 
scores Of sparrows roost night after night, let the weather 


be what it may. 


Again, in the Battery Park, near the elevated railroad 
terminus and the Staten Island ferry, is a clump of 
shrubbery.. Here at nightfall, with a tremendous chaiter, 
as usual, there is another congregation of the little brown 


urchins, and when they have suited themselves with twigs 


(not often without a scrimmage) they go placidly to sleep, 


apparently regardless of the ceaseless roar of traffic and 


the glare of the electric lights. Pass there at any hour of 
the night and you will see them like so many little balls 
Tf the weather should 
be particularly severe, as in a blizzard, they crowd to- 
gether till four or five may be seen in a row. That some 
of them do not survive the night there can, of course, be 
no question. Yet we never see a dead sparrow. How 
is it? Perhaps the cat could tell. 

Tt seems that there is a consensus of opinion among 
naturalists that P. domesticus is a nuisance, and that his 
introduction into this country was a mistake. Indeed, a 


. most formidable indictment has been framed against him, 


and I fear it is only too true. But what are we going to 
do about it? I saw a short time ago in The Country 
Gentleman ‘a most elaborate description of a machine to 
trap sparrows. I confess it only made me smile. We 


are all familiar with devices to trap or circtiinvent flies, 


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yet I never could observe atty petceptible diminution tn 
the number of flies. Well, the sparrow, I fancy, could 
give points to the fly in the art of propagation. It has 
been computed, if my memory serve me frightly, by the 
official ornitholagist of the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington, that allawing for no mishaps or interrupticn 
to the course of nature, two sparrows will propagate in 
ten years to the number of 80000000! Supposing the 
sparrow were a fool, which he is very far from being, it 
would take quite a gocd many machines of the most in- 
genious pattern to cope with that rate of increase. 

No, we might as well make up our minds that P. 
domesticus is here to stay. That being so, and since he 
will not do what he was brought over to do, is there 
no use to which he can be put? The answer to this 
question ought to be obvious from what has been written 
above. Will not, in fact, P, domesticus serve as a shining 
example of cheerful philosophy and indomitableness under 
the most trying circumstances? Francis Moonan. 


A Winter Day at the Zoological 
Park. 


In winter the park of the New York Zoological So- 
ciety is not mtch frequented by visitors, and, except for 
the keepers and persons employed there, the animals do 
not see many people. Yet most of them are active and 
stirring about, and it is well worth while to make a jour- 
ney to the park to see them in their fine winter coats 
when the crisp air gives them an energy and an activity 
which they lose during the heats of summer. 

A few days ago two men from the further West spent 
a day there, to their great contentment. Soon after en- 
tering the park on Pelham avenue, they passed the white- 
tailed deer range, and before stopping to look at the 
deer, one of the animals close to the fence turned in 
feigned alarm and pitched away from them with the white- 
tailed deer’s well-known and rather ungainly high jump. 
A. little further on the bird house was traversed, and 
here were seen all the tropical fowl, which in summer 
make beautiful the flying cage, now occupied only by a 
few old crows and magpies. Beyond this, in the caribou 
range, were a bull and a cow lying down together in the 
snow; the bull had already lost his horns, but the cow 
retained hers; tiny, little, crooked stubs, which might 
easily be overlooked. Moose, alas, are none, for, though 
last summer there were half 2 dozen in the park, of which 
two or three were apparently in good condition, all have 
since died. No dotbt the trouble lies in the lack of proper 
food. In our Western country, cottonwood and willow 
form a large portion of the moose’s food, and seem to 
be necessary to its existence. Here, where cottonwood 
does not grow, one would think that silver poplar amd 
willow might be fed to moose in large quantities to great 
advantage. : 

Crossing the road, the elk are seen penned up in cor- 
rals about their house. They are ragged and shaggy in 
their winter coats, soon to be lost, The old bulls still 
carry their horns, and are thin in flesh, but the cows and 
calves seem in good case, though at this season by no 
means beautiful. Before yery long now the bulls will 
have dropped their horns, the long, top hair and woolly 
undercoats of winter will begin to fall off in patches, and 
by the time that the ground is warm and the green grass 
is springing, we shall see a herd of elk yellow, sleek, round 
and beautiful. 

At this season, wolves, coyotes and foxes are at their 
best. Their coats are heavy and smooth. On either side 
of the head of the great dog wolf in the small pen to 
the southward, stands out a huge ruff like that on a 
well-coated collie dog. The wolves are active, interested 
in life, funning and playing in their large inclosures. The 
foxes are more quiet and more suspicious. A dozen red 
ones were curled up on the snow bank at the back of 
their inclosure apparently asleep. So too the gray foxes 
in the next inclosure sleep on the top of their house. 
There are three dens of coyotes—shy and suspicious of 
the visitor. One inclosure contains specimens from the 
Southwest and two those from the Middle West. Of 
those from the Southwest several are dark and reddish, of 
a color between that which in a setter dog would be 
called orange. There are two black coyotes. 

The reptile house is interesting, as always, yet winter 
is not the best time to visit it, since snakes, tortoises and 
lizards are more or Jess sluggish. The monster python, 25 
feet long, or thereabouts, seems recently to have shed 
his skin, and glistens in the light like polished metal. 
Other snakes were in process of shedding, and this was a 
surprise to the yisitors, who imagined that snakes com- 
monly shed their skins at some time during the summer. 

Passing by the noisy sea lions, and with merely a 
glance at the bears, which to some of us are more attrac- 
tive even than the monkeys, the two men passed on to 
the buffalo range. Most of the animals, including a 
calf and a yearling, were in a pen, on the low ground; 
but out in the open, in a-flat under the hill which rises 
to the westward, were three or four buffalo, one of them a 
big bull. This one soon proceeded to furnish an exhibi- 
tion, which alone “was worth the price of admission.’ 
He walked slowly up toa group of trees and brush, grow- 
ing just under the ridge of rocks, and there began to 
fight a bush. The yielding branches offered no resistance 
and barely scratched his head. Two or three times he 
backed off and charged the bush, and the last time kept on 
through it, galloping madly along for a hundred yards. 
As he ascended a little hill he slowed down to a trot, and 
with head high in air, turned and looked back over his 
shoulder, Then he stopped, wheeled about, and at top 
speed charged back toward one of the other buffalo, which 
did not await his approach, but raced away. ‘The bull 
now turned and running to the hill near where the trees 
stood, sank on his knees, and plunging his head into a 
deep snowdrift that was there, tore it up with his horns, 
rubbing his head backward and forward and making the 
snow fly in every direction. Again he got up and fought 
the bushes and rushed hither and thither, bounding into 
the air, kicking out with his hind feet, and racing to and 
fro, until his tongue hung far out of his mouth, and the 
great white streams of steam which poured from his 
nostrils showed how he was panting. He seems to be in 
_ as high spirits and to have no more sense of his dignity 
and ponderosity than a three weeks’ old kid would have 
had, 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


The sight carried the minds of the two men back twen- 
ty-five ot thirty years, to a day when scenes such as this 
might have been seen in many places on the treeless 
prairies of the West; and the good spirits and pure de- 
light which this old bull showed in his freedom seemed 
to them about the finest testimonial to the good work of 
the New York Zoological Society that they had seen or 
heard of. 

More interesting to most people than anything else in 
the park are the bear dens, where nearly thirty specimens 
are confined. These represent ten or a dozen species, all 
of which are in beautiful coat and condition. To the 
average man the polar bears, with their fine thin heads, 
their long, seal-like necks, and their huge limbs, and feet 
so covered with hair that claws and soles are hardly 
visible, are perhaps the most impressive. Yet to the 
Western men, the bears here called Kadiak seemed better 
worth study and examination, They are not yet quite as 
big as haystacks, but on the other hand they are only 
three years old, and there are still greater possibilities 
for them in the way of growth, One of them, the male, 
seemed half again as large as a grizzly bear of the same 
age. They are short-headed and short-necked and high- 
shouldered; very impressive beasts. 

Most of the black bears, whether of the black or brown 
form, are singularly beautiful at this season of the 
year. Their coats are heavy, smooth and glossy, and each 
hair seems to stand up on end with a rigidity that makes 
the fur seem smooth and eyen, where the coat of the 
grizzly is merely shaggy and rough. It was noted that 
the bears, though seeming to be in superb condition, did 
not appear hungry, The food given them was wisely 
chosen for variety. Bread and meat and fish and carrots 
and apples were offered them, but most of them merely 
dallied with their food. Perhaps the season of the year 
had something to do with this, for at this time, under 
natural conditions, most of them would have been hiher- 
nating. 

In the mountain sheep inclosures were two fine speci- 
mens of aoudad, and one of them, perched on the 
highest pinnacle of a miniature mountain, stood and 
looked off over the country, in a way to bring up to the 
mind of the Western men a contemplative bighorn on 
the_point of some bad land bluff. Next to these were a 
pair of tahr, curious goat-like animals from Asia, but 
bearing on their heads sabres rather than horns, for the 
keen-cutting edge of the horn was directed forward. Next 
to these again are a pair of moufflons, male and female, 
from southern Europe, wonderfully bighorn-like in build, 
but very small in size. They were confident little beasts, 
and the male stood contentedly on his hind legs support- 
ing his forefeet on the wites of his inclosure, while his 
friend scratched his head and rubbed his neek until they 
were tired and had to go. Parting the long brittle hair, 
which, except in color, closely resembles that of the Amer- 
ican mountain sheep, the same coat of wool is found next 
the skin, and tindoubtedly three months later, when the 
animal has shed, several ounces of this may be collected 
in the pen. 

The primate house is well supplied with monkeys, apes 
and baboons. Many of them are interesting and beauti- 
ful specimens, and for any one who has the time to 
devote to watching them, something of interest will be 
found to happen every few moments; but the Western 
men's time had run out, and they wete obliged to leave 
to catch their train. 


The Horned Snake. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of the 4th ult. Stanstead states that he 
once had a reptile of the above designation in his pos- 
session, but that he lost his prize by the carelessness of a 
servant. Stanstead also states that the existence of the 
reptile in question is commonly looked upon as a myth. 

Now, I am happy to inform your correspondent that 
there is nothing mythical whateyer about the existence of 
such a reptile, for I have myself had ocular evidence of 
the fact, and a neighbor of mine—an experienced sports- 
man and close observer of nature—assures me that he has 
met with three of these snakes during his hunting trips. 

Some years ago a boy had on exhibition in the streets 
of Winchester, Va., one of these reptiles, which he had 
confined in a box with a glass lid. The snake looked 
like the common black snake, except that it was of a paler 
or more ashy hue. It was apparently about 2% feet in 
length. At the end of its tail was a horny or bony ap- 
pendage of the size, shape and sharpness of an ordinary 
darning needle, the extreme tip being as white and as 
hard as ivory, constituting a most formidable looking 
weapon. However, as well as I recollect, the boy did not 
state that the reptile attempted to use this caudal ap- 
pendage offensively when he attempted its capture. To 
me this horn, spur or thorn had the appearance of an 
abnormal prolongation of the last caudal vertebra. 

Dr. A. WALL. 


Wooprow, W. Va. 


[That there are snakes with horns, thorns, spikes or 
spurs on the ends of their tails admits of no doubt; but 


the trouble with all the stories about such snakes is that . 


the purpose of this hard, sharp-pointed extremity is mis- 
conceived, The business end of a snake is not in his 
tail, but in his head, and no known snake uses his sharp- 
pointed tail, if he possesses one, as a weapon, either of 
offense or defense. 

Yet the horned snake and hoop snake stories are old in 
this country. Thus Lawson, whose “History of Carolina” 
was published in_1707, says: “Of the Horn Snake, I 
never saw but two that I remember. They are like the 
Rattle Snake in Color but rather lighter. They hiss ex- 
actly like a Goose when anything approaches them, They 
strike at their Enemy with their Tail, and lall whatsoever 
they wound with it, which is armed at the End with a 
Horny Substance like a Cock’s Spur. This is their 
Weapon. I have heard it creditably reported by those 
who said they were Eye-Witnesses, that a small Locust 
Tree about the Thickness of a Man’s Arm being struck 
by one of these Snakes at ten o’clock in the Morning then 
verdant and flourishing, at four in the Afternoon was 
dead and the Leaves dead and withered. Doubtless be it 
how it will, they are very venomous. I think the Indians 
do. not pretend to cure their wound.” 

Col. Beverly in his “History of Virginia” (1722) says: 


-monly called a bobcat. 


“There is likewise a Horned Snake, so called from a 

atp Horn it carries in its Tail with which it assaults 
anything that offends it, with that Force that, as it is 
sald, it will stick its Tail into the Butt End of a Musket - 


. from whence it is tot able to disengage itself.” 


Catesby in 1731 speaks of this Southern snake as “water 
viper’ or “water rattlesnake,’ but adds: “Not that i+ 
hath a Rattle. The Tail of this Viper is small toward 
the End and terminates in a blunt horny Point about 
half an inch long. This harmless little Thing -has given 
a dreadful Character to its Owner, imposing a Belief on 
the Credulous that he is the terrible Horn Snake armed 
with Death at both Ends, thus attributing to him another 
instrument of Death besides that he had before, though in 
reality of equal Truth with that of the Two-headed 
Amphisbaena. Yet we are told that this fatal Horn by a 
Jerk of the Tail not only mortally wounds men and other 
Animals, but if by Chance struck into a young tree, whose 
Bark is more easily penetrated than an old one, the Tree 
instantly withers, and turns black and dies.” 

Perhaps the best known of North American snakes with 
sharp, hard-pointed tails is the familiar water moccasin 
often called cotton mouth (Ancistrodon piscivorus), but 
indeed the sharp-pointed tail of both the copperhead and 
moccasin is spiny. Dr. Cope says: “The last of the 
caudal yertebre consists of an osseous splint with acute 
apex, which is ensheathed in three modified scales, two 
above and one below, which is better developed than in 
most harmless snakes.” There we have the horn, which, 
however, is not confined to the venomous snakes which 
belong to this genus. A well-known South American 
snake of Guiana and Brazil, known as the bushmaster, has 
also a horny point to his tail. 

It is well known that many snakes, big and little, 
venomous and harmless, have the habit of very rapidly 
vibrating the tail from side to side, This habit may 
be in a measure protective, since the swiftly vibrating 
tail, striking dry leaves, dry grass or weed stems and 
other objects, makes a rattling or buzzing noise, which 


“warns those approaching it of its presence. Prof, O, P, 


Hay quotes Dr. Suckley concerning the fox snake, ot 
pilot snake, of Minnesota, a wholly innocent species, as 
Saying that when provoked it shows its irritation by 
vibrating the tip of its slender tail, which when sttiking 
a crumpled leaf or any other small object, produces a 
well-marked rattling noise, very similar to that made by 
the rattlesnake under the same circumstances. Other 
naturalists have made the same observation as to this 
and other notoriously harmless snakes, and it is a com- 
mon thing, if one discovers a black snake in the sum- 
mer before the creature is alarmed, for the snake to lie 
watching the observer and to wriggle its tail rapidly 
against the surrounding vegetation. This it seems to 
do as naturally as it thrusts out its tongue. 

_ Eminent authorities have suggested that the swift vibra- 
tions of the tail of copperhead and moccasin suggest an 
approach to the rattle of their close relation, the rattle- 
snake. But is it necessary to go as far as this? It would 
almost seem that the vibration of a snake’s tail, while, of 
course, under many circumstances a warning of its 
presence, is really more a sign of alertness, and shows 
the creature to be prepared for whatever may turn up, 
either for swift attack or rapid retreat, Indeed, Prof. 
Shaler has spoken of this movement of the tail as “an out- 
let for suppressed energy,” and this in fact may perhaps 
be just what it is, Even the great snakes, such as ttie 
pythons and boas, vibrate the tail. Of course, however, 
the tail’s chief use is as an organ of locomotion or pre- 


hension.] 
A Winter Ride. 
FERRIspurRGH, Vt., March 2.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The other day I drove from home to Barte, a 


distance of about forty-eight miles. The road winds 
around through the woods at the foot of Camel's Hump, 
and as I was driving along I noticed a track which I 
supposed at first to be that of a cow, but after stopping 
and examining the tracks, I found them to be those of 2 
deer, On a piece further I found where it had dropped 
sign that was still steaming. 

As I drove along, the road turned quite sharp, and 
going down a little hill I met a fox, I stopped, and he 
turning out gave me a wide berth, and the snow being 
quite deep he came back into the road and went on his 
way up the road out of sight. 

This road is one of the prettiest drives in Vermont: 
a large, noisy brook on one side of it, and majestic old 
Tah-wah-be-de-e-wad-so on the other. ; 

Then, as you leave the little village of Huntington, you 
go up over a hill, covered very thick with maple trees, and 
down into Jonesville. As I was riding along through 
this piece of maple woods I noticed a peculiar track, a 
good deal like a rabbit's, only much larger, going along 
in the ditch. As it was going my way, I noticed that it 
looked real fresh, and as I went over the brow of the 
hill, looking about forty rods ahead, I saw a lynx, com- _ 
As soon as he heard the bells he 
sprang to one side and disappeared in the underbrtish. 

‘When I reached the spot he was nowhere to be seen. 
The track showed he was walking when he heard me 
coming, and the distance from where he left the road 
to where he landed was over fifteen feet, which I care- 
fully paced, going nearly to my waist in the snow in 
order to do it. 

I have seen bobcats stuffed and live ones on exhibition 
at shows, but I never saw one that looked as large. 

Leon Cutler, of North Montpelier, told me that there 
had been near his home an open piece of water down on 
the Branch, which runs into the Winooski River, where 
several black dueks had stayed all winter. 

‘When on the way home I was on the lookout for the 
deer tracks I had seen, when I happened to look up on 
the side of the hill some distance off, when something 
caught my eye. I stopped and watched it for a few 
minutes. 

At first I thought it was a rock or stump, but all of a 
sudden it moved, and I saw it was a large buck deer, 
As he raised his head I could see the horns distinctly 
outlined against the snow. vali 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


: Is The Mother Grouse Courageous? 


Aut the wild birds seem more or less cotirageous in 
protecting their young. Certainly they are not indifferent 
to a threatened danger. ; 

When the writer was a child she lived for. a time on 
the prairies of Illinois. There were still a-few acres of 
virgin prairfe untouched by the plow. 

These places and the ponds that 
drained away were very Arcadias for grouse, quail, geese, 
ducks, brant, cranes and other birds. The farms, too, were 
still inhabited by these wild birds. 

This child had been longing to see a baby grouse when, 
one day in early summer, a mother grouse frightened by 
a hawk ran into the yard and right past the child, who 


lost no time in gathering up one of the little birds. Then | 


eame that warning cry of the mother bird, and almost 
instantly every little, green, fluffy ball had disappeared 
from view. 

The mother bird now came flying at the captor of her 
baby, who,.having heard wonderful tales of people losing 
their eyes in battles with cranes, and not being minded 
to lose her own while there was so much in the world to 
see, instantly set the little bird down and retreated to a 
safe distance. 

The mother bird new calling her brood about her, ran 
across the yard, through the fence and disappeared in 
the tall prairie grass beyond. 

Most wild birds are, so far as my observation goes, 
timid when danger threatens nest and eggs, but when that 
danger comes to their young they at once assume the 
defensive, Mrs. James Epwin Morrts. 


Foxes Kill Muskrats. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I learned this fall that a fox will catch and eat musk- 
rats. I did not see him in the act, but read it in the 
snow. As soon as the snow fell so tracks could be seen, 
one saw that the foxes were following along still waters 
and coves. Tracks that were followed would go from 
cove to another as a mink might. 

On Dec. 1 I found a hole in the ice near the bank of a 
cove. On one side the tracks of a fox showed he had 
stood there as though he had watched the hole as a cat 
would for a mouse. I think he heard the muskrat under 
the thin ice and waited for him to appear. From the hole 
the tracks led to a place three rods away, where the snow 
was trodden down. There, buried in the snow, was found 
the intestines and a square inch of fur of a muskrat. The 
fox had come back three ot four times to eat. 

Several days after, a quarter of a mile away, I found the 
intestines of another muskrat, but could not trace the fox 
tracks back to a cove several rods away, where he must 
have been caught. 

Since about Jan. 1, when the coves became well frozen 
and covered with ice and snow, the foxes have not noticed 
them, but cross right over and hunt for the moles—their 
main food——which they can find under a foot and a half of 
snow. E. A. SPEARS. 


The Adirondack Forests. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I was very much impressed with the clean-cut letter of 
Mr. J, R. Spears, of Northwood, N. Y., on the matter 
of forest protection, and your timely editorial comments 
on the subject in Forest AND STREAM last week. 

For several years, in fact ever since the adoption of the 
new State Constitution; in which was incorporated a 
section which has been the bulwark of forest protection, 
there seems to have been a decided itching on the part 
of certain officials to undo the good work of the con- 
stitutional convention, and open the doors to forest de- 
struction, or in other words to get back to the old order 
of things. 

Tactics of this same sort were resorted to a few years 
ago, and an amendment that had the sanction of the 
Forest Commission was put before the people of our 
State, and almost unanimously black-balled. 

True, the Forest Commission people just after the elec- 
tion at which the proposed amendment received such a 
severe drubbing denied all responsibility for the “crea- 
ture,” but every one knew that it did emanate from the 
office of that body, and bore its official ear marks. 

The matter of scientific forestry on which these gen~ 
tlemen harp so delightfully is a mighty big one, and one 
in which we should “make haste slowly.” 

Were it possible at this time to have forestry conducted: 
in this country in the same manner and with the same 
degree of honesty as in Germany, there would be some 
sense in making the trial, but reasoning from past bitter 
experiences, we may judge of what would happen if the 
doors were thrown open to the pulp mill and lumber men- 

It is very much to be regretted that the Forest, Game: 
and Fisheries Commission seems inclined to pave the: 
way to further injury and destruction of our public for- 
ests tinder the gttise of scientific forestry, but I trust 
that the members of that body have been misquoted im 
the premises, and that they have no intention to aid the 
work of destruction. 

That shrewd, but very plain-spoken gentleman, Senator 
Commodore P, Vedder, once remarked that he knew of 
only one thing more dangerous to_the welfare of our 
Adirondack forests than a forest fire, and that was a 
forest commission. 

Let tis hope that no member of the present Commission 
ot any of its officers will go out of his way to prove 
to us that the Commodore knew just what-he was talking 
about. 

When the last proposed amendment looking to the 
open-door idea came before the people, Forest AND 
Stream, the New York World and several other papers, 
under the headlines “Vote No and Save the Forests,” did 
noble work in the interests of forest preservation, and I 
trust that the same shibboleth will be the rallying cry 
should this “scientific forestry” idea show up again this 
year. 
< Our forests managed to get through all Fight for sev- 
eral thousand years, without the aid of the pulp mills, the 
lumbermen or the “scientific foresters,’ and they may 
possibly continue to do so for many years to come. z 

The Adirondack forest park is the whole people's 


had not yet been. 


bard the next year proved a great convenience. 


recreation ground, the State is abundantly able to keep 

it and cate for it without receiving reventie from it, and 

there is no more sense in lumbering these lands by the 
State than there would be for the city of New York to 

conduct lumbering operations in Van Cortlandt or Pel- 

ham Bay parks. M. ScHENCcK. 
New York, March 1. 


The Pasturing of Woodlands. 


Cuurcuymie, Md., March 2—Editor Forest and 


Stream: I notice in your issue of March 1 a paper by 
Mr. Henry Stewart, of Highlands, N. C., on the 
“Browsing Habit of Game.” He seems to advocate the 
pasturing of woodlands, My experience in such matters 
goes to show that the destruction by such pasturage is 
enormous. Anyhow, it is in my State (Maryland). 
When a piece of timber is cut off, or partly cut off, great 
eare should be taken to keep the cattle out till the young 
growth gets to be ten or twelve feet high, or too high for 
the cattle to reach the limbs. If this is not done there 
will be no second growth. Then when the young trees 
are safely out of their way, if you turn them in you will 
never have another crop after that one; the ground under 
the young trees will be kept as clean as a field. You see 
this sort of thing all through central and western Ohio. 
The woods are cleaned up of everything except the 
growth too big to be damaged, and I have often wondered 
where the next crop of timber is coming from in that 
country, You can see the same thing in Maryland in 
places where the woods are used for pasture, Pasturing 
woodlands is death to a continuous crop. It may be 
different in North Carolina, but I don’t believe it. 
know of several valuable locust plantations that have 
been absolutely lost by allowing cattle to pasture while 
the young suckers were coming on, while if the cattle had 
been kept out, the second crop of locust in twenty years 
would have been as yaluable as the first one. 
ALBERT NEILson. 


Gane Bag and Gun. 
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them in Forest AND STREAM. by 


A Big-Game Hunting Trip to 
_ Jackson’s Hole Country. 


In Two Parts—Patt One. 


To those who anticipate a literary-treat in the following 


sé a3 


I will say you might as well stop here, as you 
will be doomed to disappointment. If you don’t believe 
me, just read on. It is not to you that I have written this 
journal of our trip, but rather to those who have under 
contemplation a trip similar to that taken by us, in the 
hope that it may serve to give you a fuller conception of 
the hunting conditions in that part of the country as they 
exist at this time, and in the hope that it may serve to 
assist you in your arrangements for such a trip, 

First, a few words of advice may not come amiss, 

If you want a successful and pleasant hunt, be sure you 
arrange with a good responsible guide of that section be- 
fore you go; of these there are plenty, but there are also 
plenty of others, viz., those who are not responsible, and 
doubtless the latter has been the lot of some of the writers 
of some of the articles I have read in the Forest AND 
SrreaM, wherein the license law and non-resident guide 
law has been strongly condemned. If you will engage a 
good responsible guide before you go, 1 can safely assure 
you you will come back from the mountain after a suc- 
cessful trip, and with none but the most pleasant recol- 
lections coupled with a desire to go again. After you 
have corresponded with and engaged a good guide, the 
next thing is to get together the things you may need. 
First, after a good gun, one you are familiar with, a 
good field glass and camera or kodak, you want a war 
bag, in which you carry your ammunition and such other 
things as you may want while in camp; a list of these 
articles will depend altogether on the factitiousmess of the 
user, but don’t forget a change of clothing, a good water- 
proof riding coat, a good wide-brim felt hat, a pair of 
gum boots, and last, but not the least important, a gun 
scabbard. On our first trip we carried gum boots, and 
being favored with fine weather had no use for them; the 
next year we did not take them, and many a wet, dis- 
agreeable walk and ride we had for our neglect. On our 
first trip we had no gun scabbard, and were compelled to 
tie our guns to our saddle with straps, A gun scab- 
These 
may be had from any sporting goods dealer at but small 
cost. Next, if at all possible, do a little horseback riding 
before you go, I need not try to describe one’s feelings, 
or rather the lack of feeling, in his legs, during the 
first few days after being in the saddle for about eight 
hours each day, especially if it has been ten or twenty 
years since you have been astride of a horse. 

Next, be sure you carry a good camp mattress, either 
air or hair—I use the latter—and plenty of heavy blankets 
and sleeping bag. Don’t forget the former. JI have a 
sleeping bag made by one of the best known houses, who 
advertise if “good to sleep in in a snowdrift.’ Well, I 
have tried it, and while that may be true, I know it 
would also be a good thing to freeze in in a snowdrift if 
without extra blankets. You can dispense with a mattress 
if you care to sleep on the bare ground, or spend an 
hour gathering spruce boughs every evening, aiter a hard 
day's hunt, but I found, as a writer has said, “There are 
plenty of opportunities to show your mettle in more 
worthy and less injurious ways than sleeping on the 
hard ground with insufficient bedding.” I tried the 
spruce-bough bed on my first trip, and spent many a 
comfortless night, but on our last trip ottr beds con- 
sisted each of a canvas ground cloth, a hair mattress 
about four inches thick and thirty inches wide by seventy- 
two inches long, sleeping bag, and.one big, heavy blanket, 
folded and laid inside the sleeping bag. When pack- 
ing, the whole rolled up in two bundles about twelve 


inches in diameter by thirty inches long, and in them we 
slept as snug as at home, even when covered to a depth 
of ten inches with snow, -but to this we will refer later. 

Now, to the weather, both September and October are 
delightful months in the Rocky Mountains, but if you 
want to be comfortable, go prepared for any and all kinds 
of weather, from bright simmer days to rain, sleet and 
Western blizzards, . 

Some reader may say, “This fellow’s lost,” as I seem 
to be so long getting started on my description of our 

hunt, but am reminded of the preacher, who, while being 
about to launch into a theme, as vast as this one seems to 
me to be, who said, that he felt like the Indian who was 
wandering on the prairie, who, when asked if he was 
lost, said, “No Indian no lost; tepee lost.’ My mind is 
not lost, it is the inability of my pen to keep pace with 
my thoughts. But to get to our hunting trip. 

When the 11:50 A. M. train on the Oregon Short Line 
Railroad arrived at St, Anthony, Idaho, on Monday, Aug. 
22, last year, my friend, W, W. Porch, and I stepped 
down from the car and were greeted by Mr. Yeager, the 
liveryman, with whom we had arranged to take us out to 
Jackson’s Hole, After going to the City Hotel for din- 
ner, and there donning our hunting clothes, we departed 
at 2:30 P. M. in a four-horse spring wagon, with our 
camp baggage. Stopping at “‘Little’s” for supper, we 
arrived at Victor at midnight, having driven sixty miles. 
_ At that place we were met by Abe Ward, and with him 
we departed the next morning, and were soon climbing 
the western slope of Teton Pass, and at 1:30 P. M. we 
were in Jackson’s Hole, ninety miles distant from the 
railroad, and went at once to “Recreation Lodge,’ where 
we were warmly welcomed by its owner, S. N. Leak, 
whom we had previously engaged as our guide. During 
the evening we were called on by Chas. Wilson, who 
was to act as the other guide, and Abe Ward, who was 
engaged as our camp cook, and good ones they each 
proved to be. 

We commenced packing up our outfit early the next 
morning, but it was 2 P. M, before all was in readiness 
to start, at which time, however, we bid farewell to 
civilization and “hit the trail” for the mountains proper. 
Our outfit consisted of Porch, my companion, our two 
guides and our cainp cook; in addition to a saddle horse 
each, we had nine paek horses, on which we had packed 
one camp tent, our beds, war bags, aluminum tableware, 
cooking utensils and thirty days’ provisions. We traveled 
north along the Snake River to the mouth of the Gros 
Ventre River, where we went into camp for the night. 

We tried our luck at trout fishing, but concluded bacon 
was a more healthy diet for supper and breakfast than 
trout. tA 


The next morning found us up with the sun, and about 
8 o'clock we broke camp, Porch and I riding ahead of 
the outfit some ten miles to Antelope Springs, along 
the Snake River, where we waited until they came up 

.and then lunched together. Our pack horses all run loose, 
one man riding in the lead, the pack horses following 
after, while the other two men bring up the rear, chasing 
up the stragglers and keeping them on the trail. 

After lunch we again rode along Snake River, crossing 
Buffalo Creek, later on Pacific Creek, then up the latter 
about one mile, where we went into camp in a nice little 
open park, with plenty of feed for the horses, being then 
in the mountains proper, having left all wagon roads and 
following along an old trail with no ranches or other 
evidence of civilization before ts, we having passed the 
last ranch, Cunningham’s, about five miles back during 
the afternoon. 

It was while passing there that Leak told us of a little 
incident that took place there some five years previous. 
It seems that two horse thieves had stolen fifty-five head 
of horses and were wintering them at a little ranch near 
where Cunningham’s stands; they were located and a 
deputy sheriff and three assistants came into Jackson’s 
Hole to arrest them, calling on another deputy to assist 
in serving the warrant, He deputized seven other men 
to assist. The posse got into the barn during the night 
(a long, low, sod-roof shed), and identified a number of 
the horses. 

Early the next morning a demand was made to the 
thieves to surrender, which they declined to do, and a 
little scrimmage followed, which resulted in the officers 
returning to the Hole in the afternoon, taking with them 
the stolen horses, but not until they had first made two 
excavations about six feet long in the earth along the 
trail. The horse corral is still standing, but the posts 
put in to mark the spots have rotted down and lie on 
the ground, 

During the night it commenced to rain, and kept it up 
until about 11:30 A. M., when we packed up and again 
hit the trail, Porch and I riding ahead, following an old 
game trail until about 2:30 P, M.,; when the pack outfit 
caught up with us, We continued along Pacific Creek 
until about 4:30 P. M., when we went into camp. The 
rain the previous night warned us that no matter how 
bright an evening, it was best to prepare for any change 
that might take place during the night, so we again put 
up our tent. 

The next morning we broke camp about 9:30. We left 
Pacific Creek and started up over the Divide through dead 
and fallen timber, and up deep gulches to the top of 
the Divide between Pacific and Buffalo creeks, then 
down the other side until about 7 P, M., when we arrived 
at our permanent camp site on the North Fork of Buffalo 
Creek, some ninety miles from the ranch. 

We selected an ideal spot about one hundred yards 
from the creek, for our camp, with a stream of mountain 
water running right by the camp. We put up our tent 
just at the edge of the timber facing the east, so we 
would get the morning sun in and around camp, and yet 
have shade all the afternoon. 

Porch and I went to a little lake near the camp and 
shot three ducks, which we added to our menu. After 
putting up camp, Leak went down to the creek and 


. caught two strings of nice mountain trout, which we 


ate for supper, and went to bed feeling well satisfied that 
we had at last reached the end of our long journey, and 
dreamed that elk, grizzlies and all other kinds of big 
game were on all sides of us. 
The following morning after a late breakfast we cleaned 
up a little and then left camp on a prospecting tour, Porch 
and Charley going south and into the mountains, and 


Leak and I going north, intending to clitnb to the top 
of one of the high peaks near camp so as to get a good 
view of the surtounding cotntty. We tode for about 
two hours, or until it got so steep we could not ride 
further, then dismounted and by leading the horses and 


zigzag climbing back and forth, we at last got on the 


first bench. I climbed over to another higher bench, and 
Leak took my picture while standing there on a flat top 
about 100 feet square, and one side straight down at least 
1,000 feet. I decided to climb up to the next higher 
peak, and at last succeeded. The side up which I climbed 
was at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and entirely 
barren; when I succeeded in getting to the top I found 
it ran to a sharp point, and the other side a perpendicu- 
lar wall at least 2,000 feet straight down to the bottom 
of the cafion. One look was enough to convince me 
that unless I got off that top quick it would surely break 
off with me and let me down, even if the rock on which 
I stood was several hundred feet thick, 

I quickly descended and told Leak if that was the kind 
of climbing necessary to get mountain sheep, I didn’t want 
any. We sat down on the bench where we had left the 
horses to view the country, which we could see for 
miles in all directtons, and soon saw a bunch of elk move 
up the opposite side of a gulch about a mile distant and 
go into a bunch of timber near the top. We then got our 
horses down off of the bench by passing arotind to the 
opposite side and leading them along the side of the 
mountain until we got to a more even part, and then 
mounted and rode to the foot of the highest peak, where 
we left the horses and climbed on up to the top; we 
found it in shape similar to the top of a haystack, solid 
rock and concrete, without any vegetation or soil what- 
ever, and from there we got some fine yiews: We could 
see the great Tetons some fifty miles distant; Mt. Liddy, 
about the same distance, which I climbed about one 


bull cane oul, following up the fear As they tistially do, 
We were about one-third mile distant, and from what 
we could see he had a fine big head; we slipped down 
the edge of the park, and while doing so the elk went 
back into the timber. Soon we thought we saw them at 
the lower edge of the adjoining park, with heads up and 
showing alarm, Leak says, “I can’t think they could have 
gotten our wind,” but in a moment they started on 4 
run and passed out of sight. 

We stood a few moments and out of the timber on. the 
opposite side of the park, less than one hundred yards 
from us, trotted a coyote, and Leak says, “That's what 
scared out our elk.’ The coyote stopped, looked at us 
a few minutes while we stood perfectly still; he then 
ran back into the timber, and in a moment caime out again 
with another old one and a small one, and the three 
trotted across the park in plain sight of us, not seventy- 
five yards distant. A beautiful chance to-get three of 
them, but our elk were near, and we did not shoot, for 
fear of scaring them. We then walked across the park, 
and looking across the gulch saw two Indians sitting on 
the side of the gulch to the windward of where the elk 
were, so knew at once that the elk had gotten their wind 
and had been frightened away by them. 

Leak says, “Well, they have spoiled our fun.” 

We turned, went back across the park, up the hill just 
at the top of which was the edge of the other park, and 
right there not twenty-five feet away from us was our 
first bunch of elk, including the bull, but just as I was 
ready to shoot a qttick look at his head told me he was a 
five-point, with one brow prong broken off, so I didn’t 
want him. There were about twenty-five elk in the bunch, 
and we stood and watched them run off, ahd thought it 
a pretty sight. We then walked on across the park, up 
the side of the ridge, and just as we got to the edge of 
the timber near the top of the ridge, out came both 


BEAR CAMP ON THE NORTH FORK OF BUFFALO CREEK, SHOSHONE MOUNTAINS, 


year ago; North Fork and South Fork of Buffalo Creek; 
Pacific Creek; Eno’s Lake, several miles long; Two Ocean 
Pass; Continental Divide, and stretching north and south 
for miles, the Shoshone Range Mountains. — : 

We remained for some time, and were sorry when the 
sun nearing the western horizon warned us that unless we 
wanted to stay out in the mountains over night we must 
retrace our steps. We descended and crossed over to 
the other side of the cafion and rode down into the 
timber, into which we had seen the elk go, and soon 
came in sight of them. I quickly dismounted and fired 
three times at the biggest one, but missed him. Soon 
after our return to camp Porch and Charley came in, 
bringing a nice big pair of antlers and a good supply of 
elk meat, which Porch had shot on their trip. 

We had decided in the morning that as it was our first 
day in ‘camp, that we would not do any hunting, but 
spend the day in prospecting, but that if any big elk 
or bear should attempt to run over us, we should, of 
course, be permitted to “shoot it in self-defense.” 

When they came in the first thing Porch said was, “I 
had to shoot him in self-defense.” 

Be this as it may, we welcomed the fresh meat in 
camp aiter having lived four days on bacon. The next 
morning Porch and Charley remained in camp until noon 
to clean up his elk head, while Leak and I rode up the 

ulch to the top of the Divide, between Buffalo and 

acific creeks, and soon got on the trail of a small bunch 
of elk, seemingly about ten head. 

We rode along after them a short distance, and then 
dismounted, leaving our horses, and started on the trail 
on a still-hunt,’ following them for some two miles 
through timber into and across little open parks and up a 
gulch; after a time we could smell them and see by 
the trail that we were getting close; then we heard them, 
and finally came in sight of them just as they were cross- 
ing an open park. We ran forward, and I had a fine 
chance for a shot, but there were no nice heads, so we 
leit them and returned to our horses. 

We saw lots of signs, but followcd no more trails 
until about noon, when we left our horses and started 
again on a still-hunt; after walking some distance we sat 
down on the top of a high butte overlooking two small 
parks. There are lots of these little open places all 
through that country. They are in size from a few 
yards in circumference up to several acres, and look just 
as if a little spot in the timber had been cleared off and 
sown with grass. On all sides are heavy timber, while 
the park is covered with nice long grass. We soon 
saw an elk come out of the timber into the edge of the 
nearest park, soon another and another, until there were 
about one dozen; at least, what we thought was a big 


bunches of the elk we had seen, fifty-eight in all, and 
only the one small bull with the broken horns; they all ran 
close by us into the open, and stopped not twenty-five 
yards away, while we stood perfectly still. They stood a 
moment, then walked on a short distance, stopped and 
looked at us, then on again, etc., until some two hundred 
yards away, before they started to run. If I had thought, 
I could have gotten a fine kodak picture, but under these 
circumstances one does not think of all the things we do 
afterward. Instinct seemed to tell them that we would 
not harm them. One might spend many weeks in the 
mountains before getting three such sights inside of an 
hour, After they disappeared over the brow of the hill, 
we climbed to the top and watched them with the glass 
for a couple of miles, then walked around the summit, but 
saw no further signs of game, and went back to our 
horses. We rode all the afternoon and saw no mote 
game, but saw plenty of signs of elk and bear. We 
knocked over two grouse with stones, and took them 
along in to camp for breakfast. 

Porch and Charley had gotten in before us, having 
seen more elk, but no nice heads! and having shot the 
heads off three grouse. 

The next morning we found it raining, having rained 
all night, and at 9 o'clock it looked as if we might get 
out within an hour or so, so decided to get the horses 
ready, and left camp about to o'clock and rode about 
two miles out, when we saw a coyote. I got off and 
tried to get him, but the distance being about two hun- 
dred yards, it seemed he wasn’t big enough for my 
sights; at any rate, he ran away, and for aught I know 
is still going, although the ball struck the log on which 
he was standing. We again mounted our horses and 
rode over as rough country as I was ever in, through 
heavy green, dead and down timber, and over one ridge 
after another, until about 1 o'clock, when we got sight of 
two young buck elk, with small heads, but did not want 
them. Soon after we dismounted and tied wp our horses 
and started walking; we stopped under a tree just as it 
commenced to rain and ate our lunch of cheese sand- 
wiches, cold chicken and loaf sugar. Soon the heavens 
clouded up, and we heard the wind roaring up the cafion, 
then nearer it came. 

Leak says, “We better get to green timber,” and soon 
we were under a cluster of big green trees. 

We saw the dead trees shake along the side of the 
cafion; soon one fell, then another, and another, until 
they came crashing down on all sides of us. Then it com- 
menced to hail, and kept up a steady down-pour until 
the ground was covered an inch déep; then it got 
cold, and we soon got wet. We walked awhile, and then 
stopped and built a fire and dried off our clothes, then 


[Maret 18, 1902, 


went back after the horses atid found them safe, al 
ee trees had blown down within twenty-five feet of 
them, 7 

We again mouttted and rode fof an hour, and got on 
the trail of a big elk. Leaving our horses, we followed 
him for about two miles thtough timber, marshy ground 
and long grass, and got thoroughly soaked, but at 4 
o'clock had to give up the chase without sighting him 
and retttmm to camp, where we arrived at 6 o'clock, 

Porch and Chatley came in later and reported abont 
the same kind of a day, and we all turned in, tired and 
hoping for better things for the morrow. 

The following morning we found it had rammed again 
during the night, and that it was still raining; everything 
was cold and wet, and we felt that a “little of this would 
last a long time.” Abotit 9 o’clock we left camp, and | 
had gone but a short distance when it commenced rain- 
ing again. We went up over the ridge and started up a 
small creel near North Fork of Buffalo, and soon 
after sighted a bunch of elk. Leaying our horses, we 
climbed down the side of the cafion to the creek, where — 
we found only one small head in the bunch, just as they 
all ran off, so we climbed back again and then rode on 
up the creek, stopping for lunch about 1 o’clock while it 
Tained some more. After eating we again mounted and 
rode up the cafion to its head. Just as we got there it 
commenced to rain hard, which suddenly turned into 
snow, and we experienced the novelty of having a snow- 
storm come on to us from below. The wind blew the 
snow up the cafion and over the mountain top after the 
fashion of a regular blizzard, so thick we could not see 
ten feet ahead of us. We got behind a rock until the 
storm ceased, and then rode out on the top. We found 
we were on one of the highest peaks in that vicinity, the 
top was level and covered with a short wire-like grass, 
without any other sign of vegetation, about one-halt mile 
wide by two'miles long, most of the sides straight down 
for twenty-five hundred feet, and no place to get back 
down except where we had came up. 

After spending an hour, during which time the wind 
blew a gale, we descended and rode back to camp, cold 
and wet, and so ended two oi the most disagreeable days 
one could imagine, — 

When we got back we found Porch had shot his first 
bear, a big black one. They had gone up into the cafon 
where he had shot the elk, when near they left their 
horses and crept quietly up the gtilch, the guide ahead, 
and when about forty yards from the elk, he motioned 
to Porch to hurry up quietly; when Porch got there he 
looked through the bushes and saw a big black bear 
standing on top of a big log just:over the bait, looking 
right their way, and Porch said he looked as big as an 
ox, The guide says aim for his breast, and he did 
so, and let him have it; the bear let out one roar, and 
quici as a flash leaped off to the right and disappeared 
in the bushes, the blood spurting with every jump. They 
ran up and found him lying about twenty-five yards from 
the log, dead. It was a fine shot, and they proceeded to 
take off his hide, which they brought into camp, and we 
all pronounced him a big specimen, and in commemora- 
tion, we christened the name of our camp “Bear Camp.” 
J. M. Murnocr. 


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Jounstown, Pa, 
[To BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK. | 


Hunting Rifles, 


Editor Forest and Siream: 

I have been somewhat astonished, and a good deal 
amused, to read the comments made during the last 
month of two in Forrest ann STREAM’ by various big-game 
hunters, on the efficiency and non-efficiency of the .30- 
caliber rifle on moose. 

I have never used this arm on big’ game—partly, per- 
haps, because it is ten or twelve years since I have killed 
anything four-footed—but, on two occasions recently I 
carried one of these guns into the mountains, and shot 
yatious trees, grouse, and other small things with it. I 
have been greatly impressed by the accuracy of the aim 
at the short ranges at which I tried it. 1 was surprisingly 
fortunate in shooting the heads off grouse at distances 
varying from ten to thirty or forty yards, and on one 
occasion, when trying the gun of a young friend—shoot- 
ing with a knee rest—I succeeded, at a distance of fifty 
yatds, in putting five consectitive balls into a tree trunk 
in a space that would be covered by a five-cent piece, In 
other words, the gun shot precisely where it was held; 
the only point to be learned about it, as about any other 
rifle, was to discover just how to draw the sights, and 
just how the trigger pull. No man, no matter how 
sood a shot he may be, can be sure of hitting anything 
with a strange gun until he has learned these two points. 
When he is sure of them, if he has had time to draw 
his sight, he ought to be able to hit the mark almost every 
time. 

All this, however, has nothing to do with the question 
so warmly discussed by your correspondents. The point 
which has astonished me, and catised me to laugh—though 
very respectfully—at Mr. Irland and others, is this, that 
he, and many other correspondents, who seem to have 
been mtich in the woods, and to have followed big game 
to some considerable extent, and who, therefore, ought 
to know something about big game and the use of the 
rifle, appear to think that it is practicable to get a single 
gun which will be equally effective on chipmunks, wood- 
chucks, deer, moose and grizzly bears: I do not believe 
now, and I never have believed, that such a gun existed, 
or could be made. One shoots red squirrels with a .22- 
caliber rifle; oné shoots elephants with a mitich larger 
gun, and, I suppose, though I neyer tri-d it, whales with 
one still larger. I do not conceive that a .30-caliber gun 
would be immediately effective against an elephant, a 
hippopotamus, a giraffe, or a rhinoceros. I speak under 
correction, however, for | am under the impression that 
the Hon, W. A. Chanler, during his explorations in 
Africa, did kill one rhinoceros, and possibly more, with 
a Mannlicher. It is conceivable that, with a full-jacketed 
ball, all the large African animals that 1 have mentioned 
might be killed, but not immediately. With a soft-nosed 
ball, I conceive that the missile would be dissipated on or 
immediately under the skin. 

Where a bullet has to penetrate a great mass of flesh, 
and probably to encounter bones as well, it seems €v1- 


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dent that weight and mass are required to carry the ball 
as far as the yitals. I should hardly expect that a light- 
weight, soft-nosed ball could help being flattened and 
smashed to pieces when it met the thick winter coat of 
the moose, underlaid by tough hide, which in turn is 
backed by muscle, and this perhaps by bone. ; 
Some time since I had the pleasure of listening to the 
narrative of Mr. Kidder, of Boston, who is perhaps the 
most sticcessful hunter of the great brown beats of 
Alaska, and from his remarks I inferred that the action 
of the soft-nosed ball of .30 caliber was very unsatisfac- 
tory. A considerable number of the animals hit ran a 


long way before dying, while others, believed to be mor- | 


tally wounded, got away altogether and were never fotind 
In some cases dissection of the dead animal revealed 
little or nothing of the ball. Perhaps the visceral cavity 
was penetrated in many directions by fine lead dust, and 
by splinters of the steel jacket. In others, none of the 
mass of the ball could be found, though there was abun- 
dant evidence of its passage. If a bone was struck, the 
ball went all to pieces. In only one case, I think, did 
the bullet act as theoretically it should; that is, mush- 
room and penetrate deeply. This was in the case of a 
bear, running away, shot at from behind. The ball touched 
no bone, and bored its way through the animal, and was 
found mushroomed in the chest. 

It is dificult to overestimate the importance of the 


accuracy and flatness of the trajectory of these small-bore 
guns. They are ideal weapons for what we used to call 
small game; that is to say, for deer, antelope, sheep, goats 
and perhaps for carihou and elk; but, except in the way 
of experiment, I should not care to try them on moose 
and grizzly bears. In other words, if 1 were a young 
“man. possessed with a wild ambition to kill a moose or a 
grzzly, I should probably use the old “crowbar” which 
IT have carried for many years, and which shoots a .45- 
caliber ball. This ball, if half-jacketed, and driyen by 
a charge of smokeless powder, the equivalent of 70 or 90 
grains of black powder, I think would do the work on 
big game better than anything else. J should practice 
up with the old gun until I had become a fairly good 
shot at 100 yards, and should get along as best I could 
without the flat trajectory, and the close accuracy of 
these more modern weapons. If, however, 1 were going 
through the forests or the mountains where deer or 
animals about that size were to be depended on for 
food, I should certainly take one of these little guns whose 
accuracy and lightness makes them far and away more 
agreeable to have about than the cannons of an earlier day. 
A MeMBER OF THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB. 


Two Boston Dinners. 


Boston, March 8.—About 125 members of the Massa- 
chusetts Fish and Game Protective Association sat down 
to the society's annual dinner at Young’s last Thursday 
evening, President J. Russell Reed presided, with his 
usual grace and tact. He announced, at the outset, that 
the meeting of the Association was more of a social than 
a business affair this time. This was something of a 
signal that serious business was no part of the meeting, 
and the fun soon begun and was continuous, enlivened by 
the best of music and singing. Prince Henry, who was 
in Boston at the moment, and present in spirit, though he 
could not be in body, was paid a most rousing tribute. A 
good many members made at least a Joud rendition of 


Germany’s national hymn, “Die Wacht am Rhein.” The 
number of invited guests was very small this time. L. T. 
Carleton, of the Maine Fish and Game Commission, was 
present. He did not put in his usual work for his Maine 
hunter's. license measure, but somewhat to the surprise 
of most persons present, his remarks were mainly com- 
plimentary and of a jovial turn. Commissioner Henry 
O. Stanley was in Boston, but did not attend the meet- 
ing. Commissioner Nat. Wentworth, of New Hampshire. 


~ was expected, but did not appear. Judge Henry N. Shel- 


don was present, and Rey. E. A. Horton opened the meet- 
ing with prayer. One of the truly pleasing features of 
the evening was the series of recitations by Dr, William 
H. Drummond, of Montreal, author of “The Habitant,” 
who told the simple stories of “Johnny Couteau,” “Little 
Lae Grenier’ and “Baptiste, the Lucky Man,” in Canadian 
French dialect. It is understood that the Association hag 
no particular game legislation im view this winter, and 
no measures of repeal are proposed by the marketmen, 
neice the dinner could well be given up to fun and good 
cheer, 
Among those present may be noted: 


James Russell Reed, L, T, Carleton, Fish Commissioner, Maine; 
Rollin Jones, Dr. William H, Drummond, Montreal; C. W. 
Dimick, J. W. Brackett, Phillips, Me.; Benjamin T, Hall, Capt. 
J. W. Collins, C, J. H. Woodbury, Henry N, Sheldon, Benjamin 
C. Clark, the Rey, Edward A. Horton, Frank M. Johnson, Will- 
iam M. Conant, J. A. Young, Dayid P. Waters, J. R, Glover, 


Sewall W. Rich, William L. Davis, W. G. Kendall, Edward W. 
Branigan, Waldon B. Hastings, Thomas H, Hall, Dr, N. J. Hall. 
Charles A, Atwood, Dr. M. A. Morris, Arthur W. Robinson, John 
B. Seward, Ivers W.. Adams, Edward J. Brown, Randolph K. 
Clarke, T. N. Genoud, Bernard Hyneman, W. H, Lawrence, I. L. 
Walman, Frank N. Ganong, Charles H. Sprague, L. R. Raymond, 
Mott A. Cummings, Winthrop Parker, Dr. B. V. Howe, A. C. 
Risteen, Dr. L. T. Foss, Billy Soule, Charles E. Billings, William 
A. Rolfe, M. D.; H. H. Hartung, M. D.; €. O. C. Hartung, New 
Haven, Conn.; Charles Greene Cumston, M. D.; L. E. Wagg, 
Dr. Heber Bishop, Dana J. Flanders, James H. Ryder, Charles 
K. Fox, W. W. Churchill, Charles D. Lewis, Frank 5, Eaton, 
George H, Guest, R. N. Burnes, Vance M. Smith, A. R. Brown, 
_W. Bailey, C. C. Richards, John C. Roberts, Commodore J. N. 
oberts, William B. Smart, Samuel M. Goodrich, Charles F. Whit- 
ing, H. T. Rockwell, John S. Jaffrey, Louis Massen, W. S. Hin- 
man, C. H. Moulton, Albert O. Smith, Stanley M. Smith, John 
Ware Willard, H, S. Dodd, George O. Sears, Henry W. Dodd, 
M. A. Powers, John B. Smith, Dr. J. T. Herrick, ui. L. Bosworth, 
Representative H. ©. Hunt, Representative William B. Phinney, 
A. B. F. Kinney, Malcolm D. W. Greene, H. B. Fernley, H. S. 
Robbins, C. C. Clapp, H. H. Kimball, James T. Mullen, Richard 


Howland. 


On the same evening the annual dinner of the Deb- 
sconeag Fish and Game Club was celebrated at the Amer- 
ican House. Over sixty members and guests were pres- 
ent. Leonard A. Frink called the metting to order, and 
Judge F. J. Hutchinson presided. He made a vety in- 
teresting opening speech on the development of outdoor 
sport in Maine. Ex-Commissioner C. E. Oak, of Maine, 
was present, and made a most telling speech in opposition 
to the proposed hunter’s-tax. He greatly deprecated any 
attempt to tax visiting sportsmen; already a great source 
of revenue to the State. He emphasized the idea that 
Maine should raise her own revenue for fish and game 
protection and propagation; that the burden might much 
better be borne by the citizens of that State than to 
attempt to saddle it on to visitors. William Garrison 
Read read a paper on more liberal hunting legislation. 
Mr. William Stockbridge spoke in opposition to any 
further tax to be borne by hunters. Altogether, Mr. 
Carleton’s proposed hunter’s license received some pretty 
hard raps. 

March 10—AIl the guides from Maine at the Sports- 
men’s Show express the opinion that the big game in their 


State is wintering remarkably well. The snow has not 
been exceedingly deep at any time, nor in any section. 
Much of the time the deer and moose have been able to 
roam over large tracts unhindered by deep snow. This 
has given them access to great feeding grounds, and 
they are in fine condition, There are no accounts of deer 
starving in their yards as there were two years ago, when 
the snow was most remarkably deep through part of 
February and all of March. Even last year there were 
very deep snows in February and March, and the guides 
admit that some crust hunting was done. The guides are 
enthusiastic concerning the prospects for hunting next 
fall, and believe that both moose and deer will show 
an increase. In the Rangeley region deer are constantly 
being seen, especially on the “Right of Way’—that is, the 
new railroad from Bemis to Rangeley Outlet. In several 
sections of Aroostook county the guides give accounts 
of a great many deer. One guide says that in the town- 
ship of Blaine, within half a mile of the lake, there are 
thirteen moose, and in another yard eight. The yards are 
not well defined, however, for the snow is not as deep as 
ustial. So far as I have heard, the Maine euides sneer 
at Mr. Carleton’s proposed hunter’s license law, and de- 
clare that it is not the visiting sportsmen that destroy 
the big game, but the hunting that is carried on after the 
sunters have left the State; by the hunters attached to 
the lumber camps, and even the backwoods residents, who 


PANORAMA AT THE SPORTSMEN S SHOW—THE HOME OF THE TROUT. 


do not hesitate to kill a moose or a deer whenever he may 
be found. 

Commissioner H. O., Stanley, who was in Boston last 
week, says that he is a convert to the proposition to make 
non-resident hunters pay a tax. At first he was opposed 
to it, but now believes that it is the only method through 
which more money cati be obtained for the protection of 
fish and game in Maine. He says that nearly all the funds 
appropriated by the State are used for fishculture and 
distribution, but at the same moment he declares that 
a tax on non-resident fishermen would be impractical 
and create a tremendous opposition. Well, is it any 
worse to fish than to hunt and vice versa? Is a hunter 
any more of a cr’minal than a fisherman, that he should 
be taxed to furnish sport for both? Mr, Stanley further 
remarks that the Commission is doing all in its power to 
enforce the game laws, and to bring deer and moose 
slayers to justice. Mr. Carleton is on the wing a good 
deal of the time, but the obtaining of evidence against 
illegal game slaughter is hard. He believes that the 
hunter’s license plan wotild give the means whereby a 
number more good wardens could be kept in the woods 
a good deal of the time. He declares that the Commis- 
sion is mttch in need of funds; but the State will do 
nothing further than the regular $25,000. 

Illegal deer slaying is also giving the New Hampshire 
Fish and Game Commissioners some trouble. Ned Hig- 
gins, of Dumbarton, with three others, recently killed a 
fawn in that town. Commissioner Nat. Wentworth 
caused him to be brought before Judge Everett, of La- 
conia. The State was represented by Commissioner 
Wentworth, and Clarke, of Concord. Under some sort 
of an agreement with the friends of Higgins he had 
sutrendered himself, and at the trial pleaded nolo con- 
tendere. He was sentenced to six months in jail, as well 
as to pay costs of the suit. Here the officers relented 
again, and sentence was suspended on agreement of Hig- 
gins to kill the three dogs, with which the hunting was 
done, in presence of H, E, Colby, fish and game warden 
of Franklin. SPECIAL. 


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The¥Sportsmen’s¥Show. 


THE eighth annual Sportsmen’s Show given by the Na- 
tional Sportsmen’s Association opened in Madison Square 

_ Garden in this city on March 5, and will continue until 
the 2zoth. As is ctistomary with the management, the 
exposition this year has novel features which distinguish 
it from the shows of the past. The novelties this year, 
which are on the most extensive scale, are the painted 
woodland panorama, and the central island set in the 
lake, which takes up practically. the floor space of the 
garden. The forest scene is an admirable simulation of 


FOREST AND STREAMs 


Live Game. 


So far as exhibits of wild animals are concerned, this 
year’s show is not so strong as was last year’s. At the 
same time, there is here to be seen one mammal which is 
worth journeying a long way to behold. This is the baby 
musk-ox, so called, of which so full an account was pub- 
lished in Forest AND STREAM of Feb, 22. The animal is 


not far from the size of a short yearling steer, but 
it appear much heavier. — It 
it would weigh 400 pounds, 
nearer 

condition, 


its heavy coat makes 
looks as though 
perhaps. 200 pounds 


It seems in the 


but 
mark, 
and is 


would be 
pink of 


the 


A WOODLAND VISTA. 


the actual woods; the trees are bright with autumnal 
foliage, a foamy stream sings and dashes down the 
slope into the lake, and there are far-stretching vistas, 
which it takes but the slightest imagination for us to 
look upon as real. Many expressions of genuine pleasure 
and admiration are heard as the visitor looks upon the 
scene; and the opinion is general that in providing this 
forest picture Manager Dressel has scored a distinct 
Success. 

The island contains cages-of game birds, with= deer, 
elk and squirrels; and there is an Indian teepee and a log 


healthy and seemingly contented, Of course, it is to 
be regretted that the pen in which it is confined is so 
small, but on the whole it appears to thrive wonderfully 
in confinement. 
about this most interesting little beast is referred to the 
number of Forest AND STREAM in which it was recently 
described. 

There are a pair of elk in one of the pens in fair con- 
dition. Next to them are two calf moose, then a male 
axis deer in excellent condition, then some white fallow 
deer. 


The reader who wishes to learn more 


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variety of pheasants occupy half a dozen cages, and be- 


side these, there are the more striking Reeves, Lady Am- 


herst and Elliott pheasants, 

Immediately across the aisle from the wild birds is the 
Child’s collection of mounted game birds, which is very 
interesting, and is perhaps the most useful and informa- 
tive exhibit in the whole show. For the most part the 
birds are well mounted, and with most species is exhibited 
a clutch of the eggs of the species. Men and boys—to 
say nothing of women and children—who are interested in 
our native birds used for food, have here an opportunity 
to study them, and to study them in a way which enables 
a person to learn something. The least informed, per- 
son, if he has intelligence to look, let us say from the 
mounted canvasback to the mounted redhead and back 
again, can see for himself the differences between the 
two species, and can clear up in his mind the doubts and 
confusion which he may hitherto have felt. Most of 


the birds are labeled, although in some cases there is only 


a reference to the catalogue—which looks like a device to 
force the public to buy that pamphlet—and the whole 
exhibit is most instructive and may be studied with great 
‘profit, whether the yisitor knows birds or does not know 
them, : 


The Indian Exhibit. 


Up stairs in the concert room is the very large and 
extremely attractive exhibit of the Hyde exploring ex- 
pedition. Within the past few years a number of expedi- 
tions have been sent out to the Southwest by Messrs. 
T. & Fred E. Hyde, Jr., for the purpose of collecting 
ethnological material for the American Museum of 
Natural History. These expeditions have discovered, col- 
lected and brought back a great deal of material of the 
very highest scientific importance, but they have done 
more than that. The gentlemen in charge being thrown 
among the Indians, and being impressed by their miser- 
able condition, have set on foot a variety of business 
plans by-which that condition has been, and will still 
further be, improved. The work has been handled with 
great judgment and discretion. It has not been sought 
to give charity to the Indians, but to give them work, a 
means by which they can earn money. This is the great 


need felt by the Indian who, confined with a thousand of - 


his fellows on a barren reservation, where none of the 
ordinary vocations of life can be practiced, even if he 
were familiar with them, has been made by the system of 
Government aid a pauper without any hope for the future. 

The work of the Hyde exploring expedition has been 
done chiefly among the Navajoes, and it is the brilliant 
and beautiful Navajo blankets that are especially dis- 
played, and that attract the most attention. Some of 
these pieces of work, done in ancient times and with a 
skill that has almost been lost, ate startling for beauty 
of design and for fineness of texture. They are almost 
as fine as a piece of broadcloth, and being absolutely 
unique, are. worth almost, if not quite, their weight in 
gold. From such perfect specimens of the textile art one 
may pass down through blankets tight enotigh to carry 
water in, to others more modern, looser and at last to 
those made of Germantown wool and dyed with aniline 
dyes. All these blankets are admirable for camping, or 
for_use as rugs for the floor or as hangings on the wall. 
As one walks through this room he longs for an unlimited 


bank account, 


Beside the blankets, there are fine and beautiful baskets, 
woven by the Indians of the Southwest; baskets for 
cooking, for eating, for storing acorns and for winnow- 
ing seeds. All these are admirable in design, and are 
woven with the old-time care which made the woman 
feel a pride in her work so great that she refused to turn 


cabin. The Ojibway Indians pose picturesquely about 
the teepee, and the cabin is the home of the French- 
Canadian trappers Joe Labrea and Ferdina Voyer, and 
their two dogs Chasseur and Gaspe. The water sur- 
rounding the island affords opportunity for the fly-casting 
tournaments which are a feature of the show, and for 
mimic canoe voyages in the Indian canoes manned by the 
Ojibways. 


LOOKING FROM THE ENTRANCE, 


On the other side of the building near the musk-ox are 
pens containing wildfowl and pheasants. There are 
Canada geese, brant, white-fronted geese, snow geese, 
Hutchin’s geese, barnacle geese and Egyptian geese— 
these last two from Europe—and all seem in good con- 
dition. For the ducks, there are canvas, redhead, broad- 
bill, sprigtails, wood ducks, black ducks and blue and 
green winged teal and some others, The more common 


_a basket ought to be. c 
dian girls may be seen weaving baskets; one of them. 


out anything that was not up to her own ideas of what 
Every day in this room two In- 


is Abenaki, the other Iroquois. They show the products 
of the Northeast, though for most part the baskets here 
displayed come from the Southwest. oJ = 

Aside from blankets and baskets, which are the prin- 
cipal objects shown by the Hyde expedition, there is a 


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great quantity of Indian bead work, and of Indian imple- 
ments which perhaps for the average man offer greater 
attractions than the more artistic objects. The polished 
sections of trunks of petrified trees, which are made 
into little tables, are beautiful objects, and the rattles, 
moccasins, paddles, canoe models and a thousand other 
objects, will all repay examination and study. 

It is gratifying to note that within a short time there 
has been a great awakening of interest in Indian art and 
manufactures, and that the demand for objects made by 


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Indians—even among people who know nothing about our 
aborigines—is constantly increasing. The Indian, or_ at 
least his manufactures, is becoming the fashion. The 
Hyde exploring expedition is in a position to supply the 
demand for such things, and it is doing an admirable 
work in educating the public taste in this direction. 


The Guides. 


Among the guides who represent the Adirondacks and 
the Maine woods and Long Island are: . 

Adirondack Guides’ Association, Saranac Lake—Porter 
Squires, Chas. Martin, Joseph Lamoy, Henry Lamoy, 
Frank Vosburgh, Will Vosburgh, Peter Solomon, George 
Garwood, Elmer Dockom. : : 


— 


Lake Placid—Marttin Brewster, Cassius Lamoy, Wm. 
Young, Sam Barton. 

Paul Smith’s—Ed. Dustin, are 

Tupper Lake—Harvey Crowninshield. ; 

Maine Guides, with Pray Hill Camps and King and 
Bartlett Camps, Dead River Region—Cliff Wing, Warren 
Wing, A. B. Douglas, Robert Phillips, John B. Car- 
ville. ‘ine 
Will Graham’s Shooting Ranch, Blue Point, L. IL. 
N. ¥—Will Graham, Will Creamer. 


Remington Arms Co. 


The Remington Arms Co. occupy extensive space on 
the north gallery near the Madison avenue entrance, and 
in a long case therein have an exhibit of numerous guns, 
samples of the great line of goods which they manufac- 
ture. There are military rifles, many of improved de- 
sign, sporting rifles for all purposes, high-power and 

ordinary power, shotguns of various grades, sizes and 
prices; in short, everything that, in the way of fire- 
arms, appeals to the sportsman or warrior. “a 


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-so ably handles. 
- sportsmen thickly congregate. 


Bridgeport Gun Implement Co. 


The Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., of 313 Broadway, 
New York, occupies space No, 8, and display therein a 
complete line of tennis and golf goods. Tennis rackets 
and golf clubs were specially in evidence. The latter 
had some special features in the way of aluminum-faced 
drivers, while others were celluloid-faced. The exhibit 
was in charge of several experts on golf and tennis mat- 
ters, who affably explained and displayed the B. G. L. 


ACROSS THE WOODED ISLAND, ' 


LOOKING 


goods to the. numerous visitors who swarmed about their 
exhibit. 
Peters Cartridge Company. 


The Peters Cartridge Co., of Cincinnati, O., occupied 
space in their old quarters at previous shows. On the 
wall is-the legend “Peters ammunition that revolution- 
ized marksmanship.” Under the legend are displayed 
several targets, representing championship success, and 
pictures of marksmen, drawn in black and white on 
porcelain. Samples of the firm’s various products also 
are displayed. The eastern department of the firm, 80 
Chambers street, New York, is strongly represented, 
Messrs. G. E. Cook, Geo. Benjamin Bosseler and Tom 


THE GAME BIRDS. 


Donovan being in evidence, while the indefatigable Mr. 
T. H. Keller, manager of the eastern department, is ever 
alert to inform the visitor of the merits of the goods he 
Tt is a very popular corner, where 


Tatham Brothers. 
On the gallery, near the main entrance from Madison 


avenue, is space No. 2, occupied by Tatham Brothers, 82 


Beekman street, New York, with an exhibit of the samples 
of the various sizes and kinds of shot manufactured by 
them. The bottles contain soft and chilled shot, and the 
sizes of the samples vary from dust shot up to heavy 
buckshot, 

David T. Abercrombie & Co, 


Spaces Nos. 15, 16 and 17, at the Twenty-seventh street 
and Fourth avenue gallery corner of the garden, occupied 
by the firms of Chas. D. Durkee & Co., Dayid T. Aber- 
crombie & Co., and the Pneumatic Mattress and Cushion 
Co., are indeed the ““Yachtsmen’s and Sportsmen’s Head- 


- on .exhibition. 


quarters,” as the large sign over the exhibit informs the 
visitor. This is a most complete and attractive exhibit, 
and combines in its three separate spaces much that is of 
interest to the sportsman, be he camper, yachtsman or 
canoeist. The spaces, inclosed in a brass and rope 
rail, resembling that of a yacht, are tastefully draped in 
green cloth, and lighted by many colored marine lanterns. 
A cozy corner has been provided for yisitors, and sup- 
plied with easy chairs and lounges equipped with pneu- 
matic cushions. 


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The central space of the headquarters is occupied by 
David T. Abercrombie & Co. This exhibit is of more 
than ordinary interest, and instructive as well, for here 
are shown a tent and complete camping outfit in use; the 
tent fitted’ with .collapsible.cofs, ready for occupancy, 
the folding table, ready for the meal, and the burning 
camp-fire, built as a camp-fire should be built, with pots 
‘and pans overt. This same duffle is again shown packed 
‘in a small space and ready for shipment by the railroad, 
and also in packs for carriage over the portage. Water- 
proof sleeping bags, aluminum cooking ‘outfits, condensed 
foods and other necessaries and luxuries for the man who 
goes into the woods are exhibited. The lake on the main 
floor is the creation of Mr. Abercrombie, of the firm. Mr. 


SS ay 


J. F. Werner is in attendance at the exhibit. 
Lefever Arms Co. 


On the south gallery the Lefever Arms Co., of Syracuse, 
N. Y., have an artistic and instructive exhibit of their 
euns in charge of Mr. A. H. Durston, the energetic and 
courteous. secretary of the company. Samples of the 
firm’s guns from the cheapest in price fo the highest are 
One of special interest was one of the 
$400 grade, in the soft state, displaying the beautiful en- 
graving and fine quality of locks and barrels before the 
case hardening process is applied. The new 16-gauge H 
grade, fitted with nitro steel barrels ($44) and the C and 
B ejector grades, were also special features. The new 
Ideal gun cleaner also excited much interest for its sim- 
plicity, durability and effectiveness. : 


Union Metalic Cartridge Co. 


The U. M. C. Co., of 313 Broadway, New York, had 
the magnificent mahogany arch which has been utilized 
for their complete exhibit of previous years, and it occu- 


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pies space on the gallery near the Madison avenue end of 
the auditorium. There was a bewildering profusion of 
cartridges, etc., for military rapid-fire cannon, for mili- 
tary and sporting rifles, for pistols of all calibers, and 
wads, shells, primers, etc., for shotguns. Wooden strips, 
perforated by bullets many feet, displayed the enormous 
force of the modern high-power rifle. There was a lot 
of new ammunition in .22, .25, .28, .30, .32, .38 and .44 
calibers. Messrs. T. W. Morfey and S. M. Van Allen 
will be in attendance a large part of the time. ; 


Pneumatic Mattress and Cushion Co. 


The space occupied by the Pneumatic Mattress and 
Cushion Co. is devoted to the exhibit of pneumatic mat- 
tresses, cushions and life preseryers, for yacht, canoe, 
camp and home use. A photograph showing a pneumatic, 
mattress in the course of construction at the company’s 
factory is also on exhibition. Morris chairs and couches. 
provided with air cushions, are much used by the tired 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


long, 4 inches deep and 8 inches wide, each holding a 
dozen decoys. The exhibit is in charge’ of Mr. Joseph 
Coudon, patentee of this decoy. 


Savage Atms Co. 


The Savage Arms Co., Utica, N. Y., has an exhibit of 
the famous rifles, military and sporting. It is one of the 
most popular and interesting exhibits in the Garden. It 
occupies space 23 on the south gallery. 7 


Fred Sauter. 


Fred Sauter, New York, has an elaborate display of 
the taxidermist’s skill, in the way of mounted heads, 
horns, skins, etc. ; 

Other exhibitors were the Hyde Exploring Expedition, 
Markle Lead Works, of St, Louis, shot, targets and target 
traps; Stegel-Cooper Co,, in charge of Mr. Frank Law- 
rence, an expert’ in sportsmen’s goods; Leroy Shot & 


THE FLY-CASTING. 
E. J. Mills, of Brooklyn, whose cast of 78 feet on March 8 was the record cast, 


visitors, who find here a good place for rest amid con- 
genial surroundings and associations. Above the ex- 
hibit is a prominent sign, bearing the company’s truism, 
“Nothing so rare as resting on air.” The exhibit is in 
charge of that affable and amiable gentleman, Mr. W. J. 
Shilliday. 

Chas. D. Durkee & Co. 


The exhibit of Chas. D. Durkee & Co., in charge of 
Mr. Charles Durkee, contains a display of brass and gal- 
yanized yacht and launch trimmings, chief among which 
in point of popular interest are the bell and anchor to be 
used by the German Emperor's recently launched Amer- 
ican-built yacht Meteor. 


Marble Safety Axe Co, 


The Marble Safety Axe Co. occupy space No. 25, and 
have a display of sporting specialties. A show case and 
cabinet are filled with the gocds of their manufacture, 


Lead Works; J. Stevens Arms and Tool Co., in charge of 
Mr. E. R. Northrop; the Savage Arms Co. 


The Fishes, 


An exhibit of live fish comprises specimens of trout, 
muscalonge, pickerel, dogfish and other species. 


One grateful quality of the show is the woodsy odor 
which pervades the garden, and lends character to the out- 
door element of the exposition, 


Fly-Casting at the Show. 


Following are the scores made in the Ay-casting con- 
tests at the Sportsmen’s Show to Monday of this week. 
The competitions will extend to March 19: : 

Thursday, March 6—Casting for distance, 75-foot limit. 
Judges—T. K, Mott, C. R. Radcliffe, P. M. Seixas: E. 
J. Mills, 78 feet; W, K, Park, 64 feet 10 inches; L. Tay- 
lor, 64 feet. 


SHELTERS ON THE ISLAND, 


several of them new inventions. The Marble safety 
pocket axe. called “the handiest tool a sportsman ever car- 
ried,” is the best known of these. Another convenient 
little tool on exhibit is the broken shell extracter, which 
slips inside the broken section of the shell, and by the 
jerk of a lever removes the shell. Hunting and fish 
knives, waterproof match boxes, ball-bearing cleaning 
rods, gtin sights and other interesting little tricks are 
shown, Mr. W. L. Marble is in personal charge. 


Coudon & Co. 


Coudon & Co.’s exhibit of the Chesapeake folding de- 
coy has attracted much attention, This is a folding de- 
coy made entirely of brass and wood, combining the ad- 
vantages of the solid wooden decoy and the collapsible 
kind, with the additional advantage of lightness in 
weight. These decoys can be seen drifting in the lake 
ready for business, and also packed in boxes 16 inches 


Friday, March 7—Accuracy. Judges—T. K. Tuthill, 
G, F. Diehl, H: W. Van Wagenen, Dr. C. C. Curtis: W. 
K. Park, 27; D. Brandreth, 24; J. Taylor, 17; D. T. 
Abercrombie, 6; Dr. W. Edw. Halsey, 5. 

Saturday, Mareh 8—Distance, for school boys under 
20 yeats of age. Judges—W. K. Park, E. S. Osgood, D. 
T. Abercrombie: E, J. Mills, Boys’ High School, Brook- 
lyn, 74 feet; V. R, Greenwood, Erasmus Hall, Brooklyn, 
60 feet; Wm. Cruickshank, 166th Street School, New 
York city, 53 feet; Geo. Frost, Cutler School, New York 
city. 51 feet. , ‘ . 

Monday. March ro—Distance for guides. Augustus 
Douglas, Flagstaff, 63 feet; Sam Barton, Lake Placid, 59 
feet 8 inches; Louis Nicholar, Penobscot, 56 feet 8 inches; 
D. F. Sperry, Old Forge, 56 feet; Cliff Wing, Flagstaff, 
56 feet; Peter Solomon, Saranac, 55 feet; G. M. Gray, 
Old Town, 54 feet 5 inches; Henry Lamoy, Saranac, 50 
feet 2 inches; G. C. Garwood, Saranac, 51 feet; W. T 
Harris, C. P, R., 45 feet § inches, VS pane 


‘[Marcr 15, 1902. : 


Mongolian Pheasant in New York. 


Watertown, N. Y., March 7--Editor Forest and 
Siream: The question has been often asked, Will the 
Mongolian pheasant stand the cold and snow of our 
northern-winter? I believe that we have proved after a 
fair trial that they will. In this section the past winter 
has been the worst one for snow that we have had in 
years. The ground has been covered from Nov. 24 to 
March 1. The first week in February we had a snow- 
storm that blocked all traffic, and during the rest of the 
month ourefields were coyered with from three to five - 
feet of snow. During the winter we have had steady, and 
at times intense, cold, often at zero, and several times 
thirty degrees below. 

Pillar Point, on which these birds have passed the 
winter, lies between Black River Bay and Chaumont Bay, 
and is exposed to the intensely cold west wind that sweeps 
ovet the vast ice fields of Lake Ontario. There is very 


_ little cover, consisting of a few stunted cedars on rocky 


ledges, a little hard timber, and the weeds, briars and 
chokeberry bushes along the fences. It is, in fact, as 
cold and unsheltered a spot as could be found in the 
country. These birds have received no aid, by way of 
food or shelter, but have managed in some way to live 


through the heavy snow of the past winter. 


Last spring I received two pairs of Mongolian pheas- 
ants, and having a good place to keep them, I decided 
to try and breed some. I had the report of Mr. Brackett, 
of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission, giving 
full instruction as to hatching, feeding, etc,, and it looked 
too easy, but after one year’s experience I have decided 
that the birds understand this part of the business better 
than I do, and that the most satisfactory way to intro- 
duce them is to turn them loose in the spring and let 
them arrange their doméstic affairs to suit themselves. 
However, I did succeed in raising seven. These, with 
the old birds, were turned out the 17th of last July. These 
birds had laid about one hundred and twenty eggs, and 
were apparently through laying, as I had found no eggs 
for a week previous to turning them out. 

Abottt the middle of October I was informed by a 
farmer living on the point that he had seen one of the 
old birds with sixteen small ones following her. This 
report has been verified by others who have seen them 
since, and to-day, March 7, I received a letter from Mr. 
E. R. Adams, the gentleman on whose farm the birds 
were turned out, saying that all of the birds I turned out 
and most of the late brood are alive and all right. The 
fact that these young birds were able to stand the cold 
and procure food during a period of three months in 
which the fields were covered with from six inches to 
five feet of snow, is all the proof we need as to their 
hardiness or ability to live in any part of this State, And 
if we can secure a law (which we are trying to do), mak- 
ing a close season in Jefferson county for two years on 
black and gray squirrels, grouse, woodcock and quail, we 
shall stock the county with these birds this year. In 
teleasing them I believe that if they are turned out just 
before dark, that they will be more apt to stay in the im- 
mediate vicinity. . 

The people of this county have heen well informed 
through the néwspapers regarding the habits of the bird 
and the law protecting them. We have every reason to 
expect good results from our experiment, as we have the 
farmers interested, and they have promised to help us 
protect the birds. I hope to live to see not only this 
county, but the entire State, well stocked with these mag- 
nificent game birds, for I believe that they will prove a 
valuable addition to our game, and of inestimable value to 
our farmers, as their food during the most of the year 
consists largely of worms and insects. 

W. H. Taccerr. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Blinds and Sink Boxes in Illinois, 


Cuicaco, Ill, March 6—Considerable confusion has for 
some time existed in this State over the construction of 
the clause of the new Illinois game law bearing upon the 
use of artificial blinds and sink boxes ‘beyond the natural 
cover’ in the waters of the State. Many deputies have 
been making trouble for duck shooters who have ven- 
tured to construct any blind whatever of an artificial 
nature, saying that only the natural cover could be used 
as hiding, and this could not be changed from its natural 
state. Any shooter who was ever on a duck marsh will 
know about how much chance this would leave to get a 
shot at a duck, for all shooters know that nowadays ducks 
keep well out toward the open and shun the shore line. 
Yet still other deputies insisted that one could not shoot 
even from a ducking boat, even with'n the cover of the 
natural growth. Still worse, and mors irrational, was the 
dictum of certain deputies along the Kankakee marshes, 
who prevented the digging of pits or sinking of blinds 
upon the shores entirely back of the water line, and be- 
hind the natural cover—a warping of the law quite be- 
yond its original intent, which could have been devised 
only by one of a robust, imaginative power, although 
more than one shooter was actually stopped from build- 
ing a shore blind by these same men, they evidently in- 
tending to keep the poor duck shooter away from the 
outside, inside and middle of the marsh. 

Under these circumstances a sportsman of this city 
wrote to the Attorney-General of the State for an opinion 
on this clatise of the law. Mr. Hamlin responded under 
date of March 5, and will no doubt also inform State 
Warden Lovejoy of the opinion, so that the latter may 
properly advise his deputies in the premises. The opinion 
follows: 

State of Illinois, Office of Attorney-General, Spring- 
field, March 5, 1902—Dear Sir: Replying to your in- 
quiry as to what construction should be placed upon that 
part of Section 1, Chapter 61, of the Revised Statutes of 
Illinois, being an act to provide additional remedies for 
the protection of game, wildfowl and birds, etc, and 
which reads as follows:, 

“And it shall further be unlawful, at any time, to hunt, 


_kill, entrap or ensnare, or to attempt to hunt, kill, entrap 


or ensnare, or otherwise destroy, any wild goose, brant, 


Marc# 1§, 1902.) 


duck or other water fowl from any fixed or artificial am- 


1 


bush beyond a natural covering ‘of reeds, canes, flags, 
wild rice or other vegetation above the water of any 
lake, river, bay or inlet, or other water coturse wholly, 
within this State, or in such patt of such stream or water 
course wholly within this State, or with the aid and use 
of any device commonly called sneak boat, sink boat, sink 
box or other device used for the purpose of concealment 
in the open waters of this State,” I beg to reply: 

The evident intention of the portion of the statute 
quoted was to provide all the water fowl therein men- 
tioned with a place of sanctuary ot test. Without, stich 
proyision by statute any fixed or artificial ambush could 
be erected upon the resting or feeding grounds of such 
enumerated fowl, in the middle, or any other part of the 
open waters, thereby disturbing stich enumerated water 
fowl in a manner which would leave them no opportunity 
for rest or feeding, and hence would speedily drive them 
to some other course in their annual migratory flights. | 

That the prohibition of that portion of the statute 
quoted applies only to the actual, open and unincumbered 
waters of any lake, river. bay or inlet, or other water 
course wholly within this State, is made clear by a read- 
ing of the statute which makes it unlawful to hunt, kill, 
etc,, from any fixed or artificial ambush “beyond a natural 
covering of reeds, canes, flags, wild rice or other vegeta- 
tion above the water of any lake, rivet, bay,” etc. And 
also frem any “sneak boat, sink box or other device used 
for the purpose of concealment in the open waters of this 
State.’ The words “above the water” cannot have refer- 
ence to blinds upon the shore or bank which may be 
merely on a higher level than the stirface of the water. 
Had the intent of the statute been to absolutely forbid 
the use of any fixed or artificial ambush, it would have 
so provided without qualification and would, in so many 
words, have prohibited the use at any time or place of 
any stich fixed or artificial ambush. Neither can the 
words “in the open waters of this State” be constrited as 
meaning in, within or upon the shore lines ot upon islands 
or upon the banks of any lake. river, bay or inlet or other 
water course wholly within this State’ Nothing in this 
act prohibits the erection and use of any fixed or artificial 
ambush for hunting, killing, etc., the water fowl men- 
tioned in this act, provided such fixed or artificial ambush 
be not placed or located in the open waters beyond the 
place where there is a natiral covering of reeds, canes, 
flags, wild rice or other vegetation above the surface of 
the water, Such license to build any fixed or artificial 
ambush will not extend to erecting the same upon musk- 
rat houses in the actual, open, unincumbered waters, nor 
in or upon some small, bare, isolated islands located in 
such waters, upon which and around which no reeds, 
canes, flags, wild rice or other vegetation grows, furnish- 
ing a natural covering. 

No sneak boat. sink boat, sink box or similar device 
can be ised in the open waters of this State, but this 
clause does not prohibit the making, or use, of any pit 
or sunken device if the same be used within or upon the 
shore lines, islands or banks of any lake, river, bay or - 
inlet or other water course wholly within this State. No 
sneak boat, sink boat, sink box or other similar device 
can be used or employed in connection with any muskrat 
house which is located in the actual, open, uwnincumbered 
waters of this State. 

Believing that the foregoing fully complies with your 
request, I have the honor to remain, 

Very respectiully, 
(Signed) H. J. Hamurn, Attorney-General. 


Game Protection for Alaska. 


There was warrant for the fear that the great game 
of Alaska would go the way of the great game of the 
United States. Now let us hope that there is warrant for 
the belief that this is not to be, but that Uncle Sam is 
gaing to take the matter in hand, wisely, promptly and 
efficiently. It is again Mr. Lacey, of Iowa, who comes 
to the front in the interest of Western game. Should this 
bill (introduced Feb. 18 and ordeted printed: H. R. 
11535) eventually become a Jaw, the author of the Lacey 
law on interstate shipments of game will have additional 
cause for the congratulations of his friends and the 
thanks of American sportsmen. 


Ohio Game Laws. 


Mr. Paul North, of the Cleveland Target Co., Cleve- 
land, O., spent a couple of days in Chicago this week. 
Mr. North was recently appointed a member of the Fish 
and Game Commission of Ohio, an appointment which 
was certainly a wise one. Mr. North says that the mem- 
bers of the Commission have very good hope for a prac- 
tical working law. He does not think that Ohio can 
altogether prohibit spring shooting of wildfowl, but thinks 
that they will be able to hold down all the upland shoot- 
ing between the dates of Sept. 1 and Dec. 15. He says 
that the Commission will undertake to place a limit of 
eighteen quail a day, and a limit of twenty-five ducks per 
day. All of these are moves in the right direction, and 
they will be backed by the sportsmanship of the State 
concerned. It is to be hoped that such measures will not 
meet an opposition stich as has sometimes turned up in 
the State of Illinois. 


‘The First Ducks, 


The first of the north-bound flight of wildfowl are 
now in on the Indiana and Illinois waters. A telegram 
from Tolleston Club, just across the Indiana line, to-day 
states that ducks have appeared on that marsh in good 
numbers. From southeastern Iowa reports come that 
the ducks have reached that region, and by this time, 
owing to the open and mild weather and the generally 
rising waters, we should hear presently of a good flight 
on the Illinois River waters. 

Mr, C. C. Hess, of the Goose Lake Shooting Club, a 
small club with grounds on the Kankakee River near 
Lorenzo, Ill, left to-day with one or two members of 
the club for an early look at the marsh. It is no two 
to one that they will not meet a good flight along the 
Kankakee. Hennepin Club members are also on the 
lookout, and the likelihood is that within the week we 
shall hear of shooting. 


Got Four Goats. 
Mr, W. P. Mussey, of Chicago, recently returned from 


for a day of so at that point. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


a long tour-in southern California. He and his friend 
Mr, J. G. Haskell, of this city, tried some of the famous 
fishing of the Catalina country, but were on the whole 
disappointed. Mr, Haskell took out with him two costly 
tarpon rods, and the two fishermen together invested con- 
siderable by way of cash and general hopes. On one 
day they caught a sculpin, also an 8-inch fish of some 
kind which Billy said was called a ‘‘blue Johnnie.”’ Inci- 
dentally, they caught strings of kelp and things of that 
sort, and the fisherman who took them ott said they 
should have come a little earlier, or a little later, “TI 
can’t see that they ptit up the fishing game there much 
different from what they do in the North,” said Billy. 
Mr. Mussey made a hunt for goats on Catalina Island, 
and was lucky enotigh to kill four good heads. He used 
a .30-30 rifle, and after shooting one goat seven times 
came away with the impression that that gun was not 
heavy enough. Mr. Mussey says that these goats are 
being killed off very rapidly by the sheep herders, who 
want the sheep tange unmolested. He thinks there are 
about 500 goats now left on the islands, and that they 
will all be killed in less than a year. He says that the 
animals are by no means easy to approach, and are wild, 
suspicious and hard to reach, as they range on top of the 
ridges. 
Flight ts In. 


March 8.—Ducks appeared a week ago to-day in con- 
siderable numbers on the upper Kankakee waters, as well 
as a great many geese, but the freeze-up of last Saturday 
sent the flight back again for a few days, not to reach 
this section again until about the middle of this week. 
To-day word is at hand from Water Valley, Ind., that 
the flight of mallards and pintails there is heavy. Several 
shooters of the old Lake George Club leave this evening 
Among these is Mr. A. L. 
Carlisle, who for seven years has opened the spring season 
at that well-known locality, Mr. Carlisle says that he 
expects another freeze before long, and does not think the 
flight will be in to stay until about the 15th, as he has 
always observed that, when he has gone to the club about 
March 8, he has had to wait about a week to get any- 
thing but a hutried and broken flight. Therefore, we 
may expect it to be about a few days yet before the best 
of the sport may be expected, although those who are on 
hand to-day ought to strike it pretty well. 

There are about fifteen members of the Calumet 
Heights Club who have taken out licenses for Indiana 
shooting, and of these about all will be present at the 
club grounds to-night, waiting for the early bird. This 
club is hit hard by the license law, and some of its 
members predict the repeal of the $25 license at the next 


session of the Indiana Legislature, most probably with, 


the result of a lower license—$1o0 instead of $25. 

At English Lake Club, of Indiana, there was good 
shooting reported the middle of this week, and the birds 
are hardly away as yet, so that we should hear of good 
bags there the first part of next week, when the shooters 
are back from the week's trip. 

Tolleston Club has had good shooting for some days, 
and the waters of Lake Michigan have had a lot of deep- 
water birds for more than a week, some very heavy 
shooting having been gained by those daring enough to 
undertake it. There have been three bad accidents this 
week to duck shooters who have ventured too far out 
into the treacherous expanse of the big and risky water, 
and although none has been met with loss of life there 
have been very narrow escapes, one especially so. This 
hardly pays for a good bag—even forty-eight birds, as one 
party had yesterday before their’ boat capsized and left 
them afloat on a cake of ice without any means of getting 
ashore. There are times when it pays to keep cool, and 
times when one does well to think things over, but the 
above surroundings are extreme for either of these 
attitudes. 

Swan Lake Club has sent up word that the flight is in 
down there, and we should hear good reports from that 
lower water with the first return of the early shooters. 
No word is at hand of any actual bags as yet from that 
point of Hennepin, but something is no doubt going on 
to-day, there being for the time a warm and soft spell of 
weather which otight to start the ice out. Thus far the 
birds can not get into the water anywhere, and it is yet 


* worse north of here, 


Mr. Oswald yon Lengerke is back from his first trip to 
the new club on the Illinois River, which he just started 
with three friends—Mr. R. S. Kendall, of this city, and 
Messrs. Frank Cooper and Chas. Kindelspeire, of Morris, 
Ul. They haye leased what is known as the Collins 
Slough, about seven miles out from Morris, and expect 
a little duck and snipe shooting there, with comfortable 
quarters. 


Moose in Minnesota. 


Mr. A. E. Jenkins, of Cleveland, O., who called to- 
day, brought with him considerable of a surprise. He 
says that he has found a yery good moose country in 
upper Minnesota. He went thither last fall and killed a 
55-inch head, about twenty-eight miles from Grand 
Marais, and says he saw seven good heads the day he 
killed his moose. He thinks the region there and back 
of Tower very good, but says one can not get a good 
guide, and has to rough it a bit, doing his own guiding 
and hunting, and camping out with none too good camp 
help. He says a woodsman can sometimes be had at 
Tower, but that there are few reliable men for guides. 


As to the moose, he says they would be very much more. 


numerous were it not for the lumber camps, which regu- 
larly hire Indians to shoot moose and deer for them. 
Mr. Jenkins saw some Pigeon River Chippewas who 
had been shooting all winter for a camp at Ingersoll’s 
Falls. The Indians told him they had killed thirty moose 
and “very many” deer. The hunting country west of 
Tower is broken with open sayannahs and barrens, but 
no caribou are reported south of the line in any great 
numbers. North of the Sawtooth Mountains, above Lake 
Superior, the caribou are thick. ; 

By the way, Mr, Jenkins is fully posted on the coun- 
try along the new Algoma Northern Railway, which is 
running up into the Hudson Bay region. He has been 
all over it, looking at iron propetties, and calls it a 
grand game country, though hard to get at with good 
guides. I think he would be glad to tell what he can to 
any one wanting to go in there, rh ot 


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Mr, Jenkins shot his Minnesota moose with a .30-40, and 
had to hit him five times, once through the shoulder, once 
through the neck and once through the head, none of 
which knocked him down, two more shots being needed 
to stop the animal. The bullets wete soft-noses, and did 
not seem to open, Yet he was obliged to admit that in 
more than a dozen moose he has killed, he has never seen 
one knocked down clean. He says the men up in the 
northern country are discarding the .30-30 and going back 
to the .38-55—an excellent arm, this latter, too, and in 
the opinion of many far better. than the .45-90. 

E. Houex, 


Hartrorv Burnpine, Chicago, 111. 


Non-Resident Licenses. 


New York, March 4,—Editor Forest and Stream: 1 

have been reading the pros and cons of the “non-resident 
license’ question in your paper, and not until the article 
written by Mr. C. P. Ambler, which appeared in your 
issue of March 1, has any one so clearly, and to my 
mind, “hit the nail on the head’ so well as this geritle- 
man, . 
I haye done considerable big-gatne hunting, and like 
him have always chosen State or Province haying a 
license, and the mete fact that the State of Maine was 
without one has kept me away ftom shooting there. 

I visit Maine yearly in the spring for fishing, and I 
May say without exception that every gettide and inn 
keeper to whom I have spoken on the question of license 
has heen ‘in favor rot it, 

I bee to refer Mr, Jay Pee to the State of Pennsyl- 
yania, whete a non-tesident license is charged, and I 
think I-am not far wrong in stating that seventy-five per 
cent, of the sportsmen going there are men of small 
means, and the license charged does not seem to ‘keep 
them. away,.as any one can see by going there in the 
shooting season. J say with Mr. C. P. Ambler, let a 
license be charged by all means. I think I am voicing 
the. sentiment.of every true sportsman who aa 


to-day. 
SprnGrIELD, Mass., March 7.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I thank you for printing, in your isstle of Feb. 


22, my communication on the proposed taxation of 
hunters who visit Maine. 4 

T inclose herewith a copy of a letter recently received 
from a Maine guide, whom I have known for a dozen 
years, which may interest you. It may be worth printing, 
as it comes from a man I haye found to be exceptionally 
honorable and straightforward, and who is, in my opin- 
ion, unusually well qualified to express an opinion or 
the subject in question. 

i. M, Witkrns. 


GreAT Ponp, Feb, 6.—Mr. E. M. Wilkins, Springfield, 
Mass. Friend Wilkins: I think it would be wrong to 
Impose such a tax as is proposed on sportsmen who visit 
Maine. My idea is that our State should ‘reqtiire each 
euide within its borders to pay $10 for his license. We 
have between 1,700 and 1.800 guides, who would thts 
bring $17,000 to $18,000 into the State Treasury, The 
Maine Fish and Game Commissioners say they receive 
$25,000 from the State Treasury for the use of their 
Commission, and that this amount has so far covered all 
expenses. They claim further that this sum is not enough 
and that they must have more funds to provide more 
game wardens. Now I claim that $10 from each guide 
in this State will more than cover the necessary war- 
dens’ expenses and wages, summer and winter, and [ 
claim further that the wardens should keep a much 
sharper lookout during the winter than through the other 
seasons. It may be asserted that all the guides would not 
be willing to pay a S$1o license fee. But if they will look 
at it in the right way it is obviously for their interest to 
do this, as the revenue derived would be used for protect- 
ing the gatne, and if the game should be seriously de- 
pleted or exhausted there would be but few sportsmen 
visit us. I have seen, not long ago, articles written by 
Mr. Carleton of the Game Commission to the effect that 
the game in our State was on the increase, and that the 
woods were fu]l of game. Now he states we must pro- 
tect the game or we will not have any in a few years. I 
think he proposes to take the wrong way to protect the 
game interests, killing the goose that lays the golden egg. 
I have discussed this matter with a number of guides, and 
each of these would gladly pay a $10 license fee rather 
than have the sportsmen from outside the State assessed. 
I have closely watched the fish and game interests of 
Maine for over twenty-five years, and I know whereof I 
speak. If the State wants more money for fish and game 
protection, let the funds be raised in a fair way, and not 
by the proposed method which is to be brought before the 
Maine Legislature. Jonn F, Haynes, Guide. 


Ways of the Gadwall. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

A note recently received from W. N. Hampton, of 
Currituck county, N. C., gives an account of a remark- 
able flight of gadwalls in Currituck county on the shoot- 
ing grounds of the Currituck Club there. 

My correspondent says: “We were shooting in the 
Canvasback Pond on Currituck Sound. The wind was 
from the north, light, and the weather cold and cloudy. 
I was with Mr. Nat. Simpkins, who was shooting with 
Mr. Louis Webb, During the day we got somewhere 
about ninety birds, and of these thirty-six were gadwalls, 
This was the largest score on gadwalls ever made at 
the Currituck Club. Up to that time I think twenty-seven 
had been high. We put up a good many gadwalls when 
we went into the pond, and some of them came in very 
nicely for a while. Then suddenly they seemed to become 
very shy, and nearly all were killed at very long range. 
For the most part they'seemed to lead over in large 
flocks, and the birds that decoyed were in small bunches 
and came high. 

“There seemed to be more gadwalls flying then than I 
ever saw before in one day. They always seem to be 
a vety shy bird.” ; 

The occurrence mentioned is very noteworthy and well 
worth recording. Gro. Brrp GRINNELL, 
New Yorx,,March 7, 


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{Mamcut 15, 1902. 


March. 


_ Mippretown, N. Y., March 10.—Edztor Forest and 
Stream: Unless all signe fail, spring has arrived, but 
“winter ia still lingering and trying to get into her lap. 
‘March t Wm, Pohlman, the foreman of the Ontario & 
Western Machine Shops, picked up in the yard a fine 
woodcock killed by striking against the telegraph wires; 
he ate it and pronounced it O. K. 

Same day John Koman killed a 334-foot black snake 
which he saw crawl into a stone heap in his garden. 

March 2 L. G. Wilscn, of the Middletown Ice Com- 
pany, killed a 3-foot water snake which was swimming in 
the ice pond, , 

Same day A. 'T. Buthoof, who lives at Monhagen Lake. 
caw three robins and half a dozen bluebirds in his door 


yard, 

March 3 I saw a flock of about twenty crow-blackbirds 
among the spruce trees in Geo. Hawkins’ grounds on 
Highland avenue. in this city. 

Satue day Louis Roth reports having seen meadow 
larks, bluebirds and robins in the oper fields while look- 
ing the high water over in the Wallkill River near Crystal 
Run and Stony Ford, i 

The water in the Wallkill was never so high, so say the 
oldest inhabitants. "Twas nine feet over the dam at 
Philipsburgh just below this city. 

The highway bridges are all gone from Montgomery 
to Pellett’s Island except the bridge at Phillipsburgh, _ 

The pond holes in the fields along, the stream contain 
many fish, which were washed out and left by the re- 
ceding water, paftticularly German carp, with now and 

‘then a black bass. 

Took in the Sportsmen's 
/The best exhibit is Child’s game birds, 
“nests, and next comes the fish. . 

“Am afraid the last fall of snow finished the quail. 

Mongolian ringnecked pheasants liberated by me two 
years ago have done well. Amos Ryerson reported sixty 
old and young seen by him in one day on his farm above 
Denton, just at the lower end of the drowned lands of 

‘the Wallkill. Asa Mapes reported twenty-four on his 
farm in town of Mount Hope, ten miles in the opposite 
direction. Herman Otto, near Otisville, reports them so 
tame that they feed with his chickens. Re 
Charlie’ Cairns says half a dozen stayed all day in his 
cornfield while he was plowing last year, keeping not over 
3 hundred feet distant. Am afraid they are too tame for 
the pot-hunters. JoHN WILKIN. 


Show Thursday and Friday. 
their eggs and 


The Storm and the Birds. 


Princes Bay. Staten Island, N. Y., March 7—In a 
recent issue of Forest AND STREAM your Florida corre- 
-spondent, Didymus. says that our Northern quail should 
be protected. Didymus is right. In a farming country 
“where the farmers are neat with their farms, it is hard 
* for the birds to find cover when a storm like we have just 
had sweeps the land. Some farmers do not notice-quail 
or care a snap whether they die or not. Such people 
would not feed the birds unless they gave milk. On the 
other hand. there is the farmer who likes to see the quail 
on his place, and will leave a little patch of brush here 
and there for their protection, will leave in the fields a 
few shocks of corn and a few bundles of wheat for their 


food, 

It is different here on Staten Island. We have the good 
cover but not the farms that raise the grain. Talk about 
the “deep, tangled wild wood’”—we have it here. Our 

_quail were well protected in the fierce storm we had, and 
they came out of it all right, If there 1s any good cover 
‘around just leave that to the quail; he will find it. But 
when it comes to feed, then we help them out, and well 
do the little brats know where to come and get their 
breakfast. I was talking with Mr. Van Tobin yester- 
‘day, and he told me he had just been ot and found and 
fed four different bevies of quail. Mr. Tobin is our very: 
efficient gatne protector, and he watches the pot-hunter 
like a guardian angel. He thinks a dead pot-hunter 1s 
worth about as much as two or three bushels of wheat. 
-[ would put that as a rough estimate, -There 1s a man 
living in the. interior of the island who has harbored and 
fed a bevy .of quail all winter, and he has them so tame 
they eat with his chickens. ; 

The Richmond County Fish and Game Protective As- 
sociation can look with pride at the fruits of their labors. 


With our good president and efficient game protectors . 


we have the heart to work for the interests of the come 


munity at all times. 


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New Jersey Game. 


Micuurst, N. J., March 7.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
The prospect for game around here during the coming 
season seems to be more than good, notwithstanding the 
heavy snow and ice storms. ; 

This morning—March 7—I saw many well-used rabbit 

. paths on the snow in the open. and any quantity of squir- 

-rel tracks in the woods; also by what I have seen and 
heard quail have wintered well, as I have seen several 

- flocks before this last storm, ‘and others have told me of 
their seeing many also, I hardly think that this last 
storm has affected them much. 

On March 3 I took a stroll and gathered several well- 
grown spathes of the skunk cabbage—the first spring 
fower—and on March 4 saw and heard many redwing 
blackbirds and robins. also several bluebirds and hedge 
sparrows. Whether the weather be rough or pleasant, 
these dear little harbingers of spring will surely put in 

an appearance at about such a time. Neel 23 be 


Temiscouata Guides. 


Te Temiscouata Sportsmen's Guide Protective Asso- 
‘ciation, incorporated in 1901, have had their annual meet- 
ing in January and brought the following result: Ovide 
Lucass, President; Damase Pinot, Vice-President; Paul 
J. Cloutier, Secretary-Treasurer, to whom all correspon- 
dence should be addressed. Price of guide, $2 per day. 
The aim of the Association is to protect the fish and 
game, and to have expert guides and moose callers in the 
hunting season: .. £ Pear & 


re _[Pictures_from'\ “Forest and Stream.”-6 


THE contents of this superb collection of drawings are 
sufficiently stated in the title. The drawings are 1614 by 
11% inches. Their authors are Carl Rungius, H. T, Fol- 
som, E. W. Deming, John James Audubon, Edmund H. 
Osthaus and Wilfred P. Davidson, and they illustrate 
wild life and life out of doors in many varieties, The 
animals which figure in the collection are the elk, the 
deer, the mountain sheep, the buffalo, Audubon’s birds 
being the purple sandpiper, the black duck, the shoyeller 
duck, the redhead, the canvasback, the prairie chicken, 
the willow ptarmigan, the golden plover. Yachting, fish- 
ing and rural scenes have all their appropriate illustra- 
tions, and all are true to life. The publishers of Forest 
AND STREAM deserve great credit for producing so valu- 
go a collection of truly artistic pictures—Our Animal 

riends, 


: 


“American Duck Shooting.” 


Stsseron, S. D., March 2.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have received and read Mr. Grinnell’s book on “Amer- 
ican Duck Shooting.” I found the book much more read- 
able than I had expected. The author is to be congratu- 
lated upon his success in combining an accurate descrip- 
tion of the different localities where he has learned the 
lessons of duck shooting and the habits of water fowl, 
with practical hints and suggestions to all lovers of stich 
sport. 

While the author tells us that he is not relying on his 
own experience alone in the making up of this inter- 
esting book, the reader cannot help but believe that the 
last half of the book is the story of the actual experience 
of the author himself. It is the practical side of the book 
that appeals most strongly to the reader. 

J. W. Barrincton. 


Protection for Alaska Game. 


H, R. 11535. 

A bili for the protection of game in the district of Alaska, and 
for other purposes. 

Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, that from and 
after the passage of this act the wanton destruction of wild game 
animals-or wild birds, the destruction of nests and eggs of such 
birds, or the killing of any wild bird other than a game bird or 
wild game animal fon the purposes of shipment from _the district 
of Alaska is hereby prohibited. The term “game animals” shall 
include deer, moose, caribou, sheep, mountain goats, bears, sea 
lions and walrus. The term “game birds” shall include waterfowl, 
commonly known as ducks, geese, brant and swans; shore birds, 
commonly known as plover, snipe and curlew, and the seyeral 
species of grouse and ptarmigan, Nothing in this act shall affect 
any law now in force in Alaska relating to the fur seal, sea 
otter, or any fur-bearing animal other than bears and sea lions, or 
prevent the killing of any game animal or bird for food or cloth- 
ing by native, Indians or Eskimo, or by miners, explorers or 
travelers on a Journey when in need of food; but the game animals 
or birds so killed shall not be shipped or sold. 

Sec. 2, That it shall be unlawful for any person in Alaska to 
kill any wild game animals or wild birds except during, the seasons 
hereinafter provided: Large hrown bears, from April 15 to June 
30, both inclusive; moose, caribou, walrus and sea lions, from Sept. 
1 to Oct. 31, both inclusive; deer, sheep and mountain goats, from 
Sept. 1 to Dee. 15, both inclusive; grouse, ptarmigan, shore birds 
and water fowl, from Sept. 1 to Dec, 15, both inclusive: Provided, 
That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized whenever 
he shall deem it necessary for the preservation of game animals or 
birds to make and publish rules and regulations which shall 
modify the close seasons hereinbefore established, or provide dii- 
ferent close seasons for different parts of Alaska, or place further 
restrictions and limitations:on the killing of such animals or birds 
in any given locality, or to prohibit killing entirely for a period 
not exceeding five years in such locality. 

Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person at any time to 
kill any females or yearlings of moose, caribou, deer, or sheep, or 
for any one person to kill in any one year more than the number 
specified of each of the following game animals: Two moost, 
walrus, or sea lions; four earibou, sheep, goats, or large brown 
bears; eight deer; or to kill or have in possession in any one day 
more than ten grouse or ptarmigan, or twenty-five shore birds or 
water fowl. 

That it shall be unlawful for any person at any time to hunt 
with hounds, to use a shotgun larger than number 10 gauge or 
any gun other than that which can be fired from the shoulder, or 
to use steam launches or any boats other than those propelled by 
oars or paddles in the pursuit of game animals or birds, And the 
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make and publish such 
further restrictions as he may deem necessary to prevent undue 
destruction of wild game animals or wild birds. 

Sec, 4. That it shall be unlawful for amy person or persons at 
any time to sell or offer for sale any hides, skins or heads of any 
game animals or birds in Alaska, cr to sell or offer for sale 
therein, any game animals or birds or parts. thereof during the 
time when the killing of said animals or birds is prohibited: Pro- 
vided, That it shall be lawful for dealers having in possession any 
game animals or birds legally killed Pritt) the open season to 
dispose of the same within fifteen days.after the close of said 
season, 

Sec. §. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or cor- 
poration or their officers or agents to deliver to any common 
carrier, or for the owner, agent, or master of any vessel or for any 
other person to receiye for shipment, or to have in possession 
with intent to ship, out of Alaska any hides or carcases of caribou, 
deer, or parts therof, or any wild birds or parts thereof: Provided, 
That hothing in this act, shall be construed to prevent the collec- 
tion of speciments for scientific purposes, the capture or shipment 
of live animals and birds for exhibition or propagation, or the 
export from Alaska of specimens and trophies, under such restric- 


tions and limitations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe 


and publish. ¢ : «. ’ 
Sec. 6. That any person violating any of the provisions of this 
act or any of the regulations promulgated by the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
conviction thereof shall forfeit to the United States all game or 
birds in his possession, and all guns, traps, nets, or boats used 
in killing or capturing said game or birds, and shall be punished 
by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or imprisonment 
nat more than three months, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That upon con- 
yietion for the second or any subsequent offense there may be 
imposed in addition a fine of fifty dollars for any violation, of 
Sections 1 and 3, and a fine of one hundred dollars for a violation 
of Section 2, It is hereby made the duty of all marshals and 
deputy marshals, collectors or deputy collectors of customs ap- 
pointed ier Alaska, and all officers of revenue cutters to 
assist in the enforcement of this act. Any marshal or 
deputy marshal may arrest without warrant any person found 
violating any of the proyisioms of this act, or any of the regulations 
herein provided, and may seize any game birds, or hides, and any 
traps, nets, guns, boats, or other paraphernalia used in the capture 
of such game or birds and found in the possession of said per- 
son, and any collector or deputy collector of customs, or any per 
son authorized in writing by a marshal, shall have the power above 
proyided to arrest persons found violating this act or said regula- 
tions, and seize said property without warrant, to eee and deliver 
the same to a marshal or a deputy marshal. It shal be the duty 
of the Secretary of the Treasury upon request of the Secretary of 
Agriculture to aid in carrying out the provisions of this act. 


ne 
All communications intended for Forest any STREAM should 


always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


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Sea and River ishing. 
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enh ee Wouuaea we ne resorts will find it profitable to advertise 


_ Striped Bass of the Pacific. 


AN article appeared in Forest AND STREAM of Jan. 2 
entitled “The Striped Bass,” from the pen of Me Thea, 
dore Biedinger, which has been gratefully received by 
striped bass anglers on this coast, both for the valuable 
information it contains, and for the pleasure it affords 
to those fond of this interesting pastime. This article 
was read before the San Francisco Striped Bass Club, and 
that body immediately resolyed that a member should be 
selected to reply to that article through the columns of 
Forest AND STREAM, by illustrat'ng how this game fish 
is angled for on the Pacific coast. 

If Mr. Biedinger-and other fishermen of the Atlantic 


seaboard will kindly remember that. whereas, they have 


had the benefit of a great many years’ experience hy 
themselves and others in fishing for striped lass, while 


with us the commencement of this pastime is of very — 


recent date, these gentlemen will no doubt overlook our 
crude endeavors and will believe with us that in time 
we will master the art. 

The fish are here by the thousand—yes, by the million 
—as can be testified by the fact that more than 1,000,000 
pounds were sold in the San Francisco markets last year, 


Bait Fishing. 


The bait usually used is the long-neck clam, whhich is 
found in great abundance in the shallow flats of San 
Francisco Bay and neighboring waters. Shrimps, both 
cooked and raw, shedder crab, squid, mussels, small 
salted fish and numerous other baits have been tried, but 
none of these have proven so wniversally successful 
as the succulent clam. The bait par excellence for fishing 
in deep water from wharves and bridges is the live min- 
now, and as this bait is not cast, but simply lowered from 
the rod to the water, the force of the strike is much 
stronger than when received from a bait cast 90 or I00 
feet. and the pleasure is correspondingly greater. 

Bait-fishing is confined mostly to the shallow sloughs 
and estttaries where the tides ebb and flow. Bass are 
frequently caught where, two hours later, the bottom will 
be free from water, 

If we have not had the experience of our Eastern 
friends in angling, we are at least as well equipned with 
up-to-date rods, free running reels, Cuttyhunk lines and 
Srauehiesy. hooks, 

ass, when hunery, will no doubt take anything in th 
form of a bait. Dr, Gunn, while fishing ar ae eee ai 
Carquinez Straits, with a piece of raw beef for catfish. was 
surprised to land a 3%4-pound bass. At another time he 
caught a 12-pound bass with cooked shrimp. In July, 
1899, he caught an 8-pounder with a common kidney 
spoon with triple hooks. In 1899 he caught in one day. 
seventeen bass, weighing 7o pounds. Portuguese 
woman fishing from a wharf at the same place (Crockett) 
caught four bass and hung them in the water. Some 
mischievous person cut the cord during her absence, and 
when she rettirned and found that the fish were gone, she 
commenced to cry. She went on fishing, however, and at 
last quit with twenty-eight fish to her credit, and gave 
two men one dollar to carry them to her house. Messrs. 
Geo. Mitchell and Al. Wilson, while fishing together on 
Black John Slough last October, caught twelve fish 
weighing 123 pounds. 

All of these large catches wete made with clams. The 
largest fish ever caught in these waters weighed 2514 
pounds, and was landed by Captain Ault, of Vallejo, after 
it had smashed his rod. Several have been caught weigh- 
ing 25 pounds. Any number of bass weighing over 50 
pounds have been hooked and lost. At least the victims 
said so, ; 

Spoon Fishing, 


But bait-fishing has practically ceased since the advent 


‘of the new spoon, Mr. Al, Wilson, probably the best 


known sportsman on this coast, conceived the idea that 
as striped bass lived principally on small fish, a spoon 
could be made that would deceive them, and, after innu- 
merable experiments, he has perfected a lure which in a 
few months has revolutionized the sport, and relegated 
the clam to the chowder and the frying pan. On July 27 
last year, in company with Mr. ©. W. Jackson, he 
went to San Pablo Bay. Mr. Wilson had roughly ham-~ 
mered out a spoon which he thought would be a “killer,” 
and attached it to Mr. Jackson’s line. Taking a skiff 
and rowing ott a short distance, Mr. Jackson was soon 
fast to a striped bass, which, when landed, weighed o 
pounds. The spoon was a No. 4 B. ; 

These spoons were then manufactured and placed on 
the market. Anglers who used them met with such 
success that they immediately discarded bait. To illus- 
trate how successful the spoon has been, a few of the 
principal catches are here given: 

Aug. 9, off Belvedere Island, Messrs. Carroll and Lut- 
trell caught nine bass weighing 9914 pounds, an average of 
more than 11 pounds to the fish. 

On Sept. 22 Mr. O. W. Jackson caught one weighing 
2s pounds. This fish had a field mouse in its stomach, 
This gentleman also catight at 1934-pounder in Raccoon 
Straits on Oct. 24. 

On Oct. 18, in Raccoon Straits, Messrs. McFarland and 
Jackson caught eight bass that weighed 83)2 pounds, the 
largest tipping the scales at 13 pounds. 

These spoons are now made in three sizes, The first 
and smallest is called the 4 B, and is 234 inches long and 
a trifle more than 74 inch wide. The second one put on 
the market is numbered 5 B, and is 334 inches long and 
The last one that Mr, Wilson has, 
perfected is the largest and the most popular size among 
anglers. In fact, the two smaller sizes have been entirely 
discarded, excepting in the shallow sloughs and flats, 
where the No. 5 B is still used. The No. 6 B is 434 
inches long and 1 3-16 inches wide. 

These spoons are long and narrow, shaped like a table 
knife blade, rounded at the ends and concave. . They are 
also bowed, so that when lying on a flat surface, concave 


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eavy wire loop shaped like a figure 8, passing through 
the ring of a No. 4-0, 5-o and 6-0 Pennell bronzed hook, 
the larger sized hook, of course, being attached to the 
atgest spoon. The riveted ring is fastened to the spoon 
about one-third below the center, thus leaving plenty of 
space between the bottom of the spoon and the point of 
the hook. The spoons are made of German silver, 

Nearly every angler has original ideas about one or 
more features of his fishing outfit, and is eternally ex- 
ploiting them to his friends. That_is why they call us 
“cranks.” One fly-fisherman cuts off the tail of a royal- 
coachman; another snips the ends of the wings on a 
black-gnat, thinking them too long. A famous angler 
on the Truckee River cuts off the entire wing of his 
favorite, Williams-cowdung, Why don’t he buy hackles 
to fish with? Because he's a crank! 

Now, we have our cranks among the striped bass an- 
glers. One has his spoon silver plated to remove the 
yellow tinge of the German silver. Another must have 
his spoon also silver plated and then treated on a scratch 
wheel to remove the polish; while still another has 
spoon, swivels and hook plated alike. 

In trolling with large spoons of the spinner type, and 
using a twisted linen line, the principal difficulty to over- 
come is the unraveling of the strands. Even with the use 
of two or more swivels this will often occur, greatly 
weakening the line. Unlike the spinner, the new bass 
spoon does not revolve if the boat is rowed at a moderate 
speed, say one and a half miles an hour. It wabbles from 
side to side, and also has an eccentric motion hard to 
‘describe, but which may be likened to the action of a 
small fish in search of its food. 


Another lure recently perfected and named after its 
inventor is known as the Breidenstein spoon. It is shaped 
like the Wilson spoon, but each half is dished on the 
opposite side, resembling somewhat the opposite blades 
‘of a propeller, This lure was perfected too late last 
season to be well known, but the few anglers who tried 
it pronounce it a decided success. Fish were caught on 
it wherever it was used, and when the season was sup- 
posed to be practically at an end. This spoon is mounted 
with two loose hooks attached to the end of the spoon. 

Few anglers here use a gut leader, a piece of the Cutty- 
: hunk fishing line from 4 to 6 feet long being considered 
better. The loop at one end is fastened to the swivel on 
the spoon. At the other end two large barrel swivels are 
attached, connected with either a brazed or split ring. 
From this ring is suspended a small sinker, weighing from 
one-quarter to one ounce, depending on the depth of 
the water one is fishing in. This also prevents any pos- 
sibility of the line unraveling, by compelling the leader to 
-turn with the spoon and reducing the action on the top 
swivel and line to a minimum. 

The line used is_a Cuttyhunk, varying in size from 
twelye to eighteen thread; the reel, a multiplier, the 
costlier the better; the rod from seven to nine feet long, 
and made of material to suit the fancy of the angler. 
Patent rod holders are used by a few, but most anglers 
while rowing sit on the butt of the rod, the tip project- 
ing oyer the side or stern of the boat, while one or two 
turns of the line are taken around the bars of the reel, 
which increases the drag and makes the fish hook him- 
self. The spoon is usually trolled about 150 feet from 
the boat. 

On a Saturday evening in September two anglers take 
the 6 o’clock ferry boat from San Francisco, where they 
are joined by many others of the same ilk. In half an 
hour they land at Tiburon, engage their boat for the 
morrow, have a quiet game of cards at the hotel, a chat 
on the subject dear to the hearts of fishermen, and then 
to an early bed. At 5 o'clock next morning they are 
called, and, after a hurried breakfast, cross the one 
street of the town and are at the boatman’s float. Here 
the rods are jointed, spoons attached to the line, and one 
angler takes the oars, while his companion busies him- 
self in paying out the lines, jointing the gaff and passes 
one rod to the oarsman, who promptly “sits on it.’ The 
other boats are seen going in different directions—some to 
Belvidere Point, others to Angel Island, while these two 
anglers elect to go to El Campo. In five minutes they 
ate in Raccoon Straits, keeping within a stone’s throw 
of the main shore, while Angel Island, heavily wooded 
and dotted here and there with the buildings of Uncle 
Sam’s soldiers, and a mile distant, defines the eastern 
side of the straits. The morning is bright and cool, the 
tide small, and the water very clear, while a light breeze 
ruffles the surface. Well they know that this is an ideal 
day for their sport, and they are too happy to expend 
many words. A caution from the man in the stern to 
keep out of that kelp-infested bay is given, and then 
Bridge Point is reached. Suddenly the rower drops the 
oats, which have been secured to the boat with a cord for 
such an emergency, and lifts his rod with a quick, strong 
sweep, for he has seen the tip quiver and bend, and 
knows that his tackle is strong, and that to set the hook 
well in the tough mouth of the bass at the end of 150 feet 
of free line, considerable force is necessary. His com- 
panion immediately reels in his line and takes the oars, 
keeping the boat headed most convenient to the angler. 
The spoon was ten or twelve feet below the surface when 
the fish struck, and his first run is on a parallel plane for 
fifty yards, when he comes to the surface and lashes the 
water into a foam in his endeavor to free himself from 
this unknown enemy, He then allows himself to be 
reeled close to the boat, but upon catching sight of this 
strange object the acttial fight is on, for he sounds for the 
bottom and gets there, too, though the water is 100 feet 
deep at this spot. At this depth he runs first in one 
direction, then in another, and the man at the oars rows 
a few feet as the fish runs under the boat and threatens 
to foul the line on the keel. The strains on the fish 
finally weakens him and he is raised slowly, fighting to 
the last. He is gaffed, and a blow on the head frees him 
from any further misery. 


Pipes are now filled and lighted, after the fish has been 
weighed and found to tip the scales at rr pounds. The 
boat is again moving, lines put out, and Yellow Bluff 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


is sighted. As the eddies on the west side of the point 
are reached, two fish strike at the same instant. The 
oats are dropped, and now it is each man for himself. 
The lines cross each other several times, but do not foul. 
and both fish are saved. Back and forth, hugging the 
shore to avoid the full sweep of the tide, the boat moves 
in the eddies, and at noon is beached in a little bay, and 
the anglers go ashore to eat and rest. One more fish 
rewards their efforts, and at 6 P. M, they are again on the 
ferry boat, exchanging experiences with their friends. A 
good meal and a dreamless sleep repay them for their 
hard ‘work, and the four fish, weighing about go pounds, 
are given to their friends, JAs. S, TURNER. 


North American Association. 


Guens Faxts, N. Y., March 10.—The objects of the 
North American Fish and Game Protective Association 
are: The harmonizing of the laws of the different Proy- 
inces of Canada and the contiguous States of the Amer- 
ican Union; the preservation, propagation and protection 
of fish, game and bird life, and the maintenance and im- 
provement of laws relating thereto, and mutual assistance 
in enforcing game and fish laws on the borders of the 
yarious States and Provinces; the preservation of for- 
ests; the promotion of fishculture; the introduction of 
new species and varieties of fish, game and useful birds, 
and the dissemination of information thereto. 

The Department of Biological Survey of the United 
States in a recent report states, in substance, that in a 
large degree we are to give credit to the North American 
Association for what has been done in the matter of 
harmonizing laws between the Provinces and contiguous 
States of the American Union. 

Following is to be found an order-in-council, which 
it is to be hoped forever settles spring netting in Lake 
Champlain and other lakes bordering on Vermont in. 
counties named in the order as printed: ' 

At the Government House at Ottawa, Saturday, the 8th day of 
February, 1902.—Present: His Excellency the Governor-General in 
Souncil—Whereas, there has been reported a decrease in the 
supply of fish in the Eastern Townships, due to improvident fish- 
ing. The Governor-General in Council, in virtue _of the provisions 
of Section 16 of the Fisheries Act, Chapter 95 of the Revised 
Statutes of Canada, is pleased to make and does hereby make tlie 
following Fishery Regulation for the Counties, in the Province of 
Quebec, hereinafter mentioned: ; 

“Bishing with nets of any kind in the lakes and tributary 
streams of Missisquoi, Shetford, Brome, Drummond, Richmond. 
Wolfe, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Compton, Megantic, and Beauce, 
jin the Proyince of Quebec, is prohibited. eS i S. 

“And no night lines used in the above prohibited--districts to 
have more than 1 hooks on each.” 

Joun J. McGee, 


Clerk of thé Privy Council. 


This, of course, is gratifying-to the members of this 
Association, especially those members from the Province 
of Quebec, Vermont and New York. Most of whom, for 
a long time, have been making effort to bring about this 
most-_necessaty and desirable result, 

As one of the visiting delegation to Ottawa, I wish 
with great pleasure to speak of our cordial reception by 
the Honorable Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Mr. 


‘James Sutherland, and his deputies, who, after giving 


careful attention to the request, and remarks of mem- 
bers of the delegation, submitted for our approval the 
identical order as passed in council. 

The Hon. Julius H. Seymour, Assemblyman from New 
York city, who represented the New York Fish Com- 
mission before the Commissioner of Marine and Fisheries 
at Ottawa upon his return, presented a bill in the Assem- 
bly stopping the use of seines at any time in New York 
waters of Lake Champlain. This bill has passed the 
Assembly and gone to the Senate. ; 

Secretary Chambers of the North American Associa- 
tion was right when in last week’s issue he said: “‘Sure- 
ly this Association is entitled to the assistance and sup- 
port of every sportsman interested in the protection of the 
game and game fish of the eastern Provinces of British 
North America, and.of the neighboring States.” 

Enrollment for membership in the Association from 
New York and other States and Provinces is now in 
order, and blank applications for membership may be had 
from.the Secretary, Mr, E. T, D. Chambers, of Quebec, or 

C. H. Witson, 
Vice-President for New York State. 


San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 


MepAL contests, series 1902, Sunday, contest No. 2, held 
at Stow Lake, | March 2. Wind, southeast; weather, 
showery and fair: 


Event Event Event 
No.1, No, 2, 0. 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, ————Eveut No. 8.——_,___ Lure 

Feet. Percent. Acc, % Del. ¥ Net % Casting % 
F Haight....... 97 88.4 =f i. a: sr 
H Battu.......- 90 80.4 92.8 76.8 84.8 74.9 
ers reee =e 80 95 82.4 77.6 79.1 La 
F Daverkosen.. 103 91.4 95.4 Ta 85.2 Be 
J B_ Kenniff... 110%, 84 91 76.8 83.10 95,2 
K Charles...... 80 ° 80 79 ‘ie Eel an 
E A Mocker.... 101 88.8 87 T1.6 82.3 49.9 
C R Kenniff... 105 90 - 89.4 73.4 §1.4 a4 
W Mansfield... ... 83.8 96.4 85.10 91.1 94.2 
T Brotherton... 110 87.8 82.4 73.4 77.10 92.9 
A M Bilade..... 85 58.8 712 66.8 69.4 - 
HC Golcher... 123 89.8 94 77.6 85.9 3 
W J Kierulff..- 78 75.8 79.4 75.10 77.7 
T C Kierulff.... 77 87.8 85.8 68.4 17 a 
S A: Heller... 88 87.8 83.4 784 80.10 80.2 
Men Gratity.get) lle.) cop 87.4 78.4 $2.10 af 

Judges, Mansfield and Daverkosen; referee, Watt; 


clerk, Wilson. 


Bonefish of Biscayne Bay. 


Peacocx’s Iyn, Cocoanut Grove, Fla., March 5.—Editoy 
Forest and Stream: Mr. John Hunter, of Newport, R. 1. 


‘has beaten all bonefish records of which I am aware by 


the following scores: _ 

Feb. 24—Six bonefish (Albula vulpes), 534, 534, 734, 8, 
814 and 9 pounds. Time expended in fishing, three hours 
and twenty minutes. 

Match 4—Four bonefish, 534; 634, 7 and 9 pounds, 
Time, three hours and ten minutes. 

As the U. S. Fish Commission report places 9 potnds 
as the extreme weight of this gamest and shyest of fish, 
the score of two of 9 pounds each is interesting. Tackle, 


21S 


bass-casting; bait, hermit crab; place, a flat near Coco 
Plum on Biscayne Bay. Weights earefully verified. 
Henry Guy CARLETON. 


Fish in New York Waters. 


Tue League of Salt Water Fishermen is working hard 
to secure the adoptioniof ‘Assembly Bill 604, which will 
protect against the ‘nets the salt-water fish in the tide 
waters of New York Bay and vicinity. The League re- 
quests that those who are interested will address their 
Assemblymen at Albany to this effect: “TI believe that 
the fish in the tidewaters of New York city and vicinity 
should be protected. I ask you, as one whom you repre- 
sent, to vote for Bill No. 604.” 


Machting. 
——<o—_——_ 


Tur New York Y. C. gave a reception in honor of 
Prince Henry of Prussia on Sunday evening, March 9. 
While the affair was informal, no speeches being made 
and no toast drunk, still there were over seven hundred 
members present. The Prince and his staff arrived at 
9:30 o'clock and spent two hours at the club house. The 
model room, which was hung with bunting and decorated 
with palms, proved to be of the greatest interest. but. 
the library and the grill room, where a light supper was 
served, also greatly interested the strangers. 


Designing Competition. 


Tue publishers of Forest anp StreAm had held the 
idea for a long period of time that a designing compe- 
tition for a cruising yacht of moderate size would meet 
with public approval and create a degree of interest among 
the readers of the publication, both at home as well as 
abroad. An opportunity finally presented itself to carry 
out the plan, and accordingly on Nov. 23 last an an- 
nouncement appeared in our columns, the substance of 
which was as follows: A pole mast sloop of 25ft. load 
waterline was required, with not over 4ft. draft with 
centerboard hoisted; with at least 50 per cent. of ballast 
outside on keel, and 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 
Tt was also suggested that all abnormal features should 


he avoided in the design, the object being to produce a 


safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or three amateurs 
could live with comfort for a period of two or three 
months and be able to cruise along our seaboard from 
New York to Halifax with safety. A centreboard boat 
of moderate draft was decided upon, as so many more 
harbors would be accessible to a boat of that type. . The 
competition closed on Feb. 28, when twenty-six designs 
had been received. Other drawings came to us after the 
date of closing, and could not therefore be considered. 

As had been previously announced, the judging was 
done by Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. 
Tams, Lemoine & Crane. Tt is hardly necessary to say 
that Mr. Crane stands at the head of his profession, and 
we were forttinate in securing his services. Mr. Crane 
gave much time and the most careful and critical con- 
sideration to the twenty-six designs, all of which had 
been submitted under a nom de plume. His task was 
by fo means a simple one, as nearly all of the drawings 
were of high order, and contained much to commend 
them. As we stated last week, some of the designs missed 
beine prize winners because of mere technical errors— 
stich as being drawn to wrong scale. It was Mr. Crane’s 
intention to announce his criticisms of the different plans 
in this issue, but owing to the amount of labor involved 
he found it impossible to do so, and they will appear next 
week. 

The results of this yachting competition—the first ever 
tried in this country—have been a source of much 
gratification to the ptblishers of Forest AND STREAM. 
We were ourselves somewhat doubtful at first as to the 
outcome, but when we considered our very large list of 
subscribers, both at home and abroad, we felt sure of the 
final result. That we were not mistaken in our conclu- 
sions is evidenced both by the number and quality of the 
designs submitted, and these have emphasized the fact 
which we have always believed, and that is that the 
readers of this publication were intelligent and dissern- 
ing sportsmen. The splendid success of this competition 
and the widespread interest which has been shown in it 
has persuaded us to continue the idea, and we hope to 
take up the matter again this fall and have at least one, 
and perhaps two more, competitions before the year 
closes, It was our intention to give a public exhibition of 
the twenty-six drawings that were received. but as no 
sttitable place was available it has been decided to publish 
many of the plans in our columns. In this way our readers 
will have ample opportunity for comparison .and in- 
spection. In order that the greatest benefits may be 
deriyed from our own efforts in this competition, we shall 
be glad to put any of our friends in touch with the 
different designers should they care to build from any 
of the drawings that shall be published. 


First Prize Design, 


We publish in this issue the lines, cabin and sail plans 
of the boat that was awarded the first prize, and also 
the special prize offered by Mr. Theodore C. Zerega, for 
the best cabin plan in our designing competition. 

Mr. Morgan Barney, the designer of the boat, is not 
only an able draftsman, but he is also a practical yachts- 
man. He has made many cruises along our coast, and 
consequently was familiar with the needs of a cruising 
boat. This fact, in addition to the education and training 
he has had in yacht designing, together with a proper 
conception of the requirements of the competition, has 
enabled him to turn out a splendid practical cruising boat. 
In fact, the boat is just the type of craft we had in mind 
when laving down the conditions of the competition. 

The design is devoid of any abnormal features, and is a 
happy combination of moderation throughout. The rela- 
tion of the different parts of the boat’s design and rig 
Rs well, and the result is a very satisfactory 
cratt, Dr: 


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The sail plan is of comfortable size for a-cruising boat 
of 25ft. waterline length, the total area being 883 sq. ft. 
There is a large amount of room in the cabin under the 
low house. There is 5ft. 3in. headroom under beams in 
the cabin, and 5ft. roin. headroom under the skylight, 
The cabin house is 14ft. long and rin. high at the sides. 
The watetway around the sides of the cabin house and 
cockpit is 1ft. gin. wide, which is ample and allows plenty 
of space in going forward, — 

The cabin floor is 3ft. 6in. widé. The part of the 
centerboard trunk that projects above the cabin floor is 
small, and in no way an objection, as it gives a place for 
the cabin table, and also a couple of drawers for silver, etc, 

The transoms are 6ft. gin, long and 2ft. 6in. wide; 
these are so arranged that they can be widened, making 
an unusually roomy berth, so that two persons could 
comfortably sleep on a side. 

On each side of the cabin aft are hanging lockers 18in. 
deep, and back of these are shelves for blankets, etc. 
Aft of the companion steps and under the cockpit is 
another locker 2ft. high, 3ft. wide and tft. deep. The 
cabin is lighted and ventilated by a skylight 3ft. long. 
Forward of the cabin is the toilet room, which is 2ft. 3in. 
wide, and extends the full width of the boat. By an in- 
genious arrangement of doors the toilet room may be 
made an entirely inclosed space of good size, or when 
the doors are swung back in place it leaves a wide pas- 
sage between the cabin and the galley. On the port side 
of the toilet room is the water closet, back of which is a 
locker for linen, etc., and opposite onthe starboard side 
is a set wash basin, behind which there is also a locker. 

The galley is 3ft. 2in. wide, and runs the full width 
of the boat. There is 5ft. headroom under the carlins in 
the gailey. The galley is of good size, and is well ar- 
ranged, and meals could be prepared for several men in 
a decent way. A skylight could be placed over the 
galley and toilet room, and this would improve the venti- 
lation and give more headroom. 

The forecastle is entirely separate from the galley, and 
can also be reached from the deck by means of a hatch. 
There is a folding gas pipe berth for a man if one were 

_ carried, and plenty of stowage space for lamps and spare 
gear of every description. 

The cockpit, which is water tight, is 6ft. 6in. long and 
Gft. wide. Light sails and other things can be stored in 
the lazerette, which is reached by a brass plate in the 
cockpit floor. 

The following was written by Mr, Barney, and gives a 
good idea of what he had in mind when working up the 
design : 

The underlying idea which governed the design was 
the desire to produce a boat of sufficient. power to be 
kept sailing in the heavy weather one is sure to experi- 
ence in an extended’ cruise outside of Long Island Sound. 
Hence, a large displacement seemed essential in order to 
permit of rather heavy construction, high freeboard, as 
much overhang as could be used to advantage, and enough 
ballast- to insure good stability independently of the 
stiffness due to a comparatjvely wide hull, 

The end aimed at in the lines was a modification of 
the characteristics of the racing type. A boat of small 
wetted surface and compact and easy form resulted. The 
‘raking midship section and inefficient after overhang 
peculiar to the so-called “cruiser” were avoided. The 
conception that a cruiser must be a comfortable boat in 
bad weather limited the sail area to about 885 sq. ft. 

The cabin was arranged-so that the main saloon should 
be as habitable and roomy as possible, and completely 
sepatated from the galley. , Ample locker space was 
provided. The fresh-water tanks were placed under the 
transoms in order to keep the weight low and away from 
the ends of the boat. 

The dimensions are as follows: 


Length— 
yer Allg SR! ee, ue A ACS he a el 38ft. 6 in. 
TSE idly, Ba Se sees 42 SALW At, 0 See Ae 24tt. 11%in, 
Overhang— 
TrkGheniiyeherde ge 2e toca pb tee et ee rere ot oft. 4 in. 
JANatie Tort hn pw A ena tO, ON ne 7it. 2Y4in, 
Breadth— , 
JOST ELE ATR Rt Ree Iie et ae en Oto Aly Wout, 8) ahaly 
SAA PA Ae ne oe ee i ott. 4 in. 
Freeboard— 
Forward Syne, (Sh hee, 
Seals tig eee eee Ue Te OL OUD te eer Ped aa ae, 3h ial 
ET File A nn Rh 8S 0 RO A 2it. 7%in. 
Dratt— 
PBoardthi pt ee sn ere aes ere, 4ft. o in. 
BoOardecionwis ete we are ee ae eel Peat OM RTTTE 
Wreplacentemt™. . Man Lets. ROMA Oy ee 14,400lbs 
@ritsides pallaste eGlcacytu eae... sel Nee. 6,200lbs. 
Sail Area— 
Mainsail 685 sq. ft 
Aoi Rae yee ree serach aire, Urethra herrea Sette tage 198 sq. ft 
BRO tal -8Ad bi) fy: os Ie aes thee Bee 883 sq. ft. 
Mast from forward end of L.W.L......... 5ft. -o 10, 
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BOOLI tree ee ek, eh aE ae REE ein Bey: 2OtieO mel, 
(Gadi De etcLIee |. te RLU ene, CAA on Cun ee 18it. oO in, 
Spinnaker (poles ey: pal eh arora eee ee 24it. O in. 
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The annual meeting of the Portland Y. C. was held 
on Wednesday evening, March 5. The report of the 
treasurer shows the club to be in a good financial condi- 
tion. The report of the secretary shows that during the 
past summer fully 250 foreign yachts representing differ- 
ent clubs along the Atlantic seaboard have visited the 
club’s anchorage and received the hospitality of the club. 
The club membership is 256, with 89 yachts and several 
more being built for this season. The thirty-third anni- 
versaty of the club will be celebrated April 26. The fol- 
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: _Com., 
C. W. Bray; Vice-Com., Edward Woodman; Sec’y, J. C. 
Fox; Treas., C. F. A. Weber; Meas., D. W. Fox; 
Trustees, Wm. Seuter, J. C. Hamlin, A. M. Smith; Re- 
gatta Committee, C. W. Small, F. C. Davis, O. E. Ger- 
rish, E. C. Jones; Fleet Capt., P. I. Jones; Fleet Surgeon, 
Dr. W. H. Bradford; Membership Committee, E. H. 
Rice, F. A. Macomber, F. H, Bullard; House Commit- 
tee, P, I. Jones. oe ne ie ee 


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Sir Thomas Lipton’s Present to 
the Columbia Y. C. 


Cuicaco, March 1.—At a meeting of the Columbia 
Y. C., of Chicago, held at its club house Saturday, March 
1, the Lipton Cup Committee, composed of E. C. Berri- 
man, chairman; Vice-Com, J~ F. McGuire, and L. M. 
Y. A. Delegate Edward T. Balcom, reported receipt of 
letter from Sir Thomas Lipton, together with deed of 
gift, as follows: Yu 

City Road, London, E. C., Feb. 11, 1902—Edward C. 
Berriman, Esq., Columbia Y. C., 155 Washington Street, 
Chicago, Ill, U. S. A. Dear Mr. Berriman: I am in 
receipt of your kind letter of the 17th ult, and am greatly 
obliged to you for your kindness in going into this matter 
so fully. I heartily approve of the form of the Deed of 
Gift, and also the conditions under which the cup is to be 
sailed for. I think these are so carefully drawn out and 
so very clear and precise that they leave no room for 
debate or discussion. I will have very great pleasure in 
sending you a cup which I hope will be worthy of the 
club and of the contest. This matter I will put in hand 
at once, so that you will have the prize over in good ' 
time. 

I should have liked much had I been able to arrange 
to be present at the first race for the cup, but this is 
impossible. I hope, however, if all goes well, to beable to 
witness the race next year. 

Allow me to take this opportunity of again expressing 
to the members of the Columbia Y. C. my- warmest thanks 
for the great kindness and attention which they accorded 
me on my last visit to Chicago. 

Yours faithfully, 
THomaAs LipTon. 


Deed of Gift. 


Know all men by these presents, that J, Sir Thomas 
Lipton, of London, England, for the purpose of encourag- 
ing yachting on the Great Lakes of America, and espe- 
cially in the way of friendly ‘contests in sailing and sea- 
manship, do hereby give to the Columbia Y. C., of Chi- 
cago, State of Illinois, U. S. A., the silver cup delivered 
herewith, to be held, carried and sailed for under the 
following conditicns: 

First—The name of the cup shall be the Sir Thomas 
Lipton Competitive Cup. 

Second—The title to the cup shall always be in the 
Columbia Y. C., of Chicago. In case the said club should 
be for any cause, dissolved, then the title shall revert to 
me. Should the club holding the cup be dissolved, the 
cup shall be returned at once to the Columbia Y. C. 

It is to be distinctly understood that the cup is the 
property tof the Columbia Y. C., and not that of the 
Owner or owners of the vessel winning it in a match. 
The yacht club in which the vessel winning the cup is 
enrolled, may have the right to hold the eup for the 
time and under the conditions her¢inafter mentioned: 

Third—There shall be three consecutive days’ racing 
each year during July or August, under the sailing rules 
of the Columbia Y. C., and over the courses selected by 
the Columbia Y. C. off the Harbor of Chicago. 

The first race to-be over an equilateral triangle, two 
nautical miles to each leg, twice around, making a total 
of twelve nautical miles. ' 

The second race to be to windward or leeward and 
return, three nautical miles to the leg, twice around, malk<- 
ing a total of twelve nautical miles. 

The third race to be over a quadrangular course of 
three nautical miles to the leg, once around, making a 
distance of twelve nautical miles. 

In case of a postponement, the races will be sailed the 
next day following, and over the same course as would 
have been sailed on the day of postponement, and so 
continued from day to day, Sunday excepted, until there 
shall have been three races. 

The boat making the best record in the three races 
shall be declared the winner, and the club in which the 
boat is enrolled shall have the right to hold the cup until 
the first day of June the next following year, at which 
time it shall be delivered in good condition to the Co- 
jumbia Y. C., of Chicago, the Commodore of the club 
holding the cup, being responsible for such delivery. 

In the event of two or more boats making the same 
record in the three days’ races, the judges shall have the 
right to arrange for an additional race or races, until a 
winner shall have been selected, the course for such addi- 
tional races to be the same as the first three days and in 
the same order. + 

Fourth—The owner or owners of the yacht winning the 
cup shall have the right to have engraved on said cup 
its name, the name of the club, the date of the races, in 
a neat and plain manner, such engraving to occupy a 
space 1!4in. high by 3in. wide, and to be surrounded by 
a plain double line border. 

Fifth—Any yacht of the 21ft. cabin class, regularly en- 
rolled in a yacht club, belonging to an association, which 
association is a member in good standing of the Yacht 
Racing Union of the Great Lakes, shall have the right to 
compete without time allowance, provided notice of entry 
shall be filed with the Secretary of the Columbia Y. C., of 
Chicago, ten days before the date set for the first race. 

Sixth—The Columbia Y..C. shall, at its annual meet- 
ing the first Saturday in December each yeas} name the 
dates on which the next cup races shall be:sailed, and 
the Secretary will, in writing, promptly notify the secre- 
tary of all yacht clubs, members of the association com- 
prising the Yacht Racing Union of such selection. 

Seventh—The committee having in charge the Lipton 
cup races shall furnish the club historian a full account, in 
writing, of each race, giving number and-name of en- 
tries, velocity of wind, weather, conditions, etc., which 
shall be recorded in the club history. 

Yachtsmen desirous of information are requested to 
send for copies of rules, conditions, etc, to Harry P. 
Simonton, Secretary Columbia Y. C., 1200 Ashland Block, 
Chicago, Ill. 


The sloop Akista, owned by Mr. George Hill, has been 
changed from a sloop to a yawl, and has been equipped . 
with auxiliary power. Mr. Hill has gotten out plans for 
a 21-footer, and has some idea of building the boat and 
racing her in the Gravesend Bay circuit next summer, — 


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Marine Exhibits at the Sportsmen’s 
Show. 


SPORTSMEN from all parts of the United States and 
»Canada are again brought together at the Madison 
Square Garden, the occasion being the eighth annual 
exhibit by the National Sportsmen’s Association. 

The arrangement of the different exhibits has been 
given more care than ever before, and in consequence 
the whole affair is far more effective than ever before, 

In years past the marine exhibit has been small and 


simply incidental to the others, while this year it is one 


of the prominent features of the show. The builders of 
gasoline engines have turned out in force, and their ex- 
hibits are extremely interesting and complete. 


The Lozter Motor Co. 


The space occupied by the Lozier Motor Co., of 
Plattsburg, N. Y., is large and attractively decorated. 
This firm has on exhibition two complete launches. The 
largest is a 25{t. launch equipped with a five horse-power 
Lozier motor. The other boat is 21ft. long and is fitted 
with a three horse-power engine. This latter boat is 
beautifully finished and gives a good idea of the high 
grade of work turned out by this firm. In addition to the 
completed launches they have five motors of different 
sizes. These motors are one and one-half, three, five and 
seven and one-half horse-power, single cylinder, and a 
fifteen horse-power double cylinder. To demonstrate 
completely the simplicity of their product and the ease 
with which it is run, the three horse-power engine has 
been completely connected up with a shaft, propeller, 
mufflers and all accessories, showing very clearly the 
engine as it is when located in a boat. This firm was one 
of the first to introduce their engine on the English and 
Continental markets, and a large number of their motors 
are in use all through the United Kingdom and Europe, 


Racine Boat Manufactuting Co. 


The largest marine exhibit is that of the Racine Boat 
Mfg. Co., of Racine, Wis. The display made by this firm 
is very elaborate and complete, and they have on exhibi- 
tion row, sail and power boats of all sizes and descrip- 
tions. Their exhibit consists of a 21ft, launch, a r6ft. 
launch, a rsft. fishing launch, a 12ft. yacht tender, a toft. 
dinghy, a combination rew and sail boat, an I8ft. jib 
and mainsail boat, and a number of other rowboats and 
canoes. This firm has a large and well equipped plant, 
and build everything from a roft. row boat up to a 2o0ft. 
steel steam yacht. Their New York representatives are 
Messrs. Von Lengerke & Detmold. 


‘Truscott Boat Manufacturing Co. 


The Truscott Boat Mfg. Co., of St. Joseph, Mich., is 
showing one of its 25ft. launches. The boat is a well- 
built, compact craft. This firm makes a specialty of 
power boats from 16ft. in length up to large cruising 
craft. Their 16ft. launch is one of the roomiest on the 
market, and they claim that it will make from one-half 
to three-fourths of a mile more than any other produc- 
tion of its size that has yet come out. 


United States Long Distance Automobile Co. 


The United States Long Distance Automobile Co., of 
307 Whiton street, Jersey City, N. J., has on exhibition 
several standard marine engines. This motor, which is 
particularly well made and very handsomely finished, is 
made in sizes from 10 to 75 horse-power, 2, 3 and 4 cyl- 
inders. Many of these engines are in use both in 
pleasure and commercial vessels, and in every instance 
have given the utmost satisfaction. The simplicity and 
compactness of this engine recommends it for use on 
launches and auxiliaries. 


The Toquet Launch and Motor Co. 


The Toquet Launch and Motor Co., of Saugatuck, is 
displaying a three horse-power motor that seems to be a 
very substantial and serviceable engine. This firm man- 
ufactures “The Model” launches and engines. 


The Norwalk Launch Co, 


The Norwalk Launch Co., of Norwalk, Conn., has on 
exhibition four motors, a 2%4 and 3 horse-power single 
cylinder and a 5 and 7 horse-power double cylinder. A 
rather interesting feature of this engine is that there are 
no grease cups, all the oil being in a receptacle in the 


base; this allows the engine to be run for 12 hours at a 


stretch without oiling. 


Chutch Motor & Launch Co. 


The Church Motor & Launch Co. have: on exhibit a 
launch 21it. long and 5ft. roin. beam, the exceptional 
beam making this a roomy and comfortable boat. It is 
fitted with a 3% horse-power motor, with a speed of 7 
miles per hour. Mr. Orient C. Pinckney is in charge. 

Other exhibitors are the Western Gas Engine 
Mishawaka, Indiana; the Pneumatic Mattress ’ and 
Cushion Co., New York City; Indiana Old Town Canoe 
Co.; Siegel-Cooper Co., New York City; A. V. Evans, 
New_York City; Buffalo Gas Engine Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y.; Motor Vehicle Power Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; J. 
C. Hopkins & Co., New York. , 


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Yacht Club Notes. 


Commodore George E. Fitzmaurice, of the Bergen 
Beach Y. C., has appointed the following committees for | 
the coming year: House Committee—J, A. Sutter, Jr., | 
chairman; G. H. Hopper and J. Kuhlken; Regatta Com-} 
mittee—J. H. Green, chairman; Edward Chapman and E, 4 
V. Pardessus; Membership Committee—C. R. Fitz-] 
maurice, chairman; R. S. Dobbie. H. Klinger, J. D.} 
Knox, and R. L. Stillson; Entertainment Committee— } 
E. Bawo, chairman; C. H. Brown and V. Steiner; Build-} 
ing Committee—V. Steiner, chairman; C. R. Fitzmaurice, | 
Jr., G. H. Hopper, J. Sutter, Jr., Vice-Com. Penns, C. | 
F. Adams, Dennis, Miller, and Frohme, 


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Mr. W. Butler Duncan, Jr., has been appointed fleet | 
captain of the New York Y. C. by Commodore Lewis: 
Cass Ledyard. 

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Captain B. M. Whitlock, of the schooner Ramona, has. 
been appointed fleet captain of the Atlantic Y. C., and’ 
Dr. Paul Outerbridge fleet surgeon. Commodore Robert 
E. Tod made the appointments. 


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At a meeting of the New Haven Y. C. held on Feb. - 
25, it was voted to unite with the Pequot Club, of Morris 
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The following officers were elected at the annual meet-, 
ing of the Columbia Y. C., which was held at the club. 
hause, foot of West Eighty-eighth street, New York 4 
City, a few days ago: Com., Walther Luttgen; Vice- | 
Com., Alfred Carr; Rear Com., W. T. Colborn; Sec’y, T. | 
5S. Coale; Treas., W. C. Trageser; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. | 
Henry Griswold; Meas., W. H. Ketcham; Trustees, J. A.’ 
Weaver and Bedell Parker for two years each, and W. 
H. McDermott for one year. The club now has 309 
members and 90 yachts are enrolled in the club fleet. 
The club flag will be changed from a swallew tail to a) 
triangular flag. j 

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Prince Henry of Prussia has been elected an honorary 
member of the Columbia Y. C., of Chicago. 
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The regatta committee of the Yale Corinthian Y. C. 
has decided not to accept the Harvard Y. C.’s challenge 
for a race for 21-footers. This action was taken because 
the interest of the members was confined to the dory 
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The yachting season of 190a promises to be one of 
the most interesting in the history of the sport in Chi- 
cago, The membership of both local clubs is filled and a 
large number on the waiting list. a 

At the boat owners’ meeting of the Columbia Y. 6. 
the general sentiment of the thirty owners present was 
to fix the dates of the more important races and to 
leave the balance of the schedule with the regatta com- 
mittee. As a large number of the boat owners are mem- 
bers of the Chicago and Jackson Park Clubs, as well as 
the Columbia Y. C., it was eyident that harmony and 
co-operation are essential to the success of yachting, and 
the regatta committee was instructed to meet the com- 
mittees of the Chicago and Jackson Park clubs and ar- 
range so as to ayoid conflicting dates. The committee 
was also instructed to pick out suitable dates for a race 
to Jackson Park, also one to Highlasid Park, where Com- 
modore L. ©. Van Riper promises to give the yachts- 
men a hearty reception and suitable prizes for the competi- 
tors. ‘ 
> The dates agreed upon by the yacht owners, as being 
the most important, are: 

Memorial Day—Club regatta, for all classes. 

June 14—Ninth annual race to Michigan City. 

July 4—Annual open regatta for all classes and clubs 
of the association. 

Aug. 2—Cruising race to Macatawa Bay. 

Aug. 30—Annual race to Waukegan. , 

The Lake Michigan Yachting Association holds its 
annual meeting on the 7th, 8th, and 9th of August, at 
Macatawa Park, under the auspices of the Macatawa 
Bay Y. C., and the purpose of fixing the club race to 
Macatawa on Aug. 2 is to enable the boats to leave here 
the morning of the 2d, arriving at Macatawa Bay with 
ample time to take steamer to return to Chicago. This 
would give the slower boats an opportunity, without in- 
convenience, to be on hand to compete in the associa- 
tion races. 

The neophyte 21ft. cabin yacht has, no doubt, come to 
stay, and if not carried to extremes in construction, will 
‘prove itself to be a fast, comfortable, all around boat, and 
should, in a few years, be one of the largest classes on 
Lake Michigan. 

As the discussion and controversies over the rules 
for this class have practically ceased, on suggestion of 
the boat owners, the committee decided to reprint the 
rules verbatim with the rules of the Yacht Racing Asso- 
ciation of Massachusetts. The most vital point in the 
rules was omitted—the load waterline measurements. 
The general contention in regard to load waterline 
length has been that the crew or its equivalent in weight 
should be aboard when measurements are taken. This 
provision being omitted, gave a larger latitude for the 
designer, for with a slight reverse curve, a boat measured 
without crew or compensation weight, would incresae its 
waterline from 21 anywhere up to 24ft., when in racing 
trim. 

Secretary Bliss, of the Yacht Racing Association of 
Massachusetts, says it is yet an uncertainty which is the 
fastest all-around boat—the 21ft. knockabout of our asso- 
ciation ot the atfit. cabin boat recently adopted—but 
from all the information I can find in reference to the 
two classes, I do not think the knockabout, with its 
600 square feet of canvas, will have much chance against 
a boat from four to seven feet larger and with a spread 
of canvas anywhere from 750 to goo square feet. : 

The boat owners and regatta committee also decided 
at the special meeting to adopt for the season’s races 
the rules and classification of the Lake Michigan Yacht- 
ing Association. 

George M. Mashek, one of the new members, is the 
first to launch himself as an advocate of the new cabin 
class. He has ordered from Smal! Bros., of Boston, a 
design for a yawl, 4oft. over all, 24ft. waterline, and r1it. 
beam, and it is now being built in the shops of Berger 
Bros., at Manitowoc, Wis.—Chicago Tribune, 


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The Interlake Yachting Association, at a meeting held 
in Toledo, O., Saturday night, selected Put-in-Bay as the 
location of next summer’s regatta, and the time to be the 
week of July 21-26. The association formally indorsed 
the moyement inaugurated by the New York Y. C, for 
a uniform system of racing rules to apply all over the 
country. 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


The racing sloop building from designs made by Mr. 
B. B. Crowninshield at the yards of John Twigg & Sons 
for a syndicate of San Francisco Y. C. men has created 
unusual comment among yachtsmen in that vicinity. The 
boat is similar in type to Flirt and Cheewink. She is 
42ft. 6in. over all, 26ft. waterline, roft. gin. extreme 
breadth and 6ft. 6in. draft. The freeboard forward is 
3ft. 2in. and aft 2ft. 5in. and the least freeboard is 2it. 
The boat has continuous frames of oak, steam bent, 134 
by 134in. and the planking is of cedar tin, thick. The 
-frames and deck beams are tied together with steel straps. 
The deck and top of cabin house are covered with canvas. 
The cabin house is 12in. high and r4ft. long» The cock- 
pit is Toft. long and is finished in mahogany. The boat 
carries just over 1,000 sq. ft. of sail, 800 sq. ft. of which 
is in the mainsail and there are 206 sq. ft. in the jib. The 
mast is stepped in a slot so that it may be moved either 
forward or aft in order to get the boat hung properly. 
One of the San Francisco papers in describing the boat 
States that she is something of a revelation on account 
of her wire halyards, double-end main sheet, These 
features have rarely been seen in San Francisco waters. 


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Mr. Henry F. Lippitt has decided to name the 60-rating 
cutter building for him at Geo. Lawley & Son’s yard at 
South Boston, Weetamoe. 

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Mr, William H. Langley has sold his schooner Comet 
to Mr. E. S. Dix, of New York city. 


-Mr. Henry J. Gielow has gotten out plans for a 25ft. 
sloop for.a New York Y. C. member. The boat will be 
35it. over all, 25ft. waterline, 8it. Gin. breadth and will 


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draw sft. 6in. She will be raced in the joft. class on 
Long Island Sound. een 


Mr. Sholio Douglas has sold his American-built 
sthooner Nord West (formerly Alcea) to Mr. F. Hazel, 
of Copenhagen. Pa 


The Church Motor and Launch Co. is building in 
their shops at Nyack thirteen of the one-design knock- 
abouts for members of the Horseshoe Harbor Y. C. The 
boats are 23ft. long over all and will be very comfort- 
able and serviceable craft. 

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Mr. C. B. Alexander has chartered the steam yacht 
Margarita, owned by Col. A. J. Drexel, Mr, A. Cass 
Canfield has chartered the English steam yacht Onora, 
owned by Sir Christopher Furness, Mr. Henry T. Sloane 
has chartered the English steam yacht Golden Eagle, 
owned by Sir Samuel E. Scott, Bart. All these vessels 
were chartered through Messrs, Tams, Lemoine & Crane. 


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Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan has sold the steam yacht Al- 
gonquin to Mr. J. H. Flagler. The vessel’s name will 
be changed to Alita. The yacht has been lengthened 
16ft. at Poillon’s yard, South Brooklyn, during the win- 
ter. a 

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The boats for the one-design class for the New 
Rochelle Y. C. will be built by Mr. L. D. Huntington, of 
New Rochelle. 

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Mr. Walter B. Smith, of Eastport, L. I, is making 
extensive improyements at his yacht-building plant. He 
is putting in a new set of ways and considerable new ma- 
chinery. There are thirty yachts now in winter quarters 
at this yard. 

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The steam yacht built by the Herreshoff Mig, Co. dur- 
ing the past winter for Mr. Frederick Grinnell, will be 
named Quickstep—the same name borne by Mr. Grinnell’s 
schooner that was built in 1880. The yacht is about 
ready to be launched. She is 105ft. on the waterline and 
i25ft. over all. Mr. Nat. G. Herreshoff has had built for 
his own use a power house-boat. She is rooft. in length. 


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The honse-boat Thetis, owned by Mr. Hiram W. Sib- 
ley, of Rochester, that was injured by fire, has been en- 


tirely overhauled and repaired at Tebo’s, South Brooklyn. , 


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The steam yacht Pantooset was built at the Bath 
Iron Works, Bath, Me,, for Com. A. S. Bigelow, of the 
“astern Y.C, The yacht is 212ft. over all, 27.2{t. breadth 
and is expected to develop a speed of 15 knots, 


Grayshooting. 
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It you want your shoot to be announced here send a 
notice like the following: 


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Fixtures, 


_March 1213.—Junction City, Kans.—Tournament of the Junc- 
tion City Gun Club. . 

March 15.—Armonk, N. Y.—Postponed tournament of the West- 
chester County Shooting League. . T. Wayne, Sec’y. 

March 17.—Cresson, Pa.—Third annual live-bird handicap of the 
Cresson Gun Club. <A. B, Earhart, Sec’y. 

March 19.—Allentown, Pa.—Trophy shoot for the championship 
of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks and Bucks counties. <A, Griese- 
mer, Manager, ; 

March 19-21.—Indianapolis, Ind—Annual Grand Central Handi- 
cap tournament; first two days, targets; third day, 25 live birds, 
$25 entrance. Bert A. Adams, Sec’y. : 

March 23.—Brooklyn, L, I.— Club shoot of Fulton Gun Club; 
cup event, handicap, 

March 25-28.—Burnside Crossing, Ill.—At Watson’s Park, series 
of handicap events. Programme each day, 10 birds, $5 entranee, 
birds extra, 26 to 32yds., high guns. John Watson, Manager. 

March 31-April &—Blue Kiver Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grand 
American Handicap at live birds, Ed Banks, See’y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 

April ——Dover, N. H.—Fast Day shoot of the Dover Sports- 
men’s Association. J. B. Stevens, Sec’y. 

April 8-11.—Olathe, Kan.—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament, . 

April 10,—Marietta, O.—One-day target tournament of the Co- 
lumbian Gun Club. Chas. Bailey, Sec’y. 

April 15-17.—Asheville, N, C.—Larget tournament given by Col. 
E. P.. McKissick. 

April 15-17.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Aséociation’s annual tournament. F. B. Cunningham, Sec’y. 

April 16-18.—Peru, Ind.—Peru Gun Club’s sixth annual amateur 
tournament; two days at targets for amateurs; ome day at live 
birds open to all. Frank Dunbar, Sec’y. 

April 19.—Haverhill, Mass.—VPatriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill 
Gun Club, 

April 22-25.—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Me- 
Donald, Sec’y. 

April 29-30.—Greenville, O.—Annual tournament of the Greenyille 
Gun Club. : MecCaughey, Sec’y. 

April 30.—Wellington, Mass.—Third annual team shoot of the 
Boston Gun Club. Horace C. Kirkwood, Sec’y. 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L. 1.—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. 

May 1314.—Enid, Oklahoma Territory.—Oklahoma Territorial 
Sportsmen’s Association tournament. 

May_13-16.—Oil City, Pa—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F. S. Bates, Cor. Sec’y. 

May 14-16.—Charleston, 5. C.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
mament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W., G, Jeffords, Jr., Beye : 

May 15.—Sherbrooke, P, O.—Sherbrooke Gun Club’s inanimate 
target tours&iment. J O5S, Sec’y. 

May 20-22.—Ottumwa, Ia —Iowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 

May 20-22—-Elwood, Ind.—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind, . 

May 20-22.—Wheelin " W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmeti’s Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. 

May 20-23.————, —. ——New. Jersey State Sportsmen's As- 
sociation, A 

May 21-22.—Baltimore, Md.—Maryland eounty shoot for amateurs. 

May 21-23.—Sprinefield, 5. D.—South Dakota State Sportsmen's 
Association tournament, 

May 26-31—Lincoln, Neb.—Grand Interstate tournament; three 
ays shooting; three days golf; three days tennis. H. C, Young, 

anager. 

May 30.—Schenectady, N. Y.—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club. E. L, Aiken, Sec’y. 

ay 30.— Ossining, N. Y¥.—Holiday shoot of the Westchester 
Ceunty Trapshooters’ League. J, Curry Barlow, Sec’y. 


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DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are imvited to send their scores for pub- 
lication im these columns, also amy news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on all events ere considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York. ea, 


The following, taken from the Utica Daily Press of March 10 
contains matter of general interest to sportsmen: “Papers were 
filed Saturday with the county clerk of Essex county, N. Joy ime 
corporating the Remington Metallic Cartridge Company, with & 
capital stock of $250,000, The incorporators are Eliphalet Reme 
ington, of Ilion; Stuart Lindsley, of Orange, N, J., and Joseph 
M. Merrill, of East Orange, N. y The officers of the compan: 
will be: President, Eliphalet Remington; Vice-President, Joseph - 
Merrill; Secretary and Treasurer, Stuart Lindsley, The objects 
of the formation’ of this company is the manufacture of metallic ” 
cartridges and ammunition of every form and description. The 
Regen already has the backing of several capitalists of influence 
in New York and New Jersey, and as soon ag practicable the 
manufacture of Remington cartridges will be commenced on 3 
large scale, and in all probability the plant will be located at 
Ilion, Mr. Remington, the president of the company, is the only 
suryiving member of the original frm of E. Remington & Sons 
manufacturers of Remington firearms, of Ilion.” ; 


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Mr. 5. G, Miller, secretary of the Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club, 
writes us as follows, under date of March 10: “To your trouble, 
we are still on earth and things shootish looking very fine indeed. 
We may be oyer-sanguine, but if this doesn’t prove a_ pretty 
lively summer in shooting circles, I know of some people who 
will be very much disappointed. There are quite a good many 
who are already showing symptoms of ‘gun fever,’ and I haven't 
the slightest doubt that there will be many new cases of the dis- 
easé in its worst form before the season ends. Our members who 
‘have it bad,’ are doing their best to spread it, We will as usual 
open the season with out Patriots’ Day shoot. To those who 
were with us Christmas and saw us at our worst, we would say, 
‘Come April 19, and see if we cannot do better,’ and to others, 
Come and see what we can do.’ We intend putting in the Sergeant 
syetea in addition to our regular expert traps, and should be 
able to give everybody all the shooting they may desire.” 


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The Patriots’ Day teurnament, April 19, given by the Haverhill 
(Mass.) Gun Club, has a programme arranged as follows: Six 
events at 16 targets, 80 cents entrance; four at 20 targets, $1 en- 
trance; two at 10 targets, 60 cents entrance. Nos..5, 6 and 7, 20 
regular, 20 unknown, and 10 reversed angles, will be the Individual 
Handicap, All the’ other events have regular or unknown angles. 
Further information is presented as follows: ‘‘The shooter making 
the highest aggregate score in events 5, 6 and 7 will receive a 
sole leather “gun case; the second highest, Thurman shooting 
blouse, and the third highest, Powers cleaning rod. Handicaps in 
these three events will be by distance, 16 to 28yds. High guns 
to win. Targets 144 cents each, included in entrance, 
stakes optional. Loaded shells for sale. Lunch served free, 
Main street cars for Dustin Square.” 


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“John, Jr.,” well known as a graceful and forcible writer, of 
Huntsville, Ala., writes us the following interesting information 
under date of March 7: “The Huntsville Gun Club has elected the 
following officers for the ensuing year: Geo. P. Turner, President; 
RoE, Spiele Vice-President; Wm. Keeler, Captain; W. L. 
Halsey, W. F. Garth, J. W. Matthews, Directors. he club will 
erect a beautiful and commodious club house on the leased 
grounds, and other improvements will be made looking to the 
pleasure of the members and visitors, Considerable enthusiasm 
prevails among the members, and a great season of sport is an- 
ticipated, All manufacturers’ agents are welcome at the club 
grounds. The weekly contests will be held every Friday.” 


& 


Special rates have been more or less definitely arranged from the 
Recae shooting centers to Kansas City, Mo., to and from the 

. A. H., but shooters should specially keep in mind the Indian- 
apolis shoot, where, in case visitors are unable to secure a rate 
with a proper limit to cover the Indianapolis shoot and two ‘weeks 
more for Kansas City, a low rate from Indianapolis ta Kansas 
City and return is SuHCID aed leaving Indianapolis March 22, and 
good thereafter till April 7. Those who desire can purchase their 
tickets for Kansas City at the special Indianapolis rate, and also 
tickets and accommodations on the through Kansas City sleeping 
car of the Limited Gun Club. Mr, John M. Lilly, of Indianapolis, 
is chairman of Committee on Transportation, 


Mr, Alfred Griesemer, of Allentown, Pa,, writes us as follows! 
“Trophy shoot for the championship of Lehigh, Northampton, 
Berks and Bucks counties, March 19, at the Duck Farm Hotel 
West End Walnut street, Allentown, Pa.; 12 birds, entrance $0°- 
birds included. Dead birds to remain on the grounds, Money 
divided, 40, 30, 20 and 10. Shoot to begin at 10 o’clock, in order 
to shoot off ties, After the trophy event other events may be. ar- 
ranged to suit the shooters. Contestants for trophy all at 30yd. 
mark, The winner of this event will decide the question of owner- 
ship of the cup trophy, the event not finished Feb, 13, on account 
of darkness intervening.”’ coe 


Mr, Paul R. Litzke, of Little Rock, Ark., secretary of the A, S. 
S. A., writes us as follows under date of March 7; “A meeting 
of the tournament committee of the Arkansas State Sportsmen's 
Association was held at Pine Bluff, Ark., to-day, and it was de 
cided to have the twelfth annual meeting and tournament of the 
organization take place in Pine Bluff, July 8, 9 and 10. The Pine 
Bluff Gun Club will generously add $300 in cash to the purses, and 
as heretofore, the Rose system of division will prevail. Trade 
representatives will be debarred from competing tor the money, 
though they are welcome to attend and shoot for targets only.” 


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Mr. Harold Money, now a demonstrator of the Winchester re- 

eating gun and ammunition, contemplated departing for St. 

ouis on Tuesday of this week, his pleasant visit to his home in 
the East having drawn to a close. He challenged his father, Capt. 
A. W. Money, to contest for the chanipionship of New Jersey, he 
being the holder of the E, C. cup emblematic of that honor, but 
Capt. Money declined the challenge on the ground that he, Mr. 
Harold Money was no longer a resident of New Jersey, which 
probably kept the E. C. cup from journeying thitherward. 


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The Union Gun Club, San Francisco, Cal, at their last meeting 
elected officers for the ensuing year, as follows: President, Fred 
Walpert; Vice-President, George Sylvester; Secretary-Treasurer, 
Thos, L, Lewis; Captain, C. M. Wollam. The club will hold 
bluerock shoots on the third Sunday of each month, from March 
to September, and will hold a_ bluerock tournament on Mareh 
30, with a live-bird shoot on June 29. All the events will be 
held at the grounds of the Trapshooting Association, 


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Mr. J. S. Coggeshall, of Newport, R. I., secretary of the 
Aquidneck Gun Club, writes us as follows: “At the annual meet- 
ing of the Aquidneck Gun Club, held March 4, the following were 
elected: President, Geo, R. Plumer; Vice-President, Wm. A. 
Dring; Secretary-Treasurer, J. S. Coggeshall, It was voted to 
iste a new set of traps, Sergeant system, in a new trap house, 
The club intends to hold an open tournament soon, the date of 
which will be announced later.” 


Mr. J. J, (U. M. C) Halloweli, famous in trapshooting circles, 
was a visitor in New York last week. He waa a visitor at the 
Sportsmen’s Show, in Madison Square Garden, where all the 
shooting talent congregates at present. As wWsual, every one- gave 
Mr. Hallowell the glad hand, and was genuinely pleased to greet 
him. i : 

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Those who contemplate a participation in the Grand American 
Handicap at live birds, Kansas City, March 31 to April 5, should 
not overlook the fact that entries close on the 22d inst. Entry 
blanks can be obtained of the secretary of the Interstate Associa- 
tion, Mr. Edward Banks, 318 Broadway, New York, st 


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_ Messis. Parker Brothers, of Meriden, Conn., havé issued theit 
talendar for 1902, They will be pleased to send free ot charge a 
copy to the secretity of any club who will send to them his name 
and address; Also to any one else who will send ten cents to pay 
mailing expenses, It contains twenty-five photographs of famous 
American shooters, with brief notes of their performances, -An 
excellent cut of the Parker gun ornaments the top of the calendar. 


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The Oceanic Rod and Gun Club (the Cuckoos) has sent out 
inyitations to its friends to participate in its third annual all-day 
target tournament-fest to be held at Rockaway Park, L. L, 
the first day of next week. The club house is on the cool sands 
of the Rockaway desert, the salt breezes blow refreshingly, and a 
good time as long as the hours. Mr. HH. Schortemeier is 
Colonel, and “Johnnie Jones” is Captain. i 


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The Carlstadt, N. J., Gun Club celebrated its first anniversary 
last Saturday in an active and sensible manner. Though the 
weather was very rainy and raw, the gathering was pleasant. There 
was plenty to eat and sufficient to, drink. The center of interest 
was the team race between the Carlstadt Club and the Fairview 
Club, a -réturn match, eight men on a side, 25 targets per man. 
Carlstadt won by a score of 130 to 129, : 

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In the match for the Hazard powder trophy, at Omaha, Neb., 
on March 6, between Messrs. C. W. Budd, holder, and Russel 
M. Klein, challenger, at 100 live birds each, the competition was 
very close. Budd won by a score of 95 to $94, He used a new 
gun, and lost 4 out of his first 10, and lost only one in the re- 
maining 90, making one run of 69 straight. Mr, Kein also shot a 
great race, 

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On Tuesday of this week Mr. Hdward Banks, the secretary of 
the Interstate Association, had fifty-two entries to the Grand 
American Handicap, just double the number which had been re- 
ceived at even date last year. Entries are beginning to come in 
with cumulative volume, and there is no doubt but what the great 
shoot will be a record-breaker this year in the number of its 


entries. 
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Mr, A. A. Schoverling, secretary of the Richmond Gun Club, 
announces that the next shoot of his club will take place on the 
club grounds, Silver Lake, Staten Island, on March 22. All are 
welcome to attend. A special event will be a five-man team race 
between attaches of Messrs. Von Lengerke & Detmold, and 
Messrs. Schoverling, Daly & Gales. 


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Mr. U, M, C. Thomas, the baMistic expert of the U. M. C. 
Company, is not in evidence at the Sportsmen’s Show this year, 
he being confined to his home by illness; but he had a worthy 
representative last Saturday at the show in the person of his son, 
Mr. E. R. Thomas, who was enjoying the many attractions which 
the show aforementioned presents, 


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Mr. John Watson, of Burnside Crossing, Ill., writes us that at 
Watson’s Park on March 25, 26, 27 and 28 there will be a pro- 
gramme each day as follows: Ten birds, $5 entrance, birds extra; 
16 birds, $7 entrance, birds extra, All are handicaps, 26 to 32yds., 
high guns; moneys to be divided as per Grand American Handicap 


division, 
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The Altoona, Pa., Rod and Gun Club claims the dates May 30-31 
for the tenth, annual tournament of this club. Concerning it, Mr. 
G. G. Zeth, the secretary, writes: “The programme, which we 
will endeavor to make interesting, will beissued the latter part of 
April of first of May.” 

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Elsewhere in our trap columns, Mr. Edward Banks, secretary- 
treasurer of the Interstate Association, calls attention to the matter 
of reduced fares between New York and Kansas City, and to the 
conditions which appertain to them. 


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The secretary, Mr, Frank Dunbar, informs us that the Peru, 
Ind., Gun Club, will hold its sixth annual amateur tournament on 
April 16, 17 and 18. The first two days at targets for amateurs 
only; the third day at live birds, open to all, 


On March 6, at Omaha, Neb., there was a team race between 
All Nebraska and Omaha, ten men on a side, 25 birds per man. 
The Nebraska team won by a score of 231 to 224. 


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The Denver, Colo., Trap Club announces a_ series of Grand 
Western Bluerock Handicap tournaments, the first of which will 
be held at Denver, on June 12 to 15, inclusive, 


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The Dover, N. H., Sportsmen’s Association claims a fast day 
shoot, on some day in April next. Mr. John B. Stevens is the 


secretary. 


BERNARD WATERS. 


Oil City Gun Club. 


Oit Cry, Pa,—Bad-weather made pretty_low scores at our shoot 
of March 1. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 were at 15 targets; Nos. 4 and 5 
were at 5 pairs; No. 6, at 10 targets, was a walking match. : 

€. T. McClintock won the 20yd. medal with a score of 16 out 
of 25 after shooting off a tie with Chas. H. Lay, Jr. ., 

The attendance was up to the standard, but the scores which 
had been gradually getting better as the weather improved received 
a setback on-account of a high wind that made the birds e€x- 
tremely erfatic in: their flight. . 

There promises to be a large gathering of the sportsmen of the 
at the Pennsylvania State shoot, to be held here in Oil 


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City a. on May 13, 14 and 15 next, as a great many shooters 
from a distance have signified their intention of being present at 
that time, . ; 
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Derroit, Mich, March 9.—The regular shoot of the Tdeal Shoot- 
ing Club ‘was held’ at Wyandott, Tuesday, March 4, under the 
management of A. J. Loronger. Toll and -Schroeder tied for the 
Peters cup. Schroeder won out, Following are_the scores: J. 
Loronger 12, Toll 14, Bamber 11, McCourt 11, Schroeder 14, 
Linderman 11, Sansotci 13, Young 12, Cabanaw 12, Lewis 12, A. 
J. Loronger 12, Edwards 10. Wallace 10, Kenebush 9, Parker 13. 


t+ Carlton, March 18, > Js 
eRe ere rs * J. S. Linppraan, Sec’y. 


G. A. H. at Targzets—Handicap Committee. 


New York, March 10.—Will you have the kindness to allow, the 
ay your columns to make known the Handicapping Committee 
for the Grand American Handicap at targets for 1602, to be held 
at Interstate Park, May 6 to_9 both days inclusive, The members 
are: B, Waters, Chairman; W. 
rington, D, F, Elmer E, Shaner as secretary to the com- 


Pride; r 
rnittee, f J. A, H, Dresser, President, 


Hobart, W. K. Park, M. Her-° 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Amateur Tournament. 


Carrott, ta, Feb, 27,—J. L, Bgrlenerts amateur tourfaiient 
closed to-day. The attendance was. good, and Mr. Forkner should 
be well satisfied in getting out ; : 
of Ae year. : 

© shoot was held on the Fair Grounds, A laree tent was put 
up and well heated, and the shooters made as coniortsble as nae 
sible at this time of the year, : 

The target shooting was done from two sets of traps, Sergeant 
system. The programme called for three 15, four 20, and three 
“) target events each day, with §10 added to each event. 

One cup was given to manufacturer’s agent making the best 
average in the three days. Two cups went to the amateurs: One 
to the man whose average was over 85 per cent., and one to the 
man who averaged 85 per cent. and under. 

Fred Gilbert was the only agent shooting through the pro- 
gramme, and took the cup. Fritz, as he is sometimes called, was 
Ta Start ae et Sm E tS wens a hot race for the finish. On 

le secon ay he ran straight 
Shit aepiataten ees ght, and wound up the three days 

Eleven amateurs shot over 85 per cent. Guy Burnside averaged 
94 per cent. Four of these did not shoot off for the cup. 

White and Klein tied on the first 50 with 49. In the next 40 
White again got 49, while Klein accounted for 46; so White took 
the cup with 98 out of his 100—pretty good work for an amateur. 

In the shoot off for those whose average was 85 and under, 
Henry Steege scored 48 and won without a tie. This was a pop- 
ular win, as Henry is always on hand in the finish, win or lose. 

Pifty-four entries the first day, forty-nine the second, and thirty- 
fiye the third, while twenty-one finished the entire programme. 

On the last day the programme called for a 20-liye-bird handicap 
entrance $10, birds included, money divided 40, 30, 20 and 10: 
Owing to time consumed in target programme, this gyent was 
eut down to 15 birds, and it kept the management hustling to 
complete the event before dark, Gis men got 15 and divided first. 
There were six in the 14, three in the 138, and eight in the 12 
holes. The 15s each received $15.20; the 14s got $11.50 each; the 
18s same as the 15s; and the 12s $2.85 each, 

The birds were a good lot, and with a bad light, made the 
shooting quite difficult, 

The weather on the first two days was pleasant, but the last 
day it was dark and cloudy, with a little rain. 

Quite a few pin-tail ducks passed over the shooting grounds 
to-day, but were well out of reach of the guns, being two fo three 
hundred yards high. It was amusing to see the boys Jose in- 
terest in the target game and do some pointing at the ducks, often 
making the remark of what they would do to those ducks if they 
would only come down within reach of their guns. 

In talking of the Grand American Handicap, about twenty-five 
of the sportsmen present told me they were going to attend it, , 
and Iowa will at least have fifty to sixty representatives at 
Kansas City the first week in April, 


First Day, Feb. 25, 


Events: Yas Ae bt bie 8 10 : 
Targets 16 20 25 15 20 25 15 20 25 20 Broke. Avy. 
Dorton baits capers aos rrse« 12 18 20 11 20 23 13 17 21 18 163 815 
Burmeister vaeecnieesiess Fit 1... 10 10 14 § 12 18 10 15 14 13 125 «625 
Hinshaw eteteigersciinds 8 1914-13 12 17 12 17 16 17 145 -125 
od SFE iota eo ioe at 11 17 22.14 20 23 14 18 22 17 178 890 
Gilbert bittaate bia ens .. 15 19 23 15 18 22 15 18 20 20 188 -940 
Teel tA ites . 12 18 19 13 16 22 11 14 18 18 161 850 
Patch! sea se. . 917181381619 14141971 4150 -750 
F A Smith.. .. 1217 2113 14 14 715 18 16 147 135 
ane; Fetes .. 1013141017 2811181918 148 «140 
Oldssiresees . 4 91418131410 91410 115 -b75 
Mott re .. 12 18 20°11 17 28 13 18 22 15 164 820 
Taylor aldis . 11 16 22 14 20 23:13 18 23 19 1719 895 
Burnside . -. 14 20 238 15 14241517 23 20 185 925 
Morrill ...,, ,. 1015 20 14 16 23.1117 2215 163 O15 
Diefenderfer aa .. 12 19 20 12.17 21 10 16 24 16 167 .835 
Dominie ,,.-......-- .. 18 15 1913 13 19 8 14 22 17 153 165 
McDowell ...........1 . 12 14-20 18 14 20 12 16 23 16 160 800 
lutealonye ye eee 7 15 12 14 16 ,, 10 19 21 18 a. Sora 
TEOOW 5 suede dee Loe the eee 81617141417 612.... melt ri 
ra ye Mag een dse sot ra 12 16 22 15 19 22 13 16 24 16 175 875 
MWicI OAC ss hr sass neue 11.17 19 14 18 17 14 16 21 17 164 820 
Bare oe ee eS eee! Ti 14 231217171115 22318 161 -805 
Townsend cogetar accel See Re 10 15 20 14 19 20 12 16 19 18 164 820 
AG GOUHICHN Lee eee eee eee 8 16 20 11 15 18 13 17 17 17 182 760 
Ra sdel leet et ees Be on ee hn aS eB ea bp srs 
iBrookmarureneinenenart tess 14 16 20 14 16 20 11 13 23 17 164 820 
Bordseho ss ose Greht Got e 12 17 19 13 17 21 14 17 21 i8 169 845 
Wrettlent” ad. fanretrnte net 10 16 23 14 15 20 12 16 19 13 158 . 790 
UNsbahies Wer ale tems 11 11 2018 1617 9 42..: .. ty oe 
A aT Cee PaPEn heehee He eee 1215 171215191017 2015 152 - 760 
ites TA see Frere eee. 13 17 22 12°17 23 14 17 22 17 174 Prey(t) 
Tinnahies arenes Heh MRR Ann een 9 17 23 15 15 23 13 18 21 18 172 860 
dyhetoe Oe eadooddodsacads 13 18 20 12 11 24 14 14 20 15 161 805 
Banchincie eee eee eeh tenner (11419101518 8 8.... ine tine 
MAR GOISE Gondtapeontedegedod 1 1S ls 14820 Ts a4 d4d5 
Swede sere sere atenet 13 1119111219101... ads 4do> 
Scott" 5 cFF see seed eeeee 61317121515101015 4 117 685 
HESS Oto ete seers ae eet TOF le eee See eee nee Axst 
Paxtore sear eae ee ee Sib is S15 Sosa 7 105 525 
StSere. ‘sfasletscls se cesses 10 16 19 10 18 2812151914 153 765 
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Stite. seb ee ee eras ae Oy aoe oo thet as oe ~rea 
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D Miller ..--- eres trite ak tod ed 18 91216 7 
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(Behe Segoe heel Pires tect 101610 .. 
Walling te Sete vana tke: ey ie yeaah nO ‘ 
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; Second Day, Feb, 26, 
Events; a2 3 4 5 16 899510 
Targets 15 20.25 15 20 25 15 20 25 20 Broke. Ay. 
PD Grtone tpt aa ee 18 18 24 12 20 2415 20 2219 187 935 
BEMEISKER, irises » 4172014131913 171613 140 -700 
FEVIISH aint tee eee 91819 811 281416 2218 158 -790 
Leith 225 27 9Ee0 Pomc ett 12 19 24 14 17 22 14 17 23 15 177 .885 
Gilbert owe. oe ee 14 20 25 15 20 25 14 20 25 20 198 .990 
Wihiteces ov ane ee Tere 15 17 251517 251515 2418 186 930 
Fite ie Sip eye eet emer oem 14 16.22 14 20 2831529 2819 1865 $925 
LS baiG ER Asolo on 12 14 23 12 19 22 12 11 14 14 153 165 
Weel le pet ee es eee 1416 231816 2015191219 176 880 
RATLO. A ere ee erent 11 18 22 18 15 21 18 14 17 19 163, -.815 
Moke) Wie oe eee 12.16 221216 28310142118 164 .820 
STITTSTC es pls 9 eee ree 15 18 22 1419 2814192220 186 930 
1B 1G Uh hee yee er ae 17 23 14 18 20 .. -. .. -- es mnt 
Brown) of 535$te ese pee § 810 5 916 71514 8 100 500 
Taylor (oss s@eiceds 4 eae ,+. 15 15 28 15.19 25 1519 2420 190 950 
erty, 23 (33 32 ee ences 8 15 16 13 17 17 14 17 16 16 149 ~T45 
Boyd fh ip eia inns cpio epee 13 14 20 14 16 2012192014 162 810 
Waihatisatd a tenes cee nts Abed A2AG ie ae =: es 
Tiweddales caatetscsese srry 9 16 16 13 17 15 10 15 18-18 147 . 135 
Hiofer sac nseteetae bess 14 16 17 12 18 20 13 18 24 14 166 830 
BRYAy! conrad adie foe bale clrsr 14 18 22 15 18 23 15 20 2248 185 -925 
Saray) Wisurtersdteisn in perseeveetaceneeas™ 12 17-24 15 20 211418 22:19 182 910 
Baye on Gara eee niet oe 13 14 201217 211381723 17 8©6167 835 
Townsend ....- peter estos: J4 15 22 14 18 19 15 17 24 16 174 870 
Goodrich ...4..-.4.-5s+..+- 14 141913 161710 19:21/17 160 .800 
sBtookman .....-- Iota 13 17 20 12 19 22.12.20 2318 176 ~880 
SOT. camels lttaterenrpinees 14 19 23 13 18 211419 2316 180 -900 
Wiettledta on ppene ae nanaseerns 15 18 21 1819 2418 19-2320 185 925 
PRISSelL Seg aes belctele) Feasts 11 13 24 11 18 19 13 17 22 17 165 +825 
Steeoe’ tec wuesdy “ena 1219 21-11 20 2813 18 2415 176 880 
Diefenderfer ....,.+.+---+s 15 18 20 14 19 28 14 20 23 .. me Btn 
Dominic sseseeeee eee es 12 19 22 44 17 22 14 17 20 17 174 -870 
McDowell ...... cecatsl tebe E 13:16 2) 12°15 22 12 18°23... ee ae 
Rast fe nee eee ein 13 19 221217221319 2119 178 890 
Patchwesn epee ense 91819131818 8172117 158 790 
Sip ititae wre) Ae aS NS ae 71 18 21 14 19 22 15 12 24 .. Pie OTe 
McGrew ,...+... a aS Ae aT Qumteal sade eee ees ee airs 
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Patcir Syeee seule tess ras 91718181619 14141818 i161 .S50 
MLorrill’ ohne cea staseeererts 13.16 22 151719-1219-2417 174 #870 
Agard sceteuyeneeeerss ase 12 19 22 14 16 23 11 17 20 -. noe, beds 
OMES Leyes ee des mekeste tele Sion ose OSs oh wegen pa roe Fred 
Dickson SAE OPER OR REE OT Piss ge bobvet ite 
Sits aepVNas ee cre etry es Fk SA He. re wid 
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T 19 2a Cha pao pooe 


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so many shooters at this season 


(Marce 28, i984, 


Third Day, Feb, 27. 


Events! 143465 6 } 

: a i 8 910 
Bae 1b 20 25.15 20 25 15 20 25 20 Broke. 
wah Fats 4: tijsiaee 16-20 23 15 20°24 14 19 24 19 193 
Serbs ie She ee lo so 1017 21:13 16 251218 2117 #170 
Kies Vins Led bat be rosette fla|s nja.e A Biae vara 14.18 22 14 18 20 13 19 21 20 179 
ke a awe neteras teak alt Sens 12 16 25 14 18 22 15 20 20 19 185 
an SE i rar ty care eh i eg elegs 12 16 25 14 18 2215 20 2419 - 185 - 
MS LACES tame noe eI Fer 13 20-23 15 20 25 15 20 23 20 ©6194 
Le way mashes oe a tates at WAL RS 13.18 24 15 16 21121819 20 176 
ee _ Meee ecnotye cick 20 23 15 18 22 15 10 25 12 178 
ees He icp ott RRA RARE BRE A RA 192TH AT ek WAS 
ests Peter rye Bt 45 bil 14 19 221419 211519 2117 183 
Pan Ne eae | »-~ 1119 28 14 20 241517 2018 181 
B-27 eMsciterine Me bebe bangs 8 15 21 14 18 21 10 18 21 14 160 
ROWSE Gs), Spier ann Senn nen ne 12.17 211416 251518 22 9 170 
Goodrichy saasmenananeenie sees 10 16 19 12 16 23 12 15 21 18 161 
Brookmam 2... .65.. ee cnn vrerree 12 19 2115.20 2414 51719 166 
Bord Pee, iene cee ee . 11 16 23 13 17 25:14:16 22 2 159 
Wettleat 2b. eGlaiaen 14 20 25 14 19 22 18:20 24 20 191 
Ripsselll. sae. SSE aoe 10 Gp 2112 16 ve ee Vine. oe 
SYR 5555 Sas Skane = 1218.22 1417171418 2217 171 
PaylOty ns nec cc ae 13 19 24 15 19 25 13 17 17 15 177 
Dominic ss Pee ae eee LOMLG 225 DEA ee af 
Morrell) VCs sia uheienesae tee 13 20 22 13 18 23 13 19 24 20 186 
IRGC UEC eb tole reer eee, Gi paar oo ee 2 ie 
Dorton .,.,, NOE Le EE Phe eae pbs 15 20 25 14 19 25 15 18 23 19 193 
MUIR Aes Ace cunrsey noun A eintayar: IAA 1S ETS eae ee OY Sede henry 
VEIN an Ss aewsss cae eee nace et ees ans. 49 SOBA So be , 
Wweddalen celta iat cetens SAE Sieheltaes =, ie J 
ee SERS Ree RST IA Mires tiny LAE Gy Se Meese Oe eae 
EES Biber icceistctaiviele ries eins . 15 17 23 15 20 25 12 19 28 20 ©=-:189 
ICSI Gea sd oe edodenoners Tate . .. 1422... 1416 952 .. .. “1 
VLA rire UGB ost ctast hae est ce ea nn tC EES AR Aetir es = 
Raleee ae Satie & LA Se oe 22 14 ie 2515172216 ... 

Steutstss Denn RRL Eee aeene Bone AS. od pee 
dors eaters etna ae Tat SEER Set: POP 
Jip Reaiitarereee teenie sete nee Ra rere iy, eH el Kewns goa th 
Weinies ie Lies 30, 20 and 10 per cent.: 

cott, 28.... 0011211—12  Dominie, 29. ..202220202229919 12 
d 21, B0esscs00+ 20220211110222212 Ht Reaman, 27.202221911292022 13 
Terry, 28.......22002012202w b eaman, 27. .2022002022202w. 

oodrich, 27. ...222022022020w urnside, 30. .202212222111222 14 
West, 26..-.-.. 22202222222202213 Boyd, 28....... 222220222222222— 14 
Gilbert, 32.....222022229229999 14 Wettleaf, 28. ..221022222202002—11 
Long Shot, 28.02220222200022210 Steege, 39...... 122911229911 191 15 
Dorton, 28.....122222292099999 75 Ward, 27.2... 0220022122020w 
Budd, 30,..... :22211222021101213. Taylor, 28.-... 2222 00229292922 15 
Hughes, 30....21012222021102212 Klein,’ 30...... 222.222202222222 14 
Hofer, 28.......202221220200w Lane, 28....... 222222222222202—14 
Arie, B28th a. ee 112101110201122—12 Wilson, 30..... 222220221222222 14 
Bray, 20....... 222222222022222—15 Crabill, 29.....220022121291012—19 
Hinshaw, 28...22211112122222215 Miller, 28...... 102222122200002—1)) 
Townsend, 28.220221020222222 12 Brookman, 27..002120100w 
Forkner, 29....202020222220w ussell, 27..... 222112222227122 15 
Miller ...0... -,102222122200002—10 Ford, 27....... 022102222011222—12 


General averages on targets, Feb. 25, 2 3 
Burnside a White one gets, Fe , 26 and 27: 
.905,- Klein .30 ettleaf .89, Sandy .878, Morrill . 
Townsend .846, Ford .846, Brookman .043, Steege $33, B.-27 .812 
Lane .811, Hinshaw .803, Goodrich .788, Burmeister .725, : 

Shoot-off for cup, 85 per cent, and under: Burmeister 40, Hin- 
eel ay tae 40, B.-27, 39, Townsend 48, Goodrich w., Brookman w., 

Shoot-off for over 85 per cent. cup, 50 targets: Dorton 41, Klein 
49, Wettleaf 49, Linell 45, Sandy 47, White 49. Burnside w. Ties 
on 49: White 49, Klein 46, wiweal ei agittiataggi ati ve 0 12 


The Hamilton Gun Club. 


Hamitton, Canada, March 8,—Herewith please find scores of thie 
last two regular club days’ shooting over the Hamilton Gun Club 
traps, including standing to date of all contestants entered in the 
race for the Peters Cartridge Company’s trophy. 

At the meeting of the executive of the Dominion Trapshooting 
and Game Protective Association, recently held in Toronto, the 
representatives present decided that as it was clearly the intention 
if not the letter of the constitution of the Association that their 
annual tournament should be anational affair, foreigners will not 
be allowed to compete for the trophies of this Association, nor. 
shall they be allowed to participate in contests for guaranteed» 
purses, except for birds only, ; ; 

The dates of Aug. 14, 15 and 16, as previously chosen, were 
unanimously agreed to, . 

Kindly have them posted in your trap fixtures. The outlook 
for this tournament could not be more promising; in fact, trap- 
shooting in Canada is to-day in a more thriving condition than 
ever before, The growth is a national one, and the utmost har- 
mony and good fellowship exists among our clubs. 

Scores March 1: 


Events: 123 4 5 6 Shot 
Targets: 10.10 25101515 at. Broke, 
Wels ori Gr hanapiecetet eon ar abies toe Betas Meme elU, 25 13 
HL Distasi ASseercesertiteet cee otree oye fe eoley seeds 60 89 
(Okie (pes WCE see reemecnrer cues oF (rch yea, al 25 18 
C Brigger, 20 caves cree ceeesersceteney . 9 920 613 80 57 
GeosCrawiord, los e-aeees te eet raed 5. 2b 6 8 60 40 
Thos Upton, 20.,...-:...4.. SE Pade oa 6-21 22 12 60 39 
E A Clifford, 18-.......; “IT ERIPE PEE) ea 1s 92h. § 50 37 
ie SS Tiy th eeoreetena sae eeees See e ceria anes D0 ae 10 iD 
Dr Wilson, 21--.,........ Petar ars reine 918 .. 10 50 Byé 
IDyy Je Riiehig SUA erst) Cte rs Ret oano ean oz es- 10 23-22 12 50 45 
Bens iy LT iiaeussasass eae pe cece Ey 10 25... 9 50 Ad 
M & Fletcher, 19........0.00-004 hig die ss repeeey LO chee, 50 38 
s AL Siny their aperectenee don MWihiaegece had 192 ed 40 28 
VmmbWtiti ter) sls. oeapereth ee fet apenas a ane amr ee 21 7 10 50 38 
(Phe Grraltvartd seal S tetetelevelelcteelt ol -tlalelsaa))sletiTatelens cama al 82. 35 29 
FE er PW Sta. nonnbbobopbdestbbubbbouc beee bees) ts 25 21 
CaWiatenhriry lly tecniacmaer rete ia eetioe: see Vineeee 25 Wv 
| Lye eee ot year ehangoocotebs tec be nt Piles Te 25 22 
ngersoll, 16...... PEEL Aileen eb eae 12 11 80 28 
Standing in tace for Peters cup; 
Shot at, Broke. Shot at. Broke. 
Ben Ttsjciteteas AAS 50 AT M Reardon ,,.,..,.,-50 36 
E A Clifford..... +a 50 43 C Waterbury ...,...50 35 
iH” -Grahames.: +. teas 50 42 Hunter ..... shia 38 
C Brigger,.<.....-. D0. , 42 Vm Langhorn ......50 27 
Die tii tee aeeenere et 50 42 G@ Strotdds <Siiegp rene 19 
Teh pLatesse chase the 50 AR BOWLPON veer peepee ee 25 22, 
G Crawiord ......... 50 BB UR DIE Ss ne ee 25 al 
A BateSs eesrerecnnnes 50 40 SPEC eee 25 19 
Dr Wilson ....-.-.035 50 88 A Miirdotk ......... 25 14 
Tecra ia. Rade OP Tees 50 BGT) JAM Siiythee sewers 25 19 
E Fletcher....... 50 Bit) Wm Work,......... 1120 22, 
March 6.—No. 5 was Peters cup race: 
Events: A 23. eb Events: 123 46 
Targets: 101010 525 Targets; 1010 10 6 25 
W Langhorn, 16., 5 5 5..12 G Shoun, 17...... 6 6 9 411 
J_ Crooks, Serer Co libieware AUT uae seareetlen sais na di Be |e 
Me eardoritectvset oan) enmses cee Oma Ua TEL ues tetere cturetaters we ot os NOME, 
G@ datigrern elke Woe eee eae ee hGh Pe eicwtees valjseeciiewe eDiets wae 
G Crawford, 18... 4 4 5.... A Smyth ......... ee ee 
Ben Is, 


New York to Kansas City—G, A. H. 


New Yorx, March 8—Will you kindly make it as widely known 
ag possible through the columns of Forrest anp STREAM that the 
Western Passenger Association, thé Central Passenger Association, 
and the Southeastern Passenger’ Association have all made a re- 
duced rate of a fare and a third to Kansas City for those who are 
going to take in the Grand American Handicap, March 31 to April 
5. The certificate plan will be adopted, which of course mepns that, 
each person desiring the excursion fare must purchase first-class. 
ticket to Kansas City, for which he will pay the regular fare, upon 
payment of which the ticket agent will issue a printed certificate 
of purchase. This certificate will be viseed and signed by the 
proper parties at Kansas City on any of the three following dates, 
April 2, 3 and 4, upon presentation at the ticket office at Kansas 
City, and return ticket will be issued for a one-third fare rate 
this making a considerable concession. . Ah 

It is hoped that here in the East, the Trunk Line Association 
which has a meeting, I understand on Wednesday, March 12, will 
make a corresponding rate; at any tate, our application for such 
teduction has Hee made, and if same is granted, it will no doubt 
have considerable effect upon the representation from the Fast 
in the G. A, H. . iy, er ; 

‘I am pleased to state that entries are coming in yery freely, but 
I would ask that all entries be made as early as possible in order 
that a full Hst of same may be in the hands of the Handicap 
Committee at Kansas City when it commences its labors Thurs- 
day; March 27. - : 

By making all the above facts known you will greatly oblige, 

ars + ' * | “EpWwARD’ BANKS, > 

Sec’y-Treas, Interstate Association, 


Omaha Tournament. 


_ _ Neb, March 6.—The 100-bird contest for the Hazard 

_ Powder Championship trophy between C. W. Budd, of Des Moines, 

fu. holder, and Rtissel Klein, of Spirit Lake, Ia., challenger, took 

_ place to-day on the grounds of the Omaha Gun Club. Mr. Fred 

rd was appointed referee by the Hazard Powder Company, and 
filled the position very eet abe to both contestants, 

Mr. Fred Gilbert handled Mr. Klein, while Mt. Loomis looked 
after Mr, Budd. ae j 
” The weather was dark and cloudy, with a strong wind blowing 
from right to left across the traps, and at times clouds of dust and 
sand would fill the air, making if very disagreeable and the shoot- 
qhe Gitnte ditncuilt. ‘the birds were very uneyen, some fast and 
some show, but as the whole they were a fair lot, _ 

Budd won the,toss and went first to the score, with a new gun 
he had used but little. The trigger pu was a little harder than 

the one he was accustomed to. e killed his first bird in good 
“shape and then lost three in succession. He lost his ninth dead 
out of bounds, then settled down to business killing 21 without a 
miss. He lost his 3lst, and then killed 69 straight, finishing with 


Oman 


Klein lost his Ist, 5th and 19th, scoring 22 im the first quarter. 
- His 87th fell dead out of bounds, He then made a run of 
straight and looked like a sure winner. His 96th and 100th fell 
eae ae and he went out with 94, leaving Budd a winner by 
one bird. i 
The shooting of both contestants in the last 90 birds was nearly 
perfect, and until the last bird was shot at it was any one’s match, 
Budd shot a Parker gun, U. M. G. shells and Schultze powder. 
Klein used a Parker gun, Peters Ideal shells and Hazard powder. 


The scores: 

COW Budd, 20s0.cce.-ce ee eee cee e vey, + -10002222%2212222220002222—21 
922920222921 2222222212222—24 
2222202220222 222222222202—20 
2299999922921 2220 2222022225 05 

ROOM) 3Clerta, Beier ace ye denon vas = = -0222022222200002207222222—22 
PERE PPP R ERP EP PEP PPT RA Taare 
D2VAAIIII2I2IAQII22I2A222—oo 
221122222122222222227222* 23 —O4 


Omaha vs, Nebraska, 


At a smoker giyen the Kansas City team by the Omaha sports- 
men last month the statement was made that a team could be 
picked from Nebraska outside of Omaha that could beat a team 
selected from those living in Omaha, After some little sparring, 
the match was made. Conditions, 25 birds per man, ten men on a 
side, losing team to pay for birds. The Omaha team selected 
was: Kimball, Townsend, Grant, Hofer, Loomis, Brewer, Lewis, 
ae Fogg, and Parmelee. The Nebraska team was: Dominie, of 

_ Freemont; Seivers, Grand Island; Schroeder, Columbus; Raines, 
Beatrice; Carter, North Platt; Linderman, Weeping Water; B.-27, 
Herman; Terry, Louisville; Bray, Syracuse, and Simpkins, Lin- 
coln, March 6 was named as day, providing weather was fayor- 
able, Mr. S. McDonald was chosen referee, and the contest com- 
menced at 10 o’clock by Dominie, for Nebraska and Kimball for 
Omaha. When seven men from each team had finished the team 
shoot was called to a halt, and Budd and Klein took one hour 
and forty minutes to settle their trophy contest, after which the 
last three men on each team finished, the Nebraska team winning 
by 7 birds, with a very creditable score of 231 out of a possible 250. 
Bray, for Nebraska, and Fogg, ) Y n 
straights. To-morrow there will be a Jive-bird handicap, and a num- 
ber of the sportsmen will remain over to take part in it. . 


Nebraska Team 


WJOMINIe: pesp eps buswe ese cre ue Paine 22*0220*1222220222991 2209221 
SEIVEFS. ene ewrsee ee ei sediiptiendncs 2*2022220*222299 222200232 —21 
MCHTOCHED vecreret eas ee we myn ene <6 o 21121 2222112*222121221121—24 
REIMEG ects hekebe reece chee sick ss on ow 1 «222292229922 222922229299 24 
MUATTOI a Tete Lkaslee oper iercinrtrere wile pew nee = eQQZLQ222221 222082 22022222—23, 
Linderman .....-....-.-....- Teeth 2222229209 222222022220222 24 
UM PKInS 2 es ccka anny rennin erncssess 4 2222222222222022220220222—22 
TTErry,  <iccunsansmdecsernsresave wep eo 220222222022 22929 99722292 23, 
BOTe cbctUueqaceesskpanenee Sageo oe 222222222022 2222 292222022 —24 
IBTAy. syigessecna Ae ieao aeinnade 222222220282 229292299 25 936 
Omaha Team 


easy oe aaieceee oot 2 0 2222" 22" 2222200022 2202220-—22, 

« . -120222212220*101122211111—21 
«2212222222222222220222122— 24 

- -1222220220222220222222212 —22 

~ -2002110222227222212122122—21 

-*111211221102191001211221—21 

»-2222012201212121222022212—22 

=» 2222222022022222202222222—24 

NOLO) enwenaiante ner = = 2222222222222020022222222—25 

Parmelee 2222222221201022111222220—22—224 


Twenty-two men paid $10 entry in a 12Jive-bird handicap, 27 to 
$2yds., money divided Rose system, 7, 5, and 3 points to first, sec- 
ond and third. Nine men got 12 and drew $11.25; four tied on 11 
and received $8 each; seven divided third and drew $4.80. Birds 
are getting very scarce, and there will be but little shooting done 
until after the Grand American Handicap: 


pee ee ee woes 


Burnside, 31......2211212222212 Klein, 30.......... 222992999922——12 
Goodrich, 27.....012021220*02— 7 Mott, 30......... 22*222220222-—10 
bea sabe erase: 021112222202—10 Loomis, 3()........ 222229271229 12 
B-27, 30......0+---22111222222212 Budd, 31.-.......21217112221* 10 
Gilbert, 32.,..,<--22211122222212 Townsend. 29,.., .002212212*21— § 
Kimball, 31.,.....222222222222 12 Raines,’ 30......, 222222222222—12 
Grant, 30.......--122222222222 12 Crabill, 30....-. »212212121202—11 
Dominie, 30,....-2222221*2202—10 Boyd, 28...-, ee ee 222221122120 11 

rewer, eve esel 2210121022210 Seivers, 30-..-.... 112220111122—11 
Lord, B9 on cveeevs 222210011111—10 REDS. AN Sanaa -001211122121—10 
Terry, 29.,.-..---22 Lewis, 28.........220222222212—11 

HAWKEYE. 


Trenton Shooting Association, 


_ Tue Trenton (N. J.) Shooting Association has issued the follow- 
ing: : 
The programme for Wednesday, the 12th inst., has been carefully 
arranged with the view of bringing not only the weak and weary 
members but the strong and husky ones as well completely “en 
yapport”’ with same. 

ome of the boys fell off the yee at the last regatta and 
sprained their wrists, There is talk of having our beautiful $30 
pump converted into an apparatus for lifting wind out of post holes, 
thereby greatly improving the general utility of the latter and also 
living us another boost up the ladder of fame. I am also able 
to state that Mr. Peter Erasmus Hurley has kindly consented to 
tun the cars to the grounds on a 30-minute “skedule” in place of 
the old style half-hour table. Mr, Elurley should receive something 
from us, something that would cheer him up, as he ambles along 
life’s pathway. 

Rumors are floating that Billy Widmann is at work on a 
scheme which, if it proves successiul, will be a boon to Yardville 
folks. He is trying to cross the lightning bug and mosquito, se 
as to enable one to see them coming. 

Mr. W. A. Roebling, Jr., is the present holder of the Mercer 
county trophy. Any one who imagines that they able to wrest 
the laurels from his brow will have the opportunity by sending 
in their challenges on this occasion, Mr. Clarence Adonis Jacques 
holds the City cup. He also has a chip om his shoulder. Same 
remarks apply. he beautiful gold and silver badges (have you 
seen them?) will also be hung up. By special request, Mr. 
Bartlett Pear Satterthwaite has kindly consented to gratify the 
curiosity of those who were not cognizant of the fact that the 
hole in the ice into which he madvertently precipitated himself 
last winter, while looking for a friend, is still in his possession, 
and will be exhibited in the large building on the right going up 
the lane, The trustees of the Public Library made an offer far 
this great natural curiosity, but after an examination, withdrew 
the same, as they found it was not deep enough. fj 

Mr, §. is debating whether he will present it to the High School 
or the Old Ladies’ Barracks. Hey, 

‘Hock der Kaiser.” = 

"Hock der umbrella.” > 


“Hock der overcoat.” 4 Pa eh. 
Hock anything to raise the wind and come down, tp 


Use Jack Pattern’s load and always win. Yours as ever, | 
Grorcrt N. Tomas, General Manager. 


Tue following circular explains itself: 


Trenton, N. J,, March 7.—As a member of the fraternity of trap-" 
influence in, 


shooters, you are gee a requested to use your 
assisting to defeat House Bili No, 112 (known as the anti-pigeon 
shooting bill) by immediately writing ta your Assemblyman and 
Senator requesting them to oppose it, stating the following facts 
wi support of your objections: Pigeon shooting ts universally 
recognized as a legitimate sport, and the charges of cruelty, made 
by objectors to the ai are grossly exaggerated and are without- 
foundation im fact. Modern trapshooting rules not ouly prohibit 


for Omaha, making the only two © 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


the mutilation of the birds hut provide and exact penalties for the 
indulgence in such barbarous practices, and the result is that the 
pigeon shooting tournaments of to-day are conducted in a clean 
and humane manner, It is also generally conceded that the sport 
entails far less suffering in its practice than that of field shooting, 
as the small number of pigeons wounded before the traps are 
quickly retrieved and immediately despatched, whereas thousands 
of the furred and feathered creatures of the forest and field, when 
wounded, escape and die a lingering, painful death, 

Men of position, culture and refinement, men in the highest 
walks of lite,.men who are leaders in the professjonal world, are 
enthusiastic devotees of the sport of pigeon shooting. Can one 
believe that if the sport was the brutal pastime that the unknow- 
ing ones charge it to be, would such men countenance and support 
it? Millions of dollars are invested in the manufacture of guns 
and ammunition, great improvements have been made and trap- 
shooting has become an art and a science, requiring judgment 
and skill in the performance. Trapshooting sportsinen are peo 
indignant with the way and manner that the promoters of this bill 
have imposed upon the public by presenting a picture of “‘raw head 
and bloody bones” for the purpose of sécuring sympathy, No 
intélligent, fairaninded person will believe that trapshooting in- 
dulges a desire to kill for the sake of killing, or pander to a lust 
for blood, and the charge of bloodthirsty cruelty 1s ridiculous and 
unwarranted, 

The birds find a ready market, and in fact, are preferred by the 
dealers to the supply received from other sources which have been 
slaughtered by having their necks twisted and their feathers 
plucked from their bodies while dying, : 

The raising 6f pigeons for trapshooting is a recognized industry, 
and the great rapidity with which they breed would soon create a 
problem as great as the one of the English sparrow were it not for 
their use in a legitimate sport. 

Tt is urged that you will act without delay, as the bill is now in 
the hands of the Fish and Game Committee, and may be pre- 
sented very shortly to the House for action. Fraternally yours, 

eorge N. Thomas 
President N. J. State Sportsmen’s Association, 
The bill referred to above is as follows: ’ 
ASSEMBLY BILL 112.—STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 
Introduced Feb. 11, 1902, by Mr. Williams. 

Referred to Committee on Game and Fisheries, 

An act for the protection of pigeons and other iowl. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State 
of New Jersey: 

1. Any person who keeps or uses a live pigeon, fowl or other 


bird for the purpose of a target, or to be shot at either for amuse-- 


ment or as a test of skill in marksmanship, or shoots at a bird 
kept or used as aforesaid, or is a party to such shooting, or leases 
any building, room, field or Pie ESES or knowingly permits the 
use thereof for the purpose of such shooting, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a penalty of sixty dollars for 
each violation to this act, and to an additional penalty of twenty- 
five dollars for each pigeon, fowl or other bird shot at or killed 
in violation thereof; but nothing in this act shall be held to apply 
to the shooting of game, - 
2, This act shall take effect immediately. 


WESTERN TRAPS. 


ee 


<4 Garden City Day. 


Cureaco, Ill, March §—It is Garden City Club day at Wat- 
son’s to-day, and there will also be on_hand others who will 
kee: 
land of the free. e wouldn’t live in a State where we couldn't 
shoot pigeons. They'll be passing a 9 o’clock curfew law in New 
York yet, and then what would the boys do? Better move out 
West and grow up with some liye State, like Illinois or Missouri, 


Budd Wins Hazard Trophy. 


Charlie Budd defeated Russell Klein for the Hazard trophy 
at Omaha last Thursday, 95 to 94, after as hard fought a race as 
is apt to be seen in many a day. It was neck-and-neck for a 
long, hard tie, clean up to the finish. Klein lost his last bird 
dead out of bounds and so ended a game fight. Fred Lord, of 
Chicago, went out to Omaha to referee the race. 


Likes the West. 


Mr, Carl Von Lengerke, traveling for the B, C. & Schultze 
powder, is in town this week, making more friends. Mr. Von 
Lengerke likes the West, and the \.est does as much ae him, 

. MouGEH. 


Harrrorp Burtpine, Chicago, Tl. 


Garden City Gun Club, 


Watson’s Pack, Ill., March 8,—The merchandise “shoot of the 
Garden City Gun Club, had a xood support: 


Gud ye Usa =+, 21221212271 —10 Day, 1......----. + 2222211422 — 9 
White, 0.....--... 0120210022 —6 Lefhngwell, 0.....1122011212 — ¢ 
Cardy, 23 dese. se: 122200122222—10 Amberg, 0...... 1222210120 — 8 
Knickerbocker, 2.22202211222210 Miller, 0...... .-- 2111220112 —9 
Clinton, 1.....-..-.12220122212 —10 Shelly, 1....,..... 1202220101 — 7 
waist, Lossy ctete=e« 2000w Young, 0,....--..2020222112 —& 
Weber, 0.....-.- » 2012122222 —9 Barto, 0........... 2222212210 — 
Steck Oss 2920 a0 + 12201122710 —8 Daily, 1.......... 4222212122 — § 
Bowles, 1........ «20220201220 —7 Kleinman, 0....... 1112221112 —i0 
Gillis, 0,......... »22020w Palmer, 0......... 1222021121 — 9 
Ties: 
Clinton .-..ssiaccieseesa. 242222 Kleinman -.....,...,.. mao erdl 
Mord: oe os cus enas peer anecoeRraGl TG yifel 6 eee cr oed Slaialstew -0 
Knickerbocker ...-.-..++-. 120 


First prize, gold locket, donated by Sam Young, and $6 in cash. 
Second prize, fountain pen, donated by J. H, Amberg, and $3 in 
cash. Third prize, 100 pigeon shells, dobated by FP, ea Lord, and 
$4 in cash. Fourth prize, 100 pigeon shells, donated by Fred Rice, 
and $4in cash. Fifth prize, $2 in cash. Five high guns; ties shot 


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Cardy on eee Pemee 
Knickerbocker, 2 
Clinton, 2.. 
Rust, 2.... 
Weber, 1. 
Steck, 0.,. 


Peerorr ts +eaee+ 62101212001220020. —10 


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Chesapeake Gun Club. 


Nrwrorrt News, Va,, March 7—The Chesapeake Gun Club held 
a weekly shoot at Riverside Park on March 7. The conditions for 
shooting were-very bad, the high wind making the flight of the 
targets very erratic. Considering the circumstances, the scores’ 


made were very. good, Mr. FE. S, Robinson doing some excellent ° 


shooting. The following are the scores at 25 targets: *: 

TNR Vigietet c= 123 4 Events: . 1234 

E S$" Rebinson...-... 19.20 23 22 F Latimer ...........1419.... 

T F Stearmneés. -- 1820 19 22 A G Fifer........ sweeten] ieee 

BB Semipcs.-.--.,.- 18 AT I9y 22 * = ; 
Cincinnati: Gun Clubs 


‘Cincryvane 0. Feb. 1—The fifth. cash rize' contest sof t} Si . 
cinnati Gun ‘Club had a goodly mitabik er eens Ae an 
nine in all) of whom Mr. KR. Trimble was high with 42 out of 50. 
The seores: R. Trimble (20) 42, F. Littleford (15) 40, Gamble 


(18) 39, Randall (18) 39, Heyl (18) 38, Mackie (19) 37,-Bingham: (19) 


37, Trimble (18) 37, Coleman (46) 87, Block (16) 36; "Tenney (26): 

B. Jay (8) 36, Weme (17) 36, Ahlers (19) 35, Butts (14) an Coat 
(16) 35, Ackley (16) 34, eos G7 34. Falk (16) 38, Faran (16) ‘33, 
B Mac (14) 32, Maynard (20) 28, Boyd (15) 28, Jack (15) 26, Boeh 
115) oy eee (14) 24, Frohliger (14) 24, Michaels-(14) 24, Her. 
ae naels” (12) 24, Her 


the traps busy, practicing for the Handicap. This is the. 


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Boston Gun Club, 


Boston, Mass,, Match 10.—Snowing was no natie for the kind 
of weather that was on tap at the Boston Gun Club’s tenth serial 
prize shoot, held on their grounds at Wellington to-day, but evie 
dently the adverse weather conditions did not daunt the seventeen 
shooters who participated, and duting the afternoon just the usual 
good time was experienced, Many new faces were on hand, among 
whom were R. Hunter, of the Hunter Arms Co,; T, Haze Keller, 
ot the Peters Cartridge Co.; C. A. Bond, of the Baltimore Arms 
Co., each endeavoring to secure a little much-needed recreation 
after a decidedly hard ten days at the Boston show, os 

Though an exceedingly hard day for the back-mark men, looking 
at the scores would show different, as an 18-yarder captured the 
majority of the honors, ably seconded by a ieee cane with our 
regular 2iyd. man just a little bit in the rear. The prize match, 
considering the day, brotight forth some very good. scores, Wrank 
and Woodruff holding the honor position, with 20, closely followed 
by Leroy with 19, who in turn had a iour-target lead over Hunter 
with 15.- Other scores as follows: 

Events: 3.4 & & 7 
Targets: 10 10 
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The Boston Shooting Association’s Tournament. 


Boston, Mass.—Our all-day tournament, held at Wellington, 
Mass., on March 8, was attended by twenty-three shooters, includ- 
ifig a number from Providence, R. I. The day was as good as could 
be expected in New England at this season, although there were 
six inches of snow upon the ground, and the sun just showing 
through the clouds, made a light which was glaring and uncom- 
fortable to the eyes. However, we haye tried the experiment of 
holding shoots throughout the winter months with a success 
which has well repaid our efforts. 

The programme, as usual, was completed at about 3 o’clock, 
and extras were shot for another hour. In a grand hustle for the 
train, the scores of the extras were forgotten, 

Good scores were made by Griffith, Leroy, Herbert, Climax, 
Wild, Stewart, Dennison, Fessenden and Barstow, On the regu- 
lar programme of 205 targets, Herbert was high, with 184, Pessen- 
den and Dennison second with 170 and Stewart third with 169. 
The scores: 


vents 123 45 6 7 8 910 11 1213 1415 
Targets: 10 15 10 15 15 15 10 15 16 15 15 10 15 15 15 
OP 3 le ene Greaagiesaiitme. Saye a» (12 81111138 8 14121012 6 13 10 10 
Herbert ....... BBEBE nS sone 1151014 1315 8 12 14 1213.10 13. 12 14 
Melvin Aulacadaeaeeee alot lg tal, of [Sate Satie Selvott to 
Dennison .-.oceseseas--008 1074 8111811 910141314 91511 8 
PATINA ete eee ent core Pam Mab seer gal iG) Wes He a8 
Pesserniden s.s0scercosasees 8.13 9171311 912 12 1413 913 11 12 
Barstow. ovceeneccvencecees O10 91114 81010 9:14 139. 713.14 18 
Gabe coe tisecsnsccersaccees Gola Wall 1210) Ot octets pero att 
ae econ oe ELEC UE SRI REE aes Gia ol Pe ee 
Stewart ..c.ccssssasensees €2 dd 91110 14 812 14 12 11 10 14.12 12 
PGristithiaess:ticcseeneese petbay es beh tee peoke: SAAR be S14 s 
yallarein haces pe Erb be oo 8) ba siet Receswe wcins Gat ee oF oe COE viacokats bo pe: 
Teves at ye oy Coes nicht ea 2 Thane Seate Th dibet hs Seki et ee ee 
WGArGy i iaceaecatseaesasueeetes wend is we Om Gel4t 14d gots Seth pete 
Prank Pa eaaees Saeaeaes A tects coco feiina tab ae bis yb TY 
Wall) ssa laiaate AR pce oscars eee cried mesh prpercorch eee Pcbe Rae a taal aE abs 
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itlowood saysaiedenkaee ee terete eats Sseetoertet ety oe SULIT AEE yee 
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ALE VIS tie Se eetele let yt fcteterecenip bua oy cht ceaeeiae ne Cemhl eaters sire 1 cameras 
Events 1, 2, 5, 10 and 14, known angles; events 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 
di, 12, 18 and 15, unknown angles. TLERBERT. 


Ossining Gun Club, 


OssinineG, N.. Y., March 8—At our regular Saturday shoot to- 
day the main eyent was for the Bissing trophy, a fine pair of 
mounted antlers, the conditions of which, were 50 clay birds, added 
birds handicap. The elements seem to be against us at our 
trophy shoots, for the wind blew great guns, with a snow and 
hail accompaniment, I. T. Washburn landed the antlers with a 
total of 41 breaks. Blandford was.second with 38, The weather 
got so thick that the remaining events were shot from the club 
house piazza, 2lyds. rise: 


Events? Las sie Sak LOM My 

Targets: 5 5 & & & 6 6 
G@ Biandiord eer. hecicet robes ebeseesat hoe ie au Siena eae a 
D Brandreth, 54....... eg hed afte fede ae ae ee lecs- cos eS 
Ie Washibtirmyrboveresssce ese cm tae REhiteo ete ASS Eas (pees ee 
ibe Jasysciieray Lien ieee ALO ees ae AN wk PA Bee a, 3) 
NOELO NG sorter pedis ey aay ween eee Pee eee eee eee TAT ee ee ee REY grape ts 
COR Eandivan Gales ube nine sites pisarraaciy Lee hae TED Ate ete eee ace 
Jj) Boley, §3)0.....2. Iona SA ka MOPPING Lh] afap ie we ee Ae 
y, Gh US AACUOEES OH Oomeen hat eras ih ce pea ES 
(GB Ar ONG prod eeirad septs antennae be pieleiaialeiale 30. “. ve us 
(Gh Sire ah aay iesbeac  eeseaee Coen ae Pie apie Med wsl peli tA 
R Kromer, Jr, 58.........,055 ferertect sires aL wn Wd Ree ver 
W Coleman, 55...... tLe ee ee ee ae ees Cs teh pales 6 eh ey 
Veatch a sy pee sites s scnc a utats caratatisiceict ly epi 2 


March 4.—On account of the passing of the State anti-live-bird 
shooting law, the live-bird shoot for the Washburn cup was de- 
cided to-day by each of the ties of 19 out of 20 shooting at 50 
clay birds. W. P. Hall, the scratch at targets, acceded four 
misses as breaks to D. Brandreth and 15 misses as breaks to F. 
Bratidreth, a new man at clay-bird shooting, The match resulted 
as follows: 

F. Brandreth (15) 50, D. Brandreth (4) 48 W. P. Hall $7. 

After this shoot, Mr. F. Brandreth offered-a consolation cup, in 
which competition A. Bedell and C, Blandford were included: 

Cup. shoot, 25 clays: A. Bedell 18, C. Blandford 21, W. Hall 21, 
D. Brandreth 21. 

Shoot-off, 25 clays: C. Blandford 22, W. Hall 18, D. Brandreth 
withdrew. = Geos 


Denver Trap Club, 


Denver, Colo., March 6—The Denver Trap Club, of Denver. 
Colo., organized Jan. 2, 1899, has a present active- membership of 
over 100, will on June 12-15, inclusive; of this year, inmugurate a 
series of-annual events of a peculiar interest>to alt trapshooters, 
especially to those of the great West. They-will be. known as the 
Grand Western Bluerock Handicap tournaments, and be circuitous 
in annual holding. The initial event, lo be given at Denver, Colo.. 
on the above-mentioned dates, will be a red-letter“affair, no less 


-than $1,000 added money being guaranteed -by the’ fully“fresponsible 


Denver organization, which includes some of the best: and most 


-enthusiastic trapshooters in Destern America. 


The personnel of the club and its tournament coimmittee is es- 


- pecially high, as may be seen by reference to the inclosed pro- 


gramme coyer, and the success of the eyent is already fully as- 


‘sured by even preliminary returns to thé executive commiittee’s 


correspondence. - A large attendance of all the country’s cracks 
is already pledged, and the event promises to be a particularly 
Interstate. Grand American Wandt- 


eer of purse divisions in regular events, and Kose 
iandicaps. i 
3) | fue FRavx If, Mayer, Tournament Manages 


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IN NEW JERSEY 


Rahway Gun Club. 


Rahway, N, J.—Regular weekly shoot, Saturday afternoon March 
1._ The scores follow: 


Events: ES ag Events: af eS 

Targets: 25 25 25 Broke, ‘Targets: 25 25 25 Broke, 
Stevens 24 25 21 70 Teer. eee oe 13 12 18 a 
Browne .. - 19 17 19 5b (Gen) Sai sree 16 9, 25 
Way - 1617 21 54 Hermes ....... Wa 16 
Oliver - 19 14 18 51 Housman ....... 15.. 15 


-- 12°23 15 50 
: Gro. B, GASKILL, Sec’y, 


Jackson Gun Club. 


Paterson, N. J., March 8.—We have not been able to get ta the 
club grounds since the 12th until to-day, on account of the terrible 
storm. About 5ft. of snow, lft. of train and then the flood, and then 
another 8in. of snow—something never heard of before, One then 
could not get within a half mile of the club house, and that is on 
top of the mountain. The lowlands were all under 4 or dit. of 
water, including the club grounds. All the roads along the river 
were under water. 

I met Mr, A, Doty this afternoon, March 8, and he suggested we 
take the car out to Jackson Park to look at the club house; as he 
had heard just before that the house had shifted from its founda- 
tion; and as he was its builder, we agreed to go. It was raining 
eed hard, but that did not stop us. We arrived at the grounds 
and could see at a glance from the road that the house had set- 
tled down on one end. We managed fo get over the Private road 
leading there, which was in a horrible shape, being washed out 
all along, some places 3 and 4ft. The snow was quite deep, and 
we had to pick our way. Doty got in a hole almost up to his waist, 

Looking around, we found fhat the ground keeper had been there 
and had built a fire in the stove inside. We climbed in through 
the window, which was open, and found everything in pretty fair 
shape. We saw that the water had left its mark on the boards. 
We took the measurements, and found that it had reached inside 
2ft. Zin. We forced several of the lockers and got out the sweaters 
and other things, and made a clothes line and hung them up to dry. 
We took several hundred shells, which were badly soaked, and 
laid them on the shelf, then the ground keeper came over and 
joined us. | 

He described the flood to us, and showed how he had to fasten 
everything with wire and rope to save the club’s property. 

The damage will cost the club less than a hundred, The house 
is undermined, and is off the foundation about Sin, forward and lit. 
to the right, and is settled. We will jack it up~and reset it the 
coming week. The platform is intact, but badly washed from 
under, It will have to be all leyeled over again. Everything will 
be put in shape as soon as possible. The old barn and store- 
house directly behind the club house saved us from total wreck. 
We will have plenty of sand and other dirt to fill in with, as the 
flood deposited a great amount right in front of the shooting plat- 
form. The boundary wire is all gone, and the water plowed 
through the field to the left of the club house and dug it up about 
6 or Sin. It was a little high there anyway. We will not have to 
remove that now. The water was over a four-rail fence. 

There was a flock of quail just over from the club house this 
morning, seen by the care-taker, about eight of them. 

Garry Hopper and Ed Morgan drove up to look over things, 
expecting to find the house way down the field, and were much 
surprised. .Garry can’t estimate his loss yet; $1,500 up stairs. He 
can’t get down stairs yet; water too deep, 


Wm, DurcHer, 
964 Madison Avenue. 


Carlstadt vs. Fairview. 


‘Carlstadt, N. J., March 8—The Carlstadt Gun Club and the Fair- 
view Gun Club shot a return match, eight men on a side, on the 
grounds of the Carlstadt Club to-day. The team race was ex- 
ceedingly close, the Carlstadt team winning the race by one target, 
130 to 129. Each man shot at 25 targets. 

Also a match was shot between Messrs. H. Krug and H. S. 
Welles, the latter allowing the former three targets. The scores 
were: Krug 19, plus his allowance, 22, to Welles’ 23. 

Team race; scores: } : 

Fairview—C, Sedore 17, N. F. Brinkerhoff 14, T. Hurley 17, H. 
G, Brinkerhoff 14, C. Townsend 18, L. Lambrix 22, Chas. Sedore 
15, I, Lawrence 12; total, 129. ; 

Carlstadt—P. Rasmus 17, T. Gempp 21, H. Krug 15, M. Rasmus 
14, A. Roemer 14, W. Tygert 17, E. Smith 15, °W. Brightly 17; 
total 130. 

Sweepstakes evens were as follows, all at 10 targets each: 


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Match, 25 targets: H. Krug vs, H. S, Welles: H. Krug 19, with 
3 allowance, 22; H, S: Welles, 23. 


East Side Gun Club, 


Newark, N. a March 6.—On Smith Brothers’ grounds to-day 
the East Side Gun Club held a live-bird shoot, the conditions and 
scores of which were as follows: 

Event at 10 birds, $5 entrance, class shooting, 60 and 40 per 
cent. : 


IMDTEeY  pramsientsee me 22202222229 Van Allen.........1221111112—10 

Kimerredh yy biveyad pals 0222010221—.7- Capt Money........1120101022— 7 

Geoffrey ........--11/1111222 10 Pearsall ...... .0200000202— 3 

ery § seca oneal 211112171210. J W Singer......... *1020221 

Event 2, 25 birds, $5 entrance, birds extra; class shooting: 

NEGEV BL OMAN En Uasnlds REM Gee tock: en ears 222222220"10202220 

1 StorVEZa! Make oan bona yy Pinon mab sees 222222222221 2929929999999 95 

GeGire veel deridr olden chen annua eae 2112011211020101210 

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ON LONG ISLAND. : 

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Crescent Athletic Club. 


Bay Ridge, L. I., March 8—The Saturday shoot of the Crescent 
Athletic Club had its usual good attendance. Mr. J. S. Fanning 
was a visitor, and made the excellent scratch score of 48 out of 
50 in the March cup event. In this event, Mr. A. E. Corlies won 
- with a straight score of 50, with a handicap allowance. The scores: 
March cup, 40 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added- 


First 25, Second 25. Grand 

Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk.. Total. Total, 
eh 1) (Gries ke Rio bs Ot eo! Gr 32 EE 50 
L_¢€ Hopkins......... 7 20. 25 6 18 24 49 
Te Fanning...... rag OAS OF 2a ees 48 
F B Stephenson... L- 2 25 22a 48 
W J McConyill......... +d UOT 622: 3) 2209 25 47 
GRAMS y Kesh iate pees olay © gd anal AL | O55 46 
F T Bedford, Jr............ 2 mal Rs 2 20 22 45 
G G Stephenson, Jr........ 25 925, 1 7s 43 
H M Brigham,...-........5 eS al ED Gb Sale © al “42 
Dr H L O’Brien,........ eee, ea 5 16 2 39 
Dr JJ Keyes. 2822, «4, .55ee 2yes.. 2520 2 6 8 38 
W Marshall...........2.! 4- 12 16 4 16 2 36 
H OB Vanderveer....---.... 3 1 19 a) 43: 16 25 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


F. B, Stephenson trophy, 10 pairs, handicap allowances Bdded: 
Hdcp. Brk, Total. Hdep. Heiss a 


ESGVES!_stihaisnast ee onl Gum McConvill .......- 4 
Corlies ...+--..5 weds “MDS be SPalmert wand. eee Bh Tt), alk 
G Stephenson, Jr.1 15 16 ELOp iti Sse oelyeee Fi 8 13 
Fanning ........: 0 45 15 Bie arisen ener, 0 12 12 
Redtarcde ps. rine 3 1i 14 IS cmmgnecvst Fy wee 2 9 11 

Trophy, 25 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added: 
Brigham) 2.20 Ue ee et ey See aes 2 18 
Fanning ..... seer, 24 "a Orliet ee eenes woe 6 14 20 
F B Stephenson..1 22 28 Bectorch ea aan Dea 10, 
G Stephenson, Jr. 21 22 Notman hbase Te ale 
Wanderveer ....... py Salt)! tye Marshall’ ...... eit aelee 6 
Paliier lot. s se eet 2 19 21 

Trophy, 25 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added: 
Brigham ........- Q° 25 25 FE B Stephenson..1 22 23 
Bedtopd’ 5 sss ent 2 23 25 Ralnet aleenascunes Al 
IE VCS naa-ean hee ee 2 22) 204 Corlies. -fesaesansce 6 14 20 
Panning Sane eee i 235) 2s Notman ros. peli. 720 
G Stephenson, Jr.1 22, 28 Marshall 14 19 


Trophy, 25 targets, expert traps, 
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Brichann cvunuees 0 Tez hintsyn dip trick, 15 17 
Hanning <...5 0... 0 22 22 Worlieseyasaeeete 6 100616 
Bedford .......... 2 18 20 Wotman’ 5.2.5. 25.-.8 DL alt: 

Sykes cup, 25 targets, expert traps, handicap allowances added: 
Corliess eee 6 18 2 alien bepsanester 2 19 21 
Bedford ....... 2 21 23547 Marshall ......: 4 14 18—39 
F B Stephenson.) ~22 23 ! 


G Stephenson,Jr1 20 31—A4 


Sykes cup for March, 25 targets, handicap allowances added: 
Briel Vee 0 21 2. AMET ys chee Pay als} aly 
IeVES | so scjeee salt 2 23 26—46 Marshall ........ A Daly 19—a6 


Brooklyn. Gun Club, 


Brooklyn, L, I., March 8—A heavy rain was an unfavorable 
weather condition. The scores: 


Events: ZO Sate Ss Events: bor a yA 5 

Targets: 20 15 15 10 10 Targets: 20 15 15 10 10 
Hopkins feel Ane me error ee eee vena pou tedOs NG a9 
Hitchcock Pep alts dee, lowered eat bbs ibe beetes Live) 
Wrihtove..cucicase UWseise Shh Waar 


No. 1 was at 10 singles and 5 pairs; No, 5 was at 5 pairs, 


Smithtown Gun Clu, 


Smithtown, L, I., March 8—The Smithtown Gun Club has been 
reorganized and renamed, and will be known as the Indian Gun 
Club in the future, 

The shoots haye been held very irregular of late on account of 
bad weather. A few of the boys came around on Saturday, 8th 
inst., and we managed to burn quite a few grains of powder dur- 
ing the afternoon. The scores are not very high, as the follow- 
ing will show: 


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Events: Te le je) OP ule ahmeee . OF tt 

Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 #0 
SIDOItH! 5 lies d|ace See ee lene aie che aoe iy ibe Wipe ey YoMmaty Oe! 
Diyler “sa5ji0 deste ote ee as all oe aoe eeG. CS (> see ee aes 
Olivia os S32 Aiiste ele bad dy ood" fot eae 
Wetchan a. is seana estonia sue eS oA ihe Pe Ease 7 orcpe OV aie 
Brish “2kse se ee eee i ehheeary eit HY sy | oF 

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Guelph Trap and Game Club. 


Guetru, Ont., March 5.—Herewith is a report from our local 
paper, giving an account of the annual meeting of the Guelph 


_Trap and Game Club, held on March 3: 


The meeting was large and enthusiastic, and everything points 
to a stirring and enjoyable time in trapshooting circles this season. 
Committees were appointed to arrange for the annual Good Friday 
matches at bluerocks, Several important matters came up for 
discussion, such as the advisability of holding a tournament in the 
fall. It was also thought advisable by some of the members pres- 
ent that the club should seek incorporation, seeing that it has been 
in existence for over fifteen yéars, and is in a flourishing, con- 
dition. The better protection of fish and game was also urged, 
and stringent measures will be taken by the club to prosecute 
offenders. The auditors’ report was read and adopted, and showed 
a good balanee. The presentation of the Clark medal, which was 
won by W. R. Watson, Jr., for the highest average during 
the summer weekly shoots then took place. The vice-president, 
who was in the chair, in a few words congratulatéd Mr. Watson 
on his splendid victory, and regretted the unavoidable absence 
of Mr. W. A. Clark, the donor, and called on Mr, H. Cull, Sr., 
to make the presentation. Mr. Cull in a few well-chosen words said 
that he was glad as the oldest member of the club to make the 
presentation to the youngest shooter, and thanked Mr. Clark for 
denating such a splendid trophy, and hoped that his example will 
be followed by other members for the encouragement and pro- 
motion of the art of shooting, ‘ pe 

The election of officers was then proceeded with, and the ballot 
being taken resulted as follows: onorary President, Mr, Robt. 
Cunningham; President, Mr. R. S. Cull; Firse Vice-President, Mr- 
C. Quinn; Second Vice-President, Mr, R. Walker; Secretary, Mr. 
W. R. Watson, Jr.; Treasurer, Mr, W. G. Mitchell; Executive 
Committee: H. Cull, Jr., 1. Collingridge, J. Johnson; Field Cap- 
tain, L. Singular; Auditors, FE. C, O’Brien, A. L, Knowles. 

A vote of thanks was then tendered the retiring: officers, and the 
meeting adjourned. W. R. Watson, Jz., Seo’y. 


Richmond Gun Club. 


Srrver Laxes, S. I., March 8.—The next shoot of the Richmond 
Gun Club will take place on March 22, At 2 o'clock a five-man 
team race will take place between attaches of Von Lengerke & 
Detmold and Schoverling, Daly & Gales. All are welcome, 


Events: 123 45 67 8 91011 12 18 

Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 20 10 
INAS TD Ke.s- 2 ee eae berersse D 49) 1910) 99! U7 EGE GTS: 17 
GIS pen Ceiretecerreeertered- oo 6878 4677 68 916 8 
IB Mtentet Sos rn error rere ae iets ee) cee ee ale 
F Schoverling....::...:sss-+.s4- 68875 8 6 8 7 9 91610 
RAMON ancy Semana tier exert STeTE 453532644 6 4410 5 
By -Geystal War 8 ote hee eee era eten Dane v 


A. A. ScHovertine, Sec’y. 


National Gun Club. 


Miriwaukee, Wis., March 1.—The following are the scores of the 
members of the National Gun Club who participated in the regular 
monthly live-bird prize shoot on Friday, the 28th ult. , 

The day was a deaeeceante one, with rain and a hard wind, and 
the birds were strong. Very few shooters participated, owing to 
the conditions of the weather. Jay Ell and H. Weaver scored 
straight, with Schushardt and Thomas 14 each. 

Weaver is one of our juveniles, but he is taking to the gun yery 
kindly, and will make the best of them hustle to keep out of his 
He is steady, nervy and good natured, three of the essentials 


way. 
of a good marksman. 

[East A oe 121100120002000— 7 . Klepinski ..... 122121202200212—12 
zu a) a papers 222212222222122 15 Uno ...... 22+ -222401121222002 12 
H Weaver. .---221121121121222 15 Himmelstein ..111102120111012 12 
Schushardt ...11202222122212114 Reed ......... 222022210111112—13 
Stith eens: oes 100211222021020—10 Sherer ........ 120201202111211—12 
IB eS ieeeeteeaes 022222022222222 13 Thomas ....... 222122220222929- 14 


Linpizy Corzins, Sec’y. 


Trap in Canada. 


Toronto, Can., March 1.—Among the different trapshooting 
contests that came off-in this city to-day was one between several 
well-known experts, and) Mr. Leach, of Montreal, on McDowall’s 
grounds. Expert traps were tsed, and were screwed up to their 
highest tension, and set at sharp angles, which made the hardest 
kind “of shootin 

Mr. Sawden, } 
gets, 98 out of a possible 100. He shoots Robin Hood powder 
out of a Parker gun. Mr. Leach also used Robin Hood in a 
644lbs. Lefever- ’ 

The third event was 4 private match between Mr. Leach and 
Mr. Moore, 


“Events? 123 4 + °&#£2£Events: 1a piat val 

Targets: . 10103516 _ Targets: 10 10 15 10 
_Sawden, Srincrecsoee S So. 9 Leach ..c.eeccsejiceg 8 914... 
Sawier, Iressa: ebbeccs is It om Be Moore 45) ties cides fy ote: 8 
ST aa eed ST |e rs 


Strickmeier .ss...2...05, 94 83 82 81 80 7 8&8 6—21 8 5 9-22 
WAYIDE nels Le Lene eee tales 87 84 83 83 7606 10s: 9 10-—29 8 6 &—22 
WS pethiene sles eek We dees 8&6 83 79 76 71 8 5 10—23 8 7 
(Cichitl leper Hb Bader. 86 81 77 74... 8 4 9-21 10 10 10 
Deuba eee ee ee at S4 69 66 63 61 9 7 8—24 6 10 
Qdelh) Sar Feiss wie 83 82 80 7h 74 5 9 §—22 8 3 
Westlers Gi25 ie2sa ve aiiee 82 81 81 $1 79 9 9 8—26 5 7 
Roberts .... .82 80 77 78 75 9 8 82 10 5 
Uckotter ... -..79 75 7h 68 64 § 4 6-18 10 7 
Mrounstine™ whe. asassisee -15 73 70 70 70 7 6 10—23 5 6 
Weinheimer :.......11... 75 Ta 67 65 65 1 4 10-24 4 4 
juleyie 6 Abbe pe bonenotocee! 74 73 69 69 67 8 4 5—17 7 6 

as Pe ashe preveepey T4 72 70 70 69 5 5 9-19 6 6 


a holds the Canadian record on artificial tar- | 


; \  [Marcz 15, 19048 
Florida .Gun Club, 

Patm Beacz, Fla., Feb. 1—The Florida Gun Club held a she 
to-day, A cup was the main object of competition, and it w 
won by H. J. Sconce, of Sidell, Iil., from the 30yd, mark. 


tumor was started that Mr. Seonce was a professional, but 
investigation if was Shown to be unfounded, The scores: 


H J Sconce, 30..... 222222222210 H Suydam, 28...,..**112020w 
ER Hegeman, 29..2012212222 9 Jas Spears, 28.....,2*2202121w 
C Brokaw, 30...2222022222- 9 © T Tatum, 28.,....2%9929990 
E A Mulliken, 27..*1012222G— 8 G Singer, 26..... ~. 222° 000w 

Hi Stafford, 27,.12"2202122— 8 R L Macleay, 97,....1221112*0 
I Brokaw, 27....... *210110w G Hi Blanby, 28....22*02220w © 
L Finletter, 31..... 00w L Waterbury, 28...222*220220— 
Patton, 27...... no +4 221702210W 

Shoot-off: : 

la SRI RES 1, Mia cbepor 2222, Mulliken ,,....... eH boa oe 
Brokaw ..... PIAS eno het 22202 Stafford -2:2.2.s2. 2.4.) seek, 


A jolly old man from the Midlands entered one of the hotels 2 
the seaside, and seeing on the side table a crab dressed on thi 
shell, with Jers, claws, and parsley ranged round, said to tk 
landlord, “What d*ye call that??? “Crab,”’ was the answer. “ILoo!] 
good; I'll have “un, and gi’e us a pint of ale.” Bread and butte 
was added, and the diner was left to his dinner. In about an ho 
the genial landlord entered the dining saloon to see if his ees 
Was getting on all right; he found him chawing up the last éla 
very red in the face, but beaming, “ike the crab, sir?” 
he was capital, I never tasted one afore; but I think you bake 
‘un a little too long; the crust was hard. Lets have anothe: 
pint.” He had eaten the lot—shell, claws, and all complete, 
Shooting times. | 


Rifle Range and Gallery. | 
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Championship Match, 


_ +X 100-sHot gallery match for the U. S, championship for 190 
1s NOW in progress at the Zettler Gallery, 159 West Twenty-thir@ 
street, this city. It is under the auspices of the Zettler Rifle Club 
The range is 75ft. Shooting days: March 8 to 15 and ‘17. Off-hand. 
Entrance $5, The 100 shots in five scores of 20 shats each, at thij 
regular 25 (44in.) ring target, 4 

The Seat Match of 100 shots on the indoor range having 
been omitted from the programme of the National Sportsmen’) 
Association Exhibition, this club wishes to offer all rifle shooter) 
a programme attractive, liberal and under good management. Thi 
fallowing prizes were donated: ; . f 

A full set of table cutlery by Peters Cartridge Co,; ashandsom¢ 
cleck, donated by Hazard Powder Co.; a No, 3 target rifle, donated 
by the Remington Arms Co., 313 and 215 Broadway, New York 
a set of first-class rifle sights, donated by Mr. Wm. Lyman, Mid! 
dlefield, Conn.; a bullet lubricator and sizer, donated by the Idea 
Mantfacturing Co., New Haven, Conn.; one fine Ideal pistol case 
Picea Gosia model), donated by Mr. Geo, £. Marble, Albany! 


There are cash prizes of from $15 to $2. The man making the 
best 10-shot score in the 100-shot match, not winning a prize, is 
entitled to the Zettler trophy. 

Special target for the Gus Zimmermann trophy. Open to alll 
Entries 25 cents. Three best shots on one bullseye to count, 

Ring target—Open to all. Targets of three shots, 35 cents 
Re-entries unlimited; the best three targets to count for the firs 
five prizes; the best two targets to count for the next five prizes 
one target for the rest. The 25-ring target with 1¢in. rings will b 
used. Cash prizes, $30 to $2. 

Bullseye Target—Open to all. Bullseye of three shots, 35 cents 
for each bullseye; re-entries unlimited; the best shot by measure 
ment to count for prizes, etc. Prizes $25 to $2. ; 

Shooting Committee: H, D. Muller, Chairman; A, Begerow, 
LL. P. Hanson, H. Holges, Wm, Hayes, T. TH. Keller, A. Kronsi 
berg, H. M, Pope, I. C, Ross, E. C. Goddard, L, Flach, Geb: 
Krauss, George Zimmerman, A. W. Hicks, G. P. Williams, T. 
Geisel, C. G. Zettler, M, Dorrler, R. Busse, Emil Berkmann, L. 
Maurer, G. D. Wiegman, G. Purkess, Jac. Schniidi, T, P) Mae 
kenna, S. Buzzini, Dr, C. Grosch. F. Hecking, Secretary. B, 
Zettler, Shooting Master. 

Any prizes contributed, by clubs or individuals for the 100-shot 
Selees championship match will be thanklully accepted and appre 
ciated, : 


‘ Cincinnati Rifle Association, 


Cincinnati, O.—The following scores were made in Fegular com4 
petition by members of the Cincinnat Rifle Association, at Four-3 
Mile House, Reading Road, March 2. Conditions: 200yds., off. 
hand, at the Standard target. Strickmeier was declared champion} 
for the day with the fine score of 94. Weather, snowy; ther 
mometer, 28; wind, 4 to § oclock, gusty: 


PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 
Ready Made Houses. 


Tue earlier attempts at portable houses were so futile that thel 
idea of a simple and effective and yet truly portable house got a! 
black eye at the start. This fact has been one of the hardest things: 
to overcome in the business of Messrs. Mershon & Morley, of} 
Saginaw, Mich., who have been for some years advertising their! 
portable houses. A personal inspection of the building of these 
substantial little edifices is the foundation of my own knowledge, 
of their strength, beauty and convenience. The new catalogue off 
Mershon & Morley portable houses shows the great Tange of their 
usefulness. They haye sold very many of them among hunters 
and fishermen for small camps, and yet others for play Houses for 
children in city yards. A very large demand comes from persons 
wanting carriage houses or automobile houses. They are used as. 
miners’ cabins, and even as pest houses in hospital grounds. They! 
are._noft unknown as Army officers’ quarters, or in many railroad! 
operations as temporary depots. Railroad contractors and sur 
veyors use them, and they have been sold on ranches as quarters 
for the hands. They have been used as voting booths, for cons 
fectionery stands, for photograph galleries, plantation cabins, home 
steaders’ cabins, shooting galleries, and indeed so many other 
things that we begin to imagine that the men who began to manu 
facture these houses knew in advance that there was a big field to 
go into. These houses are built lixe a strip of taffy. You can cut 
it off wherever you want to, only, as it happens, in 3-foot lengths,| 
It requires no mechanical skill and no carpenter’s help to put up) 
one, of these houses, and when put up it is there to stay, 

From the sportsman’s point of view it would seem to me tha’ 
these houses would be useful for persons who wanted to have a 
good small house in some sporting region at some distance from: 
the railroads or settlements, and who would not care to put up 
an expensive cottage, for some one else to ocoupy or burn down, 
This house you can almost put in a shawlstrap and take with you) 
when néeeded—Adv. 


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trength, durability and ease in working are the three essential 
eee 5 yacht fittings of any sort. If to these qualities is added 
beauty, the attractions of the article are strengthened, even thong hi 
it be no more useful than one less pleasing to the eye, The: 
Forged Tobin Bronze Turnbuckles, advertised by Anthony Morss)! 
of Boston, Mass., are said to be the strongest turnbuckles made, 
as well as being “a delight to the eye.” Mr. Morss’ offers ami 
illustrated catalozue of yacht and boat fittings freea—Adu, 


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A GAME REFUGE BILL. 


THE agitation begun more than a year ago by Forest 
AND STREAM in behalf of the establishment of game 
refuges in the forest reserves has brought forth fruit 
in a bill recently introduced in the House of Representa- 
tives by the Hon. John F. Lacey, of Iowa. It is entitled 
“A bill to transfer certain forest reserves to the control 
of the Department of Agriculture to authorize game and 


fish protection in forest reserves and for other purposes.” 


The first section authorizes the President to transfer 
by executive order any of the forest reserves to the 
control of the Department of Agriculture, whenever the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the 
Geological Survey shall certify that the boundaries of the 
reserve have been examined and are by them deemed 
to be substantially the permanent boundaries. 

In Section 2, the President is authorized to set apart 
such forest reserves or parts thereof as he may deem 
proper for fish and game preserves, and the Department 
in control of the reserve shall make such rules and regu- 
lations as may be necessary for the protection and care 
of the animals, birds and fish therein, and may provide 
for their being taken or killed: But no forest reserve 
shall be set apart for this purpose within any State 
unless the Governor of such State shall in writing request 
this action. : 

Sections 3 and 4 provide that the department having 
charge of the reserve shall assist in the enforcement of 
the game and fish laws of the State or Territory in which 
the reserve is situated. The Secretary of the Department 
controlling the reserve may establish preserves for the 
breeding and‘perpetuation of the bison or other American 
animals, and may transfer to that preserve any native 
game animals which he may deem in danger of extermina- 
tion. Persons violating any Federal or departmental 
regulation concerning forest reserves, or game or fish 
protection thereon, may be arrested without warrants 
ether at the time of the first commission or “in hot pur- 
suit thereafter,’ and taken -before the most convenient 
United States Court or Commissioner for trial. 

Sections 6 and 7 provide penalties for violation of the 
regulations, including fine and imprisonment or confisca- 
tion of goods or all three. Sections 8 and 9 have to do 
with costs and expenses and with the jurisdiction of the 
local officers as to offenses other than those prescribed in 
the department regulations. 


Many of the provisions of this bill are excellent, and 


even if it does not go so far as some game protectors 
would like, it probably very fairly represents the existing 
feeling on the subject. It is of the greatest importance 
that a public sentiment in support of this bill should 
be created throughout the land, and especially in that 
portion of the West where the reserves lie, and among 
the people who live nearest them and so will be chiefly 
affected by the changes proposed. Persons interested in 
the matter should write their Representatives in Congress 
urging favorable action on the bill (H. R. 11,536). 


Another bill introduced by Mr. Lacey empowers the | 


Secretary of Agriculture’ to authorize the importation of 
eggs of game birds for propagation and to prescribe the 
necessaty rules and regulations governing the importa- 
tion of the eggs of said birds for such purpose 

This is an admirable measure. 

It will be recalled that a number of years ago Congress 
enacted a law forbidding the importation of the eggs of 
wild birds. This law was passed as a result of the 
grotesque yarn put in circulation by a number of sup- 
posed game protectors to the effect that millions, ship 
loads and train loads of wildfowl eggs were annually 
gathered in Alaska and British America and shipped to 
points in the East, where they were made into egg albu- 
men cake, As a matter of fact, there never was any 


_ such traffic, and the whole matter was exposed by the 


Forest anp Stream in the year 1895. The law having 


gone on the statute book, however, it has for seven years 
or more been impossible to import from European coun- 
tries the eggs of pheasants, partridges, black game or 


capercailzie, to be hatched out: here for the stocking of. 


American preserves. It is high time that this oppressive 
law should be repealed, and that under proper regulations 
people should be permitted to import these eggs, as Mr. 
Lacey’s bill provides may be done. 


MOUNTAIN SHEEP AND DOMESTIC SHEEP. 


“Apour this time’ one sees in the newspapers the not 
unfamiliar statement that our old friend Buffalo Jones 
is about to start off to capture some wild animal which 
he proposes to domesticate. This time he is said to be 
going to Colorado to capture mountain sheep, which he 
intends to cross with domestic sheep in the hope of mak- 
ing a mutton animal more valuable than the one we have 
at present. Sheep are protected in Colorado, but the 
protection seems to read only against the killing, and 
since by the statute all wild game is distinctly asserted to 


be the property of the State, it seems probable that the 


Game Commissioner has the power to grant permits for 
the capture of wild sheep for purposes of domestication 
and perhaps for export alive from the State. There are 
some States which specifically forbid the export of moun- 
tain sheep, dead or alive, for any purpose whatever. 

The superabundant energy and vitality of Mr. Jones 
will find a fitting outlet in the business of capturing moun- 
tain sheep, but we could wish that he would capture them 
for a better purpose. We have seen in our time a con- 
siderable number of hybrids between the domestic and the 
wild sheep, and they have invariably been animals with 
the good qualities of neither parent. As a rule they are 
rather legey animals, slightly taller than the domestic 
sheep, but nowhere nearly approaching the mountain 
sheep in beauty, size or weight. The coat is largely of 
hair, but a few ragged flocks of wool—in the summer 
season—dangle from the little animal’s sides. The horns 
are slightly larger than those of the domestic ram and 


offer no suggestion of the great head of the mountain 


sheep. 

The experiments proposed, if they should ever be 
carried out, would be of great interest; and it is barely 
possible, though, in our view, by no means probable, that 
they might have some practical results. 


THE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 


Senator Brown’s bill providing for an amendment of 
the forestry section of the Constitution passed the Senate 
of the New York Legislature last week, presumably by 
the votes of a number of members who had no proper 
appreciation of the meaning and effect of the measure. 
The text of the proposed amendment is this: 


The Legislature may authorize the sale and removal of hemlock, 
spruce, pine, balsam or other soft woods, if more than ten inches 
jn diameter three feet from the ground. The proceeds of such 
sales shall be set apart in a separate fund, known as the forest 
preserve fund, and shall be used only to care for and extend the 
forests of the State in the forest preserve. Roads may be built 
in the forest preserve, but franchises shall not be granted for rail- 
roads or street surface railroads upon or across any part of the 
forest preserve, nor shall such railroads be maintained. 


In a published statement of the reasons which he 
thinks should justify this step in the public mind, Senator 


Brown says that there is on the State Jands a vast supply | 


of forest products “which man has a natural right’ to 
acquite and enjoy at its market value,’ and that the 
waste of these products is unjustifiable unless essential 
to prevent the destruction of the forests. And he thinks 
that the time has now come when the soft woods may be 
utilized without injury to the forests, because public in- 
telligence has been awakened with respect to the forests, 
and the people could be depended upon to constitute a 
committee of safety to contro! legislation and to prevent 
forest waste, depredation or injury. The pertinent reply 
to this reasoning is well put in the memorial addressed to 
the Legislature by the New York Board of Trade and 
Transportation, which we print elsewhere. The answer 
is that eternal vigilance on the part of the people is the 


price of their forests, and the people forget to exercise 
It is just here that the danger 


that eternal vigilance. 
lies; and under these conditions the people of New York 
can much better afford to lose a possible revenue from 
soft woods and keep their forests intact, than to receive 
an income from the pulp industry at the cost of the ruin 
which will follow in the wake of lumbering operations, 


Senator Brown’s bill, if carried into effect, would turn 
the lumbermen loose in the North Woods to cut “hem- 
lock, spruce, pine, balsam or other soft woods, if more 
than ten inches in diameter three feet from the ground.” 
There is no hint of any official control of the lumbering 
operations; and what results would ensue every man, 
woman and child who has seen Adirondack “lumbered” 
iracts may picture. The proceeds derived from the sale 
of this lumber and set apart for the forest preserve could 
not begin to repair the damage inflicted—it would be irre- 
parable, 

No such proposition as this should become law. 
public interest demands the defeat of the Brown bill. 

The Forest AND STREAM’S position with respect to Mr. 
Brown’s meastire is not in conflict with its advocacy of 
a scientific administration of the State lands, 


The 


NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 


A siti recently passed by the New York Legislature 
amends the charter of the New York Zoological Society, 
and grants it enlarged powers. It is now permitted to 
“@ontrol zoological parks, gardens or other collections 
for the promotion of zoology and kindred subjects, and 
for the instruction and recreation of the people. Said 
corporation may collect, hold and expend funds for zoo- 
logical research and publication, for the protection of 
wild animal life and for kindred purposes, and may 
promote, form and co-operate with other associations 
with similar purposes, and may purchase, sell or ex= 
change animals, plants and specimens appropriate to the 
objects for which it was created.” 

This enlargement of the powers of the Zoological So- 
ciety is eminently proper and is for the advantage of 
the association, and so of the New York public. As is 
well understood, this corporation is substantially a 
charitable institution, which is managing its park and 
its collections solely for the public benefit. It carries on 
no money-making business, its funds come chiefly from 
contributions by its members, and are expended in such 
a way as to give instruction and pleasure to the residents 
of this city and to those people who may visit it. Its 
managers are animated by public spirit, by a desire to 
give to New York a zoological park which shall be worthy 
of the city, and. by an enthusiasm for zoological research 
which makes it appear to them of the highest importance 
to get together as rapidly as possible a collection of living 
wild animals which all may admire, and some may study. 


THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM. 


THE capacity of the New York Aquarium as a place ot 
popular entertainment and instruction, and as a laboratory 
for the study of marine life has been as yet by no means 
fully developed. Under the direction of Dr. Tarleton: H. 
Bean, the Aquarium was administered in a most admir- 
able way to secure the first of these ends—public enter- 
tainment and instruction; but Dr. Bean’s term of service 
was too brief for him to carry into practical effect all that 
he had planned to make the Aquarium as a, station for 
scientific research. It is a familiar story how the 
Aquarium was made the spoil of politics by the deposi- 
tion of Dr. Bean to make room for a political heeler. 
There now appears to be a prospect that it may once more 
come under a control which shall be enlightened, intelli- 
gent and public spirited, and that the institution may 
be restored to its former condition and may take its place 
among the important marine laboratories of the world. 
We suggested long ago that the Aquarium should be 
under the direction of some body wholly independent of 
politics, as, for example, the Board of Trustees which 
controls the American Museum of Natural History. Just 
such a desirable condition will be attained if the bill which 
was introduced into the Legislature on Monday of this 
week to put the Aquarium in charge of the New York 
Zoological Society shall become a law. The bill provides 
that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the 
City of New York may appropriate a further sum of 
$50,000 for the use of the Zoological Society, provided that 
an agreement shall be entered into between the Society 
and the city for the adequate maintenance, extension, 
preservation and exhibition of the Aquarium, and for 
furnishing opportunities for study, research and publica- 
tion in connection with the collection. The passage of 
this bill will put the Aquarium in the hands of that hody 
best fitted to administer it, Cae 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


229 ti 
Che Sportsman Courist. 
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The North Country. 


IV .—Little Fish. 


© e. 
ere UameweTe a 


One glorious windy afternoon Karl and I started with 


our packs for the lJean-to over at Peabody’s. The sun 
was bright overhead, and across the sky were scurrying 
big smoky white clouds. The river was very low when 
Wwe came to wade it, and so hot the day that the water 
that lealeed into my moccasins was cool and welcome. 
We had made a good seven miles that day before “b’ilin’” 
the kettle, and had now quite a good jog before us. We 
climbed up the long hill, that lay away from the river, till 
at a post at the top, which bore the mark of the sled 
ropes, a pariridge flew into a tree and we stopped to add 
him to our bundles. Then ahead again through the for- 
est, Karl bringing up the rear. At such times there is 
little conversation. One’s mind is pretty much given 
to where one places one’s feet, and then silence has a 
more golden quality in the woods than in cities. To be 
sure one’s heaters are somewhat limited under the pines, 
but the wild things have an unaccountable distaste for 
the human voice that is well-nigh astonishing. To be 
sure, in the books of our childhood, the animals all speak 
quite intelligently, and eyen if the wolf had designs on 
Red Riding Hood, he was very friendly in manner; and 
one must still feel that the rabbit's conversations with 
Alice were nothing if not witty. But the big beasts that 
I have seen all seem to think I'd bore them, and were 
bent on escaping. So not until we rested at our little 
brook, where we had camped ten days back, did we ex- 
change more than a word. Karl then told me he had seen 
fresh sign where two caribou had crossed the path, and 
we spoke of their wonderful speed and qttiet in passing 
through the woods. I then rehearsed how, a couple of 
years ago, while traveling on a straight stretch of wood 
toad, where the great trees arched high overhead and 
the light was religiously dim, two gray forms with their 
antlers glided from among the tree trunks on one side and 
melted into the shadows of the other.side before I could 
think of shooting. We made a running citeuit through 
the woods to head them, before they got started, but in 
vain. It was the last we saw of them. That was d good 
hunt, and sometime I will tell you about it. 

Thus we had had our rest and must shoulder our packs 
again and steal along under the pines. The moose wood 
leaves were gorgeous with red and purple, the yellow- 
ing birches shed their golden showets down upon us, and 
the maples in the swamps stood like flaming red bouquets. 
My friends tell me that the Berkshires are the place to 
see autumn colors; my memory hints to the beauties 
ot the New Hampshire hills, where I went to school, but 
they are nothing to the surprises one meets with in the 
forest. I am constrained to put this charm down to the 
background of evergreens, for it is, when all is said and 
done, to the pines, the spruces, the firs and the hem- 
locks that we owe the chief glories of our woods. No 
wonder the Pilgrims journeyed to stich a holy land, a land 
where every glen was roofed cathedral-wise with arches 
Gothic.and Romanesque. It is a good thing, likewise, for 
ourselves that so many of our people become Pilgrims, as 
the year rolls round to autumn, to worship at the same 
ancient shrine. It was through such holy places we 
journeyed. Finally the white walls of our little tent ap- 
peared ahead and we unpacked. The bedding is unrolled 
and my sweater hung on a convenient limb. A little tin 
of tea, another of sugar, a third ‘of milk, a fourth of 
butter, a bundle of bread, ditto containing a little square 
of pork, and a slice of caribou steak, all are stored 
away under a clean sheet of birch bark. This leaves only 
salt to be accounted for, and that is found in tin No. 5. 
For utensils we have just one beside the cups, and that is 
the kettle. So much for our furnishings. We found the 
wind was blowing so hard that it was advisable to either 
shift camp or build a wind break, and, considering the 
last to be the easiest, while I gathered a few sticks for 
the fire, Karl cut some bushy tops and laid them where 
they would do the most good. This gaye us a door 
yard to our house, and we also found the smoke and ashes 
somewhat lessened in the tent. The next order of busi- 
ness was luncheon of tea and toast and a bit of pork 
frizzied on a stick. Why does one always overeat in the 
woods? We do it sometimes in the city, but it becomes a 
custom outdoors. After the “gorge” was over, I wanted 
nothing more in this world than to lay there on the boughs 
on the broad of my back forever. To be sure, the smoke 
would, occasionally, get in my eyes, and the ashes fell 
lightly on everything, but that mattered little. Life car- 
eed no responsibilities and knew no annoyances just 
then. 

But this would not suit Karl, so in very weariness of 
soul I joined him in the skiff on the lake. It was blow- 
Ing guns, so we hung to the lee shore. Along in the 

uiet waters we stole, watching for any sign or motion. 

ne’s imagination at such times is apt to play queer tricks. 
1 believe the very trees go up and down the bank, and 
change places with one another, through much watching 
of them; else why do the black stumps that one marks 
by a certain white birch disappear, and those rusty look- 
ing cedars, why do they prick up their great ears and 
change ends in the water? Finally, the black things and 
the red things and the gray all settled into their proper 
places, and the skiff is run up on the sandy little beach 
tiear a runway. Now this skiff is a work of art. home— 
made by Karl, and brought in on a sled thirty-odd miles, 
“so as to make his hunting ground happy,” he said, and 
happy it appeared to be, not only for us, but the animals 
also. The beach along here, under water, was broken 
with big tracks, and one could see quite a moose road up 
through the trees. On going ashore we found a shack 
used by Karl some four years back, and right by the 
deserted door the animals had made their path, despising 
this sign of man’s habitation in the land. After walking 
up on to the-hills, into a mass of down timber, in which 
there was some sign, we stopped again at the door of the 
shack and were ruminating on the discomforts of a trap- 
per’s life, when Karl slowly raised his arm, and point- 
ing down among the trees into a patch of sunlight, said, 
“See the little fox?” 

“No,” I replied, i 


enjoy the tempest, 


“Keep quiet,’ and we stood still for a moment or two: 
Just then he crossed am opening, and we saw he was 
circling round us. ~ 

“Get the little rifle, Karl,’ I said. 

“Never kill him with the .22; must use big rifle,” he 
replied, in a natural tone of voice, 

The fox had struck our trail now, and. followed it 
down the path, until, suddenly seeing us, he stopped 
behind a bush, his two ears and the tip of his nose show- 
ing. I aimed for the shoulders, as near as I could judge, 
and the little fellow fell on his side dead at the dis- 


charge, the seven-millimeter bullet tearing a big hole at- 


the close range. We picked him up and carried him to 
the skiff. He was a small one, probably only a year 
old, which accounted for his innocent behavior. Our 
only other amusement that day was an unsuccessful shot 
at a muskrat with the .22. The rat had been cutting 
hay for winter and had a little bundle upon his nose that 
was being pushed home when we saw him, and such is 
the love of destruction that we tried to offer him a 
sacrifice upon the altar of the lake. He was too smart, 
however. A long swim under water took him in toward 
shore, and although I got more than one chance, the 
little fellow went off under a log to frighten the children 
at home with the story of a new kind of blood-thirsty 
ogre sailing about to kill little musquash that dis- 
obeyed their parents. As night came on we worked up 
the lake nearer camp, and when finally Karl’s zeal per- 
mitted us to return to our feast of bread and tea, with 
caribou steak a-la-birch frizzling stick, it was quite dark. 
A weasel scampered around on a log just outside the fire- 
light, and quite a heavy little animal half-climbed and 
half-fell out of a tree near the path. This, Karl seemed 
to think, was a martin. So that day we only saw “little 
fish,’ as Karl calls them. 

As we lay there on the boughs, I asked Karl, ‘Do you 
catch the weasel?” 

“Yes, of course,” he answered. “They are very fierce 
little fish. They have big claws, bigger than a bear, for 
the heft; long teeth, longer than a lion, for the ‘size. 
They are very revengeful. Everybody that works in 


the lumber woods knows not to hurt a weasel. One night, 


man I work with he find weasel’s nest in old camp and 
ttirn her out of bed by mistake. He always sleep after- 
ward with a naked knife to his hand, and a blanket 
wrapped around his head, for fear weasel find him and cut 
his throat. The weasel can kill a sheep,” and he rambled 
along and told me about the martin, which he called 
“saple,’ and the wolverine, which was not a “little fish” 
at all, but a wild beast. “TI shoot one, just one, and he 
was strong as a small little bear, and not so small either.” 
Had he killed any bears? “Yes, a few. but I never took 
no chance with a bear.” 

“Why pe: 

“They are too strong. Skins sell high, but the vital 
spot on a bear is his head, and that is hard to hit.” It 
was. different in a trap; then he killed them with an ax. 
Like Braithwaite? 

Yes, but out of a trap he wanted all the chances on 
his side. He then told me how he was hurrying down 
a wood road one night at dusk, when suddenly he saw a 
black log rear up beside the path and rest its huge paws 
on a fallen tree some fifty feet away. The black log had 
teeth that crunched and chopped like castanets, and it 
growled and rumbled like a bad-tempered dog. “Did he 
shoot? No. He stood perfectly still for a moment and 
saw that the old Snider was in working order, and then 
he backed away and circled through the shadows into the 
wood road again below, keeping a respectable distance from 
that set of teeth. Let me tell you right here what kind 
of a gun Karl’s Snider is. It would delight the heart 
of Mr. Irland. It is long of barrel and straight of stock, 
and shoots a huge soft ball with a wooden peg in it. 
When it strikes, the peg spreads the ball. and to say it 
hits hard is but half the story. It is a pile-driver. And 


.yet Karl thinks the only place to hit a bear with this 


cannon is between the eyes. So you see he respects his 
shagey foe. And any one who has had the honor of 


Mr. Bruin’s acquaintance will agree that he is worthy of - 


some respect. 

And so we rested there before our good fire and dis- 
fussed the various kinds of claws and teeth as if we 
were members of the family carnivorous ourselves, and I 
dropped into a doze, thinking these tales were absorb- 
ingly interesting and wondering if it really was so very 
long ago that my ancestors were swinging’from the tree 
tops and roaming through the forests, The fire was 
delizhtfully warming, the tree tops were swaying with a 
gentler motion, and the growing moon was looking 
placidly down upon our fittle white house under the 
trees. The sand man had long since rubbed his magic 
into our eyes, and that old Greek god and physician with 
the musical name took us snugly into his arms for the 
balmiest of sleep. 

It is wonderful to think what things may go by our 
house in the night down the dim aisles of the forest, how 
many gray and brown animal forms may glide through 
the darkness about us, feeding and traveling. It lends a 
fine air of the mysterious to the shadows to feel they 
hide some of the light-footed ones, and then every wind 
that rustles the leaves is like to the march of an army. 
One is quite reconciled to know life is moving abroad 
in the night, and after a little it lends a sense of com- 
panionship to the dark that it is rather pleasant than 
otherwise; and then when the bright sun, that warmer of 
hearts, wakes tis in the morning, it is to a feeling that 


while we have “dwelt in the tents of the Almighty,” the’ 


other dwellers have been going about their business as 
usual, irrespective of ourselves. No sun woke us, how- 
ever, Earlier than Aurora, we were astir and found 
Old Boreas the only one on the scene. Jt took no prophet 
to say that he was out for all day; but there was work to 
do, and the time was short, Before daylight we left the 
tent and prowled along the lake shore to see if “anybody” 
was out. The water was lashed into the fury of a 
little sea, with whitecaps upon the crest of the waves, 
and a couple of loons were the only ones on hand to 
We waited awhile watching the 
cold sky, but the beasts keep under cover in the thickets 
in such weather, and we saw them not. On the way 
back to camp a cock partridge flew up into a tall spruce 
and rocked there in the wind, his long neck craned from 


side to side, as proud as a peacock and wild as a hawk. 


Jum The most silent and 
lonely thing in the world is one of these decaying Homes 


of man. As you approach, the water bucket stands by 
the door, the peg on which the latch string is fastened 
stands in its place guarding the low entrance, and may- 
be the door still hangs on its hinges. In the darkness of 
the bunks, full of long-decayed boughs, are spiders and 
mice and things of all degrees of unpleasantness. It is 
much sweeter and more wholesome outside. So we leave 
the rusty stove and its dingy company of benches, eétc., 
for the sunlight of the clearing. ‘There we put up a 
flock of partridges, and ashamed I am to say, there was 
Te bird bagged to show for a regular fusilade. Not a 


“Impossible,” said Karl. 

“And if I got a shot at a moose to-day,” I said, “I'd 
miss him.” 

It was something like two hours later that I got my 
shot, and I missed, as has already been told you; but 
there were other trophies carried back from that long 
tramp through the woods and around the lake and along 
the brook that will be ever green among pleasant 
memories, and we all get finally to the place when a 
store of such good things is worth all the moose heads 
in the world. Gerorce F. Dominick, Jr. 


A Walk Down South.—XXI. 


Ir was a dark night, and my boat was headed straight 
for a great black wall—a tidge with a thin gleam at the 
top where it met the gloom of the sky. A little glimmer 
showed that I was on the surface of the water, I could 
see neither bank, I could not tell where I was going to— 
except that the roar-of the water ahead grew louder and 
louder every moment. I drove the boat ahead, determined 
to be over with the rapid as soon as possible. One, two, 
three, four strokes followed; I could hear the water 
rustling along the sides of the boat and dragging under 
the stern. It seemed as- if my courage was growing 
strong with my arms. But not for long. Suddenly the 
boat went grinding up on a grayel bar, right in the teeth 
of the roaring waters. 

The boat began to swing around sideways, showing 
that I was in the slick of the water just above and to the 
left of the rapid, where the current quickened for a leap. 
I caught the boat with short, sharp paddle strokes, and 
somehow backed off. The water looked broadest and 
deepest to the left of where I grounded, and I worked 
that way. I could see a little better than when I first 
put the lantern out, but not much, My nerve was badly 
shaken; nevertheless I headed down stream again as 
near the center as I could, to go on. In less than three 
paddle strokes, however, I ran quartering into a snag 
with whalf a score of horns on it, all of which were 
pointed down stream, fortunately. The loud grappling 
of the wood against my boat was too much for me. 
gripped one of the branches as I was passing it and 
held on, 

I held on to the branch a long while, trying to spy out 
the secrets of the darkness, I could see nothing save the 
dim banks and the black heights straight ahead. I waited 
for the panic into which I had been falling since ground- 
ing to subside, and then tried to think what I had best 
do. It was hard to go ahead into the unknown dangers 
and roarings, and it was not pleasant to think of turning 
back from what would probably prove to be easy running 
by daylight. 

How long I took to decide the question I don’t know, 
but I concluded, at last, that there was one -safe thing 
to do, and that was to go to the bank and wait for day, 
regardless of heroics, This I succeeded in doing, after 
some hard paddling, landing on the west side. : 

I tied the rope to a fence post, took my rubber blanket 
and spread it on a sandbar, put on some more clothes, 
laid down my_wooden blanket, drew the tent sides over 
all, then crawled under. The sand was cold, being a 
mere drift formed behind a bush in the last high tide 
or freshet, so I changed and put one tent side under me 
on top of the rubber blanket. 

It took me some time to get fixed comfortably. I had 
to put on more stockings and tie a woolen shirt for a 
night cap, for instance, but at last I dozed away and 
slept. Once or twice the blankets rolled off when I 
turned over, and the cold awakened me. But it was a 
refreshing sleep, which lasted till after daybredk, 

My things picked up, the ice broke out the craft and all 
ready, I took a look at the place that had unnerved me 
by the noise it made. The boat had grounded on an 
island, round one side of which was a little chute with 
some dancing water. But on the other side in which 
was the snag, was a boat chute, formed by making a V 
dam, with the apex left off. Even by daylisht I chose to 
take the little chute on the opposite side, with the chance 
of grounding rather than that of a wreck among the 
stones, where the water broke after passing the ends of 
the wing dams, it being low water. Re 

When I started the day was breaking, and after T had 
shoved and pried over the gravel bar at the foot of the 
little chute behind the island, I had a chance to see as 
beautiful a day coming as one would wish. Passing the 
tree-grown ridge, which I saw the night before, the east 
broke out with many-hued splendor—dark lead blue to 
the blinding glow of the yellow sun in lines and masses— 


to drift along the quiet eddy, breaking-the silence with the 


of the paddle was a delight.. The Baltimore orioles 
calling in every direction, on the distant ridges, and 
by; the crows wete flying and cawing. Now and 

I could see a sinall bird, ground sparrow, tiny 
ler and the like, For an hour or so J drifted and 
led on, and then suddenly I remembered that I hadn’t 
| any supper the night before and was forgetting my 
kfast. JI became ravenous at once. The nearest 
iouse was a log one, and J headed for it._ It was Town- 
’s, and though they had eaten hours before, she would 
breakfast for me. The corn bread, coffee, plank- 
ted pork and fruit tasted good. I ate heartily and a 
od deal, before I started on again. 

TI crossed a couple of low fish dams, and then came 
@ a pretty bad one, almost as bad as the one back at 
Viendota. At Squire Casson’s house they told me that it 
as best to run close to a big rock near the center, The 

P was neatly three feet in two feet. I stopped and 
fe dinner first. Squire Casson said, “We can’t give 
you much; just meat and corn bread and coffee.” But 
n the table were molasses, fruits and pickles, It was a 
je meal. I felt more like jumping the dam then. 

With nothing but myself and paddle in the boat, I 
headed for the left of the big rock, hit the slick, a mo- 
ment when if seemed as if my heart had stopped falling 
vith me, and then I sprawled down through the shoal, still 
Safe in the boat, 

I bade the Squire good-bye at the lower landing, asking 
how much I owed him for the dinner. “Nothing,” he re- 
plied. ‘‘We'vye got a son traveling somewhere; we don’t 
know where. You are welcome to his share of our table.” 
The river water was green, a filmy, ethereal liquid, 
seemingly too buoyant to float the wooden hulk that was 
arrying me. It scarcely held up reflections in many 
places, the images Josing themselves, more than half, in it. 
' There were ledges of rock again on this day, the sides 
of the stream were broken and rough, the banks high 
and beautiful, with tufts of drift in the bank side willows 
“not the flowing. weeping willow, but a coarser, more 
brittle, sort. 

I was watching out for smallpox now. Several cases 
were reported in various places throughout the region, and 
the river flowed past one of the houses which had been 
“flagged off’ or quarantined, It wasn’t pleasant to have 
lo approach the dread disease, and there was no telling 
if it was all located. 

The afternoon waned, and I thought to stop at Hilton, 
put ran past it unawares. I stopped to ask about it, and 
4 young woman said I was miles below the town. The 
gap on the right side up the river,-she said, led to Hilton. 
My interest in the Otter house, a great cavity in a rock, 
and in the Big Alley, a vast, cracked boulder, had made 
mé miss the town. Her husband was away, but W. H. 
Hart was the next man on the left bank; he would take 
mein probably. But I'd better not stop at the next house 
below Mr. Hart's, because smallpox was there. I made 
certain to stop at Mr, Hart’s, half a mile from the in- 
fected house. 

In 1885 Hart caught what he believes to be the last 
beaver on the Holston River. He saw where it had felled 
a tree, and set steel traps in the water where the animal 
landed. Rabbits are not numerous there this winter; a 
snowstorm last April killed many of the young. In the 
morning I started on at 9:15 o'clock, with Hart’s Shoal 
and smallpox to watch out for. 
to look out for that shoal. 
bank, with a three-foot fall down a steep slope, a broad 
tipple with a channel four or five inches deep, which I 
‘easily followed, though it “took a right smart water 
man to keep off the island.”’ “Rough water” has a differ- 
ent meaning on the Holston to what it does on an Adiron- 
dack loggers’ stream. I wished many times that I could 
show the Holston Riyer men the log drivers at work on 
‘the West Canada in their batteaux, and on the log jams. 
1 fancy there would be more than one “pshaw!” of sur- 
prise. ~ 

The orioles were singing all around again this morning, 
bringing reveries of spring in which I lost sense of time 
and direction. Often I had the feeling that I was lost— 
an odd sensation to have in a flowing river with no forks 
to choose. Several times I stopped paddling and let the 
current carry me along, to be sure that I was going with 
and not against the river. The crooks and twists of the 
stream were wonderful. 

I came around one bend into a suspicious still water. 
Far ahead I heard a roar. I paddled down to a hundred 
yards of a brink and landed for a look. It was the dam 

at Holston Bridge, and the worst yet. At the mill I 
was told that a 15-foot log had been washed out in the 
center and that I could go down there, I could see the 
green slick break into white 10 feet below the fall. I 
took my duffle out of the boat, pulled my belt a notch 
tighter and headed for the green roll, where it slacked 
away over the dam. A twig marked the break in the 
dam. The curves looked pretty high, and the closer I 
got to them the worse they seemed. But I let it go. The 
how dipped under for a gallon of water, and then away 
went the boat, dancing and tossing, but answering the 
paddle to the inch. With my duffle in the boat- again, 
away I went, eating my lunch while the water carried me 
onward, The excitement at the dam gaye me a good 
appetite. ; 

At 1:45 o'clock P. M, I passed the mouth of Moccasin 
Creek. How far I had come there was no telling. On 
land, I had found distances varying from three to five 
miles in regard to places ten or twelve miles away. Now 
men a mile apart called the distances from ten to twenty 
miles apart, usually greatly exaggerating them, as well as 
the danger of river travel. 

Along in the afternoon, miles below the red flags that 
marked the smallpox, I came to a great brick house with a 
wide varanda, large white pillars, a sort of Mt. Vernon 
look to the place, and far back led an extension. There 
was a fancy spring house in the wide yard, large trees 
round about and a worthy old fence. I was tired and 
hungry. Here was a real Southern mansion, one of the 
first I had seen. I was about to approach it, then I 
paddled’ on past it, round a bend and down the river, 
looking back at the tree-screened place for a mile. One 
could not disturb the repose and mystery of such a place. 
What ifthe man had not been one of those tall, splendid, 
eye-bright Southern gentlemen, and the woman not state- 
ly and aristocratic, the daughter not beautiful? I pre- 

ferred to have a lovely picture in my memory. 


Hughes had told me » 
It proved to be a mere gravel — 


FOREST AND STREAM 


At 4 in the afternoon I reached Dickenson’s dam, so 
called because a man of that name lives at the place, It 
was erected by a Cincinnati (?) man for “fishing pur- 
poses.” There is a trap in it, and no apron for the fish to 
climb over it, as the law demands, ‘The restlt is, some 
law suits. I had to pull my boat around the end of it in 
the morning, which I did with Dickenson’s assistance. I 
sepoed at Dickenson’s oyer night. Among other things 

e said, 

“T s'pose you noticed that big brick house up the river 
when you came down?” 

“Yes,” I said, eagerly. 

“Well, sir, that’s got a spring house with four pipes 
coming into, and four different kinds of water running 
into the same bowl. They built that house for a watering 
place.” 

So my dream of aristocracy vanished in a summer 
resort hotel. 

“What might your name be?” I was asked, I told him. 
LES; Pve got a man here named Spears to work for 
me.’ 

“So-of I said. “Is he a good man?” 

“Yes, right faithful sort of a fellow.” 

“Maybe he’s a relative of mine.” 

“Don’t think so. Either he'll have to change his color 
or you'll have to change yours, He's a red-bone nigger.” 

RAYMOND S, SPEARS. 


Floating on the Mlissouri.—V. 


THE name of our camping places, Surgeon Island, re- 
minded us that we had promised a medical friend the head 
and skin of a sturgeon, a most reptlsive-looking and ill- 
Havored fish. Accordingly, we put out a line of well- 
baited hooks from the stern of the boat, but found them 
intact in the morning. Sturgeon, cat and other fish of 
the upper Missouri are rarely caught later than Septem- 
ber, and it is said they go far down stream to winter, 

We got an early start from this camp, leaving the island 
before we could well see the channel; but I knew that 
there were no rapids fot many a mile to come, and there 
would be no difficulty in getting off a shoal should we 
happen to run aground, There was some fog on the 
water which for a time enabled us to get quite close to 
numerous flocks of ducks and geese before they raised, 
but I was too busy rowing to keep warm to try for a 
shot. Sah-né-to, muffled in various cloaks and shawls, 
was shivering until the sun finally appeared and cast its 


’ welcome rays into the valley. Three miles below Sturgeon 


Island the valley suddenly widens out and the slopes are 
more gentle, the south one supporting several pine groves 
of large extent. Just where the semi-cafion ends a splen- 
did grove capping a hill quite near the river tempted me 
ashore, for I felt sure that it sheltered some deer. When 
we landed the bar was all cut up by their sharp hoofs, 
and, alas! for my plans, there were also the tracks of a 
good-sized grizzly deeply sunk in the mud. Sah-né-to 
saw them before she got quite out of the boat and prompt- 
ly returned to her place in the stern. There was no 
need for me to ask why. “If you are afraid,” I said, 
“come with me. I believe I can find a buck up there in 
the timber.” 

She shook her head and looked away across the river. 

“Well, then,” I continued, ‘you stay here and let me 
go; if a bear should happen along, you can push out into 
the stream.” ' 

“You well know,” she replied, “that I cannot handle 
the oats. Let us go on; we still have a little meat and 
the goose. There are plenty of deer ahead.” 

We went on. Sah-né-to is very much afraid of bears. 
Not that she has ever had any experience with them; 
her people tell some wonderful tales of their ferocity and 
cunning, and, of course, she believes them all. Another 
mile breught us to the month of Snake Creek, entering 
the river through a long, wide, sage brush flat. Up its 
barren valley, away to the north, we got a glimpse of the 
pine-clad buttes and bluffs near its source, where there 
are great numbers of mule deer. Although this stream 
is named Snake Creek, I doubt the rattlers being more 
plentiful in its vicinity than. elsewhere in these bad lands; 
they are pretty evenly distributed and very numerous. We 
saw none, as they had gone into their “dens” for the 
winter. i 

Five miles below this pot we came to Cow Creek, or 
Middle Creek, as Sah-né-to calls it, the mention of which 
the night before had prompted her reminiscences of 
other days. I also have some reminiscences of the place, 
for it was here that I got one of the bad scares of my 
life. It was on that same trip up the river on the ice, be- 
fore mentioned. We had run out of blankets down at our 
Carroll trading post, and with an English hali-breed 
named John Hudson, I was sent up to the mouth of the 
Judith to procure as many as possible from another 
trader. The up trip was uneyentiul. On our way we 
camped ene night in the Cow Island bottom im one of 
the best fortified cabins I ever saw. It had bastions and 
loopholes. and was connected with an Indian-proof stable 
by an underground passageway. Its owners had deserted 
it and we took possession for the time. We were success- 
ful in getting all the blankets our two small, home-made 
sleds "vould hold. and started back. About 4 o'clock we 
came to Snake Creek and noticed a great many buffalo 
moving uneasily about the flat and crossing the river to 
the south side. As we went on they became morte 
plentiful, great herds thundering down the hills from the 
north, crossing over and rushing madly up the south side 
of the valley. Occasionally we heard the booming of 
guns. A couple of weeks before this some Assinaboines 
had wantonly killed a woodhawk named Koontz, and 
his friends having caught two of the murderers, promptly 
strung them up to the nearest tree. Consequently, there 
was bad blood between that tribe and the whites. This 
was a favorite hunting ground with the Assinaboines, and 
we concluded that they were the people behind the flying 
buffalo. “If we can only reach that cabin, John,” I said, 
“we can stand ’em off,” 

‘Yes,’ he replied, “if we can only get there first. 
pound ‘em on the back.” 

And we did. We were still two miles from the cabin 
by the shortest cut, which was to leave the winding 
river and strike ditectly across the flat. We found a 
place to get up the bank, and then lashed out ponies into 
a dead run, and the way we bounced through and over the 


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sage brush must have been a sight. But long before we 
got to the cabin a number of mounted Indians came down 
out of the hills between it and us; and our haven of 
refuge was cut off, We slackened our gait at once. 
There was no possibility of oifrunning them, so out 
wardly bold, but inwardly yery badly. scared, we kept on 
aur course, “If it wasn’t for these blankets,” John said, 

they might possibly let us go; but when they see them 
‘twill be all day with us.” . 

_The Indians were quite near us by this time, and I 
picked up my Winchester, cocked it, and laid it across 
my knees, I can’t say what my thoughts were, except 
that 1 was afraid, and at the same time angry. I decided 
to shoot at the first hostile movement on the’r part. They 
were now w:thin a few yards. I was not looking at their 
faces, but at their rifles slung across the pommels of 
their saddles, when a brown hand, was outstretched to- 
ward me, and I heard a familiar voice say: “How! How! 
Appekunny,” 

T could hardly believe my eyes. Why, ‘twas my old 
friend Red-bird’s-tail sitting there on his horse and grin- 
ning. I jumped off my sled and shook hands with him. 
“John,” i said to my wondering companion, ‘we are safe; 
these are my old friends, the Piegans.’’ He gave a long 
sigh of relief. “I thought,” he said, “that I would never 
see my old womans any more.” 

. So instead of being shot and furnishing material for 
a scalp dance, we camped with friends that night, for 
the whole tribe was just behind the chief and the few that 
tode with him, and the flat was soon dotted with their 
lodges and horse herds, From one place we were called 
to another to feast on pummican, stewed berries, broiled 
tongues and other Indian delicacies, and we ate so much 
that we could not sleep when bedtime came, During 
the evening Red-bird’s-tail asked why we were going so 
fast when they first saw us, and I coolly lied and said 
that we were cold and hurrying to the cabin to get warm. 
It will never do to let an Indian think you know such a 
thing as fear. I fried to get the tribe to accompany us 
down the river, expatiating upon the large herds of 
buffalo and other game in the vicinity of our post: ‘The 
Crees are with you,” they replied, “also there is much 
hquor. We would drink and quartel with them, and, 
while we can whip them, many good lives here would 
be uselessly wasted. To-morrow we cross here for the 
headwaters of the Yellow River.” 

In the days of tiyer transportation few steamboats 
went above this point after the June raise had passed, as 
the river was too swift and shallow for them. Unloading 
cargo here, it was taken overland by large “bull” and 
mule freighting outfits to Fort Benton, and the mining 
camps beyond. A book might be written about the ad- 
ventures of the freighters along the trail. War parties 
always infested it, and sometimes got the scalps and 
plunder they were seeking. 

It was near the mouth of this creek that the Nez Perces 
crossed the Missouri on their memorable march across a 
part of Washington and Idaho, under the leadership of 
Chief Joseph in 1877. At the time a few soldiers and 
citizens, a dozen men in all, were guarding some Govern- 
ment freight. They saw the Indians crossing and lost no 
time in preparing for the worst, digging breastworks and 
making barricades of sacks of flour. At sundown the 
Indians opened fire from the hills, only a couple of hun- 
dred yards distanty and twice during the night charged 
the camp, but were driven back with serious loss each 
time, the whites losing only one man. In the morning 
the whole tribe pulled out disgusted, only to fall into the 
hands of General Miles a few days later. Some distance 
up Cow Creek they plundered a large freight outfit, taking 
such goods as they wanted and burning the rest with the 
wagons and harness. The freighters managed to escape 
by good luck and hard riding. 

We beached the Good Shield at the mouth of Cow 
Creek, and going up on the flat sought in vain for the 
fortified cabin; not a stick of it remained. Then we 
climbed the rocky buttes. where the Nez Perces had opened 
fire on the freight guards. Here and there we found” 
many small piles of tocks behind which they had cached, 
and numerous cartridge shells of .50, .45 and .44 caliber. 
We took a few cf the shells as a memento of the place, 
and then returned to the boat. 

A mile further on, and half a mile below themouthof Calf 
Creek, another small stream: coming in from the north, I 
pointed out to Sah-né-to the place where I] had fired my 
last shot at buffalo. On our way down the river the 
morning after camping with the Piegans, I noticed a 


‘yearling standing alone in the sage brush and shot it. I 


distinctly heard the bullet thud into it, but the animal 
never flinched nor moved. and I was about to shoot 
again when it suddenly collapsed and’ fell in its tracks. 
Whether or not I had a premonition that it was my last 
buffalo, with John’s aid I skinned it intact, leaving the 
horns and hoofs on the hide. Later I had it tanned 
and gatidily painted, Indian fashion, and sent it to an 
Eastern friend for safe keeping. He has it yet, and after 
all these years it is his by rights. 

At the head of Cow Island. a few hundred yards down. 
we had no I‘ttle difficulty in finding enough water to carry 
us over the shoal, which extends irom it clear across to 
the north shore.. What channel there is runs parallel 
with it, and about fifty feet from the shore. We saw 
many deer tracks on its sandy bars, whitetail, of course, as 
the mule deer do not live in the timbered bottoms, and 
islands, coming down to the river only when in need of 
water. ; 

The general course of the river along here is south of 
east. A mile or so below Cow Island, however, # 
turns sharply west of south, rounds a high, narrow ridge 
and then turns back east of north, making a bend of 
five miles, which is only a mile across. The south side 
of the valley around the bend is densely timbered, and at 
the heads of the coulées are cut walls of sandstone, of a 
much darker color than that above the mouth of the 
Judith, There should be some mountain sheep up among 
the rocks and breaks, and the timber certainly shelters 
many deer, for we saw théir trails leading down to the 
shore, 

Passing the bend, we came to Dry Island, so named 
because the passage between it and the south shore has 
filled up, water now standing only in pools, where once 
was a deep channel. It was time for lunch, and we went 
ashore, looking around a little before we sat down to 


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eat. We had both seett some deer sign during our wati- 
derings, but nothing to equal that we found here. Around 
the pools of dead water, and the whole length of the 
alternately muddy and sandy old channel, there wasn’t a 
place as large as one’s hand that did not bear the im- 
pression of a deer’s foot. Most of them were made by 
mule deer, but there were also numbers of whitetail 
tracks. Back from the channel is a high cut bank at the 
edge of the flat, and at each place it could be climbed the 
deer had made a wide dusty trail. 

While sitting on the bow of the boat eating our lunch, a 
whitetail doe and her fawns came out of the timber and 
several hundred yards below us, and after drinking fed 
around on the shore for some time. The fawns were in 
high spirits, and did some bucking and kicking which 
would have made a broncho ashamed of himself. We 
did not molest them, and they finally went quietly back 
into the brush, It was here, after lunch, that we found 
the first signs of a disease which had killed many white- 
tail deer during the summer. In a small open park in 
the timber lay a magnificent buck, in the willows a fawn, 
and on the outer shore a two-year-old doe. The two 
latter had been dead a long time, the buck not more than 
three weeks. What this disease was no one has been able 
to tell with certainty. It was local, extending, so far as 
I could learn, only from Cow Island to the mouth of the 
Fourchette, one hundred miles by river, and did not affect 
the mule deer at all. Mr. Jas. Gibson, who has lived on 
the river for thirty years, claims that it was not a disease, 
but that the mortality was caused by eating the bulb of 
a weed which is poisonous. The leaves of the plant are 
not poisonous, and in ordinary years, he says, the bulb 
is so firmly imbedded in the soil that in eating the leaves 
the deer do not pull it up and eat it too. This season, 
however, was exceptionally wet and rainy, and as a con- 
sequence many deer died from eating it, as they easily 
pulled up the whole plant. For proof, Mr. Gibson cites 
the wet summer of 1886, when many whitetail died the 
same way. The only post-mortem I heard of was made 
by Mr. Mark Frost, a rancher who lives near the mouth 
of the Musselshell River. Out hunting one day, he shot 
two fawns, which slowly rose up out of the sage brush 
and stood stupidly staring at him, When he came to 
cut them open, he found that their milt was congested and 
that their stomachs contained a viscid, ill-smelling, yel- 
lowish fluid, He did not take the meat. The mortality 
began in June, and ended in October with the dying 
of the plants and other growths from the effect of frost, 
another point which seems to sustain Mr, Gibson's theory. 
Whatever the cause, the deer died very suddenly after 
being taken sick, as evidenced by the good condition of 
those found. Anthrax is the only disease known which 
kills so suddenly, and had it been that, the mule deer, 
bighorn, antelope and cattle along the river would get 
it, too. 

Leaying our lunching place, we pushed off, and a 
stretch of swift water took us quickly down around a 
bend and in sight of Crescent and Grand islands. We 
arrived at the head of the latter about 1 o'clock, and 
having made twenty-five miles since daylight, decided to 
camp. This is one of the largest islands on the river, a 
mile and a half long and half a mile wide. At its upper 
end there is a magnificent grove of tall old cotton- 
woods, and a growth of smaller timber completely belts it. 
The rest of the island is a level plain, covered with 
buck brush and tall grasses. We soon had the tent up 
under a large cottonwood, and then proposed a hunt 


up in the breaks of the south side of the valley, for 


mule deer. There were numerous tracks and trails of 
whitetail where we wete, also more wolf signs than in 
any place we had yet seen, but after finding the dead 


_ deer on Dry Island, we did not care especially for that 


kind of meat, 

Directly opposite the island a long high-cut bank shuts 
off sight of anything beyond it. After crossing the river 
we were obliged-to walk up the shore some distance to 
find a place where we could climb it, but when we did 
finally arrive on the summit, a typical view of the Bad 
Land country was spread out before us; long ridges and 
deep coulées sloping up for miles; hills of blue clay ab- 
solutely devoid of vegetation; here and there patches of 
juniper brush and groves of pine, especially in the heads 
of the coulées, and back of them cut walls of sandstone. 
We started up the nearest ridge, following a well-beaten 
game trail. After traveling a mile or more we stopped to 
rest a bit, and I caught sight of a deer as it was entering 


a pine grove at the head of a short lateral coulée not 


far away. We were not long in getting to the lower edge 
of it, but there was so much underbrush that I did not 
like to go in, fearing that I would scare the animal out 
without getting sight of it; so I decided to circle around 


_ to the upper edge of the timber and have Sah-né-to try 


to drive it to me. Another climb of half a mile and I 
stood on the top of a high cliff; at its foot there was a 
boulder-strewn slope of some fifty yards, and then the 
pines. I waved my hat to Sah-né-to, saw her start into 
the timber, and then sat down to await the result of my 
plan. In order to have this story read right, I suppose I 
ought to make my pencil say that the deer suddenly 
bounded out of the timber several hundred yards away 


-and ran as fast as it could, and that at the crack of 


,, their forefeet. 


my trusty rifle it gave a convulsive spring and fell dead. 
What really did happen was this: I had been looking 
over the ridges and groves to my left, trying to spot 
some game, and again turning my attention to the busi- 


ness in hand, was surprised to see five deer, one of them 


a good-sized buck, standing on the slope right under me 
and locking curiously into the timber from which they 
had likely just emerged, Back and forth they swung their 
great ears, and occasionally stamped the ground with 
I allow that it was unfair, but we needed 


_ meat, and I took a careful sight on the buck’s back just 
-éback of its withers and dropped him. The othesr made 


_e@ few jumps, but did not know which way to run, until 
threw a rock at them and shouted, when they hurried 
away along the edge of the timber and turned up the 


nearest coulée. 

. J was obliged to go back several hundred yards to 
get around the end of the cliff, and by the time I got to 
‘the fallen deer Sah-né-to appeared a little further on. 
She said she had heard the deer rum when she scared 
them up, and remarked that she had found an old “war 


house.” 
The buck was larger than I thought when I saw him 


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from the north shore. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


from the cliff, and still very fat, for the rutting season 
had barely commenced. € was too heavy to be packed 
whole, so I skinned out the forequarters and hung them 
on the nearest tree, But before starting back the “war 
house’ had to be inspected. It stood in the thickest 
part of the timber, and was a large one, some sixteen feet 
in diameter inside. Like all others of its kind, ’twas built 
of a number of long poles set up cone shape. The many 
layers of pine and balsam boughs which had covered it 
had long since slipped down and decayed, and the flooring 
of brush was in a like condition. We poked around in- 
side where the wartiors had sat and slept, hoping to find 
some little trinket they had lost or forgotten, but all we 
found were some mice-gznawed ribs of deer or mountain 
sheep. There are hundreds of these “war houses” hidden 
in the breaks of the Missouri, or rather, there were. Most 
of them have fallen down and rotted away. They were 
built by parties of Indians on the warpath in order to 
screen the flame of their fire from observant eyes, and 
also as a protection from the cold and storms. We won- 
dered what tribe had built this one, where they were 
bound, and what had been their success. More than like- 
ly they had their eyes on some “woodhawk’s” little band 
of horses, and perchance secured them and his scalp also. 

Although I packed but half the deer, my back and 
shoulders ached before I finally dropped it in the boat. 
There was ample time to get in the remainder before 
dark, but Sah-né-to rightly said that there were other 
days. So we rowed across to camp, 

After dinner I set out to explore the island, walking 
down through the center to its lowest point. Trails of 
the whitetail were everywhere, and at every step I ex- 
pected to see some of the animals jump up, for their 
many beds in the grass and low buck brush showed that 
they passed a part of their time in the open. Then I 
remembered the wolf trails on the shore. Wolves know 
the runways of game as well as human lovers of the 
chase, and better, Here, for instance, unless they were 


_to swim the river, deer cross to and from the island only 


at its head, where a shallow, gravelly ford separates it 
All along behind it the sluggish 
water has a bottom of fathomless soft mud, which they 
do not attempt to cross. Knowing this, the wolves secure 
their prey by watching the runway, while several of their 


- companions drive the island. All the way down, and 


back by the north shore, I never saw a deer. Where the 
runway crossed the sandy bar and entered the water were 


_ the imprints of flying feet, both deer and wolves, Could 


T have crossed over I doubt not that I would have found 
some freshly gnawed bones and bits of hide. 

At the lower point of the island I found some recent 
beaver cuttings, and also some moccasin tracks in the 
mud. From the shape of the latter I knew that they 
were of Cree make, and concluded that there was a camp 
of Cree breeds somewhere in the vicinity. Alas, for the 
beaver. They have been protected by law for a long 
time, but every year their number grows less and less. 

APPEKUNNY. 


The New York Forest Preserve. 


FoLtowinc is the text, practically in full, of the me- 
morial addressed to the Legislature by the New York 
Board of Trade and Transportation, setting forth the 
convincing reasons for the rejection of the measures to 
open the State forest preserve to the lumbermen. It will 
be remembered that in 1895 the same organization con- 
ducted a most vigorous. campaign to defeat a proposed 
amendment which would have surrendered the forests ta 
the pulp men. This new presentation of the facts and 
governing principles involved is deserving of careful 
reading. 

Roomis of the a 
New York Board of Trade and Transportation. 
Wew York, Match 8, 1902, 


To His Excellency, the Governor, and the Honorable, the 
Senate and Assembly of the State of New York: 

The New York State Constitution, Article VII., Sec- 
tion 7, reads as follows: ’ 

“The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter ac- 
quired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed 
by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They 
shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any 
corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber there- 
on be sold, removed or destroyed.” 

This provision became a part of the fundamental law 
of the State, and went into effect Jan. 1, 1895. 

A brief statement of the conditions which led to its 
recommendation and adoption will be in order at this time 
when measures are pending in the Legislature designed 
to radically change the constitution and policy of the 
State in this respect. 

Forty years ago the relation of the forests to the ma- 
terial welfare of the people was very imperfectly under- 
stood. They were regarded primarily as the source of 
the lumber supply only, and this was thought to be inex- 
haustible. Incidentally, the forests were regarded as the 
sportsman’s paradise, and as the environment most. favor- 
able for the restoration of health impaired by certain 
diseases, or as a sanitarium. — we 

Therefore, the lumberman carried on his operations for 
years without restriction, stripping the mountain slopes 
of their timber tintil it dawned upon the people that the 
supply was limited, and the total destrucion of he forests 
was near. 5 

The effects of this wholesale tree cutting became ap- 
parent in the spring freshets which, coming from the 
melting snows, ttished down the steep declivities, inundat- 
ing the valleys, and carrying the alluvial deposits of the 


ages into the rivers, leaving the rocks behind bare and in- _ 


capable of renewing their verdure. In the heated summer 
months, no longer tempered by the forests and the sail no 
longer capable of holding in reserve the waters of the 
melting Snow and spring rains, and of giving them out as 
formerly in constant but economic flow, the streams be- 
came contracted or dried up and the Hudson River 
showed that man had taken from it the supply’ which 
nature had provided. The water supply of the canals 


also was diminished, and their 5 ery existence threatened. 


These warnings were heeded by public-spirited men, 
and steps taken to enlighten the people on the true relation 
of the forests to their interests. 

Vast interests which had secured strong hold upon the 


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wooded larids of the State were threatened by the grow- 
ing sentiment which favored a restfiction of lumbering) 
operations. a ; 
Their united influence in opposing measures of relie 
was felt in the State Legislature, and years passed before 
any substantial progress toward reform could be attained. 
The dissemination of information on the subject and | 
the claims of the forests for protection, supported by an 
enlightened public opinion, at last prevailed, and in T885 | 
an act was passed creating a State Forest Commission. 
The law itself gave expression to the actuating spirit | 
and underlying principle of the legislation in stibstantially + 
the same language as that of Article VII., Section 7, of: 
the Constitution. ; | 
Popular movements lack the elements of constancy” 
and endurance. Resting in a sense of security produced 
by the enactment of this law, and trusting im the wisdom 
and good faith of the Commission, public vigilance was 
relaxed, while all those interests which had corporate or 
private gain in view worked unceasingly to break down 
the protection afforded by the law. Year by year the act 
was amended under these influences, and in 1893 not a 
yestige remained except that, like a wolf guarding a 
sheepfold, the Commission still existed to receive the de- 
ntunciation of those who had brought it into being. It 
became apparent that the fruits of many years of labor 
might be lost by a single year of inattention and inaction, 
because any Legislature may undo all that its predeces- 
sors have done. : / 
The following pertinent paragraph is quoted from a re- 
port published in 1894 by the Committee on Legislation 
of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation; 


It is nobody’s business to stand guard over statute laws; we 
haye no governmental or political organization that is charged — 
with the duty of guardianship in this region as England has. We 
look in yain for any organism in the State to protect the general 
law from change or inyasion at the dictate of priyate interests, It | 
may be said that this is part of the duty of Congréss and the State 
Legislature. True, but the duty of initiation and, watchfulness 
is one that must be coupled for the habitual exercise. with re- 
sponsibility, and to charge a whole body, constantly ‘dissolving 
into its constituent elements, with the duty of initiation and watch- 
fulness, is practically to charge nobody with it. er 


Holding this view, therefore, of the relation’ of the 
Legislature to existing law, and distrusting alike their 
cwn constancy in watchfulness, and the good faith of the 
Forest Commission, the friends ‘and advocates of the 
forests decided to secure, if possible, the adoption of a 
provision in the State Constitution which would stand 
as a wall of protection between the-State forests and those 
who had sought their destruction. Thereupon the Com- 
mittee on Forestry of the New York Board of Trade 
and Transportation submitted to the Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1894 the draft of an amendment, and Article 
VII., Section 7, above quoted, was the result. é 

From some four hundred proposed amendments which 
were considered by the Constitutional Convention only 
thirty-three were adopted, and Article VII., Section 7, 
was the only one which had the distinction of approval 
by the unanimous vote of the delegates. © 

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The question of forest preservation is oné which cannot 
be mastered in the busy and brief period of a legislative 
session. Statements made to members and legislative 
committees are wholly upon honor, and too often only 
one side is presented and that in the most pleasing way 
possible. These conditions and methods favor erroneous 
conclusions, and it is a ‘matter of congratulation and sur- 
prise. most creditable to the Legislature, that so few 
serious legislative blunders aré made. — 

The facts and conditions herein referred to are best 
known to the metmbers of the Legislature themselvés. 

The question arises, therefore, and this commiittee feels 
watranted in ureing it upon the consideration of the 
Legislature, with all respect for the wisdom of that body,, 
is it safe in the present condition of knowledge on the 
forest question to confide the care of the forests to the 
Legislature, as provided shall be done in the pending 
Constitutional amendments? ' 

If, perchance, the present Legislature is better informed. 
than its predecessors and therefore better qualified to 
handle the forest question, is there any assurance that he 
Legislature of two or three years hence will be quali- 
fied to legislate upon it wisely? ‘Therein is the danger. 

Is it wise to break down the safeguards erected and 
now existing in Article VII,, Section 7, of the State Con- 
stitution, until such time in the future as the knowledge 
of forest care and preservation shall have become more 
universal, as the result of the study and experiments now 
proceeding, and which shall then make clear what changes” 
are practicable, wise and safe? ee as 

The undersigned committee thinks it very unsafe and 
unwise, and urge upon all members of the Legislature and 
State officials as well as private citizens a-caretul consider— 
ation of this very important question. es, 

Lest lack of confidence in previous Forest Commissions 
may be considered unwarranted, the committee takes the 
liberty of referring again briefly to their conduct in con- 
nection with Article VIE., Section 7, of the Constitution. 

By what influences moved it cannot be said, but in 
December, 1894, on the eve of the taking effect of Art cle 
VIL., Section 7, of the Constitution, the Forest Commis- 
sion met'and took action to grant a certain railroad com- 
pany the right of way through the State forests which ~ 
the amendment a week later would close to them. “The 
proposed grant had just before been denied by the Land 
Board after a hearing of the case, A peremptory in- 
junction by the Supreme Court against the action of the 
Commission prevented the consummation of the grant 
until the amendment took effect. and_ this deliberate at- 
tempt by the Commission to circumyent the expressed 
purposes of the people was prevented. 3 re 

Not content, however, the Commission, before the new 
Constitution was two weeks,old, consented to the intro- 
duction in the Legislature of an amendment designed to 
eliminate the intent of the forest preserve provision; No 
opposition was then made, and, after passing two Legis- 
latures, this proposed amendment came before the people 
at the polls two years later with the open support of the 
Forest Commission, which issued an official appeal to the 
public in its behalf. This attempt to opén the forests 
was also defeated and the Article VII., Section: 7, sus- 
tained in its original form. by a majority of nearly. 400,000 
votes, the largest majority ever given in this State ta 
any question or candidate, either State or National, 


wee 2» te FOB ad. 
' Maxce 22, 1902.) 


‘In this latter instaiace the Forest Cortimission proved 
‘itself an unfit and unsatfe etistodian of the interests af the 
State with reference to the Forest presetve and no ex- 
planations can in any degtee @Xciise their failure to dis- 
cern the public will. If was arather deliberate attempt 


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so to do. It has been said above that no opposition was 
“made in the Legislature to: this amendment. That is true. 
‘The question of making opposition was considered and 
decided in the negative for the express purpose of leav- 

ng the Legislature to act upon its own judgment or as 
‘it might be influenced by the Forest Commission, and 
thus fo test the safety and Wisdom of confiding the inter- 
ests of the forests in the care of the Legislature and the 
Commission, This test prowed the fact that the Forest 
Commission did not protect the forests, that the Legisla- 


ture confided too much in the Commission, that the State | 


officials were powerless or too willing to aid the .ever 
active forces-of forest destruction, and that to the people 
alone could be confided the protection of their interests in 
‘this respect as now provided in th2 Constitution. y 
Referring more particularly to the proposed constitu- 
tional amendment, Assembly No. 646, introduced by Mr. 
(G. Davis, and those with similar provisions introduced by 
{Senator Brown, Senate No. 159, and Senate No. 389, your 
attention is respectfully called to some of the provisions 
proposed by them, the opening tip of the State forest 
reserve for the cutting of its. timber by a system of 
“scientific’ forestry, and the leasing of camp sites not to 
exceed two acres in extent, such leases not to be made 
for 2 longer period than twenty years, nor to cover more 
than two hundred and fifty feet of shore line om any lake 


or river. Another feature of this leasing is that mo more - 


than one-half of such shore shall be leased. 


This leasing of sites carries with it the certainty that | 


the choicest situations of the State forest preserve would 
“be selected by the lessees, thereby excluding the public 
-from the enjoyment of the advantages they afford, The 
shores of the lakes, ponds and-other water fronts thus 
srented would in time be stripped of their timber to 
“ssupply the various wants created by. the cixcumstances 
‘of occupancy. Footpaths, avenues and roads would be 
‘cut through the surrounding forests, opening their re- 
‘cesses to the torrid heats of summer and the assaults of 
ithe winter storms. Such a removal of the trees would 


sresult finally in the exposure of these sites to the destruc- 


stive forces of the elements, despoil them of their pic- 


ituresque beauty, impair their healthfulness and destroy 


itheir economical usefulness as woodlands. 

- Once fully inaugurated, the effect of this system of 
ileasing could be anticipated. Shorn‘of those natural fea- 
‘tures that had formerly made them attractive and valu- 
sable, these sites would be abandoned one after another 
‘for more desirablé regions, and disfigurement or ruin 
would mark its workings throughout the fairest sections 
wf the State preserve. 

In addition to these evils are those greater ones due to 
fire. With their many and necessary uses of fire for 
household purposes, these camps and cottages occupying 
the sites would be a constant menace to the integrity of 
ithe adjacent woods. The dangers from such a source 
would be multiplied from their being occupied by the 
lessees durine the very period when the forests are the 

dryest and, therefore; more liable to be ravaged by this 
Giread scourge. Owing to the combustible nature of the 
material composing them from long seasoning, these 
premises when not occupied or deserted would still be ex- 
tremely hazardous. be 

Every site thus occupied would increase the probability 
of the visttation of this destructive agent. Should these 
forests im a season of continued drought be ravaged by 
such deplorable fires as those that devastated.the North- 
west, it would be not only a State, but a National calam- 
ity, considering the relation which this State bears to the 
west of the Union. ; F 
_ A catastrophe of this character could not fail to strike 
a mortal blow at some of the industries that have given 
to this Commonwealth in the past, and that give to it now 
its commanding mercantile position. Not oniy this, but 
-the mecessity of developing others, if that were possible, 
to conform to the new conditions imposed upon her 
by their destruction, would arise. What is more serious 
still, this would occur at any time when competition 
between the most advanced nations and communities has 
not only reached a stage unprecedented in the history of 
the commercial world, but must grow more severe, owing 
.fo the progressive, intelligent and forceful character of 
.af] those now engaged in the direction and development 
.of this mercantile rivalry. In the face of conditions that 
ewould* be so adverse, and with those in prospect, to 
«create and invite evils so far reaching and momentous in 
+their influences upon the welfare of the State, would be 
(to. adopt and pursue a policy the folly of which would be 
iin keeping with the magnitude and importance of the in- 
iterests involved. é hai eae 

Another provision of this proposed amendment is. one 
(that specifically on one hand forbids the extension of 
steam railroads into the forest preserve of the State, but 
om the other covertly provides-for its invasion by horse 
car, trolley, electrical or. other road. The introduction 
of such methods of travel in this wilderness would be the 
beginning of not only its own destruction, but of those 
-yarious interests the protection of which depend in a 
large degree upon its preservation. 


* 


Pierced and traversed in every -possible direction, as it 


would be in a few years, by these thoroughfares, it would - 


be opened on every side to the destructive attacks and the 
disastrous effects of the wind slash. On such occasions, 
-foreed through the mountain: gorges and defiles with the 
-tornado’s irresistible power, the winds would enter by 
these breaches made in the forests, and instantly level 
and destroy acres of woodland. In a few seasons this 
dead timber, dry as tinder, would be in a fit condition to 
be fired from various sources, Once swept by fire such 
regions would be worthless thereafter as water con- 
;Servers, a @ ba) : ; i: 

In regard to the opening up-of the State forests again 
for the purpose, among others, of cutting their timber 
“according to a system of “scientific” forestry, even if they 


-were in a condition to be lumbered, it is fratight with dan-— - 


ger, at the present time, to ‘adl-those interests which, in 
4no small measure, they safeguard, Moreover; it is: the 
‘opinion commonly entertained on this subject that if it 
‘had not been for the application of the exceptional and 


0 defy the public will and deceive the people, but it failed — 


‘OREST AND STREAM. 


: drastic provision of the present Constitution, whose essen- 
tial elements it is proposed to repeal, there would be 
_sciitcely anything now left of the State forests worth 
legislating for. i * 
Should, however, this protective provision be so. altered 
as to permit the cutting of timber in ‘the wooded reliefs 
_of the State forest preserve by some systetn of. “‘sciehtific” 


forestry, about which so much is said and so little under-' 


stood, this much is certain: _it will revive again and en- 
courage into active co-operation those individual and cor- 
_ porate agencies by which it had been, formerly despoiled 
and. systematically plundered.* It is for the representa- 
tives of the people to decide how these interests shall 
weigh as against those of the community, some of the 
most yital ones of which depend altogether upon these 
wooded regions as conservers of water. . _ ; . 
__ Viewed from this point, the position in which. this 
State stands to her internal economy is an exceptional one 
“among her sister States. The farm products of the 
great agricultural States of the Mississippi Valley have 
the whole world for their market.. On,the contrary, the 
farm products of our own State are almost entirely de- 
pendent upon her own markets created by her manu- 
facturing industries, and those due to her canals along 
which has risen am unbroken chain of cities which for 
population and the value of industries centered,in them 
are not equalled by those of any other section of our 
country. 


In connection with this subject of water supply, it is to : 


_be observed that but.a few years. ago the water horse- 
_ power used in this State by her various industries was 
more than that used by any other, or about one-fifth of 
all used in the entire Union. The importance of this sub- 
ject is further. emphasized, by, the fact that more than one- 
half of its water is furnished to, the canal system by the 
watersheds of the Adirondack wilderness, and by. the 
necessity which has arisen for improving her waterways 
to maintain that supremacy which has justified her title 
of the Empire State. : wn F 
The subject of a sufficient supply of water for the 
countless uses which our modern life demands is an all 
important one, and concerns not only, the great and ever 
increasing centers of population, but every hamlet of the 
State. Such are its intimate relations to our forests that 
your attention is also respectfully called to a few of the 
many tacts bearing upon it. y 
In some of our cities the serious inconveniences and 
even dangers arising from an insufficient supply of water 
ate being fully realized. Already fears are expressed by 
‘those whose judgment on this question is worthy of our 
most serious consideration. Our rivers and their tribu- 
taries are diminishing in volume and flow. Many of their 
feeders, the brooks and streams, exist only in the memory, 


having entirely disappeared. The advance of the salt and 


the retreat of the fresh water in the Hudson River, the 
increasing exposure of the shores of Lake George, Lake 
Champlain, Raquette and other lakes of our State, by the 
‘lowering of their waters from the destruction of our 
forests, are matters of common knowledge. 

This question of a water supply is one whose importance 
is borne in upon our attention with an irresistible and im- 
pressive force by a passing study of the increase in popu- 
lation of New York city proper in the last century. Start- 
ing in 1800 with 60,000 inhabitants, the increase has been 
equal to am average gain every decade of about 44 per 
cent.; while in the last five decades Brooklyn has sur- 
passed this in her average growth. 

But assuming that the average increase each decade of 
the metropolitan district will be but 30 per cent., an 
annual increase of only about 3 per cent., her population 
in 1920 would reach 6,000,000; and there are thousands 
now living who will in 1950 see this metropolis containing 
13,000,000 people, or about twice the size of the present 
population of the whole State. 

Again, the Greater New York is, and must continue to 
be, the greatest manufacturing center of the country, and 
her consumption of water, therefore, will be much greater 
per head than it would be otherwise. Placing this at 
the low figure of 150 gallons a day per capita in 1920, and 
180 gallons in 1950, the city would require at, the former 
period 900,000,000 gallons and half a century hence 
2,340,000,000 gallons a day. ‘ 

The daily use of such enormous volumes of water in 
the approximate future raises at once the question as ta 
their sources and the means by which they are to be 
furnished. i 

To these everlasting hills of the Catskills and Adiron- 
-dacks which seem to have been tpreared by an ommipo- 
tent and creative hand for this beneficent purpose, and to 
“the forests. clothing their uplands and heights, and which 
alone can draw from the inexhaustible reservoirs of the 
clouds the full bounty of their life-giving springs, we must 
turn for the solution of this problem and its kindred ones. 


If the health and prosperity of the Commonwealth are to. - 


be assured, this priceless heritage of our wooded reliefs 
must be jealously guarded. i 


The people having already twice shown at the polls by,’ 


overwhelming vote what their desires are in relation to 
the forests, it remains for you, gentlemen, of the legisla- 
tive body, to consider not how many cubic feet of timber, 
‘but how many cubic feet of water these forests may be 
made to yield. aL, . 

Respectiully submitted, i =. 
me Epmunp. P. Martin, Chairman, 
'JoHN H. WasHBURN, | , 

Epwin S. Marston, 

Peter F, SCHOFIELD, 
Henry S. HARPER, ; 


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“Committee on Forestry of the New York ; 


Board of Trade and Transportation. 


* See Annual. Report of the Comptroller of the State for 1895. 


“Not Hunting but Game Keeping. | 


PresipeNT RoosEveLT is beginning to chafe under the: = 
burdens, put upon him iby the persistence of office seekers, 
When*he was on his: way to the launching of the Meteor - 


‘a friend: remarked to’ him: * - he > Vig 
“Yourdon't 'get much time for hunting now?r? = .- .., 
.. Noy’! said the President; “the fact.is, 1 am: a-sort of 
_gamekeeper now, watching the Government. preserves 
- while hordes of poachers are trying to break in and bag 

the offices.’—New York Times, 


i 


— 


 dlatiwal History. ve 


- shell fish and sa on. 
. persons who raise poultry feed their ducks, on celery 
. tops with the idea of giving the flesh a good flavor. 


- logical Gardens in Philadelphia from Mr, 


—fr--——. . 


“Taste of Flesh. Affected. by: Baad. 


Editor Forest and Stream: . 


In your editorial in issue of March 15 on; “Game Foods 
and Flavors,’ you ask, “Who knows whetler.the flesh 
of deer and elk, may nat be similarly affected by-this or 
some other plant.” While I know nothing of elk, I can 
state positively that the flesh of deer often, and I think 
always, pattakes in spring of the taste of cedar which, 
here, is their principal.food at this season. I well re- 


_member how deer meat_used to taste in March when I 
was.a boy, and the Indians uséd to bring it tots. I 
have often eaten moose meat in the spring,. but ‘have 


never seen that it was in any way affected by their food. 
Our white hares always taste strongly-of cedar Gwhite 


‘cedar, Arbor vite) toward spring. Ruffed grouse. feed 


mostly on willow and poplar buds after the snow. comes, 
and their flesh in spring tastes strongly of what they 
feed on. Spruce grouse feed mostly on needles of fir, 
and I have yet to see one which did not taste strongly 
of the food even early in September, at which time they 
occasionally ¢at a few berries; although I have several 
times watched them make a whole meal of fir needles 
close to my camp-fire when they, could, get plenty of 
other food if they preferred it. This-tasté etm be removed 
by soakitg the flesh in salt and> water. - 

As said in the article referred to, beaver in spring taste 
very strongly of poplar, A young porcupine taken when 
feeding ‘on beechnuts: has no strong taste, but an old 
one taken in winter wheti feeding on hemlock is a differ- 
ent proposition. I once heard a man who had eaten one 
remark, “If it was not for the name of porcupine I 
would as soon eat a piece of hemlock bark.” I have 
noticed in the falls, when bears fed on betries,.the fat 
would cool like lard, but when feeding on beechniuts, it | 
was oil and would never harden.’ The meat of seal tastes 
so strongly of fish that one not accustomed to it would 
go htingry a long time before trying it a second time. 

MAnty Harpy. 

Brewer, Me 


Editor Forest and. Stream: 5 
_ 1 am interested in the editorial published in your last 
issue, entitled “Game Foods and Flavors,” and while I 


cannot contribute to the subject anything that is new, 


there are two sufficiently familiar facts with regard to 
our Western grouse, which you did not think it worth 


_ while to mention, but. which perhaps should be recorded 


in this connection. 

Residents in the Rocky Mountains are familiar -with 
the fact that during the late summer and early fall, when 
the blue grouse are well grown and are feeding on the 


_ fruit of a very small, low-growing, red huckleberry, that 


is found in the evergreen forests, the flavor of;the birds 
is so markedly delicious as to call forth frequent com- 
ment by those who eat them. I should not dare to say 
that. the flavor of the birds is the+same as that of the 
berries on which they feed, but there is an undoubted 
connection between the flavor and the food. | ch 
Hardly less familiar than this to people who have.-occa- 
sion to travel over the sage prairies, is the fact that the 


flesh of the young sage grouse, almost or quite tp to the 


time when they are fully grown, is very well flavored and 
toothsome. Up to this time they are,supposed to feed 
chiefly on insects and seeds; but as autumn draws on 
and the insect supply is cut off, they take more and 
more to feeding on the tops of the sage, and -the. flesh 
becomes. unsavory, disagreeable and bitter, At..that sea- 
son of the year, by many persons, they are not con- 
sidered fit for food. wares 

- All this, of course, is quite in line with the familiar 
examples which you have cited, such as the excellent 
flafor of the canvasback from feeding .on the valisneria, 
the fishy flavor of certain ducks which-feed largely on 
In like, manner, I believe certain 


I recall that a good many years ago, when there was a 


_wild outburst of excitement about the-artificial propaga- 


tion of trout, and every farmer who. had.a brook on 
his place believed that the raising of these. fish offered a 
short and easy road to affluence, there arose before. long a 
cry concerning the unpleasant flavor. af the pond-raised 
trout on the ground that their flesh tasted of the.liver 
on which they were largely fed. _ COLORADO, 
Denver, March 152  - OO ET 


| : A New King Snake Path ree : 


Nor long-ago Mr. Arthur Erwin Brown, the .accom- 


plished director of the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens, 
. described, from western Texas an- extraordinary::new 


snake under the name Coluber subocularis. From the 
same locality—the Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis county, 
Texas—now ‘comes another) new snake ofthe genus 


Ophibolus—the group sometimes known as king snakes— 


whichMr. Brown has named QO. allernus. :This ‘snake, 
which: is something over two feet long, is slaty gray in 


_ color, crossed on: the back by bands of black, which are 
-alternately wider and narrower. 
j-are more or Jess divided transversely on their centers with 
scarlet, but the alternate narrow ones are wholly black. 
-There are nineteen of the red and black bands on the 


The wider black bands 


body, and an equal. numbet of intermediate black ones 
showing no red. - 


The snake described was received alive at the: Zoo- 
l EK, Meyenberg, 
one of Mr. Brown’s collectors. 


Hollow Trees, 


In Keuka’s amusing story ofa ferret-thé Détrcit hotel 


“man appears to be at once a good storyteller and a bad 
- . observer. 
_that it had become hollow. = - 


He describes a fallen tree thaf‘had lain so long 


Only greén standing trees become-Hollow.- A hollow 
in a tree is produced by the outside growiite ‘while the 
inside decays. Dead and fallen trees rot first on the 
outside. ek -S: 


226 


New Siberian 

At a meeting of the Zoological Society. of London, held 
Feb, 18, Mr. R. Lydekker exhibited two pairs of antlers 
and the skull of an elk from Siberia, which had been 
furnished by Mr. Rowland Ward. The district from 
which they come lies beyond the Altai Mountains. 
presenting the material, Mr, Lydekker called attention to 
the fact that although the specimens belonged to adult 
animals, as shown by the teeth, the antlers were prac- 
tically without palmation. This characteristic appeared 
to him sufficient to watrant the giving of a specific name, 
Alces bedfordie, to this Sibetian elk. ' 


Wild Sheep. for New York. 


Ir is announced that the Zoological Society's Park_in 
the Bronx will shortly receive a young male moun- 
tain sheep. The animal is said to have been captured in 
the Southwest, by a Mexican, and to have been purchased 
by Mr. W. M. Harriman, as a gift to the New York 
Zoological Society. If it reaches here in safety it will 
be the first American wild sheep that the Society has 
exhibited. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forzer anp Stazam: : 


. A Big-Game Hunting Trip to 
Jackson’s’ Hole Country. 


_In Ywo Parts—Part Two. 


THE next morninig Leak and I packed our sleeping bags 
and some grub on a pack horse and left camp for a two 
days’ side trip through Two Ocean Pass. and the Conti- 
nental Diyide to Jay Creek and the Yellowstone River, a 
distance of about twenty-five miles from camp, intending 
to hunt along the way. Both Atlantic and Pacific creeks 
head in the Divide, and at their source are but three feet 
apart. I filled my cup half with Atlantic Creek water and 
half Pacific Creek water, and we sat down and ate our 
lunch, sitting between the two creeks. Atlantic Creek 
flows into Yellowstone River, and finally into the Atlantic 
Ocean, Pacific’ Creek flows into Snake River; and finally 
nto Pacific Ocean. We saw a beaver dam and a beaver 
jouse. The dam was four feet high and twenty feet 
wide, damming the water back to that height, all built 
out of twigs, willows, etc.—material with which man 
sould not construct such a dam if given a year in which 
to do it. 

We got to Yellowstone River about 4 P. M., but did 
not See any evidences of game, and so decided to return 
to Jay Creek, about four miles, and go into camp there. 
We did so, and got there a few minutes before dark, Just 
as we were crossing a little park, I riding behind, heard 
a noise and turned just quick enough to see an immense 
big bull elk cross the edge of the park some fifty yards 
from us, running like the wind. We rode about one-eighth 
ot a mile further on and found an old camp used last 
year by Uncle Jack, an old settler who camped there 
with a party, and from which camp they got several 
bear. While Leak was making camp I took my gun and 
went back and got on the trail of the elk, and followed 
it a short distance, but it soon got too dark, and I could 
only see that he had gone up the cafion, I returned to 
camp- and found Leak had a good fire made and supper 
pretty nearly ready. After supper we sat around the 
campfire until 9, and then went back under the trees, and 
I went to bed in my sleep'ng bag, and although it was my 
first experience sleeping in the open air, I slept well all 
night, I told Leak when I turned in that if any grizzlies 
caine around and ‘scratched my hair he would hear me 
hollo, but none came, 

We had decided we would get up at daylight, and 
after an early breakfast start on foot up the creek after 
the elk. The next morning we were up early, and after 
a hasty breakfast we left camp on foot at 6:20. Crossing 
the creek, we went up the cafion; after about an hour’s 
still-hunt, slipping quietly through the timber, we came 
eut on the edge of a little park, and just ahead of us, 
coming out of the timber on the other side of the same 
park, was our elk. J only saw the point of his horns 
moving between the bushes, but knew it was he, and 
‘called Leak and dropped to my knees. I shpped forward 
as quickly as I could, each moment getting closer. He 
came toward us some little distance and then tiirned up 
the side of the cafion. When about 125 yards distant I 
fired, hitting him just back of the shoulder. He flinched 
and started to run; I fired again before he got into the 
timber, hitting him in the side, and then after him we 
went on the run, as fast as we could. We came up to 
him after a hard chase of about five minutes, and I 
finished him. We found him a fine five-point, perfectly 
formed, and I was very proud of him, as he had given us 
a chase long to be remembered. Well, after taking off 
his head and a good supply of meat, and preparing what 
remained for bear bait, we hit the trail for camp, packing 
his head and some meat on our backs, and packing up, set 
out at 1m for our permanent camp, where we dined about 
5:30, and found Porch and Charley were there ahead 
of us. reporting no further success. Leak and I felt that 
at last since we had broken the ice we could now hope 
for more success. 

I shot at a coyote on our way in, but again missed him. 
Up to this. time we had seen game every day, but on our 
next day’s hunt we failed to see anything, although we 
hunted hard all day, 

The following day we decided to do little. Porch and 
Charley went up the ridge to see if they could see any- 
thing of some elk he had shot at the day before, but 
came in a couple of hours later, reporting they. had seen 

nothing of them. Leak and I decided to ride up the 
cafion and look for bear. When about two hours out, 
while slipping quietly up a dark cafion, we heard a growl 
and caught a glimpse of a black head sticking up over a 
log, and’ one bullet from my .30-40 permitted us to carry 
a Ene bear hide into. camp. 


rode down 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


The next morning Charley and I took a pack horse, 
loaded our sleeping bags, blankets and three days’ provi- 
sions and left camp af 9:30 for the top of the mountains 
to hunt sheep. id to try to get an elk-on the way. We 
orth Fork Buffalo Creek to and up Soda 
Spring Fork. We rode through a fine big-game country, 
stopping at Soda Spring to get a drink of natural soda 
water, which rans out of the side of the cation in a good- 
sized stream. About 1:30 we arrived at the head of Soda 
Spring Fork Creek, and saw a nice waterfall just where it 
comes out of the mountain. The water rushes out of the 
side of the cafion and: pours down over rocks about 
twelve inches deep, and about twenty feet wide. We took 
a picture of it and then passed on.’ : 

About five minutes after we rode out into a park, and 
when out in full view we saw ahead of us on the opposite 
side of the park a bre bull elk. I saw at once that he 
was an unusually big specimen, and quickly jumped off 
my horse. The distance, I thought, was too far to shoot, 
but also knew it was my only chance, as we were then in 
full view, and before we could get back out of sight he 
would have gone. I dropped on my knee, and taking 
unusually careful aim, I fired. He staggered, and I knew 
he was hit hard. I quickly fired again as he ran, and 
saw him stagger again. He ran behind trees, and just as he 
came into view again fired, and missed, and just as he was 
going up the hill at the edge of the park I fired again, and 
he dropped down full leneth. J ran forward and found him 
dead. Charley now came up with the horses, and the 
first thing he did was to say, “That was sure good 
shooting.” 

We examined him, and Charley said he was the biggest 
elk he had ever seen, but not fat. He had a fine head, per- 
fectly formed, 48 inches spread, length of main beams 
47% inches. My first shot was fired at 225 yards, while 
the last one was just 300 yards. We took off the head, 
and after getting some more meat, rolled him down the 
hill behind a big rock, in the hope that he would proye a 
good bear bait. 

Loading up the head and meat, we again “hit the trail,” 
going into camp about an hour Jater, alongside of a. 
lake about one-quarter mile long by one-eighth of a mile 
wide, near the top of the mountains. After making a 
good fire, we cooked supper, sat around the campfire, then 
turned into our sleeping bags and slept very well until 
morning. . 

We woke up at 6, and after breakfast started to hunt 
sheep. About 9 we sighted a big bull elk on the top of 
the mountains, We rode over toward him; dismount- 
ing, watched him lie down at the top of a deep canon 
about one-half mile distant. Taking my kodak, we slipped 
up (the wind and lay of the ground being all in our 
fayor) until within fifty yards of him. When we got 
there we found he had gotten up and was walking slowly 
across our front to the left. We stood out in plain 
sight, perfectly still; he looked at us, and we saw he had 
a fine big head with six points on one side and seven on 
the other. I snapped a complete picture of him. All 
the while he would stand gazing at us for a moment, then 
he would take a few steps, then toss his head and whistle, 
then stand and repeat, and so continued for some minutes. 
At last I started to walk, and he instantly gave a whistle 
and toss of head of alarm, and away he went, passing 
soon out of sight. He presented a magnificent ‘sight, and 
I felt glad I had already shot my full number of elk and 
was not allowed to shoot him, although his head was one 
of the few exceptions. We proceeded to look for sheep, 
and although we hunted hard all day, I saw none, so we 
returned to our temporary camp. 

When we got up in the morning we found the ground 
covered with snow, with snow an inch deep over our 
beds. We again hunted sheep all day, but saw none. We 
sat down and ate our lunch at the head of the Gray Bull, 
the stream on which Ernest Seton Thompson wrote and 
founded his story of Wahb in his “Biography of the 
Grizzly.” The scenery at the head of this creek is the 
most rugged and wildest one could imagine, consisting 
of one sharp mountain peak after another, with deep, 
rocky canons between each, rising almost straight up to 
heights of about 3,000 feet. Returning to camp, we 
packed up at 4 and started down the cafion, camping just 
before dark about one-quarter mile from where we had 
shot our elk, 

During the night it again snowed, and 6 o’clock found 
lis up and on our way, slipping through the timber and 
snow to thé remains of our elk, to see if we could not find a 
bear at it, but found nothing but a coyote, and he ran 
away before we got a chance to shoot. So, after re- 
turning tO our temporary camp and getting breakfast, we 
packed up and started for our permanent camp, twenty-five 
miles distant, where we arrived at noon on Thursday, 
haying been away since early Monday morning, and having 
been on an altitude of from 10,000 to 12500 feet all the 
time. We found the temperature decidedly colder and 
lots of snow. 

During our absence Porch and Leak had paid a visit 
to my first elk, on Jay Creek and Two Ocean Pass, re- 
turning to camp about 7 o’clock, bringing in a young 
grizzly bear, which he had shot early in the morning. 
They also reported Porch had shot his second elk just 
before coming to camp, making two elk for each of us— 


all we were permitted under the State law. We had four 


choice heads, and in size they exceeded our expectations. 

The next morning Charley and Porch went out to 
bring in his elk head, which he had shot the day before, 
about two miles from camp, while Leak and I left camp, 
intending to ride over through Two Ocean Pass. Arriving 
at the foot of a gulch we left our horses and started up 
through the timber. We had gone but a short distance 
when we heard an awful racket and growls, and thought 
at first there must be Sevéral bear ahead of us, and we 
were more careful, slipping along without any noise and 


keeping a sharp lookout on all sides, both of us carrying- 


our guns for quick shooting. When we came in sight we 
saw a good-sized brown bear, and I quickly shot, drop- 
ping him instantly. It commenced to rain and sleet, and 
while Leak was taking off the hide I walked up the cafion 
about.a quarter of a-mile to see if I might run on to some- 
thing else. I took a stand in the shadow of a tree, and 
although I waited almost an hour, while it-continued a 
steady downpour of rain and sleet, I saw nothing. Re- 
turning, I,found Leak had just finished taking off the bear 
hide, and we got.our horses, and after a little excitement 
in trying to get on them with. the bear hide, an occur- 


rence that is sure to accompany any attempt to go near 


» ~— hey : a (Me ent 


the horses after working around bear, we rode to camp | 
through a cold, driving rain, that wet us thoroughly be- — 
fore we reached camp, which we did about 2 o'clock. We 
soon changed clothes and spent the rest of the afternoon | 


drying otit oir wet clothes and preparing and stretching 


the bear hides. This has been a very lucky camp. We | 
have each gottert two elk and two bear from it, Porch | 
having had the luck to shoot his first cne, a big black | 
bear, and a young grizzly, while I have shot a black and a , 
brown bear. We seem to be followed with more than usual 
good luck, as up to this time we had hunted just twelve 
cae gad had four bear, four elk, one coyote—nine heads | 
In all, 

The weather so far had been most miserable part of 
the time, Any amount of snow, sleet and rain, but we 
had hunted through it every day, and this same “bad 
weather added very largely to our success, as game is . 
more generally on the move during bad weather, while 
the rain obliterated the signs made by us in traveling 
around, 

We have had an endless variety of meat, trout, grouse, 
ducks, bear and elk. Brook trout were plentiful; we 
could catch all we could use in less than an hour at any 
time. Porch caught three trout 19% inches long in one- 
half hour. Although I had never before cast a line, I 
caught five fine trout for supper one even‘ng in less than 
an hour; within twenty minutes thereafter they had been 
baked and were on our supper table. Elk were in as 
prime condition'and as fat as any well-fed cattle, One 
of those I killed had fat four inches thick. Ward, our 
camp cook, dried and smoked some elk meat for us, which 
we afterward took home in good condition, and also got 
a nice lot of bear’s oil from the bears we had shot. 

The two following days were spent hunting as usual, 
hut without any marked success, and on the following 
Monday morning we decided to break camp and “hit the 
trail” for the antelope country, to try our luck on black— 
tail deer, antelope and perhaps make another attempt to 


_ get a mountain sheep. So after packing up we started 


about. 11 o’clock for the antelope country, Porch and I ~ 
leaving camp about two hours ahead of the pack outfit, 
and following the directions given us we had no difficulty 
in keeping the trail until after we passed Soda Spring 
Fork, going down the North Fork of the Buffalo, but 
after passing that point we soon lost the trail, and for 
the next four miles we, as it were, made our own trail. 

After wandering around for about one mile, during 
which time we found and lost the trail, or rather what 
little there was of it, repeatedly, Porch stopped and said 
he would go no further. I told him we were undoubtedly 
off the trail, and if we stopped there the outfit would 
pass us, and so I pushed on alone. I got into all kinds 
of places, mone more serious. however, than to get my 
horse “‘mired.” I got off, and after three attempts he 
pulled himself out, and I ami free to confess I don’t 
think I drew a good breath until we were out on the 
bank again. At last I got to the South Fork, but there 
found a bluff 500 feet high straight down to the creek. 
After hunting around for some time, I luckily found a 
trail along the side of the cafion, over which I succeeded 
in getting down, and there at the forks of the creek I 
sat down to wait, and I had a Icng one of it, for it was 
just four hours: afterward that the outfit arrived. Porch 
got there a few minutes before them. 

After the arrival of the outfit we left Buffalo Creek 
and went up the side of the cafion to Black Rock Creek, 
traveling one and one-half miles in one and one-half hours 
over the roughest combination of swamps. dead and down 
timber, and steep climbing, we ever struck. My~ horse 
fell over a pile of logs into a swamp, and it was a 
scramble as to whether I or the horse had the right to 
be on top. Several of the pack horses were down at 
different places, and Porch’s horse made good his name 
by bucking at a little gully and refusing to cross jt. After 
several unsuccessful attempts to get him over, Porch at 
last dismounted and got behind with a pole, while one 
of the men led him. Little Buck jumped at least twelve 
feet. Finally, however, we reached the top of the cafion 
and went into camp for one night on Black Rock Creek, 
near the Military Road, calling our camp Break Neck 
Camp, putting up a notice of the name and adding to it a 
sign bearing this inscription: “If you go one-half mile 
rite this camp without breaking your neck you will be 
ucky,”” 

We got away the next morning at 9:30 after a good 
night's rest, and taking the Military Road—a road con- 
structed by the Goyernment—leading from Fort Yellow- 
stone east to Fort Wassiker, some 200 miles distant, we 
traveled east for a distance of some eight miles to the 
top of the Divide. Near Two-go-tee Pass we left the 
road and traveled south to the head of Fish Creek, and 
then down Fish Creele until within about two miles of 
its mouth, where it empties into Gros Ventre River, 
some twelve miles east of where Porch and I shot antelope 
a year previous, and there went into camp at 4:30, having 
been in the saddle continuously for seven hours, and 
we were all pretty tired. Nothing of particular interest 
happened during the day, other than that one of the 
pack horses—Old Baldie—got his pack loose and then 
started to run, stopping ‘only after he had scattered his 
pack all along the trail for abowt one-half mile, causing 
us to spend an hour getting the stuff together again. 

About 10 o’clock the next morning found us on the 
way again, traveling down Fish Creek to its mouth, then 
up Gros Ventre River to its source, in the Gros Ventre 
Mountains, where we camped for the night. The ride 
was mostly up a wide valley, until about 4, when we 
got into the mountains again. It was while traveling up 
this valley that we met an outfit on its way from the 
Hoback Basin to the country we had just left. It was im 
charge of McBride, of Jackson’s Hole, as guide, and 
party consisted of Mr. Philips and Mr. Roth, both of 
Pittsburg, Pa. We had a short chat with them, that was 
of more than usual interest, as although they had left 
the Hole the same date we had. they had seen a Denver 
paper dated Sept. 11, and it was they who first informed 
us of the attempted assassination of President MeKinley 
at the Buffalo Exposition on the 8th, and that it was 
thought the President would recover. Although the 
18th, this was the only news we had received since we 
left the railroad. We went into camp that night in the 
highest peak of the mountain, on an altitude of 12 
feet, and found it very much colder. 


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‘The next morning we left camp early to spend the day 
hunting sheep. Leak and I went into the north side of 
the mountains and hunted around the head of the Granite 
Creek and Crystal Creek, but although we worked harder 
than any day since I came out, yet we saw nothing, and 
saw but few fresh signs, Charley and. Porch. were in 
camp a couple of hours before us, having.seen several 


bunches of sheep, and having had a number of good shots, 


at them, but although Porch hit and wounded a young 
tam, yet he had gotten away. On their way into camp 
they saw another one looking over a point of rocks, which 
they were mote successful with, andso they brought it into 
camp, adding to our already long list of meats, that of 
“mutton,” 

The following morning we left our camp on the top 
of the mountain at 10 o'clock, traveling down the cafion 
and along Shoal Creek to Hoback Basin, where we went 
into permanent camp on Dell Creek, about one-half mile 
from its mouth, where. it empties into Fall River. We 
were then within a few miles of scattered ranches, and 
within just two days’ travel from the ranch. During 
the day we passed a camp of four parties from Alabama, 
who had been out hunting for twelve days with fair 
Success. 

The next day Charley and I started to hunt antelope. 
Wehunted hard all day and saw four bunches of them, and 


got a shot at three of them. Two of the three were long. 


hard shots, and although I missed both, yet I did not 
feel badly over them, but the last one, about 5 o'clock in 
the evening, was at a fine big buck, and a pretty fair shot, 
although about 150 yards distant, and I felt very badly 
about missing it, as I ought to have gotten it, but we had 
to return to camp at dark empty handed. Porch and 
Leak were in ahead of us, also empty handed, so our first 
day hunting antelope was all in favor of the antelope. 
Porch’s Little Buck, that he rode all last year and most 
of this year, got to bucking during the day and threw 
him ever his head, but without injury save a pretty good 
shaking up. ‘ 

We all felt very much concerned over a report that we 
had heard from a ranchman, that the President was dead, 
and another party told us he was getting along all 
rght, so we did not know which to believe, so we had 
Charley ride over to the nearest ranch early the next 
morning, and got a paper—the New York Sun—of Sept. 
8, which gave us a full report of the assassination, which 
was read very eagerly. We both felt glad our trip was 
about drawing to a close, as this had cast a feeling of 

loom on our entire camp. In the afternoon Charley and 

left our permanent camp with our pack horses, for the 
ridges, intending to go into temporary camp there for two 
days to hunt antelope, in the hope of being more success- 
ful in finding them. Leaving Porch and Leak to do 
their hunting from the permanent camp, as Porch did 
not care to spend many nights away from the permanent 
camp, while I enjoyed these side hunts very much, for 
the. teason that we could always get out after game 
much earlier in the- morning, and could hunt until near 
dark and then go into camp right where the game was. 
We each took our sleeping bags and extra blanket, canvas 
ground cloth, frying pan and coffee pot, along, and a 
supply of bread and meat, canned beans, tea, peaches, 
coffee, sigar, butter and salt. Late in the afternoon, when 
about ten miles from camp, we saw lots of antelope, and 
went into camp for the night among them. 

We were up early the next morning and left camp on 
foot, and had not gone 200 yards before we saw ante- 
lope. We soon got near to some, and I commenced shoot- 
ing. I got all the conceit knocked out of me on shoot- 
ing, for I shot, and shot, and shct. and almost despaired 
of ever being able to hit any. but Charley said, “Keep at 
it and you will hit one sometime.” By noon I had 
succeeded in gett’ng one, so my spirits tose. We found 
two nice winter-killed elk heads, which I “packed” into 
camp, a distance of about three miles, where we arrived 
about I o'clock, pretty tired after our six hours’ walk. 
Tt think we ran and tramped at least ten miles. During 
the afternoon, after lunch, we got our horses and rode 
out, and cn the hills met two rangers (cattlemen look- 
ing after their cattle, lots of which were found all over 
the hills, and which we also found was about as wild as 
elk, run as soon as they saw us). One of the rangers 
had just come in. and we eagerly asked him about news 
from the President, when he informed us that he was 
dead, and had then been dead several days, and that 
President Roosevelt had been sworn in as President. He 
also told us if we would ride up over the Ridge Rim, 
‘about ten miles to a miner’s cabin, we would find there a 
great many more antelope, and also told us he had killed 
an elk two days before that, and if we went up the trail 
we would find his head, which we could have, so we re- 
turned to our camp, packed up and started. We rode 
until near dark and arrived at the cabins. We saw lots 
of antelope. Passing the cabins about one-half mile, we 
went into camp just at the edge of a quaken ash thicket, 
and just when about to get into our sleeping bags for the 
night it commenced snowing. 

The next night found us still on the top of the rim of 
the Hoback Basin, instead of back at our permanent 
camp, as we intended. We were in a manner snow 
bound. During the night it rained and then turned 
into snow. When daylight came I looked out from my 
sleeping bag and found I was covered with snow to a 
depth of about six inches, and that it was still snowing 
hard. Just before going to bed I had put my bed in the 
edge of some quaken asp bushes to be out of the wind, and 
when I awoke I found they were loaded down to the 
ground with wet snow, and I found I had a very un- 
pleasant place to dress. The wind was blowing hard, 
sending the snow in sheets so thick we could not see 
more than a couple of hundred yards. We with some diffi- 
culty finally got a fire started, and then made a lean-to 
out of the canvas pack cover and bushes, to try to keep 
some of the snow off us, and got breakfast, but by the 
time we had finished we were wet through by the melted 
snow, We built a big fire and dried out our clothes, then 
got our horses and rode out for a short hunt, and got a 
few shots at antelope, but missed them all, and. soon we 
were both so cold and wet we were forced to, return to 
camp. We decided to move our camp back about half a 
mile to the miner’s cabin, which we had passed late the 
preyiols evening, p ! 

While. Charley packed. up our-stuff, T took the ax and 
ode back to the cabin, and soon had a big fire gomg in 


the open fireplace. It ‘still kept snowing and blowing, and 
about 1 o’clock we decided that it would be better, to 
remain where we were until morning, and.then make an 
early start for camp, and reach it before night, rather than 
start out in the storm again and lay-out all night in the 
snow, as the snow was then about ten inches deep and 
still ‘snowing, and a night spent lying out in such weather 
is to say the least pretty rough. 
During the afternoon the wind went down, and we left 
camp about 2 o'clock to try to get some more game. 
After riding and walking for a couple of hours we saw a 


couple of antelope, and after firing about one dozen shots, 


succeeded in getting the biggest one. By this time I was 
thoroughly disgusted with my shooting, and after taking 
the head, we returned to our horses and started for camp, 
but had not gone more than three htmdred yards when I 
saw a bunch of antelope run ahead of us. I quickly got 
off, and picking out the buck, shot as they ran, and he 
dropped. It was a good, quick, running shot made at 
about 100 yards, and I felt that at last I had redeemed 
myself to a certain extent, after the many misses I had 
scored. I found antelope to be the, wildest of any of 
the animals we have hunted, and as they remain mostly 
in the open country, it is very hard to get a close shot. 
I now had three antelope, all we were allowed under 
the law. 

We wete very comfortably fixed in the minet’s cabin. 
Tt was built a few years ago by a couple of miners. They 
had a tunnel into the hill from.one of the three big 
rooms which made the cabin, One room seemed to be 
where they washed their ore, a fresh stream of running 
water is In one end; one room is_a woodshed, and the 
other their living room, all connected. The living room 
contains a big open fireplace and a hole in the side, which 
serves for a window. No doors on any of the rooms, 
pegs in the wall for hanging up clothes, boxes fastened up 
for their supplies, a bed frame of round logs in one 
corner, covered with spruce boughs, a wash basin made 
out of a slab of wood, hollowed out in the middle to hold 
water, a table, and two round logs set. on end for seats. 
The cabin is built after the style of all cabins in these 
mountains, of round logs filled in between with split 
pieces and mud. The roof is: made of round logs split in 
half and laid close, and these covered to a depth of about 
six inches with ground. The ground inside serves 4s a 
floor. We found it in a good state of preservation, and 
we could have lived yery comfortably if we had.a supply 
of provisions, which we didn’t have. For breakfast we 
ate up everything we had left except six water crackers 
and a little cheese. These we reserved for lunch. 

We had seen hundreds of antelope, and I had used about 
thirty cartridges to get. three antelope. We had 
horses picketed outside, and they had to dig into the 
snow for their grass, and at the same time spend the 
night out in the storm. Had we known what was be- 
fore us when we started to hunt antelope, I am afraid 
we would never have undertaken to get them, but on all 


of our previous trips away from our permanent camps we 


had suffered little inconvenience on account of the 
weather; but. while a sleeping bag with heavy, blankets 
added is not a bad place to sleep in, without any other 
covering in a snowstorm, yet there is little that 
is enjoyable in getting out in the morning to 
dress, then after cooking and. eating breakfast with 
wet snow pouring down the back of your neck, 
riding out after game until nearly frozen, with the 
knowledge that. there is no camp-fire to which to return. 

The next morning at 5:15 found us up, and. after 
breakfast we packed up and started on our return. The 
sun came otit brightly, and the snow commenced melting 


fast. On our-way down the ridge we found the elk head , 


that the ranchman had left a couple of days before, and I 
packed up its horns. which we found to, be a, little five- 
point. We rode hard, and at 1:30 P. M. arrived at our 
camp, where we had left the outfit three days before, but 
fotind they had packed up and started for the ranch. So 
we followed their trail, and at 5:30 P. M.,. just as they 
were going into camp for the night in Fall River Cation 
we caught up to them, having ridden about forty miles. 
Porch had shot three antelope in the two days’ hunting 
from the main camp. After my long ride I slept “the 
sleep of the just,” and was sorry when morning came. 
After breakfast at 8 we proceeded.to roll up our beds 
for the last time, and did it with.a great deal of pleasure. 
Packs were put on and we started on our last twenty-mile 
ride to the ranch, with our supply of provisions just about 
exhausted. While we had enough of everything, yet we 
had none to#spare, and so well did we gatige our supply 
with our appetites that we did not have enough left over 
to make a decent present to Cook Ward. 

After a ride of about eight miles we came out. of the 
mouth of the cation into Jackson’s Hole, and at 4 o'clock 
we arrived back at the ranch, and were all glad to get 
back into civilization. 

We remained at the ranch over night, and then bid fare- 
well to Recreation Lodge, and started in Leak’s wagon 
with the balance of our baggage for Ward’s, where we 
arrived at 12 o'clock, and found him with everything in 
readiness for out start for the railroad. We had four 
horses and a covered wagon, and drove thirty miles to 
Victor, where we arrived at 7 o’clock that evening, and 
there put up for the night at Jones’ House. Leaving 
Victor the next A, M. at 9, we arrived at Cafion Creek 
in the afternoon and put up for the night at the road 
house at that place. 

Early the next morning found us again on our way, and 
by ro o'clock we were again in the City Hotel at St. An- 
thony, Idaho, in possession of our letters amd papers. Five 


days later we were again back at our homes, following our. 


vsual vocations, after having been absent just six weeks 
and two days in all, during which time we traveled 5.146 
miles by rail and about 850 miles by stage and saddle, 
making in all about 6,000 miles. 

In our travels from the ranch in Jackson’s Hole by 
pack and saddle, we left the ranch journeying directly 
north for about forty milés, then east for about forty 
miles, then south and east for about one hundred miles, 
then west and north to place we ‘started from, describing 
a cirele of from'250 to 300 miles, and. during that time 
we were at all times-from seventy to eighty-five miles 
distant from starting’ point. We saw and ‘traveled over 
a ntimber of well-known points, as shown on the map, 
amotie them the Gros Ventre River, Shoshone Mountains, 
Two" Océan’ Pass, Continental Divide, Two-go-tee Pass, 


Our 


Gros Ventre Mountains, .Hoback Basin, Yellowstone 
Lake, Yellowstone River, Snake River, Yellowstone Park, 
into which, we could see’ from the tops of the moun- 
tains, only some thtee miles distant, ! 

We secuted more than too kodak: and camera pictures 
of mountain scenery, camp life and ‘wild game, which we 
prize very, highly. 

‘We were'in the mountains just thirty-four days; hunted 
twerity days, spending fourteen days traveling by saddle 
and pack horses between’ camps. 

We used on the entire trip about 200 cartridges, and in 
all secured the following big game, as well as numerous 
small game, stich a8 grotise, ducks, hawks, trout, etc: 

2 black bear. 

1 brown. bear. 

1 grizzly bear, . 

4 elk, the largest head measuring 48% inches, and 48 inches beam, 

6 antelope, with nice-horna, - 

1 mountain sheep, qi 

1 coyote, 

4 winter-killed elk horns, picked up. 

All of our trophies we have since had mounted, and 
as they adorn the walls of our dens, they serve to keep 
in mind the. most successftil and delightful hunt it has 
been our privilege to make, Words fail me in my at- 
tempts to, describe the pleasure derived from camp life 
in that delightful country, breathing the pure mountain 
air, of that, high altitude, drinking the clear ‘mountain 
water, and viewing the grand scenery witnessed hourly 
on our travels through the mountains. It is enough to 
say thatof the pleasures of our hunt, these latter were 
by no means the least enjoyable. 

J. M. Murpocr. 


Jounstown, Pa., Feb. 20, 


At the New York Sportmen’s Show 


Cougar Country. 


Dr, W, E. Hucues, of Philadelphia, hunted last fall in 
Northern Chihuhua, in a section which is virgin territory 
as far as visiting sportsmen, are concerned. Cougar, bear 
and whitetail deer are very abundant, and the country. ts 
open and easily hunted. It Hes at an elevation of 7.000 
feet or more, and there is little brush country, except. in the 
cafions, and one can ride anywhere. Dr. Hughes and a 
friend during a seventeen days’ trip killed ‘six lions, and 
would have secured many more if good dogs had been 


‘obtainable. They, also bagged one brown bear. but got 


no, silver-tips, though their guide, Cluff, killed ‘three 
shortly after they left. The whitetail deer were every- 
where and very tame. _ 

Nearer civilization in the foothills antelope. blacktail 
deer and sheep are found.. Guides are secured from the 
Mormon colonies of Colonia Juarez and Colonia Garcia, 
and supplies and outfit at Cases Grandes. where the rail- 
road is.left. Cases Grandes is on the Mexican Ra‘lroad 
south of El Paso, Texas. The guides are paid in Mexican 
money, and the expenses.of the trip are nominal after the 
railroad is left behind. In September, when Dr, Hughes 
visited the country, the deer horns were still in the 
yelvet, and probably October or November would be the 
best hunting season. 

Dr. Hughes is on the track of a Mexican who has a 
pack of jaguar hounds in Sonora, and plans a hunt there 
the coming fall. ' 


Another New Country. 


George Crawford, ene of the very best of the Canadian 
hunters and guides, whose name has often figured’ in 
ForEST AND STREAM, sitice his moose hunt with Mr. Ivory 
ten years ago, in the then unexploited country north of 
Mattawa, visited a new moose country last fall in north- 
ern Manitoba, near the Saskatchewan line. His party, 
which included an Italian marquis. a French count and a 
German baron, secured five good moose heads, the larg- 
est of which had a spread of 54 inches. 

Few, if any other, sportsmen have. visited this section 
aside from the local hunters,.. Winnipeg..sportsmen find 
their game nearer home. The trip is easily made, The 
C. P: R. is left at Winnepegos‘s. Station, and one of the 
whitefish fishermen’s little steamers chartered: for the trip 
up Lake Winnepegosis. The best moose, country is con ’ 
tiguous to the northern part of the lake. It, is a second 
growth, flat country, abounding in. muskegs. The moose 
horns as a rule do not attain very great spread. however, 
owing to the thick forest growth. Game beside moose 
is plentiful, including elk, black bear, whitetail deer and 
wildfowl. 2 ' 

In a Bear’s Den. 


George Crawford fills in his time profitably in the 
spring trapping bears. Last spring he got seven at no 
great distance from his home in Mattawa. While hunting 
deer last fall he came across a bear’s track in the snow. | 
The bear George thinks was disturbed by lumbermen, as © 
all other bears had by that time denned up. 

George followed the track two days, and finally located 
the bear under a great square rock. that had fallen from 
a ledge above. The entrance to the den on the lower 
side of. the rock was just large enough to..admit. the 
bear’s body, and there was no other opening to the: den. 
George went asound the rock to see if it; would be possible 
to dig into the den from the back, but there was too 
much rock there, and he gave up the attempt. Then he 
tried to make the bear come out by. poking it with a long 
pole. This expedient failing also: George built a fire in 
the mouth of the den, but, the draft was not good; and 
his efforts to smoke the bear out were equally futile, 

George, like all good -hunters, is persistent. and-as he 
could not get the bear any other way, as a last resort he 
determined to enter the den and shoot the bear in his 
stronghold. He wormed his way in om his stemach far 
enough to see the glitter of the bear’s eyes, but he was so 
“crushed” down, as hetexpressed it. by the rocky top of 
the opening, that he could not get his rifle in position to 
aim, He pointed it in the general direction of the bear 
and fired, and then backed out as quickly as he could,, 
just in time to escape the rush of the bear, whieh was 
fortunately hampered by the same narrow passage, George; 
was on his feet'in an instant, and finished the bear by a 
well-directed shot just as it emerged into the outer air. 
His first shot had given it an ugly wound in the lower 
part of the body. 


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A Cannibal Bear. 


George has had a wide range of experience. with bears, 
but never found another bear just like the one that figures 
in this story, which had acquired a taste for the flesh of 
his kind, and preyed on other bears at a time when other 
food was obtainable, 

“T was trapping one fall away from home,” said George. 


“Tt was a good season for wild fruit—nuts and _befries’ 


were plentiful—and the bears were out late. One day 
the snow fell six inches deep. That morning when I 
left camp I came across three bear tracks. There were 
two cubs and a she bear. I followed the tracks to where 
they had denned up and got all three. vt 

“Next day I found an extra large track. I followed it 
all day and had to give it up at night, I went back to 
camp and got my blankets and ax, and the next day with 
my friend I went after that bear again. We followed 
him for two days. He was wandering around and never 
got very far away from our camp. We thought he was 
looking for a place to den up, but I found afterward it 
was something else he was looking for. Finally we had 
to give it up and leave the track, 

“The next day when I left my camp I came on fresh 
tracks of this same bear close by, and I saw that his 
tracks were bleeding., I followed them back and found 
what he had been up to. 

“He had at last discovered another small bear in his 
den, and he had rooted him out and killed him and eaten 
him all. up. There was nothing left but some hair and 
teeth and a piece of the skull. In the fight the other 


bear had bitten him in the feet and that made them — 


bleed, We followed his track two days more, but didn’t 
get him, and then we had to-give it up, for we had no 
more grub. That big bear had plenty else to eat, but he 
liked bear’s flesh the best,” 


At Close Quartets, 


‘There are mishaps in all professions, and sometimes 
the tables are turned on-the professional bear hunter. 
The nearest George ever came to suffering at the claws 
of a bear was once when two cubs sprung one of his 
traps, one. being caught by a front leg and the other by 
a hind leg, When George appeared on the scene the old 
mother beat sat beside the two trapped cubs, and George 
made his first error of judgment, supposing that it was 
the old bear that was caught, and that the young ones 
were influenced to remain solely by their instinct of 
fillial affection. : 

George wanted all the bears, so he fired at the cubs 
first. Cub No. 1 fell dead witha bullet through its brain, 
but the second cub was only wounded, and entaged by its 
cries the mother started for George, rising on her hind 
legs and cracking her teeth, Seeing that she was free 
from the trap, George fired at her head and she dropped 
and lay as if dead. 

Here George made his second error of judgment. It 
happened when he was much less experienced than he is 
now.. He set up his rifle against a tree, and with only his 
tomahawk in hand advanced toward the bear. The ani- 
mal lay perfectly still, but just as he reached it George 
noticed by the expression of intelligence in its eye that it 
was watching him, The next instant the bear reached for 
George and almost got him. 
and his stockings torn. Fortunately, his gun was near 
at hand, and George reached the place a little quicker 
than the bear, and was master of the situation once more. 
A slower man than George might not have reached the 
gun, in which case he would have paid dearly for his 
mistakes. 


Some Adirondack Yarns, 


Mort Moody’s stgry-telling habit seems to have affected 
the majority of the Adirondack guides. Old Court 
Moody,, they say, is a great trapper. 
when he wants muskrat pelts is to go to the bank of the 
Saranac River and call “Moody, 
come trooping out to be skinned, 

Charley Stevens, another old-time “rusty trapper” can 
“make a ‘saple and catch him in twenty-four hours with 
a darn good coat of hair-on its back.’ Mort Brewster and 
Sam Barton, of the Marcy trail cabin, told stories illus- 
trating the idiosyncrasies of some of the would-be sports- 
men who visit the Adirondacks. Earton started to drive 
a deer out to a city man.on a runway last fall, and stic- 
ceeded instead in sending out a good lively specimen of a 
bear. The city man banged away at the bear with a 
buckshot gun, but never even hit the timber, his broad- 
sides going over the tops of the tree. When Barton 
reached the spot the city man described the affair 
graphically, and wound up by asking Barton if he had not 
heard the bear yell when he fired. ‘Why, certainly I 
didn’t,” said Barton. “You hollered so yourself I couldn’t 
hear anything else.” As a matter of fact, the city man, as 
is often the case with green hunters, had been so badly 
rattled that he first fired at random and then when the 


game didn’t fall dead at the sound, called frantically for. 


his guide to stop the bear, 


Rogers’ Blind-Boarded Bull. 


This suggested the story of Rogers’ blind-boarded bull. 
Twenty-eight years ago Barton was starting the dogs 
over’ toward the: middle kilns on the east side of Cata- 
mount Mountain. As he returned along one of the ridges 
he saw a big Durham bull belonging to a man named 
Rogers traveling through the second-growth cherry brush 
in the general direction of Jerome Snow and Johnnie 
Agnew, who were watching on stands nearly a quarter of 
a mile away. The bull had a good-sized blind board 
fastened from its horns, and any one with half an eye 
could see that it was not wild game. Jerome Snow, how- 


ever, had sampled the contents of his pocket flask so often. 


that he was not in a condition to discriminate nicely, and 
at his first sight of the bull in the bushes he yelled to 
Johnnie’ Agnew, “A bear! A bear!” and opened fire. 
Before Barton could intervene a good deal of ammunition 
had been wasted on the bull, but fortunately for the 
marksman their aim was very bad and the bull escaped. 

The ‘standing joke after that-was to bellow like a bull 
at Jerome Snow. 

Whisky is no longer the essential in the hunter’s out- 
fit it was at the time when the man who outfitted for a 
week’s trip procured four gallons of whisky and a loaf 
ef bread, and was criticised by his companion on the 


His tomahawk was broken ~ 


All he has to do 


Moody,” and the rats 


se that he had brought too little whisky and too much 
réa - 

Whisky. was often, responsible for atrocious shooting 
on the part of naturally good marksmen. One such 
hunter who had emptied his magazine without result at a 
deer, which crossed the road within thirty feet of where 
he stood, explained his miss by stating that he saw 
the deer double and kept shooting at the wrong one. 


Playing a Tenderfoot, 


“We had a fellow in camp with us one time who 
quested our hunting so that we didn’t get a deer,” said 

rewster. . Ls ; 

“He was a drug clerk, named Lamp. We taught Mr, 
Lamp a_lesson before he got out of the woods. 

“T took my dog, old Lunk we called him—he was a 
great dog for a hang on in a stream—and I drove a deer 
right down to where this Lamp stood, and as I heard 
a shot about the right time, I never thought but what 
there'd be venison in camp. When I got there I found 
the man had shot a partridge. 
saw the dog come alone and cast up stream and down, 
and then take the back track away from there. Had 
just deliberately wasted his chance of getting that deer 
HA I and old Lunk had been at so much trouble to send 

im. 

‘When we got to camp I told Sam about it before the 
drug clerk, and he looked the fellow over and said, ‘You 
prepare an altar, Mort, and we'll offer up a sacrifice. 
I’ve got the lamb for it.’ 

_ “That was just a sample.of the way Lamp spoiled our 
buck when we came out. Sam put up a job on him, 


He told him I’d killed a nice buck down stream about | 


three miles, but that we hesitated about carrying it out, it 
was such a task to get it. Finally Sam suggested that 
we flip up a cent to see who got the deer. He had 
it all fixed, so that it fell to Lamp—a professional gambler 
couldn’t have done it better—and off Lamp went for the 
deer. Three days after we left, a party came out from 
the still waters of Cold River, and reported that they 
met Lamp three miles from Moose Pond, in the vicinity 
of where Sam said the deer was, still looking for it,” 


A Little Learning, 


The wooded island in the stream is reached by a sub- 
terranean passage, which emerges behind the shelter of a 
teepee. The daily newspapers had it that La Bris, the one- 
armed French-Canadian trapper, who has a cabin on the 
island, had lost his arm as the result of an encounter 
with a bear. To get the details of the story, I visited the 
island, and. seated on a bench beside La Bris and his 
companion, Arthur Pineault, inquired about the accident. 

“iim fadder shoot arm off with gun,” said Pineault. 
“They go. to Big Island. Saw some ducks in water. The 
gun she lay on the bed. Fadder take gun——” : 

“T see,” said I. “Do you trap many bears?” 

Pineault took my pencil and wrote down “menk, 
mouskerat, fox, bob-cart.” 

Gatien Isaida= : 

“No,” said Pineault, ““b-o-b-c-a-r-t.” 


Squatted on a pile of shavings near by, Kabiosa was _ 


whittling ‘arrows from bolts split from a straight-grained 
cedar block, using a knife that was as crooked as a 
farrier’s, and drawing it toward him as the Chinese work. 

A chubby Indian boy four or five years old wanted a 
paddle, and Kabiosa gravely proceeded to fashion one. 
When he had finished he called the child to him, and 
patting his own nose with his finger said, “Now, pay me 
or it,” ; 

The little rascal refused, however, the tribute of an 
Indian kiss, and snatched the paddle and ran off laughing. 
“T am tited,” said the old Ojibway; “tired of talk. I was 
once brain broken.” -“How. was that?” I asked. “From 
over study,” said the Indian. 

T looked at him inquiringly, but there was no sugges- 
tion of a smile. ‘Were you studying for the priesthood ?”’ 
Toaskeds * 

“Not exactly that—it was sttidy.” 

Further than this he did not explain. Only he said, 
“What little brain I had once, now I think I have lost. 
Of the questions every one asks there is no end.” ~ 


Big Game with Small Shot, 


Kabiosa volunteered this information, that he still uses 
bow and arrow for killing partridge and rabbits. Joe 
Francis once killed a caribou with No. 7 shot. Mr. Har- 
ris, of the C. P. R., showed me the skin of a Jarge moose 
which had been killed with BB shot at a probable dis- 
tance of about thirty yards. It was killed by Chief 
Baumeguinck. We counted the pellets in the skin over 
the animal’s foreshoulder and found that forty-two pel- 
lets had hit the moose. The shot made a good open 
pattern, which would have killed a partridge without 
tearing it. 
Holding a Bear by the Ears. 

“My grandfather’s brother had a hand to hand fight 
with a bear,” said Joe Francis, the Maine Penobscot In- 
dian guide. He was paddling down a stream and saw a 
bear and two cubs in the water ahead. He killed the 
cttbs with his hatchet and then paddled to head off the 
she bear from the shore. He was tending his muskrat 
traps and had no gun. 

“There was an ox-bow bend in the stream only a few 
feet across, and as the bear landed on this my grand- 
father’s brother jumped ashore to head her off. As he 
raised hié hatchet to strike it caught in an alder branch 
and was flipped out of his hand, and the bear, which was 
standing up, grabbed both his arms and drawed him to- 
ward her. She was going to bite him in the face. 

“He grabbed the bear by both ears and held her off, 
and there they stood face to face. The bear gradually 
stink its claws through the muscles of his arms, and he 
lost a good deal of blood, but he hated to let go for he 
knew the bear would bite him if he did. 

““At last he dropped his right hand and reached for his 
sheath knife in his belt. 
round on his left wrist and bit it, so that it looked till they 
buried: him as though it had been shot through with buck- 
shot. With his right-hand he slashed underneath at the 
bear, and as luck would have it, he missed the ribs and 
ripped her right open. She held him fast till her in- 
sides ran out. , Afterward he had to paddle two miles, to 
camp and he was laid up all that summer from his bites.” 

sw .. __., J.B, Buanaan, . 


Said just after he shot he’ 


The bear snapped her head. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST 


Western Duck Shooting Begins, 


Cuicaco, Itt., March 13—A phenomenally warm 
spell of weather still obtains here, and the winter seems: 
to be badly damaged if not entirely shelved. The streams 


are taking on greater volume daily, and indeed all things — 


augur as good a season for spring duck shooting as cam 
be expected in this part of the world, Within a few 
days the ice should be out of our lakes and marshes;. 
and this is enough to hold for a time at least the early 
flight which has already appeared at this latitude. Three 


days ago the ice was still holding at Fox Lake, in upper 


Illinois, only the river being open, but the birds were in). 
and a few shooters, among-these Eddie Pope, of this: 
city, had a short taste of sport. Mr. Pope only got = 
half dozen birds or so, but one of these was a good, fat 


 canvasback, which he said proved delicious on the table. 


He thinks Fox Lake will open within a few days. — 


[Marcu 22, 9002: 


Hennepin Club has formally opened the spring season, — 


and-a number of shooters go to that club this evening, 
among these Mr. J. V. Clarke and two relatives, who to- 
day confidently expressed the belief that they would strike 
the marsh at just about the right time. . 

Mr, Hempstead Washburne and Mr. W. L. Wells leit 
last night for a try for a mallard or so at Goose Lake, 
Ill, at a small preserve near the Kankakee. Wagers 
were made to-day that they would get a dozen birds be- 
tween them. Nobody expects any more to make a big 
bag in this much-shot country, and more interest attaches 
to a bag of a dozen birds to-day than would have beem 
shown over one of fiity a few years ago- 


Snipe. 
A great eagerness prevails among Chicago shooters ta 


~ get track of good jack snipe grounds located in the State: 


of Illinois and not too far from Chicago. The license: 
law in Indiana keeps most of the snipe shooters: of Chi— 
cago ott of that State. V 1 
are three points mentioned favorably, and attention is. 
called by the knowing ones to the inland sloughs west 
of this city. Mineral is the best of the three legalities 
named. hk 


- Off the Reservation. 


Mr. Sam F. Fullerton, the exectitive agent of the Min- 
nesota game and fish commission, paused at this office 


long enough to say good morning one day this week, , 


He is off his reservation for a little side hunt, Misnne- 
sota is still there, and the game is increasing urmdey 
hustling Fullerton. 


\Better than Ever, 


“Wonderland” for 1902 is better than ever. Mr. Olim 
D. Wheeler, of the passenger department of the Northern: 
Pacific railway, succeeds in infusing a genuine literary 
flavor as well as a vital news interest isto these annual 
contributions to railroad literature. Mechanically, as well, 
the current ntimber is beautiful and artistic beyond com- 
parison with the products of railway book making in 
the past. The landscapes’ are splendid and the game 
pictures especially stirring. <5 


an 


Phenomenal Western Flight of Wildfowl, 


March 15.—As was’ stated in these columns last week, 
there appeared some ten days ago indications of the be- 
sinning of the duck flight in this part of the country. 
It was supposed that the week just past would witness 
some shooting, of about the average extent known in the 
past few. years. Nobody predicted or suspected that 
there would be any such happenings as have gone on in! 
this quiet region for the last four or fiye days. In short, 
‘we have had this week the heayiest flight of pintails and 
mallards recorded for twenty years, and old shooters of 
the Illinois valley say that not in thirty years have they 
ever seen so many pintails as came up the Illinois valley, 
the first two or three days of this week. What the flight 
of bluebills and redheads may mean later it is only guess- 
work to predict, but certainly the early marsh ducks have 


" not altogether left the old Mississippi flyway in their 


spring flight. d 
- Itisnotknown whether or not all this tremendous flight 
of wildfowl has~gone on north beyond this latitude at this 
writing, but the likelihood is that this heavy and con- 
centrated flight is to be but a matter of a few days’ dura- 
tion. The causes of it are equally problematical, Of 
course there is the jubilant outcry of the man who says 
there are “just as many ducks to-day as there ¢ver 
were.” To this little attention need be paid. Perhaps the 
better enforcement of the spring shooting laws in neigi- 
boring States, perhaps the increasing respect shown for 
game laws all over the West, may have something to do 
with the greater abundance of birds this year. Older and 
conservative shooters, however, believe that the heavy 
flight on the Illinois River valley is due to the fact that 
many of the large marshes like the Winnebago marsh 
are dry this spring, so that the birds have been concen- 
trated and not scattered over a wide stretch of ‘country. 
As to the figures, which, of course, will prove to be the 
most interesting feature of this interesting news, it may be 
stated that on last Monday Harry Dunnell, at Fox Lake, 
lll., bagged 125 birds, mostly pintails. This pintail flight 
seems to have swung from the Illinois River directly up 
on the Fox Lake line, for on Monday and Tuesday but 
few birds were reported on the Tolleston marsh. It is 
probable that the great army of pintails traveled steadily 
northward along the big waters and did not stop to feed, 
for the heaviest bags made on the lower Illinois River 
grounds, where are located several prominent sporting 
clubs, were made in the early days of the week. On one 
such preserve a shooter who does not cate to have his 
name quoted killed 102 birds on last Tuesday, shooting 
in the same boat with one of the hest known pushers of 
the club. On Wednesday of this week yet another Chi- 
cago gentleman, who likewise declines to have his name 
mentioned, bagged an even too birds, the same pusher 
being in the boat with hm. The pusher killed only about 
40 of the birds. The flight is described by both of the 
above gentlemen as being the heaviest they had ever seen. 
The pintails came in in swarms, and decoyed beautifully, 
coming directly to the guns, flock after flock, in appar- 
ently unending stream, The sight an this big marsh at 


Momence, Mineral, amd Morris. 


evening was a wonderful one, as there seemed absolutely 
thousands of these birds coming in toward dusk and set- 
ing here, there and everywhere, or moving about rest- 
Tessly looking for any indications of feed. 

On the day following the two heavy bags above 
‘recorded on this marsh, another Chicago gentleman 
bagged 54 birds, mostly pintails and mallards. Others 
‘on the same waters had very fair success, the above bags 
being, however, the heaviest made. 

The Hennepin Club members must havé met the same 
flight this week, and although no records have as yet 
‘come up from that marsh, it is likely that we shall hear 
of some very heavy bags having been made there. 

_ Fox Lake is opening up, the ice being loose and rotten. 
In Pistakee Bay there has been considerable open water, 
and on Thursday the canvasbacks and redheads had be- 
‘gun to show in this part of the Fox Lake chain. Ben 
Stirling, of Fox Lake neighborhood, on that day killed 
48 canvasbacks and 10 redheads before 9 o’clock in the 
‘morning, It was reported on Friday that Pistakee Bay 
was full of birds, so that it would seem the first of the 
deep water ducks are in and that within the next two or 
three days the bluebills and blackies may be expected. 

Eddie. Pope and W. L. Wells leave to-morrow for a 
try at the birds on Fox Lake, and in view of the fore- 
‘going advices it would seem likely that they should mect 
with very fair success, 

Mr, Washburne and Mr. Wells were too far east for 
the flight on their recent trip to the Goose Lake country. 
They saw thousands of birds, but the weather was fair 
pd the flight was traveling, so that they only got seven 

irds. 

Mr. C. C. Hess, of the Goose Lake Shooting Club, 


leaves to-day for his second visit to that marsh this 


spring, and he ought to get a few birds at least. 

From this it may be seen that we have had the most 
encouraging outlook for duck shooting Here this spring 
known-in many years. It is hardly more than an outlook, 


“and perhaps might more properly be called to-day a- 


retrospect, for it is quite possible that the birds have 
swept on to the north and that our future shooting will 
have to-come in on the bluebill flight which is now nearly 
due. The flight is to-day reported at Fox. Lake and 
Poygan, in Wisconsin, 


_... » |. Early. Jacksnipe. 


On Thursday, March 13, jacksnipe were noted on Swan 
Lake ‘niarsh, the first of which I have heard this spring. 
Some thtee or four years ago there was a heavy flight 
of jacksnipe at Koutts, Ind.,’on the date of March 17. 
These’ birds came in on some burned marsh, and it is 
worth. noting that both plover and jacksnipe very fre- 
quently prefer marsh which has been burned over the 
preceding fall. The black surface seems to draw the 
heat ofthe sun more quickly than grass-covered marsh, 
and the worins, perhaps, appear there more quickly than 
elsewhere. This tip is worth bearing in mind, _ 


Early Geese. 


Swan Lake marsh showed hundreds of blue geese on 
Thursday of this week. Yesterday a fourteen year old 
boy killed four geese on Skokie marsh, just north of 
Chicago. Geese are reported in Fox Lake, Wis., I should 
think 150 miles north of here, and Mr. D. J. Hotchkiss, of 
the latter place, killed one with a rifle this week. Severa 
flocks of geese have been marked, going out irom Lake 
Michigan over the bluffs of the northern residence part 
of this city during the last three days. + a 

E idurance of Antlers. 

Some years ago a farmer digging in the marsh south 

of Fond du Lac, Wis., at the foot of Lake Winnebago, 


unearthed several pairs of elk antlers which were in a very _ 


fair state of preservation.. No elk had been seen in that 
State for more than forty years. This week a deer antler 
was found in the mud of Beaver Dam marsh, of the same 


State, ‘Fhe deer horn is reported to’ have been black and- 


hard as ebony and must have been imbedded in the mud 
for many years. It seems to be the property of water 
to preserve rather than to rot the antlers of the deer 
family. Everyone has heard of the vast pile of elk antlers 


which were found overgrown with willows and trees ~ 


in the bog of the Castalia stream of Ohio many years 
ago, — 
The Record Sheep Head. 


Confirming my statement in the Forest AND STREAM 
of March 1, Mr. Thos. W. Fraine, of Rochester, N. Y.. 
writes: “I note what you say of the sheep. Inclosed 
please find photograph of the head I mounted for you in 
1896. Weight of skull without jaw, 37 pounds; length of 
horns, 4o and 4114 inches; girth at base, 1834 inches; 
girth, « inch from tip, 634 inches. There may be finer 
sheep heads, but I haye not seen or heard of them.” 


Why They Don’t Kill, 


Mr. Adam Moore, one of the best-known guides of 
New Brunswick, writes as below, giving some reasons 
why the small-bore rifles at times do not stop their game 
at once. He says: “There is a catise for bad shooting 
which I think would explain some things about lost or 
wounded moose. It is that the sportsman often shoots 
from a light and cranky canoe. There is generally con- 
siderable excitement at the time a moose is shot at, and 
you could not expect an excited man to shoot very ac- 
curately from a natrow and cranky canoe. Perhaps you 
noticed that aur canoes are 36-inch beam, flattened on 
the bottom to give good bearings. 
steady, so when the guide is cool and used to his busi- 
ness, you can guess why it is that the .30-40 in our coun- 
try has been so deadly on moose. Of course, this does 
not apply where the moose have been shot at from land, 
but the majority of the wounded and dead moose have 
been shot at from canoes and not from land. Not every 
one seems to have got on to this in the discussion, but I 
think you can see how it might work.” 


Small Game Presetves. 


A recent feature in Chicago sportsmanship is the pick- 
ing up of small game preserves, commonly bits of marsh. 
lands or good ducking waters, by little associations of. 
sportsmen. Thus Mr. Oswald von Lengerke, of this city, 
this week joins with three gentlemen who will in all likeli- 


non-residents’ is another matter. 


This makes them. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


hood- purchase a little. preserve near Morris, Ill. This 
is Illinois River country, and the longest open water on 
the marsh is only about three-quarters of a mile in ex- 
tent. A fuller report will follow upon investigation by 
the members. They figure that it is better to have a 
little shooting to one’s self than an undivided interest 
in an open region that is beset by a multitude of guns. 
This preserve, the Goose Lake preserve, and that of 
Mr. Washburne, adjoining, are all small, but valuable 
preserves, and easily accessible from the big city. 


About Stopping the Sale of Game. 


The doctrine of stopping the sale of game has in one 
or two instances given offense to those who consider it 
their privilege to do as they like “on their own land.” 
Yet that it is wise doctrine, and as such highly fit to be 
incorporated into the rules of every sportsmen’s club, as 
well as the creed of every individual sportsman’s life, is 
at least suggested by the action of the newly reorganized 
Grand Island hunting preserve of Springfield, Ill. That 
body permits no member to “sell the fruits of his gun 
or tod.” E. Houcn, 


HARTFORD Buitpine, Chicago, Ill. 


"Non-Resident Licenses. 


Greenspurc, Pa., March 15—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The laws imposing a license on non-resident 
huntet's of spottsmet, passed by several of the States, are 
to me legislation of the most vicious character ; beside, I 
think they violate the Constitution of the United States. 
Article IV., Section 2, provides as follows: “The citizens 
of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immu- 
nities of citizens in the several States.” , 

When the State of West Virginia, for instance, enacts 
a law that requires of a Pennsylvanian the taking out 
of a license there to hunt, and imposes penalties for not 
doing so, and imposes no stich restrictions upon the citi- 
zens of that State, the Pennsylvanian does not have the 
same privileges atid immunities that are guaranteed by 
the section of the Constitution just quoted. The State 
of West Virginia may lawfully reserve the use of its 
public buildings and its own property for the use of 
its own citizens, and if it were the owner of lands abound- 
ing in game, it might restrict the right to hunt on those 
lands to its own citizens, but it has no right to prefer 
its own citizens to citizens of any other State, as to 
lands it does not own. The State has no property in the 
game upon its mountains, and, so far as I know, the 
owners of the mountains have none. Such legislation 
cutiiot be sustained under any claim of police power. 

The ptoposition of John F. Haynes to require of the 
Maine guides the taking out of a license of $10 because it 
would bring in a-revenue, is based upon no consideration 
of reason. He is a guide, of course, and I suppose would 
want the law to exclude citizens of other States, regard- 
less of the constitutional provision aforesaid. The pro- 
tection of game is a proper regulation for any State, and 
so long as no exceptions are made to its own citizens, no 
fault can be found, but the imposing of license fees on 


J. A.C. RuFFNER. 


&| Some {Canadian Deer Statistics. 


"AyviMErR, East Quebec, March 8,—Editor Forest and 


Stream: I inclose a report of the deer and moose shipped 
from parts of the Province of Quebec, and a few points 
on the line of the C. P. R., irom Pembroke to Mattawa, 
which borders on our Province, and which I have no 
doubt were shot in Quebec Province. 
: N. E. Cormier, 
Provincial Game Warden and Fishery Overseer. 
Statement of deer, moose and caribou forwarded by 
express from points in Province of Quebec during 
months of October, November and December, I90T: 
Arundel, 12; Buckingham, 25; Calumet, 2; Campbell's, 
1s; Conception, 4; Coulonge 26; Gracefield, 67; Kaza- 
bazua, 183; Labelle. -208; McKees, 8; Megantic, 200; 
Montebello, ro: North Nation Mills, 1; North Wakefield, 
43; Papineauville, 282; Point au Chene, 29; Scotstown, 
40; Shawville, 65; St. Jovite, 6; Thurso, 25; Venosta, 1; 
Wakefield, 3; Waltham, 6. Total, 1,276. The shipments 
by months were: October, 477; November, 632; Decem- 
ber, 167. Total, 1,276. - 
S: T. STEWART, 
Superintendent Dominion Express Co., Quebec Division. 
Toronto, Ont., Feb. 1—Mr. N. E. Cormier, Provincial 
Game Warden for Quebec. Dear Sir: Your request re 
ntimber of deer shipped from points in Ontario, between 
Ottawa and Mattawa, during the open season of 1902. 
Below we give you the information requested: Ottawa, 
10; Almonte, 1; Arnprior, 10; Sand Points, 1; Renfrew, 
3; Pembroke, 12; Deux Rivieres, 1; Klock, 1; Mattawa, 
1; Kippewa, 3 deer, 19 moose and 2 bears; Temiskaming, 
4 moose heads. Total, 43 deer, 23 moose, 2 bears. 
J. A. BosweE tt, 
Superintendent Ontario Division Dominion Express Co. 


The Pennsylvania Season. 


Sayre, Pa., March 14.—The flow of the sugar maple 
and the soft call of the uneasy crow are not the only 
unfailing indications of spring’s gay approach, Robins 
have been in evidence for a month. Several bluebirds 
put in an appearance early the present weck, and this 
morning I listened to the tuneful melody of a chorus 
of song sparrows in the rear of the Packer Hospital. 

The past winter has been one of unusual severity for 
game birds in this part of Pennsylvania. Disastrous 
floods. heavy snowfall and many other unusual elemental 
conditions have operated to the disadvantage of feathered 
game. Especially does this apply to the meager quail 
supply holding a precarious existence along the Chemung 
River flats and adjacent territory. 

I have for some time been unable to locate or learn 
concerning the bevies referred to in these columhs last 
fall. but 1 greatly fear for their welfare, unless some 
kindly disposed farmer, out of a bountiful granary, has 
generously contributed to their needs. As the season 
advances it is te be hoped we may learn more fully in 
regard to the actual numbers and condition of these 
brave little tenants of the fence corners and hedgerows. 
ieee Seba tp mes BE i? M. Cami, 


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Stop the 'Sale“of New York Game. 


Jersey City.—Editor Forest and Stream: 1 am a 
constant reader of your publication, ForEST AND STREAM, 
and am greatly interested in the comments published 
therein relative to the prospective law, prohibiting the 
sale of game birds at any and all seasons of the year. 
yu am a native New Yorker, and spend my annual vaca- 
tion in upper New York, hunting birds and other smaii 
game, and therefore have had an excellent opportunity of 
observing the condition respective to this matter. 

My personal observation, as to the destruction of small 
game in order to supply the market, is convincing that 
the passage of such a law would ® ef great benefit to 
the sportsmen. Locations where five years ago a person 
could go and hunt and be sure of a good day's sport, is 
now practically extinct of these birds. This is practically 
getting to be the condition of many parts of New York 
State, where game was a short time ago in abundance. 

I have written to several friends of mine living in 
New York State, urging them to write to their respective 
representatives in the State Legislature, asking them to 
vote for this measure. 

I feel certain that if this measure can be sent through 
that it will mean old-time hunting for us who enjoy this 
sport, and will certainly put an end to that infamous 
style of hunting called “pot-hunting,” of which there 
is so mich at the present time. This last-named is the 
most destructive means of game extermination, as it is 
snared and trapped, and, in fact, any way to insure its 
capture. H. P, NicHots. 


Suffolk County Wildfowl. 


GUNNERS in the eastern portion of the Great South 
Bay have been having great shooting for the past two, or 
three weeks. Broadbill and brant have come on in good- 
ly numbers, and great bags of birds have been made, It 
is said that the market-shooters have been killing from 
fifty to eighty birds a day to a rig, and as these bring 
828) cents a pair in New York market, the rewards are 
ample. : 

The local papers announce that Dr. Robinson, member 
of Assembly for Suffolk county, has killed all the bills 
in the Legislature interfering at all with the present 
privileges of gunners and fishermen on Long Island. 
This may be assumed to mean that he has succeeded in 
strangling all bills shortening the time for, shooting or 
fishing. 


Sea and River | Sishing, 
—————. 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in FOREST AND STREAM. 


The Megantics Getting Ready. 


- Boston, March 17.—The season looks early and the 
mettbers of the Megantic Club are already making plans 
for the early fishing. The senior partner of a business 
house here remarked Saturday that he should be obliged 
to tie the junior partner, “these warm days have made. 
him so uneasy. He'll be gone for the Megantic preserve 
before I know it.’ The directors are putting all the 
camps in thorough repair. A new ell will be built at the 
main club house, for a kitchen and laundry. Formerly 
the members and guests were obliged to laundry their 
single shifts in the lake, before the other guests were up 
in the morning. Now this is all changed, and the next 
thing will be to prepare for dress suits. A new camp at 
Chain of Ponds is being built; also a dining camp at 
Arnold Pond. A new camp is proposed at Northwest 
Pond, with many other improvements. The boats, land- 
ings and trails are not being neglected. The interest 
in this club continues unabated, and the best reason to be 
ascribed is that the management is good. Spite of Mr. 
Carleton’s displeasure that the club did not vote to ‘sustain 
his hunters’ license scheme at their annual dinner, it will 
go on flourishing, so long as it is run as a hunting and 
fishing club purely. Too much improvement, however, 
will drive members away. Mr. N. G. Manson, of Camp 
Leatherstocking, Richardson Lake, Me., was in Boston 
Wednesday. He is planning for a great season at the 
Rangeleys this summer. Mr, Goldsmith, of New York, 
who built a beautiful camp just below Leatherstocking last 
year, is also buying supplies and making ready.. On the 
hunters’ license question Mr. Manson is very pronounced. 
“Tt will drive moose and deer hunters elsewhere. Why 
don’t Mr. Carleton propose taxing the game killed for his 
revenue, if he must have it? To tax non-resident hunt- 
ers as they go into the State would be about as foolish 
as for a big dry goods store to charge everybody for 
going in and looking for bargains. It would seem more 
reasonable to make customers pay as they take the goods. 
Prevent the guides and residents of Maine from shoot- 
ing more than their legal quota of game, and no further 
protection will be needed. Only last fall Mr. Carleton 
was telling about the great increase of deer in Maine, 
and that moose were holding their own. Now he says 
that big game is rapidly disappearing, and that without 
more wardens it will soon all be gone. At the last ses- 
sion of the Maine Legislature he fought hard to save 
his September license scheme; one of the worst laws for 
the deer that it would be possible to pass.” P 
SPECIAL. 


. 


An Irish Fishing Story. 


THERE is a good fishing story in an Irish contemporary. 
Two enthusiastic anglers arranged a fishing match to 
decide the respective merits of the worm and the min- 
now as bait. For hours they sat patiently on a bank 
without getting so much as a nibble. At last the pro- 
prietor of the worm suddenly said that he had got a 
bite, and, jerking his line out of the water, discovered at 
the end of it the other man’s minnow, which, having by 
itis time grown hungry, had devoured his worm.—London 
Globe, a he nee = J ee 5, 


230 


‘Alvah Dunning. 


“AtvAH G. DUNNING, one of the oldest and best known 
guides in the Adirondack region, was found dead in his 
room at the Dudley House, Utica, on the morning of 
Tuesday, March 11, having been asphyxiated by illuminat- 
ing gas. Mr. Dunning went to the hotel the evening 
prévious, arriving in time for supper. After the evening 
meal he complained of feeling somewhat ill and sat alone, 
half-drowsing, ina cornet of the office. Shortly before 
8 o'clock he said he would retire, and asked that he be 
called about 8 A. M. The bellboy who showed him to 
his room asked him if he should not turn off the gas for 
him, but the old guide replied that he guessed he had 
been around on earth long enough to run a gas burner, 
and would take care of it himself. That was the last 
seen of him alive, When the clerk went to his room 
and called him in the morning, in accordance with his 
request, there was fio response. The door of the apart- 
ment was accordingly forced open and the cause of the 
guest’s silence was at once apparent, The room was 
full of illuminating gas, which had escaped from a gas 
cock nearly a quarter open, and its occupant was dead. 
Mr. Dunnirig’s death is believed to have been purely 
accidental. 

Alvah Dunning was born in the great northern wilder- 
ness eighty-six years ago, and nearly his entire life was 
spent within its confines. He attended na- 
ture’s school, and with experience as a 
teacher, acquired such a knowledge of wood- 
craft as could never have been obtained from 
books or learned professors. Beyond a 
doubt he was one of the best woodsmen, one 
of the most expert hunters and one of the 
most successful trappers the Adirondack re- 

ion has ever known, His father moved 

rom Vermont to Lake Pleasant, Hamilton 
county, N. Y., in 1804, being, of course, a 
pioneer in that portion of the wilderness. 
The elder Dunning was also a hunter and- 
trapper, and a noted Indian fighter as well, 
having served under Sir William Johnson 
before and during the Revolutionary War. 
Tt is said that shortly after the war a num- 

ber of men were in a village tavern talking 
over Revolutionary exploits, when an In- 
dian—of whom there were several in the 
company—boasted of having committed a 
particularly atrocious murder, the victim be- 
ing a young white woman who had previous- 
ly resided in that locality. Dunning caught 
up a bundle of traps that lay near him and 
crushed the Indian’s skull by a single blow. 
He was tried for his life and acquitted 

Alvah Dunning was born near Piseco Lake, 

Hamilton county, in June, 1816, and at the 
age of six years began to assist his father 
in trapp‘ne and hunting. For several years 
he resided in the vicinity of his birthplace, 

and then remoyed to the Raquette Lake re- 

gion, acting, at the age of eleven years. as 

the guide for the first party of white hunters 

that ever visited that lake, Betore he was 

twelve years old he had killed his first 

moose, and he is quoted as saying that dur- 

ing his lifetime he killed upward of one hun- 

dred. It is said also that he shot the last 

specimen of the Adirondack moose. This 

was in March, 1862, and while he and Ben 

Batchelor were hunting together. They fol- 

lowed a bear which Dunning had wounded, 

’ and after going some distance came across 

the tracks of two moose, a bull and a cow. 

They killed the bull that day and pursued 

the cow all the next day, and killed her just 

at nightfall. Dunning also claimed that he 

trapped the last of the Adirondack beaver. 

When he removed to Raquette Lake Dun- 
ning built a home for himself on Osprey 
Island, which is the present site of the 
palatial summer residence of J. H. Ladew, 
of New York. He subsequently moved 
several times, but did not setile at any point 
very far from Raquette Lake, In the fall of 
1874 he erected a camp on Eighth Lake, Fulton Chain, to 
escape from the path of advancing civilization, but in a 
few years returned to Raquette and built at Brown's 
Tract Inlet, where he remained up to a comparatively 
recent date. The invasion of the wilderness by the sum- 
mer tourist, with the railroad and the modern hotels 
which soon followed, filled the old man’s breast with a 
spirit of misgiving for his future comfort and weliare. 
He saw the site upon which had once stood his humble 
hut, and in which he had entertained Grover Cleveland, 
occupied by a bustling railroad yard. The waters where 
he had caught trout, hunted moose and deer, and trapped 
beaver and otter, were frequented by pleasure boats, and 
so he turned his face toward the setting sun and started 
for the Rocky Mountains, in the hope of enjoying the 
solitude which was no longer to be found in the Adiron- 
dacks. For a time he hunted and fished in the Dakotas 
and Michigan, but he failed to find the seclusicn which 
he desired, and it was not long before he returned to his 
former haunts. Broken in spirit, he once’ more camped 
about Raquette Lake, and guided hunting and fishing 
patties for such men as Collis P. Huntington, William 
West Durant, Lieut.-Gov. Woodruff, J. Pierpont Morgan 
and others, He came out of the woods every winter of 
late years, and for a time last winter boarded with the 
family of James Raymond, No, 54 Spring street. Utica. 
It is said that in 1865, while making his home at Raquette 
Lake and doing trapping, he drew his fur on a hand sled 
fifty-five mules fo Boonville and returned with a load of 
provisions. By those who know him best he was spoken 
of as an affable, hospitable man of the old type of woods- 
men, all of whom were quite inclined to look on the 
game laws as infringements on the rights of those who 
lived in the woods. 

Dunning never tired of telling the story of how many 
years ago he trapped the last beaver in the Adirondacks. 
He was reconnoitering the woods one day in the spring, he 
said, and discovered a new beaver dam. New beaver 
dams had become so rare that this one was the first that 
Dunning had seen in a long time. The sight reused him 


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to rejoice, for beaver pelts were worth at that time from 
$20 to $25 each. We made the mistake of waiting to 
trap them until the next wihter, when he thought the pelts 
would be in better condition. “I hadn’t calculated on 
Uncle Enos,” he said, “and Uncle Enos was an old and 
experienced beaver trapper. I was sharing the camp of 
Uncle Enos at that time, and it is likely that I'd have 
carried my beaver through until winter all right if there 
hadn’t been a cranberry marsh near where I had dis- 
covered the beaver dam. Uncle Enos took it into his head 
one day that he’d like some cranberries, and he went out 
to pick some on the marsh. A man named Gilmore hap- 
pened to be at the camp, and he went along with Uncle 
Enos, and if he hadn’t I never would have trapped the last 
beaver. Uncle Enos found the marsh under water. ‘Dry 
weather,’ he said, ‘and the marsh under water, eh? That 
mieans that there is a beaver dam somewhere around here.’ 
Uncle Enos hunted for it and found it. He never said a 
word to me about it, but three weeks later Gilmore told 
me, “Then I discovered later that Uncle Enos was keep- 
ing his eye on the dam, too, and intended to put in a 
trap by and’ by, when the season got right. I tried for 
awhile to keep my eyes on Uncle Enos and the beaver, 
too, but 1b was risky. I was afraid to take any chances, so 
I put in my trap right away, The second night I got a 
beaver, and it was a whopper, It weighed 50 pounds. I 
didn’t get any more. That old fellow was the only tenant 


ALVAH DUNNING, 
From photograph, copyright, 1891, by J. R. Stoddard. 


the dam had, and he was the last of his race. If 1 had 
only put in my trap the spring before, or if Uncle Enos 
hadn’t forced me to capture it for self-protection, the last 
beaver would have brought me $25, but as it was I. only 
got $5 for it.” 
His account of how he killed his first moose before he 
was twelve years old, is very interesting. He had killed 
several deer, and even bears, but his father had up to that 


time refused to let him go moose hunting, because a. 


moose hunt was apt to tax the pluck and endurance of 
hardy men. On this particular occasion his father had 
discovered signs of moose near their settlement, and he 
was goifig to run the animal down. The boy begged so 
hard to go along that his father told him that as the 
moose was not far away, he might lead the dog, which he 
was to keep in leash until he heard the word from his 
father, and then let it go. “Then you can follow,” said 
his father, “and if you are there quick enough you can 
see me kill the moose.’ Alvah was glad to have that 
much of a part in a moose hunt, and took his rifle along 
to make the trip seem more real. He had often heard his 
father say that a moose was atraid of a man, and would 
flee at sight or scent of one until miles were placed be- 
tween them, but that a dog at his heels enraged a moose, 
and it would stop and engage its pursuer in battle “‘T 
kept'thinking of this,” said Alvah, “and the more I thought 
the more I made up my mind I'd kill the moose that 
day if we ever ran across it. Father was stealing along 
on the ridge and I was keeping even with him, only maybe 
a hutidred yards distant. By and by the dog began to pull 
the string and wanted to go. I made up my mind he had 
the moose scented, and I quietly slipped his collar and 
away he went. Father discoveted that the dog was off 
and he yelled to me-to know what I had let him loose 
for. “He slipped his collar,” I yelled back, and away I 
went after the dog dike the wind. I ran half a mile, I 
stess, and them caught up fo him. My scheme had 
worked. The moose'had stopped to have a fight with the 
dog. This was thedirst moose I had ever-seen. It was 
a big bull, with a-spread of horns that looked like a lot 


' hide entirely off without finding any. 


OF kobe We Awa ST 
_ [Marce 22, 1902. 


of canoe paddles sticking out all over his head. He was © 
crazy wild, and an ugly customer for any one to meet 
just then, But I didn’t want to have him meet me. I got 
the chance as the dog maneuvered him about and sent a 
rifle ball straight over the butt of his ear, The moose 
dropped like a lump of lead and hardly kicked. I ran | 
over, and when father came up I was leaning on my rifle 
with one foot resting on the body of the moose, Father 
looked a little surprised, but didn’t let on. “You knocked — 
him over, did you?’ he said. ‘Yes,’ I said, as if I had been | 
in the habit of doing such a thing every day for years. ‘T 
thought it wasn’t worth while to wait and see you kill it’ 
Father didn’t say anything, but went to work to skin out 
the big creature. As he peeled the hide off I conld see © 
that he kept looking for the bullet hole, and he got the — 
1 “Why,’ said he, 
‘this moose ain’t been shot at all! It dropped dead be- 
cattse it was scared to death.’ That sort 0’ made me 
sink, and I told father to look at the butt of the moase’s 
ear. He did. He looked at the butt of both ears. There 
wasn't any bullet hole. My heart went clear down in my — 
boots, for I had a plain, open shot at the moose, at not 
more than a htindred paces. But when father found the 
bullet in the moose’s brain, I felt good again. The moose 
must haye lowered his head a trifle just as I pulled the 
trigger, for the bullet had gone in at his ear and lodged 
in the brain without even making a scratch on the skin.” 

Mr. Dunning leaves a sister, who resides 
in Syracuse; a nephew, who lives at Panley’s 
Place, near Strattord, Herkimer county, and 
a niece, whose home is in Catskill. The 
father of ex-Postmaster Charles A, Dun- | 
ning, of Rome, is a cousin of his. 

Urea, N. ¥., March 122. W. E. Wotcortr. 


_ 


Alvah Dunning was one of the “Men I | 
Have Fished With,” concerning whose ! 
qualities as men and fishermen Fred Mather — 
wrete so felicitously. We are stire that | 
fnany of the readers of Mr. Mather’s sketch 
of Mr. Dunning will be glad to see it again; 
and here it is, as published in Forest AND 
STREAM in 1807, and afterward republished 
in the volume, “My Angling Friends”: 

@nly men who possess strongly marked 
personalities aré capable of making strong 
friends and as equally strong enemies. The 
truth of this has been well shown in the re- 
plies to letters asking for information about 
the old woodsman who is probably the oldest 
of Adirondack gtides. Carefully sifting 
these replies, 11 seems that Alvah is well 
liked by sportsmen whom he has served, and 
by a few dwellers in and around the great 
region of mountains and lakes which com- 
“prise about one-third of the great State of 
New York. Others dislike him, and among 
Adirondack guides he is, for some reason, 
the most tnpopular man in the woods. To 
me any. old man in the woods is interesting, 
and as individuality, crops out more strongly 
in men who have never assumed the mask 
of civilization, we will try to see him with 
tunprejudiced eyes. 

- Alvah will be eighty-one years old next 
June. He is tall, spare and wiry. A look 
at his picture, taken a few years ago by 
Stoddard, will show that his strongly 
marked face is full of character, grit and de- 
termination, and it looks like a face that 
could not be developed outside the woods. 
You can see that he dressed himself before 
he would pose for Stoddard, and that his 
new hat must be “taken” at all hazards. 
That is not the hat that the old man would 
wear when tracking a deer or poking 
through the brush up a stream to observe 
where the otter “uses,’’. This proves that Al- 
vah is really human, and has his vanities as 
well as the rest of mankind. 

_ It was in 1865 that I first met Alvah and 

fished for trout with him in the Brown Tract 

“Inlet and Raquette Lake. I was then re- 

gaining health after a long struggle all sum- 

mer, and a couple of weeks with Alyah put on the finish- 
ing touches, 

The old man—he was “old” to me then—took good 

care of me, and I returned much improved. His talk 
of woods life was very entertaining, and it was only 
a few weeks afterward that I became acquainted with 
his mortal enemy, Ned Buntline, also a fishing com- 
panion, so that I got Alvyah’s story while it was fresh. 
Friends of each man have so mixed up the case that it 
resemble the histories of Bonaparte as written by a 
French or an English pen, 
_ Said he: “These woods is a-gittin’ too full o’ people 
fer comfort—that is, in summer time; fer they don’t 
both the trappin’ in the winter; but they’re a-rannin’ all 
over here in summer a-shootin’ an’ a-fishin’, but they 
don’t kill much, nor catch many fish; but they git in the 
way, an’ they ain’t got no business here disturbin’ the 
woods.” 

{ies pay you well for working for them, don’t they. 

Alyah?” 

_ “Yes, they do, durn ‘em; or I wouldn't bother with 

‘em; but I druther they'd stay out.o’ my woods. They'll 

come anyhow, an’ I might as well guide ’em, fer ef I 

don’t some un else will, but I druther they'd keep their 

money and stay out of the woods. I can make a livin’ 
without ‘em, an’ they’d starve to death here without me. 

They're the durndest lot of cur’osities you ever seen; 

know more about guns an’ killin’ deer than any man in 

the woods, but when it comes to fishin’ tackle, you'd 
oughter see it.” oe 

This talk occurred after we had fished seyeral days 
and had looked over the otter “uses” and other interesting 
things to be found in the wilderness, and the old man’s 
remarks seemed to be so severely personal that they 
provoked me to say: “I am very sorry to have dis- 
turbed you. and will go back home in the morn- 
ing,” a 
The old man looked up and said: “I didn’t mean you; 
cause you seem to know, how to sit inter a boat an’ to 
know the voices of the birds 2n’ how to fish, Now, don’t 


” 


F Marc 22) 1902.) 


you go an’ take a meanin’ euter my words that I didn’t 
mean, 

“All right, Alvah! But if these people don’t kill much 
game or fish they can’t disturb you much, and I’m a little 
curious to know why you object so much to their 
coming here. The woods belong largely to the State, and 
they certainly have the tight ta come into them.” ‘This 


‘had the desired effect; it made the old man angry and 


- which disprove that, and as for turning oyer—— 


yott can do as you like.” 


ducks and the query below: 


drew his fire. 

-"Yes,” he said, after turning the thing over in his 
mind in the deliberate manner common to men of the 
woods, “that’s the worst of it; they've got a right to 
come here and disturb men who’ve made their homes 
in. these woods all their lives, and many of ’em ’s fools. 
T hate fools, don’t you?” 
- Here was a chance to classify fools and to quote Towch- 
stone: “I met a fool in the forest.” but that course 
might not have drawn the old man out, so I simply said: 
“T dunno, why?” 

"Oh, they pester one so, A few years ago one came up 
here and tried to make me believe the world is round and 
turns over upside down in the night, and they all believe 
it, all of ’em, every durned one that I’ve spoke to about 
it. What d’ye think o’ that?” 

“I think they're wrong, of course, for we can see that 
these lakes don’t spill out in the night. Yet this world 
can't be as fat as a pancake, for here are the mountains 

“You don’t believe it?” 

“Not a word of it!” And we were friends. 

When we met again in 1882 he recalled the trip, and at 
his camp on Raquétte Lake he said: ‘Times is different 
now, an’ wus, ti them days nobody said a word if a poor 
man wanted a little meat an’ killed it, but now they're 
a-Savin’ it until the dudes get time to come up here an’ 
kill it, an’ some of ’em leave a deer to rot in the woods, 
an’ on’y take the horns ef it’s a buck, or the tail ef it’s 
a doe, just so’s they can btag about it when they go 
home, an’ they'd put me in jail ef I killed a deer when 
I needed meat. I dunno what we're a-comin’ to in this 
free country.” 

There was nothing toe be said on this subject, and I 
said it. When dinner time came he called me from the 
lake, and as we two sat at table said: ‘There’s some cold 
boiled ham and here’s a stew o’ motntain mutton. 
Mebbe it’s ag’in your principles to eat our mutton in 
June, so I sot out the ham. I’m goin’ to eat the mutton, 


Ham can be had at any lunch counter. The deer had 


' been killed, and a refusal to eat a portion of it would not 
“restore it to life. 


Writing of it at this late day recalls 
Wilmot Townsend's picture of the flight of fotrrteen 
“Where would you hold?” 
The Lady ot the Tiger? 

Forty years ago Alvah and one of his brothers visited 
relatives at Albany, Ill,, and his brother died there. That 
one visit satisfied Alvah with the outside world and he 
teturned to Lake Pleasant, and since that time he has 
never been outside of Hamilton county, N. Y., where he 
has lived by hunting, trapping and guiding. Thke younger 
generation are disposed to crowd the old man out of the 
woods en account of his following his belief that game is 
free at all times to those who need it, and that the State 
has no right to pass laws concerning it. In conversation 
with me, my old friend and guide, E. L. Sheppard 
(“Jack”) said: “I have known Alvah for thirty years, 
and he is an affable, hospitable man of the old style, all 
of whem looked cn game laws as infringements on the 
rights of men who live in the woods. He is the last of a 
type that has passed. He kills a deer when he needs 
it; catches a trout out of season to bait his trap, firmly 
believes it a sin to kill wastefully, and destroys less 
game than many who ery out against him,” There you 
have the opinicn of one of the best of the Adirondack 
guides, as well as a pictute of the man. 


Mr, Bennett, of The Antlers, tells me that Alvah wall, 


not write any more, but in a recent interview with him 
he got the following from Alyah: “In 1858 Ned Bunt- 


“line came into the woods to get away from civilization 


and write novels. Ned built a cabin on Eagle Lake which 
he called EFagle’s Nest, and hired Alvah to work for him. 
They quarreled and Ned killed Alvah’s hounds and they 
threatened to kill each other. In 1865 Alvah built a camp 
on Raquette Lake, where he lived alone, trapping, draw- 
ing his fur on a hand sled fifty-five miles to Boonville 
and bringing back provisions. It took a week to make the 
trip. One winter his skins of ofter, fisher, marten, mink 
and bear brought him $743. In 1874 his camp on Sunny 
Island was burned and he lost everything he owned. 
That fall he built a camp on Eighth Lake, Fulton Chain, 
to get out of the way of travel, but in a few years re- 
turned to Raquette and built at Brown's Tract Inlet, 
where he now lives, a much disgruntled man, who says 
the people are wandering all over and spoiling the woods. 


Fifty years ago the Adirondacks was indeed a wilderness ~ 


known to but a few sportsmen, There were but few 
boats in it and no mode of travel except by water. Here 
Alyah Dunning lived, hunted and reigned supreme in 
‘his -woods,’”’ 

Rev. Thomas G. Wall, D.D., of New York city, to 
whom mtich of the information in this sketch is due, says: 
“Dunning has lived like an Indian, and forty years ago 
he looked like one, and is a very close imitation of some 
ot Cooper’s models—silent, stealthy in movement, full of 
resources; he could almost speak the language of the 
animals. I haye seen him, by a peculiar chipper, call a 
mink from its hiding place in the rocks and shoot it, and 
have known him to bring a deer back into the water by 
bleating and making the noise of wading. Dunning was a 
trie sportsman, never allowing more fish or game to be 
taken than was needed. He was employed by our party 
in 1856, when I first met him, and I have been with him 
many times since, and always enjoyed his society. In- 
deed, his excellence, when in his prime, was so generally 
known, that it-excited much of the enmity with which 
he was regarded by some, for if he could be had he was 
always first choice.” 

When I met Alyah the last time—some half-dozen 
years ago—he was living in the past. The futtire had 
nothing in store but the destruction of the forests, or, 
what was as bad, their béing run over by tourists or the 
building of expensive “camps” by wealthy men. The 
wood times were in the distant past, when he never saw a 


strange face unless he went into the settlements, “They're 


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puttin” steamboats on the lakes to scare the trout to 
death, an’ have built a railroad into Old Forge. They’ve 
put a lot o’ black bass into Raquetté Lake to eat up 
the few trout that’s left, an’ what good any one sees in a 
black bass is more’n I know.” 

To encourage him to talk, 1 said: “The black bass 
is a gamy fish—not as gamy nor as good for table as a 
trout—and I suppose they thought ‘em better'n no fish,” 
and so I excused the crime of putting bass in Adirondack 
waters just to see what Alvah would say. 

He said: “They ain’t a bit better than a sucker out of 
a cold brook, either to eat or to bait a trap, and as for 
game—well, I fish for fish when I want *em, an’ don’t 
tool away my time playin’ a trout, lettin’ him run off 
an’ then reelin’ him up just to see the pole bend. When 
I hook a fish I use tackle that will stand it and bring 
him in “thout watchin’ his fightin’ qualities, but I show 
him some of mine if he’s got time to think about ’em 
afore he’s my fish. No, sir, them black bass is the worst 
thing they could have put in these waters—worse’n 
pickerel, for the young pickerel can be eaten by a trout 
because his fins are soft, but these bass are like big sun- 
fish, and not a bit better.” 

The old man was not far out of the way in this mat- 

ter. He had watched the new fish. and sized them up in 
his own fashion. The State Fish Commission had put 
the fish in the waters—or rather Seth Green did it in the 
name of the Commission, for in that early day he ran 
the work as he pleased—but the result was a howl, and a 
law was passed restraining the Commission from planting 
certain fishes in Adirondack waters. 
' About this time there was a discussion in the papers 
as to the scream of the pather, as the North American 
eeugar, or ptuma, is called in the East, and while I was 
positive that I had heard one when a boy, I wanted the 
opinion of the old woodsman, and’ as he was baiting his 
hook I said: “Some people say that a panther screams 
and others say it never does. What’s your opinion?” 


He unhooked a trout and replied: “A panther is like a. 


cat, hunts like a cat, always still. Now a cat is a silent 
animal and never makes a noise unless it wants some- 
thing. A dog will bark just to hear his own voice, but a 
cat’l] lie around the stove for a weel and never make a 
sound unless it needs something. If it’s hungry it may 
meow a little just to let you know it, but that is different 
from a mating call. Now, when the pather wants to find 
one of its kind it can get up a good loud screech. It’s 
got to, for they ain’t plenty and that call has got to go 
miles through the woods. Yes, they can put up a good 
stiff call for a partner when they want one, but they don’t 
do it often. A man might be in these woods a hundred 
years and not hear a panther call more’n half a dozen 
times. They don’t do it often and they are never plenty, 
like deer and bears.” 

“How long sitice there were any wolves in the Adiron- 
dacks, Alvah>?” 

“Wall, I don’t just know azackly. When I was a boy 
they was common an’ you could hear ‘em: howl o’ nights 
along the lakes or up the mountains, an’ we used to shoot 
‘em an’ trap ’em, but never did no p’izinin’, like the’ do 
out West. Let's see! They was plenty up to about the 
time Gineral Taylor died. When was that?” 

“That was in 1850.” ’ 

“The wolves went off about that time; some said they 
went into Canada an’ some thought they died. I guess if 
they'd a died we'd a seen some o’ their bones som’ers, 
but a few was around here durin’ the war, in the 60's, an’ 
I killed a big one then, but ain’t seen none since. Some 
men say they've seen ’em o’ late years off toward the 
Saranacs, but I can’t say. While the war was goin’ on 
there wa’n’t so many men comin’ te the woods an’ things 
picked up a little’ 


Alvah Dunning killed the last Adirondack moose in 


Mareh, 1862. 

“When I was a boy,” said Alvah, ‘moose was plenty 
in these woods. i 
day, an’ hauled the most o’ the meat on sleds to the 
settlement an’ sold it.” 

When the last moose was killed Alyah and Ben 
Batchelor were following a wounded bear that the former 
had shot the day before. They found the bear and killed 
it, and then came upon the track of two moose, a bull and 
a cow. They killed the bull that day and followed the 
cow all the next, and killed her just at nightfall. Per- 
haps it’s just as well, for it is doubtful if one moose 
would be left a year from now if a hundred were turned 
loose in the Adirondacks. The size of an animal in- 
creases the desire to kill it, in most men, but between 
ourselves I would prefer to kill a woodcock, or a grouse 
on the wing, to dropping seven hundred poids of meat 
in its tracks, 

Dr. Wall asked Alvah how many moose he thought he 
had killed, and the old man answered: “Oh, I don’t 
hardly know, never kept any count, but I guess nigh on 
to a hundred.’ And then he told. how on one of his 
eatly moose hunts he had got separated from his father, 
killed a moose about nightfall on a cold night, had no 
niatches and rolled himself in the warm skin and slept, to 
find himself frozen in at daybreak, 

Writing of Alvah Dunning brings a desite to spend a 
month ‘in his caliin, jot down his stories and make a 
closer study of the most interesting man now living in the 
Adirondacks. We all look back on wasted opportunities, 
and while enjoying his company I never thought of taking 
notes for the purpose of writing him wp. The man who 
approaches Alvah Dunning in the right way will get his 
confidence and enjoy it, but his opinions of the revolu- 
tion of the earth on its axis, and of the injustice of the 
game laws to woodsmen, are too firmly fixed to be 
meddled with. Let the old man alone, wink at his killing 
a deer when he needs “mutton,” or a trout when he wants 
to vary his diet, if he lives for twenty years he will never 
do as much harm to the fish and game of the woods as 
some of the so-called sportsmen. He does not float for 
deer on summer nights and kill the first thing that his 
jacklight shows has a pair of shining eyes, whether buck, 
or doe with fawn by her side. If he needs “‘mutton” in 
summer he prefers a buck to a nursing doe. - 

Young men, some little concession—charity, if you will 
—should be extended to this man who was born in the 
woods and considers it his by right of prior discovery 
and settlement years before you” were born. I would ‘be 


the last man to tell the story of mountain mutton Tf Alvah © 


cared about it. J saw no hide, hoofs nor hors, and 


Once father an’ I killed five in one. 


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under oath I do not know of what I partook further than 
it was good meat. The game laws are all right, but no 
tight-thinking man should use them to oppress the old 
hunter whose only larder is the woods in which he was 
born a steward. Sock it to me if you catch me, or to any 
other man who pretends to shoot or fish for sport, violat- 
ing those wholesome laws which are made for our benefit 
and which it is a erime for us to violate, but the strict 
letter neéd not be enforced on the man whose whole life 
has been spent in a struggle for existence in the forest, and 
who could not live out of it, Put yourself in his place! 
Frep MATHER. 


A Meeting with Alvah Dunning, 


elBe death of Alvah Dunning recalls a meeting with 
hoes 

In July, 1860, coming down the Marim River from 
Blue Mountain Lake, our party of four, with two guides, 
met suddenly on a trail over a short carry, two splendid 
hounds, and in a few moments a tall, slender, weather- 
beaten man appeared, carrying a pack basket and a three- 
barreled gun (muzzleloading). The two shot barrels, of 
about 16 gauge, on top, the rifle barrel under, with a 
ramrod lying along the side in the groove. The hammer 
of the rifle struck upward. 

The whole get-up meant business. His comment pon 
his gun, “She do throw buckshot wicked,’ I well re- 
member. 

His pack contained trout for a well-known sporting 
resort in Saratoga, so he informed us. 

We bargained for a few lake trout for supper (as we 
had nothing), and when he estimated their weight at 
eight pounds, one of our gtiides said, “Ain't that a leetle 
tere Alvy?” He replied, “Maybe,” and added another 

sh. 


He accepted our silver with thanks, but declined the 
flask with the remark, “You can’t get none of that truck 
down my throat.” 

And so we parted. I wonder what has become of that 
gun. 

We slept that night at the “old Wood place’ on 
Raquette Lake, and heard “sounds of revelry by night” 
from the island near by, where “Adirondack Murray” had 
as gtiests that night Miss Kate Field and her mother, | 


Isaac T. Norrts. 
BarftrMoret, March 14. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Wading Streams for Trout. 


_Cxicaco, Tll., March 13—A Southern gentleman who 
fishes a great deal in the North for trout, asks for advice 
regarding good wading streams in the Upper Peninsula 
of Michigan. He says: “I usually fish with the fly 
for trout, and am fond of this sort of fishing, JT have 
for quite a number of years made my headquarters during 
the summer months at Traverse City, M‘ch. The trouble 
with that part of the country is that the rainbows and 
the natives are driving the speckled trout out of the 
streams. While the rainbows are game fighters, I find 
it rather difficult to get them of much size with the fly. 
There is an excellent hotel at Traverse City, which is 
rather a strong attraction for me. From th’s place one 
can get at quite a number of streams within a radius 
of eighty or a hundred miles. About the first of July of 
last year I was at Wolverine, Mich. (a little place some 
twenty-five to thirty miles south of Cheboygan), on the 
Sturgeon River. I had some fair fly-fishing at this place, 
but the accommodations were so horribly bad that I could 
not stand it. I can get along with rough accommoda- 
tions and plain food, but I want things clean.” 

I would suggest he try the upper waters of the Ever- 
green River, of Wisconsin, or perhaps the Prairie, out of 
Merrill, same State. The better rivers of the Upper 
Peninsula are boating streams, except as preserved by 
clibs, according to my best advices, though there may 
be good waters of which I have no word. They tell me 
that the upper Brule of Wisconsin can now and aga‘n 
turn out a good bit of sport, as it is not preserved for 
much of its length, but this, too, is a boating river for the 
most part. The Little Oconto, of Wisconsin, is a wading 
stream, and though it is not so good as it oncé was, I 
should think it quite worth trying even now. 


Opening of the Trout Season, 

March 15.—The Castalia, Ohio, trout clubs open their 
season to-day, and among many others who will hasten to 
avail themselyes of these early advantages are Messrs. 
Robert Forsyth and R,. P. H. Durkee, of Chicago, who 
leave to-night and will begin fishing next Monday on this 
historic stream, Both go well prepared, 

It is difficult to tell where all the fishing tackle goes 
to.so early, but for two or three weeks the stores here 
have been busy selling angling goods. The trade is 
getting an early start, and it is the supposition that this 
is going to be a heavy season. One dealer says that he 
has ordered double the amount of goods this year that 
he ever did before, and is having difficulty in getting 
his stock built up to the size which he thinks it ought to 
have at the beginning of the season, At present it looks 
as though we would have an early opening of the fishing 
season this year, although it is too early to predict any- 
thing in the way of weather for this vicinity. 

By the way, speaking of trout, Mr. Graham H. Harris. 
of this city, with the writer, is invited to open the season 
on that beautiful little stream, the Pine River of Wis- 
consin. I want to see this stream once more, and to be 
on hand when Mr. John D. McLeod officially opens his 
campaign on the Pine. This he always does by calling on 
a certain big trout which has been the object of his am- 
bition for the last four years. This trout lives under the 
bank below a sunken log, in a certain swift eddy of the 
stream, and he is one of the bést known features of the 
Pine, About every other day he will rise to a fly, and 
as quick as he takes it he makes swiftly under the log, 
breaks loose and goes back home. Mr, Mcleod never 
goes down the stream without paying his lordship a visit, 
and about every other day, sometimes for several days 
in succession, he will succeed in raising this big fish and 
losing him. When he comes in, his partner, Ben Miller. 
asks him, “Did you raise him to-day, Mack?” and Mack 
says, “Sure, had him on for Half a mintite,” or legs, as the 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Marc 22, 190. 


case may be. It would be an easy thing to hoist this old 
trout out of his laid by means of stout tackle and a 
bait, but this I imagine will never be done. Every week, 
and one or two days of each week, from the opening of 
the season until the close, he will be tempted by the most 
alluring morsels Mr. McLeod can find in his fly-book; 
but unless somebody cuts out that log the old fellow will 
probably continue to festoon it with flies and leaders. 
T think I had him on once myself, and I know that I never 
got out of there without leaving part of my gear. We 


are going to show him to Mr. Harris. E. Hoven. 


Hartrorp Buripine, Chicago, Ill. 


An Early Maine Season. 


Boston, March 15.—The ice fishing season of 1902 is 
ended in this State, The warm weather of early this 
week started the ice in many of the ponds, and made it 
dangerous getting on and off others. J._H. Jones, with 
three of his friends, were at Sandy Point, on Wed- 
nesday, for a final pull at the pickerel. They had gut 
twenty-seven lines and caught twenty-two pickerel. The 
day was remarkably warm, and they had a rather hard 
time getting off the ice. The warm weather seemed to 
have set the pickerel biting. , 

Many of the guides have gone back to Maine from the 
Sportsmen’s Show, which closed to-day. Some of them 
have already sent word back to their patrons that there 
is very little snow in Maine, and no snow on the ice, and 
they say that this means an early clearing of the trout 
and salmon lakes. Such news has already started trade 
in the tackle stores, with prominent rod arid line sports- 
men leaving their tackle for renovation and tfepairs. 
Prominent Rangeley guides and camp and hotel owners 
seem confident of a great fishing season, with an early 

beginning. Even in Aroostook county there is very 
tittle snow, and guides are predicting an early fishing 
season. Fish Commissioner H. O. Stanley says that every 
thing points to a great fishing season. | He believes that 
salmon are decidedly on the increase in the best Maine 
waters. Commissioner Nat. Wentworth, of New Hamp- 
shire, is also very enthusiastic as to the fishing season in, 
his State. Nothing but very cold weather during the rest 
of March and all of April can prevent Newfound Lake, 


Sunapee and Winnipisaukee from clearing very early. 
SPECIAL. 


Fishery Exposition at Vienna. 


Tue State Department has received from the Austrian 
Legation, Washington, under date of Feb. 18, 1902, notice 
of the International Fishery Exhibition to. be held in 
Vienna from Sept. 6 to 21, 1902, in connection with the. 
Eighth Austrian Fishery Congress. An invitation 1s €x- 
tended to societies, clubs and institutions connected with 
fishing to participate in the exposition. The exhibition 
will include: -(a) Fresh and salt water fish and water 
animals, live; (b) dead fish and water animals, fresh, 
conserved, prepared for illustration; (c) breeding ap- 
paratus and pearl fishery; (d) natural and artificial foods; 
(e) diseases and enemies of fish; () methods of fishing; 
(g) preservation and transportation ; | (h) literature and 
history; (j) manufactures from fish materials ; (k) 
cooking and preparing fish for table. Applications for 
space are to be addressed, as eatly as possible, to the 
committee, 1 Herrengasse 13, Vienna. Steps have been 
taken’ to sectire exemption from duty and reduced railway 
rates for goods intended for exhibition. 


Che Kennel. 


Fixtures. 


BENCH SHOWS. 
March 26-29.—Atlantic City, N. J.—Atlantic City Kennel Club’s 
show. Thos. H. Terry, Sec’y. 
April Ure DOSEN Sate Enelane Kennel 
1 w. Wm, B. Emery, Sec’y. 
an Toe Wash—Seattle Kennel Club’s annual show. 


: dan, Sec’y. L . 
oat De aeyane Conn.—Danbury Agricultural Society’s show. 


V. B ; lreas. ne 7“. 
Ura eye cee We iemeradie® Kennel Association of America’s 


+, Miss M.-K. Bird, Westbury, L. I., Hon. Sec’y. r 5 
on 26-29, Philadelphia Philadelphia Dog Show Association’s 
show. M. A, Viti, Sec*y. 

FIELD TRIALS. ; 
Aug. 26—Salem, S. D—South Dakets Field Trial Association’s 
i ] trials. E. H. Gregory, Sec’y. : batted 
Harbors’ yNeiil, Neb.—Nebraska Field Trial Association’s 
inaugural chicken trials. M. H. McCarthy, Sec’y. . : 
Oct. 18.—Ruthven, Oy te NOE rapa eae Field Trial Club's 
l trials. Richard Bangham, Sec’y. | ee 
fount “0. i Mich.—Michigan Field Trial Association's 
3 trials. C. D. Stuart, Sec’y. te . 
ae Saetb pate ze , Mo.—Missouri Field Trial Association’s sixth 


Oct. 27. 
trials. LL. S. Eddins, Sec’y. . ; 
Pian a = Pa.—Monongahela Field Trial Club’s field 


i Ay Gt Paterson, Sec’y. be ae at 
eee 3.—Robinson, I[ll.—Illinois Field Trial Association’s fourth 


annual trials. W. R. Green, Sec’y 


Nov. 10.—Bicknell, Ind.—Independent Field Trial Club’s fourth 


ar l trials. H. S. Humphrey, See’y. ; ; 
Sas aT SE Joachim, lGat einteriational Field Trial Club’s 


teenth annual trials. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec’y. ; ; 
tO ey Blivebethtows, Ky.—Kentucky Field Trial Club’s third 


ial trials. F. W. Samuel, Sec’y. f sa 
PSs Bd, = Washimeton C, H., O.—Ohio Field Trial Association’s 


I ] trials. ‘C. E. Baughn, Sec’y. , : ; 
ee — —.—Interstate Championship Field Trial 


: i . 
Agsociation’s second annual trials. C. Cooke, Sec Ye, 
Western Field Trial Association’s sec- 


ond anneal trials. C, W. Buttles, Sec’y. 


Warts. 


A Few days ago a correspondent related to us the cir- 
cumstance of the appearance of warts on the lining mem- 
brane of the mouth of a pug dog. He stated that a wart 
was first seen on the inside of the lower lip, and was 
treated by the application of a silk ligature, which had 
the effect of causing it to slough away. By some acci- 
dent, however, before the wart was removed it was 
scratched, probably by the animal himself, and after a 
short time a large number of similar growths appeared in 
the lining membrane of the mouth. It was remarked that 
there is some reason to believe that warts spread by con- 
tagion. In the annual report of the Royal Veterinary Col- 


lege, published in Vol. 10, Part 1, page 153, of the Journal. 


Club’s eighteenth — 


of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, an account 
is given of the existence of warts, or papillomatous tumors 
as they are called, on the mucous membrane of the mouth 
of the dog. The writer observes that warts are frequently 
met with in several of the domestic animals, but that they 
most commonly occur in the dog, and in that animal the 
most frequent seat of development is in the membrane of- 
the mouth, and in some instances the cheeks, tongue, lips 
and palate are found to be thickly studded with them. 

The cases which are referred to particularly in the 
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society occurred in 
two young foxhounds, and, from the history which was 
given, it was suspected that the disease had been com- 
municated by contagion. This suspicion was put to the 
test of experiment, and it was proved that papillomatous 
growths are transmissiblé by inoculation. It is, there- 
fore, quite probable that in our correspondent’s (W. F. 
P.’s) case, the extension of the disease over the lining 
membrane of the mouth to which he refers was due to 
the distribution of blood from the first wart, which was 
noticed to have been injured. : 

It is somewhat curious that the popular idea from very 
remote times—certainly it was entertained half a century 
ago—was strongly in favor of the contazion theory, and 
sufferers from warts were constantly assured by their 
friends that if the growths were scratched or rubbed or 
otherwise injured and caused to bleed, fresh warts would 
appear on the skin over which the blood flowed. 

This view was, of course, strengthened very much by 
the fact that some persons were particularly liable to 
warty growth; but, on the other hand, there were plenty 
of instances which must have come under the observation 
of most people to prove beyond question that the blood 
from an injured wart did not as a rule cause the appear- 
ance of other warts on the skin over which the blood 
flowed. . 

In horses and cattle warts are commonly treated by 
the employment of caustic, and it is generally advised that 
a portion of the surface of the wart should be scraped 
until the blood begins to appear before the caustic is 
applied, as it would be useless to bring the agent, how- 


ever, powerful it might be, in contact with the dense, - 


horny surface of the growth. When warts ate caused ta 
bleed prior to the application of the caustic, it must fre- 
quently happen that some of the fluid would run over the 
surface. There would, however, be a considerable pro- 
tection afforded in horses and cattle, and,‘ indeed, in 
the domestic animals generally, by the covering of hair; 
and on this account alone it is extremely likely that a 
mode of infection which would be eminently successful 
in the case of the comparatively unprotected surface of 
the mucous membrane, would fail when the contact of 
the blood with the surface of the skin was intercepted by 
the hair. Further, the conclusions: which follow from 


the success of experimental inoculation must be taken in | 


connection with the fact that not only is the miucous 
membrane far less protected than the surface of the skin, 
but it is abraded or scarified intentionally for the purpose 
of introducing the infecting material. Admitting that the 
experimental evidence justifies a very strong suspicion at 
least that warts on the mucous membrane on the mouth 
of the dog can be transmitted by the inoculation, it is still 
extremely difficult to account for the original appearance 
of the growths as a result of contagion. 

Our correspondent, W. F. P., asks advice as to the 
treatment of the warty growths in the mouth of his pug 
dog. On this subject the article in the Journal of the 
Royal Agricultural Society is very suggestive. The ex- 
periments which were made at the Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege prove not only that warts can be communicated by 
inoculation, but also that they tend to disappear by a 
process of gradual shtinking and absorption, and it is 
added that the experiments indicate finally, although they 
do not absolutely prove, that after the disappearance of 
a fresh crop of warts the animal is to some extent pro- 
tected from a second infection. It may also be said that 
any treatment which may be adopted must certainly ex- 
clude any surgical interference, which would be more 
likely to lead to the spreading of the disease than to its 
extinction. Possibly occasionally washing the mouth out 


with a solution of alum might be beneficial, but in any’ 


case it would be worth while to wait patiently for a time 
to give the growths a chance of disappearing by the 
process of shrinking or of absorption—London Field. 


Hachting. 


= 
Designing Competition. 


Mr. Crinton H. Crane’s criticisms of the different 
designs submitted for the designing competition will be 
read with much interest. We are glad to ob- 
serve that Mr. Crane’s comments are made in a 
spirit of fairness, and with a directness which cannot help 
being of value to the different competitors. He has laid 
much stress upon the weak points, and by inference in- 
dorses the strong ones. We submit his statement in full: 


Editor Forest and Stream: : ~ 

The ntimber of excellent designs in your design com- 
pétition just finished made the judging a very difficult 
matter. I was compelled to discard several designs be- 
cause they would not have floated at 25ft. waterline, in 
fact, with the construction as planned wotild be consider- 
ably larger. Others were discarded owing to excessive 
sail plans, which would have been very awkward to 
handle off the Cape in dusty weather. Others, again, had 
too light construction, amd others imperfect arrange- 
ments. . 4 : 
The best designs agreed in elements of design as fol- 
lows: : Bia. 
- Displacement, about 14,000lbs. 

Ballast, about 6,0oo]bs. 

Beam, about toft. Gin. 

Sail area, about oooft. i 

These elements produce a very wholesome boat for 
cruising along-our coast between the points named in 
your competition, There are times when more sail. would 
be of advantage, as there are times when it would be bet- 
ter to have less, but on the whole I consider these ele- 
ments as very aptly chosen. he 


Several designs were thrown out because they did ‘not 


- 


small for a cruiser, 


berth for the paid hand if ope is carried. On 


coniely with the conditions in being drawn to a wrong 
scale. 

The use of centerboards housing below the floor was a 
feature used in many designs, in some cases even when 
there was a fixed table in the main saloon, The use of a 
centerboard trunk as a part of a fixed table is such a 
sensible expedient that I was surprised it was not more 
generally used, especially as the deeper board is much 
better from every point of view. 

I wish to mention outside the prize winner, particu- 
larly the plans of Trysail, Syntax, Kaatadn, Argonaut, 
Noira, A, B. C. and Designator. There are others which 
show most careful thought, but which, owing to the 
fact that they would have measured more than 2sft., I 


am unable to give honorable mention. 


In detail, I will present the following criticisms: , 

Backstay, Jr-—Model is too flat and there is not suffi- 
cient displacement. Sail plan and-appearance are ex- 
cellent. Galley is not large enough. 

Captain.—General dimensions are good, as is the ar- 
rangement and sail plan, but the appearance is not nearly 
so handsome as it might be. , 

Youngster.—Shows a good sail plan, poorly rigged, and 
the boat is much too large for a 25-footer, and the dis- 
placement inadequate to float it at that waterline; but the 
design shows careful thought, and for a larger boat would 
be most acceptable. 

Echo.—Jib would be better at masthead. The displace- 
ment is unnecessarily large. Model too full forward and 
too fine aft. Arrangement good. 

Le Croupier.—Displacement too small and rig too 
large. The model is very good, and the arrangement and 
sail plan well proportioned, but the sail plan is drawn 
to a wrong scale. 

Ivanhoe.—Proportions are good, but the rig is too large. 

Syntax.—A very pretty model, but of too little beam 
and displacement. Sail plan is nicely proportioned and 
the arrangement well thought out. Too little room has 
been given to galley, 

Dodo.—Construction is too light, and sail plan too 
large, but the model is excellent. 

Project—This design shows a flush deck boat, which 
is not suitable for summer cruising on this side of the 
water, where it unnecessarily contracts the room inside 
the boat and makes it too hot. 
very nicely proportioned. - : 

Kaatadn,—A very nicely turned boat, and good model, 
rig and arrangements. 

Argonaut.—A pretty boat, a good model with moderate 
rig, and an-ingenious arrangement with the galley aft. 
Displacement is a trifle: too small, 

E—Madel too flat. Size of rig is good, but the jib 
is too small. Proportions are otherwise excellent. ws 

Regis.—Displacement and ballast unnecessarily large. 
Deer plan is too small, but the lines are very easy and 
good: . ; 

Nemo.—foo wide and flat, and too large a sail plan. 
Excellent arrangement, but the overhangs are too long, 

Bohemian.—Displacement and beam are small, which 
makes the space below rather cramped. 

Anonymous.—Sail plan is too large, but the model and 
i aac are both good. The rudder is rather too 
small - - 


Noira.—Drawn to a wroftg scale. Too narrow, and too 


‘light construction, but of good model, well proportioned 


rig and good arrangement. 

A. B. C—Good model and fairly good arrangement, 
but with too large a rig. 

Designator—Very pretty sail plan and well propor- 
tioned construction, but ballast and displacement are too 


Crinton H. CRANE, 


Second Prize Design. 


__ In this issue are published the plans submitted by Mr. 
Charles H. Hall, of Brooklyn, N. Y., the winner of the 
second prize in our designing competition. 

The plans were well drawn and lettered, and it is ap- 
parent that Mr. Hall gave them considerable care and 
study. The design shows a very wholesome craft of good 
displacement, with comparatively short and well-designed 
overhangs. The midship section is easy, the floor being 
sharp, the bilges soft and the topside having quite a 
little flare. The boat should prove fast under the rig 
shown on the sail plan, but would be more comfortable 
for outside work with a little less canvas, 

The cabin house is 13ft. long and 12in. high at the 
sides. ‘The cockpit, which is watertight, is 7ft. long and 
6ft. 6m. wide. The boat steers with a tiller. The 
jazerette is reached from the deck by a 16in. brass plate 
placed in the floor of the cockpit. Under the cockpit 
floor is a fresh-water tank of 5ogals. capacity. 

The main cabin is of good size, and there is 4ft. floor 
space almost the entire length between the face of the 
transoms. Aft on each side are lockers 12zin. deep for 
oiiers, clothes, etc. The transoms are 6ft. Gin. long and 
2ft. 6m. wides under them are good-sized lockers. ' For- 
ward on each side are combination lockers and sideboards 
isin. deep. The cabin table is 2ft. 6in, long and is so 
arranged that it can be extended to a width of 3ft. 6in. 
The main saloon is ventilated and lighted by a skylight 
2it. 6in. long and rft. 6in. wide. — 

Forward on the port side is the toilet room, which is 
2ft. 6in. wide, and is fitted with a patent closet and a 
folding wash basin, which is connected with the fresh- 
water tank. Back of the closet is a good-sized linen 
locker. 

The galley ts on the starboard side, and beside being 
roomy, is unusually well arranged. A skylight rft. 6in. 
square is so fixed as to ventilate and light both the 
toilet room and the galley. A 5in. swinging port placed 
in the forward end of the cabin house will allow a free - 
circulation of air through the galley, and will keep the 
place cool and free from odors. : 

On the starboard side of the galley is located the 
sink, back of which is a locker. Forward of the sink fs 
an oil stove and back of this are open shelves and the 
dish rack. .A large ice box is placed on the port side 
opposite. : 
- Next forward is the forecastle; here there oe a pipe 

€ port 
side is a locker and shelves for lamps, oil, etc. In the © 
deck forward, ayer the foreeastle, is placed a hatch rf. 
Gin. square, 


———P ae 


—S aS 


The plans are otherwise: 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


FOREST AND STREAM DESIGNING COMPETITION——SECOND PRIZE DESIGN——SAIL PLAN. BY 


The dimensions are as follows: 


Length— 
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Overhang— 
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Breadth— : 
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' Drait— 
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Freeboard— 
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Ballast outside (lead)....... ch SR aen oe 6,000lbs 
G.L.-R. from fore end 6f L-W.L?......... I4ft. 2 in 
GBs from tore end, Of TVW 27 ek. 2 et Sreanin 132} “lal 
C.E. from fore end of L.W.L............ TAN Tk ha 
Sail Area— 
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(pI. EL Ee Seecteecrae eo Seen ere cece hc 200 sq. ft. 
DNL Fs uy eee Ab poe The oe 981 sq. ft. 
Mast from fore end of L.W.L............ 4ft. oO in. 
IES © cipoh ro GSS ee aes Ae unaeane tener ange 36ft. oO in. 
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Our Boston Letter. 


_ Boston, March 17.—At last the names of the owners of 
the new boat which W. Starling Burgess has designed to 
compete in the trial races to select a challenger for the 
Seawanhaka cup have been given out, and the announce- 
ment was attended with much surprise. It was a natural 
‘conclusion to think that the owners of the new boat would 
be the former owners of Hoodlum, who are the present 
owners of Lookout, as both of these men are members 
of the Manchester Y. C. This was all wrong, however. 
The owners of the new boat are Hollis Burgess, a cousin 
of the designer and T. K. Lothrop, Jr. They are both 
members of the Boston Y. C., and Mr, Lothrop is also 
a member of the Corinthian Y. C.,of Marblehead, 


_ 


Stearns, of Marblehead, has started work on the boat, 
which is to be built in a special shed. Hollis Burgess 
avows that the special shed is not because any secrecy is 
desired, but simply that the work may go on more 
smoothly than if she were to be built in the big shed with 
other boats. It is desired to get her into the water as 
soon as possible. It is expected that she will be ready 
for a trial about the last of April or the first of May. 
The candidate for Seawanhaka cup honors which has 
been designed by Crowninshield has been started by 
Smith, of Quincy Point, and by this time she should be 
nearly planked. 

Crowninshield received an order last week which is one 
of the best that has been given to any of our American 
designers this winter. It is for a 21-footer to compete 
in the races for the German Emperor’s cup at the Kiel 
regattas. The order came from George Harvey, and is 
dated on board the Nahma, at Gibraltar. Mr. Ogden 
Goelet is cruising in the Mediterranean, in the Nahma, 
and it is thought that the boat is for him. She is to be 
built by Fenton, of Manchester, in the most elaborate 
manner. She will be of the raceabout type, with 550 
square feet of sail, and will carry about a ton of ballast 
on her keel. There are no restrictions except that the 
deck shall be planked with five-eighths stock, that the 


sum of the waterline length, the beam and the draft shall 


not exceed 32{t., and that she shall displace not more than 
4.050 pounds. Her dimensions, consequently, will be as 
follows: Waterline, 21ft.; beam, 6ft. 6in.; and drait, 4ft. 
6in. Her over all length will be 3rft. 1oin. On account 
of the displacement restriction and the lack of restrictions 
on scantling, the hull of the boat will be constructed as 
Bee as possible. She will be planked with Spanish 
cedar. 

The annual spring meeting of the Yacht Racing Asso- 
ciation of Massachusetts will be held at Young’s Thurs- 
day evening, at which the open racing dates for the com- 
ing season will be selected by the delegates representing 
the different clubs. Several of. the clubs have already 
made up their schedule for the season, and it is thought 
that by the time the meeting is held the other regatta 
committees will have arranged their dates, so that there 
should be no difficulty in selecting dates. Some of the 
clubs will want more than one open race. The Hull- 
Massachusetts Y. G; has already scheduled four and the 
Boston Y. C. has scheduled three. It is more than likely 
that some of the clubs on the north shore will want more 
than one date. In some cases clubs can only hold races 
on certain days on account of the amount of water and 
the time the tide serves. In these cases the other clubs 


will be called upon te make some change, but this is a 


CHARLES H. HALL, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 


matter that has always been easily adjusted, and it is not 
anticipated that there will be any friction this year. At 
the meeting the officers of the association for the year 
1902-03 will be elected, and there will be several amend- 
ments to-the by-laws and racing rules proposed. These, 
however, will not affect the general aim of the associa- 


tion, but are made to simplify rules and make them more _ 


binding, so that each rule will be fair to all. It is pro- 
posed to adopt the percentage table used by the Beverly 
Y. C. im figuring the season’s records. This is one of the | 
best tables that has ever been produced, and there is little 
doubt that it will be adopted. 

-The coming season promises to be the brightest that 
has ever been known for racing boats in the popular 
classes in Massachusetts Bay. More new boats have been 
built than in any previous year. Every one,of these 
boats, with the exception of two, that have been built 
for ur~estricted classes under 18ft. waterline, have been 
built tor the 2s5ft. and the 2r1ft. classes of the Yacht 
Racing Association of Massachusetts, and for the 18ft. 
knockabout class, also restricted, which has been adopted 
b.. the association. It would seem that this fact alone is 


_ sufficient to show that the aims of the association in re- 


gard to the formation of restricted classes have been in 
the right direction. If the classes were not right, the 
yachtsmen would not expend their money in building 
boats for them. As to where these boats will race, there 
has been a difference of opinion, but-I have no doubt 
that they will follow the Y. R. A. circuit generally. This 
is a matter which generally regulates itself, and it has 
been distinctly proven in former years that racing classes, 
as classes, cannot exist when a fence is put around them. 

At the yards everything is on the boom. Work is be- 
ing rushed on the boats at Lawley’s and at other places. 
The east shop at Lawley’s is filled with’ boats, and there 
are others to be started as soon as there is room. In the 
west shop work on the Lippitt 60-rater is well along, and 
she has taken definite shape. The Binney 46-footer is 
nearly all planked. Fenton, of Manchester, has a shop 
full and has already turned out five or six that have been 
completed. Stearns, of Marblehead, has about finished 
the last of the Burgess 18-footers, and is at work on a 
number of power launches. McIntyre, of Neponset, has 
completed seven of the thirteen one-design 15-footers | 
that he is building for the Sippican Y. C., of Marion. 

It was stated last week that Smith, of Quincy Point, 
is at work on a new boat of the scow type for Henry M. 
Faxon. It was not stated what her waterline length will 
be, but it will not be surprising if it should be found to be 
aift. This piece of news has a peculiar significance. 
Challenges for the Quincy. cup may be received any time 


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before April 1, and it would not be the most surprising 
thing in the world if Mr. Faxon should be preparing for 
it. At one of the fall meetings of the Y, R. A., Mr 
Faxon was very anxious to have the rule barring double 
hulls removed, but was unsuccessful. He must have had 
strong reasons for desiring the change, and it is likely 
that he had the idea of challenging at that time. The 
cup is now held by the Manchester Y. C., having been 
won by Lookout, owned by A. Henry Higginson, Jr., 
and Reginald Boardman in 1900. Mr, Faxon successfully 
defended the cup for the Quincy Y. C. for two years, 
and it is only natural that he should now want to get it 
back. At any rate, it behooves the Manchester Y. C. to 
get ready. i 
Frank Tandy has sold the 27ft. yawl Freya to William 
S, Hilles, of Wilmington, Del., and the 18it. knockabout, 
Lobster II., owned by C. C. Clapp, to W. W. Rouse, 
of Boston, Both of these boats are of Crowninshield 
design. : 
A. H. McIntyre & Co. have sold the goft. waterline 
yawl, Columbine, designed by Crowninshield and owned 
by Elmer F. Smith, to Charles F. Gould, of the New 
York Y. C. Also the 24ft. yawl, Pawnee, owned by 
Frank A, Heyer, to F. H. Pratt, of Cohasset, and the 
Bnney designed a21ft. cat, Trilby, to H. F. Drew, of 
Malden. : 
MacConnell Bros. have sold the cutter, Lassie, to C. B. 
Blount, of Boston; 25ft. knockabout, Conomo, to a mem- 
ber of the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C.; knockabout, 
Raduga, to F. J. Schussell, of Hoboken, N. J.; 50-footer 
Gloria, to Boston parties; steam launch, Adele, to the 
Misery Island Club; 21-footer, Ariel, to G. H. Sheahan, 
of- Harvard College; gasoline launch, Isabelle, to -H. H. 
Perkins, of Manchester, N. H., and yacht, Irene, to S. T- 
Snodgrass, of Winthrop. Joun B. KILLEEnN. 


Our English Letter, 


THE annual general meeting of the Yacht Racing 
Association was held on the 2ist inst., when Mr. Burton 
brought forward his proposal to change the luffing rule. 
The rule at present is that a yacht may luff as she 
pleases to prevent another passing to windward, and, 
though it is plain that the intention of the rule was to 
prevent a yacht from waiting until the other was well 
abeam before luffing, yet that has of late years been per- 
mitted. The question is a very difficult one, for, given a 
very high-pointing craft in the lee berth, one can easily 
prevent another from passing to windward, even though 
one put off luffing until long after an ‘‘overlap’” has been 
established. And if the helmsman of the weather boat 
keeps his eyes open, as he should, there is no earthly 
reason why a foul should occur. But the word luffing 
itself is in want of some elucidation. It seems to me that 
if a man luffs to prevent another passing to windward he 
should check the swing of his vessel before the head- 
sails lift. That is to say, it seems an abuse that a vessel 
should be thrown head to wind to stop another from 
passing, and it is a very moot point whether the verb 
to luff can be taken to apply to a vessel the sails of which 
are in the wind. The order to the helmsman in this case 
ought to be “port” or “starboard” instead of “luff.” 
The upshot of Mr. Burton’s motion was that the council 
wil consider and report upon the question as to whether 
any change in the rule is required. As things are, the 
tule is pretty well understood, and any change would 
cause a lot of temporary confusion, for the average sail- 
ing master is conservative in his ideas. 

A very pretty illustration of this was related to the 
writer last season by a man who went out in charge of 
a 2¥%4-rater to Spain. He had occason to luff pretty 
freely in the course of his first match, and could not 
understand how it was that the usually courteous Span- 
iards ‘looked at him with unconcealed disgust after the 
tace was over. It turned out, however, that in Spain. 
it is considered the most unsportsmanlike thing possible 
to luff an overtaking boat, and I think it is also against 
the rules. However, so strong was the habit in the man 
that no amount of expostulation could ever wean him 
from having a shot at any boat he saw coming up on his 
weather, and the Spaniards at last found it best not to 
put him in the way of temptation, : 

A report is current that Navahoe has been bought 
by a German yachtsman and will be rigged asa schooner. 
From what was seen of her over here, it seems that the 
change will suit her admirably. From time to time one 
reads absurdly eulogistic accounts of this vessel’s career 
in England. The truth is that she was an absolute failure, 
and totally unfit to be seen in company with Britannia. 
But this arose entirely from the fact that her sails were 
shockingly bad. In the first round of her first race at 
Cowes the yacht: showed very good promise, indeed, 
though she failed a litle by the wind. After that, how- 
ever, the sails and gear began to stretch, and throughout 
the rest of the season they went from bad to worse. 
Nothing would have made her fit to tackle Britannia to 
windward in a decent breeze, but no racing yacht ever 
had such a deplorable outfit of sails. Nowadays it is 
understood that a deep-hulled boat with a center plate 
is not suitable for racing, and probably Navahoe was the 
best possible craft’ of that type. The fact that she is 
coming to Kiel at once suggests getting up an ocean 
match between her and Meteor III. from Sandy Hook to 
the Needles. Perhaps some reader may start a prize 
fund, which should amount to at least $50,000. 

At the Y. R. A. meeting on Friday last it was an- 
nounced that H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, had con- 
sented to become president of the association. The 
King was president before he ascended the throne, but 
after that event he of course gave up all offices to which 
election is necessary. The Prince, being a sailor (and 
a good one, too), it is greatly to be hoped that he will 
take to racing. The German Emperor will not race 
Meteor II. in England any more. The yacht follows 
Meteor I., and will become a training vessel at Kiel. _ 

The Royal C. C. hag instituted an exhibition of models 
and designs of “canoe-yachts,” and this will be opened in 
the spring. Your readers may not know exactly what a 
“canoe-yacht’ is, and it may be well, therefore, to describe 
it as a small yacht with a snubbed-up nose, and the coun- 
ter ending in a point. These seem to be the sole char- 
acteristics. The competition is for boats that will rate 
as a4it. under the Y, R. A, rule, and a suggestive stipu- 


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lation is made that as many points in judging will be 
given for accommodation as for probable speed. That 
will puzzle competitors a little, probably, but no doubt 
the prize will go to fairly beamy and roomy boats that 
could have no possible chance to win in racing under 
Y. R. A. rules. Much has been said in praise of the 


canoe-yacht as a seaboat, and the writer would be sin- 


cerely thankful if any of your readers can point out one 
redeeming feature it. possesses, giving reasons for its 
superiority over the ordinary type of small yacht. 

On Friday last Messrs. Camper & Nicholson launched 
a fine new’schooner for FP. M. Singer, built by them from 
designs by Mr. J. M.-Soper, the architect of the cele- 
brated Satanita. The new yacht, which is entirely planked 
with teak, is the same length as Meteor III., but is three 
feet narrower. She is intended for no other purpose than 
ocean cruising. Mr. Soper is now in business on his 
own account, and has an agency for the sale and pur- 
chase of yachts. He is kept busy in the designing depart- 
ment, and bids-fair to attain great celebrity. 

The Mediterranean season is particularly flat this year 
from a yachting point of view, Sybarita and Kariad con- 
stituting the sole attraction. -A vain attempt was made 
last year to get up an ocean match from Cowes to Lis- 
bon, but it seems unlikely to become a fixture in the near 
future. The.King of Portugal, however, is greatly inter- 
ested in the matter, and when yachting again takes an 
upward move something may be done in this direction. 
The match would be followed by a huge regatta,_and all 
manner of shore entertainments. 

E. H. HAmiItton. 


Yacht Racing Association of Long 
Island Sound. 


The long delayed report of the executive committee 
of the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound 
as to the championship record for the season of 1901 
has at last been made public. It appears that the delay 
was because of the neglect of the chairmen of the regatta 
committees: of the different clubs to send in the reports 
of all their races to the executive committee of the asso- 
ciation. 

The conditions under which the races were held are 
these: A yacht to qualify for championship honors must 
Start im at least half the races on days arranged for her 
class. Yacht owners were privileged to make their own 
selections: of races when. two were scheduled for the 
same day. 

Points were awarded according to the number of yachts 
defeated, plus one for starting. For example, in a race 
in which six yachts start the winner was awarded six 
points, five for defeating five yachts, and one for starting. 
The second yacht was awarded five points, and the last 
to finish, if all finish, one point. The championship record 
of a yacht is the percentage which the total number of 
points to her credit at the end of the season bears to the 
total number she would have had if she had won every 
race in which she started. 

The percentage of championship was as follows: 


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Yachts Qualified and Owners. 2% O FQ & & 
‘ Sloops—43ft. Class. 
Dorwina, W. L. Ward.:....... 16. 16 9 14 16 87.5 
Sloops—3éft. Class. 
Leda, H. L, Maxwell......... 16 16 8 27 29 93.0 
ws Sloops—a0ft. Class. 
ANI ETL AT ye csae rodsetalee olerae neti Fines 17 23 16 37 58 63. 


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Don,» Gabriel Reevs........... 6 8 18 14 92.8 
Open—25ft. Class. 

None Wetsuit Gate. ete wae 15 1 
Open—2ift. Class, 

Oscars ener dgoaocansnnss 17 15 10 10 21 47.6 
Montauk, J. S. Appleby......... ¥ 9 24 26 92.3 
Open—i8ft. Class. 

S Order, a eee ee 1 FP avo? 8) 18 beh beh 
Cricketl, V2.6 cebu ree nesereys 12 45 85 62.9 
Mystral te Than S60 MG ated 
HiGpe Sines 4h tes teens foes me 10 42 71 59.0 
Opossum, H. M, Raberg........ e 10 46 12 63.9 
Yawls—43ft. Class. 

BS IGS s Vora eer, eer rereer ee 13 2 ats nes 
Yawls—a6ft. Class, 

Memory, W. N, Bavier........ 18 6 6 1B 13 100. 
Catboats—20ft. Class. 

Wotae Ce Pee Piencesn ee nemerct 15 12 8 15 15 100. 

Cabin—25ft, Class, . 
INGHED eo er ee ta eas yadhe “2-16 16 at. 

Open—25ft. Class, 
NON Gasrecrenacaree hate eens elo 3 Pe 

Open—21ft. Class. 
IMGT Cpa sure infiacnalsscaitee etek onine 14 19 

QOpen—18fi. Class. 
INIGRYS SSeS Ae NASM R ASS SOR 16 =—s-16 

Raceabouts. 
Bad gers iG iene ante nein ations sates aw 13 16 56 68 82.35 
SEV ISS Sartiomartriiicnmangeodaior ae 10 21 42 50.0 
VA ODE omonin sateratatentace arent tence ne aA a!) 36 25.0 
Webisyawiriie eset alate siete tater os etelttvresese re 12 46 53 86.8 
Manhasset Raceabouts. 

Tambkin, pease cs ccanmee nese 1 5 abt 24 43 55.8 
Pinehivebds Sob cates sme etrentAbrecerat aa 9 23 40 57.5 
Arizona, George Corey......... ae 10 37 43 86.0 
IMGIS£ Peso orcene smart eeeyise tent sa eB 11 28 39.0 
Bab ines cnr ICKY BATCH ERATION m4 8 14 35 40.0 


The championship in the raceabout class has not yet 
been decided. It lies between Badger and Merrywing, 
x decision of a protest being necessary to make the award. 
In the 43ft. class, Dorwina, one of Gardner & Cox’s 
productions, had things pretty much her own way, beat- 
ing handily her only competitors, Myra and Effort. In, 
the 36ft. class, Leda, cleverly sailed by Mr. H. L. Max- 
well, was well in the lead at the end of the season. 
Oiseau, in the 3oft. and Don, in the 25ft. class, had an 
almost continuous performance of winning, and received 
the award in their particular classes. 

The fin keel Herreshoff boat, Memory, rigged this 
season for the first time as:a yawl, made a remarkable 
showing as.a result of the change. The 18ft. sloop class 
had many more entries than the others, nineteen boats 


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SLOOPS—CLASS M. 
Nita, GEOr ee UL ie sciatere s.clelolelalatalataafoselole emlose feb tte ty 1 
Bonito, Haviland Brothers............-..-- PEC. (Se toe a owl 
Wivian, S, BH, Vernon... cc. yes cescseeees rer cueeccetee eres + t 
Titania, W. H. Childs... 2s. sccscee eee e cece sere tees 2 
SLOOPS—CLASS N. 
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Vivian, Se EB, Vernon... .,cscccscereee cess reese SCOP MH #14 
Susie, ©, Ferguson.......-...-cececeecsssenr ees teceere te 
Narika, F. T. Cornell... ......c.ceceeeeseceneeesgtecres oe 
Gwendolyn, H. G. S. Noble........« a WOT RRP Se 
Bonito, Haviland Brothers..... i 4 ALR On SUNS Aras SE Ae, 
SLOOPS—CLASS P. 
Song and Dance, E. F. Luckenbach.........-2s+..-+-+ s 5 
Cockatoo, Hendon Chubb.....--.scecrer rer eceecerenses os ts 
Corona, J. E. Beggs...cesccessesetsrecteteenr rene teees oe 
Wraith, Calvin Tomkins.......-2.-+-secrersceecteeereee oe 
SLOOPS—CLASS Q, : 
Wraith, Calvin Tomkins.......s0s0es02+eesencseerseeee 1 fe 
Spots, D. D, Allerton.........c.ecsesee reese cee ener scene os 
Wink, W. A. Barstow. .ccccscser-ccereccersetsnsesnrens 2 
Broncho, F. C, Moores.....sscessceeeereeeraserccrenstes o> i 
Elsie, C. P. Rosemon.....+e-eeceeceeccetenescseceteneas oe 8 
Corodo, A. PeterS......:-ccserecrserenecerreseesteteeess ve aS 
CLASS Q—SPECIAL. 
Minnetonka, S. E. Vernon....-...ececcesccoesenseetere os 
SLOOPS—CLASS R. 
Pebble, R. W. Speir.......- Shc cee 7 hme res 2 i 
Budget, Henry Anthomy......-.--seeecveeesereensseecs 1s re, 
Peanut, Calvert Brewer......- 2 
Pickaninny, L. R. Connett 
Constance, F. D, Prentice 
MARINE AND FIELD. 
Kelpie, W. K. Brown.,.....-.---++2++++s 
Jig-a-Jig, W. A. Hutcheson.. 
quinaue, AO SELS SS rpliveers nares 
ixen, Baylor and Mahoney..... 
Stinger, A. P. Clapp...-...+.--:200: 
Flying Fox, Cone and Buckman....... 
CATBOATS—CLASS T 
Elsie, C. P. Rosemon:....s..-+-+ +200 
Qui Vive, George Freeth......:-<1+,+.- 
CATBOATS—CLASS V 
Martha M., Richard Moore........s1:2+:eeeseeeeneenes 9% s 
Elsie, C. P. Rosemon.......scseceeceseesreersecescenese s 


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A. Y. C., Atlantic Yacht Club. B. Y.C., Brooklyn Yacht Club. 
Third place, 6 points. 


First place, 10 points. Second place, 8 points. 


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D, Did not finish. *, Disqualified once. _ 
M. & F. C., Marine and Field Club. N, ¥. C. C., New York Canoe Club. G. B. A., Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay. 
Sixth place, 1 point. ? 


Fourth place, 4 points. Fifth place, 2 points. 


competing, five of them qualifying by sailing the requisite 
number of races. Little interest was manifested in the 
catboat classes, and this was also the case in the 4oft. 
yawl class. 

The question of a measurement rule is the all-absorbing 
topic in the different clubs all over the country, and the 
Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound has 
determined to solve this difficult problem without waiting 
for others to do so, and to that.end has secured the ser- 
vices of those of the best known naval architects in this 
country, Messrs. B. B. Crowninshield, William Gardner 
and Clinton H. Crane. It is the intention of these gentle- 
men to make the most careful observation. of the work- 
ing of the recently adopted rule during the coming sea- 
son and to make an exhaustive report of their findings 
in the fall. New rules will be submitted if, in the judg- 
ment of the committee, they shall be necessary. 


Measurement Formulae. 


Editor Forest and Siream: : 

Anything which will in any degree aid in the solution 
of the question of the rating or measurement of yachts 
will be pertinent at any time. What I wish to offer may 
not have this happy effect, but it is at least discussion, 
and that is unquestionably needed. 

I wish to confine myself for the present to a discussion 
of the simple proposition. 

A formula is impracticable. 

A formula is simply a numerical statement of relations 
and for its value depends entirely on the accuracy with 
which this is done. Thus: 

10 = 10 + Io 
2 
be applied to it. It will work out correctly. 

Now take the basis of our measurement formule. 

L.W.L.+ VSail Area. 
2 


is an accurate formula, and any test may 


Racing length= 


The racing length means simply that when two yachts — 


have the same racing length their chances for winning, 
eliminating the questions of management and luck, are 
equal. That is, for the same racing length an infinite 
number of combinations is possible of LWL and SA. 
If the formula be exact this means that no other elements 
affect the speed of a yacht, and this we know to be false. 
It can be easily shown by taking the case of two yachts, 
LWL=soft. in one case SA—=trit. 
LWL=2oft. in the other case SA=goott. ; 
Each has a racing length of 30ft. Manifestly they are 
not equal. It may be said that the formula is not intended 
to apply to so extreme a case. Very well, take an actual 
one: 


. ; +3844. 
Yacht A, racing length suite 
. +2704. 
Yacht. B, racing length suit = 


Can there be any question of which is the faster? I 
think not. :. ' 

But it may be said that the formula can be modified to 
meet this condition. This would be true if we knew ex- 
actly how much influence each element of the yacht had 
on its speed, but this, unfortunately, we not only do 
not know, but for yachts of dissimilar form cannot even 
guess at. 

We know that skin friction, displacement, ratio of 
beam to length, ratio of midship section to displacement, 
ratio of depth to length, the ratio of lateral plane to sail 
area, position of ballast, ratio of ballast to displacement, 
ratio of erect LWL to over all length; form of LWL 
plane, ratio of sail area to displacement and amount of 
righting moment, not to mention the influence of the 
length and character of the overhangs and the character 
of the construction of the hull and spars, all have their 
influence on speed, and it follows, therefore, that a 
formula to have any excuse for existence must show 


affirmatively that these elements have all been considered 
and either embodied or legitimately eliminated. 

No sane person will attempt to comply fairly with these 
Soniiones though any fair person must admit them to 

€ fair. 

It will not do for the advocate of the formula to say 
that this or that one has been successful thus far, because 
we know of several that worked well when applied to the 
yachts they were designed to fit, but failed completely 
as soon as they were put to the test by a designer of 
original ideas. They worked for a time simply because 
all of the elements but those considered were practically 
the same. 

Another fallacy in all formulz lies in the fact that we 
are absolutely indifferent to the influence the actual speed 
of the yacht has in increasing the effect of its retarding 
elements. Every yachtsman knows that some yachts 
are good in light weather that are relatively slow in a 
breeze, but there are very few who assign any other 
cause than the large sail area, while if they were obser- 
vant they would see that impefections of form frequently 
come into play to put the badly designed yacht far in the 
rear long before it is time to reduce sail. Now, retard- 
ing elements may not be imperfections of form, but their 
effect will surely some time be dependent on the speed 
of the yacht, and a fair formula will consider and provide 
for them. 

Our position is far worse when we attempt by means 
of a formula to encourage any particular type or class 
of yacht, for we then are not only dealing with unknown 
elements, but are putting out the light of experience 
and groping in the dark. : 

We can safely say: 

First—All measurement formule thus far tried are 
failures. 

Second—Specific restrictions are a necessary qualifica- 
tion of them all. 

Third—The substitution in a formula of an approxima- 
tion for the actual element always. leads to an evasion. 

Fourth—The classification of yachts cannot be satis- 
factorily accomplishg@sl by means of a formula. 

The time is ripe for a new departure wherein our ex- 
perience and knowledge will be of service. 

Grorce Hitt. 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


At Miller’s yard, Patchogue, there’ is building a 26it, 
yawl for Mr. John Thornton, New York city, and a 45it. 
sloop for Mr. R, Eggleston, also of New York city. 


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The Greenport Basin and Construction Co., of Green- 
port, L. L, recently completed the steam yacht they de- 
signed and built for Mr. A. Schwartzmann, of New York 
city. She is 122ft. on the waterline, 145ft. over all, 17it. 
6in. breadth and 7ft. 3in. draft. The yacht was named 
Turbese. 

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Mr. J. H. Miller is having a 22ft. catboat built at 
Hand’s yard, East Moriches, L. I. 


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The 35ft. waterline cutter building by Lawley from 
designs made by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane, for 
Mr. Henry ‘A. Morss, will be known as Cossack and not 
Cherokee, as we stated in the issue of Jan. 18, when we 
published her plans. a 

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Messrs. Huntington & Seaman have made the follow- 
ing sales: Auxiliary yawl Dione to Mr. Gouvernor 
Spaulding, of New Haven; sloop Rondinella to Mr. 
Rutherford Buchan; launch Neno to Messrs. Ulrichs; cat- 
boat Welfare to Mr. Charles Mehlin; knockabout Ago- 
wam to Mr. F. W. Horn; auxiliary catboat Yogi to 
Charles Everett. 


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Western Yachts. 


Columbia Y. C. Percentage Table. 


Cuicago, ILu., March 6.—Columbia Y. C., of Chicago, 
has adopted a new percentage table for use more espe- 
cially in the a21ft. class this coming season. The table 
takes into consideration the number of yachts engaged 
in any given race, as well as the order of finish, and is 
figured out to twenty entries. It is thought this table 
is not new in certain eastern ports, but offers the fullest 


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Columbia Y. C. throws open the Lipton cup competi~ 
tions to all clubs recognized by the Y. R. U. of the 
Lakes. A broad and very wise move. ' 


“Chicago Y, C. August Cruise, 


ithe Chicago Y, C. squadron will leave Chicago August 
2 for a two weeks’ cruise, touching at Macatawa, Charle- 


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Macs 22, 1652.) 


yoix and Mackinaw, this being determined at a meeting 
of the boat owners last evening, 


One Design in the West. 


Minnetonka Y. C., of Minnesota, is out for a single 
design, and this coming season will see a dozen boats 
built to it, for Lake Minnetonka use. ‘The type is 26ft. 
over all; beam, 7ft. 6in.; waterline, 2oft.; draft, board 
down, 4ft.; sail area, 45o0it, 

E. Houeu, 

Harrrorp Buirpine, Chicago, Il: 


The Holmes Shipbuilding Co,, of New York city, are 
building at their yard at West Mystic, Conn., a 65ft, over 
all sloop from designs made by Messrs. Gardner & Cox. 


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The masts have been stepped in the German Emperor’s 
‘schooner Meteor III, and the work of setting up the 
standing rigging is well along. The bowsprit is also 
in place, and the topmasts will be in by the end of the 
week. The yacht will be given a trial in about ten days. 


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The cruising schooner Endymion, owned by George 
Lauder, Jr., was picked up dismasted six miles north of 
Diamond Shoals Lightship on Sunday by the tug T. J. 
Merritt, and towed by her into Lookout Cove, Va. The 
vessel will probably be repaired at Norfolk, so that she 
may continue her cruise in Southern waters. The details 
of the accident have not been given out, but it is thought 
the yacht was in collision, although her hull was per- 
fectly sound. Endymion has the reputation of being one 
of the finest cruising yachts in the world, and this is the 
first time she has met with an accident. She was de- 
signed by Messrs, Tams, Lemoine & Crane for the late 
George Lord Day. — 


Rifle Bange and Gallery. 
o> 
Shooting in South Africa. 


PROBABLY a very great number of military men. would 
be found to agree that tha shooting likely to be valuable 
In war is the same sort of shooting that wins a man 
prizes at the ranges. As a natural sequence, they would 
argue that constant practice at the latter under existing 
conditions is the best training for making a man efficient 
in this respect for work in the field. 

The whole argument is really based upon the most 
obvious fallacy, as ought to be at once discerned by any 
one who has learned a lesson from this war. What is 
called “straight” shooting is not of much use in the 
‘tield for the many, although now and again it might come 
in handy to a chased scout or a small outpost. But is it 
not apparent that in battles where the enemy are rarely 
seen as individual men, perhaps not seen at all, where 
ranges are being continually altered and conditions of 
light and air shifting, that the ability to hit a small bulls- 
eye with all the affecting conditions ascertained before- 
hand, and the ranges, if not absolutely fixed, at all events 
hetween certain defined limits, will avail a man little or 
nothing? The Boers have realized that, and the knowl- 

edge has enabled them to stop us on many an occasion. 
Not by, what we term good shooting, but simply by 
- decent judging of distance, and then by pouring in a hail 
of bullets at the proper elevation. Not by waiting until 
they saw something to fire at and then taking careful 
aim; not by bothering much about “direction,” but merely 
by maintaining a hot fire upon the ground which we were 
holding, or over which we were trying to advance. There 
_ is certainly one British general who has served in South 
Africa who has expressed his -approyal of this. policy. 
‘That it is highly effectual most men who have had prac- 
tical experience of the way in which it works out can 
“testify. 

What we want, then, is the ability to direct our fire 
at the proper elevation; not so much to hit definite small 
objects as to make our bullets fall there or thereabout. 
This will depend upon accurate judging of distance, quick 
and correct sighting, and a steady “pull off.” “Wind- 
age,” about which so much is talked on the ranges, may 
-be neglected, as, indeed, it usually is on service; so long 
as the fire is neither too high nor very low (for richochets 
count in the field) it matters little whether the aim of the 
individual is too far to the left or to the right. Distance- 
judging is undoubtedly the main thing, and of this our 

troops and amateur riflemen cannot have too much, in 
all lights and all weathers, and, if possible, with all sorts 
of backgrounds. ‘ 

Next in importance comes a matter that nearly every 
writer on the subject seems to have entirely overlooked 
—that is. the ability to get the right eleyation without 
continually shifting the back sight. The ordinary “fixed- 
sight” shooting at short ranges is good enough so far as 
it goes, but there is no reason, save old-established 
prejudice, why this should mot be extended to the limits 
‘of the rifle’s carrying power, and certainly up to 1,200 
and 1,500 yards. 

It is not stggested that’ it would be possible to train 
the brain and hand and eye of the average man so as to 

- enable him with his sight, say, at 500 yards, to judge 
how much above his object to aim so as to make fair 
shooting at the extreme range mentioned; but it would 
he perfectly feasible for him so to be taught as to get the 
right elevation for distances a couple or even 300 yards, 
oyer and under the figure at which his back sight. was 
standing, without shifting the latter. There are many 
stories narrated of Boers who could make good shooting, 
using their thumbs as back sights. No doubt these are 
somewhat apocryphal, but ‘tnquestionably the Boers do 
continue to follow up a moving object with a marvelous 
rapidity which seems to preclude the shiiting of the 

sight. If they do not hit the unlucky scout who has 
strayed into them, as he gallops away, as lotig as he is in 

_ range their bullets fall all about him. That may not he 

good shooting in the sense understanded of an inspector 
of musketry, but it is undeniably useful. And it cannot 


to be shot in one hour or less, five shots on each target. 


FORES1 AND STREAM. 


be learned at fixed targets, least of all on mitliatute tatiges. 
Practice at both of these must be regarded solely as 
ptoviding an opportunity of initiation into the very ele- 
tnents of the art—lLondon Pall Mall Gazette. 


Knickerbocker Athletic Club Tournaments 


The tournament of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club was held 
in the club’s theatre, March 12 to 13, inclusive. There were two 
main events, the Indoor Reyolyer Championship and the Indoor 
Pistol Championship. The time of competition was from 1 o’clock 
to 10 o'clock P, M. "s 

Indoor Revolver Championship.—Fifty consecutive shots at 20yds. 
on the Standard American, target, with bullseye 2%4in, in eles eer, 

ny 
revolver with barrel not over Sin, in length, exclusive of cylinder, 
with plain open sights in front of hammer and not over 10in. 
apart. Minimum trigger pull 214ibs, Ammunition, smokeless, 
Gallery load to be approved by executive committee. Entrance 
fee, $5. No reentries. First prize, a silver cup, representing the 
Indoor Revolyer Championship of the United States of America, 
ta be held for one year, anda gold medal; second prize, a silver 
medal; third psize, a bronze medal. The scores: / 


W Eb Pettya ices sees qseoenrinin . 44 45 44 44 47 47 44 88 42 44 439 
Dro HipSay er nh ce dae eek eros . AT 38. 44 41 47 45 48 42 41 43—436 
A L_ A Himmelwright......:..... »1 AQ 43 41 41 44 45 44 40 45 45—d28 
W #H Luckett....... vepcrisseesyesse AG 47 89 43 41 48 37 44 40 39—424 
EMS PD Gir aoce ten Ree eevee ..»--44 37 86 89 40 46 38 36 43 47—406 
CAS Dreier es eh Poeha oy ... 43 41 36 89 34 42 45°43 41 35—399 


TRS Sayre recess teases sce seea », 46 42 44 41 44 43 44 47 49 46—448 


JSD ales ot igonengoueusdasadu 1. 46 41 41 48 42 44 41 46 41 48—428 
A LA Himmelwright .-..6..1..... 38 40 48 39 39 29 43 44 41 47—408 
ME Eatos 1. yaa tees apace: 41 45 37 41 39 87 44 39 43 36—402 


K, A. C. Continuous Pistol Mateh.—Standard American target, 
with a bullseye 2%in. in diameter. Any single-shot pistol whose 
barrel js not over 10in. in length, with plain open sights in front 
of the hammer and not over 10in. apart. Minimum trigger pull, 
2lbs. Ammunition, any smokeless cartridge, which must be ap- 
proved by the shooting committee of the Knickerbocker Athletic 


Club. Entries unlimited. Fifty “cents each target, or three for 
one dollar if taken at ome time. Six shots on a target. Five 
targets to count for prizes. Five prizes. The scores: 

As Dietz edits sd. eae come os maine loke sii bo 57 57 57 57-287 
A M Lemercier........5... Peck hee aes 59 58 56 56 55—284. 
BIBER TP Sayre ear aie en wectele'g eiete ctrl Salas ovelossce SB] 567 57% 56  56—283 
A L A Himmelwright........,. sorbet 5S 66 55 56 654-279 
Ware eos Witeti). peii\sanb ae Tr cer te eee 56 54 4 52 52—268 
Kee VeLGaSe Vs tte irt > birleiinebeleriies dat Ae 55 54 53 52 52—266 


. A. © Continuous Revolver Match.—Distance 20yds. on the 
Standard American target, with a bullseye 2%4in. in diameter. Any 
revolver with barrel not over Sin. in length, exclusive of cylinder, 
with plain open sights in front of hammer, and not more than 10in. 
apart. Minimum trigger pull, 244lbs. Ammunition, smokeless, 
gallery load, to be approyed by the shooting committee of the 
Knickerbocker Athletic Club, Entries unlimited, Fifty cents 


each target, or three for one dollar if taken at one time. Six 
shots on a target. Five targets to count for prizes. Five prizes. 
Dr WG, Wiuckett. Saecessescieadess s 59 #58 58 57 56—288 
Ay Dietz, rt yoe ce caratee een cap ices as 57 5T 56 56 55—281 
(Bye 12 TIS ree S99 49 a go ghar 58 57 57 54 54—280 
A L A Himmelwright.......-........-. 59 66 56 55  54—280 
BSS Pier eyiscs cs ciens Sean asptety arerataes mee oe 56 55 5b 54—277 
AViUL LOC eea ene eeeD eens noe 56 8656 5b 5D 53—275 
Goby Gy Armstrongagiss:-sssae sae seen 56 55H CH CC(it«é A 2.75 
WWigtai chive sa Se iawn escent fhcaeee sore b4 52 51 51 50—258 
A De Sheppard, we litp meee esto eet coer BL 50, 49 «49 48-247 
W _R Robbins....,; SSE ARMS ANAS a ECs 47 47 46 42 42224 
sige) ice lero ee erate eoenisiaiieieta a aes Aes 46 48 41 36 35—201 
SAMBO LTS 1 aint pen euverios:stelete k cistetn bets a 764 38 919. ow 

Dee Bate ii acnene et ee see ietendlstptestahres 45 43° 31 ow 


Zettler Rifle Club Rifle Tournament. 


THERE was a most gratifying combination. of enthusiasm and 
statinch support at the rifle tournament, open to the world, held 
in Zettler Brothers’ Gallery, 159 West Twenty-third street, New 
York, from March 8 to 17, Sundays excepted. The distance of the 
range was Toft. ° > 

The competition closed at 10 o’clock on Monday of this week. 
At its close the president, Mr. Gus Zimmermann, who is an expert 
of international fame, made a brief speech, thanking the contestants 
for their hearty support, and calling their attention to the improved 
scores. Mr. H. D. Muller, the vice-president, then took the chair 
and attended to the distribution of the prizes and the honors as- 
sociated therewith. As each winner of the main prizes and honors 
was called to the front and received his winnings, the chairman 
called for three hearty cheers, which were given with the most 
friendly good will. Messrs. H. M. Pope and L. P. Ittel were the 
‘most conspicuous in the high honors of the tournament. The 
latter was absent when the prizes were distributed, and it was an- 
nounced that, while his absence was regretted, there was matter 
for rejoicing in the cause of his absence, inasmuch as his wife 
had presented him with twins. He was given three enthusiastic 
cheers for his sticcess as a contestant, and three more cheers were 
given for the auspicious eyent which caused his absence. His 
watm corner in the hearts of his opponents in the friendly com- 
petition was constantly evident. His score of 2458 beat his own 
and Mr. Ross’ score of last year. ; f 

The shooting was all off-hand. 

The main event was the 100-shot gallery match for 1902, entrance 
$5, 100 shots to be fired in 20 scores of 5 shots at any time during 
the tournament. The regular 25 (4in.) ring target to be used. 
The winners in this 100-shot event were: 

- One hundred-shot championship: L. P, Ittel, Allegheny City, 
2,458: Dr. W. G, Hudson, New York city, 2,456; W. Tewes, Jersey 
City, 2,446; M. Dorrler, Jersey City, 2,445; H, M. Pope, Springfield, 
Mass., 2,444; Theodore Geisel, Springfield, Mass., 2,442; Louis 
Buss, New York city, 2,442; W. Rosenbaum, New York'city, 2,432; 
P. O’Hare, Jersey City, 2,426; L. Flach, Brooklyn, 2,422; E, S. 
Pillard, New York city, 2,417; R. Busse, New York city, 2,416; 
H. F. Barning, Jersey City, 2,415; FE, Parmelee, New Britain, 
-Cenn,, 2,413;-George Schlicht, Hoboken, 2,418; E. Minervini, New 
York city, 2,412; C. Zettler, Jr., New York city, 2,410; H. Holges, 
Yonkers, 2,408;-P. Muth, Brooklyn, 2,404; R. Gutte, Middle Village, 
WN. Y-_, 2.404; J“ Martin, Brooklyn, 2,400; A. Kronsberg, New York 
city, 2,391; F. F, Conti, New York city, 2,890; R. Worn, Brooklyn, 
2.386; J. Marz, New York city, 2,883; Charles Meyer, Brooklyn, 
2.380; H. D. Muller, New York city, 2,879; J. J. Young, Brooklyn, 
2,368; Louis Zoellner, 2,365; L. Maurer, New York city, 2,365; 
C. Van Zandt,.Brooklyn, 2,360; J. Schmidt, New York city, 2,860; 
J. Kauffmann; Brooklyn, 2,353; A. Begerow, Newark. 2.340; J. C. 
Siebes, Middle Village, N. Y., 2,338; 5S. Scott, Philadelphia, 2,336; 
W. Koch, New’ York city, 2,321; G. J. Bernius, New York city, 
2,276; Harold K; Brown, New York city, 2,081. 

Mr. Ittel won’ the beautiful silver set and case; Dr. Hudson and 
Mr. Tewes each won a rifle; Mr, Dorrler won a clock; Mr, Muth, 
Lyman sights; Mr. Martin, a case; Mr. Rebham, musical album; 
Mr. Kronsberg,)Joading set. There were also cash prizes from $15 
down to $2, twenty in all, amounting to $108. The best 10-shot 
score was made*by Messrs. Young and Zoellner, 75 and 74. 

The special target for the Gus Zimmermann trophy was a re-entry 
match, open to all, The bullseye was 4in. with rings. Entrance 
25 cents. The best shots on one bullseye to count. Mr. L. P. 
Ittel was the winner with a score of only two points less than 
perfect, as follows: 


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The Ting target was a competition open to all, Targets of three 


shots, 35 cents, Reentries unlimited. The best three targets to 
eetint for the fitst five prizes; two best for the next five prizes, and 
one best tarfet for each of the test. here were twenty cash 
prizes, as follows: $80, $26, $20, $16, $12, 510, #9, $8, $8, $8, $7, 37, 
$6, 36, $5, $b, $4, 34, $4 and $2. Premiums, best five targets, $5; 
second best five, $4; third best, $3. 

The scores on the ring target were: 


W Rosenbaum ...... Ao Ot HBS = 
rsitS “ARGESir es citis ¢ alee ht le aang Rae. 46 
DO cal ele} ok:[ eo epee eer 74 73 4. 
lek Guiles esse ese V5 . 
€ Zettler, Jr. er. 
i We Worclemiancsetesti «ag! eee 
Dr W Hudson....,. Preset Wty oe Sts Pole Maer ee rer) e 74 723 
TMI dS aang ber Whee atl ta: ts . 


The bullseye target was open to.all, Three shots, 35 cents for 
each bullseye, -Re-entries unlimited. The best shot by measure- 
ment to count for prizes. Fifteen prizes, from $25 to $2; total 
ae Premiums, most bullseye, 1, 2 and 3, $5, $4 and $2 respec- 
tively: 

Best bullseyes: H. M. Pope 2 degrees, G. D. Weigman 5% de- 
grees, W. Rosenbaum 514 deprees, C. Meyer 6 degrees, P, Muth 
6 degrees, R. Busse 6 degrees, H. Mahlenbrock 6 degrees, T. R. 
Geisel 7 degrees, 8, Buzzini, 7 degrees, M, Dorrler 84% degrees; 
L, P. Ittel 9 degrees, H. D. Muller 1042 degrees, K. Voegel 10% 
degrees, G. Worn 11 degrees, J. Yan Daun 11 degrees, L. Buss 
11% degrees, R. Gutte 11% degrees, J. Marx 12 degrees, T. H. 
Keller 12% degrees, L. Flack 12% degrees, T. Conti 12% 
degrees, A. Kronsberg 12% degrees, J. Rebhan 13 degrees, P. 
O'Hare 14 degrees, J. Schmidt 14 degrees, C, Kauffmann 14 
degrees, William Morris, 14 degrees. 

Most bullseyes: S, M, Murphy 205, T, H. Keller 150, H, D. 
Muller 102, : : 


New York Long Range Rifle Club, 


_ On Saturday of Jast week a meeting of noted’ riflemen. was held 
in New York at the Murray Hill Hotel, and thereat the New 
York Long Range Rifle Club was formed. Thirty-five joined as 
charter members, 

The military shooters of New York were represented by Lieut 
B. B. McAlpin, Corp. W. B. Short and James L. Bull, of the 
Seventh Regiment; Capt, E, B, Bruch, Lieut, Robert Byars and 
Corp. K. K. VY. Casey, of the Seventy-first Regiment; Maj, George 
Shorkley, U. S. A., and Capt. Leslie C, Bruce, Old Guard. Civilian 
shooters were represented by Dr. W, G. Hudson, Dr. W. B, 
Pryer, Frank Hyde, T, H. Keller, J, D. Miller, J. A. Haskell, 
Ed Taylor and E. C. Ferriday. From out of town were: Gen. B. 
W. Spencer, Lieut. Albert S, Jones, J. Maleolm and Colin R. 
Wise, of Passaic; Capt. Hobart Tuttle and C. H. Petry, Paterson; 
Dr, W, H. H. Bull, Bloomfield; Harry M. Pope, Springfield, 
Mass.; Maj. Arthur Rowland, Capt. Alvin H. Graff, Lieut. Van 
Deman, Franklin Philips, William Tlayes and Frederick Agens, 
Jr., Newark; Dr. W, E. Ogden, W-. M. Jacobus, J. Wickware and 
meee Ely, Jr., Rutherford, and Dr. Daniel A, Currie, Engle- 
wood, : 

A committee on by-laws, whose members are Capt, Bruce, Dr. 
Hudson and Lieut. Jones, and a committee on nominations, whose 
members are Maj, Shorkley, Lieut. Jones and Dr. Short, were 
appointed and instructed to report at a meeting to be held on 
March 29. It is the intention of the club to become affiliated 
with the National Rifle Association of America; All the shooting 
of the club will be at 1,000yds., and it is proposed to hold the first 
shoot on April 6, 


Cincinnati Rifle Association. 


Crneinnatr, O.—The following scores were made in regular com- 
petition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at Four- 
Mile House, Reading road; March 16, Conditions, 2Myds,, off- 
hand, at the Standard target, Roberts was declared champion for 


the day with the good score of 89. Weather, cloudy; thermometer, 
64; wind, 4 to 8, gusty, strong in afternoon: : 

IRGBGrtS Sebi se cetide aes 89 78 78 77 76 8 6 7-21 5 7 8-24 
DPAVTL Gs) os solely abel distal a heccne et 86 85 84 83 83 6 9 10—25 5 7 10—22 
Strickmeier .........-.... 86 86 83 83 80 8 7 T—22 9 8 T—24 
PYorer | saad oewview oes 65 ( 86 74 73 72 69 9 8 10-27 810 7—25 
IVESELEI Matt ateisis terclea so 85 82 80 78 78 8 7 10-—25 9 7 6 22 
perl ge: Les alent gees 85 81 81 73 69 8 7 8-23 SSF 

Weketter "-iseas-s.s5es% 82. 79 77 Ti 74 9 9 &—26 10 7 6—23 
Trounstine Yees-ssneeenuls 81 80 78 75 67 9 8 T—24 9 8 5—22 
iDietiocel Sah AcmeeeekpesicAnas 81 73 73 70 68 8 & 8—24 7 9 723 
OTEK. Sneha et ae aa , 80 75 75 74 74 7 7 T-21 9 7 8—24 
BUNS Asa shssuitses trees 82 76 76 75 74 610 8—24 8 8 8—24 
GIT elem ae snare mbetess eres 80 79 73 65 .. i eb 18 7 7 10-24 
Weinheimer ....-....-.:.. 76 74 72 70 66 7 6 B18 510 5—20 
Jonscher . ..15. 72 72 71 69 bee St ty pest 

Hoffman ... ..10 67 65 60 59 3 4 815 7 8 8—23 
DOD i accceele atte seems 68 63 52 51 50 4 6 TAT 6 5 920 


A telegraph match was shot to-day with the Central Sharp- 
shooters” Association of St) Louis,-consisting ef teams of ten men 
each, and 25 shots per man, off-hand, at the Standard target, 200yds, 
The result will be forwarded later. if . 


Junior Branch Championship. 


Tue Junior Branch of the Sportsmen’s Association, of which 
Mr, B. M. Sexias is the manager, held a competition of marked 
excellence in the gallery in Madison Square Garden, during ‘the 
Sportsmen’s..Show: First prize was won by Mr. C. M. Daniels. 
He made a score of 29 out of a possible 80, though he was tied 
by Mr. F. Houseman. In the shoot-off, both fell off considerably, 
Mr. Daniels scoréd 21 to Mr. Houseman’s 19. Mr, Daniels was 
made further happy by the present of a fine -Savage rifle from 
Mr. Daniels, pere. Mr. George Gregory was third, The scores: 

Rifle competition for Junior Branch: C. M,.Daniels, Dwight 
School, and F. W, Houseman, Dwight School, tied with 29° George 
Gregory, Dwight School, 27. Other scores: Hayden. Hawthorne, 
Trinity School, 26; A. McKenzie, Dwight School, 26;. R. Arm- 
strong, Tobias School, 24; S. Lervis, Dwight Schgol, 22; E. Sheffler, 
Clinton School, 21; J. Wilbur, Hudson- River :Ailitary Academy, 
26; F. Craig, Fordham College, 24; R. Housinaur, Public School 
No. 55, 22; A. Stone; Dwight School, 23; W,.Neweourt, Boys’ High 
School, 25; Samuel Crawford, Trinity School» 25; Corwralt, 
Dwight School, 19; Claud Seixas, Bronx High School, 22: W. 
Hazeltine, Dwight School, 27; P. Griffiths, Dwight School, 21; 
J. J.. Fauth, Dwight School, 19; Otto Meyer, Boys’ High School, 
18; G. Reis, Heck School,"Tarrytown, 20; W. Reis, Heck School, 
Tarrytown, 18; William Smith, Columbia Institute, 23. 


‘My Angling Friends. oat 


Mr, Mather was well known to the angling fraternity, especially 
to readers of Forest AND StreAM, He was a brave soldier of the 
Republic in the Civil War, a member of the Ist; New York Heavy 
Artillery, and a prominent pisciculturist, What-he did not know 
about fishes, practically, at least, if not scientifically, was not 
worth knowing. In this volume, as in a predecessor, he tells us of 
various men with whom he has ‘‘wet a line,’? among whom were 
President Arthur, Charles Hallock, the founder: of Forrest anp 
SprEAm, and the Grand Duke Alexis. He does not forget, however, 
some af his humbler comrades, and writes of. several of them as 
interestingly as of his more distinguished friends. Mr. Mather 
was a lover of nature, and his “Sketches” every now and then 
bring the readers so close to the heart of Mother Earth that its 
beatings can be heard. The book is sure to ke a favorite with 
true sportsmen.—Literary World. : 


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30. 


Within the Range of Possibilities. 


Ir possible, the Forrest AND STREAM has beenjinore desirable of 
late than ever before —C, W. B., Portland, Mess 


An amusing story is told by a contemporary Fespecting a shoot- 
ing party im Scotland. A covert had just been beaten through, 
and one'of the gums outside addressed a keeper who had just 
emerged from the wood, thus: ‘Have you got all your beaters 
out?” “Aye,” said the man, astonished. “Are you sure; have 
you counted them?’ “Counted them?” said the keeper, “aye, 
they’re all right,”’ “Then,” said the shooter, with a sigh of some 
relief, “I have shot a roe deer,”—Shooting Timés,’ 


Rifle at Shell Mound. 


San Francisco, Cal,, March 10:-The shooting conditions at 
Shell Mound yesterday were very fayorible, F. E. Mason with 
rifle at 200yds:, and J. E. Gorman with pistol at B0yds., did ex- 
ceptional work. Much interést is new shown in revolver shoot- 
ing. The stalls of the Golden Gate Club devoted to the small arm 
are in constant use on every shooting Sunday, and much creditable 
work is done. Scores for the day: 

_ Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club, handicap, revolver: J. E. 
Gorman 90, 89, 86; T. A, Becker 88, 87, 87, 88; F. S. Washburn 83; 
J. W. Tompkins 79, 78, 73; J. Kullmann 79. Pistol, handicap: 
J, E. Gorman 96, 92, 96, 95, 94; F. S. Washburn 95, 92, 92; $2, 86, 85, 80; 
M, F. Blasse 91, 86, 79; J. Kullmann 82, 82, 76; William Blasse 
85, 86, 82; ©. O. Wheeler 78. Rifle, handicap: W. F. Blasse 202, 
206, 212, 208; M. F. Blasse 219, 215; A, Gehret 218, 222, 222; W. G. 
Hoffmann 224, 219. Gold medal: F. E. Mason 234, 227; J. PF. 
Bridges 206. Silver medal: A. Thode 159, 182; Otto Bremer 209, 
208. Glindermann medal: M. F. Blasse 211: W. G. Hoffmann 219; 
PF, FE, Mason 225; A, Gehret 220, 

Germania Schuetzen Club, competition for cash prizes: A, Pape 
72, A. Gehret 69, F. E. Mason 70, F. Brandt 68, F, P. Schuster 68, 

_D. B. Faktor 68, A, Jungblut 68, R. Stettin 67, Ten-shot scores 
for trophies: A. Gehret 226, A. Pape 222, J. Gefken 222, O. Bremer 
213, Herman Huber 211, D. B. Faktor 207, F. Brandt 207, 

Germania Schuetzen Club, monthly medal sheot: First cham- 
pion class, F. E. Mason 227, 2380; second champion class, Otto 
Bremer 223, 212; first class, J. Gefken 215; second class, George 
H. Bahrs 204; third class, J. Beuttler 181; best first shot, Herman 
Huber, 24; best last shot, F. E. Mason, 25. 

Norddeutscher Schnetzen Club, monthly bullseye shoot, prize 
winners in the following order: D.Salfield 360, F. C. Rust 483, 
Henry Meyer 530, F. P. Schuster 548, John Gefken 660, William 
F. Garms, 696, John de Wit 763, Herman Huber 855, Frank Koch 
891, W. C. Morken 905, A. Mocker 1064, L. N. Ritzau 1109, 

San Francisco Schuetzen Verein, monthly medal shoot: Cham- 
pion class, August Pape 441; first class, John Geiken 400; 
second class, Otto Lemcke 405; third class, Capi. John Thode 
383; fourth class, Henry Meyer 358; best first shot, Capt. John 
Thode 25; best last shot, F. Hensel, 25. . 

OBEL. 


Grapshooting. 
—_—>—_——. 


It you want your shoot to be announced here send a 
aotice like the followings 


Fixtures. 


March 23.—Brooklyn, L, I— Club shoot of Fulton Gun Club; 
cup event, handicap. 

March 24.—Pine Bluff, Ark—Open contest for the Peters Car- 
tridge Company trophy, emblematic of the live-bird champion- 
ship of Arkansas, under auspices of the Pine Bluff Gun Club. 

March 25-28.—Burnside Crossing, Ill—At Watson’s Park. series 
of handicap events. Programme each day, 10 birds,‘35 entrance, 
birds extra, 26 to 32yds., high guns, John Watson, ‘Manager. 

March #i-April 5.—Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo.—Grand 
Re nersCaie Menaicay at live birds. Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 

ew York, 

April ——Dover, N. H.—Fast Day shoot of the Dover Sports- 
men’s Association. J. B. Stevens, Sec’y. +7. 

April §-11.—Ulathe, Kan.—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament. ¥ 

April 10.—Marietta, O.—One-day target tournament of the Co- 
lumbian Gun Club, Chas. Bailey, Sec’y. 

April 15-17.—Asheville, N, C.—Target tournament given by Col. 
E, P. McKissick. . i 

April 16-17.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F, B, Cunningham, Sec'y. 

April 16-18—Peru, Ind.—Peru Gun Club’s sixth annual amateur 
tournament; two days at targets for amateurs; one day at live 
birds open to all, Krank Dunbar, Sec’y. : 
me EPS aS ae Mass.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill 
un Club. 

April 22-25—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Me- 
Donald, Sec’y. 

April 29-30.—Greenville, O,—Annual tournament of the Greenville 
Gun Club. H. A. McCaughey, Sec’y- 

April 30.—Wellington, Mass.—Third annual team shoot of the 
Beston Gun Club. Horace C. Kirkwood, Sec’y. As 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L, 1.—interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. ; 

May 17-8.—Crawfordsville, Ind.—Live-bird tournament of the Craw- 
fordsville Gun Club; $400 guaranteed. Mac, Stillwell, Sec’y. _ 

May 13-14—Enmid, Uklahoma Jerritory.—Uklahoma, Territerial 
Sportsmen’s Association tournament. 7 ‘ 

May 13-16.—Oil City, Pa—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club F. S. Bates, Cor. See'y. ea 

May 14-16.—Charleston, S. C,—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
dament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W. G. Jeffords, Jr., Sec’y. “a. 

May 15.—Sherbrooke, P, nan name Gun Club’s inanimate 
target tourmament. C. H. Foss, Sec’y. 

May 20-22.—Otrumwa, la.—lowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 

May 20-22.—Elwood, Ind.—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind. ; 

May 90-22.—Wheeling, W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. 

May 20-23———_——, —. ——New Jersey State Sportsmen’s As- 
sociation, 

May 21-22.—Baltimore, Md.—Maryland county shoot for amateurs. 

May 21-23.—Springfield, S. D.—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s 
Association tournament. 

May 26-31—Lincoln, Neb.—Grand Interstate tournament; three 
days shooting; three days golf; three days tennis, Young, 
Manager. ; 

May 30.—Schenectady, N. ¥.—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club. E. L. Aiken, Sec’y. 

May 30.—Ossining, N. Y—Holiday shoot of the Westchester 
County Trapshooters’ League. J. Curry Barlow, Sec’y. 
= May 30—Auburn, Me.—Annual tournament of the Auburn Gun 
Club. L. A. Barker, Sec’y. 

May 30-31,—Altoona, Pa.—Altoona Rod and Gun Club’s tenth 
annual tournament. George G. Zeth, Sec’y, Altoona, Pa. 

May 30-31.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club. O. E. Fouts, Sec’y. ; 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co, _ 

June 4-6—Memphis,, Tenn —The Interstate Asgociation’s tourna- 
ment, under the sHepices of the Memphis Gun Ciub, 

July 810.—Pine Bluff, Ark.—Twelfth annual “meeting and tour- 
nament of the Arkansas State Sportsmen’s Association. Targets. 
Added money $300. Rose system. Paul R. Litzke; Sec’y. 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N. ¥.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 


Game. 

June 10-11,—Sioux City, la.—Eighth annual amateur tournament 
of the Soo Gun Club. W. F. Duncan, Sec’y. 

June 10-11—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual 
fournament., j 
June 12-15.—Denyer, Colo—Grand Western Bluerock Handicap 
tournament. Frank H. Mayer, Tournament Manager. 

June 17-20—Warm Springs, Ga.—Annual] Interstate tournament, 
June 18-19.—Bellefontaine, O.—Silver Lake Gun Club’s annual 
tournament. Geo, E. Maison, Sec’y. ae i 

June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. C.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
Bieube under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club. Jas. I. John- 
son, Sec’y. , . : 

June 29.—San Francisco, Cal.—Live-bird shoot of the Union 
Gun Club. 

July 16-18.—Titusville, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T. L. 
Andrews, Sec’y. _ a" 

Aug. 6-7.—Marietta, O.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Columbian Gun Club. Chas. 
Bailey, Sec’y : : 

Aug. 12-13.—Birmingham, Ala.—Third annual Alabama State 
target tournament, under the auspices of the Birmingham Gun 
Club, R. H. Baugh, Sec’y. ae 

Aug. 12-14—Brunswick, Me.—The€ Interstate Association's tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L. C. 


Whitmore, See’y. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Aug. 1416.—Hamilton, Can.—Dominion Trapshooting and Game 
Protective Association’s tournament, ' 


Aug, 27-28.—Haverhill, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 


nament, under the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Chib. S. G 
Miller, Sec’y. 


Sept. 3-4——Nappanee, Ind.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Nappanee Gun Club. B. B. Maust. 


ec’y, 

Sept. 23-25 — Cincinnati, O.—Second annual handicap target tour- 
nament of the Cincinnati Gun Club. Charles F. Dreihs, Sec’y. 
Sept. 24-25.—Lewistown, Ill.—THe Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Lewistown Gun Club. . A. 
McCumber, Sec’y. 


__ Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
day afternoon. 5 


Chicago, Ill.—Garfield Gun Club's liye-bird trophy shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W, Meek, Sec’y. 

First Saturday of each month for a year, Burnside.—Contest for 
the Troisdorf liye-bird and target medals; 10 live birds; 25 targets; 
open to all. First contest, March 1. ¥ 

CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Interstate Park, Queens, L. 1.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 

. R. Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 

sheoting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practige. Café and hotel accommodations, 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


_Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication tn these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New Yark. 


On the first day of this week the Adirondack guides, who were 
a conspicuous feature of the Sportsmen’s show, which ended on 
the 19th inst., were the guests of Capt, J, A. H. Dressel and the 
Sportsmen’s Association at a dinner in ‘Little Hungary,” East 
Houston street, New York. The banquet table was set for about 
thirty guests. The string orchestra discoursed popular airs, the 
dinner was served to perfection, and the guides at its conclusion 
expressed themselves as having been most happily entertained. 
They were Peter A, Salomon, president of the Adirondack Guides* 
Association; Elmer Dockum, William B, Young, Joseph Lamoy, 
A. H. Billings, George C. Garwood, Frank Vosburg, Martin W. 
Brewster, Sam Barten, T. Henry Lamoy, William Vosburg and 
Perley Squires. Assisting Capt. Dressel as host were Messrs. 
George Bingham, D. T. Abercrombie, Horace Cate and others. 


At noon on Tuesday of this week the entries to the Grand 
American Handicap at live birds numbered 222, the last one then 
received being that of Mr. Otto FPeudner, of San Francisco, This 
number, 222, was the number of the total entry of last year. Those 
who contemplate entering in this great event should bear in mind 
that the entries close on Saturday of this weék, Post entries 
cost #10 more; that is, $25. Regular entries must be accompanied 
with $16 forfeit: Use regular entry blanks. Entries postmarked 
March 22 are good. Send your entries to the secretary-treasurer, 
Mr. Edward Banks, 318 Broadway, New York. 


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The Hawley Time Register Company, of Syracuse, NN. Y., was 
incorporated last week in Albany with a capitalization of $125,00), 
for the manufacture of time registers and similar devices. Two 
gentlemen of eminence in the sportsmen’s world are in its mem- 
bership, namely,. Messrs. Geo. A, Mosher and Harvey McMurchy, 
president and vice-president respectively. The former will devote 
all his time to the company’s interests, while the latter, Mr, Mc- 
Murchy, though largely interested in it, will devote his time to the 
Hunter Arms Company's interests, as it past years. 


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Elsewhere in our columns the secretary of the Interstate Asso- 
ciation, Mr, Edward Banks, presents some turther information 
concerning rates, etc., New York to Kansas City and return, in 
respect to the Grand American Handicap. The Trunk Line Asso- 
ciation, it seems, declined to give any reduced rates on the ground 
that the handicap was not “‘of an educational,benevolent or religious 
character.’”’ This was an error. It is exceedingly educational; it 
provides cheap food for the masses; theretore it is publcly 
benevolent, and being beneyolent, it is religious. 


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Saturday of this week, the five-man team race between teams of 
Messrs. Von Lengerke & Detmold and Messrs. Schoyerling, Daly 
& Gales, 50 targets per man, is to take place, and it evokes much 
interest among the contestants and their friends, The match will 
commence at 2 o’clock on the grounds of the Richmond Gun Club, 
at Silver Lake, Staten Island. Sweepstakes, Rosexsystem, are 
also on the programme, Mr, Albert A. Schoverling, the secretary, 
P. O. Box 475, New York, will furnish any pertinent information. 


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The Handicap Committee of the G. A. H. will meet at the 
Midland Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., on March 27, at 9:20 A. M. 
Its members are Messrs. John M; Lilly (chairman), Indianapolis; 
C. W. Budd, Des Moines; Chris, Gottlieb, Kansas City; Louis 
Erhardt, Atchison; Arthur Gambell, Cincinnati; Mr. T. A, Divine, 
Memphis, and Walter Hallowell, Kansas City. Mr. Elmer FE, 
Shaner, secretary to the committee. 


The seuyenir score of the Grand Ameriean Handicap at live 
birds, Kansas City, is an artistic effort of the committee and no 
doubt will be thoroughly appreciated by the shooters. The front 
cover bears a pigeon “on the wing,’’ from whose mouth is sus- 
pended by a ribbon a card bearing the title of this great event. 
A smaller pigeon standing at rest bears a sign with the legend 
““Ask Shaner.’ 

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Mr. Charles F. Dreihs, secretary of the Cincinnati (Q.) Gun 
Club, writes us as follows: “Kindly state through Forrsr AND 
SrreaM that the Cincinnati Gun Club will hold its second annual 
handicap tournament at flying targets during the season of the 
Cincinnati fall festival, which will be held during the last two 
weeks in September. We claim Sept. 23, 24 and 25 as the days for 
our tournament.” e : 


The secretary, Mr. MacStillwell, writes us as follows; ‘The 
Crawfordsville (Ind.) Gun Club will dedicate their new $1,500 
club house May 7 and 8 by giving a live-bird tournament. First 
day will be 8, 10 and 12 bird events; second day will be a 26-bird 
handicap, $400 guaranteed, all surplus added. Open to all. Pro- 
grammes will be out about April 16. Write the secretary for one.” 


4 


Mr. Thos. Short, manager of Dexter Park, Brooklyn, announces 
the programme for the target shoot of the Dexter Park Gun Club 
on April 3, There are nine events, five at 10, two at 1h and two 
at 25 targets, entrance $1, $1.50 and $2, Shooting commences at 


(16 o’clock, Shooters may participate for targets only. 


We learn with much pleasure that our information concerning the 
illness of Mr U. M. ©. Thomas, mentioned in onr_last issue, 
was entirely a mistake. He was in evidence at the Sportsmen’s 
Show las: week, hale and hearty, and alert, with every appearance 
of being good for a hundred years to come. 


Rg = 
The match between Messrs. J. A. R. Elliott and R. ©, Heikes, at 


Hot Springs, Arkij for the Review cup on Saturday of last week 
resulted in a-closel). contested race. It was a tie on 94 out of 100. 
The tie was shot off at 20 birds, with the result that, Elliott scored 


19 to Heikes’ 18 and won. 


[Marce 92, i90a 


Mr. H. P, Collins, the actiye and popular representative of the 


Dupont Powder Company, with headquarters at Baltimore, Md., 
was a visiter at the New York Sportsmen’s Show on Monday and 
Tuesday of last week. He will be one of the host who will soon be 
rallying at Kansas City. 

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jt a shoot of the Sport Gun Club, of Shreveport, La., Mr. 
Hood Waters was a guest, and, as he usually does, pérformed te 
a degree of excellence which won the admiration of those present. 
Two runs were notably praiseworthy, one of 0 and the other 12 
better: that is, 62, ’ 

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In the live-bird shoot of the Garfield Gun Club of Chicago 
March 15, Dr. J, W. Meek won Class A medal with a score of 1 
out of 12, one being lost dead out, while Class C medal was won 
by Mr. A. W. McGowan. WNone of the Class B members Were 
present, 

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; At Geo, C. Lebohner's Dexter Park, Brooklyn, target shooting 
is announced for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in 
the months from Oct. 1 to May 1; and on every Saturday. T. 
Short is manager. ; ‘ 

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There is a blank space left on the G A. H, trophy for a name 
to be inscribed thereon preparatory to its installment in the Hall 
of fame. There should be another cup for the best hardluck per- 
formance, 

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_ Trapshootine for practice is lively at Watson’s Park, Burnside 

Crossing, Ill.. and ociher Western points, with a view to competi- 

tion in the Grand Amer-can Handicap at Kansas City, now near 

at hand. 
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Mr. R, H. Baugh, secretary, informs us that the third annual 
Alabama State target tournament is fixed to take place on Aug, 
12 and 18, under the auspices of the Birmingham Gun Club. 


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Mr. Ben Norton, of the Hazard Powder Company, has arranged 
to leave New York for Kansas City on Friday of this week ta 
attend to Grand American Handicap matters. 


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The Auburn (Me.) Gun Club announces that its annual tourna- 
ment will be held on May 80. Mr. L. A. Barker is the secretary. 


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Mr, Edward Banks, secretary-treasurer of the I. A., has ar- 


-tanged to start for Kansas City on Thursday of next week. 


_ Mr. James L, Smith, a well-known trapshooter of Hackettstown, 
is now host of the Avon Inn, Atlantic City, N. J. 
BERNARD WATERS. 


Powder Makers and Pigeon Guns. 


Since this article first appeared, in May, 1898, we have heard it 
has provoked some ill feeling. One member of the clubs has par- 
ticularly asked why he should not shoot in an assumed name if 
he likes, and what business it is of Ours? We are sorry to have 
injured anybody’s feelings, and we cannot give any reason why the 
particular member should publish his doings to the world. Ags 
private clubs, let them shut out the press; as public events, there 
should be no secrecy. Either of these would be equally satisfac 
tory. 

It is obviously only when the publicity given to the doings ot 
private clubs is used to mislead the public that we have, as a mem- 
ber of the press, any right to say a word. What the member im 
question might do privately obviously would not interest us or 
the public, 

We may say that each of the powder makers have since assured 
us that they do not practice the method we have condemned, but 
they each admit that it has been done, although not by them. 
Powder that is good for winning prizes at pigeon matches may 
be powder that spoils guns; there certainly is one such on the 
market; so we suggest that if game shooters follow pigeon shooters’ 
doings, they should look to the cleaning of their guns. 

We understand that Lord Monson, as manager at Hurlingham, 
refused the public offer of doubled prizes, which was accepted at 
the Gun Club. He therefore did all in his power, but he could 
not prevent these offers being privately made and aecepted. 


British Wild Pigeon Shooting. 


li shooting pigeons from traps is but poor sport, the wild pigeon 
upon occasion gives the crack shot wonderful practice. hether 
the rock pigeons are shot from boats on the sea as the birds dart 
out of the cliff caves, or whether the wood pigeen, when con- 
gregated in the autumn and winter, is made the subject of sport, 
there is, in neither case, any room for doubt about the quality of 
the shooting. These birds alter their direction on catching sight 
of the fling of the gun to the shoulder, and are therefore generally 
much more difficult than any driven game. The following is a 
description of shooting of the wood pigeon, kindly sent to ts 
some years ago by Lord Walsingham. As we have missed many 
a chance of making a bag of the sort by not knowing the value 
of decoys when great flocks of pigeons were about, we give it for 
the benefit of those who knew no more than we did, 

Lord Walsingham wrote as follows: 

“T have little doubt that your correspondent Cymymyn is correct 
in thinking that my bag of 121 wood pigeons, to which he alludes, 
is not the top score. I can well believe that it could be largely 
exceeded under favorable conditions; indeed, on looking back al 
old game books, I find some of my own highest scores, as follows, 
beating it on two occasions; 


1869 Noy. 13 69 Narford Among beeches. 

1869 Dec, 29 88 Holkham Among evergreen oaks in 
snow. 

1883 Feb. 14 89 Merton ager to feed on a clover 
ayer. 

1867 Dec. 7 97 Merton Over oaks, snow and wind. 

1869 Dee. 1 102 #£Merton Over beeches in a snowstorm,” 

1887 Dec. 3 121 Merton Over oaks. 

1870 Aug, 12° 124 Merton Among sheaves of barley at 
harvest time. 

1884 Jan, 28 125 ##Merton Over oaks; high wind. 

“Qn Dec. 3,.1887, which is the day mentioned in your paper, 


there was a thin layer of snow on the ground, but no snow falling. 
and yery little wind; thus two of the most favorable weather con- 
ditions for this kind of sport were absent. Moreover, having to 
catch a train to London, I lost nearly an hour, during which time 
birds might have been killed. A very large number of pigeons had 
arrived a few days previously to feed upon the fallen acorfs in an 
open wood of very high oaks. Without being able to give an ac- 
curate measure of these trees, 1 may say that they are of nearly 
500 years’ growth, and I have seen no taller oaks in any part of 
England, Six men and boys were posted in neighboring coyerts, 
also frequented by. pigeons, at distances varying irom a quarter of 
a mile to two miles from the spot where I stood. They were or 
dered to walk about and to disturb the birds wherever more than 
two or three settled together. Thus the pigeons were kept all day: 
on the move, and were constantly flying over within view of my 
decoys. These consisted of three stuffed birds, fastened by copper 
wire on the upper branches of a small tree which stood by itself 
among a group of high oaks. In addition te these, the twenty or 
thirty birds which first fell to the gun were set up in scattered 
groups on the ground in the most open places, the snow being 
scraped away around them to make them more conspicuous and to 


' give them the appearance of feeding where acorns were easily 


accessible. The greater number of birds killed during the day were - 
nearly half as high again as the trees, some a good deal higher; 
others of course, Were shot when dipping to the decoys, and on 
two occasions flocks of more than fifty birds chased by a falcon 
dashed through the branches close to my head, cach hird avoid. 
ing the twigs by a tortuous line of flight which reminded one of 
the waved zigzag lines across a meteorological diagram. In these 
cases no bird flew straight for more than five or six yards, and the 
pace at which they went was no less surprising than the roaring 
sound made by their many wings. On both occasions I signally 
failed to score with my frst barrel, although the bird was not 
more than twenty yards off. The only circumstance that gave me 
any considerable advantage during the day was that by putting on 
a white shirt over my shooting coat and a white cap on my head, 1 
was able to stand out in the snow in an open place, having, no 
necessity for further concealment. s 


MARCH 22, 1902.4 


| "Cruelty to Animals. 


| Tre following, taken from the London Field, discusses a uni- 
| versal principle of shooting pigeons at the traps which has been 
made much of by the opponents of the sport in this country. It 
as so admirable in its clean cut presentation of the subject, and 
so apropos of the situation at present in America, that we present 
it herewith in full; 


' 


—_— ’ 
_The Bishop of Hereford’s new prevention of cruelty to wild ani- 
mals bill is, for all practical purposes, Mr. A. C., Morton’s Sports 
Regulation bill of 1894 oyer again. The Bishop’s measute is pre- 
faced by a memorandum which frankly states that its aim is “the 
abolition of certain spurious kinds of sport,” by which, it is 
hardly necessary to say, the chase of the carted deer, pigeon shoot- 
ing and rabbit coursing are meant. This memorandum further 
states that the bill ‘‘is, in fact, nothing more than a much-needed 
extension of the Wild Animals in Captivity act of 1900, which 
passed through both Houses of Parliament unopposed.” This is 
Scarcely a fair statement. The eminently laudable object of the 
act of 1900 was to provide protection for caged and performing 
animals, which are liable to provocation, and on occasion to such 
‘jll-treatment as trainers may venture to inflict; but Clause 4 de- 
clares that the act shall not apply “to the hunting or coursing of 
‘any animal which has not been liberated in a mutilated or injured 
State in order to facilitate its capture or destruction.” This reser- 
vation can apply only to rabbit “coursing” as sometimes practiced, 
‘more especially among the miners of the northern counties, where 
a fabbit with one or more broken limbs has been held as good for 
“coursing (saye the mark)-as a sound rabbit. Inclusion of this 
Clause in the interest of the unfortunate rabbit displays the de- 
‘liberate intention of Parliament to draw a most proper line be- 
tween rabbit coursing attended by eruelty on the one hand and 
‘the same pastime fairly conducted, and stag hunting and pigeon 
‘shooting on the other, The Bishop of Hereford goes further than 
did the chosen instrument of the Humanitarian League in 1894. 
The former proposes three months’ imprisonment with or without 
hard labor in default of payment of fine, whereas Mr, Morton was 
content with the pecuniary penalty; also, the Bishop’s measure 
applies to any animal which has been at liberty less than two 
months, while release on the day before pursuit placed the animal 
and its pursuer beyond the reach of Mr, Morton’s act. 
Ii the bill introduced by the Bishop of Hereford were to pass 
into law, it cannot be said that it would seriously circumscribe 
the arena of high-class sport, or materially affect the pastimes of 
‘the majority of our readers, The objections to its principles which 
Were raised by the members of the Upper House during debate lie 
‘deeper than any apprehension that the effect of it could materially 
cripple field sports. The bill was unsatisfactory and self-condemned 
because, firstly, it was based upom a series of statistics of which 
Many wete fictitious and more were exaggerated; and, secondly, 
it postulated that cruelty per se was the motive power which stimu- 
Jated all who take part in those subsections of sport which the bill 
sought to extinguish by its procedure, To realize better the policy 
of this bill, we may refer to the existing state of the law. By 
statute it is already criminal to inflict wanton and unnecessary pain 
upon any domestic animal, and further it has been ruled that an 
animal which by fiature is wild, and is reduced to subjection by 
confinement, may be the subject of a prosecution if wantonly 
tortured. This being the present state of the law, the Bishop 
sought to amplify it by enacting penalties against any one who 
chal hunt, shoot or course any animal kept in confinement and 
released for the purposes of such sport. He admitted that his main 
ebject was to suppress stag hunting, pigeon shooting and rabbit 
coursing; he admitted that one effect of his text would be to make 
criminal the shooting of imported pheasants turned down for the 
week; and with this view he imposed a limit of two months’ 
freedom for such turned-down birds before they should be free for 
the gun. As to this latter proviso, the Bishop, in his general want 
| of knowledge of sporting matters, does not appear to have realized 
' the practical difficulty, which would arise in any prosecution under 
this head, of proving that a given bird shot was one of a_turned- 
down batch or one reared the previous May in the covert. It would 
seem also, from the text of the bill, that it would be criminal to 
‘release a trapped rat or mouse’ to the tender mercies of a cat or dog. 
Although we have no taste for rabbit coursing, one of the pas- 
times which this bill aims ‘at suppressing, we fail to see that the 
“pursuit in itself entails any greater cruelty to the rabbit than would 
fave ensued if the creature had been shot or netted and knocked 
oc the head the moment it bolted from its burrow. If the first- 
‘named predicament is not branded as “‘brutal” by the Bishop, then 
to give the captive a subsequent run for its life is not more so. The 
Bishop overlooks, or fails to realize, what is the primary constit- 
went element in all forms of hunting. It is not the compassing of 
the death of the hunted victim, but the competition involved in the 
chase, coupled with the obstacles to success propounded by the 
laws of the game, and the triumph of overcoming them. It is on 
this principle that law is given to a chased rabbit, or to a hare 
roused from her form; that a fox is not headed and mobbed; that 
a pigeon is not trapped at l0yds. from the gun, and in one trap 
| only on which the eye can be fixed before the bird is liberated. The 
same people who are alleged to be brutalized by the spectacle of a 
eourse, or of a pigeon Shooting match, would not care to cross the 
road to see the same rabbit knocked on the head at the hutch door, 
ot the pigeon’s neck wrung outside the loft. It is not the death or 
‘struggles of the animal which command their interest, but the 
difficulty of capture under the conditions prescribed; the death 
"when it occurs is but incidental, and not the ultimate goal of in- 
‘terest. Asa rule, the trtie sportsman is a humane being; he enjoys 
his sport, and does not hamper his ethics by moralizing over the 
| humanitarian question of alleged mental agony on the part of the 
‘ereattire which he hunts or shoots; but when once he has reduced 
his quarry to possession, mo one is more careful to ensure ex- 
tinction of life, if any remain, with promptitude and an effort to 
seduce the suffering to a minimum, He will rate an under keeper 
who allows a retrieved bird to flutter needlessly, instead of rapping 
i on the head; he will kill his fish so soon as it is taken out of 
the landing net, and not leave it to expire of asphyxia. war 
‘There is another aspect which the Bishop overlooks, which is 
that each and all of these captured animals, whose release for chase 
he would veto, would die the death anyhow, and all the sooner, and 
with greater certainty and no less discomfort, if they were utilized 
for food at the first capture, and not allowed the respite and new 
chance—however remote—for life in the artificial chase for which 
they are otherwise destined. If it be cruel to take their lives later, 
comparatively, for sport, it is equally cruel to put them to death at 
the earlier stage for mere utility bereft of sport. 1 
stand the tenet of the Brahmin, that all such slaughter for food is 
contrary to moral law. That is a comsistent creed, at the least, 
even-if we dissent from it; but the difference which the Bishop 
strikes between the morality of life taken early, solely for appe- 
tite, and that of life imperilled after respite, for sport, is one in 
which we fail to discern consistency. In order to justify his dis- 
tinction of circumstances, he affirms that the sport is brutalizing 
to the ethics of the spectators, and seems to base this assumption 
upon an imaginary postulate that the mere spectacle of the ex- 
pected death of the victim is what attracts. The unsoundness of 
this postulate (without which his syllogism seems to break down) 
is demonstrated by the fact that the same persons who would be 
fnterested in viewing the chase, with its competitive rules and 
excitement, would not waste a second of time or wall 20yds. to 
witness a hecatomb. of the same victims butchered merely for food. 
If the mental feelings of a beast of chase or watren are to be 
weighed in estimating the ethics of sport, then let us imagine a 
royal commission and the brute creation in the witness box. Ask 
the pigeon’ his choice, whether to have his neck wrung for a pie 
goon alter he is fledged or to be respected and well fed till he is 
fit to fly for his life? Ask the like of the carted stag? Inquire of 
the fox whether he would prefer to be exterminated as vermin, 
Vike weasel’ or stoat, or to be officially protected, and in return 
sooner or later take his chance before the houndst If human 
sentiments can offer any analogy (and we must bear in mind that 
the arguments in this line of humanitarians are repeatedly based 
on that analogy), then classic history is all in favor of the sporting 
ethics of our-own day, as witness the gladiators of old, Mostly 
‘prisoners of war or slaves, they accepted the profession of arms 
“and professional duelling to the death in preference to the role of 
slavery or captivity or maybe death by the sword in the hour of a 
| yictor’s triumph, But we iear that the mainspring of the tone of 
legislation which the Bishop of Hereford fosters is more or less 
“akin to the proverbial sentiment of the Puritans as to bear baiting. 
| They condemned it not because it annoyed the bear but because it 
‘amused the spectators. By his own admission the Bishop feels 
“that his main objection to hunting trapped animals Awhile wink- 
“qhg at the hunting of wild ones) is that spectators enjoy seeing it. 
cand he further assumes—conjecturally—that their enjoyment must 
of necessity consist in that part of the spectacle which displays 
pain to the hunted animal, ignoring all sentiment of sport in the 
Spectators. This fallacy arises because the Bishop himself has no 
soul jor sport, and seems unable to conceive that attraction to the 


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We can tnder- > 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


British mind which is aroused by the surmounting of difficulties 
purposely created, and especially when coupled with competition 


‘in that surmointing. It is that which gives a charm to the chase, 
* whether natural or artificial. 


WESTERN ;TRAPS. 
The Biggest Handicap. 


Curcaco, Ill., March 15,—It was more than half imagined by 
many Western shooters that when the Grand American Handicap 
came West it would not come as a failure, and would not assume 
proportions less than those known heretofore, No one, however, 
suspected a month ago what proportions this affair might assume, 
Tt is to-day safe to call it the biggest thing of the kind that ever 
happened, for probably more than 4500 shooters-will be there. On 
Thursday of this week Mr. BE. S. Rice had enrolled 125 shooters 
for his party alone, If other parts of the country come to the 
front with anything like these numbers, the Kansas City boys 
will have all they can do to keep from being swamped, and the 
hotels will be fuller than they have been since the last political 
convention, There is no indication that Kansas City, however, is 
scared at the prospect. There will. be five sets of traps promptly 
served, which will take care of a lot-of shooting, and as to the 
ability of any Western city to rise to any big occasion, there can 
be no doubt whatever. Come to the handicap, and bring your town 
along with you, Kansas City will provide 2 way of taking care 
of you, and doing it handsomely. 


: E, Hovey, 
Harrrorp Buitpinc, Chicago, Ill. 


Garfield Gun Club, 


Chicago, March 15.—The appended scores were made on our 
grounds to-day on the occasion of the fifth trophy shoot of the 
second series. Dr. Meek carried off the honors of the day by 
capturing Class A trophy on a score of 11 out of 12. A, McGowan 
won Class C on 7 out of 12. No Class B shooters were present. 

The birds were a fairly good lot; a little slow about taking wing, 
but fast when they got up into the strong wind which blew directly 
achgss the traps, making almost all of the birds left-quartering 
tailers, 

The day was a very dark and gloomy one, threatening rain, 
which came down in torrents before the trophy event was finished, 
the last three rounds bemg shot in a heavy rainstorm, Many of 


our shooters are away after the poor spring ducks, and might be - 


engaged in better business, eyen shooting craps would be some- 
what better. 


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Dra. J. W. Merrx, Sec’y: 


Audubon Gun Club, 


Chicago, Tit, March 15.—At Watson’s Park to-day the Audu- 
bon Gun Club held a shoot, the scores of which are appended: 


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RAVELRIGG. 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


The Kansas City Star, in an article devoting half a page to the 
Grand American Handicap this week, says that from the assur- 
ances now in the hands of R. S. Elliott & Co., the local mana- 
gers for this great event, it is certain that the attendance will very 
far surpass anything in the history of American trapshooting. 
Thirty-seven Kansas Cityans’ names are giyen as having already 
entered for the event. These are J. W, Beach, E. A. Hickman, 
J. B. Porter, J. H. Dukes, Harry Tipton, J. E. Campbell, A. C. 
Holes, J. C. Wright, A. F, Rickmers, J. E. Riley, C. C. Hickman, 
Wm. Herman, Wm. Merman, J. Vaughn, J, M. Curtis, G. W. 
Stickwell, A, H. Glasner, Lil Scott, C. P. Fairman, H. C. Reed, 
F, M. Plank, T. J, Simms, W. M. Hill, W. A. Laidlaw, W. S. 
Halliwell, H. H, Gregory, H, E. Sherman, L. A. Sherman, T. F. 
Norton, Chris Gottlieb, F. A. Smith, F. M, Berkey, J, W. Bram- 
hall, Paul Franke, R. S. Elliott, J, A. R. Elliott, Dave Ellioft, 
James Rooney, 

Harry Lee, who is just in from a California trip, says that many 
are coming from the Pacific slope, and Harvey McMurchy sends 
word for himself, C. Nauman, €. Haight and O, Feudner, from 
the Golden Gate. The Chicago special in charge of Mr, E. S, Rice 
is expected to bring in at least 100. Dan Bray writes that the 
Nebraska farmers will lay aside the duties of everyday life to par- 
ticipate in the big event. A. B. Daniels and Capt. Jake Sedam 
will head the Denver delegation; Frank Parmelee will captain the 
Omaha crowd, Lou Ehrhardt will bring in a long list from Atchin- 
son, Frank Hodges will bring the Olathe contingent, R. S. Wad- 
dell is coming with all the Cincinnati experts, while Dr, Stark- 
loft will take up not less than thirty entries from St. Louis, 

All arrangements are progressing satisfactorily. Programmes 
were all sent out last week, and Manager Elmer Shaner eStab- 
lished his headquarters at the Midland Hotel, Kansas City, on the 
1ith, where he will he at home until the G A. H. shall once 
more have been decided. 

The Kansas City Gun Club held its first quarterly medal shoot 
for the year at Blue River Park on the 15th, with a large atten- 
dance, 

The Piasa Gun Club, Ailton, held its first reunion shoot for the 
year this week. “y 

The Dupont and Rawlings medals were contested for in the res- 
ular meeting at Dupont Park, St, Louis, on the 16th. 

Fred Chappell and Emil Tonsenberger shot a match at 25 live 
birds far 50 a side at McCluskey, Ill., last week: The birds were 
very strong, and proved a hard proposition for both contestants: 
Chappell won easily, however, with 27 kills, while his opponent 
scored 22. RIEL. 


New York to Kansas City—G, A. H, 


New Yorx, March 15.—Edilor Forest and Stream: Am sorry to 
trouble you again, but will you once more find room in your trap 
columns for a brief announcement of railroad rates and accom- 
modations for Eastern shootérs who will visit Kansas City to take 
in the Grand American Handicap, March 31 to April 5? 

Will you inform them that the Trunk Line Association, the 
Party controlling ioe Eastern lines, has refused to grant us any 
reduction? The Commissioner’s report on the action of the 
Trunk Line Association at its meeting, held Tuesday last, the 11th 
inst., showed that the Assocjation was unwilling to grant us our 
oft-repeated request for reduced rates, althought the Central, the 
Southeastern and the Western Passenger Associations have of- 
fered special inducements, the two former making a fare and a 
third rate to Kansas City, and the Western Passenger Association 
a single fare for the round trip, all of course on the certificate plan, 

The Trunk Line Association’s reasons for not granting our 
request, as stated by Mr. Farmer, is as follows: “Fare and one- 
third on certificate plan is reserved for societies, conventions and 
ofganizations of an educational, benevolent and religious char- 
acter, and it did mot seem that your tournament came under’ any 
of these categories.” 

We in the East are therefore compelled to travel either to 
Buftalo or to Pittsburg before getting a reduced rate, and it has 
been decided that the party leaving New York will travel ta 
Kanegas City from Buifaleo by way of Wabash Railroad to St. 
Louis, and the Missouri Pacific from St. Louis to Kansas City, 
arriving at the latter place about 7:30 Monday morning, March 29, 
leaving New York Saturday the 27th, either in the morning or in 
the afternoon, this point being yet-held under advisement. 

The cost of the trip to Kansas City under above conditions js 
$39.40, including sleeper, but the return will be made for $23.10, 
including sleeper. 


by his own appetite. 


Meals of course will be extra, and the strain «- 
on each individual's pocketbook in that respect will be regulated - 


239 


The reduction on the return trip will be especially grateful to 
an who may have been contemplating a walk home after the 
shoot, 

All those intending to join the party leaving New York as 
above should write at once to J. A. H. Dressel, 313 Broadway, 
inclosing check for $39.40, payable to him, in order that he may be 
able to secure the necessary transportation to Kansas City. 

By giving this as prominent notice as possible you will very 
greatly oblige, Epwarb Banks, 

Sec’y-Treas, Interstate Association, 


Gincinnatt Gun Club. 


Cincinnati, O.—The twenty-first contest for the Peters gun, a 
distance handicap at 60 targets, took place on the 8th inst., and 
was favored with fine weather, The results are as follows: RR. 
Trimble (20) 45, Gambell (18) 41, Ahlers (18) 41, E. Trimble (17) 
41, Osterfeld (17) 41, Squier (18) 38, Falk (16) 38, Corry (15) 38, 
Captain (46) 38, Tenny (17) 87, Maynard (18) 36, Boyd (15) 36, 
Faran (16) 36, Heyl (8) 35, Littleford (16) 35, McB. (15) 34, 


/Herman (18) 31, Boeh (16) 31, Block (17) 30, Davies (15) 29, Jay 


Bee (18) 28, Butts, (15) 27, 
March 12.—The fourth live-bird contest of the Cincinnati Gun 
Club had twenty-five contestants. Duncan made the only straight 


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weather was fine, and the scores are improving therewith: Ahlers 


(18) 46, E. Trimble (17) 44, R. Trimble (19) 43, Rike (19) 43, Gam- 
bell (18) 42, Squier (18) 41, Tenny (16) 40, Osterfeld (18) 40, Heyl 
(18) 39, Jay Bee (7) 38, Faran (16) 37, Herman (18) 37, Maynard 
(20) 37, McB. (14) 37, Butts (15) 36, Captain (16) 36, Roll (1%) 36, 
Willie (15) 36, Littleford (6) 36, Block (16) 35, Coleman (16) 34, 
Davies (15) 34, Corry (16) 31, Boyd (15) 30, Falk (16) 21, Proliger 
(14) 25, Tuttle (16) 22, Brown (15) 20, 


Winchester Gan Club, 


Derroit, Mich—Eight members and two visitors, Mr. Andrew 


Reid, one of the Walkerville cracks, and Mr, Oliver Barthel, oi 


Detroit, a prospective member, took part in the regular shoot of 
the club Saturday afternoon, March 8. 

The new trap gave some swift birds to negotiate, and no one 
landed on the straight score prize. y 

Messrs. Thos. Reid and ditto Brodie (popularly known as 
Steve”) shot a determined race for the Class A medal, tieing at 
20, and in the shoot off again tied at 9 out of 10. The medal was, 
however, awarded to Mr. Reid on his average of 83 per cent, for 
the day against Mr. Brodie’s 77 per cent. 

Mr, Henry Guthard shot his final classification score, and is now 
a very dangerous member of Class B, winning that medal handily. 
Mr. Archie McAdams’ low ‘score leaves scarcely any doubt of his 
landing in Class C, and he was awarded the medal in that class. 

Mr, F. C. McMath, of Walkerville, whom we are glad to claim 
as a member, shied his castor into the ring, eligible for the gun 


prize, i 
Events: ey oe AOR Gee Ser 9d 
' Targets: 10 15 10 15 10 10 10 15 10 2 
Brodi@enscdidncewsss asdusgidesad ie COCERIO Slag 129 2 viet 9 20 
Guthard Bete anpentsneenon ta Se Or be GS. a Th 4 6 16 
Sty STR GIC seen ates ste teenie ete mince de anh LN Oe ee Bo Ol SHy 
42 12 es Ce wba = 18 
Se ES Ss oe ge ek A HT 
we feg, GO IE TE 68 Sar ei) It 
bation” “teed x. co ol Be Oy A 
bee “Hod Oe o, 1 8 
Sihtece a eet CS ee ate 
Shiell ...... sadn det seen cite Sanne cae ra pee et SP iP at nee 41S 


G. A, H.—Olathe—St. Joseph—Omaha, 


LeavenworrH, Kan., March 13.—To all shooters who attend thé 
Grand American Handicap, it has been made possible to attend 
this circuit of shoots that will give them the opportunity of not 
only seeing how the great West cater to the ‘care of its visitors 
but also keep them busy shooting live birds and targets for four 
weeks continuously. The shooting circuit that has been arranged 
to give all those who come a long ways, a chance fo spend one 
month with us, is certainly a good one, Good purses, with plenty 
of added money, and the whole circuit only a few miles apart. 


> Olathe, Kan., where the Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association 


opens up the next week following the Grand American Handicap, 
is only about one hour’s ride from Kansas City. This shoot will be 
one of the best target tournaments in the West this year, and 
the management guarantees all visiting sportsmen a good time 
and plenty of sport. 

Following this shoot will come a tournament at St. Joseph, Mo., 
which is only about ninety miles from Kansas City, where also 
a splendid shoot is arranged for. Following St. Joseph, Omaha 
opens her hospitality to all. 

Bring all your guns and plenty of shells, and we will keep 
you busy and in good humor, 

H. W: Koounter, 


Sec’y Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association. 


Sport Gun Club, 


' SHrevyevort, La,, March 9—The Sport Gun Club held a shoot- 
here to-day, in which the renowned trapshooter, Mr. Hood Waters, 
participated and made an excellent performance, chief of which 
birds for $50 a side at McCluskey, Ill., last week, The birds were 


Events: I Bo.” As wary Gr 

Targets: 30 30 16 30 380 15 15 
Hood Waters .....- ERAT ina pays. Agr as SA pee Ree a ee AB 
PIGELs Materia peer eee ee eed Goncurtds OR) Le fey cig See se 
Wade sosses+seee reeves Sn dena, Lee te 035) 18s 300 9 
Haters Lois cn ees ts Peenan ws oe Ob ajPtih wha Eh yay De Die 125: (Zi oe 
ID Rte ery g al es aa a ee See Ae TE Vel pe 8 
Dickinson ..:.« Geb casatanccian ten naka ZAM she, C14: 3232) 296 oe Q 
Mya mernitiredtem seb hice nc ree sb tire xs-> Seb 4, Taree on 
Bucket® 2)2..0-se-00-5 Tirrreerpeetees eee at 5 6 


White vs. Kennedy, 


SWANTON, Vt.—There was a close contest here to-day on the 
Robin Hood Powder Company grounds, for the international 
trophy between E. G. White, of the Robin Mood Powder Com- 
pany, and J. IX. Kennedy,, of Montreal, at 100 artificial targets 
a side. It was a closely contested race. -Mr. Kennedy won by 
a close margin of one bird. Score, Kennedy 78, White 77. The 
trap worked badly. This. with a dark background, made the shoot- 
ing very difficult. “Mr, White put in another challenge, and the 
contest will come off on the Westiiount Gun Club grounds, 
Montreal, quite likely on the 22d inst. 

Now, boys, keep this up, as it is a fine trophy, and open to 
New England and eastern Canada shooters. Ss. 


All communications intended for Forest awp S7REAmM should 
always be addressed to. the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


240 


Who Will be There. 


Tue following is taken from the Kansas City Star of March 9, in 
respect to the Grand American Handicap at live birds, to be held 
at Kansas City, Mo., March 21 to April 5: 

Harry Lee, the well-krown naturalist, hunter of big game and 
Wing shot, passed through Kansas City tecently on a trip from 
San Francisco to Chicaxo, Fle is known to all the gun club men of 
the country who are at all familiar with the big game hunting, and 
is a welcome visitor at shooting tournaments. On his way from 
California to the East he had occasion to visit San Francisco, 
Ogden, Salt Lake City, Denver and other immediate points be- 
tween here and the Coast, and he reports that expert wing shots 
ate coming from all the large cities he passed through, and it is 
likely, he says, that wing shots from *Frisco, Salt Lake City, Den- 
ver, Omaha and other Western cities will come in such numbers 
that an American chatipionship intercity team race may be the 
result, to follow after the Grand American Handicap is finished. A 
shoot of this kind has frequently been advocated by the Kansas 
City Star, and while the crack wing shots of so many cities are 
gathered together a shoot of this kind is a possibility. The same 
reports come from the East, North and South, and it would not 
be surprising if the entry list should reach the 400 mark. 

From Chicago comes the news that a large delegation will come 
from that city and vicinity by a special train over the Burlington. 
It will consist of a baggage, chair cars, a diner, and a directors’ 
private car for the accommodation of the women who may accom- 
pany their husbands. Mr, HE, S. Rice, who has charge of the 
Chicago special, predicts there’ will be at least fifty Grand Ameri- 
can Handicap aspirants on that train alone, and that the party, 
which will arrive here at 9:30 P- M. on March 30, will bring over 
one hundred sportsmen alone irom Chicago and intermediate points 
on the Burlington east of Quincy. 

Mr, John M. Lilly, of Indianapolis, chairman of the Handicap 
Committee, has made arrangements: for a rate from Indianapolis 
and points west of that city for the benefit ‘of the wing shots of 
that section, who can congregate. at-that point, and make the 
journey to Kansas City in a body on-through sleeping cars. As 
the Limited Gun Club, of Indianapolis, has a big tournament 
scheduled for March 19, 20 and 21, this will in all probability be an 
extra inducement to swell the Grand American Handicap delega- 
tion from Pennsylyania, Ohio, Indiana and southern. Illinois 
Bloomington, Peoria, Pekin and other points in central Illinois 
will also send representatives to the big shoot. 


Nebraska’s Varied Delegation. 


Mr, Dan Bray, of Syracuse, Neb., writes the following, regarding 
the Grand American Handicap: ‘Nebraska will send a niob of 
Shooters to the Grand American at Kansas City the last week in 
March that will make our Eastern brothers wonder where all these 
‘good shots live in such a small State as Nebraska. We all shoot 
out here, from fifteen to seventy-two years old, Keep your weather 
eye on our delegates and you will sée the handwriting on the wall.’ 

Prank Parmelee will head a big delegation from Omaha and 
vicinity, including many from Towa points, and the same news 
coming from every quarter, it promises to be the greatest Grand 
American Handicap in the history of that event, both in number 
of entries and visiting sportsmen. 

Mr, Lou Erhardt, of Atchison, reports that northern Kansas 
will also be fully represented, and he is prepared to supply the 
wing shots of the Sunfiower State with the official programme on 
application. Western and southern’ Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma 
and the Indian Territory will also send large delegations. 

Mr, A. B, Daniels, the Denver millionaire wing shot, and Captain 
Jake Sedam, the ‘bell cow,’ and two-time winner of the Western 
Interstate championship, are organizing the delegation from Den- 
ver and Colorado Springs. This patty will include W. W. 
Shemwell, John Garrett, Bud Lawton and other expert Colorado 
wing shots, 

Mr. Waddell, the Dupont and Hazard agent at Cincinnati, 
will bring a large delegation from Cincinnati and other points in 
Ohio and Kentucky, and he has already engaged fifteen rooms at 
one of the leading hotels for his party, 

Dr. M, C. Starkloff is making up a large delegation of St. Louis 
sportsmen, which will include about twenty-five Grand American 
Handicap entries, and Mr. and Mrs. Dute Cabanne will be with 
the party. 

Harvey MeMurchy, of the Hunters Arms Company, writing 
from San Franciseo, says that Charlie Nauman, Clarence Haight, 
Oscar Feudner will be among the delegates from the Golden Gate. 


Kansas City’s Entries. 


Kansas City is known the world over as the Ametican Monte 
Carla, and it is probable that more pigeons are trapped here than 
in any city in the Union, making it a great and profitable market 
for the immense flocks of pigeons raised throughout the whole 
Western country. It is also known as the home of more good 
wingshots than any city of its size in the country, and will prob- 
ably be represented by filty experts in the Grand American, the 
following thirty-seven being’ already enrolled: J. W. Beach, Ed A. 
Hickman, J, B. Porter, J, H. Durkee, Harry Tipton, J. E. 
Campbell, A. C. Holmes, Charles E. Wright, A. F. Rickmers, J. E. 
Riley, ©. C, Herman, William Merman, William Herman, Joe 

- Vaughn, J. M. Curtice, Geo. W. Stockwell, A. H, Gtasner, Lil 

Scott, C, P. Fairman, H, C. Reed, F. M. Planck, T. J. Simms 

W. M, Hill, W, A. Laidlaw, W. S. Halliwell, H. H, Gregory, 

Harry _E,-Sherman, Louis A. Sherman, T, F. Norton, Chris. Gott- 
‘ lieb, F. J. Smith, FP. M. Berkey, J. W. Bramhall, Paul Franke, 
R. 5. Elliott, J. A. R. Elliott, Dave Elliott, James Rooney, 

Platte City, Mo., will be represented by half a seore, among 
them being F, N. Cockrill, Tom Cockrill and €. D. Cockerill, 
§. Redmond, J. W. Davis, James Carson and Guy Coleman, 

Other entries made with Bob. Elliott and forwarded to Secretary 
Banks are W. C. Crutchley and Al Hubbard, of Dodge City, Kas.; 
Grant Templin and H, E. Cawley, of Minneapolis, Kas.; James 
Sexton and Harry IKoohler, of Leavenworth, Kas.; Ed O’Brien, of 
Florence, Kas.; F. B, Cunningham, of St. Joseph, Mo., and John 
Wilmot, of Lexington, Mo, ¢ 

The handsome souvenir score book, very richly embossed and 
arranged to insert the names of the entries in the Grand American 
will be ready to mail out by Thursday next. 

J. A. R. Elliott is matched to shoot Rolla Heikes for the Sports- 
men’s Reyiew Trophy at Hot Springs, Ark,, March 15, and will 
meet W. R. Crosby for the cast iron medal at Kansas City on 
March 29, the day before the opening of the big tourney. 

The Grand American Handicap championship cup is on exhibi- 
tion at Jaccard’s, and is attracting much attention. ‘ 


Boston Gun . Club. 


Boston, Mareh 12.—Quite the largest gathering of the year was 
present to-day at the club’s tenth serial prize shoot, and condi- 
tions being of pretty good character, it certainly ranks with the 
top-notchers for good times. Among the many visitors were T. H. 
Keller, Jr., of the Peters Cartridge Company, favoring us for the 
second time with his presence and sharing honors with our regular 
2lyd, Leroy, as being the trade representatives. 

As is usually the ease on thesé grounds, straights were few and 
far between, but this time they were scarcer than ever, neces- 
sitating the hardest kind of work on Leroy’s part to prevent what 
looked to be a coat of whitewash for the afternoon. 

In the prize match, Spencer seemed to be it, though-not with- 
out Haze haying just a little to say about it; but in the end the 
former had the lead with the smallest amount of daylight between 
them possible. 

Third position was evidently the place that all were looking for, 
and judging by the number of contestants that occupied it, there 
could not be the least hard feeling anywhere, each seemingly 


periectly satishied with the company on equal terms. Other scores 
as follows: 

Events: oom so) od Meeks ele SS. WG 

Targets: 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 25 10 
Watacle welSncc cesta cls atest eile cibiomeensts Lag Miily iY te ABR Sic ee) a 
(leerayn qilsstesseetes caet teh Oh ee eee Se RSE ES ele We aiiH we, 
EO Were Og een tte teeters oer eet 1 Te SGI. ET AG: 
ANU a TES oo oosayayoy tay ee Coe Ge ye ol” brut 
JEEvnet Gulitese ys toter sens preseas: rate Gy ileien hee OMI MI Re Pe 
(Pyctqis, dive eeyapewepne::ocaceeye eet ie 3b eos =e ee, 
eS tierant un Gelag dest wader asks a tnates Jie Wap the ache IRE, GY fe aa ateesi ht) 
AVA acnses Clrsgaihd we AAG ahafedetcheteresctctetct eras ctchg] tse ett Ae Ree ee 2 
ING owity Ost wy aslo eure yee a 8 Se 1h than 
Bay Serie el Gas sheen teh Chas eN Fhe Te fie GU Sa TaD GbE G 
Billard, Git sese etsy eset ey eet ts St SC Gh ae Lh ae ee 
Nichols, 140......42. cues: hotoeenci a “at De ss... 
Rawat el bg meee oe rine a een a 6 6 5 4 10 6 : 
Hawkins, 16...0000++s-cerp es ene ind’ oe RO gare aie Se 4 
ee te imo he eack it it iy 6 a “s : y fr ae ac 
Willi 3, WO. ecccevosrencntensnence be ene, 
enmeatt CU eng tae wr vm 6 6. Ae GeSie Aisne: eu 
Banks, A wecavaeaaee seteyeresrercene ee oe 8 8 BG Boon os 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Bpencer, 183. ..,ss0ee4e9 Voeeseseesic Ge hy «= “B14 87 Wrel9: os 
iis hie teyutead Cieeetetars viptermceea arate etrao Swick: cote JEG. nr. ciel Brae i) 
Fredericks, 14.......... Sone ee es AS one ithe tH sate inl 
Ea DEy LGe eee pase eee ear ReteGtge and “Sueno Be 7 


Events Nos. 1, 3, 5 and 8, at magautrap, unknown; Nos. 2, 4, 
6, 7 and 9, Sergeant system, known angles. 

Merchandise Match, 25 singles—15 magautrap and 10 Sergeant 
distance handicap: 


STPEMGER =| Si eae oe or, +)-- OLIN = 110111110122 
RR AZeS IG 22 Asemmaeis anions bite eee eee AVN1917711101 = 111111001021 
WWitaicle) oLS Soc smerteetsor eats fl eemondsada WOWIIONNITI = 111110110019 
Treroys, ele cieienee tele BRR eee en nee] OUILOINIOIIIIA = 111111000119 
ELE, SU CERN Sa.) Wormer lets WII11111110111 =: 101010100119 
EET TER SOB Ge sis cariin. A ecteew hnrkrst eer 011011171110100 011111111019 
Te yeretty l6tgecnr ene aea ee sntrs yee 111111110010111 §=—- 110100111119 
Bia aly wel Galea eae entries Pere T1O0TLO1I111110 = 011111101119 
Asn), AGS Wy ies Weaken sys 001101010110111 1111101111—18 
Ravsori WIG. were eerie reece bus OLOWMITI10IIIIL §=—-0010011101 17 
NWGVev AGGRO YER, UT ICE 5 5) win 5 SSAct at ay UO OOLOIII0101I111 ~~: 011010110116 
iSichihdsimy Ith: OAAA iene, oe gamete WLOTLO0IO10TIIT = 0110111010—116 
FRG iS OAL Ga rercee metres een Ae ees 101101101010000 = 110111110115 
Williams, 165 ads eetrened 110000001101711 0110101010—13 
TRA WcHi Ss p0G ste sauane ose vie ce lelepeeie eles 011001110100001 010001011112 
ardina bl 6: peel SER RiWe: Konbanee aay 101100131101111 = 100111110012, 
Whbiksten aie Tht eka alan pene ae 100000011001010 = 1110110010—11 
Bags, W4you—yann CEMA tletret-d deesioiehe 111000010110000 = 0111001000—10 
ING thos Saleh owecrates actieestetec tats st sant 000010010010101  0010100000— 7 


IN NEW JERSEY 
Belvidere Gun Club. 


"Belvidere, N. J., March 10.—No. 1 was an evetit at 5 live birds, 


f2 entrance, two moneys. No, 2 was a $2 miss-and-out. Nos, 3 
and 4 were at 15 targets, $1 entrance, two moneys: 

No, 1, o. 2. No.1. No. 2, 
W ‘Rasener....... 01022—8 11121 Et Heffe.......... 12112—5 +110 
GB =sGal ee een 12111—5 + 120 F De Ginther..,.00021—2 0 
H Boardman..... 10010—2 2220 G Boardman.,... 12121—5 11110 


No. 3, 15 targets, $1 entrance, two moneys: W. Rasener 11, H. 


Boardman 9, G. Boardman 10, H. Heffe 10, E. Lance 12, F. De 
Ginther 8. . 

No, 4: W. Rasener 10, H. Boardman 12, E. Lance 10, G, Board- 
man 10, H. Heffe 6. Oscar Boyce, 


Jeannette Gun Club. 
March 14.—The Jeannette Gun Club held its shoot to-day. 
J. Lott won Class A. medal; Mr. J. Schmidt won Class B. 
F Ehlen, 28 2010102001— 5 J Mohrman, 28....2102022121— 8 


Mr. 


J Lott, 302... w.2*22012112— 9 J Schmidt, 25...... 2202122120— 8 
G@ Meyers Zan 2s. + O100"**L0I— 3 C Seagtist, 25...... 1200*00202— 4 
C Steffens, 30...... 0212122110— 8 W Sanders, 28....:2000001220*— 4 


A Schumacher, 25. .0002010000— 2 


W Koeger, 28,..... 1222210112— 9 
G Loeble, 28...... 2202222102— 8 


W Brunni, 28...... 2211*2*022— 7 


H Lohden, 25...... 2121222000— 7 HM Gerdes, 25....... 0000001110— 8 
Hf Pape, 28..,..,.,-01*0000200— 2 W Rolhfs, 28...... 2210112210— § 
J Hainhorst, 28....201111100I— 7 C Thyssen, 25...... 2002222000— 5 
C Meyerdiercks, 28.2102022101— 7 
Ties on 9: 
ott, ea0tonnl poeeteeniae ent 222"2- We Koeger, 28.....-..0.000« 21200 
Challenge medal, 15 birds: 
C Meyer, 28...21221210*222202—12, F Ehlen, 28... -20211222*212000—10 
Team race, 5 birds; 
Iara Pat Le 11220—4 US SSP ee Aare 11221—5 
TiGeble-s.. i reli oria: © 22202—4 Stetenss celey eoseces 22110—4 
IWIGATENS Page es ana RCOe 01202—8 DBpehl eho MeRO rocker srs- eer tee: 11022—4 
Meyerdiercks ....... 20100—2 ELAIIVHOLSE. ectrvtateirmcens 11201—4. 
Mohrman ....s:.00e- 21220—4 SHNGerS: aeiwesnee secs 20020—2 
UD] a Kesy eapieves peace _....200010—2 elclehoastsh® 4 s5yns haber 22210—4 
LGC et lam cictereerseistone Tefal. SSF foes orngene 20120—3 
Gerdes 22 ee: 01010—2 Schumacher .....+..- 201*0—2 
IMT ger grapboStasas Tnyshen Woe e sept nseme 10112—4—33, 
Miss-and-out: 
DALMWELSs a ea peat ties ieee curt orsts sae et en eae ne nce 210 
SEGIISHS: “is/ntGasae ate. apey EMILE SE EER Ri eecen latale ents 1121 
MGhpmant ss c.fasmen beets TO GD lee See te eis oe Lai 2222 
KGEGER: (eter eneiernee mn Ns) AVC YET Ws a sips detente tte 2222 
ee cele SOCIO PE Aatiewr nce ne Sehnert ,.0 
Mevyerdiercks .1.-,6s0e+eceus Thyssen!’ .ckotescseeerictiee 0 
ROHS) pooh yess ps tatiine sachet LG EL Saree CeTNiaita cae eee ene 1121 


Arkansas Items, 


Live-Bird Championship. 


_Urrrie Rocx, Ark., March 15.—Owing to the near approach of the 
Grand American Handicap pigeon shooting is receiving much more 
attention than at any previous time. The contest for the Peters 
Cartridge Company’s trophy also did much jo revive the interest, 
Few of the principals in the inaugural contest are satisfied with 
their showing, and ate more than anxious to be given another try 
for the emblem. During the current week the matter was broached 
to John J. Sumpter, the Holder of the trophy, and when it was 
suggested that he hang it up fer open competition and let all have 
a chance who desired to try for it, instead of shooting De Long 
an individual race, he readily comsented. Thus there will be 
another open contest for it. This time it will take place at Pine 
Bluff on Monday, March 24, under the auspices of the Pine Bluff 
Gun Club, The conditions again will be 25 live birds, entrance, 
price of birds, Interstate rules, 30yds. rise. However, there will 
be two optional sweeps run in connection with it. The first 10 
birds will constitute one with an entrance of $5, and the remain- 
ing 14 birds will make up the other which will require an entry 
of $10. This money will be diyided by the high-gun system, and 
there will be one money for every two entries. The shoot will be 
held at the race track, which is reached by the new electric line 
runhing at intervals of ten minutes. 


Rejuvenated. 


During the past two years the number of shots fired over a trap 
at targets in Little Rock would not make a good fusilade, and at 
recent State shoots the town as a factor in the eyents was virtually 
off the map, while Pemberton, ohne of the few enthusiasts who 
would not quit, was forced to journey to neighboring towns when 
he wished to smash a few saucers in friendly competition. Times 
have changed, I am glad to say, and henceforth the City of Roses 
promises Once more to become a factor in the competition, as on 
Tuesday night of this week a new club was organized which will 


‘be known as the Little Rock Gun Club. This starts off with the 


goodly number of thirty names on its roll, and the aggregation in 
a large measure comprises new blood, though such old timers as 
Duley, Woodson, Thibault, Reaves, Dickinson, Pemberton and 
Dr, J. H. Lenow, have also been resurrected, and have pledged 
themselves to be as active as heretofore. 

The chief executive of the club is none other than Mayor W. 
R. Duley, while A. Brizzolara is vice-president, and Paul R. Litzke 
is secretary-treasurer. New grounds haye been secured, and the 
location is an excellent one, being only three blocks from the end 
of the main street electric line, where cars are operated every 
seven minutes, which enables one to reach the grounds from the 
business portion of the town in ten minutes. Millard F. Weigel 
will have charge of the traps and grounds. 

The roll of the club shows the following names: W. R. Duley, 
J. A. Smith, Alf. Johnson, R, B. Malone, Nick Peay, J; E. Mons, 
Fred Bragg, Dr. J. H. Lenow, A. Brizzolara, Gibson Thibault, 
Paul R, Litzke, John Rothery, Frank L. Royston, W. H. Schaer, 
J. A. Woodson, John Dickinson, Jr., J. K. Thibault, John M, 
Pemberton, C. M. Wigg, J. E. Osborne, Dr. J. H. Markle, E. T. 
Reaves, A. B. Chichester, M. F. Weigel, Will C. Bond, Chas, S. 
Hafer, Harry N. Files, J. B. Bateman, B. Morrison, James Keatts, 

A new equipment of traps and targets has been ordered. ~ 

“The first shoot is scheduled for Thursday, March 20, and there- 
after regular weekly engagements will take place on Thursday 
afternoons. The club will be represented at the State shoot by 
at least a squad and will make a strong bid for some of the 
trophies. On former occasions the old-timers were always in 
evidence, and the majority of these will again qualify, while some 
of the new blood is likely to develop into good ones. 


Arkansas G, A. H. Delegation, 


Heretofore Arkansas has never had more than a single repre- 
sentative at this, the greatest of all shooting events, but this year 
the number will be materially larger. There will be three eniries 
from Pine Bluff: J. T: Lloyd, J, B. Speers and E. €, Arnold; two 
from Hot Springs: John J. Sumpter (who was in the money each 
time he competed) and C. E. De Long; from Little Rock there 


. Protection of Fish and Game will hold their annual conventio 


will be John M. Pemberton and the writer. In addition there 
be a number of others who will simply go as spectators, 
are not sufficient to make up a special car, so the various. 
will likely go to St. Louis and join the Missouri delegation 


that place. 
Paut R. Litzre 


ON LONG ISLAND. 


Brooklyn Gun Club’s Shoot. 


_ Interstate Park, L. I., March 13—There were twenty shoot 
in John Wright's handicap target shoot. Fanning and G) 
were the back-mark men. Glover won the first amateur 
Fanning the first professional prize. The conditions o 
target event were 100 targets, Sergeant system, $4 entrance, 
guns, one money for every th 
second, $3. To professionals, first, $5; second, $3; third, 
The handicapping was done by the manager, Mr. J. S. Wright, 
Mr. M. Herrington, 
The weather was against good scores. The sky was heayily oy 
cast, making ayery sombre light, and a rainstorm set in bet 
2 and 3 o’clock, after which the weather cleared up nicely. Ff 
lowing are the scores of the main event: : 


Glover, 19........ 24 23 22 20—89 Smull, 16...:..... 19 22 20 19- 
Wash, 17.000 0y0.: 25 23 20 19-87 G Stephenson, 16. 19 21 20 19= 
Skelly, 17..... sans 22 23 20 22—87 Morfey, 17........ 16 28 17 29— 
Fanning, 19...... 20 24 22 21-87 Welles, 17........ 22 20 17 19- 
Bails ai lite eerraere 22 21 23 2i—87 Martin, 16....... . 17 21:18 20— 
Piercy, 18......... 21 21 21 28—86 F Stephenson, 17. 19 19 18 18— 
Fulford, 18:.....:, 21 22 21 21-85 Van Allen, 17.... 1718 19 20— 
Mike, 17.......085 19 21 22 22-84 Hopkins, 16..... . 15 19 17 214) 
H Money, 18.... 22 2119 20-82 Duke, 16.......... 18 20 17 14 
Capt Money, 17., 20 20 20 22—82 Super, 16......... 8 15 14 21-4 
Sweepstakes: ‘ | 
Events: Te abe SboR6 Events: 1 2.3 4 5a 
Targets 101515151525 Targets: 10 15 15 15 15} 
Duce ee 81311121118 Bradley .......... 4... 5 6 
IWieiles- eet reer (pees RS asst a ,ega sun is 10 12 
VEISILS loon o-feentee ot $1214 15.6 .. HH Money wa... 2. os, 1 
Hopkins ...,,.. 7131814 ..14 Sanders .......... sarasntr A zty 
Piercy cohen 813141411 22 Fanning : e 
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though well attended, would undoubtedly have been better 
tended had the weather signs been more favorable. The sky 

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New York State Association. 1 
Rocuester, N. ¥—The New York State Association for th 


and tournament in the City of Rochester, June 9 to 12, in! 
clusive, under the auspices of the Rochester Rod and Gun Clut 
of that city, ~ 

This convention and tournament, being the principal event 
this line of sportsmanship, naturally attracts a large number « 
the lovers of the scatter gun, and the prizes hung up in th 
merchandise event create a widespread and good-natured corm 
petition, that fends materially in making the tournament an even 
looked forward to with anticipaticns unspeakable from the tim 
the last shot is fired in one year until the first in the succeedin 
year, " 

Rochester has been several times chosen as the place to hol 
these conventions, and they have always made a first-class enter 
tainment of it, and the shooters haye always been treated in th 
most courteous manner. ‘This scheme of the tournament is 4} 
present only in embryo, but we shall be adyised week by weel 
of the progress made, also of the details pertaining to the tourne 
ment, ; 

The late law enacted by our State Legislature will in af) 
probability force the club to make some others arrangement! 
regarding the disposal of the Dean Richmond trophy, but thi 
matter can safely be left to them, 

No beiter place could have been selected for the tournament 
than Rochester. Its railroad, hotel and other facilities for pro 
viding for a crowd are beyond criticism. ‘Trolley cars direct to th 
grounds. Splendid accommodations for shooters. Best trappin! 
invention ever placed before the public. Reduced railroad rate 
on all trunk lines. Ample protection to amateurs, and congenia 
company for the crackerjacks will be a feature, With all ‘thesé 
facilities, we bespeak a first-class tournament on the above dates 

F. E. McCorp, Sec’y. 


PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 


Old Point Comfott, Richmond and Washington, 


SIX-DAY TOUR VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, 


Tue fourth of the present series of personally-conducted tours ti) 
Qld Point Comfort, Richmond and Washington yia the Penn 
sylyania Railroad will leave New York and Philadelphia of! 
Saturday, March 22. ; 

Tickets, including transportation, meals en route in both direc 
tions, transfers of passengers and baggage, hotel accommodation 
at Old Point Comfort, Richmond, and Washington, and carriagé 
ride about Richmond—in fact, every necessary expense for { 
period of six days—will be sold at rate of $34 from New York. 
Brooklyn and Newark; $82.50 from ‘Trenton; $31 from Philadelphia 
and proportionate rates from other stations. 


OLD POINT COMFORT ONLY. 


Tickets to Old Point Comfort only, imcluding luncheon on going 
trip, one and three-fourths days’ board at The Hygeia or Charm 
berlin Hotel and good to return direct by regular trains withir 
six days, will be sold in connection with this tour at rate of $ : 
from New York; $13.50 from Trenton; $12.50 from Philadelphia, anc 
proportionate rates from other points. 

Fir itineraries and full information apply to ticket agents; Touris 
Agent, 1196 Broadway, New York; 4 Court street, Brooklyn; 78! 
Broad street, Newark, N. J.; or Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant Genera 
Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.—ddv. 

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The Daimler Marine Motor is one of the best-known motors i 
this age of launches and automobiles. Its popularity may bi) 
accounted for on the ground of its safety, its durability and it} 
great economy. for it is said to use only one pint of gasoline per 
hour for each hotse power, Jt is made from two horse power uy 
to fifty horse power, and will rin, we areteld, for fifty hours ' 
out refilling the tank.—Ady, ” abe SMR GAGS 0) MP am 


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THE SEASON AND ITS HERALDS. 


Tue brown earth is growing warm, the buds of the trees 
are swelling; already those of the soft maple are red and 
large. The fields are still sere and brown, but the lawns 
about the houses, mowed through last summer and autumn, 
are taking on a tinge of green. Under the leaves in the 
woods the earliest spring flowers, liverwort and anemone, 
are sending up their flower stalks, and before long the 
children will be gathering great bunches of them to 
prove to us that spring is really here. If the long grass 
in the fields and the leaves in the forest are still yellow 
and brown, they now become brilliant in the warm light 
of the strengthening sun; and tree trunks, and gray rail 
fence, and moss-covered stone wall, cast now sharp black 
shadows, different from the feeble ones of midwinter. 

The great wave of bird migration started from the 
south long ago, and the first swell of its tide has already 
passed over us. Flocks of geese on clamorous journey 
have been seen and heard, sometinres high in air, like 
arrows cleaving the sky; sometimes nearer to’ earth, fol- 
lowing the water courses or swinging along the line of 
the shore. Many of the ducks have already gone by, and 
far to the northward are awaiting the opening of the yet 
frozen waters, while others still loitering with us are 
being pursued by the enthusiastic, but thoughtless, gun- 
ner, All through the winter these birds have led easy lives 
in the open waters of the South, often disturbed by the 
roar of the gun, often deceived by flocks of mimic com- 
rades, lightly resting on the water, rising and falling with 
the swell, and swinging here and there with the changing 
breeze. The ranks of the wildfowl are thinned now. 


Since last summer many thousands of their kind have 


fallen before the gun, and will never again see the pleas- 
ant waters of the north land, or on whistling wings pass 
over the far-stretching tundra. 

The smaller birds have begun to arrive. The song 
sparrow we have always with us; and often on bright 
days through the winter frem sheltered spots has been 
heard his. cheery song. Now he knows that springtime 


has come again and he sings constantly as he courts his 


mate. Ere long he will begin to build his nest, for he is 
almost the earliest breeder in the land. Bluebird and 
robin and rusty grakle ornament tree and field and 
swamp border, and other species are coming; not one by 
one, but by hundreds, and each day, as the bird lover 
walks abroad, he sees in field and hedgerow and coppice 
and wood, the constantly arriving species, some of which 
he knows are birds of passage only, while others he ex- 
pects to see all through the summer. A little later, if 
during his walk he stops and sits down to listen and to 
look, very likely he will hear somewhere close to him a 
curious rustling among the leaves, and if patient.and slow 
moving, he may detect two or three fox sparrows, or per- 
haps a chewink, busily scratching on the ground, looking 
for buried seeds. 

Long before this, the crows have begun to settle their 
family affairs for the year, and their not unmusical voices 
and glittering plumage, as the male displays himself 
before the female, have already been heard and seen. By 
this time they are gathering sticks and preparing their 
nests. The dweller in Rhode Island now may see the 
fishhawks, which have followed the cold weather from 
the south, making repairs to their huge nests, perched 
in the top of some tall tree, or resting on a wagon wheel 
supported by a pole erected for a bird house by the 
kindly landowner. For in Rhode Island they try to make 
the fishhawks comfortable, just as elsewhere people do the 
wrens, or the martins. Is there in all of Audubon’s great 
work a plate more charming than that which shows a 
gourd hollowed out and supported on a pole, occupied 
by a family of martins? Such bird homes are familiar to 
all our Southern readers. We shall do well to strive to 
bring close to us the beautiful bird life still to be found 


about ws. Tt wes a happy notion of Mr. Wilmot Town-. 


send’s, to place on the lawn a drinking fountain and bath 
ttth for the birds, and there is no better way to interest 
and please the children than to make the birds and the 
animals their familiar friends. In a little more than a 
month now, the wave of bird migration will be at its 
height. Then in the swamps, in the budding trees of the 
apple orchard, and in the tops of the tallest oaks will 
be found crowds-of tiny birds, unrecognizable at a dis- 
tance, yet when viewed through the lenses of an opera 
glass, readily to be known; the multitudes of warblers, 
tiny, active, bright in plumage and graceful in shape, 
which remain with us but for a night and then journey 
onward to breed in those dark forests of pine and hem- 
lock in the north, where they are seldom disturbed. 

It is time now for the bird lover to make preparations 
for the busy season. Active though he may be, he can- 
not hope to see any great part of what goes on in the 
multitudinous world of nature about him; yet he can 
see enough to inspire him with the keenest interest, and 
with memories which shall remain with him for many 
days. If he can be much abroad during the months of 
April and May, it shall profit him greatly. 


THE CARP. 

WHEN, many years ago, the European carp was in- 
troduced into the waters of North America, it was said 
to be a valuable food fish, and its importation and cul- 
ture would be the means, it was declared, of rendering 
profitable many ponds and lakes and sluggish waters 
then unproductive. It was said that an acre of pond or 
slough stocked with carp would yield the owner a greater 
annual return than the same area of fertile land, culti- 
vated in any grain crop. On the faith of such state- 
ments the carp was imported, but it proved anything 
but the promised blessing. Introduced into a few waters, 
it soon escaped from them and rapidly peopled others to 
the injury of the fishing and the destruction of native 
fish; that were far more valuable. It rooted up and de- 
stroyed water plants that were useful, and is said to have 
exterminated in some places certain plants that had al- 
ways furnished attractive food for the wildfowl, so that 
certain sections to which, during the migration, ducks 
and geese formerly resorted in great numbers, have now 
been deserted. 

For many years the carp has been regarded as a 
curse to the country, and has been as mttch abused by 
anglers as the English sparrow has been by naturalists. 
Tt is interesting now to see its defense again taken tp, 
and that by an investigator as eminent in his line of work 
as Mr. C. H. Townsend, whose services in connection 
with the United States Fish Commission are so well 
known to naturalists, and so highly appreciated by them. 

At a recent meeting of the Biological Society of 
Washington, Mr. Townsend spoke on the “Present 
Status of the Carp in American Waters.” He declared 
that, notwithstanding all the adverse comment, the fish 
was rapidly. assuming an important place in America, and 


that about $400,000 worth is annually sold, largely in © 
_New York. The carp is the source of the principal fishery 


in the Illinois River, where, he declares, the bass have 
increased, in spite of the statement that a carp destroys 
the young and spawn of bass. It is Mr. Townsend’s be- 
lief that when the proper ‘methods of raising and cooking 
carp shall be better appreciated, the fish will grow in 
popular favor and will become an important article of 
food, especially among those who cannot afford to pur- 
chase more desirable species of fish. He believes that it 
will be impossible to’raise the finer species of fish on a 
scale large enough to keep pace with our growing pop- 
ulation, and as the carp can be more easily raised, it 
will supply the deficiency caused by the lack of other 
fishes. 

Mr. Townsend’s views are entitled to the most respect- 
ful hearing, but it may be suggested that all that he says 
has often been said before, and that the value of the carp 
sold is not great when the area of country over which 
they are distributed, and the amount of its population, 
is considered. That the carp has a certain value as a 
food fish is undeniable, but it may fairly be questioned 
whether the waters occupied by the carp might not more 


profitably be devoted to better fish, 


Age is far too late, however, to discuss this as a practical 
question. The carp is here and has unquestionably come 
to stay. Such as he is we must make the best of him. 

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A RELIC OF THE PAST. 

In the Forest AND STREAM’S office there is at present 
an ancient arm, centuries old, which-is an object lesson 
in the matter of relativity in perfection, according to the 
estimates of mankind frem epoch to epoch. Clumsy, 
Shapeless and awkward of manipulation, it was yet in its 
day an advance on its still mere awkward predecessors. 
This is indicated by the lock, of the wheel-lock model, 
said to have been invented in 1515 at Nuremberg, and, in- 
efficient and cumbersome as it was, it nevertheless was 
then considered a great advance'in worthiness over the 
match lock, which, in its most perfect state, was the re- 
sult of several developmental stages of improvement. 

The wooden stock of this old gun is shaped something 
after the lines of the great northern pike. The 24-inch 
barrel, of good old-fashioned iron, octagonal in shape, is 
fastened to the wooden stock with a tang, a screw and 
{wo pins, and by its side, well forward of the breech of 
the barrel, a hammer of majestic size and reach, faced the 
shooter. Spikes at breech and muzzle indicated that the 
gin was to be fastened firmly, at both ends, to some 
weighty object, and then trained on a runway where the 
game was likely to pass to and fro, or on the path on 
which an enemy was likely to pass. Instead of taking 
eun in hand and seekitig the game and aiming at it as 
is done at the present day, our talented ancestors of that 
olden time reversed matters by first aiming his gun and 
then patiently waiting for the game to come-within the 
line of his aim, There then was a certain intermediate 
series of events something after the manner of the House 
that Jack Built, for the trigger pull released the wheel- 
lock, the wheel-lock revolved and knocked sparks out of 


~ the flint, the sparks ignited the powder in the pan, which 


in turn ignited the charge, so that if all went well, there 
sooner or later would be a discharge. To load this 
ancient weapon was a task which approached the dignity 
of a labor. Indeed, with this style of gun, Greener re- 
counts that “in 1638, at Wittenmergen, the musketeers of 
the Duke of Weimar shot seven times only during the 
action that lasted from.noon to 8 o’clock in the evening.” 
That seems absurdly slow when contrasted with a modern 
weapon, which will shoot as many times in almost a 
second. And vet in such an humble beginning the beautiful 
and efficient firearms of the present day had their origin. 
Thousands of intermediary stages lie between the ancient 
and the modern mechanisms. 

And yet, this souvenir of antiquity may have been the 
embodiment, to its ancient owner, of all that was best 
in sport. Knowing no better weapon, he looked upon it 
as the best of all. Relatively, it was better than its pre- 
decessors. We of to-day value our firearms in like man- 
ner, And the associations of its successes afield, perils 
surmounted, and reliability in the face of all dangers, en- 
deared it no doubt to the ancient as do the powers of 
the modern firearms endear them to the modern men. 


Tue New York bill providing that imported game shall 
be subject to the State law, and that dealers may retain 
game in the close season by giving suitable bond subject to 
direction of the Game Commission, has become law. We 
have expressed the opinion that such a system would lead 
to the encouragement of game marketing and of viola- 
tions of the law against sale in close season. On the 
other hand, the measure was advocated by Chief Pro- 
tector Pond, who believes that it will materially help the 
cause of protection. ? 

The bill in the New York Legislature to forbid the 
sale of wocdcock and grouse killed within the State has 
passed the Assembly. By the time this comes to the eye 
of the reader the work of the Legislature will practically 
have been finished for the session. We hope that in-the 
next issue we may have the privilege of recording that 
New York has fallen into line with the States which in 
the public interest have adopted the Forrst AND STREAM’S 
Platform Plank to the extent at least of prohibiting the 
sale of woodcock and grouse from its own covers. 

&® 

Ontario has done something which will prove of decided 
interest to big-game hunters, The Province has changed 
the moose law which permitted hunting only in every, 
third year, for a new regulation, which provides an an- 
nual open season. The Province embraces some excellent 
moose country, and the coming autumn is likely to see a 
goodly number of American visitors invading Ontarig 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Manos 29, 1902, 


Che Sportsman Cauvist. 


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Death Dance of the Tolamancas. 
F X.—Adventures in Tropical America, 


In the deep forests of Southern Costa Rica are living 
a tribe of Indians, descendants of a people who at one 
time must have been powerful, now nothing but a rem- 
nant—a memory of the past, as it were—fading away, 
and not even struggling to hold a place on the tide of 
new events which to-day influences even the most remote 
places. These are the Tolamanca Indians, and among 
them of memories there is a full measure, discon- 
nected Jegends, incomplete ceremonies, strange customs, 
held in reverence yet lightly regarded. 

In my wanderings I once visited their country, stop- 
ping at a mission where.a few Paulist Fathers were giv- 
ing earnest lives for these Indians. I was anxious to 
learn and see all I could, and was fortunate in that the 
Indians told me of customs and showed me ceremonies 
heretofore jealously guarded. Perhaps the good fathers 
helped me; perhaps it was only good fortune; but when I 
had talked with the Indians who came to the mission and 
remained a few days without trespassing, I received a 
visitor—Antonio, King of the Tolamancas—who came 
to bid me welcome. 

That he was more than an average man, I saw at once, 
though his dress was conventional; a suit of blue serge, 
stout boots, a white shirt, very clean, and a gray felt 
hat which he held in his hand as he stood there gravely. 
A man who was born to rule, to his people a law, and 
yet on his face an expression of sadness but not of 
dejection; his bearing was that of command. 

At once we were friends. All have met with some 
whom they understood at a glance, and whom it would 
seem had so understood them, and so it was between 
myself and the Indian. Gravely Antonio gave me his 
hand, and said he had come to invite me to visit his 
houses, and next day would send men and horses. “But,” 
he said, “ours are not like your houses. I have been in 
the cities; it is better there for those who are white men, 


! 


and here in the woods it is better for us who are Indians.” 


Then we talked for a time. I had learned not to be 
eager with the Indians, and when I had told him “about 
myself and my country, we sat for a time together in 
silence. Then he called his attendant, and, mounting his 
horse, went away, riding slowly over a meadow and 
then disappeared in the jungles. What a grand man, I 
thought. Yet Antonio, King of the Tolamancas, has a 
reputation for unreasoning deviltry and uncontrolled pas- 
sions throughout all Costa Rica. 

That day I could do little; preparations were made for 
my visit, and aiter that nothing remained but to wait, 

When the sun of the next afternoon hung heavy, and 
from the jungle long shadows began reaching over the 
meadows, three Indians rode out of the woodlands and 
came to the mission. A few words of welcome, a little 
advice from the fathers, who were somewhat disturbed 
at my going, that was all; I was ready and waiting. 
Fine men they were, but not nearly so large or so strong 
as Antonio; perhaps he was of a more ancient blood, or 
descended from those who in centuries past had con- 
quered the men of the woodlands, and, ruling, had kept 
themselves somewhat apart from those who served, the 
difference was marked and must have had causes other 
than climate or conditions of living. 

I followed my guides, and after an hour or more came 
to a-clearing and saw a number of huts, and further on a 
great conical building like a round tent, but thatched 
from the ground to the peak with palm leaves and straw. 
Here Antonio was waiting with a grave, kindly welcome; 
seats were brought for my guides, a hammock for me. In 
the house it was twilight; at the door the bright rays of 
the sunset; above us the roof was so high it was dark, 
‘like a cave; a fire burned low at one side of the house, 
great earthen jars standing near it; many Indians were 
sitting about talking softly or resting in silence; yet the 
house was so large I could distinguish only their forms 
from my seat near the door. A shed protected the en- 
trance from the rains of that country, and formed an open 
veranda where horses were tied, and the Indians gathered 
at times, though for the greater part they sought the 
deep twilight within their strange house. 

For a time we were silent. Antonio, holding a staff, 
his insignia of office, from a large hammock was listen- 
ing to low, earnest voices from men grouped about him. 
They presently finished, and then, at a sign from An- 
tonio, women and boys came, passing large gourds of 
‘ chicha. The Indians drank eagerly, but for me I would 
much have preferred to decline; but I knew better, and 
drank about a pint or two of the sour stuff, said it was 
good, and asked them to serve me again. Perhaps some 
may think that I lied, and maybe I did, but the chicha I 
drank was punishment enough, and having asked them for 
more, I was punished again, and it did me not the least 
bit of good to wish that I hadn’t. We sat for a while, then 
Antonio said we would go to a dance for the dead which 
that night would be most impressive. Horses were 
ordered, and I found that my eagerness need not be con- 
cealed; even the king became animated, and expectant 
Indians were awaiting a signal that they might proceed 
on their way; rather strange it all seemed, a funeral, yet 
s0 much expectation of pleasure. While we were waiting, 
I stopped to speak to a group of boys who were looking 
at me intently. Among them was a lad of some sixteen 
years who was taller and better appearing; his face in- 
dicated a sensitive nature and intelligence of a high order. 
T asked him his name. He looked surprised, and then 
replied: “Me? J am Josecito.’ This was the heir to 
the King, and no prince could have shown greater pride 
in his rank, Then immediately all was forgotten in his 
eager desire to see the few things that I carried, and to 
hear of the great world beyond the deep jungles; and this 
boy would be King, but a_ruler of what? Of tribal 
legends and of the influence they brought—that is all, 
Now Antonio came and he and his household were ready, 
a goodly company, who conducted me through ‘the 
jungles to another large house, where we arrived at that 
time in the tropics when, after sunset, night seems to 
rise out of the jungles, Here I found a great number of 


Indians gathered together. We were welcomed, but most 
of the people looked strangely at me, and then turned to 
the King with expressions of wonder, and soon the lead- 
ing men had gathered about him, all eatnestly talking. 
Then Antonio, raising the staff of his office, entered the 
house, the other men following. I went in, too, for I 
wished to-see all that was done, and my action met with 
approval; a hammock was brought, in which I sat watch- 
ing with interest while Antonio, ‘his principal men 
gathered around him, held consultation the same as he 
had done before. The King said little, though he listened 
with caré to those who wished to speak with him, and 
then, when all had finished, he raised his staff, and in a 
few words gave his decision. Then some of the men 
came to me with a welcome; the decision had been in my 
favor, and I should see all, and, waiting, made myself 
patient. 


It was now grown dark, but in the large house a fire 
and numerous torches sent a bright, wavering light 
through the midst of the Indians, and high up above 
them till the roof could be seen through the masses of 
smoke which, in the damp air, hung heavily drooping. 

Men and boys now came serying out chicha, great 
eourds full, giving me more than enough. Then. all sat 
around laughing and talking while the night grew about 
them, and the air became heavy with dampness. After 
some titme had passed a deep-toned drum, a musical, 
resonant sound, called for attention; then, to the slow 
measured beatings, four men went to the back of the 


house and stood shoulder to shoulder, facing the people~ 


and keeping measured time with their feet. Then two 
others joined them; these wore crowns of white feathers 
and carried gourd rattles, After a time one other came, 
in his hands a small implement made of hard wood which, 
on being struck, gave a sharp clicking sound; then im- 
mediately men and boys came to the line, each with a 
drum—or tambor, in the Indian-tongue, a word in a 
measure expressive of the sound made from their beating. 
vin line with the dancers I saw Josecito standing ex- 
pectant, on his head a crown of white feathers, under the 
left arm a tambor; he looked brave and most strikingly 
handsome. 

When the line had been formed, the men who first 
took their places began a weifl chant in low voices, 
taken up one after the other, and then in unison chant- 
ing together; a sound not unmusical and something like 
that of a wind sighing among many trees and their 
branches, Then a tremulous sound rose up with the 
chanting as the men with gourd rattles now gave them a 
circular motion, then a sharp clicking came as the In- 
dian who carried the small wooden object beat a time on 
it; with that the long line of dancers swayed for a moment 
and then, in a slow, measured step, began to move for- 
ward and backward, with the tambors steadily beating, 
the continued tremulous sound of the rattling gourds, 
the sharp clicking time beat, the drawn out chant of the 
singers rising and falling in rhythmic, monotonous 
cadence; a long line of Indians, impressive because they 
were deeply in earnest, parading and chanting farewell 
to their dead. In perfect unison the Indians went 
through the performance, while the fire burned low, and 
the torches, unattended, now flickered dimly; but the 
Indians continued steadily forward a step; a pause; a 
step; backward a step, a step; gradually gaining a little 
ground forward toward the eastern side of the house to 
which the line was now turned, where high above them. 
rudely fashioned and made fast to the thatched side of 
the house, were three packages, bound securely with 
leayes, the bones of their dead awaiting final interment. 
A long time the dance was continued till a place just 
under the dead had been reached. Then the chanting 
became more subdued, the wailing notes long drawn out, 
the tambors, touched lightly, gave a soft, mournful 
sound, and the rattling fell to a whispering murmur, then 
the balancing steps were scarce more than a swaying, till 
gradually all became still, stood silent an instant, and 
then, without anything further, went quietly back to their 
various places; and in a few moments boys and young 
men came bringing gourds full of chicha, while in all 
parts of the house subdued voices were heard, 

A long interval, during which some fell asleep, then a 
dance was formed as before, this time the King taking 
the central position, his staff in his hand, on his head a 
crown oi white feathers surmounted by long, brilliant 
plumes. In this dance: the motion was slower, the sing- 
ing subdued, but in other respects it was quite the same 
as the first. ‘ ' 

Now it was late, and when this’ dance had been finished 
I found my eyes heavy; my thought was. to sit up all 
night, but the chicha, the smoke, the slow, droaning 
music. brought sleep to my eyes; I could not keep awake, 
The King came to me and said in a voice of concern: 
“What, are you sleeping? My house would be better. 
I roused myself, but presently nature would claim her 
due, and as most of the Indians were now sleeping 
soundly, I gave up the struggle, and the next thing I 
knew it was morning. A chilly gray light and a damp, 
clinging fog came in through the door. Of the-Indians, 
some were till sleeping and some moving about at various 


_ duties. The King came to ask me how I had rested, and 


to say that there would be still other dances after the 
morning had grown a little. Then we went to a stream 
near the house, where we washed and prepared for the 
day, the King taking charge of me with a cate almost 
tender; on his face a serious, unmoved expression. 
Then back to the house, more chicha, and with it gourds 
of boiled chocolate, which I was glad to receive, for T 
was now well hungry. ¥ 
A deep red glow began rising over the fog, the sun 
would soon come, and the Indians began to form for a 
dance which clearly would be something much more 
elaborate. As before, the singers, rattlers and principal 
men first took their places in a row at the back of the 
house; then at either end of the row other Indians 
placed themselves in line at right angles. Now the wail- 
ing chant was begun, then the tremulous rattling, and 
after that the sharp clicking sound, and when this com- 
menced three Indians bearing a light staff between them 
came with slow steps and stood back of the singers. On 
the staff I noticed three rings tied together and made 
of bark rudely plaited and I fell to wondering what they 
might mean; then a soft beating was made on the tam- 
bors, and an Indian came, in his hand a brilliant red 
‘ feather, its base wrapped in a green leaf, and he took a 


place facing the singers. The Indians holding the tam: 
bors increased the force of their slow, measured beatin 

till the whole house was full of the deep reverberations, 
mingled with the weird chant of the singers, the tremu- 
lous rattling and the sharp clicking sound. Then slowly 
forward and back, as before, went the line of singers, 
musicians and principal men, but those at the sides re. 
mained still; the Indian bearing the feather went through 
the same steps in front of the singers, moving backward 
or forward as they advanced or retreated, and in the 
same manner and on the same step the three Indians 
bearing the staff came following after. This movement 


-for a time was continued; the tambors beating slowly at 


first were now touched more rapidly, and gradually in- 
creased till, with sudden energy, the men at the sides 
broke the lines in which they were standing and in groups | 
of four, with shoulder pressed against shoulder, began | 
a movement with a long step forward, a step to the side, 
and another step back, all in the most perfect order, , 
circling round and round the ceremonious dancers, who. : 
continued steadily on as before. Faster and faster the 
outer dancers beat on their tambors, keeping time with 
their steps, not any one faltering, but in companies: swept ” 
on around and around till the time was set at so rapid a 
pace that all could not keep it; and now each company 
bent every effort to run into and break up the party who | 
danced just before them. A game of rare skill, the step 
must never be broken, each group pressed on to the next, — 
and in turn was beset by the group following after, while 
in the center the ceremonious dancers continuing on with — 
wailing chant, and its accompaniment of weird sounds, — 
were not once disturbed, This required real skill from 
those dancing around them, Now ail was excitement, the 
young men forced the dance to their utmost, the women _ 
with praise or reproach sat eagerly watching. Josecito, 
the young prince, was leading one party, and a better 
dancer could scarce be imagined, As the dance con- 
tinued, one group, then another, was run down and forced 
to one side, till, finally, Josecito with his men, and a 
group of much stronger Indians were all who remained, 
and it now became a race of endurance. For a time the 
honors were ‘even, but Josecito was only sixteen, those 
with him nothing but boys; their opponents were older 
and stronger. The younger party grew tired, faltered, 
lost the step, tried to recover, made a bad start, lost the 
step once again, and then sweeping on the older men 
passed among them, their line was destroyed, and 
Josecito, red in the face, ran out of the house to hide 
his confusion. The remaining group circled round the 
ceremonious dancers, going gradually slower till they 
stopped and stood at one side, beating softly on their 
tambors, Then the ceremonious dancers turned to the 
remains of their dead and the chant died away in a wail- 
ing farewell which could not be misunderstood. Then, 
after standing a moment in silence, all returned to their. 
places. Josecito looked in at the door, and then ran 
away, as if ashamed of his failure. For a time the 
Indians ail rested, then a new dance was formed, different 
again from the others in that the women prepared to 
dance with the men. The singers, musicians and prin- 
cipal men stood as they had done before, the chant and 
the step were the same, the accompaniment in no way 
different; but as the beating of the tambors came quicker, 
the women began to dance round and round as the boys 
had done, except that they danced hand-in-hand, while 


’ the boys held their lines by pressing shoulder to shoulder, 


and keeping the most perfect time in their steps. The 
women gave little attention to time and the step, but 
they danced with an abandon of motion which was most 
attractive. As the dance progressed it became much con- 
fused, and was pushed rapidly on to its end; then came 
the wailing farewell, and the Indians returned to their 
seats or stoad about talking together. j 

More chicha was served, and then the King said that 
as I had seen all the dances we would go to his house 
and sit for a time, if I wished. Taking leave was of very 
small moment, the same as I had found it among other 
tribes, and even the King was not noticed; we simply 
walked out of the house; that was all. Shortly we ar- 
rived at his home, and in the deep shadowy interior sat 
at ease resting. Then I said: “Don Antonio, why do 
you dance for the dead? I have seen but I want to know 
what it all means.” With an expression of real regret 
on his face the King shook his head, saying: “No, my 
white visitor, I love you much, but the dances they are 
of the Sukias and the Singers. I, as King, know all, 
truly, but to tell or not that belongs only to them. And 
yet why should we keep these secrets? I am not a King; 
as the government commands, so I do; our secrets mean 
little now. For myself I wish you to know. A Sukia 
will come; be patient and wait.” So we waited and the 
Sukia came, and when he had talked with the King he 
said, gravely, to me: “Why do you want to know of our 
dead, you of a far distant country; what is it to you?” 

I answered, explaining that I was sent by the American 
Museum of Natural History, a great palace as big almost 
as a mountain, where records of all the Indians were 
kept that none might be lost or forgotten—a record that 
should be for them, their children and all people forever. 
Then I told of the museum and the work it had done; 
this caught their fancy, and when I had talked a long 
time and answered their questions, the King said: “It 
is good. I no longer am King; those who command and 
send soldiers care not at all, and lest everything should 
be forgotten we will tell you. Our word is, we will tell 
you; your word is, you will keep the record for us. for 
our children and for all who may care to know. Were 
Ta King we would keep for ourselves our remembrances; 
to-day our power is gone; to-morrow we may not be at all. 

“T Antonio, am King, the oldest son first born of the 
other King’s oldest sister; so it has been always. 
Not the son of the King, but the son of the King’s 
oldest sister, for who knows that a son born to the 
King’s women might be not of his blood. The people 
obey the King, and next to the King are the Sukias— 
wise men who charm away evil, keep the Bugaru (chief 
evil spirit) from destroying the people, and who, with 
their charms, save the sick from the influence of the 


~ spirits of evil which forever are seeking to injure the 


living, and all believe in and follow the word of the 
Stikias. The chief Sukia is wise beyond the others; him 
all fear; he lives deep in the mountains and seldom 1s 
seen. Even the King has fear of him, and before him 
the Bugaru never can stand. ke 


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“After the Sukias are the Becockaras, who watch over 
the food, the fields and the cattle; with them all people 
consult and find wisdom for their planting, their hunt- 
ing, their going away, and their coming again. 

“Apart from all are the Singers, who commune with 
the dead, and watch over those who haye been taken 
from us. When a man dies he is gone, and wants no 
more of the things which were here; and, as he wants 
them not, we in due time make a feast, eating and drink- 
ing. We do not giye what he had to his sons and his 
‘women; in the woods there is plenty, and the fields yield 
enough; if they work they have no want of things which 
belonged to the dead. Let them work and take from 
the earth that which is fresh and good for their lives; 
but if they care not to work they are not worthy to have. 
The people who rtle tell us this is wrong; we do not 
hold it a wrong. 

“When one is dead those who ate appointed to handle 
the body take it away to the woods; there, bound 
securely with cloth and with leaves, and placed in a house 
made of poles, the body remains for a year, till the sun 
rises again on the day of that life’s departure; and if the 
bones are found cleaned by the wind and the rain, it is 
well; the body is freed from the flesh and can then be 


taken high in the mountains to be buried in the great 


vaults which were made in days so long gone past that 
none remember their making, only we know that there 
all are gathered together; but before the bones are taken 
away we dance and rejoice because now they are safe, 


‘and’ this we do dancing, drinking and eating till all that 


belonged to the dead is consumed. Then the family take 
up the bones and go by themselves to the safe place high 
in the mountains, and when they have laid the dead in the 


vault which 1s theirs, for each family has one, they leave 
a few things that the dead may not be in want, or be sent 
away empty handed; not that we think the things will be 
needed, but only because it has been so always; then the 
family come home again to the lowlands. 

“The dances you saw were in farewell and rejoicing, 
because those departed were safe. The first dance was 
held for a woman. You saw it. She had served the men 
well and they danced for her who had leit them. The 
second dance was for a man, and his companions danced 
in his memory; you saw the singers in farewell, as at 
first, but with others joining to aid and remember: The 
young men about the singers represented the struggles 
of the life which had been and which for them would still 
be. Behind those who sang were three bearimg a staff, 
and on the staff was a snake of the lowlands, a type of 
the evil which the dead were now leaving behind them 
foreyer; and before those who danced and sang in fare- 
well was one bearing a feather from a bird of the moun- 
tains; and dancing he was a spirit, a bird leading and 
calling on to the mountains where the dead were to rest 
and would be safe forever. 


“The last dance was for a child only; the farewell was ~ 


the same, but the women to whom is confided the care of 
the clildren danced reund about hand-in-hand in token of 
life and its struggles; but not in order, they danced in and 
out among those who sang, for the child’s life had been 
broken, and so was their dance. 

“This is all; it is little; only farewell to the dead. Not 
that they need tt, but only that it has been so always; it 
is our custom and it is nothing more.” 

Then Antonio, the King, stopped talking. Beyond the 
deep shade of his cave-like house was the intense burn- 
ing heat of the tropics; a shimmering of light over the 
green of the jungles; a wavering of intense heat over 
the grass in the clearing in front of his houses. Quietly 
the cattle and horses were feeding; scarce a breath stirred. 
Antonio the King looked over the scene a long time in 
silence, and then said, as if thinking aloud: “For the 
white men the cities, plantations, the ships; for the In- 
dians only the forests. Why will they not leave us our 
own?” 

There was much that I wanted to know beside what 
had been told, and I asked the King how the dead were 
finally buried, to which he replied: *“There is little cere- 
mony; the package of bones is placed in a hammock 
and carried to the burying ground in the mountains; the 
top of the vault is removed, and the dead laid away with 


those who had gone before them; the vault is covered 


again, and by its side we leave a stool to sit on, a clay 
jar for chicha, a cup for drinking, a gourd, and for each 
man a bow, arrows, hunting bag and his walking staff; 
for each woman a basket. We do not think the dead 
need these things; it is only a custom.” 

Would they show me the burying ground? Decidedly 
they would not, becuse they knew the white men would 
dig open the vaults and take the bones of their dead, 
an act they all feared, the King saying: “That is 4 
curious custom of yours, Your people want our dead, 
vet never think of disturbing your own. Why do yo 
this? We cannot tell, gnd do not hear your words of 
excuse.” ; ma 

Then I said: “Don Antonio, ask them to sellime ail 
the things they use in a dance of farewell, that 1 may 
make a dance for myself.” 

“Without the dead? That would be foul,” and the face 
of the King wore a grave, anxious look. : 

“But,” I urged, “one will die; let me have these things, 
for the dance is good.” : 

Then Antonio said: “What harm can it do?” and to 


FOREST AND STREAM 


the men standing near: “Get the things for him, that, 
knowing all, he may even dance for himself if he will.” 

Agreements were quickly made, and I was promised 
that in a few days the collection would be completed. 

-Then-the King brought out the regalia and let me take 
the things in my hand. The staff of office was of very 
hard wood, a bird’s head. carved at the top, the throat 
hollow and containing a ball with which a clear, rattling 
sound covld be made. The crown was of feathers, a 
circle of white plumes from the eagle, with long red 
and blue tail feathers from the mackaw standing erect at 
the front, while around the base of the crown were 
iridescent feathers; green, red, blue and yellow, cleverly 
blended together. Around his neck were hung seven 
golden eagles, identical in form with others found among 
the most ancient graves in Costa Rica. He had also a 
string of shell beads like those found in old graves, and 
ealled pre-Colombian. 

When I had seen the regalia, the King said he was 
obliged to leave me alone for a time, because some 
Indians had called him, 

I went to the hut where I was to live, thinking of all 
I had seen and wondering by what means more could be 
learned. I was commissioned to make a collection, and 
the idea took my fancy that the model of a dead Indian, 
and a second model of the bones prepared for the dance 
and final interment would be specimens well worth the 
effort. To prepare the model I had only some string and 
my knife, but in the tropics nature is lavish, and with the 
aid of some of the younger Indians, who appeared im- 
mensely amused at what I proposed, material was found 
in abundance. A young Indian willingly stood for a 


model, and after taking measurements carefully, I began 


the construction. A gourd seryed very well for a head; 
a young bushy tree provided a collar bone, spine and the 
ribs, which were bent into shape with my bits of string. 
A second gourd carefully cut made a good imitation of 
thighs, and jointed pieces of wood formed the legs, arms, 
feet and hands. Then the body was padded with straw 
till its appearance became really natural, and the young 
Indians said it was truly a deader. Then I told them that 
the body was my uncle Gabriel, and that I must have 
him laid out in the woods, because he was dead. The 
men objected, of course, but they yielded after a time. 
Cloth was procured, and the body wrapped snugly, and 
an outer’covering of green leaves bound securely around 
it. The bows, arrows, staff, cup and hunting bag were 


bound together and Jaid on its right side; a stool was 


brought and placed at its feet, and by the left hand was 
placed a jar for chicha. Then I asked them to take up the 
model and prepare a place in the woods where it might 
stay for a year. This they positively refused; yet I 
forced them, urging, threatening and commanding. 
Then one said: “This is bad, but we finish. Take up 
your deader and come.” We started at once, but warn- 
ing cries of horror and fear came from the women. The 
men stopped, but by some influence, I hardly know how, 
I made them go on, 
done. First a little place was cleared in a thicket; then 
poles were laid on the ground, a few leaves put over them, 
and on these the model was placed. Around it slender 
poles were forced in the ground, and all bound tightly 
together, forming a cage in which a body would stay 
a long time well secured; about it the staff, bow, arrows 
and hunting bag, the stool and the jar for chicha were 
laid as before; that was all, and seemed very little to have 
required such effort. The cage was taken up, the pieces 
carefully labeled that they might be put together again 
in New York, and the specimens were thus carried back 
to the hut in which I was living. On the way we saw 
frightened women run in the King’s house, though some 
stood at a distance looking at us with wondering caution. 

In regard to the objects used in the dances the King’s 
orders were being obeyed, and all the implements were 
freely brought to me, all but the wooden instrument on 
which the clicking sound was made. There was but one 
in the tribe, which had been handed down from time 
immemorial, and no one had any idea of making an- 
other, but as dances were held without it because it 
were impossible that the instrument should be at the ser- 
vice of all, I did not consider it of such great importance. 
I was most anxiotis to secure a model of the bones as 
prepared for final interment, and now sat in my house 
planning how this should be done, and listening to 
frightened voices and exclamatiens of anger from In- 
dians in the King’s house, where they had gathered to- 
gether. ) 
for when evening came I went to my- hammock, taking 
my pistol with me as usual, and soon fell asleep, leaving 
my plans and the Indians till morning. __ 

The next day I found everything quiet again, and set to 
work preparing my skeleton model. It was not easy 
work, for material was scarce. The head was a gourd, 
branches and bits of wood formed the bones, a hollow 
stick cut in sections represented the spine, and from a 
large gourd thigh bones were made. Then all were laid 
out on the floor, each bit of wood in the place where a 
bone should have been. The effect-was so natural that 
the Indians were frightened; then they became inter- 
ested, and when I said the bones were those of my 
Uncle Gabriel, recently dead, and that I must have them 
prepared for a dance I would hold in New York, they 
looked at me in wonder, hesitated, and then prepared to 


In the woods the work was soon 


How long they continued I do not remember, 


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obey. A cloth was brought and the mimic skull care- 
fully taken, the collar bones were thrust into the open- 
ing to hold it in place, the ribs were forced through the 
sections representing the spine, arid all were laid on the 
cloth, the skull at the top; then at either side they placed 
the bones of the arms, the bits of wood representing the 
fingers and hands were placed in little piles at the base 


_of the arms; the thigh bones were placed where the 


stomach would be, the legs were put in position; at the 
end of each were placed the bits of wood which repre- 
sented the bones of the feet; then the cloth was folded 
over, and the compact little package, bound tightly with 
cords; leaves were brought from the forest, and the finai 
binding was being put on when a tumult of wailing and 
outcry came from the women; something was shouted 


.in a horrified voice, which was immediately taken up by 


all of the people. The men started back and looking at 
me with terror refused to proceed with the work. I was 
determined to make them, and would not allow them to 
go out of the house, Perhaps they feared me more than 
my model; at any rate, after a moment, they turned again 
to their work, and with faces perspiring and hands that 
were trembling they finished it all. I ordered them then 
to prepare a support and place the model on it as if it 
were there for a dance; this they did while the women 
shouted denunciations and cried out in fear. When all 
had been finished, two bits of wood, one hard and one 
soft, in which a fire had been kindled by friction, were 
plaeed under the leaves surrounding the package of 
bones, and the dead was provided with fire. A ham- 
mock was brought in which the remains could be carried; 
that was all, and then my collection was finished. The 
men hurried away, saying that never would they again 


enter that house, which they now held had been cursed. 
Th2 wemen had all disappeared, and I noticed as I 
packed up my specimens that everywhere there was an 
ominous silence; perhaps my inyestigations would yet 
cost me dear. In the afternoon Josecito came to say that 
he wanted me to sleep at his house. I wanted to go, but 
who would care for my specimens? No, I determined 
that I would remain, and Josecito rode slowly away. 


. That evening the women came back, but there was no 


supper for me. I passed an anxious night and yet noth- 
ing happened. In the morning I gathered my specimens 
together, intending to start for the clearings where the 
Costa Rican governor was living, but here were new 
troubles. No Indian would touch the evil things I had 
made, and it was evident they did not intend to permit me 
to take them myself. I had no thought of yielding, so 
a contest of wills was begun; yet for me the time was not 
lost, for I set to work to learn the words of their chant, 
and after getting a fragment from one or another I be- 
gan to have some idea of it all, The words were known, 
put they belonged to a language which had been lest, 
and eyen the singers had no idea of their meaning. 
From a drunken Indian who happened that way I finally 
got all the words together, after a rather comical ex- 
perience, in which I started a rough singing contest, 
though I cannot claim any voice except one whieh is at 
its best only when silent; yet it now served the purpose, 
and after a while the Indian took up the singing and 
began to chant their farewell to the dead; the words 
were tepated over and over, and as he sang I set them 
down as they are here: 

: K, ah la u ha ma ta ka bi, su na ka bia ya, da shang 

wan. 

This was an addition to my collection of material, 
but I was no nearer getting away with it all. The 
Indians grinned complacently, and even came to look 
at the specimens, but totich them—not for anything. 
That evening Antonio the King returned, and I thought 
my troubles were over, but I am sorry to say that 
Antonio was very drunk. I was still in his favor, and 
though now all the Indians cowered before him, I had 
nothing to fear. He neither approved or disapproved of 
my specimens, and even apologized for his condition, 
blaming it all on the Christians, as he called the white 
men, who talked so fair but would not trade till they had 
given them drink, and then when the indians were happy 
and careless made unfair exchange and. sent them home 
almost empty handed. Then he looked away to the 
woodlands with sad, drunken eyes. saying over and over: 
“T am not a King, I am not a King, or they would not 
do this.” 

Antonio said he could not order the mén to carry my 
things; it was theirs to do or not as they pleased. Only 
for himself he could say I might take them; that was all 
he could do. e 

That night I sent the governor a letter, telling him of 
my difficulties and asking his aid, and next morning three 
soldiers and a number of mules appeared at my house, 
much to my surprise, and said that the governor had 
sent them to help me. «The Indians lucked on in amaze- 
ment and fear, but made no objection: then, while the 
specimens were being packed on the mules, Antonio the 
King came, saying: “I ride beside you, and jJosecito 
has gone to ride on before you.” 

As we went through the jungles in silence we fre- 
quently met with bands of armed Indians who, on seeing 
the King iollowed, but did me no harm, and presently a 
goodly company had gathered together escorting me 
on through the woods. After a time we stopped, and 
the King said: “I go no further. We are now near the 


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governor and he is agaist me.” Then, extending his 
hand, he said, as I grasped it: ‘‘Good-by, come again; 
IT love you much.” ‘Then all the Indians left us and I 
_soon reached the government buildings, where there was 
nothing to do but to express my deep thanks to the 
governor, who would not allow me to pay for the mules 
or the sldiers. 

Before leaving that country I met a Sukia who had 
come to the government buildings, and to test what | 
knew of the farewell chant to the dead, I sang it for hii, 
and the surprised, angry look on his face as he demanded 
where I had learned it, gave me assurance that I had not 
been misled, and that I had in truth learned the death 
thant of the Tolamancas. 


Francis C, NIcHOoLAs. 


[In the musical notation as here given the endeavor has 
been made in the arrangement to render the death chant 
as it sounds when the Indians are singing together in dis- 
order and in irregular time according to their custom. 
The air is the monotone accented chant as it sounds when 
sting by one Indian as a solo.] 


A Walk Down South.—XXIL. 


ONcE more afloat below the Dickenson’s Dam, I began 
to realize where I was. Friday, January 10, 1902, was a 
bright, beautiful morning, with a faint haze overhead, 
diffused light beneath, warm, delightful; at 10 o’clock I 
crossed the line into Tennessee. There I was and no mis- 
take; fell back an hour to 9 o’clock when the line was 
crossed, and for once I had a chance to liye an hour of 
my life over again! The five miles from Dickenson’s to 
Kingsport, Tennessee, were dreamy ones. The dam just 
above the town was bad, but I hauled the boat down 
over the rocks on the east side, rather than try to run 
over the board apron. Progress down to the ferry was 
say T landed—and there was the town—trather a part 
of it. 

There had been a “high tide” in December. The water 
had backed up over the floors of some of the dwellings, 
twenty feet above the surface on which my boat floated. 
Showalter’s house was.where I could get dinner.. There 
were several dark horizontal lines on the planed board 
walls. “Here’s where the water came last December,” 
Henry said, pointing to one as high as my knees, “That 
one was last May.” It was a foot higher than my head. 


The door-step, a plank one, was tied to a peg with a 


stout string. 

Henry scraped the mud off his feet with a stick, and 
handed the stick to me to scrape. 

“At dark when the last May tide came,’ Henry said, 
“the water was like that you came in on. At nine o'clock 
we were wading round the house carrying the stuff up 
stairs. At 10 we had to use a boat and pole to get to the 
sewing machine.” 

The December tide left a lot of mud-sills on the front 
yards of the town—séveral inches of it—a dark gray de- 
posit that clung to one’s feet like nuthing else one can 
think of; not a smooth, dripping mud, but mud in chunks, 
which breaks rather than flows from wheels and feet. 
I saw a pig drinking down by the hand cable ferry. It 
kept all four feet treading constantly lest it sink into 
the mire. Mules did likewise, but horses are usually less 
sagacious. 

Big Holston and Little Holston come together at the 
ferry. Kingsport postoffice is a mile up the Big Holston. 
I went there after mail when I had eaten dinner. The 
houses were built on stone foundations on the left side of 
the road against the side hill. I looked up at the floor 
levels, and was assured that the water overflowed the 
floors occasionally. Corn stocks hung limp in the 
branches of some of the trees, and there were some house 
and other beams and logs lying along the tide line, like 
match sticks-and straws along a gutter after the sun 
comes out. Part of the side of a church, painted blue, 
had been propped up by some one beside the stone walk. 
I walked around one side of a big sow wallowing in the 
mud, my comrade walked round the other. 

At the office there were signs of confusion. It was also 
a doctor’s office and drug store. Dr. Patton, the post- 
master, went to the house, some feet higher, to get 
stamps, explaining, “We have to keep that sort of stuff 
on a higher level.” It wasn’t the kind of stream that 
flows up north. I looked at the yellow flood with novel 
sensations. : 

I remained all night with the Showalters, listening to 
the’ banjo during the evening. I awakened once in the 
night and reached down to the floor with my hand—one 

wonders if that is a common trick along rivers with such 
eccentric habits. 

In the morning the kind mistress of the house put up 
a “little snack” for me. Nearly two quarts of apple but- 
ter, a peck of cold biscuits, a glass of pear jelly and some 
slices of fried pork. I started, a vague alarm settling in 
me when I looked at the broad river ahead, a tumble of 
rifts the first introduction. ‘The rifts proved easy, how- 
ever, though swift and dancing. It was when I came 
around the bend below that the size of the river showed 
itself, A cold north wind was blowing up the still water, 
the waves rolled ip and broke in white caps there. lt was 
dismaying. After every paddle stroke the boat’ stopped 
dead. But the eddies were short, and the rifts frequent, 
I did manage to move on and on. I ate frequently. This 
was reviving, but long before dark my arms drooped and 
my head bowed forward to shelter the face from the 
insistent drive of the teethed wind. I tried tc find the 
lee bank; for a few rods there would be a dull sensation 
of relief, then, with a little buoyant lift, a keener thrust, 
the wind would find me at some bend and once more I 
would go slinking onward, not proud of having had the 
shelter nor yet brave enough to take to the center of the 
stream regardless of the stings. f 

The buildings were all far back from the riverfon high 
knolls or distant ridges. Wide, water-worn, wind-swept 
cornfields laid between the river and the houses; or else 
there were bluffs of tree-grown, rocky slopes, behind 
which one could see no land of promise. Once I saw a 
gray squirrel; frequently I saw flocks of greenheads, 
diedappers and other ducks, the names of which I do 

_- lot know, surprising them as I came down beside those 
-eurious islands called “towheads.” 
Towheads! Who gave that name to those flocks of 
drift, grown with brittle willow shrubs, all stained with 


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the yellow clay in the last high tide? With a plow of 
gleaming white shells—mother of pearl—a nose of driit— 
trees, logs, mangled crops and brush—a hairy hull of 
leaning water willows, combed back by the drag of the 
waters, and a long, lean eddy astern, no feature of the 
turgid southern streams is so striking as these. The 
gaunt white sycamores, the caving banks, the broad- 
bosomed flow, not the vast, silent power of the rivers 
have the mystery which,one can see in the towhead as 
it comes silently, resistlessly up the stream at the way- 
farer upon the waters: 

When the “evening” had come, the mind was not less 
weary than the body. It had been a wonderful day; of 
course exhausting, I watched for some place to stay 
for the night. I wanted to see if the people were as 
distant as that awful stream. The bleak, blue day had 


‘been delightfully lonesome, and reared the ecstasy of 


homesickness to unusual proportions. 

It was not late when I-saw a log house back in the 
woods, just after I had seen the wreck of a house boat 
among some towheads. I was close to the far bank and 
started straight across to the house. The bank still 
glided along. I turned the boat’s head up stream and 
paddled harder than ever before. Even then I was borne 
on down the noiseless, rushing current; 1 was two hun- 
dred yards below. the landing before I managed to run 
into an eddy behind a water-surrounded tree. Not before 
had I realized how rapidly ran the water at the foot of 
a shoal. I went back to the log house, James Hick, an 
old Confederate soldier, welcomed me, 

A fine supper of fried plank salted pork, berry jams, 
coffee, sorghum, and peach sauce was served. After sup- 
per we sat around the fireplace. The fireplace was so full 
of wood that all sat ten or twelve feet from it. I was too 
exhausted, however, to enjoy the charming side of the 
occasion. It was satisfaction to sit drooping in the chair 
with the top of the head warmed by the blaze. 

At bedtime all retired. There were five beds in the 
room, one across the rear of it, the other two extending 
from the rear corners forward. Mine was the central 
one. The bed at my head was occupied by Mr, Hick 
and his wife; at my feet were two sons.- Two daughters 
were in the one adjoining the sons, and a cousin in the 
remaining bed at the foot of that wherein the parents 
reposed. joa 

Sunday morning found a freezing wind blowing, and 
I_ waited for another day, The morning had not gone 
very far when the talk turned to Indians. I was in an 
Indian country where there had been trouble enough in 
the old days. Mr. Hick said that lots of relics were 
picked up on the bottoms thereabouts. He had seen 
“fiints” longer than his hand. There were some kicking 
round up stairs. One of the boys went up and got a 
few. One of these was glossy black, with regular teeth 
along the edge. They gave me a handful of arrow heads, 
two tomahawks, a belt bead and an odd, egg-shaped 
stone worn half down, Across the river on the bottom, . 
they said, was a lot of such stuff, 

I announced my intention of looking over that bot 
tom. Mr. Hick said he would go with me, and away we 
went. We crossed the river in a “canoe’—a long, low 
craft with a far overhang at each end, which “‘we” poled 
across standing. I wasn’t used to handling a pole, and 
once or twice nearly got yanked out of the boat like a 
rabbit in a snare. We reached yon side safely, 
walked fifty yards over a slight whale-back elevation, 
and on the far side Mr. Hick began to scan the ground; 
so did I. Mr. Hick said: 

“Here’s one,” and-handed me a yellow tip with the 
point broken. Then: “Here’s another.” My eyes 
weren’t used to finding arrow heads. In fact, I’d never 
seen one on the ground. I grew eager. I began to look 
for flint of any sort, stooping low, and not looking for 
arrow shapes. A bit of flint was seen instantly, and then 
another and a third. They were mere chips, however. 
Then there was a black one—a pretty, shiny bit half 
buried in the frozen sand. A tip sure enough. Again 
and again I found tips, some “good” ones some “‘poor.” 
Then Hick brought me a piece of bone—a man’s 
radius or ulna, apparently, but much worn by the ele- 
ments, 

At intervals, scattered over the surface, were ovals and 
circles of red stone cobbles—“the kind we use to heat 
to boil our scalding water when we kill hogs,” Mr. 
Hick said. The stones were larger than one’s fist and 
smaller than would fit in a two-quart pail. They were 
red and “looked as if they’d been heated.” These were 
laid in quite regular circles, or ovals, as I said, some 
three feet across, and packed in very hard. “One had 
to take his heel to knock them out.” 

“T got the notion one time,’ Hick’s said, “that maybe 
they buried monéy or something under them things, and 
I dug down under one of them—went down four or five 
feet, maybe more, but didn’t find anything. I don’t know 
what they’re for.” $5 

Unfortiinately I couldn’t tell then either. The man 
who owned the bottom came down' to see what neigh- 
bor Hick was doing there. Hick explained that I'd 
never seen a place like that before, and was kind of 
curious—curious in more respects than one. 

It was a freezing cold day; even I shivered in it, but 
I had both enthusiasm and a northern constiution. Mr. 
Hick waited, however, till I-got a pocket full of flints, 
and then we went back across the river. The man who 
owned the bottom had gathered a pile of bones a foot 
high at one place last fall while plowing the land, but 
these were all scattered by the “tide” in December. 

The story of the wrecked hotise boat up in the shoal 
of which I had a glimpse was told me. A man named 
Howard built it up near Kingsport. He was tired of the 
country thereabouts. The boat was a flat bottgmed scow 
some twenty-five feet long and eight feet wide. On this 
was a six by fourteen foot shanty. Into it Howard 
loaded his household—wife, children and goods. On the 
tail of the December tide he started south. But “luck” 
was against him, He ran into the chute of Hick’s 
Shoals and the boat struck a sycamore snag. One side 
went down the Other up. Somehow Howard got his 
wife and. four little children to the island toward which 
the water swept. and then Howard left the river “for 
good and all,” River travel, Howard believes, is worse 
than living in a country where men are arrested for theft. 
so he will stay in the mountains of Tennessee. 

RayMonp S. SPEARS. 


' the poposite side of the river. 


I= - aed 
| ([Marett 29, 1962, 


3 ; & a 9 
Floating on the Missouri.—VI. 
Soon after daylight the next morning we discovered 
eleven mule deer walking along under the cut bank on 
One of them was a very 
large buck, and had an immense set of antlers, They 
picked their way down the shore, waving their great 
ears, occasionally stopping to look about, and at last dis- 
appeared up a deep coulée. 

After breakfast I brought the remainder of the deer I 
had killed down to camp, and then we loaded up and 
set sail, a good wind having started from the west. 
Here at Grand Island the really well-timbered bottoms 
of the Missouri begin; the stream flows from one side 
of the valley to the other like the course of a snake, and 
in eyery bend a growth of cottonwoods and willows ex- 
tends a part or all of the way back to thé foot of the 
valley slope. Here also one first begins to see the “saw- 
yers,” for which the river is famous, and which haye 
sunk many a good boat. The current ever encroaching 
wpon the soft soil of the bottoms, especially the upper, or 
western sides, is continually eating them away; a great 
piece of undermined ground falls into the stream, and 
with it one or more trees, roots and all. Down goes the 
tree to the bottom, its top rising several feet above the 
surface of the water and slanting with the current. Then 
the spring rush of ice cuts away its limbs, shayes and 
sharpens the trunk, and the sand and sediment deeply 
imbedding its roots hold it immovably in place like a great 
lance. If the tip is just beneath the surface, a swirl 
and rippling of the water reveals its presence, But the 
most observant of pilots cannot always detect one, and 
with a crash the boat is impaled, and a few moments later 
sinks beneath the muddy tide. 

Wonderful, almost unbelievable, is the amount of soil 
and sand annually carried away and shifted by this river. 
The finest of it is held in suspension and is finally de- 
posited in the Gulf of Mexico, The coarsest is cut away 
here, deposited there, picked up and shifted again, each 
time a little further down stream, In one day the ever 
shifting channel will remove all traces of a long, wide 
bar or island several feet in height. Often, as we rowed 
or sailed along, we could see them melting away, yards 
and yards at a time, and great chunks of the bottom, ten, 
twenty, even thirty feet in height, were continually falling 
in with a resounding splash, The careful navigator will 
do well to keep out from the cut banks. Where a bottom 
wears away, the bottom on the opposite side fills out, and 
at a rate which can be accurately measured by the growth 
of the trees. Always at the outer edge are cottonwood 
and willow sprouts; back of them belt after belt of tim- 
ber, each one larger than the other by a year’s growth, 
until finally one comes to the full-grown trees, tall, rough- 
barked and wide of girth. The river once shifting and 
leaving an ever-widening bar, the wash from the hills 
raises it layer by layer. A moderate rainstorm will de- 
posit several inches of the bad land soil upon it, a big 
storm as much as a foot. In the rainy season, and when 
the winter snows are melting under the influence of the 
watm spring stin, the steep coulées are miniature torrents, 
carrying the soil and sticky clays down not only in solu- . 
tion, but in balls from several inches up to three feet in 
diameter. Here and there at the mouths of these coulées 
one can often see several hundred of them stranded by 
the receding waters. 

The scenery this morning was not especially impressive, 
merely a succession of bars, broken ridges and deep 
coulées on the north side of the valley, and only a few 
pine groves on the southern slope. A run of five miles 
brought us to the Two Calf Islands, at the mouth of Two 
Calf Creek, which flows into the river from the north. 
These are old names, bestowed by some of the early 
voyageurs, but why, tradition does not say. The islands, 
separated only by a narrow sttip of deep water, are 
small and covered with timber. There were several 
beaver slides on the lower one, but no fresh sign; evi- 
dently the moccasined trapper had been here also. On 
a high bank near the mouth of the creek stands an old- 
time hunter’s cabin in a fair state of preservation, even 
to the rawhide door. Its dimensions are about twelve by 
fourteen feet, and the great, ride, rough, stone fireplace 
and chimney at its rear take up a large share of the space. 

The breeze freshened and we ran the six miles from 
this point to the mouth of Armell’s Creek in an hour. 
This is a fair-sized stream, heading near the Black Butte; 
thirty miles south. The latter part of its course is be- 
tween high, rough, pine-clad hills. It was named aiter 
Charles Armell, a trader for the American Fur Co., who 
once managed a branch post here for some time. Sah- 
né-to said that her people called this creek Ittsis-ki-ot- 
sop—Crushed, or, more liberally, Trapped. Somewhere 
along its course, in the long ago, she said, the Piegans 
were camping and hunting, and some one discovered a 
seam of soft, red ochre, or burnt clay, in a high cut 
bank. The news quickly spread through camp and created 
great excitement, for the substance was not common, and 
in great demand for making a sacred paint for the face. 
In other words, ‘twas great medicine, Early the next 
morning more women flocked to the place than could 
work at it at one time, for the seam was not long. They 
dug and gouged and scraped with such implements as 
they had, sharp-pointed sticks and shoulder blades of 
buffalo, and had mined in for a considerable distance 
when a large portion of the high bank fell, completely 
burying twenty-seven of them and seriously injuring 
several more, All of the twenty-seven were dead when 
the people finally uncovered them, 

We expected to find an old friend named King located 
at the mouth of this stream, but found his ranch on the 
text bottom below. We landed quietly and slipped along 
through a grove of trees to the house unobserved. Then 
Sah-né-to sprang out and addressed Mrs. King in her 
own language, greatly to the latter’s surprise and delight. 
They had not seen each other for more than a year, when 
King and his family had left the foot of the Rockies to 
lecate here. I asked him what he thought of the country. 

“Say,” he replied, “I find that I’ve just thrown away 
the twenty years and more I put in buffeting the cold 
winds up where you are. Here the wind doesn’t blow; 
see how straight and tall these cottonwoods are? Those 
on your place are bent and dwarfed. Up there, you-haye , 
to tustle hard all summer to get enough-hay to winter 
your stock. Here we don’t need any. Cattle find ample 
feed and shelter here in these bottoms and keep fat during 


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he worst of winters,” 

He was right. 

Game, Dick said, was abundant. There were a few 
‘elk and grizzly bears up on Armell’s Creek, plenty of 
mule deer in the breaks, several bands of antelope on 
There wefe some whitetail in the bot- 
s, butt many had died during the summer. He had 
ight i i “But,’”? he continued, 


game, In the fall all they bought to winter on was twenty 

sacks of flour; no bacon, no beans, no sugar, nothing else. 
So you may know that they came pretty near living on 
meat straight. Of course, they couldn’t have eaten two 
hundred deer; they kill a large number for their skins 
and for wolf baits. I saw a great many carcasses they 
had poisoned. Yes, they've pretty well cleaned up the 
beaver about here. I saw the old man floating by on a 
taft yesterday, and he had something covered with his 
blankets; beaver skins, I suppose.” 

I remarked that I had found moccasin tracks around 
some beaver workings not far above. hy on 

The Kings insisted that we should remain with them a 
week at least. But winter was due at any time, and much 
as we would have liked to accept their hospitality, we 

pushed on the next morning. Passing the location of the 
Cree half-breeds, we saw the patriarch of them all squat- 
ting upon his heels at the edge of the bank, ragged, un- 
_kempt, black of skin, his long hair cut square around 
‘like a mop. I felt like trying the effect of a square-nosed 
pullet upon his anatomy. “Dogface!”’ said Sah-né-to, 
“why has the Great Father forbidden my people to make 
further war upon them? They were ever our warriors’ 
legitimate pray. They haye no place, no right in this 
country.” . ; ; ie 

A strong breeze was blowing again this morning, and 

we made the eleven miles to the mouth of Little Rocky 
Creek in less than two hours. This stream heads in 
the Little Rocky Mountains, twenty-five miles north of 
the river. Hunting buffalo on its headwaters once with 
the noted shot, Eli Guardipee, we found in a park in the 
foothills two large bull elk, their antlers firmly inter- 
locked. They had been dead so short a time that the 
wolves had not touched them. For many yards around 
them the turf had been tramped so that scarce a blade 
of grass was left, and there they must have stood for 
days, suffering agonies from thirst and want of food, 
although the grassy plain was all around them and the 
cool mountain stream but a few yards distant. We cut 
off their heads, of course, antlers and all, and got them 
into the post on a hastily constructed sledge. Ultimately 
they came into the possession of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 
who has kindly loaned them to the National Museum in 
Washington. , 

From the mouth of Little Rocky Creek a further sail 
of eight miles brought us to the Carroll bottom, where 
we had held forth in other days. I could hardly recognize 
‘the place. Where our post had once stood was now the 
north side of the river, and several hundred yards back 
in the brush and young cottonwoods, which had grown 
up in the nineteen years since we had abandoned it. We 
lowered the sail and went ashore. Midway in the bottom 

a coulée comes in from the distant breaks, and at its 
mouth I had once killed some buffalo. “We will go over 
there,” I said to Sah-né-to, “and take a couple of the 
‘skulls, I would like to keep them as a memento of old 
times.” 

Well I remember that hazy, smoky morning in the 
rutting season, when, arising soon after daylight, I heard 
the moaning of the impassioned bulls back in the breaks. 
Wo one in the post was astir. The few lodges of Crees 
‘and Blackfeet near by were silent. I picked up my 

‘rifle, thrust a handful of extra cartridges into my pocket 
and slipped over to the coulée, meeting the herd just this 
‘side of it. Some of the animals ran back in the direction 
whence they came; others dashed down into the deep 
coulée and up the steep trail-on the other side, which 
would admit of but one climbing at a time. There, just 
‘as*they gamed the opposite level, I dropped nine of them, 
‘bulls and cows. The last one was a cow, and when it fell 

_ its calf stopped and stood by it, and butted it in the 
side in a vain attempt to reach the teats. Then I hated 
myself. Atleast, I thought, the meat shall not be wasted, 
‘and returning to the lodges [ routed the occupants out 
‘and told them to butcher the animals and divide the meat 

- and hides as they saw fit. 

' Arrived at the coulée, we crossed it and a glance over 
‘the ground convinced us that we would not find what 
‘we sought. To say nothing of skulls, not eyen a bone 
twas left to show that a buffalo had ever fallen’ there. 
‘The wash from the hills had buried them, or, per- 
chance, they had been shipped by some gatherer of bones 
ere the streams finally ceased running on the upper river. 
We retraced our steps and sat down near the boat to eat 
our lunch. 

The pleasantest years of my life were passed at this 
place. From September until spring thousands of In- 
dians, Bloods, Blackfeet and Crees, were continually 
coming and going, coming in to trade their robes and 
furs, going out to hunt for more. One winter we traded 
for a few more than four thousand robes, seven hundred 
taw hides, twenty-three hundred small skins—elk, deer 
and antelope—six hundred wolf and coyote pelts. and 
some three hundred beaver skins. Also for great quan- 
tities of pemmican and dried meat. I forget the weight, 
_ but remember that it was stacked up in long piles like 
eordwood. That was the winter we got the spotted robe. 

_ The animal, an untisually large cow buffalo, was killed 
by a young Blackfoot one day when Mr. Jos. Kipp, the 
‘owner of our trading outfit, happened to be in the camp. 

_ When skinned and spread out on the ground, the hide 
was found to have a border of pure white a foot deep 
all around. The head and tail were also white, and 
there was a large, round, white spot on each flank, The 
‘young hunter gave it to his father and mother, and they 
-promised Mr. Kipp that he should have it in due time. 
The old woman tanned it as soft as ever robe was tanned, 
and the old man painted upon the flesh side in brilliant 
colors the record of his battles, his “coups,” and wonder- 
ful medicines. Then the proud couple brought it in and 
showed it to us, and also to two rival traders. ‘Be 
‘no afraid,” they said to us, “we promised you the robe, 
and will do as we say; but we will keep it a little while,” 


“through the kidneys. 


Both of the other traders wanted it, of course, and for 
weeks and weeks kept the old people supplied with 
whisky and tobacco and other things prized by the In- 
dians. And each one of them was sure that he was going 
to get it, and bragged about it; but both were pilgrims,. 


and did not know the red man’s ways. 


threw-the robe over our counter. ‘There ’tis,” the old 

man said, “to-morrow we start for the North. We've 

had a real good time with it,” 
We gave them about fifty dollars worth of goods. A 


‘month later a Montreal man traveling through the coun- 


try heard of the robe, had the steamer he was on stop at 
our place and bought ijt. I wonder if he still has it? 
Does any Montreal reader know some one who has a 
spotted robe? 

The Indians seldom traded after nightfall, but on win- 
ter evenings our trade room was a general lounging place 
for the chiefs and old men, and many an interesting tale 
they told as they sat around the stove and smoked and 
supped the spirits we occasionally set out, Tales of 
war, of the chase, and of their life on the plains. Tales 
of the doings of their gods, of the creation, of the life 
hereafter, all of which was interesting to one person at 
least, who wished to know just what an Indian really 
thought and believed, 

During the long summers, when all furs and robes were 
valueless, we had nothing to do. The arrival of a steam- 
boat now and then with our mail was the only thing to 
break the monotony of the days. How often we used to 
climb to the top of the long hill to look for the smoke 
rising aboye the trees away down the valley, which 
heralded one’s approach. 

One familiar landmark on the bottom is a gnarled old 
cottonwood far back of where our trading post once 
stood; the river has eaten in nearly to its base, and an- 
other season it too will topple into the flood. I have 
good reason to remember it, The “Big-eared White- 
man,” the old-time trader, was with us. During his long 
life on the plains he had never killed a buffalo, nor any 
other game for that matter; he cared nothing for the 
chase. But one day, seeing an old buffalo bull coming 
through the bottom, he picked up a .44 carbine and said 
he guessed he would kill it. Forth he went, and we sat 
on the shady side of the building and watched him. The 
bull was feeding along, and every time it stopped to crop 
a mouthful of grass he slipped up nearer to it, until he 
got within fifty or seventy yards of the beast, all un- 
conscious of his approach. Then he raised-his carbine 
and shot it, not through the heart, as he intended, but 
through the paunch. The next instant, snorting with 
rage and pain, the bull was after him, and dropping his 
gun, he ran to the old cottonwood, grasped its mighty 
trunk, some four feet in diameter, and frantically tried to 
climb it, an utter impossibility, of course. On came the 
bull, and he dodged behind the tree, and for some mo- 
ments the two played tag around its base, the trader 
shouting for help, for some one to kill the blankety- 
blank beast. But the spectators were haying too much 
fun to heed his entreaties until they saw that he was 
nearly exhausted, and then one of them dropped the bull 


_with a well-directed shot, 


Beside the Indians, we did a large trade with the 
French-Cree half-breeds, who had come from the Sas- 
katchewan, Red River, and other parts of Canada, to 
follow the buffalo. It was here that their leader, Louis 
Riel, began preparations for the rebellion of 1885. He 
was a cold, calculating, suave and educated half-breed, 
but withal fanatical and lacking in good, plain sense. 
There was a Jesuit priest with us, and both he and others 
told Riel that his handful of men could not possibly whip 
the Canadian troops, to say nothing of the thousands 
Great Britain would put into the field if necessary. “You 
do not understand,’ he would reply. “We are like the 
children of Israel of old, a persecuted race. 
us, and will lead us to a great and glorious victory-” 

A few years later the Red Coats hung him. 

There were then some wild and desperate men here in 
these bad lands, especially Big-Nose George and Dutch 
John’s gangs of horse thieves and murderers. Just 
where their strongholds were we never asked nor learned. 
They occasionally came to our post and purchased pro- 
visions, and we always felt relieved when they departed. 
Most likely the reason they never held us up was that 
they knew we seldom kept any cash on hand, our trade 
being almost entirely in robes and furs. And again, they 
had to obtain provisions somewhere, and we sold to 
them and asked no questions. We didn’t dare to. 

One day a member of one of these gangs was standing 
in the doorway of our post as a young Cree and his wife 
were saumtering by. “See me plunk the Indian,” he 
said, and leyeling his “gun,” he shot the poor fellow 
Tt was well for him that the Crees 
were all out after buffalo at that time! 

The priest ministered to the poor Indian’s spiritual 
wants, and I filled him up with whisky to relieve the 
pain, and we gave him the best send off we could; but 
for many a day I could not forget the cruel act. That 
was the only Indian I ever saw killed in cold blood. 

About 2 o’clock, having finished our lunch, we again 
set sail and ran around the point of the bottom, past the 


heavy growth of timber and willows, where I once had- 
another experience with buffalo one day. We were out 


of meat, there were no Indians around, so I was ap- 
pointed to furnish some. I sallied forth down the bot- 


tom to look for deer, and was walking along the edge of ° 


the timber, when I saw a buffalo cow pass into a growth 
of thick willows, and out of sight before I could shoot. 
T followed, and presently saw -her rubbing against a tree, 
and promptly dropped her where she stood. But I wasn’t 
prepared for the effect of the shot. Unknown to me, 
there were several hundred buffalo out on the shore of 
the river, and at the crack-of the rifle they came rushing 
back pell-mell through the willews, regardless of trails. 
I had barely time to get behind a small cottonwood, 
when they began to rush by, many so close that I could 
have reached out and touched them, but I hugged the 
tree and kept mum and in a minute they all passed. The 
way they tore down brush and crashed through the thick 
willows was something remarkable. Had I not, for- 


tunately, been close to a tree, it is likely they would have 


trampled me into the earth. ‘ 
It was here, too, that my friend Guardipee had a close 
call from a grizzly. He had been down the valley hunt- 


t One day in the | 
spring, true to their word, the old couple came in and | 


God is with , 


ing, atid was returning with a big mule deer fastened on 
behind his saddle, when he ran across a big bear at the 
edge of the timber and shot it, Although the bullet 
pierced its lungs, the bear took after him, and the pony, 
handicapped by its heavy load, could not get over the 
ground nearly as fast as the enraged animal. Ely had 
time to fite but once, missing, when the bear was right at 
the pony’s heels, and with a swipe of its claws badly 
lacerated one of its hatnches and legs; but luckily his 


- next shot struck the animal fairly in the brain, and the 


short, but exciting, rin was over. It was the largest 
female grizzly I ever saw, and yery fat. We got twelve 
gallons of oil from it. 

We soon passed the familiar place which had revived 
so many memories of other days, and turning a bend 
bid it good-by. For the rest of the afternoon the wind 
was changeable, and we finally tied up at Ryan's Island, 
named after an old “woodhawk,” and camped, having 
made twenty-seven miles since leaying King’s ranche. 

APPEKUNNY. 


Life in the Forest. 


In the black growth there was silence, gloom and 
mystery, The deep shadows were broken only here and 
there by splotches of light, where the sun thrust lance~ 
like rays between the tops where a tree had been touched 
by the lightning’s sharp finger. The pine needles and 
spruce spills that silted down made a soft carpet for 
sharp hoofs or padded foot. It also made still going for 
moccasined feet. 

A man was moving slowly through the woods, stepping 
over logs and twigs that might cry aloud. He took but 
few steps at a time, and then stood for minutes looking 
ahead toward the wind. An hour passed and he had 
walked a quarter of a mile. Then he stood stock still 
five, ten, fifteen minutes, his eyes on one spot, 100 yards 
away. _He had seen motion there.. He waited, knowing 
that as long as he remained quiet the advantage was his. 
Then slowly he raised his rifle and steadied his sights 
just ahead of the spot. Then in behind a group of fallen 
trees he saw a quick glimmer of white, and a doe and 
fawn walked into more open growth. The man lowered 
his rifle and watched them. 

The fawn was feeding on the tender shoots that had 
sprung up in the old tree-laps, but the doe held her head 
up, and from time to time took a nervous step forward. 
She could not smell the man, for she was up tlie wind. 
She had heard no sound, she had seen no motion. The 
man knew that she “sensed” him. He also knew that the 
slightest motion on his part would send doe and fawn 
away in a dash for cover. The doe looked up the. wind 
and drew long breaths through her delicate nostrils, but 
no danger signals came from there, She turned hier head 
and looked steadily at the man, but he never tnoved. 
Then she moistened her nose with her long pink tongue 
and tried to get a scent from down the wind. Now and 
again she raised and shook out her plume of white as if 
proud of it and anxious that every hair should hang 
and show to the best advantage. The man smiled at this 
feminine. vanity, and when the deer turned toward him 
again he waved his hand to her and watched the white 
tails flash up and fade away in the deep green shadows. 

As he was about to go his eyes caught motion and 
another glimpse of white 20 feet away in a tangle of small 
down trees. A second’s wait and a little pink nose and 
two very bright eyes were lifted over the top of a small 
log only 10 feet away. Then the newcomer placed his 
white kid. gloves on the log and lifted himself for a 
better look. It was a weasel, and all his summer coat 
had gone save a small patch of brown on his back. His 
new. winter suit was snow white, thick, soft and warm. 
He looked fearlessly at. the man, and his attitude and 
manner said: 

“Well, what do you want here? If it’s a fight, you shall 
have it right now,” and his eyes shone with a diabolical 
gleam. After a minute the weasel turned away and melted 
from view. Then the man called him back. The call 
brought a red fox to the edge of a thicket 50 yards away, 
but the man only caught a fleeting glimpse of him. It 
also awoke a venerable owl hidden in an old hollow pine 
far overhead, who arose and opened his eyes wide, but 
quickly closed them, fluffed up his feathers, shook his 
head and sank back into his cell. 

In the black forest other ears heard and other eyes 
looked, for the predatory ones are all fond of weod mice. 
The wise little weasel turned his head to one side, looked 
suspiciously at the man and then again became invisible. 
; Out in the beech grove in the warm sunshine there 
was life and activity. The man walked down the ridge, 
‘the brown leaves rustling noisily under foot. He came 
to a beech tree, full grown and in its prime, which 
had borne a generous crop, but was now doomed to die. 
Stooping, he examined the great bare death wound at 
the foot of the beech and straightened up with an angry 
exclamation. There was a complete girdle around the 
4ree where an idle porcupine had breakfasted, 
~ tHe couldn’t have climbed up and eaten the bark off 
@ limb, but had to kill a bearing tree,” the man was mut- 
tering as he scanned the tops of the tall trees, 
> “Strange I don’t see him. It’s his last breakfast if I 
do.” The man was looking at the black splotches high up 
on a tall poplar, but his eye did not detect the hedge- 
hog hugging close to the tree, looking like a dead limb, 
not even a twinkling eyelid to betray him, The stupid 
creature seemed for once to be alert and to realize that 
death stood below. 

Not far away the man found a comfortable seat where 
the forks of a fallen poplar had straddled a big yellow 
birch, and the combination made a luxurious seat, with 
foot rest and comfortable back. For ten minutes there 
was not movement in the leaves below or he bare limbs 
overhead. j . 

Far up in the tree tops on the side of the ridge the 
wild-cackle of a pileated woodpecker rudely disturbed the 
silence of the wood. Just a flash of his bright red cap 
and the “‘cock of the woods” was away in long, undu- 
lating ‘flight across the valley. 

Then a red squirrel came out from nowhere and jumped 
on the down poplar. He tran with stiff-legged, springy 
jumps up the tree trunk, until he was within a vard 
of the man, then gave a wild squeal and with tail: flu:tened 
out like’a rusty streak he scooted back only to approach 
again with great caution. He ran out on a sniall limb 


ese 


and sat crouched for a second. straightened up and held 


his right hand over his wildly thumping heart. His eyes 
were wide staring and every nerve atingle, Then he 
made a single interrogatory sound. pressed both hands 
to his bosom like a prima donna awaiting her cue, and 
listened intently for a reply. The man moved not a 
muscle. The squirrel jumped to the log, took three rigid 
hops toward the man and retreated to his limb to listen 
again. 

He was a handsome squirrel, distinctly marked with 
two heayy black stripes running along his sides, from 
foreshoulder to flank. On his back the tawny fur was 
soft and fluffy. His brush was well shaped and nicely 
groomed. In fact, he was a young beau among the 
squirrels of the beech ridge. 

Quick as a flash, powerful, self-conscious, brave to a 
degree of recklessness, he was also woods wise and able 
to take care of himself as long as he kept his temper. 

The squirrel could not long remain silent, and he again 
approached the man until but two feet of the log re- 
mained between them. Then something unforeseen hap- 
_ pened. A white miller, fluttering about aimlessly, struck 
the man in the face, nearly in the eye. He raised his 
hand and the squirrel gave a great spring sideways, land- 
ing in the leaves and dashed for his life into a small 
tree near by. 

“Murderer!” he shrieked as soon as he, caught his 
breath. “You would kill me, would you? I'll have your 
life. Br-r-r-r rrr—chut, chut, quee, queee,’ and his teeth 
rattled and crackled like a rusty coffee grinder. The 
moth fluttered, drifted away and the man again sat passive 
and silent, 

“You robber and destroyer of homes. You come here 
and steal all my beechnuts. If you don’t leave Tll— 
br-r-r-r-rr—quah, quee, queee!”’ 

The man sat calmly watching the squirrel work him- 
self into a white heat of tage. After he had exhausted his 
surplus of excitement the squirrel began gathering beech- 
nuts. With comical dives he went under the brown coy- 
ering of leaves in search of nuts, only to pop his head 
out the same instant and look for possible danger. 

Finding a nut, he sprang upon a moss-covered stone, 
tried the nut with his teeth to test its soundness, placed 
it in his mouth just right and carried it down the log to 
a spot within ten feet of the man. Here he had dug a 
small hole in the ground, and in this leaf-covered cellar 
he was storing the ripened harvest. It must have been 
a temporary store, for in a few days it would be frozen in 
and covered with two feet of snow. He was careful and 
systematic in his work, jumping on the log at the same 
spot every time he had a nut to bury, looking about be- 
fore he had placed it in the cellar and jamming it in with 
a final punch, into which he put all the force of his small 
but muscular body. Then he would pull a couple of 
leaves over the spot and pat them down with both hands 
and hop back to the log, stopping every time to snarl at 
the man. At times he would prolong the snarls into 
angry barks and squeaks, and it seemed as if he was 
about to break into one of his long tirades. After work- 
ing stead ly twenty minutes he brought a nut up on to 
the log and approached to within a yard of the man and 
laid it down so as to have free use of his jaws, and, as 
near as the man could translate, said: 

“Now, sir, will you clear out of this? Your intentions 
are not just right, and I know you are here to steal. You 
have stolen from me before, and you'll try it again.’ 

_ The man moved somewhat uneasily, as it was growing 

late and he wanted peace and quiet, for he expected some- 
thing. to come out of the black growth between sunset and 
ae: The squirrel made a broad jump and shrieked 
wildly; — - 

“You would, would you? Now you have got to go. 
You robbed me of all my spruce buds I had stored 
up——" 

“Spruce buds! Great junipers, that’s a good one! 
sa Where-on earth did you ever get a spruce 

u 

The interruption came from the direction of a giant 
hemlock about 30 feet away. The man turned and saw, 
perched on a limb 25 feet from the ground, another squir- 
rel, very old and very gray. He was fat and sleek, and, in 
spite of his age, his eye gleamed with a merry twinkle 
and his sides shook with laughter, 

“Vou never owned three spruce buds in all your short 
life. Why, you're afraid to go into the black growth to 
get them,” the old fellow continued, addressing the 
youngster below him, Then he went into another fit of 
senile laughter. 

The younger squirrel’s rage was boundless. He turned 
about nervously and aimlessly two or three times, seem- 
ingly at a loss for words. Finally he spluttered out: _ 

"You old villain! You never earned an honest bud, 
berry or nut in all your life! For three beechnuts I'd 
come up there and thrash you. You know your gray hairs 
protect you. Brr-r-r-rrr, quee, quee,” and without further 
noise he quit the spot and went away in the direction of 
the black growth. 

The old squirrel went slowly up the hemlock, still mut- 
tering and chuckling to himself, At the entrance to his 
sanctuary he turned before disappearing and said: “Spruce 
buds, forsooth!”” and he laughed again in a whistling, 
toothless manner, and then dropped into the solitude of 
his hermitage. 

The younger squirrel ran furtively up a cedar tree just 
at the edge of the hardwood ridge, where, for a minute or 
two, he searched about and then found, wedged in the 
fork of a limb, a big, fat spruce bud: 

The man climbed quietly down from his perch on the 
poplar and dug a handful of beechnuts out of the squir- 
rel’s cellar and returned to his seat. He was glad the 
squirrel had gone, for it would soon be time for that big 
buck to come out for his evening meal, on the beech 
ridge. 

The sun was setting in a glorious halo of crimson, 
Great streaks of red and gold were spread far north 
and south behind Whetstone Mountain, and as the man 
watched the dying day his thoughts went far over beyond 
that mountain, on west and west, till they saw another 
valley, and another blue river. Then the sun dropped 
suddenly behind the mountain, its last rays sharply cut- 
ting through the trees on the skyline and the broad bands 
of crimson paled into delicate pink, then narrowed into 
thin ribbons and lavender, and finally the gray crept over 
all, Another day had lived and died, and the cold settled 
all-around the valley, ay. ad :. 


- —_ -_— - —_—_— 


FOREST AND STE 


Suddenly a twig broke in the direction of the black 
growth, and the watcher aroused himself from his reverie: 
He slid silently off the log and knelt facing the top of the 
ridge. He gripped his rifle and his eyes swept the edge 
of the dark woods. He tried his sights and saw that 
perhaps fifteen minutes more light remained for him. 

~ “He'll come out to-night and he is mine,’ the man 
said to himself, and he waited. 

A loud smashing in the leaves to his. left startled the 
man, but he did not jump. Slowly and with infinite care 
he shoved his rifle on top of the log, and then moved his 
body with the same catition until he faced the spot whence 
came the sound. His eye fell on the red squirrel return- 
ing with the fat spruce bud in his widely distended jaws. 


With a rustle of the leaves louder than a bull moose © 
should have made, the squirrel gained the log. Within — 


six feet of the man he halted and sat up, and. beg:nning 
at the big lower end of the bud he began to strip off the 
lichenous scales to get at the tender morsel at the inner 
end of them. He turned the bud quickly in his hands 
and hulled it out with nervous rapidity, all the while 
staring at the man with his big round eyes. In a minute 
he had finished his bud, leaying the heart and the scales 
in a little brown heap on the log. Then the squirrel be- 
thought himself of his store of nuts, and decided that he 
might add a few before bedtime. berg 

The first sound nut he found was brought to the cellar, 
He removed the leaves, discovered the robbery, and in 
his amazement allowed the nut to fall from his mouth. 
He gave vent to a couple of prolonged squeaks that 
sounded like ‘Che-e-e-e-e, che-e-e-e-e,’ and without so 
much as a look at the man started for the big hemlock 
tree, clearing the space by a few swift Jong jumps. When 
he reached a point about half-way up to the top he be- 
gan to chatter wildly, and the man understood him to 
say: 
You old scoundrel, I’m coming up te whip you and 
throw you out of this trees, You took my beechnuts and 
now I’m going to finish you.” 

The old squirrel poked his head out of the hole near 
the top and looked inquiringly down for an instant, and 


_then, as if realizing his danger, he came out and fled 


incontinently down the other side of the tree. The irate 
youngster attempted to head him off, but missed him, and 
down they came in a spiral course, scarcely two feet sepa- 
rating them. The old fellow forgot his rheumatiz and his 
years, and seemed: only to realize that his safety was in 
flight. He did some very clever dodging, but was foiled 
in an attempt to jump off and catch the limbs of a smaller 
hemlock, but a second later he came arotind and made 
the jump. It was a long and difficult plunge for him, but 
he made it by clasping both atms around the small end 
of the limb when he landed. For a moment the limb 
bent down and swayed wildly, until Uncle Rube hung on 
upside down and badly frightened. He quickly righted 
himself, however, and scrambled to the trunk of the 
tree and came to the ground with a noisy scratching of 
bark. As the limb flew back into position the young 
belligerent leaped and cleared the space, catching the limb 
further up, where he got a firm grip and ran to the trunk. 
He had lost two-yards by the transaction, but when he 
reached the ground he was but a few feet behind his 
quarry, and the wld chap had to go right back up his own 
hemlock.. 

Up they went, round and round, the pursuer never 
ceasing his angry barks and squeaks. At the top there 
was some side-stepping and ducking, but soon they came 
down again. The man was somewhat displeased with all 
this at first, hut soon became much interested, and specu- 
lated some as to the outcome of the chase. 

The old squirrel was about exhausted and must soon 
stand and give battle, as but few inches now separated 
them. Within ten feet of the ground it looked as if one 
more jump and they would be clinched. 

Then an awful tragedy occurred. 

Down through the tree tops in slanting flight came a 
goshawk. Straight as a lance and with marvelous swift- 
ness he darted against the hemlock with such force that 
he fell to' the ground stunned and dishevelled. In his 
talons the goshawk held the writhing squirrel that an 
instant before had been pursuing his aged neighbor with 

‘murderous intent. The bird shook himself, straightened 

" out his feathers and looked fiercely about, but did not seem 
>to see the man who sat in silent amazement twenty feet 

_away, rifle in hand, 

* he squirrel continued to wriggle, but made no sound, 
and the hawk ended his struggles with a tweak that prob- 


“ably crushed the small skull. 
_ After a few seconds’ wait, as if to recover from the 
shock, the hawk flew silently away out through the tree 
tops, westward toward the mountain, 
The man saw the survivor, older and grayer, he thought, 
slowly crawling into his hole near the top of the hemlock. 
Then a great silence fell over the woods. The man 
-arose stiffy from his position behind the fallen tree, took 
the beechnuts from his pocket, spread them out on the 
log and turned slowly down the ridge into the deepening 
“shadows of the valley. : Frank E. Wo tre. 


"Wild Geese on the Upper Ausable Lake. 


Fripay evening, March 7, a flock of thirty large wild 
‘geese alighted on the ice in the middle of the Upper Au- 
‘sable Lake, The geese were headed toward the north 
when they came down and immediately arranged them- 
-selves in a row, extending from sotth to north. J. W. 
‘Otis, game warden for the Adirondack Mountain Re- 
serve, was in the closed camp near the inlet.on the Upper 
-Ausable Lake, and hearing the geese squawking, took a 


lantern and went down on to the ice to inspect the visitors, 


He approached within a few feet of the geese before they 
began to rise. He says they were arranged in fine form, 
that their line was straight from south to north, that there 
was no open water near where they were, and that they 
were exchanging ideas at a great rate when he arrived 
upon the scene of action. He says they were so interested 
in their discussion that had he left his lantern on shore 
he thinks he might have taken a club and walked up close 
enough to have hit some of them before they got out of 
reach. As it was, he had a good opportunity to observe 
them as they arose, standing as he was right under them 
with a lighted lantern. The geese continued down the 
valley and north.—Elizabethtown (N, Y.) Post. 


a A Naturalist in the Arctic. 


Comparativety little biological work has been done in) 
the frozen north until the past few years, and the Arctic) 
naturalists have been few in number. Much of eur knowl- 
edge of the life of that distant region has come to us) 
incidentally, in connection with attempts to reach the) 
Pole, or to find a northwest passage; and it is only late- 
ly that collectors have begun to turn their faces to- 
ward the frozen sea to learn of the animals that dwe 
there, and of their ways of life. 

Since the extensive work of Richardson, who, over 
eighty years ago, accompanied the expeditions of Sir 
John Franklin, no connected studies had been made of) 
northern anitnal life until recently.. A few of the em- 
ployes of the Hudson’s Bay Company had reported ob- 
servations on the birds and mammals of certain district 


regions of Alaska, which of late years haye become so 
much more familiar to us. ; 

Among those who in recent years have applied them- 
selves to the work of wresting from the lonely Arctic: 
the secrets which snow and cold, for eight or nine months 
of the year, held so long safely locked away, is Mr. An- 
drew J. Stone, whose work of collecting material for the | 
American Museum of Natural History has frequently 
been referred to in these columns. Mr. Stone was the 
discoverer of the well-known Stone’s sheep—the “blacic 
sheep” of the northern interior—and of the interesting 
and remarkable Stone’s caribou, from the Kenai Peninsu- 
la of Alaska. His work in the Arctic has been far greater 
in amount and in length of time than that of any man 
of modern times, and he recently returned thence to} 
New York, bringing with him valuable collections of | 
birds and mammals from that cotintry, 

Mr. Stone is a native of Missouri, and has long been 
interested in the study of animal life, and the many | 
problems involved in that study. For four or five years 
previous to 1896 he had been engaged at his home in the 
study of zoology, and in the spring of 1806 he started | 
for the north by way of Alaska, with a view to learning | 
something of the life of the north by actual experience. 
It had seemed to him, after careful thought over the 
whole subject, that the greatest opportunity in the world 
for new discoveries lay in that lonely country, sparsely 
inhabited by Indians and Esquimaux, and rarely traversed — 
even by the fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. 

His early jJourneyings were successful. He brought 
back collections which, when shown to the naturalists of 
the American Museum, at once attracted their attention, — 


BRINGING SPECIMENS DOWN OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS, _( 


and gave them a faith in the man who had collected this 
material, and in his ability to do the things he talked of. 
He was urged to return to the north, and did so; and 
after other years of toil and suffering, he once more 
returned to civilization with other collections of interest 
and value. Later, through a special contribution of 
money from the late Mr. Jas. M. Constable, he went 
north again, was again successiul, and finally, last year, 
supported by fttnds contributed by a number of gentle- 
men interested in the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, the Boone and Crockett Club and the New York 
Zoological Society, he made this last trip, which has 
yielded about 350 specimens of northern mammals, and. 
300 birds. ‘These specimens are now at the American 
Museum of Natural History. , \ 
They include a large number of small mammals which 
have not as yet been worked up, one new caribou of the 
barren ground type, but of large size, and with remark- 
ably long and slender antlers, which has just been de- - 
scribed by Dr. J. A. Allen as Rangifer granti; a large 
bear, that is beyond question new to science, together 
with a great deal of other material of the highest in- 
terest. The caribou and the bear are both 3 om the 


Alaska Peninsula. ee eee 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


+ 


LOUCHEAUX WINTER CAMP, 


Mr. Stone’s work in the north is in no sense a local 
york. He has begun. and will continue, a zoological ex- 
loration covering all of Arctic and sub-Arctic America, 
s far north as the mainland extends. This is his field. 
lis purpose is to make known the character of the animal 
fe of this region, and ta render possible the description 
nd classification of the forms which inhabit it. 

No one who has not journeyed-in the north can have 
iy conception of the difficulties, the privations and 
he hardships which attend passage through that coun- 
Ty. Only experience can give an adequate idea of the 
ail of passing over the land, of the dangers and diffi- 
milties of travel hy water. of the labor of carrying all 
ipplies on the back. of the. cold, of the storms, the heat, 
he mosquitoes, or of the thousands of obstacles to be 
bvercome by a toil which continnes day after day, and 
hat is never over until the journey is at an end. To 
buccessfully carry ¢n such a work as has-been Mr. Stone's 
bne must be full of resources, strong in mind and body, 
amiliar with the conditions that constantly confront the 
tavelet, possessed of good judgment, guick to decide, and 
hbove all things. full of pluck and determination to suc- 
“eed. Mr, Stone’s achievements show him to be pos- 
sessed Of these qualities. 

| The methods of transportation in the north are primi- 
tive, and conditions may make it necessary at any mo- 
ment fo charge cne for another. Where a man cannot 
travel by boat, cr with dog sledges, natives must be 
ired to carry eq tipment and specimens, and one must 
‘ayel cn foot. It is necessary to wade streams, to im- 
pravise rafts, to build boats; but, by whatever means 
progress is to be made, the word is ever forward, and 
othing must be allowed to come between the traveler 
and the work whiclr he has to do. 

As an example of Mr. Stone’s readiness of resource, 
may be given the story of his crossing the Carcajou 
River. which he tells in the following words: 

“Tn the summer of 1898 I left Fort Norman, in 65 
degrees north latitnde, with three Indians in a birch 
bark canoe, and, after travel’ng down the Mackenzie 
about seventy-fhve miles, landed on the west bank at 1 
o'clock in the morning. We slept till.5, and after a 
hurried breakfast. cached our birch canoe in the bushes, 
and putting about eight pounds of flour and two pounds of 
bacon in a little bay, lashed it with a stout cord. One of 

e Indians then ctt a square of bark from a birch 
ree, made a hole in the center just large enough to ad- 


i 


the shape of a roof—to protect the flour from the rain— 
fhe climbed) a tree and made it fast to a limb, : 

“It was fifty miles across a muskeg country to the 
foot of the mountains that I wanted to hunt, and the 
Indians said that to reach the mountains required two 


sleeps, or three days’ hard travel. After making the 


two days’ provision left. When this was done we must 
get our living from the country or starve. 

“J was in the best of training, hard as a rock, and with 
the wind of a fox hound. I took my pack, consisting of 
a change of clothing, my blankets, my 5 x 7 camera and 
six double plate Holders, all in sole leather cases, eleven 
dozen 5 x 7 plates, rifle and ammunition, knives and whet- 
stone and a few other small items, and my companions 
carried sali for skins and our little camp outfit. The 
traveling was so bad that it was impossible to walk wp- 
right, and the mosquitoes were so thick that there was 
no such ihing as rest. 

“Away we went, plunging and falling through the mire 
and aver hummocks and brush, through swamps and shal- 
low lakes, the mosquitoes gnawing my very. vitals. ‘T set 
the pace, and I kept it, and in the evening of the second 
day, my face and neck swollen almost beyond recognition 
and covered with blood from the wounds of insects, we 
peed out of the swamp on to the bed of the Carcajou 
iver. 

“Before mé was a stretch of sand and gravel about a 
mile in width, and beyond this rose abruptly the northern 
Rockies. As we proceeded over the bed of sand a cooling 
breeze came from the mountains that swept the insect 
lite away atid instilled me with fresh life. The river was 
very low, and had subsided into a few narrow channels, 
Which we waded. We camped at the foot of the motn- 
tains for the might, and the next morging we ate the 


| 
_ 


‘nit the cord, and bending the bark down on two sides in | 


little cache of provision for our return, we had only. 


last morsel of food we had, with the exception of a 
little tea. 

“All day long we climbed back into the mountains. At 
the end of the day’s travel every one was very weak from 
hunger and exertion, We pitched camp and made some 
tea. I then took my rifle and prospected for game, find- 
ing considerable sign, but no game. I returned to camp, 
and after three hours’ sleep and another cup of tea we all 
started out again. One of the Indians played out, the 
other two stayed with me. 

“After about twenty-four hours of hunting, three large 
rams were located on a very high mountain ridge. 
secured one of them with my own rifle, and the accom- 
plishment of this feat would furnish material for pages. 
Just forty-six hours from the time we breakfasted on 
the banks of the Carcajou at the foot of the mountains | 
provided camp with our first food. 

“T remained several weeks, and made a magnificent col- 
lection of specimens in a country far removed from that 
in which any such work had ever been done. 

“During our stay in the motintains the rains were fre- 
quent and heavy, and on our return I found the Carcajou 
River over half a mile wide, a roaring, rapid stream full 
of floating material that endangered navigation. We only 
had a little fresh meat to live on until we could reach 
our cache on the Mackenzie, and speedy action was my 


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seventeen were successfully brought out. Not at this 
time, however, for they were placed in a secure cache 
made of logs, and lined with stones, so as to be secure 
from the prowling wolverine; but six months later, itt 
winter, the Hudson’s Bay Company sent dog sledges 
and brought out the material obtained with so miuich 
difficulty, 

The work done in this country and among these ant- 
mals is not the work of the hunter, but of the naturalist. 
‘Animals must be hunted, of course—that is to say, they 
must be approached and secured, but before being col- 
lected, they must be watched and studied. It is not the 
joy of securing rare game, nor the excitement of the 
chase that leads Mr. Stone to undergo these hardships, 
He goes as an investigator, not to prove any theory, but 
to discover new things. The journeys are made in order 
to learn this animal life as it actually is; to establish the 
geographic position and range of the various species; to 
know in what character of country a species is found at 
all seasons of the year;-what it eats, and what are. its 
habits. Nor is it enough to knaw what the animal does, 
and how it does it; the naturalist wishes to. know also: 
why it does it. . 

It is not enough to study a species in one locality 
alone: the effort is made to study it in many localities; 
to compare the animals of one region with their relatives 
in another region, and thus to check observations back- 
watd and forward, in order that the fullest knowledge 
may be had of the ways of the species. Closely connected 
with the life of many of the animals of the north is the 
flora of the country, the plants upon which many of 
these animals subsist; and, in the same way, the study of 
the natives, the most important enemies of many species, 
has a bearing on the questions to be examined, 

An interesting and important part of this work is 
photographic. When specimens are killed, photographs 
are taken of the animal as a whole, of its head. legs and 
sometimes of other portions of the body, and from several 
points of view. Such photographs are of the greatest 
assistance to the naturalist, who is to study or describe 
the specimen, as well as to the taxidermist, who may 
have occasion to mount it. Very few taxidermists know 
anything about the appearance in life of the animals which 
they prepare. They must either evolve their outlines and 
modeling from their own inner consciousness, or must 
trust to pictsres in natural history works which may 
or may not be correct. Mr, Stone’s photographs supply 
precisely the information that the taxidermist requires. 

Photography plays an important part, too, in the study 
of the environment of the various animals. Beside show- 
ing the natural features and giving a general idea of 
the vegetation found there, large photcgraphs of char- 
acteristic plants are taken which are interesting and tse- 
ful. Mr. Stone has one series of pictures of vegetation 
taken at short range on the mountains inhabited by the 
white sheep. The pictures begin at the base of the moun- 
tains, and are taken at short intervals as the ascent is 
made, and thus give a very clear idea of the changes in 
the plant life at greater and greater altitudes. 

In the years 1808 and 1899 Mr. Stone made a journey 
by dog sledge along the Arctic coast, covering about 
3,000 miles. This is believed to be the longest sledge 
trip eve made in the Arctic, the next in length, perhaps, 
having been that made by McClintock, which was some- 
thing over 1,600 miles, : 

Among the specimens at the American Museum of 
Natural History collected by Mr. Stone are many of the 


THE WAY I CACHED MY SPECIMENS. AT THE FOOT OF THE ROCKIES, WEST OF THE MACKENZIE. 


only dependence. I told my Indians to bring me some 
green poles quick, “All the same make skin boat.’ 

“We lashed these together in a crude way with stich 
string as we happened to have in our pockets, bent on 
willow brush for ribs, spread out oftr 12 x 18 light drill 
fly, placed the frame on top of this and brought the cloth 
up at the ends and tied it in bunches with strings. Then 
we placed the boat on the water, put in our packs and my 
valuable photographic outfit, picked up driftwood sticks 
for paddles and climbed in. In less than two hours from 
the time we reached the river we were continuing our 
journey on the opposite side.” 

Here twenty-two white sheep were killed, of which 


giant moose of Alaska, which not long ago was descrihed 
as a new species. It is well known that this animal is 
characterized by an enormous spread of horns, and that 
it is larger than the moose of the East. Its legs are 
much darker than those of the Eastern moose, tan color 
or smoky brown, while those of the moose of the East 
are whitish. Two species of caribou, one called FR. mon- 
tenus, from the Cassiar country in northwestern Brit- 
ish Columbia, and the other, R. stonei, from the Kenai 
Peninsula in Alaska, are characterized by a dark wood- 
brown. belly in the male, while in the Festal the belly 
is light, nearly white. In the newly discovered FR, grant, 
from the westery part of the Alaska Peninsula, the male 


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is constantly darker on the back than the female, and 

this holds good even in calves of the spring. 
~_ A very interesting point about these caribou is that the 
horns start in the calf when less than six months old. 
Two skins of calyes' of R. montanus and R. granti, now 
in the American Museum, bear horns, still in the velvet, 
from four to six inches in length, and these calves were 
killed in November. 

An interesting discovery made by Mr. Storie is that the 
caribou never cross the Mackenzie River; that is to say, 
the caribou on the east side do not cross to the west, nor 
do those on the west ever cross to the east. Indeed, it 
is believed that those on the east side do not approach 
within one hundred miles of the Mackenzie River. Mr. 
Stone once noted, while stopping at Herschel Island, just 
west of the mouth of the Mackenzie—a point at which 
the whalers receive hundreds, if not thousands, of caribou 
saddles every winter from the mainland, the game being 
killed by Esquimaux or Indians whom they send inland 
for it—that the saddles from west of the Mackenzie 
averaged but thirty-three pounds in weight, while those 
from the east side of the Mackenzie averaged forty-five 
pounds. This suggestive difference in size will un- 
doubtedly be fully investigated by Mr. Stone at the first 
opportunity. 

During his long journeyings' through this northern 
country, when he was obliged for much of the time to 
subsist solely by the product of his rifle, Mr. Stone has 
had an opportunity of trying all descriptions of native 
food. He tells us that the flesh of sheep and ‘of caribou 
is, when in good condition, very delicious, but neither 
meat is so sustaining as the flesh of the moose. In 
fact, he declares that moose is the beef of the north; that 
its flesh is the best and strongest meat that can be had, - 
and that pemmican made from the flesh of moose is by all . 
odds the best and most economical food that the ex- 
plorer in these cold countries can take with him. 

Mr. Stone’s studies of the life of the north have been 
so fruitful of results that it is not to be doubted that a 
few years more of his work will bring together, in the 
American Museum of. Natural History, in New‘ York, a 
quantity of material from the important centers of animal 
life there, together with a mass of data concerning them, 
that will be of inestimable value in making .these 
animals and their habits better known, The field is 
wide, full of interest and important, and it may well be 
that Mr. Stone’s discoveries up to this point only hint at 
its possibilities, 


Wild Rice. 


Ir would be hard to name a native plant that has been 
more interesting to gtimners, or more discussed in the 
sportsman’s press, than the so-called wild rice of North 
America (Zizania aquatica). For gunners its interest has 
been chiefly as a food to attract wildfowl; and itis also 
known as the food of rails, rice birds (bobolinks) and 
blackbirds. It is a plant of wide distribution, and well 
known to many: people, and has no less than sixty popular 
names in this country, derived from four languages— 
the French, the English, the Algonquian and the Siouan 
tongues. 

While wild rice has been the subject of many bri#f: and 
popular articles, which in different forms have repeated 
over and over again a few essential facts with regard to 
the plant, it has remained for Mr. Albert Ernest Jenks 
to write a very complete and most valuable monograph 
on the subject, which will appear as a portion of the 
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 
and which was originally submitted as a thesis for the 
degree of Ph. D,, in the University of Wisconsin, in the 
year 18qo. 

Mr. Jenks is already well known to ethnologists, and, 
we may hope, to a large number of other persons who are 
not ethnologists, by his most valuable and chatming little 
work, on the childhood of an Ojibwa Indian, entitled, 
“The Childhood of Ji-shib.’ This story, which is as 
attractive to little people as it is to the grown-tps, met 
with an immediate and natural success. It is absolutely 
faithful in its portrayal of Indian child character, Tt is 
full of feeling, and it shows, also, an intimate knowledge 
of Indian customs and of Indian thought. No one who 
has read this little book need be strprised to find coming 
from the pen of Mr. Jenks another worl that is. just as 
true, although it is much more pretentious, and written 
altogether from the point of view of the white man. Not 
only is this account full of interest from the botanical and 
_natural history point of view, it is also interesting as 
giving a very full account of certain habits of many of 
the tribes which use the wild ricé, and also as throwing 
new light from a new direction on certain. features of 
the culture status of the North American Indian. 

The scientific name of the wild rice is that given it by ~ 
Linneus, but it had been well known, and the name 
Zizania had been applied to it before his day. It is widely 
distributed throughout the temperate portions of the 
North American Continent, at least, as far west as the 
great plains, since it is found abundantly in: both the 
Dakotas and in Texas. We are told also that the Amer- 
ican plant is identical with that which srows in Japan, 
Formosa and eastern China, although different from a 
kindred species found in Japan and eastern Russia. 

There are two species $i this genus—one, northern_in 
its distribution, the better known form; the other, south- - 
ern, and growing in abundance in the brackish waters of ' 
the Southern States. It is possible that the ranges of the 
two species overlap, since the southern form (Zizania 
miliacea) is said to occur as far north as Ohio and Wis- 
consin. 


As is well known, wild: rice is a tall; single-stemmed» ~ 


grass, or cane-like, plant, growing in the water. ° The 
grain, when ripe, in autumn, falls into the water, sinks into 
the soft, alluvial mud at the bottom of lake ar river, un- 
til the water grows warm in the springtime, when it 
sprouts and grows to the surface. The plant dies down 
each winter, and the stalks disappear. It has been called 
a perennial, and a biennial, but as a matter of fact. it is an 
annual, and each year grows from new seed. It blossoms 
in June, and by September the seeds are ripe. The stalks 
grow to a height of ten, twelve or even sixteen feet, and 
form a dense mass in and over the shallow water. 

en one considers the vast quantities of seed pro- 
duced by a bed of wild rice, one would imagine that it 
would tend to spread itnelf, so qs to choke up the heds 


and line the shores of the streams and lakes where it is 
found. Sometimes it does this, but not under natural 
conditions. It must be remembered that the plant is an 


annual, that it produces a food eagerly sought for by 


many wild creatures, and that if it did not produce an 
enormous crop of seeds, it would tend to become extinct, 
owing to the small prospect of a sufficient number of the 
seeds being left to grow in the spring. Beside the birds 
already mentioned, man in the old time, and even to-day, 
is one of the chief enemies of the wild rice, In earlier 
times, too, according to Hunter—long a captive among 
the Kickapoo and Osage Indians in the early days of the 
last century—it was pastured upon by buffalo and other 
grazing animals. In old times, too, the wild pigeon, and 


a host of other small birds, fed on the wild rice, some of 


them picking it from the heads, others seizing it as it 
dropped to the water, while the diving ducks sifted the 
mud of the bottom, and sought for the last grain that 
fell. Beside this, caterpillars have been known to destroy 
crops of the rice in Canada and Minnesota, and various 
fungi kill the plant. 

Just how far north the wild rice grows is perhaps not 
exactly known, but Mr. Jenks gives its habitat as from 
about latitude 50 degrees on the north to the Gulf of 
Mexico on the south, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the 
Rocky Mountains. 
wish waterways, and it prefers a muddy bottom. This is 


what Mr. Jenks has to say on this point, “Wherever the - 


last glacier left little mud-bottomed, water-filled hollows, 
there wild rice has established itself, if other conditions 
are favorable. Such ponds and lakes are characteristic 
of the alluvial apron spread out over Wisconsin and Min- 
nesota. In 1817 the interior of Wisconsin is spoken of 
as watered with innumerable small lakes and ponds, which 
generally abound with folle avoine (wild rice), water 
fowl and fish, each in such prodigious quantities that the 
Indians are, in a manner, exempt from the contingent of 
famine. j 
“Within the wild rice districts, sluggish streams and 
quiet bends in the rivers and creeks also produce wild 
Tice, provided the bed is mud alluvium, The grain has 
followed the stredm toward its mouth, the. water fowl 


- has sown it in its flight, and the Indian has carried it to 


his favorite lakes and streams, until to-day it is safe to 
say that the grain is found wherever in these two States 
there is suitable soil.” And this has always been so in 
historic times, for Marquette, in 1763, speaks of the Fox 
River as abounding in wild rice, saying: ‘The way is 
so cut up’ by marshes and little lakes that it is not easy 
to go straight, especially as the river is so covered with 
wild oats that one can hatdly discover the channel.’ 
Carver, who journeyed into what was then the unknown 
Northwest, nearly a hundred years later, wrote: “In 
some places it 1s with difficulty that canoes can pass 
through the obstructions they meet with from the rice 
stalks, which are very large and thick.’ It is unneces- 
sary to enlarge on the abundance of the plant in this 
favored region, It is known that it grows both to the 
north and to the south, as already stated, It is reported 
as gtowing in New Brttnswick and Newfoundland, and 
the seed has been planted in England, where perhaps it 
still grows. 

The human wild-rice gatherers of the North, in primi- 
tive times, are grouped under two great linguistic families, 
the Algonquian and the Siouan. These two families, in- 
habiting the same region, and living in the same way, 
though sometimes friendly, were yet more often bitterly 
hostile, until in 1862 the greater number of the Sioux 
were removed to a further Western home, while a number 
of the Algonquian tribes still live in the home of their 
ancestors, and still subsist largely on the rice. The earliest 
explorers of the country about the Great Lakes called 
some of these tribes Wild Rice people, giving them the 
French name, Folles Avoines, and spoke of the country 
by the same name. - Mr. Jenks discusses, at some length, 
various tribes; both these stocks, as well as some others 
which have more recently moved into the region where 
the wild rice grows, and following this discussion, which 
is full of interesting historic matter, he passes on to a 
consideration of the production of the plant. 

Wild rice was native to this region, and a self-sower, 
and the main operations of man in this connection with 
it were the harvesting of the grain and the preparing it 
for food. Shortly before the ripening of the seeds, in 
Augtist and September, the women often go to the rice 
fields in their canoes, and tie the standing stalks into small 
bunches. 
has stifficiently matured to be gathered, two women com- 
monly go together to harvest the seed. The stems of the 
rice stands so close together that a paddle cannot be used 
for progression, but the canoe is pushed along by a pole 


thrust against the muddy bottom. While one woman’ 


propels the canoe, the other, by means of a stick, pulls 
toward her, and over the side of the canoe a number of 
the stalks; then with another stick she beats the heads off 
the plant, thus knocking the grain into the bottom of the 
canoe. When one ence of the canoe is full, the women 
exchange implements; the one who has been the grain 
gatherer, furnishes the motive power, and the other 
gathers the grain into her end of the canoe, When the 
vessel is filled. it returns to the camp, where the grain 
is taken out, dried, thrashed and winnowed, and then put 
away for future use. 

While most of the wild rice tribes contented them- 
selves with visiting the natural crops and gathering their 
seed, others took pains to sow wild rice in suitable places, 
so that they might have a crop without fail. The Assini- 


-boines are said to have done this in old times, and the 


Ojibwas to-day sow»the seed,-and in some places weed out 
the other plants which grow amone the stalks. There is 
a_sown field of rice on the: Lac Courte Oreille River; it is 
a good field and produces a fine crop, 

Various motives have been assigned to the tying to- 
gether of the heads of the grain already mentioned. At 
the end of the seventeenth century, it was said by one 


author that this was done to protect it from the water © 


fowl. Another author says that it was done so that it 
might ripen. Another, that the collecting of the grain 
might be made easier when it was ripened. Another, 


that the tying up of the bunches gave those who had so 


prepared the heads an ownership in the grain that they 
had tied up. In some places it is distinctly stated by early 
authors that these heads of grain were tied up in rows sa 
ihat the vessel could pass between the rows, which might 
then conveniently be beaten into the canoe. Slightly 


Tits home is in quiet Jakes and- slug— 


_ sary length of time. 


After some time has elapsed, and the grain. 


different methods of gathering prevailed in different lo- 
calities and among different tribes, but the process was 
essentially the same with all. 


, : 
After the grain is gathered it is taken to the shore 


and at once prepared for curing, As the seeds, when they 


have become ripe, drop from the heads at the slightest _ 


motion, it is necessary that they should be gathered while 
still green, otherwise the very operation of gathering 
them would result in a considerable loss. The curing of 
the grain, which is also called its artificial ripening. must 
therefore be done, and done at once. It is interesting to 
note that rice thus artificially ripened will not germinate, 
and this may account for the lack of sticcess of many 
persons in endeavoring to introduce this plant. 

The grain may be cured by the stn, by smoke and 
heat from a slow fire, the grain being spread on a 
scaffold above the fire, and lastly, by parching and dry 
cooking in a vessel. 

In the sun-drying process, the grain is spread on sheets 
of birch bark, or on blankets on the ground, and dried in 
the sun. Stbsequently the dried grain may be placed 
in a copper kettle and roasted over a slow fire, being con- 
tinually stirred until the whole mass of the gtain is 
roasted, when the hulls are removed. Sometimes the 
grain is spread on racks to dry in the sun. In drying 
by fire the grain is spread on racks, or on wooden slabs, or 
on mats, or even on a bed of reeds and grass. In each 
case a slow fire is kept burning under it for the neces- 
The popping or parching process is 
commonly done by putting a moderate quantity of the 
grain into kettles or pots, beneath which a slow fire is 
built, The thrashing, by which is meant the removing 
of the hull from the long, slender grain of fhe rice, is 
commonly done by men and boys. Sometimes the grain 
is flailed out by beating it with a stick: at others a quan- 
tity of the rice is placed in a hole in the ground, which 
has been previously lined with buckskin, and a man steps 
into the hole. and by continual treading, frees the grain 
from the hulls. A gqttantity, estimated at about four 
quarts, is put in the hole at a time. In other cases the 
holes are lined with wood; a block at the bottom, and 


staves dt the sides, which overlap. Sometimes those who ° 


tread out the grain wear moccasins, and sometimes they 
do it with’ the bare feet. In old times, amone ‘certain 
tribes, the grain was pounded in the hole with a stiels, 
which had a lump at one end somewhat like a pestle. 
After the grain has been beaten or trod out, the husks 
still remain mixed tp with the grain. Then a quantity is 
transferred to a birch-bark dish, or tray, which is more or 
less shaken, bringine the husks to the’ top of the mass, 
while the heavier grain sinks to the bottom. The con- 
tents of the tray is then tossed lightly outward, and the 
tray drawn back toward the body of the worker, andthe 
as fall out of the tray and are carried away by the 
wind. 
After the grain has been harvested, thrashed out and 
winnowed, it must be stored until time of necessity, or 
for its ceremonial use. The rice is commonly stored in 
sacks or boxes made of skins or old cloth, or of birch 
bark, These are often buried in the ground in caches, 
which are lifted as the rice is needed for food. Among 
some tribes, wild rice fields were divided up into plots, 
which in a manner belonged to the various families of the 
tribe or band possessing the field; and the rice growing 
on each section was gathered by the women of that family, 
and belonged to them; though, of course, from the com- 
munity of interest in food, acknowledged by all Indians, 
those who in times of scarcity were well provided, shared 


. their food with those who were in want. 


The amount of rice gathered by the Indians is not very 
great. Tanner, in 1820, stated that one family would 
ordinarily collect about five bushels of rice, or that those 
who were industrious would make twenty-five bushels, 
though this was very rare. At the present day the In- 
dians at Pelican Lake, gather about twelve or fifteen 
bushels per family. Mr. Jenks gives some tables, shaw- 
ing how much wild rice is gathered by certain Indians, but 
as these reports come from the statements of Indian 
agents, they are probably not reliable. 

It is well known that wild rice is a palatable and nu- 
tritious food, and many writers have-compared it favor- 
ably with the ordinary commercial white rice. Chemical 
tests of the composition of the grain, made by Mr, Ed, 
Peters and Prof. F. W. Woll, chemist of the Agricultural 
Experiment Station, at Madison, Wis., indicate that 
wild rice is more nutritious than other native 
foods to which wild rice producing Indians had access. 
These foods are maize, green corn, cornmeal, white 
hominy, strawberries, huckleberries, cranberries, sturgeon, 
brook trout and dried beef. They show also that it is 
more nutritious than any of our cammon cereals. Indian- 
produced wild rice is very rich in proteine, or the albu- 
minoids which produce flesh; far richer than any of the 
other foods given above, except sturgeon and dried beef, 
It thus appears that wild rice is the most nutritive single 
food which the Indians of North America consume. 

Perhaps the commonest method of cooking wild rice 
was as an ingredient in soups and stews. The dried or 
parched fice was often carried by the Indians on the 
warpath, or on Jong journeys, and was eaten dry, but 
more commonly it was cooked with the meat of deer, 
bear, birds and fish, or with berries, or even alone. The 
cooked grain was often eaten alone, as well as with maple 
sugar. The cooked grain is hardly less popular among 
white people than among Indians. It may be boiled, when 
green, by simply pouring over it scalding water, but the 
parched wild rice must be cooked for half an hour, while 
that which has been ctired over a fire requires to be boiled 
for an hour. It is said that a coffee cup of the grain, 
measured before cooking, will furnish a full meal for two 
Indians, or sufficient breakfast food for eight or ten per- 
sons. Long, in his “Voyages and Travels,” speaks of 
the use of the wild rice as a food for little children. The 
hulled grain was pounded between two stones and boiled 
in water with maple sugar. ; a 

Commonly, the quantity of rice gathered by any group 
of Indians was not sufficient to last them for mare than 
a short time: Often a whole crop was consumed during 
the fall and early winter, though accasionally tribes 
harvested enough to last them through the winter months, 
and Carver tells of Indians who saved sufficient for the 
whole year. 

Tt is a well-known fact that Indians are likely to regard. 
with especial reverence any description of food on which 
they chiefly depend. As the Indian of therplains xegards 


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Marct 20, too2.] 


as sacred the buffalo and certain berries which are im- 
ortant to his welfate, so the people of the wild rice coun- 
ry regarded ‘this graiit as sacfed. } ' 

The time of the harvestitig was one of celebration and 


rejoicing to the Indians, and. mitigled with these cele- 
 brations were religious ceremonials of importance. One 


of these was a tice feast, at which the thanks of the 
people wete offered to ihe Master of Life for the crop 
that He had étven, and prayers made to Him to postpone 
the stotins tntil the harvest was at an etd. Wild rice 
frequently appears in the legetid and folk lore of these 
ttibes, and the tice has been the food of the Indian gods. 

The importance of the wild rice to the Indians in the 
country ii which it grows may be inferred from’ what 
has beet said before, Not only did it furnish them with 
most wholesome ahd nutfitious food, but it also brought 
to thetn ih the aultimn ofeat tiultitudes of wildfowl, which 
were in part their support at that seasoti of the year. The 
failure of the crop was a tfibal calamity, just as af abun- 
dance of the rice was an occasion for rejoicing. 

As has beet said, the wild rice is a delicious and nu- 
tritious food, and it has been, atid is, appreciated by the 
white people to whom it is accessible, as well as to the 
Indians.- Many tribes gather it and sell it to the whites, 


and in the old fur-trading days it was often ptrchased “ 


at the posts, where it was especially useftt! in fitting out 
with provisions parties goitig on long jotirneys through 
countries where the food supply was tificertain. 

Mr. Jerks gives some tables and figures indicating that 
a yery considerable Indian population in the north cotifi- 
{ry subsisted on this plant, but, it is impossible at this 
late day to eet a clear notion of how great this popula- 
tion was. “The causes which led to the use of wild 
tice for food are lost to history. Even, tradition with 
her many voltimes written so full of itteresting and 
valuable facts, gives fio ififormation on the stibject, except 
that mati’s hunger caused him to eat the grain, . * 
The Jesuit Fathers lived in Indian wigwams, subsisted 
on Indian food, and were among the-most keen observers 
and intelligent chroniclers of the entire life of the Indian. 
Religious, social and economic life received their very 
careful attention, yet tot one word appedts to have been 
written either by them ot conteniporary chroriclers about 
the use of wild rice in this district, Its first mention ts 
that of 1634, in connection with the Menomini Indians, 
who even then were called Wild Rice men by their Al- 
gonquian kinsmen. _ It therefore seems probable that 
in the Ontario district described above, the Indians did 
not use wild rice until scarcity of game, catised by the 
fur trade with the whites, drove them to it. The 
Menomini Indians, however, did depend upon it ex- 
tensively before such scarcity. What influence the scarcity 
of game had upon the use of wild rice by the other Jn- 
dians in the wild rice district it is impossible to say.” 
Many Siouan Indians, and many Algonguians, used rice 
for a part,of their subsistence while small game and even 
buffalo were still abundant. The Ojibwas Were tiot forced 
to it by starvation, “but inasmuch as the rice fields where 
rice is harvested, are annually failing, but where it is 
not harvested, rice still grows Iuxuriantly, it is probable 
that in most of the wild rice districts the grain has been 
gathered only a few hundred years; say from three to 
five, in such quantities as are shown’ on earlier pages. 

A chapter on the influence of wild rice on geographic 
nomenclature follows, and the work concludes with a 
bibliography, a list of correspondents, and an index. It 
is excellently illustrated. 


Mink and Snake. 


Deer have been seen frequently in the vicinity of Fall 
River, Mass., this fall. and on last Saturday a full-grown 
doe was caught fast in some wire poultry netting on 
Spencer Borden’s country place, Interlachen, which is 
only a mile from the center of the city. The doe was 
captured by some farm hands, who kept her in captivity 
several days. A deer, probably the same one, was seen 
the day before by hare hunters less than a mile from the 
Borden place. 

While passing through an oak sprout lot, in search of 
‘partridge, and not far from an excellent trout brook in 
the southern section of Bristol county, Mass., one day 
last month, with dog at heel, the writer and dog, at 
nearly the same instant, heard an tnusual rustling sound 
in the dry leaves about 50 feet ahead. Moving quietly as 
possible in the direction whence the sound came, and 
keeping the dog to heel, the writer approached within 25 
feet of a big black snake and mink fighting. The mink 
was getting all the better of the contest, having caught the 
snake by the head, and being so agile as to be able to 
keep its body from being crushed in the coils of the 
snake, though the latter succeeded in twisting around 
the mink seyeral times. The queer contest was watched 
for nearly five minutes, when a charge of No. 9 shot 
sent at the heads of the combatants killed both. The 
mink was a fine specimen, and the snake was within an 
inch of being five feet in length. The mink had un- 
doubtedly attacked the snake for food. - 


The Hole in the Wall. 


Morcantown, W. Va.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
The article in March 8 issue of Forest AND STREAM, 
headed “The Hole,” recalls a recent article in a Wyoming 
paper, which shows the great openings in the Rockies for 
interesting exploration for any one having the time, means 
and inclination. 

This article is as follows: “The notorious ‘Hole-in-the- 
Wall,’ in former years a rendezvous for cattle ‘rustlers,’ 
murderers and train robbers, is now a thing of the past. 
‘The county commissioners have called for bids for 'blast- 
ing out a section of the high wall of red sandstone, 
through which a small stream now flows, and along which 
there is a narrow trail leading through the wall of rock 
to a fertile valley within. It is proposed to widen this 
trail, which was used by outlaws for many years, and 
which, guarded by a few men, made the Hole a veritable 


fortress, so that freight teams and ordinary vehicles can ~ 


pass in and out of the Hole-in-the-Wall country. The 
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company is now con- 
structing a line into the Hole-in-the-Wall country, and 
soon several ranches there will be placed in communica- 
tion with the outside world,” Emerson CARNEY., 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


The Waterproof Woodchuck. 


Nortuwoop, N, Y,, March 22.—Editor Forest and 


Stream; Late in August last year, while the weather was 
still watm, the grass. still green, the woodchuck, with his | 


sides rolling with fat and his belly crammed full, went 
down itito his burrow, curled up and went to sleep. 

In the middle of December thete came a three-day 
rain that cleared off what snow there was and raised the 
West Canada Creek to a height which it has not reached 
for years. It overflowed many woodchuck burrows with 
water from six inches to three or four feet. When the 
water began to fall it fell so slowly that one of four 
burrows observed was under water for perhaps five or 
six hours, while the three others were flooded for more 
than thirty-six hours. 

This spring on March 7, after several warm days, the 
woodchucks came out of these four holes and took a short 
run to stretch themselves, so to speak. Four others upon 
the hills came out that same day, too. It is curious that 
the eight woodchucks should come out the same day, all 
in the forenoon at that, but the astonishing fact is that 
the three animals lived under the water for more than 
thitty-six hours. 

C. Hart Mefriam tells ts many interesting things about 
the woodchuck in his “Mammals of the Adirondack Re- 
gion,” but he does not mention anything about the wood- 
chuck hibernating tnder water. 

E. A. SPErars. 


A Redhead Duck Marked “H”. 


Haver pe Grace, Md,, March 22.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: J inclose metal band marked “H,” found on the 
leg of a redhead shot on the flats yesterday.- The redhead 
drew to the decoys out of a flock of canyasbacks. 

I send this band to you, thinking it may have been put 
on the bird by some one interested in ornothology, and 
would look for a return through your paper. 

HAS. R. FLINt, 


Game Bag and Gun. 


Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest anp STREAM. 


Non-Resident Licenses. 


SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 20.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: You may think I am anxious to rush into print, 
but I assure you that I rarely do it, and would not ad- 
dress your paper again so soon were it not that I think 
the communication of Mr. J. A. C. Ruffner, of Greens- 
burg, Pa., printed in your isstte of March 22, does my 
friend, John F. Haynes, of Great Pond, Me., an injus- 
tice, probably unintentional, but one which a_caretul 
reading of Mr. Hayne’s letter in your issue of March 1: 
might have helped Mr. Ruffner to avoid, it seems to me, 
I think Mr, Ruffher owes Mr. Haynes an apology, unde 
the circumstances, for I can assure Mr, Ruffner that Mr. 
Haynes is strongly opposed to the proposed taxation 
measure, as I think he states clearly in his letter, which 
Mr. Ruffner criticises. _ = 

Mr. Ruffner, speaking of Mr. Haynes, says, “He is a 
guide, of course, and I suppose would .want the ‘law to 
exclude citizens of other States,” Mr. Haynes said in 
his letter, which you printed on March 15, “I have dis- 
cussed this matter with a number of guides, and each ol 
these would gladly pay a $10 license feé rather than have 
the sportsmen from outside the State assessed.” It 
appears to me that this quoted sentence 
Haynes’ letter takes the ground from under Mr. Ruff- 
ner’s feet, and makes it hard to understand the basis of 
his supposition, also quoted above. 

I watit to say further that I think Mr, Haynes takes_an 
iinselfish position in this matter in that he. advocates a 
measure which will tax himself and every other guide in 
the State of Maine $10 annually, in order to bring into 
the State’s coffers an additional sum which may be used 
for protecting the game. To my mind, this shows that 
Mr. Haynes desires that the game in his State should 


_be fully protected, and that he prefers to pay a tax rather 


than have it come from the pockets of his guests from 
outside the State. In fact, ii I may say so, I think that 
Mr. Haynes’ proposition regarding the license fee de- 
serves consideration, and to me it seems equitable that 
the guides of Maine, whom the visitors from outside the 
State benefit materially in a financial way, should con- 
tribute something toward the proper enforcement of the 
game laws and protection of the game. 

It may interest your readers to know that I received 
this week a call from Mr. H. W, Rowe, proprietor of the 
Maine Sportsman, printed at Bangor, Me., who assured 
me that he had the best of reasons for believing the 
moyers in the proposed measure for taxing hunters who 
visit Maine would not bé sticcessful in their efforts’ Mr. 
Rowe himself is strongly opposed to the measure. 

; E, M. WILxtns. 


las 


Bancor, Me—Editor Forest and Stream: The man 
who wants much for nothing is the one who is forever 
whining because he is obliged to pay for what he gets. 

A few years ago such a thing as a license was not 
necessary, because the amount appropriated by the State 
was ample to protect the gatne interests, but to-day the 
case is entirely different; it has-assumed such enormous 
proportions. In order to protect our game‘and patrol 
our borders, a sum of money must be raised, and surely 
no one should be more willing—nay even anxious—to 
contribute this sum than those who enjoy the benefits of 
the hunt. 

The preservation of our game is of vast importance 
and is far-reaching. There may be plenty for you and 
me, but if not protected, how will it be for those who 
follow us? 
speak advisedly. 

For thirty-one seasons I have spent the best part of 
my life in the Maine woods. 
figures, as mtich is merely guess-work, but this I ‘will 
say: For every deer killed as accounted for many are 


' hunt can afford to pay it. 
,- sonally I have nothing to gain, only the welfare of those 


from Mr. ° 


The present drain cannot last forever, I 


Tt is useless to go into” 


249. 


shot at, wounded, crawl away and die. Now, if no re- 
straint is placed upon this summer, fall, winter and 
spring slaughter, if there is insufficient protection, how 
will it be with us ten years hence? 

More deer were killed last year than ever before, you 
may say. True, there were more hunters and many 
killed “‘toots” that you could tuck under your arm. 

Now, my proposition is this: “Let those who dance. 
pay the fiddler.” Sooner or later, mark you, this thing 
must be met. More money, more wardens affording 
better protection, and as a natural consequence, a more 
than ever bountiful supply of game. Let there be a law 
favoring neither the resident nor the non-resident, black 
or white, rich or poor, that he who hunts in our beauti- 
ful forests and enjoys the privileges pertaining thereto, 
in order that the game may be better protected, shall 
annually pay to the State of Maine the sum of $5 for the 
protection of said game. ‘This appears to me to be 
equitable, necessary and business like, 

This proposition is neither mercenary nor unreason- 
able. The sum is so small that he who can afford to 
It is not mercenary, as per- 


who come after me, ; 

As many of your readets can testify, it has been a 
source of far greater pleasure to me to see them success- 
ful, and help them in the hunt, than to thrust myself 
ahead and secure the game. My hunting days are about 
over, but. there are others whose pleasures in this line are 
just beginning. 

Let us not be short-sighted in this matter. You can- 
not for long run a fire with open draughts without fuel. 


-Who is to replenish it? 


If each one of us, resident and non-resident, chips in 
$5 annually, the total amount so gained will be amply 
sufficient to hire wardens enough to protect our forests 
from fire and game from annihilation, 

The State, we are informed, will not advance this 
money. We must. F 

Shoulder to shoulder, resident and non-resident alike, 
we must take an interest in this matter. If we do not, 
ten years from to-day, mark the result! 

J. A. THompson. 


Wesr Lesanon, N. H., March 10.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I have been much interested this winter in 
reading the many letters, botl for and against, non- 
resident license. It seems to me there is a great deal 
that can be said on both sides. I believe that those who 
enjoy the sport of shooting should help to pay the ex- 
pense of taking care of and protecting the game, but I 
do not think it should all or nearly all come on the non- 
resident. One might as well put up the bars with the 
notice “Keep off’ as to put into force a “non-resident 
licénse” of $25. We of New Hampshire want the out- 
siders to come and enjoy the sport with us and leave. 
some of their money here, the more the better. But to 
have geod shooting, we must see that the game 1s prop- 
etly protected and cared for, and to that end we need a 
certain amount of funds, more, in fact, than is furnished 
by the State at present. The question is how to get 
it without making it a seeming hardship to any one? 

Now, it strikes me, that if we are to have a tax, why 
not tax the guns, both of the residénts and non-residents, 
who come into the State to shoot, say, for instance, tax 
the residents 50 cents and the non-residents one or even 
two dollars, which would not prevent any one from 
coming who loved the sport and could take a vacation? 

This would give a sufficient fund to properly protect 
and reproduce our fish and game. 

The residents should be obliged to take out a license 
the same as they do for their dogs, and the non-residents 
get theirs by applying to the Fish and Game Commis- 
sion, Joun GooLp. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Heavy Flight Still in Misstssippi Valley. 


Cutcaco, Itz., March 20.—The weather has served the 
wild fowl a very scurvy trick these past ten days. As 
chronicled last week, spring came on with a rush and the 
ducks as well as human beings concluded that winter was 
over. They started north in a compact body, embracing 
greater numbers than have been seen in the Mississippi 
valley for a double decade. This heavy flight rested upon 
Illinois, Indiana and lower Wisconsin for five days of 
last week. The birds foraged what food they could find 
and dropped into such open water as they could discover. 
At the middle of last week Fox Lake, Illinois, was still 
covered with ice, yet it was the stopping place of perhaps 
the biggest body of wild fowl ever seen there. A raft 
of birds nearly a mile in extent, so closely packed that 
they resembled a vast mud flat, filled the eastern side of 
the main Fox Lake nearly from Lippincott’s place to the 
mouth of the inlet of Lake Petite. How many thousands 
there were no one could tell. They did not work at all, 
only a few birds rising, flying for a.few yards and then 
dropping down into the big raft. 

A number of shooters went from Chicago to Fox Lake 
at the close of last week, and they went just in time to 
catch the severe storm which struck-this country Satur- 
day and Sunday last, a storm which brought a ther- 
mometer dropping so fast that all the open waters of 
this vicinity closed up ‘again promptly. By Monday 
morning last the channel of the river through Nipersink 
Bay was closed up.again, and the-ducks of the Fox Lake 
district had not even so much water as was available 
earlier in the week. All day Sunday and late into Sunday 
night a tremendous flight of wild fowl passed the Fox 
Lake country, flying about 4oo yards high and going 
south, All the waters of upper Illinois and lower Wis- 
consin were vacated by that flight, and the shooters who 
expected to profit from the heavy flight went home sadly 
disappointed. 

This sent very. many of the wild fowl south again as 
far as the lower Illinois River waters, to afford the shoot- - 
ers of that region another innings. It need not be said 
that the latter were ready and willing to take advantage 
of it. Swan Lake and Herinepin clubs had good shooting 
from: this renewed flight which dropped in from the 
north. I hear that one shooter, Mr. W. W.. McFarland. 
pt Hennepin Club, killed go birds one day this week and 


—_ . 


280 = 7 


7o on the day following. The party who went down from 
Chicago to Hennepin Club must have met interesting 
sport, for none has yet arrived from the club, and the 
single bag above reported indicates that the othets must 
also have had good sport. 

That the birds went no further south than first open 
water and decent feeding is well indicated by the success 
met by some shooters in upper Indiana. To-day Henry 
Ehlers, of Diana Club, came in from Thayer, Ind., on 
the Kankakee River, and he had an express wagon nearly 
full of ducks, 96 mallards in all. He had met the flicht 
fairly and had very heavy shooting, Mr. Ehlers has been 
watching the Kankakee country for a couple of weeks, 
and he says not for twenty years have so many birds 
been in as were there in the first big flight which came 
up over northern Indiana ten days or two weeks ayo. 

‘It would seem that this same big body of birds is now 
beginning to work north again, since we are now having 
our second day of milder weather after the cold snap of 
Jast Sunday. Word came down yesterday morning fron: 
Fox Lake that one shooter there had killed a dozen ducks 
before breakfast, and several Chicago shooters at once 
packed their guns and started for Fox Lake once more. 
That much shot and thickly settled district is the most 
available open shooting ground adjacent to Chicago, and 
it need hardly be said that there is a rush of shooters 
there at the first indication of a flight. The entire Satur- 
day, Sunday and Monday contingent were disappointed. 
Messrs. Wells and Pope, who reached Fox Lake Mon- 
day, fotind everything frozen up tight, and did not go out 
at all, They report many other shooters similarly dis- 
appointed. 

The members of the Tolletson Club have this week and 
last had good shooting, and it is reported that numbers 
of them killed the limit of 25, part of the time picking 


out the greenhead mallards and“not pr€tending to take 4 


ali the opportunities offered in the flight. 
Up at Otto’s. 


_ One of the popular resorts of the Fox Lake countr 
in these days is that occupied by Otto Muehrcke on th 
east bank of Nipersink Bay, 


boat hirer, bail bond furnisher, constable, or almost any- 
thing else in which there is a dollar or so. It is a mixed 


and somewhat difficult set of guests which he finds on hisl - 


hands at the week end during the shooting or fishing: 
season, although he customarily rises to the situation, and 
ig able to administer affairs in an impartial and effective 


manner. ge ice 


Last Saturday, as above indicated, found a good manyg 
Chicago shooters at Otto’s place gathered for the pur-j 
pose of meeting the flight which did not materialize.§ 


Among the Chicago talent were two newspaper men, Mr. 
Hollis Field, of the Tribune, and Mr. William Smedgten, 
artist of the Record-Herald. Both of these gentlemen} 
have a notion that they can stop a wild duck in mid 
career as well as the next one, and they went up tol 
Otto's full of youthful expectations. They found it very| 
warm down stairs where the crowd was and very cold up| 
stairs where the beds were. There is an old saying that} 
a man who would steal a red hot stove is somewhat am- 
bitious in the stealing line. 
to accuse a newspaper man of theft, yet surely the charge 


would lie against Mr. Smedgten, and the object of hisg 


theft was nothing less than a red hot stove. It seemed 
that another Chicago shooter had chartered a room up 
stairs and had endeavored to heat the same by means 
of a gas stove. 


a trifle frigid, began to skirmish around, and discovere¢ 
the hot stove engaged in warming up the other fellow’s 
apartment. This Smedgten calmly appropriated to the 
tise and behoof of himself and friend. Haying warmed} 
up their own room, they returned the stove in time tc 
anticipate the arrival of its rightiil owner, who com. 


plained bitterly to Otto that his room was cold as an ict ® 


box, such being some of the expedients of the true news 
paper man when he moveth himself aright. : 

_ “As to matters on the main floor of Otto’s emporium 
they would seem to have been somewhat confused at th 
time above mentioned. It seems that Otto was tryin: 
the case of a man accused of horse stealing by one of h | 
neighbors. The defendant alleged that he did not ste: 

the horse. but only took it in out of the cold when i 

owner became too drunk to be fit company for man c 
beast. These charzes the owner of the horse indignant! 

denied. and the #wo fell to cheerfully fiehting, to th 
delectation of all concerned. Witness Otto the enter- 
prising rising to this occasion with the facility of true 
genius. Handing ont the beer with one hand to al 
thirstv customers. with the other he proceeded to uphol¢ 
the dignity of the law. He fined both the contestants 
ahove mentioned and indeed pretty near everybody else 
with promptness and impartiality. He engineered his 
constabulary in sch fashion as to keep all the contend. 
ine parties and the witnesses within reach of the bar 
and indeed so manipulated the entire affair that absoa- 
lutely nothing got awav. Toward midnight everybody 
exnressed his entire willineness to whip evervbody else 


and indeed hostilities of this general and self-sacrificine # 


sort became the main feature of the occasion. Th« 
owner of the hoarse aforesaid seemed to cet the wors’ 
of it. and was licked by prettv nearly eyervhody then ant 
there present. Picking owt Mr. Field. of Chicago, as + 
possible victim, he confided to him the fact that he har 
been licked so often that evening that he didn't mine 
takine another licking, and nroposed to the Chicago mar 
that thev encase in a friendly contest of pugilistic skill 


not necessarily far nublication. but to show there was no | 
coldness, Mr. Field declined to lick him, but asked him | | 


to stand not less than twenty feet distant from him for the 
a little bit’ 


remainder of his snjotrn in the room. It is a 
hazy as ta who the chief offender was, or why he was 
committed toa jail. The jail was at Waukegan, twenty- 
turo miles distant. and the thermometer was below zero. 
The prisoner executed somethine of a coup when he de- 
clined to sien any hail bond. and insisted that he must 
he taken to jail, Extending his hands in melodramatic) 


fashion he asked that the ‘shackles be put upon him. My 
and insisted that the constable hitch up his rig at once—yy 


and start on the twenty-two mile drive to Waukegan. ; 
The constable had been brave hefore this, but he powgy) 


Otto runs a wide oper bi 
house which is patronized by most of the Chicago shoot-|f 
ers who go to that side of the lake. He is a sort of Poogm 
Bah in his way, being a justice of the peace, hotel keeper 


It_is perhaps a trifle harsh 


Smedgten and Field, having emigratedg 
to the upper regions, and having found their own room§ 


Mivery substantially. 


aay 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


weakened. He was found in the morning in a hay mow 
across the street, the prisoner meanwhile diligently 
searching for someone to take him to jail. 

It may be imagined that the duck shooting did not 
prosper under these conditions, but the city men who 
were present at Otto’s insist that they had a busy and 
yety enjoyable time. They add that they are going to 
try it again on Saturday of this week. As to the fate of 
the prisoner, nothing definite is known. 
case tinder advisement,” said Otto to Mr. Field. 
an Artificial Preserves In California. 


Mr, Charles Mears, formerly one of the best known 
«luck shooters of Chicago, and a member of the old 
Macsawba Club in its palmiest days, some years ago 
made the State of California his hore. None the less, 
Mr. Mears. occasionally visits this part of the country, 
and -he was in Chicago this week. When interviewed, he 
said that he found considerable shooting on the Pacific 
Coast, and that he was a member of a club not far from 
Los: Angeles, and, Bl 
“"The way they get their shooting ont there is by 
overflowing a tract with water from a big artesian well,” 
said- Mr. Mears. “There is one of these shallow ponds 
in this district of which 1 speak, five or six miles inland 
from the sea, and on this one lake there are three different: 
clubs. A membership in one of these clubs was offered 
at $1,500. The next one cost $100 to get into, and there 
was a third one a little farther down toward the énd of the 
lake whose privileges could be had for $35. I thought 
I would take the little one just for luck, and as it turned 
out we had better sport last year than the more expensive 
clubs. I usually found no trouble in getting two or three 
dozen birds in a morning’s shooting during the season. 

- In that district all the shooting is had very early in the 
‘morning, the guns going out before daybreak and the 


bi 


"sport being quite over by 10 o'clock: On all these club 


marshes, if you can call the country a marsh, the ducks 
Hare rested for pretty much all-the week, two or three 
days’ shooting being the limit allowed, In this way 
Awe have found no difficulty at all to keep plenty of birds 
for stich bags as seem rational and desirable.” 

Tt is quite likely that the shooting on these fresh water 
ponds is similar to that offered along the Gulf Coast in 


W 


Wn Texas. 


The birds which bank up or feed along the salt water 
flats xo to the fresh water at least once a day. It is this 
fact which causes the tremendots flights at Gum Hollow 
Win Texas, or upon the celebrated mud flats of the old 
Fulton pasture. It is therefore not so much a question 
Hof food as it is simply one of water. The wisdom of 
moderation in club preserves is well evinced in this ac- 
tion of limiting the number of days’ shooting in the week. 
All our northern clubs will come to this thing one of these 
days, and it is to be hoped that they will also place a limit 
Mon the daily baw, just as the State of Indiana has placed 
§ euch a limit and as all our States ought to in this part of 
lithe West. 


(ee Lower Iffinols Shooting. 
4 Mr. Fred Taylor, one of the best known of our old-time 
‘Chicago sportsmen, leaves this evening for % visit to the 
Green Wing Club, of Bureau Junction, Il. Mr. Taylor, 
who ig a man of considerable means, owns the lake known 
as Mud Lake, near Bureau Junction. and although he 
has had repeated offers, has always declined to sell the 
property for club purposes, stating that he intends to 
give it to his son if the latter cares to keep it. It hardly 
lneed be said that all these lower marshes ate gaining tm 
value yearly. Fifty acres of marsh land near Wolf Lake, 
at the lower edge of Chicago, were sold this week for 
$r2%.000. The man who first bought the tract gave only 
1 few dollars an acre. Of course, this was a purchase for 
d-nanufacturing purposes, and has nothing to do with the 
anhancement of values of duck preserves, though none the 
‘ess very stibstantial nrofits could be made to-dav by iti- 
Jividuals or clubs holding good duck marshes. The pres- 
nt heavy flight of ducks has encouraged everv shooter 
ff this section, and has sent un the prices of club shares 
-ery materially. as well as startine out a great many other 
hooters in search of possible club marshes. ~ |. 
Mr. Taylor. who has seen verv heavy shooting m his 
} ‘me, said, when seen to-day, that he did mot cate to kill 
nv vety great numbers of ducks. “Tf I can kill a dozen 
irds a dav fnr two or three days,” said he, “I shall be 
ntirely satisfied. I want to go down there and look 
round for some snipe country. I think the snine will 
e in there in a counle of weeks if the weather keens 
-arm. Y have sometimes had very decent snine shooting 
+ that district. and several vears ago a friend and I killed 
MW ‘ty-two wondcock in one dav. the finest bag of woodcock 
ever saw in all mv life. Of course, it is not so good 
| yere now for any kind of game.” 


Better Days in the Indtan Nattons. 


Mr. Taylor was long engaged in the cattle business in 
the Indian Territory. and even now he makes an annua 
visit to that country for a little sport. going usually to the 
ranches of his friends. the Suggs bovs, near Sugeden, 
O. T. He says that this year he fornd quail verv much 
lmore abundant than they were on his earlier trio. He 
killed a dozen or so one day. and thirty-three on the next 
dav. atid that ended it. He had no nlace to use his birds, 
and so discontinued his shooting. He savs that althoush 
Behe wild turkevs are pretty nearly cleaned out all! over 
the Indian Nations, so far as he knows. the atail and 
Avrairie chickens are far and away better off than they 
were two yeats ago. He fenorts a most encouraging state 
af affairs there. due almost altogether to the practical 
Nworkines of the Lacey law. While he was in the 
tary, one shooter from a little town along the Choctaw 
WRranch was fined $¢co for shipving one harrel of quail. 
Dentity. marshals visited the new line of railroad and 
nractically stopped all the shooting of game, Thev seized 
twenty-six packages of game along that one short branch 
lof the railway... Outside shooters who had intended to 
Winke or ship home some game were afraid to trv it. and 
i Mr, Tavlor believes that there is every hope in the world 
Rithat prairie chickens and quail will increase in Oklahoma 
So much for the difference between 
United States matshals and the average country game 
warden, - fa 

‘Mr. Taylor says that the Osage country is wretty nearly 
ait tight so far as shooting is concerned. The Indians 


down there live in fine dwellings, and they are very stiff 


“T've got the 


Terri- - 


‘conclusion. Is it not this: 


_ [Marcu.29, 1902. - 


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about allowing shooters to come into the country. They | 
do not even like to have patties come through there on | 


the Arkansas River, and are apt to make trouble for 
any one showing the least disposition to get gay in their 


part of the country, He adds that the Suggs boys, Cal ~ 


and Ike, bought a ranch down in Texas about 150 miiles 
east of El Paso, paying this spring the little check of 
$250,000 for the pasture. The Suggs boys write up that 
they have considerable game in their new territory in 
Texas. They were formerly located in one of the best 
deer and turkey fields of the Indian Nations, — 

March 22.—The activity in duck circles continues, and 
the good bags recently made have started out more 
shooters than have gone from this city for some years 
during any single spring season. Pox Lake will be packed 
to-morrow with Chicago gunners. There is considerable 
shooting going on aleng the shores of Lake Michigan, and 
the Calumet Lake, Lake George and Wolf Lake contingent 
is getting ready this afternoon in force for the regular 


> 


Sunday doings, the railroad stations this afternoon being. . 


thronged with earnest looking individuals clad in high 
rubber boots and brand new shooting coats, . 
The birds are in on the Kankakee without any ques- 
tion, and the lower Illinois River clubs are also having 
heavy shooting this week, Mr, John Upham, of this city, 
and his friend, Mr. Louis Hill of St. Paul, returned 
Wednesday from Swan Lake Club with fifty-six birds. 
Mr. Charles Lester, of this city, also brought in a good 
bag when he came back from the same club this week. A 


deep silence still prevails in the neighborhood of Henne-_ 


pin Club, but stories come up that the shooting has been 
very heavy. Mr. J. V. Clarke, of this city, and several 
others of the Hennepin members, have been down to. the 
club for nearly a week, and they would not have remained 
so long had not the sport been good. 

Mr. L Brown ran down to Maksawbha Club this 
week and got eight birds. He had no pusher and did 
not work very hard. He reports considerable numbers 
of birds in on that part of the marsh, 

_The ice is reported not yet out in Fox Lake. The. blue- 
bills had not yet showed up at that point at last accounts. 


; E. Houan. 
Hartrorp Burtpine, Chicago, Tl. ; 


The Hunting Rifle. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The articles which have appeared in your valuable 
paper of recent date on the killing merits of the small- 
bore hunting rifles have interested me. I cannot under- 
stand why so many readers of the Forest AND SrrEamM 
denounce the small-bore rifle for big-game hunting, es- 
pecially when using the soft-point bullet. My experi- 
ence with the 30-40 Winchester 220 grain soft-point 
bullet has been most satisfactory, and why a man wants 
a heavier bullet than the above is beyond my conception. 

Last fall, in Maine, I shot a fair-sized bull moose; the 
first ball entered the paunch very low, coming out on 
the other side; the other shot hit about a foot back of 
the right shoulder, passed between the ribs, making a 
hole in the liver large enough to put in your closed fist, 
then through the heart, and finally coming out on the 
other side, as it went in, between the ribs. The moose 
bled very freely, and did not go 20 yards from the spot 
where it was fitst shot at, 

Now, possibly some of your readers who take ¢annon 
or obsolete rifles in the woods will say that if I Had 
been using a large bore the moose would have been 
down with the first shot. This is where I differ. Most 
big game when hit hard will fall, but if it is shot 
through the patinch—it makes no difference whether hit 
hard or not—they will go quite a distance before stop- 
ping, especially if followed by the hunter, Now, the 
.30-40 soft-point bullet, whether hit high or low, will make 
quite a good-sized hole on entering; therefore will draw 
considerable blood. 


A writer of another article says that when the small- 


bore sott-point bullet strikes the thick winter fur and 
hide of a moose it shatters the bullet to powder. This 
assertion seems absurd (and hardly possible, because 
when shooting a .30-4@ soft-point bullet into a tree or 
any other hard substance, it does not break apart, but 
mushrooms, atid most always completely covers the 
jacket. 

The above are the conclusions of many friends who 
tise the small bore, as well as myseli, and I must say that 
this new rifle fits the bill as well as the purse and is 
certainly an all-round, up-to-date sporting rifle. 

Two gentlemen whom I met in the woods last Novem- 
ber each had a .45-70 Winchester, which were very pretty 
rifles, yet a little light, 634 pounds, These same two 
hunters last fall and at the same camp used the small- 
bore rifle, and they each got a fie moose. Why they 
changed the size of the bore I cannot say, but I do 
know that they could not do any better-than they did 
last fall; that is, two moose in three shots, 

The writer of this article expects to have many more 
hunts for biz game, and will surely use the -30-40 until 
he becomes convinced that the small bore is, as many 
hunters declare it, only a popgtin for moosebirds. 

é .30-40. 


Sr. Icnace, Mich.—Edttor Forest and Stream: I see 
that the wordy war is still raging, between the. “small- 
bore cranks” and those who advocate a cannon. Evidently 
it is still an unsettled question in the minds of many, as to 
which is the “best gun.” One cannot be blamed for 
basing his opinion upon his experience, and the former 
will vary as the latter. If one has had very great luck 
with a very small gun, why should he tiot swear by it? 
But what should the verdict be, based upon the accumu- 
lated evidence? What is the simmered-down, rational 

That the .30-30 is the best gun made} 

That the .30-40 is the best gun made; : 

That the .577-160-500 is the best gun made? 

Speaking from experience that has come under my 
direct observation, I should say that the .30-go is one of 
the best guns made for anything up to and including’ deer. 
The .30-40 is a better, and has killed everything that walks 


‘this continent, but both of these guns are “open country” 


guns; they are not effective in the brush. If one is going, 


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n to the sand plains, let him take his .j0-40; but in 
imber, his small ordnance—his .577- 
twig the size of a lead pencil will mushroom a soft- 
.30-40, and pethaps deflect its course. rendering it 
atic and practically useless. If one must use a .30-40 
the timber, he should carry along a few full-jacketed 
ets—then he will stand some chance of penetrating a 
heap in a direct line, and reaching his game. The 
may be in full view—every part of his anatomy visible 
othing intervening but a lacework of fine twigs—so 
: that you do not notice them as you look along your 
hts—but, with a soft-nosed bullet, you can’t get 
ough that tracery except by merest chance and “bull- 
id luck” In a situation like this, the full jacket is 
tr, bit the big bore is best. 
saw a companion shoot three deer in a bunch—crack, 
rack, crack, just like that—with a .303 soft-nose Savage. 
ey were hit in the lungs; they dropped without hesita- 
, and did not get up again. When opened, their lungs 
appeared to be macerated. They looked as if a buzz saw 
had struck them, broad side on. I have seen a deer shot 
207 long paces with a Winchester .30-40, soft-nose. The 
Jet struck the head in the back, between the horns. 
fhe havoc created was a revelation to me. The skull 
yas cracked into eight small pieces; the right eye knocked 


ind the right half of the upper jaw carried away. These 
khots were made in open places. 

On the other hand, I have known the soft-nose bullet 
from a .30-40, aimed at a deer not sixty yards away, to 
raze a stnall frozen sapling and break into a thousand 
imute particles, splattering the adjacent branches as if 
a spoonful of hot lead had been splashed against the 
‘The man who. killed the three deer with the Savage— 
and that was several years ago—has never been out since, 
but he is still singing to all his friends the praises of that 
wonderful gun. He who shot the frozen sapling, and 
tho, on another occasion, failed to do business with a 
deer on the other side of a few berry bushes, says the 


30-40 is “no oe 

_A couple of years ago 4 thirteen-year-old schoolboy 
Killed a moose in Brevoort Lake, near here, with a single 
25 rim-fire cartridge fired from a Favorite rifle, but that 
hardly makes the Favorite a moose gun. 

EF. H, Horcratss. 


A Cup for Mr. Dressel. 


Tue Sportsmen’s show was conducted so ably and so 
successfully that the exhibitors and many other personal 
friends of Capt. J. A..H, Dressel, general manager ot 
the show, and a tireless worker in all that pertained to 
its success, resolved to express their appreciation in 
respect to his efforts as well as their personal esteem. 
'They conspired together, and agreed that a cup, solid in 

h and artistic.in design, would be the proper thing. 
massive silver cup, whose capacity was equal to a 
ilk bucket, with handles which made it of the kind 
known as loving cup, was selected. 

_ The whole matter was kept a profound secret from the 
‘Captain. On the last evening of the show, about @G 
clock, he was invited into the room in which was a 
table, surrounded by beautiful flowers, arranged by Mr. 
Harry Stevens. The cup, the center of adornment, was 
covered from view, while Mr. David T. Abercrombie, 
the Captain’s lieutenant in connection with the Sports- 
men’s Show, presented the cup with the following 
remarks: 
“Captain Dressel, in response to a petition circulated 
by many leading exhibitors at the eighth annual Sports- 
men’s Show, and heartily concurred in by not a iew of 

our personal friends, I have been asked to tender you 
their hearty congratulations and sincere appreciation of 
your personal efforts and able management of the ex- 
hibit now drawing to a close. 

“Of eight annual events of the kind held at the Gar- 
den, the present show, in point of attendance and public 
approval, has far surpassed any former effort of the 
Association, and so far as I have been able to learn 
from personal inquiry, has been productive of most sat- 
jstactory results to the big list’ of exhibitors who have co- 
operated with the management in so generous a manner 
for the success of the show. 

“Perhaps no one, aside from those associated with you 
fin the affairs of the Sportsmen’s Association, can form 
an adequate idea of the personal effort, the per- 
Sonal sacrifices, and the responsibilities altached 
to the successful holding of a national sportsmen’s 
show. All of us gathered here to-night, however, 
realize that you have met all of these requirements, not 
only this year, but for the seven years that have gone 
before, and with our best wishes for the continued suc- 
cess of the Sportsmen’s Association and of the Sports- 
men’s Show, which, we trust, will be held here for many 
years to come, we ask you to accept this modest testi- 
inonial of our regard and good feeling. May it be, so 
long as you live, emblematic of the flowing bowl of 
good fellowship, of true sportsmanship and of honest, 
clean-handed friendship of which you are the embodi- 
ment. 

“Capt. Dressel, in this cup we pledge you our hearty 
co-operation and best wishes.” 

“Capt. Dressel was truly surprised, yet made his ac- 
knowledgment of the honor graceiully and pertinently. 
The cup was then filled several times with the vintage of 


France. > 


Flesh Affected by Foods. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The most striking case of the above I ever heard of 
was the story in the papers some five or more years 
since, of a number of persons, dining in a Baltimore 
café, being violently, but not fatally, poisoned, and search 
developing that the flesh of some game birds was very 
high in prussic acid, coming from the laurel berries the 

birds had eaten. That an, animal can consume sufficient 
t noisonous food to bring its’ flesh to a poisonous condi- 
tion, without being poisoned itself, is certainly a remark 
able proposition. Do you know. of the yarn, and whether 
is more thama yarn? , WADE. 
Oaggony, Pay March 2, 


fit on to the cheek; the brain pan swept of its contents, . 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Sea and River ishing. 
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Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in FOREST AND STREAX. 


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Maine Woods and Waters. 

Boston, March 24,—For several winters the Maine 
game wardens, under the direction of the Comimissioners, 
have beeen trying to catch Peter La Fontaine, a French- 
Canadian who has given them a good deal of trouble. He 
has persisted in coming across the border into Maine and 
killing moose and deer at all seasons, and getting back 
across the border with his booty. Friday Chairman 
Carleton received the following telegram from Warden 
H. O. Templeton, dated at Northeast Carry: “I went 
to arrest Peter La Fontaine. He pulled a gun. I shot 
him. He may live. Houston took him to a doctor in 
Canada.” 

Tt is believed that the shooting was purely in_self- 
defense, since Templeton is a cool and careful man. With, 
Watdens Houston and Forrest, he has been trying to 
arrest La Fontaine for some time. La Fontaine has long 
had the reputation of being the famous outlaw of the 
northern forest, operating along the border line between 


Maine and Canada from Baker Lake in.northern Somer- _ 


set of St. John Pond in the Moosehead region. No 
further news than the telegram had been received up to 
this writing. Commissioner Stanley remarked, when in 
Boston the other day, that they had some of the best 
wardens in the world at work along the border this 
winter. 

Warden Pollard comes down ftom a trip across Moose- 
head Lake with the story that at Nathan Emery’s lumber 
camps, at Magee Brook, four miles north of Northwest 
Carry, they have had a tame moose, which has stayed 
in a hovel with the horses, and shared their food. The 
crew has tot attempted to molest him, letting him have 
his own way. This is a pretty good story, and if Warden 
Pollard told it, it is trie. Will he speak up, through the 
Forest AND STREAM? 

The Kennebec River, in Maine, has’cleared of ice up 
as far as the tide goes; said to be the earliest clearing 
since 1871, when the ice went out March 12. Flocks of 
ducks and geese begun to come up river as soon as the 
ice was out, and all the gunners from Richmond down 
to Merrymeeting Bay are after them. The spring 
shooters are also making gunning trips off the Massa- 
chusetts coast. and a few brant have appeared in the 
markets. 

Fishermen are getting ready 
of the ice from Maine waters. 


for an early departure 
The weather continues 


very warm, and fishing at Bangor salmon pool will soon 


begin. Salmon are already_in Boston from Nova Scotia 
waters, the first one selling last week at $1.25 per pound. 
Portland fishermen are looking for a very early clearing 
of Sebago Lake. and suggest that the ice is getting thin. 
Commissioner Stanley says that the fishing cannot help 
being good this year in Moosehead, Grand Lake, Green 
Lake. Cobbosseecontee, Sebago, Lake Auburn and others. 
These lakes have been especially well stocked for several 
seasons past, and fishing should be good as soon as the 
season opens. At the Rangeleys there is still two feet of 
clear blue ice, and it will take many warm days to eat it 
away. Great preparations are being made for summer 
visitors in that region. Capt. F. C. Barker is building 
several cottages at Sandy Point, Lake Mooselucmaguntic. 
Amos Ellis is adding several new camps to his establish- 
ment at Bald Mountain Camps. L. E. Bowley has been 
making great changes at Mountain View. It will interest 
snortsmen to know that the extension of the Portland & 
Rumford Falls Railway will reach Haines’ Landing and 
Mountain View before the season is over. 
SPECIAL. 


Conetoston of' Fish Ponds. 


“Modern Fishculture in Fresh and Salt 
ater.”” 


Ponds. 
Tuer first thing to be considered is the intention of the 


owner and what he wishes to do with his pond or ponds. 
He may want as large a pond as possible in which trout 
will feed themselves and afford him fishing for him- 
self and friends, or to market sortie trout each spring. 
He may wish to have a hatchery and rearing ponds to 
stock his main pond with, or to have a series of ponds 
in which to grow trout on artificial food. - 

There are several ways in which trout may be culti- 
vated, dependent upon the extent and character of the 
water and the inclination of the owner as to the amount 
of time he cares to devote to it, and the expense which 
he is willing to incur in beginning, which, as in most 
other affairs, bears some relation to the prospective re- 
sults. With proper facilities, intelligent fishculture will 
prove as remunerative as any of the minor industries of 
the farm, stich as bee and poultry keeping, but it 1s only 
yery rare and exceptional places where it can be made a 
separate and distinct business which would warrant a 
person in devoting his whole time to it. 

Where the spring rises upon a farm and flows some 
distance through it, with some fall and space to make 
ponds, the conditions are most favorable. It is very_ 
difficult to give directions for making trout ponds which 
will be applicable to all places, but it is safe to say that 
the very worst location and form for them is in a ravine 
where they are made by a series of dams thrown across. 
Such an arrangement is sure to’ come to grief, sooner or 
later, and if the dams are so strongly made as to resist 
an unustial flood from suddenly melted snow, or heavy 
rains, then the leaves and other riffraff will clog the 
screens until the imcreased pressure carries them away- 
and the fish have a chance to escape. The smaller the 
trout the more difficult it is to confine them, not only on 
account of their ability to escape through a small opening, 
but in consequence of their desire to continually seek that 
opening—a desire which is intense during their first year - 
of life, but-which decreases until it is so much diminished 
that large fish of say three-quarters of a pound, can hardly 
be driven from deep water. - £ ; 

If only one pond is contemplated'in which the fish are 


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to be placed to seek their own food and care for them- 
selves, then it may be made as large as the stream which 
supplies it will admit of—that is, it must not be so large 
that the water will get above 70 degrees Fahrenheit, in the 
bottom of the pond. Depth will give coolness, or if there 
are springs in the bottom the fish will congregate there at 
the hottest times, while the warmer water at the surface 
and shallow edge is favorable for the production of insect — 
life for their food. The stream above can be covered 
with gravel as a spawning ground, and the young will 
have a chance to escape being devoured by the larger fish 
by keeping in the shallows. 

A pond of this kind was made at West Bloomfield, 
N. Y., on the farm of Mr, Stephen H. Ainsworth, a 
gentleman who was among the first to engage in trout 
culture in New York, beginning about the year 1858. 
He had a marshy spot of ground, formed by many small 
springs, whose united currents in the dryest times made 
4 stream scarcely larger than a lead pencil; and digging 


this out he made a pond 50 by foo feet, which was 16 


feet deep, and covered over, where he raised many fish 
under great difficulties. In a dry season the sunply 
barely equaled the evaporation, and no water passed from 
the pond; and on several occasions he lost his largest fish 
from the heat. until, in the year 1871, he removed the 
trout and substituted black bass. Yet he had accomplished 
enough to be an authority upon trout culture in that day, 
and is now quoted to show what can be done with. little 
means, although I should never advise any one with only 
his facilities to make an attempt at trout rasine. And 
the point to which attention should be directed is the 
ratio of depth to surface in his pond; if he had exposed 
more surface to the weather, or made his pond less deep. 
he probably would never have kept a trout through the 
first summer. In cases of a tise in temperature the large 
fish are the first to suffer. 


Latge Sinple Ponds. 


It is difficult to give directions which will be suitable 
for all places, but I will repeat that a dam in a ravine is 
thé worst form. In such a place it seems better to make 
4 small dam, and lead the water from it into ponds at the 
side of the ravine, and let the floods go down the old 
channel. My own ponds, at Honeoye Falls, Monroe 
county, N. ¥., were made in a piece of low. flat land, with 
a plow and read scraper. using the earth. gravel. etc., 
taken out to fill up around the ponds. Afterward they 
were finished with pick and shovel, and a dry stone wall 
laid around them merely to hold the banks, but thev were 
small, only 60 by 15 feet and 5 feet deep. The first one 
built was laid in cement, but was no better than the 
others. In some places there is muck enough to pay for 
the digging in manure; but if the water can be kent off, 
such ponds are not expensive. Here is the cost of one of 


mine of the dimensions above given: 


Two men and team two days....--.- 24 yd baa sie sp10100 
One man with shovel two days...-.4s-+ecsereeeee 3 00 
Team and man hauling stone three days.:...... » 10 50 
May laying wall three days.......++. Paptitee saree es 4 50 
Screen boxes ...se.cceseccreveccuvrsstensnswever 3 00 
Man-one day ditching .....c.cevsssesnnves Seyigtrne Fis, 

Rotale.s ba0 ss Oe oS Ee tte dst see al ppt Bates) ates »-$32 50 


The cost of stone was not added, as there was a quarry 
on the farm, 

Naturally sloped banks of soil, sodded to below the 
water’s edge, are best for all ponds over 100 by 200 feet, 
but surface water must be kept out. All ponds of the 
size named I call “large,” because when we come to 
consider the “small ponds” of the professional fishcultur- 
ist it will be found that they are so narrow that every 
fish in them may be seen at all times. 

The single jlarge pond can only be worked to its 
greatest capacity by having a hatchery, taking and hatch- 
ing the eggs, rearing yearlings and turning them out in 
the following spring after the water has been drained 


- off and all trout of the previous year taken out, thus rais- 


ing and marketing two-year-old trout each year, and a - 
trout above that age is worth no more than any other 
fish in market. All trout ponds should be drawn down 
once a year, or the trout will have a muddy flavor from 
decaying vegetation. 

The bottom of the pond should be flat, if not level, and 
the fish should be removed with a net, instead of draining 
off the water to take them out. One of my mistakes will 
illustrate this: Am original idea, one of those which so 
often come out of the little end of the horn, was to have a 
drain-pipe at the bottom of the pond stopped with a 
plug, and then make a deeper place in the center, so that 
when the water was drawn off the fish would be all there 
ready to be dipped out with a hand or scoop net. What 
could be more handy? An improvement! After being in 
use three years it became necessary to take out the large 
trout and transfer them to another pond, and the water 
was drawn off. When about a foot was left the fish began 
to get alarmed and rush around, stirring up the water, 
which had appeared like crystal, until the motion of the 
fish could be seen, and when drawn down as low as 
possible they naturally gathered in the pit, where they 
were dipped into tubs of clean water by 4 man in rubber 
boots. While in the pit they began to shown signs of 
distress by keeping their noses out of the water, and the 
man who was dipping them said: “It smells like gun- 
powder.” Then another idea, not otiginal, dawned: the 
fish were being asphyxiated by the foul gas or sulphuteted 
hydrogen! 

‘The sluice at the inlet was opened, but too late. Our of 
the 2,500 fine breeding fish, only 39 were saved; the; 
died even after being placed in fresh water while still 
breathing, and an expensive lesson in the dear school 
of experience was learned. I had seen the Southern 
darkies muddy ponds when collecting specimens for me, 
and knew that this gas, which lies at the bottom of all 
waters in which there is anyth'ng to decay, was a deadly 
poison if stirred, but the thought never occurred that the 
fish would do their own “muddying,” as the darkies call it. 

This experiment shows another fact: fish which feel 
secure in from three to four feet of water, and show 
no alarm at persons walking at the edge of the pond, and 
which will. come readily to the surface to feed in your 
presence, or even take it from your hand, will, in water 
of not over a foot in depth, be as timid as wild fish just— 
taken from the brook. Their sense of security is gone; 
hence it is better to take them with a net large enough 


to sweep the pond. It also shows what a little oversight 
or false reckoning may do toward sweeping away the 
results of expenditure and labor. In fact, there is none 
among ovr domestic animals more difficult to manage, for 
the beginner, than trout, if they may be allowed to be 
domesticated ; and their tendency to’ go astray is excelled 


by the element in which they live, which is notorious for 


having a way-of its own, which is never our way, and for 
seeking it at all times; hence in trout culture the great 
difficulties te be overcome are, to confine the water so 
that it is Secure under extraordinary strains of flood and 
accident and to confine the fish—the latter being hardly 
as difficult as the former. I 

If the owner does not care to go ifito the business of 
hatching trout for a succession, as described, he should 
provide good spawning places such as are mentioned in 
the preceding chapter, and see that nothing molests the 
spawning beds in winter. In this way he may get a few 
trout which escape the old ones, which will keep them 


5 


from becoming too plenty. 
Ponds in a Series. 


In making a series of ponds in which fish of different. 
‘sizes are to be kept and fed a different system is pur- 
sued, the ponds being made small, in order that the water 
may be changed quickly, and so sustain more fish, and the 
stock can be seen and its condition known at all times. 
Such ponds may be 50 to 60 feet long by Io to 12 wide 
and 4 to 6 deep, with sides of clay, if that is the material 
dug through, stone, or wood. A spawning race should be 
made at the upper end, 20 to 30 feet long by 4 feet wide, 
the bottom sloping from 1 to 2 feet where it enters the 
pond; this will give the pond a shape like.a long-necked 
bottle. 

There should be a fall of at least six inches from the 
pond above into the spawning race, more if the lay of 
the land will permit, in order to aerate the water, — 

The raceway should be covered with gravel at all times ; 
for if the fish are not well, or are troubled with parasites, 
they resort to swift water and gravel bottoms to rub their 
sides and clean themselves. This gravel should be from 
half an inch to an inch or more in diameter. 

In facing the, pond with boards the pressure of the 
earth must be provided for, or the sides will soon fall 
in, or at least become badly bulged. To prevent this, lay 
timbers on the bottom and frame the uprights into them; 
nail the boards on the otitside of the uprights, which 
should extend above the ground and be braced apart by 
joists running across the pond a foot or more above water, 
Even these will spring in time if not quite stiff, Ponds 
well built require but little work to keep them in order— 
an occasional stopping of muskrat or of crawfish holes, 
and in the spring to repair damage from frost, if any, 
or to patch up a bank or wall. There are hard soils 
where neither wood nor stone are needed (except on 
the spawning races, whose sides should be vertical), but 
may be made at a slope more or less inclined. Willows 
planted near the pond are valuable as shade trees, or floats 
of boards: may be of use in keeping the water cool, 
besides being a sort of protection from the little king- 
fisher. 

Perhaps an account of the way I made the ponds for 
the New York State hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor, 
Long Island, will be of interest, for they involved great 
labor. I took charge on Jan, 1, 1883, and started work. 
An old building was used to hatch eggs obtained else- 
where, and there was a spring reservoir some 300 feet 
long by 20 wide, which had been made to turn a turbine 
wheel in the old building, This reservoir was high enough 
to bring water into troughs on the floor of the second 
story, from where it went to the floor below and was 
again used. Some holes in swanpy land below had been 
intended for trout ponds, but they were covered with 
water from the harbor at high tide and geese swam up 
to the hatchery. : 

The north side of the island is hilly, some hills’ being 
200 feet above tide, and they are glacial drifts, sand, clay, 
gravel, etc., plowed out from the mainland by the ice. 
Such a hill was within 500 feet, and I filled the old holes 
with sand, leveling the swamp. Then “ponds” were staked 
out and left. as the sand was dumped around them, on 
the principle that the Irishman said cannon were made; 
said he: “They take a long hole and pour brass around 
it’ So we made ponds. These were temporary ponds, 
merely for use until the State could afford better, and the 
raceways were made of the cheapest hemlock boards. 

In 1887 there was an appropriation for a new hatchery 
made at the insistence of Commissioner Blackford, and 
I planned to put it as high as the inflow from the reser- 
voit would bear, as the water went from the hatchery to 
the ponds, and when it was up high we could control it. 
When the ground was staked out for the building the 
northwest corner was three feet above ground and the 
southeast was thirteen feet in the air. It looked queer, 
but the levels were correct, The foundation was built and 
I filled the grounds until there was no queer look about 
it. The old ponds were filled and new ones of sand built 
with their bottoms where the old surface was. 

For a time it was dangerous to step near a pond, but 
it settled hard. -Walks and flower-beds were laid out 
and a road made east of the ponds, which is as solid to- 
day as can be. The sand holds water well. The carting 
of sand and gravel cost the State much money, but it is 
worth it. It is the most important hatchery in the State 
of New York to-day. I established the culture of smelts; 
lebsters- and tomcods there, and 1f Mr. Blackford had 
not been remoyed from the Commission for political 
reasons, I would have made a park of the place and have 
gone on with experiments in hatching oysters and clams. 
But a change of administration led to my. discharge, and 
to-day a great unsightly ice-house stands in the center of 
what was to be my “park,” and there is a stable where a 
“conservatory” for water plants and the breeding of fresh- 
water crustaceans and imsects was planned; and my dream 
of a trout park and all its adjuncts is over. Blessed be 
the small-souled politicians, for they will never develop 
into anything greater. 


Drains, — . 


If the lay of the land permits it, there should be some 


way of lowering the water in order to clean the pond. 
If the pond is dug in the soil there should be a drain 
pipe put in, and this, if of wood, may be stopped by a 
plug. But a plug is difficult to get out when the water 
is sevetal feet deep; a bax on the inner end with 4 slid- 


‘from: roots. 


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ing gate which can be lifted by a hook fitting into a 
hole is better. Do. not plug the lower end of the pipe 
and leave the upper end opén of you have a harbor for 
eels, water snakes, or at least a hiding place for a large 
cannibal trout, for a trout of that kind prefers solitude. 
If the drain is a-Square box-trunk it may be turned up 
at a right angle and used as an overflow stand pipe, if the 
water is not required to be kept up for any reason. In this 
case make a sliding groove for the dams, which may be 
lifted one by one, and are kept down by pins or wedges 
at the top. " 

Tile pipe are not good for drains. I have laid them 
and relaid them many times, cementing them most care- 
fully and then reinforced the joints with another coating 
of cement, but tree roots would force their way in some- 
how and either fill the pipe or break it. At Cold Spring 
Harbor, N. Y., I piped a spring from an upper level in 
six-inch tile pipe, and it. filled up with roots. In one case 
the root of a locust tree had found an entrance, and while 
only as thick as a sheet of letter paper and half an inch 
wide where it went im, we took otit thirty-seven feet of 
branching, matted roots, which nearly filled the pipe. 
Then I had the pipe relaid with extra care, but to no 
purpose; the roots would haye water and knew how to 
get it, even where there was no leak, Here is a chance 
for a question about the habits of trees roots in their 
search for water; but haying fought this “instinct’’ of 
oie for many years, | have given up trying to solve the 
riddle. 

Remembering these things, when we obtained another 
spring to bring down I bought four-inch iron “soil pipe,” 
catlked the collars with oakum and then ran lead around 
on the oakum. ‘After this the lead was caulked, and the 
pipe will carry water for a century without interference 
This method, and pump logs, are the only 
means I know of to convey water underground without 
interference from roots, if there are trees near. A willow 
or a locust will send roots a hundred yards for water, if 
it is there, while on the other side of the tree the roots 
might not extend fifty feet. 

It is said that iron filings mixed with cement will keep. 
roots from the joints of drain tile. Having no experience 
with this, it is mentioned without comment. 


Dams. 


These cannot be too carefylly made to contend with 
pressure, leakage, muiskrats, crawfish, frost and other 
things which are ever working to help water get to the 
lowest possible point. The following is from a news- 
paper which came after this chapter was begun; 

Wunpa, N. Y., Jan. 30, 1899—Miller’s dam went out this morn- 
ing. The washout, which resulted from undermining by muskrats, 
entails heayy’ loss to, mill owners who have utilized the water. 
The disaster occurred at a time when the yaluable ice crop was 
nearly ready to harvest. 

In building a dam, whether of earth, stone, logs or a 
combination of any or all of these materials, the greatest 
care must be taken to lay the foundation so deep that no 
trickle of water excayation, of muskrat or crawfish can 
go under it, and at the sides the dam should extend so 
far as to prevent stich mishaps. 

So much depends upon the nature of the ground and 
the materials to be used that it is impossible to go 
further into the construction of dams than to say: Make 
them about twice-as strong as you think they need be 
and—then make them a little stronger. 


Screens for Ponds. 


Screens should be made at least ten times larger than 
the space required for the water. For instance, if the 
flow will pass throtgh a hole six-inches square, the 
screen should be at the least calculation nineteen inches 
each way, giving 361 square inches, which will allow 
for some portions of it to become clogged, and yet pass 
the water through easily; this also diminishes the chance 
of stoppage by its slower flow. A good form for a small 
outlet is a trough, say six feet long by two feet wide and 
twenty inches deep, with a dam near the lower’end about 
fifteen inches high. When the screens are placed in this, 
above the dam, slanting the top down stream at an angle 
of 45 degrees, it gives a good screen surface, the dam 
being placed at the height at which the water is to stand 
in the pond and the screen made to slide between slats. 
Great care must be taken in setting such a trough, if in 
earth, that the water does not work around and under it, 
or that frost does not lift it out of place; the former: may 
be provided for by wide flanges, which make a sort of 
bulkhead and obstruct the direct passage .of crawfish, 
earthworms or other borers, which, by starting a small 
leak, will soon cause a large one before its presence is 
suspected. To guard against upheaval by frost, in a 
climate where the brook trout love to dwell, is a more 
difficult matter; but my own experience on this, point 
leads to a preference-for light soils for tamping around 
the outlet box, instead of clay, which I first used on 
account of its resistancesto water, but afterward aban- 
doned, after a winter’s fight with frost, in favor of a 
sandy, gravelly soil which was fotind to serve the purpose 
as well, as far as the frost was concerned, but which 
afforded excellent digging for the crawfish (fresh-water 
lobster) with which the stream was infested, and whose 
tunnels, once made in clay, neyer by any chance closed 
up; and, knowing their dislike to work in either saw- 
dust or tanbark, a space of about a foot was filled with 
these materials, so that there was a barrier running 
around the box, backed in front and rear by soil which 
was thought to be the least affected by frost. 

The screens should be made with as large spaces be- 
tween the slats or wites as the size of the fish demands, 
and it will be found convenient to haye the outlet boxes 
of the different ponds and the frames all of one size, so 
as to be readily interchangeable. The wires or slats for 
the fish of half a pound and over may have a half-inch 
space between them, and for this purpose well galvanized 
iron wire is best, or, if nat convenient, a screen can 
be made of planed lath, set edgeways; while for year- 
lings well tarred wite cloth of four wires to the inch is 
necessary, and for.the fry during the first months at 
least fourteen wires to the inch. Screens for the inlets 
are best placed: perpendicularly, in order that no trout 


may lie under them and shoot up stream when the screen. 


is raised. The disposition of water to find its own way, 
and that way being always different from our way, com- 
bined with the disposition of trout, in their younger days, 
to prefer any location rather than that which we have 


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provided for them, renders the subject of screens and 
appliances for confining themi a very important one to the 
fishculturist, and one liable to defeat all his calculations 
and waste all his time, labor and money, if not properly 
considered. I have kept sharks and whales in confine- 
ment, and have seen the wildest of beasts and birds so 


kept, but of all animals that man confines there is none 
so uncertain to be found in the morning, where it was ap- — 
parently so secure the night before, as a brook trout of an — 
inch and a half long. It is an impossibility to confine é 
them. in a stream, and very difficult in a pond, as a crack 


or worm hole in a board, or in the earth or masonry, _ 
will be found by a hundred little eyes, and its size tested 


by half as many heads; and if water flows through it, © 
they are very apt to follow, no matter where it may lead, — 


nor whether return is possible, The instinct of a trout 
impels it to jump at a fall or in going up stream, hence 
provision must be made to stop them from leaping over 
the inlet screen by a projecting board or other device; 
more especially in the fall of the year, when they wish to 
ascend ta the upper waters to seek suitable places for 
spawning. 

_ If the fry are kept for the first nine months or a year 
in “rearing boxes,” it is not so hard to confine them as 
it is in the otttdoor ponds, where the woodwork has te 
be fitted into the earth; and this system has its advan- 
tages, which are security of confinement, compactness, 
the ease with which they can be inspected and the larger 
enes removed from their weaker brethren, and the pro- 
tection from bird, beast, reptile and insect enemies to 
which their relatives in the outdoor pond are exposed, 
To counterbalance these advantages, we have in the rear- 
ing boxes more care and labor, and less natural food. 
Still, if the labor can be given, it is the surest way, for the 
first three months at least, after which time they are 
better able to stand the exposure of outdoor ponds and 
avoid their enemies, which decrease in numbers with in- 
creasing size. 

There is always one fence in summer time which de- 
tains the trout more effectually than any screen. ‘This 
is the stream of warm water which the trout brook 
empties into, and, although they may seek its depths for 
food in winter after rimning down off the spawnihe beds, 
the first hint of a rising temperature sends them back to 
the cooler spring waters. - 

A good self-cleaning screen for large trout is a re- 
volving cylinder of wite cloth, Make disks of eighteen 
inches with fotir strips to stiffen the cylinder and cover 
this with No. 2 wire cloth. Run an axle through it and 
set it so that it will revolve in the curtent, with six 
inches of water to turn it; i, e., set it in water to that 
depth. A half-inch below the cylinder set a board edge- 
wise under its center, and all leaves and fine trash will 
be passed without clogging. This can be made to fit a 
trough or box. A coarse screen should be placed in 
front of it to catch sticks. 


Fly-Casting at the New York Show 


Tuesday, March 11—Bait-casting for distance, Judges, 
Willis D. Cloyes, C. R. Radcliffe, D, T,. Abercrombie: 
C. D. Leyison, 81 feet; E. J. Mills, 74 feet. 

_Wednesday, March 12—Fly-casting for distance for 
girls: Miss Elizabeth Cruikshank, 68 feet. - 

Thursday, March 13—Fly-casting for distance. Judges, 
E .S, Osgood, W. H. Houston, D. T. Abercrombie: P. 
C. Hewitt, 84 feet 6 inches; E. J. Mills, 71 feet 2 inches; 
Willis D. Cloyes, 53 feet; E. R, Hewitt, withdrew, 

_Friday, March 14—Judges, Dr. C. C, Curtis, J. E. Bull- 
winkle, C, R. Radcliffe: E. R. Hewitt, 6r feet; D. T. 
Abercrombie, 52 feet 6 inches; P. C. Hewitt, withdrew. 

Saturday, March 15—Special, for accuracy, Judges, E. 
S. Osgood, C. W. Alling, H, Cadmus: D., Aber- 
crombie, 26; E. R. Hewitt, 26; V. D. Grimwood, 15; C. G. 
Levison, 13; M. H. Smith,, 5; P. C. Hewitt, withdrew. 

Monday, March 17—Obstacle._ Judges, E. S. Osgood, 
Edw. Bourne, N. P. Howell: E. R. Hewitt, 72 feet 6 
inchs; Augustus B. Douglas, 61 feet 6 inches: H. Hen- 

ee 60 feet; E. J. Mills, 55 feet; D. T, Abercrombie, 
53 _teet, . } 

Tuesday, March ,18—Delicacy and accuracy: FE. S. 
Osgood, 29; E. R. Hewitt, 20; P, Cooper Hewitt, D- T. 
Abercrombie, Harold Henderson, withdrew. 

Wednesday, March 19—Bass fly-casting: V, R. Grim- 
Sie 71 feet; Harold Henderson, 68 feet; L. Tyson, 63 
eet, 

The bait-casting competition was won by Mr, Levison 


with a total of 542 feet, and an average of 108 2-5 feet. | 


In his third cast Mr, Levison made 125 feet, which we 
believe is the record for overhead casting. Of course 
much longer casts have been made by underhand casf- 
ing—176 feet, we believe—but equally, of course, by that 
method accuracy is largely lost. 
_ The certificate given by Judge Franklin S. Beady is 
interesting by comparison with the record of the casting 
made in 1898, copy of which follows it: : 
New York, March 20—Editor Forest and Stream: The 
following is a true and correct copy of the score made 
by each contestant in the single-hand special bait-casting 
contest for distance with one-half ounce rubber frog at 
the tournament of the Sportsmen’s Show, on the evening 
of March ro, 1902: = = 
Edward J. Mills—Rod, 7 feet, 7 ounces, No. 3 Meek 
reel: 1st cast, 80 feet; 2d cast, nil.; 3d cast, 60 feet; 4th 
cast, nil.; 5th cast. nil. he 


C. G. Levison—Rod, 6 9-12 feet, 634 ounces, Sage Ken- J 


tucky reel: Ist cast, 97 feet; 2d cast, 106 feet; 3d cast, 
125 feet; 4th cast, 104 feet; 5th cast, 110 feet. Total, 542 
feet; average. 108 2-5 feet. Yee 

Milton H. Smith—Rod, 7 feet, 7 ounces, Sage Kentucky 
reel: Ist cast, 74 feet; 2d cast, 7o feet; 3d cast, —; 4th 
cast, 70 feet; 5th cast, — The 3d and 5th casts went out 
of bounds, and although they were about 90 feet each, they 
could not be counted. ood 

This contest being for distance, Mr. Levison was. de- 
clared winner by making 125 feet on the third cast. 

Frawxiin S. Beapy, Judge. 

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1808, at 8 P. M—Class K. Single- 
handed bait-casting contest. For distance and accuracy. 
Open to all. Five casts shall be made with half-ounce 
tubber frog, to be furnished by the committee, 
running reel to be used. No limit as to rod or line, but 
the line must not be leaded or weighted. For accuracy, 
five casts shall be made at a buoy placed 
the casting point, The cast, to, he made with-the half- 


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ounce rubber frog, and for each foot or fraction of a foot 
that the frog falls from the buoy, a demerit of one shall 
be made; the sum total of such demerits divided by five 
shall be considered the demerit per cent.; the demerit 
per cent., deducted from 100, shall be the accuracy per 
cent. The average distance cast, added to the percentage 
‘of accuracy shall constitute the score. 
Judges, R. N, Parish and E. $, Osgood. 
Referee, C. H, Mowry. 


Distance. Accuracy. Total 
460—Avy. 92 18.8—Av. 4% 92 
R. Leonard...97 88106 $7 8&2 2 5 4 4.6 96 188 
— Av. 74 .6—Av, 5% T4 
@, Devison....80 59 77 92 62 26 4.6 7 4.6 3 95 169 
352—Av. 70.2 3.9 Av. 7% 70.2 
J, H. Bellows..79 77 79 78 3 4.6 2.6 4.6 18 4.3 93 163.4 
‘ —Avy. 61.4 37.9—Av. 8% 61.2 
B. Goodsell....69 61 95 40 42 5 25 1.6 1.3 5 92 153.4 
294 Av. 58.4 29,9—Av. 6% 58.4 
F. N. Peet....52 80 40 36 86 5 6.6 9,6 2.3 6.6 94 152.8 


There was considerable adverse comment on the con- 
ditions of the casting at the tournament of the Sports- 
men’s Show. While there was every intention to so 
frame the conditions that the tournament should be suc- 
cessful, the work of doing this was put into hands which 
appear to have been inexperienced. The fly-casting limit 
—75 feet—was made far too short, for the purpose of 


barring otit the professionals, but this short limit also - 


barred out a considerable number of experts—not pro- 
fessionals—who should have had an opportunity to cast, 
both for their own pleasure and for the pleasure of the 
spectators, The very short limit really confined the com- 
petition to novices and young people, for whom there 
might have been a special class. 

The competition in one class—open to all competitors— 
was limited to 4%4-ounce rods, which, of course, are 
lighter than those used by many anglers. 

It would seem, however, that the fly-casters themselves 
are in some measure to blame for the lack of success of 
this competition, since the conditions. were announced 
some little time in advance of the opening of the show, and 
proper representation to those in charge of the matter 
might have resulted in making the conditions such that 
the fly-casting tournament would have- been a credit to 
the show. 

It is understood arrangements have been made for 
next year which provide against the recurrence of such 
mistakes, 


San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 


Mepat contests, series 1902, Saturday, contest No. 3, 
Bele at Stow Lake, March 15. Wind, northwest; weather, 
air: 


Event Event Event 
No. 1, 0. 2, No, 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, ————Eveut No, 8———\__ Lure 
, Feet. Percent. Acc. % el. % Net # Casting % 
C. G. Young... .. 98 90.8 70 80.4 5 
T. Brotherton... 94 94.8 92.8 83.4 88 92.1 
W, E. Brooks...-.. 93.4 89 70 19.6 ve 
E. A. Mocker.. 93 79.4 82.8 80 81.4 57.3 
Sa Al Wellersiin. 15 83 86.4 76.8 81.6 76.2 
ie aBatttl oes 7 91.8 86.8 74.2 80.5 76.2 
H, E. Skinner..... 89.4 87.4 80 83.8 is 
G. C. Edwards. 94 83.4 89.8 15 82.4 18.7 
T. C, Kuierulff...72 69.4 78.4 66.8 72.6 a 
H. F. Muller... 90 92 90.4 80.10 85.7 ne 
W. Mansfield... .. 95.4 91.8 80.10 86.3 84.2 
Fy, He Reed: .<.. 96 93.8 94 86.8 90.4 ao 
L Lawrence.... .< a 71.4 68.4 69.10 
5 [ Uivarpaaresainh: = 4.4 57.6 65.11 


Judges, Muller and Brotherton; referee, Brooks; clerk, 
_ Wilson. 
Sunday, contest No. 3, held at Stow Lake, March 16. 
Wind, north; weather, fair: 


92 93.8 85.10 89.9 72.8 
86.8 91.8 77.6 84.7 “* 
91.4 86.4 92.6 89,5 a 
90.4 92.4 93.4 92.10 ae 
85.8 92 86.8 89.4 68.8 
76.8 88.4 76.8 82.6 ve 
79.8 92.8 83.4 88 78,2 
91,8 86.8 81.8 84.2: ¥ 
87.8 91. 81.8 86.4 74.5 
92.4 78 69.2 73.7 Sr. 
Everett :....--.110 91.4 88,8 86.8 87.8 45 
Daverkosen ...: 83 GRy 94.8 81.8 88.2 is 
Mansfield ....,...- 94.8 93 81.8 87.4 93.4 
NGUNP csonesee> ais 92.4 92.8 85 88.10 25 
T. @ Kierulff.. 72 82.8 89.4 81.8 85.6 a 
Brooks ..... reese 93.4 89.8 82.6 86.1 mu 
Brotherton 103 93.8 95 85 90 88.2 
Golcher . . 109 87.4 93.4 84,2 88.9 <3 
Chathese (e490: val 87.8 83.8 74.2 78.11 ih 
W. J. Kierulfi.. 78 91.4 81.4 76.8 79 , 
Lawrence ...+.. -- “2 91.8 78.4 85 te 
Te Tanks oh An ee 76 90.8 &6.8 86.8 86.8 64.9 
R IJsenbruck... 70 ~ = “5 a0 in m 
Judges, Grant and Muller; referee, Brooks; clerk, 
* Wilson. 


N, B,—Contest No. 4 will be held next Saturday and 
Sunday, March 22 and 23, instead of the scheduled dates, 


March 29 and 30. Postponed Saturday contest No, 2 will 


be held March 29. 


Minced and Fried Fish. 


To mince and fry fish, fillet and thoroughly extract all 
bones from your fish, and cut them across in two-inch 
Jengths, wiping them clean, but never washing them. 
Throw them into a deep dish or basin. .Then boil half a 
pint of strong vinegar with half a pint of water, pepper 
and salt, thyme, bay leaves, parsley, a sliced onion, with 
a couple of cloves; pour it, while boiling, over your 
pieces of fish. Turn them over at the end of a quarter 
of an hour, and at the end of another quarter take them 
out and mince them fine. Mince separately some mush- 
rooms (sold-in tins) and sweet herbs (or use the dried 
herbs sold in bottles), and add this fo the fish, Soak 
some crumbs of bread (about one-third to a half of the 
bulk of your-fish) in milk and squeeze it half dry again; 
season it with pepper, salt, and nutmeg, and mix it up 
with the fish with the yolk of an egg or two. Make out 
of this mass some little flat cakes like biscuits, which 
you can egg and bread crumb or else dip in thinnish 
batter, and fry them in plenty of very hot fat or oil. If 
your grease.is fiot hot enough your cakes will be flabby 
and greasy, but if it is they will be crisp, and of a golden 
color and excellent to eat. You should only put in one 
cake at a time,-as it will reduce the temperature of your 
grease too much if, you put in more. 


ACRES weay cig 1 In less than a. 
minute jt will have recovered its heat, and then you can 


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put in another, and so on, taking them out and keeping 
them warm as they get cooked. You may serve them 
up with a lemon cut in halves, or with any sauce you 
most fancy, Mo not make your cakes too thick. Serve 
quickly, as this fish requires it. This mince, without fry- 
ing, makes an excellent stuffing for any large fish you 
wish to bake or roast, either fresh-water or sea fish of 
any kind—Fishing Gazette. 


Che Kennel. 


Fixtures, 


BENCH SHOWS. 


March 26-29.—Atlantic City, N, J.—Atlantic City Kennel Club’s 
show, Thos, H. Terry, Sec’y, ; 

April 1-4-—Boston—New England Kennel Club’s eighteenth 
annual show. Wm. B, Emery, Sec’y. 

April 9-12.Seattle, Wash.—Seattle Kennel Club’s annual show. 
H, S. Jordan, Sec’y. ‘ 

Oct, 7-9.—Danbury, Conn—Danbury Agricultural Society’s show. 
ohn W. Bacon, Treas, ' 

Oct. 21-24.—New York.—Ladies’ Kennel Association of America’s 
show. Miss M. K. Bird, Westbury, L, I., Hon. Sec’y. ste 
Nov. 26-29.—Philadelphia.—Philadelphia Dog Show Association's 
show. M, A. Viti, Sec’y. 


FIELD TRIALS. 
Aug. 26.—Salem, S. D.—South Dakota Field Trial Association's 
third annual trials. E. H. Gregory, Sec’y. 
Aug, —.—O’Neill, Neb.—Nebraska Field Trial Association’s 
inaugural chicken trials. M.H. McCarthy, Sec’y. 
Oct. 13—Ruthyen, Ont—North American Field Trial Club's 
fourth annual trials. Richard Bangham, Sec’y. 


Oct, 20..— — Mich.—Michigan Field Trial Association’s 
fifth annual trials. C. D. Stuart, Sec’y. . 

Oct. 27, _Mo.— Missouri Field Trial Association’s sixth 
annual trials. LL. S, Eddins, Sec’y, 

Oct. 27.————, Pa—Monongahela Field Trial Club’s field 
trials, A. C. Paterson, Sec’y. 


Noy. 3—Robinson, Il.—Illinois Field Trial Assoeiation’s fourth 
annual trials. W. R. Green, Sec’y, 

Nov. 10.—Bicknell, Ind.—Independent Field Trial Club’s fourth 
annual trials. H. S. Humphrey, See’y. : 

Nov, 11.—St. Joachim, Ont.—International Field Trial Club’s 
fourteenth annual trials. W. B. Wells, Hon, Sec’y. 

ov. 17.—Elizabethtown, Ky.—Kentucky Field Trial Club’s third 

annual trials. F. W. Samuel, Sec’y, 

Nov. 24.—Washington C, Fi O—Ohio Field Trial Association’s 
fifth annual trials. C. E. Baughn, Sec’y. 

Dec, 1.——, —. —.—Interstate Championship Field Trial 
Association’s second annual trials. Cooke, Sec’y, 

—, ——___———,, —. ——Western Field Trial Association’s sec- 
ond annual trials. |C. W. Buttles, Sec’y, 


Dog Training as Others See It. 


“What to do with our sons,” even though so many of 
them have unfortunately found their fate in South Africa, 
is still a cry in many quarters. With the increasing value 
of dogs in all connections, a parent might do much worse 
than bring his son up to a knowledge of their points 
and attributes, and have him educated in their training 
and in their treatmemt. The demand for skilled breakers 
and trainers quite exceeds the supply as at present, and in 
America especially there are many openings for suitable 
men, who obtain a high rate of wage—salary if you hke— 
and are treated more as the equals of their masters than 
is the case with the keeper or breaker in this country. To 
our personal knowledge during the past few years several 
well-educated young men of good family haye gone to 
the States and done well enough to remain there as ken- 
nel managers. An instance could also be given of a 
well-paid commercial traveler giving up his appointment 
here as such, to take a situation as kennel manager for 
a wealthy New York gentleman. His knowledge, too, 
was in the main limited to the care and treatment of 
terriers, still he did wedl in his new home, and flourished. 
To one skilled in sporting dogs the possibilities are 
great. Take this advertisement, for instance, which ap- 
peared only last week: “Wanted, in America, sober and 
reliable kennelman and trainer of pointers, setters, and 
retrievers; 25 to 40 years of age; must thoroughly under- 
stand breeding, rearing and breaking in of these dogs, 
and showing them on the bench in most up-to-date man- 
ner; gilt edge reference required and given; must be in- 
dustrious, and a gentleman. Apply, etc.” This may be 
rather a tall order to supply, still there is no reason why 
‘such a “gentleman” should not be found, and although 
the salary is not named, we imagine it will be of an 
amount to astonish some of our employers of dog 4 ain- 
ers. Not long ago it was stated that one of our well- 
known dog exhibitors refused an offer equal to £600 per 
annum to look after and manage a kennel of dogs on the 
other side of the Atlantic. Special knowledge even as to 
the management of the common dog is a valuable asset, 
and is likely to continue so in the future——London Field. 


Points and Flushes. 
The entries to the Atlantic City Dog Show number 731. 


We know that the many friends of Alexander Mac- 
kenzie Hughes, will feel profoundly grieved on learning 
that he died on Sunday last. For many years prior to 
seven or eight years ago, he was an active bench show 
devotee, and was well known to the canine fancy. Since 
1895 he was superintendent of the Society for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Animals’ dog shelter in Brooklyn. 
He died at his home, 56 South Elliott place, Brooklyn, in 
his fifty-sixth year. 


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Hachting. 


Designing Comp.tition for the Sea- 
wanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 


To be Known as the Seawanhaka 15-Footers, 


Tue competition is open both to amateur and profes- 
sional designers. Three prizes will be awarded for the 
best designs of a yacht conforming to the following con- 
ditions : 

I A keel sloop to measure 15ft. racing length under 
the club’s new rule. 

Il. Sails: Mainsail, jib and spinnaker. The area 
of the mainsail and jib shall not exceed 350 sq. ft., 80 per 
cent. of which shall be in the mainsail. 

III. Planking shall not be less than %4in. in thickness. 

IV, Spars shall be solid, and the mast shall be of 
sufficient strength to be ttsed without runners or pre- 
yenter backstays, 

V. Cockpit shall be open, and bulkheads or air tanks 
are to be provided sufficient to insure the boats being 
non-sinkable. 

VI. The boats shall be capable of catrying full sail in 
ordinary sttmmer breezes on Long Island Sound. 

VII, Construction shall be strong and durable. - 

VIII. All competitors must furnish a drawing of the 
lines, which will also show the position of the lead keel, 
and a table of calculated weights, which will give dis- 
placement, weight ‘of lead, weight of hull, weight of ‘rig, 
center of buoyancy and center of lateral resistance, center » 
of effort and center of gravity of the lead keel; also a 
sail plan, on which the diameters of spars and sizes of 
rigging shall be marked; also a deck plan and amidship 
section, which will show height of cockpit seats and floor, 
and height of coaming. The midship section must also 
show the construction, 

The following prizes will be awarded: 
$roo; second prize, $50; third prize, $25, 

In the event of one of the prize designs being selected 
by the club and yachts being constructed therefrom, the 
winner, in lieu of the cash prize, may furnish the neces- 
sary additional plans and specifications and supervise the 
construction and receive $25 for each yacht built. In 
awarding the prizes, speed will be the first consideration, 
hut appearance, construction, simplicity of rig and con- 
venient arrangement will also carry weight. 

Sail plan, in. scale, All other plans, rin. scale. 

The designs must be received atthe office of Forest AND 
StrEAM, 346 Broadway, New York city, not later than 
May 15, 1902, and should bear a nom-defplume only. A 
sealed envelope containing the designer’s nom-de-plume, 
together with his own name and address should accom- 
pany the designs. The right is reserved to publish any or 
all of the designs. Those desiring the return of their 
drawings should inclose the necessary postage. _ 

The designs will be judged by a committee consisting 
of Messrs. John Hyslop, A. Cary Smith, J. Rogers Max- 
well, Jr., and Clinton H. Crane, and the result. of the 
competition will be announced through these columns in 
the issue of May 24. 

The club’s new rule referred to in Paragraph I, is as 
follows: Yachts shall be rated for classification and time 
allowance by racing meastirement, which shall be ‘de- 
termined by adding to half the load waterline length, 
half the square root of sail area, and a quantity expressed 
as L, and by dividing the sum of these quantities by 1.1. 

YLWL+ %VSA+L _ 2 
1.1 


First prize, 


L 


The quantity L is to be obtained in the following way: 

B is breadth of load waterline plane at % of its length 
from forward end. 

B’ is breadth of load waterline plane at % of its length 
from after end, 

B” is breadth (greatest) of LW plane. 

C is any excess of (B+B’) over B”. 

D is draft at MS+2-5 of any greater draft aft, and all of 
any greater draft forward. 

E is any excess of (B’-+D) over 3 1-3 VMS submerged. 

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Designing Competition. 


Third Prize Winner, 


_ Tue winner of the third prize in our designing compe- 
tition was Mr. Harold W. Patterson, of New York city, 
the plans submitted by him appearing in this issue. 

The plans are carefully drawn and the design shows a 
well-turned boat of easy lines and sections. She is quite 
roomy, both on deck and below, The rig is well propor- 
tioned, but is, if anything, a little large. | 

The cockpit is watertight, and is 7ft. long and 6ft. 6in. 
wide. The boat steers with a wheel. Under a cabin 
house 13ft. long and gin. high at the side there is ‘the 
required headroom of Sift. 

Against the after bulkhead of the cabin are two lockers 
on each side for hanging clothes, etc. The transom on 
the port side is 6ft. 6in. long, and 2ft. oin. wide. For- 
ward on the port side is the toilet room, 3ft. square, witha 
patent closet and folding wash basin, A linen locker is 
located in this room. One corner of the skylight that is 
ever the main cabin extends over the toilet room, giving : 


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light and ventilation. The floor in the cabin is 3ft. Gin. 
wide. A rather objectionable feature is the pipe through 
which runs the centerboard pennant. This pipe is almost 
in the middle of the cabin, and is quite as much of an 
objection as a centerboard trunk above the cabin floor. 
We do not approve of centerboards housing under the 
_ floor or in trunks, the top of which is below the water- 

liné: When the board jams the boat has to be hauled out 
to fix it, and these boards seldom do the work intended 
for them as well as the old-fashioned boards. 

On the starboard side of the main saloon is.a transom 
8ft. 3in. long, and 2ft. gin. wide. Forward of this tran- 
som is a sideboard for cabin silver, etc. A door opens 
into the galley, which is part of the forecastle, and is 
rather cramped. The ice box, sink and stove are on the 
starboard side, while there is a berth on the port side. 
._The interior of this boat might be laid out to better 


advantage. The dimensions are as follows: 
Length— ; 
peOwer all <2. ef) es ertanitan let 37ft. 5 in. 
IE eAY 1 LY Ape lit arth So art nts nels led ni nse rie an 25ft. O in. 
Overhang— f 
OEWAtG Prrrein eden eee aia toe ee sit. 6 in. 
PANEL amie Na- 2 36 tec cedets Soars for vkxcttieec aces secs Penne 6ft. Ir in. 
Breadth— 
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PY VOT tes eer otess. as Aa Sein A ae Off. 3 1a 
Draft— 
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GAT CLEConvstl bate tate tiaek 2mee satis, Meee eee Sit. o in. 
Freeboard— . 
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Lt Beate eral A es ee eee Site 72 sn 
LB Se SMe oor ed Oe ie ee ee 2it. 2Y%4in 
NOS PLACE NIOTLEN sich tes anaes Ries cage «ee 14.000!bs. 
Ballasteeoltsicie mitten) pau vesharkisene = sete 6,000lbs. 
C.L.R. from fore end of L. W.L.......... r4ft. 4 in 
C.B. from fore end of L. W. L............ t3it. oO in 
C.E. from fore end of L.W.L............. I3ft. 4 in 
Sail Area— 
Wheater sail <2. rsnt 1c 00a Sheds Petraes 729 sq. ft. 
ITD Stace tay) SAI, ee bt ons ee eee 204 sq. ft. 
Bata Shey, ate hee 2 eRe 033 sq. ft. | 
Mast from fore end of L.W.L,........... 4ft. 3 in. 
Mista bOnres Cec Kem Gee he Geto ietie tkuee alae 34ft. 9 in. 
|r Clnnh EeCAar de yey EEE, Pw ata Reo 245 S9Sthep On A: 
Gate a Se FE, Sy! et arft. oO in, 
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BOwSprit OUtWOadtde sweklna shUE cil: am ynieacsl tre cee sft. 6in. 


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Our Boston Letter. 


Boston, March 24.—The regular spring meeting of the 
Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts was held at 
Young’s last Wednesday, at which the delegates from the 
different clubs selected the dates for their open races 
during the season. The schedule thus selected is the 
largest that has ever been arranged in Massachusetts Bay, 
and shows that there is little likelihood of the popular 
classes‘ being confined to one place during the racing 
season. The outlook for the season of 1902 is the bright- 
est in the history of yachting in Massachusetts, 

There are certain days during the season which have 
always been selected by clubs, and there was no.exception 
to the rule this year. The opening race of the season 
will, as usual, be given by the South Boston VovC; /aRiis 
will be the 25th time that the South Boston’ Y. C. has 
opened the racing season in Massachusetts. June 17, a 
local holiday, has been selected by the Hull-Massachusetts 
Y. C., 4th of July goes to the City of Boston and Labor 
Day to the Lynn Y. C.. These are all according to prece- 
dent, and nobody would expect these dates to be assigned 
otherwise. The race days of the other clubs all come at 
about their usual time. During the past few years the 
feature of giving a series of Y. R. A. open races by one 


club has become quite the thing, and this year there will - 


be more series races than ever before. Consequently the 
total of races is greater. In all, there have been ‘selected, 
so far, thirty race days, and it is likely that more will 
follow. It will be noticed in the schedule that June 28 
is selected by the Boston Y. C., and by the Wollaston 
Y. C. This would appear as though there were con- 
fliction, but such will not be the case. The Boston Y. C. 
set aside this date some time ago, but Vice-Com. Burgess 
has informed me that his club will gladly give up the 
day and select some other. i 
handicapped by having flats in the vicinity of its club 
house, and can only hold racés on the high tide. 

The following is the list of dates so far selected by 
the clubs of the Association, and the places at which they 
will be sailed: 


May 30, Friday—South Boston, City Point. 

June 17, Tuesday—Hull-Massachusetts, Hull, 

June 28, Saturday—Boston, City Point. 
. June 28, Saturday—Wollaston, Quincy Bay. 

July 4, Friday—City of Boston, City Point. 

July 5, Saturday—Mosquito Fleet. South Boston. 

July 12, Saturday—Sauantum, Quincy Bay. 

July.24, 25 and 26, Thursday, Friday and Saturday— 
Hull-Massachusetts. Hull. Be Ui 

July 28 and 29, Monday and Tuesday—Boston, Marble- 
head. 

Aug. 4, 5 and 6, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday— 
Manchester, West Manchester. Re rar gen 

Aug. 7, Thursday—East Gloucester, Gloucester; 


The Wollaston Y._C. is 


BY HAROLD W, PATTERSON, NEW YORK CITY. 


Aug. 8 and 9, Friday and Saturday—Annisquaim, Ips- 
wich Bay. 

Aug. 11 and 12, Monday and Tuesday—Misery Island, 
Salem Bay. : 

Aug, 21, Thursday—Plymouth, Plymouth. 

Aug, 22, Friday—Kingston, Kingston. 

Aug. 23, Saturday—Duxbury, Duxbury. 

Aug. 25 and 26, Monday and Tuesday—Wellfleet; ‘Cape 
Cod Bay. ro 

Aug. 27, 28 and 29, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday— 
Cape Cod, Provincetown. 

Sept. 1, Labor Day—Lynn, off Nahant. 

Sept. 6, Saturday—Quincy, Quincy. 

At the meeting several amendments were adopted, the 
Principal one of which was the adoption of a new per 
centage table. This table was formed and perfected by 
the Beverly Y. €., and is used by it in determining cham- 
pionships. It is fair in its awards and is mathematically 
correct, and.its adcption by the Association is a wise 
move. It is also likely to be the means of causing a bet- 
ter general attendance at the races than under the old 
system, for with the new percentage table, it will be neces- 


sary for a yacht to get out and race if she wants to ~ 


lave a show at the championship, With so many races 
scheduled, it does seem that it will be difficult to get all 
of the boats to attend. But in previous years there have 
been yachts that sailed in more than twenty races. These 
were the ones that were hungriest after the championship 
in their classes, and there is no doubt that there will be 
some who will go the extra ten or more races this year. 
It is also expected that the number of constant attenders 
will be increased. 

There is little doubt now that Henry M. Faxon is 
after the Quincy cup. At the Association meeting last 
week he would not confirm the story that he had given 
Smith an order to build a boat, but he would not deny it. 
Frank F. Crane said: “We are going to sail the old 
boat”—Hostess. It is known, however, that Mr. Faxon 
and A. Henry Higginson, Jr., one of the owners of Look: 
out, which took the cup from Quincy, have hada talk 
about challenge, and that arrangements are practicall 
completed. The challenge must be received before Apri 
1. As to the talk of sailing Hostess, there does not seem 
to be much likelihood of her being raced for the cup. 
Mr. Faxen and Mr. Higginson have been talking about the 
advisability of putting a limit of 900 sq. ft. on total sail 
area. This can be done under the deed of gift. With a 
reduced sail area. Hostess would not cut much of a figure. 
Fully as much, if not more, speed can be obtained by 
giving the boats.less power and ‘less sail than they have 
been carrying, and there is also another possibil'ty in the 
way of more challenges. It was understood that some 
of the yachtsmen from the lakes were desirous of. chal- 
lenging. last year, but they did not show up. It appears 


that.a boat of over roft. beam cannot be carried on the - 


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Sail area should be limited to 900 sd. ft., boats will be 
built with less than 1oft. beam, and the lake yachtsmen 
can get a crack-at the cup. If Mr. Faxon challenges be- 
fore April 1, other clubs have the privilege of sending in 
challenges to the Manchester Y, C., which now holds the 
cup, before May 1s. 

The South Boston Y. C. has arranged the following 
schedule of racing fixtures for the season: 

May 30, Friday—Club tender race in the morning; Y- 
R. A. open race in the afternoon, 

June 4, Wednesday—Sailing tenders. ? 

June 28, Saturday—Club handicap. 

July 12, Saturday—Club handicap. 

July 19, Saturday—Club handicap. 

Aug. 9, Saturday—Sailing tenders. 

Aug. 23, Saturday—Club handicap. 

Sept. 6, Saturday—Sailing tenders. , 

Frank N. Tandy has sold the 46ft. schooner Boh€mian, 
owned by Durbin Horne, of Pittsburg, Pa., to Charles M. 
Bruce, of Boston, . 

Hollis Burgess has sold the 30ft. yawl, which has been 
built by Bishop, of Gloucester, for his uncle, Mr. Walter 
Burgess, to Hon, Frank W. Rollins, ex-Governor of New 
Hampshire. 

Crowninshield has an order for a small mail and pas- 
senger steamer for the Fulton Navigation Company, 
headed by Dr. Seward Webb. She will be used on the 
Fulton Lakes. He has sold the raceabout Pompelia, 
owned by Reginald Robbins, to a New York yachtsman, 
and has sold, through the agency of Frank Bowne Jones, 
the steam yacht Cayuga. 

At Lawley’s the Lippitt 60-rater is partly plated. The 
interior work on the Lawson 46ft, schooner is being 
finished. These two boats are the pride of the shops, and 
are, indeed, beautiful specimens of workmanship, The 

~46-footer designed by Binney for H. A, Morss, is about 
planked. The Foss and Gunnison yawl is being finished 
up inside, and a yawl, by the same designer, for Dr, 
Paton, has been started. The 1o4ft, steamer is being 
finished up. The Crane 25-footer is about finished, and 
the Y. R. A. 21-footer for Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 
2d, is being painted. A 25-footer for D. C. Percival, of 
Marblehead, designed by Fred Lawley, has been. started. 
There was a rumor eatly in the winter that Mr, Percival 
_Was going to Herreshoff for his boat, but he decided to 
give Fred Lawley a try at it, 

Joun B. Kirirey, 


Our English Letter. 


THE duels between Sybarita and Kariad at the Riviera 
regattas excite very little interest here, and, indeed, the 
Mediterranean season appears to be much less popular 
beth ashore and afloat than it was some years age. The 
regattas so far this winter have been marred by paltry 
airs, and the results are of no value. The report from 
New York that Mr. Pierpont Mergan intends to send 
over Columbia to race in European waters this summer 
has been received with lively interest, although these 
rumors have so often been cabled only to be contradicted. 
No douhkt Sir Thomas Lipton will bring Shamrock II, 
across, for she is the only vessel fit to meet Columbia. 
“Shamrock I,, is, I hear, very far gone in her aluminum, so 
much so that she is hardly worth repairing. If she could 
be put into good order she would make a more interest- 
ing antagonist for Columbia than the newer vessel, for it 
is felt over here that it has been very far from being de- 
cided that the last challenger is the better boat. Apart 
from these two there is no very great inducement for 
‘Columbia to visit us. If she has to race under our 

measurement. and time scale her chances are not very 
‘great. Shamrock I., at all events, is hopelessly outruled 
by the new measurement. : 

During the past week an interesting little yachting ex- 
hibition has been open at Earl’s Court, London. It was 
got up primarily in the interests of the Thames boat 

‘ builders, but it has attracted some yachting exhibits and 
‘many motors. The American motors play a prominent 
part and have done good business, but there are one or 
two excellent British exhibits, and quite a capital French 
one. This is a movable engine which lies on the counter 
of a yacht, and with a gearing of cog wheels a shaft hangs 
' down perpendicularly, the lower end being again geared 
_ to actuate the propeller. One would think so much gear- 
ing would involve a great waste of power, but the engine 
seems to develop great power, and | have heard wonder- 
ful reports of its capacity in large sized boats. The whole 
outfit is worked with one hand, and it steers, propels, 
and reverses with the utmost ease. At the exihibition it 
it fitted on a Thames pair-oared boat, the maneuvers of 
which are remarkable. 
round in a circle with a diameter of its own length, It 
is made from 134 horse-power to 8%. For racing yachts 
it should prove of great value. 

A curious launch took place last week from the Ailsa 
Shipbuilding Company’s yard, It is a new steam yacht 
for Mr. J. Coats, the owner of the largest schooner 
afloat—Gleniffer—and though the vessel is a steam yacht 
pure and simple, it is Mr, Coats’ intention to use her as 
a tender to the schooner, to sail in company and to tow 
the great schooner. This is a somewhat uncommon com- 
bination of steam power with the sailor’s love for sail. 
The new yacht is 160ft. over all, 22ft, 6in. broad, 13ft. 8in. 
deep, and measures 340 tons Thames measurement. She 
has a straight stem and an elliptic stern, 

The first motor fishing vessel has made her appearance 
at Lowestoff. Her speed is said to be 7 knots, but I 
understand that the motor has not given entire satisfac- 
tion yet—no doubt owing to faulty management. Mr. 
Linton Hope has designed a nice motor auxiliary of 3sft. 
waterline. She is a beamy boat, with 4ft, 6in. standing 
draft, and is fitted with a centerplate. Her engine is 
to be of 15 boiler horse-power, which ought to get good 
speed out of the craft. Her accommodation is great, there 
being but little forecastle space, because the owner in- 
tends to work the boat himself with a friend. To this end 
she is fitted with a roller staysail set up from the stem- 
head. ‘There is no bowsprit. She is yawl-rigged, and 
has a reefing boom gear. 

The Cunard Company are about to build the largest 
and fastest steamship in the world-for the New York 
service. It is significant that, contrary to their usyal cus- 
tom, this ship will not be built in duplicate, as it is be- 
lieved that the future of such vessels will be intimately 


connected with liquid fuel, for one change, and turbine 


Tt can turn the boat round and ‘ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


engines for another. The new ship will cost, it is said, 
three-quarters of a million potnds, 

The morning papers last week reported Mr. Post’s 
efforts to arrange matches between Columbia and Sham- 
rock for next season. Unfortunately, not being familiar 
with the gentleman’s name in connection with yachting, 
they mistook him for a New York newspaper! The 
yisit of Prince Henry of Prussia has been followed with 
interest over here, Its great success, following the by no 
means silly suggestion that Sir Thomas Lipton should 
be appointed British Anibassador at Washington, almost 
seems to indicate that part of the curriculum for the 
corps diplomatique of the future should be ‘‘two years 
before the mast.” 

At the exhibition to which J have alluded above, 
Messrs. Westmacott, Stewart & Co,, St. Helens, Isle of 
Wight, have a stand full of American yacht and boat 
fittings of which they make a specialty. Among these 
are steering wheels for small sailing yachts. It is strange 
to note the dislike our yachtsmen have for these. They 
are infinitely more compact than the tiller, and I can- 
not see why a good steersman should fail to “feel” his 
boat equally well with them as with tiller lines. I do 
not know whether the idea is new, but it would be an 
advantage to have the gearing such as to give two 
powers—one so that a small turn of the wheel would put 
the helm over (for light weather), and the other of 
much higher power when the vessel is pulling hard. It 
sounds so reasonable that it cannot be new. 

As I close this I hear that Mr. Fife has received an 
order to design and build a small schooner of about forty 
tons for Mr. W. G. Jameson. This is the first boat built 
for Mr. Jameson at Fairlie, but the chief interest attach- 
ing to her is the fact that she will be fitted with a petrol 
(gasoline) motor as auxiliary power. It will be suff- 
ciently powerful to drive the yacht at seven knots. 
Messrs, Fife have of late become quite specialists in smart 
schooners of small size. E. H. Hamitton. 


Seawanhaka Cup News. — 


Up to the present time eight boats haye been ordered 
which will compete in the trial races for the Seawanhaka 
cup, to be held off Bridgeport on June 30 and July 1, 2 
and 3. Thomas B. Smith, of Bayonne, N. J., has the deck 
beams in the boat he is building for Mr. Charles D. 
Mower and Mr, Albert B. Hunt. She will be ready for 
launching in about three weeks. The boat building by 
L. D. Huntington, at his yard in New Rochelle, for 
Messrs. C, B. Seeley and Wilson Marshall, is nearly com- 
pleted. A syndicate of Bridgeport Y. C. yachtsmen, 
headed by Mr, Thomas B. Macdonald, will have two 
boats, one designed by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield is being 
built by Thomas Smith at Quincy Point, and the other by 
Jones & La Borde, of Oshkosh, Wis. The Crowninshield 
boat is planked and the Jones & La Borde boat is well 
along. Messrs. Hollis Burgess and T. K. Lothrop are 
having Stearns, of Marblehead, build for them a boat 
from designs made’ by Mr. W. Starling Burgess. A syndi- 
cate of Penataquit Corinthian Y, C. is having a boat built 
by Benjamin Hallock, of Moriches. Gus Amundson, of 
White Bear Lake, is building a boat from his own design 
for Mr. Charles De Hart Brower. A syndicate of 
Bridgeport Y. C, yachtsmen has ordered another boat, and 
Hanley, of Quincy Point, is still in correspondence with 
certain individuals, who contemplate building a boat. If 
this order is placed it will make the ninth boat. With 
eight boats already ordered, the possibility of some very 
lively racing at Bridgeport is assured. 


Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay. 


The second annual meeting of the Yacht Racing Asso- 
ciation of Gravesend Bay was held on Tuesday evening, 
March 11, The representatives were George Hill, At- 
lantic Y. C.; John R. Brophy and George B. Water, 
Brooklyn Y¥. C.; W. Brown and Isaac Snedeker, 
Marine and Field Club; D. B. Goodwell and R. W. 
Spier, New York C. C. There was some dissatisfaction 
shown at the meeting regarding last year’s racing 
schedule, because the races were held every Saturday. It 
was finally decided that hereafter races would take place 
every other Saturday, The following schedule was finally 
adopted: 

June 7, Atlantie Y. C.; June 21, Brooklyn Y. C.; June 
28, New York C. C.; July 12, Marine and Feld Club; July 
26, Atlantic ¥. C..; August 2, Brooklyn Y. C.; August 23, 
Marine and Field Club; September 6, New York C. C,, 
and September 20, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay, 

These races will be sailed under the old méasurement 
rule;thatis, thesquare root of the sail area plus the water- 
line length, divided by two. When the Yacht Racing 
Association of Long Island Sound adopted the new 
measurement rule, the Gravesend Bay contemplated 
making the same move, but the latter finally decided to 
await the testing of the rule before adopting it. We pub- 
lished in our issue of last week the standing of the 
Gravesned Bay boats at the end of last season. 


Chicago Y. C. Annual Smoker. 


Cuicaco, Inz., March 15—Chicago Y. C. held its 
annual banquet and smoker Wednesday evening of this 
week, receiving General Frederick Funston, U. S.A, 
who called late in the evening, iM 


Yacht Club Notes. 


The following fixtures have been given out by the 
Race Committee of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C.: 

Friday, May. 30 (Decoration Day)—Races for race- 
abouts, Seawanhaka knockabouts and club catboats. Open 
to club members only. 

Saturday, May 31—Open races for sloops of the 3oft. 
class, raceabouts and Seawanhaka knockabouts. Other 
classes to be announced. 

Saturday, June 7—Race for Seawanhaka knockabouts, 
for prize offered by Mr. F. G. Stewart. 

- Saturday, June 14—First series trace for the Centre 
Island cup. The races in this series are open to Seawan- 
haka knockabouts owned by club*members. 

Saturday, June 21—Second series race for the Centre 
Island cup and for prize offered by Mr. Johnston de 
Forest, 


Thursday, June 26—First of three days” open races, 
classes to be announced later. 

Friday, June 27—Second of three days’ open races, 
classes to be announced later. 

Saturday, June 28—Third of three days’ open races. 
Annual race for all classes. “The Leland Corinthian Chal- 
lenge cup will be sailed for by Séawanhaka knockabouts 
owned by club members. — «2 se 

Friday, July 4—Special club races, classes to be an- 
nounced later. : P : 

Saturday, July s5—Third series race for the Centre 
Island cup and for prize offered by Mr. E. I. Low, 

Saturday, July 12—Roosevelt memorial cups, to be 
offered for competition by such classes as may be deter- 
mined upon by the Race Committee; classes to be an- 
nounced later. on 

Saturday, July 19—Fourth series race for the Centre 
Island cup. =) 

Saturday, July 26—Fifth series race for the Centre 
Island cup. ; 

Saturday, Aug. 2—Robert Center memorial prizes; open 
to raceabouts and Seawanhaka knockabouts owned by 
club members. 

Saturday, Aug. 9—Sixth series race for the Centre 
Island cup. 

Saturday, Aug. 16—Seventh series race for the Centre 
Tsland cup. F 

Saturday, Aug. 23—Race for Seawanhaka knockabouts, 
manned with Corinthian crews. = 

Monday, Sept. 1 (Labor Day)—Special club traces; 
classes to be announced later, 

Thursday, Sept. 4—Open races for special classes, to be 
announced later, 

Friday, Sept. 5—Open races for special classes, to be 
announced later. j 

Saturday, Sept. 6—Annual fall races 
races with Corinthian crews. £ 

Negotiations are now pending for a series of races 
between the raceabouts of the Beverly and Seawanhaka 
Corinthian Y. C,s, and also for two series of races be- 
tween the Seawanhaka knockabouts of the Philadelphia 
Corinthian and Sachem’s Head Y. C.s and those of the 
Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 


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Some sixty members attended the “fitting out” dinner 
of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. at the Hotel Manhattan, New 
York city, Saturday evening, March 22. Com. Stephen 
Roach presided. At a meeting held before the dinner 
several amendments to the by-laws and constitution were 
passed. The Building Committee reported that the work 
on the new house was progressing fayorably, and that the 
building would be finished by June 1. ; 


for all classes; 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES, 


The bronze cutter building at the Townsend & Downey 
Shipbuilding Co.’s yards from designs made by Messrs. 
Gardner & Cox for Mr. George M. Pynchon, will be 
named Neola. She is 51ft. on the waterline, 87ft, 6in. 
over all, 16ft. gin, breadth and i1ft. 6in. draft. 


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The following sales have been recently made through 
Manning’s Yacht Agency: Steam yacht Mandalay (for- 
meérly Columbia), Mr. Montgomery Rollins, of Boston, 
to Dr. F, E. Greene, of Portsmouth, N.°H.; steam yacht 
Spindrift, Maurice S. Wormser to Mr. C. C. Riotte; the 
céenterboard auxiliary schooner Laurus, Dr. James C. 
Ayer, of this city, to Mr. Henry G, Bryant, of Pihladel- 
phia; the 80ft. power yacht Adrienne, Com. William G. 
Titcomb, to Mr. J. Wichert; the 53ft. power yacht Scimi- 
tar, Mr. William Champion, to Mr. Fred A. Hodgman; 
the 6oft. steam yacht Dirigo, Mr. E. W. Bullinger, to 
Mr. N. L, McCready; the twin-screw power yacht 
Josephine Louise, Mr. Lawrence Jones, to Mr. G, W. 
Goetz; the 45ft. power yacht Falcon, Mr. J. Wichert, to 
Mr. W. G. Titcomb; the 7oft. power yacht Louise, Mr. 
Fred A. Hodgman, to Mr. James Corrigan; the 6oft. keel 
vyawl Viva, Com, J. W. Bowers, Portland Y. C., to Mr. 
Belden B. Brown, of Stamford, Conn. 


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The following sales have been made through the agency 
of Mr. A. J. McIntosh: Yaw! Dolawradora, by the estate 
of A. Colbron, to Mr. George J. Jackson; sloop Hit or 
Miss, to Mr. F. O. Ayres; launch Onaway, by Mr, F. N. 
Waterman, to Mr. William Faush; launch Tayron, by Mr. 
W. H. Watrous, to Mr. W. A. Mill’; launch Nan, by Mr. 
G. W. Cook, to Mr. P. G. Chapman; launch Sweetheart, 
by Mr. Sinclair Smith, to Mr. William Trand; launch 
Helen, by Mr. Charles H. Thompson, to Mr. C. F. 
Brooks; launch The May, by Mr. J, Scott McComb, to 
Mr. H. Mosher; launch Monks, by Mr, Joseph Hum- 
phreys, to Mr. Henry G. Glesten; launch Adelia, to Mr. 
L. A. Newcomb. 


Mifle Range and Gallery. 
——©——— 


The United States Revolver Association met in the Arena, 
New York, on Thursday evening of last week. Jt was resolved 
that the shooting organizations, in the different sections of the 
country, will be invited to hold their championship competitions 
in connection with the annual meet at Sea Girt, N, J. Magazine 
pistols will hereafter be admitted on the same terms as military 
revolvers. The 8in. bullseye, American, was recognized as the 
standard. The Executive Committee was empowered to draft rules 
for the championship contests, and to select a target for indoor 
contests. 


The Metropolitan Rifle Club, of New York, held a special meet- 
ing at 513 Sixth avenue, on Monday oi this week, at which it was 
decided to hold a free-for-all indoor revolver and rifle contest in 
Conlin’s gallery, commencing April 1. Another meeting will.be 
held on March 81 to settle upon the governing conditions, A 
committee of fiye members will arrange the contest, = 


In the rifle contest of the Junior Branch of the Sportsmen’s As- 
sociation, held in connection with the Sportsmen's Show,- in 
Madison Square Garden March 5 to 20, we madvertently omitted 
to mention that the trophy, the first prize of that contest, was the 
Annie Oakley cup. ee ht 


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ARCH 20, 1902,] 


Grapshooting. 
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Fixtures, 
March 31-April 5—Blue River Park, Kansas City, 


Mo,—Grand 


American Handicap at live birds. Ed Banks, Sec’y, 318 Broadway, 


New York. 

April —.—Dover, N. H.—Fast Day shoot of the Dover Sports- 
men’s Association. J, B. Stevens, Sec’y. | rae 

April 8-11.—Olathe, Kan.—kansas State Sportsmen’s Association's 
annual tournament. 

April 10.—Marietta, O.—One-day, target tournament of the Co- 
lumbian Gun Club, Chas, Bailey, Sec’y. a 

April 42.—Ossining, N. ¥.—Cup shoot of the Ossining Gun Club, 
C. G, Blandford, Capt. , 

April 15-17.—Asheville, N, C.—Target tournament given by Col. 
E, BP. McKissick. . ‘ p 

April 15-17.—St. Joseph, Mo—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 

ssociation’s annual tournament. F. B. Cunningham, Sec’y. 

April 16-18—Peru, Ind.—Peru Gun Club’s sixth annual amateur 
tournament; two days at targets for amateurs; one day at live 
birds open to all. Frank Dunbar, Sec’y. . 
ORE org ea Mass,—Patriots' Day shoot of the Haverhill 

un Club. : 

April 22—Olean, N, Y.—Third annual tournament of the Olean 
Gun Club, B. D. Nobles, Sec’y. 2 

April 22-25—Umaha, Neb,—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Mc- 
Donald, See’y. 5 

April 26—Ossining, N. ¥.—Cup shoot of the Ossining Gun 
Club. C, G. Blandford, Capt. ; 

April 29-30.—Greenyille, O.—Annual tournament of the Greenville 
Gun Club. H. A. McCaughey, Sec’y. ' 

April 30.—W ellington, Mass.—Third annual team shoot of the 
Boston Gun Club. Horace C. Kirkwood, Sec’y. 

May 6-9.—Interstate Park, L. 1.—Interstate Association’s. Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Elmer 
Shaner, Manager. 

May 7-8.—Crawfordsville, Ind.—Tarset tournament of the Craw- 
fordsville Gun Club; $400 guaranteed. Mac, Stillwell, Sec’y. 

May 13-14—Enid, Oklahoma Territory —Oklahoma ‘Territerial 
Sportsmen’s Association tournament. ; 

May 13-16,—Oil City, Pa.—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F. S. Bates, Cor. Sec'y, . 

May 14-16.—Charleston, $, C.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W. G. Jeffords, Jr., Sec'y. 7 

May 15.—Sherbrooke, P. 1 passe Sat Gun Club’s inanimate 
target tournament. C. H. Foss, Sec'’y. 

May 20-22.—Ottumwa, Ia.—lIowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 


May 20-22.—Elwood, Ind—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind. 

May _ 20-22.—Wheeling, W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W, Va. 

May 20-28, —. —.—New Jersey State Sportsmen's As- 
sociation, 


May 21-22.—Baltimore, Md.—Maryland county shoot for amateurs, 

May 21-23.—Springfield, S. D.—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s 
Association tournament, 

May 26-31.—Lincoln, Neb.—Grand Interstate tournament, three 
ee shooting; three days golf; three days tennis. H, C, Young, 

anager. 

May 30.—Schenectady, N. Y—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club. E. L. Aiken, Sec’y, 

May 30.—Ossining, N. Y.—Holiday shoot of the Westchester 
County Trapshooters’ League. J. Curry Barlow, Sec’y. 

May 30.—Auburn, Me.—Annual tournament of the Auburn Gun 
Club. L. A. Barker, Sec’y. 5 

May 30-31,—Altoona, Pa.—Altoona Rod and Gun Club’s tenth 
annual tournament. George G. Zeth, Sec’y, Altoona, Pa. 

May 30-31—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun: Club, O. E. Fouts, Sec’y. , 

June 3-5.—Cleveland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
Eeague, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. 

June 46.—Memphis,, Tenn—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun . 

July 8-10.—Pine Bluff, Ark.—Twelfth annual meeting and tour- 
nament of the Arkansas State Sportsmen’s Association. Targets. 
Added money $300. Rose system. Paul R. Litzke, Sec’y. 

June 9-18—Rochester, N. Y.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 


me. 
une 10-11.—Sioux City, Ia.—Eighth annual amateur tournament 
of the Soo Gun Club. . BE. Duncan, Sec’y, 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual 
tournament. 

June 12-15—Denver, Colo.—Grand Western Bluerock Handicap 
tournament, Frank H. Mayer, Tournament Manager, 

June 17-20.—Warm Springs, Ga.—Annual Interstate tournament. 

June 18-19.—Bellefontaine, O.—Silver Lake Gun Club’s annual 
tournament. Geo. E, Maison, Sec’y. ; 

June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. C.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club, Jas. 1. John- 
son, Sec’y. 5 \ 

June 29.—San Francisco, Cal—Live-bird shoot of the Union 
Gun Club. 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. — 


Mr, C, G. Blandford, captain of the Ossining Gun Club, writes 
us as follows: “’l'wo cups have been given to the club by a mem- 
ber, to be shot for; one on April 12 and the other on April 26. 
These are fine cups, and the members should turn out in good 
force; The conditions are: 25 clay birds, handicaps misses and 
breaks, $1 entrance, Shooting on each day to start at 2P, Me 
Shooters may make post entries at any time up to 3:30 P. M, by 
paying 50 cents in addition to the regular entrance fee,” 


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The Wurtz-Dundas cup match of the University of Pennsylvania 
Gun Club, held on the grounds of the Clearview Gun Club, at 
Darby, resulted in a yictory for Parish, who made the excellent 
winning score of 23 out of 25. The scores were as follows: Wurtz- 
Dundas cup, 25 birds, unknown angles: Parish 23, Fisher 22, 
Taten 19, Farwel 17, Lowdon 22, Weaver 20, Harley 18, Adams 15, 
Vaughn 14. A cup contest at 10 pairs resulted as follows: Parish 


15, Lowdon 20, Tatem 12, Vaughn 16, Harley 14, Weaver 10, 


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There was a five-man team match between attaches of the firms 
of Messrs. Schoverling, Daly & Gales and Messrs. Von Lengerke 
& Detmold, on the grounds of the Richmond Gun Club, Staten 
Island, N. Y., on March 22. The former team won by a score of 
197 to 187, about an 80 per cent. performance. Each man shot at 50 
targets. A return match will be shot on the grounds of the 
Carlstadt (N. J.) Gun Club in oe future. 


On March 22, on the grounds of the Cincinnati Gun_Club, two 


races at 100 targets were shot, one between Messrs. Squier and 


Phellis, the former winning by a score of 93 to 80. The second 
between Messrs. Gambell, Ahlers and Heyl, in which Mr, Gambell 
wou by a score of 91, his competitors scoring 90 and 84 in the 
order mentioned, . 


Mr. Thos, Sawdon, of Toronto, Canada, writes us as follows: 


“In your latest issue you have me credited with making a good 
score at the traps. Now, I don’t object to the scores as stated, 
which are practically correct. But the statement that the shoot- 


* ing-was done with the Parker gun is erronecus. I use the L, C. 


say 2 


Smith gun exclusively.” 


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Th eBishop of Hereford’s bill, which aimed to abolish pigeon 
shooting, coursing, stag hunting, etc., in England, to which 
reference was made in our columns last week, was withdrawn by 
the Bishop, after the second reading, there being so much adverse 
criticism to it that it had mo chance of fayorable consideration. 


Rae .G. A, H. entry of Mr, Harvey McMurchy, of the Hunters 
ATMS 


_ Company, whose skill with the shotgun is exceeded only 
by his popularity, has been received by Mr. Edward Banks, the 
secretary of the Interstate Association, This, we believe, is Mr. 
McMurchy’s first participation in this great event. 


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FORES) AND STREAM. 


There was a statement in Sothe of the daily pene, to the effect 
that Messrs. Morfey and Wan Allen had definitely arranged to 
shoot a match to test the matter in respect to whether pigeon 
shooting is cruel or not, No such match has’ been dehnitely 


arranged. : ; 
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The target -programme at the Limited Gun Club’s tournament 
last week was not completed on either of the two days, but, as it 
stood, Mr. Fred Gilbert was high man, He also won the Grand 
Central handicap. He tied with J. E. Hick with a straight score 
of 25, and won in the shoot-off. 


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Mr. Mac Stillwell, secretary of the Crawfordsville (ind,) Gun 
Club, writes us as follows: “‘Sinee writing you in regard to our 
live-bird tournament, to be held May 7 and 8,*we find we will be 
unable to procure enough pigeons, therefore have decided to have 
a target tournament instead.” : 

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At Rockaway Park, L, I., the Oceanic Rod and Gun Club will 
hold its second March shoot, Trains leaye East Thirty-fourth 
street and Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, about 9 and 11 o’clock A.M. 
Targets, $150 per hundred. Mr. J. H. W. Fleming (Johnnie 


Jones), Sec’y. 
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Mr. W. Fred Quimby, of St. Louis, was a visitor in New York 
on Saturday of last week, but his tarry was brief, for he sped 
Westward to Chicago and other cities, transacting business as he 
journeyed to the Grand American Hanuicap at Kansas City, 


We acknowledge the receipt of a membership ticket of the 


Crawfordsville, Ind., Gun Club, sent to us by the club secretary, 
Mr. Mac Stillwell, and extend our thanks for the honor con- 
ferred, } 


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The next shoot of the Richmond Gun Club will be held on the 
club grounds, Silver Lake, Staten Island. 


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The Olean (N. ¥.) Gun Club, through its secretary, Mr. B. D. 
Nobles, informs us that its third annual tournament will be held 


here on April 22, 
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On Saturday of this week, the New York party, en route to 
the G. A, H., via the West Shore R. R., start at 2:40. 


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With the post entries, added to the 452 received, the total entries 


to the G. A. H,, will not be far short of the 500 mark, 
BERNARD WATERS, 


The Single-Trigger Shotgun. 


New Yorx.—Editor Forest and Stream: In reviewing the de- 
velopment of the modern double-barrel breechloading shotgun, 
nothing has puzzled inventive genius more than a practical, perfect 
single-trigger device, and noimproyement since the days of flint locks 
can show up so many rank failures and disappointments as the 
single-trigger idea. On no other single improyement has so much 
money been, expended without satisfactory results as on single- 
trigger experiments. 

Although well nigh perfect work is being done by experts with 
the modern two-trigger breechloader, it is an undeniable fact that 
a perfect single trigger would prove one of the greatest of all 
recent improvements in a double-barrel shotgtin, and the hundreds 
of patents and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ spent in the at- 
tempts to put a perfect single trigger on the market, and the years 
of hard work and ever-repeated attempts after costly failures, show 
that the manufacturers, as well as the sportsmen, are wide awake 
as to the importance ofa perfect single trigger. 

The merit of a single trigger for a double barrel gun is self 
evident. Every practical shooter knows the importance of a perfectly 
fitting gun, a difference in the length of a stock, of as little as Yin. 
js often noticed and insisted upon, and every amateur will do 
better with a proper length of stock than otherwise. A quarter of 
an inch, more or less, difference in length of stock is often fatal 
for best work, Still when shooting a double-barrel two-trigger 
gun, we continually shorten or lengthen our stock about an inch 
as the case may be, beside haying to fully release our grip on the 
gun shooting right and leit barrel, which all accounts to a great 
extent for the often comparatively poor work of the second barrel 
as well as other undesirable features, such as unpleasant prtnish- 
ment on account of recoil of gun, etc. . 

All this will be done away with when shooting a single-trigger 

un. 

What constitutes a perfect single trigger? Im my opinion several 
requirements are absolutely necessary for any single trigger to 
become popular enough to come into general use. 

First.—A trigger mechanism which is easily reversible from 
right and left to left and right. ~ ; 

Second.—Which is absolutely proof against “‘doubling’’; that is, 
firing both barrels simultaneously through either fault of the 
mechanism, difference in recoil of cartridges, peculiarity of shooter 
in holding his gun or inyoluntary pull, caused by the recoil of the 
first fired cartridge, 

Third.—A mechanism which allows of as smooth, easy and light 
: ull-off, devoid of all drag of the trigger, as the two trigger, 
ocks. 

Fourth.—A simple, strong and purely mechanically positive 
device which can be cheaply constructed, easily understood, and 
which is not dependent upon any recoil of the gun, 

Tn looking over the gradual development of the single trigger, 
the first attempts did not allow of shifting from right and leit to 
left and right. Again, thousands of single-trigger guns have been 
put upon the market, and a good many are in use to-day, mostly 
in England, which are not proof against ‘‘doubling’ and may be 
“doubled” by so-called tricks pretty regularly. 

Still others have such shortcomings as a hard, stiff or creepy 
pull-off, while the one or two single triggers which have been 
tried and can fairly lay claim to not having the first three objec- 
tions, are so complicated as to make them possible on the highest 
grades of guns only. The finest and most expensive workmanship 
only would admit of their construction, the cost of which would 
equal that of the cost of our most popular guns. 

The above history of the single trigger development during the 
last eight or ten years is correct, and is well known to all close 
observers of the many different actions patented, found correct 
theoretically, manufactured, practically tried and soon found 
wanting. Nearly every important European manufaeturer-has had 
his fingers burned on one or more single-trigger mechanisms, as 
theory and practice seemed bound to run counter and riot with 
each other, ~ 

I plead guilty; I was one of the burnt ones, and was one of 
the most disgusted of the single-trigger theorists, and was perfectly 
willing to let others go ahead and do the experimenting. Many 
other practical shooters and men in the business did! likewise. 

My faith in the absolute practicability of a single trigger began 
to return only when I saw Mr. Charles Francotte, a leading ex- 
pert, among the practical gun makers of Europe, give his un- 
qualified indorsement and praise for the improved Bittiner and 
jaeeer single trigger, an American invention, The Bittiner and 
Jaeger idea has stood all practical tests, and is taking like wild- 
fire in Germany, France, England and Belgium, dozens of the 
leading gun makers having adopted the-same under royalties, and 
a considerable percentage of orders for finer guns are coming in 
with the B. & J, single trigger. 

The following ceseny OEE of the B. & J. single trigger will give 
your readers an idea of its simple mechanical construction: 

A lever, “D,” (see Figs. 1, 2 and 4) is attached to the right sear, 
This lever ““D” has on the forward end a stud (D*) an 
on the rear end an extension (D*), which goes through’ and pro- 
trudes on the inner side of the sear arm (C*). The leit sear C 
has a shoulder lug (C2, Fig. 4). : 

Fig. 1 shows the lock mechanism when cocked and set to pull 
right-hand lock first. Upon pulling the trigger the sear of the 
right lock is pressed upward, lifting the sear point out of the 
cock notch and relieving the hammer. The sear then goes down 
by the force of the sear spring, and the Jever D jumps tinder the 
Sanus tate C2? of the left sear (C) by the force of the lever 
spring D*® \ 

The right barrel has now been discharged, and upon again pull- 
ing the trigger both sears, the right one free and fhe left sear set 
im cocks notch of hammer, are lifted and the left barrel is dis- 
charged. a 

To reverse the lock action from right and left to left and right, 
it is only necessary to shift the button, E* in trigger E by pressing 
same in from right side to the left side of trigger. This brings the 
sear lifting pin E? from under the right to under the left sear ‘‘C,” 


and upon pullitig the trigger the left lock will be discharged first 
and next the right lock. 

The above describes the mechanical trigger and lock-shifting 
mechanistn, which, in itself, is mechanically complete and correct 
but not practical without additional safeguards against “doubling.’ 

To render “doubling” or a simultaneous discharge of both bar- 
rels impossible, a weight or counterbalance, F, has been attached 
to the rear of the trigger, which acts like a “timer” or block, and 
which is in most striking contrast, mechanically speaking, to the 
many most complicated and often wholly unreliable patented de- 
vices for preventing doubling in single-trigger guns. 

The counterbalance or “timer” is mechanical simplicity in itself, 
is inexpensive and absolute in its functions, 

Upon pressing the trigger, the first time and discharging the 
first barrel, the counterbalance F is forced downward upon or 
toward the trigger plate. Upon releasing the trigger, the counter- 
balance is raised again to a position slightly more elevated than 
before the first pull of the trigger, thus allowing.the sear to make 
its downward movement and the stud or extension, D1, on lever 
D to slip under or over the lug G, as the case may be, and couple 
or connect the other sear. 

The under-bolt or breech-bolt, by means of a projection, A, Fig. 
2, presses against the extension D* of the lever D when the gun 
peine opened, and places both sears in a normal position as in 

ig. 1. 

The above mechanism is easily applied to most hammerless 
leck constructions, 

For hammer guns the B, & J. single trigger is still more simple. 
The transposer is done away with, and instead of the rear projec- 
tion on breech-bolt A, Fig, 2, we have a stud “A,” Fig. 6, on the 
tumbler, _ ! 

In cocking the gun the stud “A” slips under the lever D, Fig. 6, 
so that the stud D* on the forward end of lever D is pressed in 
the groove Ct of the sear C, 

Upon Prcreine: the trigger atid releasing the right hammer, the 
tumbler is forced upward, releasing the sear CG and the lever D, 
ee the action thereafter corresponds with that of the hammerless 
ock, 

The left barrel may be fired continuously without firing the right 
by cocking the left hammer only. In this wise the stud D will 
always slip under the shoulders of the left sear, and the pressing 
of the trigger will lift both sears. When both hammers are cocked 
the gun will shoot right and left. When only either right or left 
hammer is cocked it will fire the respective barrel continuously, 

The counterbalance of timer IF performs the same functions of 
preventing a possibility of doubling or firing both barrels inyol- 
untarily, as in the hammerless gun, 

I predict that American sportsmen and gun makers will not be 
far behind their Enropean cousins m recognizing the practical 
advantages of a simple, sound, purely mechanical, cheap and thor- 
oughly reliable single trigger for double-barrel guns, 

Justus yon LENGERKE, 


Missourt State Amateur Shooting Asscciation. 


A GRBAT TRAPSHOOTING CIRCUIT FOR THE WEST. 


_St. JosepH, Mo., March 21,—It has doubtless been a long time, 
if ever in the history of the West, that trapshooting has reached 
such a‘degree of popularity as it enjoys at present. No sooner 
was it announced that the Grand American Handicap would be 
held in Kansas City this season than trapshooters of the middle 
pee Pea to arrange a circuit to follow immediately after the 

Arrangements were soon consummated, and the following splen- 

did circuit was arranged, consisting of three State shoots as_fol- 
lows: Kansas State shoot at Olathe, April 8, 9, 10 and 11; Mis- 
souri State shoot at St. Joseph, April 14, 15 and 16; Nebraska 
State shoot at Omaha, April 22, 23. 24 and 25. 
_ The Kansas State shoot has for years been one of the bést held 
in the West, and this one promises to eclipse all former events, 
The management will add $400 in cash to the events and for average 
money. 

Following the Olathe shoot will be the Missouri State shoot at 
St, Joseph, which is only sixty-three miles from Kansas City. The 
first two days will be at targets, and the third day at live birds; 
$400 will be added to the events and for ayerage money. This 
shoot will take place on thé grounds of the Metropolitan Gun Club, 
without doubt one of the finest shooting grounds in the West. 
The management will make cyery effort to please the shooters and 
see that they have a good time while in the city. 

Last on the list, but not least by any means, comes the Ne- 
braska State shoot at Omaha, which will be second only to the 
G. A, H. There will be $600 added money, and as Omaha has the 
reputation of always giving a good shoot, there is no doubt that 
this one will eclipse all former events. - 

The shooters of the West feel that they now haye an opportunity 
of showing their Eastern brothers that they can give tournaments 
of the highest order, and you are requested to make arrangements 
to stay with us a month~and take in the above tournaments, which 
We can assure you, will be the best held in the West this season, 

F, B. CunnincHam, Sec’y-Treas. 


WN. Y, State Shoot. 


Rocuester, N, Y., March 21.—I inclose herewith an_article, 
reference to our State shoot, from the pen of our old friend, W. C, 
Hadley, who is still with us in spirit, and we hope will soon be 
able to be with us in body, Tf you cam see your way clear to 
publish it in full, we shall be very glad to have you do so; other- 
wise such parts as you think will be of general interest will be 
fully appreciated: 

R. C. Kersuner, 


The annual meeting of the New York State Association for the 
Protection of Fish and Game, which will be held in this city under 
the auspices of the Rochester Rod and Gun Club the second week 
in June of this year, will without doubt be one of the largest events 
of the kind witnessed in this State in some years. 

The Rochester Rod and Gun Club have unsurpassed. facilities for 


. carrying out one of the finest and most attractive programmes ever 


offered in this State. In addition to its beantiful grounds, it has 
secured adjoining ones, which, together with the handsome club 
house, splendid appointment and magnificent scenery, make it one 
of the most delightful shooting grounds in the State, 
_ The action of the State Legislature in prohibiting live-bird shoot- 
ing has foreed the Rochester Rod and Gun Club to>make an inani- 
mate target contest for the Dean Richmond trophy;:but no change 
will be made in the rules except so far as they conflict with the 
following: Entrance fee, $10 per team, with targets extra; three 
mioneys, 50, 30 and 20 per cent.; class shooting; 50 targets per 
man, or 150 targets per team. Ties to be shot off af'25 targets per 
man, or 75 targets per team, me 

The rest of the events are not fully decided on, but will consist 
of the popular free merchandise shoot, State events. and sweep- 
stakes, and will be given in later issues. i 

The shoot will be managed by Jack Parker, of Detroit, whose 
experience and popularity is a sufficient guarantee that everything 

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will run smoothly, : AD. 


Gaillard Sporting Club. 


Natcuez, Miss.—On the 14th inst. Mr. Hood Waters was a 
visitor at a shoot of the Gaillard Shooting Club, of Natchez, Miss. 
at which there was an assemblage of gaod shots, as the scores 
anpenced will show: ; Z 


Syents: Dime Sr4b BF BY sO Sie <9" 10 
Targets: 10 15 15 25 30 25.15 10 10 10 
Aer ILOTI me ata nceter tielorcicterers aictae a ras 10 14 14 22-10 18 10 6. 7 WB 
Baker) ost saeh vs gules Fay cll) Lae GOT! TE * 4s ag aa! 
Devine 5 -ss sess cece eee ree reece 2 02 As 28] SSH83 9h 10 
Hillman .5.. seen veers Grae OY, el iets | 20a ted! 9 1G 
SIG Wittens. pete tstaee fehl vis aye les 10 14 14 24 9 24 315 § 9 13 
Sanford) 2.0.00 ...; Atta date 6 1 12.19 6 18 8 4 65 9 
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Shooting at Rittersville. 


Rirtersvitte, Pa., March 20.—Douglass S$. Daudt, of South 
Bethlehem, to-day defeated Francott, of Easton, in a dontest at 
this place. The match was for $25, at 25 live birds, Each killed 
16, and then shot off. Daudt won by killing 9 straight. Francott 
missed 2 out of 10. Scores of other matches; ‘ 

No. 1, 8 birds: Franklin 6; Hahn 5, Sommers 6, Rehrig 8 
Mack 5, Daudt 7, Francott 7, Barner 5, Sommers. 6, Shimmel 6. 
Soar eae pear 7, Daudt 8) Francott 6. ar 

o. 2, irds: Franklin, Francett, Young, Shimmel, Hal 
aaa ESOT each, Barner 4. Straub 3. 5 eat Bees 
oO. irds: Franklin 12, Mack 11, Fernhel 5, Smit = 
ning 4,’ The last three did ict finish, — ps sta 


FOREST AND 


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G. A. H.. Entry List. 


Adams, C. B:, Rockwell City, Ia. 
Ady » Es West Liberty, la, 
ard, Geo, E. Goldfield, Til. 
Agard, ¢ Li £., Cinncinnati, O. 
ens st Hutchinson, Kans, 
Alkire, D., Woodlyn, 
cerners ‘Robert, Kansas City, Mo. 
Arkansaw Traveler, Hot Springs, Ark. 
Allen, me §., Raymore, Mo, 
Allen, D, E, Ardmore, Indian Territory. 
Amberg, J. H., Chicago, Ill. 
Anthony, J. , Charlotte, N.C. 
Arp, Henr x Davenport, Ja. 
Atchison Giddings, Tex. 
Arnold, red, Se oseph, Mo. 
Destmmore, E. W., rdmore, 1. T. 
Arno, F., Glenwood, Ia. 
Avery John E, Atlanta, Ga. 
B-27, Herman, Neb, 
Baggerman, Wm., St. Louis, Ma. 
Baker, Harry, Pekin, Til. 
Baker, W. A., Griffin, Ga. 7 
Baker, J. W., Weir sn Tans. 
Banks, aan New York. 
Berton J. Chicago, Til. 
Batcheler, Jos, Kansas City, Mo. 
Bates, H Ride re Ontario, Can. 
Battle-ax, Newark, N 
Beach, ae Kansas dity, aie: 
Beaucaire, M , Oshkosh, 
Beck, Geo. Cc. Titianapolic, “ieatil 
Bekeart, wit "San Francisco, Cal. 
Berkey, F. Kansas City, M 
Bero, Jr., Ed, Parsons, Kans. 
Beveridge, Cc. C., Fremont, Neb. 
eee oy NES ‘Goodland, Kans. 
ham, ae Chicago, lil, 
Bree Fairmont, Minn. 
Black Ben i Nichols, Ta. 
Blue ee Merrill, Wis. 
Boa, J. S., Alton, Ill. 
Boltenstern, H. E., Galesburg, Il., 
Boltenstern, W. F.. Cambrid e, Tl, 
Boisseau, J. H. , Shreveport 


Boschert, D., Chanute, Rass 
Bottger ’O. C..’ Ollie, Ta. 

Boyd, J. W., Sioux City, Ie 
Bradrick, W., Crescent city, IIL. 


Brady, E _ Newbern, T Tenn. 
Bramhall, . W., Kansas City, Mo. 
Bray, D. Syracuse, Neb. 


Broyles, J. C.. Birmingham, Ala. 
Brown, F. R., La Moille, Ii. 
Brown, H. M., Londonville, O. 
Brownlee, M, om Spokane, Wash. 
Brucker, G Omaha, Neb 


otis: i 
Brydon, J. A., "La Grange, Ti. 
aus Cc. Dayton, O 
Budd, W., Des Moines, Ta. 
Budd, £ W., Pemberton, N. 
Burke, E., Baltimore, Md. 
Burke, Farmer, Elgin, Neb. 
Burnes, R. L., Paris, Tex. 
Burnside, Guy, Knoxville, Til. 
Burmister, John, Spirit Lake, Ta. 
Bush, J. E., Milwaukee, Wis. 
Butch, H., Chicopee, Kans. 
Buzby, W lis J., Chatsworth, N, is 
Byram, Dr. W. M., Richmond, M 
Caldwell, John H., Springfield, Til. 
Caleb, Chas., iin Mich. 
Calhoun, Weir City, Kans. 
Callison, Ex: Hat Lake City, aoe 
Campbell, J. E., Kansas City 
Carter, G, ‘L. North Platte, Nobe 
Carson, He “Platte City, Mo. 
‘Cawley, Minneapolis, Kans. 
Child, C. St. Louis, Mo. 
Clayton Win Kansas City, Mo. 
Clay, W. ee St. Louis, Mo, 
Wabash, Ind. 
Clay, Cpe T ‘H., Austerlitz, Ky, 
Clinton, Fred, Chicago, 1. 
Collins, H, P., Baltimore, Md: 
Colbert, Chas., Colbert, it T. 
Cornett, if Fy Kansas City, Mo. 
Cockrill, F, N., Platte City, Mo. 
Cockrill, ci B., ” Platte City, Mo. 
Cockrill, G., Platte City, Mo. 
Cook, (a E. New London, Ia. 
Cool, R. W., Aledo, Ill, 
Coleman, Guy Platte City, Mo, 
Crothers, E. Bloomington, Ill. 
Crutchley, W- C., Dodge City, Kans. 
Cunning at F. Be St. Joseph, Mo. 
Curtice, Jee _ Kansas ity, 
Connor, Cc. Pekin, II], 
Crisman, *, Te Ottumwa, Ia. 
Crabill, E rah ‘Atlantic, Ta, 
Crosby, G E!, O’Fallon, Til. 
aa W. R., O’ Fallon, Tl. 
Deal, W. C., Chicago, Jal, 
Dockson, Theodore F. Surnefeld, Til. 
Darby, G. D. B., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dickey, O. R., Boston, Mass, ~ 
Davis, J. W., Platte City, Mo. 
Duckson, C. & Kansas City, Mo. 
Davidson, I. C., Auburn, Il, 
Dupee, W. Bn "Chicago, Lil. 
Dering, Guy V.. Columbus,. Wis. 
Duncan, Ellis, Louisville, Ky. 
Duncan, W. F., Sioux City, Ja. 
Dwyer, Richard, Chicago, Il]. 
Dove, R. L., Centreville, Ia, 
Daly, M. Chicago Ill. 
Dixon, Allen, Joplin, Mo. 
Dixon, Chester, aay Mo, 
J South Bethlehem, Pa, 
Dorton, ‘B. C., Fonda, la. 
Downs, B. F., Springneid, O. 
Dyer, H. M., San Antonio, he 
Elliott, Deve! Kansas City 
Elliott, J. A. R., Kansas City Mo. 
Elliott, S., Kansas City, Mo. 
Eick, Capt. en, Sterling, Ill. 
Emmers, Ed, Royersford, Pa. 
Evander, Gus, Wheaton, Minn. 
Fortier, T. J., Piper City, 1. 
Foster, €. E.} Centerville, Ia. 
Renmine, J. f ersey City, N. J. 
Fulford, E. D.; Utica, N. Y. 
Franx, Norwalk, O. 
Foley, L., Nichols, Ta. 
Fletcher, E., Kansas City, Mo. 
Feudner, M. O., San Francisco, Cal. 
Fallie, E. W., Larned, Kans. 
PiSnaN Dy: . P. Shreveps ort, La, 
Fogg, F Omaha, Neb’ 
Faurote, F. M., Fort Worth, Tex. 
Felton, C. E., Chicago, TI]. 
Frank, Abe, Memphis, Tenn, 
Fox, A. H., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Griffith, E.'C., Pascoag, R. I. 
Glade, A. ae Grand Island, Neb, 
Goodrich, F. L., Omaha, Neb. 
Grant, S., Bmaka Neb. 
Glasner, A, H., Kansas. City, Mo. 
Gottlieb, Chris. .. Kansas City, Mo. 
Gregory, H. H., Kansas City, Mo. 
Garrett, po , Colorado Springs, Colo. 
Griesdeck, H Cc. St. Louis, 
Glover, Sim, New York. 
evel ct Alf, Brenham, Tex, 
Goebel, C., Jacksonville, DA 
Gossett, Ae Kansas eine 
Gilbert, Fred, Spirit Lake, la. 


Grier, Thos. 0. rena ae Ta. 

Gay, . Fine Grove, K 

Geikler, C . erat. Philadelphia, Pa, 
Green, M t. Louis, Mo. 


Gor oe Ellendale, Ja, 
Gray, eal » ti ‘Sioux City, Ia. 
ale E. S., Windermere P. O., Ill. 


Graham, J. R. Windermere P. O., oe 
Gambell, ea Seong Place, ©, 

G. A, C. acme Wis. 

Gordon, D, , Kansas City, Mo. 
Graber, W. I Brenham, Tex. 

Harum David, MSDE els Ill. 
Hall, G. T., Laomi, 

Heilman, W. A. Pekin, TL 
Heikes, R. O., Dayton, O. 

pialiowaly John Je Philadelphia, Pa. 
ead, ae 

Hudson, E,  Euteiinson: ais. 

Hubbard, Aes Seansat City, 

Halliwell, Kansas City Mo. 

Herman, C Rees City, Mo. 
Herman, W We. tt Kansas City, Mo. 

Hickman, Ed. A., Kansas City pees 

Holmes, Ducky. , Kansas City, 

Hill, M ansas City, 

Hubbard, H. L., Dodge City, Kan. 

Holmes I. Hy Chloride, Ariz. 

Hicks, T: P., Chicago, Iii, 

Hirschy, H. Cc, Minneapolis, Minn, 

Hodges, Erank, Olathe, Kans. 

Hoover, C. A., Oskaloosa, Ia. 

Hinshaw, E, c. Okoboji, Ta. 

Huston, Ey Perry ae Territory. 

Hawman, I H. Sioux City, Ia. 

Howard Sree oe r 

ictes i ee Columbus, Gig 

Hill, "West Liberty, O. 

Hill, i ie Aurora, Ind. 

Heirgood, Arthur, Pueblo, Colo. 

Hoffman, Sam, Jr., Atlantic, Ta, 

Hubby M., Palmyra, Wis. 

Hubby, "Waco, Tex. 

Hall, J. H “Hsadiond, Til. 

Hammill H. Kansas City, Mo. 

Hardin, J. J., Omaha, Neb, 

afer, Edgar, Council Bluffs, Ia. 

Heer, W. Concordia, Kans, 

Herr, Geo. West Liberty, Ta. 

Hungate, {- B., Weeping Water, Neb. 

Hughes, G. E. Fonda, Ia. 

Hansbro, W. Jes, Paducah, Ky- 

Indian, Ardmore, If ibs 

Ue J. A., Austin, Tex. 

. AY Leavenworth, Kans, 

arrett, ie Unio Kansas Cit , Mo, 
enkins, G. W., Wamego, ans. 

annie? John, "Shreveport, La, 
ohnston, S. S., Minneapolis, Minn, 

Johnston, Mrs. S. S Minneapolis, “Minn. 

Jone Robt. A., Chatham, Til. 
imball, R. R., "Mercer, Neb. 

Kilgour, Chas., Schenectady, N. Y. 

King, R, L., Des Moines oe 

Kuss, Ralph, Chicago il, 

Klein, oo Spirit Lake, Ta. 
aep, , Dubuque, Ia. 


Kineaee an North Bend, Neb. 
Kimble, Ewe "Bradford, Ii. 

Kearns, T Excelsior Springs, Mo. 
acne Des Moines, Ia. 

Kin TT itings Mills, o. 


Kirby, ane se Greenville, 
Koegel, H. (op Newark, a if 
Kaintuck, Pare Ky. 
aes s Fay! Burns, Kans. 

Long, A. D. ‘Tripp, South Dakota. 
Lamoreux, F. pringfield, II. 
Lilly, John ae Indianapolis, Ind. 
Lewis, Chas. A., Omaha, Neb, 
Laidlaw, W,. A Kansas City, Mo, 
Le SATS Pleasureville, Ky, 
Lawton, A. J. (ee Springs, Colo. 
Little, . ES ansas City, Mo. 
Lord, H.. Chica os If, 

Lard, A. a New 

Legett, J. P , Carthage, “Mo. 
Livingston, pata gles Ala. 
Lone Jack, ae 

Lyons, H. J., Loaisyille, ae 
feroy. Campello, Mass. 


Leac Sioux City, Ia. 
Lumberj ack, “Merrill, Wis. 
Leach, WA Bonestell, S. D, 


Loomis, G. W, Omaha, Neb, 
oudea pHs Bradford, Ill. 
Lane, J. A Marshalltown, Ta. 
Mackie, ‘HL Cincinnati, ae 
Magill, has. S., Arnold, Ill 
Marshall, Kee "A, Ie ethebarg, Til. 


Marshall, J. A., Gardner, Kans. 
Markle, ae Bs St. Louis, Mo. 
re reat . Persia, Ia. 
Mattox, ; Oskaloosa, Ta, 


Menatty 4 Ne » Osceola, Ta. 
McGraw, j., nN Minneapolis, Minn, 
McKelvey, J. A. Hedrick, Ia. 
MecMurchy, H. Fulton, N. Y, 
Means, B. J., Renee City, Mo. 
Meidroth, . F., Peoria, Tl. 
Merrill, Bay City, Mich. ; 
Merrill, Ri, Milwaukee Wis. 
Msaaie ee: Hi St neha hi. 

iddletown prin e 

Miller, A ibs New Boston, 
Millett, Shirley, Kansas City Mo. 
Mink, ‘C. E., Philadelphia, Pa. 
M., G., Monroe, Ta. 
Money, Harold, Oakland, N. J. 
Money, 5h p Oakland, N. J. 
Moore, F Perry, O 
Moore, Forry, , Lincoln, Neb, 
Moore, W. L., Kansas" City, Mo. 
Morfey, T. W., Queens, L. I., N. Y. 
Morris, G, McG. Cincinnati, O, 
Morrison, J. St. Pail) Minn. 
Morris, he n, “philadelphia, Pa, 
Mott, L., Des Moines, Ia. 
Moy. ‘A. B., Oskaloosa, Ia. 
Murph, B., Weir City, Kans. 
Myrick, F. W. Chicago, Ill, 
Nason, W. E., St. Louis, Mo. 
Nelson, H. T., Clifton Forge, Va. 
Newton, ae 5: Perry, O. T. 
Nichols, T. Nichols, Ia. 
North, Pauly ‘Cleveland, O. 
N orthcott, W. P.. La Grange, Th, 
Norton, a Hie New York. 
Norton, F., Kansas City, Mo. 
Oakley, Annie Nutley, N. 
O’Brien, ‘d. Florence, Kans. 
O’Brien, BS. ae et Tih. 
O’Brien, dash Ee ney que, Ta, 

Sais WES Louis, Mo, 

San Antonio, Tex, 

Ong, F ’ E.) 8t. Louis, Mo. 
Overly, L L. K., Kansas cae Kans. 
Page, §.H ., Elkton, K: 
Page, J. a “Elkton, rae 
Palmer, Silas, Cices hs il. 
Park, Memphis, T ; 
Parker, Paul, angie Cit Mo. 
pany Jack, ee ich. 
Parry, J Kansas City, Mo. 
Patton, M. Pe Platte City. Mo. 
Peck, F.C Kansas City, Mo. 
Perr , Peny, 0 
Pease Cc, ; Cincinnati, O sae 
Planck, F. M., Kansas City M 
Plumer, Dr. J Hailey, Ida. 
Pollard, D: chan Til, 
Porter. 'B., ‘Kansas City, Mo. 
Post,- tra B, "Spencerville, oO. 
Powers, C c. M., Decatur, Dl. 
qumby, W.F », East Alton, I). 

aines, G. Q., Beatrice, Neb. 
Rainmaker, Ottawa, Ill. 
Ranger, Peru, Ind. 
Ray, Washington, Ind. - 
Redman, S., jatte aie Mo. 
Reed, Harry, Kan City, M 
Reppell, Jos. ay Kansas by “Mo, 
Rhoades, R S., Columbus, 


Rhodes, J. M,, Frankfort, Kans. 
Rice, BE ., Chica ‘0, Il, 4 

ncaa A. F., Kansas City, Mo, 

Riehl, mG East Alton, Ill. 

Rike, E ED! Dayton, O. 

Riley, J Es ee City, Me. 

Robin a Fostoria, O. 

Rohrer, JH El Reno, O, T, 

Roll, j.. "Blue Island, IN, 

Rotate a aire eats City, Mo. 

Rossbach, Des Moines, Ia. 

Running,’ B, O. ” Atchison, Kans. 

Ross, Chick, Winfield, Ta, 

Rudy, Atlantic, Ia. 

Rogers, F, St. Joseph, Mo. 

Saucier, Repete: New Orleans, La. 

Saxton, Cc. W. Hardy, Ta. 

Shaw, A. M., Delmont, South Dakota. 

Sims, J. M., Collinsville, Til. 

Schroeder, G. Columbus, Neb, 

Scott, B. F., ps Lake, Mich. . 

Sporting Life, Philadelphia, Pa, 

Shemwell, W. Be Colorado Springs, Colo. 

Spencer, HB , St. Louis, Mo. | 
Stepherts, C. Moline, Ti. | 
Stockwell, ie Se Kansas City, Mo. | 
Scott, Lill, Kansas City, Mo. ’ 
Simms, T_J., Kansas City, Mo. | 
Sherman, H. E., Kansas City, Mo. . 
Sherman, Ey A. Kansas City, Mo. 
Smith, F. J., Kansas City, Mo. : 
Sexton, Jas. , Leavenworth, Kans. 
Stevens, H. H. Rahway, N. ]. | 
Sergeant, W. G., Joplin, Mo, 
Simpkins, Geo. B: Lincoln, Neb. , 
Spicer, ine ., St. Louis, Mo. — 
Sears, W. , Des Moines, Ta. ‘4 
Sheehy, i] ‘Is, Des Moines, Ia. ; 
Stauber ie. Streator, 111. : 

Steck, hd M,, ‘Chicago, Ill. 

Stoner, Jim, Granger, Ta, 
Storey, T, J., Duluth, Minn. ace 
Smith, M. J., Cambridge Til. ry 
Snyder, Crawfordsville, nd, 

Steier, ae P., Oshkosh, Wis. 
Stevens, C., “Abilene, Kans. 

Squier, L. iby Cincinnati, O. 
Scranton, IE 10 Weir City, ee 
Smith, W, A,, Greenwood, 

Sperry, A, D. Rock Island, I. 
Sellers; J, M., Chicago, Ill. 

Stevenson, Geo., Jr., V Waterville, Kans. 
Soward, F, M. Topeka, Kans 
Stephenson, é Brodhead) Wis. 

Sanford, M. C., er de, O. 

Schlosser, E. R., olfax, Ta, 

Schuler, W., Cincinnati, O. 

Scott, UES Markham, In. 

Scott, thie "Markham, "In, 

Selbheas, George, Newton, Ta. 

Small, J. Aurora, Ind. 
Spencer, rea ae St. Louis, Mo. 

eee Walter, St. Louis, Mo, 

Spatz, i F., Meckling, S. D, 

Stout, M., Circlevi le, O. 
Taggart, John S., Nebraska City, Neb, 

Tramp, hicago, Til. 

Thompson, Chas., Springfield, Il. 

Tripp, E. A., Indianapolis, Ind. : a. : 
Taylor, Herbert, St, ouis, Mo. : : 
Townsend, W. D., Omaha, Neb. 

T errybery, Wasa Louisville, Neb. 
Templin, Grant, Minneapolis, Kans. 
Tipton, Harry, ‘Kansas ity, Mo. 
Toll, A., Trenton, Mich, 

Trimble, Rewer Covington, Ky. 
Tucker, Geo, Brenham, Tex, | ; 
_Tsipp, D. R., Newton, Ia. ; . 
Troeh, J. H., Watertown, S. D, F 

Thiele, Henky,_ sn Junction City, Kans. 

Trent, Geo Long Prairie, Minn. . aah 
Timberlake, D. T oe Kans, 

Thomas, T. A., Milwaukee. Wis. 

Thorne, oF ie cuice ‘o, Il. 


Trotter, E Kingsley, Ta. 
Texas Field Dat Antonio, Tex. 
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Taylor, H. G. Meckling, §. D. j 
Thompson, V W. D., Memphis, Tenn. ‘ t 

Thornton, Elwood, Joplin, ee 
Uncle Jim, Kansas City, : 
Uno, E. E., WIA NEUEES, Wis, : j 
Von Lengerke, C 6 , Jersey City, N. J. “it! 
Von Lengerke, O., Chicago, Ill. 

Voris, Ed, Crawfordsville, Ind, 

Van Allen, S. M. Jamaica, L mela ye ws 7 

Werk, aval Cincinnati, O. : 
Woodiord, .P., Dixon, Il. 

White, J. Chicago, Ti. 

Wish ones “Weeping Water, Neb, 
Waters, Hood, Baltimore, Md, 

Wilmot, J., Lexington, Mo. 

Wright, Chas. E., Kansas City, Mo. 
Williams, W. AGS "Belleville, Tit. 
Wilkinson, C. R., St. Paul, Minn, 
Warren, W., Duluth, Minn, 

Wenona, California, 

Watertown, Kid, Watertown, S. D. 
Watson, John, Chica o, Ill. 

Williamson, Dr." Milwaukee, Wis. 
Washburn, W. sue , New Richmond, Ind. 
Ware, Thomas B ” Spokane, Wash. 
Waddell 8:5 Cincinnati, oO. 

Wold, ¥ rok Rapids, Ta. 

White, ee: , Parsons, Kans. 
Wiggins, Cc. Re Homer, Ill. 

Ward, Cy Hickman, "Ky. 

Wetzig, re. ie Junction City, Kans. 
Wettleaf, Wm., Nichols, Ta. 

Ward, J. W., Fi. Benton, Mont. 
Waddington, WwW. A Beatrice, Neb. 
EVES Dudley, ACRE Tenn. 

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Representation of States in G, H., 1902: Alabama 2, Arizona 

Dekases 1, California 3, Golstado 4, Georgia 2, Idaho 1 Indian 
ierritary, 4 Tilinois 76, Lowa 56, Indiana 12, Kansas 33, Kentucky 
11, Louisiana 4, Maryland 3, Massachusetts as Michigan 5, Minne- 
sota 11, Missouri 91, Montana 1, Nebraska’ 25, New Jersey 10, 
New York 9; ere Carolina ule South Dakota 7 Ohio 27, Okla- 
homa Territory 6 , Pennsylvania §, Rhode Telend’ 1, Tennessee 6, 
toe er ee 1, "Virginia aa Washington 2, Wisconsin 18, Canada 

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Concerning the Bursting of Guns, 


San Francisco, March 19.—We have been informed by one of 
our leading loading institutions that experiments have demon- 
strated to them that a wad accidentally left in a gun barrel will 
not cause the barrel to burst on subsequent firing. This opinion 
is at total variance with our belief, as well as the opinion of all 
shooters and manufacturers that we have ever come in contact 
with. The matter is so important that we think shooters, shell 
manufacturers and gun makers in general would: welcome a dis- 
cussion of the matter, and by perhaps a series of experiments prove 
the correctness of this assertion, or at least throw some light on 


' the subject that is somewhat yet disputed, 


We frequently hear of guns bursting without any apparent 
reason. Sometimes it is attributed to a defect in the pares other 
times to an over-charge of powder; again, to misloading, and 
very frequently we hear an assertion that the wad was left-in the 
barrel and caused the barrel to burst. 

We think the subject of general interest to your. steaders, and 
invite a discussion, 

_Paciric Harpware & Sree Co, 
(Per E. Saunders.) 


“All communications intended for Foarzst awn Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., ang 
not to any individual connected with the paper. ‘ 


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~ Marcer 29, 1902.7 ) 


Limited Gun Club Tournament. 


_Iwpzanavouis, Ind., March 21.—The fifth annual tournament of 
he Limited Gun Club closed to-day. The programme was two 
days at targets, and on the last day a 25-live-bird handicap, en- 
trance $25. There were fourteen lé-target events for each of the two 
days, entrance $1.50 in each event; no money was added. 

he target shooting was done from a magautrap. “The pro- 
‘gramme was not finished either day at targets. 


~~ The first day ten events were shot, and on the last day eleven 


were completed. The money was divided in all programme events 


- 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Forty shooters took part in the two 


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first davs, and ilirty-seven entered the Grand Central handicap. 

’ The birds were a good lot, and twenty-seven men did not get a 
place in the race. J, E, Hick, ot Columbus, U., and Fred Gilbert, 
of Spirit Lake, Ia., were the only ones to kill 25; and they divided 
first, each getting $138.75, Head, Rhodes and Fox got 24 and 


_drew out $69.35. Ahlers, Heikes, Budd and Voris got $34.65 for 


killing 23. Rike, Neal, Clay, Young and Phil drew $13.85 tor 
scoring-22. In the shoot-off for.the medal, miss-andjout, Hicks lost 
his first bird. Gilbert killed and won, He also was high on the 
targets, as far as the programme was completed, and his average 
was .962. Sane ¢ 

Hicks shot Schultze powder, U. M. C. shells and a Parker gun. 
Gilbert shot Dupont powder, Winchester shells and a Parker gun. 

The boys are ail heagded for the Grand American Handicap at 
Kansas City, and it is conceded by the wise ones that the 400 
entry mark will be made. , : 

On Thursday evening, Mr. B, H. Tripp gave a dinner to the 
members of the American team. Those -present were Capt. 
Marshall, Emil Werk, Frank.Harrison, Jack Fanning, Fred Gil- 
bert, R. O, Heikes, C: W. Budd, E. H. Tripp, Aibert Tripp and 
Harold Money. Capt. Money was expected, but wired Mr. Tripp 
that he could not be present. Many little incidents that occurred 
while the team was abroad were related, and each one present 
told how it happened. A very pleasant eyening was enjoyed by all, 


Match 19, First Day, 


The scores of to-day were™as follows: 


Events: lie > Sona DE Ge oiektoe ae etO 
TE) Abe eee TAN Eee ccHemennge yi bl, 18) 13) ds oe de ded 12" 32 
Budd ...... MeAZsnsbtepecccecana 13 9°13) 38. 13, 18 13) 1h. as dae 
Marshall ...... Raeeaitd ses eta 18,40 15 18 15 13 14 13 14 15 
FRPATINATTEE = oleic) yiatete os sinless ss 2 GRP Ge oh Ghia Sa Eatin ke als, 

eikes ..... a aos veers ease 14°15 15 13 12 12 12.12 12 13 
kceareener Sec onerey Sehpee eceee Seyge et mish ARE ecb alsp age i ae 13 
GU Derteesaaet eens eee jos ne 1 15 24 12°18 15 15 15 ib dz 16 
Faust (ood SGgsodasedecdpen 13,18 12 11 14 14 18 12 15 7 
Sieyqe. Area eee ao ttetor bos oreee 15 12 14 18 12 12 14 13 14 14 
STecn eves lances ees T4618 14 615 ale dag eld 
PPhelliss coucecseratintens Mitten es TE} ES LS Si Glee bwenht iV ake ak 
te, Comptelsancss ss wearers ese >, 21 16) 138, 12, 4 12 14 13 14 

~ ORG a peeteyatdl ean ae 9 peeneoneros egy Tee On 9s tee e. T4o ealSsy 33 
(Ose peie Elsa ests see et ill Pp eae Gy ab} ae 
Micldan elitewwtersiteresalsaneomiOL le mlzeniou ior eltasioeslce 44 
Michaelis ..cc.seeeseseeees reece MmOe eee R TON LE WL asec oe 
GG Daas canes eee en a 8 ne ha id) 445 f4* IS oe a 2: 14 
Partington ....se.scceceeesenvre 12 18 14 13 Tl 12 12 18 13 ,. 
IBA Tot pontyabunapecesn ates This TRUES WET aie cli aise “aby aby 
iNet: Pood o onABe Pisses tees ell. “SEG re gig lilt age o5n oe 
IMOIEr: Aatereceaescnass-4 sale ty + Wi Sh Sie ARP SES aBwk) YY PSs 
GGGDET Pot cncwace a seettaseerke (14 1201412) 14,44 12-d4 11. 
eNealt so. 2t 5. See cea aeed eee es ed) 121s Owls De 4 Teh. 
Silo mba ee ariene e-sisie 5) Be ren reete Alpe sib pagt s . Seie mG Ue es Bor 
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MSZ Wat bleiae tania cota) ote we cyttaraere FES se tel he Se oe Fe 
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Sha hies eens etias eet erate eRSe eked Gn ete A ky a at US en 
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NS VLES Pi eases ean cecsricttel! ELRGE cee Oem MIMIC Toe meer) st 
IBTOORspde laauiue ead acosmenices<se ne eRe cD LS asi ORE. 
Meredith -........... ead lee Sass A aie Selene ey | 
Bussel ...+---. Ste Le dala te Sete Be pat lb UN att) St ee 
AVA a oes aerate hee Moe a fae ae eee ee 
er yi eretes nee eisties pee areten ae Ppt 4 ora BS Paine 2y ie A ene! elk pee eae 
Beste wares satect sens be | ES I) AS a 
Adamson ......s022.000- rriphipres: st SREP Ue metre Ble 
Wate gles ASS bogus eee ecenee oo nee eeeiin Ge or dR IES Gb 


March 20, Second Day. 


The scores made on the second day are as follows: 


Events: TRS SOT Si TOT 
TUR Ye! sa sare ue A ven 14°12 14 15 12°53 18 13 14°42 414 
Budd! <-.. 13 14 18 14 18 14 13 14 15 1 1b 
Marshall ii 14 13°°8 12°14 138 14 15 15 14 
Fanning 14615 15 Wt 14 «15 15 14 14 13 14 

eikes . A 1213813 as 12) 14 
Rike ... 16 14 144 18 15 144 15 15 14 14 
Fisher ... SOs Aes s 10. e120 at 
Gilbert . 15 15°15 15 96 14°15 15 14 15 16 
Pheilis® *..esse ce Ase Seb alps ES ay aches Stk cinjegadsy ais) 
Faust sa-.s Porc ieee Peete IS 13 a4 eo ab te abs db 4 14 
Neal ~....5 bie forte ene, 1a as 2? a: ie Oe 
Wintemkeetenecre et tiaenad ©1224 1316 12 4 4 4 M4 2 
Wareins- is ericseladdadada. el ai 4S Iba ts) I toe 
Dehie os) satis sarees 13 11 i 1 12 16 12 13 12 12° 13 
Maeno mpterieccdes dete ase cs 114 A213 14" A216 12 8 1a 8 
METAS Iie ten eaters icleniale'c)sheicle Age, Sleortos dos 12 idea ales alee cs 
SPpencenncriiccr ster ce cero Le elolalsetneton tg. se Is a ey se 
IRATE SIREN De ce are aero niece TASSTS. ID SSS be 18) 1513 127 3. 

Cade daceaticadsccedehoamlun elon lye 4s hy AO 1 4 ee AS) F. 
Wearhay) sess sa coaths eet ck: BP A ripe Nas, sake Sea ish ca |e ee 
UG ble i eesecss race sheet he » oe 18 10 42 48-145 12 “ta 13 ib 2 
{NBS Sarnannoeertaon. cree 13) db T4412. 12 34 1222.1) 14 138 
Wotlers hat tines te tens PLETED Hi GUM Rabe SUP A piypaenrém Ah, 
MATTEL]! beh. teres ter tele se ne 89 2s elomela. cite cfaambty Oe thee sie 
@oaper! eyesk wes kets os pods GER AR) Se SGy fisp mem aby ad beable se 
Baileys canes tae smacte sipasegee le} Sry ay BPO aSS al, ab bbe Stiegabte 7S 
Fort Het Io ney ei, URE: seee 14 15 15 14 12 15 14 15 10 15 10 
SLE B.S Oe Oboe ered GFL oth AEE” ph SURE Te Nan Pye 
GN cSCH Varta spe tadsaedeiae Ree thos stl, Onl 4: hither en es 
SEARLES Sononbonnhennntrerccs Mod omrine Jt elie ise Wie docaey Deleon hE 
Be Be Ea nen SOR. Softee! HbA ley SRO IBS TEM Dts EE EG eees Sa 
PATISOTI ON setesiesis <i> Acer gee lon te mee Bere Gtr Grn. 
Aes Wen ie tele tis cin ines ecloe See ee eet en OA Pe OF ae er. 
raley ainseses ees Peceeee 335 eee Eine ede EO LO emia = 
sialon eetemone Aten CTR weetice a, bie es le: LEG Bide a ae 
{]. SHES ally aston ee Ee hoes AZGRS eta Cok see em « 
GrawiOlcdemeet chiecer sre ceur Aye aoies AA TN Per Me A iy ee ee es 

EEIVRGreCsttim. i cate wet eee Met fee ssdied aa stay te EOS se nn 


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‘March 21, Third Day. 


The third day was devoted to live-bird competition, the main 
event of which was the Grand Central Handicap, 25 live birds, $25 


entrance. Hicks and Gilbert scored straight. 
Gamble, 28 -2022122202222102202202020—18 
Rike, 29.... -0021222222299220229922992 22 
Fanning, 31..... .22222200*2102210122222212 20 
Le Compte, 29. .0202211210020021001002002—13 
Clay, tae .0222222229299992020222222 22 
Takia 238 eke Masse eee 0220220098802 2222225 
VAS ITS oa ee pte errr nies es ee wee ee on 222222292022222920*22222 21 
Spaniel’, akin acee eee ee, aids siete eos +202220222202222021220"122 19 
Ahlers, 29...... APE ar PLE ree eR ae es 3 2222220 *2222909212202029 23 
NEOLLIS) e20ni add dae sees eae elisetess artista 122222222292222210102202—21 
RWEricm oS aetdd dodanie eta authasbies 2210202100211101221120021—18 
MC VEY, 28 Fc vtite conser sie panenssyrsenn 1*12132222110101120221221—21 
Witty BUSS oad hes oe ahah Rae ag ad 212222021 2222220212122212—29, 
illy, Mae cig es ec feser ore Bee ee a a 222229221702*02*222012212—19 
(Cl Rar geno ees sere fe, kaosecaghea A 0*22220*2202121222212*222 17 
Noli ites, SR go so dees RHE ASndnac occ 22222292229220221)22022022—22 
Phil 30..:-.2 fa yt ea GadeeaucG herd aes « « 222222220222022221 22022222 


eee» © 00202220212222222022202222 20 
tees nee ween ool 22222022210*0022221222 —20 


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TMtayons) OU ba parbaariace esc doae 


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ite) Wate Va Reece oe tera. ar onbrndn 1) se and 2021122221*11020221122923—24 
J Smipe, 27. .0..cceeeeecees cece res casas ys 92 200221222222202222221220—21 
Marion, 30....... Spina iateieia sees eitaveravare + ew - .0112142102022222022202020—18 

- Lawrence, 29........2.0.ceasece cece vee ns oO L111222222101*211292120—21 
Head, 30...... jecendececssveentseessanst a» odrdasenasanAearaeoeaee—aA 
Heikes, 31......... pee aerstseose sone nsices -D121002212922222212201222 —25 
Gilbert, 32........ nd bnosaccnaanesucsr reer asannla0lezanl ll aze2ee22e22—A5 
Marshall, 81...0..c¢ederstescsercrnsseceees a Mere2eoQ2222Q02220222% 2) - 
Rhoads, 30..... wiuiipehe cee aibsis cd neste ad ene tooo Pero aeo ODDO eee — Oe: 


Prarie 29. i csccecsesesevsn-ncstecedensss ssQauanzclal2002W 

Money, BD. cuccccvecevecccosrsscascvuvscn sla eee e222 22922282 1) 
Duncan, DO ccc ccaacvansacvenccunncsces s seten ne ZI2 222222 WI 22299 —97 
Budd, Bleec-soccccvecssocensesnsacggsveces Ware VARGKA 2a 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Anson, 28.. wewegaeueness -L11021010222*220*10201101—16 
‘ox, Sh...-. the 1 2222222292999971 02229901294 
Willie, 28.. coe don sys eee eB2UO222222922220222992 12-21 
Neal, '30......- vee canee sens sn 0212222222991 299%220022212—22 
Webb, 27.....- rica tt eet 


coc esees evs o122011221201:2011012000012—16 


IN NEW JERSEY. 
New York German Gun Club. 


Carlstadt, N. J., March 19.—The club shoot of the New York 
German Gun Club resulted as follows: 


| Wellbrock, 29,..,222222002*— 7 Mesloh, 28......... 1112*11210— 8 
MH Meyer, 28.2...... 2000000020— 2 Dannefelser, 28....2200001110— 6 
Von Kettingell, 28.2*11211221— 9 Martens, 25........: 010100000U— 2 
C Lemone, 29...... O1I2210102— 7 Radle, 28..-........ 2U0"00212— 6 
J. Schlicht, 28...... 0*11002202— 5 Stetfens, 28........- 1022201222— 8 
Dr Hudson, 28... ..1212020122— 8 Albert, 28.......... 0022201200— 6 
Garmes, 28.00.52... 1202011*21— 7 Hagmiah, 25........ 0000201000— 2 
Maumch, 28....,-....2702202102— 6 H EF Meyer,........ 2022010011— 6 


Jeannette Gun Club. 


Newark, N. J., March 21.—The club trophy was won by Mr, W 
J.. Kroeger, with a straight score. Mr. H. Loden won Class 5 


trophy. Mr. Meyer, the holder, was defeated by Mr. Loeble for 
the challenge medal. The scores:. th 

Hi Pape, 29:......05. 222100*010— 5 C Peters, 28.:..... 0000222222— 6 
C Meyer, 28........ 1111*22111— 9 - W- Rohlf, 28,......- Q111211210— § 
G E Loeble, 28..... 0212112112— 9 C Tyssenn, 25...... *2)2010121-— 6 

ob Lott, 30 Saeee het 0101021112— 7 H Loden, 25....... 1020112210— 7 
V J Kroeger, 28...1221211222—10. J Luhman, 265....... 2y00*02200— 3 
Co Buri, 280i 25 as 0111012102— 8 C Meyerdiercks, 28.1211222220-— 9 
J Hainhorst, 28....1112201111— 9 J Schmidt, 28...... 21010*2101— 6 

Match for $50, at 25 birds: 

Win O}ItSe searc\. ieee (Nae eeeea st table! 2020222102202022002202222—17 
C Meyerdiercks. 220.20. .2 20s cae ae S0quee 1221002222110021012220220—18 

Challenge medal, 15 birds: 

Gab Gocblesa Av. A, Siew Ae: tag Pent er '112222021220111—13 
C IWevyers ccerssstrervres es Stearasb alee! Sobchspe ort eave ed 22R0111121120—12 

Miss-and-outs, $1: 

Events: 2 3 4. Events: deed nd: ch 
TSO ERICT: bible eltcrn sores bo iets (OP Peters. enw mens Bans 2 oenGe.e 
Awe yh eae acre aoe ey WWestd eee LIOUL kisitaoe we ae easy ees ard, nae 0 
Hainhorst ........ Seete Oye SO, Gem VSSETE ) elite coniee seaze dwie ee « 
TOeDe Aevgesact er ree 6 2 4 2 (Bunnt ..2... By Ren + On 2a, 
Meyerdiercks ...., Meee sates, LOA elt taeiilathe wercteen sta ot ote sa Unease ae 

TESS arene Sled se 5 Seale ie SOGeT Spee cnhccarharremte CUp ss 
Meyer: i Ancteers ene 423 7 


Richmond Gun Club, 


Sitver Lake, Staten Island, March 22—The main event of the 
gathering was the team contest between teams of Messrs. Von 
Lengerke & Detmold and Messrs. Schoverling, Daly & Gales. The 
weather was ideal, ‘There was all the glory ofabundant sunshine, 
with the cool, balmy temperature of spring. It was a pleasure to 
be outdoors on any pretext, but it was specially pleasing to journey 
countryward with a contest between famous giadiators in prospect. 
The party left New York on the 1:30 boat, and after a ride through 
the goat district of Staten Island, the grounds were reached in 
due time. They are most pleasantly situated, though in respect 
to shooting they are hard. They slope away sharply to the left, 
and slope away in other directions more moderately. except to the 
extreme right. The traps are installed after the Sergeant system, 
but the left and right quarterers are thrown at very sharp angles. 

The friends of the contestants were out in goodly force. After 
a warm-up at 10 targets, the team race began. Mr. “Johnnie 
Jones” acted as scorer, Each team felt that it might win or 
might not. Some of the members had not shot much in. years, 
and others had shot a great deal through many weeks. The per- 
a as a whole was nevertheless very good. The scores 
ollow: 

Schoverling, Daly & Gales Team. 


COOPetercnara caseee chan Ustad ees» ee 101110019110111111111111—21 
119191111.1003111110011111—20—41 

INREriGtiulssigas saber adethiiicsth ead 000190911119111111011110—22, 
0110111110111111010000110—16—38 

SPENCer Gaewescaass coe eeoeeee ee o4110111111110010101111110—18 
Y - 1101111010100111111401011—18—36 

Schneider .........- Py eat » »-4111001000111111101111100—17 
1110001099111111111101111—20—7 

Dike serncdst ve hen mea siee tafelere’ets »4111191099111109111111011— 23, 


1490991191111111101. 10112345197 
Von Lengerke & Detmold Team, 
J Von Lengerke ......,.......1211010901091111111911111—24 
41111119111011110111010110—20—44 


C Banta...... recerses AOL ARCoreS «1111.002110011111010111110—18 
h 1001.00111101001111011.0001—14—32 

G Greiff ........ Me Spice Fecteca »-1011111011101111111111111_22 
AVDVTATIT11019 1111011111 — 2.446, 

Fat OTL steretesriie a= Wis gS UBUMEcreBS 1010111010111101001011110—16 
* 2 + 1101111111001111010101111—19—35 

Ga Wsbaet eae hae aeeceeseee eee s -0100101001110011111101110—15 


1100010100011111110111010—15—30—187 
Thus the Schoverling, Daly, & Gales team beat by 10 targets. 
They immediately proposed three cheers for their cpponents, 
which were given with a will, Vhe conipliment was returned by 
the V. L. & D, team with equal heartiness. A return’ match was 
arranged to take place on the grounds of the Carlstadt, N. J., 
un Club at a date to be fixed upon later. 
After the match there was active action in the way of shooting. 
The next shoot of the club will take’ place on April 5. All are 


welcome to attend. The sweepstake scores follow: 


Events; bes Ue “8 
Targets: 15) 25" 20 10 
Schneider .... ey, dt a A 
abe Sis prereset: 1a hls ee 
choverling. 1 a 
Chas Banta .. < z te i 
Gus Greiff ... ; sa aad ae 
IRATLOU pp aeen te elas ee mae 
J Von Lengerke ... é RE eee. 
GOD Eins dee Pes severe tne AAD die gi? a Do eM 
Gales ..... No APS Ri hes eects Farias OMe eh uereee See ESS cpa 
yee Ses An sabe NOS ate Wesle ea Henan SAdce Ee sea hee a Be Oy) 
iil Gooncdecusepaaag he Hasta BA AAS ASE (TS oh dee eT A 
Ben Waters ....... rit Ba ae Ds Brae ce Shae Ts N et abe SHE pei 
(Graviane ieee sete ite oie ahuatettele sens cee eS ik Wee EHSL Re me Eevee 
iY Staket. newts. Base sats igor Sp Ribs A oe Oe 
W Schoverling........... rt ee, SE mb MOTE y UR we Wik 
IRevatoldsy ss severe ees erp eur! Ser eset Slee? Gul ais 22 © a 
Bechtel ..... weep nce: aol Er Se, cee wa Gowiloe Mle dagen 
MECYStal Woman ts Sesion toes Nhieds eases OME ae, 


-- A, A. Scnovertine, Sec’y. 


Huntsville Gun Club. 


Hountsvrire, Ala., March 15.—At a meeting, of the Huntsville 
Gun Club yesterday afternoon, at their-club rooms, it was decided 
to issue a challenge to the Hermitage Gun Club, of Nashville 
Tenn., looking to a «ontest for the tri-State trophy, which was 
won by the Hermitage Gun Club last season at Huntsville. 

Mr. W. W. Newmar introduced and secured the adoption of 
the following plan for contests for the season of 1902, viz.: 

The weekly shoot shall consist of two eyents of 25 targets each 
veoae singly, which may be subdivided at the pleasure of the 

aptain. 

The winner in the match of the first 25 shall be declared the win- 
ner of the weekly trophy, and shall be entitled to the same until 
the next weekly contest. 

The member making the highest score in both events shall be 
declared the winner of the high gun trophy for the week, and all 
scores shall be recorded and preserved so as to ascertain the win- 
ner of the high gun contest for the season. “j 48s 

Any member winning. the weekly trophy in event 
one time shall at the close of the season be entitled 
in a contest at 100 targets, thrown singly, 
‘awarded the winner by the club. 

The member who during the season wins the weekly trophy 
the highest number of times shall be declared the owner thereof. 

' > Joun, Jr. 


No, Jat least 
to -participate 
for some prize, to be 


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: Stearnes 20, Dr. Joseph Charles 19, 


ON LONG ISLAND. 


Emerald Gun Club, 


March 18.—The Emerald Gun Club held its March shoot to-day, 
‘This was the first shoot of the year, The birds were good and 


fast. Messrs. Koegel and Fisher were elected to membership. 
Mr, H. P. Fessenden was referee, 

Points, 
S M Vari Allen, 20.0... .ccssecnccseperpeey se rdallo202i2— 9 
Schovyerlite, W0searetneyccheurres sens poavenees BEE2000020— 5 7 
Pia eoen earch sata werierprer en bert .0222010202—' 6 6 
DOPNOAGoOMTMEY coaamadsdseulis say atlas 2 sus) Bede oot 2220212222— 9 7 
T Short, 28...... Wacnirele : » .21202*0001— 5 7 
Wr SElidsomy aheesesae sseesewas > ++ 01101221200— 7 7 
fjamaica, 80.......-.... creed tte Pe eee 0121111021— 8 ne 
Puke, Ber aseveree ees heneend staneacvessese seca 20U0Z22— 6 A 
W Sands, 28............ Rechte k Laatteek Gets 2022222220— 8 6% 
YORE Rear ehs o eacin a anor endeoot pouee 22022*0020— 6b 6 
Vieraore Sagal All Be nn Go po hecoarect ECAR 29 SG 2022202222— 8 te 
IP AVI O rept 2Rth sae sletse sy eRe se eee ate ++» AL0TTIOUUN0O— 4 6% 
ee Corbetinc2bstasccudnis se aeerret beste berets webicanpecde—aul: 5 
ER Gaikegels SOSSs saliigenct anaes patiee sa holes 2()22022021— 7 vf 
VA LOR edoyat CEE ertremrtincy mmminiery oo naton ... .0121000000— 3 7 
Tne Oki bahay, (ape he eerste On abet Car +». -.0000122101— 6 6 
BE J Roberts, 28....... NS thofulancans atte tetemaatelte eae. 22*02U*222— 6 bie 
Hide Wien vers aemeee ees eesnceluewae seassceeennoasceZet— 8 a 
OD WIscher sede spe scl veg rf Gondocker soesese QUQUITII2Z2— 7 6 
SHenty, 30...0css0ss+- Wet, Peat Pe et 2122020002— 6 ne 
PEADICNT, QSik owes decreies teamees ches robes seer rULOZg0lLadGa= o = 
Halwohiiondie Ss vee states eontee cei aa ae tees 1012220022— 7 He 
H Hansman, 25............ ob at Hee a Hore 1220002022— 6 6 

*Guests. j{For birds, 


Match, 10 birds, for birds: 
A Schoverling, 28. .2222222222—10 § M Van Allen, 33.201222*212— 8 


Brooklyn Gun Club, 


Brooklyn, L, [., March 22.—There was quite a gathering of shoot- 
ers to participate in the competition of the Brooklyn Gun Club. 
The scores of the prize shoot, prize hand-painted stein, 25 targets, 
handicaps added, follow: 


apr Borland. Gin otded erate tavenoe ahi ted 1111011110119111101100111—20 
Kemsen, etcate Reewsunineeee eeenenen ens eso MOLLTI01I1101101111011101—19 
PIRECH coc, No see tease aterm nistiee aleaitiesen » -1101111100101011101101111—19 
NVCUES a Leis iets sce tistuisis aby¥, eiewite ls slonetaaiele.< 1101111111019191011111111—22 
Wright, 6....... Beene ee Paremeineel coats noisy 0101011111001070011101101—15 
_ Shoot-off: 
Capt Borland, Osjarassssstewseed ents +» =» »1119111011001101010100001 —15 
Flitcheock yy Ggsiouet sshd vevee eed sieds see 1111101911107111110010101—19 
NCNSETIe ane emdealacn ten ates eon wan 0141210111019911111111101—21 
Welles ...... Bideane ee On tgs trac 0102411111101111111010110—20 
WASTE fast onc sfucedeie eibgra tial dro Miter arela le elelanaereennnnG 0100101000111111010110100—13 
Sweepstake events: 
Events: DD Be Ge tT) «8 
Targets: 10 15 16 10 10 10 15 15 
Welsorte dh oes sc steetederrrrt eee. Sana eT aed Tah Antal tag ated <5 Uh! Dis EAT 
Capt ebonlandeawesste sek. ahr cnt YP NY thn ye ape ep 
REMSEW BN taster tebe eee ne ter kas 9 12 14 10 9 8 18 .. 
Wellesweds 287 SoS SSE an ae ng a gt DN ee Somer tl Fain 
Newton ..... Le oud dene -eneobooncet EY ph ae Sea ais By (0 
BrGstme carrera aie states cn deed cote PE iting het a Slee ay ley (sO 
ITs CHCOCL as ee sesee esis ce satel ones p 4A Ba Abie he at Gola re 
right ...... fe elotais) Staion afetete wae ar state apie ete 2 aie: 
VARE DISC) Suess iauddtom tere ta snore gan MA Ln el ee Bs. 
Cer ris waters asiistie BO dos Ioerprer been Ye Sh eee dre i ae! 


Nos, 4, 5 and 6 were at 5 pairs. 


Northport Gon Club, 


Appended are the scores made at the shoot of the Northport, L. 


I., Gun Club on Saturday, March 15. Several shootérs from the 
Smithtown Club were present and shot through the programme. 

Tyler, of Smithtown, was high average with 88 per cent. The 
scores: 

Events: 1,2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
a. Largets: 10 10.10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 
VERMA i aucnaes cast SE be soe 110 8 9 9 10 8 10-10 7 
WiOOd) Seceenewesssssves ee bh ee RR rere a (nes 
NGVITiSh sd oGd auwn peepee ese esr ete DoT 0 A 8) 6) OS 
CoM reccertuves wer at soseaeeth nT Se lbe OS. CSm NS slQ0 69) “Sea 
aINGtCHaM) ssetctaeasenteryesscave ab eG. 66) 86) 7a ao cme Se 6 
PAMIMNIOS dae eed eepiseeetde <r ek aes By Abpea, -S2 Gs 
Jae CUBES ROC CoSROEEREER, Ge Et Pe) ine BERR TES ere 
IHS G) Seocdpaeapachdbbsarboeee Mie SSR be etre as 
SPN! carta oUOUCOR SS eeRon een eg Re cr Melua cee Re: 
GraZier Eyre cnnieniete ee ae cetet Dh iC Mecah eek aunts Peete aS 
EE Wioudl wit. cs ese e sep ehcpmm caesar wae ae [ae Sielivewac tae 
: HAtsey, 

Fulton Gun Club, 


Brooklyn, L. I:, March 24—There was a great gathering of the 
Fulton Cun Club members and their ae at the cup haot to- 
day. There were thirty contestants in the main event, the cup 
shoot, the conditions of which were 50 targets, handicap allowance 
added, entrance $1. The two men who had the least allowance 
were Messrs. Dudley and Schortemeier, who had 3 each. Dudley 
made the even 50 with his meagre allowance, while Schortemeier 
fel None sees of it, : . 

e weather was delightfully spring-like and balmy. The utmos 
good fellowship prevailed. The traps and pulling froehanistn phi 
all newly arranged, and did not work first rate. Following are the 
Spates, the ties in which will be shot off on April 6 at the regular 

Merten (10) 46, May (2) 41, Dudley (8) 50, June (8) 49, Tones 
(10) 49, Duke (5) 35, Reynolds (13) 44, Ernst eon 45, Norte’ 5) 47, 
Waters (9) 50, Short, Jr. (8) 47, Snyder (9) 45, Kaiser (16) 32, 
Arrowsmith (20) 50, Berger (12) 34, Potter (9) 50, Sitzler (16) 32, 

—O. H. (0) 35, Willhart (14) 48, Diffley (15) 37, Blake (14) 49 May- 
yee WESde Gane eon fos) oe peace (10) 37, G. Voss (9) 48, 

J oods fayid revai 5 
W, Woods G4) 47, y c € (11) 38, Kessell 8) 45, 

Sweepstake events: . 


GOB es 


Events: L238 4 5 Events Lodieg 4 

Targets 10 15 20 10 15 Targets: 10 15 20 10 B 
Merten ......... .- 1011 15 $13 Gidegae Pee SA ase Seer 
Dudley ...... sess 101419 812 Sitzler 1..cccc., CHEE LEAS ol 
Mice. uses eek RT dE Guna Wieden ed Lease YT eae 
June Heirs 4 sett ses 91519 815 (Bi Waters ....-.0.. os 16 8.. 
TONES) see sae enue 101216 713 Willhart ...... Pe -. 914 
Dulkel eas a 101118 8 14 Taken” <tutasorree ce etenrasel se 10 
Reynolds <....2., 41012 911 Fite 00000 nome melt fy Ae Re 

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Chesapeake Gun Club. 


Newrort News, Va., March 21.—To-day the Chesapeak 
Club held a weekly shoot at Riverview Park. The Weathes aus 
fine, and the scores were somewhat better than usual ; 
Each match was for 25 targets, Following are the scores: 
First Match: E. S. Robertson 24, B. B. Semmes 24, Thos. F. - 


Se: aa Dr. Lee Robinson 20, Dr. Joseph Gharles 18, Frank 


‘Second match; E. S. Robinson 28, B. B. Semmes 21, Thos, F. 


~ Third match: B, 
Charles 19. 


Fourth match: E, S. Robingon 24, B. 2 
Stearnes 22, Dr. Joseph Charles 19. pees tse enon tas Ee 


Fifth match: Thos. PF. Stearnes 22, Dr. Joseph Charles 20. 
; TFS. 


B. Semmes 24, Thos. F_ Stearnes 20, Dr. Joseph 


Taternational Trophy. 


Monrreat, Que., March 22.—In the contest th 3 
day on the Westmount Gun Club sau. here HesiecMea ha 
BASES AY Bie tne reey ee we E. G. White, of Swanton, Vt. for 
00 owder Company’s int i : rs 
SE eg Worehe winner—Kennedy "oo, White 8 eres 
“1 EF, utcheson, Esq., will tackle Kennedy n 3 
shooting a stiff gait, and wall climb up into ben ech ee 


Elftott—Heikes. 


THE following descriptive matter of the race at Hot Springs, 
ee 15, is from the local paper, sent us by a correspondent, as 
ollows: 

Rolla O, Heikes_of Dayton, 0., champion target shot of the 
world, gave J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas City, champion live-bird 
shot of the world, about the hardest race of his life yesterday 
afternoon at the park, the two tieing with a score of 94 each out 
of the 100, and not until the last bird of Elliott’s had been gath- 
ered by the boy in the shoot-off of the tie, was the match settled. 
The match was for the possession of the Sportsmen’s Review cup, 
now held by Mr, Elliott, and the conditions were 100 birds each, 
30yds. rise and b0yds. boundary. Manager Bob Price trapped the 
fastest lot of pigeons seen in these parts in many and many a 
day, and of the 240 trapped not a signle “no bird” was called by 
either shooter, and every bird released immediately took to fight. 

The shooting was absolutely phenomenal at fimes, and so many 
excellent shots were madé by each contestant that it would be 
impossible to enumerate them or to tell which was the most 
phenomenal. At times birds were killed with the second shot 
when they seemed absolutely “‘unkillable,”’ 

The luck of the birds and’ the drawing of the traps seemed to be 
as equally divided as possible, and neither had the advantage over 
the other, 

Elliott won the toss and went to the score first. He has a repu- 
tation all over the world, and when he walked to the score was 
liberally applauded by the largest crowd that ever witnessed a con- 
test of this kind in_ this part of the country. Elliott has a way of 
starting a match off by losing his first bird, and yesterday he did 
it with as much ease as ever. His ninth was also lost, falling 
dead out of bounds, and he was two ‘behind. However, Heikes 
lost his 24th bird, and when the end of the string of the first 25 
had been reached the scores weré Heikes 24, Elliott 23. Starting 
on the second string of 25 Elliott lost his fourth and fifth birds in 
rapid succession, failing entirely to hit either of them. This seemed 
to rattle him a bit, but he recovered his form in a moment, and 
then ran a long string of 40 straight kills before losing another. 

Heikes continued shooting in grand form, and was killing his 
birds with ease, using his first barrel with better effect than 
Elliott, and his “time”? seemed better. At the end of the first 50 
the scores were Heikes 48, Elliott 46. Elliott commenced doing 
better work with his first barrel, and in the third string of 25 he 
scored 24, here doing his best work, for the birds were certainly 
a lot of screamers. Heikes had a few “bad minutes” in his third 
string, and lost his 15th, 22d and 23d. Thus when the three- 
quarter post was reached the score was a tie, each haying scored 
70 out of 75, Both killed 24 out of the last 25 and the race was a 
tie. The conditions governing 100-bird matches call for a shoot 
off of a tie at 25 birds, but Manager Price did not have quite 
enough birds on hand, so it was agreed to shoot it off at 20 birds 
each. No time was lost, and Elliott again went to the score first. 
He did some remarkable work with this last lot of birds, and 
was shooting like a house o’ fire when the end was reached. 
Heikes, on the other hand, seemed to be tiring a bit, and his 
“time” became perceptibly slow. He iost two in his 20, and 
neither pigeon seemed as hard as some he had killed with ease. 
After losing his ninth bird, he pulled himself together again and 
killed out straight. Elliott did not miss until his 19th was 
reached, and then he lost a “dub.” He had to kill the last one to 
win, and as the trap fell open an easy looking bird flew toward 
the shooter. It looked like one to 1,000 chances for the bird to 
get away, but Eliott over-shot it a trifle with his first barrel, and 
under-shot it with his second. The bird alighted on the ground, 
and while the referee, Capt. Bogardus, was trying to determine 
who should retrieve it the bird rolled over dead, and Elliott was 
the winner. 


Trap score type—Copyright, 1902, by Forest ond Stream Pub. Co. 


542984545121851244381552221 

' RARARORRAGAT TOMI SARAR CARLY 
Elliott. ...¢0ss..050022922212*299299991191129231 2-98 

1221882858111845858821824 

LRTATECA TAAARATTAAAHARRT TR 
211002222929292211229292239%9 9 523 

2812412842145 2512552582385 

APRMAARRRATAATRTARRTASAATA 
21122221129919122291101 92 9 9-94 

~ 1814512842322942981291122215 

ALRTATTAAYOR STAT RAASARARA 
2122129921121%*292919112291 99-94 

822283454943815112312425222 

: FRRATIOR LUT LCAASLARS ARAL 
HeikeSevveeeeeeees52 2 2922929291129122123292 0 o-94 

4211491844845881185511321 

LTE RRAZAARRAAYANTRTARRANRA 
1222229292292292912912229924229 9-94 

8249294291414484952835881542 

RRRRAATRACTTATATOAAR ASST 
21112222212%991%*%3299919*0 4 1-92 

114581826211512729433482348 

ARAARACRYAARAAAAAARTETTTT 
222212212292122920229922999 92-24 

Shoot-off: 

2$3811424542852133238 

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WTiobtnencettesca seb ickcme tr tea 2112122129222992229 * 9-299 

14828215141458138542 

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Heikes.....:ccseeseeeeces oeeee2 22129902*991999119 9 2-18 


The Ceson Gun Glubeshoot. 


Cresson, Pa.—The third annual live-bird handicap of the Cres- 
son Gun Club was held on their grounds at Cresson, Pa., on 
St. Patrick’s day, Monday, March 17, The air was balmy, the 
sun warm and pleasant, and the crowd the largest that has ever 
turned out to witness the shootirig on the grounds of this poptilar 
organization. 
pleasant effect to the club house porches. 

It has become the regular custom of many of the leading sports- 
men of Pennsylvania to look forward to this club’s annual, as they 
know they will have a good pregremme, carried out to the letter, 
and that the fastest birds obtainable will always be provided in 
abundance. The present shoot proved no exception to the rule, 
as there was not a ‘‘duffer” in the 700 on hand; in fact, they were 
the speediest lot ever provided by the club. — 

In order to properly celebrate the birth of their patron Saint, 
invitations were forwarded to the leading powder and arms com- 
panies, who were well and ably represented by Miss Annie Oakley, 
who gave a magnificent exhibition of the skill which has earned 
her a world-wide reputation, she making the only straight score 
in the principal event; by Howard Sargeant, who was teady and 
willing to help the club out in any way in which his services were 
available, and his many friends were glad to meet him and renew 
old acquaintances; by Mr. W. L. Colville, who made many friends 
for himself and his company, and who will always meet a warm 
welcome and the “glad hand” from the membership. 

Owing to building operations now contemplated, the present 
grounds and club house will haye to be abandoned, and plans are 
now under way to provide new grounds, which will be fitted up 
with all the modern accessories, viz.: Target ground, with plat- 
forms arranged for distance handicapping; continuous pit for 
live-bird shooting, with the latest traps, with either mechanical 
or electric pulls. This will place them in the front rank in this 
section of the State. The club now contemplates holding a two- 
day target shoot in June or July, date to be selected later, and if 
held will be strictly up to date in every way. They have the 
assurance of a large entry list from its simple announcement, and 
if at the next club meeting the decision is made to hold it, the 
matter will be pushed with their usual energy; and as the mem- 
bership all pull together, it means it will go with a rush, 

The appended scores give a fair idea of the quality of the birds 
furnished, as the best of them failed to land with a clean score, 
except Miss Oakley; but as they are a gallant lot, they were pleased 
to have her set the pace, and are hoping she may land a winner 
at the Grand American, as her work here was clean-cut and 
snappy, and elicited rounds of applause as she cut down the 
hardest kind of birds in splendid form. 

Our friend and visitor, Mr. Breckenridge, was also in good 
form, his only lost bird falling dead over the wire; but he affirms 
he has no kick coming on his load of “Infallible,* the fault being 
chargeable to “the man behind the gun.” 

Our genial boniface who wears his quburn tresses in such lovely 
pris, and who shoots under the name of “Coon,” also ran, and 
fel down hard on two hard ones; in fact, he fell s0 hard he 


ce SP EAA sy: 


Many ladies attended, and theit presence lent a 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


bounced; but he now announces the fact that he will put up his 
“shekels” for a new Parker or Smith as soon as he can find 
a man who will accept his old gun as a present, for it is certainly 
“hoodood,” and that upon the arrival of the new one, he will 
simply “kill them all.” Based upon this threat, he will hereafter 
find himself perched alone on the 32yd. mark, as here is where the 
handicap committee get even. Scores follow: 


Eyent No, 1, 5 birds, $4 entrance, three moneys, 50, 30 and 20 — 


per cent.: 

Kotty, 29... .0+eeeseeeeee 11102—4  Preighlie, 28.............. 01101—3 

Mar pine S280. ease odeae eee WUVie—O+ isha Baeeee LL 91010—3 

allets 2205s eyh teen ere er 00122—3 

FAR, $28 aerees peer others 22222—5 

J GES eA Teoma a bene ot ere 22220—4 

Boe a line Hees Ls tlie eee 02122—4 

Mires Ge sani 1dt-ne deta dete 21021—4 

QOL Coa srr eee 01112—4 

Breckenridge, 29...... ...12111—5 

AN DICHIS Olay ro mashtack tn eee 22221—5 

ironoitsiyy Ws ere ores 20202—3 

Bea i nae cree ces tree 22202—4 

McNaught, 28....5.:...:- 02202—3 

Kellemant 27sis,-.seaeeee 02210—3 

McikKkendrick, 292....007,. 00210—2 

Ma Ghaiaiien eee ae ceenarrcae 00000—0 Deniker, 30....... arte 20110—3 
Eyent No, 2, 15 birds, $10 entrance, three moneys, 50, 30 and 20 
er ceni,; 

Fintt, B8enar eels Tigi SSDs. AORG AS else 200222222200022—10 

ISGttiva, PLAN .355 SSS arene ase Heer Role Reema 221002221200102—10 

AARITSOTY sal atatcle ena eceircis eine eucios nettae mereere . «.010211211112201—12 

LOW ilps 20 lsc e anes seme een elem pikseh Ne sou lalt ean R eae 221200200010010— 7 

RETLTATMINIG “Oleg atin scessts £4 x Sap ae 2h Cine Oca Phe 011010212111221—12 

ESL SESS eG toe nites odarpeseeas ts EST Paces fe Spee Oe + -220002222102021—10 

Aboiaty, eid twee ac - -112121201011221_13 

Eyans, 29 « « » .012011220222222 12 

SSCA EEL ie Seite ce teneer wee tect tittacters ara eho’ s outdo opie eee t ae 221111100110121—12 

DESCKEMTIGS Cod ean tpa phe aapsiodadhicetates seer eee 222211121120222—14 

GRO cantidueeetaort cotati atin tote kadar 120202112122222 12 

Nie iees Pete opt hth ab pages ob senso adadddddddoMoades 11020201211110i—11. 

ESS GH Sty ice elytra i APD Sen wor st irh Sd SAMO ate 5 222222120011101—12 

295, AOA reds eta rbeerl pans eta eat eneasteetariwe eee 101001002102000— 6 

Rhodes; 30.222 kane beta rteen PA ae de: 220201022000w 

Arinier Oakley, -oshsaoperireeh eaitiacente renee 112121112122221—15 

Colville yeags Ws tee ec eeee RC EELOER RAR aie utc sn 020101222111120—11 

SLE EPOMRT Dries ene teen eneete rd cadets ead sas iene 210212112122201—13 

TH, 20 rh eae as daa he eb Ta ee) bb 220112221200022—11 

Dr hh GSSUP Hel 0 vere ere csleemikie ert Leet tue atl eT Sat +. -100222211022226—11 

PAT Site ORS baie § career ee aT ea . -122220020122220—11 

ECs, SOS ys crates santo sass oe re soe . .102200200002002— 6 

VE haley 62035 Sites tet ce eerie awe ta eee » » -222202222202022 12 

Weniker eas a. esse ties eeu MOneLL Ent heetie 012221101011011—11 

IDB etl begat als 45h Ae Re ee ne ade ns 020002000000010— 3 

IRE GMAT see tie unin «ve vehi cre ytd fetes 2s eee Aeieeteiticlatlesee 000001022120100— 6 

A -€ Lape; 28,--.. w ierelate nie Getguhe spe Waive peincaad neces 022022211001001— 9 

iSSeirer) CU ee see aaah oa ahve +, onebe te ior 101211101102200—10 

Wa atl baletig "2 lat eit ret nnte beare cere 101221111222121—14 


ABE, 


Boston Gun Club. 


Boston, March 19.—The usual weekly shoot of the Boston Gun 
Club was held at Wellington to-day, and the imcelement weather 
prevented a large attendance, though the ten shooters that did 
attend exhibited more than the usual amount of enthusiasm. 
The afternoon shooting was replete with good scores, Leroy’s 
work from the 2lyd. mark being easily the leader, and shows just 
what this cleyer expert will do if his present form continues to 
improve as has been the case the last few months. Frank was not 
much outdone, however, but failed to make good in the match, 
though all other scores were of the high order. 

The high gun in the prize match was Kirkwood, 18yds., with 23, 
followed by Leroy, Zlyds,. with 22, just a little too close for com- 
fort, Wind, 18yds., held third position with 17, two targets ahead 
of Bullard, in fourth position, The team match had just three 
contestants, the winners being Frank and Kirkwood with 34, Leroy 
and Hollis second with 25. Other scores as follows: 


Events: aL 3 4 3 By Ga) Sa 8 

Targets: 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 15 
Warde anes pre eee bob erainits tine Tae BLO hte ttre ieee 
Df on eat AAU He ie Eb tie GLAND PSRISEs OF eT ae 
Braithiy pe Sian cild es ean nee eae 7 Pe Lg ety aE! 
Barllancemer Gace eats. st pe ens cents Le CSL SON * Seno ad ase 
Betmont wel lysialesicstiisitmans oe tees. Se ee a ae nn 
Drake PGee papa ee eee ae eee OP 7. le: Se Ae 
Elaxvkaris) MaGles eased secalecss Wlae a) Te 655 at SA 
Karkwood) "l8ivaeilise tlnetebekhenl Cry Ae ah, ald, Soe OG: 
VOT Gat PELs ss Seren: Hee Sta cea os ayn eam A tis byt) 
ErederiGkss S470 farses ey ee 5h RE eS Ss 
Firth shiG asaya yantecaeecne ees a oe oe ce das 


Events 1, 5, 6, Sergeant System, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, magautrap. 
No, 3 at 5 pairs, 

Merchandise match, 25 singles—i5 magautrap, 10 Sergeant system 
—distance handicap: “ 


KEL W OOK AME the, pistebaeldl dea ae eee eee 1199111111011 1011111111—23 
Teeray Mee Goriavad weber ak teeentaee aed 0111110111111 0111111111—22 
Wind, 18..... Poids - 55 ue As need 011110031010111 1101100131—17 
Ballad) ales pgs Wek tases eee et aa ie. 11.0000100701111 1110010111 —15 
Dives ah epee pp ewe eee sepa 01)101011100001 0111100101—18 
rales Lr Ee tere eel rere en celeeehy n 011111111100000 0110010100—13 
ElawhinseptGe. yb) hreates pete te eines 000011111010001 0011010101—12 
Belmont, 16...-..+ee.+95 eae is 5555 100110000010111 + 0000001000— § 
SECRETARY. 


Sistersville Gun Club. 


SISTERSVILLE, W. Va., March 21.—The spring tournament of the 
Sistersville Gun Club, which was held yesterday, on their new 
shooting grounds, below town, was one of the most pleasant affairs 
of the kind they have ever held. Considering the extremely fine 
weather, the attendance was not what it should have been, but 
every one present seemed to enjoy themselves. From out of town 
were Messrs. S. T. Mallory and le W. Stewart, two of the 
regulars from Parkersburg; John M. Speary and P- Schlicher, Jr, 
of Marietta, who were never known to miss a shoot in their lives; 
Jos. C. Trees, of New Martinsville, and F. C, Percival (Cole), of 
St. Marys, president of the West Virginia State Spcrismeas As- 
sociation. The locals were represented by Jos. Y. McNaught, 
Curt I. Hall, Ed O. Bower, who shoots under the name of Dade, 
and others. While it was ideal weather for the sport, there was a 
very stiff wind blowing early all day, which made the shooting 
dificult, and no exceptionally high scores. were made. 

It was a hot race for first place between Dade, J. M. Speary, 
P. Schlicher, Jr., and Curt I. Hall, who finished in the order 
named, their scores being 167, 166, 165 and 163 respectively,. out of 
a possible 200 targets. ‘Tabulated scores follow: 


DAC Git sireswan pe et es a beans , 12 15 13 13 15 13 10 15 15 14 12 20—167 
J MatSheatycti necator 11 14 10 18 11 11 10 19 15 13 13 21166 
P Schlicher, Jr. bre bee 12 10 14 16 181513161411 9 22—165 
CDR Ea eee tise ean ees . 12 15 13 16 10 11 12 15 12 13 12 22—163 
AM Wieds Beitesoters geerorsnsere - 9 812 18 13 10 10 19 18 12 11 22—157 
S T Mallory..,.. Seton ey nace 13 914 13 12 12 11 15 14 11 18 16—153 
W Stewart........ seoreerers 9 14 12 15 13 10 11 12 12 13 12 19—152 
} Grecsiaelaeecere aaaeeeane SEH =r) trier so key aby hhativersetn 
Golesi jake eee eae as feds seperate LON 2A, 


Dade, the winner of first average, used Winchester trap gun, 
24grs. Laflin & Rand “Infallible” in Leader shells. _ 
Joan W. Jounston. 


Cincinnati Gun Club. 


Crncinnati, O., March 22.—Fine weather favored the Cincinnati 
Gun Club’s shoot, of which the Peters Gun Club contest and two 
match races were the main events. Following are the scores: 

Peters gun contest, 50 targets, distance handicap: L 


Ist a eee eee Se tf 1st ca po ae. aera 
imble; 200s wie? ace 

i ae Ber taint 22 22 44 Maynard, 18.....19 20 39 

Block, Wsecs.eses24 19 48 Nemo, 18.........19 18 287 

Gambell, 18......-20 22 42 McB, lu.....0cd7 21 38 

Sauier, tera oae 21 42 Boyd) Wbsvy ssc ceoll ela 227; 


iT  lGcr indies 18 42 Harman, Jf...:.19 47 236 
Faran, 16 Seater 22 20 42 Butts, 14..........20 14 34 
Ahlers, 18....,,;-20 20 40 Corry, 16,.-,.....16 18 34 


wee, D0 20 40 Harris, 15........12 20 32 
Frohliger, 15.,,..15 15 230 
40 Coleman, 17......16 18 29 
18 39 
No, 2, match race, 100 targets, I6yds. rise: Gambell 91, Ahlers. 90, 
Heyl 84, if ae = 1 Ae 


‘ 


Ossining Gun Club, 


Ossinine, N, Y., March 22.—The feature of to-day’s regular Sat- 
urday shoot was the handicap event at 100 clays for a handsome 
cup, presented to the club by Col, Franklin Brandreth. C. G 
Blandford in some way let out a peg and landed it with a score off 
91 per cent., whieh was sufficient without the handicap. There 
was included in this score a run of 49 straight breaks. landford ~ 
will have to come away back with A, Bedell and C, H. Feigenspan, 
who were heretofore the only scratch men: 


PORES: 1 5 6 
argets: 25 25 25 25 Hdep. Total. ~ 10 10 
W P Hail, 106,..,...ceseecseaees ZDFTRG Gy Cw OP) mee ae 
A Bedell, 100,........ reas sre r2k 19 22 22 0 84 10 9 


sau 22 22 22 25 6 97 9 


Eee 
«- 21 16 17 17 6 rire 10 8 


I T Washburn, 108. 
C_ Barlow, 20...... -. 16 16 16 16 14 78 fie 8 
H Coleman, 110... ». 1618 14 13 5 66 ea 
HIM WiBissines 180) ts onesen eee. ee 141710 9 21 val yee 
Re Kromer, wht alioeeracse pics eenlsetitel9 ala 11 80 nous 
D O’Connor, 125..... Beetenser toy, LAS db 14 13, ~ 98 Mee 
FAGRRGHis Lo ee ane ceeene: Ae eC w Fa: a a gr (4 Ww 31 ae FE 
Wie Clank lA eres cee dt cles seb a anTG 13 uk) sation 
<p Ho leyaydZ2 sen aeee antennae eres 10 10 12 12 12 56 ne oe 
JLB. ePackard! 410.0 2 Petts eseee 18 16 16 16 6 72 5 FT 
aL hownsendse, opens sae eee 12 11 w 7 8 
TEA SCHITIDCE RG thee ane te a ee 10 12 w 4.. 
Waeekice dat aii Serre eee : 3 ‘ eee 
W_Fisher .........., Thiet Cit ee..eee G ne ee La 
*E Acker..... HEHE oe es at an = 
oY AT ChisOniss Anes Seber eraae aan = 6 
*Guests. : 


March 15.—There was a fair attendance at the regular weekly 
shoot of the Ossining Gun Club to-day, despite the fact that 
seyeral of the members were in attendance at the shoot of the 
Westchester County Trapshooters’ League at Armonk, N, Y. The 
following are the scores that were made, all events at 10 singles 
but No. 10, which was at 5 pairs: 


Events: ce a OG eS om Ly 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 5p 
Reakeomers irises saad Sites bed ae Sette oy! 
OiG@onnorsesveses Spaleiaeass van Oe RES CG S435 een 
ats Malye eeseo needs ha Pane tone AD Ee “SC 15, GS So bee be oe 
nice ROR Tah TON ne te haces ieee a BS Gee AR Sc 
Gob dgerghl as. ceenenk sie eee acee* 3: Saree SS ere ae 
URHOLE YE Meenlterenaee ee ayitf> ere Om (GS HOP go Gal poy AT) Saeere l 
Er ALHGEYs nen aarena can wit tues BF Bt £66 eae ee T 
Goi Packard sini « viet ee eT i Nie Gon hae ed ae 
A Aitchison i 1h ace a en oe 
VERGE GL Saas son ene nse eo Te ge ees 
A Bedell ........ Bocpter cere TS cep ene 
G Purdy Le he ee ees 
Drane eee re tess OEE 
FMacDonald tt te Dee ete EE 
M Dyckman (flere A 


ages 
c. G. B. 


Westchester County Trap Shooting Association. 


Ossininc, N. Y., March 22.—The first shooting tournament of 
the Westchester’ County Trapshooting Association was held at 
Armonk, N. Y., Saturday, March 22. This shoot was postponed 
from Washington’s Birthday, and was well patronized, The follaw- 
ing clubs were represented: Mount Kisco, Ossining, White Plains, 
Pleasantville and Armonk, ‘There were altogether about forty 
shooters, and they kept things moving from 10 A, M. till darkness 
put a stop te the fun. 

This Association will hold a tournament on every holiday at 
different clubs. The next one at Ossining on Decoration Day. 

Among those present were Capt, Money and H, Money, the latter 
doing great work witha pump gun, breaking 10 straight at doubles. 
Following are the scores of twelve events: 5 


Targets 10 10 15 10 10 20 10 15 20 10 15 15 
BY Bailey esas h vi nk wee sae lite idee GUE NG FE Ree eee 
RESO) Wit bye ese rit eee ene we TIO) Se SG 0) ee Tee ce 

Vora a1n ocnlorslerremsrd Aninisieee ee bialstatraleets 1-282". los eeceeee ce 
JAS etary ste staan iu, centro eeneeee 6 6il 8 815 81320 715 6 
C= Blandtords: i. 1) fe eies ees 8 6 8 8 816 41015 71310 

(GAD eM Tere step ce ckeen bees re 6 1006.9 ud oT else eee es 

Uy Bile wellithtec cy ccc ie GiGi Set eigen cde haere 
35610 4 518 6 7.. 710 8 

eae 816 41011 71011 

8 6 8.. $18 51016 7131 

ws 0 10. Toba Tpit dee ey 

St EAE A Ser tT 5 

re Se (DL Sa Da arciee Peale eee 

Srey ns - % 3 717 61018 81412 

- 1 8 917101116 912 15 

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ALLENTOWN, Pa,, March 19.—The day was a fierce one, yet there 
was an interesting series of gunnery contests yesterday at the 
Duck Farm Hotel, Four events were on the programme, and they 
attracted many gunners. The gale interfered seriously with making 
good scores. Greatest interest centered in the trophy shoot for the 
championship cup of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks and Bucks 
counties, which was left over, on account of darkness, from the 
shoot of Feb. 13. John Rehbrig, of Slatington, won the cup. The 
scores follow: : 

Event No. 1:Melot 4, Levering 2, Coldren 5, Straub 4, Barner 2, 
Milson 3, Jones 2, Anglet 3, Daudt 1, Felker 3, Hausman 3, Pleiss 
4, Shimmel 3, Dupond 4, Croll 4, Stubbs 2 

Event No. 2: Daudt 5, Milson 7, Barner 10, Englert 5, Jones 7, 
Levering 9, Coldren 9, Melot 7, Eagle 6, Hausman 8, Shimmel 8, 
Stubbs 10, Pleiss 8, Kramlich 8, Rehrig 11, Brey 9, Scneck 9, 
Straub 7, Felker _7. ) 

Event No. 3: Stubbs 5, Hausman 5, Milson 2, Jones 2, Barner 2, 
Shimmell 3, Coldren 4, Levering 3, Kulp 3, Pfeiffle 4, Headman 3, 
Schneck 4, Brey 4. ~ 

Event No. 4:° Hausman 4, Barner 2, Shimmell 1, Milson 2, 
Levering 8, Coldren 3, Jones 2, Pfeiffle 3, Kulb 1, Gosner 2, Reis 4. 

C, F. Kramiice, Mgr, 


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Pease aes BAD ADIRONDACK BILL. 


SENATOR Brown’s bill in the New York Legislature to 
turn the State’s Forest Preserve over to the wood pulp 
makers, having been recalled from the Assembly and 
amended in the Senate, was in the end killed by a sub- 
stantial majority vote.. From that particular attack New 
York’s forests are preserved for another year. But there 
has been put through another bad measure, which while 
not so much of a menace to the woods, would open the 
way to the ruin of large portions of the Adirondacks. 
This bill was introduced and pushed by Senator Brown, 
and it probably had its origin with the interests his lum- 
bering bill was intended to serve. 

This bill, which because!of its title as an act to amend 
“the navigation law,’ has escaped the attention of the 
friends of the Adirondack forests, is Senate Bill No. 404. 
It provides that any person desiring to use a river or 
stream which is recognized by law or use as a public high- 
way, “for the purpose of floating, running or flooding 
timber,-logs, wood or luntber down the same, may in- 
stitute proceedings for the condemnation of such river 
or stream, the channel thereof and lands adjacent thereto, 
to the public use as a highway for transporting timber, 
logs, ete.” Upon condemnation any person may build 
shutes, aprons, dams and booms; “store water and for 
that purpose overflow lands by the erection and mainte- 


nance of a dam or dams upon such river or stream — 


* * * and the water may be released from time to 

time, * * * and thereby increase the volume and flow 

of water in such river or stream.” A person acting under 

the privileges of this measure shall be liable only for 

damages “occasioned by his negligence or unlawful exer- 
cise of the same.” . 

In a memorial addressed to Governor Odell by the 
New York Board’ of Trade and Transportation, it is 
pointed out that the bill differs from the existing statute 
by giving to private persons the right to invoke the power 
of eminent domain. “The power of eminent domain is 
to be prostituted to purely private ends.” This is a most 
extraordinary proposition; and the other provisions of 
the measure are in keeping with it in their riding rough- 
shod over the rights of property owners. For when under 
the license thus given, a person floods the lands of an- 
other, destroying his property, the one whose property 
is thus destroyed has absolutely no redress unless he 
can prove that the damages suffered were inflicted by the 

“negligence” or unlawful use of the privileges accorded 
by the act. This is putting upon the injured party the 
burden of proof of the negligence or unlawful act—some- 
thing which it would Be extremely difficult, if not prac- 
tically impossible to do. And even then the damages may 
not be sued for, but must be appraised by a board of 
three commissioners to be appointed by the Supreme 
Court. Under the present law a bond of $5,000 must be 
provided as an indemnity against all losses and damage 
suffered by flooding operations, and there is no require- 
ment that negligence must be proved. The Brown bill 
is thus a most outrageous invasion of private rights; it 
puts every landowner on an Adirondack stream at the 
‘mercy of the lumbermen. For cool effrontery this has not 
been matched by any recent attack on the property rights 
of Adirondack owners and the State’s own forest pos- 
sessions. 3 

Another effect of the operation of the proposed law 
demands consideration. Not only does the damming of 
the streams destroy by the overflow extensive tracts of 
woodland, leaving those ghastly stretches of drowned 
lands with which we are all too familiar in the North 
Woods, but the released waters rushing down with tre- 
mendous force destroy the stream bed and carry away the 
logs, boulders, bars and other natural obstructions which 
serve as dams to form reservoirs for the retention of 
the water and its gradual flow. ‘The effect upon the breed- 

: e SAM als te aE He Soa a ae 


For single | 


time vigor. 
‘saw a trout that was satisfied? Sometimes, it is true, 


ing grounds of fish is wholly destructive. What would 
follow the operation of the Brown bill with respect to the 
fishing interests of the Adirondacks is well set forth in 
the letter written by Mr. William G. De Witt to Governor 
Odell, and printed in another column, The fishing in 
Adirondack waters is in value and public benefit a resource 
which should not be surrendered to private greed. To 
giye the lumbermen such license as is conferred by this 
Brown bill would be a gross betrayal of public and private 
interests. As the Board of Trade and Transportation 
memorial points out, the “bill is a menace to every hold- 
ing in the State if ‘any person desires’ to use any stream 
for the purposes named. It could be used, and doubtless 
would be so used, for the purpose of forcing owt the 
present owners and of sectiring possession, and render- 


ing valueless the propertiés now held by associations and 


individuals, as well as by the State within the forest 
preserve. This bill passed the Legislature ostensibly as 
an amendment to the navigation law during the last mo- 
ments of the session, and without receiving the considera- 
tion which it deserved. Its provisions, however, vitally 
affect the State forest preserve, and, if carried out, will 
ultimately destroy that vast and complicated plexus of 
waters so absolutely essential to the welfare of the com- 
monwealth,” 


THE SEASON AND THE FISH. 


LAMB-LIKE, the month of March came in and lamb- 
like it disappears forever from the calendar of 1902, yet 
during its existence it brought the month’s usual varied 
weather. There were floods and dust storms, calms and 
tornadoes, fierce storms.of snow and gentle showers of 
warm rain. Now at its end come bright sunshine, warm 
airs and gentle breezes from the southwest, while grass 
grows green, and buds seem to swell before our very 
eyes. In many of the States has come the day longed 
for by the angler, when the speckled trout—which so 
long ‘has held first place in the angler’s heart—may law- 
fully be taken. ‘Not always are conditions so propitiots 
as they seem to be this year. We can all recollect too 
many opening days, when the breezes blew.cold, or keen 
north winds carried with them powdery snow, when the 
temperature was low and the line sometimes froze ‘in 
the guides. i. 

This year it will not be so, Spring is further advanced 
than usual, the snow water has gone out of the brooks, 
insects tempted by the warmth of the sun, which daily 
shines on them longer and longer, have ventured forth, 
and flying here and there on joyous wing, fall into brook 
or pond and tempt the troutlet’s appetite. Perhaps there 
is only one condition at the opening day this year which 
the angler may fairly criticise. 

Most of the brooks are full of ‘water, and are pouring 
down brown’or muddy torrents which carry débris from 
bank and meadow and swamp, on which the trout may 
easily fill their hungry maws, so that when the fly of the 
angler dances lightly over the water, or sinks for an 
instant in the eddy, only to be withdrawn again, the full- 
fed fish may be too lazy to dart for it with their spring- 
But ‘this is not likely to happen. Whoever 


they will not rise, but we venture to say that—if the 
cause of their refusal could be known—it wotild be found 
in some other condition than satiety. 

But it is seldom that the best fishing is had on the 
opening day.. To that day we bring keen eagerness for a 
pastime from which we have long been debarred, and more 
than half our pleasure comes-from anticipation. 

Tt is later in the season, when the grass, well sprung, is 


thick and green, when the air is softer and warmer than 


it ever is on the opening day, when beautiful flowers 
spangle the meadows or nodding over the stream’s border 
are mirrored in clear waters, when birds have come. in 


full numbers and their songs are heard from every branch,. 


that -we best enjoy the fishing. By that time the keen 
edge of out eagerness has become a little dulled, and we 
can fish with less excitement, and with more astuteness 
and effect. 

In these days we may even lure from his hiding place 
beneath bank, or stump, or fallen tree trunk, some mon- 


ster of the brook which it has long been our ambition to 


take. Perhaps in previous years we have had a rise 
or two from him; perhaps we have even hooked him, and 
he has broken away, sending us home in’ such utter 


humiliation of spirit that for a day or two we could 
scarcely speak of our misfortune. But now, on one of 
these days of later May or early June, we approach his 
well-known hiding place with double caution, and per- 
haps a carefully planned campaign culminates in the cap- 
ture of the great fish, Then what tumultuous beating of 
the heart as the landing net lifts him from the water and 
carries him far back from the bank, and we put him on 
the scales! Does he shrink a little as he pulls down the 
spring? Perhaps so. So do most of the pleasures of 
life grow less when we hold them within our grasp, and 
like the boy. who caught the butterfly, we find that what 
we wished has still escaped us. Nevertheless, he is a 
noble fish, and to have taken him is a great feat. Re- 
joice, therefore, and bear your prize home in triumph. 
You may never again take so goodly a fish. 


A CANADA SPECIAL. 


Tuts square-shouldered, full-chested, feathered athlete 
is known to sportsmen of various localities under the 
name scatip, broadbill, blackhead, bluebill and _ others. 
Wherever our wildfowl are gunned, in all weathers, one 
finds this ubiquitous free lance the same alert, never-tiring 
thoroughbred. 

Everything he does goes with a,snap to it. Even an 
old hand, who takes regular toll of the royal canvasback 
and redhead, often finds the broadbill a puzzling target 
as it flashes by down wind, or darts on recurved wings 
for the decoys. He has to learn a new trick before he can 
stop the birds with certainty. 

When crippled, this duck is extremely cunning, and 
will often sneak away under cover of the ripples right 
before one’s eyes, with just the top of his bill showing at 


‘intervals as he takes breath. 


On calm days when fowl are not coming well to the 
decoys, the broadbill, assembled in large flocks on the 
still water, will romp and splash in great apparent glee, 
while now and again one hears their musical call pur-r-r-r, 
pur-r-r, as they play. 


The speed of the broadbill is wonderful. At times 


“when they flash past with the full power of the gale 


behind them, it is marvelous to note how quickly they 
appear, grow large, and then vanish in the far distance. 
Our supplement gives’ a striking picture of swift mo- 
tion. The day is calm and one can almost hear the rush 
of wings—like the faint sound of escaping steam—as the 
Canada*special darts by on its journey to the north. 


THE SPORTSMEN’S SHOW CASTING. 
There are few places in the United States, perhaps, 


“where there is a greater number of enthusiastic anglers 


or expert fly-casters than in New York city, and it was 
to have been hoped that the fly-casting tournament re- 
cently held at the Madison Square Garden would have 
attracted competition by a large number of anglers, to their 
own pleasure and to the edification and pleasure of the 
public, who are interested in this attractive sport. The 
very reverse of this happened. Instead of having -large 


‘lists of competitors, it was a difficult matter to get to-. 


gether a corporal’s guard of fly-casters, From pure good 
will a number of men entered their names in various 
events, but either did not cast, or if they did so, showed 
entire lack of preparation. 

In preparing the conditions of the competition, an 


effort was made to render the contest as-nearly as pos- 


sible like what the caster would meet in the actual work 
of angling on a stream. It was not sought to make the 
work spectacularnorto adapt it only to those persons who 


‘have given much time to practicing long-distance casting, 


to the exclusion of skill in many other matters which 
come into the ordinary day’s work of the angler. By 
arranging such conditions it was hoped to attract a large 
competition by ordinary, every-day fly-casters, and the 
offering of many classes shows an effort to induce com- 
petition by as wide a circle of anglers as possible. 

The criticisms brought forward against the competi- 
tion this year will very likely have a good effect in stimu- 
lating interest in this beautiful art, which has long been 


‘too much neglected here, though in other cities, like San 


Francisco and Chicago, the interest is well kept up. It. 
is not true that people in New York know very little about 
angling, and it is hoped that hereafter they will be ablg 
to demonstrate this. pan aba jes”, Metta 


262 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Aran 5 1904, 


Che Sportsman Gaourist. 
: 


Through the Parsonage Window. 
XI. 


Out through the window to-day the little stage of 
buffalo grass is stretching afar, for fancy rebuildeth that 
which has passed away. tetas ; 

T had been on several expeditions after big game in 
the great West; that is, in the inter-Missouri and Rocky 
Mountain country. Eighteen had found me chasing ante- 

lope over the table lands of east-central Nebraska, and 
my twenty-first birthday found me chasing elk over the 
sand hills in the Dismal River country. Hunting was 
by no means a profession with me. The intervals be- 
tween expeditions was filled up by the usual routines of 
life, and have no place here. 

Buffalo was by far the most common game of the 
great plains, Yet, aiter three expeditions, I had never 
seen one, and when a tambler from the buffalo ranges 
of western Kansas came my way and told me oi his ex- 
ploits, I was ready for adventure in that line. ah 

Having reached the age of twenty-one, I was eligible 
to one hundred and sixty acres of Uncle Sam’s domain. 
Reaching the fuirthest encroachment of settlement on the 
buffalo country, I secured a suitable quarter section of 
land on a far-reaching’ Jevel of silver-white buffalo sod 
and had my entry recorded at the land office, A level 
plain of buffalo grass looks like a great timothy stubble 
after a frost has touched it under a full moon. 

This was preliminary to the buffalo hunt. After the 
hunt I would return there and make settlement, break 
that easily subjugated sod and sow the land in wheat; 
and it would require only a pencil and a piece of paper 
to show just what I could do in five .years. 
be a pleasant dream, 
plow, and it would laugh me a golden plenty.” 

The first thing to be done, in making a settlement on 
the prairies, is to break a hedgerow all round the land, 
and sometimes to cross section it—that is, subdivide a 
quatter section into four forties. This I had done as a 
mark of good faith before starting out. These hedge- 
rows were seldom held in subjection after the first year 
or planted in hedge until the place has passed through 
first hands, but were left to take care of themselves, 
This they: did by growing up to weeds and bunch grass; 
the buffalo grass seldont asserted itself after once being 
plowed up, or if it did come back was very slow in taking 
hold, and a marked characteristic of the country soon 
came to be these long, straight, dirty lines of ragged 
weeds or red bunch grass, running across the cleaner 

- white of the buffalo sod. 

The virgin prairie of western Kansas was at all times 
a beautiful thing, whether in the buff coat of fall and 
winter or the emerald robe of June; unbroken, it was as 
grand and inspiring a sight as God ever placed before 
the human eye. But, scarred by man, it became a deso- 
late waste or fertile fields, according as the scarring 
process was strongly or weakly directed. 

Fully one-half the entries made on Government land 
were made by people who never intended to settle, but 
just to block the way until other men came with a real 
desire to cultivate the land, and paid them liberally to 
get out. It was a common thing, even, for men to prove 
up on their claims without having spent a single night 
upon them. On such claims the improvements might be 
somewhat as follows: Seven acres of weeds, where 
the land had been broken to fulfill the demands of the 
law, which required seven acresstunder cultivation; a sod 
house without window or door, and perhaps with the 
roof falling in; a hole in the ground with a jug seven 
inches long, filled with water, at the bottom—the law 
requiring a well with at least seven inches of water in it. 
I have in mind a man who proved up on just such a 
claim. He was a lawyer and sold the claim for a thousand 
dollars. Indeed, the sale was all arranged before final 
proof was made. This man came to be a shining light 
and a teacher of men; he attained to high political favor, 
and then the blight of time struck him and he withered 
and 1s gone, 

With such work as this on a great many of the claims 
and the indifferent Improvements made by the poorer 
settlers, the clean prairie'soon came to be desolate and 
disreputable. That which had been beautiful became a 
vexation to the soul. The name “Kansas” brings three 
separate and distinct pictures to my mind’s eye. First, a 
vast reach of nearly level landscape done in silver and 
bronze, reliéved here nd there by valleys with dark 
threads of leafless trees winding from base to base of 
the hills on either side, and extending either way as far, 
_ as the eye can follow. Second, the same landscape with 
the pall of death cast over it, an endless black waste—the 
silver and bronze have been: swept away by fire, and 
ashes only are left. Again, the same vast field covered 
with a floss of green—unbroken, endless green. It is 
imnossible for the human mind to imagine a sight more 
sublime. There are few flowers. The sensitive rose, that 
withers at the touch of the human hand, more like a 
clover blossom than a rose; the common wild rose; the 
pale blossoms of the buffalo pea, and the purple of the 


team in case of accident. 


Life would. 
I should “tickle the earth with a 


filling all cracks between the sod. When a height of 
seven feet was reached all round, the work for the time 
being was done, it being necessary to allow the wall at 
least six months to settle before putting on the roof. 
Those walls stood until the elements dissolved them; but 
I neyer slept more than two or three nights within them. 
After a couple of years I built a house of stone, and that 
I did not live in to any great extent; in fact, it might 
be as well to state that my fiye years on a claim was 
mostly put in otherwhere—but of that more anon. , 

By Oct. 15 our outfit was ready for the start. We 
had a good strong team of horses and a lumber wagon, 
with one rather heavy saddle pony for scouting pur- 
poses, which could also be used .as substitute in the 
We took 400 pounds of flour, 
plenty of coffee, bacon, sugar and so forth. In the 
matter of provisions we were far better proyided than 
most of the settlers we left behind, I think we were 
indebted to this fact for a great many visits from the 
settlements while in our winter camp, I am satisfied that 
a number made the drive of more than a hundred miles 
just to get a few good “square” meals. We, of the first 
detachment, were only scouts who were expected to lo- 
cate the best range and establish a winter camp, from 
which we could send out lesser expeditions in all direc- 
tions and into the very heart of the “enemy's country.” 

Our guns were not the delicate and effective weapons 
of to-day, but clumsy, old-fashioned things such as the 
.56-50 Spencer and the Springfield breechloading musket. 
We also had one .45-120 Sharps hybrid, made by attach- 
ing a heavy, old-fashioned, muzzleloading rifle barrel to 
a Sharps breech and boring it out to suit. This gun 
would throw up a bigger shovelful of sod than any of the 
others when its missile missed the mark and hit the 
prairie, which it often did. It also had a decidedly more 
emphatic recoil; otherwise the guns were about on a 
par, all being equally hard to manage, as they were coarse- 
sighted, bad buckers and hard on trigger. We also had 
an otiginal model Henry rifle, which was more accurate, 
easier managed, but a great deal less powerful; and a 
double-barrel, ro-gauge, 12-pound shotgun. These we 
kept in the pink of condition and loaded, the shotgun with 
eighteen buckshot to the barrel, in case of attack by 
Indians. Our ammunition consisted mainly of a 25-pound 
can of Dupont powder, 2,000 primers and about 60 pounds 
of bar lead. For the Spencer and Henry, we could only 
use fixed ammunition, both being rim-fire. The Spencer 
went out of action early in the game for lack of ammuni- 
tion, and the Henry soon followed suit from the same 
cause. We did not use the Henry for hunting at all, but 
brought it along exclusively for defense, it being a maga- 
zine gun of sixteen shots. Hitting anything smaller than 
a buffalo with the heavy guns was an idle dream, though, 
and we fell back on the Henry, and before spring had 
fired all our defense ammunition at a large cottonwood 
tree that stood a hundred yards away and just opposite 
camp. 

It was with, to me, considerable excitement that we 
rolled away across the plains at last, for a long-cherished 
dream was about to be fulfilled. From the time of our 
starting out it was more than a year before I slept inside 
a house again. In that time I had grown familiar with 
the stars; I had learned to tell the time of night by the 
clock of stars through my own observation, never having 
heard of it before. A companion who slept beside me 
knew no more of the stars at the end than at the be- 
ginning of the campaign. How he could lie and look 
up at them for a year, and never find anything out, was 
a mystery, but he did. I neyer could make him under-— 
stand my clock, and it was useless to try. He said it 
was arrant nonsense and impossible; that I was evi- 
dently “struck” on myself, that I knew a little too much 
for one and not quite enough for two; so we agreed to 
disagree, and let it drop at that, As to the results of the 
trip, they were not great, yet of much moment to a few 
families, Several there were who thus had plenty of 
fresh meat that otherwise would have had scant picking. 
As for myself, I had nothing in the form of luxury in the 
eye of the average human oddity, but the experience was 
a luxury which I have since been unable to parallel in 
any other walk of life whatever. . P. JAQUES. 


An Outing in the Snow 


Easter Sunday,.tgot, when ladies were displaying the 
newest creations in millinery, and making the city streets 
a kaleidoscopic dream of spring. there was eight feet of 
sow on the northern slope ot Dix, one of the important 
though rarely visited peaks of the Adirondacks. To 


reach Keene Valley from Port Henry, twenty-five miles 


awgy. mails were sent a circuitous route of eighty miles 
by way of An Sable Forks, solely because the last six 
miles of the regular mail route from Underwood Post 
Office to Beedes was buried under a depth of soft snow 
that let the mail carriet*s horses down out of sight and 
made progress absolutely impossible. The remainder of 
the way was good, but after thawing weather took the 
bottom out of this six-mile stretch, the eighty-mile way 
around was the shortest way home. 

T traveled with the mail carrier as far as Underwood, 
which is less than a dozen miles from the summit of Dix, 
reaching there in time for dinner Wednesday. April 10. 
With me were stiowshoes, toboggan, rabbit-skin sleeping 


who is a gentlemanly and efficient hotel man. - re 
rods away a small brook crosses the road, and by follow- 
ing this up to some deserted lumber shanties and then 
swinging to the right through a notch between two hills, 
the South Branch of the Boquet is reached near the big 
bend. An old so-called military road once ran through 
this notch northward to Keene Valley, said to have 
been used by our army in the war of 1812, but at present 
the largest forest trees grow in thé road, and it can only 
be located in places. Near the big bend I had a hunting 
camp, and here I counted on spending the night. 

It was late when I reached the spot, for the snow was 
very soft and the toboggan pulled hard, and when at 
last I climbed the knoll above the spring and came to the 
two great rocks between which the camp had been built, 
it was so dark that I could see but dittle of my surround- 
ings. The fallen hemlock which had served for a table 
was buried out of sight, and I walked above it withont 
knowing exactly where it lay. Ten feet further should 
have been the camp, but not a sign of the roof could be 
seen. At first I imagined the deep snow had reached 
above the roof, but a little prodding sufficed to show 
that the structure had collapsed, despite the stout spruce 
poles which supported it. This was a cold dash to 
pleasant anticipations of a warm stipper and cozy bed. 
Sleep here was out of the question, so I retraced my 
steps to a clearing where some lumber shanties had once 
stood, and finding a spot in the bank of the Boquet where 
the wind and sun had reduced the thickness of the snow 
manile, 1 brought my stiowshoes into use to clear the 
ground and eut and laid balsam boughs for a bed, and 
afterward cooked my supper, and despite the unfavorable 
conditions, passed a very comfortable night. 

It was while traveling up the bed of the South Branch 
next day that I first saw the tracks of the bear. His pin- 
toed trail led up the east bank of the stream, and it was 
evident from several side trips to the water he was look- 
ing for a good crossing place. Presently a deep pool, 
flanked by a ledge, barred further progress. To get by T 
had to go back to the last rapid and wade across through 
the swift water, half-way up to my knees, carrying the 
toboggan and making a second trip for rifle and snow- 
shoes. : 

The bear had found an easier way. From the bank 
above a cedar tree had fallen, its inverted top almost 
reaching the level of the snow. The bear, which must 
have been about the size of a St. Bernard dog, had erected 
himself on his hind legs, and reaching up climbed into 
the tree, and so on up to the top of the ledge. The tracks 
in the snow and scratches in the bark told the story plainly 
enough. 

A short distance above the bear had at length suc- 
ceeded in gaining the west bank of the stream, and as 
he began climbing the steep side of Spotted Mountain, I 
left the toboggan and followed in light marching order. 
True to bear traditions, the little scamp selected the 
worst traveling available, and made through an old fite 
slash, where in summer he could hardly have been fol- 
lowed. In winter it was baé enough, for though the in- 
equalities underfoot were smoothed over, the way was 
through a tangle of pin cherries and maples and young 
birches that slapped one in the face with tantalizing regu- 
larity, and made one realize the devilishness of the In- 
dian method of torture by running the gatnntlet, 

Above the slash the trail followed a ravine up among 
the:silent spruces, and eventually reached the slides which 
give the mountain its scarred appearance and its name. 
Tt was here that I lost the trail, for with the altitude the 
air had grown colder and the crust became strong enough 
to support the bear. Before leaving the trail, however, I 
made a discovery arid settled a question which perplexed 
me, 

The question was, what food is there for‘a bear when 
the snow is deep in winter? The answer came in the 
shape of a quantity of partridge feathers scattered over 
the snow. No other track was near, and it was plain it 
was the bear which had feasted on the choice piece in 
the menu of woods’ delicacies. It seemed impossible that 
the bear could have caught the partridge, as a fox does, by 
pouncing on it in its bed in the snow, and I looked around 
for some explanation as to how he had come by the tid- 
bit. About-the-center of the circle of feathers was the 
form the bird had made in the snow, and which the bear 
had broken into. Above the snow was crusted, and the 
most reasonable explanation seemed to be that the par- 
tridge had been caught and imprisoned by a sudden freeze, 
and that the bear had been lead to the dead bird by his 
keen sense of smell. ! 

The day after following the bear’s trail I climbed Dix, 
traveling sixteen miles on snowshoes on the round trip to 


and from the lower still water on the North Branch. Near- 


Mark Sherman’s abandoned upper camp, which was at 
one time said to be the highest Iumber camp in the 
Adirondacks, I came upon the tracks of a bear, which 
bore a strong resemblance to the tracks of the previous 
day. As the bear had crossed a_part of Spotted Moun- 
tain, and come from the direction I had followed the other 
tracks, it is highly probable it was one and the same 
animal. 

The tracks crossed the single log, which is all that 


‘remains of the bridge over the brook at this point, and 


passing between the shanties went up on the motintain 
between the forks of the stream. Here the bear found a 
hard crust, and I lost the trail, this time for good and all. 

Above the camp Dix loomed in a way that the camera 


indigo flower, called buckskin flower by the Kansas 
settler, whose plowshare fails to cut it. These are the 
features, and none of the flowers are numerous enough 
for their presence to be noticeable in the solid Spread of 
green. Some one suggests sunflowers, but sunflowers 
are not of primitive Kansas, and came only with man and 
his machinations, 

_ The laying of the walls of my sod house was an occa- 
sion fraught with much interest to me: for here I was 
to lay the foundation of future fortune. ‘There were 
several of us going out on the buffalo range for the win- 
ter, and while making other preparations, we took a 
day off and all turned to to help lay the wall. First we 
broke a small patch of ground, the sod being cut and 
turned over in long, even strips, the length of the fur- 


robe and camera, as well as several days’ supply of provi- 
sions, and a rifle. My intention was to climb Dix and 
hunt bears. In the former object I was suecessful. but | 
the large bears were not traveling, and though I got on i - fgianit beh boroee : , 
the trail of a yearling twice in successive days, I could jy N 

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do nothing with it, as the bear soon found crust that i, With a diadem of snow.” 

would support its weight, and there was no way “t , i vie 


only faintly reproduces. To the rhythm of snowshoes 
the old lines on Mont Blane recurred: 


“They crowned him long age, 


following it further. ' The great lonely snow-covered mass certainly was - 
Underwood is in a first-rate fishing location. Last yearl# regal, clothed in a dignity begotten of the calm of cen- 
Prof. Seager. of the University of Pennsylvania; Mr.) turies. % re ' ‘ 
Berry, Mr. Walmsley and myself caught 379 legal trout, The northern face is seamed with slides, some of the 
in this neighborhood in a day and a half. It is not much} greater part of a mile in length. One of these, of recent 
of a town, however, and aside from the hotel and barns, origin, has descended directly into the bed of the right- 
one summer cottage ts the only building in sight. hand fork of the stream up which my course Jay. The 
miles away is the sawmill, presided over by Mr. D water had apparently been temporarily dammed, and then 


row. ee Serine were cut with a spade into pieces the Stringham, and back toward Port Henry there is nothing} torn through the obstruction with terrifie force, leaving 
ates fdas for use. Two feet was the width of the much except a shingle mill or two till Stovepipe City is) in its wake in places windrows of boulders twenty feet 
wall) the trimming of it inside and out reduced it to reached, ten miles away. The hotel at Underwood is} in height, and at other places shearing the surface rock 


eighteen inches. The sod was laid up lke brick, only on 
a larger scale, with the sod side down: and after each 
layer the top was leveled off, the loose earth cut away 


clear away down to a smooth bed of native hypersthene. 


built in the clearing that Guy Brittell made, only to be wy ol rsthene.. 
driven off just short of the period necessary to give him’ On the lower levels of the mountain the snow had — 
squatter’s title. Jt is managed by Mr, Elmer Wakefield, ¥& settled, till in places it did not exceed a depth of eighteen 


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‘inches or two feet, but here the thaw had little effect, and 
before. reaching the sumrbit I found new srow, and Ho 
‘sian of a crust. At this point, just above the camps, the 
Stlow was upward of four feet deep, On the basin higher 
up there were places where it was in excess of eight 
feet in depth. On either hand were thickly wooded ridges 
where the deer were wintering. This I knew from a 
Previous snowshoeing trip, when I had followed the ridges 
‘and seen deer and deer yards in abundance, My course 
“now was through the open, and as a result I saw no deer 
‘signs whatever, i 

Just before leaving the large timber I passed through a 
blow-down of considerable extent, where hundreds of 
thousands of feet of merchantable spruce had been up- 
rooted by a tornado in the fall of 1900. The tree tops 
all pointed east, and not a tree of any size was left stand- 

ing. They had been bowled over like a row of children’s 
blocks, and lay in lines as if the cause of each tree’s down- 
fall had been the impact of its neighbor .on the west. 

Leaving the bed of the brook a short distance beyond, I 
found myself among a sparse growth of cat spruces and 
gnarled birches. These trees were ancient moss-covered 
_ specimens, twisted by the high winds and scarred by the 

catapultic flight of rocks which had fallen from the 

heights above. 
I was in an amphitheater, surrounded on three sides 
by a natrow mountain rim, with a bowl-like curve closely 
approaching the perpendicular at the upper edge. The air 
was very still, and the sun shone brightly, but not a bird 
or animal was to be seen, and the thread of my snow- 
shoe trail, which could be traced for half a mile behind, 
was the only break in the white covering. The place was 
as wild and desolate as the Hermit Range of the Selkirks, 
yet it was not lonely. The deathly, forbidding aspect of 
distant rugged mountains is lost on a closer acquaintance. 

The personality of a mountain soon makes itself felt to 

the mountaineer, and with familiarity comes the restful 

sense of comradeship, It is like a little child petting the 
great friendly dog. : 
The safest way of climbing Dix is to gain the crest of 
' the northern ridge and follow that around to the sum- 
mit. The straight approach up the slides looked so 
simple and attractive, however, that I essayed that with 
the result that before I had gotten half-way up I found 
myself in difficulties, and before I reached the summit it 
was a desperate tooth and nail scramble up an almost 
perpendicular front. Fortunately, the snow was in the 
best possible condition, being neither crusted, nor, on 
the other hand, soft and substanceless. Much of the way 
I climbed with my snowshoes off, using them as pikes 
to drive into the snow and hang on to, while my moc- 
casined toes found a sure hold in the nitches thus made. 
Finally I stood upon the summit, a long, curving rock 
edge, so narrow in places that a carriage could not be 
driven along, even if level. Below in the sea of white 
forest were a score of lakes, and westward, beyond a great 
gulf, was the rugged range of Wolf Jaws, the Gothics, 
saw-toothed Resigonia and Marcy. Eastward was Lake 
Champlain and the Green Mountains of Vermont. 

It was cold there on the summit, and I did not stay 
long in the silent whiteness above the trees. The exertion 
of climbing had been severe, and I was stripped to my 
undershirt and not prepared for the cold wind that 
swept across the crest. So I followed the northern 
ridge back, running whenever practical, and soon was a 
thousand feet lower, warm and comfortable among the 
timber. Ak BurnuAm. 


A Walk Down South.—XXIIl. 


On Monday morning it was still cold and freezing, but 
I started from Hick’s at 8:45 o’clock. It was a hard day 
to travel. Ice gathered on the paddle, and my hands 
were soon so cold that I could not hold my pen to make 
notes in the little blank book that serves as my memory’s 
mile posts, But it was a day that needed more than the 
one line it got in the note book: : 
“Jan, 13—start 8745—3:30 stop’—the last word is a 
shivery scrawl. | 4 
About 10:30 o’clock on that morning I came to Buz- 
zards’ Roost, an island of considerable note among river 
men, because the buzzards flock there every night, and 
discuss the ghoulish carnival of the days with many a 
poke and gagging thrust of their raw, reeking heads. 
Hete Hick had said was a burial ground of the In- 
dians. He showed to me a pot in which an infant had 
been buried—it was made of ground mussel shells and 
clay, baked. When taken from the ground it crumbled 
in the fingers, but now, dried by wind and sun, it was 
hard enough to hold its own weight. It would hold a couple 
of pecks, nearly, as it stood. How large it had been 
was a question. ; 
Across from Buzzards’ Roost, on the mainland, I saw 
a little brook, and just below the brook gully, on the 
flat, were some of those red cobbles packed tightly in 
their circles and ovals. I took my five-pint graniteware 
pail and went up on the bottom, a rise of ten feet, say, 
and at the second step I found an arrow head, then an- 
other, a third. In a few minutes—say twenty, the bot- 
tom of the pail was covered with the flints. Meanwhile 
1 pondered on what those red stones had been used for. 
They were cracked and chipped by heat, from six to 
ten paces apart. The answer was simple enough when 
T knew it. They were simply tepee fireplaces. 
I found many tips, a broken stone knife handle, a lead 
bullet, flattened and encrusted with a white substance. 
. Also a bullet the size of a buckshot, but with a faint trace 
of the knife that had trimmed it on one side. The “gem” 
of the lot was a dull red and yellowish-white tip nearly, 
two and three-quarter inches long, and perfect from the 
point to the shank. On the island the “tides” had left a 
deposit instead of wearing the ground away, consequently 
the arrow tips, etc, were nearly all covered up, but I 
found half a dozen or so. Then, chilled to the bone, I 
entered my boat again and went hustling down the river, 


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A few miles below some men were trying to turn a’ 
stray ferry boat over. They had a fire burning, and that 


was a chance to get warm. The fire was curious. There 


was a pile of drift a hundred yards long, ten or fifteen’ 


feet deep, with fifty cords of dry wood in it—tree trunks, 
twigs, planks, beams and boards. But it would have 
taken some effort to dislodge most of it. 
kept going with dry hay and weeds pulled from the mass 
of stuff. Three men were warming themselves in the 


The fire was 


FOREST AND STREAM 


smudge, while a fourth pulled the fitel and carried if 


Qn my 


with one hand, warming the other in his pocket. 
arrival, however, three of them got some wood, and the’ 
fire blazed up respectably. What they would not do 
for themselves they did for the stranger. 

I started on in half an hour, hoping to make Rogers- 
ville Bridge before dark, but night was coming on lone- 
somely, and there was no sign of the bridge. At last : } 
log house on the hill looked inviting. I went to it. 1 
could stay if I “could stand their way of living.” 

Simmons is a Dunkard, a tall, lank man with long black 
hair, black whiskers a week or so long, and the mildest, 
sweetest, gentlest large brown eyes that I ever saw under 
a man’s high forehead. A man of uncommon strength, 
with the real ham-like fists he handled his four babies 
as if they were cotton. We ate a stipper of fried pork, 
over which a milk-and-flour gravy had been poured, apple 
sauce, sorghum, coffee and milk, hot bread (biscuit), and 
then at the moderate hour of 8 o’clock went to bed. Mine 
was fluffy and deep. a 

In the morning it was clear, and as soon as the sun 
came up, bright, After a breakfast similar to the supper, 
I went down to the boat. It was frozen in by a layer of 
ice along the bank, I broke it out with an oar, and 
Simmons shoved me out of the little rivulet gully in 
which the boat passed the night, and then I headed away 
southwest again, The river was a-sparkle with “mush 
ice,” but not the sort I had seen on the Little Holston. 
Instead of being in flakes, this was in small cales half an 
inch thick, and from three inches to four feet across. In 
a rippling shoal, just below Simmons, the ice danced im 
the sunlight, each piece flashing like a looking glass. 
The effect was blinding, I was glad to get my back to 
the stuff, | | 

Only a couple of miles down the river I came to a 
creek—so inviting that I ran up it a few yards, tied up 
and took a walk on the bank, For the most part the 
bottom was covered with silt, but still there were many 
arrow heads to be picked up, one group of five all to- 
gether—big, black war tips they were. I wondered if 
some warrior had not fallen there, and his quiver full 
marked the spot? Later I learned that the stream was 
Mink Creek, and that on the hill near the flat was an old 
Indian fort. 

Richer by a pocketful, I came away, and following 
the left side of a long “eddy,” or still water, really a 
mill pond, I passed two raftsmen building one of their 
crafts. They directed me as to the safe route through 
the Rogersville Dam, a mile below. I didn’t know it, but 
we three were to meet again. The dam sluice proved to 
be swift, a little dancing and then the railroad bridge 
came in sight, high, black, with a long trestle on the 
left, At a house on the right, George Steel's, I left my 
duffle and my boat tied to a tree. : 

I told Mr. Steel that I would probably be back that 
night, but that I might not be back for a week, Sim- 
mons had mentioned a feud, the Jones-Green “war,” and 
I wanted to see a feud country. 

Rogersville was four miles away. I followed the rail- 
road to the Creek Valley town. At the express office I 
got an express package with some needful clothes, espe- 
cially an eight-pound sweater, and then at the hotel met 
Proprietor Joe Spears. We couldn’t trace any relation- 
ship to each other, but the name was something. 

I expressed my desire to see the feud country. 

‘Don’t you do it,’ he said. “They'll think you're a 
detective and bushwheck you sure.” Jim Wright was 
especially dangerous. He had shot a man in November 
and had a fat record of murders to his account. Some 
realism to the badness of the country was furnished by 
a murder just below Rogersville, a couple or three days 
before. Also by remarks in the barber shop. A white 
man there was joshing the negro barber, saying: 

‘Why, Davis, if you got mad at me youd kill me 
quick,” 

The white man gone, the tall yellow man said he 
had to “get his man,” because “‘his man” had shot twice 
already. A thin line back from the corner of the bar- 
ber’s eye, an inch long, showed where the yictim’s bul- 
let had burned. 

I went down to see Lawyer W. R. Gillenwaters about 
the bad men. He said that Jim. Wright was as fine a 
man as I ever met, when he wasn’t afraid of somebody’s 
“not minding their own business.’ On Wright's head is 
“a reward of $550, one for murder, one as an escaped con- 
vict, and one by the brother of one of his victims, Gil- 
lenwaters said he had defended in more than two hun- 
dred cases, and had not had a client hung, and could 
count the number of men who had got more than ten 
years on his fingers. The success of the criminal lawyers 
in the mountain country of Tennessee has made murder- 
ing easy there, it is generally admitted. 

I stayed in Rogersville two nights. One man stopped 
Proprietor Spears and asked him, probably, in a low 
voice ; 

‘Who's that man at your place?” 

“What man?’ asked Spears, “pretending” he didn’t 
know who was meant. iii 

“That big fellow with short pants on?” 

“T doa’t know much about him.” 

"Well, I'll bet he won't get away alone when he starts 
away.” . . 

This was used as an argument to keep me from going 
over to Sneedville, where the bad men center at the 
court of Hancock county. 

On Thursday, Jan. 16, I started for the home of Tip 
Jones, half-way to Sneedville, not yet certain whether. 
it would be worth while to go to Sneedville or not. I 
stopped for dinner at a log house near Choptack, five 
miles out. The good widow thought I was a detective 
and said so. . 

It was a rough country of narrow valleys extending 
northeast and southwest, with gaps through which the 
road wound in oak and chestnut forests. I met one of 
the men who had been turning the ferry boat up the 
river; he was in a wagon, and we had a-talk. He said, 
“Be kind of keerfuul over there” on parting. 

I eyed the steep hillsides and their many convenient 
ambushes with surpassing interest. j 

I saw a bunch of twelve or fifteen quail in one valley 
clearing; then at a little stream sawmill they told me 
T could make a short cut over Clinch Mountain and save 
two or three’ miles to Tip Jones’. I took to the little 


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‘path and climbed the mountain side; steep and steeper 


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it grew, but corners of stone, tree roots and other foot- 
holds made the ascent not too bad. 1 skirtedia clearing 
unseen by the man and two women who were grubbing 
brush there. / q 
Sill on a path, I came to a tiny Jog cabin with a 
mud-and-stick chimney to the stone fireplace. Erne Hil- 
ton was the little man who lived there, He “minded 
his own business.” Curious to know who I was, he put 


\the questions as far from the interrogation points as pos- 


sible. “A heap of strangers in the country?” for instance. 
L told him truthfully that I was a newspaper man, said it 
as convincingly as possible. When I had “warmed” by 
his fire, he pointed the way to me, after leading me to 
the mountain top. . 

Down the mountain was as steep as up it. Every step 
was followed by a slip and sometimes I threw my arms 
round a-sapling, “like grape vine round a gun,” and held 
on till my momentum was overcome. Far below was 
Cal Cope’s store, white house and Tip Jones’, Along a 
cleared ridge back, through a batn down a hollow, over a 
fence, and, chewing my heart, perhaps, I asked for Tip 
Jones of a mild, smooth-faced, dapper, white-haired man 
in the white house—not knowing which was Tip’s then. 
The man was Cal Cope. 

Tip was called in for me. So I met the first man who 
was liable to think I wasn’t minding my own business. I 
told him who I was first, then asked about the feud. 
Tip’s eyebrows lowered and the round lumps over each 
of his eyes seemed to swell a bit, and a little gleam came 
into his gray-blue eyes—just the breath of suspicion, 
which I allayed by repeating who I was after I got some 
answers to questions. But Tip was reluctant to talk. He 
had been shot at, had done some shooting himself, had 
been a fugitive from the courts, had hid in the moun- 
tains round about, and seen men hunting for him in the 
valleys. He had fled as far as the Indian Territory and 
come at the house of the Dick Green who shot his 
brother’s son in a fight in which hundreds of shots were 
fired, a boy killed and several wounded, Ace Jones, father 
of Dick Green’s victim, was the one for me to see, he 
said. Ace was the leader of the Jones faction, and “knew 
all about it.” ; 

After a night at Cal Cope’s I started for Ace Jones. 
Tip was going a few rods that way, . 

*T stood on that hill there once and saw five men come 
to my house looking for me,’ Tip said of a little round 
knob grown to fruit trees. As we separated, he said: 

“Just tell Ace what you be when you see him, so’s he 
won't think nothing.” 

Three miles away was Ace’s house, and I tramped that 
way, feeling pretty much the same as the first time I 
ever went into the woods to sleep out alone. 

Raymonp S, SPEars. 


Floating on the Missouri.—VII. 


Crookep Creek flows into the Musselshell about two 
miles above the latter’s confluence with the Missouri. It 
ig a “dry” stream, water standing in it only in holes, and 
heads in some ridges bordering Armell’s Creek, fifty miles 
to the west. Its upper course is through a broad plain 
and then it runs between high pine-clad buttes and ridges 
where mountain sheep, mule deer and antelope are nu- 
merous, I understand that a party of Lewistown, Mont., 
men who were hunting on the creek a year ago corralled 
forty deer in a cut wall coulée and killed every one of 
them, leaving the animals to rot where they fell. Of 
course they were pilgrims; no old-timer would think of 
doing such a thing. And they even went- home and 
bragged of the deed and their sportsmanship. Sportsman- 
ship, forsooth. 

Years ago, while hunting buffalo_on Crooked Creek, I 
tan across an eccentric character named Thomas Faval, 
better known as Skunk Cap. He was a north half-breed 
and spoke English with a broad Scotch accent. But that 
was not his only language; he spoke Blackfoot, Cree, 
Crow, Sioux, with equal facility. Wherever he went he 
carried’ a staff some seven feet long, to which were 
fastened various bits of fur and feathers and painted 
buckskin pouches, all of which he claimed was great medi- 
cine, and enabled him to cure all manner of disease. The 
various Indian tribes all believed in his mysteries, and 
his services and ceremonies were always in great de- 
mand. Consequently he was never short of robes and 
furs with which to support his three wives, and purchase 
the rum he so dearly loved. Tom was about seventy-five 
when I first met him, but still sound and hearty. He 
was a member of the Sir John Franklin Relief Expedi- 
tion, and told many interesting stories of his adventures 
in the far North. He was death on beavers, getting 
great numbers of them by the aid of his dogs. These 
were two low, short-legged nondescript fices which he 
had trained to the business. They would go under water 
into a bank beayer’s hole, follow it up to the den, or 
living room, and either kill and drag owt, or drive out, the 
occupants, If they were driven out, Tom and his women 
speared them. One time at our branch post on Flat Wil- 
low Creek we had been out of whisky for some weeks, and 
Faval, who was camping and trapping near by, was in 
despair because his large and ever-increasing pile of 
beaver skins could not purchase even a dram. But one 
day our bull train rolled in with supplies. and we were 
unloading it when Tom happened along. The first thing 
he noticed was a barrel of whisky standing on the ground, 
and with triumphant yells he ran up and embraced it, say- 
ing, “God bless the puncheon, me b’ys; God bless its 
generous gairth,” 

The Musselshell country is a noted place for fossils of 
various kinds. I have often heard of a place some twenty 
miles above its mouth where “one can find almost any 
kind of an old bone,” as out informant said. I once saw 
a fossilized turtle, found near its mouth by a “wood- 
hawk,” which measured five feet in length. 

The island on which we camped is fast wearing away 
the swift current cutting it on both sides. There are 
some deer on it, and several families of beavers have 
large caches of winter food at its lower end, May they 
escape the wiles of the trapper and increase. I would 
that it were life imprisonment to kill one of them, for it’s 
but little short of taking human life. Long as T have 
lived in this country, many as have been my opportunities 
I never harmed one, and I don’t understand how any one 


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can trap or shoot them who has had an, opportunity to 
study their habits and mark their wonderful intelligence. 
In their journal, Lewis and Clarke tell of a place they 
passed on the Missouri where the beavers had cut down 
four acres of timber. I know a place in the Two Medicine 
country, where, years ago, the industrious creatures built 
a dam two-thirds of a mile long and over seven feet in 
height, thus creating a large artificial lake. The water 
has lone since broken through it, and the beavers have 
gone, Surely, if there is a hereafter for man, there is 
for them also. ‘ 

We left the island at sunrise. There were again many 
geese here and there on the bars, but they flew long be- 
fore we came in range of them, and I didn’t want one 
badly enough to go ashore and sneak up on a flock. As 
we rowed down past the wide Musselshell flat and through 
the rapids, we saw several flocks of chickens along the 
shore. Not coveys, but flocks of from twenty-five or 
thirty up to twice and thrice that number. They band to- 
gether in large numbers at this season of the year, and it 
was no uncommon sight to see several hundred of them 
at morning and evening winging their way across the 
river. They afford good sport with the shotgun, but 
neither Sah-né-to nor I care for them; so, except at the 
beginning of the trip, when we had no meat, we never 
molested them. Often we passed within a few yards of 
them, and it was amusing to see them, stretch their necks, 
cock their heads one way and another, and try to make 
cut what we were. From Cow Island down there are 
also many sagehens in the valley, but strangely enough 
we never saw any along the shore on the whole trip. 
Drink they must, but probably not so frequently as do 
theit cousins, the sharptails. 

Just east of the Musselshell, on the south side, are a 
number of very tall buttes, much like the “Dark Hills” 
east of the Judith. The formation is the same, brownish- 
black clays and decayed pumice stone, and many of them 
are flat-topped and crowned with a heavy stratum of sand- 
stone. Dwarf pines and patches of juniper cling to their 
barren slopes in places, and between them are deep, dark 
coulées. No doubt they are the home of many a little 
band of mule deer, for we saw many tracks of the crea- 
tures along the shore until. we came to Squaw Creek, four 
miles below. This is another “dry’’ stream, coming into 
the river from the south through a deep, narrow gash 
in the hills, and here on the north bank of the river 
opposite it, one of the many tragedies happened for which 
these bad lands are famous. It is quite a story: In 1862 
Nelse Keyser and John Lepley were partners in a placer 
claim near Helena. Their bar was paying wages, but no 
more, so it was agreed that Keyser should go prospecting 
for something better, while his partner worked the claim. 
A year later he came into Fort Benton from below, and 
said that he had found some good diggings down the 
river, showing several hundred dollars’ worth of coarse 
sold dust in evidence of the fact. He went on up to 
Helena, told his partner his story, and tried to get him to 
join in working the discovery. But Lepley declined to 
go, so Keyser sold him his interest in the claim and re- 
turned to Fort Benton, where he tried to get several of 
his friends interested, among them Mr. Jos. Kipp, James 
Arnoux and George Croff, all living to-day. But like 
Lepley, none of them cared to risk their hair down in 
that hostile Indian country, and beside, they practically 
had a gold mine in the fur trade. Finally Keyser found 
a man named Wright to accompany him; they built a 
large flat boat, loaded it with provisions, mining tools, 
lumber for sluice boxes, and with their wives—Piegan 
women—set sail for their Eldorado, 

Keyser repeatedly. told the women that there were plenty 
of wild plums in the vicinity of his discovery, and one 
morning, after they had been on the river some days, he 
said: “One more sleep and then we will arrive at the 
place.” 2 

At dusk they came to Squaw Creek and went ashore 
opposite it for the night. They were all sitting around the 
fire, the women cooking, the men smoking and talking, 
when suddenly there was an appalling cracking of guns 
from the surrounding brush, and both of the miners rolled 
over dead, completely riddled with bullets. Then a party 
of Assinaboines rushed out, scalped and mutilated their 
victims, and took the women prisoners, forcing the poor 
creatures to accompany them to the camp of their people, 
somewhere out on Milk River. Such of the supplies in 
the boat as they could not use they set fire to, and turned 
the craft adrift. It was many months before the captive 
women finally managed to get away from the camp and 
tell their story, and although during all these years many 
prospectors have thorougHly hunted for it, the lost placer 
has never been found. This much is known: Wild plums 
grow in the north breaks of the river about a day's drift 
below Squaw Creek. As Keyser had lumber for sluice 
boxes, but no horses with which to transport the outfit, 
his find must have been on, or near, the river, There 
is no gold-bearing drift in the whole country, so his find 
must have been a local deposit by the ancient glaciers. 
Some day it will likely be found, and the lucky man will 
reap a fortune, for there is no question but what Keyser 
really struck rich diggings. According to all who knew 
him, he was a thoroughly reliable and truthful man. His 
old partner, later a cattle king, and who died only a 
year ago, staked many a man to look for the claim, so 
great was his faith that it might be found. 

In the days of Last Chance, Confederate Gulch and the 
other rich finds of the sixties, there was a constant pro- 
cession of miners on the road between Helena and Fort 
Benton on their way back to “the States.” Nearly all had 
some dust, many of them small fortunes of the precious 


metal. Finding no steamboat at the head of navigation, | 


they would start down the river in skiffs and craft of all 
kinds, regardless of the danger they incurred. New to 
the country, without experience in the wiles and ways of 
the Indians, many of these parties were ambushed by 
the savages, or shot down as they sat around their camp- 
fire. In 1867 one outfit which carried $80,000 in dust, was 
massacred by the Yanktonais, and they traded the whole 
sum to a nofthern half-breed for a couple of kegs of 
powder and a few sacks of trade balls. Mr. Joseph Kipp, 
James Arnoux and another whom we will call H., went 
down the river in a skiff that year. An hour or two 
before dark they always went ashore and had their even- 
ing meal, and then they would go on until absolute dark- 
ness overtook them, when they would camp on an island 
or in the thick brush without a fire, and in that way 


~should be served first. 


they got through safely. I must tell-a little incident which 
happened to the party in Sioux City, for it is typical of the 
impatierice and independence of the men of the plains. 
They arrived at the small town about noon, and when 
dinner was announced went into the hotel dining room 
with the crowd, taking their places at one of the small 
tables. They were dressed in worn buckskin, were long- 
haired, wnshaven and unkempt, and the negro waiters 
seemed to think that the more respectably dressed guests 
: So there they sat and sat, toy- 
ing with their knives and forks, and saw the other guests 
helped to meat, to all there was, and finally to pie. 

had repeatedly beckoned to a waiter who had charge of the 
next table, and presumably of the one they were at also, 
and each time he had replied, “Yes, sah. In just a minute, 
sah,’ but he never came near them. When H. saw the 
others helped to pie and finishing their meal, that was 
more than he could stand. Rising and following the 
waiter into the kitchen, he drew and cocked both of his 
guns, ahd said, “Now, then, you black rascal, wait on 
us quick or I'll fill your old carcass with lead. Fill one 
of those trays with all the kinds of grub you've got and 
a pie for each of us, and rustle out with it. A pie apiece, 
mind you, and be quick.” The trembling negro hastened 
to do as he was told, while the cook and others vacated 
the place by windows and doors, Probably that waiter 
filled the order quicker than one ever was filled anywhere 
before or since, and H. kept right at his back until the 
food was placed on the table. But even then, they were 


standing on the low bow of the boat, made some nooses 
of the ropes piled there, and tried to slip them over the 
heads of some of the animals we were running down. 
The hawsers were so heavy, however, that we couldn’t 
handle them, and very likely if we had succeeded in 
roping one we would have had plenty of trouble on our 


hands, and the rope to pay for. The animals tried their 
best to keep ont of the way, plunging and swimming 
frantically, but the flat-bottomed beat ran over a number 
without injuryinge them, apparently. I have often won- 
dered why the buffalo would persist in crossing and re- 
crossing this great river, when range and feed was as 
good on one side as on the other, And generally they 
seemed to select the worst places for doing so, milling 
around and around under high-cut banks until they 
drowned, or attempting to cross a quicksand only fo mure 
down. In old times, in the days of Lewis and Clarke, for | 
instance, more of them must have annually died in this 
manner, than from the arrows of all the tribes on the 
river, 

I told Sah-né-to about trying to rope buffalo here from 
the bow of a steamboat, and the incident reminded her of 
zm experience of her brother with the animals some- 
where on the river. With four others he started to raid 
the horse herds of the Yanktonais Sioux. The party was 
very small, and believing they were less likely to be dis- 
covered, they concluded to travel on the south side of the 
river until they passed the Musselshell. Night after night 
they kept traveling eastward, each morning repairing to 


not destined to appease their appetites, for they had not {the timbered breaks and building a “war house” wherein 


near got to the pie before the proprietor of the hotel, the, 
town marshal, a sheriff and three constables came in and 
arrested H. for Hourishing deadly weapons with intent to 
kill, and the others for aiding and abetting him. As Mr. 
Kipp expressed it, this ‘twas duck soup for the adminis- 
trators of justice and the shyster lawyers.” It cost the 
party $450 and two days’ time to settle the matter. H. 
says that his only regret was that he didn’t get to eat the 
pie. He hadn't seen any for ten years, and wanted it 
bad. Whee: 

Just below Squaw Creek, on the same side, begins a 
remarkably picturesque series of pine-crowned sandstone 
bluffs, which form the rim of the valley for a distance of 
cight or ten miles. When we arrived at Hornet Island, 
which is opposite the center of their length, we went 
ashore to look around a bit. This is no longer an island, 
except during the spring raise, the whole river haying 
shifted to the north side, leaving a broad satidbar between 
it and the south shore, There was a large pool of water 
in the bar, however, about opposite the center of the 
island, and, as I expected, we found its margin all tracked 
up by both kinds of deer. There were also the more 
forked and stubby tracks of mountain sheep which had 
come down from the bluffs to quench their thirst. Well 
aware that our forequarters of the deer were about gone, 
at least such portions of it as we cared to eat, I proposed 
to replenish our larder here, and suggested to Sah-né-to 
that it might be a good plan for her to drive the island. 
She objected, on the ground that there were likely two 
or three grizzlies lurking in its timbered recesses. We 
went down then the whole length of the bar, and having 
conyinced her that no beast of prey larger than a coyote 
had crossed it, she concluded it was safe enotigh, and 
entered the willows and timber. I hurried back-to the 
upper end of the island and posted myself in the brush on 
the main shore near a well-beaten trail crossing the bar. 
Five, ten minutes passed, and then a red fox came: off 
of the island and trotted directly toward me, stopping now 
and then to look back and listen. When he was within 
twenty feet of me I leaned out and said “Boo!” and how 
le did make the sand fly as he scurried for shelter. I 
could now hear Sah-né-to shouting occasionally, and 
presently five deer burst out of the opposite brush and 
came spread out over the same trail the fox had. 
They also passed within twenty feet of the brush I was in. 
but never saw me. After a little Sah-né-to appeared. 

“Why didn’t you shoot him?” she asked. 

“T didn’t see any ‘him,’ ”’ I replied; “they were a‘! does 
and fawns.” 

“Well,” she continued, “there was also albuck. I saw 
him plainly, and he had a very large set of antle |.” 

We tried for an hour to get a shot at the old fellow, but 
he was too cute for us, circling back in the thick wil- 
lows every time. Maybe he had had some experience 
before in fleeing from the sound of a voice across an open 
sandbar. So we pttshed out into the stream, and no 
doubt when he saw us passing he kicked tp his heels and 
wiggled his tail and laid down for another snooze. 

We had been running north all the morning, making 
the balance of the twenty miles around the point opposite 
the Musselshel, At Hornet Island the river turns east- 
ward again, and a favorable wind having sprung up, we 
hoisted the sail and pulled in the oars. The next bend 
below the island on the north side is called Horseshoe 
Point, and is about a mile square. As we rounded the 
outer end of it there were two whitetail out on the shore, 
and the minute they say us, back they went into the 
timber. We ran ashore and found the sandbar all cut up 
by deer tracks, and taking the rifle, I slowly climbed the 
bank and walked back a short distance toward the bluffs. 
Not far, however, as the thick rosebrush was almost im- 
penetrable, and extended several feet above my head. 
Mounting a fallen log, I got a good view of the bottom. 
Except for a narrow belt of green timber fringing the 
shore, the whole flat was a tangle of burned and fallen 
trees, and grown up with the thickest, tallest rosebrush 
I ever saw. No doubt it harbored many deer, but I 
didn’t want one of them bad enough to venture into the 
thickets. Mornings and evenings, standing quietly any- 
where in the edge of the green belt, or back on the slope 
of the hills, one could not fail to get a piece of meat. 

Two miles below the point are Striped Bluff Rapids, so 
named from the pectiliarly stratified cut wall along the 
south side of them, They are narrow and deep, and not 
parfticularly swift. After passing over them we went on 
about three miles further, and stopped on Elk Island 
for lunch. It is well timbered, nearly a mile long, and the 
old channel between it and the north shore has filled with 
sand. It was too large to be driven by ome person, so_ 
we did mot attempt it. There were a number of deer on 
it, as evidenced by their numerous tracks in the sand. 
I have seen other game here. Going down ta Bismarck 
once, on the steamer Helena, we ran into a large herd 
of buffalo opposite the island. Several of us who were 


to sleep and cook. After passing the Musselshell the 
partisan of the party, the leader and earrier of the “medi- 
cine,’ had a bad dream: “I can’t say what is going to 
happen,” he told the others, “but the medicine has warned 
me that there is danger ahead. Let us be extra cautious.” 
That day, counciling together, they decided that it was 
time for them to recross the river, for they were now in 
the Yanktonais country and liable to run across a camp 
of them at any time, So, late in the afternoon, they 
cautiously descended into a timbered bottom and began 
to construct a small raft on which to pile their clothing 
and weapons. It was in early summer, and the river 
was very high and running swiftly, They were some 
little time collecting the material, and the sun was just 
setting when they pushed out into the stream, each one 
holding to the raft and kicking with all his might to pro- 
pel it toward the other shore. The swift current, how- 
ever, was sweeping into the south shore, and in spite of 
their best endeavors they could not force the raft across 
il, so there was no alternative but to drift along and 
wait until it should carry them to the opposite side. 
Down around the bend they went, and suddenly found 
themselves bearing into a herd of buffalo swimming the 
river. They were so close that it was too late to forsake 
the raft and attempt to swim ashore, for they were now 
out in midstream. All four of them swung around to 
the south side of the raft and bore down on it, raising 
the opposite side as much as they could as a sort of bar- 
rier. In among the swimming animals they floated, such 
a dense mass of them that the water could hardly be 
seen. The frail logs bumped and rubbed against them, 
but they scarcely deviated from their course; they could 
not, so closely were they crowding each other, Those 
coming on toward the raft also struck it, and tried to paw 
and climb upon it, snorting and blowing, and others be- 
hind crowding on caused great confusion, the stronger 
ones thrusting the smaller under the surface, and once in 
a while one of these would bob up under the men, who 
could only kick and shout, and splash the water in their - 
endeavors to frighten the animals away. The buffalo 
were as scared as the men, and more than one of them 
lunged at the raftsmen viciously, and several times nearly 
impaled one on their sharp horns. The continual bumping 
and crowding of the animals against the logs kept forcing 
the raft back toward the south shore, and after a little 
it grounded on a bar. Then the Indians stood behind 
it and picking up some of their clothing, shirts or leggins, 
swung them frantically, and the buffalo. striking the 
shallow water, rushed by on either side, giving them as 
wide a berth as possible. In a little while all had passed, 
and then the party once more shoved out and reached the 
other shore without further trouble. 

_ “See now,” the partisan said, “how faithful our medi- 
cine; it warned us of this danger we have just passed 
through, I believe it is a good omen; we will be suc- 
cessful.” 

And they were. A few days later they stampeded over 
a hundred head of the enemy’s horses and brought them 
safely home. APPEKUNNY, 


“American Duck Shooting.” 


Editor Forest and Siream: 

-Haye just finished reading George Bird Grinnell’s 
“American Duck Shooting,’ and find it the most in- 
teresting, instructive and yaluable book on the subject I 
haye ever seen. 

I have followed the flight of the wildtowl since I was 
old enough to hold a gun, I have shot in Texas, Iowa, 
on the Kankakees, on the Jersey coast, all over the 
Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, at one time for pleas- 
ure, then for market, but more often with parties to care 
for. Now, as the end dfaws nearer, will wind it all up 
here on the Chincoteague Bay. So you can see that 
when I speak of the book I speak as one fully com- 
petent to pass an opinion. 

-The book is well written, and the subjects are handled 
by those who have been accurate observers, As I read, I 
find little descriptions of the moyements of the wild- 
fowl, their flight, how they work, the erratic upward or 
downward dart; things I have seen myself from the 
point, the pass, the blind and the battery; things that 
I know to be exact, but had supposed no one else ob- 
served or thought of afterward. 

_All who have seen the book here will add it to their 
libraries. Every one who shoots ducks, if only two or 
three days in a year, should own a copy of “American 
Duck Shooting.” 

I have just closed a most successful season, and al- 
though we lost nearly seven weeks, by reason of ice and 
storms, the open time has paid for all, “At 

0. D. Foutxs, | 

Srockron, Md., March 29, : 


The Guide. 


He was tall, lank, lean and grizzled, and taciturn to 
a degree. Having spent in Texas the early years of his 
manhood, as ranger, buffalo hunter and rancher, he had 
driven further and further west by the resistless 
e of emigration, keeping well to the frontier, until 
here was no longer any frontier; then he pulled up stakes 
id went to Mexico, where as prospector, hunter and 
ide, he could still live the wild life that to him is the 
mly existence worth while. f 
‘T had written my friend Robinson that I would be in 
“asas Grandes on a certain day with a party of friends 
ound for the Yaqui country on a hunt. When we-ar- 
ived he told us not to venture into that wild region of 
gh mountains and fathomless cafions without a guide, 
snd so we engaged Tom Alston at once, and a treasure 
he proved. For the first four days it was travel over 
motntains. Through deep gorges the train of men and 
pack mules wended its way, single file, with old Tom 
in the lead, silent as a mummy except when asked a 
question; then after deliberating a full minute, he would 
“nuswer with a drawl peculiar to men of the frontier. 


_ Finally we reached a region known to be infested with 
a small band of Apaches, and were keeping a sharp look- 
out for “Injun” sign. It rained all the afternoon and 
kept us under tent, but next morning we started out 
afoot to hunt deer. I soon discovered a fresh moccasin 
track, and later counted the footprints of eight unshod 
horses going single-file. I had had hunting enough for 
that day, and returned to camp, where I found all the 
others eager to get out of that section and to strike camp 
in a lest hostile region. As usual, old Tom was silent, 
but the look of disgust on his face was ludicrous to 
see, and finally he could contain himself no longer, but 
blurted out, “You fellers make me tired talking of run- 
ninig from a few lousy Injun varmints. You remind me 
of a lot of tenderfeet jest like one I had with me once in 
a scrap with a lot of Cheyennes up on the plains in 
Texas.” 


This was a long tirade for him, and knowing some- 
thing of his history, we begged him for the story, He 
hesitated, cut off a piece of Navy plug, placed it in his 
mouth, then began as follows: “It was ‘long in the ’70’s 
when I was a ranger, and ranging in them days was 
worth follerin. I went out to look over a section of 
country “bout twenty miles from camp, an’ a tender- 
foot what was down from New York tryin’ to grow a 
new pair of lungs, concluded he wanted to go, too. So 
we set out early one mornin’ and “long “bout ‘leven I 
saw a party of Injuns "bout a mile away. They saw us, 
i100, and halted. Now, I knew ’twas no use to run for 
camp, so I looked about for a shelter, and saw about one- 
third of this distance between the Injuns and us about a 
half-dozen little sand hillocks covered with mesquite 
brush, and I knew our salvation was to reach them ahead 
of the ted devils in front of us. The tenderfoot was 
scared and wanted to run, but I told him no; and dig- 
ging the spurs into our horses’ flanks we set off on a 
dead run. The Injuns seeing our game, tried to beat 
us; but we gained the shelter ahead of them and tied 
our horses in a little depression ‘tween the hills, then got 
all the cartridges out the saddle pockets and poured 
them into our hats. Then I posted myself behind a hil- 
lock, where I could see all that was going.on in front, 


and told the tenderfoot to load the guns for me as. I - 


fired them, ’cause he was jest nacherly so scared he 
couldn't sit still, and I knew I was going to have the 
fightin’ to do, so I thought I'd give him something to keep 
iis mind occupied. Well, the varmints, seeing we had 
got the upper hand of them, halted just out of range, and 
had’ a pow-wow; then havin’ finished they began ridin’ 
in a semi-circle ‘long our front, each one droppin’ be- 
hhind his horse as he got in range. They could not ride 
round us, so they just circled back and forth, yellin’ all 
the while and shootin’ a “casional arrer over our way, 
kinder threatenin’ like. I stood it for a good ten menets 
%hout gittin’ a shot, then I got kinder hot in the collar, 
and so I began pumping lead into the horses, and soon 
had a half-dozen lying stretched out. They didn’t know 
what to make of this, and began to stampede outen range, 
an’ as the line broke I got in some good shots an’ fixed 
three or four. Then they powwowed some more, and 
ag’in they came, same as before; but not a shot did I 
fire ‘cept once in a while, when a ho’se blundered and 
exposed his rider, All this time the tenderfoot was 
groaning and begging me to run, “til I threatened to 
shoot him, then he quieted down some. I knowed that 
if I could keep them off *til dark we was safe, ’catise an 
Injun don’t fight at night. 


“Tong ‘bout four ‘clock I got in a shot, but the 
pony whirled just as I pulled trigger and caught the bul- 
let in its shoulder, an’ maddened with pain it tore away 
and made a bee line for where I was lyin’, and run up 
to ‘bout twenty steps, then whirled. I was ready, and 
at crack’of my gun Mr. Injun jest drops, and the pony 
goes back ‘thout its rider. Now an Injun will risk his 
life to save a dead compadre from bein” scalped, and I 
knowed fun was goin’ to break loose in them neck of the 
woods; and sure ’nough they raised a yell and started 
straight for the dead one, and I was busy, too, Just *bout 
then with pretty good targets, till it got to rain arrers too 
thick: then I dodged behind the hill and Jay low for a 
minit, and when | looked up they was going like the 
devil, and some horses had two—a good un‘and a bad un 
—and then I happened to glance at the hill in front of 
me, and it looked like a big pin cushion. Them reds 
hated to lose my scalp, and ’bout an hour by sun they 
tried me ag’in; but I patted two of them and they con- 
cluded they had *bout enough, so they drew off, and as 
the sun went down I could see them ‘bout a mile off. 
As soon as *twas dark we mounted and set out for camp 
and rode like blazes, though I had to hold the boy on 
his horse the last five miles, and he died next day— 
scared to death, I say. j 

“So now if I can lick twenty-five of the varmints, this 
here crowd is good for a hundred,” and he closed up 
like a clam. I. J. Busx. 

- ‘Texas. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 
Alatuyal Gistarg. 


—— 9 es 


Newly Described Mammals. 


In Volume XY. of the: Proceedings of the Biological 
Society of Washington, Dr. C, Hart Merriam, Chief of, 
the Biological Suryey, describes several new mammals 
from Mexico, and a new bobcat from the Rocky Moun- 
tains, This last, Lyna winta, is of larger size and more 
northern distribution than is Lynx baileyi, which is a 
common species in Arizona, New Mexico and the south- 
ern parts of Colorado. The type specimen, which was 
not fat, weighed 3r pounds. 

The collections of the U. S. Biological Survey contain 
kit foxes from Alberta to Colorado on the plains, and 
long-eared foxes from the desert of New Mexico, and 
thence westerly to the interior of California, Dr. Mer- 
riam’s studies of these specimens show that the Canadian 
kit fox differs subspecifically from its more southern 
relative, and he has named it Vulpes velox hebes. It 
appears that the New Mexican long-eared fox is a 
strongly marked subspecies here described as Vulpes mac- 
rotis neomexicanus. The long-eared fox of the San 
Joaquin Valley of California is a new species that Dr. 
Merriam. calls Vulpes muticus, 

In the material collected last summer among the high 
Sierras of California are two new shrews. 

Most interesting of all these new mammals to sports- 
men are two new bears from the Alaska Peninsula. These 
are from the material collected by James H. Kidder, of 
Boston, and his friend, Robert P. Blake; secured in 
June, 1901, at Chinitna Bay, a little south of Mt. Iliamnia, 
on the west shore of Cook Inlet. At this point, these 
gentlemen killed one black bear and ten large brown 
bears, the skulls and skins of which were sent to Dr. 
Merriam for examination. One of the brown beats was a 
cub. On receiving them, Dr. Merriam arranged the adult 
brown bears in two series, according to the size of the 
teeth, placing four which he took to be males in one 
series, and five supposed to be females in the other. 
When the notes on the material were received, he was 
surprisd to learn that there was only one female bear in 
the lot, and- that of the eight males, four had large 
teeth and four small. The skins showed no marked differ- 
ences. 

After careful study, Dr. Merriam feels obliged to con- 
clude that there are two distinct species of large brown 
bears inhabiting the same area on the Alaska Peninsula, 
and he describes the smaller of the two as a distinct 
species, naming it Ursus kidderi, after Mr. Kidder, who 
brought back the material—the first series of skins and 
skulls accompanied by reliable data of the Alaskan brown 
bears—and who has generously presented the type speci- 
men to the Biological Survey collection. This species is 
larger than the Alaska grizzly, but decidedly smaller than 
the Kadiak bear or Dall’s bear. 

The large Alaska Peninsula. bear proves to-be a new 
subspecies of Dall’s bear, very much larger than the 
common form, and about the size of the Kadiak bear, 
which the describer calls Ursus dalhi gvas, 


N. Y. Zoological Soctety’s Musk-Ox. 


Hon. W. C. Wuirney’s interest in game animals is 
very well known, as is also his willingness to forward 
good works of whatever nature. This combination has 
proved a very fortunate one for the New York Zoological 
Society, since Mr. Whitney has just purchased and pre- 
sented to the Society the little musk-ox which has at- 
tracted so much attention since it first reached these 
‘shores nearly six months ago, 

The story of the capture of the musk-ox was told in 
Forest AND STREAM of Feb. 22 last. Since then the ani- 
mal has been on exhibition in New York, and at the 
close of the Sportsmen’s Show here, one of the owners, 
Julius Friesser, of Chicago, approached the management 
of the Zoological Parl, and put a price on the animal. 
This price Mr. Whitney at once paid, and turned the 
musk-ox over to the Society, of which he is one of the 
Board of Managers. 

The musk-ox is by al] odds the rarest animal now pos- 
sessed by the Zoological Sdciety, which is to be greatly 
congratulated on its ownership of the animal. No doubt 
it will be guarded with the greatest care, but it is ob- 
vious that its greatest danger during the summer will 
be not the heat—however much that may oppress it— 
but the food which it is likely to feed on. 

The musik-ox arrived at the park last Thursday, and 
has been turned out in one of the inclosures on Moun- 
tain Sheep Hill, where are confined several species of 
wild sheep and goats. The location is an excellent one, 
and great hopes are entertained that the animal will do 
well. 

As already said, this is the first living musk-ox ever 
exhibited in the United States, and there are only two 
athers in the world shown in zoological gardens. 


A Rail at Sea. ; 


S. S.. Mexico, Havana, Cuba, March 26.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: While on my last trip up to New York, I 
caught aboard this ship sixty-five miles southeast of Cape 
Lookout, a sora—more frequently called the “Virginia 
rail.’ I brought him to New York and shipped him 
home to Virginia. The bird was very fat and in perfect 
condition, but only seemed to be a little tired from his 
long journey. As this bird generally appears in Virginia 
in September, and leaves. on the first sign of frost, I 
should like to know how to account for his being in that 
neighborhood at that time of the year. 

A, M. Scorr, Purser. 

[The occurrence is an imteresting one, but has not our 
correspondent confused twa birds? The sora, or Carolina 
rail, has a short bill and the under part of its body is 
of a bluish or yellowish cast, according to sex and age. 
The Virginia rail, a bird of about the same size, has a 
long bill, and its under plumage is reddish in cast. 

We take it that the bird had started on its northward 
migration and was working its way toward its summer 
home. It must be remembered that it has long been 
spring and warm weather in the Carolinas.] 


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Otter in Great South Bay. 


On Saturday, March 22, Mr. E. Childs, of New York, 
killed an otter in the Great South Bay, a very unusual 
occurrence. Mr. Childs was rigged out at a place called 
ihe Hospital, just west of Smith’s Point and opposite 
Carman’s River, with J. W, Rowe, of Centre Moriches, 
L. I. The otter was seen among the decoys, and was 
killed with a charge of No, 5 shot. Mr. Childs believes 
that he came from Carman’s River, for it is said that 
years ago otters inhabited that stream, The animal is 
said to have been from 314 to 4 feet long. . 

Of course, the presence of one otter presupposes that. 
of others, though equally, of course, otters make long 
journeys by land or by water, The occurrente is an in- 
teresting one, and we should be glad to hear other re- 
ports from Long Island about the otter. 


Partridges Dying from Lead Poisoning. 


DurinG the past shooting season a friend tells me that 
he lost a great number of his partridges, which died from 
eating shot. He found, on opening them, that their giz- 
zards were full of shot pellets that the birds had picked 
up as they fed. Supposing these birds to have been feed- 
ing, Say, on a rabbit warren after two days’ shooting 
there, it does not seem unlikely that some of the 5 ewt. 
of shot fired by the eight guns would be picked up by 
partridges—Harotp Maret. [There is nothing improb- 
able in the suggestion, for a similar thing has been several 
times reported in the case of pheasants. The birds pick 
up the shot pellets in mistake for seeds, and get lead 
poisoning which results in paralysis.|—London Field. 


Bag and Gun. 


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Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest anp STREAM. 


California Letter. 


A. VERY warm fall, general fusilade along the coast, and 
perhaps continuous drought, all had deterrent influence 
upon duck migration, so the hope of plenty aroused early 
in the season has not been fully sustained. Report 
comes from many points in Southern California that 
quail haye been more abundant the past winter than for 
years, especially where warden or club prosecuted in- 


’ fraction of the law during close seasun, which persuades 


the observer te be quite sanguine about this variety of 
game, ‘decidedly the finest in our State, being restored to 
its previous haunts. Rough water and extremely high 
tides, coupled with severe cold in February, put a quietus 
on the perch fishing to be had at a few coast points 
earlier in the winter. 

This section has at last awakened to the need of pre- 
serving its game, and hereaiter a local club will see that 
no illegal hunting occurs. President H. T. Payne, of 
the California Fish and Game Protective Association, 
and special agent of the State Board of Fish Commission- 
ers, while making a recent tour through these parts, 
organized at Ventura, through the aid of local sportsmen, 
a protective club with Dr. H. M. Staire as its president. 
Santa Barbara county, immediately north of Ventura, 
has had such a society for a number of years, and through 
reward or other means the way of the transgressor be- 
came a path of punishment, until now at the remotest 
point of its mountains, though a guest be unlikely to 
break any law, the host will warn him not to kill game 
out of season if there is to be no hard feeling or unfor- 
tunate consequences. This is a wholesome sentiment, 
especially for the creatures to be protected. 

A meeting was held at Los Angeles, Feb. 13, by the 
Los Angeles County Association, which has nearly three 
hundred members on its roll, and aims to secure at least 
a thousand in the immediate future. President H. 
T. Payne, of the State Protective Association, made an 
address, in which he stated that the game in this county 
was worth $500,000 a year to it, that one wealthy sports- 
man had spent as much as $20,000 since coming here a 
few years ago, and advised the citizens to look after such 
a profitable source of revenue. This appeared a unique 
view. President H. W. Kellar, of the Rete Fish Com- 
mission, also made a few remarks. J. J. Chapman, 
county game warden, reported sixteen arrests and $400 
in fines as the result of his work for one year. The club 
has applied to the General Land Office at Washington, 
through the local head forester, to have the San Gabriel 
reservation made a game preserve, 

The game protective associations throughout the State, 
so far as I can judge, appear to favor legislation which 
shall make of the wild tracts set aside for forest reserya- 
tions, preserves for restoring to the State its legitimate 
fauna or otherwise adding to it natural life; and the 
forest rangers, to whom the careless hunter and his fire 
must be a never ending threat, almost without exception 
regard as wise any move that may lessen this danger to 
the mountain. Campers who are not hunters stay at one 


_ place long enough to be identified, and therefore show 


more precaution about putting out fires. Game would 
prosper if hunters were restricted. Last season Zaca 
range was yisited by Jarge parties who virtually made 
drive hunts, which resulted in exterminating the deer. 
The island af Santa Catalina, which has been the in- 
centive for more rumors than any other California resort, 
lately the scene of great perturbation because the Berk- 
ley scientists declared it would sink in time, likely within 
five hundred thousand years, now comes into notice with 
One oi the Riverside hotels wanted four 
wild goats, and guide Joe Adargo, of the island, to- 
secure really fine specimens, camped out near Eagle’s 
Nest for a week with his fastest ponies, that he might 
catch a herd far enough from cover for him to tise a 
rope. Three victims were dead easy, but the fourth cap- 
ture, a rare old grandfather with fleecy whiskers, clearly 
indisposed to permit any trifling, as soon as he felt the 
rope knocked Joe from the saddle, when the two had 
quite a pretty scrimmage. Man rising from the ground 
always would tempt a goat, so the guide went down re- 
peatedly. His lasso snapped at the first onset, and hia 


horse now had disappeared. There were no trees. 
Adargo pinioned his assailant by rolling on the fragment 


of rope until those dire horns could strike no more. _ 


From this it would seem the island goats may be legiti- 
mate game. ; 

Just at present the local ethnologist, or other scientific 
sharp, must feel his imagination fired by the relics un- 
earthed every day from Burton mound, over at Santa 
Barbara, in digging a foundation for the immense Hotel 
Potter, as all sorts of ghastly finds are being disclosed, 
such as Indians with the bowl that fed and the murderous 
weapon, squaws, papooses, toys, utensils of many kinds 
—all with historic value. The hotel will have a museum 
in which to preserve whatever may be deemed suitable. 
Excavation has tapped a sulphur spring. The most 
valuable discovery has been a bar of silver, estimated to 
be worth three hundred dollars. 

A story that came to me a short while ago, in which 
the responsibility of ownership seemed involved, showed 
how many citizens in good repute, through no overt act 
or dereliction of duty, could become offenders against 
the game laws of their State. Paso Robles, a town of 
15,000 inhabitants, situated in San Luis Obispo county, 
was aroused from lethargy a short while ago by having 
its main thoroughfare become the scene of a lively deer 
chase in which nearly every dog about engaged. It 
should be remembered that the new State law holds a dog 
owner responsible if his dog be caught chasing out 
of season, The county game warden should make his 
arrests. Any town at all would have had several hun- 
dred dogs in the field. The deer disappeared. 
_ <A recent decision of the Supreme Court in this State, 

by which John A. Howard, of Visalia, Tulare county, 
must pay the penalty for fraud, should appear odd to the 
Eastern intelligence, for the defense in this instance had 
been that the accused had really shot thousands of squir- 
rels within the limits of his county, a feat which might 
have made it hard for him elsewhere. But the Cali- 
fornia gray squirrel, a ground variety though so much 
like the Eastern tree squirrel, is about the worst pest 
with which the local rancher must contend, and Tulare 
offered a large bounty for tails. 
Howard with zeal to do good that he wandered over into 
Alameda county, where pests were worse, and de- 
stroyed there many thousand of the Philistines, then re- 
turned home across the State only to be arrested for ob- 
taining money by false pretenses. Tulare was par- 
simonious toward her sister county. 

The large pasture beyond our street, where an injured 
horse was shot a fortnight since, has now become a field 
_of tragedy in which the twelve year Leather Stocking 
next door with a huge wolf trap plays thrilling part. As 
bands of coyotes had been singularly obstreperous all 
winter, immediately after the death of the horse our boy 
acquaintance set his dire scheme of trouble on its meat, 
hoping thereby to. arrest a stealthy foot, and since that 
time we have attributed every night yell to the pinch of 
cold steel. A brindle bulldog had to be released on the 
second morning, and several mornings ago another 
vicious cur. The trapper has relented now, and would 
spring his source of annoyance, if possible, but he can- 
not approach it even within easy throwing distance. 
Nearly every resident here boasts of what I am told 
is dog, and many of the owners are women, so the strong 
men may yet have to go out and shoot the trap. Its 
owner will never be president now. 

Norpuorr, Cal. H. R. StTer1cer. 


Camp-Fire Stories from Canadian 


Woods. 


VIll.—Deer Hunting on the Madawaska. 


Unrortunatety for our hunting plans, the stormy sea- 
son had set in with more than usual severity, blinding 


sleet, rain, mists and wind presented an endless variety’ 


of discomforts while tramping through the forests. We, 
however, made good use of every passable morning, and 
fell in with a fair share of luck. { , 

Upon our arrival at the depot we found Jim Haskins, 
the most successful trapper and hunter in all this region, 
who proved to be an ideal nimrod, courteous and yet 
retiring, he allowed others to proclaim his sticcesses in 
the chase, rather than boast of his own skill. His knowl- 
edge of woodcraft and the habits of wild animals, his 
skill in getting up to them, and his keenness of sight, was 
marvelous. No liquor or narcotic habit had ever im- 
paired his neryes, and his aim was deadly. He despised 
hounding deer to the water, looking upon it as sport 
only for boys and greenhorns, and insists that still- 
hunting is the only legitimate sport. 

Sitting on a watch on a lonely point, listening to the 
musical bay of the dogs bringing a deer to the water, is 
yery inspiring when told around a comfortable camp- 
fire. But five or six hours’ lonely watch on a cold 
November day in a drizzling rain, or a driving storm of 
sleet and snow, calls for a large amount of zest, and the 
wind roaring around the hill tops and the splash of the 
cold waves on the shore, convey no poetic fancy to the 
mind of a shivering novice. 

The weather had been simply execrable;.a whole week 
had passed and we had secured only three deer. One 
afternoon the weather showed signs of clearing up; we 
decided to change our plan of operations. Accordingly, 
on the following morning, by the gray dawn, five of us 
started out in the direction of Victoria Lake, taking a 
couple of dogs to use in case a deer should be wounded 
and was getting away. We proposed to hunt in the 
gullies lying between the mountains to the north of the 
Madawaska and running in the direction af the Macaulay, 
where we knew deer to be plentiful. Our idea was to 
approach a certain locality from different directions, some 
of ts thus driving the game toward the others. 

In the early morning, after an hour or so of brisk 
walking, the quick eye of Haskins detected game. Stop- 
ping and pointine up the mountain side, he exclaimed, 
“See that buck!” Now, to the unpracticed eye a deer 
in the woods at the distance of 300 yards or so is not 
so easily “picked up.” We all desired N. to take a 
chance shot, but he looked for the deer in vain. After a 
Little parley it was decided that R. (the farm foreman) 
should try a shot with his Winchester, .40-82, “sporting 
cannon.”. Raising his sights, R. took a knee rest and fired. 


Reward so inspired: 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


An exclamation from one of the party intimated that 
the deer had fallen, while I contended that he had bounded 
off toward the “brule’ below. Spreading ourselves across 
the glen, which widened out from above the spot where 
the deer stood, Haskins circled around so as to drive 
him toward us. When he got to the “brule’ he heard 
a deer whistle, but could not get a shot. He found no 
traces of blood, and started for the place where the buck 


had been standing, when out from the thickets dashed a 


large doe. He took a quick shot as she galloped over 
the mountain, but only succeeded in breaking her foreleg, 
but could find no traces of R.’s deer. R. by this time 
was getting’a little disgusted, and coming toward me said, 
“Tll bet that deer lies just where I shot him. I pulled 
carefully for his shoulder; the buck you saw was another 
deer. See here where they have been fighting this 
morning.” 

For yards around the snow had been cut up with tracks, 
had been packed in places where one had the other down; 
logs had been rolled over, sticks knocked about and 
every evidence existed of a pitched battle recently had 
between these monarchs of the forest. R. started for the 
spot and found his deer where anticipated. Calling 
Haskins to assist him, they brought down the deer trail- 
ing over the snow. He was a fine one, with large antlers, 
Hanging him up by the roadside, we left Haskins to care 
for him, while the rest of us looked after the wounded 
doe. C. was to let go the dogs. His own spaniel had 
followed unbidden—a good partridge dog, but small dogs 
are generally a nuisance in a deer hunt, for they are 
always just at the place you do not want them. 

Three of us were to station ourselves on different run- 
ways leading toward the river, which was close by. We 
had scarcely reached our places when C.’s whistle warned 
us that the dogs had started. So soon as they reached 
the track of the wounded doe, a blast of bugle notes 
rang out, loud and clear, upon the frosty morning air. 
As they ran over the mountain side, covered with snow 
and glistening in the morning sun, their rising chorus 
was echoed from hill and mountain top for miles around, 

A deer with a broken foreleg will run as fast as with 
the leg uninjured, but so soon as the opportunity occurs 
will lie down to rest, and upon this we counted. The 
dogs soon came upon her, and circling back she came 
down the runway upon which I was stationed, I could 
hear the jump and was bracing myself for the supreme 
moment, when to my chagrin C.’s spaniel ran out yelping 
and turned the deer before I could get a shot. R., who 
had wandered too far up the motintain side, was return- 
ing, and seeing the deer making down the roadway, com- 
menced firimg as he ran after it. Presently the sound 
of shots from the same locality warned me that the deer 
had taken to the river. J struck out over logs and 
brambles and reached the river completely blown. There 
was the deer swimming near the opposite side with two 
dogs a score or so yards behind, all in the form of an 
inverted letter V, while on a point above stood R. empty- 
ing the magazine of his gun as fast as possible. I joined 
in the fusilade, and as the deer was rising the opposite 
bank managed to hit it in the neck, It had been severely 
wounded by R. Once out of the water the dogs soon 
came up, and she made down the river. The rule is to 
“shoot as long as youl can see a hair,’ but the dogs were 
so close up I dare not risk a shot here, but I finally suc- 
ceeded in striking an object directly in front of her, 
which caused her to hesitate for a moment, and the fore- 
most dog seized her by the hind leg. Instead of attempt- 
ing to fight the dogs, she made a dash for the river. N., 
who by this time had found his way to the bank just 
opposite, instead of waiting until she swam up to him, 
commenced blazing away. The deer turned down stream 
and reached an island which had formerly been part of an 
old beaver meadow. R. had now got down opposite the 
island and could only see the tips of the ears as she lay 
in the tall grass. After a couple of shots a welcome shout 
announced the hunt was over. 

The island was separated from the main land by a 
narrow channel of about thirty yards, and which was 
frozen over. Our bark canoe was away up the river, and 
we were at a loss how to get our deer. C., who was the 
lightweight of the party, testing the strength of the ice 
with a hatchet, managed to cross on all fours, while R. 
followed him. In the meantime, Haskins having come 
down to the high bank of the river to look over matters, 
called out, “Look sharp; that deer is alive and going to 
jump.” The doe made good his words, and started for 
the shore. As she jumped upon the ice she fell, broke 
through and commenced breaking her way, her forelegs 
beating time like a tatoo. C.’s spaniel now had the 
temerity to jump upon her back. She shook him off, en- 
deavoring to strike him. I warned C. to call his dog 
off, but too late. On the spaniel returning to the attack 
she made more certain of her aim, and the little dog went 
under, never to rise again. N., who had the only gun 
present, commenced to shoot at the jumping deer, and 
finished her at the second or third shot. After consider- 
able difficulty we got our deer to the shore and found 
that no less than nine shots had taken effect and only 
the tenth, through the head, had stopped her. It is a 
question, under the circumstances, whether this was 
creditable to experienced hunters and generally good 


- shots, but then, it had been a running fight all though. 


We spoiled our venison. However, we got the deer, and 
in this we were lucky, for, in nine cases out of ten, in a 
“racket” of this kind, the deer gets clear away, 

__ By early afternoon we had two more deer hanging up 
in the woods, and we returned to the depot well satisfied 
with our day’s sport. 

On the following morning four of us set out for a 
chain of small lakes north of the Madawaska, and near 
Victoria Lake, called the Little Blue Sea. 

Mr. M., the agent, came upon six wolves devouring the 
‘carcass of a buck recently killed, of which nothing re- 
mained but the head and shoulders, the meat of which 
was still warm. By the marks upon the snow the strugele 
had continued for about half a mile before they finally 
got him down. He had been an old—patriarch of the 
forest, and his head now adorns the walls of my library 
as a memento of my hunt. S 

The wolves are very destructive throughout all our 
forests, and hundreds of deer are slaughtered by them 
annually. The wildcat, that most voracious of all animals 
destroys both fawns and partridge, the Jatter when they 
bury themselves in the snow. The foxes also destroy 


‘ 


fawns, and are particularly destructive to partridge. It 
is to be hoped that the increased bounty offered by the 
Government and the stringency of the game laws will 
turn hunters’ attention to these pests of the forests. 

We secured only one deer this morning, when it came 
on to rain, and we returned to the depot. This finished 
our hunt upon the Madawaska. - 

N. and myself returned homeward with eight deer 
and a goodly nttmber of partridge and red lake trout to 
gladden the hearts of our respective friends, who had, by 
former experience, good reason to expect that our liber- 
ality would be in proportion to our success. 

E. B. PRALECK. 


The Hunting Rifle. 


Scorc LAKe, New Brunswick, March 25.—Editor For- 
est and Stream; In Forest AND STREAM of Feb. 1 Mr, 
Frederic Irland, in his article, “Hunting With Henry 
Braithwaite, has started a controversy on hunting rifles 
for big game, that with your permission I would like to 
take part in, and I think I can show, and, if necessary, 
prove, that the small-bore can and does, when in good 
hands, make as clean kills on moose as the big-bores with 
their larger, but slow, bullets. 

I have a great respect for Mr. Irland, and I assure you 
we are not going to quarrel about any rifle. I have never 
had the pleasure of meeting him, and that is my loss, not 
his, though I have tried to several times, and I am sure 
we will yet. 

I agree with Mr. Irland that the .30-30 is not an ideal 
moose gun; the charges of powder and bullet are too 
light, but it is all right for deer or caribou, and has killed 
many very large moose, but there were other large ones 
it failed on that the .30-40 would have downed.. 

There are very few men that have had a better chance 
to see the effects of different hunting rifles on big game— 
moose and caribou—than I have had in the last four 
years, and I consider the .30-40 the best American-made 
rifle on the market to-day. JI don’t say it is the best rifle 
than can be made, or the best rifle that has been made, 
for I believe there is a Blake rifle made—.40-60—with 
about the velocity of the .30-40, that ought to be a terror 
on moose, but I can’t find it on the market. The Mauser 


and Mannlicher have about the same effect on moose as _ 


the .30-40, They seem to have a little more power. 

My experience with the .30-40 began in September, 
1898. A sportsman brought one to my camp at Nictaux 
Lake. He killed a caribou with it at about 250 yards 
with one shot; it was well hit and dropped at once. 
In 1899 there were two .30-40’s at my camps; they killed 
three moose and one caribou; one of the moose and the 
caribou dropped in theit,tracks the first shot; each of 
the other two moose were hit with one shot and staggered 
about ten yards, and fell dead. In 19900 we had several 
.40-40 rifles at our camps, a Mannlicher and some 
Savage rifles. The .30-40’s and Mannlicher killed all they 
hit clean—six moose, I believe, and several caribou. Near- 
ly all dropped at the first shot; none went over twenty. 
yards aiter they were hit. One moose, which I shot 
myself at about 200 yards, dropped in his tracks the first 
shot; he was hit high in the shoulder; the bullet went 
through the shoulder blade and broke his spine. I killed 
a caribou and two large bears, not in traps, on the same 
trip; all fell in their tracks at first shot. I used a .30-40 
with soft-nosed bullets, In 1901 six moose were killed at 
my camps with the .30-40, all that were hit with that 
gun, and none of them went 20 yards after they were 
hit by the first bullet. 

Now these are a few facts that I am prepared to prove. 
Some of these animals I shot myself, most of them I saw 
shot, and nearly all I examined and helped skin. I also 
see gatne killed by the .45-00, 45.70, .38-55, .30-30 and 
Savage, and I find that an animal hit by a bullet from 
the .30-40 or Mannlicher, if hit in the same place, will 
go down quicker than when hit by a bullet from any of 
the other rifles mentioned. 

Mr. Irland in closing his article in Forest AND STREAM 
of Feb. 1, speaks about a moose that a sportsman who 
was with me last fall lost. I will explain how this hap- 
pened. The gentleman was Mr. J. W. Y¥: Smith, of 
Moncton, N. B., and he writes about it in Forest AND 
STREAM of March 1. Mr. Smith was at my camps, but I 
was not with him personally. When we made arrange- 
ments for him to come I wrote to him, as I do to all 
sportsmen coming to my camps, that if he did not have 
a good powerful rifle he had better get a .30-40; his an- 
swer was that he asked leave to differ with me, that he 
thought there were other as good rifles as the .30-40. He 
came in the woods with a half-magazine .30-30. He ex- 
plains the rest. That was not the first moose that got 
up after being knocked down with a .30-30 that I have 
seen. Had he been using a .30-40 the results would no 
doubt have been different. Yet it is the man behind 
the gun after all. You must hit them about right if you 
want to kill them quick. 

If we settle down to solid facts, what does this big 
bore vs. small bore amount to? There are big-bore 
cranks, among whom are Mr. Irland and Uncle Henry; 
there are small-bore cranks—I am one of them, and I 
know of many others, Can the big-bore men show a 
cleaner score for their favorite than I have shown for 
the .30-40, and prove it? I like the smokeless rifle. I 
can see where the bullet hits. When the fur flies from 
an old bull’s ribs at the crack of the .30-40, I say “He is 
or meat,” and it proves to be a fact. Some men claim 
the .45-70 or the .45-90 to be the ideal moose gun, and 
they have killed many moose. So has the .30-30, but it 
is not the best. Uncle Henry’s 577 is much better than 
the .45, but it is not on the market, and I don’t think it 
would be a favorite if it was. The big-game hunter 
wants more than one shot before he has to stop and load. 

I had the pleasure of using, and seeing used, last 
season, a rifle that I think for power will not be far be- 
hind the best of them, It is owned by Mr. A. Weed; of 
Providence, R. I.; is a .38-72, with special nickel steel 
barrel, and Mr. Weed loads the cartridges himself with 
5214 grains of the same powder used in the .30-40, and a 
275-erain bullet, metal-patched and soft-nosed. With it 
he killed his big bull moose, which at the first shot 
dropped in its tracks; also a caribou and deer, and when 
he left my camp he left the rifle for me to use on game. 
I also used it at target and found it had a much flatter 


Agi 8, 1962.] 


“trajectory than the ,30-40 at 300 yards, and a rifle that 
will drive a bullet through a five-eighth steel plate has 
‘some striking power. The recoil is about like a 12-gauge 
shotgun with 334 drams of smokeless powder. That is 
what I call an ideal moose gun, but it si not on the 
market. 

_ There are many good big-game guns on the market, 
but none so- good but that there might be better, and 
there will be better. All the mantifacturers want to 
know is, that there will be a demand for a certain kind 

_of rifle, and we get it. We have been made to believe 
that the bore could not be above .30 and retain the high 
yelocity. I believe from my experience with Mr. Weed’s 
rifle that the bore might be .40, with a bullet of 300 grains 
and yet have a velocity of 2,000 feet gr more. That is 
what I have heard the Blake rifle is, but I can’t seem to 
get one of them. , 

The requirements of the hunting rifle for moose are: 
Fair accuracy, high velocity, 2,000 feet or more at muzzle; 
fairly light weight, under 9 pounds; a repeater, with 
terrible striking power, and a bullet of about 300 grains, 
tempered so it will mushroom nicely without flying to 
pieces. A moose struck with such a bullet, and place 
where the bullet could use its power, must come down. 

I think I hear the big-bore men say, if the .30-40, or 
Mannlicher, is as good as you say it is, why do you want 
any better? I will answer by asking another. If the .45 
is so much better than the .30, why do they need Uncle 
Henry's .577? 

Mr. Itland in Forest anp Stream of Feb. 15, asks tf 
any man can show a straight score of a dozen moose 
and none lost. Mine exceeds that number. I have not 
killed them all myself; the small-bore has not been on the 
market long enough for that, but I have seen sportsmen 
that have been with me do it, and they are not all as good 
shots as Mr. Irland, either. I am not mitch of a shot 
myself, but any place where an ordinary shot can get a 
moose with a .45 I will get him with a .30-40, and get him 
quicker than the .45 can. The amount of mixing that one 

of these high-velocity bullets with a soft nose can do 
inside a moose is something wonderful, and would hardly 
be believed by any one who never saw it. 

But there are other requitements beside a rifle to get a 
moose. First, the sportsman must go to where the moose 
is, then he mttst find him, and after that he must hit him, 
for his-chances of getting him will be much better if he 
is well hit by a despised .30-30, than they would be if he 
was missed by Uncle Henry’s .577. 

There is another thing about moose shooting that cuts 
quite a figure, though I don’t see it mentioned. Very 
much of the shooting is done from a canoe, and if the 
canee is a narrow and cranky bark or dug-out, or any 
other kind that is narrow ot cranky, and there is some- 
times considerable excitement about the time a moose is 
being shot, it is hard to get the bullets where they will 
do most good; and a wounded moose is apt to be the 
tesult. In fact, I think a steady canoe with a steady 
hard at the paddle cuts as much figure as the trifle. 

No doubt the big-bore men will jump on me, but please 
do it easy. I am neither a writer nor a lawyer, to be 
capable of defending myself. What I have .written are 
facts that have come tinder my observation, and I have 
reasons for all I say. 

T wish the Winchester people would give us the striking 
power of all their different arms in the table with the 
velocity and trajectory. I haye seen it in some of the 
English catalogues. 

_ This article is too long now, so I had better stop right 
here, yet I could easily go on and prove that the small- 
bores are not all as bad as some writers would have you 
believe. I am not “stuck on” any particular gun, but I 
like all guns, some better than others. 
ApAmM Moore. 

Scotcr “Ake, Vork Co., N. B. . 


Maine Game Report:. 


Boston, March 209.:—The arrest of Peter Fontaine 
by Game Warden Templeton last week was a good deai 
of a tragedy, so far as particulars have been obtained. 
Fontaine has been the cause of the slaughter of a great 
many moose and deer in close time, and the wardens had 
been ordered to capture him at all hazards. The war- 
rant charged the illegal killing of moose and beaver. 
Wardens Templeton and Houston struck the trail west 
of Baker Lake, and came to Fontaine’s camp about 4 
o'clock in the afternoon. They waited till nearly dark, 
hoping that he would come out. Fontaine had repeatedly 
stated that he would shoot any game warden at sight 

_who attempted to arrest him. As he did not come out, 
they decided to go boldly in and arrest him. Temple- 
ton states that he went in ahead. On entering the door, 
Fontaine jumped for his rifle and drew it in the attitude 
of firing, the muzzle not more than six feet from the 
warden’s body. Seeing that the aim was deadly, and 
knowing that there was no chance for parley, Temple- 
ton fired first, the bullet passing completely through the 
body of Fontaine, in the region of the heart, coming out 
near the shoulder blade. The wardens made the wounded 
man as comfortable as possible that night, and the next 
morning he was taken to the nearest lumber camp. 
There a team was procured, and Warden Houston pro- 
ceeded with him to Canada and the nearest doctor. At 
this writing Fontaine is alive, but with little or no chance 
of recovery. The wardens are satisfied that he would have 
shot them. if he could have fired first. His rifle they 
picked up from the floor, fully loaded and cocked. Fon- 
taine had just returned from a trip to Canada, taking 
with him the hides of eleven moose that he had recently 
killed. Commissioner Carleton states that Fontaine had 


been the means of great illegal killing of game, and that 


the wardens had been trying to catch him for several 
years. } 

Game wardens Frank Perkins, of Bradley, and D. A. 
Cummings, of Tloulton, are out of the woods from a 
snowshoe trip cuvering over 600 miles; the journey was 
made in the interest of same protection and for invesfiga- 
tion. They started from Patten. Aroostook county, Me., 
Jan. 24, and until they reached Fort Kent on the northern 
border, were on snowshoes continually. Thev visited 
Sourdnahunk Wake and surrounding territory, ex- 
plored the headwater. cf -}.- Alleguash and St. John 
in Maine; thence to the heacwaters of the Aroostook. 
and down fhe. waters of rhe St. John. where they came 


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to civilization, Much of the time they passed the night 
in lumber camps, but when these could not be reached 
they built leantos of evergreen boughs, to break the wind, 
and with a roaring fire in front they slept on boughs laid 
on the snow. They investigated all the lumber camps for 
signs of illegal killing of moose and deer, but found al- 
most nothing in that direction. In the Big Black River 
region they found plenty of signs where moose hide 
hunters had been at work, the hunters having evidently 
gone across the border with their booty, this country 
being right on the border line. Visiting 150 camps they 
report to the commissioners that they saw no signs of 
big game killed ont of season. During the time that 
they were in the Sourdnahunk region they saw eight car- 
ibou, three of them at one time. Frequently they, saw 
signs of caribou, and both wardens express the opinion 
that caribou are really coming back to Maine. Moose 
were found in good numbers at all points of the journey 
where they could reasonably be expected, while the num- 
ber of deer was something wonderful. 

For many years a sportsman living in the suburbs of 
Boston has watched the spring migration of wild geese 
and ducks. Theit northward flight over his locality has 
been carefully noted. Thursday, March 27, a south wind 
prevailed, setting in late in the afternoon, At sundown 
the geese began to pass, and their honking was heard 
continually till past midnight.-Where such a number of 
birds were congregated, awaiting a favorable wind and 
other conditions, is a matter of conjecture with him, as 
it hardly seems possible that the long journey from the 
South had been made in one day, It was a reminder 
of the wild pigeon flights of the 50's, and brings forward 
afresh the inquiry of ForEst AND STREAM as to the 
probable distance game birds can and do fly continuously 
without resting, y 

The very latest reports from Peter Fontaine, the alleged 
poacher, shot by Game Warden Templeton, are to the 
effect that he is doing better than might be expected, and 
is very likely to live. SPECIAL. 


Peter Fontaine. 


Editor Forest and Stream: | 

I notice in your issue of this week that the game war- 
dens of northern Maine have at last taken Peter Fontaine. 
I am sorry they had to shoot him, but glad they have him. 
Hope they will put him where he won’t kill amy more 
moose. : avait 

During the fall of 1809 I spent several weeks on the 
headwaters-of the St. Johns River moose hunting, and 
while there met Fontaine. It came about in this way: 
For a time my camp was on a dead water on the upper 
Southwest. 1 was sitting out in front of the camp one 


. morning looking at some deer crossing the stream at the 


upper end of the dead water, when I noticed a man com- 
ing up from below in a small wooden canoe. I called 
my guide’s—Dave Haines—attention to him. As he came 
opposite the camp, Dave hailed him and asked him to 
come ashore, which he did. We went down to the river 
bank and had a talk with him. He did not tell us his 
name or what he was after. When he left, Dave. and I 
decided he was Pete Fontaine. 

As it rained that forenoon, we did not go ott, but 
remained in camp. Abottt noon Fontaine came back, and 
we asked him to stop, as I wanted to haye a talk with 
him and find out a good place to go for moose. He 
advised me to go to Baker Lake. Said there were big 
moose there; also told me he had a camp on the lake 
which I was welcome to use. While talking to him he 
told ts his name, and much to my surprise called me 
by name and told me how long I had been in the woods, 
which showed that he kept himself advised as to who 
were around in the woods. y 

From the accounts I had had of him, I supposed he 
was a rough dirty Frenchman, but found such was not 
the case. He looked about thirty-five years old, clean 
cut, well built and clean in appearance, wore a suit of 
home-made clothes. 

When he left us we followed him down the river. I 
noticed he kept looking behind him all the time, as if he 
was afraid some one was following him. We left him 
just above the mouth of the Little Southwest. He went 
on to Billy Jack Noble’s depot camp, a mile below, where 
he spent the night. 

A day or two after our meeting I went to Baker Stream 
and tried to get to the lake. but could not, as the water 
was too low. On the way down the stream I shot a big 
bull moose that carried an extremely fine head of antlers 
—one of the most perfect sets I ever saw. 

If Pete Fontaine had not advised me to go to the 
Baker, I would not have got the moose. Poor Pete, I 
am sorry for him, but glad to know his moose-killing will 
he stopped. W. W. Krnc. 


Norroik, Va , March 28. 


Massachusetts Quail. 


WAKXEFELD, Mass., March 28.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: 1 recently made inquiries from some of my 
sportsmen friends how the quail wintered, and inclose 
vou extracts from their letters to me. The reply from 
Topsfield is: “I think the quail are all right. There 
have been two flocks within a half-mile of home all win- 
ter. I see them often. I have seen the tracks of one of the 
flocks since the February blizzard, and there were seven- 
teen in it. I have counted them several times this winter, 
and they are all alive. A man from West Boxford tells 
me the quail have all wintered fine, so I think the pros- 
pect good for next season.” 

The Danvers friend says: ‘‘Everybody I have talked 
with savs that there are many quail left over. I do 
not think the blizzard hurt them any, as it takes a deep 
snow with a thick crust to kill them, and that is some- 
thing we have not had this winter if memroy serves me 
right. : : 

The Reading man writes: “There have been two flocks 
of quail in my fields all winter, and Uncle Fred has fed 
them well, so they are alive and all right.” 

From West Peabody: “Saw six quail a week after the 
blizzard; think others are O. K.” 

This information I can vouch for as correct. These 
towns are from twelve to twenty-five miles north of 
Boston. Journ W. Basstrt, 


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CHICAGO AND THE WEST. ‘a 
| New Game|Land ta" Old Mexico. a2 


Cuicaco, Ill, March 27—Mr. F. M. Stephenson, of 
Menominee, Mich., holder of large lumber interests im 
different parts of the country, owner of coffee plantations, 
etc., in old Mexico, and eke a sportsman of renown and 
prowess, as well as of general reputation, starts this week 
in company with a couple of Chicago friends for an ex- 
tended and interesting trip in Old Mexico, Mr. Stephen- 
son, in conjunction with other capitalists, is looking into 
a large and valuable tract of timber land in the Sierra 
Madre Mountains, west of Chihuahua. What his eventual 
plans there may be is not yet fully determined, but 
whether he buys pine lands or not, he certainly is going 
hunting. As witnessing his general strenuousness of 
habit, it may be stated that Mr. Stephenson has only 
been back from Mexico about three weeks. In that time 
he has taken an architect up to the Coleman Club, of 
Wisconsin (the old Gaylord Club), of which he is presi- 
dent, has placed an order for the erection of a beauti- 
ful club house, has gone to New York and arranged for 
the building of about 100 miles of railroad in Mexico, 
has telegraphed to Colorado and secured the famous 
Colorado guide, Joe Goff, and his entire pack of bear 
dogs—the same which President Roosevelt had in his 
recent lion hunt in Colorado—has attended to a lot of 
details regarding outfitting here in Chicago, and will 
presently be speeding away toward the sunny Southwest, 
bound for what is one of the most interesting sporting 
expeditions of which one has received information for 
some moons. 

It is not altogether an experimental trip upon which 
this hardy Wisconsin young man is entering. He has 
been in the Sierra Madres before, and last year he and 
his party killed two grizzly bears, one cinnamon bear, a 
sreat number of deer and wild turkeys, and also a moun- 
tain lion or so. ‘There are many. lions in that country, 
and when Joe Goff gets down there with his bear dogs 
things will surely move a-plenty. 

There ate no bear dogs anywhere near the Sierra 
Madres, and, in fact, there is not anything else near 
them except a lot of cattle on the plains this side of 
there, and a few apathetic Greasers or an Occasional en- 
terprising Yaqui Indian, the letter actuated by the svle 
purpose in life of potting as many of the aforesaid 
Greasers as he may be able. Mr. Stephenson’s guide last 
year was a sawed-off Yaqui Indian chiettain by the name 
of Ernestachio. Mr. Stephenson- was doing some good 
work with the .30-30, and Ernestachio sighed with envy 
a¥ he noticed the powers of the little gun. “Had I had 
that rifle, sefior,” said he, “I might have killed fifty more 
Mexicans than I have in my life. It is sad that one must 
thus think of chances he has lost. Truly the Americanos 
are great people!” 

The Yaquis are fair guides and good hunters. The 
Mexicans know nothing of the mountains, and are con- 
tinually afraid of venturing into them. They get lost on 
the slightest provocation, and are in general not ‘much 
good as hunting companions. They have some license 
for being afraid of the Yaquis. In the recent little war in 
that country fifty-three Yaqui Indians killed over 400 
Mexicans (this at Santo Tomaso, if memory serves). 
Mr. Stephenson said he had no kick whatever on Ern- 
estachio, except that he was afraid all the time that he 
would get trail of a Mexican, and prefer to hunt the 
latter rather than the grizzly bear or the mountain lion. 

As to the grizzlies, they seem to be pretty much the 
same brand of critter we used to have in New Mexico, 
seme hundreds of miles northeast of the Sierra Madres, 
Mr. Stephenson says the skins of the grizzlies killed by 
his party measured over seven feet, and the cinnamon 
was also a good chunk of a bear, He speaks with the 
greatest enthusiasm over the wild turkeys of that coun- 
try, which he says are-numerous and very beautiful. They 
ustially kill them with rifles, and are taking some solid 
jacketed bullets with them on this trip for the purpose 
of shooting turkeys, the soft-nosed blowing the bird quite 
to pieces when struck fairly. To my own surprise, I 
learned that gray wolves are very abundant in the Sierra 
Madres or the foothills thereof, and coyotes are so numer- 
ous as to attract very little attention. This I infer to be 
near the presence of big cattle ranches. There is one 
good ranch in the State of Chihuahua, that of an old-time 
cattle king, which the past spring branded 54,000 calves. 
This would indicate a herd of something like 300,000 
head. The pasture ground for these cattle, all under 
one ownership and all in one tract, is more than 6,000,000 
acres in extent. There is another big ranch owned by a 
California estate which has a million acres in one body 
of land, and on this ranch there are 50,000 or 60,000 head 
of stock. It would seem they do things on rather a big 
scale, after all, in the sleepy land of Mexico. We may 
be sure that the hunt of these enterprising Northerners 
will also be on a big scale, and there is every likelihood 
that they will meet success in their new hunting ground, 

The Sierra Madres we heard of continually at the time 
IT lived in New Mexico, twenty years ago. They were 
then the stamping ground of the Apaches, and not very 
much visited by white hunters or prospectors, though 
we always heard that they were full of game. We used 
to hear there of the “tigres,” or “spotted lions,” mean- 
ing, no doubt, the jaguar, as being fairly abundant in 
that country. Now and again skins of these animals 
would come up across the line, rarely in very good con- 
dition, as is invariably the case in a Mexican country, but 
showing an animal of very considerable size. It is pos- 
sible that in some parts of the Sierra Madres, Joe Goff’s 
famous bear dogs may rtin across an animal very different 
and very much worse than the tawny, long-tailed cats of 
Colorado. I did not hear Mr. Stephenson mention this 
animal, and, in fact, did not think to ask him about it. 

There are big-horn sheep in the Sierra Madres near 
the Sonora line. There are turkeys, as above men- 
tioned, in good numbers, and very many deer. The lat- 
ter, although smaller than our Northern deer, make ex- 
cellent venison, and offer decidedly good sport. Last 
of all, and perhaps most wonderful of all, comes the 
report vouched for by Mr. John R. Davis, of Neenah, 
Wis., that the streams of that district contain the genuine 
speckled brook. trout, as. well as the mountain trout, the 
so-called brook trout showing the same spots and the 
same peculiarities of the Eastern fish. One would be dis- 


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posed to believe there is some mistake about this, and it 
would be very interesting to have verification or refuta- 


tion of the report, which no doubt Mr. Stephenson will - 


bring out with him. He is a skilled trout fisherman, as 
well as a good field shot and an ardent big-game hunter. 
The best trout fishing is toward the headwaters of the 
Yaqui River, and in the Nuerchic River. The so-called 
brook trout were, as I learned, found only in the Yaqui, 
iar up toward its source. 

Joe Goff takes fourteen dogs with him from Colorado. 
That is about ten or twelve more than he will bring back 
with him, although it would be too bad if he lost some of 
his best fighters in that far-away land. The dogs will be 
apt to get lost, and whether they are lost or not, they will 
find some difficulty in handling their game in a country 
new to them, and where they do not know the way baclx 
home. Bear sign was last year very abundant in the 
district which Mr. Stephenson is going to visit, and he 
cheerfully expects that he and his friends will account 
for a grizzly or so apiece. Some of those “platados,” as 
we used to call them, are scrappers, too. It is very lucky 
to be born six feet two, and with a large golden shovel 
attached to one’s person on his natal day; these being a 
few of the attributes of Mr. Stephenson, though by no 
means his most important claim to being called a good 
sportsmen and a good fellow. Luck go with him! 


“With the Mallard Drake.” 


Occasionally in the vast amount of chaff which appears 
in the columns of the daily press there shows a kernel of 
genttine worth. There is no disparagement intended in 
regard to the vast and even performance of the essential 
journalism of the day, wherein material things and not 
things artistic must prevail; only one may feel pleasure 
at the pearl found unexpectedly ensconced in the prosaic 
oyster. Here is a little pearl, a poem, done by a young 
woman. It appeared in 1890 in one of the daily papers 
of Chicago (the Record, I believe), the writer being 
Agnes E. Mitchell, of Chicago. A friend, who is a sports- 
man, rescued it years ago, saved it, and brings it to the 
ForEsT AND STREAM in the hope that/ it may be sent 
- further on its mission of appeal to yet other sportsmen. 
It reads as below: : 


Oh, for a day in the white wind’s cheek! 
To share the mallard’s stroke of power, 
The electric spark in the tip of his beak, 
And flying a hundred miles an hour! 
With his throbbing pulse the air to beat— 
The swift wild duck; the beautiful thing! 
\ The strength of the sun in his yellow feet, 
The purple of night asleep on his breast, 
The green of a thousand Junes on his crest, 
The band of the heavens across his wind! 


To alight and drink in the frothing rings 
That circle away to the greening sap; 
To stop for the noonday feast of kings— 
The crimson seeds in the marsh’s lap; 
To forget where the city’s white flags burn, 
And know but the deep air’s quivering thrills; 
The mystery of his flight to learn, 
To follow.the way the wild duck takes, 
To the twilight of the grassy lakes, 
To the glory of the Yukon hills. 


To rest where the old gray sea towers shake; 
"Mong tangled moss and grassy knots 
To seek the rest of the kittiwake 
And the pointed eggs with blood-red spots. 
O Kittiwake of the snow-white crown, 
Of the coral feet and vermilion eyed, 
Of the tender croon and wings of down, 
I would fly with you this burning day 
To the wind-swept peaks away, away, 
And hide where you and the tempest hide, 


Oh, for a day in the waltzing wind, 

With the mallard in his swift, strong flight! 
To leave the blue frost-smoke behind, 

And poise in the Yukon’s opal light, 
To know the rush of the upper airs, 

The curve of the wing-tip thrilling through 
The swelling soul of him who dares! 
O beautiful bird; bronze night on thy breast, 
A thousand golden Junes in thy crest, 

And across thy wing heaven’s bar of blue. 


Duck Flight Continues. 


The heavy flight of north-bound ducks still continues, 
or did so up until the first part of this week, the num- 
bers of wildfowl going up the Mississippi Valley this 
spring being something startling and in a way inexplic- 
able. All along the west side of the Mississippi River, in 
Missouri and Iowa, the shooting has been very heavy, and 
tremendous bags have been reported by sportsmen and 
market-hunters alike. The temptation: to violate one’s 
conscience in the matter of spring shooting was never 
greater than it has been this spring. _ 

As to the big bags of the week, probably the best may 
be credited to Hennepin Shooting Club, on: the Illinois 
River, all the members of which organization have had 
excellent sport for the past ten days. Mr. J. V. Clarke, 
of this city, returned from Hennepin Club last Monday. 
after nine days spent in very pleasant sport.. He bagged 
in all 280 ducks during his stay at the club, his heaviest 
shooting for any one day being eighty birds, 

I have already reported the good bags made by Mr. 
McFarland of the same club, earlier in the season. 
Other members are stated to have had similar restilts, and 
express themselves entirely satisfied with the sport offered 
by these grounds during the present season. 

Messrs. Pope and Wells, at Fox Lake, bagged four- 
teen birds early in the week. Other shooters there who 
happened to be well located had better luck, but Mr. Pope 
was lucky enough to get twelve good fat canvasbacks, 
which made him feel distinctly proud of himself. He 
retutned shortly after Mr. Wells. These mttch-crowded 
grounds cannot, of course, be expected to offer such good 
shooting as those more exclusive, but there have surely 
been plenty of birds on Fox Lake waters this spring, 

The Kankakee country still shows plenty of birds, which 
seem to be lingering here in defiance of. the dangers which 
heset them. It were better for their health did they move 


. FOREST AND STREAM: 


to Wisconsin or Minnesota, where spring shooting is not 
permitted, ; 


Jack Snipe, 


Jacksnipe are reported on the Kankakee, in Illinois, 
above the mouth of the Desplaines. The grass is showing 
green to-day, and it is an old saw among shooters that 
with the green grass come the jacksnipe. That able 
agrostologist, Mr. Hollis Field, who finds his residence 
in the pleasant suburb of Oak Park, while spading his 
garden this morning, discovered divers and sundry large 
and luscious worms of the type usually called earth or 
angle worms, of the common or garden variety. From 
this it is inferred that the jacksnipe will soon be with 
us, Two or three parties of gentlemen who do not 
desire their names mentioned will leave at the week end 
for good snipe grounds to the south of this city. 


Western Guides in Town. 


Mr. Ben Sheffield, of Livingstone, Mont., and Mr. 
Frank L. Peterson, of the Jackson's Hole country, both 
Montana guides of the highly licensed type, are spending 
a few days in Chicago this week. The life of a Western 
guide is an ideal one. He works a few brief moments in 
the fall, and then goes East to spend the rest of the year 
in opulence and leisure. 

| By the way—although this is not said in reference to 
the two gentlemen above mentioned—there are guides 
and guides. Mr. Alfred Marshall, of Chicago, who had a 
go at the Jackson's’ Hole article of sport a while ago, 
eomes back with rather bitter sentiments toward the 
guiding populace of that region. He says that he was 
unlucky enough to draw a bad article of the genus guide, 
and is of the belief that the whole proposition out there is 
to separate the tenderfoot and his money as promptly, if 
not always as painlessly, as possible. Mr. Marshall is a 
gentleman who has lost a moose. I have told him that 
if he goes to New Brunswick—and I do not care what 
guide of the New Brunswick Guides’ Association he shall 
select—he will come back with the feeling that he has 
had_a good run for his money and a square deal at every 
station in the game. I know whereof I am speaking in 
this instance, although I do not have any experience re- 
garding the Jackson’s Hole game, as it is played. I 
should imagine in respect to the latter locality that ex- 
cellent guides can be obtained there, or can be secured 
elsewhere to go into that country, as in the case, for 
instance, of Mr. Sheffield. As to a territory which puts 
a law on its statute books compelling a man to take a 
licensed guide whether he wants to or not, I should say 
that law was written on wax and not destined to endure. 
A man may want a guide and want him badly, but he 
feels just a little better if he goes into a country with 
the idea that he is at liberty to hire one or not, just as 
he prefers. 2 : 


The Wishininnes, 


These be warm days for that august assemblage of 
sportsmen, the Wishininne Club. The question of the 
club badge or pin is still a mooted one. There cannot 
be under the constitution and by-laws of this club, as 
laid down by the president, more than ten members of 
the Wishininnes entitled to bear the distinctive badge of 
membership. The waiting list is something like thirty 
or forty, and each one of these considers himself fit for 
full membership, The president has taken the matter 
under “adwisement,” as Otto Muehrcke says, and he will 


announce his decision ‘presently. Meantime, the Wishi-. 


ninnes haye been formulating a platform, the main planks 
of which are two Sundays a week, and the early-closing 
movement indorsed. The Wishininnes yield to 


t 5 j ; no man 
in their broad and generous view of life as it ought to 
be lived. HoucH. 


Hartrorp Buitprne, Chicago, Til. 


The Massachusetts Close Season Law. 


THERE is considerable interest among marketmen and 
sportsmen in the decision of Judge Bosworth in the cases 
in the local police court for offering rabbits for sale, 
in which he found the defendants not guilty, In both 
cases the game wardens asked for rabbits, and were given 
them, the date of the calls at the stores being within the 
close season on rabbits. The defendants contended that 
the rabbits were killed in another State than Massachu- 
setts, and cited the case of the commonwealth against 
Hall, which related to a prosecution for having in pos- 
Session a woodcock out of season. In this case the de- 
fendant claimed the bird was killed in Pennsylvania, in- 
stead of in Massachusetts, and Justice Gray in his opinion 
in the case takes the ground that the law is for the pro- 
tection of birds during the breeding season in this State, 
and not in anotlifer State, and that it must be shown that 
the bird was killed during the close season in this State. 
‘The law relative to the possession of animals or birds 
in the close season has been that their possession was 
prima facie evidetice that they were killed in the close 
season within the State, but it was argued in the local 
case, and sustained by the decision, that the recent re- 
vision of the statutes had made a change in this, and that 
such possession was no longer prima facie evidence. 
Under the old law this threw the burden of proof as to 
where the animals and birds were obtained upon the de- 
fendant, but in the revised laws it is claimed the burden 
is imposed on the commonwealth to prove its case and 
to show that the birds or animals were taken in this com- 
monwealth. Judge Bosworth took the ground that the 
case at bar was almost parallel to the case of the common- 
wealth against Hall, and sustained the contentions of the 
defendants. f 

The law relative to birds and animals differs, the former 
law having been amended since the woodcock case was 
tried, but the law relative to rabbits and hare stands to- 
day just as the law relative ta woodcock and other birds 
at the time the woodcock case was decided by the Su- 
preme Court. While the local court’s decision seems to 
imply that marketmen can carty rabbits in stock during 
the close season, provided the animals came from some 
other State, it is not believed to be advisable for the 
markets to begin to stock up with game.—Springfield 
Republican. 


All communications intended for Forest anp STREAM should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co,, and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


[Aven -s, 


Indorsement of the Lacey Bil. 


THE Wisconsin Game Protective Association held : 
special meeting last week in Milwaukee, at which a_resag 
luiton was introduced by Game Warden Valentine Raeth 
and passed regarding Mr, Lacey's bills now before Com 
gress, providing national game preserves in the Western 
States and for the protection of game and eggs of the 
wildfowl in Alaska. The resolution reads as follows: 

Whereas, The friend and champion for protection of game. Hony 
John FP, Lacey, member of Congress, has introduced in the House 
a bill providing for the conversion of all forest reserves in the! 
Western States into game preserves, and ; ; 

Whereas, Unless every possible protection is thrown around the 
remnant of these wild animals, the extermination of elk, the mufle 
deer, the Rocky Mountain sheep, antelope and others, and ( 

Whereas, Ii a dozen or more great mational game preserves cam 
be created, as proposed in Mr. Lacey’s bill, these noble animals 
may be preserved for all time to come, as these parks would bes 
come refuges and breeding grounds for the game, from which these 
animals would travel and populate the adjacent ranges; and : 

Whereas, Hon. John F, Lacey has also introduced a bill to pro 
tect the game of Alaska; therefore, be it [ 5. ye | 

Resolved, That we, the Wisconsin Game Protective Association. 
a society organized for the protection of game, beg the members 
of Congress of the State of Wisconsin respectiully to vote and da 
their utmost for the passing of Elon, Lacey’s bills, H. R. No.10,306, 
and H, R. 11,535, 8 | 

These resolutions were signed by Joseph Fisher, Presi- 
dent; Valentine Raeth, Vice-President, and August Pla 
beck, Secretary, and a copy of them sent to each member 
of Wisconsin Mepresentatives and Senator in Congress, 
and one to the Hon. John F. Lacey. Be 4 

The proposed bill, H. R. 11,535, for the protection of 
game in Alaska, prohibits the shipment of wild birds or th a 
eggs from Alaska; provides short open seasons for killing 
of game; it limits the number of game which any ong 
person may kill in one year as follows: Two moose, 
waltts or sea lions, four caribou, sheep, goats, eight deety 
It limits the number of game birds for one day to teh 
grouse or twenty-five shore birds or water fowl. If 
prohibits the sale of hides, skins or heads of any game 
animal in Alaska at any time. 


Sea and River Sishing. 
een Qe 


Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to adverti 
them in FOREST AND STREAM. 


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Trout and Cyclones, 4 


TWELvE or thirteen years ago, one spring day I left St 
Paul with a party of friends for River Falls, there to 
spend Sunday wading the icy waters of the Kinnikinik 
after trout. | 

Realizing that tramping a trout stream all day brought 
into play muscles ordinarily unused and dormant, when 
one is in an office chair month in and month out, I turned 
in early to be in good shape for the morrow. The rest 
of the party got interested in a quiet game of poker, and) 
made a night of it, going straight from the sound of 
chips to the music of the stream. Little in the way o 
filling overflowing creels was done. Just why I do not 
remember, but suffice it to say that very few fish were} 
taken by the party, and before evening set in we were alll 
glad to get back to our hotel, especially as the clouds im- 
dicated a coming storm. And we had hardly reached 
covet before a yolley of hail fell from the clouds, whiten- 
ing the air as if a driving snowstorm were in progress.) 
“he hail was of a goodly size, so much so as to drive a 
herd of cows confined in an adjoining pasture almost) 
frantic, the fast-falling pellets all but penetrating their 
hides. Following the hail came the rain, and when night 
set in the vivid sheets of lightning showed the rain clouds’ 
to be of a peculiar yellow, brassy tinge. | 

One of our party had been taken ill with symptoms o 
cholera morbus, and it was my lot to sit up with him 
during the entire night. The incessant torrents of rain 
that fell without intermission, the frequent peals of 
thunder, accompanied by lurid flashes of lightning, which 
almost continually kept the brassy heavens before my 
gaze, made the night a memorable one to me. Those 
who had seen a cyclone in this country said that all thei 
conditions pointed to the existence of a cyclone not far 
away. The wind and rain, as well as the thunder and 
lightning with the accompanying cloud effects, ceased 
with the coming of the day. 

Taking an early train for St, Paul, but an hour’s ride 
away, we learned of a cyclone the day before at Lake 
Gervais that had ground two or three farmhouses into 
matchwood, licked up the inmates with the timbers of 
the house and scattered them to the four winds, where, 
no one knew until the lake gave up its dead. I drove 
out to the scene of devastation, but five miles from the 
city. As I neared the scene of disturbance, shingles could | 
be seen standing erect in the plowed fields, thin end down, 
These had been ripped from the farmhouses and given a 
rotary, perpendicular motion until they plunged into the 
earth, making the field look like a miniature burying 
ground with headstones more or less irregularly set. 

I passed next a tamarack swamp, and there saw a! 
tangle of standing and uprooted trees that defied any-j 
thing short of a forest fire to straighten it out. 

The edge of the cyclone cloud had made its influence 4 
felt upon this swamp, Emerging into the open, we sould 
now see the full results of the atmospheric disturbance. | 
The farmhouses, barns and outhouses had disappeared, 
the foundations a few inches above ground, were alone 
left. Joists, timbers, flooring, siding, doors and sash had | 
all gone heayenward in the mighty suction, and had been 
dropped into the lake or upon the land. One large 2 x» 
12 x 1@had been buried like a mighty javelin several feet 
into the ground. Over in one corner, wedged in between 
a giant oak and a protruding boulder, was a bed-quilt, a | 
part of a kitchen chair, a piece of a lamp and a lighitless | 
window frame, all wound together in an inextricable! 
bundle by some barbed wire torn from an adjoining fence. | 
No human hand could have so firmly and securely bound 
that mass of household relics. ' 

Those trees that withstood the tornado were naked as 
to bark from ground to topmost remaining bracts ‘The | 
whirling cloud carrying with it tons upon tons ‘of flying | 
sand, and acting like a huge emery wheel, instantaneotsly 
ground off the hark from the trees, Fields of growing | 


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corn were simply combed out, the leaves adhering to the 
stalks, and the stalks themselves were one mass of shreds. 
The fine wind-driven sand had acted like the teeth of a 
comb, Leaves left on the branches of trets were torn 
into fine threads by the pulverized flints. 

One large tree close to one of the houses, or where one 
of the houses stood, had received the full effect of the 
rotary motion of the cloud. The tree had been entirely 
dentided of its bark. Only the larger limbs remained, the 
smaller ones having been twisted off short. The roots 
were intact, but the body of the tree had been twisted 
like a rope. It was full of seams and fissures, a mute 
witness to the terrific force of the cyclone. Well up the 
trunk of the tree and adhering thereto, were three dead 
chickens. One had its head in a closed seam of the tree, 
another was so held by the wing and a third by the leg. 
While the tree was in its throes the fowls had been 
blown against it, were instantly killed by the impact and 
imprisoned by the righting of the tree and partial closing 
of the fissures. 

I have a photograph of this part of the story clearly 
showing the fowls in the grasp of the tree. 

As fat as the farmhouses were concerned, a charge of 
dynamite with upward explosive tendencies cotild not 
have scattered the dwellings and the contents thereof, 
animate and inanimate, more diversely. Not a person 
escaped. Several bodies were found in the lake, and some 
in the adjoining swamps. It was supper time when the 
great funtiel-shaped cloud came bounding along with the 
speed of an express train, striking and rebounding from 
the earth like a great black balloon. Fate placed these 
farmhouses and their occupants in its destructive path, and 
in the twinkling of an eye they were hurled to their de- 
struction and death, 

The denuding of the trees of their bark seemed to 
puzzle many, Some said the bark was sucked off, because 
of the vacuum created in the path of the cyclone; others 
that the wind simply blew it off, but after seeing the way 
the corn was whipped and combed by the sand-filled air, T 
certainly agreed that the sand had acted as a gigantic 
rasp and had torn the bark free from the trees. 

During the summer, after a heated day, let a wind 
spring up, such a wind as would naturally precede a tain 
and windstorm, and let a bank of, clouds turn from black 
to brazen hue, and then do the people come out upon the 
street with bared heads and watch with anxious faces 
the forming clouds, No cloud of the blackest hue fore- 
bodes such dire results as a bank of rolling brass-hued 
clouds, All such clouds do not mean a cyclone, but all 
cyclones seem to be accompanied by such cloud effects, 
and the affinity of one for the other is what disturbs the 
serenity of the people. 

And I never go trout fishing but what I think of that 
night when I watched by the bed of my sick friend and 
at the same time witnessed the warring of the elements 
throughout the long and trying night. — 

CHARLES CRISTADORO: 


A Few Days with the Pickerel. 


Boston, March 18.—Editor Forest and Stream: I had 
waited all winter for a call to go a-fishing that never 
came. A letter from my friend Huse, of Lacania, in- 
formed me that he had been down to his cottage at Spring 
Haven, Lake Winnepesaukee, several times, but the fish- 
ing was anything but good. But last week there came a 
summons in another direction. On Tuesday, 11th imst., I 
had just sat down to dinner when a neighbor called and 
said there was a call for me on their telephone, I soon 
had the connection, and found it was Mr. Ivers W. 
Adams, the President of the American Net and Twine 
Co. He informed me that he and his brother, Mr. Wal- 
ter R. Adams, of Newton, were going the next:day to 
the latter’s cottage on an island in Naukeag Lake, in the 
town of Ashburnham, and would I be their guest. I 
accepted at once, of course, as I had been there on several 
occasions years ago, and knew what a cozy and comfort- 
able place it was, We took the 3 o'clock train the next 
day, and shortly after 5 o'clock reached the pretty village 
of Ashburnham, and a ride of a couple of miles by team 
brought us to the lake, Mr. Walter Adams went up in 
the morning, and with the assistance of a Mr. Heald, a 
farmer living near by, had already opened up a goodly 
number of holes through twenty inches of ice. The 
cottage was well aired, warm and comfortable. An 
appetizing supper was soon on the table, prepared by Mr. 
Alfred Clark, who had come up from the village to do 
the kitchen act during our stay, and very well he did it, 
too. During the evening Mr, Ivers Adams entertained 
tis with his salmon fishing experiences on the Moisie 
River in Canada, where he owns extensive and valuable 
tights. He also owns rights on other streams up in that 
country. The next morning was decidedly springlike, 
the glass indicating 60 degrees, and at sunrise the robins 
and bltebirds were singing merrily in the trees and 
shrubs that surround the cottage, Before breakfast Mr. 
Walter Adams had set in a number of lines in the holes 
nearest the house, and we had just seated ourselves at 
the breakfast table, when looking through a window he 
saw a flag up. Calling my attention to it, I was soon 
on the spot, and in another minute the first pickerel was 
floundering on the ice. I then returned to the smoking 
hot breakfast, and that over we all put in a busy day. 
Other lines were put in some distance away. and we 
alternated at the different places throughout the day, with 
a good lunch any time one wanted it. We gathered at 
the cottage at 5 o’clock, and found the result of the day’s 
work to be sixty-two pickerel and three perch. It'was a 
great catch, and there were some beauties, three-pounders, 
in the lot, Dinner was served at 5:30, and it is needless 
to say that it was not the least important item of the 
day's programme. There was a change in the weather 
during the night, and in the morning we found the holes 
skinned with ice. The birds were there just the same, 
and they filled the clear air with their melody, The 
surface water of the day before had entirely disappeared, 
leaying the surface just rough enough to make it com- 
paratively easy in getting around. The day proved a 
delightful one. By to o’clock the sun had so done its 
work that the holes kept open, and when we stopped for’ 
the day we found the catch to be thirty pickerel and two 
perch. Saturday was as.like the previous day as could 
well be, and we had the holes clear and ready for busi- 


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ness in an hour after breakfast. We were to break camp 
that afternoon, so the lines were all up by noon. Then 


the fish were laid out on the piazza, and they certainly . 


were the finest lot of pickerel I ever saw. The catch 


Saturday was twenty-nine pickerel, two perch and two 


eels, making the total 121 pickerel, seven perch and two 
eels. ‘Then packages were made up for friends, dinner 
was disposed of, Heald, the man of all work, made sev- 
eral trips to the shore with the fish and other luggage 
At 2:30 we took the team for a four-mile drive to_the 
railway, and boarded the train which_landed us in Bos 
ton at 5:45. Fish formed no part of the bill of fare 
during our stay at the lake, the table being well supplied 
with good things from Quincy market. For many years 
I have known Mr, Ivers Adams as a thorough sportsman 
and: a gentleman—one who delights in entertaining his 
friends to the best there is—and on this occasion I ford 
Mr, Walter Adams another of the same kind, and I am 
indebted to them for the most enjoyable winter fishing 
trip I ever had. Wm. B. Smart. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 


‘CHrcaco, In, March 27.—The last of the pleasant 
winter meetings of the Chicago Fly Casting Club was 
held Wednesday evening of this week at the MLeland 
Hotel, a very good attendance turning out as usual. The 
following members were present: 

H. H. Ainsworth, C. Antoine, I. H. Bellows, W. T. 
Church, H. G. Hascall, Ni C. Heston, G. A. Hinterleit- 
ner, E. Hough, E. R. Letterman. A. Marshall, G. A. 
Murrell, Tes Orr, F. N. Peet, H. W. Perce, F. E, Ruge, 
A.C, Smith, F, S. Smith, G. W. Strell, J. A. Wood, W. 
Walforth. J. B. Wallace, John Holman. The guests 
wete: Phelps Hopkins, L. GC. Lull, P. Woodruff, E. 
McAdams, C. J. R. Kerr, G. A. Davis, E. D. Mason. 

President H. C. Hascal was in the chair, and Secretary 
E. R. Letterman was busy near at hand, Minutes of the 
previous meeting were dispensed with. A special com- 
mittee, Chairman F. N. Peet, reported in regard to: the 
Olympian game artangements for 1904. that they needed 
more time, as the programme of sports for that great 
festival was as yet in too immature a form for definite 
motion to be taken. 

In the question of handicaps Secretary Letterman read 
the report of the handicap committee, announcing the 
handicap in the different styles of casting which had been 
assigned to each member of the club. 

Some discussion arose over the handicaps, but the 
committee was discharged and the report: accepted, as 
of course should be the case always with a handicap com- 
mittee, kicks being natural and likewise meaning naught, 
on the basis that someone must finally decide. 

The honorable secretary was cut down to $25 a year, 
which he will a good deal more than earn. Associate 
members—that is to say, members moving, out of the 
State—were relieved of dues upon the basis that they 
would assume dues upon again taking tp a residence in 
Illinois. i 

The secretary announced, in response to inquiries re- 
garding the game and fish laws, that Indiana this spring 
showed no restriction on hook and line fishing after 
April 1. Michigan opens the trout season May 1, the 
bass season May 20. 

Following these little preliminaties the entertainment 
of the evening began. Mr. Strell told a story. Mr. 
Phelps Hopkins, a very good basso, sang a solo about 
the “Gallant. Bandelero,” which the latter is apparently 
bad medicine in his way. He was encored. The main 
speech of the evening was made by Mr. Press Wood- 
ruff, who was annotinced by Mr. Perce as Professor 
Woodruff, born in Arkansas, educated in Heidelberg and 
now acting as Chief of Forestry in British Columbia. 
Mr. Woodrtiff kept up the latter bluff for some time, 
but when he began to. tell of his experiments in crossing 
the tarpon with the lake trout, and to describing the 
game qualities of the hybrid resultant thereupon, his talk 
was received with expressions of disbelief, whereafter 
he told of many things located in Arkansas and else- 
where. Mr. H, W. Perce gaye a couple of songs delight- 
fully, and Mr. W. T. Church read the Declaration of 
Independence of the American angler. 

Tt was announced that on May 15 next following, the 
fishermen of Grand Rapids would invite the members 
of the Chicago Fly Casting Club to come to Grand 
Rapids for a pleasant little fly casting tournament, the 
visitors later to be entertained in a fishing party on the 
Pere Marquette and other streams. It need hardly be 
said that the invitation of the Grand Rapids boys will 
be gladly accepted. The salt of the western angling 
earth can be found in inexhaustible supply in the city 
of Grand Rapids. 

Another fishing expedition of the Chicago Fly Casting 
Club is planned for the Lauderdale Lakes of Wisconsin 
on May 29. 


Florida Fishing, 


Mr. Frank B. Orr, a well-known fly fisherman of 
Chicago, is back from a_winter’s sojourn along the 
Florida Gulf Coast. Mr. Orr states that he did not get 
into the best of the fishing country, although he had very 
good sport with the sheepshead and others of the sea 
fishes. He has heard of a special brand of salt water 
gytnnasts which the local anglers call the “bone fish,’ 


and he says that next winter he is going down to make _ 


a special campaign for the latter gentlemen. » 


No Open Fishing at Castalia. 


} Prof. G. A. Wyly, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, writes: 
[I see in your current notes that you mention the trout 
clubs of Castalia. I would like to ask something about 
the fishing at that point. I had heard that there was a 
trout stream or two in the northern part of! this State, 
but never learned just where, and I judge there must be 
at least one of these at Castalia. Is that so, and could 
I likely fish at that point? I have made several trips 
in northern Michigan after trout, but if there is any 
good trout fishing nearer, I would like to know of it.” 
Thereis buttheone trout stream at Castalia, which rises 


the city of Sandusky, and directly in the village known as 


in a'grand spring situated’ in a little meadow not far from 


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Castalia. This stream is but a few miles long and on its 
banks are located two clubs which control all of the fish- 
‘ing. There is no open fishing whatever at Castalia, and 


so far as known there is no other trout stream in 
northern Ohio, or indeed anywhere else in Ohio, Mr. 
Wyly will find very excellent fishing in Michigan this 
coming season, unless all signs go wrong. 


Eatly Season Likely. 


It is almost immaterial what date is set for the opening 
of the trout season in Wisconsin and Michigan, for it 
is rarely the case that there is any fishing of consequence 
before the tniddle of April, the ice and snow hanging on 
pretty late in those latitudes and the weather being 
usually too inclement to permit much sport. This spring, 
however, bids fair to be an early one. One says this with 
considerable hesitation, for no one knows what time win- 
ter is going to end here until after the Fourth of July. 
‘This week, however, reports come from Wisconsin, as 


far north as Waupaca county, that the snow has been 


gone for some days and that the meadows are becoming 
dry. A. couple of- weeks of this warm open weather 
ought to show some fishing by opening day, April 15. 


Flies for Southern Michigan. 


As to flies for this season’s fishing, one cannot tell 
yhat.to recommend, any more than he can tell for a year 
in advance what brand of millinery might serve for my 
lady’s taste. It seems to be the case, at least in our 
western streams, that the same fly is rarely good for more 
than one season. Thus the Cahill fly had a big run in 
the southern peninsula of Michigan for the season before 


last and a part: of last season, though latterly it seems to 


have been a “dead one,” so to speak, on some streams, 
The Professor last year turned out yery good, but not 
so good as a weird freak known as the Jenny Lind, a 
perfectly impossible creation of yellow and gold body, 
scarlet hackle and green wing. Fred Peet, who fishes 
the Pere Marquette a good deal, told me that this weird 
combination was the most killing thing he could find 
last season, The Montreal, he said, was no good at 
all. On the other hand, I have fished the western Au 
Sable, the Thunder Bay streams, and the Kinne Creel 
of western Michigan at different times when the Mon- 
treal was very desirable. Mr. Peet and his friends sol- 
emnly believe that it takes a new fly every year on the 
Pere Marquette. é 

For Middle Wisconsin in April, I have found the Cow 
Dung very reliable. On the contrary, I never found the 
Professor much account nor the Queen of the Waters 
to do good service, 

I have-often spoken of the Pine Rivef of Wisconsin, 
and perhaps have mentioned the freakishness of the trout 
of that preserved stream, Three yeats ago nothing would 
do there but a black fly known as the Indian Crow. 
Then they switched to Seth Green. Last year they 
wanted Silver Doctor, that perfectly incongruous and 
utterly impossible mixture of colors which stands for 
nothing in the kingdoms, animate or inanimate, What 
they will want this year no mam may Say. : 

By the way, speaking of Mr. Peet, I should say that he 
is a member of the Chicago Fly Casting Club and an 
amateur tackle tinker of no mean excellence. I believe 
he ties the prettiest fly I have ever seen done by either 
professional or amateur. He leans altogether these days 
to the eyeless hook, No. 12 or 14 size, and to the English 
tin fly box instead of our American leather-covered fly 
books. We progress, it may be seen, even in this city 
of the winds. Our flies grow smaller. their feathers less 
exuberant, and the drawn gut leader comes on apace. 

EK. Houcu 

Harrrorp Burtprnc, Chicago, Ill. 


_ Fish and "Fishing. 


Politics versus Protection. 


PoLITICAL inutience has once mote proved too mich a+ 
the cause of fish life and protection. The long struggle 
against the continuance of net fishing in Lake Champlain 
for pike-perch by the North American Fish and Game 
Protective Association, which was so closely and so sym- 
pathetically followed by the friends of protection in all 
parts of the country, is well known to the readers of 
Forest AND STREAM. It was fondly hoped that the pas- 
sage of the Order-in-Council by the Federal Government 
at Ottawa, probibiting net fishing in Missisquoi Bay, 
which followed the visit to the Canadian capital of Messrs. 
J. W. Titcomb and C. H. Wilson, had put an end to this 
troublous question. So it did for a few days but for a 
few days only. While other men slept, the enemy, in the 


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_shape of the net fishermen, got in their deadly work. 


They threatened their parliamentary representative at 
Ottawa with dire vengeance if the prohibition was not 
promptly removed, and rumor has it that he in turn simi- 
larly threatened the Government. The Minister of Fish- 
eries promptly yielded, and the Order-in-Council was at 
once cancelled, so far as it applied to net fishing in 
Missisquoi Bay. As soon as the news reached Ouehec, the 
same political pull of the pike-perch netters. which had 
been successful at Ottawa. was exerted unon the Pro- 
vincial Department of Lands. Mines and F'sheries. and 
resulted in the reisstie of the cancelled netting: licenses. 
There is naturally much indignation as well as disap- 
pointment at the new turn taken by things in connection 
with this matter, but all friends of fish and game life 
know the difficulty of having to contend with onnasing 
political influence, and those who have heen moving in the 
food catise have, in this narticular case. nothing ta un- 
braid themselves with. The wanton destrovers of fish 
and game must be met and fought on their own ground. 
and it is for fish and game protective associations, and 
especially for the North American Association. with tts 
ivternational mission. to so enlarge its membershin. and, 
consequently, its sphere of usefulness. as to command a 
larger share of that political influence which is more 
potent with some of the politicians of the present day than 
the legitimate claims of fish and game protection. Every 
rember of the Association can aid in this. work by 
seuding in as many new applications for membership as 
possible to the Secretary-Treasurer, ; 


Illustrated Angting Liferz{ure, 
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[Arem 5, 1902. 


of some modern angling literature is much to be deplored. 
In an illustrated sporting guide book distributed some 
time ago by one of the Canadian Provinces, a picture 
of a black bass was labeled “A Ouananiche.”’ Another 
Canadian publication, devoted to natural history, and pub- 
lished in the French language, recently printed a cut of a 
carp for the ouananiche. More surprising still, is the 
blunder made in the handsome edition of “The Compleat 
Angler,” edited by Richard Le Gallienne, and published 
by John Lane, of the Bodley Head, in 1806, where at page 
192 there appears a picture of what is called a charr, 
mints even a shadow of anything like an adipose fin, 
As the illustrations are by Edmund H. New, it is charit- 
able to suppose that another cut must have been ex- 
changed for that intended to represent the charr. 

Since the general substitution of half-tone cuts for the 
old-fashioned line engravings, angling literature, like 
that of nearly every other class, has severely suffered in 
the quality of its illustrations, One of the chief charms 
of some of the old angling books is to be found in the 
beauty of their steel engravings. It is but seldom that 
one finds anything in the way of modern book illustra- 
tions to compensate for the passing of this artistic class 
of work, Where, now, for instance, do we see in any 
hook of the day, such a finished production as the frontis- 
piece of Thomas Tod Stoddart’s ‘‘Angler’s Compafiion to 
the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland,” published in 1847? 
The impression from the steel catises the sheen upon the 
salmon to assume a hue almost as silvery as that im- 
parted in oil by Mr. Walter M. Brackett’s brush. 

One very modern, as well as very novel and very 
artistic piece of piscatorial book making has ‘recently, 
however, come to my notice. An appreciation of the 
literary merits er demerits of the book belongs to the 
province of the reviewer, but its artistic illustration is 
cognate to the subject under discussion. Mr. Louis 
Rhead, the Brooklyn artist; who gave an exhibition some 
time ago of his ouananiche and Lake St. John pictures, 
is both editor and illustrator of the book, which is 
devoted to the brook trout, and is published by Mr. R. 
H. Russell. One of its novel features recalls the method 
employed in illustrating Gosden’s reprint of Col. Robert 
Venable’s “The Experiene’d Angler; or Angling Im- 
prov'd.” This work, it may be remembered. first ap- 
peared in 1661, only eicht years after the publication of 
the first edition of Walton’s “Compleat Angler.” The 
gentle Izaak himself contributed a courtly commendation 
of the little volume, addressed to his “ingenious friend, the 
author,” in which he states that he “could never find in 
(other books) that judement and reason which you have 
manifested in this (as I may call it) Epitome of Angling, 
since my reading whereof I cannot look upon some notes 
of my own gathering, but methinks I do puerilia trac- 
tare.” Westwood and Satchell’s “Bibliotheca Piscatoria” 
gives the date of Gosden’s reprint as 1827 only. The copy 
in my own angling library bears the date 1825. The illus- 
trations of fish are beautifully printed in miniature upon 
Tice paper, and then stuck into the book at various places 
left for the purpose in the text. Mr. Rhead has done 
something of the same kind in his hook, which is one. of 
the most uniquely gotten up books on fishing which. has 
issued from the press for a long time. A few of the 
trout and angling pictures in this hook are printed on 
different paper, and then affixed to the headings of some 
of the chapters, and the effect is very striking. One of 
the most novel features of the book is the binding. The 
outside of the cover is a most natural representation of 
the rough outer covering of the white birch. The lining 
of the cover represents the red-brown inner lining of the 
birch bark next the trunk of the tree. Lying upon the 
white birch bark which forms the outside of the cover, are 
stich favorite trout flies as the Parmachenee-belle coach- 
man, grizzly-king, ete. Over all there is a handsome! 
decorated wrapper of heavy green paper. Lovers ‘of oe 
and lovers of angling alike Will gladly welcome the €vi- 
Genes of renewed interest in the artistic illustration of 
shing books, furnished by Mr. Rhead’s volume. 


Boston is said to he about to sprin isti 
surprise upon the angling community, Fn ee 
set of fish pictures for framing. and two volumes of let- 
ter press on fish and fishing in the United States and 
Canada, to cost altogether nearly $200. The editor is Dr 


F. M. Johnson, E. T, D. CHAMBERs. 


In New England Waters. 


Boston, March 31.—Appearances indicate : 
fishing season in New England waters. The ee, 
on trout in Massachusetts begins to-moa ! 
all but the three western counties 
15. Some of the Boston dail 1c 
fishing articles, putting the openine 
in this State at April 15. and there ha 
te know if the law had been changed 
all the eastern countier 
the leading trout fishermen of the 
lately that it 
for the whole State. since the weat 


they ha ve frequently t1 ed sUc . 
J Aly iSt! WwW orm 


: been remarkably warm 

ee chic Pay at one, fd the fishermen will be off to- 
“row. Indeed, several have gone to t 

the Cape already. The warm it Aas ees 


€ in of Saturda 
raised the waters a good deal, Meee 
sided by to-morrow 


‘ byt eee will have sub- 
morning. Doubtless the President 
of nie ee Fish and Game Protective Asso- 
ciation wul open the season at the Tihor ' 
a pie e Tihonet Club Tuesday 
year his first trout weighed a pound and a 
quarter. 
Landlocked salmon fishermen are almost startled by 
the announcernent that the ice is out of Sebago Lake, Me. 
—went out March 29. It has taken them generally wn- 
prepared, in. fact, although reports have stated that the 
ice was getting thin and uncertain. The warm rain and 
south wind of Saturday did-the business. This clearing is 
remarkably early, although old residents tell of its happen- 
ing in Mare once before. I have a record of the clear- 
mg ot sehago, commencing with 1804, when it cleared 
April 6; 1895, April 16; 1806, April 24; 1807, April 19; 
1898, April 10; 1899, April 23: 1900, April 16; roor, April 
to. Under the latest law the open season on trout and 
landlocked salmon in most of the Maine waters begins 


according to his usual custom: Last 


on the departure of the ice, hence the season will be fully 
on at Sebago at once. Portland anglers will be there in 
good numbers, though they scarcely expected to he fishing 
so early in April. Last year the fishing was remarkably 
good by the second day after the ice went out. W. L. 
Jones, of Portland, took seven fine salmon in one day, 
the largest weighing 10 pounds, with another only a few 
ounces less. The other five weighed from 434 to 734. 
But one of the biggest salmon of the season was taken 
on the second day after the ice cleared by Wallace H. 
Babb, of Cumberland Mills. This salmon was 32 inches 
in length and weighed 15 pounds. It was taken on a 
to-ounce rod, and gave the angler all the sport he de- 
sired for over half an hour, 

Angling for sea salmon at the big Bangor pool begins 
April 1. Fishermen seem to think that the sport should 
be good there, since the water has been most remarkably 
high, but has been going down for several days, Still, 
the warm rain of Saturday will doubtless send down 
another volume of water and débris. Among the noted 
anglers who have fished there on former seasons, and will 
doubtless be on hand this year. are Charles P. Hodgkins, 
Ira Peavey, Howard Peavey, Guy Peavey, George Willey, 
Ira Doane, Thomas Canning, E. A. Btick, F. W. Ayer, 
Dennis Tracey and Thomas F. Allen. Ladies are also 
taking an interest in angling for salmon at the Big Pool. 
Last year the first salmon was landed by a woman, Miss 
Jennie Sullivan. It weighed 20 pounds, and was caught 


on April 3, SPECIAL, — 
Hook Wounds. 


My first angling lessons were learned when a boy on 
the stream running through the farm of my grand: uncle, 
a retired sea captain, near Rahway, N. J. Beside the 
other help on the place, he always employed a small 
boy, and at the time referred to had a very bright lad of 
about my own age who of course loved angling, or any- 
thing else that was not work, and consequently wel- 
comed me on arriyal at the farm, as some days on the 
stream were usually sure to follow, 

The only tackle Joe had was a coarse linen line, with 
rather a large hook, “half-hitched” to it, and wound on 
a flat block of wood. This tackle was intended to tie 
on a pole cut in the woods when we got there. On one 
of my last visits to the old place, before the death of 
my uncle, Joe hurried his luncheon, and in his eagerness 
ta be ready and not delay me he ran the point of the 
hook clean over the barb into his left hand near the 
thumb. 

There was a yell of pain, and in an instant the click 
of a knife opening and a loud command from my uncle, 
“You Joe come here, and let me cut it out! with some 
embellishments probably used on shipboard. We were 
all on the porch just off the dining room at the time, 
my uncle sitting in a big, easy chair, but he half-raised 
and made a grab at Joe as I told him to run, which he 
started to do, but had gone only a short distance, when 
he dropped the block on which the line was wound. 
Some twenty feet had unwound from the block when my 
uncle jumped and placed his foot on it, thus stopping 
Joe’s flight and picking up the block while yet holding 
the gleaning knife, he began slowly to land Joe, all the 
while uttering the nautical embellishments to the ac- 
companiment of Joe’s cries of fear and anguish. Joe’s 
look of terror brought me te my senses, and just as he 
was nearly landed my knife came in play, and I cut the 
line and freed Joe just in the nick of time.. Then my 
uncle’s attention was transferred to me, but Joe did not 
wait to hear any more, nor did I, but followed him to 
the brook, out of sight of the house, where together we 
removed the line from the hook, which being of such 
heavy wire and fortunately sharp, we brought the point 
out, and then the entire hook. My uncle was, of course, 
only having a little fun, and had no idea of hurting Joe, 
but to him and me at the time it seemed a very serious 
matter. 

Since then I have had two experiences of my own, 
The first occurred up on the Rutland Meuntain, in Ver- 
mont, at the house of a friend, who was entertaining a 
very particular friend of mine, a surgeon, and myself. 
The doctor was showing how well he could execute the 
switch cast while a party of us were standing on the 
wharf at the shore of the trout pond, and after one or two 
failures to straighten the line, he made an effort of 
greater force, and the leader came under and away 
back, and as I was standing near him on the right, the 
stretcher fly caught me under the chin and drove the 
point of the hook in over the barb. The hook was No. 
to, old scale, and although the doctor was a skilled 
surgeon it was fully half an hour’s work after the gut and 
feathers had been removed and the eye broken off, before 
he could force the point through the flesh by turning the 
hook and then to bring it entirely out. This he did 
without the aid of instruments, using his fingers alone, 
which. with one less skillful, I now think would not be 
possible. The danger is in breaking the hook if too 
much force is used, of it is not properly applied. 

Last summer, fishing in a broad stream at Henryville, 
Pa., I attempted to cross it at the head of a natural dam. 
When within about four feet of the bank, I discovered 
quite a deep cut in the channel through which nearly 
all the water was flowing before it went over a fall. 
Where I stood the water was only a few inches above my 
shoes, and to step down in the cut and then reach a 
branch of a tree on the bank seemed quite easy; so plac- 
ing the wading staff, I always carry, carefully on the 
bottom and following it, I slowly stepped in; and didn’t 
T wish I hadn't! ‘ 

The rushing water came to within an inch of the top 
of my waders, and I began to slide down the stream to 
the edge of the fall, but fortunately before reaching it 
caught an overhanging branch with my left hand, which 
also held the rod, I dropped the staff, as it was fastened 
by a cord, and with my right hand still holding the rod 
and placing it over the left shoulder, attempted to throw 
it, handle end first, as one would a spear, through an 
opening in the foliage. The stretcher fly had been 
caught in a small ring I always place for the purpose on 
one of the bars of the reel, and this held the leader close 
to the rod and tight at both ends, and consequently 
as the dropper fly passed my check the hook was driven 
in as far as it possibly could go. Well, I cut the snell 
with my cutters, which are carried on a fine chain sus- 


ry Ty Ti 


pended from a button hole in my coat, and threw the rod 


"as at first intended, left the stream, and picking up the 


tod walked two miles to a house, where the man and 
wagon were waiting. Under my instructions, the man 
started in to turn the hook, as the doctor had done the 
first time, but he could not do it. Then he found two 
farm hands who each in turn tried by using my pliers, 
but failed, until it occurred to me to use a second pair 
of round-end pliers, which I also fortunately had, with 
which the flesh of the cheek was pressed hard against the 
point of the hook, while with the others the hook was 
turned upward and outward, and so the point brought 
through and then the entire hook, from which, of course, 
the feathers as well as the eye had been removed. This 
took fully an hour and the strength of a powerful man. 
Without the round-end pliers with which to press the 
flesh back against the point of the hook, neither of 
those strong men could have removed that hook without 
injury to me. Dae ; 
In this way I discovered a use for those pliers in addi- 
tion to that of handling a ferrule when the rod breaks in 
it, and shall in future always carry them.—C. G, Levison 
(Brooklyn, N. Y.) in London Fishing Gazette, 


Adirondack Streams Mlenaced. 


THE following letter of protest has been sent to Gov- 
ernor Odell respecting the Brown bill to permit the can- 
demnation and ruin of Adirondack streams for private 
interests : 

Sir:—There is a bill now before you for your consider- 
ation and approval which might be apprepriately and 
justly entitled, “An act to provide for and facilitate the 
destruction and extermination of all brook or speckled 


trout in the streams of the Adirondack preserve and to — 


otherwise destroy the preserve for the use of the people 
of the State of New York.” I refer to Senate bill No. 
404, introduced by Senator Brown to amend Section 62 
of Chapter 592 of the laws of 1807, being Chapter 307 of 
the General Laws and known as the “Navigation law.” 

For many years theState has been engaged through its 
Fish and Game Commission, their assistants and- em- 
ployes, and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars 
in maintaining hatcheries and restocking the streams in 
the Adirondack forest preserves with brook or speckled 
trout and for their protection and preservation, for the 
benefit of the people of the State of New York. And 
the people have enacted laws from titne to time making 
it a crime to kill trout out of season or to transport them 
from the Adirondack preserve except in limited numbers 
and only when accompanied by the owner, or to introduce 
into the streams of the Adirondack preserye fish that are 
natural enemies of the trout, or to molest or disturb the 
brook trout while on their spawning beds or in close 
season, which lasts from Sept. 1 to May Tf. 

During the past seven years I have devoted a large 
portion of my time to the problem of restocking the 
waters of a large preserve in the Adirondacks with brook 
trout and restoring the streams to their natural and 
former conditions with respect to the brook or speckled 
trout and maintaining them as fishing preserves. During 
this time various streams of the tract in question have 
from time to time been used for driving, flooding, and 
floating logs under certain contracts subject to which the 
club owning the tract took title, and I have had occasion 
to make a practical study of the effect of damming, 
“flooding,” “removing obstructions,’ or disturbing the 


‘hed of the stream, increasing and decreasing the volume 


or flow of water for the purpose of floating, running, or 
flooding logs in said streams, and can testify that the use 
of any stream for the purpose and in the manner pro- 
posed in the bill by lIumbermen will effect its utter 
destruction as a trout stream or preserve during the time 
stich operations are carried on and for years thereafter, 
until the stream has been allowed to rest and resume its 
natural conditions and has been restocked at large ex- 
ense. 

= I am convmiced that if the proposed act becomes a 
law, streams upon which the State and private associa- 
tions have spent thousands of dollars for fish stocking 
will be utterly destroyed for the uses of the people of the 
State. : 

At first sight this may seem a small consideration com- 
pared with the moneyed interests of the ptlp and lumber 
companies and trusts, but I desire to call your attention 
to the fact that of the hundred thousand or more annual 
visitors to the Adirondack Forest Preserve, nine-tenths 
are attracted there by the fish and game, and the fish is 
principally the brook or speckled trout. Article VII. of 
the Constitution was intended to secure to all the people 
of the State of New York the Adirondack State Park 
lands as a place for recreation and restoration to health, 
etc. If the streams are given over to the pulp industries, 
as provided by this iniquitous act, a majority of the peo- 
ple of the State who now use che preserve will have no 
use for it, os Wee 

A curious feature of the act is that it hmits the liability 
of the lumberman while occupying State or private lands 
and streams. Under the privileges granted to them they 
are only liable for damages occasioned by their “negli- 
gent or unlawful exercise” of their occupancy, and claim 
must be made within one year after the act is committed. 
Tt is well known that where streams and lands are 
flooded for the purpose of driving logs the extent of the 
damage done by the killing of trees, etc., sometimes 1s 
not evident until more than a year after the act of flood- 
ing takes place. Also the act gives the right of con- 
demnation to any person desiring to drive logs, meaning 
thereby any irresponsible jobber or log driver who may 
commit any sort of unlawful or negligent act to the 
destruction of the property of the State or private in- 


dividuals without incurring any msk excepting money 


claims for damages, 4 
Altogether the act seems to me as the most audacious 
attempt on the part ef the lumber and pulp industries 
to prostitute the great powers of the State for their pri- 
vate ends and profits, and I sincerely hope that the ‘bill 
as passed will meet with your disapproval and veto. 


ectfully, 
Yours very resp f Wittram G, De Wirt, 


- Chairman Fish and Game Committee, 
te Adirondack League Club, ___ 


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Apri §, 1002.] 


San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 


Mepat contests, series 1902, Saturday, contest No. 4, 
held at Stow Lake, March 22, Wind, west; weather fair: 


Eyent Event Event 
No. 1, No, 2. No. 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, ————Eveut No. 3—_——___ Lure 
4 Feet Percent. Acc. % Del. ¥ Net #% Casting § 
€. G. Young. 93 89 83.4 77.6 80.5 a 
Eigse Batti: hee .. 77.8 88 80.10 84.5 83.4 
T. Brotherton...110 88.8 85.8 79.2 82.5 94.3 
E. A. Mocker.. 94 © 85.4 15.4 86.8 81 17.3 
P. J. Tormey,,. +: 56.4 55.4 7 62.8 ‘3 
W. E. Brooks. .102 90.8 77.4 80 78.8 ef 
FE. Everett....<.104 88.8 80 80.10 80.5 ; 
T. C. Kierulff.. 73 85 81.8 72.6 77.1 ; 
ie HY Skinterl. 2s 84.4 87.8 76.8 82.2 nn 
,H. C€, Golcher, .124 89 90 80 85 i 
W. D. Mansfield .. 93.8 89.8 83.4 86.6 93.4 
W. J. Kierulff.. 80 72.4 68.8 73.4 val A 
F, H. Reed..... 85 85 91 77.6 84.3 
E 2 “Lawrence..... .- val 83.8 65.10 74.9 
. F, Muller...101 90.4 81.8 75.10 78.9 


_ Judges, Everett and Mocker; referee, Brooks; clerk, 
Wilson. 

Sunday, contest No. 4, held at Stow Lake, March 23. 
Wind, west; weather, fair: 


C. R. Kenniff... 98 88 81 75 78 95.8 
Z. Daverkosen...106 86.8 84.4 15 79.8 7 
i cancitene ences 88 92.8 14.2 83.5 
Cae TRienie oe ere O a 89.8 83.4 65 74.2 af 
BY Vie eaipht.& 5 75 77.4 75.10 76.7 i 
i B. Kenniif...110 84 88.8 85.10 87.3 94.2 
. E, Brooks... 96 89 93.4 15 $4.2 i 
E. A. Mocker... 96 87.8 88 80 84 59.3 
ta Battpinesoess 74.8 87.8 $1.8 84.8 71.8 
S. A. Heller..., .. 79.8 82.4 73.4 77.10 ée 
H. F. Muiller...105 90.8 89 78.4 83.8 +e 
F. H. Reed.... 97 86 89.4 80.10 85.1 an 
W. D. Mansfield .. 93 84 87.6 85.9 94.7 
E. Everett...... 1 94 80.8 76.8 78 we 
A. M. Bilade....838%4 56 82.4 6 79.41 
W. tk Kierulff.. 77 78 71 75.10 13.5 
H. inkelspiel.. 84 66.4 62.4 3.4 67.10 
H. C. Golcher...118 90.8 93 75.10 84.5 : 
C, G. Young... 90 90 87 80 83.6 ie 
T. Brotherton...109 85.8 - 90 76.8 83.4 88.6 
J. Lawrernce..... .. 74.8 88.8 75.10 82.3 me 
T. C. Kierulff 43 13.4 83.4 2.6 77.11 
G. H. Foulks... .. 87.4 79 73.4 76.2 


Wee Reed and Daverkosen; referee, Turner; clerk, 
ilson: 


The New Jersey Season. 


Newark, N. J., March 29.—A visit over old stamping 
grounds the past week has brought back the longing for 
rod and reel. Already there is enough quarry on the 
-move to tempt the enthusiastic at Manasquan. Many 
striped bass have been taken in the shad nets; while of 
small size mostly, a few which range from 6 to 16 pounds 
have presented themselves. None so far, however, have 
been taken on the hook. Flounders are moving freely, and 
herring are abundant. The white perch are in evidence 
everywhere, and are taking the hook freely; some fine 
ones have been taken in Deal Lake. When of good size 
and when taken on a fly-rod, they are always worthy of 
the angler’s attention and respect. 

Tuesday sees the opening of the trout season in our 
State, and if brooks are in fair condition, I know a good 
many business men whose offices and business places will 
mourn their absence on that day. Continued warm 
weather for ten days or two weeks will see the striped 
bass angler plying the rod, and happy is he who secures 
the first prize. Lreonarp Hutir. 


Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 


Cuicaco, March 28.—Editor Forest and Stream: Fol- 
lowing are the scores made at the meet this afternoon: 


Long Obstacle Accuracy & Bait- Delicacy 
Distance Fly, Delicacy, Casting Bait 
J Fly, Feet. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. 
| H. H. Ainsworth... 8.8 aye se 4.16 8.4 
I. D. Belasco...... 15.2 6.4 4.8 4.16 7.6 
el ehiack tiara n payee i 245 5.76 ee 
2 Lee Browil cy cence 4.8 4.8 wee Ry 
W. T. Church...... 20 oa - Wit fee 
PAE Goodsell 4 . ee — : 
-' Greenwood..... 1.6 1.6 Ps : 
ae ASR SEM ee 1.6 x iM aa uS 
: ADRES EGTA aaa. 2 3.2 1.6 : R 
G. A. Hinterleitner ..., .e Ps site a 
E. R. Letterman... 20 1.6 4.8 2.56 7.2 
G. AL Murrell...) 0... 6.4 3.2 2.56 7.2 
H. A. ‘Newkirk.... 1... 1.6 1.6 ean i 3 
H. W. Perce...... 2 4.8 3.2 3.06 4 
GOW -oalter, reunite eee ae < 2.56 4.8 
A. C. Smith.....2.) 4 ra ; 
RMS eSmithee fs, et: 8 42. 5.76 ne 
Ralaniceunes mena, 28 9.6 11.2 8.16 9.2 


E. R. LETTERMAN, ‘Secretary, 


The Kinkajou. 


I was much interested in your article in the Spectator 
on “Nondescript Animals,” especially in your description 
of the kinkajou. When stationed in British Honduras 
some years ago I kept two of these little animals, and 
found them, as you say, most delightful pets, with the one 
reservation that their notions of cleanliness were of an 
elementary nature. They are known to the Creoles there 
by the name of “night-walker,” and to the Spaniards as 
“milas de noche,” or little night monkeys. They are 
absolutely omnivorous in their feeding, eating with equal 
relish birds, birds’ eggs, insects of all kinds, and fruit, and 
pete wonderful what a quantity of water they will 

rink. 

“Mob” and “Chittabob,” as my pets were named, lived 
on the front verandah of my house by day and on the 
back at night, tied with long string and swivel attached 
to a collar round the neck. They slept all day, but 
at night played the merriest pranks, their favorite play- 
fellow being a large, yellow tomcat. All three would 
toll over and over each other like so many kittens until, 
having been too roughly handled or too tightly em- 
braced by the prehensile tails, the cat used his claws. 
Then the one that got the scratch would utter the hissing 
noise they make when angry and go for the cat like a 
little demon. In these fights it was always the cat that 
got the worst of it. : 

- That they eat live birds I know, for my pets killed and 


- ate the best part of a brood of young turkeys I had. 


These had just left their mother, and took to roosting 
near the top of the Stairs leading to the back verandah. 
One by one they disappeared till nearly all were gone, 


‘it is I should be afraid to say. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


I made sure a possum was.the villain, and so watched 
for him behind the creepers in the corner to shoot him. 
When all was quiet and the turkeys fast asleep on the top 
step but one, “Chittabob,” “whose tale was the longest,’ 
crept to the top of the steps, slewed himself round, 
wound his tail about one, jerked him up and grabbed him 
by the neck in a moment. As you say, the kinkajou's 
tongue is a truly wonderful instrument, and how long 
It is thrust into every 
crevice and hole its owner comes across; from force of 
habit, I suppose. 

I brought “Chittabob” home with me, and on board 
ship he lived in a hencoop under the bridge. One night 
he got loose and entered the doctor’s cabin; he, knowing 
the creature belonged to me, carried him to my cabin, 
thrust him in, and shut the door. I slept in the upper 
bunk. Suddenly I awoke with a great start to find 
“Chittabob’s” tail wound tightly round my neck and his 
tongue up ‘my nose as far as it would go! The bang I 
gave my head against the deck above woke my fellow- 
passenger, who, when I told him what had happened, 
said: “Now, this is very curious, for I was dreaming that 
some one was sitting on my. chest and ramming straws 
up my nose.” Another escapade of his was very funny. 
When I started from Plymouth at an early hour in the 
morning, just as the summer dawn was breaking. I had 
a carriage to myself. So I wrapt “Chittabob” in a rug 
and put him under the seat, and we both went to sleep. 
The next thing I was conscious of was that some one was 
shouting loudly and excitedly. Up I jumped, to see a 
fellow-passenger, who had joined me while I slumbered, 


~ standing bolt upright with one leg stiffly stuck out, and 


“Chittabob” calmly swarming up it with his tail tightly 
wrapped ‘round it as he ascended. ; 

Poor “Chittabob!” we were great friends, but the best 
of friends must part, and I had to give him to some 
friends in Essex. While with them he was well and 
happy, and his appetite was good, for on one occasion he 
consumed over thirty sparrows’ eggs at one sitting! 
When the next winter cold came on he was sent to the 
“Zoo,” and there lived, an orhament to the Small Mam- 
mal House, for two or three years, but a severe winter 
in the early “eighties” was too cold for the poor little 
fellow, as it was indeed for many of his fellow-prisoners 
in the same evil-smelling but interesting house, and he 
died.—Letter in London Spectator. 


International Congress of Americanists. 


Art the thirteenth annual International Congress of 
Americanists, to be held Oct. 20 to 25, 1902, at the Amer- 
ican Musetim of Natural History, in New York city, sub- 
jects of very great interest are to be brought up. These 
are, first, The Native Races of America, Their Origin, 
Distribution, History, Physical Charasteristics, Lan- 
guages, Inventions, Customs and Religions; second, The 
History of the Early Contact Between America and the 
Old World. +? ned 

The note issued by the commission of organization 
sufficiently explains the purposes of the congress. Tt is 

iven below: 

‘ New York City, February, 1902—Sir: We have the 
honor to inform you that in accordance with a vote at 
the last session of the congress, held in Paris in 1900, the 
thirteenth session of the International Congress of Amer- 
icanists will be held in the halls of the American Museum 
of Natural History in the city of New York, beginning at 
noon on Monday, the 20th, and continuing until Satur- 
day, the 25th day of October, 1902. 

The object of the congress is to bring together students 
of the archeology, ethnology and early history of the 
two Americas, and by the reading of papers and by dis- 
cussions to advance knowledge of these subjects. 

You are respectfully invited to join the congress, to 
present papers for its consideration, and, if ‘possible, to 
be present at the session and take part in the proceedings. 

Hoping for your efficient aid and co-operation in the 
important objects of the congress, we beg you to accept 
our expression of deep respect. 

8 Morris K. Jesup, | 

President of the Commission of Organization. 

M. H. SAVILLE, -.. 

_ General Secretary, Commission of Organization. 

All persons interested in the study of the archeology, 
ethnology and early history of the two Americas may 
become members of the International Congress of Amer- 
icanists by signifying their desire to the General Secre- 
tary of the Commission of Organization (Mr. M. H. 
Saville, American Museum of Natural History, city of 
New York), and remitting either direct to the Treasurer 
or through the General Secretary, the sum of three dol- 
lars in American money. The receipt of the Treasurer 
for this amount will entitle the holder to a card of mem- 
bership, and to all official publications emanating from 
the thirteenth session of the congress. 

The money may be sent in the form of a postal money 
order or a check negotiable in New York, payable to 
Harlan I. Smith, Treasurer, American Museum of 
Natural History, New York. : 


Bachting. 


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Designing Competition for the Sea- 
wanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 


To be Known as the Seawanhaka 15-Footers, 


THE competition is open both to amateur and profes- 
sional designers. Three prizes will be awarded for the 
best designs of a yacht conforming to the following con- 
ditions: 

I. A keel sloop to measure 15{ft. racing length under 
the club’s new rule. 

TI. Sails: -Mainsail, jib and spinnaker. The area 
of the mainsail and jib shall not exceed 350 sq. ft., 80 per 
cent. of which shall be in the mainsail. 


III, Planking shall not be less than Yin. in thickness. 


271 


IV. Spars shall be solid; and the mast shall be of 
sufficient strength to be used without runners or pre- 
yventer backstays. 

V. Cockpit shall be open, and bulkheads or air tanks 
are to be provided sufficient to instire the boats being 
non-sinkable. | 

VI. The boats shall be capable of carrying full sail in 
ordinary summer breezes on Long Island Sound. 

VII. Construction shall be strong and durable. 

VIII. All competitors must furnish a drawing of the 
lines, which will also show the position of the lead keel, 
and a table of calculated weights, which will give dis- 
placement, weight of lead, weight of hull, weight of rig, 
center of buoyancy and center of lateral resistance, center 
of effort and center of gravity of the lead keel; also a 
sail plan, on which the diameters of spars and sizes of 
rigging shall be marked; also a deck plan and amidship 
section, which will show height of cockpit seats and floor, 
and height of coaming. The midship section must also 
show the construction. 

The following prizes will be awarded: .First prize, 
$100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25. 

In the event of one of the prize designs being selected 
by the club and yachts being constructed therefrom, the 
winner, in lieu of the cash prize, may furnish the neces- 
sary additional plans and specifications and supervise the 
construction and receive $25 for each yacht built. In 
awarding the prizes, speed will be the first consideration, 
but appearance, construction, simplicity of rig and con- 
venient arrangement will also carry weight. 

Sail. plan, %4in. scale. All other plans, rin, scale. 

The designs must be received at the office of Forest AND 
STREAM, 346 Broadway, New York city, not later than 
May. 15, 1902, and should bear a nom-de-plume only. A 
sealed envelope containing the designer's nom-de-plume, 
together with his own name and address should accom- 
pany the designs. The right is reserved to publish any or 
all of the designs. Those desiring the return of their 
drawings should inclose the necessary postage. 

The designs will be judged by a committee consisting 
of Messrs. John Hyslop, A. Cary Smith, J. Rogers Max- 
well, Jr., and Clinton H. Crane, and the result of the 
competition will be announced through these columns in 
the issue of May 24. 

The club’s new rule referred to in Patagraph I. is as 
follows: Yachts shall be rated for classification and-time 
allowance by racing measurement, which shall be de- 
termined by adding to half the load waterline length, 
half the square root of sail area, and a quantity expressed 
as L, and by dividing the sum of these quantities by t.r. 

% LWL+ % VSALL _ 
1.1 ~ 

The quantity L is to be obtained in the following way: 

B is breadth of load waterline plane at % of its length 
from forward end. 

B’ is breadth of load waterline plane at 1% of its length 
from after end. 

B" is breadth (greatest) of LW plane. 

C is any excess of (B+B’) over B”: 

D is draft at MS+2-5 of any greater drait aft, and all of 

any greater drait forward. 


E is any excess of (B”+D) over 3 1-3 VMS submerged. 
Chl, 


Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound. 


Thirty members representing twenty-three clubs were 
present at the March general meeting of the Yacht Rac- 
ing Association of Long Island Sound, held at the Hote! 
Manhattan, New York City, on Thursday evening, 
March 27. Mr. C. T. Pierce, of the Riverside Y. C 
presided, 

The amendment relating to weighted centerboards 
brought up no little opposition and action was finally 
deferred until the next meeting, which is to be held on 
April to, 

An important amendment to, take the place of Section 
4 of Rule IT. was proposed and adopted. Tt is as follows: 

Yachts launched before Jan. 1, 1902, shall remain in the 
classes in which they raced prior to that date, but shall 
be rated for time allowance at their actual facing meas- 
urement, 

The racing measurement of yachts launched after Jan. 
I, 1902, shall be considered to be the maximum limits 
of their classes. Such yachts shall not be entitled to time 
allowance except from yachts launched prior to that 
date, whose racing measurements exceed the class limits. . 
Sueh yachts shall allow time to yachts launched prior 
to that date whose racing measurements iall below the 
class limits. 

“The effect of this amendment will be to require all 
yachts to race under measurements made under the rule 
adopted Nov. 15, 1001.” 

The fifty-five-foot class was added to the classification 
of schooners. ; 

Section 3 of Article 12 of the racing rules was amended 
to read “that a yacht of the 43-foot class may carry eight 
professionals.” This paragraph was also added ‘to sec- 
tion 3: “A yacht of a 51-foot class, or of any class larger 
must carry as one of its crew a member of a recognized 
yacht club:’ 

The schedule for the coming season of 1902 was an- 
nounced as follows: 

May 17, Saturday—Huguenot Spring races; 24th, Sat- 
urday—New Rochelle spring races; 3oth, Friday— 
Harlem annual regatta; Bridgeport spring races; Indian 
Harbor special races; 31st, Saturday—Seawanhaka spring 
races. 

June 7, Saturday—Knickerbocker annual regatta; rath, 


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Saturday—New Rochelle annual regatta; 21st, Saturday 
—Norwalk special races; 26th, Thursday—Seawathaka 
special races; 27th, Friday—Seawanhaka special races; 
28th, Saturday—Seawanhaka annual regatta. 

July 4, Friday—Hartford annual regatta; 5th, Satur- 
day—Riverside annual regatta; oth, Thursday—Indian 
Harbor special races; 11th, Friday—Indian Harbor spe- 
cial races: 12th, Saturday—Indian Harbor annual regatta, 
1oth, Saturday—Corinthians of Stamford annual regatta; 
26th, Saturday—Norwalk special races; Hartford special 
races. 

Angust 2, Saturday—Manhasset Bay annual regatta; 
oth, Saturday—Hempstead Bay annual regatta; Northport 
annual regatta; 16th, Saturday—Horseshoe Harbor an- 
nual regatta; Huntington annual regatta; Hartford spe- 

cial races; 23d, Saturday—Bridgeport annual regatta: 
Huguenot annual regatta; 3oth, Saturday—Indian Har- 
bor special regatta; Hartford special races. 

Sept. 1, Monday—Sachem’s Head annual regatta; 
Norwalk annual regatta; 4th, Thursday—Seawanhaka 
special races; 5th, Friday—Seawanhaka special races; 
6th, Saturday—Seawanhaka fall regatta; 2oth, Saturday 
—Manhasset Bay fall regatta; 27th, Saturday—Riverside 
fall regatta. ; j 

The following executive committee was elected: 
Charles Ts Pierce, Riverside Y. C.; Frank Bowne Jones, 
Indian Harbor Y. C.; E, M. MacLellan, Manhasset Bay 
Y. C.; C. H. Crane, Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. Cay a 
Macdonald, Bridgeport Y. C.; Robert C. Mitchell, 
Sachem’s Head’ Y. C., and Charles P. Tower, New Ro- 
chelle Y. C. :. 

The representatives. present at the meeting were: 
Bridgeport Y. C., Carl Foster, W. Herbert Jennings, F. 
A, Bartlett, T. H. Macdonald; Corinthian Y. C., of Stam- 
ford, P. W. Cuddy; Harlem Y. C., Franklin C. Sullivan; 
Hartford Y. C., Harry B. Snell, Walter Pearce, John 
McFadyen, Charles B. Wyckoff; Hempstead Harbor 
Club, Ward Dickson; Huntington Y. C., H. H. Gordon; 
Indian Harbor Y. C., Frank Bowne Jones, F. C. Hender- 
son, Charles E. Simms; Knickerbocker Y, (Cy 1s lel, 
Chellborg, H. Stephenson; Manhasset Bay Y. C., E. M. 
MacLellan; New Rochelle Y. C., Charles P. Tower, C. 
A. Becker; Norfolk Y. C., A. E. Chasmar, Clarence FP. 
Osborn: Park City Y. C., Amos H. Lowden; Riverside 
Y. C., €. T. Pierce; Sachem’s Head Y. C., E. C. Seward, 
Robert C. Mitchell; Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., Clin- 
ton H. Crane, Allen E. Whitman, Johnston de Forest. 


The Cruising Schooner Marjorie. 


Tue launching of the schooner yacht built by Mr. Robt. 
Jacob from designs by Mr. Henry C. Wintringham for 
Mr. Frank L. St. John, of New York, took place at Mr. 
Jacob’s yard at City Island, Saturday afternoon, March 
29. Mr. St. John was present, and entertained a small 
party of friends. The boat, dressed in flags from bow- 
sprit to taffrail, took the water without mishap, and 
after being safely moored, all present were invited to a 
luncheon served in the large shop. ; 

The boat is very pleasing in appeareace, with easy 
lines, moderate overhang and good sheer, and should 
make a very comfortable and satisfactory cruiser. In 
point of workmanship and finish, she is undoubtedly one 
of the best yachts launched this season, and Mr. Jacob 
deserves great credit for the excellence of the work. 

Her principal dimensions are: Length on deck, S8ft. ; 
length on waterline, 62ft. 4in.; breadth, t7it. gin.; draft 
(without centerboard), 8ft. She is substantially built, 
haying a heavy white oak frame, yellow pine “planking 
and flush deck of white pine. The deck coamings for the 
hatches are of heavy teak, but the hatches and skylights 
themselves are mahogany. The rail and planksheer are 
of teak, but the bulwark stancheons and bitts are locust. 
The two lower masts are of Oregon pine, all the other 
spars being of spruce. 


Below deck, the owner's stateroom extends clear across | 


the after end of the boat, and is oft. long. On either 
side is a berth 6ft. 6in. long; and in front of the berths 
are wide transoms. Against the after bulkhead is a 
mirror and bureau. The space forward of each berth is 
taken up by a hanging locker. At the forward end of 
the room ate two doors, one to the hallway, the other 
to a closet in which is a wash bowl. The room receives 
light and air from a large skylight. Leaving the owner's 
room, one enters a passageway, on the port side of which 
is a small toilet room and a stateroom. On the starboard 
side are the main companionway stairs and a large state— 
room. Each of these staterooms contains a berth, bureau, 
wash bowl and transom seat, and in addition, the star- 
board room has a large wardrobe. The hallway leads to 
the main saloon, which is roft. long and 16ft. wide. It 
is finished in mahogany, and lighted by a large skylight. 
On each side there is a berth, in front of which is a 
transom seat. This transom also runs half-way atross 
the after end of the room on the starboard side. In the 
two after corners are hanging lockers, and in the forward 
cotners are lockers and sideboards. There is also a 
large mahogany swinging table. Just forward of the 
main saloon is the galley, oft. 6in. long by oft. wide. On 
the starboard side of this is the sailing master’s state- 
room. The galley is finished in ash and contains an ice 
hox with a capacity of about 65olbs. of ice, a sink, 
dresser, range, rack for dishes, and ample locker space. 
Both the galley and sailing master’s room are lighted 
and ventilated by a skylight and companionway in the 
deck above. A door connects the galley with the fore- 
castle, the upper half of it being fitted with a slide 
through which food can be passed without opening the 
‘door. 

The forecastle is very roomy, and carries berths for 
six men. The crew’s water closet is placed at the for- 
ward end. 

. The yacht will carry a gig, cutter and 114-horse-power 
laineh. 

An interesting feature of the construction is the fact 
that the after deadwood was built with a shaft log and 
propeller post, and a wheel port cut, but afterward filled 
in, so that should the owner at any time wish to convert 
the boat into an attxiliary, it can be done by simply re- 
moving the filling piece and installing an engine. 

The yacht is named Marjorie, and will be enrolled in 
the New York and New Rochelle yacht clubs, 


Our {Boston , Letter. 


Boston, March 31.—Another boat is being built in 
Boston to compete in the frial races of the Bridgeport 
Y. C. to select a challenger for the Seawanhaka cup. The 
latest candidate for cup honors was designed by Fred D. 
Lawley, and is now being built in the boat shop of the 
Lawley plant at City Point. Fred Lawley has kept ex- 
ceedingly quiet about the boat, and had her in frame be- 
fore she was discovered. He will not say anything about 
who she is being built for, but it is thought that she is 
for a syndicate of Bridgeport yachtsmen. It is thought 
that this is the order that has been spoken of as possibly. 
coming from another Eastern designer. Of course, she 
will be a scow, but beyond that the designer does not wish 
at present ta say anything about her dimensions. Only 
this can be said generally, that her waterline will not be 
extreme in any particular, her overhangs will be very 
long and her beam will be about the same as that of 
other boats that have been or are being built for this 
cup. The work of planking should be well along by the 
end of this week, and the boat should be ready for her 
trial trip by the last of April. 

Both of the big shops at Lawley’s are filled with boats. 


' The 60-rater, Weetamoe, designed by Gardner & Cox for 


Mr. H. F. Lippitt, is about half plated. The work of 
construction on this boat in plating and in framing is 
the slickest that has ever been seen on a metal boat in 
these parts. Every frame and every plate is fair through- 
out its entire length, and the outer surface of the plates 
is polished to the highest degree. Bronze angles have been 
used in the frames, and also for the top member, above 


the planksheer, a feature that has never been attempted — 


before. The only thing that looks doubtful about the 
boat is the weight of the material used in her constrtic- 
tion. Everything is extremely light, and it has been 
thought by many that it will prove too light when the 
yacht is under strain, but both the designers and the 
builders are confident that it will prove heavy enough. In 
the same shop a 46ft, yawl, designed by Binney for Mr. 
W. A. Wharton, is planked. There is also a Y. R. A. 
25-footer in this shop which Fred Lawley has designed 
for Mr, Lawrence Percival. She is a very neatly turned 
boat, with double mahogany planking. A yawl designed 
by Binney for Dr. Paton is partly planked. A 35-footer, 
designed by Fred Lawley, will be set up this week. 

In the east shop the 1o4ft. steam yacht has been given 
a priming coat, and the work of finishing up the interior 
joiner work is now going on. She is very well laid out 
below decks, and has most of the modern conveniences. 
She has about everything that can be got into a boat of 
her size. She will have one deck house of teak, which 
will be used as a dining saloon, a dumb waiter connecting 
with the galley. The 46ft. schooner, designed by Crane 
for Mr. Arnold Lawson, has been painted, and the in- 
terior work is being finished, She is one of the finest 
pieces of construction that has ever been turned out of 
the shops. The Y. R. A. 21-footer, designed by Crownin- 
shield for Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 2d, will soon 
be ready for launching. Her cabin trunk, resembling that 
of the Cartoon, and the interior are being finished up, 
She is a beautiful boat. The 35-footer designed by Crane 
for Mr, H. A. Morss is practically finished. An 18- 
footer, designed by Fred Lawley for Mr. Alfred Douglas, 
is partly planked. The Binney-designed yawl for Messrs. 
Foss and Gunnison has her cabin trunk on and the in- 
terior work is being finished up. 

The Beverly Y, C. is preparing for a very lively sea- 
son. The new one-design class of fourteen 30-footers will 
add greatly to the interest, which has always been mani- 
tested in racing by the members of this club. All of these 
boats haye been named, but according to the agreement 
between the owners, the names of the owners cannot ap- 
pear in connection with the names of the boats until after 
they have all been launched and tried. This precaution 
was taken so that not even the designer should know 
for whom any one of the boats is being built. The names 
of the boats are as follows: Gamecock, Anita, Arria, 
Wahtawah, Quakeress II., Arabian, Praxilla, Evelyn, 
Notos and Young Miss. There seems to be but one name 
in this list that suggests the possible ownership of the 
hoat. Your correspondent visited Bristol last weelc and 
found that eleven of the 30-footers were hauled up at 
Walker's Cove. It is understood that another has since 
been taken from the shops and stored at the Cove. An- 
other one is in the shop, but is practically finished, and 
the last of the lot is now being planked. It is expected 
that they will all be launched in about a month, and that 
most of them will leave Bristol for Buzzard’s Bay on 
Memorial Day. 

The Regatta Committee has announced the following 
temporary programme, in which all of the races, unless 
otherwise specified, will be sailed off the club house, 
Monument Beach. It is possible that some changes will 
be made, although the majority of the dates are expected 
to remain as now scheduled: 

June 14, Saturday—Club race. 

June 17, Tuesday—Open sweepstakes, prizes added by 

we, 2G; 


June 28, Saturday—Club race. . 
July 4, Friday—Open sweepstakes, prizes added by B. 
NAIC: 


July 5, Saturday—First Corinthian. 

July 12, Saturday—Second Corinthian. 

July 19, Saturday—Club race. 

July 26, Saturday—Third Corinthian. 

Aug. 9, Saturday—\Van Rensselaer cup, Marion. 

Aug. 16, Saturday—Fourth Corinthian. 

Aug, 23, Saturday—Fiith Corinthian. 

Aug, 30, Saturday—Sixth Corinthian, 

Sept. 1, Monday, Labor Day—Open races. 

Sept. 6, Saturday—Open races, Mattapoisett. 

Sept. 13, Sattrday—Seventh Corinthian. 

It is expected that, as in previous years, only the Cor- 
inthian races will count for the club championship. The 
start of all the Corinthian races will be one-gun, and the 
others will have a three-minute time start. Beside the 
regular races of the club, it is expected that a race will 
be given for the 30-footers by the New Bedford Y. C. 
The committee is in hopes of arranging a cruise to take 


place some time between July 26 and Aug. 8, during, 


which it is expected that a special match may be sailed 
between the 21-footers of the Beverly Y. C. and the 
Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, 


The following fixtures have been arranged by the Re- 
gatta Committee of the Mosquito Fleet Y,C.: __ 

July 5, Saturday—Y. R. A. open. 

July 26, Saturday—Club race. 

Aug, 3, Sunday—Squadron run, 

Aug. 24, Saturday—Club race. 

The Wollaston Y. C. has announced the following fix- 
tures for the coming season: 

May 31, Saturday—First race for Chase cup, 

June 22, Saturday—Club championship. 

July 28, Saturday—Y. R. A. open. 

July 19, Saturday—Moonlight ‘sail. 

July 21, Monday—Ladies’ day. 

Aug. 2, Saturday—Cruise and clambake. 

Aug. 0, Saturday—Club championship. 

Aug. 23, Saturday—Club championship, 

Aug. 30, 31 and Sept. 1, Saturday, Sunday and Mon-— 
day—Club ertise. — 1 

Sept. 6, Saturday—Second race for Chase cup. | 


Last week the challenge was sent by the Quincy Y. C. 
to the Manchester Y. C. for the Quincy cup. As has been 
announced, Henry M. Faxon will represent the Quincy — 
Y. C., and it is practically certain that he will have a — 
new boat, designed by Arthur Kieth, and built by Smith, | 
of Quincy Point. A. Henry Higginson, Jr., and Reginald | 
Boardman will undoubtedly build a boat in the interest © 
of the Manchester Y. C., and there is likelihood that 
other members of the Manchester Y. C. will build. | 

Joun B. Kitieen. 


Classification of Yachts. . 


Editor Forest and Stream; | 

Assuming that it has been proved that the measurement | 
of a yacht for racing classification cannot be ascertained | 
by a formula, the question naturally arises, “How can we - 
Saver shag making use of the experience already | 
rained? 

It may be said that experience shows the following: 
That time allowance is undesirable, and as a matter of 
fact has been abolished practically. : 
That other things beside the racing length of a yacht 
should be considered. 

That we can take the designer’s certificate as to the 
measurement of a yacht as reasonably accurate, 
That we must not ask the designer for such information | 


‘as will disclose the exact form of yacht. | 


That we should not interfere with the yachtsman’s — 
individual preference as to form. : 
That limits of draft, percentage of ballast to displace- 
thent, construction, and the like, have been found neces- 
sary and are in general use. | 
_That designers attempt to get as much sail area as pos- | 
sible on a yacht, | 
It is but seldom that there is any noticeable change in | 
sail area in one year in a given class, but year by year 
the amount of sail area increases so that yachts of a 
similar type, and date of launching have approximately | 

the same sail area. 

That by reason of the desire on the part of the yachts- 
man for close finishes and for racing in which the ele- 
ment of their own skill preponderates, there has been a 
considerable increase in one-design classes, and next to 
these in restricted classes. 

That one-design classes are objectionable because no 
opportunity is given to develop the form of a yacht or 
to compare dissimilar forms having exactly the same ' 
power and the same displacement. 

With the same power and displacement, the stiperiority | 
of any yacht over another can usually be attributed either 
to supériority in handling or to superiority of form, and | 
in this way the most desirable yacht for a given set’ of | 
conditions can be determined, 

We finally know that any committee can readily collate 
the average displacement, sail area and other factors | 
rélating- to the yachts of any given class. 

I would therefore suggest— 

First—That we fix arbitrary limits for the sail area, 
displacement, draft, inclined load waterline length and 
percentage of ballast to total displacement for each one 
of the classes. Sail area, draft, length being the great-— 
est permitted, displacement the least permitted, | 

Second—Take the designer’s certificate or affidavit that 
“a yacht complies with the restrictions, subject to verifi-. 
cation, if it is considered necessary. | 

Third—Give two limits for sail area, one for the rac- 
ing class and the other for the cruising class. 

Limiting sail area is not any great. change from our | 
present practice for the reason that practically new yachts , 
of any one year in the same class have about the same sail | 
tea, 

The restriction would operate to limit the constant in- | 
crease in sail area, so that it would be necessary to make - 
an improvement in the form if the new yacht were to be | 
the superior of the older one. It would make the power 
of all yachts in a class the same, and would stimulate 
improvements in rig. 

In regard to displacement, if that is made sufficient we 
at once sectite an opportunity for good accommodations, 
and strong construction, and prohibit very light displace- 
ment yachts of extremely light construction, without any | 
proper accommodation. We also avoid the necessity for 
any specific limitations in regard to the equipment which 
a yacht must carry in order to be a cruiser, since, with the 
displacement placed high enough and the ratio of ballast 
to displacement fixed, there will be a margin which must 
be used for equipment in order to secure a sufficient 
displacement to-bring the yacht to her designed lines.. 
Tt takes the place of all scantling rules, midship section 
requirements, girth measurements, etc., and has the ad- 
vantage of actually having what these only profess to do. 
The limitation of draft limits the amount of righting mo- 
ment and has been found necessary- . 

The limitation of the inclined waterline is necessary 2 


order to make the displacement of a yacht: effective in 
secttring a proper body, and to place some limit on ex- 
cessive overhangs. 
It does not compel the designer to adopt any particular 
form. No length restriction can be effective that is not 
measured at the sailinx angle. While it is true that th 
amount of overhang does not necessarily, indicate the 
amount of gain in length when the yacht heels, it is als 
true that if the yacht is designed to increase her load 
waterline when she heels under sail, the measurement of 


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the inclined load waterline places a limit on the length 
of the hull which will prove effective. This limitation 
should be stated to be applicable when the yacht is heeled 
in smooth water to her designed sailing angle, and the 
angle should be stated in the certificate. 

Should a yacht habitually sail at an angle sufficiently 
greater to to be noticeable, the matter can readily be in- 
vestigated. 

Tt is quite certain that a yacht designer would run no 
tisk of having all his certificates refused by issuing a 
false one, neither would he take the chance of issuing one 
which might be found in error, because that would reflect 
on his ability. 

If the number of persons which compose the crew were 
also stated, the complete list of limitations for all classes 
can be tabulated so as to occupy not more than a space of 
gin. by 5in. in print. For present purposes and perhaps 
for some little time to come, it will be necessary to make 
some allowance for those yachts now launched in which the 
displacement, is excessive. This can be readily done by 
permitting a certain small increase in sail area per ton of 
displacement, whenever the displacement of a yacht is 15 
percent. or more over the limit. 

In the above I have outlined what I consider to be the 
correct principle which should be followed. I believe 
that only in this way can we expect a return of the 
former racing spirit. It will also permit us without a 
change of principle to take advantage, year by year, of the 
experience gained which would be manifested principally 
in a modification in the amount of sail area allowed in 
the various classes. 

As indicated above, the yacht designer in the measure- 
ment certificate would simply state that a given yacht was 
within the restriction of a given class, and was designed 
to sail at a stated angle of heel, which would mean that 
the yacht had at least the required displacement, not more 
than the limiting sail area, measured when the sails were 
stretched. not more than the limiting load waterline length 
when inclined, not more than the limiting draft and per- 
centage of ballast. Geo, Hirt. 


In order to avoid friction and improve the racing on 
Jamaica Bay, there is now a scheme on foot to form a 
yacht racing association among the clubs located there. 
There are now five important clubs in the bay, the Jamaica 
Bay. Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Old Mill and Bayswater 
Y. C.s. When several clubs are located on a compara- 
tively small body of-.water the organizations are bound 
to conflict unless an association is formed and all of them 
work in harmony. The Jamaica Bay clubs will do well 
to follow the.example set by the. Gravesend Bay and 
Long Island. Sound clubs, me s 


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Designing Competition. 


WE publish in this issue the plans submitted for our 
designing competition by Mr. Charles D. Mower, of 
New York City; under the pseudonym of Trysail. The 
design was disqualified, owing to the sail plan being 
drawn to a different scale than was called for in the 
conditions. 

The design of the hull and rig are excellent, and was 
one of the best submitted. The cabin arrangement is one 
of the best we have ever seen for a boat of 25ft. waterline 
length, and will bear careful examination. The follow- 
ing descriptive matter was written by Mr. Mower, and 
accompanied the plans: 

General Description——The type selected, as believed by 
the designer to be best fitted to fill the requirements of a 
cruising boat, as outlined by the restrictions governing 
the competition, is a boat of quite large displacement, 
with a generous amount of beam, and with moderate and 
rather fine overhangs. The lateral plan is not cut away 
excessively, and the aim has been to-produce a boat that 
can be handled easily in any ordinary bad weather, and 
one that will be a good, able sea boat, so that the crew 
may have no fears or uneasiness at the chance of being 
caught out in bad weather. 

The large centerboard, with trunk extending above the 
waterline, is the only one considered as really practical 
and of any use, and the small plate or dagger board below 


cabin floor was rejected at the outset as of no real use. | 


The arrangement on deck shows unusually wide water- 
ways, so that the men can get fofward or aft easily. 
The deck is carried across at the aft end of hotse, with 
several large beams to give structural strength, and is 
also brought in to form cockpit seats, thus making the 
cockpit a very small well that can even be filled without 


the least danger. 


The rig is comparatively small, with a short bowsprit 
and but little main boom over the stern. and can be car- 
ried in almost any weather without reefing. 

Cabin Arrangement._The most important feature of 
the proper cruising boat and one requiring different treat- 
ment from the case of a boat to be used only for day 
sailing with an occasional night on board, is the arrange- 
ment below deck. The thing most necessary for the com- 
fort and good nature of men while off cruising is a means 
of keeping the main cabin dry, warm and comfortable in 
wet and nasty weather, and this cannot be accomplished 
where the companionway leads directly into the cabin. 

In the design shown, the companion ladder comes 
down in a sort of steerage, which is separated from the 
cabin by a heavy portiere. In this steerage is a wide 
berth, which, when not necessary for ‘sleeping accom- 


‘up berths at turning-in time. 


FOREST AND STREAM DESIGNING COMPETITION——HONORABLE MENTION DESIGN——SAIL - PLAN—Submitted by “Trysail’’ (Charles D. Mower), New York City. 


modation, makes an excellent place for suit cases, bags, 
etc., which are always so much in the way in the average 
cruiser. Under this berth, drawers are arranged for 
charts, coast pilots, lighthouse books, instruments, etc., 
and with the chance of spreading out charts on the berth, 
the steerage makes an admirable chart room, very 
accessible from the deck. On the port side opening from 
the steerage with a ‘sliding door, is a large toilet room, 
containing folding basin, w.c., and a hanging locker for 
“shore clothes.” The space under the deck back of the w.c. 
is fitted. with hooks for hanging oilers, rubber boots and 
other bad-weather duds, which are hidden from view by a 
heavy curtain hanging from the deck beam. This arrange- 
ment gives the watch on deck in bad weather an oppor- 
tunity of getting below as much as necessary without . 
entering the cabin proper, so that the cabin. is always 
dry and clean. 


At night there is also the advantage that the watch 
below can rest quite undisturbed when it is necessary for 
the deck watch to go below for reference to charts, or, in 
cold weather, to warm frozen feet or fingers. This plan 
brings the companion on the starboard side of the center 


_ line, so that when at anchor the boom does not obstruct 


the entrance to the cabin. 

‘The toilet room is lighted and ventilated by a half-sky- 
light built in connection with the companion slide, and 
by a port which opens in the side of the house. 

The main cabin is 7it, 6in. long, with an excess of the 
required headroom. On each side under the deck is a 
fixed berth, 2ft. wide, and with enough clear heights to. 
allow turning over without difficulty. These berths can 
be kept made up and always ready for turning in without 
disturbing all hands with the preparations of making 
The transoms ate wide 
enough to form comfortable sofas in daytime, and are 
built to extend so as to make a 2ft. wide berth if neces- 
sary. This gives comfortable sleeping accommodations 
for five persons in separate berths in the cabins, and for- 
ward is ~ hanging berth for the man, if one is carried. 
The centerboard trunk is brought above the cabin floor to 
the height necessary for the table, and with leaves hinged 
en either side makes a fixed cabin table that is always 
in place. The arrangement allows ample room to pass 
around either end of the trunk. So the centerboard trunk 
can in no way be considered objectionable in view of 


the fact that a table of some sort is necessary in.the cabin. 


The board is hoisted by a pennant leading through a brass 
tube.to the top of the house, and as the top of the trunk 
is above the waterline, the board-is accessible in case it 
should become jammed in any way. 

_At the forward end of the cabin, the sideboards on 
either side give additional table space for serving, and 


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also give locker and drawer room for storing linen, table- 
ware, silver, etc. The space under the transoms is made 
useable by an arrangement of trays which hold things dry 
and clean above the floor, and the wash of bilge water 
when the boat is heeled. 


The galley, a most important place so far as the com- 
fort and enjoyment of a cruise is concerned, is forward, 
with ample space and headroom under the fore end of 


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the house. The ice chest and dish lockers are on the 
port side; the stove, with hooks, rack, etc., for cooking , 
utensils, and lockers for stores and galley supplies, on ie 


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the starboard side. This gives the cook a chance to 


prepare food properly, and to serve it decently by simply 
opening his door and: passing the dishes aft. 

Under the fore deck is ample room for man’s berth | . 
and his dunnage, and for extra sails, anchors, warps, etc. | 
If necessary, the cabin floor could be lowered somewhat 
and the height of cabin trunk increased, so that full head- \ | 
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affecting the boat’s appearance. 
The dimensions are as follows: 


Length— 
Over all ted oe 28 Bh ee ae Se 38ft. iin, 
DVM AaB Sails cate daratenly Wty abies ghuraatary ey 25ft. o in. 
Overhang— 
Horwand? Rie i Bt): A ee eae 5fit. 6'4in. 
JE gy Se eee A reel A ee On 8 Valle, UP hae 
Breadth— 
IESGEHETITC! petiole sleek irre wRI ED peace etn Ioft. 6 -in. 
TESA re ote oie re PE tate Aris creer oft. 10 in, 
Draft— . 
Eescerenie® Mew beaten lt oer ot coal aene 4it. oO in. 
IBicrshicay CKONWAR, Wats phn Otis Chea ele tos 8ft. oO in. 
Freeboard— 
IBYOMWE G giact cere onde eee hee ee eS 3it. 2t4in. 
STRAT ee heen: Se een hate ee ee aft. 5 in. 
HSI oe ie bs 6 pelts «ex ky ies. Aes) pL 2it. © in. 
IBM MINSICESTRCEN SE, My Geber yrtie ort Hey ate neretiotrtis eee 14,835lbs. 
deren alla Ss exeN La COU TT et th, og 6,000lbs, 
Sail Area— 
MiainSanle 25\fat vost a ret ndvels suelo es 685 sq. ft 
ADL Sevres bok red UN 5.8 3 Be 160 sq. ft. 
Ahoy e eae Aa ey oh See hee ct Reet 845 sq. ft. 
C.L.R. from fore end of L.W.L.......... 14ft. 6 in. 
C.B. from fore end of L.W.L............. 12ft. 8 in. 
C.G. of lead from fore end of L.W.L...... 13ft. O in. 
C.E. of sails from fore end of L.W.L...... 14ft. I in 
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The Rating Rules. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
A letter from Sextant in your issue of the 8th inst. 


deals with one or two matters referred to by me in former 
notes on yacht measurement, and as I do not appear to 
have made myself altogether understood I shall be glad 
of an opportunity to clear up a few points. My object 
in the former article was to show that the length and sail 
area rule was based on simple and fairly well understood 
principles, and in doing so I referred to the rule which 
states that other things being equal opportunities for 
speed vary in different vessels as the square roots of their 
respective lengths. This rule, or perhaps it should be 
called an hypothesis, is inserted in the preamble to the 
table of time allowances in the Year Book of the New 
York Y. C. and of many other clubs using some form 
of the length and sail area rule. I assumed that it was 
well-known to yachtsmen and did not think it necessary 
to explain it or account: for it. I am quite aware, as 
Thalassa pointed out, that the rule is not invariable, but 
as the exceptions are of a character which do not inter- 
fere with its use in the calculation of time allowances, 
this point need not be further considered. A matter of 
far more practical importance is that the rule only applies 
strictly when other things are equal. As I understand: 
it, this means that the rule holds good between two yachts 
varying in length when all othe lineal dimensions vary 
in the same proportion. This applies to construction, 
ballasting and sail area as well as to the dimensions of 
the hull. In other words, the yachts: should be built 
from the same lines, and the fact that such a case hardly 
ever Occurs in practice is the reason why the simple length 
rule is not sufficient as a measurement for time allow- 
ance. This fact having been recognized many years ago 
led to the necessity to which I referred of taking into 
account other factors beside length. A very simple case 
which occurred frequently was that of two or more yachts 
of about the same length but varying considérbaly in 
sail and the power to carry it. This matter of power to 
carry sail was, of course, a direct result of the general 
dimensions, weights, construction and ballasting of the 
various boats on a given length, and as all these ob- 
viously affected the possibilities of speed production, the 
handiest way to measure them was to measure the sail 
area, and having extracted the square root to reduce it 
to terms: of the same dimension as length, to use it as a 
corrective factor in the formula. 

At the time there was no intention of offering de- 
signers a choice between length and sail area in the selec- 
tion of dimensions, because sail area had hitherto been 
free and untaxed, and for a long time after its introduc- 
tion into the formula yachts were still classified by the 
waterline length. In practice, of which the 4oft. class was. 
a good example, the designer always went to the limit 
of waterline length, taking such sail area as he thought 
fit, so that the corrected or racing length was always in 
excess of the class limits. In course of time it was 
found that designers were constantly increasing the 
power and sail on a given length, and producing unman- 
ageable boats, and it was to restrain this that the system 
of classification by corrected length was adopted on Lake 
Ontario. Working under this a designer, of course, had 
the choice of any proportions that he saw fit to use, 
provided only that the sum of length and the square root = 
of the sail area divided by two did not exceed the limit ; 
of the class. Even this was not intended to impose 
restrictions within the proper sphere of the designer, but 
merely to prevent boats of a nominal size growing to 
unwieldy proportions. 

The idea that prevailed, at least in my mind, when 
working under this rule, was that corrected length was a 
conventional expression of racing length, and that, in 
view of all the circumstances, it was fair to use it in con- 
nection with tables of time allowance which were based 


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upon the rule or hypothesis that other things being equal 
possibilities of speed'vary as the square root of the length. 

I cannot, however, accept the suggestion of Thalassa 
and Sextant that corrected length is a measure of speed. 
The hypothesis from which the tables of time allowance 
ate deduced expressly refers only to the possibilities of 
speed, and between these possibilities and the realization 
of speed itself there lies the whole legitimate domain of 
the navai architect. If we begin to consider actual speed 
as the basis fcr time allowance then we shall logically con- 
clude by adopting some rule which will put the slowest 
tub of a crmser on an equality with the smartest racer. 
I do nat think any rule will be devised which will do 
this, and im any case itis neither desirable nor necessary. 
To put the matter as succinctly as possible, the length and 
sail area rule assumes that the possibilities of speed will 
vary with size, and, as I have pointed out before, the cor- 
rected length under such a rule is a conyéntional but very 
useful expression of size in terms of length. Having this 
data for a number of yachts, we extract the square root 
and get their relative possibilities of speed. We cer- 
tainly do not get any expression of actual speed because 
that depends first of all upon the skill with which the 
designer has used the dimensions allowed; secondly, upon 
the strength of wind, and finally upon the skill used in 
sailing the boat. These three features represent the sport 
of yacht racing and the only occasion when it is proper to 
attempt to tax them is in handicap racing. 

There is another point to be considered. The hypothe- 
sis with regard to relative speeds only applies within 
economic limits. At the time the length and sai] area rule 
was first adopted, designers observed these limits, but of 
late they have not done so, and it is for this state olf 
affairs that we are now trying to find a remedy. The 
attempts in this direction seem to me to be grouped under 
three heads, and it will possibly be of some assistance in 
studying the question if I make some attempt to define 
them: First, it is proposed to restrain designers within 
economic limits by arbitrary restrictions, producing either 
one design or restricted classes. This method is simple, 
and has the advantage of being readily understood and 
applied, It has also proved successful. It is to be recom- 
mended where the local circumstances are such that the 
measurement rules must be as simple as possible. Sec- 
ondly, it is proposed to allow designers a perfectly free 
hand and to use a measurement rule based on the length 
and sail area rule, but with further qualifying factors 
which assume to measure certain speed producing ele- 
ments which did not vary with length and sail area. This 
is the principle of Mr, Hyslop’s rule, and while more 
scientific than restricted classes, it is necessarily empirical 
and arbitrary in the selection of additional elements for 
measurement and of the necessary co-efficients. The data 
involved are complicated and require special knowledge 
and skill to obtain. The use of such rules must neces- 
sarily be restricted to clubs having -periect facilities for 
applying them, as any looseness, want of skill, or inac- 
curacy in the work renders them worse than useless. 
Thirdly, it is assumed that the worst results of the varia- 
tions from economic limits are the lack of accommodation 


and unseaworthiness of modern racing craft. and that ~ 


these matters may be remedied by- inducing or compelling 
the designer to use a bulkier and more compact under- 
water body. Rules with this end in yiew demand the use 
of displacement as a negative factor or divisor, and the 
chief objections are the difficulty of obtaining displace- 
ment practically and the uncertainty of the -final effect on 
design of its use in the manner suggested. In conclusion, 
| may add that I should like to see all of these methods 
tried, and the results, being carefully noted, would go a 
long way toward improving our very imperfect knowledge 
and practice of this work of yacht measurement. 
WiiLiamM Q. PHILLIPS. 


Curnton, Ont,, March 14, 


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Editor Forest and Stream: he. 2 
The critical letters ‘you publish over the signature Sex- 
tant, are extremely interesting, although somewhat pe- 
dantic. . t.* 
Of course, S, being the measure of the force which 
drives a sailing vessel, is really the only speed producer 
“in the strict sense of the term, just as fuel is the only 
speed producer of a steamer. But you.can no more 
classify yachts for racing purposes by sail alone than 
you can classify steamers for speed. by fuel alone. If. 
two steamers race across the Atlantic on level terms and 
ceteris paribus, one of them carry 1,000 tons more than 
the other, she would rightly be regarded as the faster 
boat-and better design. So must it be with yachts. 

In horse racing, where horses of different ages meet, 
they are handicapped by means of small pieces of lead 
carried in the saddle, the weights carried by the 
favorites reducing their speed—and yachts are very 
similar in this particular. Strictly speaking, light 
displacement is not a speed producer; practically, it 
- is. Tf Sextant objects to my term tweedledum, Jet him 
- call it tweedledee. As for its not being a proper thing 
to put into a rating rule, [ am content to know that Mr, 
Herreshoff proposed to do so in 1892. Sextant raises. 
difficulties which he in no way attempts to remoye, and 
shelters himself behind the proposal that even cup racers 
shall become a restricted class, 

T have raced for twenty years on the Solent, and when- 
ever I have built have designed my _own_boats, which 
have competed with those of Watson, Fife, Payne, Nichol- 
son, Sibbick and Soper. My boats being cheaply and 
strongly built, cost about half the cost of their competi- 
tors, and I am convinced that under the rule I suggest 
my boats would have won frequently, as they would 
have carried more sail and their rivals less. Is it not 
fair that strongly constructed hulls should have a better 
chance of winning in the open classes than they have at 
present? Is it not fair that a boat which (even Sextant 
acknowledges) offers more resistance to motion should 
by rule carry some extra sail wherewith to overcome 
that extra resistance? I read a few days ago of a new 
yacht building on the Solent, that she had a double skin 
of mahogany planking, and-everything done to insure 
her success. Of course, it is not the design, but very 
often it is merely the extra dollars spent in order to re- 
duce weight that wins. I call it the curse of modern 
yacht racing. 

The Seawanhaka rule has done its work well for quite 
a long period. Add displacement to it and the rule will 


some spiles placed between the two docks. 


last for another equally long period and give satisfaction. 
THALASSA. 


Editor Forest and Siream: 


T have followed with much interest the numerous con- — 


tributions to Forest AND StrREAM by Sextant and Tha- 
lassa, also those by Mr. Hill and Mr, Phillips, relative’ 
10 measurement rules. 

They are exceedingly interesting, but at times a little 
deep for an amateur. I have struck several snags, one 
of which 1 wish some kind reader of ForESt AND STREAM 
would pull me off. It is this, why does the larger boat 
outsail the smaller, if both are built om the same lines 


and have in proportion to their length the same displace- 


ment, wetted surface, sail area, etc., 
vary as VIL? 


Meteor’s Trial Trip. 


Tue German Emperor's schooner Meteor was given her 
first spin under sail on Monday, March 31. The trip was 
a success in every way, with the exception of a mishap 
that occurred as the boat was leaving her mooring place 
off the yard of her builders at Shooter’s Island. Meteor 
was lying between two docks, and as there was little 
room there in which to maneuver, the captain of the 
towboat that was to take her down the bay decided to 
haul her out stern first and swing her when he got into 
clear water outside. He miscalculated the strength of 
the wind and tide! however, and the yacht swung against 
The after 
overhang on the port side was the only part injured, sev- 
eral plates being stove in and part of the rail was car- 
ried away. After the accident happened, an examination 
was made and it was found that the yacht was perfectly 
seaworthy. The tow boat was dismissed and the police 
pea Patrol took Meteor in tow and through the Kills into 
the bay. * 

After the yacht had been swung so that her compasses 
might be adjusted, sail was made, the police boat let go 
the yacht’s line, 

The yacht was under her lower canvas, and in the in- 
creasing breeze moved fast. The wind was from the 
northwest, and she was kept on the starboard tack with 
the wind just forward of the beam, until about a mile 
below the Narrows, when she was put about on the port 
tack. After holding the port tack for a few moments, the 
yacht was again put on the starbeard tack. In a few 
moments she was jibed over and was headed for New 
York on the port tack. 

The wind had shifted to a point a little south of west, 
and was blowing hard. Meteor heeled well down, was 
moving very fast, with her sctippers awash. She had 
no difficulty in leaving the police boat, which was going 
ahead full steam, 

The yacht was brought to anchor off Tompkinsville. 
She will be stirveyed to ascertain the exact amount 
of damage done, and if the report is at all satisfactory, 
she will be taken across at once and have the damage 
repaired on the other side, while the interior fittings are 
being put in. 

On board the yacht were Mr. Wallace Downey, the 
builder; Mr. A, Cary Smith and Mr. Henry G. Barbey, 
the designers; Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mr. Allison V. 
Armour, Mr. E. A. Willard, Mr. Emil Boaz, Karl Buenz, 
the German Consul-General, Naval Attaché von Rebeur- 
Paschwitz, Professor MacLean, of the Webb Academy; 
Mr. John L, Bliss-and others, guests of the builders and 
attachés of the German Embassy at Washington, 


or why does speed 
GA 


YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 


Mr. Seth Low, Mayor of New York City, has pur- 
chased from Colonel William Hester the steam yacht 
Willada. The yacht will be used by Mayor Low for 
making the daily trip between his country place at Rye 
and New York City. She was designed by Mr, Henry 
C. Wintringham and built by Messrs, Pusey & Jones, 


at Wilmington, Del., during the winter of 1898-99. Her 


dimensions are 127ft. over all, ro2ft. on the waterline, 
16it, 6in. breadth and 6ft. draft. 


The English*built auxiliary ketch Anemone IV. has 
been purchased by Mr. John Murray Mitchell, of New 
York City. The yacht is ro2ft. long, 19.5{t. breadth, and 
12.5ft. deep. She was designed by Mr. A. H, Brown, 
and built by Messrs. Camper & Nicholson, Ltd., at Gos- 
port in 1899. The yacht is now at Cowes and is being 
put in shape for the voyage to America. 


Ree 


Mr. Pliny Fisk has bought the English-built steam 
yacht Katoomba from Mr, Kenneth M. Clark. The 
yacht was designed by Mr. George L. Watson, and built 
by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., at Troon, Scotland, in 
1808. She is 163it. on the waterline, 24.15ft. breadth, and 


75it. deep. 
13-7 p nee 


Mr. J. Rogers Maxwell has sold his steam yacht Kis- 
met to Mr. E. S. Smithers.. Mr. Maxwell is having a 
larger yacht built from designs by Mr. Harry C. Wint- 


ringham. cueirie 


| 
Captain “Lem” Miller has been appointed sailing mas- 
ter of Navahoe, and he will sail her in all her races in 
English and German waters for her new owner, Mr. 
George W. Watjin, of Bremen. ‘Captain Miller has been 
aboard a number of our cup defenders, and is one of our 
best known yacht skippers. 


RmBRE 


Helenita, the steam yacht built by the Gas Engine and 
Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury & €o., at Morris 
Heights, for Mr. Frank J. Gould, was launched on Tues- 
day, March 25. The yacht was named by Mrs. Gould 


and a large number of friends attended the ceremony. 


The yacht was designed by Mr. Charles L. Seabury, and 
built under his supervision. The vessel is constructed 


of steel throughout. There is a large deck house forward 
and a smaller one aft. In the forward house is the dining 
saloon, a smoking room, steward’s pantry and sailing 
master’s stateroom. The after deck house will be used as 
a sort of music and living room. Below decks aft are 
the owner’s quarters. These consist of two large state- 
rooms with bath and dressing roomg adjoining. Aft of 
the owner's rooms are seyen staterooms-and bathrooms 
for guests. Forward below deck are staterooms for the 
officers, quarterS for the crew and the galley. The yacht 
is fitted with a triple expansion Seabury engine and two 
Seabury water tube boilers. The bunkers have a capacity 
for about 100 tons of coal, while the water tanks will carry 
about 10,000 gallons. The yacht will have a speed of 
eighteen knots. She will be lighted by electricity and 
heated by steam. Four boats will be carried on the 
davits: A 26ft. mahogany launch, a 2rft. launch, a 2oft. 
gig and a 2oft. cutter. Helenita has a single funnel and 
two pole masts. The deck houses and all the deck finish 
ate of mahogany. — 
RRR 


The following charters and sales have been made 
through Mr. Frank. Bowne Jones agency: The English- 
built auxiliary schooner Kittiwake, chartered to Mr. 
James A, Garland. - Kittiwake is t12oft. long, 21-.2ft. 
breadth, and j2ft. deep. She was built by Messrs. Scott 
& Co., at Greenock, Scotland, in 1893. The yacht will 
wane in these waters from the Mediterranean early in 

une. 

Schooner yacht Indra, by Mr, John M. Richmond, 
eu R. L., t6 Mr. Henry F. Noyes, New York 

ity. ee 

Sloop yacht Irex, by Mr. F. C. Rodewald, to Mr. 
Frederick R. Kellogg, of New York City. 

Yawl Fidelio, by Mr. Henry S. Jeans, of Philadelphia, 
toa New York yachtsman. This yacht has been equipped 
with auxiliary power. ‘ 

Yawl Sea Gull, by Mr. Alexander McGuiness, to Mr. 
ae F, rae of New York. : 

team yacht Cayuga, by the Rey. F. L. Humphr 
Mr. T. S. Slocum, Baskou: cae 

Launch Rush, by Mr. George F. Chester, of Buffalo 
to Mr. John A. Eckert, of New York. : 

The raceabouts Ghoorkha, Viper and Aeolis have found 
new Qwners. 

At the Spalding St. Lawrence shops, at Ogdensburg, 
N. Y., there is a 25ft. launch building for Mr. Louis 
Bossert, of Brooklyn, for use as a tender to his schooner 
Coronet. The order was placed through Mr, Jones. 


eRe 


‘Mr. E. T. Hatch is having James Lenox, of Twenty- 
fifth street, South Brooklyn, build for him an auxiliary 
schooner. The yacht will be known as the Minnehaha, 
and will be 45ft. on the waterline, 5oft. over all, i2ft. 
breadth, and 3ft. 6in. draft. She will be equipped with a 
25 horse-power gasoline engine, : 


REr 


The schooner Endymion, recently dismasted in south- 
ern waters, is being refitted at Newport News, and will 
continue her cruise. 


me RE 


The steam yacht Corsair, owned by Mr. J. Pierpont 
Morgan, is being put in shape at Manning’s Basin, South 
Brooklyn, for a trip to European waters. 


y mRE 


The Sachem’s Head Y. C., of Guilford, Conn., is now 
to have a one-design class. Several members have 
agreed to build. The boats will be about 15ft. waterline, 
and will be designed and built by Charles B. Wyckoff, 
of Clinton, Conn. 

R22 


Mr. H. Hansen, of Twenty-sixth street, South Brook- 
lyn, is building from Mr. B. B. Crowninshield’s design 
a cruising yawl for Mr. J. S. Negus. She is 4oit. oyer 
all, 25{t. waterline, 11ft. breadth, and 4ft. draft. 


ed 


Mr. A. W, C. Williams, of Hartford, Conn has sold 
ue aourice Diana to Mr. Harry Noryent, of Washington, 


Yacht Club Notes. ; 


The second general meeting of the New York Y. C. 
was held at the club house, West Forty-fourth street, on: 
Thursday, March 27. Commodore Lewis Cass Ledyard 
presided. The following gentlemen were elected mem- 
bers: Wallace Downey, Samuel T, Hubbard, Jr.; Ed- 
ward I’, Leland, Henry G. Tobey, Surgeon W. M. Gar-: 
ton, U, S. N.; George G. Murtry, Surgeon James C. 
Pryor, U. S. N.; James Henry Morgan, Rear Admiral. 
Albert S. Barker, U. S. N.; George G. Williams, Lieu- 
tenant Frederic M. Wise, U. S. M. C.; Harris King: 
Smith, William D. Guthrie, Rear Admiral G. W. Mel- 
ville, U. S, N.; John C. Kaper, U. S. N.; W. R. Hough— 
taling, Charles Steele, George W. Perkins, Lieutenant 
Charles C. Plunkett, U. S. N.; John P. Pratt, Edward C. 


Knight, Rear Admiral Philip H, Cooper, U. S. N.z_ 


Paymaster Frank T. Arms, Lieutenant Provoost Babin,. 
U. S. N.; Edward Barr, Warner M, Leeds and S, Ed— 
ward Vernon. Honorary member—Nathaniel Greene 
Herreshoff. 

The committee on uniforms and dress, signal code, 
yacht routine, etc., made its report, which was accepted. 

Mr. Wickert presented the club with the programme 
of the annual regatta held in 1854, a 

The date and rendezvous of the annual cruise is gen- 
erally announced at this meeting, but it was decided to 
leave this matter to the commodore. It is believed that 
the first week in August will be selected, and the meeting 
place will be New London. There has been some talk 
about continuing the cruise to Bar Harbor. 

The committee appointed at the first general meeting 
to consult with naval architects in regard to forming a 
new measurement rule reported, The work of this com- 


ttee is of the utmost importance, and the results of 
work will be watched with interest by yachtsmen 
rywhere, The committee is in communication with 
e foremost naval architects all over the world, and ‘as 
on as replies can be received from men in out of the 
ay points a definite report will be made. Those serving 
the committee on measurement rules are as follows: 
S. Nicholson Kane, chairman; C. Oliver Iselin, H. F. 
Lippitt, Oliver H. Cromwell, A. Cass Canfield, John 
PF. Lovejoy, W. Butler Duncan, Jr.; Newberry D. Law- 
fon and Secretary George A. Cormack. 


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Commodore Frederick T. Adams, Larchmont Y. C., 
has made the following appointments: General Thomas 
L. Watson to be fleet captain, and Dr. William HE, Bul- 
lard to be fleet surgeon. 


Rifle Zange and Gallery. 


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Riffe at Shell Mound. 


San Francisco, March 24.—Yesterday was a blustery day at. 
Shell Mound, though there was a large attendance of marksmen. 
Messrs. McLaughlin and Gehret with rifle, and Mr. Gorman with 
revolver made very fine scores. ; ; 

Next Sunday the California Schuetzen Club will hold a “spring 
festival,” and a large turn out of marksmen is looked for. Yester- 
day’s scores: 5 r 

Getnenie Schuetzen Club, monthly competition shoot for cash 
prizes: A, Gehret 74, Louis Bonstel 73, D, B. Faktor 69, A, Pape 
69, F. E. Mason 69, N. Ahrens 68, D. Salfield 67, August Jungblut 
68, Herman Huber 67. 

Competition for trophies: F, E, Mason 223, A, Pape 216, F. 1} 
Schuster 211, A. Gehret 221, Herman Huber 210, Otto Bremer 207, 
-E. H. Goetze 205, N. Ahrens 204, Louis Bendel 203. 

Germania Schuetzen Club monthly bullseye shoot: ‘D. Salfield 125, 
*Herman Huber 188; John Utschig 185, A. Gehret 143, F. E. Mason 
403, Edward H. Goetze 412, W. Morken 424, Otto Bremer 523, L. 

N. Ritzau 546, D. B. Faktor 623, F. P. Schuster 640, William 

Goetze 765, 

Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club, monthly class and medal 
shoot, rifle, handicap: M. F. Blasse 207, 209,.226; W. F. Blasse 
196, 200, 205, 214; F, E. Mason 225. 

Gold medal, rifle: William Ehrenpfort 174, 190, 202. 

Silver medal, rifle: Otto Bremer 204. 

Glindémann trophy: D. W. McLaughlin 232, W. F. Blasse:210. 

Handicap. revolver: J. E. Gorman 92, 88, 88, 96, 87; F. 5. Wash- 
burn, 90, 85, 87; P. A. Becker 90, 91; J. W. Tompkins 81, 30, 17, 74, 
71, 70; J. Kullmann 76. 

Handicap, ee J. E. Gorman 92, F. S. Washburn 92,°91, 88, 
; G. W. Hoadley 84, 84; C. O. Wheeler 82, 75, 78; H. Hinkel 


Sl. 

Silver medal: J. R. Trego 83, 80, 76; L. C. Hinkel 85, 83, 86. 
Norddeutcher Schuetzen Club, ‘monthly medal shoot: First cham- 

pion class, F. P. Schuster 485; second champion class, not won; 

first class, D. Salfield, 416; second class, not won; third class, 

Henry Meyer 272; fourth class, not won; best first shot, Herman 

Huber, 24; best last shot, F. P. Schuster, 23. 


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Cincinnati Rifle Association. 


CincinnATI, O.—The following scores were made in regular com- 
petition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at Four- 
Mile House, Reading road, March 30. Conditions: 200yds., off- 
hand, at the Standard target. Strickmeier was declared champion 
for the day with the fine score of 91. Weather, cloudy; ther- 
mometer, 50; wind, strong, from 4 to 7 o'clock; sometimes a 
regular gale was blowing: i 


' Honor Medal. 
Strickmeier ......++.- +». -91 88 86 84 83 7 6 720 8 9 10—27 
epWITE: cn eyiis as fetefossfalbes tay taesoabs 87 87 86 85 84 9 9 10—28 7 § 10—25 
“Gata (ate epee acts et fe 87 86 85 80 79 9 10 10—29 8 8 9-25 
hg ABREC ABA Ber eaee bd ote 84 79 77 76 75 8 7 8&—23 7 7 4-18 
TREE OE aS og A ee 82 81 77 77 77 8 8 6—22 48 6—18 
Weinheimer .........-.- 81 74 72 72 64 8 10 10—28 10 4 7-21 
BET COLES pel st tre-s0tsalg eles state © 78 68 66 66 65 85 417 10 4 $22 
Odell .... Siilsstelidaclee Gh aa OL: 510 924 7 7 519 
Berge Rise a tcle erases U7 70 64 62 62 + 7 6 10—28 Hr ewe 
GUD CMe reece Nh ene Tbe TAOS: se ye 8 6 6—20 4 7 7—18 
Lr GUN Stiles. othe ker ake TL 67 66 66 65 7 5 9-21 7 8 6-21 


The following totals were made by those members shooting for 
the annual 100-shot championship match. Payne led the race, with 
Strickmeier a close second: Payne 833, Strickmeier 832, Roberts 
745, Lux 714, Jonscher 682, Hofer 631. 


The Metropolitan Shooting Club held a mecting at 512 Sixth 
avenue, on March 31, to arrange conditions for the open-to-all 
rifle and revolver matches, which are to be held under the club’s 
auspices, at Conlin’s gallery, from April 1 to April 26. Rules 

- governing the various competitions were made, as follows: Rifle, 
off-hand, .22cal., 50 record match, German ring target, 10 shots on 
each target. Rapid fire, léyds., 15 shots. Revolver, best string of 
5 shots on Standard target; experts shoot at 25yds.; amateurs and 
novices, 15yds.; amateur’s best iour targets to count; novices best 
three targets to count. Novices will be classified by the shooting 
committee by trial shots. Many well-known revolver and rifle 
shots have entered. 


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notice like the following: 


Fixtures. 


April —.—Dover, N. H.—Fast Day shoot of the Dover Sports- 
men’s Association. J. B. Stevens, Sec’y. 
April 3—Brooklyn, L, I.—All-day target shoot of the Dexter 
Park Gun Club, Thomas Short, Manager. 
April 8-11,—Olathe, Kan.—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s 
annual tournament. 
April 10.—Marietta, O.—One-day target tournament of the Co- 
lumbian Gun Club. Chas. Bailey, Sec’y. 
April 12.—Ossining, N. ¥,—Cup shoot of the Ossining Gun Club. 
“aptit IbtTAsherlie, N, CT 
i —Asheville, N, C.—Target tournament given by Col. 
E. P. McKissick. : E i t 
April 15-17.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association’s annual tournament. F, B. Cunningham, Sec’y. 
April 16-18.—Peru, Ind.—Peru Gun Club’s sixth annual amateur 
tournament; two days at targets for amateurs; one day at live 
birds open to all, Prank Dunbar, Sec’y. 
April 19.—Haverhill, Mass.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill 
Gun Club, : 
April 22.—Olean, N. ¥Y.—Third annual tournament of the Olean 
Gun Club. B.D. Nobles, Sec’y. 
_ _ April 22-25—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State shoot. H. S. Mc- 
pa Se Bssining, N,. ¥.—Cup sh oe) 
TH -—Ossining, N. Y¥.—Cup shoot of the Ossining Gun 
Club. GC. G. Blandford, Capt. e = 
April 29-30.—Greenville, O.—Annual tournament of the Greenville 
Gun Club. H. A. McCaughey, Sec’y. 
April 30.—Wellington, Mass.—Third annual team shoot of the 
Boston.Gun Club. Horace €. Kirkwood, Sée’y. 
May €9.—Interstate Park, L. I.—Interstate Association’s Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec’y; Flmer E. 
$s 5 Manager. : 7 te 


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May 7-8.—Crawfordsville, Ind.—Tareet tournament of the Craw- 
fordsville Gun Club; $400 guaranteed. Mac, Stillwell, Sec’y. 

May 13-14,—Enid, Oklahoma Territory—Oklahoma Territorial 
Sportsmen’s Association: tournament, F 

May 13-46.—Oil City, Pa.—Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 

un Club. F.S. Bates, Cor. Sec’y. a4 

May 14-16.—Charleston, S. C.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W. G. Jeffords, Jr., Sec’ ., 4 

May 15.—Sherbrooke, P, O.—Sherbrooke Gun Club’s inanimate 
target tournament, C, H. Foss, Sec’y. 

May 20-22.—Ottumwa, Ia.—lowa State Sportsmen’s tournament. 

May 20-22.—Elwood, Ind.—Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind. 

May 20-22.— Wheeling, W. Va.—Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec’y, Wheeling, W. Va. 

May 20-23. —, —. —.—New Jersey State Sportsmen’s As- 
sociation, ‘ 

May 21-22.Baltimore, Md.—Maryland county shoot for amateurs. 

May 21-23.—Springfield, S. D.—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s 
Association tournament. 

May 26-31.—Lincoln, Neb.—Grand Interstate tournament; three 
cele shooting; three days golf; three days tennis, H, C, Young, 

anager. 

May 30.—Schenectady, N. ¥.—Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club, E, L. Aiken, Sec’y. 

May 30.—Ossining, N. Y.—Holiday shoot of the Westchester 
County Trapshooters’ League. J. Curry Barlow, Sec’y. 

May 30.—Auburn, Me.—Annual tournament of the Auburn Gun 
Club, L, A. Barker, Sec’y, 

May 20-31.—Altoona, Pa—Altoona Rod and Gtin Club’s tenth 
annual tournament. George G. Zeth, Sec’y, Altoona, Pa. 

May 30-31.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club, O. E.- Fouts, Sec’y. 

June 3-5,—Cleyeland, O.—Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. 

June 4-6.—Memphis,, Tenn.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club, 

July 8-10.—Pine Bluff, Ark.—Twelfth annual meeting and tour- 
nament of the Arkansas State Sportsmen’s Association. Targets. 
Added money $300. Rose system. Paul R. Litzke, Sec’y. 

June 9-13.—Rochester, N. ¥Y.—Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
Hue New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 

ame. , 

June 10-11.—Sioux City, Ia.—Eighth annual amateur tournament 
of the Soo Gun Club. W. F. Duncan, Sec’y. 

June 10-11.—Muncie, Ind.—Indiana Trapshooters’ League’s annual 
tournament, é 

June 12-15.—Denver, Colo.—Grand Western Bluerock Handicap 
tournament, Frank i, Mayer, Tournament Manager, | 

June 17-20.—Warm Springs, Ga.—Annual Interstate tournament. 

June 1819.—Bellefontaine, O.—Silver Lake Gun Club’s annual 
tournament, Geo. E, Maison, Sec’y. a 4 

June 25-26.—Raleigh, N. C.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
care under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club. Jas. I. John- 
son, Sec’y. ; F 3 4 ely 

June 29.—San Francisco, Cal.—Live-bird shoot of the Union 
Gun Club. » 

July 16-18.—Titusville, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T. L. 
Andrews, Sec’y. , 

Aug. 6-7.—Marietta, O.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Columbian Gun Club. Chas. 
Bailey, Sec’y. 

Aug. 12-13—Birmingham, Ala.—Third annual Alabama State 
target tournament, under the auspices of the Birmingham Gun 
Club. R. H. Baugh, Sec’y. : 

Aug. 13-14—Brunswick, Me.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L. C. 
Whitmore, Sec’y. ; 

Aug. 14-16.—Hamilton, Can.—_Dominion Trapshooting and Game 
Protective Association’s tournament. 

Aug. 27-28.—Haverhill, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Club. S$. G. 
Miller, Sec’y. 

Sept. 3-4—Nappanee, Ind.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Nappanee Gun Club. B. B, Maust, 


ec’y. 

Sept. 23-25.—Cincinnati, O.—Second annual handicap target tour- 
nament of the Cincinnati Gun Club. Charles F. Dreihs, Sec’y. 

Sept, 29-30—Lewistown, Ill—The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Lewistown Gun Club. H. H. 
McCumber, Sec’y. 

Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
day afternoon. 

Chicago, Ill_—Garfield Gun Club’s live-bird trophy- shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 

First Saturday of each month for a year, Burnside Contest for 
the Troisdorf live-bird and target medals; 10 live birds; 25 targets; 
open to all. First contest, March 1. 


CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 


Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.—Two miles beyond Jamaica, om 
L. I, R. R. Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 
shcoting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Café and hotel accommodations. 


DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 


Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in these columns, also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on.all events are considered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York. 


The logic of the great New York dailies in the matter of fanci- 
ful eruelty as it relates to pigeon shooting, is sadly lacking in 
consistency. The New York American and Journal in a recent 
issue, presents a picture, nearly a half-page in size, “of something 
like 18,000 pigeons that will be cruelly slaughtered,” etc. Beside 
this picture, under a scare head, “Los Angeles Still after Big 
Fight,” a spirited account of the fight situation up te date is 
presented. Articles intended to stimulate the attendance at fights. 
and to promote their success are a large part of the day’s litera- 
ture in the ranting, spuriously humane journals. All the disgust- 
ing details of fights between “Kid” So-and-So, and “Terror” 
So-and-So, are daily given with minute care. When it is con 
sidered that prize fighters and their adherents, with few excep- 
tions, are the lowest of the low, and that the so-called sport of two 
degraded beings pounding each other to exhaustion or death is 
cruelty beside which pigeon shooting is white as snow in com- 
parison, one may well doubt whether the ranting of the daily 
press against pigeon shooting is from sincere conviction or from 
irresponsible demagogism. ; 

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The annual meeting of the Garfield Gun Club, of Chicago, was. 
held on March 26. Reports of officers showed the club to be 
flourishing financially and physically; membership full to the limit 
and ten applicants on waiting list. Three directors were elected, 
viz.: J. D. Pollard, three years; Dr. J Meek, three years; 
C. J. Wolff, one year, to fill unexpired term, Directors’ meeting 
resulted as follows: W. A. Jones, President; H. A. Hellman, 
Vice-President; Dr, J. W. Meek, Secretary; Thos. W. Eaton, 
Treasurer; A. JD. Dorman, Captain. The target season opens first 
Saturday in May. " . 


John S. Wright, manager of the Brooklyn Gun Club, announces 
that the club will hold a series of three shoots for a handsome gold 
watch charm. Conditions, 50 targets, handicap, entrance $1.50, 
targets included. First shoot Saturday, April 5; second, April 12; 
third, April 19. Sweepstake shooting to start at 2 P. M. Main 
eyent at 8 P. M. Grounds, Enfield street, near Liberty avenue, 
terminus Kings County Elevated Railroad. 


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That was 2 remarkable record made by Mr, Harold Money last 
week at St. Louis in his match with Alex. Mermod. Out of 50 
pairs, Mr, Money broke 99 targets, shooting the Winchester re- 


peating shotgun and the Winchester factory-loaded Leader shells. 
The targets were thrown at regulation distance from regulation 
traps. Good records have been made before, but this far outdoes 
them all. . , 


Mr. Frank Lawrence, who has been identified with the gun and 
ammunition trade for many years past, and who is thoroughly 
proficient in all its many branches, has accepted a position with 
the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Mr. Lawrence’s territory will 
be Pennsylvania. His affability, industry and accomplishments 
eminently qualify him for the position. 


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Mr. C. fF, Lambert, of Lynn, Mass., one of the steady shooters, 
and eminently skillful at either targets or live birds, was a visitor 
in New York last week. Business cares will prevent his attendance 
at the Grand American Handicap, an event which has won his 
attendance in previous years, 

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The Peters Cartridge Company has added Mr. Neaf Apgar to its 
staff of New York representatives. Mr, Apgar is an expert in the 
handling of the gun, has a wide and popular acquaintance among 
shooters and sportsmen generally, and will prove a valuable addi- 
tion to this company’s list of able representatives. > 


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There probably will be anywhere from twenty-five to fifty post 
entries to the Grand American Handicap, which, added to the 453 
received, will bring the total up near to the 500 mark, a great entry 
indeed. It goes to show that the great West, when in an earnest. 
mood, makes good its claim to greatness, 


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Mr, Fred Gilbert gained final possession of the Sportsmen’s Re- 
view Cup at Kansas City, on March 28 by defeating Messrs, J. A. 
R, Elliott and W. R. Crosby in a closely contested match, in 
which it was nécessary for him to kill 57 out of 60 birds in order 
to win. 

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In the second contest. for the Peters Cartridge Company’s 
Arkansas championship trophy, at Pine Bluff, Ark., on March 25, 
Mr..J. A. Coles won with a score of 24 ont of 25, from the 30yd. 
mark, defeating twenty-one competitors, 


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Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, who is now in Kansas City, managing 
the gieseeet friendly shoot on earth, informs us that the dates for 
the Lewiston, Ill., interstate tournament have been changed from 
Sept. 24 and 25 to Sept, 29 and 30. 


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The Crosby-Elliott contest for the cast-iron medal, which was to 
have been shot at Kansas City on March 29, was postponed on ac- 
count of the bad weather. . 

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The all-day shoot of the Dexter Park, Brooklyn Gun Club, 
April 8, commences at 10 o’clock. Thomas Short, manager, 


At Kansas City. 


Special to Forrest AND STREAM. : 


Kansas City, Mo., March 31.—The Kansas City Sweepstakes, at 
42 birds, was the only event shot to-day. There were 368 entries, 
of which thirty-six scored straight. Weather, clear. Indications, 
that a large percentage of entries will fill. The shoot is working 
smoothly, and with good weather will be finished this week. The 
following scored straight in the Kansas City Sweepstakes: J. E. 
Avery, Atlanta, Ga.; J. E. Hicks, Columbus, O.; W, R. Crosby, 
O’Fallon, Ill.; J. W. Gray, Sioux City, Ida.; Hood Waters, Balti- 
more, Md.; Sam Hoffman, Jr., Atlantic, la.; . L. Hansbro, 
Paducah, Ky.; W. A. Baker, Griffin, Ga.; Farmer Burke, Elgin, 
Neb.; Harvey McMurchy, Fulton, N, Y.; C. C. Herman, Kansas 
‘City, Mo.; T, W. Morfey, Queens, N. Y.; Ben Eick, Sterling, IIl.; 
A. H. Fox, Philadelphia, Pa.; R. Kuss, Chicago, I[ll.; T. A. 
Marshall, Keithsburg, Ill.; L. Foley, Nichols, Ila; W. H. -Heer, 
Concordia, Kas.; C. B. Cockrill, Platte City, Mo.; J. L. D.-Mor- 
rison, St, Paul, Minn.;.H, C. Hirschey, Minneapolis, Minn.; 
F. L. Alabaster, Chicago, Ill.; 'H. D, Bates, Ridgetown, Ont.; 
P. D. Trotter, Kingsley, fa.; F. D. Alkire, Woodlyn, O.; H. B 
Hill, Aurora, Ind.; R. 5. Rhodes, Frankfort, Ky.; E. M: Stout 
‘Circleville, Ia.; Chas, Kilgour, Schenectady SYS I GAS 2e= 
Racine, Wis.; A. C. Connor, Pekin, ue ae ‘R. Graham, Winder- 
mere P. O., Ill.; T. F. Dockson, Springfield, INl.; Geo. Tucker, 
Brenham, Tex.; W. R. Milner, Jay, Ill. B. WATERS. 


The Hamilton Gun Club, 


Tamitton, Canada, March 24.—Werewith please find scores of 
the regular fortnightly meeting of the Hamilton Gun Club, March ~ 
15 All contestants shooting on this day were members of our club. 

With the exception of a small optional sweep in event 2, -all 
events were shot for birds only. Event 2 was: shot for the Peters 
Cartridge Company trophy. Complete scores to the end of the 
third round in this competition will go forward in a day or two. 
ievent 3 was a team race between teams chosen by President T. 
Upton and Vice-President M. E, Fletcher, which resulted in a tie. 


Darkness prevented any further shooting: 

Targets: 10 25 10 Targets: = 10 25 10 
STalUintoseeta brunet.) ater 822 7 W Work, 16........... 822 7 
(oy Bie gers Uni erasure 921 7 G Crawford, 16........, 620 7 
Molitor v)atyelidaaeeee ten 5... 10 Bowron.) 193020 fa. 6 22... 
E A Clifford, 18...,.... 819 7 Graham, 20....:0s08. 0 RED id: 
IDye Abas, IRR ra. ee e246) Be Sinth, 17 8 24 7 

Hunter, 19 620° £ WieGline; WT. cc. cake fee 1 

Dynes, 19. CN Sitithigeel Gye eee ee 4 
Edwards, 15 4 F Wilson, 15 te 5 
C Waterbury, 15 6 Dunham, 16...... 2 

Crooks, is G Stroud, 18...... 3 
Ben It, § Dr Ingersoll, a 8 
Dr Wilson, 20 ee, Chie ep aes 2 
M EE Fletcher, 18 9 


“Uncle Lisha’s Shop.” 


“Unele Lisha’s Shop’? is temporarily out of print. 
edition is in press, to be ready soon, 
an excellent portrait of Mr. Robinson. 


J A new 
It will have as frontispiece 
The price will be $1.25. 


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All communications intended for Forrest anp Stream should 
always be-addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


New Yorx.-—Fditor Forest and Stream: In reviewing the de 
velopment of the modern double-barrel breechloading shotgun, 
mothing has puzzled inventive genius more than a practical, perfect 
single-irigger device, and noimprovement since the days of flint locks 
‘can’ show up so many rank failures and disappointments as the 
single-trigger idea. On no other single improvement has so much 
money been expended without satisfactory results as on single- 
trigger experiments. 

Although well nigh perfect work is being done by experts with 
the modern two-trigger breechloader, it is an undeniable fact that 
a perfect single trigger would prove one of the greatest of all 
recent improvements in a double-barrel shotgun, and the hundreds 
of patents and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in the at- 


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leading gun makers having adopted the same under royalties, and 
a considerable percentage of orders for finer guns are coming in 
with the B. & J. single trigger. 

The following description of the B. & J. single trigger will give 
yout readers an idea of its simple mechanical construction: 

A lever, “D,” (See Wigs, 1, 2 and 4) is attached to the right sear. 
“C.” This lever ““D” has on the forward end a stud (D2) and 
on the rear end an extension (D1), which goes through and pro- 
trudes on the inner side of the sear arm (C1). The left sear C 
has a shoulder lug (C?, Fig. 4). 


Fig, 1 shows the lock mechanism when cocked and set to pull 
right-hand lock first. Upon pulling the trigger the sear of the 
right lock is pressed upward, lifting the sear point out of the 
cock notch and relieving the hammer. The sear then goes down 
by the force of the sear spring, and the lever D jumps under the 


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tempts to put a perfect single trigger om the market, and the years 
of hard work and ever-repeated attempts after costly failures, show 
that the manufacturers, as well as the sportsmen, are wide awake 
as to the importance of a perfect single trigger. 

The merit of a single trigger for a double barrel gun is self- 
evident, Every practical shooter knows the importance of a perfectly 
fitting gun, a difference in the length of a stock, of as little as Yin. 
is often noticed and insisted upon, and every amateur will do 
better with a proper length of stock than otherwise. A quarter of 
an inch, more or less, difference in length of stock is often fatal 
for best work. Still when shooting a double-barrel two-trigger 
gun, we continually shorten or lengthen our stock about an inch 
as the case may be, beside having to fully release our grip on the 
gun shooting right and left barrel, which all accounts to a great 
extent for the often comparatively poor work of the second barrel 
as well as other undesirable features, such as unpleasant punish- 
ment on account of recoil of gun, etc. 

All this will be done away with when shooting a single-trigger 
gun. 

What constitutes a perfect single trigger? In my opinion several 


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requirements are absolutely necessary for any single trigger to 
become popular enough to come into general use. 

First—A trigger mechanism which is easily reversible from 

right and left to left and right. 
. Second—Which is absolutely proof against “doubling’’; that is, 
firing both barrels simultaneously through either fault of the 
mechanism, difference in recoil of cartridges, peculiarity of shooter 
in holding his gun or involuntary pull, caused by the recoil of the 
first fired cartridge. . 

Third.—A mechanism which allows of as smooth, easy and light 
a pull-off, devoid of all drag of the trigger, as the two trigger 
locks. 

Fourth.—A simple, strong and purely mechanically positive 
device which can be cheaply constructed, easily understood, and 
which is not dependent upon any recoil of the gun. 

In looking over the gradual development of the single trigger, 
the first attempts did not allow of shilting from right and left to 
left and right. Again, thousands of single-trigger guns have been 
put upon the market, and a good many are in use to-day, mostly 
in England, which are not prgof against “doubling” and may be 
“doubled” by so-called tricks pretty regularly. 

Still others have such shortcomings as a hard, stiff of creepy 
pull-ofi, while the one or two single triggers which haye been 


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shoulder lug C? of the left sear (C) by the force of the lever 
spring D* ‘ 
_ The right barrel has now been discharged, and upon again pull- 
ing the trigger both sears, the right one free and the leit sear set 
in cock notch of hammer, are lifted and the left barrel is dis- 
charged. 

To reyerse the lock action from right and left to left and right, 
it is only necessary to shift the button E! in trigger E by pressing 
same in from right side to the left side of trigger. This brings the 
sear lifting pin E? from under the right to under the left sear “‘C,” 
and upon pulling the trigger the left lock will be discharged first 
and next the right lock. 

The above describes the mechanical trigger and lock-shifting 
mechanism, which, in itself, is mechanically complete and correct 
but not practical without additional safeguards against doubling.” 

To render “doubling”? or a simultaneous discharge of both bar- 
rels impossible, a weight or counterbalance, F, has been attached 
to the rear of the trigger, which acts like a “timer” or block, and 
which is in most striking contrast, mechanically speaking, to the 
many most complicated and often wholly unreliable patented de- 


vices for preventing doubling in single-trigger guns. 

The counterbalance or “timer’’ is mechanical simplicity in itself, 
is inexpensive and absolute in its functions. 

Upon pressing the trigger, the first time and discharging the 
first barrel, the counterbalance F is forced downward upon or. 
toward the trigger plate. Upon releasing the trigger, the counter- 
balance is raised again to a position slightly more elevated than 
before the first pull of the trigger, thus allowing the sear to make 
its downward movement and the stud or extension, D', on lever 
D to slip under or over the lug C, as the case may be, and couple 
or connect the other sear. 

-The under-bolt or breech-bolt, by means of a projection, A, Fig. 
2, presses against the extension D? of the lever D when the gun 
a Demme opened, and places both sears in a normal position as in 

ig, 1, 

The above mechanism is easily applied to most hammerless 
Icck constructions. 

For hammer guns the B. & J. single trigger is still more simple. 
The transposer is done away with, and instead of the rear projec- 
tion on breech-bolt A, Fig, 2, we have a stud-“‘A,” Fig. 6, on the 
tumbler, i 

In cocking the 


un the stud “A” slips under the lever D, Fig. 6, 
so that the stud a in 


2 on the forward end of lever D is presse 


Fig 


Mmmm LULL 


tried and can fairly lay claim to not having the first three objec- 
tions, are so complicated as fo make them possible on the highest 
grades of guns only. The finest and most expensive workmanship 
only would admit of their construction, the cost of which would 
equal that of the cost of our most popular guns. : 

The above history of the single trigger development during the 
last eight or ten years is correct, and is well known to all close 
observers of the many different actions patented, found correct 
theoretically, manufactured, practically tried and soon found 
wanting, Nearly every important European manttacturer has had 
his fingers burned on one or more single-trigger mechanisms, as 
theory and practice seemed bound to run counter and riot with 
each other. 

I pledd guilty; I was one of the burnt ones, and was one of 
the most disgusted of the singlée-trigger theorists, and was perfectly 
willing to let others go ahead and do the experimenting. Many 
other practical shooters and men in the business did likewise, 
~ My faith in the absolute practicability of a single trigger began 
to return only when I saw Mr. Charles Francotte, a leading ex- 
pert) among the practical gun makers of Europe, give his un- 
qualified indorsement and praise for the improved Bittiner and 
Jaeger single trigger, an American invention. The Bittiner and 
Jaeger idea has stood all practical tests, and is taking like wild- 
fre in Germany, France, England and Belgium, dozens of the 


the groove C1 of the sear C. 

rugs pressing the trigger and releasing the right hammer, the 
tumbler is forced upward, releasing the sear C and the lever D, 
and the action thereafter corresponds with that of the harmmerless 
lock. 

The left barrel may be fired continuously without firing the right 
by cocking the left hammer only. In this wise the stud D will 
always slip under the shoulders of the left sear, and the pressing 
of the trigger will lift both sears. When both hammers are cocked 
the gun will shoot right and left. When only either right or left 
hemmer is cocked it will fire the respective barrel continuously. 

The counterbalance of timer F performs the same functions of 
preventing a possibility of doubling or firing both barrels invol- 
untarily, as in the hammerless gun. ; 

I predict that American sportsrmen and gun makers will not be 
far behind their European cousins in recognizing the practical 
adyantages of a simple, sound, purely mechanical, cheap and thor- 
oughly reliable single trigger for double-barrel guns. 

Justus yon LENGERKE, 


All communications intended for Forrest Ann Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 


_ Gilson; Treasurer, 


Inna 


Fitchburg Rifle and Gun Club, 
Firchaure, Mass., March 27.—The annual meeting of the Fitch- 


burg Rifle and Gun Club was heid Monday evening, March 10. 
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, 

O. Converse; Vice-President, J. B,. Austin; Secretary, E. W. 
. Cutler. Directors at Large: H. A. 
Estabrook, Dr. Russell Bingham, S, W, Putnam 2d, Prof, E. A. 
Kirkpatrick, J. G, Donovan. 

Reports were made by the different committees, including the 
membership, fish and game, range, trap, pistol shooting, and 


handicap. Seven new members were elected to the club. The or- 
ganization is in a good financial condition, as the report of the 
treasurer showed, and its present membership is in the vicinity of 
125 members. ~ 

Much information was gathered from the reports of the differ- 
ent committees, especially the committee on fish and game protec- 
tion. The result of their labors speaks for itself. With the work 
of two game wardens, both members of the club, the game laws 
have been enforced very rigidly this past season. The outlook for 
game this coming season seems very good, owing to an open 
winter and other favorable conditions. The quail which were 
liberated by the club last spring did finely, and a good number 
were left over for seed. 

We get good reports occasionally from the pheasants which have 


been liberated by the club in the last three years, and we expect 
them to become quite plentiful in a few seasons, 

Action will soon be taken to, prevent certain mill owners in this 
vicinity from polluting streams with sawdust and other foreign 
matter injurious to the breeding of fish. = 

The outlook for trapshooting is very bright for the coming sea- 
son, and a first class team will again represent the club. The 
record made by last year’s team will stand for some time. The 
team in competition at Winchester, N. H., broke 119 out of a pos- 
sible 125 birds, a very good record for amateurs and a hard one 
for the professionals to beat. 

Pistol shooting has become quite popular among the members, 
and several are intending to take up this line of sport this spring, 


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At a later date the directors held a meeting and elected the 
various committees for the year. a member of the board acting as 
chairman of each cotimittee. The personnel of the various com- 
Mittees includes some of the best workers in the club, and a suc: 
cessful season is anticipated. E, W. Gtitson, Sec’y, 


The following formidable delegation cf wing shots and sportsmen 
left New York on Saturday in a special car, bound for Kansas City, 
whither they journey to compete in the Grand American Handicap: 
Messrs, B. Leroy: Woodard, A. C. Burrel, Sim Glover, C. Morris, 
D. S. Daudt, H. C. Koegel, O. R. Dickey, E. C. Griffith, Geo. 
Thorpe, J. A. H. Dressel, S. M. Van Allen, H, H. Stevens, T. W. 
Morfey, A, W. Money. = , 


The Ossining, N. ¥., Gun Club and the Schenectady Gun Club 
are to shoot a match between teams of eight men from each club 
on some Saturday in April. The date is to be decided later, , 


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The Interstate Association’s Programme, 


Targets, 


‘Tue third Grand American Handicap target tournament, that of 
1902, will be held at Interstate Park, Queens, L. 1, N. Y., May 
§ to 9 inclusive. ‘eee ‘ < 
_ The programme of this tournament, im the main, follows the 
‘policy heretofore adopted by the Interstate Association in respect to 
its Grand American Handicap target tournaments, and which has 
_ Proven in practice to be pepe equitable and successful, 
| This programme provides exclusive competition for amateurs 
jm many events, and in other events it provides competition for 
both amateurs anw manufacturers’ agents. The latter events are 
"governed by handicap conditions, the scope of which are so broad 
that, so far as the best judgment of experts can determine, a true 


‘equity is established between the ordinary contestants up to and” 


including the most skillful ones. 

_ This tournament in the target competition ranks with its fellow 
event, the Grand American Handicap at live birds; that is to say, 
it is the most eminent of its kind. 


. Interstate Park. 


The two previous Grand American Handicap target tournaments 
were held at Interstate Park, which has unrivaled facilities for the 
holding of this important event. , y 

The mammoth Casino, with its four sets of live-bird traps, ar: 
yanged in 4 straight line, occupies an inclosure of forty-five acres 
4under grass, the whole of the forty-five acres being as level as the 
conventional billard table, The traps face due east. Four sets 
of targets traps are placed within the boundary lines of No. 1 and 
No. 2 sets of live-bird traps. All four sets are in front of the 
Casino, and easily accessille trom the broad piazza. ; 

To reach Interstate Park from New York city take Thirty- 
fourth street ferry, East River, to Long Island City; thence by 
Long Island Railroad to Interstate Park station direct; or Brook- 
lyn Bridge to Long Island Railroad—Flatbush avenue station, 
Brooklyn—thence by train to Interstate Park direct. 

From Thirty-fourth street, East River—Week days: 6:30, 7:50, 
9:20, and 11 A,-M.; 12:20, 2, 3:20, 4:30, 8, and.10 P, M. Sundays: 
8:50 and 9:50 A. M.; 1:50, 4:10 and 5:20 P. M. 

From Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn—Week days: 6:37, 7:56, 9:25 
and 11:04 A. Mu; 12:24, 1:54, 3:22, 4:27, 8:07 and 10:07 P. M. 
Sundays: 8:63 and 9:53 A, M.; 1:54, 4:18 and 6:25 P. M. 

Leave Park for Thirty-fourth street, New York, or Flatbush 
aventie, Brooklyn—Week days: 7:05, 7:45, and 10:53; 12:16, 1:54, 
3:26, Bill, 5:52 (Saturday only), 6:54, 8:58 and 10:56 P. M. 
Sundays: 10:40 A. M.; 3:24 and 5:41 P, M, 


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Conditions Governing Grand Ametican Handicap at Targets 


One hundred targets, unknown angles, handicaps 14 to 25yds., 
high guns, not class shooting, The number of moneys into which 
the total purse will be divided will be determined by the number 
of entries received. Entrance money $10, the price of the targets 
being included. In addition to first money, the winner will re- 
ceive a sterling silver trophy, presented by the Interstate Associa- 
tion. 

Regular entries must bé made at the cashier’s office, om the 
shooting grounds, before 6 P. M., Wednesday, May 7- 

Penalty entries may be made after May 7, up to the commence- 
ment of the event, by paying $12 entrance, targets included. 


Division of Money in the Grand American Handicap at 
Targets. 


The Interstate Association adds $200 to the purse, atid. presents 
the winner of first money with a sterling silver trophy, com- 
miemorative of the win. ‘The total amount of the purse will be 
Eee in accordance with the number of entries received, as 
ollows: 

One to ten entries, two moneys—60 and 40 per cent. 

Eleven to twenty entries, four moneys—40, 30, 20 and 10 per 
cent, , 

Twenty-one to thirty entries, six moneys—30, 20, 15, 13, 12 and 
40. per cent. P E 

Thirty-one to forty entries, eight moneys—25, 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 5 
and 5 per cent, 

Forty-one to fifty entries, ten moneys—22, 18, 14, 11, 10, 8 5, 
5, 4 and 3 per cent. > oF 

Fifty-one to sixty entries, twelve moneys—20, 16, 18, 10, 9, 7%, 
6, 5, 5, 4, 3 and 2 per cent. 

Sixty-one to seventy entries, fourteen moneys—l8, 15, 12, 10, 9, 
7, 6, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 2, and 2 per cent. 

Seventy-one to eighty entries, sixteen moneys—I6, 14, 11, 9, 8, 7, 
6,5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2 and 2 per cent. 

- Enjghty-one to ninety entries, eighteen monveys—1l5, 13, 10, 8, 8, 7, 
6,5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2,2, 2 and 2 per cent. 

Ninety-one to one hundred entries, and over, twenty moneys— 
14, 12, 9, 8, 744, 644, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 2 per cent. 

Briefly summarizing the foregoing, it will be noted that two 
places are created ior each ten entries or fraction thereof up to 
one hundred. 


Division of Money in the Preliminary Handicap and 
the Consolation Handicap, 


The Interstate Association adds $100 to the purse in each event. 
Fifty dollars will be deducted from the net purse in each event to 
purchase two trophies, one for the winner of first money in each 
event. The purse will then be divided in accordance with the 
number of entries received, as follows; 

One to ten entries, two moneys—60 and 40 per cent. 

Eleven to twenty entries, four moneys—40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. 

Twenty-one to thirty entries, six moneys—a0, 20, 15, 13, 12 and 10 
per cent, 

Thirty-one to forty entries, eight moneys—25, 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 
5 and 5 per cent. 

Forty-one to fifty entries, ten moneys—22, 18, 14, 11, 10, 8, 5, 
5, 4 and 3 per cent, i 

Fifty-one to sixty entries, twelve moneys—20, 16, 13, 10, 9, 7. 
6, 5, 6, 4, 8 and 2 per cent. 

Sixty-one to seventy entries, fourteen moneys—18, 15, 12, 10, 3, 
7, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 2 and 2 per cent. 

Seventy-one to eighty entries, sixteen moneys—i6, 14, 11, 9, 8, 7, 
6, 5, 5, 4, 3,3, 3 2,2 and 2 per cent. 

Bighty-one to ninety entries, eighteen moneys—1l5, 13, 10, 8, 8, 7, 
6, 6, 5, 4 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 2 per cent. 

Ninety-one to one hundred entries and over, twenty moneys— 
14, 12, 9, 8, 7%, Gt, 6, 5, 5, 4. 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 2 per cent. 

Briefly summarizing the foregoing, it will be noted that two 
places are created for each ten entries or fraction thereof up to 
one hundred. 


First Day, Tuesday, May 6. 


Five events at 15, and five at 20 targets, $1.50 and $2 entrance} 

added to each event. All events at unknown angles. Manu- 

facturers’ agents, paid representatives, ete., may shoot in the above 
eyents for targets only, 


Second Day, Wednesday, May 7. 


Three events at 15 and two at 20 targets, $1.50 and $2 entrance: 
$20 added to’ each. Ail events at unknown angles. Manufacturers’ 
agents, paid representatives, etc., may shoot in the above events 
for targets only. 

Event No. 6—Preliminary Handicap.—Open to all, 100 targets, 
unknown anglés, $7 entrance, targets included; handicaps 14 to 
25yds., high guns, not class shooting; $100 added to the purse. 
The number of moneys into which the purse will be divided will 
be determined by the number of entries received, as is fully éx- 
plained elsewhere in this programme. In addition to first money, 
the winner will receive a trophy, $50 of the net purse being re- 
served to purchase Same. \ 

Regular entries must be made at the cashier’s office before 

P. M., Tuesday, May 6. Penalty entries may be made after 
May 6, up to the commencement of the event, by paying $10 entrance, 
targets included. Entries are not transferrable, and entrance 
Money cannot be withdrawn after handicaps have been awarded. 


Third Day, Thursday, May 38 


Three events at 15 and two events at 20 targets, $1.50 and $2 
entrance; $20 added to each, All events at unknown angles. Man- 
wlacturers’ agents, paid representatives, etc., may shoot in the 
above events for targets only. 

Event No. 6—Grand American Handicap at Targets—Open to 
all, 100 targets, unknown angles, $10 enirance, targets included; 
handicaps, 14 to 25yds., high guns, not class ‘shooting; $200 added 
to the purse. The number of moneys into which the total purse 


will be divided will be determined 


ee 


addition to first money, 


“own name-on box that goods are shipped in. 
the number of entries re-- 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


ceived, as is fully explained elsewhere in this programme. | In 
winner will receice a sterling silver 
trophy, presented by the Interstate Association. : 
epular entries must be made at the cashier’s office before 
6 P, M., Wednesday, May 7. Penalty entries may be made atter 
May 7, up to the commencement of the event by paying #12 
entrance, targets included. Entries are not transferrable, and 
entrance money cannot be withdrawn after handicaps haye been 


awarded, 


Fourth Day, Friday, May 9. 


Three events at 15 and two events at 20 targets, $150 and $2 
entrance: $20 added to each event. All events at unknown angles. 
Manufacturers’ agents, paid representatives, ete, may shoot in 
the above events for targets only, 

Event No. 6—Consolation Handicap,—Open to all, 100 targets, 
unknown angles, $7 entrance, targets imcluded; handicaps 14 to 
25yds., high guns, not class shooting; $100 added to the purse, 

inners of money in the Grand American Handicap at targets 
will have one or mote yards added to their handicap. The number 
of moneys into which the purse will be divided will be determined 
by the number of entries received, as is fully explained elsewhere 
in this programme. In addition to first money, the winner will 
receive a trophy, $50 of the net purse being reseryed to purchase 
same, 5 

Regular entries must be made at the cashiers office before 
6 P, M., Thursday, May 8 Tenalty entries may be made after 
May 8, up to the commencement of the event, by paying 410 
entrance, targets included, Entries are not transferrable, and 
entrance money cannot be withdrawn after the handicaps have been 
awarded, 


Manufacturers’ Representatives. 


A special rule of the Interstate Association provides is follows: 

“That all paid representatives, whether paid in shells, guns, 
inoney or otherwise, and all those connected in any way with com- 
panies manufacturing guns, shot, shells, powder, targets and 
traps, shall be barred from participating in sweepstakes atid purses 
at tournaments held under the auspices of or given by the Inter- 
state Association, but are eligible to shoot for ‘targets only’ for 
the purpose of displaying their goods, and shall stand at the 
regulation distance as proyided in the shooting rules of the Inter- 
state Association, The decision as to who such paid men are is 
left at all times to the Association’s manager, whose decision 
shall be final.”’ wh) 

The above rule, however, shall not apply in any handicap events 
at Wie APOE tournaments if such events are stated to be “open 
to_all. 

The aim of the Interstate Association, an organization that was 
formed and incorporated ‘for the encouragement of trapshooting,” 
in giving this tournament, is to foster a sport that is deservedly 
popular; to bring together experts, semi-experts and novices; to 
Safeguard the interests of both, and to show how a large trap 
shooting event should be run, 

Special mention mustsbe made of the fact that the Interstate 
Association adheres to its usual rule of barring paid experts, and 
all who come wnder the head of manufacturers’ agents, from par- 
ticipating in the putses in the regular events. All such are wel- 
come ta shoot “for targets only” in those events. In the handi- 
cap events, however, the Association makes special conditions, 


fully set forth elsewhere, fecling satisfied that the ability of its” 


handicap committee is such that all will be placed on an equal 
footing, and each shooter will have an equal chance to win one or 
other of the trophies for special competition in those events. 

The system of handicapping, which is, perhaps, the most gen- 
erally used, is that of giving allowance of targets to the weaker 
shots. This is, at best, very unsatisfactory, it being difficult to 
adjust handicaps on an equitable basis umder such a system, 

Another system of handicapping is that by which an allowance 
of “misses as breaks’? is made to those who are less expert than 
their opponents. This system is easier to handle in a_ fairly 
equitable manner than the one above described, but it is still 
somewhat unsatisfactory, , ; 

The Interstate Association decided two years ago to discard 
them both, and handicap by distance only. Success proved its 
wisdom. ‘The distance handicap will be used again this year. 

In appointing the handicap committee for its third Grand Ameri- 
can Handicap target tournament, the Interstate Association was 
at special pains to appoint on such committee those whom it 
deemed best suited for the purpose. aving been uniformly suc- 
cessful in its choice in past years, the task of appointing a com- 
mittee for this year’s tournament was not a difficult one. 

It is with the greatest pleasure that the Association announces 
that it has secured the services of a handicap committee composed 
of five men, each one of whom is thoroughly well qualified to 
judge of the individual merits of the contestants, and to award 
handicaps accordingly. 

The committee is constituted as follows: B, Waters, of Forzsr 
AND STREAM, Chairman; W. R. Hobart, of American Field; Will 
K, Park, of Sporting Life; M. R. Herrington, of Shooting and 
Fishing; D, F. Pride, of Field and Fancy, » 

Mr, Elmer E, Shaner, manager of the Interstate Association, will 
be secretary to the committee, but. will not. have a vote in the 
handicapping of contestants. 

The committee will meet-in the Casino at Interstate Park on 
the evenings of May 6, 7 and 8, to award handicaps for the Pre- 
liminary Handicap, the Grand American Handicap at targets, and 
the Consolation Handicap, respectively. Entries for these events 
close at 6 P. M. on the day previous to that for which it is 
scheduled. 7 

Shooting will commence each day upon the arrival of the train 
which leaves Long Island City at 9:20 A. M., and Flatbush 
avenue, Brooklyn, at 9:25 A. M. 

The Interstate Association trapshooting rules will govern all 
points No guns larger than a 12- 
gauge Black powder barred. Targets will be thrown 

S. . ‘ 

he standard bore of the gun is No. 12, and in the handicap 
events all contestants will be handicapped on that basis. Con- 
téstants using guns of smaller bore must stand on the mark alot- 
ted to them, 

Winners of money in any event must apply to the compiler of 
scores for orders on the cashier for the money due them, No 
money will be paid out by the cashier except on receipt of such 
an_ order. ' 

Rule 11 of the Interstate Association rules, relating to bore of 
gun, is not in force at this tournament. No guns larger than 12- 
gauge allowed, weight of guns unlimited, 

The Inriterstate Association adds $1,000, of which amount $100 
will be reserved to purchase a sterling silver trophy for the winner 
of first money in the Grand American Handicap at targets. 

All purses in the regular events will be divided according to 
the Rose system, into four moneys at the ratio of 8, 5, 3, 2 

Contestants are requested ta make entries for the entire pro- 
gramme each day. Money wall be refunded in all uncontested 
events, and the contestant has \but to notify the cashier of his in- 
tention to withdraw. 

‘Price of targets, 2 cents each, included in all entrances. 

In the handicap events ties that are shot off will be at 25 targets 
per man, and the original diastances contestants stand at will 
govern, 

The official score will be kept on a-score board in plain view 
of the contestant. It will be the duty of the contestant to look 
at the score board and see to it that the right result is recorded. 
In case of error it must be corrected at once, as no appeal will be 
allowed after the contestant has left and passed on to the next 
set of traps. 

Admittance to Interstate Park will be free to all during the 
entire tournament. 7 

A warm and substantial lunch will be served each day in the 
Casino for the sum of 50 cents. 

Bank checks, drafts or bill of exchange, will not be received at 
the cashier's office. nor will any check, draft or bill of exchange 
be cashed during the tournament. This rule will be strictly ad- 
hered to. 

A separate locker will be assigned to each contestant desiring 
one, there being a sufficient number to accommodate all, no matter 
how large the number of entries may be. 

One important feature in connection with the lockers is that they 
are large enough.for a gun to stand in when the gun is put to- 


not otherwise provided for. 
allowed. 


gether, this permitting a contestant to keep his gun under lock 


and key at all times when he is not using it, The lockers are also 
amply sufficient to accommodate the other belongings of a con- 
festant, such as gun case, shells, traveling bag, etc., and no twa 
lockers haye the same key. 

Lockers will be rented to those who desire them at $1 for the 
Wenee pbporee aoe if Bucent Ag be required to deposit $2. 
of which amoun wi e reiunded on retu rhen 
through with the locker. eturn of the Key when 

Guns, ammunition, etc., forwarded by express tnust be 

Lt, N. 


and sent to Interstate Park, Queens, Y. Mar ape 


your 
Special attention is called to the schedule of events agra nged 


for each day of the tournament. The conditions of the handicap 


ake merit—and will of course receive—more careful study than 
usual, : wa 

In the handicap events the purses will be divided among the 
“high guns,” the number of “high guns” beig governed by the 
number of entries. 

No expense will be spared to make the tournament run smoothly. 
The most expert and competent help will be secured, and the 
office force will be large and capable. i ; 

Four sets of traps will be used, and all shooting will be at - 
unknown angles, , 

Further information relative to. the tournament will be cheer- 
fully furnished by Edward Banks, secretary-treastirer, 318 Broad- 
way, New York, or by the manager, Elmer E, Shaner, 111 Fourth 
avenue, Pittsburg, Pa, 


Arkansas Championships. ' - 


Pine Buorr, Ark., March 25.—Jones’ Park, the home of that 
active shooting organization, the Pine Bluff Gun Club, was the 
scene of the second open contest for the live-bird championshi 
and the possession of the elegant Peters Cartridge Company’s 
trophy. ‘Tiwerity-two principals qualified for the race, which was at 
26 birds, 20yds. rise, Interstate miles. The contest was fraught 
with interest from start to finish, and while it was any one’s race 
up to the very close, it was eventually won by J, A, Coles, a local 
man, on the fine score of 24. This was a popular win, and the vic- 
tor is clearly entitled to the honor, as he shot with rare skill and 
judgement throughout, and in the closing rotinds, when the quality 
of the birds improved materially, made many fine kills, thereby 
dlearly demonstrating that he is capable of displaying his ability 
under pressure, for at this juncture a miss would mean a tedious 
shoot-off and the probable loss of the trophy and honor. 

The other chief factor in the contest was I. J. Vick, also a local 
man, who distinguished himself by killing his first 20 birds im 
slashing style} but lack of experience overcame his natural abilities, 
and this, with: the strain of having made the pace so long, evi- 
dently was responsible for his losing 3 of his remaining 5. He, 
Howell, Clements, Pemberton and Cromwell all finished with 22, 
which was next to the winner. 

The weather during the early part of the race was very foggy, 
and it was a difficult matter to judge dark birds accurately, Col- 
lectively, these wete rather an ordinary lot, and the murky con- 
dition of the atmosphere and the total absence of any wind, added 
neither snap nor vigor, Aside from the foggy condition of the 
weather, the shoot was a very pleasant one, and all the principals 
were highly pleased with the manner in which it was condticted. 

As soon as Coles was announced the winner, J. E, Balle, of 
Stuttgart, immediately challenged him to an individual contest, 
and the pair will meet here April &. | 

Geo. W. Clements is thesholder of the individual flying target 
championship of the State, and J, E. Balle was an aspirant for ihe 
possession of the trophy that goes with the honor, Just prior ta 
the commencement of the live-bird event they settled their little 
argument in a 50-target contest, and Clements easily defended his 
title by putting up the very excellent score of 47, while his oppon- 
ent could account for but 386 of his, Following are ihe scores: 


Coles ...,. Asharnecarstiiere sacha Adete ere falls Say 1222221212222020222929209- 94 
RVG ses facie ad oad oan asus vote 112121221222222039934) 21229 
Howell ...-.+-.., Wi ealstetd eG eee th ihtee tec +» *222122212202220222209291 99 
GIETICNIS. craarm= sve sere Pitite caean c/eeiet at og 2222220922222200222929999- 92 
Pemberton ..... Peeps tose tin cies etiasme se sscoel spe lerepsaanoe ovo oe 
Balle ...... SCRE DO COEUR 0 peste emotes Be kee 2120*2221202122*2222221 2297 
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Paun R. Lirzesg, 


Mississippi Valley Notes. 


THERE Was a grand wind-up reunion at Dupont Park, St, Louis, 
on March 28, in preparation for the Grand American Handicap. 
Both the Dupont trophy _and Rawlings medal were contested for, 
For" the former trophy fifteen out of twenty-two contestants fin- 
ished with straight scores. In the shoot-off, John Cabanne won, 
with Orvis the runner-up. 

The Rawlings medal was won by Lenarth on the third contest. 
The scores in both competitions follow: 

Dupont Medal: : 


Handicap. Handicap. 

1 Killed. Score, Killed. oe 
MOREY) DAvesscteraceeer 7 Bowman, 29.......... 8 8 
Crosby, 29.....:......- Ey} Kenyon, 28.....2..0... 8 & 
White, 29.....5.0...3..6 7 Clay) 29. erates trary « 6 vi 
Bolsour,) 205) 5. st te ees he 8 Corttelly Bur eccy eens 6 g 
Brooks, 20..;.-++-+-+-s 7 8 Brown, 29.23.94 eebees 7 & 
Drs Siuns 292) sass ee eel 8 Baggerman, 29.....,.. 8 g 
J, Cabanne; 2995.2. 2.-2 7 8 Pelt e20nes so aege sar 26 7 
€ G Spencer, 29.....- 8 8 Dr Cummings, ri 6 7 
OruisneeOwaeee vente semi es 8 Spices Zaye hetenaenc? 8 
Dr Spencer, 28.......-7 8 Herbert, 282%. 20e.s2050 4 6 
Dr Plumer, 28........ 6 8 IMinrel <5 7 OA OBBMBG eee 6 qT 


Rawlings medal: C, G, Spencer 23, Dr, Sims 21, Hf 
Christman 6, Shields 10, Crosby 19, Orvis 20, Bowman A Mee 
mod 19, Money 21, Childs 16, Kilgour 16, Plumer 22, Brooke 23 
White 18, Dr. Spencer 16, Brown 23, Clay 28, Cornell 18, Cabanne 
28, Lenharth 23, Davis 21, Rock 21, Baggerman 21. 


A New Record, 


The incident of the day was the sensational work of Mr. Harold 
Money, who is now a demonstrator for the Winchester Repeating 
Arms Company, m_a contest at double-target shooting. As a 
Spécial featiire Alec Mermod, Dr. Plumer and Money arranged to 
shoot at 25 pairs each for the price of the birds, Mermod scored 
24, Plumer 388 and Money 49. Money’s single miss was the second 
bird of his ninth pair, Having made such a start, Mr. Money 
was urged to continue to 100, to see what he could do on 50 pairs 
dig -ponschted, ae iareets were sprown out just as in ordinary 
ompetition, an r. Money scored them all, makt - 
ena! record of 99 out on 100 on doubles. : peti Fe es 

ere 18 no surprise here in the West at the large entry lis 
the Grand American. As soon as the event Wat Beaune eS bn 
West, it was.a foregone conelusion that this great central basin 
would turn out an unprecedented number of contestants, and every 
one familiar with conditions here predicted that it would be so. 


And there will be other records brok in* c iti 
pate Sacre én in the great competition 


Chesapeake Gun Club, 


Newrort News, Va., March 26.—The reeul 
mone Hass Gun Club was held pa ‘Following ame ane 
First match, 25 targets: T. F. Stearnes 22, B. B. S 
“Dr, J. Charles 18, E. neal omas 19; B. LeGaee 
ee yee S. Robinson 20, L. D. Thomas 19, FE. Latimer 
~_ Second match, 25 targets: Dr. J. Charles 23, T. F. Stearnes 21, 


B. Semmes 21, E. S. Robi i 
ee tice Fea tobinson 20, F. Latimer 19, G. B. James 


Third match, 25 targets: 


T. E. Stea ¢ 
B. B. Semmes 20. , Se oes oe ie a 


Smithtown Gun Club, 


Mareb 22,—The regular shoot of the Smitht Deets 
S own, L. I, G 
Was held to-day. Not many shooters were present. Call Was eee 
gun, with Tyler a close second. Following are the scores: 
Eyents; t 23 


45678 91001 
Targets 10 10 10 10 10 10 40 10 10 10 10 1 fh 
Smithy ese coesneysayseeeateees Sa7% (D651 6.85: TE Re MORNE yee 
Olivia was vevareenrigeenetsenss ae ae re 
Fe reese ia ee i Sc 8 710 
T ter ratardyspne daRvleres apr +8 9:10, 9-7 i. %, 99 : ; y 
etcham 899950009 ebonssangcena os O 7 4 og 5 4 9 q 8 8 
Brush SOPHIE HHS HE S209 %2dD 2009 oo 49. 4 29 2o of aus yi 
: BO 22 42 66 41a 
: “ELALS Bes 


280 


2 eS |... 


Boston Gun Club.- 


Boston, Mass., March 28.—Twenty-two shooters made both trap- 
pers and scorers hum at the regular weekly Boston Gun Club 
shoot, but as is usual, the more you make them hustle the more 
they like it, and both trappers and shooters were more than feeling 
good at the end of the afternoon’s sport. 

Many new faces were in evidence, some of them securing well- 
deserved honors during the regular events, and we regret that it 
is impossible for them to come more often, 

While the number of straights were slight in comparison to what 
is usually the casé when stich an aggregation get together, the 
shooting om the whole was good, Twinkle securing two clean ones 
and Bullard one. The former also secured one tun of 28 breaks 
from the 18yd. mark. : 

In the individual match, Henderson was high with 21, standing 
on the “8yd. mark, Twinkle second with 20 on the same mark, 
Worthing third, lvyds., with 19; Griffiths and Spencer fourth. 
Scores follow: 


* Events: t.2 03 4°65 6 7 8 SOs ia3 14 
Targets 10 15 10 10 15 10 10 15 10 10 10 15 10 15 
GEntiths,, Gr ever eee CL eee TSE S ie So wee some ln anise nee ee 
Hero ole nenon Re ere neti er royal ge bere ea KO Sri a Al gp ee th 
LOW CIELO eens setters sttrentc (10 2) SHOVES TAOS eG er Peay ae 
Bewarrkles, leva bies seks 7112 7 5101010 14 7 9 8 13 .: 12 
Wie chiciiths melivictats) tn) see fore ie Legs LS SS Rn EM Pe eee 
Tian ea OES a RES ApS ba aecge 60S) SP. 6 PROT eS ee 
IE abo Lisp clea ob ee Se ee yey, Ge 2 tere eee eo Bie eee oe 
Heverett, 16. ee ae. te a 5 COMI Mice ce 
Te bho ude meee Soe Hieeare EenD Seo edo Ooty we Bm Be 
Brclleard 0G We testes eisieetenicine GIS 6 a5 SA TOSS TS 2. eee 
Wicnbliime) 1 berets auinen sen P10) 34) Bolte Geo: UG eae ex 
DEsAc LON plus werledenenedsee i PA Se Ours ad en one 
lakeyidistogy, Wie oa wa Saad Heneese ae Se A oS Bee RR 
itil aertts uel G ote eee ae REP mea Sorcha) NS ithe gh Dn f 
Efenderson;  Wisseueeetaaimete sey eL ere ln DoD. eo hi) Rides bE 
iNsclrol sale. e coer MeL Ue ein Meine ee & pe be: Oey a: 
DICK Eur Tie Ser er eee aen ee ener ECT SO eden Sent - 
MBPETECES USAT OTM hae cesta iene nets hb Sct bibl) Ary thee 
Bina LO tanya a telvaettaenitee Bi arise tia CrelU ED etal meme Olin sete 
Fisher, 16...... SAMAR Rie fd an A bare. be re Ch eI BS BS 
Predenckso) C14. Lal taco de. han Geen we) gee Os Geen hh 
TST US iL Gage cee ans bp et pe ye, cation tyes Lana A 2 : 


Henderson, 18-....:..0i.005 - ADIT 17001111 1101110111—21 
abwintcles 18 YS Rea Week +» ALOOUL0UOTIONIT = 10.1011 1-20): 
Worthing, 16....... fook Seek Pears Hr O1LOTIIIONITI1 «= 110110110 19 
CG regent SHS 10 stetery vedas arte pewereate rates ate? 01U110111914111 ~=—s- 110001100118 
Spencer, 18..:.....! Aten eaiasiny tear ee 101111011110110 0011101311—18 
Blain. Tek peer Pet Pes ee 111101101100101 1013101011—17 
TONE LOWE erence attend Shots ciraest ibeieee Bea 001000011110110 111111101116 
Wits dasittewelin pope cheat an ee eee es 011111011001001 1000111111—16 
everett 4 s1GhS)ti4.ciorapedean lcs ee Ae 011100121130111 001101101016 
Leroy, 21........ Seer Sl TERRE L Rn eonee 110019110110101 0001110101—15 
Bia lace Al Gee. erry sare a) pee ne +--.-L02011111111001 0000010771 —15 
ArH ek Oper eee ORL AGEL One Seen a 001113111101001  0100101011—15 
IDA yess PALE URES dolla den aise i ye 101110011001110 =§=—-01011.001—15 
Dew A SLO MM, pelea felebel econ peocercithclejeluleteasne 010101101100101  1101110010—14 
Willies a hae Re cae ee eaieyeide boas me Adin 010011310000010 =: 0001110101 —11 
Weak cage Ufa 2 = ert Mea SINE oe Se ert 001010100000100  1100100101i— 9 
BL ICHOLSH elaee pre icatcn se atl tenia ise 010000100000000  1100000100— 5 
SECRETARY. 


Gilbert—Elliott— Crosky. 


Kansas City, Mo., March 28—To-day Gilbert, Crosby and El 
liott shot off for final possession of the Sportsmen’s Review cup, 
at 50 live birds each, $25 entrance, the high man to get back his en- 
trance, and the second man to take $12.50, and the balance to pay 
for the birds. 

Mr. Emil Werk, of the Sportsmen’s Review, was referee. The 
contest commenced at 2:35 P. M. Crosby won the toss and was 
first to the score, He lost his first bird; a left-quartering driver 
from No. 5 trap, He lost his lth, a right-quarterer: his 23d fell 
dead out of bounds; his 41st also fell’ dead outside, and he went 
out with 46. 

Gilbert came next. He lost his 12th, a straightaway driver; his 
33d and 4ist fell dead outside, and he went out with 47. 

Elliott lest his second dead out, and his fifth, a straightaway 
driver, escaped unhurt. He then killed 40 straight, and looked like 
a winner, but his 46th, a cork screw driver, got away without a 
scratch. 

It was decided to shoot- off the tie at 10 birds, and a good hot 
shoot-off was looked for. Gilbert was first up and killed his 10 
birds in good shape. Elliott lost his first; also his second, fell 
dead outside. He then killed three and lost an easy incomer, 
going out With 7 out of his 10. , : 

Mr.. Gilbert was warmly congratulated on his win. Gilbert shot 
a Parker gun, Winchester shells and Dupont powder. Scores: 


Trap score type—Copyright, 902, ‘by Forest and Stream Pub, Co. 


55645124828818521144911211 
KRARRRRAASASZAYATAAARAAL AAA 
W R Crosby...002 129222 14 09 99 1°90 940.1 oo o_99 
58441228551184934214242922 
RRA CRRAR ZORRRDVAARAYRA A 
2222292992929999992+#199999 99 94 46 
521128211224232918481182138 
: RA ARPS IOS RAA 2995 CAA SRR 
Fred Gilbert,.,.221221111120211111299193 T9-94 
49814159844491529912991155 
KRRARACKE SARA LRREYARRARNRANA 
12222292*22921921%*2992999 2 9 j~98—47 
85881118111211425138425899 
; ATRYRAARAAARAACHOILANILARRKKR 
J A RBlliott...2*12022229112112111111177 1-93 
155838842288154212291134492 
NASR LSARRORRARTARAYSNSA CRNA 
2111121211129712121110121 1—94—47 
Shoot-off of tie: ‘ 
1228128128 45528524562 
i HAAARALALA AAKRAALARRA 
Fred Gilbert.222222992121-10 JARElhott.0 *11102222-—7 


New Jersey Anti-Pigeon Bill, 


The following is taken from the True American, a New Jersey 
paper, and throws a bright side light on the pigeon shooting 
situation in New Jersey: . 

New Jersey will be the mecca for all the sportsmen interested in 
live-bird shooting for at least another year, and it is practically 
assured that the great American handicap shoot will be run off 
at the Interstate Fair grounds this coming fall. 

The bill to prohibit live-bird shooting that the timid legislators 
passed with so much aplomb in the House, and prided themselves 
upon their good work in suppressing alleged cruel sport, has met 
its fate—buried in the Senate committee and left there while the 
legislators have winged their way home, and some of them are 
even thinking that the bold, bad men with guns are no longer to 
kill the sweet, little, innocent doyes in target shooting. 

They will wake up when they get this edition of the True Ameri- 
can and find that there is going to be live-bird shooting in New 
Jersey this year, and ‘that their efforts to kill a legitimate sport 
have been abortive. , J 

The honor of keeping this bill in committee belongs alone to 
Dr. George N. Thomas, president of the New Jersey Shooting 
Association. It was he who retained counsel, Francis B. Lee, and 
fought the bill from the beginning. Others lent a hand by their 
preserice at the State House, but Dr. Thomas bore the brunt of 
the fight and won out. 

How was the bill smothered? It was forgotten when the com- 
mitteé went into the last session of the Senate. How was it for- 
gotten? Ask an easier one. 

Anyhow, there will be live-bird shooting in New Jersey for one 
year more, and when the bill or a similar ome comes up to stop 
this legitimate sport, the people who know nothing about live- 
bird shooting and because of their ignorance think it cruel, will 
find a solid front made by the spertsmen awaiting their efforts. 

Dr. Thomas commenced last night to interest the New Jersey 
State Sportsmen’s Association in the danger of a similar bill com- 
ing up next session, and by letter told them of the danger run 
this year in the stopping of the sport, and asked that plans be set 
on foot at once to stop apother attempt at outlawing pigeon shoot 


ing, . a 

The crack of the gun will be heard as it brings down the pigeon 
for this year at least. and New Jersey will be the’ mecca of ql 
wing shooters this fal}. hs etoile i! 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


WESTERN TRAPS. 
The Handicap, 


Cuteaco, Iil., March 27.—Even the most ardent Westerner is 
surprised, if not almost dismayed, at the unprecedented enthusi- 
asm which has sprung up all through the Western States over the 
Grand American Handicap. We used to talk about what we would 
do with this thing if it eyer came West, but it is safely to be said 
that no one ever imagined that the West would boom the Handicap 
to its present unparalleled size. From 278 to 453—the latter being 
the entry at date, though it may be 475 or even 500 before the 
firing begins—is a long jump, longer than even the most sanguine 
shooter, East, West or South, has ever dreamed could be pos- 
sible. The city on the Kaw may well be proud, albeit a bit 
nervous with her pride. Lhe accommodations will be taxed to the 
limit, but as has hitherto béen stated, Western cities have always 
tisen to big occasions, and Kansas City will rise to this one. 

Everything goes forward smoothly here, and the big Illinois ex- 
cursion train in charge of Mr. Rice is receiving augmentations of 
its numbers steadily. There are already several Eastern and South- 
ern shooters in town who will move on down to Kansas City the 
first of next week or perhaps earlier. 

‘\ review of the entries seems to show that the East is not pra- 
portionately so well represented as it ought to be. One finds 
to-day only thirty-two names from those States properly to be 
called Eastern States, a showing which is not so Jarge as it ought 
to have been. It would do these Eastern shooters a lot of good 
to come out West and get a touch of gentiine ozone in their sys- 
tems. They would live longer and die much wiser. However, 
Kansas City cannot be blamed if they do not come. The town is 
here and the ozoné is here also, and the losers are those who do 
not see the one and inhale the other. 

The South is to be represented more strongly than ever before 
at any Grand American Handicap, the total from those States prop- 
erly to be called south of Mason and Dixon’s line running some- 
thing like 125 to-day, with prospects of a larger list before the 
closing of the entries, Missouri naturally is strongly represented, 
and furnishes nearly 100 shootefs by herself, a tally to the sup- 
port of home industry which is noteworthy and praiseworthy as 
well. Illinois, with 75, is second to Missouri, and the conservative 
little State of Iowa sends 54 representatives. The extremes of 
North and South, namely Minnesota and Texas, send the same 
number of shooters, 11 in each case. The new State BeaOelsaba 
sends 6 shooters, and from other parts of the late Indian Terri- 
tory come 4 exponents of the shotgun. Thus far only one rep- 
resentative of Canada is chronicled, though others may materialize 
before this finds print. It 1s bootless to print names or figures 
where such things mean so little. Even the shoot itself when wit- 
nessed by the most careful observer will be hard to grasp in its 
entirety, and will offer so great a mass of detail as to place it be- 
yond any single stroke of the eye—or of the pen either, for that 
matter. 


Illinois State. 


Speaking of old times, we should not, in our enthusiasm over 
the Grand American Handicap, neglect matters close at home. 
The Illinois State Sportsmen’s Association, the oldest fixture of the 
shooting public in this commonwealth, will hold its twenty-eighth 
tournament at Watson’s Park, Burnside, May 20-23. Eddie Bing- 
ham, the secretary-treasurer, will be seen in his act of being the 
whole thing between now and May 20, as most of the details of 
this shoot will fall upon his shoulders, The shoulders are entirely 
competent and trustworthy, 


Want More Moneys, 


Telegraphic advices from Kansas City under date of yesterday 
advise of the receipt of a petition asking the management of the 
stand American Handicap to increase the number of moneys for 
the purpose of more widely distributing the purse money. When 
the original divisions were announced, no such numbers in the 
entry were anticipated. The petition asks the managers to 
increase the prize list to 150, doubling the amount guaranteed for 
the first three guns, and creating a prize list to cover greater 
numbers than under the old system of divisions. No word regard- 
ing action on this has been received at this writing. 

E. Hovex. 

Hartrorp Buripine, Chicago, Il, 


Trap at Watson’s Park, 


March 25.—Event No, 1 was at 10 birds, $5 entrance, high: guns, 
60 and 40 per cent; No, 2 was at 15 birds, $7 entrance, high guns, 
40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent.; No. 3, same as No, 1: 


No. 1. No, 2, ‘No. 3: 
FUGA, 5 5 othcb eatrenocl 11110*#2101— 7 222012312312911—14 212121999110 
Alabaster, 29........ 122222212110 + 222220221223121 14 2999911192 10 
Clempson, 29........ 2222222222 10 22222299292992* 14 219131999% 9 
FH GIG Pa safeneueannrere »2222211222 10 -22222202299%9% 1] .) ou. by.. 
Crothers, 28...... ,~ -2222222122 10 + 2222221*9209122 12 2021121990— 8 
MlintoheeGssacese seen ens o eee 020012222102101—31 .. ck .e5 
Ord oe uuansadfie lida ones 12220220220220W = sa aaeceeee 
Ffealyabo tai aice neu eerL bien 111202210021100—10 ...... and 
Iseiiey, PRU BHBhoseoter A SS SAS +! 220222222271112—14 ss. 


March 26.—No. 1, 10 birds, $5 entrance, high guns, 60 and 40 
per cent.; No. 2, 15 birds, $7 entrance, high guns, 60 and 40 per 
cent.; No, 3, miss-and-out, $3 entrance: ‘ 


No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. 

Gilbert, 32......+-., 0211102111— § 112112222121192 15 22121911922 17 
TRO] BAR eee eae 222222211210 221122212222112 15 12129220 —7 
Bea Fille he seeds sa mie 2222232222—10 222202921229929- 15 ppap99990999 17 
medropeteles PVE S A esr: 0212012001— 6 120122222129021—138 ...00... lL 
Hughes, 27......... 02002105 oe eee ee WEEP err Rn 
Pinca ewes desea ees ae 222102222222222—14 2323290929010 
IE DASTET, 629s cinch isleteselsineeree 20221222000112211 0 —d 

Practice: 
Geo Brier....- FE ee ee oe wean 2222222*2220212102222292*2202020—25 
AP yaVEtt lb ercy™ seins aos ole etter elethetoutei ire 02222022220220022022220222220229-—2.4 
Wioodtond® cides ees osdin thay ad +. «22222222022210200112122211022222—97 
(lintons 2<2 sda ttle h aise same ane 2111222211102202220011122 —?21 
Gamerolenaasr cheers Saeed sO 0120202122222002202200212 —17 
ERAT MIBEE oe pace iceinomkiukleg santos 0111021202001011122 —13 
TP SHES) 9 eereessaess pbb bee cece on ar 11222111012112121021221112221291—30 
Colas! rreprenvieeiertatinwes at ennai 2122222022102001202222202002020 —21 
Wot: Fee ties eee cial seniers eae 2222202210220222221200222 —20 
AGG: Madey) Sry Un atouans oleate conte ae. ote 2222222212221221- —i6 
SAID EL Sgalasj)-1-)-)-)4-)-thiel eae cette 12111212 —8s. 
INE EIRIAS ABW AHAB BAP OA LA Secures. 11111111.21720111 —15 
IV CL GEM Renn mcm. ote; ana ee ee 1121010112 —s 
; RAVELRIGG. 


March 27.—No. 1, was at 10 birds, $5 entrance, class shooting, 
50, 80 and 20 per cent.; No. 2, miss-and-out, $2 entrance; No, 3, 
matoh ; 5 


No, 1. No. 2. No. 3 

Stitt oe Eee en oe 221112112210 22110 —4 rMiemt re 

ALLO seod bem enoe tne ts 222122112210 2222222099 10 dg ae 
Amberes 2855. 20... 23 O1212222— 9 222112222210 112220222— & 
© Von Lengerke, 30.2222222222 10 3... -.4-+.- 222222222910) 

221212121210 221212122110 yee 

221122111210 = 31220 eg Oe 

HO2220TF22—ht ete ||| NNN NNN 

. 122112112210 10 eT WRATH 

2121212200— 8 eee ce le. re nes apart 

2220221022— $ 2222222923140 ......4... 


March 28.—No. 1, 10 birds, $7 entrance. high gums, 50, 30 and 20 
per cent.; No. 2, 15 birds, $10 entrance, 50, 30 and 20 per cent.: 


No. 1. ye Nios 2 
Palinér, M28: ... 22 beets ,=.2221021022— 8 212022229990201—12 
RODS See Ebene 1111221102— 9  129211999199199 75 
I Budd, 28 212222112210 —-10*211222101112 19 
IDPS UID ETH bie © 200, seo senting east. 2021222222 9  229291999029999 14 
\bxdovekseters, aay tae 5 treme 2 LOT TAG RI LE Ae 
Grahawiy 29 Gee eae ee 2 22222222221)  -222299999999999 15 
Je eSamithy iol mites espero rene  2*2020W ay aKa ie ee 
AndYov bays Flssc - e O EL ee bey Pees 2222222229999%9- 14 
Barta, DOS se ieee ae herbert eee ae ee 2211*1222212992- 14 
Dr Shaw, 284ib ann. aetecaaaredaes eeodeg ard ne 2202222720210w 


March 29,—The Nonpareil Gun Club’s shoot was held to-day. 
The club event was at 15 birds, $5 entrance, three moneys, to be 
shot down to three men, Scores: 


J] L White. , ...002222211111101I—12,  Pumphrey .. ..21211**20211011—11 
J_R_ Graham. . .222222222222292 15 Kuss .......... 222222922992222— 15 
*T W Budd....2221*1220122122—14 Dr Shaw..... , .022*22021210211 —11 
GRon trea 222222222112221—15 *Dr Darby. ...5222222222991999 15 
2Mechinoe a yrae 222222022111211-—15 “Hibbard ..... 200012022002211— 9 
*Edwards .....022222112222000-—11 W Leffiinewell.22200122221911913 
*Ed Voris.,... 21*1227112211-13 *E M Steck, . ,020022221120120—10 

Wade ..... snr 222711002212 


*Snyder Paar ene ee ee eee 
ES Greham., g 


il} eeeheds Seeds “) 


22222) 
) B Barto. ...219122202222100—11 


‘Company, of New 


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[Armin 5, 1902. 


SG A Thorne..222120220220212 13 J H Amberg..1122111 
*Huse .......-.201210011022111—11 

*Miller .,...,.:21222021012222113 
S Palmer......020122220222912 19 


12122212—16 
Northcott ....022001022120021— 9 
ES Rice.,,...11112"1*2222020—11 


*Visitors. 
Ties on 15: i 
RoGrabainwe. topes. +-»+.2202020 Kuss ,..... oy ity 22220 
al A sBoec dior versveves sed d22022 Darby ...... 
Deering ...... teresa sae. 220 AMIDere yoeleaieas : 
Quarterly ties: 
Ol 5544 Cet ranenes s 12220 ATIBET ES Stas cnetv ss Dena 
TUTE GMN EE SBE Rs RAL A a + 2222220222 ES Graham...,........2922222920 
Handicap, 10 birds, entrance $7, all ties divided: 
eering, 28..... «--2211221020— 8 Palmer, 28...... 
Huse, 27....,.++2+>24111212212—-10 Budd, 28:.-..., 
Miillearsiee ta earns -2102110112— 8 Pumphrey, 27... 
Edwards, 27........ 2222*02212— 8 Roll, 29.......5 
Barto, 29..... - -0011212222— 8 Wade, 27..-.s.i.0-s 
Snyder, 27.... --1111212120— 9 Northcott, 27....... 2222202012—  ! 
Oris, 28...... --1111222112—10 Darby, 27...........2229292999 10 * 
E Graham, 29..... .2222222222-10 Hibbard, 26...... -0010102020— 4 
Macks: ivewenees .---1211200111— 8 Clinton, 26....,..... 2200222222— 8 
J Graham, 29.,....1292299999 10 Steck, 28....,.. +++ 01122111022— 9 


Ten birds, entrance $5, all ties divided: 


Thorne ....+.+.+..-2120121212— 9 Miller Pete eee) aa ae) 
IBGE Goce arent cn 122122212210 Clinton ............0222122910— & 
MOoristh, oe ace eee 122122112110 Broderick ....... . .1111011200— 7 
Snyder }..... mse. 4 1110221111— 9 ‘ 
Miss-and-out, entrance $3, ties divided: 
Bidwards) ict) ey 0 S Graham. ......,.222222929999 
idea: Seas + 222220 Roll SIS iyo ies nek oe ez ite 
AIM eT. as eee eae vreecddaadenusene FUSS loss etnsenoee Reel) 
eS eerie ete ues aaa Bathe ee eats +12* 
HIVE tia cees 3 eee ale uMphrey 44..,220-..212222999017 
J R Graham..... te eQ2Q122292902 Wade ooieeyseosceen e220 


Colt Gun Club Tournament. 


HiArtrorD, Coun,, March 28.—Notwithstanding the inclemency 


of the weather, there was a good attendance at the sweepstake shoot 
held at the club grounds this afternoon, 
to shoot, and over 900 targets were trapped for their amusement. 
The last two events were omitted, owing to the early darkness. 
Some good scores were made, as can be seen by reference to the 
table below, but all found that there was plenty of room on all 
Sh Cree the flying targets, and the dark backeround made hard 
shooting. ' 

The conditions were as follows: Events Nos, 1, 2 and 5 were 
I6yds. rise, known traps and unknown angles, No. 3 was l6yds, 
rise, reverse angles. 0. 4 was I4yds. rise, known angles and 
traps. No. 6 was I6yds. rise, one man up, unknown traps and 
known angles. Nos. 7 and 8 were at 19yds. rise, unknown angles 
and known traps. Below are the scores in full: 


Events: 123 45 6 7 8 Shot 

Targets: 101010 5p 10101015 at. Broke. Ay, 
ERI ATI Tin po ttoess ee 91010 610 9 618 85 73 859 
Dakevayora il” <a ee Sree te tad ocd 85 60 108 
MicWettitte™ .ee+ssystey- 6863 7 6 710 85 fo) 2628 
IPLRintoniaes cree» ee Sede Ah 25a td 85 48 -565 
Tiatee(alls foe nS Oh OAS Ap TMEBP 5275» der ahog 15 42 560 
Wirmerserecs ieee ona NL Oe hI IGs ae 70 50 «714 
SEG ere enh te i toe) adel obs tole, 70. 27 = B86 
UGIisieis Remit cataeKe Lit oii Lenn is oe 60 85 583 
*Calkins ee as ee eet eee, go ee a 50 17 340 
Wander i. -- 4 6-5 4 45 19 =, 422 
GOTSiart earga hae ee kad aN 30 11 366 
*Palmer tiny Wibyas 30 3 266 

ehmann Aone OS Ce 25 Bl. £840 
* Parker 5 oS onl tty 10 9 =, 900 
LOTION 8 est Stee Bieler fyi en Sr yetres 20. 14 - 700 


Ossining Gun Club. 


Osstninc, N. Y., March 29.—The following scores were made by 
the Ossining Gun Club at the regular Saturday shoot. Rainy 
weather kept the fair-weather boys in, but those who came out kept 
things livened up between showers, so that the afternoon was used 
up. Three of our good friends of the Laflin & Rand Powder 

of N ork, were with us, with the result of good 
scores, considering the weather conditions: 


Events: 2s 2 ib 6 Events: 1234 5 6 

Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 
Herridays sess 46 8 505) Bisher’ 2.2...... 08) 9 fae es 
Gerow ......:-. 4 1: Cd-sGiv8. Walliams Sie. Caddo 2 
IBISsing agee oss B= Tite SSaeSe Ae ENS pee reneke bin Cie Tomtuyte nae 
Blandford ...., 16. ToD Sate Aitehicon) otis... see ene 


_ The Ossining Gun Club has accepted the challenge of the 
Schenectady Gun Club to shoot an eight-man team race. The 
time is set for some Saturday afternoon during April, 

: G. B. 


Winchester Gun Club, 


Derroit, Mich,, March 22.—The regular shoot of the Winchester 
Club was well attended, each class being represented, and the con- 
test for medals clase, with good scores. Shiel won in Class A with 
22, one ahead of Wood; Warner in Class B with 21, one ahead of 
Hitchcock, and Rackham, in Class € with 13, one ahead of 
Randall. 

McMath, who made his debut last shoot, put up the tidy score 
of 20, to the consternation of the other beginners. The scores: 


Events: 2a nd koa Gae 7, Events: i ae Anes Sera “ye 

Targets 10 15 15 10 10 15 25 Targets: 10 15.16 19 10 15 25 
Shiell we isae. ea sredhh Wi IN eke dickyeaav een ee dae 2S Do Ty 
SWWGTETGe Gea DAL CUA CIL tale ue elie eae Al abe 
Reidy geese 6.. 8 9 9 414 McAdam).....,.... 6 B 710 
Wattier, a--rrel ay 2 2G cell Babcookimeued J) eaten ofl +a 2 
Eivteh coche. ie. ps at ge ex UN Mic ath i cuca nn pie a. 20 
Guthard .... 6 5 9 6 6..15 Barthel 2.) O05 1. Ou. 2, 


North River Gun Club, 


Edgewater, N, J., March 29.—The North River Gun Club held 
its regular monthly shoot for the Glaser trophy to-day There were 
eight contestants, and each man shot at 50 targets. The score: 
Richter 84, Annett 30, Morrison 29, C, Truax 27, Merrill 27. F. 
Truax 26, Cathcart, 25. Jas. R. Merritt, Sec’y- 


PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 
Old Point Comfort, Richmond and Washington. 


SIX-DAY TOUR VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. 


Tue filth of the present series of personally-conducted tours to 
Old Point Comfort, Richmond and Washington yia Pennsylyania 
Railroad will leave New York and Philadelphia on Saturday, 
April 5, 

Tickets, including transportation, meals en route in both direc- 
tions, transfers of passengers and baggage, hotel accommodations 
at Old Point Comfort, Richmond and Washington, and carriage 
ride about Richmond—in fact, every necessary expense for a period 
of six days—will be sold at rate of $34 from New York, Brooklyn 
and Newark; $32.50 irom Trenton; $31 from Philadelphia, and pro- 
portionate rates from other stations. 


OLD POINT COMFORT ONLY. 


Tickets to Old Point Comfort only, including luncheon on going 
trip, one and three-fourths days’ board at The Hygeia or Chamber- 
lin Hotel, and good to return direct by regular trains within six 
days, will be sold in connection with this tour at rate of $15 from 
New York; $13.50 from Trenton; $12.50 from Philadelphia, and 
proportionate rates from other points. 

For itineraries and full information, apply to ticket agents: 
Tourist Agent, 1196 Broadway, New York; 4 Court sireet, Broolk- 
lyn; 789 Broad street, Newark, N. J.; or Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant 
General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia —4dv. 


Two prime essentials to the provisions that the camper takes with 
him on hig outings are lightness and concentration. These, we are 
told, are found’ in Egg Flake, advertised by the Pure Food Co., 
which is the whole egg evaporated. Tt is nota substitute, but the 
cea tbepg Ae a 


The boys came prepared © 


Fo 


EST AND STREAM. 


A Weexty Journat or tue Rop anp Gun. 


Copyricut, 1902, sv Forest anp STREAM Pusrisnine Co. 


Terms, $44 Year, 10 Crs, a Cory. 
Six Monrus, ; 


NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1902. 


VOL, LVIII.—No, 15, 
No, 346 Broapway, New Yor« 


THE SUNDAY FISHERMAN. 


Tue Sunday fisherman in the salt waters about New 
York city is multitudinous and conspictiously in evidence 
when fish are running, On the piers of the two rivers 
from the Battery north, on the rocky banks of the Hud- 
son, on the creeks and indentations of the Sound, every- 
where the fisherman may be seen. The Staten Island 
waters, the bays of Long Island and the ocean banks are 


resorted to by steamers and yachts and small craft innu- — 


merable. Each Saturday night in the season sees a pil- 
grimage of fishermen with rods and baskets going by ferry 
and train to be early on the ground; and Sunday night 
brings them home again. For the Sunday fisherman in 
this neighborhood it is to be said that as a rule he is 
an inoffensive creature, who harms no one, interferes with 
no other person, and very rarely figures in the police 
returns on Monday morning. Fishing for salt-water fish 
is the chosen Sunday recreation of thousands of men 
who work six days in the week; and most observers would 
testify that as recreations go, it is an innocent and harm- 
less one. 5 

But the fact remains that fishing on Sunday in New 
York waters is everywhere except in Jamaica Bay for- 
bidden by that section of the penal code which reads: 
All shooting, hunting, fishing, playing, horse-racing, 
gaming, or other public sports, exercises or shows upon 
the first day of the week and all noise disturbing the 
peace of. the day are prohibited.” 

The fishing prohibition is not the only one of these 
which is made naught of. “Playing” is a somewhat com- 
prehensive term, and many modes of playing are indulged 
in on Sunday—baseball, lawn tennis, golf, yachting, row- 
ing, wheeling, automobiling, pleasure driving, roller-coast- 
ing and riding on the merry-go-round. Horse racing is 
extensively engaged in; there are in this city two speed- 
ways—one on the bank of the Harlem River and another 
on the Ocean Parkway from Brooklyn to Coney Island— 
and on both of these speedways Sunday is a favorite day 
for owners of fast horses to race them one against an- 
other, while thousands of spectators gather to look on; 
and so far are the authorities from construing this Sun- 
day horse racing as unlawful, that they provide special 
mounted policemen to give the drivers a fair field and 
fair play. 

Now no one in New York ever dreams of interfering 
with any of these several pleasure makers, except in 
specific cases, when by reason of their noise and uproar 
they conflict with the quiet of the community, or as 
the statute puts it, ‘disturb the peace of the day’; or un- 
less the law is resorted to for purposes of spite. The 


Sunday fisherman is never molested under any pretense. 


that he disturbs the peace of the day, but he has been 
interfered with for the gratification of spite. When the 
netters were driven out of Jamaica Bay they retaliated 
by causing the arrest of certain Sunday fishermen; but 
they did this not to preserve the sanctity of the Sabbath 
day, but to get even with the anglers for having stopped 
their netting. ° 
The result of this spite action on the part of the net- 
ters was the adoption of an amendment to the fishing 
law which made angling in Jamaica Bay lawful on every 
day of the year. By virtue of this special local law, then, 
the New York Sunday fisherman who fishes in these par- 
ticular waters is immune from interference by the author- 
ities, but anywhere else he is at any time liable to arrest. 
This year the League of Salt Water Fishermen had a 
bill at Albany making certain very wise restrictions as to 
netting in the waters about New York, and in order to 
guard against the possibility of retaliatory action by the 
netters in the prosecution of Sunday fishermen, a clause 
was inserted in the bill providing that within the specific 
waters covered by its provisions angling should always 
be lawful. This clause was their undoing. The party 
managers at Albany, when they discovered the insidious 
attempt thus covertly to break down the sanctity of the 
Sabbath day as now observed on the New York fishing 
waters, declared that they could never “stand for’ any 
such revolutionary measure. It would be the ruin of 
each and every one of them as a statesman, and would 
shake the party to its foundation. Sunday fishing! They 
could not think of it. They would not dare to think of it. 
The nets ought to be driven out, there was no question 
of that; but not at the terrible price of legalizing the 
Sunday fishing which is now practiced by thousands on 


the salt waters of Manhattan and Staten Island and Long 
Island. And so they killed the anti-netting bill. And 
so they have afforded in their action and in themselves a 
new exhibition of the rare virtue of holding out for the 
shadow where there is nothing of the substance, This 
forbidden, illegal and unlawful Sunday fishing they must 
needs acknowledge and condone; but the flouted law 
which forbids it and makes it illegal and unlawful they 
will retain; the goodly fronted pretence they will main- 
tain. This may be politics, but it is neither common sense 
nor honesty nor religion, They may delude themselves 
and their fellow legislators and their constituents and the 


community. But it is a sure thing that they do not hood- 
wink the Almighty. “Be not deceived. God is not 
mocked.” 


FEDERAL GAME BILLS. 


Two measures of especial interest to big-game hunters 
are advancing slowly toward’ legislative action. It is 
believed that Mr. Lacey’s bills to protect Alaska big 
game, and to authorize the President to establish game 
preseryes.in forest reserves will be favorably reported 
from the committee, and will pass the House of Repre- 
sentatives. Mr. Lacey is deeply interested in their stc- 
cess, and will unquestionably make every effdrt to secure 
favorable action on them. 

In the Senate, however, their ptospects are not so 
favorable. It is true that in Senator Redfield Proctor 
game preservation and all other matters dear to the 
sportsman’s heart have an ardent and able friend. Yet 
Senator Proctor is occupied in many ways, and it is pos- 
sible that it may not be practicable for him to give to 
these bills the attention which they may need. On many 
matters the United States Senate holds broader views 
than does the House of Representatives, but for that very 
reason it is sometimes easier to deféat a measure in 
Senate than in the House. It is understood that as to 
one of these bills politics is playing its part, and that 
the transfer of ‘the forestry force from the Land: Office 
of the Interior Department to the Bureau of Forestry of 
the Agricultural Department, is likely to be opposed, be- 
cause such action may reduce the patronage of certain 
United States officials. 

Americans have become quite accustomed to seeing the 
public good subordinated to party profit, but it is earnest- 
ly hoped that inJa matter where such vast interests are 
at stake a measure of this importance will not fail of 
enactment merely because it may possibly deprive a few 
small politicians of their jobs. It has been thought worth 
while to set aside as forest resetves over 45,000,000 
acres of the territory of the United States, to pass laws 
for the care of this territory, and already to spend much 
money in behalf of this object. The work is universally 
acknowledged to be important; it should be done in the 
best way. This best way, all who are genuinely and in- 


_telligently interested in the forest preserves would be to 


turn over the whole matter to the Secretary of Agri- 
culture. 

There is another class to be reckoned with beside the 
people interested in forestry matters. The nature lovers, 
the zoologists and the big-same hunters are deeply in- 
terested in seeing the slaughter of cur big game put an 
end to, and in furthering the establishment of ‘refuges 
where this game may be free from molestation and where 
a perpetual stock of it may be preserved forever for all 
the purposes for which such wild game is useful. 

It would be well if every reader of these lines, who 
feels an interest either in forests or the preservation of 
natural conditions in this country, or merely in the big 
game, should write without delay to his Senator urging 
favorable action on this bill. Unless those who are really 
interested in such matters are willing to bestir themselves, 
and to make manifest their interest, we cannot expect our 
legislators to give much consideration to the subject. 

The two bills referred to do not give all that foresters 
and game protectors would like to have, but they make a 
beginning. After they have been passed, as experience 
is had of their workings, changes may be made in them 


-which will render them constantly more efficient. 


For twenty years the American people blundered along 
in their usual careless way, knowing that, somewhere, 
they possessed a National\Park'in which swarmed a multi- 
tude of big game, which it was forbidden to destroy. 
)ne fine morning in 1894 they woke up to learn that the 


only two days. 


in the field before Nashville, 


only band of buffalo living in their country had been 
wiped out of existence. The horse having been stolen, we 
proceeded to lock the door by enacting a proper law for 
the protection of the Yellowstone National Park, but 
this did not bring back the buffalo, of which now there 
remain alive, so far as known, only twenty to twenty-five 
individuals. To-day in certain forest reserves of the 
United States there are species of big game which are 
on the point of extinction—if not already gone. A strong 
effort should be made to preserve these vanishing races, 


GENERAL WHIPPLE. 


Major-GenerRAL Witt1AmM D, Wuippie, U. S. A., re- 
tired, died last week of pnetmonia, after an illness of 
General Whipple was seventy-seven years 
old, and had been a soldier for more than fifty years. He 
graduated from West Point in August, 1851, and from 
that time until the breaking out of the Civil War he saw 
service on the plains, chiefly in the Southwest, where 
he took an active part in the Indian fighting against the 
Apaches and Navajos. For those ten years of service on 
the plains in those early days, he was living in the abso- 
lute wilderness, when the only white travelers ever seen 
in the country were wandering trappers, or the trains of 
the Santa Fé traders. 

At the breaking out of the Civil War General Whipple 
was in Washington, attached to the Adjutant-General’s 
office. He was at once detailed to active service; saw 
the battle of Bull Run; was made Brigadier-General in 
July 1863; was then ordered to the West, and saw fighting 
at Missionary Ridge and about Chattanooga. He was 
present at the capture of Atlanta, in September, 1864. 
At the close of the war, haying been mustered out of 
volunteer service, he served as Assistant Adjutant-Gen- 
eral of the. Department of Tennessee and the Cumber- 
land, and of the Division of the Pacific, until 1870. His 
stibsequent service was in Washington and in St. Louis. 
He was retired in 1887.- 

General Whipple received his Breyet Major-General- 
ship in March, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service 
Tenn., in the Atlanta cam- 
He was a man of splendid courage, and of great 
readiness of resource, His experience had been wide, and 
he told of it most entertainingly. A man of most attrac- 
tive personality, he left behind him a host of friends. 
He was a keen sportsman, and in his long life had done 
much big-game hunting. He was a member of the Boers 
and Crockett Club. 


paign. 


The bill providing for the transfer of the administra- 
tion of the New York Aquarium from the city to the 
New York Zoological Society having passed both Houses 
and been approved by the Mayor, remains now to be acted 
on by both parties. A meeting to receive the report of 
the Executive Committee of the New York Zoological 
Society with regard to the matter is called for next 
week, when it is presumed that action will be taken, 
The possibilities of the Aquarium under proper scientific 
management are unlimited, and in this case—as with the 
Zoological Park—the Society unites the functions of giy- 
ing pleasre and instruction to the general public, and 


of encouraging investigation and research into problems 


of the highest scientific and economic importance. It is 
a fact that in some matters of progress the State of New 
York stands behind her sister States, but in this particu- 
lar matter she has shown an example that other States 
might well follow. 
R i 

Senator McKinney’s bill, carrying out the Forrsr AND 
STREAM’S suggestion of a State park for Long Island, has 
been signed by the Governor. Under it a commission of 
three will be appointed to examine wild and forest lands 
in Suffolk county with a view to the establishment of a 
public park. This means that the Long Island deer will 
have a refuge; and if the right system shall be adopted, 
the Long Island park will constitute a permanent source 
of supply for restocking the Catskills and the Adiron- 
dacks. There are Cassandras who prognosticate the end 
of deer and quail and grouse and other game; but that 
end will not come in our day nor in that of our children’s 
children, unless by failing to make provision of supply 
we bring the deprivation upon ourselves. Common sense 
and common prevision will retain a Same supply for 
generations to come, 


282 


SS —— 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


* 


APR. 312, 1902. 


Che Sportsman Couvrist. 


—— G- ——— 


The Old Line Fence. 


TuHoreav found that when he started off for a stroll 
without any particular destination in mind he somehow 
gravitated toward the southwest. In such a case I find 
myself heading instinctively for an old fence that divides 
two Series of farms, among them one which was my home 
in youthiul days. Beginning in the edge of the village 
the fence tuns straight out into the country about two 
miles. It is composed, by turns, of wire, stumps, rails 
laid zigzag, rails laid straight and a combination of stones 
and rails, It is mot really handsome at any point, but it is 
picturesque in spots, and upon it are strung not only 
charming rural nooks, but pleasant incidents and obser- 
vations of many years; so that the strolling feet still 
naturally follow it at times, and memory and imagination 
at other times. 


The old fence passes in succession open fields and 
remnants of woodland, and along it I catried my first 
shotgun and my first rifle, with plenty of enthusiasm, 
though without much game, of which, indeed, there has 
not been much on this line within my time here. When 
these woods were larger and denser it was not surprising 
to start a ruffed grouse hereabout, but that was mostly 
back of my gunning days. Even now a stray grouse 
may be seen here after a long interval, and the only quail 
I ever knew to be found in the town were flushed near 
the old line two or three years ago. My first practice 
in wing shooting was had in these fields, upon blackbirds, 
Kkildeers, kingbirds, which a neighbor liked to have killed 
on account of their attentions to his bees, and meadow 
larks, which; in the eccentricities of legislation, were 
game some years, though their season opened soa 
late in the fall that most of them had gone south, 

The shootable animals within range of the fence in 
these days are not for the most part game. Nor are 
they all even “‘grub’’ to the ordinary white American. 
The occasional rabbits fall under one of these heads, 
and the red squirrels are eatable at a pinch, but the 
woodchucks find no bidders except the Italian laborers 
on the railroad near by. Sport is to be had here now- 
adays with the rifle rather than the shotgun, and not 
too much of it with either, Fortunately this ramble has 
other attractions. Wintergreens, sassafras, chestntits, 
apples and berries appeal to one sort of taste. The 
botanist and the ornithologist find their game here 
whether the gunner does of not; and the indiscriminate 
nature-lover, professor of no ology, is sure of entertain- 
ment and pleasure. 


Wandering away from the village along the familiar 
fence we soon come to the fields where I worked a good 
deal and sported a little in the auld lange syne. Fatm 
life is generally more favorable to work than to sport. 
Here the line crosses a ridge that looks over at the little 
farm house which was the last home of the unbroken 
family circle, We all left it long ago, yet some drawing 
of the old home tie doubtless helps to make it natural 
te turn this way when I drift out of town, 
woods at this point the call of the whippoorwills came 
down to the house through the summer nights. They 
disappeared with the clearing of this ‘ground, and I have 
never heard them elsewhere. Here the first red squirrel 
fell before my first rifle, having paused for a fatal mo- 
‘ment in his scamper along the old fence. Just here a big 
bird flew up one day from a stump among the thick- 
growing saplings, leaving the remains of a small bird to 
teli of one of the tragedies of the woods. 

It was about here, too, that I found a hummingbird’s 
nest, the owner having attracted attention by buzzing 
angrily around. It was eight or ten feet from the ground, 
on the drooping branch of a beech tree, at a point where 
the branch was less than an inch thick. A twig statted 
out at the same place and was built into the base of the 
nest. The whole structure was but an inch and a half 
wide over all and an inch in diameter inside. When 
the birds had gone I took the nest, with a section of the 
branch. The mysterious felt-like substance—‘“plant 
down,” the hooks tell us—of which it is mainly com- 
posed, is rather the worse for the sixteen years that 
have passed since the birds made it with their wonderful 
art, but the flakes of lichen with which the outside was 
covered still cling by their frail attachment. It is not 
easy to see just how they are fastened, though spider 
threads may be traced among them. The. authorities 
say they are glued on with the saliva of the bird, but 
some of the bits appear to be tied or stispended rather 
than glued, so movable are they. 

Next the line passes between two pieces of second- 
growth timber. One of these has been thinned out for 
a chestnut orchard. It has never been “posted,” and I 
have sometimes gleaned a pocketful of the nuts: but the 


owner mentioned the last time I met him there that he’ 


had sold $40 worth that season,thus intimating that he had 
his own uses for them. I may yet collect a few of the 
chestnuts, however, to pay for the bullets that have 
stopped the nimble paws of sundry red squirrels which 
would otherwise be boarding on them. This is but a 
small grove of small trees, and I haye hunted it thor- 
oughly in the course of later rifle practice; but there 
were squirrels there the other day, and it is rather pleas- 
ing—except, perhaps, to the chestnut grower—to see wild 
life thus holding its own in a mere bit of forest just 
over the border of a large village. I suppose the owner 
does not begrudge to squirrel or man the chestnuts that 
may be found among the withered and matted leaves in 
the spring; but a handful can easily be gathered then 
that will be sweeter and more tender, with the sprouts 
already starting, than when they fell in the previous 
autumn. One has to wonder how they have survived so 
,» long among squirrels and chipmunks that have means 
_ and reason for canvassing every foot of the ground. 
Beyond the next field our fence divides another chest- 
nut groye, of larger trees and mixed with other species. 
Hill and dell are shaded by them. I have relieved the 
owners of half a bushel of red squirrels, yet they have 
lately confronted me with repulsive notices to “Keep 
oft.” Years ago a sign on one of these trees warned 
the rambler against “guning, nuting or truspasing” on 
these premises. The present proprietors put their idea 


From the. 


in better spelling, but it is the same old idea. Venturing 
to “truspas,” as we haye no designs this time of “gun- 


ing” or “nuting,” we follow the guiding fence to where 


it shortly drops down the steep bank of a large brook. 

This stream, a little below, crosses a cornet of the old 
farm, and it is the stringer for another chain of associa- 
tions. It has run sawmills in its day. On local maps 
it is dignified as a creek, and in the spring freshet it 
justifies the name. A pictutesque trapping and fishing 
character who lived in the neighborhood used to set 
nets in it at such times. When winter approached he 
would store minnows in the cask which inclosed our 
spring, to be used as bait in fishing for pickerel through 
the ice of the mill pond. The brook pickerel may still 
be found in the pools of the créek, along with sunfish and 
little bullheads. I haye seen a boy with a respectable 
string of them, caught by trolling a small spoon from a 
pole carried along the bank, They tell me this was an 
ideal trout stream forty years ago and more. I caught 
a few of the last and least of the trout myself, just about 
where the line fence crosses the water. In these later 
summers the stream is reduced to the output of a few 
springs; yet there still are deep spots and swift channels, 
shaded by trees, bushes and overhanging banks, where 
a trout might be very much at home if he could have 
them all to himself, One day—of course when I hadn’t 
a gun—lI repeatedly flushed a snipe beside the creek near 
this point. He seemed loth to leave for good, but at 
last took the southern air line at a speed to make up for 
any loitering here. A couple of miles above this stream 
waters a productive snipe flat. Another waterside inci- 
dent just about here was the watching of a muskrat 
traveling up the creek at his ease, landing here and there 
to nip grass, splashing over the shallows, or gliding 
through the depths of the pools, sinuous and graceful 
as a snake. 

A rod or two from the old line fence there is a per- 
manent accumulation of drift wood in the stream which 
makes an indifferent bridge, but much appreciated- at 
high water.. Here for a little distance the botiom land 
is full of trees and the adjacent ridge is covered with 
them. This is the most attractive spot on the whole 
route, The creek. charging upon a bank perhaps thirty 
feet high, has been repulsed and thrown aside, but has 
inflicted considerable loss. The settlement of the strife 
left a wide pool embraced in a semicircular bluff and 
overhung with trees, while other trees crown the earthy 
wall and add their shadows to the grateful sloom. The 
curve of the bank opens toward the northeast, and the 
stin never shines into its innermost recess. Here a spring 
sends a rill of chilly water into the stream, It is a cool, 
fresh, shady place, and to the worker or rambler from 
the heated fields above it is like the shadow of a great 
rock in a weary land. A dabbler in ornithology likes to 
distinguish a spot as the place where he met with this or 


that bird previously unknown to him. Beside the pool . 


under the bluff I first identified the water thrush, In the 
face of the bluff a pair of kingfishers have excavated for 
their nest, 

Just above, in the edge of the next field, a large tree 
years ago fell conveniently across the brook, and it still 
séfyes as a bridge. This field is a pasture, but some 
woods remain in it, and the stream runs swiftly over 
a stony bed, part way in the shade of another timbered 
hill. Here I first got my hands upon a sparrow hawk, 
having invited her down from a treetop with a bullet, and 
inspected her garb of convict stripes, well suited to her 
murderous character. Ii the sparrow hawk is not a jail 
bird it well might be. In this grove I bagged a gray 
squirrel with my first breechloader, Near the creek at 
this point I saw for the last time a black squirrel. I 
would like to know what became of him and of his kind. 
Apparently they went to join the passenger pigeon in 
the happy hunting grounds. 

One autumn day my attention was called to this field 
by a great clamor of crows. I found them holding one 
of theit congtesses preparatory to the southward migta- 
tion. There were hundreds in the woods, and mote con- 
stantly arriving, and most of thern were trying to speak 
at-once. Along the creek they kept flying up and down 
between the banks and the trees. Many wete picking 
about on the ground, where beechnuts and chestnuts 
were scattered. Gradually they discovered me sitting 
behind a knoll close to the line fence, and drew off to the 
more distant part of the grove. Going to a stump where 
I had seen a crow working, I found the ragged shell of 
a chesinut with the meat nearly cleaned out. 

Where the brook enters this field it receives its most 
noteworthy contribution from an afttesian well which is 
the result of boring for gas. An iron pipe, battered by 
driving, rises about a foot above the ground. It is filled 
with clear, cold water, which usually overflows and which 
is kept in a turmoil by rising bubbles of gas. One may 
burn his fingers by holding a match to these. The water 
has a pectiliat taste and apparently contains iron, for it 
has reddened the soil through which it soaks away to 
ihe brook. Who knows but a forttine is here running to 
waste, which might be rescued by sufficient advertising? 
Beyond the well the creek is a commonplace stream, 
running throtigh a commonplace pasture that used to be 
called in neighborhood parlance the “hundred-acre berry 
lot.” On the other side of the line is a stumpy field 
browsed by cattle and woodchucks. JI have reduced its 
woodchuck census by ten at one time and another, with- 
ott killing any of the cows so far as I ever heard. It 
was at the edge of this field that I first saw the scarlet 
tanager; a bird crank never would forget where that 
happened. 

Now the ground rises in a great hillside, roughened 
with ‘‘cradle-knolls,’ dotted here and there with a bush 
or a boulder and streaked with cow-paths. I once saw 
in a New York gallery a painting by John La Farge en- 
titled, I believe, ‘Pasture Lands of New England’ It 
was priced at $2,500 and I coneluded it was too large 
to bring away. I think of it when I see this broad, gray, 
stany slope. Over the flank of the hill runs the last 
section of the old fence. Here it consists of an informal 
ridge of stones, drawn out with a rickety supplement of 
rails and stakes. Bushes and trees have grown up along 
the line and it has become a stronghold of wild life. 
An amateur naturalist could put in a summer here with 
a chance of making discoveries any day among the pop- 
ulation of bird, beast, insect and reptile Here dwell 
woodchucks, red squirrels, mice and chipmunks certainly, 
skunks and weasels likely enough, other quadrupeds pos- 


. 


other insects foo numerous to mention. i 

I sat here on the old fence one bright day in early 
spring. A squirrel chattered in a tree further along with- 
out getting much attention. But suddenly a less familiar 
sound demanded notice. It was a birdlike call, starting 
as if with the word “‘sweet” uttered quick and high, and 
running out in a rapid diminishing trill, like the song of 
the field sparrow, but on a larger scale. Moving toward | 
the apparent source of the sound IJ stared in vain for any 
bird. The call catne repeatedly, now stronger, now 
weaker, I had just about got it placed when something 
disappeared from between two fence rails close to the 
ground. I went tip and looked over. There was the 
mouth of a burrow, and the occupant had freshly nibbled 
the bark on a bush in front of it. JI had been listening to 
a vatiation of the woodchuck’s whistle. ‘ 

Returning along the fence I catne upon a chipmunk 
foraging so earnestly that he let me step close to him. 
He had discovered or deposited something eatable in the 
grass against a large stone, and he alternately rooted and 
nibbled, glancing up at me in a quiver of timidity and 
excitement, but bound mot to sacrifice his dinner while 
he could still skip out, as he did, at my next motion. — 

Our old line fence is a very common affair, with quite 
common surroundings, and if it is worth writing and 
reading about that is the very reason. In itself and its 
accompaniments it may be matched in almost any town- 
ship, and if the accompaniments are suspected of being 
interesting they can easily be tested. I fancy that’ many 
a business man in a great city, preserving wholesome in- 
stincts amid unwholesome surroundings, would give dol- — 
lars to take the ramble we Have taken. Let those who 
have such a privilege realize it. Get out and follow your 
old line fence and you will find it a line fallen to you in 
pleasant places. It may not be much of a fence, but 
it lies out of doors. Stun, moon and stars shine on it or 
throw across it the shadow of tree or shrub. The song | 
sparrow and the goldfinch sing from its stakes. The 
squirrel scampers over it and the woodchuck burrows 
under it. The daisy and the golden rod bloom beside 
it, wild vines clamber over it. If you strike it at the right 
end it leads away from town, and that is a good way to 
so sometimes, BRIstok HILt, 


sibly, snakes in all probability, and spiders, beetles and 


The Shirt-Tailogram. 


Ir Signor Marconi can squeeze out time for a week's 
vacation, I wish he would run up to the Second Joe Mary 
Lake, in the Katahdin region, State of Maine, and look 
into the possibilities of the “shirt-tailogram,” as invented 
and operated by a bow-legged old hunter who runs a 
sporting camp. His name is Josh Something—no mat- 
ter about the last name. But on wireless telegraphy he 
goes Marconi two or three better. As a matter of fact, 
our friend of the wishbone legs has been operating his 
system for more than ten years. The reader may wonder 
why, tinder these circumstances, more is not knowi about 
the “‘shirt-tailogram.” Well, developments of science per 
colate but slowly from the deep woods of Maine, and 
then again, the men who have been up against Josh and 
his wireless telegraph have not been inclined to be loqua- 
cious, You will understand why, later on. As I write 
on about Josh I am well aware that many scores of city 
men who read these lines will grin or color or grit their 
teeth or say something that does not appear in the Rollo 
books, They will recollect their own individual stay 
with the genial Josh, inventor of the “Anti-Warden Wire- 
less Telegraph,” otherwise known as the “shirt-tailogram 
method.” Rgds , 

Josh’s strong suit is the fishing in his neighborhood, 
and therefore he has many patrons during the months 
when the game laws are on. You all know how it is in 
the months when you are out without your gun! As the 
canoe tounds headlands ot sweeps across broad coves, the 
paddle shattering pictures of the fleecy clouds, splash- 
thrash, a deer lifts his dripping muzzle and stares at the 
intruder, 

What a shot! ; , 

And you see a dagen such opportunities during the day, 
if you paddle along the shores of any lake in the Katahdin 
section. I have counted thirty-four deer in five hours 
sailing Cooper Brook and the Second Joe Mary. Of 
course I never felt tempted to shoot one. But there are 


wicked men who are differently constituted. The spec- — 


tacle of so many deer in reach warps their moral natures 
to a worse bow than the twist in the legs of old Josh. 

You understand how human nature works! For the 
first week of a man’s stay he is content with his fishing. 
He regards the deer with absorbing interest, but only as 
50 ntany attractions in the landscape, Then he commences 
to wonder if it wouldn't be a great addition to his vaca- 
tion if he should have a little fresh venison to vary the 
camp fare of beans and salt pork—and a few hunks to 
take home, hidden in his Inggage. You realize that just 
the moment the sportsman shoots that deer, he packs up 
and hustles for home. There are several reasons for 
that. Wardens may hear of the shooting—probably will, 
Sportsman wants to get the meat home before it spails. 
Josh understands! — 

The average fisherman, coming for fishing only, usu- 
ally reels in for the last time at the end of a week or 
ten days. During this time Josh has beeen sizing him up 
from the stern of the canoe, as they have drifted under 
lazy skies and have chatted in shady coves. *Tis sad, 'tis 
true, but true it is, nine men out of every ten rise to old 
Josh’s bait. He sees the lust of killing growing in their 
eyes. It usually dawns at the end of the first week. Then 
they are ripe for the “shirt-tailogram.” That bit of in- 
vention during the past ten years has coined money for 
Uncle Josh out of vacations prolonged from day to day. 

The experience of one man will do for all. A friend-of 
mine who is a judge and who should have known bet- 
ter, gives me the facts of his undoing. He looks back 
on the affair philosophically, but he nurses the vague 
hope that some time old Josh may come to his city to 
see the elephant, and may be haled before him in the 
municipal court, Then—hut no matter! : 

One day Josh and the judge were fishing off the mouth 
of Pratt Brook, Near the end of the judge’s vacation! 
Judge was leaning back in his canoe chair, his hat brim 
close to his nose. Away off ina cove a deer was splash- 
ingly pulling up lily root, 


‘Kind o’ makes a feller’s mouth water for fresh meat, 
on’t it?” asked Josh. 

“Sure, it does,’ said the judge. 

“D'jevver ye eat smoked yen’son?” 

Bat did,” said the judge, flicking out his hrown 
ckle. 3 

“Walsir, it eats about as spankin® good as anything in 
the meat line that ye'll ever ‘strike. One year a deer 
broke his laig—broke his laig, ye understand—in the 
woods back of my camp. *Twas ifi close time, but it 
Was a marcy to the deer to shoot him. I done it. Bein’ in 
the warm spell, ‘course the meat wouldn’t keep no time 
fresh, and as it was a pity to throw it away, | fixed up a 
jeetle birch bark smok’ haouse and I smoked it. Wals’r. 
naow it did so mighty fine. Some sports come in later 
and bought up the whole of it, Said it was the best 
stuff they ever tasted to sarve with crackers and beer. 
“Understand, it made quite a furore daown in the city 
“amongst them club fellers.”’ 

The judge pictured himself\setting his friends down to 
such an al fresco lunch, and telling them the right story 
to go with it. 

Josh allowed the matter to soak in a few moments. 
Then he said: ‘‘There’s been sech a call for smoked 
ven'son sence then that I’ve sort of helped the fellers that 
I like to take home a leetle of the stuff.” 

“Td like to get hold of some of it mighty well,” said 
the judge. 

“JT hain’t got a bit ‘round me naow,” said Josh, regret- 
iully, “and I’m sorry, cause I like ye mighty well.” ; 

“How did you help those other fellows you liked, when 
they wanted to carry out*a little of the meat?” 

Josh hesitated a moment, then he said: “You under- 
Stand that I hain’t the kind of man to break laws. I’m 
a keerful, law-abidin’ man. But I swow, I do relish 
it if I kin help my friends. Now, I spose ye’d like some 
of that smoked ven’son, and ye’d be willin’ to have an 
attack of buck fever—sort of forget jest how ye got the 
‘deer, eh?” 

“TL think I would,” said the judge, knowingly. 

“P’raps I kin help ye. The only trouble is to fool the 
wardens. Theyre round pretty thick here, and that 
Frank Fountaine down to Norcross he’s got ears like a 
Chessy cat. “Tain’t safe to spin a thread till we've got 
him located. But ye jest leave it all to me. We'll see 
what we kin do.” 

__ Old Josh’s cabin is located well up on the side of Joe 
Mary Mountain. That afternoon when the judge and 
Josh returned to camp, Josh deposited the duffle in the 

dingle and said: “Wal, jedge, I reckin I'll wopse a 

while.” 

- “Wopse a while?” 

_ “Yas, it’s sort of first steps in gittin’ that smoked 
ven’son we was talkin’ of. Ye hain’t got to do nothin’— 
ye watch me.” - ; 

From the edge of the little plateau, on which Josh’s 
camp is built, a huge pine shoots up. Josh gruntingly 
climbed into its branches, pulling after him a long sapling,. 
to the end of which he had tied by its sleeves a red flan- 
nel undershirt, He perched himself on a pitchy limb 
commanding a view of the slope of Tumble-dick Moun- 
tain. His legs, curved like a sparrow’s, he twisted around 
the limb for security. Then supporting the end of the 
pole against his breast he swatted and switched and 
swung and snapped the flaming shirt tail banner, squinting 
all the while toward the distant mountain. 

At last he paused in his wig-wagging and closely re- 
garded some distant object. Then he mumbled out an 
anathema, and with a new assortment of grunts climbed 
down off his perch, 

“Can’t git one to-day. “Tain’t safe, jedge,”’ he reported. 

“In the name of the bloody shirt and the wireless tele- 
graph, will you tell me what all that means?” demanded 
the animated interrogation point at the foot of the tree. 

“Wal, ye see it’s this way,’ explained the chief of the 
Joe Mary signal bureau, “over yender on Tumble-dick is 
Zibe Watkins’ camp. Zibe and me kind o’ watch out for 
each other. 
‘kin look down into Norcross. 
the warden, lives in Norcross. 
‘that warden is. 
itell ye. 

“Now, here’s how we work it. I want to know where 
‘the warden is. So | gits up the tree and wopses the 
‘signal like ye see me doin’. That tells Zibe that I want 


That Frank Fountaine. 
Mighty cute, spry feller 
Have to look out for him, now I kin 


wiformation. I watches the top of a saplin’ that grows 
in front of Zibe’s cabin. He has a rope hitched to the 
saplin’. 


“Tf he switches her down to the right that means that 
the warden has started out and has gone east. If down 
‘she wopses to the left, the warden has gone west. If the 
saplin’ jest keeps up a devil of a wigelin’ all-a-which way 
that means look out. Warden out for blood. Took camp- 
in’ kit and makin’ gen’ral skirmish. 

“That saplin’ was all of a wigele to-day. I don’t dast 
to stir a peg. - Warden's likely to pop up anywhere if a 
shot is fired.” 

“How in time does this Zibe, whatever his name is, 
know anything about the matter?” 

“Hist! They’s a feller down in Noreross who hain’t 
known in the matter. But he’s in with us.- Zibe keeps an 
eye on that feller’s clothes line. Nothin’ on it means 
“warden’s to home.’ One sheet means ‘gone east.’ Two 
sheets means ‘gone west. And a red shirt means ‘danger, 
‘he’s skirmishin’.” 

"So ye see it hain’t safe to burn paowder round here 
“to-day.” 

In the morning the wireless telegraph was set in opera— 
tion again. Still the wiggling was reported from the 
observer's station. 

“Let's go fishin’,” said Josh. Fishing they went. For 
five days the thing was repeated. The judge decided that 
Warden Fountaine ought to haye his pay raised. East, 
west and all round he was reported as scooting. On the 
sixth morning the judge insisted on climbing the tree 
himself in otder to view the operation of the shirt-tailo- 

ram, Josh protested strenuously that outsiders weren't 
Aronied in the operating room, but when the judge voiced 
hig suspicions and insisted on the thing being shown to 
him, Josh refused and took the shirt off the pole. He 
asserted that he was afraid the judge might hurt his eyes 
straining them and then he would be suing Josh for dam- 
ages, because he couldn’t see to read up the law. 

So the fudge paid his extra six days of board and guid- 


. 


Zibe can see to here and on t’other side he— 


FOREST AND STREAM 


ing and came away. But he has the soulful satisfaction of 
knowing that he hasn’t been the only one who has been 
buncoed out of money and important business engage- 
ments by a doubled-over old hunter with a whine in his 
voice and legs like spectacle bows, and who lives in 
forty miles from nowhere. - Honsaranw FF. Day. 


A Walk Down South.—XXIV. 


Ace Jones lives down a little rin in a narrow gully 
where there are a number of other houses beside his— 
low, two-roomed affairs for the most part. The place 
located, I crossed a footlog over the run, and at the fence 


hailed. It is always best to hail from the fence in the 
South, *Way down on the Tennessee I heard a man 
say: 


“T always tell my wite that if a man comes up to the 
door and knocks, and hasn’t manhood enough to hail from 
the road like he ought to, she must pour hot lead through 
the door.’ It is the general custom in rural Southern 
communities to hail from the road, and as one learns 
sooner or later, it is safest to follow local customs. 

A woman came to the porch, smiling. It was a charm- 
ing smile, and she was good looking, buxom style. Be- 
tween thoughts of Ace Jones and the pretty woman, I 
was confused. I misspoke myself and asked if Tip 
Jones lived there. Of course he didn’t, But I got my 
wits and learned that it was really Ace’s boarding place. 
Ace was up to the store and would be back soon. Would 
I go in and warm? I explained my mission. 


round cheeks quivering—not boisterously, but gently. Her 
name is Mrs. Berry. Her first husband was killed, it 1s 
said, by her second husband (Thomas Berry), and Ace 


Jones was cleared by trial of the charge of killing Berry ° 


out by the spring house, fifty yards from the house 
where Ace boards now, Berry having been killed mys- 
teriously in the days when Ace was hiding out, with a 
reward on his head, for sundry shootings at certain of 
the Greens. 

Then Ace appeared, lean-limbed, broad-shouldered, 
erect, seemingly taller than he was, his gray chin whiskers 
and mustache contrasting with his smooth-shaven brown 
and wrinkled cheeks, 


broad-brimmed hat just perceptibly aslant on his head, | 
In only one re- 5 


he looked almost ideally a mamn-killer. 
spect did he fail to meet the general notion—his eyes were 


black and indirect. The widow explained my mission, and 
then Ace turned on me with the look that suspects and 
demands exact information—he wanted to know the kind 
of chap I was, too. 
I never had experienced. 


Passing muster, Ace told the story of the feud—the * 


dispute about lumber; how his son, Jimmy Jones, dogged 
Dick Green’s hogs; how Dick tried to whip Jim and 
sot whipped; how Jim was shot and killed, and then the 
declaration of ““war’; of the purchase of a dozen Win- 
chesters, some .56-caliber Springfields, and “a bushel of 
cattridges.”” Details followed of a battle on the river 
ridges, of another at Hamp Green’s house, and then of 
the “scouting on the mountains” while sheriff's posses 
searched for the Jones—accompanied by gleams of ferocity 


_in the eyes of the narrator when he told of the boy's 


death, of genuine pleasure when he told how one of the 
Greens hit it down a hollow with bullets whizzing round, 
and of fox-cunhing when he spoke of his life on the 
mountains while a fugitive from the Hancock count 
officials. He stiffened with real pride when he told of his 
surrender to stand trial on the charge of murdering Berry. 

The feud gone over, the widow said roguishly: , 

“Tell him "bout that big nigger you shot.” 

Ace leaned back with a laugh. The feud had been 
serious business. He was relieved now to tell something 
cheerful. He crassed his legs and leaned ’way back, 
reminiscently, his hands in his trousers’ pockets. 

“One of my neighbors caught a nigger stealing grain 
once. and the nigger had the man promise not to tell 
what he would tell: The neighbor promised. -Then the 
nigger said I put him up to stealing the corn, fruit and 
other stuff he’d taken. That made-the neighbor mad at 
me, and he told ‘round what the nigger said. Hit got 
warm for me till L heard what ‘twas. Then I got brother 
Tip and we went to the nigger’s house, called him out and 
took him to the neighbor’s. The nigger was pretty badly 
scared. He said, ‘De Debbil made me tell it. He did 
shore,” Well, Tip and me cut a lot of switches, but the 
nigger rtins, so I shot him easy in the hams with a pistol. 
I asked the nigger if we'd be good friends after this, He 
said ‘Yes.’ The nigger was pretty sick for a while, but 
got over it.” 

Ace stimmed matters up by saying: “Tve done things 
that if a man had come out of the grave and sat on his 
coffin to say I’d do them, I'd said he lied. When I got 
into trouble I didn’t know which friend would stand and 
which would cut and run. But I knowed that if I got 
the best main springs put into my gun and pistol, those 
friends I could trust.” While he was talking the three 
dogs barked. Ace approached the window from the right 
side and peeked out with one eye. 

Among others, Ace tried to get Jim Wright to help htnt 
Dick Green. But “Tim was peaceable.” He didn’t want 
to go out of his own country to hunt for anybody, but, of 
course, if Dick got up into his country “Jim would kill 
him just to accommodate” Ace, who was known as a good 
and peaceable citizen. Of Wright there is more to tell 
further on, 

In the morning, after a sumpttious meal of fruits, pies, 
hiscuit, meats and coffee, I was ready to go on to Sneed- 
ville to see the Greens. Ace asked me: 

“Vou don’t know any old man up your way. kind of 
lame, and sick and ‘most blind, do you?” 

Il was puzzled; then Ace explained: 

' “She's looking for a man, you know,” speaking of the 
widow. The widow tossed her head and turned up her 
nose, 

Following directions, I went down the road a couple 
of miles, “below the second mill,’ crossed the foot- 
bridge, went up the hollow, through two gates and crossed 
a ridge, down into another hollow, near woods, cornfields, 
a vacant house, “through a barn,” bore ’round to the 
right of a hill I “could see’; then up.a run to Mahon 
Settlement, down the road to Church Post Office. It was 


The lady - 
chuckled, a hand on each knee and her clear, smooth,. 


A black: coat, with a cape, a black, § around. A cold rain began to fall, and then a man drove 


w into town on a mule, a banjo tied across his back, 


it was a scrutiny the like of which | 


“because at court one can meet the county’s men. 


2 288 


a lonely walk through a country where “killings” are 
done from ambush, but it was not so bad as the ten miles 
to Tip Jones’ from Rogersville, At Clinch Post Office 
the postmaster was in the volunteer soldiers’ uniform. 1 
told him who I was and heard that the Lawson brothers 
were to be on trial at Sneedville court Monday, They 
were acctised of the murder of Clint Legere, owing to. 2 
dispute over some Jand which had already caused two 
other deaths, I asked about the boys: They were kept 
at Knoxyille jail for safe keeping, but were to be brought 
back for trial. I wanted to know how, when and where 
they would be taken on the way from Knoxyille to Sneed- 
ville. I got some misinformation, and the sheriff at 
Sneedville next day said he’d heard I was coming. After 
dinner I went on northwest to the Clinch River, crossed it 
in a hand ferry, walked down to the gap through the 
hills, and then, half a mile back from the river, saw 
Sneedville, a collection of wooden shanties and houses on 
a hill sloping toward the Clinch Valley. The road’ took 
a circle half-way round, then went in as the main and 
only street, with painted wooden houses and stores on 
both sides of the way to the number of thirty-odd. The 
mud in the road was blackish red. Nearly all the build- 
ings had fine brick chimneys of local make. s 

I went to the Royston House, kept by Jesse Nichols 
and his wife, the widow of Royston. A man with a halt 
to his gait and an arm in a sling passed up the jail alley 
to the street. “‘There’s Enoch Gillam, the man Jim 
Wright shot,” Mrs. Nichols said. This was late on 
Saturday afternoon. 

The court house loomed diagonally across the street, 
two stories high, a red brick building with large white 
pillars in front, a porch both upstairs and down, the stairs 
leading from porch to porch, for the crowd to go up to 
the court on. The sun went down in a snowy lead-colored 
atmosphere. The gloom of the place was thick—thick- 
ened by a double-barreled 12-gauge shotgtin in the far 
corner of the sitting room, and an old, rusty Smith & 
Wesson on the dresser before the looking glass. But 
later the shotgun was cheerful, 

After a plentiful supper of biscuit, pot roast beef, po- 
tatoes, honey, fruits, etc.,.1 sat dawn before the fireplace 
in the sitting room and drew long breaths from time to 
time. It was Saturday, Jan. 19. There was little stirring 


“Looks like court, don’t it?” Nichols remarked. Then 


| the | I ; # quiet resumed, 
thrusting rather than piercing—a little—not shifty—but | 


Some time after dark two horsemen went past at a 
gallop. Nichols’ leit ear turned up to catch the sound, 
Mrs. Nichols looked toward the door. Then the drops 
fell loudly on the stillness again. A few minutes later a 


s;man came in and sat down at the fire. 


“Wet!” he said. 
“Ves,” was reply. 


\, “Who was that went down the road?” Nichols added. 


“Sheriff and Joe Cloud.” 
ae es ear 


Word just come that there’s been shooting down 


“Somebody tried to get Marion Legere.” “Somebody” 
was accented in marked fashion, though the voice was 
low. Marion Legere was pressing the case against the 
two Lawson boys for the murder of his brother Clint. 
Standing a few yards from his house, three men had 
fired on him, just at dusk. Marion reached the house 
by the time eight shots were fired. As he entered a man 
went out the far side of the building and was mistaken 
for Marion. .Thirty-odd shots were fired at him. “You'd 
ought to have seen him go up that holler,’ Marion said 
on Monday, with a laugh at the memory—a laugh cut off 
with a bite of his teeth. 

In the morning I was up early. It was clear, the ground . 
frozen, the sun shining. Enoch Gillam, whom Wright 
shot, was in the street when I looked out. He had been 
a friend of Wright's, but the $550 reward on Wright was 
too much for him, Last November he went to Marion 
Legere, who offered part of the reward, and offered to 
hetray the fugitive. Marion loaned Gillam a new Win- 
chester rifle and to Enoch’s brother a Krag-Jorgensen, 
which a soldier nephew of Rey. John Trent got in the 
Philippines, and had loaned him. With these rifles the Gil- 
lams went hunting Wright. Wright and his partner, John 
Templeton, also a “scouter,” hid in a barn and fired on 
the Gillams with a double-barreled shotgun. Enoch’s 
arm’ was broken; two buckshot entered his thigh. Both 
the Gillams fled. Wright and Templeton ran out of the 
barn, picked up the Winchester and Krag-Jorgensen and 
opened fire with them on the runners. The Gillams gone, 
the two desperadogs went to a store near by and got two 
pairs of shoes from the willing merchant, and gleefully 
exhibited their new weapons. The} now carry a Marlin 
.38, a double-barreled shotgun, a Winchester and a Krag- 
Jorgensen, beside revolvers. 

On Sunday afternoon the gathering of the court crowd 
thickened and livened the street. Men came in on horse- 
back, or muleback, with black, broad-brimmed hats, 
booted, and usually a single spur, Goateed, whiskered or 
shaven, the local county men presented two peculiarities. 
Some had jaws that fitted like stone; the others had chins 
a-tremble. All had eyes that glanced and gleamed. 
Whether blue, gray or black, they stuck out of their 
sockets and seemed constantly watching back over the 
shoulders. The rattle of a fence, the suck of a horse’s 
foot in the mud, the click of a shoe on the stone or board 
walk turned every eye of a standing group that way in- 
stantly. : 

In the hotel sitting room the click of my camera as I] 
opened it, made nearly a dozen men cringe. I recalled 
that when Tip Jones sat down by the window the night I 
talked to him, he pulled down the window curtain. 

The nomination of some officers and judges was near 
at hand. Politicians were in town, following the court, 
The 
came in buggies behind small mud-streaked loping es 
They were most of them men used to commanding re- 
spect. One man in particular, looking to be a judge. 
worked determinedly on the familiar lines, “I always find 
the brightest people away from the railroads,’ he said. 
(Sneedville is more than twenty miles beyond the ridges 
from the railroad.) He told good stories. To one man 


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he said, ‘#How are you?” He gave his whole attention 
for half an hour in an effort to explain about courts of 
chancery to an ambitious, influential young fellow. Heavy, 
red-bearded, in Vandyke shape, a strong momentum of 
determination in his bearing, he contrasted strangely with 
the sleek, shrill, artificial man who tried to gain favor 
= nastics. - ; 
ae assembled and then dissolyed, some ot oan 
men, some of the active men. Broad, red, leather be ts 
glistened for a moment as the overcoats that all wore 
spread apart in front. Bulges on the right or Jeft hips, or 
under the arm pits, told of a law regarded but not always 
obeyed. One is liable to fine es ot months in 
i carrying a revolver in | ennessee. 
Lisanti Bae es a lack of defmitive assertion, none 
of the hammering of one fist into the other palm, were 
conspicuous. The day waned; night came on, but the 
air was quick with expectancy. From somewhere came 
Marion Legere, and some of his witnesses, elad to get to 
court unshot at. Then there was a rumor. Dan Duskin, 
an important witness, had been run out of the country, 


The uneasy town went to a fitful slumber. : 
uf RayMoND S, SPEARS. 


Floating on the Missouri.— VIII. 


We were now in the wildest part of the upper Missouri 
Valley; a country so interesting, of stich vast extent of 
cawion-like ravines, of cliffs and buttes and weird, weather- 
carved sandstones, that I would have liked to pitch camp 
every four or five miles or so along down the river and 
explote all the interesting places. But the lateness of the 
season prévented. The river had frozen over the previous 
year Nov. 10; it nearly always freezes some time during 
that month, and the middle of the month had been passed. 
With regret we broke camp at the mouth of the Seven 
Blackfeet and» resumed our voyage just*as the sun ap- 
peared above the breaks to the east. The channel here 
is on the north side of the river, and I had some difficulty 
in getting the Good Shield over-the rocky bar out into 
deep water. At this point the river bends sharply to the 
north around a long, high broken ridge, a most likely 
lurking place for mountain sheep. On the south side of 
the stream, high up in the breaks, there are scattering 
groves of pine, but the slopes are of barren blue clay, 


which wash away so rapidly under the influence of the. 


rain and melting snow, that it is impossible for any kind 
of vegetation to flourish. A row of three miles took us 
to the Bufialo Shoals, 2 wide, rapid, shallow bit of the 
river. 1 told Sah-né-to the name of the place, and, of 
course, she had something to say about the great herds 
which used to ford here. But her remarks were cut 
short by the jar of the boat as it bumped over some rocks 
and came to a dead stop. I stood up and tried to make 
out the channel, but here was one place where there was 
nothing to indicate it; from bank to bank nothing but an 
undulating ripple of the water over the stones. I put on 
my waders and holding the boat firmly by the bow, 
dragged it back up stream a short distance, and slowly 
began to cross to the north side, until I found two feet 
of water, and then waded slowly down behind the craft, 
letting it float ahead of me. It ran aground several times, 
and I found that what channel there was wound like the 
letter S across the shoal. We had no more than floated 
into the deep water below it when Sah-né-to espied an 
-animal of some kind hurrying across the flat below to- 
watd the river. On it came, trotting rapidly, down on to 
the sandy bar and buried its nose in the water. Then 
we saw that it was a buck mule deer, and a very large 
one, 1 dared not row, for fear of alarming it, and picking 
up the rifle waited for the boat to drift down within 
range. But the buck was in a hurry; he had important 
business somewhere back in the hills, and having satis- 
fied his thirst, trotted away as fast as he had come, while 
we were yet 500 yards distant. “Go,” I said, “and good 
Inck to° you; I think there are fatter bucks than you to 
be found.” 

All the same, I was disappointed; it would have been 
so handy to kill the meat we needed right on the shore. 
We kept on running northward for three or four miles, 

‘and then the river bent to the east again past long, nar- 
row, almost treeless flats, and by rough hills and cliffs. 
After something like eleven or twelve miles of hard row- 
ing we came to a nameless creek, putting in from the 
south through tall and fantastic portals of sandstone. On 
the west side of it, on top of a high ridge, stands a pect- 
liar sandstone formation, which the United States engi- 
neers who surveyed the river named the Sphinx, and, 
viewed from a point on the river anywhere east of the 
nameless creek, it certainly does bear a striking resem- 
blance to that old monument of ancient Egypt. Looking 
at this and at the surrounding hills, the walled valley of 
the creek, I felt that I could not forego a ramble in such 
an interesting place. -—A mile or more below there was a 
wooded island, from which a sandy bar extended to the 
south shore; the channel ran in to its outer side, and we 
landed only a few yards from the grove. The trees were 
scattering, the underbrush was interspersed with plots 
of tall grass that bore the impression of many a deer bed, 
In one of these open places the tent was pitched and a 
few blows of the ax on a large dead cottonwood brought 
down sheets of thick bark, sufficient for several days’ 
fuel.. That is one of the advantages of camping along 
this river; it is not necessary to do any chopping. One 
can quietly row to a cottonwood groye, pitch camp, secure 
fuel without disturbing the game in the immediate vicinity. 
The loose dry cottonwood bark can be pried from the 
le and noiselessly broken into convenient size for the 
stove. : 

While I was eating a bit of lunch, Sah-né-to strolled out 
on the wide sandy-bar at the head of the island, and 
quickly returned with the information that she had seen 
a bear track. So, without any questioning, I knew that I 
was to have company on my ramble. Where the rifle is 
there will always be the madame when bears are around; 
not for all the wealth of the country would she remain 
alone in camp after seeing the trail of one, for it was 
well known that they had even “carried women away to 
their dens. and made slaves of them.” 

_ We started, crossing the long sand spit connecting the 
island with the main shore, and thence up the hard mud 
margin of the river to the mouth of the nameless creek, 
Here were tracks of game galore; of mountain sheep and 
mule deer, of wolf and coyote, and of the grizzly, which 


‘would be difficult to cross. 


had been recently prowling along the shore in search of 4 
dead fish or other morsel of food cast up by the eddying 
waters. We climbed the steep bank, twenty or thirty 
feet high, and stood on the edge of the long flat among 
the giant sage and greasewood, some of which was taller 
than our heads. Away up the creek was a bunch of 
horses. When they saw us they lifted their heads and 
gazed at us curiously for a moment, and then bounded 
away up the narrow valley as fast as they could go, 
startling a little bunch of antelope, which also scurried 
off across the flat and up into the breaks. Perhaps they 
were wild horses—horses which had never felt the touch 
of a lariat, nor the burning, sizzing brand. Here, if any 
place, in this vast extent of bad land lying between the 
Missouri and the Yellowstone, there should still be some 
of these untamed descendants of the Spanish conquista- 
dors’ steeds. Once, traveling with Mr. Joseph Kipp from 
our trading post on the Missouri to the branch post on 
the Flat Willow, we saw a band of these wild horses. I 
think it was in the fall of 1880. We had crossed Crooked 
Creek, and climbing to the top of a high pine-crowned 
butte, stopped to rest our horses and survey the country. 


. War parties, we knew, were abroad—Sioux, Assinaboines, 


Crows and Cheyennes—and we didn’t intend to run into 
any of them if we could help it. It was a broken bit of 
country we surveyed. Tall buttes, long ridges, deep 
coulées on either hand, with glimpses of the dead grass 
and sagebrush plain stretching away for uatold miles 
to the verge of the horizon. Away to the north of us, 
across, beyond the dark breaks of the Missouri, loomed 
the Little Rockies and their terminating pine-clad butte, 
the Hairy Cap. West of them we could see the flat tops 
of the Bear Paws. To the south, near at hand, was the 
Black Butte, a dark, high, steep cone of volcanic rock, 
and still further on, the green slopes and bare peaks of 
the Snowy Range. As we sat there, smoking our cigar- 
ettes, and viewing this great expanse of plains and moun- 
tains, and rough country, a herd of wild horses, a hun- 
dred or more, came dashing down the valley of Crooked 
Creel, climbed the ridge near us, and swept on toward 
the Musselshell, Some were bays, some blacks, with no 
inconsiderable number of gray and dun-colored ones. 
Their exceedingly long and full manes and tails streamed 
cut in the breeze. They were sleek-coated and fat, and 
by the. way they arched their necks and pranced along 
they seemed to have a grand and invincible spirit, which 
I for one. would not have cared to attempt to conquer. 
Some wolves, disturbed in their slumber, perhaps by the 
thunder of the horses’ hoofs, trotted to the edge of the 
butte opposite us, and looked at them longingly, hungrily; 
they prefer the flesh of the horse, it' seems, above any 
other meat. Only a few moments after the band.had 
passed us, a large herd of buffalo came in sight from 
the same direction that they had. “There are no camps of 
hunting Indians near here,’ my companion remarked, “so 
these herds must have been scared by a war party. Let’s 


We went. On and on, past groups of buttes and high 
ridges, over stretches of level plain, by many a herd of 
buffalo and antelope, and far in the night arrived at our 
destination, tired and hungry. We had no thought that all 
that game we saw was soon to vanish, and that the 


wide plains we crossed were soon to be dotted with vast . 


herds of the accursed sheep. 

Well, the horses and the antelope vanished. Antelope 
are protected the year round in Montana, nevertheless 
if I could have got within range of one of the bucks I 
would have killed him. I believe in the protection of 
game. I will not kill a female, deer nor elk, nor any 
other species. But when I’m out of meat, the first buck 
of any kind I run across has got to fall if 1 can aim 
straight enough, If all hunters would forego the shoot 
ing of females, we would have no need for game protec- 
tion, For instance, three yeats ago a friend of mine 
killed three does. There was no excuse for his doing 
so, as we had the meat of a good buck in camp. Now, if 
those three had lived, they and their increase would have 
numbered about fourteen head this coming spring. 

We crossed the flat, passing through a prairie dog town, 
where the little animals were so tame that they sat up on 
their mounds within fifteen ar twenty yards of us, and 
scolded us unmercifully. Evidently they knew nothing 
about men and rifles. We left them, still barking and jerk- 
ing their tails, and began the ascent of the yalley slope 
west of the little creek. The barren, blue clay hill, as 
usual, had a hard rasping crust, which afforded good 
walking. We climbed up easily, through a grove of scat- 
tering pine, past clumps of juniper, and coming to the 
foot of the Sphinx, were surprised to find that it rests 
on the edge of a high, long, cut sandstone wall. All along 
its base there were many bighorn tracks, and near by 
lay the skull and horns of a large ram. From the Sphinx 
southward to the next ridge, a distance of perhaps two 
miles, there has been a sudden sinking of the country, re- 
sulting in a rough grassy plain seamed with cracks, which 
I had intended to go that 
way, but concluded to go back down and across the 
nameless creek, and hunt the opposite side. We were 
resting at the foot of the Sphinx and viewing the rough 
country to the west, tall steep buttes and cut cliffs, when, 
about quarter of a mile away a large ram appeared at the 
foot of the cliff we were sitting on, evidently following 
the trail of some of its kind. He would trot a ways, al- 
ways with his nose close to the ground, and often stop 
and circle a bit, and look around, as if having lost the 
scent. When we first saw him, he was coming toward 
us, but while still a long ways off, he began to climb 
the cliff on a place where it seemed as if it would be 
impossible to sustain a foothold. Up he went, however, 
rapidly, and with apparent ease, and disappeared in some 
pines. I thought of following him, and, indeed, we 
traveled along three or four hundred yards in the direc- 
tion he had taken, and then we saw a bunch of the anj- 
mals bounding up the side of a butte some distance ahead. 
They paused on attaining the summit—there were between 
fifteen and twenty of them—looked at us a moment or 
two, and then ran on out of sight, their witite stern ends 
bobbing up and down most ludicrously. Well, I reasoned 
that it was nearly if not quite past the rutting season, that 
a ram’s meat would be unpleasantly rank, so I bade Sah- 
né-to turn, and we retraced our way past the Sphinx and 
followed the ridge down into the valley. On the east 
side of the little creek are many thickets and groves of 
pine, dense beds of juniper brush, most likely places, I 
thought, for a mule deer’s siesta. We climbed up through 


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several of them, find*ng plenty of sign, deer tracks and 
beds, and presently an exceed.ngly large old buck slowly 
arose from a patch of brush on a ridge across a narrow 
coulée trom us, and calmly stood gazing our way most 


inquisitively. I cocked the rifle and handed it to Sah-- 
né-to, and she hurriedly aimed and fired. The old buck 
made one jump up the hill and looked at us as before. 
Twice more Sah-né-to fired beforerthe old felhow ran, and 
then he stopped before he had gone more than fifty yards 
and gave her another chance. But that was the last 


one; unhurt, untouched, he bounded stiffly up the ridge © 


and over the crest of the hill. “Did you look carefully 
through the little hole in the réar sight, and get the ivory 
bead fairly on him?” I asked, 

“IT don’t know. I guess not,” she replied. 
looking at him and shooting.” 

That was what I had already guessed; she had been too 
excited to think of the sights. ; 
We continued our climb until we arrived at the foot 
of a steep wall, where we found a broad and hard-beaten 
game trail running along its base, used principally by 
mountain sheep. Sah-né-to was becoming tired, so we 


“T just kept 


climbed no higher, and followed the trail in the directicn ~ 


of the river and camp. Numberless deep coulées headed 
“up against the cliff, and_we kept descending and ascend- 
ing them, until we finally came into one that extended 
back to the east further than we could see. Here the 
game trail branched, the main one crossing the coulée, 
the lesser one continuing along the foot of the cliff, whic, 
like the ravine, now bore away to the east, forming its 
southern wall. It was this one we followed, and after: 
a while came into a sort of amphitheater, caused by the 
junction of a number of smaller coulées. Here on all 
sides, in eyery conceivable shape, domes, columns, and- 
all sorts of queer-shaped figures, was the blue clay, devoid 
of any vegetation whatever, nor could we see a liying 
thing—no tree nor brush in any direction. Inadvertently 
stepping into the bottom of the coulée, ] went down into 
a soft alkali mud, but scrambled out of it before I pierced 


its depth; perhaps it had no end. I-sat down, and with a - 


bit of rock was cleaning my leggins and shoes, when with 
a clatter and rtish a band of sheep slipped out of a coulée 
back of us and in an instant were out of sight ever the 
trail we had been following. We did not follow then 
This was about as barren a bit of nature as I had ever 
seen.. One could imagine that in the course of his work 
the hand of the world maker had been stopped and his- 
plan had remained uncompleted. I expressed something 


of my thought to Sah-né-to, and she said that Old Man - 


had himself finished these plains, and caused the grasses 
to grow upon them, but afterward-he cut the gash where 
the Big River should run and from that cut the rains had 
kept wearing away the banks on either side, forming the 
deep coulées and hills, and carrying off the top soil which 
alone could support vegetation. 

We went up the coulée a ways further, climbed a steep 
ridge and got on top of a long, narrow point overlooking 
another coulée. All the morning during our ramble we 
had seen numerous deposits of red iron rock, but here we 
found large quantities of it, always in flat, circular’ form, 
as if it had been melted in a furnace and moulded in this 
shape. I lifted one or two of the smaller cakes and found 
them very heavy. They were scattered promiscuously 
here and there on top of the clay. Crossing the next 
coulée, and over the next ridge we found that we were 
abreast our camp only a_ half-mile away across the 
flat, and as by this time Sah-né-to was tured out, we 
turned homeward, seeing no more game, although there 
were fresh tracks everywhere. As we descended into the 
flat a dense low bank of dark fog rolled in from the north. 
down the opposite slope, and a few minutes later a fierce 
cold wind was howling over the plains,.and it became so 
dark that we could not see our island. The sudden change 
chilled us thoroughly, and by the time we arrived at the 
tent our fingers and ears were tingling. In two or three 
minutes I had the stove red hot, the tent sufficiently 
warm, and Sah-né-to began preparations for dinner. I 
have tried all sorts of temporary camps, from the bark 
shelters of the Adirondacks to the, skin lodge of the 
plains, but have found nothing to equal the tent and 
stove for comfort. 

It had been another unsuccessful day, although in a 
section of country abounding in game, the camp was still 
bare of the juicy roasts, broils and rib stews necessary 
for our complete contentment. “Sah-né-to, “twas your 
fault; if you had taken careful aim at the buck, his carcass 
would new hang on the tree just beyond the door- 
way. : 
“Tt is done,’ she rephed. - “The cartridges have been 
fired, the deer has bounded away into the hills; let us talk 
no more about it.” : 

Thinking over the incidents of the day, of the ram so 
accurately trailing a band of his kind, reminded me of a 
young elk I used to see on Upper Arrow Creek. Some 


Indians had caught it when it was a calf and given it to - 


Mrs. La Mott, whose husband kept a roadhouse. She 
raised it, feeding it milk at first from a bottle, and gradu- 
ally teaching it to drink from a pan, and it became ‘so at- 
tached to her that st would bleat most dismally whenever 
separated from her for a few moments. Sometimes to 
tease it Mrs. La Mott would put it outside by the front 
door and then leaving the house at the rear side run to the 
timber bordering the creek, and thence up the stream. 
crossing it several times, and finally make a circuit around 
back to the stables. It was never many minutes before 
the uneasy calf, strolling around to the back of the house, 
found her footsteps, and trailed her accurately around the’ 
course she had taken: Often balked where her mistress 
had jumped the creek or crossed on stepping stones, it 
would circle about until it found the trail once more, and 
hasten on with all speed, and how it would jump and 
buck and play around when it finally overtook her. The 
little thing was hated by the “mule skinners.’ The 
freight outfits were obliged to camp at Arrow Creek on 
account of water, and it was amusing to see the weary. 
dusty, thirsty mules take after the young elk as soon as- 
they were unharnessed. The calf would start up the road 
at first on a walk, the mules crowding after it, all 
curiosity, crowding and kicking each other to get near it. 
From a wall it would change to a trot, and then to a 
swift lope, and presently there would be a straightaway 
run of fifty or a hundred mules and a calf elk for several 
miles, a turn, and as frantic a run back. TKen how the 
wagon boss would “cuss” and swear vengeance on the 
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md I, and arriving at the end of it sat down to rest. 
a few moments we saw an old billygoat slowly making 
lis'way up irom below, stopping for a bite of some tempt- 
ag vegetation here and there, never once looking about 
rt sniffing the air to detect the presence of some enemy, 
1s is the habit of the bighorn and deer. But when he 
truck our trail he bent his head, smelled of it, and then 
ounded ponderously straight up in the air, a most 
musing, ungainly looking beast. When he came down 
ie sniffed the trail once more, and then lumbered away 
las fast as he could to the opposite end of the ridge and 
p the steep mountain. I doubt if that goat had ever 
seen a man, or heard a rifle shot, for we were in an ex- 
eceedingly wild country, yet-he showed more fear of the 
mere trail of man than any other animal I ever saw. | 

| The night closed in, the bitterly cold north wind 
hrieked through the tree tops, and occasional flurries of 
hard snow rattled down upon the tent roof. Old Cold- 
qmaker had at last succeedéd in beating back the warm 
Chinook winds, We feared that winter had come, and 
etired, expecting, and dreading, to find the river frozen 
‘ovet in the morning. APPEKUNNY. 


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| Sportsman’s Correspondence. 
I. 
DEAR | 
I want to 
my wonderful dog, Rex No. 2, a dark liver and white 
pointer pup, also of his first season with the birds. ; 
At the end of the first week out, Dr. , my hunting 
mate, shot a grouse that fell across a stream of water. 
Well, knowing that his dog would not retrieve it, he asked 
‘me if Rex would swim across and get the bird. Told him 
I thought he would. Calling Rex in and going down 
stream to the leeward of the bird, so that he would get 
the scent, I asked him to fetch dead bird, and motioned 
across. He readily swam, reaching the opposite bank. 
He soon had wind of the bird and pointed, I urging him 
on to fetch it, which he soon did without wetting a 
| feather. 
A week or so later we were hunting out a small swamp. 
1 got hastily to the upper end with Rex well to heel, ex- 
pecting the birds would fly my way, and two of them 
did, the third turning back over Dr. ’s head, and he 
was obliged to use both barrels on the bird. When he 
got through to me, Rex had my two birds on the grass 
| beside me. 
After two weeks of training I did not feel as though I 
was handicapped with a pup; in fact, he was an old dog 
in bird ways. 


Probably you have not forgotten old Rex, and the , 


many trips that he took with us. The Doctor asked me 
why Hastings was not up this fall, and why he stopped 
writing for Forest AND Stream. I told him of your 
sickness with neuritis, which accounted for your absence 
and possibly for the absence of correspondence. The 
Doctor says it is the worst thing that can happen to the 
man. There is nothing that causes so much agony, and 
nothing so difficult to cure. 
Yours truly, 


II. 
My Dear FRIEND: 

T have yours of recent date in relation to your hunt- 
ing trip last fall. Was very much pleased to receive it, 
and could almost imagine that I were with you. You 
certainly have an intelligent dog, and his intelligence 
reminds me of old Rex. You say that I have probably 
not forgotten him. How can I forget him? I could 
forget him when I forget all else in the past. While I 
can look back and remember,. my love for that old dog 
will ever be strong. I remember the noon that we 

_rested in the angle of the stone wall, where the wind 
had swept together masses of autumn leaves, and how 
we ate our lunch and shared it with Rex, and all three 
took our siesta almost buried in the leaves, and I remem- 
ber with sotrow’ the day that old age closed his eyes 
forever. ‘I remember how he died in your arms, and the 
last loving look that he gave you, and I remember how 
we dug his grave under the chestnut tree, and how care- 
fully you wrapped him in your old leather hunting coat 

and covered him with the green sod. 
- Why does a man outlive four or five, or six, generations 
of dogs? The man lives too long or the dogs don’t live 
jong enough. One becomes attached to them, and in the 
course of a lifetime of pleasure in the fields they must 
part with several. 

As to the Doctor, I have to say that he seems to still 
retain his proclivity to be jocular. You may tell him 
that I am better in health, and hope to tramp the fields 
with him and yourself many times in the future. Tell 
him that I regard him as an old hand-loaded shell, 
chraged with powder of kis own make, and with pills 
for shot he goes around among his friends spilling both 
because his top wadding is loose, 

Yours truly, ‘ 
W. W. HAstines. 


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—— Katuyal History. 


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Intelligence of Wild Things. 


BY HERMIT. 
The Crow. 


THE intelligence of the crow is admitted by those who 
deny reason to the lower animals. This bird is so large 
atid is so meddlesome in human affairs that he has forced 
mankind to acknowledge his intelligence. 

While I admire his ability to look out for number one, 
I.do not believe that he is in any way beneficial to the 
farmer, In my opinion, he is a great deal blacker than 
he is painted by our wise men at Washington, After 
a lifetime knowledge of the crow, with ten years’ close 
Sa Sah of his habits, I have nothing to say in his 
avor. 

While farming in Maine I was a sworn enemy oi the 
crow. Not because he pulled up my corn, thinned out my 
barley and carried off my chickens; these things I could 
provide against, | was his enemy because he robbed bird 
nests by the wholesale. It did not take me long to find 
out that this black imp prevented the increase of song 
birds in cultivated fields and the adjoining woodlands. 

I brought with me my hatred of the crow when I 
dropped into the woods of Cape Ann, and for several 
years I made life miserable for his kind with trap and 
shotgun. ‘ 

Ten years ago, influenced by the articles in Forrest 
AND STREAM on game protection, I laid aside my gun 
and devoted more time to the study of the wild things. 
The crows got the benefit of this change. I should have 
continued my warfare if the crows had plundered the 
bird nests in my vicinity. King birds nested near my 
cabin, and during the nesting season crows and hawks 
were very careftil to give the locality a wide berth. At 
other times the king birds did not go far irom home to 
attack the crows, and the latter made themselves at home 
in my dooryard, after I had ceased to persecute them. 

Crows possess a language which enables them to com- 
municate to each other anything that relates to crow life. 
They can hold long confabs and then act intelligently 
from evident conclusions. 

In the years when I lived happily with my shotgun, 
before a divorce was decteed, I planted a bushel of pota- 
toes in the woods on the west side of Magnolia Swamp. 
Fire had cleared the side hill and the prospect of a crop 
was good. ~ 

The crows gathered in some dead trees, out of gunshot, 
to criticise my work, and seemed to be highly elated. 
Raw potatoes are not down on the crow bill of fare, so 
I thought there would be a great disappointment when 
they investigated my work. The second day after I had 
finished planting I visited the spot and found that the 
crows had dug up every hill on the south half of the 


field. There were three pieces of potato beside each hill, « 


so the crows did not dig them up for food. Why they did 
so much hard work for nothing was beyond my know- 
ledge of crow life. I nearly surrounded the other half of 
the field with white cotton string and retired to the swamp 
to await the crows. Twenty minutes later a sentinel crow 
winged his way to a dead tree on the hill, and after look- 
ing for enemies called out, “Caw, caw, caw.” Immediately 
eight crows appeared. They held a consultation, and it 
seems they decided that it was a good time to dig up the 
rest of my potatoes, for they started for the spot where 
they had left off. As this part of the field was under a 
high ledge, the crows could not see the string until they 
had passed the brow of the hill. The first crow over 
saw the string, and nearly turned a somersault in trying 
to stop his speed. He called out, “Cur-cur-cur. Cur- 
cur-cur,” and instantly every crow returned to the tree. 
For ten minutes a great confab took place. The crow 
that had discovered the string was eagerly questioned by 
the others and replied in a hasty and excited manner. 
After talking it over a crow flew to the south end of the 
field, where he could look to the north and see the string. 
He returned and reported. Another crow flew to the 
north end of the field and stationed himself in a tall pine 
tree. This crow soon discovered that the string did not 
surround the whole field, there was a wide gap in front 
of the pine tree. He called “Caw-caw-caw-caw-caw,” and 
the crows flew down to the tree. They were told about 
‘the gap and one crow boldly flew through and acted as 
sentinel from a tree in the potato field. The other crows 
soon followed and began digging up the seed potatoes. 
I think they tasted of every piece, with the idea that 
somewhere I had planted something good to eat. I shot 
two of the crows and hung them in the potato field, but 
a week later I found the seeds dug up with the exception 
of a few hills beneath the string. 

The few hills leit made quite a store two years later. 
They had produced a crop each year without being dis- 
covered by hunters. But when the weeds and shrubs 
made a rabbit cover, “wild potatoes’ were discovered on 
‘that side hill and I was soon informed of the fact that 
the potato was growing in a wild state “away back 
in the woods.” 

I believe that crows destroy fully one-half the quail and 
grouse on Cape Ann. A woods’ fire south of my cabin 
burned the nest of a ruffed grouse late in the season. The 
grouse made a new nest north of my cabin, and one day 
I found four eggs in it. The next morning I heard a 
strange cry in the direction of the nest and started to 
investigate. I took to the path at the rear of my cabin 

-and when I had reached the top of the hill I saw the 
grouse Tunning toward me. She held one wing close 
to her side, but with the other she was striking savagely 
at two crows that hazed her as they flew above and around 
her. Just as I came in sight of the trio, the grouse 
dropped an egg from under the closed wing and one of 
the crows seized it and flew so near me that I could see 
the egg in his bill. ‘The thing that impressed me most 
was the silence of the crows. Not a sound did they utter. 
The scamps knew that I was near by and would be 
watned of crow mischief if I heard their cries. The ery 
made by the grouse was new to me. It was a wild cry 
in every sense of the word. The grouse when she fled 
with her eggs took the path to the cabin, and I think she 
did it for protection. 


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Last spring I saw something that added to my know- 

ledge of crow intelligence. 
_ Fuller Brook runs past my cabin, and after losing itself 
ina swamp, takes up its course again between high gran- 
ite hills, until it falls mto the sea at Fresh Water Cave. 
In the valley along the brook tall pine and hemlock trees 
make an ideal nesting site for crows and hawks. Last 
spring | was much interested in a red-shouldered hawk’s 
nest which was in this valley. There were two crow 
nests some twenty rods further down the yalley. One of 
my visits found the male hawk at home and when he dis- 
‘covered me he flew in circles above the trees uttering the 
loud scream that can be heard for a mile or more, Soon 
two crows came sneaking through the tree tops to find 
out what was disturbing the hawk. The hawk flew to 
a tall pine, but continued his cries after he had alighted. 
The crows flew to the same pine and taking a position 
near the hawk began to talk to him in a low tone. It 
was evident that they were telling him that his loud 
screams would bring all the hunters of Cape Ann to the 
spot. The hawk continued to scream, and one crow in a 
loud tone called out “Caw-caw-caw-caw-caw.” Imme- 
diately five other crows appeared, and all attacked the 
hawk, striking at him with their wings until he ceased 
to scream. ny 

The crafty crows did not care about the hawk’s nest, 
but they did not intend to have the hawk publish the 
fact. Well they knew that a search would expose the 
two nests down the yalley. 

The red-shouldered hawk seems to be too slow and 
clumsy to wage war on crows, and the birds nest near 
each other, without trouble, only as I have related, 

The crows in my locality have named me in the crow 
language. Two caws is the way the sentinel announces 
my apptoach to his mates. 

Several years ago I had occasion to pass every night 
a spot in the woods where dead horses are buried. The 
crows would gather there nightly, but always had a sen- 
tinel out. The sentinel took up a position in a tall oak 
on a hill where he could overlook all the approaches. 
When everything was quiet the sentinel called out: “Caw- 
taw-caw,” which means “all is well.’ If a man ap- 
proaches, the danger signal is, ‘“Cur-cur-cur,’ sometimes 
repeated, .and it means “look out there.” It is uttered 
rapidly. 

I noticed one night that the crow in the tree, as soon 
as he saw me, called out “Caw-caw,” and in a short time 
repeated the call. He had told his mates that the hermit 
was. coming. My path passed within fifty feet of the 
crows, but they did not fly away. They had long ago 
found that I was not to be fearéd. Sometimes I had 
company, and the sentinel would then give the danger 
call, “Cur-cur-cur,” and the crows would fly away before 
we got in sight. I had this experience throughout the 
summer, so there could be no mistake, 

This fall a young crow became quite familiar. He 
would call to me in the woods, “Caw-caw,” and often 
fly near me. The old crows seemed to think he was in 
danger, or they thought he was departing from the ways 
of the fathers, and they always drove him away. They 
would beat him with their wings until he was forced into 
flight to save himself. This young crow had found food 
in my dooryard, and had heard the older crows say that 
“Caw-caw”’ was harmless, so he wanted to be friendly, 
no doubt with an eye to the food supply. I am experi- 


-menting with this fellow, in hopes that I can tame him, 


and learn from him and his mates something of the 
crow language. 
[ro BE CONTINUED. | 


A New Alaska Caribou. 


In a recent article on, the work in the north of Mr. 
Andrew J, Stone, mention was made of a new caribou 
(Rangifer granti), soon to be described by Dr. Allen, 
This description has just been published and forms Article 
X. of Volume XYI. of the Bulletin of the American Mu- 
seum of Natural History. : 

Mr. Stone’s investigations of the large game of the far 
aorth had led him to suspect that a new form of cari- 
bou might be found to inhabit the Alaska Peninsula, and 
at the end of the season of 1901 he determined to visit 
that region-in order, if possible, to verify. his anticipations. 

The Alaska Peninsula, as is well known, is the west- 
ern portion of the mainland of Alaska, lying north and 
west of Cook Inlet and connected with the main land 
only by a narrow neck of land. It extends several hun- 
dred miles beyond the western limit of tree growth, and 
is a true barren land. High rough mountains form a 
continuous range throughout its whole length, and from 
these, brooks or small rivers run down in the sea which 
are frequented by salmon during the spawning season. 

Mr. Stone left Homer on the Kenai Peninsula about 
Oct. 15, and four days later reached Popoff Island. Here 
he was detained by storms for more than a week, but at 
length succeeded in crossing the twelve miles of sea, 
reaching the mainland Oct. 26, and his hunting grounds 
two days later. Here on his first day’s hunt he took 
nine caribou, and secured in all fifteen fine specimens. 

All these were very uniform in character, and differ 
from any other caribou known from North America in 
certain external as well as certain cranial characters. The 
Species is a representative of the barren ground group 
of caribou, which includes the caribou of the Arctic coast 
and the Greenland caribou. It need not be compared with 
the various forms of woodland caribou. Mr. Stone tells 
us that Grant’s caribou “inhabits the barren land of 
Alaska Peninsula, ranging well up into the mountains in 
summer, but descending to the lower levels in winter 
generally feeding on the low flat lands near the coast 
and in the foothills. They formerly lived in consider- 
able number on Unga Island, where they are now prac- 
tically extinct. The only other island inhabited by them 
is Unimak Island, at the western end of the Alaska 
Peninsula, They were formerly exceedingly abundant 
but they have been greatly reduced in numbers through 
the agency of market-hunters.” 

The species has been fittingly named after Mr. Madison 
Grant, Secretary of the New York Zoological Society 
whose services in securing funds for the organization 
and maintenance of the Andrew J. Stone Exhibition are 
well known, 

Grant’s caribou, as described by Dr, Allen, is dark 


\ 


brown with a white rump patch, and a broad whitish 
band on the lower patt of flank behind shoulders which 
tapidly narrows backward and is lost in the. general dark 
color. Below this white band is a dark band. The top 
of shoulders and neck are light gray, the breast is dark 
_ brown, the belly white, the insides of thighs white and 
_ the backs of the legs whitish. The tail is white with a 
dark band on its upper surface which runs thourgh the 
white rump patch and joms the dark at the back. The 
female is considerably lighter than the male. <A ‘six- 
months’ old calf is very much lighter than the female, 
the dark areas seen in the adults being so hidden by the 
long white tips of the hairs as to appear merely like 
a clouding of the white skin. The two calves have 
spike antlers still carrying the velvet in November. 

The collector's measurements, which Dr. Allen gives, 
shows Grant’s caribou to be very small compared with 
any of the woodland species, and yet to have a tail 
longer than the mountain caribou, though that is a very 
much larger animal. 
sembles the Greenland caribou, but is smaller with longer 
nasal bones. It is much smaller than Stone's caribou, 
and its antlers are strikingly different. 


The Opossum’s Bad Name. 


Editor Forest and Stream: a 
Perhaps you will answer this request for information, 

or give it place in your columns, so that your army of 

sportsmen and naturalists may give their testimony. — 

Staten Island swarms with opossums. It is claimed 
by some persons that these apparently harmless animals 
kill and eat chickens and other domestic and wild birds; 
also that they catch and eat our wild rabbits (hares). 

Are these statements founded in fact? JI have seen 
numbers of opossums in my hunts and woods walks, and 
their behavior has always been mild, and their offensive 
tactics limited to noiselessly opening and shutting a not 
very dangerous-looking mouth. Yesterday my little thir- 
teen-inch beagle killed one weighing “seven pounds, and 
the opossum did not attempt to fight. My observation 
of these animals led me to believe them logy, low- 
spirited and harmless. DWELPHYS. 

Porr Ricumonp, N. Y. 

[Perhaps there is no familiar beast—unless it be the 
common rat or weasel—that has a worse repttation 
among poultry raisers than the opossum. It is called 
chicken thief and egg stealer, and it is certainly true that 
opossums are frequently found and trapped in the vicinity 
of chicken coops and hen houses. Yet it is impossible 
to conceive of an opossum running down and catching a 
lively chicken, and still less of his steeplechasing across 
the country after a cottontail rabbit. We regard the 
question asked by our correspondent as extremely perti- 
nent. Who ever saw an oposstim catch a chicken, or 
found one feeding on a freshly killed fowl? That the 
opossum will eat the eggs and nestlings of wild birds, and 
will rob the mest of the settng hen cannot be doubted, 
and its reputation has probably been earned by evil deeds. 
Yet all naturalists would be glad to have some definite 
information as to the basis of fact on which the opossum’s 
bad name is founded—whether this animal does actually 
kill chickens. The food of the opossum is supposed to 
consist largely of insects, with fruit in its season. They 
are very slow and inactive animals, ] i 


Montana Butfalo. 


MontTANA to-day is a great buffalo ground of the United 
States—if such a term can be used about any portion of 
the country. The Allard herd is said to number about 
180; C. W. Conrad & Co., of Kalispel, have between 35 
and 40 head, and there are a few buffalo, perhaps 25 in 
all, in the Yellowstone National Park. 

The Allard herd, belonging to the sons of Charles Al- 
Jard and to Michel Pablo, has been reduced in numbers 
by the selling of bulls for beef and to taxidermists, but 
it is not probable that any cows have been sold. There 
ate said to be a number of mixed bloods in this herd. 
Mr, Conrad’s herd includes seventeen cows, and last 
year he had nine calves. All the Conrad buffalo are 
full bloods. 

There was a recent sale of six bulls to Frank Tol- 
hurst, of Livingston, Mont., and to Howard Eaton, of 
Medora, on the Little Missouri, Messrs, Eaton and Tol- 
hurst went to the St. Ignatius Mission and thence to 
where the buffalo were herded on the west side of the 
Pend d’Oreilles River. With a good deal of trouble the 
buffalo had been rounded up there, but it was not easy to 
hold them when the company of strangers who were to 
do the butchering reached the ground. However, after a 


little difficulty a bull was shot by Mr. Eaton, but he . 


turned and charged the men, most of whom took to the 
trees, Tolhurst, howeyer, stood his ground and killed the 
bull when very close to him. Six young bulls were 
butchered, and all were very fine specimens. The heads 
and hides were taken off and freighted to the railroad. 
Mr. Tolhurst will mount these specimens—three for Mr. 
Eaton and three for himself. It is said that he has con- 
tracted for two large bulls in the Allard herd to be 
killed néxt winter. os 


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Two prime essentials to the provisions that the camper takes with 
him on his outings are lightness and concentration. These, we aré 
told, are found in Egg Flake, advertised by the Pure Food Co., 
which is the whole egg evaporated. It is not a substitute, but the 
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The skull of Grant's caribou re- ~ 


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Duck Roosting in Big Bay. 


“Say, Doe, there’s lots of ducks up in the bay now; 
don’t you feel like goin’ up and roostin’ them this 
evenin’ ?” said Jim Griffin, my man of all work, one cold, 
gloomy day in December. 

“All right,’ said J; “bring the buggy 
o'clock and we will take a try at them.” 

The time appointed found us setting out on our -five- 


‘round sat 2 


mile trip in a not very common phenomenon for this lati- . 


tude, a blinding snowstorm, ‘Griffin had his ax along 
and stopped by the way to tackle the butt of a boxed 
pine log, from which he secured several slabs of the 
fattest of fat light wood. 

The Big Bay, so called from its unusual size, covering 
as it does some two or three thousand acres, is one of 
those flat, marshy cyprus swamps covered with a well- 
nigh impenetrable growth of stunted bays, gall and hur- 
rah bushes, interwoven and matted with thorny vines, 
which abound throughout the southern pine belt. Its 
outlet is a large branch called Sammy Swamp, and just 
at the point where the stream emefges from the bay is 
the dam of the ancient and still-existing Weeks’ mill 
pond. The back water from this dam, shallow and 
bristling with stumps and snags in low water, covers 
hundreds of acres of the bay in high water to a depth of 
from a few inches to two or three feet. 

Reaching our destination by the side of the old log 
iull house at the end of the dam, we harnessed out, coy- 
ered up the horse and built a roaring fire with some 
of our fat lightwood. While I was toasting myself, 


Griffin. produced a cracked and battered old fiddle from a — 


bundle under the buggy seat and went over to banter old 
man MelIntosh, the miller, for a trade. This momentous 
deal was finally effected, after much haggling and ex- 
change of backwoods’ wit by Griffin giving Mr. Mack his 
fiddle, a dollar watch and ten cents in money tor the old 
man’s fiddle, which was a very superior instrument to 
his own. 

After concluding this episode, Griffin tnearthed a 
venerable and not very water-tight bateau, made with a 
flat bottom and a long-pointed nose for the purpose of 
threading the shallow mazes we were to encounter high 
up the pond, Breaking the ice in, which it was coated 
and bailing out the accumulated water with one 
of the paddles which he had brought along, and we were 
teady for our arduous trip into the fastness of the ducks. 
As the pond was about a foot below high-water mark 
and the snags were consequently just mear enough to 
the surface to be run on, we had to proceed rather slowly 
and cautiously, and even then got hung a time or two, 
and only got off with much and warming exertions. 

Near the dam the pond is comparatively narrow and 
walled in on eaeh side by dense groves of cypresses. 
These, bare of their summer foliage and draped with 
great streaming festoons of Spanish moss, seen dimly 
through the mist of falling snow, had a peculiarly gloomy 
and forbidding appearance. 

A few hundred yards from the dam we came to ice 
and found that the pond was frozen over from edge to 
edge. Griffin had to kneel in the bow and cut a passage 
with. his ax—which we were obliged to return to the 
dam and get for the purpose—while I paddled, In this 
way we crawled along for about a quarter of a mile, 
Grifin from time to time stopping to cast off superfluous 
garments and mop the sweat from his brow. We had a 
tough job of it, as the ice was an inch thick, and some- 
times required two or three sturdy blows before it would 


break. The snow had meanwhile ceased to fall, and a 


cold wind, which but for our strenuous exertions would 
have chilled us to the bone, was blowing across the ice. 

Finally the ice began to thin, and we ran into open 
water, caused by the current from the vast flats in the 
bay pouring their overflow into the back water of the 
pond proper. Here the scene had undergone a marked 
change. We were in a vast shallow flat, where bunches 
of thick, scrubby bushes five to twelve feet high separated 


_the channels and comparatively open stretches of water 


and green, spongy moss bogs, Far off in the distance in 
front and on either side were the walls of gnarled and 
leary cypresses, the monotony being occasionally relieved 
by a stunted juniper with its dense evergreen frondage. 

From time to time small bunches of ducks, fnghtened 
by the noise we made in our passage through the ice, had 
been getting up out of range and decamping for regions 
higher up the bay, Presently a mallard pitched down 
in an opening off to the left, and as we had very nearly 
reached the head of bateau navigation, I got out in my 
rubber boots to stalk him. Griffin, who did not have 
boots, remained in the boat and moved slowly on up the 
bay, The water was only a few inches deep, but the 
bog underneath seemed almost bottomless in places, and 
I would frequently sink over my knees and have much ado 
to extricate myself and avoid shipping a boatful of ice 
water. As a consequence, the duck got up at very long 
range, and my effort to bring him to bag only increased 
his speed in departure. 

I turned my course up the bay again, making very slow 
progress throtigh the vegetation-choked water and: bogs, 
and taking cate to avoid alligator dens and other déep 
places, some of which would have engulfed me head and 
ears. Sometimes I would strike a patch of frozen moss 
and bushes and walk along as easily as on a paved street, 
when suddenly I would break through without warning 
up to my knees or over, and then have a scuffle to get 
out again. Going on in this way, I finally arrived a little 
in advance of the boat at the beginning of the duck roost 
proper. Here dense thickets of taller bushes blocked the 
way, and one had to grope his way through small winding 
passages to the patches of open water scattered around 
among them. In these open places the ducks were in the 
habit of roosting, : 

I left Griffin in one of the first of these bewailing his 
bad luck in not having a pair of “them wadin’ boots.” He 


was armed with a big ro-bore breechloader and some 


shells, which he said he had loaded with four drams 


of powder and two ounces of No. 6 shot, wadded with 


newspaper in default of cut wads, He “calculated on 
droppin’ enough lead on their backs to stop a duck or 
two anyhow.” 

Setting off up one of the winding passageways, after 
considerable labor and much circumnavigation to avoid 
old alligator dens and quaking bogs, which the staff 
with which I had provided myself showed rather de- 
ficient in bottom, I finally arrived at a promising looking 
opening about a quarter of a mile further on and took 
my stand between two clumps of bushes to await the, 
setting of the sun and the coming of the ducks from 
their feeding grounds in the Watnee Swamp and other 
nearer swamps and ponds. 

All became silent save the occasional quack, quack 
of a drake in some distant puddle, and the more high- 
pitched and valuable response of his fair partner, varied 
occasionally by the whistle of a wood duck, 

Soon after sunset birds of all descriptions began pour- 
ing in to roost. First, a long procession of carrion crows 
(black vultures) with an occasional turkey buzzard, came 
sailing along with now and then short, brisk strokes of 
their wings, and settled on the outstretched branches of 
Gead cypresses which stood. here and there like white 
skeletons far above the stunted growth of the bay, Occa-" 
sionally, too, many would lght on the same limb and a 
crash result, followed by a2 great commotion and flapping 
of long black wings. 

Then came the robins; not in dozens or scores, but in 
hundreds. From all the country for many miles around 
they came to seek refuge for the night in the dense water- 
surrounded thickets. ‘They pitched by me so close at 
times that I verily believe I could have struck down a 
few with my gun Had I been quick enough, and such a 
chattering and chirping and fluttering as they kept up! 

Fast behind the robins came the doves, in ones and 
twos and litthe bunches. Every now and then one dash- 
ing by at close range would cause me to throw up my 
gun in sudden anticipation of a shot at a duck, only to 
Re it again the next second as I discovered my mis- 
take, 

Then as. a semi-twilight began to creep over the scene 
and the dim show clouds ceased from work for the time 
being, took on dull yellow and reddish tints, a big bunch 
of teal dashed by out of range and went on down the 
bay toward the more open water of the pond. And then 
the ball opened. Teal in bunches, and greenheads and 
black ducks in ones and twos and half-dozens, and here 
and there a pair of summer ducks—but always ducks 
ef some kind in the sky. I soon found that I was out of 
their line of flight, and that the bulk of them were evi- 
dently going down at a point between Griffin's station and 
mine, so I set out to retrace my steps in the hope of 
getting a better position before it became too dark to 
shoot, 

As I was watily scrambling over a half-submerged log 
a pair of black ducks shot by ai close range. I threw up 
my gun, and at the report had the pleasure of seeing one 
of them double up and come down with a plunge in or 
behind a clump of thick bushes behind me. I immediate- 
ly ,flouindered otit in the moss box to retrieve him, but 
search as I might I could not locate my game. It was 
probably only wounded and had succeeded in concealing 
itself in the thicket. While searching for this one a 
single drake came by, and I dropped him on a patch of 
ice and snow some distance in advance. I got this 
one without much difficulty. 

Then followed a series of misses, Owing to the fast- 
deepening twilight, I could only get momentary glimpses 
of passing ducks, and the shooting was rather too quick 
and snappy for my eyes. I could hear many dticks pass- 
ing overhead and around me that I could not see at all, 
or only after they had got out of range, Finally I 
succeeded in bringing down and securing another black 
duck, and came to the conclusion that if I was going 
to get out of my environment that night I had better 
be starting about it without further delay. Tying my 
two ducks to a piece of twine, I slung them over my 
shoulder and set out in the now exceedingly difficult 
job of retracing my steps. 

Griffin had been keeping up quite a lively fusilade. 
First one and then both barrels of his 1o-bore would roar 
in quick succession; he was evidently more in the thick 
of the ducks than I was. Guiding myself by the direction 
of his cannonade and keeping in the most open water 
[ could find to avoid getting confused and tangled tip in 
the numerous c#l de sacs and moss bogs that branched 
oit on every side, I proceeded to do some of the hardest 
work that ever fell to my lot, Sometimes I would bring 
up against an impenetrable wall of bushes and thorny 
vines and have to retrace my steps until I could find a 
way out or around. Then I would narrowly escape get- 
ting beyond my depth, or that of my boots, in an 
alligator den; or find myself sinking in a quaking bog, 
from which I would only extricate myself by seizing the 
nearest bush and pulling myself out by main force, one 
foot at a time. Once I sank down until the water rushed 
in over the tops of my hip boots, and the shock of the 
icy old bath nearly took away what little breath re- 
inained to me, . . 

When I reached Griffin and the boat, which I finally 
did, I found him the proud and happy possessor of a 
black duck, sole result of the vigorous bombarding I had 
heard. After stopping a few minutes to recover my lost 
wind, I deposited my gun and game in the boat and 
waded on behind, while Griffin poled. This was neces~ 
sary for some distance, owing to numerous sunken logs 
and concéealéd snags, which could not be well gotten over 
with two in the boat. This was not near so tedious as 
my former wading, since I now had the benefit of Griffin’s 
guidance, and had the boat to cling to if I got in too 
soft or deep a place. As we worked along, ducks were 
constantly getting up around wus, and at very short 
range. Of course it was too dark to shoot them, as night 
had fallen. 

When we reached the more opeii and deeper water I 
resumed my place in the boat with a groan of relief, and 
we wefe soon passing through the ice path we cut going 
up. After getting to the dam our first care was to build 
a blazing fire with the lightwood we had brought along. 
I pulled off my boots, poured out the water, and set my- 
self to the agreeable task of getting my feet warm and 
dry again. In the meantime, Griffin, who had gone to 
look after the horse, returned with the alarming intelli- 


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gence that the animal had got loose and left for parts 


unknown. Here was a dilemma, indeed; five miles from 
home with heavy rubber boots on and my heels already 
chafed, and snow coming down steadily again. 

After some investigation with a torch we concluded 
that the horse had not recrossed the dam, which would 
have been his way home, and therefore must be in the 
neighborhood somewhere. Griffin set off with a torch in 
search of him, while I resumed my drying operations. 
After about a half-hour of waiting I was joined at 
the fire by a youth of the name of Dick Brown, who 
lived with his grandfather, old man Jim Ardis, about a 
half-mile away. He brought the agreeable news that a 
horse, harnessed and blanketed, had turned up near his 
home just after dark, and was now in his grandfather’s 
stable. awaiting an owner. Griffin soon after arrived 
with the recreant, whom he had tracked, in tow. 

Dr. R. B. FurMAn. 


PRIVATEER, S, C, 


An Outing for Quail. 


BY SMITH DALY PARKER, 


Tue skill displayed by ctack shots in the great pigeon 
shoots, and their ability to stop almost every bird before 
it passes the boundary, must be admired, even by those 
who disapprove of the practice, and breaking fifty clay 
birds in sticcession is also a fine exhibition of accuracy, 
but the man whe only has a few days each year to devote 
to out-of-doots sports cannot expect to.excel. Let him 
realize that he is not a good shot, accept his limitations, 
and take pleasure in other features of punning beside 


“making a good record. If he breaks fifteen out of twenty- 


five clays, kills half the quail he shoots at, and bags one 
duck for every three shells, he should be satisfied. His 
aim may not be true, but he can be a true sportsman. 

I have been devoted to gunning ever since my thir- 
teenth birthday, when T received a Forehand & Wads- 
worth single barrel pun, and during the ideal holidays 
of school and college I sat in the mudholes atound the 
Great South Bay, with snipe stool in front of me, and in 
the fall had occasional chances at quail. woodcock and 
ducks. A friend, younger than myself, was not allowed to 
<0 shooting with another boy if both guns were loaded 
at once, so we used to crouch alone on the meadows after 
a flock of ox-eyes, one boy with his gun loaded and 
cocked, the other holding his, broken, in his left hand 
and a shell in the right ready to slip in when the other 
gun was fired, We had also been warned against get- 
ting mtid in the muzzle, which would cause the barrel to 
burst, so, as we sat at decoys and a flock of yellowlegs 
approached, we would run the left hand out to the muz- 
zle and-feel in the barrel for mtid. Then, as the birds 
drew nearer and the shot became more imminent, we 
would forget we had already found the barrel free, and 
feel again and still again, in our excitement. till the 
birds saw our movements and turned away. These pre- 
cautions sound absurd, and were really not very safe, 
but the theory of respecting firearms is excellent. Ap- 
preciation of danger in a gtin femoves most of the 
danger. 

Business has prevented me from shooting for several 
years, but one day last summer I received a letter from 
my old friend, Tom Archer, suggesting a trip the first 
week in November, and urging me to accept on the 
plea that my health required it. The excuse was lame, 
but the very idea of shooting again sent a thrill through 
me. That evening I looked oyer my Lefevre and prac- 
ticed getting it to my shoulder quickly and sighting at a 
bird in a picture across the room. A dozen times in 
quick succession made my arms ache, and I wondered 
how I could carry the gun all day, and determined to 
take long walks with it and practice on clays before the 
trip, three months off. I never had time to do either, 
and November found me as “soft” and out of practice 
as ever, - : 

I was to furnish the dog, and had secured, in Sep- 
tember, a red setter pup with a fine pedigree and nose. 
but no experience of feathered fowl except that gained 
by having the chickens he had killed hung around his 
neck. He was three-quarters grown, and I believed 
that dogs pointed by nature, so thought I could train 
him, but three days before the time to start my confi- 
dence in the young Irishman vanished, and I wrote 
Tom to get a dog with love, or money, or threats, as 
“Smoke” was too uncertain. 

Quailing without a dog is poor fun; you walk all day 
with the consciousness that a flock may be within thirty 
feet of you, and are seldom rewarded with a shot. . 

“At last October 31 arrived. What a “boy-out-of- 
school” feeling it gave me to leave the office in the 
middle of the day and start with gun case and grip! 
On the Thirty-fourth street cars were two other guns, 
and on the crowded ferry boat—of the vintage of *62— 
were golf bags, bicycles, rifles and at least a half dozen 
other gunners with a couple of splendid English setters. 
I woridered where they were all going, and if they knew 
where to find more game than we did. I took Smoke 
from a boy who had walked him to the ferry for me, so 
had my hands full. When I reached the tall iron railine 
beyond the waiting room, where they waste so mtch time 
vainly hunting for passengers who have no tickets, there 
was Tom with his hearty greeting, “Well, I am mighty 
plad to see you, Smith, old boy.. How have you been? 
IT sce you have everything, dog, gin, grip, and this re- 
markable bundle of old army coat; let me take it. Why, 
it’s filled with lead. Have any trouble getting the dog 
over? By the way, you will have to take him around the 
other way and sign a paper saying you do not mind if 
he is killed. Dll go and save seats.” 

Soon we were under way and passing through the three 
sliccessive odors of gas, oil and bone. Then we stopped 
at Jamaica, where rumor states that more trains pass 
than through any other town in the United States— 
which means the world, I suppose. Tom said he had 
written to different places for a dog, and that one would 
be put on the train at Sayville for us. Everything was 
turning out right. 

About two hours after leaving Long Island City we 
got off at a small station, took the two dogs from the 
baggage car, and drove in a farmer’s rockaway for a 
couple of miles through the fresh, invigorating woods 
until we came to the small house that Tom engages as 


. lot, until we had tramped an hour or more, 


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a shooting box for the first week in each November. 
He had been known there all his life, and the owners of 
several adjoining farms reserve that week for him and 
his friends. Sarah Hill, a timid, cheerful negress and a 
famous cook, takes care of “the box,” and a royal dinner 
she gave us. The Blue Points had not traveled far 
efiough to lose their real flavor, nor to gain microbes, 
and we disposed of dish after dish, declaring we had never 
tasted anything so delicious, and that oysters had never 
been so well roasted, The pile of shells testified to our 


approval. After chickens, etc., Sarah came in and hesi- 
tatingly said: ‘Don’ s’pose Mis'r Tawm cares fr any 
dessert?” 


“Why, hayen’t you got any, Sarah?” 

‘Well, I made some punkin pie, but didn’t know es you 
wanted any.” 

The pie disposed of and the dogs fed, we sat and 
smoked before the roaring wood fire, and began oiling 
up our guns and unpacking our loads, smooth, brilliant 
colored shells with brass reinforcement. Both of us had 
12 gauge hammerless guns and No. 8 shot for quail and 
No, 4 for ducks; Tom uses 42 grains E. C. and 1% ounces 
of shot, and my loads were 314 drams Schultze and 1% 
ounces of shot. 

After a look at the beautiful, starry mght, we turned 
in and tried to sleep, but anticipation of pleasure is often 
more deadly to sleep than pain or troubles, and the only 
naps I got were filled with the nightmare that Tom had 
forgotten to call me. At last 5:30 came, the alarm clock 
rang and we lit our lamps and quickly put on the com- 
fortable old clothes we had laid out the night before. 
Tom had the fire blazing when I got- down and_ the 
coffee pot hanging on the crane. Sarah would not sleep 


away from her shanty a mile distant, and we could not ~ 


ask her to have breakfast before dawn, so we decided 
to have coffee early and return for breakfast at 8:30, The 
bright streak in the east had spread over the sky, driving 
away the stars, and at six o’clock it was light enough to 
shoot. We took up our guns, much to the delight of 
Rex, the hireling. i 

The morning was perfect, just enough crispness in 
the air to make us put on our gloves and avoid holding 
steel parts of our guns, but there was no wind, and the 
sun was due with the heat in half an hour. A beautiful 
white frost covered the grass, and where quantities of 
huckleberry bushes were grouped together the impres- 
sion, in the dim light, was that a mist hung over the 
ground. Rex bounded around us with short yelps at 


‘first, but soon settled down to work, galloping over the 


field with his tail wagging so vigorously that it described 


acircle,asif itwere the propeller of a ship or bark, From 


the way he turned to look at us every few seconds and 
obeyed a wave of the hand to the right or left, we knew 
we had a trained dog and were anxious to see if his 
nose were as good as his action. Smoke, too, ranged 
around, but closer in and only occasionally put his nose 
to the ground. A sudden stop by Rex would bring our 
guns to attention simultaneously, but after a good whiff 
in' the suspicious direction, he would gallop on, across 
the field and back, hunting energetically for a scent of 
the quail that he knew we were all trying to find. 

The fields are surrounded by hedges of trees, oaks 
and hickories of all sizes, with thickets of cat briers in 
some places forming nooks of safety for the quail from 
his foes, These hedges or balks vary in width from 
ten to one hundred yards, and many fields have dense 
oak or pine woods on’ one or two sides. When the birds 
set there it is difficult to follow them far, so it is a great 
advantage to know the cover well and drive the birds 
to the thinnest balks. We had traversed two fields with 
no sticcess, thotiz@h every acre seemed as if it should teem 
with quail, and had just pushed through a balk and 
entered the corner of a third field when a bevy o1 about 
ten birds jumped up and scattered in several directions. 
We fired three barrels and did not touch a feather; they 
got back in the hedges so quickly and it was so unex- 
pected; but still they gave a partially open shot and there 
was no excuse. We did not know if the dogs were to 
blame for not poititing, as they had passed through the 
balk at a different opening. Rex went crazy, bounding 
everywhere looking for dead birds, and it was difficult 
to get him to “charge.” In our excitement we had only 
noticed where three or four of the flock had gone. so we 
started after those, one on each side of a very narrow 
hedge of thick cat briers. After walking only about 100 
yards, Tom called to -me, “Come around quickly, Rex 
is on a dead point; run ahead and find an opening 
through the hedge so you can get a shot.” Smoke came 
with’ me, and as Rex was pointing almost at his own 
feet, his eyes bulging out and rolling from side to side, 
but not another muscle moving, it was a good time to test 
the pup. We stood on each side of where the bird must 
be, and Smoke wandered aimlessly around and finally 
put his nose against Rex’s, but paid no attention to any 


scent, nor to his companion’s rigidity. None of the four " 


of us was more than five feet from where the quail must 
be, but net even Rex could see him, Suddenly there 
was a br-r-t-r-r, and we put up our guns and tried to get 
a bead on a vanishing bird that had jumped directly be- 
hind the pointing dog. Rex turned his head with an ex- 
pression of surprise and bewilderment; after a second 
of doubt, his head snapped back to its original position, 
as if his captain had called, “As you were,” and the point 
was resumed. There never was a more steady old soldier. 
T believe he would be there yet, had we not walked up 
the bird, which came down at the first barrel, a disgrace- 
fully short distance away. Rex did not “charge” at the 
shot, as a perfect dog should, and only turned the bird 
over with his nose, instead of retrieving it. Later in the 
day, however, when we dropped a bird in a creek he 
went -in and brought it out, for he saw we could not 
get it, A dog that will show where the dead bird is’ and 
follow a wounded one, is about as satisfactory as a re- 
triever that is apt to mangle the birds. It is an inter- 


-_ esting fact that a hunting dog works for the sport only, 


and will not eat a game bird. ; 

We hunted up and down the hedges for some time 
looking for the rest of the flock, but with no success, 
so started in to find a iresh covey. We kept in the open, 
some distance apart, letting the dogs run along the 
hedges up the wind. Many of the fields were ideal for 
quail, and Tom would point out the spots where he had 
found flocks in other years, but disappointment was our 
4 e. Then Rex 
began to work more slowly, crouching a trifle and keep- 


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ing his nose to the ground. He stopped short once, then 
sniffed the air and advanced a few paces and pointed 
again. Smoke followed behind us. We walked ahead 
of Rex, who could not be induced to flush the birds even 
at our command, and the flock rushed into the air so 
closely bunched that I admit I fired wildly into them 
and only singled out a bird with my left. “How many 
did we get?” 

“Four, I think.” 

“T only saw three.” 

We walked up and found two, and Rex had a third 
a couple of rods off. Tom insisted on looking longer, 
and after crossing and re-crossing the same small area, 
Rex pointed a clump of thick grass at our feet, and there 
was a beautiful cock with his fine white throat that would 
never call “Bob White” again. He was only wounded. 
so we dispatched him at once, a most unpleasant task, 
either by biting or wringing the neck or pressing in the 
head, but the man who will put a wounded bird in his 
pocket to die in lingering torture deserves a rawhiding, 
or worse yet, to be deprived of his gun forever, We had 
taken the precaution of getting between the dense woods 
and the birds, and they had flown into a thin balk as we 
desired, Better gunners than I am have told me that 
this heading off process amounted to nothing, and I ad- 
mit that quail will sometimes double, but usually you 
can force some of the flock, at least, in the right direc- 
tion. It was past breakfast time, but who could leave 
such a flock. We took a citcuit and entered the balk 
some fifty yards further on than the stopping place of 
the longest fliers, and worked up the wind, This is the 
ideal situation, and for fifteen minutes it was. 

“Bang 3 

“Did you get him?” 

“Yep,” 

“Bully for you! 

“Bang! Bang! 

“Worse luck to it, I missed 
too. I’m a duffer.” 

“Come, quick, Tom, he’s on a point.” 

“Bang! Bang!” 

“Good for you; you wiped my eye; thick shooting just 
ere. - 

We beat the hedge thoroughly and bagged four, be- 
side the four we got at the first rise. That was not so 
bad, and we went to breakfast at nine, comfortably 
tired and hungry after a three hours’ walk. 

Smoke had become disgusted and run home, but came 
bounding out to meet us. He had failed miserably, 
missed his vocation and disappointed his master. Tom 
said perhaps he was too young, or his nose was so large 
the scent got lost in it. 

The five cocks and four hens, laid on a shelf in the 
cold pantry, made quite a show. We sent some to our 
wives, and mailed Murgatroyd, in North William street, 
a pair to be mounted. They looked badly rumpled, as 
quail always do after being in the pocket of a shooting 
coat, but came from the taxidermist two weeks iater in 
excellent feather. 

Oatmeal, steak, potatoes, coffee and nicotine kept us 
busy for an hour. Then we started, with fresh rounds, for 
fields at some distance from the house. Our sympathy 
went out to Smoke, who was left behind, and to Rex, 
who could have nothing to eat but a half glass of milk 
for fear of numbing his olfactory nerve, 

There is a good deal of truth in the theory that. birds 
are in the open early and late, and in the woods and 
thickets in the middle of the day, but we trusted to find- - 
ing them first in the open and were rewarded. Rex did 
not “make game” as much as most dogs, but came to a 
dead point as soon as. he got wind of birds. He gave 
us a famous one of a grassy bank sloping down to 
the water. His head was turned to one side, and one 
fore foot raised, as it always is in pictures. The sun 
was shining brightly; a light northwest wind had risen, 
tinaking the air clear and the water and sky brilliant; 
a flock of broadbills jumped out of the river a quarter 
mile out, and the scene was enchanting. 

“Whirr-r-r—bang, bang! Bang, bang!” 

Three birds down and the flock gone to forbidden 
ground. It was over very quickly, but the memory of 
the scene has not faded yet. We sat down and basked 
in the sunshine, and ate some apples we had brought, 
while the quail began whistling together out of our reach 
—not “Bob White,” of course, but their gentler call, 
“Phew-i-whii,” 

Seon we were off again to find another flock before 
dinner at one. While passing through a swampy hedge 
we were treated to one of those comical points that the 
sudden catching of scent compels a conscientious dog to 
make. It struck Rex as he was in the act of squeezing 
his rather fat body between the first and second rail- of 
a fence, and through force of habit he stopped where he 
was, leaving his hindquarters in the bars. We laughed 
loudly and longed for a Kodak, but thanked the old fel- 
low for his devotion when we had bagged a fine; lusty 
fall woodcock. Rex got to chasing a cat which doubled 
on him in a bush, like a rabbit, and then made for a 
creek, and plunging bravely in, much to our surprise, 
swam to the other side, a distance of some ten yards, 
while Rex was vainly hunting for the trail. 

On a bluff above the creek Rex noticed the scent he 
was always trying to, select from the many that tickled 
his sensitive nostrils, and stood on a point. We ptshed 
up our safety catches; and held our guns ready for ac- 
tion, but noticed he was holding his nose high, an indica- 
tion that the birds were some distance off. We walked 
ahead of him, and he moved up to the front again and 
resumed his, point. This was repeated several times, and 
we momentarily expected the rush of feathers, so held 
our guns well out. The field was dotted with native 
cedars, and covered with long thick grass—splendid 
cover—but this progressive point continued for over five 
minutes. 

“The suspense is trying on the nerves,” said Tom. 

“Yes, and my left elbow aches like the tooth-ache. 
We are sure of a good shot, though, unless they jump 
from behind the trees.” 

“You take your side of the flock, and P’ll take mine; 
mark where they go this time.” 

“They must be running, but we’re getting near that 
farm house, so they can’t go much further. Did you ever 
see such a steady dog!” 

“Do you know,” after more suspense, “I have a 
sneaking suspicion it's {hose darned guinea-fowl,”’ 


ot 
a” 


him; right in the open, 


“By thunder! You're right. 
of dog flesh that hound is.” 
“Yes, rather a fowling piece,” drawled Tom. 


What a stupid old piece 


The discovery was mosi disappointing, but there was a 


humorous side also, and when we reached the box and 
the cooking odors greeted ts, we were friends with our 
Juck again, A swash in the tub with cold water was 
reireshing, and dinner was so good we were content to 
rest a couple of hottrs before the last round of 
the, day. 

Seven and a half pounds of gun and two pounds of am- 
munition are somewhat of a handicap, but by shifting the 
piece to different positions and carrying. the shells in 
a cartridge belt, the shotilders are relieved. Woolen 
socks on the feet add greatly to the comfort, and a double 
thickness of court plaster over a skin abrasion catised by 
the shoe is a very handy trick to know. 

We pulled ourselves out of the easy chairs somewhat 
wearily and called the dog from dreamland. He had 
been scratching a good deal, which Tom explained by 
quoting, “The hireling flea-eth, because he is an hireling.” 
We doubted if the old fellow would be able to continue, 
he seemed so rheumatic, but he picked himself up and 
we all settled down to our steady gait. As we came to a 
large field, half-covered with rye stubble, a flock of 
about twenty quail rosé quietly in the further part of it 
and flew into the woods. It was aggravating not to get 
a shot in the open, but we decided to follow them up. 
Rex lagged behind, forcing his way with difficulty 
through the thick underbrush, and the flock rose to- 
gether before he gave us warning. We fired four bar- 
els, and dropped one, which we had considerable diffi- 
culty in finding. The shooting reinvigorated the dog, and 
he gave us a number of fine points Gn the now scattered 
birds. It was thick shooting in the scrub oaks and 
pines, and many a bird escaped, but often only to be 
flushed again later on. In quailing there can be no 
rule as to whose turn it is. “Shoot whenever you can” 
was otir motto, and often we fired simultaneously at a 
single bird. In such cases the cross fire was usually suc- 
cessful, and one time neither of us knew the other had 
shot, so concurrently had the explosion come. When 
we both shot and the bird came down, we each said the 
other had hit him, and each thought we had a hand in it 
too. When the trees hid us. we kept hallooing to warn 
each other against shooting in our direction. One bird 
that the dog pointed proved to he a partridge, and I 
was lucky enough to get him with my second bartel. 
Pace me think of Mr. Ernest Seton Thompson Seton’s 

ed Ruff’—but it is dangerous to think too much of his 
pone nr wants to shoot. His friends, Molly Cot- 
eee af eevee y houhded from the bushes at our 

, and we mean isregarded their flac 
ped two rabbits to our bag. ie gs uae 
S we were sitting on an old Io i 
few minutes before trudging hie eB es Se ome 
lying in front of us on the other side of a fence, with 


his tongue lolling out of his m i 
L Ig S mouth, sudd 
Jaws, rose to his feet, pee Pee age 


" c and after two steps stood on a 
point. We jumped to our feet, hardly believing a quail 
would have skulked so near us. and remembering the 
Bele but quail it was, and as it rose, indistinct in the 
gloaming, we fired two barrels—and I hope may live to do 
SO again next year, after the bird has raised a good flock of 
aay and taught them likewise to rely on their color 
Pree ae ee the dog is concerned 

arkness settled down on tis and we were obli 

A S anc rere ol 

sep, The day had teen a full one; eee 
» tO 9, 10 to I and 3:30 to s Ever 1 

Tee 3:30 t0 5. Every muscle in our 
bodies testified to the exercise, but the twinges only re- 
minded us of the glorious day’s sport and did. not impair 
eee RSS, It was a pleasure to give the dogs as 
ead a meal as we had ourselves. Sarah also was te- 
yan pees ab nye rabbits. When asked if she liked 
m, she said, “Ya-as, I likes ‘em fami 
swine t’ sell ’em, if Mr. Tawm don’ rage ee 

\ cotirse not, Sarah, b idn’t thi 
ite eee » but I didn’t think they would 
oun yes, indeed, I kin git ten or twelve cents.” 
1fé must have many hardships when that amount 


is so hichly prize i i 
serene prized, and it made tis add a little to her 


The farmer who had dri 


4 


ven uS up came in to see w 
Tuck we had had, and was much pleased. “Wall. ne 
: , 


Dae nce ane E ae git eighteen quail and a wood- 
in q ay. earn yer gsunnin’ consid} 
Dower don’t allers mean birds. Nineteen Ste oe eae 
rabbits!. I want ter Ienow I? ieee 
© gave him a cigar, and all «at 
, j gar, z all sat before the - 
See ae points of the day. Guiana nas 
a thump, thump” on. the floor, which was 


Rex’s way of indicati ' 

= ay of indicating with his ta} ; 

3 : 1 nis tai 5 
when he came into. the story. I that he Tecognized 


akine stock of our loads 
45, nearly all we had broucht 
<ept a small tin keg of blac 
or emergencies. 
the ladies of the 
shot, and ask why 
what the round p 


we found we had used 
of 8’s, but Tom always 
lack powder and a bag of shot 
I Sometimes load shells even now and 
family think the blacl powder is the 
a ae two eae on top of it, and 
: Ss are, and where the bullet is: 
poe tald that the pellets are the bullets, nde Hears 
must be the homeopathic way of killing birds, to 


which T I] 
killing. reply that allopathy and homeopathy are equally 


There is a fasci 
So perfectly. Ash 
shells sO often th 
in the breech. 


natien about loading. 
Oys, we used to reload: 
He they bulged on the 
‘ € picture, “A: Ticht 
penta to me. We tried brass shells, but the shot 
ome out after being shaken around much, 


they are not to h : 
¥ ar be comp : 
expensive ready-loaded Sree with the excellent and in- 


fed ee and we were elad to retire. My loads 
Jace enced ue jeavy, and I determined to fasten a pad 
; fore starting for ducks in the morning. - 


————_ eee 


Everything fits 
the poor gerade 
sides and stuck 
Shell” is always 


C @ glass case i i 
Tooms at Sendringham.—Tondon Standard. €4n one of her Private 


ae 


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Hunting Rifles. 


Princes Bay, N. Y¥.—Editor Forest and Siream: I 
have read a great many discussions in ForEsT AND STREAM 
about the Jarge and small bore rifles, and their good 
points, but I have said nothing—have just “sawed wood.” 
Now I will come out and tell the large-bore faction that 
I have the gun that they want. I know it would be an 
ideal moose gun, and if any of the latge-bore men want 
to use it next fall, they can do so by making a substantial 
deposit for its safe return. I am a crank about lending 
guns, but I will let this one out under the above con- 
dition. 

The dimensions of this rifle I will give so that the 
¢xperts can see that the general ‘contour of the article is 
all right. Length of barrel, 3234 inches; diameter of 
barrel, 2 3-16 inches (hexagonal). The drop of stock 
can be regulated from 2% to 334 inches. From the end 
of stock to trigger, 14 inches. The bore is .7656, ascer- 
tained by careful measurement. The weight of this rifle 
is 47% lbs.; and if the shooter desires he can use a fest, 
as there is a bar inserted at right angles with the barrel 
near the muzzle for that purpose. I don’t know whether 
it is an increase twist or not, as I haye not been down to 
the bottom of the hole yet and looked out; but I will get 
a well-digger some day and send him down to make 
observation. J bought this gun from a local antiquarian 
who deals in old bottles, second-hand rubber boots, etc. 
His advertisement is a string of cow bells on top of his 
wagon. This gun is rigged for a telescope, and is a 
hammer gun and muzzleloader, but the muzzle is lost; 
that sounds queer, but old-timers know what it is to lose 
the muzzle from a rifle. aa, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
Adam Moore, in his letter of March 25, asks for a table 
of the striking power of different rifles. About a year 


ago I computed such a table, and it may be of interest 
to your readers: 


Winchester. 


ti Bla Foot-pounds, 
-30: } ; 


U.S. Me Data (ook e SS yy eaiore iif UAnSSLy laLnee 1,563 
W. J. Jeffery & Co. 

.400-60, smokeless, 800... ....cceeeeeeecessesenceees 3,843 
Holland & Holland. 

bO25; blacks ed [hsp ase tel aprme muemace peemran ee 2,812 

POUO= TA Se Blache ahs wetecelvtas ctanlelalaici lel leretcic ommeieccrcaet 3,134 

eH O0) SACK. OuU weak references oa ane ae ee ener ee ae 3,625 


450, special smokeless, 480 (charge not pub.)...5,004 


It is interesting to see how closely this table of me- 
chanical energies corresponds with the experience of both 
Adam Moore and Henry Braithwaite, for the former 
does not criticise the English large bores, nor does the 
latter recommend the American .45s. 

Davin E, WHEELER. 


Michigan Woodcock and Wooddack 


SAcinaw, Mich., March 27.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
I inclose a letter that came several days ago from a Sagi- 
naw friend, that explains itself. The gentleman in ques- 
tion is a student of nature, and well posted on the sub- 
ject, | am certain. I have had no means of knowing, per- 
sonally, much about woodcock for several years, for I 
have not had an opportunity to get out into the covers 
at the proper time, but comparatively, it seemed to me 
that wood ducks were very searce, for they used to be 
the principal duck found here in oir marshes and wocd- 
land streams during the month of September, and I have 
not seen any of these handsome birds in a long while. 

W. B. MersHon. 


Sacinaw, March 8—Mr. W. B. Mershon, City. “My 
Dear Sir: In the last issue of Forest AND STREAM 
appears an article on the editorial page, headed “‘Wood 
Duck and Woodcock.” It contains a quotation from you, 
saying: “Wood ducks, I think, are practically extinct 
here.” Jam pleased to say that there were more wood 
ducks here last fall than there have been in a number 
of years previous. On the first two days of the season two 
guns bagged eighty ducks, and most of them were wood 
ducks. Mr. Ed. Gardner, an old duck hunter from the 
Flint River country, says he had not seen so many wood 
ducks in fifteen years. Fred Meidlein, of Cheboyganing, 
also says. wood ducks were more plentiful last fall than 
for ten years. oie 

As to woodcock, I never had seen sucha heavy flight as 
I did late last fall. The main flight only lasted about 
three days. On the 7th day of November I went out, 
thinking the rain the night before might have brought in 
a few stragglers, The air was cold and raw, the ground 
in thé fields and open places was frozen hard, and it 
seemed foolish for one to be looking for woodcock. 1 
had tramped about an hour before I found the first bird, 
and I was so chilled through that I missed him with 
both barrels, and he went sailing through the maples un- 
harmed. Of course, I have missed these same birds when 
I was not chilled through. I flushed him again, and 
missed once more, and then I could not find him again. 
I leit that place and went to another patch, and there 
I picked up seven birds without much effort on my part. 
I then went otit in the open prairie and crossed a strip 
of burnt grass about half a mile long. Never before have 
I seen so much woodcock sign in one place as was on this 
piece of burnt ground. To one not accustomed to wood- 
cock it would appear as though there were a thousand 
birds there the night before. I worked the dog over the 
whole piece. very carefully; and at one end he came: to 
a point, and. as I walked up one lonely woodcock flushed. 
He went out like a rocket, but it being in the open he 
afforded an easy mark, and it only required one shot to 
bring him down. Every fall I find instances of this 
kind where birds have stopped during the night and 
passed on, especially when the grounds in the cover are 
exhausted. There is no other game bird that affords so 
much study and interest as the woodcock. The whole 
secret lies in its feed, I have never found a woodcock 
where there was no feed. ; Each rain changes the feeding 
spots and makes a shift in the birds. I know of covers 


[Art 12, 1902. 


that were frequented by woodcock for a number of years, 
but when thé cover had attained a certain height the 
root growth changed, which in turn changes the condi- 
tion of the soil, and the birds abandon it. This accounts 
for the many reports where covers yielded numbers of 


birds for years and then abandon it entirely. Hoping I 
have not overweighted this letter, I am, : 
Yours truly, 
Wm, C. Hetp. 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Duck Flight Tapering Off, 


Curcaco, Ill., April 5—The man who fondly and firmly 
believes that ducks ought to be sold at any season, that 
they ought to be shot the entire year round, and that 
“there are just as many ducks as there ever were,” is 
still abroad in this vicinity. The unprecedented spring 
flight gives him the only possible foundation for his 
flimsy argument, or rather the flimsy assertion, which of 
course is not an argument at all, and rests upon no 
logical foundation. This gentleman is precisely in the 
class with the farmer who raises poultry for the market 
and who considers it expedient to kill all his hens in the 
spring, and hot to undertake to raise either eggs or 
chickens for the coming market. He is likewise in the 
same class with the man who looks at a full granary of 
wheat, or a full barrel of meal, and reasons that they 
represent all granaries and all barrels, simply because 
they are within the range of his vision. We have had a 
good many ducks here this spring, a dangerous amount 
ot ducks, and although—thanks to the wisdom of at least 
the Indiana law—they have not been slaughtered as they 
might have been, there is every reason to believe that 
5,000 ducks at least have fallen to the guns of the better 
class of sportsmen of this city. Hence the man who 
thinks there are “just as many ducks as there ever were” 
is very jubilant. Let ts see what we shall see this time 
next year and the year thereafter. Really one becomes 
too impatient in speaking of these things to write with 
moderation, and, in fact, it were just as well to write not 
at all on these heads, for nothing will serye but an ab- 
solute passing away of the wildfowl to make our en- 


thusiastic friends realize that you cannot both haye your - 


cake and eat it, 

By treason of warm weather and of opening waters 
north of here, our duck flight is now tapering off. The 
biuebills came in about ten days ago, and the first part of 
this week offered fair shooting at Fox Lake, which is 
te-day one of the most available open waters left in 
Illinois, Mr. J. V. Clarke and his companion killed 
eighteen ducks on Fox Lake early in the week, Mr. 
Eddie Pope, also of Chicago, had very fair shooting, al- 
though I did not learn the exact number of his birds. 
Mr, W. L. Wells and his friend, Mr. Robert Stites, of 
this city, had perhaps the best sport of any of the Chicago 
shooters who went up there early in the week. They 
killed forty-eight ducks, mostly bluebills, They report 
the latter-in good condition and good to eat. Other 
shooters in varying amounts of success did similar stunts 
in the duck line around Fox Lake a few days ago. 

I am rather disposed to believe that Fox Lake proper 
would not be the best. place to go for shooting to-day, 
and would rather favor the little lakes, such as Eagle 
Lake, Round Lake, etc., which lie within five to fifteen 
miles of the main waters, When the birds are ham- 
mered hard on Fox Lake, Grass Lake, etc., they go badk 
into the country and take refuge on smaller and less 
disturbed waters, where they sometimes find a little feed 
and where they establish a place of refuge which they 
visit at least once a day. A telegram was received to- 
day from Round Lake, Ill., stating that the lake was full 
of ducks, and that no one was there to shoot them. I 
recall very heavy bags having been made at Eagle Lake, 
Wis., in earlier days, when the Wisconsin law permitted 
spring shooting, this water being, if I remember cor- 
rectly, about twenty miles from Fox Lake. 

Mr. W. L. Wells and one or two other friends will 
go up to Fox Lake either to-day or to-morrow, and shoot 
Monday and perhaps Tuesday on these waters. It is 
believed that the flight has not yet all passed the upper 
range of counties in Illinois. 

An unfortunate accident marred the sport of shooting at 
Muehrcke’s place on Fox Lake last Tuesday. Mr. Achilles 
A. Naissance, of Chicago, went out alone in his boat for 
a little duck shooting, the water being somewhat rough 
at that time, During the afternoon his half-sunken boat 
was discovered, with its owner clinging to its stern by 
his elbows, his arms doubled up and his hands nearly in 
his face. Naissance was unconscious when thus rescued 
from his fatal position, and although evidently not 
drowned and not dead,, was so far gone from his ex- 
posure to the cold water that all efforts to resuscitate him 
were fruitless. He was taken to Muehrcke’s place and 
there everything was done to revive him that could be 
thought of. Mr. Clarke says that Naissance was evi- 
dently alive, his limbs being still flexible and his skin 
showing a glow under friction. He died apparently not 
from drowning, but from exposure. No doctor could be 
obtained, and the best of the amateur attention available 
did not serve to restore the victim to consciousness. Nais- 
Satice was a misician, and was well known in certain 
circles of this city. 


Caught an Alderman, 


On last Friday Deputy Warden Brannen, the husky 
young Irishman who serves as head protector for Tolles- 
ton Club, of Indiana, arrested Deputy Game Warden 
Sheer and Alderman William Clihage, of Hammond, 
Ind. It is alleged that the latter were hunting ducks 
on the Tolleston Club grounds. This brings up, of 
course, all the old unpleasantness regarding the club, 
which has excited more bitter animosity among the resi- 
dents of upper Indiana than any other game preserve 
evet known in this country. The local shooters who want 
to get in on these well-stocked preserves bring up the old 
charges of law-breaking against the members of the 
club, which latter are, of course, groundless. Meantime 
Mr. Brannen will no doubt go along calmly and in the 
even tenor of his way, and will arrest aldermen or any- 
body else found trespassing on the club preserves. 
club ig ‘well located for ducks, and apparently equally 


This 


bh ; ; 


well located for poachers, and it has had rumpuses with-_ 
-eut number connected with its history.. 


Jacksnipe. 


A warm rain is falling to-day in the vicinity of Chi- 
‘cago, and this will soften up the ground and induce the 
suicculent worin to leave his erstwhile fastnesses beneath 
the surface of the earth. Now, when we get a good 
moonlight night we may count upon a flight of jacksnipe 
without fail. Indeed, there are already some few birds 
in as far to the north as this. Some shooters the middle 
of the week out along the Drainage Canal got half a 
dozen jacksnipe. Yet others report birds in along the 
Kankakee Riyer. They have been reported also as seen 
in the vicinity of Fox Lake, though in no great num- 
bers. Jacksnipe are in the market, and the dealers re- 
port that they come from different parts in Indiana and 
Ulinois, although they do not cheerfully specify the exact 
locality from which they are getting most of their ship- 
ments. The general belief is that it will be a few days 
yet before these birds are up in numbers sufficient to 
afford good shooting. 


Quail on Toast. 


Quail on toast in April would hardly seem just exactly 
the right sort of thing, but perhaps it would please well 
enotigh the man who believes there are “just as many 
quail as there ever were,” and that this desirable state 
of affairs will continue to exist in spite of all. This is 
apropos of the fact that in the bill of fare offered on the 
-dining car of a railroad running out of Chicago, I this 
-week saw “Quail on toast, au cresson, 50 cents.” Re- 
ferred-to State Warden Lovejoy, 


The Booming Grounds, 


Mr. J. Amberg, of this city, came into town from a 
Western point yesterday, and says that from the car 
window he saw the pretty spectacle of a lot of\ prairie 
chickens doing their love dance on the booming grounds, 
a spectacle not so familiar to the average Western sports- 
man as it might haye been twenty years ago. Many a 
time during my childhood and youth I have crept up and 
watched the dance of the prairie grouse in the spring- 
time, and it seemed like old times to have a friend men- 
tion his enjoyment of the same spectacle to-day. 

By the way, simply as a suggestion to those who think 
there ate ‘‘jttst as many chickens as there ever were,’ one 
might suggest that the spring booming ground is an ex- 
cellent place to pot a prairie chicken, especially a prairie 
hen, as the birds at that time are much preoccupied, and 
-not so very difficult to approach. True, there might be 
“some sportsmen who would object to shooting prairie 
chickens in the spring, during the mating season. What 
is the difference between this and shooting wild ducks in 
their mating season? If some fellow can explain this to 

me I shall be deeply in his debt. 


z Game in. Ohio, 


‘A gentleman interested in fishing and shooting writes 
me from New Philadelphia, Ohio, regarding- sport in 
his vicinity. “We might have excellent fishing here,” he 
says, “if it were not for some who dynamite and seine, 
As it is, we have some bass fishing and some jack salmon. 
Quail and grouse shooting was pretty fair last fall, and 
I think the quail have wintered well. There were no 
squirrels last fall to speak of. We have no duck shooting 
here worth mentioning, as the ducks do not stay with us 
either in the spring or fall, and, in fact, very few pass 
over this section.” 

_ I wonder if there are any gentlemen of New Phila- 
delphia who believe there are “just as many fish there 
as there ever were.” 


From Puget Sound, 


Mr. W. S. Phillips (El Comancho), formerly of Chi- 
cago, and now of Seattle, writes from Vancouver, B. C.: 
“T think I have found a place where you can get a bear, 
a sheep, a goat, an elk, some deer, plenty of 
trout and maybe a gold mine, all in one trip. It is a 
hard proposition to get to and you needn’t worry about 
the strenuous life—it is here! J see Chicago is under the 
snow yet, but out here salmon berries are in bloom, bass 
ate biting in Lake Union, and the weather is like May 
in Chicago. Come on out here the text time you take a 
trip. You have never been in God’s cotntry till you get 
to Puget Sound. This is the best country ever finished 
and it’s plum full of white folks.” 


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Geese. 


_ An unusually large number of wild geese have appeared 
in this part of the North this spring, or rather I should 
say a couple of hundred miles further north than this. 
While up in Wisconsin on a hurried trip, I saw a bunch 
of these big, white-throated fellows out in the middle of a 
plowed field, and I hear every now and then of some 
Wisconsin man killing a wild goose, usually with a rifle, at 
long range. From the lower edge of Wisconsin north for 
150 miles the geese have been fooling around for two 
or three weeks, not always to their own best interests. 


E. Hover. 
Hartrorp Burtpine, Chicago, Ill, 3 


Game Reservation in New Brunswick. 


Moncton, N. B.—Edifor Forest and Stream: As the 
Forest AND STREAM has been strongly advocating the 
establishing of game reseryations in the United States, it 
may be interesting to yotir readers to know that a bill 
has been brought before the Provincial Parliament ‘at 
Fredericton, which is now in session, by the Surveyor 
General, Hon. Mr. Dunn, providing for the establishing 
of a fish. and game reservation of about nine hundred 
square miles, Nd 

It is likely to be in the interior of the Province, prob- 
ably in the basin between the Tobique and Mepisquit 
waters. This legislation seems to be a step in the right 
direction. It no doubt will at first be a difficult matter 
to carry out and see that the law is enforced, but with 
good wardens and caretakers it should at least meet with 
a fair amount of success. 

Some of our legislation is often open to criticism, but 


on this matter "the Government are deserving of praise 


and there should only be one opinion, both by those who 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


are loyers of sport, and others who take slight interest in 
the preservation of our game. 

Judging from the number of moose yearly killed, prin- 
cipally by foreigners, it will only be a matter of a few 
years before the moose will be a thing of the past, and 
can only be referred to as past history, as the buffalo are 
spoken of to-day. 

Our Government demands a reasonable license ($30) 
from non-residents for the privilege of hunting the game 
of our forests, and in doing this I think they are well 
within their rights. The Americans I have had the privi- 
lege of meeting have not objected to this charge, in fact, 
they seem to think it well worth the money. 


J. W. Suara, 
Sea and River Sishing, 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 


—_o———. 
them in Forest AND STREAM. 


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Where Alewives Snawn. ” . 


WE used to see them strung on sticks in the markets— 
rows upon rows of them; especially were they plentiful 
in New England and New York, and “smoked herring” 
was a common item on the ordinary bill of fare. But here 
in New York “bloaters” have taken their place to a great 
extent. 

Why they shoud-ever have been called herring is nard 
to understand, unless it is because they appear in such 
great shoals as the real herring only can equal. But the 
alewife is a member of the shad family—an aristocrat, if 
you please, to the red herring. In the spring and early 
summer the alewives appear in great numbers on our 
eastern coast, entering |Chesapeake Bay about March 
and getting into New York waters and those of New 
England during April. They never go further north than 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, while the true herring is found 
in the Arctic seas and seldom gets south of Ireland. 

_ Of late years the alewives, like all other edible fish 
once so plentifil in these waters, have grown mote scatce. 
They never appear now in many streams formerly chosen 
by them to spawn in. For instance, the writer has seen 
the Seekonk River—a wide branch of the Providence 
River—fairly white with shoals of alewives, and men in 
boats chased them with nets, or “gigged” for them with 
three-pronged spears. But that was years ago. Rivers 
beaten -by the paddles and propellers. of many steamers 
and tugs, or made filthy by city sewerage and mill slops 
do not attract spawning fish. 

But there are rivers where the alewives seem to have a 
regular spring engagement and appear in their waters 
annually to spawn. One of these is the Damariscotta, in 
Maine, and the scenes which occur there while the fish 
are crowding up the tideway are really marvelous. Little 
else is thought of or attended to but the fish during this 
time in the towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle. “The 
alewife rush” is by far the most interesting event of the 
year. i 

Some fine April morning, without any warning of their 
approach, all at once down the river the calm’ surface is 
broken by little glints of silver in the sunshine, little 
flirtings of the water and quivers as though something 
of broad extent were moving below. Then with start- 
ling suddenness a queer sort of a tidal wave seems to 
form. It moves rapidly up stream, extending from bank 
ras The wave ralls a foot high, and it is a wave of 

sh! ; 

If comes sweeping on, one fish leaping over another 
and falling only to leap again. And thus, flashing and 
splattering, and leaping till the surface is afoam and the 
air is full of the queer rushing noise, the fish come till 
they break at the foot of the falls. From the pond above 
the village the river descends, by sticcessive leaps, the 
face of a rather steep bluff. There are two branches of 
the stream flowing down the bluff, one much harder for 
the fish to ascend than the other. 

During these rushes, which happen frequently during 
the day, the fish are (many of them) forced, flapping and 
floundering, out upon the banks, and may be picked up 
by the basketfiul. The Jaws of Maine permit the capture 
of these alewives under somewhat peculiar provisions. 
All the fish which turn to the right at the foot of the falls 
and ascend the stream which is hardest to mount, must 
be allowed to pursue their way undisturbed. They are 
permitted to hop from pool to pool, flop out on the bank 
and then flop back again, and thus make their difficult 


way to the lake, the journey occupying a hearty and . 


active alewife at least two days. 

The fish that select the left hand stream, which is 
wider and much easier of ascent, are catight in a lock, 
not one escaping. At certain intervals, as soon as the 
lock is full, the water is drained off, and men with great 
dip nets ladle the struggling fish into a runway that 
slopes to a packing house. A thin stream of water is 
tunning down the sluice, and the fish are borne away. 
As they come out at the end, men stand there with bar- 
rels, and as soon as one barrel is full another is substi- 
tuted. During the season of a few short weeks fifty 
thousand barrels are secured.” 

Most of the fish are pickled in strong brine, but few are 
sold in this form in the United States, as the Yankee 
prefers his smoked. Nine-tenths of the fish the Dama- 
riscotta packers catch are shipped direct to the West 
Indies, and are readily sold there to the natives. The 
call is for plenty of salt and fat fish, and the alewives 
that run up the river are in fine condition, fat as butter, 
and the females are full of roe that makes good eating 
in itself. 

All the profit from the result of the sale of the fish 
to the packers goes to the treasuries of the towns of 
Damariscotta and Newcastle. The sum realized is so con- 
siderable that the taxes in the two municipalities are very 
low. By an ancient provision every widow in the towns 
is allowed to come to the side of the stream and receive 
a hundred potinds of the fresh fish irom the hands of 
the selectmen, who are on duty during the whole of the 
season. 

Each night armed guards patrol the banks of the 
stream, especially the right hand stream, where the fish 
that are allowed to pass are struggling bravely up to the 


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pond. Poachers have in the past been able to capture 
hundreds of pounds out of the pools in a few hours. In 
the old days it tsed to be a favorite-biit risky practice 
to descend on the Damariscotta fish pools by night and 
haul enough fish away to peddle around the country for 
a few weeks. But the guards now are instructed to shoot, 
and the poachers know it. 
Notwithstanding the fact that the ascent of the fish 
is so spectacular, no one sees them depart from the lake, 
but it is sometime about the middle of summer. Occa- 
sionally the fry are seen in the lake, traveling in belts 
many feet across. Sometimes, sitting on the shore, one 
will see this procession of little fellows passing in ap- 
parently interminable parade, hour after hour. 
W. Bert: Foster. 


Trout®Fishing at Upper Dam. 


Havine had a very successful trip to the big pools at 
Upper Dam, and now having time to think it over, I 
havea number of times questioned myself as to how long 
will these big trout exist in the Rangeleys, and have come 
to the conclusion that if the present laws are carried out 
and a few possible improvements made, that the supply 
will last for years, and I hope forever. , ; 

One of the greatest checks on the fish at this place is 
the example set by stich men as Mr. T. B. Stewart, 1p 
N. Parish, Osgood, Tom Barbour and others. These 
men fish only with the fly and look with scorn on the man 
that puts a bait or spoon in the waters of the big pools. 
A stranger that comes to the Upped Dam House and 
watches these men fish for one day soon begins to agree 
with them that bait fishing is poor sport, and in a day or 
so will be seen trying his best to be classed as a true 
sportsman and not a grubber, and if he will persevere he 
will be rewarded with a fish before long, and after once 
having the sensation of seeing a large trout or salmon rise 
and take the fly and seeing how he fichts for liberty, he 
is generally satisfied that it is the correct way to fish. 

Another good unwritten law at the pool is to keep no 
small fish. All, or nearly all, the men return all fish 
under three pounds weight. All fish three pounds or over 
are put on record at the Upper Dam House and weighed 
by a pair of balance scales by the proprietor, who. looks 
over all fish and gives the exact weight, no: more and 
no less. He cares not who takes the largest fish of the 
year or the largest fish on record, but what he does want 
is a correct and complete record of all fish from the 
pools for future reference, So that one year may be com- 
pared with another. 

I am sure that if the laws of the Rangeley Lakes were 
the same as they are in the pools and river at Upper 
Dam the stipply of trout would increase from year to 
year and the fishing would soon be as it was twenty years 
ago. These fish now are holding their own both for size 
and numbers. Some of the largest fish have been taken 
in the last few years, the largest being neatly ten pounds. 
This is the heaviest trout since accurate weights have been 
kept. There are accounts of much larger fish, but how 
carefully they were weighed I cannot say. I know that 
at one of the oldest camps at the lakes their largest trout 
is eight pounds. This camp has been in constant use 
since 1864, and 


some of the patty made visits prior to 
this, and it has contained many noted fishermen. 


The 
record is accurate and full, giving the name of the man 
that took the fish with the date, weight and length of big 
fish. In looking at the record at the hotel and compar- 
ing it with the camp I have come to the conclusion that 
ten potinds is about the limit. _I do not mean to say 
larger trout have not been or will not be taken, but the 
number has been and will be few. 

T learn from looking over the records of these two 
places that the weights at present do not show any 
change, but that where twenty years ago numbers of big 
trout were taken where one or two-.now are. 

At the present time there are large numbers of trout 
taken, and I believe that the fishing at Upper Dam Pool 
is the finest in the world. I do not think there is such a 
remarkable pool to be found. } 

Think what the history of this pool and river is. About 
1860 laws were not known and I have an intimate friend 
who tells me that he has seen them in those days netted 
at the head of the river for years and taken out by the 
wagonload for market, and no law to prevent It. He 
also told me he had seen the same men jigging them off 
their beds in the fall. Now, even with all this slaughter 
and fishing through the ice, there are lots of fish there 


et. 
y Should a man not care to fish for big trout in the pool, 
he can try many other places neat by with only a short 
row or walk, say an hour or an hour and a half. The 
lake has a number of fine streams that empty into it, and 
they all contain trout up to three or four pounds for the 
largest, with numbers of two and two and a half pounders. 
Mill Brook brines forth as large fish as the pool, but 
fewer of them. George Thomas, a guide, told me of one 
of nine and three-quarter pounds being taken this year. 
If you do not like stream fishing there ate a number of 
fine ponds with beautiful scenery, and if you are there 
at the right time you might take any number. I heard 
of one party taking ninety some trout one day this fall 
This is wrong, and stich men should be taken care of. 
Another very good Jaw is the one forbidding fishing 
in the streams emptying into the lake above the first 
rapids. This, as you see, gives the small trout a_ chance, 
and as they increase in size they come down into the 
deep water, When a man fishes in the big pool he does 
not expect to take a five, six, seven or nine pound trout 
daily, and my readers must not think if they go there that 
they will be taken by them daily, for if they do they 
will go away much ‘disappointed. What they may look 
for is a few record fish during their stay, say six; by this 
IT mean over three pounds. They may not come tip to 
this, but during this time they may take a number of 
smaller ones, all or nearly all of which they will return. 
In 1901 I saw some men fishing that did not make a 
record, and yet they persisted in their work cheerfully, 
and had the pleasure of seeing other men take one daily. 
No doubt many of my readers have never seen this 
pool, so it might be well to mention that it is very large; 
I should think it was nearly 300 feet long and 200 or more 
feet wide, with a strong current through the middle mak- 
ing two strong whirlpools, one to right and ane to the 
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The fishing is done either at the mouth of the pool.or 
‘on the back waters from large rowboats, The boats are 
anchored in the, middle of the pool away from the main 
current, and the fly is cast toward the shore into. the 
Outer edge of the eddy. This water moves so fast that 
the line and flies are carried out straight and will follow 
in the circle. At the best fishing time of the day it_ is 
not uncommon to, see frem twelve to fourteen boats with 
men in them casting at one time, The first time one is 
in the pool it is necessary to pay close attention as to 
your position, for if you do not you may be taken into 
the foam and upset, as one man was this year. I saw 
another man with a lady nearly taken under in the same 
way. At the lower end the same danger can be found in 
being carried down the rapids. This happened the last 
day I fished to a lady and gentleman. How they got 
through without upsetting is more than I can understand. 
The color and size of fly appear to make little difference. 
I saw them used from No. ro or 12 hoops to 00, which 
ate large enough for bluefish. The Whitney dragon is 
used by some with much success. This is tied on double 
nought hook with gray wings and I think a-cork body. 
Opinions differ much as to color. 

One of the oldest and best fishermen told me he con- 
sidered the Queen, white-tipped Montreal and Silver 
Doctor the three best flies. The next day another of the 
lider men told me he never used a Silver Doctor. One 
day, while talking about flies, an expert said he would 
like to see the man that fished in the pool with a Par- 
machenee belle.. My first five trout, and one weighed 514 
pounds, were taken on this fly. 

All the men agree on the white-tipped Montreal as one 
of the best; after this Montreals, Queen, Silver Doctor 
and Parmachenee belle; beside these a general assortment 
of the standard flies tied on two or more sizes of hook, 

All my fisk were taken-on Parmachenee belle, white- 
tipped Montreal, Meehan and Silver Doctor. In Septem- 
ber, which is one of the best months for fishing, from 
4. M, to 6:30 P. M. an afternoon in this pool will show 
more big fish than it is possible to imagine, I believe, 
in any, other place. At such a time I have seen fish from 
two to seven and eight pounds jumping all over the 
pool, under your boat and over your flies, and no one will 
be able to hook them; they are playing and not feeding, 
and presently one will be hooked, and if a large one, the 
man that has him will have the rest of his evening taken 
up with the fight; the light tackle and strong current 
make it impossible to hurry him, and if he is hurried he 
is in danger of tearing out. i. 

I cannot make up my mind why these fish take the fly, 
unless it is because it irratates them or that they are at 
play, All the fish I took had an empty stomach. They 
appear as though they do not want it. One day theré 
were four large trout under my boat, and I tried every- 
thing to tempt them. I cast far ahead in the ctrtent and 
let my flies sink to about six feet, and they passed directly 
over their heads, but they would not look at them. 
When the trout are in this condition of mind it is almost 
useless to cast for them, but you never can tell how soon 
they will start to rise, and this is what keeps all the men 
on edge, and all want to be on hand when they come, 
as you might lose your only chance and perhaps hook a 
fish that will keep you at work the rest of the afternoon. 
The scenery at the Rangeley Lakes is about the finest 
that I have seen in the State of Maine, and the air most 
invigorating, with pure, cold water. To me, for a man 
that is tired out from overwork and requires a good rest 
and wants sport without hard work, it certainly is an 
ideal spot. F. B. G. 


Early New England Fishing. 


Boston, April 5.—The early opening of Sebago and 
some of the other Maine trout and salmon waters has 
taken the fishermen by surprise, and very few have 
started. The weather has been cold, and other lakes and 
ponds expected to follow in clearing have declined to 
clear. Lake Auburn, at this writing, is still ice-bound. 
But the local fishermen are ready. Orders for very 
strong lines have come from that section to Boston 
tackle dealers. The desire is for lines that will stand 
a strain of at least twenty pounds. Two lines were for- 
warded Saturday that tested a strain of 28 pounds before 
parting. Sebattus Pond is clear of ice, and some good 
salmon have been taken. Lewiston and Auburn fisher- 
men are heading that way. Tunk Pond, near Bangor, is 
clear of ice, and Dr. Heber Bishop has reports of good 
salmon, taken. He starts for that pond, with a Boston 
party, early next week. The ice at Clearwater Pond, 
near Farmington,-Me., promises to play the fishermen. a 
trick, Reports, from there yesterday say that the ice is 
already broken up around the shores, and that the smelts 
are Tunning up the streams. This means that the salmon 
will be- aiter them the moment the ice is out. Here 
comes inthe trouble. The law makes it legal to fish in 
about all Maine waters as soon as the ice is out, except 
in Franklin and Oxford counties. Clearwater Pond is in 
Franklin county, A party of well known Boston sports- 
men has a new camp there, completed only a few months 
ago, The members say that they fully expect that the 
ice will be out and: the fishing all over before the first 
of May this year. They will ask the Maine Legislature 
to put their pond on the list of waters legal as soon as 
the ice is out. Portland fishermen have landed a few good 
salmon at Sebago, and the news has started one or two 
Boston anglers. George P. Kendrick has packed his kit 
and started.. A, D. Foster and wife have gone after the 
big Sebago landlocks. 

Boston fishermen who went to the preserves on ‘the 
cape and elsewhere April 1 have not yet returned any 
good trout. catches. One party at least found a lot of 
cold weather and few trout. 

Boston, April 6.—Fishing is very slow, spite of the 
early opening of the waters in this State and the lakes 
and ponds nearer the sea coast in Maine. Fishing has 
been “mighty poor” at the trout preserves on the Cape 
and the South Shore. Plenty of cold weather and piere- 
ing winds have been experienced. Along the North Shore 
and in Essex county little has been done in the way 
of full creels. The truth of the matter is that it is too- 
early, with the weather cold. Three Boston trout en- 
thusiasts tramped the streams all through Billerica and 
adjoining towns last week “without a bite.” They are 


thoroughly disgusted, In New Hampshire trout fishing 


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accident myself. At that time 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


affairs are not much better, Youtig Master Hemmenway 
caught a number of trout from the brooks about Nashua 
last week, however, but they all had to be put back, iiot 
being large enough to clear the law. d 

Nothing has been done yet at the Bangor salmon pool, 
though the season opened April 7. The first Pendbscot 
salmon of the season was taken in thé weirs at Verolia, 
near Bucksport, Friday. It weighed 20 pounds, aiid was 
sold to Boston parties for $25. It Will be served at a 
club dinner early this week. The icé still hangs in must 
of the Maine and New Hampshire lakes antl porids, with 
no further signs of breaking up. Colder weather has 
retarded progress, A fine salmon of about four pounds 
weight was sent_to a Boston gentleman’ Friday, from 
Bristol, N. H. It came from Newfound Lake, thougii 
the lake is not yet reported open fot fishing. Reports 


from Sebago Lake, Me., continue to tell Gf Gold weather ' 


and little done in the Way of salon catches., Each night 
the mercury has been down to freezing and below, while 
in the daytime the wind has blown a gale most of the 
time, making fishing impossible. One Iette® says that 
the smelts are running up the streattis to spawn, and that 
as soon as they begin to return the salmon will be after 
them. Then the fishing should begin, 

Boston, Mass., April 7—The first salmon of the season 
at the Bangor pool was taken yesterday. It weighs 20 
potinds. P ; 

Boston, April 7—Lake Auburn, Me., fully cleared of 
ice yésterday. fourteen days earlier than last year, and 
the earliest clearing of which there is any authentic rec- 
ord, In 1834 that lake is said to have cleared April 1a, 
but this year is eight days ahead of that record. I have 
a record for twelve years as follows: In 1800, April 26; 


1891, April 27; 1892, April 21; 1893, May 5; 1804, Adril. 


24; 1895, April 23; 1806, April 25; 1897, April 26; 1808, 
April 18; 1899, April 30; 1900, April 26; 1901, April 203 
1902, April 6. The season is now open for landlocked 
salmon in what Commissioner H. O. Stanley considers 
one of the best lakes for those gamy fish in Maine. € 
is sure that there are more and larger salmon there than 
in almost any other waters. Some record breakers have 
been ‘taken in seasoris past. This year_a gteat deal of 
preparation has been made. One local fisherman is said 
to have on hand $12 worth of different sorts of bait. 
Sull. the weather is ¢old, and fishing will be under diffi- 
culties: SPECTAT: 


CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 


Early Fishing. 
Curcaco, Tl. April 5.—The earliest bass water in this 


~ part of the country is Cedar Lake, in the upper part of 


Indiana, The ice is out of this lake now, and a party 
of more than a dozen Chicago anglers will leave to-day 
for a try at the early bass in that somewhat famous water. 
Mr. H. English will be leader of these early fishers. They 
will probably get some bass. 

Postmaster F, E. Coyne, of the city of Chicago, was 
duck hunting at Fox Lake the end of last week, and did 
some fishing on the same trip. He catight several bass 
while in the act of fishing for pike. 

Mr. H. M. Van Hoesen leaves to-day for Round Lake, 
Ill., and goes equipped for some fishing, that water also 
being open. 

Mr. P. D. Paulsen, of this city, goes to Fox Lake this 
evening, and thinks that he will find some bass fishing 
there in the channel of the river, or up in the Grass Lake 
precincts. | 

Mr. W. F. Brabrook, owner of a hotel on Bass Lake, 
Ind., told me the other day that the ice was out of that 
water, and that he had made arrangements with several 
Chicago gentlemen for a bass fishing trip within the next 
few days. They ought to find the bass out in the shallow 
waiters in good numbers, 

Illinois alléws this early bass fishing, and so does In- 
diana. It is to a great extent spawning-ground fishing. 
but I presume one need not get himself altogether dis- 
liked by calling attention to this fact. Every fellow has 
to be his own jtidge about these matters when the law 
does not act as jtidge for him. » 


Hook Wounds, 


I was much interested in reading in last week's issue 
of Forest AND Stream Mf, Levison’s comment on hook 
wounds. Mr. Levison is entirely right in his description 
of the difficulty of extracting a hook which has been 
buried above the barb, as I can testify from fresh per- 
sonal experiences, Within the week I was experimenting 
—and, by the way. with my new fly-rod—with my friend 
Mr. J. D. McLeod, of Milwaukee. In some way, as he 
attempted to pass under my rod, which was over my 
shoulder, he managed to bury one of the fly-hooks over 
the barb in the tip of his ear. Tt was the slightest twitch 
in the world, but the hook went in almost to the feathers. 
Very calmly he told me to come and “pull it out,” and 
I tried to pull it out, but do my best IT could not remove 
the hook the way it had gone in. and saw that I was 
causing Mr, McLeod a great deal of pain. I then cut 
off the snell of the hook and called to Mr, Harris. an- 
other friend who was near by. The latter ha